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Antisemitism: Why British Jews Are Afraid airs tonight on BBC One (Photo: BBC/Panorama)

2 min read

The protester said that Jews will not be safe on the Bakerloo Line when he is driving (Image: X/Campaign Against Antisemitsm)

TFL

TfL driver suspended after man filmed claiming Jews not safe on Tube he operates

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

The office building of Westminster Magistrates Court in London (Getty Images)

IDF

‘Vexatious’ case against British-Israeli IDF reservist an ‘abuse of court process’

Activist group’s prosecution attempt was ‘political posturing’

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Dan Jarvis (centre) during the visit to Finchley Reform

Synagogues

Security Minister Dan Jarvis vows to move ‘heaven and earth’ to support Jewish community after attacks

By Alexandra Snow

3 min read

Sarah Tetteh with Kanye West (Credit: Sarah Tetteh)

By Sarah Tetteh

I know Kanye and it was right to ban him - I can't listen to his music any more

3 min read

Past indiscretion: Robert Pattinson and Zendaya

Film

The Drama review: Zendaya and Robert have chemistry in a very dark climate ★★★

By John Nathan

2 min read

UK aliyah in 2025 highest in 40 years – but ‘no exodus’ says JPR

IDF investigating soldier who smashed Jesus statue amid Netanyahu condemnation

Jews are now living in danger – and the Government’s failure to confront the root causes is a national disgrace

Two teens arrested following Kenton synagogue arson attack

Masorti becomes new home for Louis Jacobs Foundation

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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman pregnant with third child aged 44: ‘I feel lucky and grateful’

It’s a privilege and a miracle says Israeli-born Oscar-winner as she reveals she is expecting

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Natalie Portman is pregnant with her third child (Image: Getty Images)

USA

Former EY employee sues consulting giant over firing after viral Gaza speech

Cecilia Culver claimed she was wrongfully dismissed after her graduation speech, in which she accused Israel of ‘genocide’, racked up thousands of views

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

The Ernst & Young offices in London (Getty Images)

Donald Trump

Trump Middle East policy not driven by Israel, insists Hegseth

‘President Trump makes his own decisions about the interests of this country and defending our interests’

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

US Politics

Senate votes down Sanders’ bid to block bulldozer and arms sales to Israel

The veteran Vermont senator’s motion fell by a margin of 59-40, but was backed by three-quarters of Senate Democrats

By Andrew Bernard

1 min read

US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a 'Tax the Rich' rally at Lehman College in the Bronx borough of New York City on March 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

World news

Lebanon

Two IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon despite ceasefire

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Sergeant First Class (res.) Lidor Porat, 31, was killed in southern Lebanon (IDF)

Israel

IDF reservist killed in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah explosive device detonates

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Versailles Court of Appeal (Getty Images)

France

French appeals court rules nanny who tried to poison Jewish children is not antisemitic

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Fashion

‘Godfather of denim’ Adriano Goldschmied dies aged 82

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) speaks during a meeting with Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad (2R) and Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (2L) at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2026 (Getty Images)

Ceasefire

Trump announces Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Konrad Berkowicz holding the flag (Image: YouTube/ TRTWorld)

Poland

Far-right Polish politician holds up Israeli flag with swastika on same day as March of the Living

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Iran

Boastful Iranian leaders signal ever more hardline views as regime insiders tell JC that IRGC is in control

One deputy to former IRGC commander Ghalibaf vowed to revenge ‘the blood of the martyrs’

By Ali Hamedani

3 min read

Leaders of Israel and Lebanon to hold talks for first time since 1993 Lord Mayor of Dublin apologises for scrapped plan to rename Herzog Park

UK News

Eurovision

Helen Mirren and Sharon Osbourne among the stars welcoming Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision

Heeding calls for a boycott would have been ‘inversion of justice’ says letter signed by more a thousand members of entertainment industry

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Israel's Yuval Raphael sings in the Eurovision final in Switzerland last year (Harold Cunningham/Getty Images)

Israeli embassy

London park near Israeli embassy reopens after suspicious items prove to be non-hazardous

Kensington Gardens had been closed following claims of drone attack with ‘dangerous substance’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

A Metropolitan Police van in Kensington Gardens (Image: Getty Images)

Hendon

Counter-terror police lead investigation after Jewish charity office in Hendon targeted

Failed arson attack was on building used by education organisation Jewish Futures

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Police tape cordons off office in Hendon formerly used by Jewish Futures after arson attack (Getty)

Synagogues

Attempted arson attack at Kenton United Synagogue

CST has said there were no injuries but some minor smoke damage to shul in latest of string of incidents targeting Jewish community

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

Opinion

Inside Israel’s buffer zone in Lebanon shielding border communities from Hezbollah

The emergent shape of Jerusalem’s security doctrine and perhaps of the next strategic chapter in the Middle East is better viewed from the ruins of Ait a Shaab than from the diplomatic halls of Washington

By Jonathan Spyer

4 min read

A portrait of a Hezbollah fighter amidst the rubble of a building damaged by an Israeli air-strike in Beirut's suburb of Dahieh, on April 20, 2026. (Image: Getty)

By Adam Lebor

The image that made Hungarian Jews breathe a sigh of relief

Péter Magyar, Hungary’s prime minister elect, wore a kippah as he paid tribute to Shoah victims – but Orbán will be missed in Jerusalem

4 min read

By Cathy Lawi

For many Israelis, ceasefire feels less like safety than psychological strain

When the threat becomes ambiguous, the question shifts from ‘What do I do now?’ to ‘When will this start again?’

3 min read

By Miranda Levy

‘Zaftig’ is a state of mind – at least it is since I discovered weight-loss jabs

Why should a person’s weight (and the way they decide to lose it) become a moral issue – ‘cheating’ even?

4 min read

By Lord Pickles

The Holocaust began with words and then ordinary people normalising hate – the same pattern we see today

This is the full text of a speech delivered by Lord Eric Pickles at Northwood and Ruislip Synagogue on Yom Hashoah, April 14, 2026

13 min read

By Vivian Bercovici

In Carney’s Canada, the law protects antisemites, not Jews

Rather than confronting the violence and incitement on Toronto’s streets, police treat the very regular hate-fests as a spectator sport

5 min read

By David Bennun

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

It is a curious irony that of only one people on Earth is it demanded they must at all times behave with perfect Christian charity – and that is the Jews

3 min read

Life

What made Osip Mandelshtam tick?

By David Herman

1 min read

Artwork

When art imitates life

The JC speaks to Emma Gurner, an interior designer-turned-painter ahead of an exhibition of her work

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

Film

Exclusive interview: Mayim Bialik’s next big bang

The Hollywood actor on how being Jewish informs the way she plays the starring role in Jim Jarmusch’s new movie

By James Mottram

5 min read

Dance

A nice Jewish boy in the circus

South African-born Yaron Lifschitz brings Australia’s leading troupe of acrobats to the UK

By Joy Sable

4 min read

Aliyah

I’m backing my future here. I have faith in Britain

I understand that Jewish fears are high, but I believe our country can turn itself round and get tougher on extremism

By Naomi Greenaway

4 min read

Good old Blighty: the reassuringly English village of Great Budworth in Cheshire

JC recipes

Brunch

Wholemeal toast with hazelnut cocoa butter and baked apples

By Luigi Fontana

Cook time: 20-25 minutes

Coconut and lime are a match made in tropical heaven (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Passover bakes

Pesach coconut and lime cake

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 70-90 minutes

Tu Bishvat

Spiced nuts, olives and raisins on hummus

By Georgia Freedman

1 min read

Cake

Prize-winning banana and chocolate cake

By Suzy Pelta

Cook time: 45-55 minutes

The Jewish Chronicle

Punched, called ‘Zios’ and hiding our stars: Panorama exposes reality faced by British Jews

TfL driver suspended after man filmed claiming Jews not safe on Tube he operates

‘Vexatious’ case against British-Israeli IDF reservist an ‘abuse of court process’

Security Minister Dan Jarvis vows to move ‘heaven and earth’ to support Jewish community after attacks

I know Kanye and it was right to ban him - I can't listen to his music any more

The Drama review: Zendaya and Robert have chemistry in a very dark climate ★★★

Editor's Picks

UK aliyah in 2025 highest in 40 years – but ‘no exodus’ says JPR

IDF investigating soldier who smashed Jesus statue amid Netanyahu condemnation

Jews are now living in danger – and the Government’s failure to confront the root causes is a national disgrace

Two teens arrested following Kenton synagogue arson attack

Masorti becomes new home for Louis Jacobs Foundation

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Natalie Portman pregnant with third child aged 44: ‘I feel lucky and grateful’

Former EY employee sues consulting giant over firing after viral Gaza speech

Trump Middle East policy not driven by Israel, insists Hegseth

Senate votes down Sanders’ bid to block bulldozer and arms sales to Israel

World news

Two IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon despite ceasefire

IDF reservist killed in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah explosive device detonates

French appeals court rules nanny who tried to poison Jewish children is not antisemitic

‘Godfather of denim’ Adriano Goldschmied dies aged 82

Trump announces Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

Far-right Polish politician holds up Israeli flag with swastika on same day as March of the Living

Boastful Iranian leaders signal ever more hardline views as regime insiders tell JC that IRGC is in control

UK News

Helen Mirren and Sharon Osbourne among the stars welcoming Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision

London park near Israeli embassy reopens after suspicious items prove to be non-hazardous

Counter-terror police lead investigation after Jewish charity office in Hendon targeted

Attempted arson attack at Kenton United Synagogue

Opinion

Inside Israel’s buffer zone in Lebanon shielding border communities from Hezbollah

The image that made Hungarian Jews breathe a sigh of relief

For many Israelis, ceasefire feels less like safety than psychological strain

‘Zaftig’ is a state of mind – at least it is since I discovered weight-loss jabs

The Holocaust began with words and then ordinary people normalising hate – the same pattern we see today

In Carney’s Canada, the law protects antisemites, not Jews

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

Life

What made Osip Mandelshtam tick?

When art imitates life

Exclusive interview: Mayim Bialik’s next big bang

A nice Jewish boy in the circus

I’m backing my future here. I have faith in Britain

JC recipes

Wholemeal toast with hazelnut cocoa butter and baked apples

Pesach coconut and lime cake

Spiced nuts, olives and raisins on hummus

Prize-winning banana and chocolate cake