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How the world’s most popular wrestling championship ended up in a Tel Aviv shopping centre

The belt was contested by megastars like Rick Rude and Jerry Lawler during the sport’s cultural heyday and its lineage maps the tragic history of its founding family

3 min read

February 20, 2025 15:23

Kevin and Kerry Von Erich tussle over the WCCW Heavyweight Championship (Image: Reddit)

Kosher

Another fine vintage for Kedem’s Kosher Food and Wine Experience

The central London exhibition pulled in the crowds again this year

3 min read

February 20, 2025 13:57

Poring over the new wines Photo: Leivi Saltman

Ukraine

‘Tucker Carlson, call me!’, Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi says he’s duty-bound to tell the world about Russia’s aggression

Moshe Azman’s adopted son was killed during the conflict last year

6 min read

February 20, 2025 13:55

The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Moshe Azman, stands next to the coffin of his son, Matityahu (Anton) Samborskyi, during a funeral ceremony at the central synagogue in Kyiv (Image: Getty).

Palestine Action

NHS wellbeing worker on trial for attack on arms factory in Palestine Action protest

Activists blocked the entrance to the facility, accusing the firm that owns it of ‘spilling Palestinian blood’

2 min read

February 20, 2025 13:04

An NHS wellbeing worker is on trial for a November 2023 attack on a weapons factory during a Palestine Action protest at Kent arms manufacturer (Palestine Action)

Books

33 Place Brugmann review: ‘secrets, betrayal and courage in occupied Brussels’

From RAF pilots and members of the resistance risking their lives, to Jewish refugee nurses caring for the desperately wounded, this American playwright’s first novel is packed with twists and turns

1 min read

February 20, 2025 12:57

33 Place Brugmann review: ‘secrets, betrayal and courage in occupied Brussels’

United Nations

Parading coffins of dead hostages in Gaza a violation of international law, says UN human rights official

The bodies of Israeli mother Shiri Bibas, her young sons Ariel and Kfir and peace activist Oded Lifshitz were transferred back to Israel this morning

1 min read

February 20, 2025 12:54

The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has said that the parading of hostages' coffins in Gaza this morning violated international law (Image: Getty)

Books

A Fool’s Kabbalah review: ‘Is comedy a valid response the Shoah?’

Readers must decide for themselves if this challenging novel is a valid response to the nihilism inherent in the Holocaust

2 min read

February 20, 2025 12:36

A Fool’s Kabbalah review: ‘Is comedy a valid response the Shoah?’

Books

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

Stephen Pollard reviews Peter Beinart’s new book Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza

3 min read

February 20, 2025 12:14

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

Disability

‘I’m paralysed, but I’ve written a show about my colourful life’

Technology and a kind doctor saved my life after I was diagnosed with MND. Now, drag queens are portraying me in a new show

6 min read

February 20, 2025 12:00

Catharsis: performers Cheddar Gorgeous (right) and Tete Bang

Hostages

British-linked peace activist Oded Lifshitz identified among deceased hostages returned to Israel

Authorities are still working to confirm the identity of the other three bodies, though they are believed to be those of the Bibas children and their mother

4 min read

February 20, 2025 10:10