Category: Jewish

The brother-in-law of Eli Sharabi has described the moment the newly freed Gaza hostage learned that his wife and two daughters had been murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7th.

Steve Brisley, who flew to Israel from his home in Wales…

I’ve been thinking about the word ‘stranger’ recently. The Torah, of course, makes the command to ‘welcome the stranger’ 36 times. So important in fact is this instruction that it is repeated more than any other commandment – we…

Last December, a group of Jewish university students from across the UK travelled to Rwanda as part of the Office of the Chief Rabbi’s Ben Azzai programme, in partnership with World Jewish Relief. University of Leeds student Amy Maurer…

The number of pupils enrolling in Jewish schools has dropped for the first time in thirty years, according to new research.

The latest report from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) finds that more than 36,000 Jewish pupils are…

“Why would you, a woman rabbi, leave a job you love, having worked in the same community for 18 years, to open a mikveh, when Progressive Jews don’t even use the mikveh? Surely it’s tainted by an antiquated misogyny, and certainly not…

The mother of former Brit-Israeli hostage Emily Damari has spoken publicly today for the first time since her daughter’s release.

Mandy Damari stood alongside other Israeli women who have returned from captivity, as well as the mothers…

Police are investigating a suspected hate crime after a Holocaust memorial was damaged in Plymouth.

The stone and plinth at the memorial were damaged and police believe there was an attempt to remove the Holocaust Memorial Plaque in the…

The BBC faces claims that it failed to disclose that a teenager who appeared as the main narrator in a harrowing film on the impact of Israel’s war in Gaza is the son of a senior Hamas minister.

The corporation is also  accused of…