Category: Jewish

A Jewish Labour councillor in Whetstone has resigned from Barnet Council in mysterious circumstances and is also understood to no longer be a member of the party.

Liron Velleman triumphed in the north London seat during Labour’s…

An ancient seal amulet from the Middle Bronze Ages was spotted by a three-year-old on holiday with her family in Israel.

Ziv Nitzan Moshav Ramot Meir was walking to archaeological site Tel Azeka, an central Israel area of hills and valleys…

Taylor Swift might be an international icon, but in Israel she’s got competition – not in record sales but reverence. Most find their spotlight dims when Erin Molan gets mentioned in the Holy Land. Now fronting Elon Musk’s 69X…

History is powerful, and there’s no better evidence than the attempt to erase it.

As a historian and as CEO of the Jewish Women’s Archive, I’ve staked my career on a theory of change that insists that the stories we…

A Polish far-right MEP who shouted during a Holocaust remembrance event in the European Parliament has been suspended for 30 days.

Grzegorz Braun, a member of the Confederation party, disrupted a moment of silence on 29 January by…

When Liberal Judaism – then called the Jewish Religion Union – was founded in 1902, it was done so in response to a perceived apathy and an absence of spiritual awareness in the existing Orthodox and Reform synagogues of the time.

Its…

The Middle East Minister has rejected calls for the UK to suspend all arms sales to Israel in response to Israel’s planned expansion of military operations in Gaza.

Layla Moran, the former Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson,…

As chair of Labour Friends of Israel, last week I became the first British MP to travel between Israel and the UAE – an unimaginable reality before the historic Abraham Accords in 2020.

My flight – one of 18-daily ones which now…