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Reform candidate shared image of infamous mural branded ‘blatantly anti-Jewish’ by Farage

2 min read

The author during her honeymoon in New York (Image: courtesy of Miranda Levy)

By Miranda Levy

‘Zaftig’ is a state of mind – at least it is since I discovered Mounjaro

4 min read

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) speaks during a meeting with Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad (2R) and Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (2L) at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2026 (Getty Images)

Ceasefire

Trump announces Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

The US president confirmed on Truth Social that the 10-day truce will take effect this evening

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Conservative Party

Foreign antisemites should be deported, says Badenoch

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking the annual Yom HaShoah at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 14, 2026 (Getty Images)

TIME 100

Netanyahu named in Time 100 Most Influential list

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Konrad Berkowicz holding the flag (Image: YouTube/ TRTWorld)

Poland

Far-right Polish politician holds up Israeli flag with swastika on same day as March of the Living

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Meet Harry Marsh: The YouTuber harassing Jews for views

Three arrested over attempted arson of Iran International offices

Himmler’s Curtains: How my survivor mother ended up living in a Nazi leader’s house

In Carney’s Canada, the law protects antisemites, not Jews

Move over Ottolenghi, there’s a new flavour genius on the chopping block

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US Politics

Senate votes down Sanders’ bid to block bulldozer and arms sales to Israel

The veteran Vermont senator’s motion fell by a margin of 59-40, but was backed by three-quarters of Senate Democrats

By Andrew Bernard

1 min read

US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a 'Tax the Rich' rally at Lehman College in the Bronx borough of New York City on March 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

Animal welfare

Vegan US rabbi announces £7,000 grant for UK shuls who explore plant-based lifestyle

The Synagogue Vegan Challenge is open for applications from UK communities for the first time

By Ben Conway

3 min read

Iran

‘Not the agreement we have’: Trump cautions Iran over Hormuz tolls

The US president guaranteed oil would be allowed through the vital shipping line after striking a ceasefire deal with Tehran

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

US President Trump speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026 (Getty Images)

Basketball

American-Israeli basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire gets spot in Hall of Fame

The six-time NBA All-Star converted to Judaism after retiring

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Amar'e Stoudemire speaks during a press conference for the 2026 Inductees to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

World news

Iran

Boastful Iranian leaders signal ever more hardline views as regime insiders tell JC that IRGC is in control

By Ali Hamedani

3 min read

(L-R) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Lebanese Prime Minister Aoun (Getty Images)

Lebanon

Leaders of Israel and Lebanon to hold talks for first time since 1993

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Left Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam, right former-Israeli President Chaim Herzog, background Herzog Park (Lord Mayor of Dublin, Getty Images, Google)

Ireland

Lord Mayor of Dublin apologises for scrapped plan to rename Herzog Park

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Last week the UK announced it would not permit West to enter the country this summer (Image: Getty)

France

Kanye West postpones Marseille gig indefinitely as officials ‘very determined’ to prevent show

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Letter from Jerusalem

From Lebanon and Iran to Gaza, three sets of talks to define Israel’s future

By Natalie Lisbona

6 min read

Austria

Unearthed papers reveal how Austria’s Nazi judges went back to work after 1945

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

Poland

The thriving Jewish centre 70km from Auschwitz that is the final riposte to the Nazis

The Jewish Comunity Centre in Krakow has a pre-school, a pantry, a cheder, a Hillel for students and a kosher kitchen

By Lianne Kolirin

2 min read

Israel and Lebanon ‘on the same side’ after DC talks Zelensky signs law criminalising antisemitism in Ukraine

UK News

Hatzola ambulance attack

Counter-terror police investigate Hatzola ambulance and Finchley shul arson attacks

Met police probe also includes targeting of Iran International ‘due to the nature and circumstances of the three incidents’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Burnt-out Hatzola ambulances after the arson attack in Golders Green last month (Getty)

Leeds

Housing charity wins praise for its community impact

The Mayor of Leeds hosted a celebration for LJHA staff to recognise their hard work

By Ben Conway

1 min read

Left to right: Mark Grandfield, Councillor Dan Cohen, Lady Mayoress Mrs Elayna Cohen and Craig Simons, LJHA's director of operations (photo: LJHA)

Courts

Small boat migrant attempted to break into Israeli embassy with two knives, court hears

Albadri first entered the UK in 2021 and then again in 2025, both times from France

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

The Old Bailey statue of Lady Justice stands on top of the Central Criminal Court (Credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Finchley Reform Synagogue

Two arrested over attempted firebombing at Finchley synagogue

The investigation is being supported by Counter Terrorism Policing London

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Police outside Finchley Reform Synagogue on April 15, 2026 (Getty Images)

Opinion

The Holocaust began with words and then ordinary people normalising hate – the same pattern we see today

This is the full text of a speech delivered by Lord Eric Pickles at Northwood and Ruislip Synagogue on Yom Hashoah, April 14, 2026

By Lord Pickles

13 min read

Commemorative plaques on a railtrack leading to the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp (Image: Getty)

By David Bennun

The Kanye West affair isn’t as bad as it seems –it’s much, much worse

It is a curious irony that of only one people on Earth is it demanded they must at all times behave with perfect Christian charity – and that is the Jews

3 min read

By Arsen Ostrovsky

Amid rising antisemitism, the unbreakable solidarity between Jews worldwide

From Manchester to Sydney, from London to Melbourne, our communities increasingly find themselves bound not only by shared heritage and faith, but by a shared vulnerability

5 min read

By Dominic Green

Trump disowned ‘kooky’ Tucker Carlson – only for the BBC to leap into the gutter for the conspiracist

A democracy can survive admitting a clown like Kanye West into the circus at Finsbury Park. But it loses its moral compass when its chief broadcaster airs a hateful fake on one of its main political shows

3 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Lewis Goodall and Israel’s alleged world domination

Accusations that eerily echo classic antisemitic conspiracy theories, repackaged with the Jewish state standing in for the Jews, have now entered the mainstream

3 min read

By Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer’s Yom HaShoah message: I will not look away from antisemitism

The Prime Minister writes for the JC ahead of the memorial day

1 min read

By Marc Goldberg

The weaponisation of antisemitism against the British state

Hatred of Jews unites Islamists, the extreme right and parts of the extreme left ‘in a kind of modern-day Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact’

2 min read

Trust me, I'm a doctor: Noah Wyle as Dr Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch and Lucas Iverson in The Pitt

Television

ER star Noah Wyle: Why I’m playing a Jewish doctor in The Pitt

By Elaine Penn

6 min read

Good old Blighty: the reassuringly English village of Great Budworth in Cheshire

Aliyah

I’m backing my future here. I have faith in Britain

I understand that Jewish fears are high, but I believe our country can turn itself round and get tougher on extremism

By Naomi Greenaway

4 min read

Film

The Drama review: Zendaya and Robert find love in a very dark climate ★★★

Not since Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings has the combination of floppy-haired British charm and American cool generated such chemistry

By John Nathan

2 min read