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Ex-Tory GLA candidate told not to stand as MP because he was Jewish

Ben Seifert, who recently left the Conservative party to join the Liberal Democrats, said he was told not to stand for a parliamentary seat because of his religious background

Bulgarian FA chief resigns after Nazi salutes at England match

Borislav Mihaylov to step down after Bulgaria fans were witnessed making the gestures

Romania to open first Holocaust museum

The Romanian president backed the creation of a museum in a speech on Tuesday

Orthodox man accused of ‘double life’ hosting wild sex orgies

The father of three allegedly abandoned his pregnant wife and three kids to host the sex parties in New York’s East Village

Jewish death row inmate’s execution delayed over ‘antisemitic’ judge

The sentencing judge is said to have taken ‘special pride’ in issuing the death sentences ‘because they included Latinos and a Jew’

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Boris Johnson calls Labour 'antisemitic Marxists' in Party Conference speech

The Prime Minister made the attack in his speech in Manchester

Population of Jews rises by 100,000 since last Rosh Hashanah

As the New Year approaches, the Jewish population is expected to be 14.8 million

Cornish Bronze Age ingots found in Haifa shipwrecks

They serve as the earliest evidence of trade links between Britain and the Middle East

Israeli group coming to UK to promote ‘civility’ between Jews

The Tisch Centre for Jewish Dialogue is to host a symposium next February in London in response to ‘bipartisanship’ and ‘divisiveness’

British Library puts ancient texts online

The collection includes scans of the London Codex, which is over a thousand years old

How Gandhi once penned a Rosh Hashanah message

The letter was discovered in the National Library of Israel’s archives, and is dated as being written on the day war broke out in Europe in 1939