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Eichmann trial records brought to light for Holocaust Memorial Day

The State Archives in Israel have created a searchable database of the more than 380,000 pages of rare historical material

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

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

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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

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

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

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

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

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

By Daniel Ben-David

4 min read

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

5 min read

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

Review: Shylock’s Venice – An unimprovable book

By Jenni Frazer

3 min read

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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 13:08

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

Ancient Hebrew prayer book with links to famed German rabbi sells for 14 times it's estimate

The manuscript of Tikune Shabat sold for £71,250 at auction

By Richard Percival

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September 6, 2023 12:05

Ancient Hebrew prayer book with links to famed German rabbi sells for 14 times it's estimate

The J-pop model using TikTok to share stories of unknown people buried in cemeteries

Ex-JFS student Jono Namara has already racked up nearly 100,000 likes on TikTok

By Daniel Ben-David

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August 31, 2023 15:31

The J-pop model using TikTok to share stories of unknown people buried in cemeteries

Famous Carlisle Magen David window saved after local campaign

Former MP Eric Martlew noticed the broken pane in the old Carr’s biscuit factory two years ago then set out to raise £2,000 for its refurb

By Rosa Doherty

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August 31, 2023 10:24

Famous Carlisle Magen David window saved after local campaign

'Inspiring' new evidence shows how Jews thrived in York after antisemitic 1190 massacre

A trove of documents reveals how the city’s Jewish residents lived and worked alongside their Christian neighbours, mostly harmoniously, in the early 1200s

By Rosa Doherty

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August 22, 2023 16:08

'Inspiring' new evidence shows how Jews thrived in York after antisemitic 1190 massacre

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