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The Etgar Chanukah Quiz

Light up your festival with this seasonal quiz

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December 12, 2025 10:24

Most Gazan journalists killed by IDF had links to terror, new report claims

More than 150 of the 266 reported casualties were affiliated with groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, per the study released by an IDF-linked think tank

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December 12, 2025 10:32

Gazan journalist Anas al-Sharif (C), who was killed in an Israeli strike in August, embraces the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (IDF)

Health

I have pancreatic cancer and the BRCA mutation – this drug is keeping me alive

After radical surgery, this woman was given between five and eight months to live. Then her specialist put her on Olaparib

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December 12, 2025 11:27

"So blessed": Muswell Hill Synagogue member Steph (Photo: Claudine Hartzel)

Music

London venue appalled by Primal Scream’s use of ‘antisemitic imagery’ during gig

The band displayed a Star of David entwined with a Nazi symbol during a performance of their song Swastika Eyes

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December 12, 2025 11:54

Primal Scream perform Swastika Eyes at the Camden Roundhouse on December 8, 2025 (Image: YouTube/JohnW)

Books

John Irving’s latest: ‘an unapologetically Zionist heroine’

The author is to be applauded for exploring fundamental questions of Jewish identity in this era of misguided political correctness, but his manuscript needs a brutal edit

3 min read

December 12, 2025 12:30

Good intentions: John Irving and his new book

Media

Guardian newspaper criticised for failure to remove columns by Hamas leader

The paper’s website still carries four columns from Khalid Mish’al, acting head of Hamas’s political bureau

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December 12, 2025 12:34

Senior Hamas official Khalid Mish’al (Image: Getty).

Health

Treatment for advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma achieves 100% one-year survival rate

Researchers called it ‘a true revolution in Hodgkin lymphoma care’

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December 12, 2025 13:40

Reed-Sternberg cells such as these are found in people with Hodgkin lymphoma (Picture: Getty)

Books

Best children’s books for Chanukah

Angela Kiverstein picks the seasonal stories that capture young imaginations

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December 12, 2025 14:32

Jewish Comedy

Jewish comedians unite for CST fundraiser gala

Simon Brodkin, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon are set to headline a blockbuster evening of laughs next month

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December 12, 2025 15:24

Limmud Festival 2025

Limmud Festival to be livestreamed for first time in 45-year history

The Jewish educational and cultural gathering will give people around the world access to a number of sessions from the comfort of their own homes

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December 12, 2025 15:33

This year, Limmud fans will be able to join a number of sessions from their homes (Photo: Avi Grant)

Art

Four Figures Four Eggs at Woolwich Works: Inam Zimbalista’s meditation on the mundane

The Israeli artist’s one-day exhibition offers a quiet reflection on human relationships and the everyday

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December 12, 2025 16:24

Inam Zimbalista's piece 'Woman, man & hose'.

Iran’s regime-made ecological disaster and the threat to Europe

A failing state of 90 million people, running out of water and air, will produce mass migration, regional unrest and even more terror

3 min read

December 12, 2025 16:32

The dried-up riverbed of Zayanderud in Isfahan, Iran (Image: Getty)

Hostages

Startling footage shows ‘Beautiful Six’ hostage group marking Chanukah in Gaza tunnel

Alex Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Ori Danino can be seen commemorating the occasion months before their murder

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December 12, 2025 17:03

Hostages in a Gaza tunnel complex celebrating Chanukah around 80 days after their capture on October 7, 2023 (Credit: IDF)

Gary Lineker

Netflix condemned for Gary Lineker deal after he quit BBC over sharing post about Zionism with rat image

Streaming giant gives former England star bumper pay day for World Cup coverage despite antisemitism controversy

4 min read

December 12, 2025 16:43

Lineker was accused of antisemitism when he shared a social media post about Zionism featuring an image of a rat

Chanukah

Party leaders wish Britain’s Jews a happy Chanukah

The prime minister, Kemi Badenoch, Sir Ed Davey, Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski sent messages of hope, which came before the attack on Bondi Beach in Australia

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December 14, 2025 09:43

From Bondi to Manchester: the cost of Western denial on antisemitism

Sydney lays bare the consequences of demonising Israel and shrinking from the fight against extremist ideology that now threatens Western societies themselves

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December 14, 2025 17:25

Police enforce a cordon after the terror attack on the Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Image: Getty)

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