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Aerial view of aftermath of strike on Tehran location where Ayatollah Khameini died

2 min read

Israel strikes Iran

Be vigilant about security after outbreak of war with Iran, community advised

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

United Hatzalah emergency workers provide medical treatment at Beit Shemesh (United Hatzalah)

Operation Roaring Lion

Nine killed after Iranian missile hits building in Beit Shemesh

Eyewitness reports claim shelter collapsed leading to tragic loss of life

By Lianne Kolirin

3 min read

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president at Natanz uranium enrichment facility (Getty)

Operation Roaring Lion

Former Iran president who wanted Israel ‘wiped off the map’ killed in air strike

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Trails of Iron Dome missile defence rockets over Tel Aviv on Saturday responding to attempted strikes by Iran (Jack GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images)

Israel

‘Yalla, here we go again’ – stoic Israeli families in shelters after nerve-shredding wait for war

By Lianne Kolirin

3 min read

Iran

Iran supreme leader killed in Israeli air strike

By JC Reporter

1 min read

‘I cried, I cheered and I cried again’: London’s Iranians and Jews share hope and joy

Half of Iran’s ballistic launchers destroyed, Israeli officials say

Joy and hope for people of Iran – but Keir Starmer has made Britain a spineless irrelevance

Israel’s economic miracle forged and proven in war defies all predictions

World Jewish Relief raises critical funds on fourth anniversary of Ukraine war

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New York State

Anti-Israel climate in Mamdani’s New York a warning to all Jews, says antisemitism expert

‘Darker forces – Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood’ helped fuel the radicalisation of US campuses and wider public life, David Harris tells JC audience

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

David Harris speaking at South Hampstead Synagogue at JC event (With courtesy)

Iran

US will ‘never’ allow Iran to build nuclear bomb, claims Trump in State of the Union address

The president’s speech, which lasted a record 107 minutes, was interrupted multiple times as he was heckled by Democratic lawmakers

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

US President Trump delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the Capitol on February 24, 2026 (Getty Images)

Aliyah

‘I won’: 96-year-old Auschwitz survivor makes aliyah surrounded by four generations of her family

Charlotte Roth officially became an Israeli citizen at a ceremony in Tel Aviv

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

Charlotte Roth, pictured with some of her family, on the day she officially became an Israeli citizen (Picture: Nefesh b'Nefesh)

USA

Vanderbilt University launches investigation after maths professor sets question on Israeli ‘occupation’

Tekin Karadağ reportedly asked students to determine the rate of Israeli territorial expansion in Palestine as a calculus exercise

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

An exterior shot of Kirkland Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University and (inset) a maths problem allegedly set by one of the college's professors

World news

Iran

Sir Keir Starmer makes clear UK took no part in strikes against ‘abhorrent’ Iran

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Satellite image of destruction of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran (X)

Iran

Fate of Iran’s Supreme Leader unclear as reports claim he was killed in air strikes

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Iran

UK take no part in air strikes against Iran

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking on Saturday morning

Iran

Benjamin Netanyahu calls on Iranian people to throw off ‘yoke of tyranny’ as campaign launched against Islamic Republic

By JC Reporter

1 min read

The family was told to remove their mezuzah within 15 days or face legal action (Image: Combat Antisemitism Movement)

Paris

Paris Jewish family allowed to keep their mezuzah after being told to take it down

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Tikva

Tikva UK reflects on critical work it continues to provide for Odesa’s Jewish community

By Ben Conway

2 min read

California

Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters face each other outside the Adas Torah Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles, June 23, 2024 (Credit: DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Zionist Nazi b****’: California Jewish parents sue state over allegations of ‘persistent and pervasive’ antisemitism in public schools

Students reported their peers chanting ‘kill the Jews’ and physically assaulting Jewish classmates, as well as a teacher displaying antisemitic artwork

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

Third round of US-Iran talks ends with no deal Saudi Arabia’s ‘last Jew’ dies aged 82

UK News

Israel strikes Iran

Defence secretary avoids voicing support for strikes on Iran

UK government maintains equivocal position on US-Israel joint campaign after refusing to provide use of air bases

By Simon Rocker

3 min read

Defence Secretary John Healey (Getty Images)

West Midlands Police

Jewish former officer to oversee antisemitism training at West Midlands Police

Mat Shaer retired in 2023 after more than three decades in the force, including 10 years as head of hate crimes

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Cambridge University

Push for Palestine Studies at Cambridge led by academic who celebrated the ‘heroism’ of the October 7 attack

The campaign is backed by the university’s chancellor and the former archbishop of Canterbury

By Jane Prinsley and Gabrielle Apfel

2 min read

Makram Khoury-Machool was previously criticised for his interview on BBC Arabic that appeared to blame the Jewish community for the Heaton Park terror attack (Photo: YouTube)

Crime

Man arrested after Churchill statue vandalised with Hamas triangle

Pro-Palestine group Free the Filton 24 has claimed responsibility for the damage and the Metropolitan Police is investigating

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

The defaced Winston Churchill statue in Westminster (Image: X/ King Jay)

Opinion

Modi in Jerusalem: India, Israel and the making of a strategic alliance

From defence cooperation to free trade and regional connectivity projects, the partnership is expanding in scope and ambition

By Lauren Dagan Amos

4 min read

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 25, 2026. (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

The Greens’ dangerous mainstreaming of sectarian Muslim politics

As troubling as the election irregularities in Gorton and Denton are, the real story is how the mobilisation of anti-Israel communities can shape British elections

3 min read

By Maureen Lipman

Our friends bear scars of more disc hits than Stevie Wonder

Some are anxious about forgetting words and some are visiting “Fall Clinics”. Some are faffing with hearing aids which require phone tapping

4 min read

By Jules Older

Is it bad for the Jews to keep asking ‘Is it bad for the Jews’?

My deeply unscientific research project into whether other ethnic minorities have similar anxieties

4 min read

By The JC Leader

Purim’s enduring lesson: strength, pride and the refusal to bow

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that the festival’s jollity exists so that we can live with the risks of being Jewish, ‘without being terrified, traumatised or intimidated’

2 min read

By Alex Hearn

The Hamas blueprint for October 7 that the world chose to ignore

The 2021 ‘Promise of the Hereafter’ conference sets out what would befall the survivors of a ‘defunct (Jewish) state’ – from death and expulsion to forced labour

3 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has built a career on the back of being an ‘anti-racist’. Say no more

The commentator’s remarks about Margaret Hodge and Michael Grade being an ‘uber-Zionists’ raise troubling questions about her views

2 min read

Walk the talk: Rabbi Zarum leading a tour at the British Museum

Purim

Purim at the Museum

By Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum

5 min read

Shameful: (right) post-war slum housing in London. Left: Neil Root's new book

Books

How landlord Rachman’s name became a household word for the worst reasons

Neil Roots has written a well-researched if lightly-edited biography about a man whose deeds were indefensible

By Robert Low

3 min read

Purim

Why Purim is the day to find out what really suits you

Judaism’s most joyous holiday is the perfect pretext for a wardrobe breakthrough

By Lara Benjamin

3 min read

Why Purim is the day to find out what really suits you

Love

Want to be a matchmaker? It’s not as easy as you might think

Karen Glaser, who runs the JC’s Blind Date column, on the joys and oys of Jewish matchmaking

By Karen Glaser

3 min read

Crazy little thing called love: Aleeza Ben Shalom and, inset, the JC's Karen Glaser

celebrities

What the Beckhams can teach us about Shabbat

At its core, this family’s rift is about the power and poison of social media – and Judaism has the remedy

By Naomi Greenaway

4 min read

Embroiled in a broiges: Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz

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The Jewish Chronicle

Revealed: CIA report pinpointing Khameini location triggered launch of campaign against Iran regime

Be vigilant about security after outbreak of war with Iran, community advised

Nine killed after Iranian missile hits building in Beit Shemesh

Former Iran president who wanted Israel ‘wiped off the map’ killed in air strike

‘Yalla, here we go again’ – stoic Israeli families in shelters after nerve-shredding wait for war

Iran supreme leader killed in Israeli air strike

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‘I cried, I cheered and I cried again’: London’s Iranians and Jews share hope and joy

Half of Iran’s ballistic launchers destroyed, Israeli officials say

Joy and hope for people of Iran – but Keir Starmer has made Britain a spineless irrelevance

Israel’s economic miracle forged and proven in war defies all predictions

World Jewish Relief raises critical funds on fourth anniversary of Ukraine war

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Anti-Israel climate in Mamdani’s New York a warning to all Jews, says antisemitism expert

US will ‘never’ allow Iran to build nuclear bomb, claims Trump in State of the Union address

‘I won’: 96-year-old Auschwitz survivor makes aliyah surrounded by four generations of her family

Vanderbilt University launches investigation after maths professor sets question on Israeli ‘occupation’

World news

Sir Keir Starmer makes clear UK took no part in strikes against ‘abhorrent’ Iran

Fate of Iran’s Supreme Leader unclear as reports claim he was killed in air strikes

UK take no part in air strikes against Iran

Benjamin Netanyahu calls on Iranian people to throw off ‘yoke of tyranny’ as campaign launched against Islamic Republic

Paris Jewish family allowed to keep their mezuzah after being told to take it down

Tikva UK reflects on critical work it continues to provide for Odesa’s Jewish community

‘Zionist Nazi b****’: California Jewish parents sue state over allegations of ‘persistent and pervasive’ antisemitism in public schools

UK News

Defence secretary avoids voicing support for strikes on Iran

Jewish former officer to oversee antisemitism training at West Midlands Police

Push for Palestine Studies at Cambridge led by academic who celebrated the ‘heroism’ of the October 7 attack

Man arrested after Churchill statue vandalised with Hamas triangle

Opinion

Modi in Jerusalem: India, Israel and the making of a strategic alliance

The Greens’ dangerous mainstreaming of sectarian Muslim politics

Our friends bear scars of more disc hits than Stevie Wonder

Is it bad for the Jews to keep asking ‘Is it bad for the Jews’?

Purim’s enduring lesson: strength, pride and the refusal to bow

The Hamas blueprint for October 7 that the world chose to ignore

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has built a career on the back of being an ‘anti-racist’. Say no more

Purim at the Museum

How landlord Rachman’s name became a household word for the worst reasons

Why Purim is the day to find out what really suits you

Want to be a matchmaker? It’s not as easy as you might think

What the Beckhams can teach us about Shabbat

Support the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper

Marbled white chocolate and raspberry hamantaschen

Purim Pizza-taschen

Gluten free chocolate and orange hamantaschen

Purim challah-taschen – chocolate tahini or strawberry cheesecake