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The Jewish Literary Foundation launches a new prize for translated works

The winning translator will receive a £3,000 cash award and be invited to speak at Jewish Book Week 2026

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July 18, 2025 09:40

The prize is open to translators worldwide (Image: Getty)

How Jewish is Pete Davidson?

The comedian is expecting his first child and community magazine Kveller has reported that he plans to be a ‘Jewish dad’

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July 18, 2025 09:59

Pete Davidson is expecting his first child and is reportedly planning to be a 'Jewish dad' (Image: Getty)

Courts

Mohammed Hijab encourages violence and has the reputation he deserves, says lawyer for Douglas Murray

Muslim influencer is ‘even worse than the person presented in ‘ Murray’s article’, lawyer tells libel trial

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July 18, 2025 10:24

Mohammed Hijab posted a video of his Leicester address to his YouTube channel and is now suing a newspaper columnist who claimed he was inciting racial hatred during the 2022 riots.

Syria

Syrian security forces redeploy to Druze city as Israel resumes airstrikes after Bedouin attacks

A renewed offensive by Bedouin fighters appears to have breached a US-backed ceasefire within 24 hours

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July 18, 2025 10:36

Syrian security forces are redeploying to Sweida after a fresh round of Israeli airstrikes (Image: Getty)

Antisemitism

Islamic radio station that said Jews ‘kill prophets’ accuses Ofcom of ‘Islamophobia’

Salaam BCR broadcast a speech by a radical imam declaring Jews ‘the biggest enemies of humanity’ less than two weeks after the October 7 massacres

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July 17, 2025 13:10

An Islamic radio station was fined by Ofcom after broadcasting an antisemitic sermon from Pakistani imam Shuja Uddin Sheikh (Image: YouTube/@ShujaUddinSheikh)

FABAA

Paws and Palwins: fashion insiders and their pampered pooches gather for kiddush in Freud’s garden

Guests feasted on heart-shaped challah and pistachio rugelach, while their four-legged friends played with bespoke blue “matzo balls”

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July 17, 2025 13:38

Paws and Palwins: (right) Pini Brown makes bracha over heart-shaped challah, (left) DJ, writer and curator Martin Green and photography consultant Susie Babchick with her dog, Jeanie Jean (Image: FABAA)

Antisemitism

French rabbi’s home burned to the ground during Shabbat in ‘arson attack’

The rabbi's daughter has claimed that police suggested they are treating the blaze as deliberate but that ‘no one wants to call it antisemitic’

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July 18, 2025 11:56

Rabbi Yhia Lahiani's home in Grenoble was burned down in a suspected arson attack (Image: X, Torah-Box)

Antisemitism

Jewish doctors are ‘afraid to display their names on their badges’

Medics also say they are leaving their union, the BMA, over what they see as its extreme anti-Israel bias

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July 18, 2025 13:15

Supporters of Dr Swee Chai Ang, orthopaedic surgeon and founder member of Medical Aid for Palestinians, rally outside the London HQ of the British Medical Association (BMA) (Image: Ron Fassbender/Alamy Live News)

Pro-Palestine protests

Christians to march to ‘end the apartheid’ in London on Saturday

Christians for Palestine will join the Palestine Solidarity Campaign on the Embankment on Saturday

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July 18, 2025 14:10

Christians for Palestine will join the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (pictured here) in Embankment on Saturday (Image: Getty)

Reform UK

Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf apologises after apparently ‘liking’ antisemitic tweet calling Tory rival a ‘traiterous Zogbot’

The former party chair claimed that the like was an accident and was done by one of his staff with access to his account.

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July 18, 2025 13:38

Antisemitism

Jewish student to sue Berlin university after hate attack left him with brain haemorrhage

The student claims the Free University of Berlin has failed to deal with antisemitism

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July 18, 2025 14:15

The Free University of Berlin (FU) will have to answer questions in court (Image: Getty)

Gaza

IDF admits accidentally hitting Catholic church sheltering civilians in Gaza

The military confirmed shrapnel from a shell struck the religious site, resulting in the deaths of three people.

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July 18, 2025 14:19

The IDF has admitted inadvertantly hitting a church in Gaza during recent strikes (Image: Getty)

Blaming Netanyahu for antisemitism is a dangerous cop-out

It may come from a good place, but Mandy Patinkin blaming anyone other than antisemites for attacks on Jews is wrong

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July 16, 2025 12:49

Israel

Israel to reconnect Gaza power supply four months after cutting it off

A power line will be reactivated to serve a water treatment plant in the Strip

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July 18, 2025 15:04

Israel has confirmed that it will reactivate a single electrical line into Gaza to power the Strip's only seawater desalination plant (Image: Getty)

Kneecap

Police drop investigation into Kneecap’s Glastonbury performance

The band claimed that the very existence of the probe was an example of ‘state intimidation’

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July 18, 2025 15:07

Avon and Somerset Police has confirmed it will drop its investigation into Kneecap's Glastonbury performance (Image: Getty)

Parenthood

Parenting techniques can improve your child’s behaviour by changing their brain, says top psychiatrist

Jewish professor Michael Craig reveals the results of his ground-breaking research

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July 18, 2025 16:02

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