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Josh Howie

When will we get a Jewish Disney Princess?

When it comes to Jewish fairy tales, all we have are scraps

3 min read

January 11, 2024 15:41

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Chief Rabbi: We must defend Israel in interfaith dialogue

Speaking at a JC event, Mirvis said there must be a major shift in interfaith dialogue following October 7

2 min read

January 11, 2024 15:38

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis (Photo: Michael Donald)

Census

Census uncovers increase in British secular Jews

But the vast majority of the community still identify as religious, writes Simon Rocker

3 min read

January 11, 2024 15:32

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 26: Protestors wear flags of Israel on their backs as they march against anti-Semitism on November 26, 2023 in London, England. The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has sparked a wave of protests across Europe, and heightened concerns over anti-Semitism among Jewish communities. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Schools

Ivrit a strength at outstanding Simon Marks

Other schools could learn about teaching the language from the Hackney primary, inspectors say

1 min read

January 11, 2024 15:02

Gaza

Hamas claim of 107 dead ‘journalists’ is totally fabricated

My close analysis reveals a massive disinformation campaign by the Gaza terrorist group

2 min read

January 11, 2024 14:30

RAFAH, GAZA - JANUARY 7: Family and friends including Al Jazeera reporter, Wael Al-Dahdouh (2nd R), bid farewell to the bodies of journalists Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya on January 7, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The journalists, Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya, were reportedly killed when their car was bombed after reporting from an air strike on a building this morning. Hamza is the son of Al Jazeera reporter Wael Al-Dahdouh, whose wife, daughter, grandson and another son were killed in an Israeli air strike earlier in the war. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Israel

Israel weighs the price of a full-scale war with Hezbollah

As tensions mount along the Lebanese border, fears grow of an all-out Hamas-style assault from the well-armed Iranian-backed militia

4 min read

January 11, 2024 14:27

TOPSHOT - This picture taken from a position along the border in northern Israel on December 26, 2023 shows smoke billowing in the southern Lebanese village of Marwahin following Israeli bombardment amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)

Columbia’s David fears Goliath’s wrath

Jewish academic Shai Davidai has taken on the anti-Israel brigade on campus but worries about the possible cost to his own career

4 min read

January 11, 2024 14:23

Israel

With her husband at war, a vineyard owner harvests her crop alone

Rivka and Sam Baum’s wine is selling well. But she is left to bring in this year’s vintage while he’s back in the IDF

3 min read

January 11, 2024 14:22

With her husband at war, a vineyard owner harvests her crop alone

The Gaza war goes deep underground

The IDF are now battling Hamas in hand-to-hand combat in tunnels deep below the surface

4 min read

January 11, 2024 14:18

In this picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli military on December 15, 2023, soldiers stand at the entrance of a tunnel that Hamas reportedly used to attack Israel through the Erez border crossing on October 7. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Should you tell your colleagues you’re Jewish?

Until October 7 I had kept quiet about my Judaism to colleagues, but a LinkedIn post changed everything

3 min read

January 11, 2024 14:03

Should you tell your colleagues you’re Jewish?

Taiwan’s Talmud Hotel is one of many East Asian paradoxes

In the East Asian mindset it’s possible to accept two opposing concepts simultaneously — and to revere and condemn Jews

5 min read

January 11, 2024 14:02

Taiwan’s Talmud Hotel is one of many East Asian paradoxes

No longer must we accept bigotry in interfaith work

Israel can no longer be the elephant in the room

1 min read

January 11, 2024 13:50

Pro-Palestinian supporters wave Palestinian flags and chant slogans during a demonstration in central London on January 6, 2024, calling for a ceasefire now in the war in Gaza. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

dry January isn't for the Jews

Worry not, Dry January needn’t apply for Jews

Abstaining would ruin Shabbat. And would the whisky bores talk about?

3 min read

January 11, 2024 13:09

Worry not, Dry January needn’t apply for Jews

Israel Hamas war 2023

Eylon Levy: Your kids can learn to defend Israel like me

The UK-born spokesman for Israel, who will appear at the Stand With Us rally in London on Sunday, talks to the JC about how he learnt his trade

3 min read

January 11, 2024 13:02

Eylon Levy raises his eyebrows in response to a question during an interview with Kay Burley (Credit: Twitter/X)

South Africa could be making itself complicit in Hamas terror

The country has levelled unfounded and outlandish allegations of genocide against Israel, mere months after real acts of genocide were perpetrated

3 min read

January 11, 2024 12:58

President Joan Donoghue (C), and other judges in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) take their seats prior to the hearing on the genocide case against Israel, brought by South Africa, in The Hague on January 11, 2024. (Photo by REMKO DE WAAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Judaism

Meet the trailblazer who was the UK’s first woman rabbi

Jackie Tabick overcame prejudice to be accepted and changed the face of the British Jewish community

7 min read

January 11, 2024 12:34

Rabbi Jackie Tabick (Photo: Gary Manhine)

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