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Maidenhead Synagogue

Ukrainian refugees thank Maidenhead Synagogue for their hospitality

Members of the shul opened their homes, provided English classes and donated bicycles

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July 29, 2025 09:47

Rabbi Jonathan Romain with (from left) the Ukrainian couple, Nicky & Nadia, he housed for 18 months. Pictured here with their daughter, Ljudmila, and their grandson, who were already living in the UK

Gaza

Second child suffering from pre-existing condition used as evidence of Gaza starvation

Israeli authorities said that they had helped evacuate the boy to an Italian hospital, where he is now recovering

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July 29, 2025 09:47

Osama Al-Rakab, 5, was evacuated to an Italian hospital with Israel's help (Image: COGAT)

The numbers that shape Labour’s Middle East policy: 37, 73, 110

The party’s sudden zeal for Palestinian statehood isn’t about foreign policy – it’s about vote counts. Muslim blocs in 110 key seats are calling the tune, and Wes Streeting knows it

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July 29, 2025 10:21

British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on March 26, 2025 (Image: Getty)

The Netherlands

Netherlands accuses Israel of trying to influence Dutch public opinion

A report listed the Jewish state alongside Russia, Turkey and Iran as countries that have sought to "to shape public opinion and political decision-making."

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July 29, 2025 09:53

Netanyahu with Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof

Jami

Children from aged 11 to benefit from Jami’s one-to-one counselling

The charity has opened The Wohl Counselling Suites

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July 28, 2025 12:16

Children from aged 11 to benefit from Jami’s one-to-one counselling

Gaza

Aid trucks reportedly looted while crossing from Egypt during first humanitarian pause in Gaza

The IDF is halting operations in Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah and Gaza City between 10am and 8pm ‘every day until further notice’ to allow aid to be distributed

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July 29, 2025 10:36

Aid trucks entering Gaza from Egypt have reportedly been subject to significant looting during the first humanitarian pause in the fighting (Image: Getty)

Pro-Palestine

Regina Spektor tells pro-Palestine heckler ‘you’re just yelling at a Jew’

The Jewish singer defiantly stood up to a number of disruptive audience members at her concert on Saturday

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July 29, 2025 10:38

Regina Spektor had her show disrupted by Palestine supporters but she didn't hold back in responding (Image: Getty)

Theatre

‘Chicken Soup Dates’: ‘A raunchy sex seminar from an ‘Orthodox’ couple comes to Soho Theatre

Comedians Candy Gigi and Tom Joseph of Buttmitzvah fame, play a dysfunctional Jewish couple in this matchmaking comedy, replete with free chicken soup on tap

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July 23, 2025 08:19

Comedians Tom Joseph and Candy Gigi are Howard and Michelle Fissure, a deranged Orthodox married couple, in their upcoming comedy show 'Chicken Soup Dates.'

Union of Jewish Students

UJS wins £1m government contract to lead campus antisemitism training

There has been a surge in antisemitic incidents on campus since October 7

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July 29, 2025 11:05

An Edinburgh University protest (Photo: Getty)

Obituary

Tom Lehrer, mathematician, songwriter and satirist, dies at 97

Lehrer’s sharp, pithy songs satirised contemporary culture and gripped audiences around the world, but he never wavered from his love for mathematics

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July 29, 2025 11:25

American satirical singer-songwriter, Tom Lehrer, pictured cutting a cake in the shape of a woman's hand backstage at the Palace Theatre in London on 13 May, 1959, has passed away at the age of 97. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Donald Trump

Trump says US to help with food distribution in Gaza

The US President said there was ‘real starvation’ in the Strip during a press conference with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, apparently contradicting claims made by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu

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July 29, 2025 13:37

President Trump has said that the US will set up aid distribution centres in Gaza to deal with the 'real starvation' there (Image: Getty)

Israeli Politics

Netanyahu ‘presented plan for Gaza siege’ at Israeli cabinet meeting

Other reports suggested that anything from a ‘military occupation’ to ‘full annexation’ of the Strip were on the table if ceasefire negotiations collapse again

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July 29, 2025 13:07

Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly presented a plan for a 'military occupation' of Gaza to his Security Cabinet yesterday (Image: Getty)

Nazi

Sydney Sweeney ‘great jeans’ American Eagle advert called ‘Nazi propaganda’

Critics of the advert claim it is advocating eugenics and is a dog whistle that promotes white supremacy

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July 29, 2025 13:05

A new advert for jeans featuring actor Sydney Sweeney has caused controversy online (Image: YouTube, American Eagle)

S&P Sephardi Community

S&P Sephardi Community announces nomination of new senior rabbinic couple

Rabbi Dweck and his wife Margalit are stepping down to make aliyah

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July 29, 2025 10:24

Edinburgh Fringe

Comedian David Rose grapples with the discovery of a famous Jewish ancestor – and his controversial legacy – in Fringe debut

The Australian stand-up shares the story of his great-grandfather Julian Rose in ‘Our Hebrew Friend’, a comedy that attempts to answer, how Jewish is Jewish enough?

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July 29, 2025 14:26

Australian comedian David Rose is carrying forward a family legacy with his upcoming Edinburgh Fringe debut "Our Hebrew Friend." (Photo: David Rose)

Pro-Palestine

Jewish man and six-year-old son allegedly attacked in Milan by ‘wild animal’ Palestine supporters

The father and young child, both wearing kippahs, were reportedly attacked at a Milan service station by Palestine supporters shouting that they will ‘go to hell’

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July 29, 2025 14:27

A Jewish man and his young son were allegedly attacked by pro-Palestine supporters in Milan (Image: Instagram/@silver_store_75019)

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