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I used to perform in the West End on Friday nights. Now I stay in to light Shabbos candles

Caroline Pakter tells the JC about her journey from showbusiness to Orthodox Judaism

5 min read

September 3, 2025 14:54

Caroline Pakter performing from 'Showbiz to Shabbos' (Photo: Robert Leach)

Gaza

South African TV host dropped for challenging guest over comparison between Gaza and the Holocaust

The guest had told presenter Juliet Newell that the two were ‘the same thing’

2 min read

September 3, 2025 15:19

Juliet Newell (left) challenged Doctor Mamphela Ramphele (right) on her Gaza/Holocaust comparison (Image: South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC))

The Genocide Scholars Association’s Gaza statement twists law and facts

The accusation against Israel collapses under scrutiny, muddling legal standards, factual errors and whitewashing Hamas’s war

7 min read

September 3, 2025 12:47

Palestinians flee northern Gaza following Israeli evacuation orders (Image: Getty)

My message to Labour: Palestine cannot be summoned into existence by pogrom or fiat

Britain used to pride itself on its policy of not negotiating with terrorists. Now we’re in danger of rewarding them

3 min read

September 3, 2025 16:04

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces that the UK will recognise a Palestinian state, July 29, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Ireland

Ireland’s deputy PM hears personal accounts of antisemitism from Irish Jews and voices ‘deep concern’

The meeting between Simon Harris TD and representatives of Irish Jewry took place at the request of the minister’s office

3 min read

September 3, 2025 16:28

Ireland's foreign minister Simon Harris delivers a speech during the European People's Party (EPP) congress in Valencia, on April 30, 2025. (Photo by JOSE JORDAN / AFP) (Photo by JOSE JORDAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Torah

The Progressive rabbi who wants to launch a new yeshivah in London

Rabbi Benji Stanley has given up a comfortable pulpit to pursue his educational dream

4 min read

August 31, 2025 09:38

Passionate about Torah: Rabbi Benji Stanley

David Lammy

UK could recognise Palestine while hostages remain in Gaza, Lammy tells hostage families

Recognition of statehood is not dependent on Hamas or a hostage release, Lammy confirms

2 min read

September 3, 2025 15:10

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Turkey

Turkey bans Jewish singer over support for Israel

Enrico Macias’ planned concert in Istanbul was cancelled after ‘intense calls for protests against’ it

1 min read

September 4, 2025 09:26

French-Jewish singer Enrico Macias had his upcoming concert in Turkey cancelled over his open support for Israel (Image: Getty)

CAA

Will you march with us on Sunday to stamp out antisemitism?

The head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism on why he thinks everyone needs to join the fight against Jew-hatred

2 min read

September 4, 2025 09:38

There was a huge turnout for the CAA's March Against Antisemitism in December. On Sunday, the community will be marching again

Green Party

Greens unfit to hold any position of responsibility after electing extremist deputy leader, say critics

Mothin Ali hailed October 7 as the end of ‘white supremacist European settler colonialism’

2 min read

September 4, 2025 11:00

New Green deputy leader Mothin Ali (Image: Screenshot)

Antisemitism

Faeces smeared on north London Orthodox synagogue in ‘utterly disgusting’ act

The ‘revolting act’ was discovered by the shul’s security and reported to CST and the police

1 min read

September 4, 2025 09:50

Faeces appears to have been smeared on the walls of a north London synagogue (Credit: X/BlondShelley)

Gaza

Hugh Bonneville hijacks Downton Abbey premiere interview to condemn Israel’s ‘indefensible’ Gaza City offensive

Bonneville called on the international community to ‘do more to bring it to an end’

1 min read

September 4, 2025 10:13

Hugh Bonneville condemned Israel's 'idenfensible' Gaza City offensive during an interview at the premiere of the final Downton Abbey film (Image: Getty)

Miracles happen when we opt for hope over despair

A visit to Stamford Hill brings a happy reminder of the positive things in life

3 min read

September 4, 2025 11:14

A group of Stamford Hill rabbis are campaigning to discourage Charedim from voting in the WZO elections (Photo: Getty)

The UK’s Israel policy ignores facts and history

This Labour government is not just abandoning Jerusalem. It is abandoning Britain’s Jewish community, already under pressure; the hostages still in captivity, and its very own Zionist tradition

4 min read

September 4, 2025 11:29

David Lammy, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, speaks to the media after addressing a conference on recognising Palestine on July 29, 2025 in New York City. (Image: Getty)

labour of love

Barbara Barnett

Socia l historian who recorded Holocaust child survivors’ memoirs

4 min read

September 4, 2025 11:23

Obituary

Irene Brauner Holocaust survivor dies aged 87

A Polish Holocaust survivor who escaped the Krakow ghetto by assuming a fake identity as a child

3 min read

September 4, 2025 11:59

Irene Brauner, a Holocaust survivor who shared her story with the Association of Jewish Refugees, passed away this week at the age of 87. (Photo: AJR My Story)

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