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Teachers at the site of the massacre at Kibbutz Kfar Aza

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Immanuel College

‘If I could bottle what Immanuel College gives its pupils, it would be priceless’

By Naomi Greenaway

3 min read

IRGC

Exclusive: Jerusalem urges Britain to ban IRGC amid terror warnings

First-ever official call by Israel for UK to proscribe group comes as experts raise fears over threat at home and abroad

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

Exterior view of the Brent Cross shopping centre (Getty Images)

London

Brent Cross stabbing: Police manhunt for knifeman after one hospitalised

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Lebanon

Israel and Lebanon ‘on the same side’ after DC talks

By Melanie Swan

2 min read

Alice and Elisabeth in Pierre-Auguste Renoir's portrait 'Pink and Blue'. (Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Books

The Jewish Renoir girls who were betrayed by France

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

‘Holocaust memory needs people who are willing to safeguard it’

The Kanye West affair isn’t as bad as it seems –it’s much, much worse

Yavneh offers helping hand to Immanuel College parents

ER star Noah Wyle: Why I’m playing a Jewish doctor in The Pitt

Lewis Goodall and Israel’s alleged world domination

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Animal welfare

Vegan US rabbi announces £7,000 grant for UK shuls who explore plant-based lifestyle

The Synagogue Vegan Challenge is open for applications from UK communities for the first time

By Ben Conway

3 min read

Iran

‘Not the agreement we have’: Trump cautions Iran over Hormuz tolls

The US president guaranteed oil would be allowed through the vital shipping line after striking a ceasefire deal with Tehran

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

US President Trump speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026 (Getty Images)

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

1 min read

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

1 min read

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

World news

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Credit: Odd ANDERSEN / AFP via Getty Images)

Antisemitism

Zelensky signs law criminalising antisemitism in Ukraine

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Holocaust survivors Irene Shashar and Gita Koifman with former hostages Agam Berger and Ori Megidish (Yossi Zeliger)

Yom Hashoah

Hamas hostages, diaspora terror victims and Shoah survivors together in March of the Living

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

Lebanon

Hezbollah chief calls on Israel and Lebanon to abandon ‘pointless’ negotiations

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Hungary

Hungary to rejoin ICC after Magyar wins landslide

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Israel

‘You will not force us into ghettos again’: Israeli ministers hit out at Europe on eve of Yom HaShoah

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Demonstrators take part in a Chanukah candle-lighting event in London in honour of victims of the mass shooting at a Jewish gathering in Australia in December (Photo: Getty)

Antisemitism

Last year worst for antisemitic violence in West in 30 years

By Daniel Ben-David

4 min read

Synagogues

Charred doors on the Beth Yaakov Synagogue after the arson attack (Image: X/ Combat Anitsemitism Movement)

European Jewish leaders ‘deeply disturbed’ by Passover arson attack on North Macedonia’s only synagogue

The attack on the Beth Yaakov Synagogue in Skopje is reported to be the first of its kind since the Second World War

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

El Al to resume flights to nine destinations after Iran ceasefire Observers baffled as UK nominates Iran for UN human rights committee

UK News

Antisemitism

UK suffers ‘highest number per capita of antisemitic assaults’ in the diaspora

The UK had the most violent antisemitic assaults per capita in the last year, followed by Australia, France, and Canada

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Rabbi Daniel Walker and King Charles III view floral tributes during a visit to Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester, October 20, 2025 (Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Union of Jewish Students

Leeds Uni Jsoc football team lifts its first ever trophy under the lights in London

Striker Josh Woolf netted the only goal against Birmingham in the UJS Cup final

By Ben Conway

3 min read

Hapoel Hyde Park celebrating the victory (photo: Georgia Rosenberg)

Jewish Small Communities Network

‘We will be each other’s resources, and I think that will be worth its weight in gold’

The JC learns about the first leadership course specifically for the UK’s small Jewish communities

By Ben Conway

3 min read

A screengrab from the video call of the first session of the course (photo: JSCN)

Iron Dome

Improve ties with Israel to defend Britain, former RAF chief tells Starmer

UK needs Israel to plug gaps in air and missile defence and counter-drone technologies, says Air Vice-Marshal Philip Lester

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Israel's Iron Dome in action (Image: Getty Images)

Opinion

Amid rising antisemitism, the unbreakable solidarity between Jews worldwide

From Manchester to Sydney, from London to Melbourne, our communities increasingly find themselves bound not only by shared heritage and faith, but by a shared vulnerability

By Arsen Ostrovsky

5 min read

Mourners embrace following the Bondi Beach shootings in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Dominic Green

Trump disowned ‘kooky’ Tucker Carlson – only for the BBC to leap into the gutter for the conspiracist

A democracy can survive admitting a clown like Kanye West into the circus at Finsbury Park. But it loses its moral compass when its chief broadcaster airs a hateful fake on one of its main political shows

3 min read

By Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer’s Yom HaShoah message: I will not look away from antisemitism

The Prime Minister writes for the JC ahead of the memorial day

1 min read

By Marc Goldberg

The weaponisation of antisemitism against the British state

Hatred of Jews unites Islamists, the extreme right and parts of the extreme left ‘in a kind of modern-day Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact’

2 min read

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, April 10 2026

Should British Jews make aliyah? And the way the needy were helped in the past

5 min read

By Karen Pollock

Yom HaShoah UK 2026: Remembering the past, confronting antisemitism now

The uncomfortable truth is that the Holocaust was not an aberration, but a destination. Today, we find ourselves once again at the early stages of a similar path

3 min read

By Andrew Fox

I stood in a Hezbollah tunnel. The UK is wrong to treat Israel as the problem

London should stand with Jerusalem while helping the Lebanese state finally end the grip of Iran’s terror proxy

3 min read

Trust me, I'm a doctor: Noah Wyle as Dr Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch and Lucas Iverson in The Pitt

Television

ER star Noah Wyle: Why I’m playing a Jewish doctor in The Pitt

By Elaine Penn

6 min read

The synagogue Maciejow, now Lukiv, Ukraine. (Arolson Archive)

Yom Hashoah

Yom HaShoah: The mission to uncover the names and fates of a million murdered Jews

Digitisation has revolutionised Holocaust archives. From the UK and Israel to Poland and Germany, the JC talks to the people whose life's work is to help others find out what happened to their relatives

By Lianne Kolirin

9 min read

Books