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Progressive Judaism

Vote on new Progressive Judaism movement on May 18

If successful, it would become the largest synagogue organisation in the UK

1 min read

April 25, 2025 18:44

Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy, co-leads of Progressive Judaism (Photo: Omaggio)

BBQ recipe

Barbecue s’mores pizza

Get your grill on with melted marshmallows and chocolate - what's not to love?

April 27, 2025 06:00

Cook time: 3 - 5 minutes (plus cooking the base)

London Marathon 2025

One of the youngest marathon runners raising funds for Jami

Max Bailey, 18, is running for the mental health support charity

3 min read

April 27, 2025 07:30

18-year-old Max Bailey will be running the Marathon for Jami

London Marathon 2025

Fifty-nine Marathon runners for 59 hostages held in Gaza

Supporters will be cheering them along the way

1 min read

April 27, 2025 09:08

Fifty-nine Marathon runners for 59 hostages held in Gaza

Sport

Swiss team turns back on Israeli gold medallists at fencing championship

Israeli fencers celebrate victory at European championship, as Swiss rivals stage apparent protest during medal ceremony

1 min read

April 27, 2025 11:46

Swiss fencing team turns back on Israeli team at U23 championships (Photo: Team Bizzi)

Kneecap

UK could pay anti-Israel band Kneecap up to £90,000 in legal costs

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accused ministers of handing over taxpayer money to the group, which she accused of ‘glorifying evil terror groups’, after ministers dropped a court case against it

3 min read

April 22, 2025 15:51

DJ Provai from Irish Hip Hop trio Kneecap performs onstage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Image: AFP via Getty)

Google

DeepMind staff attempt to block AI to Israeli military with unionisation

Hundreds of Google DeepMind employees trying to obstruct technology deals with Israel, report suggests

2 min read

April 27, 2025 14:40

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 570: US-Israel rift grows over Iran talks

Plus, the latest in the Netanyahu-Bar court row

3 min read

April 28, 2025 08:29

A rift is reportedly emerging over Iran between US President Donal Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Image: Getty)

Mossad

Aliza Magen, Mossad’s only female deputy director, dies aged 87

The veteran security agent served for almost 40 years and played a role in major intelligence missions

4 min read

April 28, 2025 09:37

Aliza Magen was a veteran Mossad agent who served for almost 40 years under three security chiefs. (Kan 11)

Iran

Iranian port that went up in smoke was ‘critical to survival of regime’

Israel has denied any role in the huge rocket fuel blast, which left at least 28 dead

3 min read

April 28, 2025 10:28

Smoke rises at the scene of an explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port dock, southwest of Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan (Photo by MEYSAM MIRSADEH/TASNIM NEWS/AFP via Getty Images)

Schools

Yavneh head shortlisted for national teaching awards

Spencer Lewis has been picked as a finalist in the national Pearson Awards

1 min read

April 28, 2025 10:49

Top teacher: Yavneh College's head Spencer Lewis (photo: Zoe Cooper)

Noa Argamani

Noa Argamani wears yellow dress in touching hostage tribute for Time 100 red carpet

The former Hamas captive, whose abduction is one of the enduring images of the October 7, 2023 attacks, used the occasion to reiterate her calls to bring all the remaining hostages home

2 min read

April 28, 2025 10:53

Former Hamas hostages Noa Argamani wore a yellow dress to the Time 100 Gala on Saturday in tribute to those still held in Gaza (Image: Getty)

ICJ

ICJ opens hearings into Israel’s aid duties in Gaza

The world’s highest court will assess whether the ban on Unrwa violates international law

2 min read

April 28, 2025 11:05

The ICJ has opened five days of hearings into Israel's compliance with its humanitarian obligations in Gaza, including its ban on Unrwa (Image: Getty)

Settlers

Who is Daniella Weiss? The ‘Godmother’ of Israel’s settler movement now calling for a return to Gaza

Weiss was recently featured in Louis Theroux’s documentary about the Israeli settler movement

3 min read

April 28, 2025 11:08

Portrait of Daniella Weiss in her home in the Israeli settlement of Kedumim (Credit: Flash90)

Holocaust survivors

Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies aged 109

Nechama Grossman, who died on Yom Hashoah, built a new life in Israel after fleeing the Nazis

1 min read

April 28, 2025 11:43

Nechama Grossman, Israel's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died aged 109. (Credit: Courtesy of the Grossman family)

The West ignores the massacre of Syria’s Druze – and libels Israel instead

This is a seismic moment. Civilisation is being tested by a culture of death. Israel is meeting the challenge and will survive. Britain is going down, firing at Israel as it does so

3 min read

July 23, 2025 14:58

A boy carries a box of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (Image: Getty)

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