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Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen to star in his first ever West End play – directed by Quentin Tarantino

The Popinjay Cavalier – which will also be Tarantino’s stage debut – will premier next March

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October 12, 2026 12:29

Sacha Baron Cohen will star in his first West End play in March, 2027 (Image: Getty Images)

Jewish theatre

Tributes to ‘inspirational’ musical theatre director Adam Lenson

Lenson, who spent his championing new talent and fighting for authentic Jewish representation on stage, has died aged 41

2 min read

October 12, 2026 12:11

Adam Lenson on the set of The Sorrows of Satan (Image © Jane Hobson)

Ron Dermer calls it ‘fake-ocide’ – the poisonous lie to bring about Israel’s destruction

The suffering in Gaza is real but Hamas bears ultimate responsibility for it. The false charge that the Jewish state has committed the crime of crimes has become central to the dangerous argument that it is illegitimate at its core

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October 12, 2026 11:42

Ron Dermer (Image: State Department, Michael Gross, Wikipedia)

Jerusalem

Archaeologists unearth huge section of 2,000-year-old aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem

Jerusalem’s Lower Aqueduct has been hailed as an ‘engineering marvel’

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October 12, 2026 11:41

Part of Jerusalem's Lower Aqueduct, which dates from the Hasmonean period, has been unearthed (Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority)

October 7

One in five Israelis still ‘severely impaired by mental health struggles’ three years after October 7

Psychological distress is becoming chronic for a significant proportion of the population, according to the findings of a national study

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October 12, 2026 10:59

Former Israeli soldiers suffering from PTSD congregate at a sit-in demonstration outside the Knesset in September 2025 (Photo: Getty)

Saudi Arabia

Netanyahu condemns Houthi attack on Saudi airport in rare statement

The cruise missile strike killed 12 people and injured more than 300, according to Saudi authorities

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October 12, 2026 09:47

Aftermath of Saturday's Houthi missile strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh (Image: X)

Green Party

Shul leaders accuse Haringey Greens of ‘aligning itself with Hamas’ in blistering letter to council leader

‘We don’t accept your assurances that we are safe under your watch,’ Highgate United Synagogue tells Mark Blake

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October 11, 2026 12:48

Welcome sign as the Green Party conference opened at Brighton Centre on Friday (Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Anti-Israel protests

Twenty arrested and Battle of Britain memorial vandalised at anti-Israel march in central London

One woman was detained after she was seen making a Nazi salute and one person was accused of assaulting a police officer

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October 11, 2026 12:19

Anti-Israel protest in London on October 10, 2026. (Getty Images)

Palestinian Authority

Abbas postpones Palestinian elections again, blaming Israel

PA president, whose mandate expired in 2009, delays first parliamentary vote in 20 years as Israeli foreign minister calls him a ‘corrupt dictator’

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October 11, 2026 12:11

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 9, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

Anti-Israel protests

London-based coalition behind global anti-Israel protests urging activists to ‘shut down city squares’

Jeremy Corbyn is among the figures backing an international campaign that instructed demonstrators to ‘encircle government buildings’

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October 11, 2026 11:26

Anti-Israel demonstrators carry a cutout depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a rope around his neck alongside mock cardboard weapons and placards during a rally on October 09, 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Image: Getty Images)

Denmark

Danish ex-foreign minister ‘shocked’ by Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay

Per Stig Møller says the former UN human rights chief advocated censorship during the Muhammad cartoons crisis

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October 11, 2026 11:03

Culture

UK Jewish Film Festival’s 30th anniversary will be a ‘celebration of Jewish life’, organisers promise

The ten-day cultural event will showcase more than 70 films, including 50 world or UK premieres.

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October 11, 2026 09:10

The UK Jewish Film Festival kicks off in November (Photo: UK Jewish Film Festival)

Music

The Ferrari-driving grandson of a Lubavitcher who took a P Diddy ‘victim’ under his wing

When a record producer confided in David Sugarman about an alleged assault – denied by the rapper – the Florida strategist promised him justice

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October 11, 2026 06:00

Part of the family: record producer Jonathan Hay (left) and David Sugarman (Photo: Jonathan Hay Media)

Dance

Royal Ballet School’s Centenary Celebration: ‘I hope Dame Ninette was looking down from above’ ★★★★

The programme showed the versatility of today’s dancers, tackling classics alongside more modern works

2 min read

October 9, 2026 20:01

The Royal Ballet's centenary celebration at the Royal Opera House (Credit: Tristam Kenton)

Barnet

Labour MPs demand Barnet Green councillor explain support for ‘alienating’ Zionism is racism motion

Sarah Sackman, Dan Tomlinson and David Pinto-Duschinsky ask Charli Thompson to reconcile position with her ‘duty to represent a diverse community’

2 min read

October 9, 2026 18:07

Justice Minister Sarah Sackman, MP for Finchley and Golders Green (Image: Sarah Sackman).

Proposed legislation would bar US aid to UN until body designates Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups

A US Democrat announced the proposed policy on October 7

1 min read

October 9, 2026 16:35

Congressman Josh Gottheimer annoucned the proposed legislation on October 7 at a remembrance ceremony in New Jersey (Photo: JNS)

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