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Sidrah

Parashah of the week: Noach

“When Noah had lived 500 years, Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth” Genesis 5:32

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October 24, 2025 08:57

Noah's sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth, Artist by James Tissot (1836-1902) (The Jewish Museum New York/Wikimedia Commons)

Hostages

Hamas officials can reach 10 of the 13 remaining hostages, Israeli officials tell Vance

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused the terror group of delaying releases to stave off its own disarmament

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October 24, 2025 10:26

US Vice President JD Vance delivers a statement to the media at Israel's ceasefire coordination centre near Kiryat Gat on October 21, 2025 (Flash90)

New York

More than 800 US rabbis sign open letter opposing NY mayoral frontrunner Mamdani

‘We will not accept a culture that treats... Jewish inclusion as something to be “granted”.’

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October 24, 2025 10:11

Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani participates in the second New York City mayoral debate at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York, on October 22, 2025 (Getty Images)

Heaton park synagogue attack

The Manchester community holds its breath – and hold on onto each other

Naomi Frankel spent Succot in the heart of the Bury community and witnessed the way grief and love live side by side on these streets

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October 24, 2025 11:51

Floral tributes outside Heaton Park Synagogue (Photo: Naomi Frankel)

Ukraine

Rabbi escapes with his life as Russian drone hits synagogue moments after he stepped out to put up mezuzah

Kherson’s only synagogue has been damaged, but not destroyed, while Rabbi Wolff ‘miraculously’ avoided death or injury

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October 24, 2025 12:27

Some of the damage caused to the shul by the projectile (Photo: X/Rabbi Moshe Azman)

Books

Fall, Bomb, Fall review: ‘haunting on the Dutch experience of war’

Originally published in 1950, and now translated into English by the Pushkin Press, the teenager at the centre of this novel is so bored he wishes for all-out war...

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October 24, 2025 10:35

Fall, Bomb, Fall review: ‘haunting on the Dutch experience of war’

Nobody Wants This

Nobody Wants This review: Another nail in the coffin of the rom com genre ★★

Season two of the ‘hot rabbi’ series starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell recycles the same conversion conflict of season one – only the supporting cast make this at all watchable

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October 23, 2025 15:07

Nobody Wants This. (L to R) Adam Brody as Noah, Kristen Bell as Joanne in episode 207 of Nobody Wants This. Cr. Erin Simkin/Netflix © 2025

Donald Trump

Trump pardons crypto CEO who broke Iran sanctions and ‘failed to report’ Hamas-linked transactions

The president claimed that Changpeng Zhao was ‘persecuted by the Biden administration’ and that ‘what he did is not even a crime’

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October 24, 2025 14:52

Binance Co-Founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao delivers a speech at the opening event of Europe's largest tech conference, the Web Summit, in Lisbon on November 1, 2022 (Getty Images)

Hostages

Former hostage Eliya Cohen and Nova survivor Ziv Abud get engaged

Cohen had vowed to wait until all the living hostages were home before proposing

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October 24, 2025 10:15

Former hostage Eliya Cohen proposes to Nova survivor Ziv Abud (Picture: X/ Hen Mazzig)

Israel

Friends of Holon Institute of Technology launches in UK

Charity supporting Israeli university will help to ‘shape a generation’

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October 24, 2025 10:01

The president of Holon Institute of Technology, Professor Eduard Yakubov, and Professor Haim Dotan attended the London launch of the UK friends group

Travel

American Airlines to resume flights from JFK to Tel Aviv after two-year hiatus

A slew of carriers including British Airways and Iberia are also about to re-open services to Tel Aviv

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October 24, 2025 15:42

American Airlines will return to Israel in March (Photo: JNS)

Books

The Right of Passage review: a harrowing tale of a couple trapped in Nazi Europe

This moving and tense Holocaust memoir is a fitting tribute to a remarkable and courageous husband and wife whose lives ended in the most appalling circumstances, and who might otherwise be forgotten

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October 24, 2025 16:32