Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis declared that “all decent people around the world mourn with Israel” after the Jewish state received the remains of four hostages, believed to be Shiri Bibas, her young children Kfir and Ariel and Oded…
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Europe’s largest kosher food, wine and spirits event welcomes record number of attendees
There’s nothing quite like food and drink to tempt the community out of their warm homes on a cold night. More than 800 people attended Kedem’s annual Kosher Food & Wine Experience at the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane on Tuesday…
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Pictured: IDF honours four hostages murdered by Hamas
The IDF has released photographs from the ceremony in the Gaza Strip earlier this morning, showing them paying their last respects to the four murdered Israeli hostages returned by Hamas after 501 days in captivity.
The moving ceremony was…
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Government wades into Gaza doc row as culture secretary vows to raise concerns with BBC chiefs
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has vowed to raise concerns about the BBC’s documentary on Gaza’s children with corporation bosses.
Asked if she was concerned that the corproration might have breached editorial guidelines with the…
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Coffins apparently containing four slain hostages’ bodies arrive in Israel
The bodies of four hostages, who according to Hamas are Shiri Bibas, her young children Kfir and Ariel and Oded Lifshitz, have been received by Israel from the Red Cross.
Red Cross vehicles collected the coffins of the fallen after a…
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Eric Adams stands by comparing calls for his resignation to ‘Mein Kampf’
Saying his words were misconstrued, New York City Mayor Eric Adams stood by his statement comparing demands that he resign to “Mein Kampf.”
The increasingly embattled mayor made the reference to Adolf Hitler’s manifesto…
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BBC ‘sorry’ that Gaza film failed to disclose narrator’s links to Hamas
The BBC has apologised for failing to reveal that the narrator of a film on Gaza is the son of a Hamas minister – but corporation insiders dismissed broadcaster’s response as “insufficient and “a slapdash cover-up”.
After…
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DeSantis appointee to Florida university board under fire for comments about Jews, women
A professor and conservative activist nominated by Gov. Ron DeSantis to chair a Florida university board is in political hot water this week over a series of tweets counting the number of Jews, women, seniors and gay lawmakers…
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Since Oct. 7, Washington University in St. Louis has quietly opened its doors to Jewish students leaving uncomfortable campus environments
During Lauren Eckstein’s freshman year at Pomona College, her grandparents pledged $1.2 million to the private school toward a scholarship to support refugee students.
They gave the money, a press release said at the time, in…
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Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor and co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish museum, dies at 98
Marian Turski, a Polish-born survivor of Auschwitz who helped found the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, has died. He was 98.
His death was announced Tuesday by the Polish magazine Polityk, where he worked…
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