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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)

theatre

The Turkish Jew who’s now that waiter from Barcelona

Hemi Yeroham is taking on the role of Manuel in a stage version of Fawlty Towers. He shares how he is priming himself for the punishing part and why following in Andrew Sachs’ footsteps is such an honour

4 min read

May 3, 2024 14:24

Comic reprise: Hemi Yeroham as Manuel with the Fawlty Towers cast Victoria Fox (Polly), Adam Jackson-Fox (Basil) and Anna-Jane Casey (Sybil)

Sephardi Jews

I want ALL British Jews to feel pride

Chazak UK CEO Rabbi Yitsy David explains why his Sephadic upbringing shaped his drive to improve education on Jewish diversity

4 min read

May 3, 2024 14:07

Often overlooked: Iraqi Jews going to Israel in 1950

Sir Keir Starmer

Labour loses out on Muslim votes at local elections ‘due to Starmer’s stance on Gaza’

The party suffered a shock defeat in Oldham, Greater Manchester, last night

1 min read

May 3, 2024 13:05

Sir Keir Starmer is predicted to be the next Prime Minister, but his party lost out on Muslim votes at local elections (Photo: Getty)

Students

Inside a US college Gaza camp: ‘No one cares about how this is affecting Jewish students’

Rutgers university in New Jersey is one of America’s most Jewish schools, but how do Jewish students feel about the campus protests?

4 min read

May 3, 2024 12:32

Inside a US college Gaza camp: ‘No one cares about how this is affecting Jewish students’

Islamist

Study reveals antisemitic attitudes of student Islamic religious teachers

Report finds that 37.3 per cent view Jews as enemies

1 min read

May 3, 2024 11:42

The "Blue Mosque", housing the Islamic Centre of Hamburg, which was raided in November 2023 over suspected links to Hezbollah (Photo by AXEL HEIMKEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Boycott

‘It’s a witch hunt’: Derbyshire clothing brand boycotted over Israeli-born owner

The co-owner of activewear brand 3rd Rock said he has been branded a ‘bloodthirsty baby killer’

3 min read

May 3, 2024 11:29

Climbers for Palestine targets the British business 3rd Rock

film

How my son’s terminal cancer inspired me to convert to Judaism

Kit Vincent’s film ‘Red Herring’ tracks his family’s devastation after they were told he was terminally ill. His father tells our writer about how life has moved on since

5 min read

May 3, 2024 11:24