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Lottery funding to transform synagogue into cultural hub

Middle Street Synagogue is a Grade II* listed building

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Brighton Middle Street interior (Photo: Foundation for Jewish Heritage)

Hove Town Hall

Brighton & Hove

Brighton Council cut October 7, Hamas terror references from Jewish community speech

By Daniel Ben-David

5 min read

Young people participating in a GIFT weekend in Brighton (Credit: GIFT)

Young people hit the streets of Brighton for an altruistic weekend ‘immersed in giving’

By Ahron Asher Moss

2 min read

Mendy Efune has launched a website in Arabic to give Arabic speakers a better understnding of Judaism

Chabad rabbi’s son launches website to educate Arabic-speaking world about Judaism

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Promoting the Prophets: Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah

Progressive Judaism

Shavuot launch for new ‘Prophetic Judaism’ initiative

By Simon Rocker

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Adam Ma'anit and Heidi Bachram in front of the memorial to the British victims of October 7, in Palmeira Square, Brighton (Credit: Daniel Ben-David)

Brighton and Hove’s Jewish community is united behind the hostages

By Daniel Ben-David

5 min read

Refaat Alareer, who was killed in Gaza on 6 December 2023, wrote on social media that Hamas’s October 7 attack was “legitimate and moral”. One of Alareer's poems inspired a controversial play in Brighton set to open this week (Photo: Getty Images)

Brighton theatre doubles down on play inspired by poet who called Jews ‘evil’

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

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Campaigners project hostages’ faces onto iconic Brighton cliffs

Activists with the Yellow Ribbon Campaign staged their latest demonstration to draw attention to the plight of the remaining 107 hostages in Gaza

By Eliana Jordan

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August 30, 2024 11:25

A photo of hostage Tsachi Idan is projected onto the Brighton cliffs by the Yellow Ribbon Campaign. (Photo: Nikki Greco)

Review: Why Brighton’s back on the (kosher) holiday wish list

A trip to the Hove took the work out of our self-catering staycation

By Victoria Prever

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August 13, 2024 17:02

Full English - kosher-style Photo: BNJC

Brighton & Hove Pride accused of being a ‘Hamas haven’ after rejecting a Jewish delegation

Jewish and Proud were told its application ‘did not meet the criteria’ to take part in the parade

By Daniel Ben-David

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August 8, 2024 14:23

'No cops no terfs no Labour, no pride in genocide' banner at the front of Brighton Pride parade, August 4, 2024

Neo-Nazi teenager who plotted to blow up Brighton synagogue jailed

Mason Reynolds was described as a ‘violent antisemite’ in court

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June 17, 2024 17:15

Mason Reynolds, 19, wrote online that he wanted to 'make Jews afraid again' (Photo: Counter Terror Policing South East)

Brian Eno and Massive Attack back anti-Israel boycott campaign against music festival

Pro-Palestine musicians have accused The Great Escape of ‘complicity with ‘genocide’

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May 16, 2024 16:40

Anna Calvi headlined the Great Escape Festival in 2019 in Brighton, England (Photo: Getty Images)

Neo-Nazi teenager convicted of Brighton synagogue suicide bomb plot

‘Violent antisemite’ Mason Reynolds had diagrams of a Brighton shul on his phone

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May 1, 2024 13:08

Mason Reynolds planned to attack Holland Road synagogue

Waves of antisemitism hit the south coast community

Residents have been on the frontline combating a rise in Jew-hate since October 7

By Jane Prinsley

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April 28, 2024 15:41

Brighton has seen a surge in anti-Israel activity since October 7 (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

British Palestinian peace activist: October 7 terror attack was ‘a betrayal’

John Aziz said the atrocities had ‘destroyed trust’ between Israelis and Palestinians

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December 18, 2023 13:10

British Palestinian peace activist: October 7 terror attack was ‘a betrayal’

Heidi Bachram

By Heidi Bachram

Brighton Palestine marches are not about peace - a balloon for a missing child unleashed fury

'This isn't their demonstration,' a man snarled at me when I asked why he was destroying an installation for Israeli hostages

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November 7, 2023 11:52

A poster showing two of the kidnapped Israeli children, Emma and Yuli Cunio is seen attached to a soft toy as people gather outside the Qatari Embassy in London on October 29, 2023, to demand the release of the estimated 230 hostages held in Gaza by Hamas after the attacks inside Israel on October 7. 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 JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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