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Carol with a cappuccino at Carmel Market, in Tel Aviv, during a break from the sirens

Israel

Mum’s sunny Israel vacation turned into a war-cation

By Natalie Blenford

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Kanye West

Block Kanye West from entering the UK for Wireless Festival gigs, MPs demand

Criticism of the festival booking mounts as drinks giant Diageo became the second major sponsor to pull support for the event

By Jamie Shapiro

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Lovelock hostage bridge

Lovelock hostage bridge transformed into sculpture at JW3

By Gaby Wine

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Miriam celebrates her 105th birthday with singer Regev Hod (Photo: Getty Images)

Israel Iran War

Holocaust survivor celebrates her 105th birthday dancing in a bomb shelter

By Jamie Shapiro

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Francesca Albanese was honoured by three Belgian universities (Image: Getty Images)

Belgium

Francesca Albanese awarded honorary doctorate, despite objections from Jewish groups

By Jamie Shapiro

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Shushu review: ‘Motherhood, warts and all, beautiful, ugly and true’

The therapist helping troubled strictly Orthodox Jews

Parenting neurodiversity: a journey of many tears

How Miriam Haart’s life took another Unorthodox turn at a Tel Aviv AI startup

The Jewish theatre group building bridges by treading the boards

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Basketball

American-Israeli basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire gets spot in Hall of Fame

The six-time NBA All-Star converted to Judaism after retiring

By JC Reporter

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Amar'e Stoudemire speaks during a press conference for the 2026 Inductees to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Iran

US revokes green cards of Soleimani’s niece and grandniece

The women reportedly enjoyed a ‘lavish’ lifestyle in the US

By JC Reporter

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Gen Qassem Soleimani, the slain commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' feared Quds Force, pictured in 2013 (Photo: Getty)

Operation Roaring Lion

US will end Iran War ‘very soon’ says Trump ahead of national address

Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed the president’s comments, saying Washington could ‘see the finish line’ in the conflict

By Jacob Jaffa

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US President Trump speaks to the media after departing Air Force One at Miami International Airport on March 27, 2026 (Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

Trump reportedly willing to end Iran War without opening Strait of Hormuz

The president is said to have come to the conclusion that any operation to unblock the vital maritime route would ‘push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks’

By Jacob Jaffa

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US President Trump speaks with members of the media aboard Air Force One on March 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

World news

Israel

Israelis preparing for Pesach targeted by Iran missile barrage

By JC Reporter

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Syria

Syria has stopped Iranian weapons reaching Hezbollah, claims Ahmed al-Sharaa

By Jane Prinsley

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Israeli President Herzog speaks to the media as he visits an area hit by a reported overnight Iranian strike in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2026 (Getty Images)

President Isaac Herzog

Herzog: settler violence ‘fuels hatred’ against Jews worldwide

By Jane Prinsley

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Lebanon

Four IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon

By Melanie Swan

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Vienna

On a visit to Vienna with my baby son, the weight of fatherhood and family history suddenly hit me

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier 'Mayuree Naree' near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack (Photo by Handout / ROYAL THAI NAVY / AFP via Getty Images)

Letter from Jerusalem

Israel’s existential conflict may bring economic hardship but for Gulf states there’s no going back

By Natalie Lisbona

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Charities

A Palestinian boy walks past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on January 11, 2026. Banned from the Gaza Strip with 36 aid bodies, medical charity Doctors Without Borders said on January 10 it will have to end its operations there in March if Israel does not reverse its decision. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP via Getty Images)

Revealed: MSF accused by own staff of Israel ‘obsession’ that breaches pledge of neutrality

Whistleblowers speaking to the JC also claim giant global charity failing to deal adequately with antisemitism

By Jane Prinsley

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Yemen’s Houthis join war until ‘aggression’ against Iran stops Iran releases ‘last picture of Ali Khamenei’

UK News

Kanye West

Kanye West Wireless gigs ‘deeply concerning’, says Starmer, as Pepsi pulls sponsorship

West has notoriously glorified the Nazis and released a track titled Heil Hitler

By Simon Rocker

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Kanye West, at the Grammy Awards last year (Photo: Getty)

Crime

Man arrested over ambulance arson attack as he attended court appearance of two other suspects

The latest suspect was arrested at Westminster Magistrates Court

By Simon Rocker

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The burnt wreckage of Hatzola ambulances after the attack in Golders Green (Photo: Getty Images)

Courts

Pro-Palestine organisers convicted of breaching protest conditions

Ben Jamal of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Christopher Nineham of the Stop the War Coalition announced their intention to appeal following the verdict

By Rosie Shead and Ellie Crabbe and Izzie Addison and Ellie Ng

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Chris Nineham, vice chair of Stop the War Coalition (L), and Ben Jamal, director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (R), outside Westminster Magistrates' Court on April 01, 2026 (Getty Images)

Hatzola ambulance attack

Three arrested in connection with Golders Green ambulance attack

All were detained on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life and are in custody

By JC Reporter

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The burnt wreckage of Hatzola ambulances next to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, on March 23, 2026, in Golders Green (Getty Images)

Opinion

Letters to the Editor, April 3 2026

JC readers react to the attack on Hatzola in Golders Green

By The JC

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King Charles III with Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis. King Charles was last week announced as a patron of the CST. (Image: Getty Images)

By Ben Russell

As Britain’s most senior Jewish police officer, I assure you the Met is doing all it can to keep the community safe

Our commitment is firm. To be more visible, more present and more proactive in confronting hate crime

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By Stephen Pollard

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s revolting celebration of death

Even if you think capital punishment is just and right, it is not something to revel in. Sanctifying life is the cord which runs through almost every aspect of Judaism

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By Alejandro Baer

From Franco’s legacy to Podemos: the roots of Spain’s extreme Israel hostility

The link between Madrid’s rhetoric and the unacknowledged undercurrents of the country’s antisemitism are difficult to ignore. The permanent withdrawal of the ambassador to Jerusalem crystallised this logic

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By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Press TV exposes Britain’s dangerous permissiveness toward extremism

The UK offers ideal conditions for state and non-state actors – from the Islamic Republic to the Muslim Brotherhood – to exploit liberal freedoms in order to undermine them

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By Dominic Green

The ‘stab in the back’ myth to blame Jews if the war goes badly

Never before have we seen so concerted an effort to declare a military campaign lost before it has started. A global influence operation, emanating from America’s enemies, is being used to split the US-Israel alliance

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By David Bennun

They may think of me as a bloodthirsty Zionist – but I still love their art

Their music, films and books belongs to me as much as to anyone else. The possibility that they might hate the joy I take in them is just a bonus

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Haggadah

Why is this Haggadah different from all others?

By Simon Rocker

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Ryan Gosling in 'Project Hail Mary.' (Photo: MGM)

Film

Project Hail Mary review: Gosling brings substance to this alien-buddy sci-fi ★★★★

It’s no ‘Interstellar’, but a fun, odd-couple space romp doesn’t need to be – so long as it’s got Ryan Gosling piloting the spaceship

By John Nathan

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Books

Meet the world’s first fascist

This is a revelatory biography about the Frenchman who almost fought Dreyfus in a duel

By Robert Low

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No match: a drawing of the duel between the Marquis de Morès and Captain Mayer, as it appeared on the front page of Le Petit Parisien Illustré

Television

The Jewish Pilgrim’s Progress

Ashley Blaker, once the UK’s only Orthodox comedian, now a tattooed agnostic, is travelling through Northumberland for the new series of Pilgrimage

By Jenni Frazer

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Spiritual journey: (from left) Ashley Blaker, Hermione Norris, Jayne Middlemiss, Patsy Kensit, Ashley Banjo, Tasha Ghouri and Hasan Al-Habib on their pilgrimage

Dance

Mayerling review: This doomed love affair produces some of the most erotically-charged dances seen on stage ★★★★★

Kenneth MacMillan’s 1978 ballet about a prince and his young baroness mistress is back in London with exquisite performances that build to a tragic end

By Joy Sable

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