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King Charles

King Charles says he ‘can’t bear’ to see dwindling numbers of Holocaust survivors

The King marked Holocaust memorial day at a Buckingham Palace event on Monday

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January 14, 2025 09:26

King Charles says he ‘can’t bear’ to see dwindling numbers of Holocaust survivors

Books

Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’

The music reverberates from the pages of this feminist journalist’s debut novel

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January 13, 2025 17:44

Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’

Crime

Jewish GP jailed for eight years for sexual assault of women in Manchester

He inflicted unnecessary examinations on two patients, a court found

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January 13, 2025 17:37

Dr Wayne Davis outside Manchester Crown Court (Image: Manchester Evening News)

Ireland

Jewish uproar as ‘antisemitic’ Irish president announced as guest of honour at Holocaust event

Michael Higgins has been accused of spreading lies about Israel

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January 13, 2025 17:37

President Higgins spoke at Dublin's 2024 Holocaust Memorial Day event (YouTube)

Francesca Albanese

UN advisor Francesca Albanese suggests that LA fires and Gaza are ‘symptoms of the same disease’

The controversial official amplified a post claiming that the wildfires and ongoing conflict were ‘symptoms of the same disease’

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January 13, 2025 17:05

Francesca Albanese, the UN's top advisor on Palestine, has seemingly suggested that the LA wildfires and Gaza War are 'connected' (Picture: Getty)

Israel

Who are the UK-linked hostages that could be on the brink of freedom?

The status of many of those taken by Hamas on October 7 remains unknown as negotiations enter their ‘final’ phase

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January 13, 2025 16:38

Uncertainty lingers over the fate of the British hostages trapped in Gaza as a deal between Israel and Hamas is said to be 'imminent' (Picture: Getty)

France

Macron leads Hyper Cacher memorial ten years after murders

French government commits to more focus into antisemitic acts carried out in universities

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January 13, 2025 16:34

President Emmanuel Macron and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo outside the Hyper Cacher supermarket during commemorations marking 10 years since an Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket (Getty Images)

NHS

Health Secretary Wes Streeting ‘shocked’ by NHS antisemitism

‘I've had enough people telling me that they feel unsafe to know that we need to act’ he said this week

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January 13, 2025 16:26

Health Secretary Wes Streeting talks at the Jewish Labour Movement conference (Image: Jewish Labour Movement/Ian Vogler).

demography

Dutch Jewish population larger than thought – thanks to Israeli migration

The Netherlands community has been going through process of ‘Israelification’, says new report

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January 13, 2025 16:21

German Federal Council President Manuela Schwesig (Centre L) addresses a speech during the opening ceremony for the National Holocaust Museum, at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, on March 10, 2024. Eighty years after World War II, the Netherlands is poised to open its first Holocaust museum, as before the war and the Nazi occupation, the Netherlands was home to a vibrant Jewish community of around 140,000 people, mainly concentrated in Amsterdam and by the time the Holocaust was over, an estimated 75 percent -- 102,000 people -- had been murdered. (Photo by Patrick van Emst / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by PATRICK VAN EMST/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Organ donation

Community urged to sign up to NHS organ donor register

Nearly 8,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant

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January 13, 2025 16:07

Jess Harris (right), who received a pancreas and two kidneys, with her baby, Ezra, with Baroness Gillian Merron at Parliament

Torah

Gratitude is next to Godliness

Why saying thank you is the theme of Seed’s Clean Speech campaign next month

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January 13, 2025 15:56

Taking no one for granted: A J Jacobs (left), author of Thanks A Thousand - A Gratitude Journey

Los Angeles

Holocaust survivor’s Menorah miraculously undamaged by LA fires as family lose everything

Joshua Kotler explained how the ‘insanely powerful’ discovery has eased the pain of his family’s loss

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January 13, 2025 15:23

Joshua Kotler and his family lost their home in the LA wildfires last week, but he was amazed to discover his Holocaust-surviving grandmother's menorah fully intact amid the ashes (Photo: Joshua Kotler)

Hamas

Brother of ex-Hamas chief Sinwar ‘rebuilding’ terror group in Gaza

A former IDF officer has claimed the extremist organisation is growing faster than the IDF can ‘eradicate’ it

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January 13, 2025 14:30

Hamas is reportedly 'rebuilding' its ranks under the lead of Mohammed Sinwar, younger brother of the terror group's former leader Yahya (Picture: Getty)

Jewish Comedy

Comedian spreads Jewish joy

Debra Tammer tells the JC that creativity is the best weapon against antisemitism in the arts

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January 13, 2025 12:19

Debra Tammer says that being pushed out of artistic circles allows Jews to be even more creative

Middle East

Middle East Minister refuses to apologise for comments about Israeli ambassador

Hamish Falconer: it was clear that I wasn’t commenting on Hotovely personally in Parliament last week

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January 13, 2025 12:09

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer MP (left) with LFI chair Jon Pearce (Photo: Labour Friends of Israel)

Gaza war

Bereaved IDF widow discovers she is pregnant the day after husband’s shiva

His commanding officer says it is now his duty to build a better future for her and their children

4 min read

January 13, 2025 11:46

Saadia Dery (left) and his widow, Racheli Orya Dery with their children

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