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If Jewish communities are under threat, we are all under threat, police chief warns
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (823+ words) British Jews are subject "a way of life that nobody else has to put up with" GMP"s chief constable said Jewish communities in the UK "put up with a way of life that nobody else has to put up…...
Why we stood: a founder’s reflection on the Borehamwood hostage vigil
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (508+ words) The group met every Friday morning for 119 weeks, until the last hostage came home Soon after the atrocious attacks on the Otef Aza (Gaza Envelope) - at the Nova music festival and across the border communities of southern Israel on 7 October…...
Israeli chief rabbinate to accept female applicants for rabbinical exams for first time ever
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (450+ words) The policy change has been confirmed following a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year After several years of legal wrangling, Israel's chief rabbinate has opened registration for rabbinical exams to women. The rabbinate was ordered to accept women for the…...
The Chasidic rabbi who founded a village in Israel, disappeared and returned
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (755+ words) A new book has rescued the story of the remarkable Yabloner Rebbe On November 19 1975 an 80-year-old man was helping cut squares of coloured paper for Chanukah decorations at Paradise Cove, a care facility in California which supported psychiatric patients released…...
Former Green Party leader blasted for championing ‘hateful’ anti-Israel boycott campaign
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (528+ words) Carla Denyer MP voiced her support for the "Bristol Apartheid Free Zone" initiative The Green Party"s former leader has been strongly criticised for backing a "hateful" anti-Israel campaign in Bristol. In a video posted to social media Carla Denyer…...
Tributes paid to much-loved Jewish student leader
2+ day, 35+ min ago (435+ words) Miles Stewart-Compton, former president of Southampton Jewish Society, has died at the age of 26 A young man credited with revitalising Jewish life for students studying in Southampton has died." Miles Stewart-Compton, who was 26,"was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he…...
There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a start
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (526+ words) This rigorous guide works for Jewish readers trying to comprehend how this irrational madness is happening again, and for allies grappling with the question of why people hate Jews A few months after the October 7 Hamas attacks, Deborah Lipstadt, then…...
Bret Stephens is wrong. Jews can’t just turn inward and ignore antisemitism
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (881+ words) We have a moral obligation to fight for our survival. We should be saying that Zionism is an inseparable part of Judaism, and so antizionism is an attempt to destroy not just Israel but Judaism itself How should the Jewish…...
Shabbat times from February 13 to February 20
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (119+ words) Shabbat times for the week Friday, February 13 (Shevat 26). Shabbat begins in London at 4.57; Bournemouth 5.01; Leeds 4.54; Manchester 5.00; Gateshead 4.53; Glasgow 5.02. Saturday, February 14 (Shevat 27), Shabbat Shekalim, Torah portion: Mishpatim, Exodus 21:1 to 24:18 and Exodus 30:11-16. Haftarah: (Sephardim) 2 Kings 11:17 to 12:17; (Ashkenazim) 2 Kings 12:1-17. Shabbat ends in London…...
‘Modern antisemitism strikes on our ability to live openly as Jews’
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (971+ words) These remarks were delivered by the attorney general to the Great Synagogue in Sydney during his visit to Australia, where he paid tribute to the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack Rabbi Elton, Rabbi Feldman, members of the congregation…...