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Auschwitz

Bishop condemns ‘gates of Auschwitz’ float at school’s Halloween parade

The mock-up of the concentration camp entrance appeared on a float organised by a Catholic school in Pennsylvania

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November 2, 2025 10:53

The St Joseph Catholic School float at a Halloween parade in Hanover, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 2025 (Image: X)

Antisemitism

Amsterdam concert hall cancels Chanukah show because singer is IDF’s chief cantor

Concertgebouw director Simon Reinink said that allowing Shai Abramson to perform would be ‘against our mission’

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November 3, 2025 11:32

IDF Chief Cantor Shai Abramson (Image: YouTube/JBS)

Gaza

More than half of Palestinians still back October 7 massacre, survey finds

Gazans' support for the attacks, which claimed over 1,200 lives, rose to 44%, up by seven percentage points since May.

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November 3, 2025 11:58

Palestinian Hamas militants, along with members of the International Red Cross (ICRC), watch as heavy equipment supplied by Egypt resumes the search for the bodies of killed Israeli hostages, in Gaza City on November 2, 2025 (Getty Images)

Olympics

Ben Winston to produce ‘epic’ LA Olympics opening ceremony spectacle

The Emmy award-winning producer will oversee the opening and closing ceremonies for LA28

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November 3, 2025 12:11

Ben Winston accepts the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) award at the 2024 Emmys (Photo: Getty)

Tikva

‘Tikva pulled me out of neglect and poverty and gave me a home’

Katya from Ukraine was speaking at the charity’s annual dinner

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May 8, 2025 12:55

Katya at the Tikva dinner (Photo: Blake Ezra Photography)

Medicine

First-of-its-kind artificial cornea transplant performed successfully at Israeli hospital

The recipient had previously undergone three unsuccessful transplants from human donors

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November 3, 2025 12:24

Doctors at the Kaplan Medical Centre perform the first EndoArt artificial cornea transplant (Kaplan Medical Centre)

accountancy

Executive Assistant

Lawrence Grant

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November 3, 2025 12:59

Yitzhak Rabin

‘Yitzhak Rabin would not have given up on us’: Freed hostage remembers Israeli leader on 30th anniversary of assassination

A memorial rally in Tel Aviv for the former Israeli PM drew up to 150,000 people on Saturday

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November 3, 2025 15:00

Tens of thousands gathered in Tel Aviv to marke 30 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Picture: Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Campus

Egyptian student who invaded City University lecture could be deported

Usama Ghanem could have visa revoked after leading chants of ‘terrorist off campus’

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November 3, 2025 14:49

Ghanem; a poster targeting Ben-Gad and (right) the professor being confronted during his lecture

Meet the Democratic candidate with a Nazi tattoo on his chest

Left-wingers have rallied round to support Graham Platner and dismiss concern about his Totenkopf tattoo

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November 3, 2025 11:23

OGUNQUIT, MAINE - OCTOBER 22: U.S. senatorial candidate from Maine Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater on October 22, 2025 in Ogunquit, Maine. Platner, a veteran of the U.S. Marines and an oyster farmer, is running for the seat held by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). (Photo by Sophie Park/Getty Images)

Antisemitism

Labour MP accuses pro-Palestine protesters of ‘deliberately’ choosing routes that target Jewish community

New legislation would limit the ability to ‘intimidate our communities’, Tim Roca told the European Jewish Association’s conference

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November 3, 2025 15:44

Labour MP Tim Roca (right) at the European Jewish Association conference in Krakow (Image: L Bell-Cross)

WZO

World Zionist Congress rejects Smotrich settlement plan

Resolutions passed at the assembly of world Jewry show success for the left

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October 31, 2025 14:13

A view over the area covered by the proposed E1 settlement project (Getty Images)

Limmud

Limmud Ukraine shows Jewish life is ‘unbreakable’

The city of Lviv played host to a three-day festival of Jewish learning and culture at the weekend

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November 3, 2025 15:06

Indomitable spirit: Limmud Ukraine 2025 (photo: Boris Bukhman)

France

Four Bulgarian men sentenced over Paris Holocaust memorial graffiti

French intelligence services believe the vandalism was part of a destabilisation campaign by Russia,

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November 3, 2025 16:13

Red hand painted on a building wall in the area where earlier the Paris Holocaust memorial was vandalised with the same prints (Photo: Getty)

Travel

The Italian spa town where the end of the line became a new beginning for Europe’s Jews

Plus, how South Tyrol could, according to a local guide, hold the secret to peace in Israel

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November 3, 2025 17:21

Merano town centre, South Tyrol, Italy (Image: Jacob Jaffa)

Yitzhak Rabin

The biblical assassination that predated the death of Yitzhak Rabin

The 30th anniversary of the Israeli PM’s assassination is being commemorated this weekend

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November 2, 2025 09:38

Israelis mourn their murdered prime minister days after he was shot at a peace rally on November 4 1995 (photo: Getty Images)

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