Category: Jewish

Photographs and postcards. A children’s calendar, filled with games, poems and stories. A partially darned sock, remnants of a project that was never finished.

Such workaday items can be found inside just about any apartment…

This weekend, Rabbanit Leah Sarna will be installed as the first senior rabbinic leader of her Orthodox synagogue.

The communal event is a cause for celebration by Rabbanit Sarna’s local Philadelphia-area community, Kehillat…

Keir Starmer and wife Victoria have hosted a moving Downing Street reception for Holocaust survivors after the Prime Minister described  a visit to Auschwitz as “one of the most harrowing experiences of my life.”

Speaking to Jewish…

As a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes hold and more families hope for the return of their loved ones, an increasing amount of thought is going into how to best support those relatives, as well as those who have been held in…

Just one day after we sat glued to our TV screens watching our three girls come home from captivity in Gaza, more than 1,000 of us gathered at St John’s Wood shul for a deeply moving concert reflecting on the tumultous year since October…

Emily Cohen got her first glimpse of the hostage she fought to bring home through an ambulance window outside Tel Aviv’s Tel Hashomer hospital last Sunday.

It was part of the globally anticipated convoy delivering Emily Damari, 28, Doron…

In recent years there has been a discussion, both inside and outside the Jewish community, about how to talk to children about the Holocaust.

The subject is repeatedly aired at this time of year, with Holocaust Memorial Day on the national…

This week, Guildford marked the 750th anniversary of the expulsion of its Jewish community, an event ordered by Queen Eleanor of Provence in 1275. This act, one of the first of its kind in England, set the stage for the national expulsion…