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Evil tide of Judeophobia: Kibbutz Be'eri resident Miri Gad Mesika visiting her parents' burnt out house in October 2025; mourners look at flowers laid next to beach in memory of Jews murdered at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 20, 2025

Prizewinning: David Nirenberg (photo: Sameer A Khan/Wikimedia Commons)

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Jewish studies scholar awarded major academic prize worth nearly £700,000

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Birmingham can still have a bright Jewish future, believes the community’s chronicler

By Simon Rocker

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A cocktail of anxiety and hope

Leading Israeli Reform theologian Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur, who is visiting the UK, speaks about the movement’s future and his recent book

By Simon Rocker

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June 19, 2026 09:58

The rabbi who wanted to become a rich man

Irwin Katsof pursued Tevye’s dream because he wanted to give more to charity but found the road harder than he had reckoned

By Simon Rocker

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June 10, 2026 16:00

Finding a happier style of living: Rabbi Irwin Katsof

‘I had a treasure in my hands’: Nikki Goldstein on the book she co-wrote with Bondi victim Rabbi Eli Schlanger

‘He prepared me to be his foot soldier,’ Goldstein said as Conversations with My Rabbi was published after the rabbi’s murder

By Jane Prinsley

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June 3, 2026 17:32

Progressive Movement launches new book on Zionism

Collection of 40 essays by rabbis and activists intended to encourage discussion and debate

By Simon Rocker

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May 1, 2026 11:59

First chapter: contributors to Progressive movement's first book celebrate its launch (photo Norfolk)

Grappling with ‘the challenge of our time’ – the relationship between Judaism and Israel

The co-editor of a new collection of essays from the Progressive movement explains what motivated it

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April 30, 2026 13:18

Progressive Jewish rabbis in Israel for a conference

Why three is better than two in Jewish thinking

Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah challenges the ‘tyranny’ of binary divisions on gender, Israel and other topics in a new book

By Simon Rocker

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March 13, 2026 11:51

Challenging assumptions: Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah

The horror behind Hayim Bialik’s most feted poem

On the Slaughter is considered the Russian-Jewish poet’s masterpiece, as well as his most controversial work

By David Herman

1 min read

February 6, 2026 09:07

The horror behind Hayim Bialik’s most feted poem

Kosher monster: the return of the golem

We take a look at the legend behind Dan Brown’s new thriller

By Simon Rocker

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October 26, 2025 10:13

Joshua Abarbanel's sculpture of the Golem in a 2016 exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin (photo: Getty Images)

The case for surrealism: ‘Rooms for Vanishing’ author Stuart Nadler on writing catastrophe in our senseless era

The author’s new book about a Jewish family in post-war exile employs an unconventional format and elements of the supernatural to illustrate the disarray of grief

By Eliana Jordan

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September 2, 2025 17:41

Author Stuart Nadler's new novel 'Rooms for Vanishing' explores the impact of exile and loss on an Austrian Jewish family. (Photo: Emil Cohen)

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The most lucid and coherent summary of today’s antisemitism you will read

Jewish studies scholar awarded major academic prize worth nearly £700,000

The new Torah commentary that highlights links with the Qur’an

Under Story by Chloe Benjamin review: ‘almost 100 pages too short’

A tale of survival in the Lithuanian forest

Birmingham can still have a bright Jewish future, believes the community’s chronicler

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