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Birds of a feather: Adam Cannon, Neil Blair, Joel Simons and Oli Malcolm at the High Line Publishing launch (Credit: courtesy)

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Zack Polanski during the count declaration in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election on October 9, 2026 (Image: Getty Images)

Green Party

Green members discuss overturning ‘Zionism is racism’ motion

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Bath

Exclusive: Bath University cancels ‘one-sided’ lecture with Gaza college where Hamas weapons and tunnel were discovered

Lecturer informed politics students about the collaboration with Al-Azhar University on October 7

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Undated handout photo issued by Counter Terrorism Policing North East of British Army chef Mark Broadhurst. (Photo Counter Terrorism Policing North East/the Press Association)

Courts

Soldier who ‘hates black, Asian, Muslim and Jewish people’ and had homemade cannon is jailed

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Members of the community gather for a vigil and one-minute silence at Heaton Park Hebrew Synagogue (Image: Getty Images)

Heaton Park Synagogue

Concerts at Heaton Park by anti-Israel band Fontaines DC are ‘a spit in the face of Britain’s Jews’

By Jamie Shapiro

4 min read

A keffiyeh-clad protester and a shot of a window in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency ahead of the recent by-election (Both images: Getty)

Green Party

Revealed: How extremists took over the Greens to impose an antizionist agenda

By Jane Prinsley

8 min read

Opinion

Yaakov Katz

Three simple steps on religious issues could help Israel rebuild trust with some diaspora Jews

Dominic Green

The battle to keep the American right on Israel’s side

Martha Levy

Barnet Labour condemns Green antisemitism but dodges difficult questions about its own party

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‘Girls’ reboot: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells to reprise their roles

The new series of ‘Girls’ – which sees Judd Apatow return as executive producer – will explore a new chapter in the characters’ lives

By Hayley Cregor

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Left to right: Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Allison Williams and Lena Dunham as they will appear in the new series of 'Girls' (Photo: HBO)

Film

Scarlett Johansson says recording songs for Ray Gunn left her ‘embarrassed’

Jewish actress said singing in front of cameras for her role as a fictional pop star in the film was difficult

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

Scarlett Johansson attends the "Ray Gunn" Gala during the 70th BFI London Film Festival in London on October 10 (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for BFI)

Proposed legislation would bar US aid to UN until body designates Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups

A US Democrat announced the proposed policy on October 7

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Congressman Josh Gottheimer annoucned the proposed legislation on October 7 at a remembrance ceremony in New Jersey (Photo: JNS)

Green Party

US antisemitism envoy to make ‘representations’ to UK ministers over Green antizionist motion

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun suggested that the motion could fall within the IHRA definition of antisemitism

By JC Reporter

1 min read

President Donald Trump and Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun light a candle during an October 7 remembrance event in 2024 (Getty Images)

World News

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Domestic Abuse

‘I don’t know where it will end. It’s like living under a dark cloud’: Why Israelis are seeking a new law against coercive control

By Melanie Swan

4 min read

The mahzor, by artist-scribe Joel ben Simeon dates from 1475

Art

Medieval Joel ben Simeon sefarim for sale in £12m Judaica auction

By Anthea Gerrie

2 min read

Uganda

World Jewish Relief helps Uganda Jewish community mark October 7 anniversary

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Bernard-Henri Levy from the movie "The Will To See" poses for the photographer during the 16th Rome Film Festival on October 21, 2021 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for RFF)

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Israel and Ukraine battling for future of the West, warns Bernard Henri-Levy

By Daniel Schwammenthal

6 min read

Leader of the Arab Israeli party Ra'am (United Arab List), Mansour Abbas speaks during an election campaign event (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli elections

How the Arab vote could decide the balance of power in Israel’s historic election

By John Jeffay

6 min read

Hapoel Be'er Sheva's players - pictured in September 2026 - will play in the Netherlands with no Israeli fans present to cheer them on (Photo: Getty)

Football

Dutch city’s ban on Israeli football fans is ‘stain on the Netherlands’

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Ironman

Israeli war veteran who lost leg in blast completes Ironman World Championship triathlon

Amputee Boris Shtonda crosses the finishing line in Hawaii in 16 hours, 33 minutes and 54 seconds after 140.6-mile challenge

By JC Reporter

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UK News

JW3

JW3 to stage first major theatre commission in nearly a decade

‘Trudy Zeller Lives Here’ will run for two weeks at the Jewish cultural centre next spring

By Ben Conway

1 min read

Production poster for Trudy Zeller Lives Here (credit: JW3)

Sandys Row

Historic East End synagogue receives nearly £200k in heritage grants

Sandys Row Synagogue is being helped by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust

By Ben Conway

1 min read

London

Statue of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti on London roof

The bronze figure of the convict, behind bars in Israel for his part in attacks which left five civilians dead, is on top of Palestine House

By Hayley Cregor

1 min read

Statue of Barghouti at Palestine House (Instagram)

Books

Sally Rooney’s books withdrawn from UK over her support of Palestine Action

The Irish writer has previously said she would donate earnings from her books to the proscribed group

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Opinion

Labour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma

Reform UK’s leader says sectarian politics and importation of fundamentalism have no place in our democracy

By Nigel Farage

1 min read

Green Party leader Zack Polanski poses with supporters after speaking at a rally in south London on June 24, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Ron Dermer calls it ‘fake-ocide’ – the poisonous lie to bring about Israel’s destruction

The suffering in Gaza is real but Hamas bears ultimate responsibility for it. The false charge that the Jewish state has committed the crime of crimes has become central to the dangerous argument that it is illegitimate at its core

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By Maureen Lipman

We’ve been married a year – and already I’m ordering for him

My husband David loves to shop and loves to entertain, the more the merrier and I’m a pretty good… guest

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By Stephen Pollard

Burnham calls out the Greens’ antizionism – but is his hostility to Israel much better?

While Polanski et al can only shout about the Jewish state, Labour can – and does – go after it. Isn’t the worse villain then the government that is actually sanctioning Jerusalem?

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By Dennis Rogers

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

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By Anthony Broza

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Always on hand for advice: UJC chaplains and head office team, 2026-27. Photo by UJC

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By Sophie Dunoff

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At the Technion, Jewish and Arab students study alongside each other every day. Photo by Technion Uk

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The world turns away. But Israel keeps contributing

By Alan Aziz

3 min read

Life

Steven Berkoff: an exclusive extract from his new memoir Shouting At Night

By Steven Berkoff

5 min read

Aliyah

The hardest bit of moving to Israel? The bureaucracy

In the first of a new column, Secret Olah (not her real name, obviously) looks forward to an exciting new life… beyond the paperwork

By Secret Olah

3 min read

Books

Locked up for nine months with a Nazi

Kazimierz Moczarski’s Conversations with an Executioner, translated into English for the first time, is an outstanding historical account of what made one of Himmler’s close confidants tick

By David Herman

2 min read

Polish writer and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski and his book which has just been translated into English by Sean Gasper Bye

Antisemitism

Dave Rich: ‘We have spent the last three years with a target on our backs’

Dave Rich, one of the UK’s leading experts on antisemitism, discusses our ‘new normal’

By Nicole Lampert

4 min read

Voice of concern: Dave Rich. Inset: Kibbutz Be'eri after Hamas attacked on October 7

Israel

Rachel Johnson: ‘I saw Hamas’s atrocities firsthand’

Six months after October 7, Rachel Johnson went to Israel to see for herself the aftermath of the atrocities. She shares her diary of what she saw in Kfar Aza and at the Nova site

By Rachel Johnson

8 min read

Bearing witness: journalist and TV host Rachel Johnson and a kibbutz home riddled with terrorists' bullet holes (Credit: Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre/Rachel Johnson)

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Moczka: gingerbread and chocolate pudding

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The Jewish Chronicle

Meet the new UK publisher welcoming Jewish and Israeli writers

Green members discuss overturning ‘Zionism is racism’ motion

Exclusive: Bath University cancels ‘one-sided’ lecture with Gaza college where Hamas weapons and tunnel were discovered

Soldier who ‘hates black, Asian, Muslim and Jewish people’ and had homemade cannon is jailed

Concerts at Heaton Park by anti-Israel band Fontaines DC are ‘a spit in the face of Britain’s Jews’

Revealed: How extremists took over the Greens to impose an antizionist agenda

Opinion

Three simple steps on religious issues could help Israel rebuild trust with some diaspora Jews

The battle to keep the American right on Israel’s side

Barnet Labour condemns Green antisemitism but dodges difficult questions about its own party

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‘Girls’ reboot: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells to reprise their roles

Scarlett Johansson says recording songs for Ray Gunn left her ‘embarrassed’

Proposed legislation would bar US aid to UN until body designates Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups

US antisemitism envoy to make ‘representations’ to UK ministers over Green antizionist motion

World News

‘I don’t know where it will end. It’s like living under a dark cloud’: Why Israelis are seeking a new law against coercive control

Medieval Joel ben Simeon sefarim for sale in £12m Judaica auction

World Jewish Relief helps Uganda Jewish community mark October 7 anniversary

Israel and Ukraine battling for future of the West, warns Bernard Henri-Levy

How the Arab vote could decide the balance of power in Israel’s historic election

Dutch city’s ban on Israeli football fans is ‘stain on the Netherlands’

Israeli war veteran who lost leg in blast completes Ironman World Championship triathlon

UK News

JW3 to stage first major theatre commission in nearly a decade

Historic East End synagogue receives nearly £200k in heritage grants

Statue of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti on London roof

Sally Rooney’s books withdrawn from UK over her support of Palestine Action

Opinion

Labour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma

Ron Dermer calls it ‘fake-ocide’ – the poisonous lie to bring about Israel’s destruction

We’ve been married a year – and already I’m ordering for him

Burnham calls out the Greens’ antizionism – but is his hostility to Israel much better?

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Life

Steven Berkoff: an exclusive extract from his new memoir Shouting At Night

The hardest bit of moving to Israel? The bureaucracy

Locked up for nine months with a Nazi

Dave Rich: ‘We have spent the last three years with a target on our backs’

Rachel Johnson: ‘I saw Hamas’s atrocities firsthand’

JC recipes

Moczka: gingerbread and chocolate pudding

Crispy rice salad

Hot honey aubergine salad

Claudia Winkleman's favourite lentil salad