4+ hour, 59+ min ago  (782+ words) Children of Abraham" is a new book that examines the historic relationship between the two Abrahamic groups Among the fragments found in the Cairo Geniza, an unparalleled trove of documents that shed light on medieval Jewish life, is one containing…...

7+ hour, 37+ min ago  (414+ words) And Aaron was silent" Leviticus 10: 3 This week we will mark Yom Hashoah, the day on which Israeli public life, and Jewish communities worldwide, turn to remember the six million murdered in the Holocaust. Jewish philosophers in the latter 20th century invested…...

7+ hour, 32+ min ago  (82+ words) Founded in 1841, the Jewish Chronicle is the world's oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper. Friday, April 10 (Nisan 23) Saturday, April 11 (Nisan 24), Torah portion: Shemini, Leviticus 9: 1 to 11: 47 Haftarah: (Sephardim) 2 Samuel 6: 1-19; (Ashkenazim) 2 Samuel 6: 1 to 7: 17 Shabbat ends in London at 8. 40; Bournemouth 8. 48; Leeds 8. 51; Manchester 8. 55; Gateshead…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (570+ words) A veteran voice coach, Lena Ostrovsky Gershovitz " who "nurtured generations of actors" " was among the victims Four people killed on Sunday when a building collapsed following an Iranian missile strike on Haifa'were members of the same family, it has emerged....

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (352+ words) Revisiting the history of the British Union of Fascists, there are several familiar themes. Marching through Jewish areas is one, two-tier policing another A Nazi sympathiser addresses a crowd in Finsbury Park, north London. He raves about "Jewish financiers, and…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (717+ words) The avant-garde painter's modernist piece "The Peasant and his Wife' is due to go up for auction after a brief public tour Two handsome workers, side by side, man and wife, fill much of the canvas. In their textured faces…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1059+ words) Meet the shrink who treats the Charedim, but doesn't censor his forthright language The people Darryl Christie treats have all but given up hope. They have spent years struggling with their mental health, have tried every therapy and amassed a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (255+ words) Holocaust Memorial Day matters because it sits at the intersection of commemoration and education Antisemitism is not a new story, but it is an escalating one. Last week's front pages were rightly dominated by the horrific arson attack on three…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (748+ words) How to approach the Song of Songs, which is traditionally read over Pesach Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton On the Shabbat in the middle of Pesach there is a custom to read the Song of Songs, a powerful and puzzling biblical…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (889+ words) Never before have we seen so concerted an effort to declare a military campaign lost before it has started. A global influence operation, emanating from America's enemies, is being used to split the US-Israel alliance The American-Israeli war with Iran…...