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David Wolff, who will be much missed (Photo: MGBSFL/instagram)

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The Super Bowl is expected to attract well over 100 million viewers globally (Photo: Getty)

Media

Robert Kraft spends $15m on Super Bowl advert addressing antisemitism in the US

By Ben Conway

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Palestine Action

Palestine Action activists found not guilty of burglary over Elbit break-in

The jury also reached incomplete or no verdicts on charges of criminal damage and violent disorder

By Jacob Jaffa and Pol Allingham and Ellie Crabbe and Ellie Ng

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eating disorders

What can we do about the rise in eating disorders in Jewish children?

By Gaby Koppel

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Activist Lubna Speitan of the Greenwich Palestine Alliance (Credit: Instagram/Greenwich Palestine Alliance)

Local councils

Gaza activist taking Greenwich Council to court claiming it unlawfully invested £60m in Israel

By Daniel Ben-David

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Mark Ronson, pictured attending the 2024 Grammy Awards (Photo: Getty)

Entertainment

Mark Ronson awarded outstanding contribution to music Brit in ‘most meaningful honour’ of his career

By Jamie Shapiro

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Exclusive: Israel’s Winter Olympians on why 2026 might just be their medal year

Jewish woman who refused to give Adolf Hitler flowers during Berlin Olympics dies aged 102

Launch of ‘zio eradication’ group cancelled by venue

Edinburgh community celebrates Yiddish-inspired Burns Night

Guess How Much I Love You?: ‘the acting elevates the writing’ ★★★

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Art

Heirs of Jewish art collector sue New York Met over ‘illegally acquired’ Pissaro painting

The descendants claim that Haystacks was sold under duress in Nazi-occupied France

By Jamie Shapiro

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Haystacks, Morning, Éragny by Camille Pissarro (Image: Met gallery)

Harvard

Trump demands $1bn from Harvard in escalation of campus antisemitism dispute

This is the latest demand in a year-long feud with the Ivy League university over claims of antisemtisim

By Jamie Shapiro

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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Harvard University (Image: Getty Images)

Iran

US downs Iranian drone as Gulf tensions escalate

Iranian forces also attempted to seize an American-flagged oil tanker before being warned off by a warship

By Jacob Jaffa

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An Iranian-made Shahed-136 'Kamikaze' drone flies over the sky of Kermanshah, Iran, on March 7, 2024 (Getty Images)

isis

'Jihad will never stop': Jailed Isis devotee who planned attacks on Jews vowed fresh terror plots when he is released

Michael Sam Teekaye Jr, of Maryland, was handed the maximum 20-year sentence last week, but will only be 42 when he gets out

By Jamie Shapiro

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Michael Sam Teekaye Jr in images sent to an undercover federal agent (Screenshot/CBS News)

World news

Manchester Jewish Museum

Manchester Jewish artist unveils new work to promote ‘harmony and cohesiveness’

By Gaby Wine

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JW3 Chief Executive Ray Simonson and Marcel Knobil removing padlocks on the Lovelock Bridge at JW3 (Credit: JW3)

Hostages

British Jewish communal leaders rejoice at return of the hostages

By Daniel Ben-David

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Police patrol at the entrance of the Copenhagen City Court in Copenhagen (Photo: JNS/Getty)

Denmark

Denmark sentences two Swedes for Israeli embassy attack

By JC Reporter

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The Italian Senate in Rome (Photo: Fratello Gracco via Wikimidia Commons)

Italy

Italian Senate panel backs draft bill to ban ‘antisemitic rallies’

By Canaan Lidor

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Lebanon

Lebanon ‘will not allow’ Hezbollah to drag it into US-Iran war, PM claims

By Jacob Jaffa

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Israel is Forever founder Nili Kupfer-Naouri (YouTube/Qualita)

France

France issues court warrants for two Israeli joint citizens over ‘complicity in genocide’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (L) delivers a press conference with US businessman Jared Kushner (R) upon the signing of the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine during the Coalition of the Willing summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris on January 6, 2026 (Getty Images)

Witkoff and Kushner to lead Iran talks on Friday

The negotiations are believed to hinge on three key issues: nuclear enrichment, ballistic missile development and Iran’s support for regional proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah

By Jacob Jaffa

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Two surgeons banned over death of Israeli billionaire during penis enlargement surgery BBC Arabic fails to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day for first time in five years

UK News

Academia

Students and academic staff face purity test over views on Gaza, professor warns

Staff and students must refer to Gaza war as genocide or face repercussions and isolation, it was claimed at a JC panel discussion

By Jane Prinsley

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Michael Ben-Gad (centre) and Louis Danker in conversation with the JC (Photo: Ben Castiel)

CPS

We sit and listen to antisemitism being framed as ‘politics’, say Jewish members of CPS hate crime panels

Jews who take part in the consultation groups tell the JC say they feel marginalised

By Jane Prinsley

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Palestinian flags flown by outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, December 2025 (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Israel

Encyclopaedia Britannica edits kids’ page featuring map that ‘erased’ Israel

The image labelled the entirety of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank as ‘Palestine’, which it defined as the region ‘between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea’

By Jacob Jaffa

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Screenshot of the Encyclopædia Britannica site featuring a map labelling Israel, Gaza and the West Bank as 'Palestine'

Home Office

Extremism-linked groups invited to contribute to government hate crime review

Friends of Al-Aqsa among groups reportedly part of independent consultation process

By Jane Prinsley

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A coalition of organisations, including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, and Stop the War Coalition protest against Israel in October 2023 (Photo: Getty Images)

Opinion

How October 7, 2023 brought this Schrödinger’s Jew to life

Just 0.2 per cent of the population, yet vastly overrepresented in Nobel Prizes, Oscars, jokes and my friends

By Nicholas Lezard

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By Saul Sadka

You can’t fight antisemitism – but you can fight antisemites

Far-right and far-left hatred, fuelled by resentment and envy, cannot be reasoned away. History shows only force, law and consequences ever stop those who target Jews

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By Kasra Aarabi

Britain is isolated in its failure to ban the IRGC – putting national security at risk

There should be little doubt that Iran’s future leaders will reward those who stood with the people against the tyrannical ayatollah and remember those who failed to act

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By Evie Robinson

Holocaust Memorial Day and the erasure of Jewish victims

The concept of ‘never again” is losing its specificity, as the Shoah is increasingly universalised and the vicious antisemitism that fuelled it diminished

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By Daniel El‑Gamry

David Abulafia: the historian who reshaped our understanding of the sea and civilisation

His Jewish faith and identity came through in a quintessentially British way. He helped secure a permanent home for Cambridge’s Reform Jewish community and guided those seeking to join the faith

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By Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton

After Bondi, I understood the dancing at Jewish weddings with new depth

It is a ‘Vihi she’amda’ – not in words but in movement. ‘In every generation they rise up to destroy us, but the Holy One saves us from their hands’

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By Karen Pollock

The dangerous erasure of Jews from the Holocaust

Every time that the memory of the Shoah is distorted, it is an insult to victims and survivors, and makes it ever harder to combat rising antisemitism

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