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Then-Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper delivers a speech during the Global Partnership Conference on May 19, 2026 (Getty Images)

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Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson writes to the JC… because he’s more Jewish than we thought

By Hayley Cregor

1 min read

Kristallnacht

‘I couldn’t understand it’: Kristallnacht eyewitness recalls ‘painful’ memories at commemoration service

Inge Gershfield recalled seeing people ‘laughing’ and ‘singing Nazi songs’ in front of a burning synagogue on her way to school on November 10, 1938

By JC Reporter

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Green Party

Exclusive: Green councillor said Muslims who condemn October 7 attack ‘bear shame of supporting Jews’

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Foreign secretary Ed Miliband featured prominently in some of the Facebook campaign posts (Getty Images)

Labour Party

Revealed: Labour’s ‘sectarian’ Gaza ads in by-election campaign to hold on to Sir Keir Starmer’s seat

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Matan Kahana in Moshav Beit Gamliel, on August 5, 2025 (Flash90)

Gadi Eisenkot

Eisenkot announces special forces veteran for Knesset speaker as coalition talks continue

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

US midterms exposed frightening new reality for American Jews – time to unite and fight back

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Iran

Downing Street insists British air bases are safe after US aircraft moved from RAF Mildenhall following ‘Iranian threat’

US President Trump had earlier said that the US-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic is ‘effectively over’

By JC Reporter

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US President Donald Trump speaks at a midterm campaign rally at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida on October 30, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Torah

Florida man charged with smuggling ancient Torah scrolls into US

Authorities said the ‘improperly obtained foreign antiquities have been recovered and will be repatriated back to their countries of origin’

By Jessica Russack-Hoffman

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A collection of artefacts seized at the home of Matthew Weinberg (US Department of Justice)

Charity

Dustin Hoffman, Gene Simmons and more read letters from Jewish history to raise £750k for charity

Money raised on the night is going to the Sha’ar HaNegev Resilience Centre, a new trauma and mental health centre in Israel

By Jamie Shapiro

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Dustin Hoffman at the Letters, Light and Love LA show (Image: tatsu.cinema)

US Politics

‘The reason we lost is the war,’ admits JD Vance after Republicans’ midterm rout

The vice president said his party needed to ‘change our relationship to Israel’ in the wake of the result

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

US Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks during a midterm campaign rally in Weatherford, Texas, on October 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

World News

Save the Children UK refuses to adopt IHRA definition despite antisemitism review recommendations

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

Fire crews remove a Palestinian flag above the Reichstag in Berlin on November 8, 2026 (Instagram/PeacefullyAgainstGenocide)

Germany

Activists raise Palestinian flag over German Reichstag on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

By Hayley Cregor

3 min read

Canada

Man jailed for shooting at Montreal Jewish school, leaving bullet holes in windows

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

A grenade launcher manufactured by IWI, which has struck a deal with Dutch defence company Artillerie Inrichtingen Armaments (Photo: IWI)

The Netherlands

Israeli defence firm to set up Netherlands arms factory

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Gaza

8,200 trucks of winter supplies allowed into Gaza, IDF says

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Jacques Mieses (JewishVirtualLibrary/Wikimedia)

Chess

Britain’s first chess grandmaster was Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, new research finds

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

Shay Mizrahi is a senior official at Israel's state comptroller's office (Photo: Israel state comptroller’s office)

United Nations

Israeli official elected to UN oversight committee

Shay Mizrahi was elected with 134 votes, despite the heightened tensions between Israel and the international body

By Lianne Kolirin

1 min read

UK News

Jewish ex-servicemen break 100-year Remembrance tradition in protest at Green-led Hackney Council

The Hackney branch of Ajex honoured the fallen separately rather than participate alongside representatives of the ‘scurrilous and racist’ Green Party

By Daniel Ben-David

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Green leader Zack Polansk congratulates Zoë Garbett as she is elected as Mayor for Hackney in May 2026 (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Holocaust Educational Trust

Lady Victoria Starmer visits HET’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ in first public engagement since leaving Downing Street

The wife of former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been a fierce champion of Holocaust education

By Jane Prinsley

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Lady Victoria Starmer with Holocaust survivor Steven Frank BEM (Grainge Photography)

Football

Israeli football star announced as special guest for JC ‘beautiful game’ event

Tomer Hemed will appear alongside former FA boss David Bernstein on November 19

By Jacob Jaffa

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Tomer Hemed celebrates during an A-League match between Western Sydney Wanderers and Newcastle Jets at the CommBank Stadium in Sydney, Australia, on November 28, 2021 (Getty Images)

Classical Music

Lilian Hochhauser at 100: ‘You can’t tell the Bolshoi don’t dance because it’s Shabbos’

In an exclusive interview with Rob Rinder, leading impresario discusses her brilliant career and her hopes for Britain’s Jewish community

By Rob Rinder

7 min read

Lilian Hochhauser and Rob Rinder (Image: Rob Rinder)

Opinion

What Israel can teach us all about community building

While Israeli society might be riven by divisions, within it are people who are ‘doing community’ really well

By Gaby Wine

3 min read

Grassroots-led project Osim Shechuna, where the youth improve the neighbourhoods in which they live (Photo: Osim Shechuna)

By Adam Louis-Klein

By backing El-Sayed in the midterms, Democrats betrayed the liberal values they claim to defend

The fight must now be to win back and reconstruct a pluralist left, one that can expand its understanding of oppression to include antizionism

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By David Bennun

The fashionable one-state ruse to destroy the only Jewish state

Call it the Lord Farquaad phenomenon, after the preening princeling from Shrek: ‘Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make’

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By Fiyaz Mughal

As a Muslim, I call out antisemitism in my community

Unless brave Islamic theologians and religious leaders challenge the deep-rooted anti-Jewish bigotry in our midst, the cancer of hatred will spread

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CJC-1295, Ipamorelin, and GHRP-2: A Multi-Peptide Growth Hormone Signaling Strategy

By Zack Ford

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Delta sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP) in modern molecular science

By Zack Ford

4 min read

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Moving home in North London? Some things are worth doing properly

By Dennis Rogers

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Photo of a young woman working on a landscape project in her backyard.

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Tzedakah shouldn’t stop with us

By Anthony Broza

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Life

It Gets Worse review: You’ll laugh, a lot – when you don’t wince – at Gen Z comedy series ★★★★★

By Ben Felsenburg

2 min read

Theatre

The Lives of Others review: Keira Knightley leads cast in taut Cold War thriller ★★★★

Directed by Robert Icke, Stephen Dillane also stars as Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler

By John Nathan

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Books

Finding the joy amid the horror of Theresienstadt

Jennifer Lipman meets the creators of Ode to Joy, a graphic novel about the concentration camp used by the Nazis for propaganda

By Jennifer Lipman

5 min read

Film

Film review: Rosenthal The Greatest Showman: ‘A quietly gripping real life story’ ★★★★

The Jewish Chronicle has a role to play in this film set in 1970s Germany

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Film

Review: The Soundman ‘There is little that convinces’ ★★★

This film tries to be many things, a historical drama, a love story and a fantastical meditation on the mysteries of sound

By John Nathan

1 min read

Review: The Soundman ‘There is little that convinces’ ★★★

JC recipes

Sivan’s Moroccan spiced fish patties/ balls

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 1 ½ hrs

Sivan Kobi's sheet pan bourekas (Photo: Sivan's Kitchen)

cheese recipe

Sivan’s sheet pan cheese bourekas

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 45 mins

Cake

Sivan’s six ingredient marble chiffon cake

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 1hr 20 mins

Vegan pad Thai noodles (Photo: Phil Bekker)

Vegan recipe

Pad Thai noodles with vegan chicken or tofu

By Philippa Kingsley

Cook time: 10 mins

The Jewish Chronicle

Suspended jail term for man who abused ‘baby killer’ MPs over ‘Israeli genocide’

Boris Johnson writes to the JC… because he’s more Jewish than we thought

‘I couldn’t understand it’: Kristallnacht eyewitness recalls ‘painful’ memories at commemoration service

Exclusive: Green councillor said Muslims who condemn October 7 attack ‘bear shame of supporting Jews’

Revealed: Labour’s ‘sectarian’ Gaza ads in by-election campaign to hold on to Sir Keir Starmer’s seat

Eisenkot announces special forces veteran for Knesset speaker as coalition talks continue

Opinion

Iran’s attacks on France exposes the West’s dangerous weakness

NAZA documentary twists IDF safeguards for civilians into a blood libel

US midterms exposed frightening new reality for American Jews – time to unite and fight back

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Latest US news

Downing Street insists British air bases are safe after US aircraft moved from RAF Mildenhall following ‘Iranian threat’

Florida man charged with smuggling ancient Torah scrolls into US

Dustin Hoffman, Gene Simmons and more read letters from Jewish history to raise £750k for charity

‘The reason we lost is the war,’ admits JD Vance after Republicans’ midterm rout

World News

Save the Children UK refuses to adopt IHRA definition despite antisemitism review recommendations

Activists raise Palestinian flag over German Reichstag on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

Man jailed for shooting at Montreal Jewish school, leaving bullet holes in windows

Israeli defence firm to set up Netherlands arms factory

8,200 trucks of winter supplies allowed into Gaza, IDF says

Britain’s first chess grandmaster was Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, new research finds

Israeli official elected to UN oversight committee

UK News

Jewish ex-servicemen break 100-year Remembrance tradition in protest at Green-led Hackney Council

Lady Victoria Starmer visits HET’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ in first public engagement since leaving Downing Street

Israeli football star announced as special guest for JC ‘beautiful game’ event

Lilian Hochhauser at 100: ‘You can’t tell the Bolshoi don’t dance because it’s Shabbos’

Opinion

What Israel can teach us all about community building

By backing El-Sayed in the midterms, Democrats betrayed the liberal values they claim to defend

The fashionable one-state ruse to destroy the only Jewish state

As a Muslim, I call out antisemitism in my community

Sponsored

CJC-1295, Ipamorelin, and GHRP-2: A Multi-Peptide Growth Hormone Signaling Strategy

Delta sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP) in modern molecular science

Moving home in North London? Some things are worth doing properly

Tzedakah shouldn’t stop with us

Life

It Gets Worse review: You’ll laugh, a lot – when you don’t wince – at Gen Z comedy series ★★★★★

The Lives of Others review: Keira Knightley leads cast in taut Cold War thriller ★★★★

Finding the joy amid the horror of Theresienstadt

Film review: Rosenthal The Greatest Showman: ‘A quietly gripping real life story’ ★★★★

Review: The Soundman ‘There is little that convinces’ ★★★

JC recipes

Sivan’s Moroccan spiced fish patties/ balls

Sivan’s sheet pan cheese bourekas

Sivan’s six ingredient marble chiffon cake

Pad Thai noodles with vegan chicken or tofu