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Gal Gadot attends the Los Angeles premiere of Amazon MGM Studios' The Runner (Getty Images)

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Dr Rehiana Ali (Image: YouTube/Deep Dive Perspective)

Court and Crime

Doctor accused of supporting Hamas in social media posts appears in court

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Randa Abdel-Fattah (Credit: Macquarie University)

Israel

Writer who supported October 7 attack to headline Cambridge Literary Festival event

Randa Abdel-Fattah wished that Zionists ‘never know a second’s peace’ in their ‘sadistic miserable lives’

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

West Bank

British activist ‘kidnapped’ by settlers to be deported back to UK

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Science

Ada Yonath: From cleaning floors to survive aged 11 to Nobel Prize-winner (but grandma of the year is the accolade she treasures most)

By Simon Round

4 min read

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (C) and Minister of Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez (R) at the Tarajal border fence between Ceuta and Morocco on July 31, 2026 (Getty Images)

Spain

Spanish prime minister blames Israel for ‘misinformation’ that sparked Ceuta migrant crisis

By Phoebe Black

1 min read

Opinion

Yaakov Katz

Netanyahu just condemned settler violence – now what will he do about it?

Angela Epstein

The people of Heaton Park shul came out to confront evil with light – but our ghosts sat among us

Tina Ghazimorad

Israel’s post-October 7 diplomatic revolution: new allies, new audiences

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US Politics

Vance seeks to smooth relations with sceptical Republican Jews

American vice president said the US had a ‘deeper cultural symbiosis and harmony’ with Israel and UK than with other countries

By Andrew Bernard

4 min read

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on June 18, 2026 (Getty Images)

teachers

Nearly three-quarters of Jewish teachers’ union members self-censor over antisemtic or antizionist hostility

Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League said the finding revealed a ‘structural and cultural failure’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

(Illustrative) A teacher sets up her classroom at Freedom Preparatory Academy in in Provo, Utah, on August 13, 2020 (Getty Images)

Antisemitism

Exclusive: ‘Khaybar’ T-shirt under police investigation sold on American site offering hateful clothing

US retailer Now Best T-Shirts also lists an ‘antisemite club’ hoodie and ‘free America from Israel’ shirt among its stock

By Jamie Shapiro and Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

One of the offensive products available on Now Best T-Shirts (nowbesttshirt.com)

Palestine Action

US government announces sanctions against Palestine Action

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the measures would put ‘far-left extremists on notice’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a press conference in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department on August 24, 2026 (Getty Images)

World News

A Charedi mohel performs a circumcision in Mea She'arim, Israel (Image: Flash90)

European Union

European Jewish groups open circumcision training programme amid legal crackdown

By Canaan Lidor

2 min read

A Taliban fighter rides a military vehicle in front of a Palestinian flag during celebrations for the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's takeover (Photo by Mustafa Noori / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Afghanistan

Taliban leaders call Jews ‘animals’ and back Palestinians against ‘cruel Jewish occupiers’

By Ali Hamedani

4 min read

Jewish film

Australian documentary about Jews being cancelled is ‘cancelled’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Katerina Sakovich (Israeli Foreign Ministry/Courtesy)

Nepal Flash Flood

Two Israelis confirmed missing as Nepal flood death toll tops 900

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Vessels transit the Strait of Hormuz on August 10, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

Iran

US and Iran exchange fire for the first time since July

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Turkey

Turkish president condemned for calling Zionism ‘genocidal’ and invoking Holocaust against Israel

By JC Reporter

1 min read

America

US Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed (JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty)

Democrat candidate apologises for saying ‘hurt people hurt people’ after attack on American synagogue by Lebanese man

Michigan hopeful Abdul El-Sayed says sorry for remarks following truck ramming and shooting at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield in March

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Former UK ambassador to Israel warns sanctions against settlements may backfire Hamas terrorist who took part in October 7 killed in targeted airstrike by Israel

UK News

Court and Crime

Man who asked for ‘recipe for roasted synagogue’ spared jail

Michael Brown also suggested targeting synagogues and Jewish businesses with eggs and stink bombs

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Westminster Magistrates' Court (Getty Images)

Heaton park synagogue attack

Heaton Park Shul service commemorates victims of Yom Kippur terror attack

Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz were ‘very different men, but very united in their ability and determination to make this world a better place’

By Gaby Wine

7 min read

Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation's Rabbi Daniel Walker at the communal memorial service (Photo: Gaby Wine)

Heaton park synagogue attack

Manchester synagogue attack survivor says son has received death threats

‘I don’t think things feel safer. I think we certainly live behind ever-increasing gates, more security than we’ve ever had,’ says Yoni Finlay, who was wounded during the assault

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Heaton park synagogue attack

British Jews in a ‘harder position’ than immediately after Heaton Park attack, says Rabbi Daniel Walker

Almost a year later, rising antisemitism and a failure to tackle its causes have left the community feeling increasingly vulnerable, the congregation’s leader warns

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Rabbi Daniel Walker of Heaton Park Synagogue (Image: Getty Images)

Opinion

How the UN’s 2001 ‘anti-racism’ conference in Durban helped shape today’s hatred of Israel

Twenty-five years ago, a gathering meant to combat prejudice and champion human rights became a watershed for the campaign to demonise, delegitimise and isolate the Jewish state and Jewish people

By David Harris

4 min read

Vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, Lord Janner of Braunstone, holds up a leaflet featuring a picture of Hitler and the question 'What if I had won?', with no Israel listed among the supposed benefits, at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban on September 3, 2001. (Image: Getty Images)

By Jonathan Harounoff

Could America ever have a Chief Rabbi?

When antisemitism spikes, who speaks for US Jews – before Congress, government and the wider country? Britain shows the value of having a single, visible communal voice when times get tough

4 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Guterres condemns part of the UN as ‘out of control’ over Israel – after years of feeding the same bias

It is all well and good for the secretary general to point in the direction of Francesca Albanese et al. The real problem, however, is not a few individuals but institutional hostility to the Jewish state

8 min read

By Stephen Daisley

The Jewish heroes who fought for Britain – and why their courage matters today

Passing on stories of those who fought and bled and died under the Union Jack can be a powerful rejoinder to the calumnies of the antisemites. This is what our people have done for this country – how about yours?

4 min read

By Emily Cohen

My friend Emily Damari’s wedding is a light emerging from darkness

What an incredible journey: from the terror tunnels of Hamas to the miracle of the chupah, from captivity to freedom – a story of love triumphing over hate

3 min read

By Tamir Morag

For Iran, Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ poses a greater existential threat than military action

Even if the US enforces the new sanctions only partially, the pressure may still be enough to bring about the regime's collapse. The watchwords are patience, determination, and endurance

6 min read

By Maureen Lipman

I still feel like Paula Radcliffe at the wobbly end of a marathon

The Allegra tour, as you may have read, was beset by attempts to boycott my presence in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Bath. And yet, I can play Allegra, Jane Lucas or Evelyn Plummer because we are all English – I love being English

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By Danya Kay

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Global antisemitism continues to transform online Jewish dating

By JWed

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Nick Knowles fronts new campaign helping drivers understand their car finance complaint options

By Rhys Hughes

2 min read

Sponsored

As Hearing Care Changes, Independent Expert Advice Matters More Than Ever

By Pindrop Hearing Clinics

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Life

Remembering Hannah Poland, the Jewish teen who spread her wings and paved the way for the RSPB

By Michele Goldsmith

6 min read

Ed Sheeran attends iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball 2025 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on December 14, 2025 (Getty Images)

Sacha Baron Cohen

‘Restecpa’: Ed Sheeran responds to name drop in new Ali G film trailer

The multi-award-winning singer said an encounter with the beloved character fulfilled a childhood dream

By Lucy Pollock

1 min read

Television

Lior Raz: ‘Fauda’s new series is shaped by our October 7 trauma’

Most assumed the show’s writers would swerve the pogrom on season 5, but they’ve done the opposite

By Elaine Penn

8 min read

Difficult watch: (left to right) Lior Raz, Hakim Djaziri as Saaed el-Hatib and Avi Issacharoff

Aliyah

Angela Epstein: How to give my friends making aliyah a cleaner break

Just what is the etiquette of saying farewell to acquaintances leaving our shores for Israel?

By Angela Epstein

3 min read

Powerful memento: plants will likely be left behind

Traitors

Watch: Claudia Winkelman casts an eye over a new batch of Faithfuls in ‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two teaser

The BBC has revealed the full cast for the show, including Michael Sheen, Richard E Grant and Maya Jama

By Lucy Pollock

2 min read

Claudia Winkleman in the trailer for The Celebrity Traitors season two (YouTube/BBC)

JC recipes

A classic tarte tatin – with a tasty Rosh Hashanah twist (Photo: Inbal Bar-Oz)

Rosh Hashanah recipe

Rosh Hashanah apple and pomegranate tarte tatin

By Fabienne Viner-Luzzato

Cook time: 35 mins

Victoria Prever's salted honey and date ice cream pie (Photo: Inbal Bar-Oz)

Rosh Hashanah recipe

Rosh Hashanah salted honey and date ice cream pie

By Victoria Prever

Cook time: 10 mins + 5+ hours freezing time

Meat recipe

Rosh Hashanah roast beef with pomegranate and red wine

By Silvia Nacamulli

Cook time: 45 minutes (medium); 1 hour (well done) plus 1 hour resting time

Salmon

Dressed-to-impress roasted salmon for Rosh Hashanah

By Victoria Prever

Cook time: 15-20 minutes

The Jewish Chronicle

Gal Gadot: ‘I nearly quit acting to go back to Israel’

Doctor accused of supporting Hamas in social media posts appears in court

Writer who supported October 7 attack to headline Cambridge Literary Festival event

British activist ‘kidnapped’ by settlers to be deported back to UK

Ada Yonath: From cleaning floors to survive aged 11 to Nobel Prize-winner (but grandma of the year is the accolade she treasures most)

Spanish prime minister blames Israel for ‘misinformation’ that sparked Ceuta migrant crisis

Opinion

Netanyahu just condemned settler violence – now what will he do about it?

The people of Heaton Park shul came out to confront evil with light – but our ghosts sat among us

Israel’s post-October 7 diplomatic revolution: new allies, new audiences

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Vance seeks to smooth relations with sceptical Republican Jews

Nearly three-quarters of Jewish teachers’ union members self-censor over antisemtic or antizionist hostility

Exclusive: ‘Khaybar’ T-shirt under police investigation sold on American site offering hateful clothing

US government announces sanctions against Palestine Action

World News

European Jewish groups open circumcision training programme amid legal crackdown

Taliban leaders call Jews ‘animals’ and back Palestinians against ‘cruel Jewish occupiers’

Australian documentary about Jews being cancelled is ‘cancelled’

Two Israelis confirmed missing as Nepal flood death toll tops 900

US and Iran exchange fire for the first time since July

Turkish president condemned for calling Zionism ‘genocidal’ and invoking Holocaust against Israel

Democrat candidate apologises for saying ‘hurt people hurt people’ after attack on American synagogue by Lebanese man

UK News

Man who asked for ‘recipe for roasted synagogue’ spared jail

Heaton Park Shul service commemorates victims of Yom Kippur terror attack

Manchester synagogue attack survivor says son has received death threats

British Jews in a ‘harder position’ than immediately after Heaton Park attack, says Rabbi Daniel Walker

Opinion

How the UN’s 2001 ‘anti-racism’ conference in Durban helped shape today’s hatred of Israel

Could America ever have a Chief Rabbi?

Guterres condemns part of the UN as ‘out of control’ over Israel – after years of feeding the same bias

The Jewish heroes who fought for Britain – and why their courage matters today

My friend Emily Damari’s wedding is a light emerging from darkness

For Iran, Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ poses a greater existential threat than military action

I still feel like Paula Radcliffe at the wobbly end of a marathon

Sponsored

Celebrating tradition, beauty and togetherness

Global antisemitism continues to transform online Jewish dating

Nick Knowles fronts new campaign helping drivers understand their car finance complaint options

As Hearing Care Changes, Independent Expert Advice Matters More Than Ever

Life

Remembering Hannah Poland, the Jewish teen who spread her wings and paved the way for the RSPB

‘Restecpa’: Ed Sheeran responds to name drop in new Ali G film trailer

Lior Raz: ‘Fauda’s new series is shaped by our October 7 trauma’

Angela Epstein: How to give my friends making aliyah a cleaner break

Watch: Claudia Winkelman casts an eye over a new batch of Faithfuls in ‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two teaser

JC recipes

Rosh Hashanah apple and pomegranate tarte tatin

Rosh Hashanah salted honey and date ice cream pie

Rosh Hashanah roast beef with pomegranate and red wine

Dressed-to-impress roasted salmon for Rosh Hashanah