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Bath’s long lost community remembered at graveyard ceremony

The event was the largest gathering to be held in the cemetery for more than 100 years.

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Chris Durlacher spoke about his great-great-great-grandmother (Photo: David Taylor)

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosting a roundtable for religious leaders for Interfaith Week last year (photo: Getty Images

Rabbi Lord Sacks

The unresolved contradiction at the heart of Rabbi Sacks’s political thought

By Jacob Hougie

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Vintage colour lithograph from 1882 of Esther beseeching King Ahasuerus to revoke his decree against the Jews (photo: Getty Images)

Who was the historical Persian king in the Purim story — and does it matter?

By Rabbi Michael Pollak

3 min read

Aero Zipp executives outside the zip factory, in Treforest, South Wales

The Jewish entrepreneurs who helped revive post-war Wales

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Records of Adolf Eichmann's trial are being released to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (Image: Getty)

Eichmann trial records brought to light for Holocaust Memorial Day

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New West End Synagogue (Photo of New West End Synagogue, Getty Images)

Synagogues fear ‘devastating’ tax bill for next financial year

By Daniel Ben-David

4 min read

Keeping clear of kosher tables: a pig out on a stroll in France (Photo:Getty Images)

How the pig became a bête noire

By Simon Rocker

3 min read

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Angela Rayner steps in over plan to build skyscraper next to Bevis Marks shul

The deputy PM will assess the planning application ahead of committee meeting next month

By Daniel Ben-David

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November 29, 2024 15:43

Labour's Angela Rayner speaks at a campaign event in London, June 29, 2024 (Credit: Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Can you help uncover the history of one of the East End’s long forgotten synagogues?

The Spitalfields Trust is calling on JC readers to share their family stories in connection with the 19th century shul

By Daniel Ben-David

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September 25, 2024 14:31

19 Princelet Street, which has a synagogue in its back garden (Photo: Spitalfields Trust)

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

The author of the million-copy bestselling biography of the Holy City writes an exclusive essay about the carve-ups of the past

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

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September 12, 2024 14:12

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

Review: Shylock’s Venice – An unimprovable book

A rigorous trawl through Venetian archives yields a work that begs for a lavish film adaptation

By Jenni Frazer

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March 21, 2024 10:44

Back to the wall: Venice Ghetto (Photo: Felix Pope)

Schama: ‘The Jewish world is in this extraordinary situation of being doubly de-housed’

Historian Sir Simon Schama speaks to the JC after his appearance in Book Week

By Simon Rocker

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March 14, 2024 15:36

Schama: ‘The Jewish world is in this extraordinary situation of being doubly de-housed’

Einstein ‘E=mc squared’ equation letter goes up for auction

A previous letter written by Einstein featuring the famous equation sold for $1.2 million in 2021

By Daniel Ben-David

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February 8, 2024 15:35

Albert Einstein

By Patricia and Gerald Posner

Revealed: Nazi financial fixer who funded Palestinian terror

The untold story of how François Genoud, a Swiss banker, executed a secret plan to eliminate Jews from the Middle East

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January 25, 2024 14:29

Der Grossmufti von Palästina vom Führer empfangen. Der Führer empfing in Gegenwart des Reichsministers des Auswärtigen von Ribbentrop den Grossmufti von Palästina, Sayid Amin al Husseini, zu einer herzlichen und für die Zukunft der arabischen Länder bedeutungsvollen Unterredung. 9.12.41 Presse Hoffmann

National Library of Israel to preserve 200,000 recordings of Hamas massacres for posterity

The huge cache of videos, photos and text messages documents the atrocities unfolding in real time

By Eliana Jordan

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November 8, 2023 13:20

National Library of Israel to preserve 200,000 recordings of Hamas massacres for posterity

Einstein's secret plan to rescue academic targeted by Nazis revealed in new letter

A letter written by the physicist is up for auction with the proceeds going to Oxfam

By Richard Percival

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September 26, 2023 14:08

German born American physicist Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 1946. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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