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Limmud

Limmud 2025 launches

Sign-ups have already begun for the annual festival of Jewish culture and learning

2 min read

July 22, 2025 06:59

Bezalel Smotrich

Far-right minister claims IDF chief supports ‘security annexation’ of sections of Gaza

Bezalel Smotrich predicted that Israel would maintain a ‘permanent presence’ in the enclave even after the war ends

2 min read

July 23, 2025 14:30

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has claimed that IDF's chief of staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, supports the 'security annexation' of sections of Gaza (Image: Flash90)

Radio

Hertfordshire Police boss writes to LBC over James O’Brien’s ‘Shabbat school’ comments

LBC presenter has apologised for reading out a comment about a “Shabbat school in a leafy Hertfordshire town”

1 min read

July 23, 2025 16:36

Hertfordshire Police boss writes to LBC over James O’Brien’s ‘Shabbat school’ comments

Vegetarian

Tofu ‘meatballs’ with a simple tomato sauce

Everyone’s favourite comfort food made meat free

July 24, 2025 06:06

Cook time: 1 1/4 hours plus refrigeration time

Neutering Turkish ambition is key to peace in the Middle East

Only the US — trusted by both sides — can broker an arrangement that secures their vital interests and outlines a shared future in Syria

2 min read

April 16, 2025 08:34

Debris lie on the ground at the scene of an Israeli strike in Syria (Getty)

Bergen Belsen

To the servicemen who liberated Bergen-Belsen, my letter of gratitude

Eighty years on, we must remember and defend the greatness of a country that spent blood and treasure to fight for freedom

2 min read

April 16, 2025 08:32

The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945 (Getty)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 557: A new ceasefire proposal – but little relief for hostage families

Plus, a new political scandal grips Israel

4 min read

April 15, 2025 08:32

Hostage campaigners have criticised a proposed ceasefire deal that would reportedly see only some of the captives freed from Gaza (Image: Flash90)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 558: Hamas loses contact with US-Israeli hostage

Plus, ‘deep state’ row escalates between Netanyahu and Shin Bet

3 min read

April 16, 2025 08:39

Hamas says it has lost contact with the terrorists holding Edan Alexander in Gaza (Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

On the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, I remember the ‘bride of Belsen’

Survivors of Bergen-Belsen describe the camp as the ‘worst place’ imaginable

3 min read

April 16, 2025 08:43

Holocaust education

How Holocaust survivors can speak to the youth of the future

According to estimates, there may now be fewer than 1,000 remaining Shoah survivors in the UK

6 min read

April 16, 2025 08:49

Steven Frank interviewed for The Forever Project

Josh Shapiro

Shapiro arson suspect indicates pro-Palestine motive for attack at governor’s family home

According to police, Cody Balmer called the Pennsylvania Democrat, who is Jewish, a ‘monster’ and objected to ‘what he wants to to do the Palestinian people’

1 min read

April 16, 2025 09:45

Israel

Israeli researchers develop blood test for early detection of Parkinson’s

The PCR test could allow the neurodegenerative disease to be detected before symptoms appear, potentially improving treatment outcomes

2 min read

April 16, 2025 10:22

Laboratory samples ready to be tested (Image: Getty Images)

Music

Green Day’s pro-Palestine lyrics at Coachella ‘beyond disheartening’

‘Disturbed’ frontman David Draiman criticised the rock group for their show of support for Palestine at the music festival

2 min read

April 16, 2025 09:48

Billie Joe Armstrong at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella)

National Education Union

NEU cuts ties with defence sector in anti-Israel motion

The teaching union found time at its conference to condemn the Jewish state, label Reform UK ‘racist’ and reject a government pay offer

3 min read

April 16, 2025 10:44

NEU cuts ties with defence sector in anti-Israel motion

BBC

‘I’ve got a real, strong feeling about being Jewish’: Claude Littner on his Holocaust-surviving father, The Apprentice and Trump

Lord Sugar’s former on-screen aide tells the JC why he is teaming up with WIZO UK to find the next big names in business

5 min read

April 11, 2025 11:15

Claude Littner, who became a media star after appearing on The Apprentice as Lord Sugar's right-hand man (Photo: The Apprentice/BBC)

Sport

The women’s rugby star shattering the myth that Jews aren’t athletic

Sarah Levy sat down with the JC to discuss the role her Jewish upbringing plays in her performance, a prospective Olympic homecoming and how she hopes to inspire the next generation of girls

3 min read

April 16, 2025 11:24

The USA's Sarah Levy has rapidly become one of the top stars on the Women's Rugby Sevens circuit (Image: USA Rugby)

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