MusicHaim could become first all-female band to win rock album prize at GrammysThe Jewish sisters are also the first all-female band to receive a nomination for the award with their album I QuitBy Eliana Jordan1 min read
Israeli TechApple announces acquisition of Israeli AI startupIt is believed to be the tech giant’s second largest bid to dateBy Eliana Jordan1 min read
Israel-Gaza ConflictRafah Crossing to reopenAround 150 people will be allowed to leave Gaza every dayBy Gaby Wine2 min read
MusicItalian venue cancels American metal band’s performance after frontman asks to remove Palestinian flagDylan Carlson of Earth requested that a flag be taken offstage before his performance last week at the Bologna venue TPOBy Eliana Jordan1 min read
Pro-Palestine marchesThirteen arrested at pro-Palestine march in central LondonThere were calls to ‘globalise the intifada’ and images of the ayatollah were on displayBy Gaby Wine2 min read
ScotlandArtwork unveiled for mural to honour ‘heroic’ Scot who refused to abandon Jewish schoolgirls in BudapestThe mural commemorates the bravery of Jane Haining, who died in AuschwitzBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read
Birmingham‘Zio-eradication’ group that favours ‘armed resistance’ to meet in BirminghamControversial academic David Miller and suspended NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan are due to speakBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026Performer crows about his Gaza outburst at Holocaust event as ‘serious Palestine Action’The incident prompted the council to report disability arts group to the policeBy Jane Prinsley5 min read
Palestinian AuthorityPA paid out $200m in pay-for-slay despite pledge to end scheme, US claimsThe State Department reportedly filed evidence to Congress that the programme, which provides funding to the families of convicted terrorists, continued under a different nameBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
CultureKennedy Centre to stage October 7 play based on survivor testimonyThe play uses verbatim accounts from those caught up in the atrocitiesBy Jessica Russack-Hoffman3 min read
Iran protests 2026Trump claims Iran ‘wants to talk’ as ‘armada’ arrives in GulfThe US has diverted an aircraft carrier to regional waters, with the vessel entering ‘ghost mode’ to avoid targeting satellitesBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Iron DomeIsrael blocks US takeover of Iron Dome software firmThe proposed deal would have left the state-owned Rafael as a minority shareholder, but security officials are wary of foreign control.By Yaakov Lappin2 min read
GazaIsrael confirms reopening date for Rafah Crossing following recovery of final hostageThe key border post will be open only for the ‘limited movement of people’ and not for humanitarian aid convoysBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
IsraelGuinness World Records lifts Israel ban to recognise historic gathering of 1,000 living kidney donorsIsrael leads the world in living kidney donations per capitaBy Siam Goorwich1 min read
Israeli PoliticsCharedi draft bill to face Knesset votes following committee approvalThe coalition needs to pass the contentious legislation before the end of March, or it faces a rebellion over the state budget and a fresh round of electionsBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Wingate PrizeOctober 7 survivor Amir Tibon scoops 2026 Wingate Prize for ‘The Gates of Gaza’The prize is awarded annually to the book deemed to best communicate ‘the idea of Jewishness to the general reader’By Jamie Shapiro2 min read
OlympicsFears over ‘Gaza genocide’ rapper set to perform at Winter Olympics opening ceremonyMusician Ghali will be on the stage with the eyes of the world on him – and the Israeli bobsleigh team in the audienceBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read
Yad Vashem nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian MPJoel Ystebø of the Christian Democratic Party put the memorial forward for the award due to its work against Holocaust distortionBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read
Brooklyn man sentenced to 15 years over Iran-backed plot to kill US-based dissidentCarlisle Rivera conspired to assassinate Masih Alinejad on behalf of the IRGC in return for $100,000By Daniel Ben-David1 min read
Man arrested after car ramming attack on Chabad world headquarters in New YorkThe NYPD is investigating the incident as a hate crime and has stepped up security at synagogues in the cityBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read
Green PartyGreen candidate for Gorton and Denton by-election appears to compare Gaza War to HolocaustHannah Spencer seemed to suggest in a 2025 tweet, posted the day after Holocaust Memorial Day, that the message of ‘Never Again’ was incompatible with British arms exports to IsraelBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read
Education sector failing to recognise antisemitism when ‘cloaked in activism’, says former Ofsted chiefRemarks come days after watchdog cleared school that blocked a visit from pro-Israel MP Damien EganBy Lorin Bell-Cross2 min read
IRGC must be banned now, 100-plus parliamentarians urge government in cross-party letterSir Keir Starmer warned of ‘permissive environment for foreign‑backed extremism’ if planned law is not brought forwardBy Jane Prinsley4 min read
Wes Streeting vows to combat ‘grotesque’ antisemitism in the NHSReflecting on the Shoah, the Health Secretary said it is the ‘cowardice of bystanders’ that allows antisemitism to thriveBy Jamie Shapiro2 min read
Jewish actorsMarty Supreme actress Odessa A'zion quits new film after casting backlashThe rising star had accepted a role in the A24 film adaptation of romance novel ‘Deep Cuts’By Jamie Shapiro1 min read
You WERE hired! The kosher Apprentice who was just the business… at the JCLawrence Rosenberg said his time at this newspaper was a great motivatorBy Jamie Shapiro2 min read
‘I am not a Nazi… I love Jewish people’: Kanye West apologises for past behaviour in Wall Street Journal advertThe rapper says he ‘lost touch with reality’ due to his bipolar-1 disorderBy Siam Goorwich1 min read
Nigella Lawson confirmed as new judge on The Great British Bake OffThe Jewish cook and food writer will replace Prue Leith on the Channel 4 showBy Siam Goorwich1 min read
