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The matchmaking service with a difference

The Jewish Learning Collaborative pairs up people to study – and now it is going international

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December 16, 2024 11:52

How the pig became a bête noire

Relations between us and the most unkosher of beasts is the subject of a captivating new history

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December 8, 2024 11:20

Keeping clear of kosher tables: a pig out on a stroll in France (Photo:Getty Images)

Three Jewish comprehensives in Times top 10 this year

King David Liverpool is the best North-West comprehensive in the newspaper’s annual Parent Power list.

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December 6, 2024 13:30

Lord Winston on a visit to King David High School

Charedi girls again top the GCSE Jewish school charts

Five Jewish schools make the top 100 for academic progress nationally

1 min read

December 6, 2024 12:03

Esther Pearlman (right), head of Menorah High School for Girls, showing then Education Secretary Gillian Keegan around

Wolfson Hillel gives a warm welcome to some new Israeli friends

New twinning programme hopes to deepen pupil’s ties with Israel

2 min read

December 5, 2024 18:13

Children from London's Wolfson Hillel and Israel's King Solomon discuss the secret of Jewish survival (photo: Julia Glekin)

VAT on private education ‘could force closure of strictly Orthodox schools’, fear leaders

Pupils usually come from families who are already struggling financially

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December 4, 2024 12:39

Donna Thomas (second from right), head of Hackney early years, visiting a girls school in Stamford Hill (Image: Chinuch UK)

Top Ofsted marks for Charedi school in Gateshead

The Haskel special educational school was declared ‘outstanding’

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December 3, 2024 15:00

Rabbi Avrohom Sugarman of Haskel School receives his MBE from Prince William

Immanuel College plans to close its prep school next autumn

Primary pupils will be offered places at Kerem in new collaboration between the schools

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November 28, 2024 19:11

Immanuel College, Bushey (photo: Ian Jones)

The unique Ethiopian festival with Jerusalem at its heart

Chag Hasigd, which is celebrated this week, is deeply rooted in the Bible, writes Simon Rocker

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November 28, 2024 17:00

Ethiopian Jews celebrating the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem last year (Photo: Flash90)

Refugee charity approved for membership of Board of Deputies

HIAS+JCORE and Jnetics become the latest organisations to join the representative body

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November 28, 2024 12:57

Rabbi David Mason at Limmud (Photo: Gaby Wine)

At 93, Sephardi charity head decides it’s time to retire

In his work for the Montefiore Endowment, Lucien Gubbay helped to restore Orthodox rabbinic ordination to the UK

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November 27, 2024 17:05

Chief Rabbi urges MPs to ‘choose life’ as Jewish leaders intervene on euthanasia bill

But Progressive leaders explained why they have not signed letters in opposition to or support for the bill

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November 27, 2024 11:47

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addresses an event (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

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More from Simon Rocker

The matchmaking service with a difference

How the pig became a bête noire

Three Jewish comprehensives in Times top 10 this year

Charedi girls again top the GCSE Jewish school charts

Wolfson Hillel gives a warm welcome to some new Israeli friends

VAT on private education ‘could force closure of strictly Orthodox schools’, fear leaders

Top Ofsted marks for Charedi school in Gateshead

Immanuel College plans to close its prep school next autumn

The unique Ethiopian festival with Jerusalem at its heart

Refugee charity approved for membership of Board of Deputies

At 93, Sephardi charity head decides it’s time to retire

Chief Rabbi urges MPs to ‘choose life’ as Jewish leaders intervene on euthanasia bill