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Scrubbing out Nazi graffiti costs British taxpayers £50,000 says Taxpayers Alliance

Neo-Nazi symbols and racist slogans have been removed from streets and buildings in 80 separate council districts since 2018

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May 5, 2022 14:09

Scrubbing out Nazi graffiti costs British taxpayers £50,000 says Taxpayers Alliance

Israeli Politics

Yair Lapid pulls out of COP27 after Netanyahu lead in election

President Isaac Herzog will instead represent Israel at the global climate summit

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November 2, 2022 16:46

Yair Lapid pulls out of COP27 after Netanyahu lead in election

Music

The festival for grown-ups, just a stone's throw from London

Always hankered after going to a festival but don’t fancy slumming it? Now there’s a luxury option in Hertfordshire

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May 4, 2023 13:36

The festival for grown-ups, just a stone's throw from London

Schools

‘Jewish Eton’ bonds are still strong 60 years on

Alumni of Whittinghame College in Brighton continue to gather, laugh and reminisce six decades on

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October 5, 2023 12:11

‘Jewish Eton’ bonds are still strong 60 years on

Why is Israel the world's fourth happiest country?

The secret of Israeli's soaring levels of wellbeing is very simple, as any visitor knows

3 min read

March 23, 2023 10:12

TOPSHOT - A woman wearing earrings depicting the Israeli flag smiles before demonstrators chanting slogans and waving Israeli flags in Jerusalem on May 29, 2022, ahead of the 'flags march' to mark "Jerusalem Day". - Thousands of flag-waving Israelis marched on May 29 into the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City during a nationalist procession that regularly stokes Palestinian anger, a year after Jerusalem tensions exploded into war. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Holocaust education

Hollywood giant relents over $1m demand to stage Holocaust opera

Miramax has agreed to waive a demand from a young British composer to secure the rights to set The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas to music, following the JC’s intervention

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April 21, 2022 13:59

Hollywood giant relents over $1m demand to stage Holocaust opera

Books

How to Love Your Daughter review: Psychologically brilliant on a mother’s primal fear

Hila Blum's novel is a book that becomes part of you and helps you understand the world around you

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August 31, 2023 14:51

EJ63P7 Cologne, Germany. 20th Mar, 2015. Israeli author Hila Blum reads at the international literature festival Lit.Cologne in Cologne, Germany, 20 March 2015. Photo: Horst Galuschka - NO WIRE SERVICE -/dpa/Alamy Live News

Judicial reform protests

Herzog calls leaders of Israeli parties to kickstart judicial reform talks

The president made a rare intervention to force opposing groups to negotiate

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March 28, 2023 11:54

Herzog calls leaders of Israeli parties to kickstart judicial reform talks

New York

'God is Dead': Tax-dodging stuffed bagel branded a 'crime against nature'

New York baker H&H came up with the ploy to dodge NY sandwich taxes with a pre-prepared schmear

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April 18, 2023 16:15

'God is Dead': Tax-dodging stuffed bagel branded a 'crime against nature'

Liberal Judaism

Baroness Merron has her batmitzvah... 50 years late

The Labour peer was raised in a secular Jewish household and only became involved in Jewish life when she was the Lincoln MP

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August 25, 2022 09:05

Baroness Merron has her batmitzvah... 50 years late

Film Review: Parallel Mothers

Almodovar presents another masterpiece with a deliciously composed colour palette

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January 31, 2022 10:14

Jewface

Long before Jewface arguments, Jewish comedians were playing up to stereotypes

Julian Rose, an American comedian popularised the early form of Jewish caricature comedy

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August 30, 2023 14:33

Long before Jewface arguments, Jewish comedians were playing up to stereotypes

Books

Book review: The Daughter of Auschwitz - Tova's miracle

The horrors of the Holocaust brought shudderingly to life from the point of view of a small child who could barely read or recognise numbers

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September 22, 2022 13:10

Book review: The Daughter of Auschwitz - Tova's miracle

BBC

Help our BBC petition hit 10,000 signatures

Hitting this figure would place huge pressure on the corporation and Parliament to take the demands of Anglo-Jewry seriously

2 min read

November 17, 2022 13:45

Help our BBC petition hit 10,000 signatures

Gaza

Hamas terror attack: Foreign Office issues Israel travel warning as Jewish state 'at war'

People have been urged to avoid traveling to Israel by the FCDO unless essential

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October 9, 2023 07:31

The scene where a rocket fired from Gaza into Southern Israel, hit and caused damaged in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. October 7, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** אשקלון רקטה נפילה חרבות ברזל

Antisemitism

Kanye West wins Antisemite of the Year award from Jewish-hate watchdog

This year’s runners-up were Mohamed Hadid, and white supremacist and founder of the Goyim Defense League, Jon Minadeo II

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December 12, 2022 12:08

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 30: Vanguard Award winner Kanye West speaks onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on August 30, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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