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Hamas

Huge anti-Hamas protests in northern Gaza

Demonstrators were chanting ‘Hamas out’ and ‘Stop the war’

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March 26, 2025 10:39

Palestinians attend a rally calling for an end to the war, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip (Image: Gaza)

Labour Friends of Israel

LFI chair becomes first British MP to fly directly from Israel to UAE

The group has called on government to create ‘special envoy’ to the Abraham Accords

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March 26, 2025 11:50

LFI Chair Jon Pearce MP with Israel's President Isaac Herzog (Image: Labour Friends of Israel).

Columbia university

Columbia student protestors knew about October 7 attacks in advance, lawsuit claims

A new claim from victims’ relatives alleges that Students for Justice in Palestine ‘aided and abetted’ the terror group

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March 26, 2025 12:01

A lawsuit has accused pro-Palestine activists at Columbia University of coordinating with and providing support for Hamas (Image: Getty)

There was a time when we didn’t always talk about antisemitism

We once felt safe enough to discuss other matters – until the Oldest Hatred reared its ugly head again

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March 26, 2025 12:24

Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Rabbi Noah in Nobody Wants This. (Photo: Netflix)

Barnet

Outspoken advocate for Barnet’s Jewish community Eva Greenspan dies at 77

During her time as mayor from 2006 to 2007, she raised £250,000 for Barnet charities

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March 26, 2025 12:20

Outspoken advocate for Barnet’s Jewish community Eva Greenspan dies at 77

Don’t look to Chuck Schumer for lessons on fighting hate

The Democrat senator is scared of his own party

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March 26, 2025 12:27

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Getty)

Israel’s internal fractures are a gift to its enemies

If we allow internal politics to once again fracture the country, then we risk losing not just the war, but the very soul of the state

3 min read

March 26, 2025 12:56

Protesters hold signs and posters of hostages held in the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv (Getty)

Hamas

Former hostage reveals sexual assault in Gaza

Ilana Gritzewsky recounted details of her captivity to the New York Times

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March 26, 2025 13:02

Ilana Gritzewsky, one of 105 Israeli hostages released during a one-week truce in November 2023, speaks during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israelis held hostage since October 2023, in front of the Israeli defence ministry, in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Obituary

Britain’s most successful shipwreck explorer Rex Cowan dies age 97

A former lawyer who hailed from a Jewish family of Eastern European origin and grew up in north London

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March 26, 2025 13:12

Rex Braham Cowan passed away on earlier this month, at the age of 97 (Image: IMASS)

All of Christianity must wake up to Luther’s legacy of hate

Luther was far from unique in his Christian antisemitism, but the violence and obscenity of his words are extraordinary

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March 26, 2025 13:17

BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 22: People walk past a billboard that shows 16th-century religious reformer Martin Luther ahead of the Protestant Church Congress on May 22, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Up to 200,000 faithful are expected to attend the five-day congress in Berlin and Wittenberg that begins Wednesday and this year is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Religion

How Israelis turned to God after the horrors of October 7

One rabbi labelled the increasingly prominent trend away from secularism as a ‘Jewish awakening’

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March 26, 2025 13:22

An increasing number of October 7 survivors are turning to religion as they reckon with their trauma (Image: Getty)

Theatre

Dear England review: ‘permission to be patriotic’

How good to able to sit in a theatre and with some justification, rather than deluded hope, feel the unashamed urge to cry ‘Come on England’

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March 26, 2025 13:32

Defying expectations: the cast of Dear England, with Gwilym Lee as Gareth Southgate (light sleeves) on stage at the National Theatre Photo: Marc Brenner

Pesach meat recipe

Gremolata-style chicken schnitzel for Pesach

Give your Passover schnitzel Italian style, by adding gremolata to the matzah meal coating

March 28, 2019 08:39

Cook time: 10 minutes

Gremolata-style chicken schnitzel for Pesach

Books

My novel shows that Jews and Scots have more in common than you may think

Jenni Daiches’s family saga is on the longlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

5 min read

March 26, 2025 12:53

Displacement theme: Jenni Daiches and her new book

Israel

Israeli court blocks PA funding in unprecedented move

The ruling came as the result of a landmark lawsuit filed by a British rabbi who lost his wife and children in a terror attack

2 min read

March 26, 2025 12:34

An Israeli court has issued an unprecedented injunction freezing funding from Israel to Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority (Image: Getty)

Yiddish music

‘I don’t want to hide where I’m from’: Ukrainian singer Goldy on launch of new Jewish-inspired single ‘Shalom’

Former finalist on Ukraine’s version of The Voice brings her Jewish heritage into first solo project

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March 26, 2025 11:50

GOLDY is a Jewish Ukrainian singer bringing her unique sound to the UK. (Photo: Vadim Yatsun)

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