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Westminster Magistrates' Court (Photo: Getty)

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Trucks carrying aid provided by the World Food Programme in Deir el-Balah after entering through the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2025 (Getty Images)

United Nations

UN rebukes Hamas for raiding humanitarian aid warehouse

By Daniel Ben-David

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood attends a meeting of criminal justice agencies following the Golders Green attack on April 30, 2026 (Getty Images)

Home Office

Gazan family of 18 wins UK refugee status despite asylum rejection

The shadow home secretary has warned that immigrants are ‘exploiting human rights laws’ to come to Britain

By Jane Prinsley

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A Charedi man stands outside the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem on October 31, 2024 (Flash90)

Israel

Knesset restores Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over Kashrut certification

By Arthur Popivker

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Save the Children

Foreign Office slams Save The Children UK over ‘divisive, provocative and factually inaccurate’ Gaza post

By JC Reporter

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Letter from Jerusalem

Whoever’s king of this castle can decide the future of Israel and Lebanon

By Natalie Lisbona

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Editor’s picks

‘Israeli doctors cured my 130-a-day painkiller addiction in 20 minutes’

Opinion: An open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury: do not sort us according to our relationship to Zionism

The UK’s oldest Jewish man celebrates 107 with family, friends – and some lessons for life

Opinion: The UN’s credibility crisis is nowhere more evident than in its treatment of Israel

Knesset approves bill heavily weakening role of attorney general

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu to travel to Washington for Graham funeral as US-Iran conflict escalates

The prime minister is expected to present President Trump with Israeli intelligence regarding the Islamic Republic during the trip

By Melanie Swan

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US President Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

Culture

Head of PEN condemns article highlighting discrimination against Jews and Israelis

The president of America’s top body defending freedom of expression resigned in protest over the piece

By JC Reporter

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Dinaw Mengestu has resigned from a group that defends freedom of speech in the arts and journalism over the piece (Photo: Getty)

FBI

FBI investigating hate crime after ‘arson attack’ on Zionsville home displaying Israeli flag

A blaze at the property in the small Indiana town caused more than $150,000 in damage

By JC Reporter

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A property in Zionsville, Indiana, damaged in an alleged arson attack on July 10, 2026 (X/MikePence)

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox IDF veteran signs historic pro baseball contract

Zev Moore becomes only the second practising Orthodox Jew to play in the majors

By Josh Hasten

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Zev Moore of Israel hits an RBI out in the first inning during the Israel v Germany game in the Baseball European Championship at Neptunus Familiestadion in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on September 26, 2025 (Getty Images)

World news

Maccabiah Gibraltar's Masters 45+ futsal team ahead of their match against Mexico on July 12, 2026 (Gil Shamai)

Maccabiah Games

‘Relief and disbelief’: Gibraltar claims first ever Maccabiah medal

By Arthur Popivker

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Russ Roberts, president of Shalem College

Education

‘We want students who ask wonderful questions – that’s more important than having all the right answers’

By Jane Prinsley

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Bnei Brak

Israeli city set to implement gender-segregated streets

By Daniel Ben-David

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World Cup 2026

Will Messi demolish England? There's an antisemitic conspiracy for that

By Steve Linde

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UNWRA

Mother whose son’s body was taken to Gaza by Unrwa worker says extra £23m UK funds for agency is ‘disappointing’

By Florit Shoihet

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Iceland

Europe’s smallest Jewish community opens a permanent synagogue

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

World Cup 2026

‘¡Goooooool!’: The Jewish voice behind some of football’s most iconic moments

Argentine commentator Andrés Cantor is tuning up his legendary call for his nation’s crunch semi-final against England on Wednesday

By Ben Conway

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ICC prosecutor Karim Khan loses appeal to lift suspension as barrister amid sexual misconduct allegations Melbourne Symphony Orchestra wins court battle over pianist's anti-Israel comments

UK News

World Jewish Relief

World Jewish Relief Ukrainian refugee scheme boosts UK economy by £31.5 million

13,000 Ukrainians have taken part in the STEP programme

By Arthur Popivker

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Anastasiia Vasylashko, who participated in World Jewish Relief's STEP programme (Photo: WJR)

Nova exhibition

Boris Johnson labels Jew-hate ‘a virus in the human bloodstream’ on Nova Exhibition visit

The former prime minister met survivors and bereaved families, and urged others to visit the exhibition while it remains in London

By Jacob Jaffa

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Boris Johnson at the Nova Exhibition in London on July 14, 2026 (Nova Exhibition)

World Cup 2026

United trustees ‘agree’ to rename synagogues if England wins World Cup

The satirical plan would see synagogues named in honour Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice

By Arthur Popivker

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England line up ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Quarter Final match against Norway at Miami Stadium on July 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

IRGC

Revealed: The IRGC butcher living in the UK despite asylum claim rejection

Former members of the regime-linked Basij paramilitary group are living in the UK despite being found by courts to have been complicit in crimes against humanity, it has emerged

By Daniel Ben-David

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(Illustrative) Members of the Iranian Basij paramilitary force march during the force parade in Tehran on January 10, 2025 (Getty Images)

Opinion

UK is no longer a friend of Israel – and under Burnham, we may become a foe

The government has failed to learn that it will never appease the mob. It is still condemned by the vicious antisemites taking over our streets as being insufficiently hostile to the Jewish state

By Lord Polak

3 min read

Andy Burnham delivers a speech at The People's Museum on June 29, 2026 in Manchester (Image: Getty Images)

By Angela Epstein

Andy Burnham’s No 10 North plan is just as ill-conceived as his Israel views

If British Jewry is to trust the new prime minister, he will use the inevitable hours marooned on the dysfunctional Manchester-London train line to reflect on his deplorable ideas on the Middle East

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By Lorin Bell-Cross

Israeli ministers cheering on Argentina and crowing over England’s defeat made me cringe

Antagonism and embarrassing support for another country’s team don’t add up to a diplomatic strategy

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By Shimon Cohen

Security funding for Jews is the government’s admission that it won’t stop the people creating this threat

You cannot fortify your way out of antisemitism – only make it more comfortable to endure while it festers. The community must be willing to say: thank you for the money, now do your job and enforce the law

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By Stephen Pollard

If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is easier to enlist than the Charedim, Israel has a problem

It is increasingly clear that the October election will be about more than politics and security. It will be about Israel’s soul as hard liners and extremists who would once have been shunned are handed power and influence

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By Dan Sacker

How David Miliband’s speech on leadership echoed the teachings of Rabbi Sacks

The key question is not ‘what does the incoming Prime Minister believe?’ It is ‘what still stands between him and the unchecked exercise of power, whoever he turns out to be?’

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By The JC Leader

US warning underscores why anti-Israel trade measures would be an act of national self-harm

Undermining ties with Britain’s chief military ally and trading partner as well as the Jewish state – a technological and defence powerhouse – would carry enormous strategic costs

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