October 7

Israel-Gaza Conflict

Rafah Crossing to reopen

Around 150 people will be allowed to leave Gaza every day

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

Trial opening of Rafah Crossing taking place on Sunday, February 1, with a view to it reopening on Monday, February 2 (Photo: Getty)

October 7

To sustain Jewish unity we need a Torah-based vision

By Benjamin Amram

4 min read

The Kennedy Centre (Photo: Kennedy Centre)

Culture

Kennedy Centre to stage October 7 play based on survivor testimony

By Jessica Russack-Hoffman

3 min read

Nivi Feldman with her baby and parents, Nurit Sofer and Stanley Moss (photo: courtesy)

By Nivi Feldman

‘It was my parents who inspired me to fight for the hostages’

3 min read

Jake Marlowe

Mitzvah project launched in honour of ‘special, special’ Jake Marlowe

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

In the hostage release campaign, Liam Or-Nassar (poster left) was referred to as Liam Or (photo: Getty Image)

Hostages

Father concealed his Muslim identity to protect hostage son

By JC Reporter

1 min read

At the Kotel: senior secondary school leaders on their PaJeS trip to Israel

Jewish secondary schools

School report: what Israel taught me about preparing young people for the future

By Charlie Kelsey

2 min read

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By Gio Esfandiary

This is Iran’s October 7 – and the West must act now

The response to the regime’s massacres must be concrete: severe sanctions, asset freezes, the closure of embassies and an end to the indulgent fiction that this is a normal state with which business can continue

2 min read

January 21, 2026 11:54

Image of what is believed to be the bodies of killed protestors at Kahrizak Forensic Medicine Centre, Tehran (Image: X)

Yarden Bibas shares painful third-birthday message to ‘beloved’ son Kfir

Slain hostage Kfir Bibas was taken captive when he was just nine months old, and his brother Ariel was four

By Ben Conway

1 min read

January 19, 2026 16:17

Kfir Bibas was abducted alongside his brother Ariel, four, and their mother Shiri, aged 32 (Photo: Family handout)

French textbooks calling October 7 victims ‘Jewish settlers’ recalled after outcry

‘Falsification of facts’ condemned by community leaders and President Emmanuel Macron

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

January 15, 2026 15:31

A home destroyed during October 7 (Image: Edi Israel/ Flash90)

Exclusive: Hamas-supporting Muslim educator blocked from entering UK for speaking tour

Ustadh Mohamed Baajour was due to arrive in the country on Friday, but has pulled out after the Home Office confirmed to the JC that he does not have permission to enter the country

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

January 14, 2026 13:42