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Celebrations

Keeping up with the Cohens: Would you spend £250,000 on a simchah?

Inside the hidden costs of bnei mitzvot and weddings –and hear from those who have no regrets about paying for them

9 min read

January 29, 2025 07:21

Keeping up with the Cohens: Would you spend £250,000 on a simchah?

The Jewish Chronicle

Join us as we begin a new chapter in the JC’s story

A letter from the directors of the Jewish Chronicle to our readers

1 min read

January 29, 2025 07:10

Join us as we begin a new chapter in the JC’s story

Israel

‘Will I ever go home again?’ The rebuilding of the kibbutzim ravaged by October 7

Residents of Be’eri and Nirim ponder an uncertain future

13 min read

January 29, 2025 07:00

Holocaust Memorial Day

Spurs Stadium leads the way on Holocaust Memorial Day

Commemorative events took place up and down the country

7 min read

January 28, 2025 17:46

Helen Stone – the daughter of Holocaust survivor Emmy Golding - holds a chanukiah which belonged to her mother, with other attendees at the annual civic interfaith Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration for the London Borough of Haringey.

Normalisation

Israel’s new US ambassador suggests Saudi normalisation on the brink

Yechiel Leiter, who began his new appointment on Friday, hinted that a breakthrough in relations with the Gulf state could be on the horizon

1 min read

January 28, 2025 17:27

Yechiel Leiter has hinted that Israeli-Saudi normalisation is be 'closer than ever' (Image: X/Yechiel Leiter)

Conservative Party

Tory councillor compares Gaza war to Holocaust in HMD Facebook post

Jewish groups have called on the Conservative Party to take ‘firm disciplinary action’ over the comments

2 min read

January 28, 2025 16:19

Conservative Councillor Justin Thompson (left) with Labour MP Luke Myer (right), (Image: Facebook).

Sadiq Khan

‘No need’ for more Gaza marches if ceasefire holds, says London mayor

Sir Sadiq Khan also remarked on the increase of antisemitism since October 7

1 min read

January 28, 2025 15:03

Sir Sadiq Khan said he was "angry" and "distressed" knowing that Jewish Londoners don't feel in the city when Gaza marches are taking place (Getty)

Manchester

King David Jewish studies head to be new rabbi of Manchester’s Yeshurun Synagogue

Rabbi Benjy and Emily Rickman have been appointed as rabbinic couple of the modern Orthodox community

1 min read

January 28, 2025 14:53

Bound for Yeshurun Synagogue: Rabbi Benjy and Emily Rickman (photo: Tanya Duman)

Holocaust Memorial

Jewish group stage anti-Israel protest at Kindertransport monument on Holocaust Memorial Day

’Jews Against Genocide’ also held a protest at the Cenotaph on Monday

1 min read

January 28, 2025 14:11

The Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street Station was vandalised on Holocaust Memorial Day by a group called 'Jews Against Genocide'. (Image: X)

theatre

Kyoto review: Do we need to know this character is Jewish?

Instead of dismantling tropes and stereotypes about Jews, the writers and directors of this play could be said to perpetuate them

2 min read

January 28, 2025 13:47

Climate denier: Stephen Kunken as real-life American lawyer Don Pearlman Photo: Manuel Harlan

Film

Flight Risk review: ‘more plot holes than a sieve’

Mel Gibson’s thriller is set almost entirely in the cabin of a plane as it flies over the bleak Alaskan mountains, and that is the best thing about it

1 min read

January 28, 2025 13:25

Hot air: Michelle Dockery as Madolyn and Mark Wahlberg as Daryl

Holocaust Memorial Day

The lessons of Auschwitz are being lost, Ron Lauder warns world

In his address at the 80th anniversary ceremony at the death camp, the Jewish leader references October 7 in a powerful wake-up call

3 min read

January 28, 2025 13:09

President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder makes an address on behalf of the major donors of the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia bans eight editors following Israel impartiality row

The online encyclopaedia has come under fire for alleged ‘anti-Israel bias’ in its articles

2 min read

January 28, 2025 13:08

Wikipedia has banned a group of editors following a row about changes to articles on the Israel-Palestine conflict (Image: Getty)

Obituary

Obituary: Ann Kirk

She waved goodbye to her parents aged 10 as she took the Kindertransport to freedom

5 min read

January 28, 2025 13:03

Ann and Bob Kirk received British Empire Medals (BEM) for their contribution to Holocaust education and remembrance in 2019

Israel

NASA to send first female Israeli astronaut into space

The search has now begun to find the right candidate for the historic mission

2 min read

January 28, 2025 12:33

Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Gila Gamliel announced that Israel will send its first female astronaut into space (Image: JNS)

Houses of Parliament

Lord Austin reappointed as UK trade envoy to Israel

The former MP for Dudley said he was ‘delighted’ to be continuing his work in the region

1 min read

January 28, 2025 12:21

Lord Austin has been reappointed as the UK's trade envoy to Israel (Image: Getty)

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