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Hamas terror

Senior lecturer says it is ‘funny’ and ‘fake news’ to claim Hamas carried out sex crimes

Dr Ahmet Orun is employed by De Montfort University in Leicester

1 min read

May 3, 2024 18:29

Protesters demonstrating against Hamas's sexual violence hold placards outside the BBC headquarters in February (Credit: Getty Images)

Universities

Goldsmiths concedes to demands of pro-Palestinian encampment

The university said it would “review” the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism

2 min read

May 3, 2024 18:13

Students occupy the Goldsmiths University library on 1 May, 2024, barricading themselves in the building and hanging signs that read 'From the river to the sea' and 'Shut it down for Palestine.' (Photo: Goldsmiths for Palestine)

money

Can I claim for puppy damage?

Dogs bring love to the home but often wreak havoc. Our expert explains why insurers are often unsympathetic

2 min read

May 3, 2024 17:57

Loveable rogues: cute, but potentially expensive

Shlissel challlah

Shlissel challah bakers pray their bread will be the key to freedom

200 women came together to bake key-shaped challah and pray for the release of the 133 hostages held in Gaza

2 min read

May 3, 2024 17:56

Organisers of the Bake For Freedom event at Mill Hill Synagogue, holding their shlissel challah and posters of some of the hostages. (l-r) Shira Jackson, Nivi Feldman, Tami Isaacs Pearce, Haya Langerman and Natasha Goodman (Photo: Sharna Kingsley)

Columbia University

Why we shouldn’t shut down student protests for Palestine

The more oxygen these protests are given, the more ordinary people see through them

2 min read

May 3, 2024 17:47

People rally on the campus of Columbia University which is occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters in New York (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

interview

I had PTSD after my disabled daughter’s birth… but the love for her at our shul was epic

Sheila Brill tells how she recovered from the terrible effect hospital staff’s incompetence had on her family and how she campaigning to improve practices

6 min read

May 3, 2024 17:28

Seed

Charity supporters to walk over hot coals for their cause

Seed is asking people to rise to the challenge for the charity’s 36-hour fundraiser

1 min read

May 3, 2024 17:27

Seed supporters will be walking on hot coals to raise funds for the charity (Photo: PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)

film

The American Society of Magical Negros review: Good idea, but not good enough for an entire film

This would work as a Saturday Night Live sketch, but that’s about it

1 min read

May 3, 2024 17:08

A scene from The American Society of Magic Negroes

theatre

Machinal review: superb depiction of a life trapped by conventions

Sexually repulsed by her spouse, the affair is the Young Woman’s only source of hope

1 min read

May 3, 2024 17:00

Boxed in: Rosie Sheehy (centre) as the Young Woman in Machinal

Maccabi GB

European Youth Games to attract teens from around the world

The inaugural event is set to be the UK’s largest international Jewish sporting event this year

1 min read

May 3, 2024 17:00

Hundreds of teenagers from around the world will be coming to the UK for the European Maccabi Youth Games (Credit: Maccabi GB)

Column

Outnumbered: I’m now a shul bouncer and my mother, wife and daughters are amused

There were ripples of suppressed laughter when I announced my first security security shift

2 min read

May 3, 2024 16:02

Outnumbered: I’m now a shul bouncer and my mother, wife and daughters are amused

Foreign Office

UK announces new sanctions against Israeli extremist settlers in the West Bank

The sanction package was announced by David Cameron on Friday

1 min read

May 3, 2024 15:35

Foreign Minister David Cameron announced new sanctions for extremist Israeli settlers perpetuating violence against Palestinians in the West Bank on 3 May, 2024. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Photography

The X-Files director: ‘conspiracy theories are now costing reputations and lives’

American Jews are caught between the horrors of the conspiratorial right and the woke left, says TV mogul Daniel Sackheim. My escape is photography

4 min read

May 3, 2024 15:31

Urban love: Daniel Sackheim's Heartfelt, from Vacancy

Universities

New US student campaign echoes October 7 terror and pledges to ‘bring the war home’

Palestine Action US is circulating a leaflet on American campuses rejecting ‘peaceful’ protests

3 min read

May 3, 2024 15:26

A Pro-Palestinian protester barricades a door at the University of California, Los Angeles campus (Image: Getty)

books

Chaim Wiezmann: ‘I am now convinced that without him there would be no state of Israel’

The brilliant chemist used acetone to advance Zionism in the same way Herzl used journalism, says the co-author of a magisterial new biography of the leader

5 min read

May 3, 2024 14:52

Forceful personality: Chaim Weizmann circa 1925

Universities

French police storm Sciences Po building occupied by anti-Israel student protesters

Students at the prestigious Parisian university were evacuated from the building where they staged a sit-in to protest Israel’s war in Gaza

2 min read

May 3, 2024 14:37

Protesters are escorted away by French riot police during the evacuation of an anti-Israel sit-in in the entrance hall of the Sciences Po university in Paris on 3 May, 2024. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)

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