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‘Wild antisemitic scrawls’: Margate exhibition featuring ‘Nazi imagery’ slammed

Israel’s charge d’affairs said the drawings were ‘crude, aggressive, and completely indefensible’ and should be ‘treated with the full seriousness of the law’

By JC Reporter

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Liron Velleman (USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive)

Court and Crime

Former Labour councillor convicted of child sex offences spared jail

By Tristan Kirk

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Masorti

New rabbi to take the helm at South Herts and Edgware Masorti

By Alma Green

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How long will I live? How long is a piece of string?

breast cancer

Why I won’t take a test to see if my breast cancer will return

By Karen E H Skinazi

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‘A hug and I knew I was safe’: Noa Argamani recalls her rescue by the IDF after 246 days in captivity

Tucker Carlson calls pro-Hitler Oswald Mosley one of Britain’s ‘great war heroes’

The Claudia Winkleman Show review: ‘has the sense of a Friday night fixture’ ★★★

‘I have learnt that no one is immune to mental health struggles’

New tools to help Israelis deal with the stress of war

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Trump distances US from Israeli strikes on Iranian gas field

The president said there would be ‘no more attacks’ on the South Pars site unless Iran launched further aggression towards Qatar

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US President Trump speaks to members of the media traveling on Air Force One en route to Miami on March 7, 2026 (Getty Images)

Basketball

Israeli trio makes NBA history in Portland-Brooklyn game

The fixture featured All-Star Deni Avdija and two rookies from the Brooklyn Nets, marking the first time three Israeli athletes have shared an NBA court

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(L-R) Danny Wolf, Ben Saraf and Deni Avdija

Trump labels BBC coverage of Iran War ‘corrupt and fraudulent’

The president, who is suing the corporation over a separate complaint about its coverage of the 2020 election, called the tone of its reporting on the conflict ‘unbelievable’

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US President Trump speaks to members of the media aboard Air Force One on March 15, 2026 (Getty Images)

Terrorist attack

After the Temple Israel attack, Detroit’s Jewish community stands unbowed

Emotional whiplash – terror followed by relief – has defined the response

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

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Police at the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan after an assailant drove a vehicle into the building on March 12 (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images)

World news

Israel Iran War

Newlywed Thai worker who came to Israel ‘with hope to make a good life’ killed by Iranian cluster bomb

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A smoke plume rises from a fire near Dubai International Airport following an Iranian strike on March 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

UAE

UAE shuts down ‘Iran-backed terror network’ after Gulf strikes

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Prime Minister Netanyahu gives a press conference on March 19, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran can no longer enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles, claims Netanyahu

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Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joseph Kent, December 11, 2025 (Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

America

FBI investigating ex-counterterror chief Joe Kent over alleged leak

By Daniel Ben-David

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A still from the footage in the aftermath of the strike showing the Tikva offices ablaze

Russia Ukraine War

Russian suicide drone strikes Great Choral Synagogue in Odesa

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Arab states request emergency UN Human Rights Council debate on Iran’s ‘military aggression’

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Iran

Qatar Energy's operating facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City, pictured on March 3, 2026 (Getty Images)

Qatar declares Iranian embassy staff ‘persona non grate’ after gas facility strike

The Islamic Republic’s military and security attachés in Doha have been given 24 hours to leave the country

All eyes on Toronto – the city whose Jewish sites have been hit at least 18 times since October 7 Herzog voices concern for Commonwealth Jewry in the wake of terror attacks

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UK News

National Union of Students

Anti-Israel student activists want universities to cut ties with ‘Zionist’ NUS

Campaigners claim union has used ‘guise of antisemitism’ to marginalise Palestinians

By Jane Prinsley

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Protesters from London universities attend pro-Palestine demonstration in 2025 on second anniversary of October 7 attack on Israel (Dan Kitwood/Getty)

Scotland

Iranian man arrested trying to enter British nuclear submarine base

The man, and a woman of unknown nationality, were reportedly detained while ‘acting suspiciously’ outside the MoD site in Scotland

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HMS Artful, an Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine, is manoeuvred at HMNB Clyde on March 04, 2025 in Faslane, Scotland (Getty Images)

The Guardian

Exclusive: Jewish Guardian staff ‘gaslit’ over ‘progressive antisemitism’ in Gail’s column

Journalists claimed that internal dissent ‘fell on deaf ears’ and that there is a ‘culture of fear’ about raising objections to the paper’s reporting

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The offices of the Guardian newspaper in central London, pictured in 2013 (Getty Images)

Israel Guide Dog Center

The guide dog in Israel turning sirens into smiles

Erez Barkai from Israel Guide Dog Centre spoke to the JC about how his dog Venus, who he describes as his ‘left hand’, has helped him and his neighbours during the war