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Travel in time back to Yom Kippur at the Great Synagogue of Aleppo - thanks to the modern miracle of virtual reality

A historic Syrian shul destroyed in 2016 has been re-created in a stunning exhibition at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum

By Jotam Confino

3 min read

Travel in time back to Yom Kippur at the Great Synagogue of Aleppo - thanks to the modern miracle of virtual reality

Waddesdon Manor kitchen staff, Aylesbury. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 18/08/2022

History

Waddesdon Manor - the Jewish Downton Abbey

By Jenni Frazer

10 min read

Wales

New documentary unveils Wales' vibrant Jewish past despite uncertain future

By Georgia L Gilholy

2 min read

Judaism

We’ve come a long way since Fiddler! A history of UK Jews on stage and screen

By John Nathan

4 min read

The Jewish Chronicle

Growth trend: UK Jewish success story goes on

By Jonathan Boyd

5 min read

An employee at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) holds one of the vessels that are believed to have contained opium in the 14th century BC, found at the Tel Yehud burial site and on display at the IAA offices in Jerusalem on September 20, 2022. - Israeli experts on September 20 said that they had uncovered the oldest known evidence of opium use, after discovering residue of the hallucinogenic drug in pottery dating from the 14th Century BC. A joint study by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Weizmann Institute of Science found evidence that opium was used in burial rituals in Canaan, a ancient territory that roughly encompasses modern day Israel and the Palestinian territories. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

History

Oldest evidence of opium use discovered at Israeli burial site

By Georgia L Gilholy

1 min read

Property

A very English house’s surprising Jewish links

By Abigail Green

1 min read

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Anglo-Jewry embraces a familiar King

While still in mourning, our community looks to a future in safe hands

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

6 min read

September 15, 2022 12:45

General Patton letter in which he refers to Jews as ‘sub-human’ goes on sale online

The 1945 letter claims that liberated Jews had ‘no conception of sanitation, hygiene, or decency’

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

September 13, 2022 15:00

General Patton letter in which he refers to Jews as ‘sub-human’ goes on sale online

Book review: Maror - The bitter taste of Israel’s inky heart of darkness

Tidhar's blockbuster work shows us the thieves, the tramps, the prostitutes, the violence, filth and corruption underlying the good behind the Zionist dream

By Jenni Frazer

2 min read

September 13, 2022 09:40

PORTRAIT OF PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN. פורטרט, ראש הממשלה יצחק רבין.

By David Aberbach

Salman Rushdie and the Jewish tradition of literary dissidents

Biblical prophets such as Jeremiah were persecuted and murdered for denouncing injustice and corrupt institutions

5 min read

September 13, 2022 09:39

The prophet Geremia. Mosaic work on the facade of papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the wall in Rome.â€¨http://www.massimomerlini.it/is/rome.jpgâ€¨http://www.massimomerlini.it/is/romebynight.jpgâ€¨http://www.massimomerlini.it/is/vatican.jpg

Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev

SSR leader who aided exodus of Soviet Jews, restored diplomatic relations with Israel and oversaw the bloodless break up of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact

By Andrew Rosemarine

4 min read

September 8, 2022 13:52

By Steven Berkoff

The Catholic Church must apologise to Jews for its sins

As heartfelt public apologies are made for the crimes of slavery, it would be very welcome if the Catholic Church said sorry for the hideous atrocities perpetrated against the Jews

1 min read

September 8, 2022 11:28

Pope Francis arrives to lead his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on October 21, 2020. (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO / AFP) (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)

Simon Schama: We can't forget England's bloody antisemitic history

Sir Simon spoke to the JC after DNA analysis revealed that the remains of at least 17 children and adults found in a Norwich well were Jews killed in medieval massacre

By Felix Pope

2 min read

September 8, 2022 11:25

Programme Name: Story of the Jews - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 3) - Embargoed for publication until: n/a - Picture Shows: Berlin Holocaust Memorial Simon Schama - (C) Oxford Film and Television - Photographer: Tim Kirby

Silence Theatre review: Witnesses silenced by the telling of their tales

Format of stage adaptation of Kavita Puri's Partition Voices, about the casual carving up of land on religious grounds on the subcontinent, sadly imposes a repetitive and predictable pall over the material

By John Nathan

2 min read

September 8, 2022 10:00