Category: Jewish
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Making sense of the sedra: Yom Kippur
A few years ago, Shreddies’ manufacturer Kraft Foods went to an advertising agency with a unique request – to reintroduce the Shreddies brand as a leader, without having any news about the product to work with, keeping in mind that research… Continue Reading
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These Jewish teens in Miami are striking a defiant tone in a High Holiday season haunted by Oct. 7
During this High Holiday season, Jack Brod, 16, a student at the Miami Country Day School, wears yellow pins to school to show solidarity with Israeli hostages. He is careful about where he goes with the pin on, but says it’s… Continue Reading
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TOWIE star reveals young nephew’s diagnosis of genetic disorder Tay-Sachs
Reality TV star Courtney Green has shared her family’s pain after her young nephew Marley Hakimi was diagnosed with genetic disorder Tay-Sachs. Speaking to fellow castmates on Sunday night’s episode of The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE), the… Continue Reading
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The liturgical poem sung at his son’s funeral, and a bereaved mother’s search for wor
Ori loved “Lech Eli Teshukati” performed by cantor Rabbi Yosef Elhadad. Every Yom Kippur evening when he was unable to come and pray at home, and did not know if he would have a minyan or not, he asked me to sing him the piyut to get into the… Continue Reading
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Israeli and Palestinian voices reflect on ‘unbelievably difficult year’ at packed memorial event
Israelis and Palestinian voices have been given the opportunity to reflect together on the most testing of years during a moving, and at times challenging, October 7 anniversary event organised by the Yachad and New Israel Fund UK… Continue Reading
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OPINION: Tikkun olam— the obligation to repair the world and help in any way possible
The events of October 7 sent shockwaves through our community. The tragic attacks in Israel sparked an outpouring of grief, solidarity, and activism. The UK Jewish community has mobilised in unprecedented ways, with volunteers stepping forward… Continue Reading
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OPINION: A day we will never come to terms with
On Monday, we marked 365 days since that horrific day. A day we are still trying to comprehend. A day we will never come to terms with. The most deathly single day for Jews in history since the Holocaust. A day that saw the shocking invasion, by… Continue Reading
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‘A Jew remains a Jew. Now it’s war and there’s no need for explanations. My name is C
The atmosphere in Israel in the early ‘70s wasn’t just about the Euphoria following the victory of the Six-Day War and returning to reconquered ancestral sites. A new age was dawning in rock music, pants were flaring out, girls were… Continue Reading
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‘Nobody Wants This’ renewed for a second season on Netflix — with more Jews on board
A second season of “Nobody Wants This” is coming, whether Jews want it or not. The Netflix series, about an interfaith relationship between a rabbi (Adam Brody) and a non-Jewish, agnostic podcaster (Kristen Bell), has proven… Continue Reading
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Goldsmiths students urged to hail ‘martyrs of Gaza and Beirut’ at latest pro-Palestine demo
Goldsmiths University students were urged to join in chants of “From Gaza to Beirut all our martyrs we salute” as hardline anti-Israel activists staged their latest “walkout” at the south-east London institution. Jewish News witnessed… Continue Reading