Plans to recall Jeremy Corbyn to explain his answers to a parliamentary committee investigating rising antisemitism were put on hold this week as Labour's leadership problems mounted.
Despite reports last weekend that the Commons' Home Affairs Select Committee would summon Mr Corbyn to appear again in front of MPs, no decision had been taken when the JC went to press on Wednesday.
Committee chair Keith Vaz had confirmed that two letters had been sent to him complaining about alleged inaccuracies in Mr Corbyn's responses last week to questions about his associations with Holocaust denier Paul Eisen, controversial vicar Stephen Sizer, and his appointment of Paul Flynn to the Shadow Cabinet.
Meanwhile Mr Corbyn will fight to remain Labour chief after securing his place as a candidate in a leadership contest. He was challenged on Monday by Angela Eagle, a former member of his shadow cabinet, with Owen Smith joining the contest on Wednesday.
Should Ms Eagle succeed Mr Corbyn, she would come to the job with arguably less experience of working with the Jewish community than the current party leader. She has had little interaction either in her ministerial roles over the past 15 years, or in her home constituency on Merseyside.
Born in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, 55-year-old Ms Eagle was one of the first MPs to come out as gay. After a series of minor ministerial roles in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, she rose to greater prominence in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet, as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and from late 2011 as Shadow Leader of the Commons.
She agreed to serve under Mr Corbyn last September as Shadow Business Secretary, and his stand-in for Prime Minister's Questions, but resigned from the frontbench last month. The synagogue in Ms Eagle's Wallasey constituency closed in 1992, the same year she became an MP, but she has attended civic services in other Liverpool shuls.
Earlier this year, Ms Eagle met representatives from Jewish organisations to outline Labour's commitment to tackling antisemitism on campuses.
Mr Smith, aged 46, was first elected as MP for Pontypridd in 2010. He served as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary under Mr Corbyn until last month. He said he was standing because Mr Corbyn was "not a leader who can lead us into an election".
Both Ms Eagle and Mr Smith were among the Labour MPs who backed the plan to unilaterally recognise Palestinian statehood in 2014.
● Mr Corbyn and Mark Regev, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, held a private meeting on Monday. The Israeli embassy in London would not confirm where the meeting took place, how long it lasted, or what the two men discussed. Mr Corbyn's office has not commented on the session.
● Labour MP Margaret Hodge said on Wednesday that she had received two "really offensive" antisemitic emails which she had reported to police.
● Jewish students have called on Mr Corbyn to release in full Baroness Royall's report into allegations of antisemitism at the Oxford University Labour Club. In a letter to the Labour leader, current and past Oxford students said they had been let down by the party.
