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My friend Mia Janin deserved to be protected from cyberbullying

Online abuse can be ‘more dangerous than physical bullying’

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February 2, 2024 11:38

Mia Janin

Third bar mitzvah

Mazel Tov Fiszel on your (third) bar mitzvah!

Fiszel’s first bar mitzvah took place in a Russian gulag

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February 2, 2024 10:43

Fiszel Sztokman (Photo: David Stockman)

The Etgar Quiz no 257

Try our weekly Jewish knowledge test

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February 2, 2024 09:51

illustration: Miki Shaw

Anti-Israel protests

London teen arrested on suspicion of inviting support for Hamas

The alleged offence took place at a pro-Palestine protest in Camden

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February 2, 2024 09:41

A pro-Palestinian watermelon sticker fixed to a lamp post.

Anti-Israel protests

Anti-Israel protesters furious as police limit London march

Met says ‘scale and frequency of marches is causing serious disruption to many Londoners’

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February 1, 2024 18:17

A pro-Palestinian supporter waves a Palestinian flag during a National March for Palestine in central London (Photo: Getty Images)

IDF soldiers shocked to find Jewish graves in Gaza

IDF soldiers were shocked to find the WW1-era headstones

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February 1, 2024 17:22

Gaza graves: IDF troops did not expect to find headstones bearing the Star of David (Photo: IDF Brigade 188)

Israel Hamas War 2023

Sheryl Sandberg questions ‘humanity’ of those who deny October 7 rapes

Graphic accounts of rape and sexual abuse perpetuated by Hamas was shared at an event in the House of Lords

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February 1, 2024 17:10

Sheryl Sandberg, Lord John Mendelsohn, Israel Police Chief Superintendent Mirit Ben Mayor, and Lady Cherie Blair, January 31, 2024

What Will Survive of Us

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review: How smart word play can conceal an inner emptiness

David Herman relishes the comic energy of Jacobson’s new novel

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February 1, 2024 17:05

Man Booker Prize-winning novelist and journalist Howard Jacobson. Photo: John Nguyen/JNVisual

Only Jewish member of Georgia legislature gets antisemitic hatemail

Esther Panitch received a postcard with a message about ‘gassing the Jews’

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February 1, 2024 16:58

Georgia State Rep. Esther Panitch addresses the floor during Georgia's 2023 legislative session, speaking in favor of passing HB 30 to provide for the definition of antisemitism, March 7, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of the Georgia House of Representatives.

Glatstein Chronicles

The Glatstein Chronicles by Jacob Glatstein review: A portrait of a Jewish world in its twilight years

One of the foremost 20th century Yiddish poets, Glatstein emigrated from Lublin to New York in 1914

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February 1, 2024 16:55

Poet Jacob Glatstein founded the Inzikhist (Introspectivist) literary movement. Photo: Yiddish Book Centre

BRCA testing programme

‘Ignorance can be bliss, but knowledge is power’

Two carriers of the BRCA mutation tell the JC about their experience

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February 1, 2024 16:10

Katie Kaye with her husband Jonathan

Why synagogues are being asked to mark Refugee Shabbat this weekend

Looking after the ‘stranger’ lies at the heart of the Torah

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February 1, 2024 15:13

Why synagogues are being asked to mark Refugee Shabbat this weekend

Biden ‘to order sanctions on settlers who attack Palestinians’

US President also reportedly considering plan to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state

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February 1, 2024 15:11

Biden addresses the terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023 (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Parashah of the week: Yitro

“Moses’s father-in- law said to him: ‘The thing you are doing is not right; you will surely wear yourself out and these people as well” Exodus 18:17-18

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February 1, 2024 15:01

Parashah of the week: Yitro

Shabbat times from February 2 to February 9

Shabbat times for the week

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February 1, 2024 15:00

Two lit shabbat candles in silver candlesticks

No smoke bombs at Purim please, Orthodox school warns

Menorah Grammar in London says refundable deposits could be taken from students warned over behaviour last year

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February 1, 2024 14:54

No smoke bombs at Purim please, Orthodox school warns

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