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On Yom Kippur we bring before God a bleeding heart and a troubled conscience

What questions will be uppermost in our mind on the holiest day of the year?

By Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

3 min read

Inspiring hope: Sharone and Yocheved Lifshitz

The kosher kitchens feeding war torn Ukraine

The kosher kitchens feeding war torn Ukraine

By Felicity Spector

3 min read

The Old Peresip Synagogue on fire, August 4, 2025 (Credit: courtesy)

Russian suicide drone hits historic synagogue in Odessa

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Annabel, partner of Israeli army sergeant Shoham Menachem, killed in action the previous day in the Gaza Strip, mourns during the funeral at the Yardena Military Cemetery in the village of Yardena near Beit Shean in northern Israel on July 15, 2025. (Getty Images)

Maurice Helfgott

By Maurice Helfgott

British Jews unite to help people both in Israel and Gaza

3 min read

Ukrainian girl receiving cancer treatment in Israel killed in Iranian missile strike

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Ukrainian girl receiving cancer treatment in Israel killed in Iranian missile strike

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Dame Melinda Simmons, the UK's new ambassador to Poland

Jewish diplomat named as UK’s next ambassador to Poland

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Sir Keir Starmer and Volodomyr Zelensky (Getty)

Melanie Phillips

By Melanie Phillips

Starmer’s moral clarity on Ukraine is absent when it comes to the Jewish state

3 min read

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Bernard-Henri Lévy: ‘The war against Hamas and Russia is one battle against the same evil’

The renowned French intellectual speaks to the JC from the Russian front

By David Herman

4 min read

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March 13, 2025 11:34

Bernard-Henri Levy delivers a speech during a ceremony organised by the Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) to pay tribute to the victims of Hamas' October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Amid Russia danger, pro-Palestine activists are ‘national security threat’, warn former defence ministers

The senior parliamentarians warned protests risk degrading Britain’s reputation as a ‘reliable supplier’ to our allies

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

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March 4, 2025 11:24

Palestine Action targeted an Elbit Systems factory in 2021 (Image: Getty)

‘Traitor to Jews’ – Lavrov attacks Zelensky as ‘pure Nazi’ amid Trump tensions

The Russian Foreign Minister reiterated his country’s claim that it invaded Ukraine in order to ‘de-nazify’ it

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March 3, 2025 10:35

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Ukrainian President Zelensky of being a 'traitor to the Jewish people' (Image: Getty)

Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

In the new world order, Europe needs Israel

Trump’s backing for Putin on Ukraine has changed everything

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February 26, 2025 13:17

Donald Trump has called for Israel to resume its war in Gaza if all the hostages are not freed by Saturday (Image: Getty)

‘Tucker Carlson, call me!’, Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi says he’s duty-bound to tell the world about Russia’s aggression

Moshe Azman’s adopted son was killed during the conflict last year

By Lorin Bell-Cross

6 min read

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February 20, 2025 13:55

The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Moshe Azman, stands next to the coffin of his son, Matityahu (Anton) Samborskyi, during a funeral ceremony at the central synagogue in Kyiv (Image: Getty).

UK unveils sanctions on Iran for aiding Russian war in Ukraine

Announcement comes ahead of 1,000-day anniversary of conflict.

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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November 18, 2024 16:05

Iranian missiles in Tehran, Iran (Photo: Getty Images)

This is how a warped narrative gets legitimised

Former Labour MP Louise Ellman warns her former colleagues against an obsessive focus on Israel

By Dame Louise Ellman

1 min read

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November 7, 2024 13:57

Sudanese forces patrol a district in Gedaref city in eastern Sudan on April 3, 2024 (Photo by EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)

Revealed: MPs debate Israel twice as much as they discuss the NHS

JC analysis of parliamentary records show Israel was raised more than Ukraine and Sudan combined

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

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November 7, 2024 12:56

MPs during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons

Chief Rabbi pays tribute to Ukrainian chief rabbi’s son killed fighting Russian forces

Matityahu Samborsky was adopted aged 11 and lived with his adoptive family for a decade

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

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September 12, 2024 14:54

Matityahu Samborsky (left) and Chief Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman

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