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BRCA

Deadline for BRCA-testing programme announced

Anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent is being urged to register by October 31

3 min read

June 11, 2025 13:35

The NHS Jewish BRCA Testing Programme consists of a simple saliva test (Photo: Getty)

Rabbi Alan Plancey Z"L

Leading light of the Borehamwood community Rabbi Plancey dies

He ‘built up BES from a modest community to the thriving, large kehilla we are blessed with today’

4 min read

June 9, 2025 11:47

Rabbi Plancey, who has passed away, aged 83

Theatre

Gesher Theatre’s production of Salomé comes to London

Salomé premiered in 2024 as part of Jaffa Fest

1 min read

June 12, 2025 09:00

A scene from the Israeli production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé (Image: Dedasasha)

chicken recipe

Chicken with silan and tangerines

Sweet and zesty — definitely a Shabbat crowd pleaser

December 15, 2015 12:41

chicken recipe

Roast cinnamon chicken with rice

This delicious one-pan wonder will fill your home with gorgeous aromas

March 4, 2024 09:55

Cook time: 1 hour-1 hour 10 minutes

From Devil’s Island to Gaza: Lies, rage and late corrections no one reads

When it comes to Israeli wars, truth is often the first casualty

3 min read

June 12, 2025 14:39

Truth bomb: the Al-Ahli hospital car park after it was hit by a rocket in October 2023. The media rushed to blame Israel but it later emerged the missile was fired by Palestinians (Image: Alamy)

From Durban to Geneva: How the global human rights industry turned on Israel

The hostile takeover of key humanitarian organisations has been visible for more than two decades

3 min read

June 12, 2025 14:35

UNhinged: the 2001 Durban conference kicked off a global campaign to isolate and demonise the Jewish state (Image: Getty)

France honours a long dead Jew as the living flee antisemitism

More than a century after scapegoating Alfred Dreyfus, Paris offers symbolic reparations to a corpse

3 min read

June 12, 2025 14:44

Dishonoured: the degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus – not for what he did, but for what he was (Image: Le Petit Journal_

Hostages

Former hostage reveals why she shook hands with Hamas militant at Red Cross handover

Yocheved Lifshitz shared further details about the encounter in an interview with Senior Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

1 min read

June 12, 2025 15:57

Yocheved Lifshitz (C), who was released by Hamas after 16 days in captivity (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Ice cream recipe

Very cherry ice cream

I love cherries, I adore ice cream and I'm utterly smitten with this no-churn method.

November 30, 2017 14:55

Cook time: 5 hours freezing

Ice cream recipe

Bastani (saffron and rosewater) ice cream

Persian flavours make this no-churn frozen dessert such a treat

August 1, 2024 15:38

Cook time: none

parev dessert

Easy Oreo ice cream

Perfect on a hot, lazy day.

August 18, 2016 14:35

Israel-Iran War

Trump says he will decide whether to join war with Iran in ‘next two weeks’

US involvement in the war is considered necessary to destroy the remaining Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow

3 min read

June 20, 2025 09:30

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: U.S. President Donald Trump stops and talks to the media before he boards Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on June 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The President will attend the annual meeting of the Group of 7 nations, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States are taking place in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta, and will run until late Tuesday. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Books

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann review: ‘everyone is a collaborator’

This fictionalised portrait of Austrian film-maker GW Pabst and his moral struggles under the Nazis immerses us in a world thick with fear, corruption and self-deception

1 min read

June 19, 2025 16:18

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann review: ‘everyone is a collaborator’

Books

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife review – her work, letters and shopping lists

This forensically researched and lengthy tome uses previously unearthed documents that throw light on Stein’s personal relationships and her attitude to her work and legacy

3 min read

June 20, 2025 11:02

The last word: Francesca Wade's book about epic mythologiser Gertrude Stein

Israel

The day both my daughters went out to dance and never came back

Sigal Shteiner Manzuri’s two daughters were murdered at the music festival massacre on October 7, 2023

6 min read

June 19, 2025 14:16

Sigal with her daughters Norelle (left) and Roya (right), who were murdered at the Nova music festival on October 7. (Courtesy of Sigal Shteiner Manzuri)

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