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Oscar nods bring some good news, but where are all the stars’ yellow ribbons?

It’s good that Jewish stories are being given a hearing, but when it comes to showing solidarity with the hostages why are so few Jewish actors prepared to stand up and be counted?

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January 31, 2025 17:38

Timothée Chalamet is in line for an award for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown Photo: Getty

Israel

Who are the Palestinian prisoners that were released on Thursday?

Inmates serving life sentences for terror offences were freed from the Ofer Prison near Ramallah and the Ktzi’ot Prison in southern Israel

4 min read

January 31, 2025 16:50

Former Palestinian prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi, 49, flashes victory signs as he is lifted by the crowd in Ramallah (Getty Images)

Sport

UFC fighter called Hitler ‘a good guy’ who ‘fought greedy Jews’

Bryce Mitchell said the Nazi leader was attempting to ‘purify’ Germany and claimed Jews were turning women and children ‘into gays’

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January 31, 2025 16:17

MMA fighter Bryce Mitchell called Hitler a 'good guy' who fought 'greedy Jews' in a recent podcast appearance (Image: Getty)

Leicester

Walk-out at Leicester Holocaust Memorial Day after speaker accuses Israel of genocide

High school student drew parallels between Gaza and Holocaust at Leicester HMD event

1 min read

January 31, 2025 14:08

The grandson of Holocaust survivors was devasted when a student speaker at an HMD event in Leicester accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza (Photo: Getty)

Netflix

These are the best Jew-ish shows to binge on Netflix this year

To save you the work, we’ve sniffed out the Jewish creatives behind the platform’s most exciting new shows

4 min read

January 31, 2025 13:40

Zero Day. (L to R) McKinley Belcher III as Carl Otieno, Mozhan Navabi as Melissa Kornblau, Robert De Niro as George Mullen, Jesse Plemons as Roger Carlson and Connie Britton as Valerie Whitesell. (Photo: Netflix)

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review: ‘little comfort for those whose lives were marred’

This Netflix docuseries offers a depressing moral quandary but ultimately rings hollow

2 min read

January 31, 2025 13:34

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera Action is another Netflix docuseries, this time sensationalising the already sensational story of the Jerry Springer Show. (Photo: Getty)

Emily Damari

Freed British hostage Emily Damari says she was held in Unrwa facilities

British-Israeli hostage told Keir Starmer that she was kept in UN-funded location

1 min read

January 31, 2025 13:19

Released hostage Emily Damari and her mother Mandy spoke to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Friday morning (Photo: Emily Cohen)

October 7

What would Rabbi Sacks have said after October 7?

New podcast will explore his teachings to gauge how he might have reacted

1 min read

January 31, 2025 13:07

Podcast host: Dr Tanya White (tanyawhite.org)

PRO-PALESTINE DEMONSTRATIONS

Pro-Palestine marchers ‘denied civil liberties’ over synagogue protest ban, MPs claims

The letter was signed by Labour MPs including Andy McDonald and Clive Lewis, who have courted controversy with their past comments on Israel

2 min read

January 31, 2025 12:15

MPs have accused police of infringing on the 'civil liberties' of pro-Palestine protestors over a march that saw 77 people arrested (Image: Getty)

Limmud

Limmud launches fund to support innovation

Grants of £2,000 will be available to encourage new projects

1 min read

January 31, 2025 12:15

Last summer's People of the Body Exhibition (photo: Limmud)

Houses of Parliament

Holocaust education exhibit denied space in Parliament for being ‘too political’

The National Holocaust Museum was offered space in a separate building in Westiminster

3 min read

January 31, 2025 12:00

Marc Cave, director of National Holocaust Museum, poses in the museum's new international touring exhibition 'The Vicious Circle'. (Photo: David Parry)

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Respected Kosher butcher Norman Wolfson

Humility and compassion of Liverpool’s leading kosher butcher

3 min read

January 31, 2025 11:55

Holocaust

Holocaust refugee and educator Renee Bornstein, BEM

Courageous child refugee unfazed by Nazi intimidation

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January 31, 2025 11:55

Holocaust refugee and educator Renee Bornstein, BEM

Yad Vashem

New York renames Manhattan street ‘Yad Vashem way’

Israel’s Holocaust museum will be permanently marked in the city

3 min read

January 31, 2025 11:20

Image caption: A ceremony marked the designation of Yad Vashem Way on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Jan. 30, 2025. Photo by Vita Fellig

Hostages

Israel demand Hamas reveal status of Shiri Bibas and her two kids

Kfir and Ariel Bibas were originally supposed to be among the first hostages released in the Hamas-Israel deal

1 min read

January 31, 2025 10:28

Portraits of Bibas family, kidnapped by Hamas (Image: Getty)

Hostages

Hamas names three hostages to be released tomorrow as Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas

The announcement deepens concern over the fate of the Bibas children

1 min read

January 31, 2025 09:57

(L-R) Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas have been listed for release from Gaza tomorrow (Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

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