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Movement for Progressive Judaism announces new chair

Noeleen Cohen will be taking over from Dr Ed Kessler in December

Becoming and believing

Sanctions are imperfect but we must condemn settlement expansion, say Progressive and Masorti rabbis

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg and Progressive leaders release statements offering differing view on government measures to Chief Rabbi Mirvis

‘Listen to the Chief Rabbi – don’t sanction Israel’, MPs urge Burnham

Senior Labour and Tory voices warn PM anti-Israel rhetoric may fuel ‘hostility to UK Jews’ as trade embargo is set to be announced

Netanyahu: Britain is the first Islamic republic to have nuclear weapons

His comments were condemned as ‘appalling’ by the leaders of Progressive Judaism in the UK

Proposed marriage law reforms could benefit mixed-faith couples

Changes in legislation would enable mixed-faith couples to have a legally recognised Jewish ceremony

We are loud and proud because we need to be

Stop the Hate was set up in the wake of October 7. The mission? To ensure that every anti-Israel demonstration in the UK would be accompanied by a noisy Zionist counter-protest

‘Words have consequences,’ warns Starmer days after Burnham Gaza video

The outgoing prime minister spoke to the JC at a reception for the Jewish community in Downing Street

Church of England leaders support ‘engagement’ with Israel ‘genocide’ document despite Chief Rabbi’s warning

Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the document, which alleges a ‘Zionist project to seize all of Palestine’, could ‘only harm the cause of peace’

Former Archbishop warns Church of England against document accusing Israel of ‘genocide’

Rare intervention by Lord Carey comes ahead of Synod this afternoon considering engagement with controversial Kairos II text

Chief Rabbi warns ‘genocide’ document due to be discussed by Church of England Synod will ‘harm peace’

Kairos Palestine text brands Israel a ‘colonial settler entity’ and criticises Abrahams Accords

Joy wins the day as Jewish bloc returns to Pride

‘Today we're taking up space’: 150 Jews joined London Pride on a day that felt unexpectedly restorative

Progressive Judaism says: ‘We are here’ at first conference since merger

The weekend included the first MPJ awards, recognising synagogues’ communal efforts and social action projects

Finchley Progressive becomes first UK ‘Synagogue of Sanctuary’

The community has been recognised for its pioneering work with refugees and asylum seekers

Rabbi, who’s going to win the World Cup?

Predictions from leading Jewish community figures for the tournament commencing June 11

Woodland Cemetery unveils new Holocaust memorial

It is the first memorial to victims of the Shoah at a cemetery overseen by the Jewish Joint Burial Society