Category: Jewish

For Jews, the world has stilled. In Israel the streets are lined with people holding flags and orange balloons, holding each other. In the diaspora we hold our breath, staring at our screens, frozen.

The endless conversations I…

The rain poured down like tears — and then the tears poured like rain, as a grim-faced crowd gathered opposite Downing Street in Whitehall on Thursday to pay tribute to the four dead Israelis who had been finally returned home by Hamas…

As the founder of GesherEU, a charity set up to help people who have left the Charedi community integrate into the wider world, I was astounded to read Rabbi Asher Gratt’s recent article (Jan 13th) – itself a retort to Yehudis…

The United Nations human rights chief has said the parading of the bodies of deseased hostages by Hamas in Gaza is abhorrent and flies in the face of international law.

As the bodies of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his 4-year-old…

Some of the mourners clutched Israeli flags. Others held orange balloons. 

On Thursday, hundreds of Israelis stood across the road from the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, the sky shifting between rain and sun, while…

The organisers of an emotional race in the Western Negev are calling on UK participants to join them on a virtual walk this weekend to highlight the plight of the hostages held captive for more than 500 days.

Last week’s Darom Balev”…

UK-Israel Business (UKIB), the bilateral Chamber of Commerce, has appointed Shira Goldblum as its new executive director.

Formerly head of business development: corporate, corporate tech and innovation at Mishcon de Reya, Shira has a…

New York state’s education department announced the termination of public subsidies for two Hasidic yeshivas that refused to align their curricula with state-mandated academic standards; The unprecedented decision has triggered an uproar within…

The head of  the largest yeshiva in Europe has told the Orthodox community to leave the UK if proposals that change the status of yeshivas become law.

Gateshead Yeshiva’s Rabbi Avrohom Gurwicz warns the bill – which would leave the…

Two British lawyers acting on behalf of the hostage families have issued an emotional statement speaking of “immense sadness and of failure” after Hamas claimed the body of their client Oded Lifshitz was returned to Israel alongside…