Category: Jewish

A new outpost of Eyal Shani’s popular kosher restaurant, Malka, has opened in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Malka Dumbo joins Malka on the Upper West Side — Shani’s first kosher establishment outside of Israel, which opened to great buzz last… Continue Reading

War veterans and a Holocaust survivor took part in Jewish Care’s Remembrance Sunday and Kristallnacht commemorations. Jack Mann, 99. was a radio operator and is the last surviving member of his regiment. Fellow 99-year old, Moishe… Continue Reading

Dame Maureen Lipman joined 350 guests at Finchley United Synagogue for the 7th annual Camp Simcha Ladies’ Lunch. At the sell-out event, which raised £120,000 for families with seriously ill children, charity- co-founder Rachely Plancey… Continue Reading

A Redbridge councillor has posted highly inflammatory messages on social media including a call for the terror group Hezbollah to get “more powerful rockets to do maximum damage to the Zionist” along with an apparent racist jibe at a… Continue Reading

Six hundred guests helped raise an impressive £2 million for Norwood, the UK’s oldest Jewish charity, at its annual dinner. The gala event brought together people supported by the charity and their families and staff. Chief… Continue Reading

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Yechiel Leiter, an American-Israeli former settler leader whose son was killed fighting in Gaza, as the next Israeli ambassador to the United States. The prime minister announced the… Continue Reading

The first time I saw Bob Dylan live I had an out-of-body experience. I was high up in the rafters of the Royal Albert Hall watching a croaky old man caterwaul his way through Frank Sinatra songs with stunning inaccuracy. In the front row, I… Continue Reading

The Government has said it will “not allow cultural and sporting events to be hijacked” after Israel warned its citizens abroad to avoid such occasions in the wake of violence against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam. Police in the… Continue Reading

Gaza’s most prominent Islamic scholar has issued a fatwa condemning Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel. Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, ex-dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University of Gaza,… Continue Reading

Jewish students have faced immense challenges on campus over the past year. In addition to rising antisemitism, many have grappled with growing internal divisions within Jewish Societies (JSocs) and our communities at home. One source of… Continue Reading