UK JewryBirmingham can still have a bright Jewish future, believes the community’s chroniclerOlga Swan has drawn on her own family’s long association with the historic Singers Hill Synagogue to pen a history of Jews in the cityBy Simon Rocker4 min read
British MuseumClaudia Winkleman takes on the Normans in trailer for Bayeux Tapestry exhibitionThe Traitors host and museum trustee plays a security guard in a clip bringing to life figures from historic wall hanging going on show next monthBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read
HistoryCzech Jews to sit down for a Shabbat dinner amid ruins of Brno’s once-great synagogueHundreds of Jews of Czech origin will descend on the country’s second cityBy Anthea Gerrie3 min read
Book reviewSimon Sebag Montefiore’s history of the Middle East is a masterpieceHis massively ambitious book is superbly written, perfectly balanced in the scope of its analysis and storytelling, and will serve both expert and lay readersBy Stephen Pollard6 min read
Second World WarUnesco adds D-Day beaches to list of world heritage sitesThe decision will see both Allied and Nazi soldiers who lost their lives during the decisive battles commemoratedBy Mark Wood2 min read
IsraelPersian-era coin from Cyprus surfaces on Israeli beachExperts say the 2,500-year-old find may offer ‘significant information about trade ties and movement between Cyprus and the Land of Israel’By JC Reporter2 min read
FranceDreyfus statue given permanent new home outside court which cleared him of all chargesNew site comes after decades of uncertainty around tribute to army captain wrongly convicted in France’s historic antisemitism scandalBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read
New date for British Museum’s Jewish Culture Month talk confirmed after postponement over protest fearsThe event was originally due to take place May 28, but was pushed back after organisers got wind of a plan to ‘deliberately disrupt’ itBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read||June 8, 2026 17:27
Schoolboy unearths ancient gemstone on school trip to Israeli dig siteAlon Horowitz discovered a rare ‘nicolo’ stone dating back to the Roman era in the Upper GalileeBy Lianne Kolirin 1 min read||June 2, 2026 14:14
Star of David armband and 1930s siddur found hidden in former Ghetto buildingThe Ghetto Fighters’ House in Będzin was a clandestine meeting place and centre of underground Jewish resistance, and later a site of armed uprising against the Nazis during the liquidation of the ghettoBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read||May 29, 2026 14:46
Canterbury’s ‘celebrity’ Jews to be given blue plaques in heart of Church of EnglandTwo historical Jews figures from Kent are due to be commemoratedBy Ben Conway2 min read||May 20, 2026 17:00
Jews and Muslims – a couple that has had its ups and downs‘Children of Abraham’ is a new book that examines the historic relationship between the two Abrahamic groupsBy Simon Rocker4 min read||April 10, 2026 17:02
You thought you knew Haman? This book will make you think againProfessor Adam Silverstein shows the bad guy of Purim is a man of many partsBy Simon Rocker4 min read||February 27, 2026 13:00
British Museum removes the word ‘Palestinian’ from ancient Middle East displaysThe museum admitted it had ‘retroactively’ applied the term, including by referring to people in the region as being of ‘Palestinian descent’By Jamie Shapiro1 min read||February 15, 2026 11:51
William Shakespeare was a ‘Jewish woman of north African descent’, new book claimsEmilia Bassano, England’s first published female poet, has long been associated with the BardBy Siam Goorwich2 min read||January 26, 2026 14:03
Nazi camp doctor dubbed ‘Angel of Death’ owned medical lab while living openly in Argentina, new documents revealAn Argentine judge even denied a West German extradition request for Josef Mengele on the grounds that the war criminal could face ‘political persecution’By Jacob Jaffa1 min read||December 1, 2025 14:20
