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Daniel Ben-David

Daniel Ben-David

Daniel Ben-David is a reporter and community correspondent for the Jewish Chronicle. You can reach him at dbendavid@thejc.com

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Community urged to sign up to NHS organ donor register

Nearly 8,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant

By Daniel Ben-David

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Jess Harris (right), who received a pancreas and two kidneys, with her baby, Ezra, with Baroness Gillian Merron at Parliament

Daniel Rubin, circled, was killed two weeks before his bar mitzvah in a tragic crash in Belgium

Pictured: Bar mitzvah boy killed in tragic Belgian crash while twin brother survived

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Josh Aronson meets with Israel's President Isaac Herzog

Manchester journalist selected to serve on President Herzog’s council of diaspora Jews

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Michael Rainsbury leading an LSJS Mission in Israel last year (Credit: LSJS)

LSJS is offering adults an educational trip to Poland in March

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Seventh annual Festival of Spoken Ivrit returns with 82 shows

This year’s festival has branched out to include performances for adult audiences

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January 8, 2025 13:49

Actors Gal Barak and Tal Danino in 'Champion of Israel’

UK’s largest charity bridge tournament reaches £2.5 million fundraising milestone

The tournament appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2011

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January 8, 2025 12:35

Co-chairs of the Bridge Extravaganza committee, Patsy Bloom and Susan James, at the 27th Bridge Extravaganza

Centenarian raises money for great grandson’s rare fatal disease

Tay-Sachs is a rare genetic disease most commonly detected in children of Ashkenazi Jewish descent

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January 8, 2025 10:43

Sam Green on his birthday with granddaughters and great grandsons

The Jewish-founded ‘make a wish’ charity making the dreams of terminally ill kids come true

Stephen Allan was awarded an OBE in the King’s 2025 New Years Honours List for his service to charity and the media industry

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January 7, 2025 16:14

Five-year-old Zachary after seeing the Loch Ness Monster (Credit: Rays of Sunshine)

Football fans unite to call for the release of the last remaining British hostage

‘Proud’ British citizen Emily Damari is a ‘lifelong’ Spurs fan

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January 6, 2025 15:03

Football fans unite to call for the release of the last remaining British hostage

New Jewish Care Trustees to bring ‘invaluable’ expertise in palliative and mental health care

Dr Abigail Swerdlow and Dr Charles Daniels have joined the charity’s Board

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January 3, 2025 15:04

Dr Abigail Swerdlow and Dr Charles Daniels

Suella Braverman’s husband leads Jewish Reform members in criticism of Board of Deputies

Rael Braverman, who defected to Reform last month, and more than two dozen Jewish members of the party, wrote a letter to the JC condemining President Phil Rosenberg

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January 2, 2025 16:18

Rael Braverman, husband of Britain's former Home Secretary Suella Braverman (Credit: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Largest menorah lighting ever in Bricket Wood after Chanukiah smashed by vandals

More than 250 Jews and non-Jews showed up to support the community after the menorah was smashed

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December 30, 2024 14:57

Local community gathers around a vandalised public menorah in Bricket Wood, December 29, 2024

Nazi hunter Josef Lewkowicz passes away aged 98

A book about his remarkable life is scheduled for release in January next year

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December 27, 2024 14:33

Josef Lewkowicz (Credit: JRoots)

There’s light! Venue steps in to host rejected Jewish singer

Charedi star Benny Friedman was booked after JC reported his plight amid rising antisemitism in the arts

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December 24, 2024 13:04

Benny Friedman (Image: Barveh Ezagui)

Giant Trafalgar Square menorah taken down because of strong winds

But to mark the festival ‘Happy Chanukah’ will be beamed on to Nelson’s Column

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December 24, 2024 11:25

The giant menorah in Trafalgar Square on the third day of Chanukah (Credit: Eleventh Hour Photography/Alamy Live News)

Synagogues fear ‘devastating’ tax bill for next financial year

Failure to renew a VAT exemption scheme for historic synagogues would hit community projects

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December 24, 2024 10:59

New West End Synagogue (Photo of New West End Synagogue, Getty Images)

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