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Masorti Judaism

Masorti announce new leadership trio to run movement

St Albans Masorti’s Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet takes new part-time role

By Simon Rocker

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Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet

Bound for Yeshurun Synagogue: Rabbi Benjy and Emily Rickman (photo: Tanya Duman)

King David Jewish studies head to be new rabbi of Manchester’s Yeshurun Synagogue

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Campaign Against Antisemitism march in November last year

Only a third of British Jews think we have a long-term future here, says new CAA poll

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley (Photo: Getty Images)

CAA renews attack on Met Commissioner over policing of pro-Palestinian demos

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January 20, 2025 15:35

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Dutch Jewish population larger than thought – thanks to Israeli migration

The Netherlands community has been going through process of ‘Israelification’, says new report

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January 13, 2025 16:21

German Federal Council President Manuela Schwesig (Centre L) addresses a speech during the opening ceremony for the National Holocaust Museum, at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, on March 10, 2024. Eighty years after World War II, the Netherlands is poised to open its first Holocaust museum, as before the war and the Nazi occupation, the Netherlands was home to a vibrant Jewish community of around 140,000 people, mainly concentrated in Amsterdam and by the time the Holocaust was over, an estimated 75 percent -- 102,000 people -- had been murdered. (Photo by Patrick van Emst / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by PATRICK VAN EMST/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

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Chief Rabbi backs mandatory reporting of child abuse

Rabbis could face sanctions if they do not report allegations under new proposals

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Haunting memento: artist Roni Weiss with Gilad Aviad holding the dreidel incorporating the piece of shrapnel that came so close to taking the soldier’s life

Surge in British Jews emigrating to Israel

l Latest figures show that numbers making Aliyah doubled last year amid historic levels of antisemitism at home

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January 8, 2025 11:42

Warren and Leah Phillips with daughters Evie and Rosie arrived in Israel from Manchester to start their new lives in August 2024 (Photo: Warren Phillips)

Protest against UK yeshivah regulation staged in New York

Proposals to register children being taught outside school settings are due to be debated in Parliament on Wednesday

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January 8, 2025 11:23

Protest against UK yeshivah regulation staged in New York

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