Category: Jewish

A religious leader rises before a head of state. Calmly, deliberately, they teach from their tradition, quote words of scripture, plead with the powerful man to govern with mercy. In so doing they implicitly call the powerful to…

Green energy tycoon Dale Vince has been angrily challenged by an audience member on the BBC’s Question Time show after accusing Israel of committing  “genocide” in Gaza, costing “150,000 lives and injuries.”

Founder of Ecotricity…

Hendon MP David Pinto-Duschinskyhas paid tribute in a Commons Holocaust Memorial Day debate to the bravery of a woman named Maria who smuggled his father out of a Hungarian ghetto just days before it was liquidated by the Nazis.

The…

Disturbing ignorance about the basic facts of the Holocaust has been revealed in a first-ever eight-country survey undertaken by the New York-based Claims Conference. The survey — of America, Britain, France, Austria, Germany, Poland,…

A High Court judge has made a preliminary ruling in a long-running financial dispute between a rabbi, his father and brother, and three dayanim from the Beth Din of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations.

And the ruling — made public…

A Moroccan citizen was arrested in Italy on suspicion of planning an attack on the Jewish community in Naples; The investigation revealed he was affiliated with ISIS; He conducted reconnaissance near a synagogue in the city and also tried to…

Imagine it’s 1826 in a Polish shtetl on Christmas Eve. It also happens to be the first night of Chanukah. Snow blankets the ground, but what chills you is the fear of your neighbours’ ‘warm’ hearts, warmed by too much vodka or an…

A postwar epic about a Holocaust survivor, a contemporary comedy about Holocaust tourism and a biopic of a Jewish musical legend helped lend a formidable Jewish presence to Thursday’s Oscar nominations.

Meanwhile, nominations for a…