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National Holocaust Museum launches global exhibition exploring ‘Vicious Circle’ of Jewish hate

The new touring exhibition explores the 2000-year ideology behind anti-Jewish pogroms in five different regions

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Marc Cave, director of National Holocaust Museum, poses in the museum's new international touring exhibition 'The Vicious Circle'. (Photo: David Parry)

Friends and relatives dance with newly arrived Jewish immigrants coming from France upon their arrival at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 20, 2016. More than 200 French Jews were expected to immigrate to Israel aboard this aliyah (Immigration to Israel) flight, the largest of the summer from France. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Jewish and Proud

Short on New Year resolutions? I have one for you: be proud Jews

By Ben M. Freeman

6 min read

Bear Grylls in California, 2022 (Photo: Getty Images)

Bear Grylls drops reference to Jesus’ mother as ‘Palestinian’ after condemnation

1 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

The 2015 edition of the Oxford University Press History A-level textbook suggested Jewish wealth made the community a target during the Russian pogroms - a new addition has updated the assumption

A-level History textbook removes reference to Jewish ‘riches and money-lending’ as an explanation for pogroms

By Jane Prinsley

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

The jar, which has been at the museum for 35 years, has been dated to between 1130 and 1500 BC (Photo: Hecht Museum)

Boy accidentally smashes Israeli museum’s 3,500 year old jar

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Cramped but full of hope: step inside a Jewish flat from 1913

A new Museum of the Home exhibit immerses visitors in the daily life of an East End Jewish family preparing for Shabbos

By Jane Prinsley

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July 17, 2024 08:56

Cramped but full of hope: step inside a Jewish flat from 1913

Mensches on the benches! Introducing Labour’s brace of brand-new Jewish MPs

Meet the Jewish parliamentarians elected as part of the Starmer landslide

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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July 11, 2024 15:51

Rabbi Joseph Dweck

By Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Emotion is not a measure of truth and morality

If we are to make wise decisions, we must beware of a tendency to move with our feelings

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July 10, 2024 08:52

Maya Angelou (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for AWRT)

Keren David

History tells us our right to be heard is absolute

Lionel de Rothschild refused to cave in to bigotry – and was able to take his seat as an MP

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June 27, 2024 08:10

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808 - 1879), Vanity Fair published in 1877. Caricature by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rare English medieval siddur goes on display

The 12th-century prayerbook is on display in Bishop Auckland, Durham

By Simon Rocker

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June 24, 2024 09:26

Medieval siddur on display at the Faith Museum (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

The less than holy king who erected Judaism’s most sacred monument

King Herod was no darling of the rabbis but he was responsible for the Western Wall

By Simon Rocker

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May 10, 2024 09:37

Blessing of the Cohanim at the Western Wall in Jerusalem over Pesach (Getty Images)

Rob Rinder

Like Moses, I wandered the desert with no phone signal – and my mind soared

How a trip to the Sahara made me think of the exodus

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May 1, 2024 09:42

Algeria Sahara Desert Photo From Drone

Race to save historic record of Jewish life threatened by Ukraine-Russia war

Unique Kyiv collection gathered by author of The Dybbuk is at risk from Russian missiles

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

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April 4, 2024 14:29

Race to save historic record of Jewish life threatened by Ukraine-Russia war

Why Merthyr Tydfil is rallying behind its once-abandoned synagogue

A grand old shul is being redeveloped as a cultural centre for the whole of this south Wales community

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March 28, 2024 11:29

The castle-like exterior of Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue

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