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How Jews laid tracks for UK’s long journey to HS2

Jewish engineers and financiers have been building the network since the early 19th century

By Jonathan Myers

6 min read

How Jews laid tracks for UK’s long journey to HS2

'A lot of people assumed I was Jewish'

'A lot of people assumed I was Jewish'

He quit Labour over its antisemitism crisis. Reflecting on his long career, he tells the JC: 'I had to be true to myself'

4 min read

Your grandfather, our hero

Your grandfather, our hero

His visit to a woman's supper club led to them both realising they shared a powerful family story

By Lianne Kolirin

3 min read

How the JC reported on The Windermere Children

How the JC reported on The Windermere Children

The new BBC drama tells the story of what happened to young Jews brought to the Lake District after the war. The JC was there.

By Jack Sommers

2 min read

‘He saved 10 times more people than Oskar Schindler’

The daughter of a man saved by the ‘Japanese Schindler’ is making a film about both men

6 min read

How two survivors clung to each other after their families were wiped out

‘We didn’t think about marrying anyone else, there was no other world than ours’

By Nadine Wojakovski

3 min read

The British soldier who won't stop defending Israel

Colonel Richard Kemp explains how he came to be one of the UK’s most strident advocates of the IDF

By Jenni Frazer

5 min read

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A brain tumour turned my mum into a stand-up comedian

When she awoke from surgery, Ruth Linton had changed. But what terrified her children turned out to be a form of liberation for her

By Deborah Linton

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A brain tumour turned my mum into a stand-up comedian

Royal links go back to ‘Natty’ Rothschild

A hundred and thirty years ago, he made history in the relationship between the Royals and Britain's Jews

3 min read

Royal links go back to ‘Natty’ Rothschild

Is this the thinker whose ideas can help rebuild a mainstream Labour Party?

The time may have come for the ‘Blue Labour’ ideas of Ed Miliband’s former guru to help reshape Labour’s return to being a party for the working classes, writes Robert Philpot

By Robert Philpot

3 min read

Is this the thinker whose ideas can help rebuild a mainstream Labour Party?

The Jewish women who were among the first to seize the opportunity to be lawyers

It has been a century since women first became able to practise law in Britain

By Rosalind Wright

5 min read

The Jewish women who were among the first to seize the opportunity to be lawyers

How Orwell's antisemitism resurfaced on the left

The celebrated author's writings on Jews have been reproduced with uncanny fidelity in the statements of today's far left, writes Richard Bradford

By Richard Bradford

5 min read

How Orwell's antisemitism resurfaced on the left

What will the activists who spent years fighting a Corbyn victory do next?

'The pain of this election is something that will live with me a long time'

By Lianne Kolirin

4 min read

What will the activists who spent years fighting a Corbyn victory do next?

The fight to recognise Arab Jews

One-time Egyptian refugee Levana Zamir discusses compensation as a tool towards peace

By Sandy Rashty

3 min read

The fight to recognise Arab Jews

Project charting UK Jews' search for EU passports launches today

As many as 9,000 British Jews have acquired citizenship of countries on the continent. A new project is documenting the phenomenon

5 min read

Project charting UK Jews' search for EU passports launches today

The Irish leader who prayed for a Nazi invasion

The pro-Hitler General Eoin O'Duffy, who died 75 years ago, this week, is a reminder of the indifference to the fate of Europe's Jews in some parts of Ireland in the 1930s

By Robert Philpot

6 min read

The Irish leader who prayed for a Nazi invasion

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