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New Hendon MP tells story of father’s Holocaust survival in maiden speech

Former adviser to Alistair Darling also paid tribute to the late Chancellor

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Labour MP for Hendon David Pinto-Duschinsky. Credit: Parliament TV.

Suspect wearing keffiyeh carrying two empty bottles and a Palestinian flag leaving the scene after explosion (Photo by -/-/AFP via Getty Images)

French authorities arrest synagogue explosion suspect

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Ultra orthodox jewish kids study on the first day of school at an Ultra-Orthodox school founded by Rabbi Shmuel Stern in Jerusalem on August 9, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** תלמוד תורה בית ספר חרדים ילדים קורונה וירוס חרדים תלמוד תורה

Online antisemites’ new frontier? The Talmud

By Hannah Gillott

5 min read

Under half of Jews in the UK feel 'free and safe' practising their religious beliefs (Photo: Getty Images)

Jews feel less safe practising their beliefs than any faith group in Britain

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Labour MP Matthew Patrick. Credit: Parliament TV

I now work in a Hogwarts-esque palace, says Wirral West’s new Jewish MP

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Labour MP Peter Prinsley in Parliament. Credit: Parliament TV

Meet the 66-year-old Jewish surgeon who turned true-blue East Anglia red

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

H3K7G8 London, UK. 9th October 2016. 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street march and rally from Whitechapel to Cable St,

Sarah Sackman pays tribute to Mike Freer in maiden speech

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

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By Karen Glaser

This Father’s Day, let’s hear it for patrilineal Jews

Forget the idea that you’re only a Jew if your mother is Jewish. Let’s go back to the Bible

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June 14, 2024 10:00

Like father, like daughter: patrilineal Jew Gwyneth Paltrow with her father Bruce, in 2001 (Photo: Getty Images)

Rabbi Gideon Sylvester

By Rabbi Gideon Sylvester

If we want peace, we first need to be truly strong

Creating a just and compassionate world sometimes requires us to fight the enemy

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May 24, 2024 10:39

The 36th March of the Living at Auschwitz on 6 May (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)

Guildford gets first permanent rabbi in centuries

The congregation is one of the smallest in the UK

By Daniel Ben-David

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May 21, 2024 17:45

Rabbi Alex Goldberg, rabbi of Guildford Synagogue

Questioning Belief, by Raphael Zarum – review: An essential resource that helps integrate Judaism with modernity

A consummate communicator, Zarum tackles medieval thinkers with a light touch

By Harry Freedman

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April 4, 2024 10:53

Rabbinical scholars: Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum, Louis Jacobs, Joseph Hertz and David Nieto. Far left: Rabbi Dr Zarum’s book

Former neo-Nazi who inspired American History X reveals he’s now an observant Jew

Frank Meeink credits Judaism with getting him through the darkest period of his life around five years ago

By Daniel Ben-David

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March 26, 2024 17:50

2PDK59M Frank Meeink, originally from Philadelphia, speaks to students about his former involvement with neo-Nazi hate groups, at Alvernia College in Reading, Pa., Nov. 1, 2005. Meeink, 30, travels the country to speak about his life and the misguided beliefs of hate groups. (AP Photo/Reading Eagle, Susan L. Angstadt)

Millions across the globe to recite Shema today for hostages

Families of hostages in Gaza will be speaking and praying at the Kotel

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March 21, 2024 10:11

Millions of people will join in prayer this afternoon for the release of the 134 hostages still held in Gaza (Photo: E Jacobs Photography)

Yeshurun Shul marks its diamond anniversary

The Manchester Synagogue welcomed four generations to its 60th celebrations

By Jane Prinsley

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February 16, 2024 16:15

Yeshurun Synagague celebrates 60 (from left): Rabbi Greg Bank, Rebbetzin Hannah Bank, Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis, David Verber and chair of Yeshurun Andrea Cohen

Meet the trailblazer who was the UK’s first woman rabbi

Jackie Tabick overcame prejudice to be accepted and changed the face of the British Jewish community

By Simon Rocker

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January 11, 2024 12:34

Rabbi Jackie Tabick (Photo: Gary Manhine)

What is Chabad? The group at the centre of the NYC tunnels story

Viral videos have prompted questions about the group embroiled in broiges after tunnels found under world headquarters in New York

By Rosa Doherty

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January 10, 2024 12:14

10/05/2023, New York-Brooklyn, United States. Sukkot is a week-long Jewish holiday that celebrates the fall harvest. It is one of the most joyful festivals in Judaism, meant to bring families, friends, and communities together. The holiday also commemorates the 40 years that Jews spent in the desert after escaping slavery in Egypt. The Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters is located on Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, in the United States. The building is the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch world movement and is considered by many to be an iconic site in Judaism. (Photo by Nikita Payusov / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by NIKITA PAYUSOV/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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