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Jewish Care

UK’s largest charity bridge tournament reaches £2.5 million fundraising milestone

The tournament appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2011

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January 8, 2025 12:35

Co-chairs of the Bridge Extravaganza committee, Patsy Bloom and Susan James, at the 27th Bridge Extravaganza

As Iranian power recedes, Turkey and its Sunni allies are filling the vacuum

2025 could be a year of tremendous uncertainty in the Middle East

3 min read

January 8, 2025 12:32

As Iranian power recedes, Turkey and its Sunni allies are filling the vacuum

After Assad, will Syrian Jews flourish once again?

One of the oldest Jewish communities in the world was finally driven out in the Nineties. Will it return?

3 min read

January 8, 2025 12:26

The Great Synagogue of Aleppo is between 1,500 and 3,000 years old and was in use until 1992 when almost all of the Jews departed

My tips for a healthy new you? No late noshes and a daily walk

These days it can seem difficult to have honest conversations around food and health

3 min read

January 8, 2025 12:03

Bagel bakeries are still popular in the East End (Photo: Eating Europe)

Aliyah

Why I am making aliyah

Rabbi Dr Michael Harris is planning to move to Israel after 30 years as spiritual head of Hampstead United Synagogue

1 min read

January 8, 2025 12:03

Rabbi Dr Michael and Judith Harris at Hampstead Synagogue

New Aliyah figures are a source of reflection and celebration

The JC Leader, January 10 2025

1 min read

January 8, 2025 12:03

New immigrants to Israel celebrate (Getty Images)

The IDF should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Thank God Israel had the courage to sometimes ignore its most powerful ally

4 min read

January 8, 2025 11:58

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken (Getty)

Israel

The gift that reminds a soldier how close he came to death

The Chanukah gift made for Gilad Aviad contains the metal that almost killed him in Gaza

3 min read

January 8, 2025 11:57

Haunting memento: artist Roni Weiss with Gilad Aviad holding the dreidel incorporating the piece of shrapnel that came so close to taking the soldier’s life

Aliyah

Surge in British Jews emigrating to Israel

l Latest figures show that numbers making Aliyah doubled last year amid historic levels of antisemitism at home

2 min read

January 8, 2025 11:42

Warren and Leah Phillips with daughters Evie and Rosie arrived in Israel from Manchester to start their new lives in August 2024 (Photo: Warren Phillips)

Gaza

Government rules out expelling Israeli ambassador but says ‘she’s not to our taste politically’

Labour MPs overwhelmingly spoke critically of Israel in Parliament yesterday

2 min read

January 8, 2025 11:30

Government rules out expelling Israeli ambassador but says ‘she’s not to our taste politically’

Charedi

Protest against UK yeshivah regulation staged in New York

Proposals to register children being taught outside school settings are due to be debated in Parliament on Wednesday

1 min read

January 8, 2025 11:23

Protest against UK yeshivah regulation staged in New York

Israel

Israel overtakes USA as centre of largest Jewish population for the first time

But who should be counted as a Jew?

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January 8, 2025 11:15

Israelis on the beach in Tel Aviv on Yom Ha'atzmaut - Independence Day - last year (photo: Getty Images)

Ireland

Ireland files intervention in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ

Dublin has requested that the definition of genocide be expanded to include what is taking place in Gaza

1 min read

January 8, 2025 11:04

Football

Josh expects a Rapid rise

Rapid Vienna kept up their Maccabi GB Southern Football League Division Two promotion push as they moved to within two points of second spot thanks to a 4-1 win at Temple Fortune.

4 min read

January 8, 2025 11:03

Rapid Vienna's Jack Warren (green & white) battles Temple Fortune's Bailey Stockman for the ball during their 4-1 win on Sunday morning. Picture Credit: Georgia Rosenberg

Essex

Centenarian raises money for great grandson’s rare fatal disease

Tay-Sachs is a rare genetic disease most commonly detected in children of Ashkenazi Jewish descent

2 min read

January 8, 2025 10:43

Sam Green on his birthday with granddaughters and great grandsons

Amnesty International

Amnesty suspends Israeli chapter for rejecting NGO's ‘genocide’ report

The Israeli organisation denied that the country was committing genocide

3 min read

January 8, 2025 10:43

Activists from Amnesty International hold placards with statements made by civilians living in Rafah during a vigil outside the gates of Downing Steet on February 14, 2024. (Getty)

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