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Yotam Bodnik (second left) standing on the winners’ podium with other competitors at the International Olympiad in Informatics in Uzbekistan (Credit: X)

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Elliott Franks

Elliott didn’t just take photos. He allowed us to be seen

By Itai Galmudy & Yochy Davis

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Cambridge

Cambridge-linked education project teaches children October 7 hostages were ‘prisoners of war’

Students were also told that Hamas was just Israel’s ‘excuse’ to justify attacks on Gaza and were presented with maps erasing the Jewish State

By Daniel Ben-David

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An Emirates aircraft flies past plumes of smoke from an ongoing fire near Dubai International Airport following an Iranian strike on March 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

UAE

UAE cuts off trade with Iran after missile strikes

By Andrew Bernard

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IDF

IDF recovers remains of fallen soldier missing for 44 years

By Lianne Kolirin

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(Illustrative) A military helicopter flies above a Syrian flag during the Syria Summer Family Festival in Damascus on August 9, 2026 (Getty Images)

Israel

Israel strikes Syrian airbase to prevent Turkish deployment

By Lianne Kolirin

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Opinion

Ashley Perry

How new right-wing parties outside Netanyahu’s camp may decide Israel’s election

Rabbi Karmi Gross

The Orthodox will not only join the IDF in large numbers – they will influence it

Mardo Soghom

Iran’s panicked regime moves to criminalise ordinary contacts with the outside world

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Synagogues

Arrest after man ‘storms bimah’ in attack during Shabbat service at Manhattan synagogue

Police charged Larry Montes with 14 offences after he allegedly hit a woman and headbutted a guard

By JC Reporter

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Central Synagogue, Lexington Avenue NYC (By Kenneth C. Zirkel / Wikimedia)

Catholic

Catholic Biblical Association elects first Jewish president

Renowned Bible scholar Amy-Jill Levine said she was ‘stunned’ when she was informed of her nomination for the post

By Gabrielle Apfel

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Catholic Biblical Association President Amy-Jill Levine (YouTube/Abingdon Press)

Basketball

Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger buy LA Lakers for £8bn

Kushner was previously reported to be in talks to lead Fifa President Gianni Infantino’s ill-fated plan to sell of stakes in football’s premier tournaments

By Jacob Jaffa

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USA

Nearly a fifth of 2026 Seattle hate crimes targeted Jews, who make up one per cent of the population

An even more significant proportion of hate crimes in New York were recorded against Jews, according to recently released data

By Menachem Wecker

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A police vehicle near Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, on April 12, 2021 (Getty Images)

World news

Reconstruction of the face of the oldest Neanderthal found in the Netherlands, nicknamed Krijn, on display at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (Photo by BART MAAT/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel

Walk like a caveman! A modern woman’s pelvis is similar to a Neanderthal man’s, Israeli study finds

By JC Reporter

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Israel's Iron Dome air defence system (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Qatar

Israel to stop selling military equipment to Qatar

By Jamie Shapiro

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the audience as US President Trump delivers remarks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, on November 19, 2025 (Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia excises antisemitism from school textbooks

By Etgar Lefkovits

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A rabbi covers his face in Lafayette Park in Washington, DC (Credit: ROD LAMKEY JR/AFP via Getty Images)

United States

Jews target of nearly two-thirds of religion-based hate crimes in US, FBI finds

By Daniel Ben-David

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Preflight photograph inside the Artemis I Orion spacecraft. The mannequin on the left, Zohar, is wearing the vest. Helga, on the right, does not have a vest. (NASA/Lockheed Martin/DLR)

Israel

Israeli firm’s space vest to protect astronauts from solar storm radiation

By John Jeffay

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Sri Lanka

Violent protests ‘led by Buddhist monks’ erupt outside Chabad House in Sri Lanka

By Etgar Lefkovits

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Gaza flotilla

The 'Handala I' arrives in the port of Malmö, Sweden, on May 8, 2024 (Photo by JOHAN NILSSON/TT/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)

Gaza-bound protest ship crashes into harbour wall in Germany

The Handala II had stopped in Kiel while travelling towards the Mediterranean

By JC Reporter

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Pro-Palestine march organiser under investigation over alleged links to Chinese regime Trump’s envoy Kushner meets Netanyahu after discussing peace plan with Hamas

UK News

Court and Crime

Tony Greenstein ‘issued rallying cry’ on October 7 to invite support for Hamas, court told

The prominent pro-Palestine activist faces a charge of inviting support for a proscribed organisation in relation to his social media activity on the day of the attack on southern Israel

By JC Reporter

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Housing

Housing hub proposed for Orthodox community in Salford with built-in succahs

The plans address an ‘acute shortage of suitable affordable housing in Salford’ for the Orthodox community

By Ben Conway

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CGI rendering of the terraced houses (Brooks Murray Architects / Agudas Israel Housing Association)

BBC

BBC’s highest complaints body rules ‘moneybags Rothschild’ is not antisemitic

Corporation panel said comment would not ‘perpetuate prejudice’ because ‘the Jewishness of the Rothschild family was not referred to’

By Jane Prinsley

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BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time panellist Bunny Guinness has been criticised for making the 'Moneybags Rothschild' comment in one episode of the programme (Photo: YouTube)

Second World War

SAS hero who fought Rommel’s army dies aged 100

Jack Mann was the last survivor of the Long Range Desert Group, a specialist unit that helped turn the tide of the North African campaign

By JC Reporter

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Jack Mann joined the army at 17 (Photo: AJEX)

Opinion

The sale of uncritical copies of Mein Kampf in London is another sign of the breakdown in norms and standards

Aafaq bookshop sold a version that failed to mention Hitler’s crimes and chose to locate it next to works on psychology on a main display table

By Elliot Keck

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Arabic-language copies of Mein Kampf on sale at Aafaq Bookstore in central London (X/Elliot Keck)

By Jonathan Harounoff

Israel still has no ambassador in London after a year – a strategic failure that must be fixed pronto

As British Jews face alarming antisemitism and Andy Burnham signals that his government will be tougher on Jerusalem, a top diplomat is urgently needed

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By Gary Cohen

Western hypocrisy ignores Turkey’s occupation of northern Cyprus and Syria while condemning Israel

Erdogan’s regional ambitions pose a growing threat to the Jewish state and its neighbours, while his record of aggression and repression is met with remarkable indulgence abroad

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By Shimon Cohen

Shechita was never the animal-welfare problem – the new Food Standards Agency report shows why

The latest FSA findings, alongside scientific evidence published in the American Journal of Veterinary Research, make the case that kosher slaughter should be treated as a mainstream method

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By Josh Rose

When queer activists put anti-Israel ideology before their own interests

From the vigil for the Berlin pride parade attack to the gay cruise ship Turkey and Egypt turned away, the ‘right’ political narrative trumps acknowledging the threats LGBT people face – and where they live freely

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By Stephen Daisley

UN study debunks Gaza malnutrition claim, but Labour presses on

Falsehoods about Israel have fuelled hatred towards anything branded ‘Zionist’ – including British Jews. Yet the government seems intent on inflaming, rather than calming, those tensions

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By Dominic Green

Rupert Lowe is riding a tide of extremism as fascists and cranks have gatecrashed the party

For many Restore Britain supporters, Jews cause all of this country’s problems. They see us as foreigners by blood, following a foreign god and serving the interests of a foreign power

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