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The Jewish Chronicle

The BBC building in central London (Picture: Getty Images)
BBC

BBC Charter may be amended to protect against antisemitism, Director General suggests

Matt Brittin writes to staff at the Corporation following scrutiny over the case of Oscar-winning filmmaker Lucie Kon

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read
Will Israel’s special relationship with the US survive fallout from two epochal elections?
Letter from Jerusalem

Will Israel’s special relationship with the US survive fallout from two epochal elections?

After mid-terms rout for Donald Trump and as Benjamin Netanyahu loses majority, end of America patronage may loom

By Natalie Lisbona

7 min read
Birmingham City Council House, the city's seat of local government (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Birmingham

Exclusive: Labour urged to come clean on ‘sectarian’ Israel boycott motion in Birmingham

National leadership faces questions after party’s councillors vote in favour of divestment policy

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read
A delegation of UN ambassadors, led by Israeli representative Danny Danon (C), at the infamous 'Arbeit Macht Frei' gate at Auschwitz (X/DannyDanon)
Auschwitz

Germany’s UN ambassador joins Israeli-led visit to Auschwitz for first time

‘We cannot fight today’s antisemitism without understanding its historical consequences,’ said Danny Danon, Jerusalem’s envoy to the global body

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read
Simon Feldman (Photo: Chai Cancer Care)
Movember

Cancer survivor turns cancer coach to help others with fallout of diagnosis

Simon Feldman, 42, shares his story to mark Movember, an international month of action focusing on men’s health

By Gaby Wine

5 min read
Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas MK attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on July 8, 2026 (Flash90)
Israeli Politics

Abbas agrees to recognise Hamas as terror group in return for coalition spot

The Ra’am leader is looking to build bridges with Gadi Eisenkot’s change bloc, but Arab MKs’ mass walkout of the Knesset during the national anthem may have further soured relations

By Hayley Cregor

4 min read
Opinion
Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard

Ed Miliband is so obsessed with condemning Israel that he cannot bring himself even to mention Hamas

Lorin Bell-Cross

Lorin Bell-Cross

I helped expose Birmingham’s Maccabi scandal – the city’s latest anti-Israel antics don’t surprise me

Alex Hearn

Alex Hearn

The backlash to the Bell Report is as shocking as its findings on antisemitism in schools

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US Politics

Who is Jon Ossoff, the Democrats' rising star who could be America's first Jewish president?

The Georgia senator boasts looks ‘like a Kennedy’ and a revered civil rights leader as a mentor, but has walked a political tightrope over criticism of Israel and the two-state solution

By Hayley Cregor

6 min read
US Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is greeted by supporters in Atlanta, Georgia, as he celebrates winning reelection in the US midterms on November 3, 2026 (Getty Images)
US Politics

US states threaten economic backlash over UK West Bank sanctions

British companies could be barred from winning government contracts and see overseas investment dry up

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird speaks at the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024 (Getty Images)
Iran

Iranian mastermind behind arson attacks on London Jews organised RAF airbase plot, US officials allege

Three men have been charged in the US with orchestrating a string of ‘Iran-backed terrorist plots’

By JC Reporter

2 min read
Armed police man road blocks around RAF Fairford on September 28, 2026 (Getty Images)
Iran

Downing Street insists British air bases are safe after US aircraft moved from RAF Mildenhall following ‘Iranian threat’

US President Trump had earlier said that the US-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic is ‘effectively over’

By JC Reporter

1 min read
US President Donald Trump speaks at a midterm campaign rally at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida on October 30, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

World News

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United Nations special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese (Getty Images)
United Nations

‘Vile hatemonger’ Francesca Albanese accused of ‘hijacking’ words of Primo Levi to condemn Israel

Israel said Albanese is a ‘vile hatemonger who deliberately desecrates Holocaust memory to spread hatred against Israel’

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read
The aftermath of a fire at Lewis' Continental Kitchen in Sydney in 2024 (Facebook/NSW Jewish Board of Deputies)
Australia

Ex-biker gang boss pleads guilty over Bondi kosher deli arson plot

Sayed Moosawi admitted his role in a 2024 attack that Australian intelligence linked to Iran

By JC Reporter

1 min read
Israel's military attaché to Morocco, Col Sharon Itach (second from right), pictured last month with members of an Israeli defence and air force delegation. They are standing in front of a portrait of Morocco's King Mohammed VI (Photo: IDF)
Morocco

Israel and Morocco deepen military cooperation with senior defence visit to Rabat

Israel intends to take bilateral relations ‘to new heights’, according the country’s defence ministry chief

By Melanie Swan

1 min read
A high street branch of a Save the Children charity shop in south London on February 17, 2018 (Getty Images)
Save the Children

Save the Children UK refuses to adopt IHRA definition despite antisemitism review recommendations

The charity also declined to create a specific policy regarding comparisons of the conduct of the Gaza War and Nazi atrocities

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read
Fire crews remove a Palestinian flag above the Reichstag in Berlin on November 8, 2026 (Instagram/PeacefullyAgainstGenocide)
Germany

Activists raise Palestinian flag over German Reichstag on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

The stunt came as Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted antisemitism had become ‘omnipresent’ in the country

By Hayley Cregor

3 min read
Yeshiva Gadola in Côte-des-Neiges in Montreal, Canada, where the shooting took place in November 2023 (Image: Google Maps)
Canada

Man jailed for shooting at Montreal Jewish school, leaving bullet holes in windows

Abdirazak Mahdi Ahmed carried out the attack at the Yeshiva Gadola in November 2023

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read
A grenade launcher manufactured by IWI, which has struck a deal with Dutch defence company Artillerie Inrichtingen Armaments (Photo: IWI)
The Netherlands

Israeli defence firm to set up Netherlands arms factory

The deal comes despite diplomatic tensions between the two countries

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

UK News 

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Courts

‘Old fool’ Golders Green rabbi was ‘infatuated’ with young woman but did not grope her, defence claims

The jury is set to go out on Wednesday to consider allegations of sexual assault against Rabbi Chaim Halpern

By Simon Rocker

3 min read
Rabbi Aaron Halpern, also known as Chaim Halpern, outside Harrow Crown Court in Harrow, Middlesex, on November 3, 2026 (Jonathan Brady/Press Association)
Kristallnacht

‘I couldn’t understand it’: Kristallnacht eyewitness recalls ‘painful’ memories at commemoration service

Inge Gershfield recalled seeing people ‘laughing’ and ‘singing Nazi songs’ in front of a burning synagogue on her way to school on November 10, 1938

By JC Reporter

2 min read
Inge Gershfield during a service marking the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht at Belsize Square Synagogue on November 10, 2026 (Press Association)
AJEX

Jewish ex-servicemen break 100-year Remembrance tradition in protest at Green-led Hackney Council

The Hackney branch of Ajex honoured the fallen separately rather than participate alongside representatives of the ‘scurrilous and racist’ Green Party

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read
Green leader Zack Polansk congratulates Zoë Garbett as she is elected as Mayor for Hackney in May 2026 (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Holocaust Educational Trust

Lady Victoria Starmer visits HET’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ in first public engagement since leaving Downing Street

The wife of former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been a fierce champion of Holocaust education

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read
Lady Victoria Starmer with Holocaust survivor Steven Frank BEM (Grainge Photography)

Opinion

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Sam Clifford

Russell Brand’s conviction is an opportunity to challenge misuse of power wherever it occurs

When someone holds a position of influence, there is a greater fear of speaking out against them

By Sam Clifford

2 min read
Russell Brand arriving at Southwark Crown Court during his trial (Photo: Getty Images)
Hannah Galley

By Hannah Galley

Zionism is not racism – the fact that we need to bring a motion to say so should alarm us all

As a councillor representing a large Jewish community, I have seen first-hand the fear caused by rising antisemitism. We cannot remain silent as the Green Party legitimises this hostility

3 min read
Rabbi Hayim Leiter

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

Max Olesker is right about the conversion hurdles – but wrong to downplay antisemitism in the Guardian

The religious courts must do more to welcome those seeking to join the Jewish people, but describing this moment of murderous Jew-hatred as merely a “strange time” makes light of the situation

3 min read
Gaby Wine

By Gaby Wine

What Israel can teach us all about community building

While Israeli society might be riven by divisions, within it are people who are ‘doing community’ really well

3 min read

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Sponsored

CJC-1295, Ipamorelin, and GHRP-2: A Multi-Peptide Growth Hormone Signaling Strategy

By Zack Ford

4 min read
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By Zack Ford

4 min read
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Moving home in North London? Some things are worth doing properly

By Dennis Rogers

3 min read
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Tzedakah shouldn’t stop with us

By Anthony Broza

3 min read

Life 

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Breaking down stereotypes: Ruth Margalit and her book
Books

‘This Israel is a world away from the facile slogans of Green politicians and Palestine Action’

Ruth Margalit’s In the Belly of the Whale is a deeply human portrait of multi-ethnic Israel

By David Herman

2 min read
Rachel Barry, Ashley Margolis and Beverley Klein star in Memoriam by Noga Flaishon (Charlie Flint)
Theatre

Memoriam review: technology and the Holocaust collide in Noga Flaishon’s family drama ★★★★

There is a lot to this debate over who can claim ownership over a family story without the sci-fi

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read
Food

Duckweed: Inside the Israeli start-up using quantum farming to grow the ultimate superfood

The aquatic plant is at least 100 per cent more nutritious than broccoli and kale, according to the manufacturer

By Orlando Radice

2 min read
GreenOnyx's Wanna Greens served with cheese (TheJC)
Television

It Gets Worse review: You’ll laugh, a lot – when you don’t wince – at Gen Z comedy series ★★★★★

Cameos from the likes of Andrew Scott and Lena Dunham suggest the word is out about Leo Reich

By Ben Felsenburg

2 min read
It Gets Worse review: You’ll laugh, a lot – when you don’t wince – at Gen Z comedy series ★★★★★
Theatre

The Lives of Others review: Keira Knightley leads cast in taut Cold War thriller ★★★★

Directed by Robert Icke, Stephen Dillane also stars as Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler

By John Nathan

2 min read
The Lives of Others review: Keira Knightley leads cast in taut Cold War thriller ★★★★

JC recipes

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Sivan's Moroccan fish balls/ patties (Photo: Sivan's Kitchen)
Fish recipe

Sivan’s Moroccan spiced fish patties/ balls

A show-stopping fish dish that’s perfect for Shabbat or the holidays

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 1 ½ hrs
Sivan Kobi's sheet pan bourekas (Photo: Sivan's Kitchen)
cheese recipe

Sivan’s sheet pan cheese bourekas

This clever hack makes up to 50 mini bourekas in no time

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 45 mins
Sivan Kobi's chiffon marble cake (Photo: Sivan's Kitchen)
Cake

Sivan’s six ingredient marble chiffon cake

A great teatime treat or addition to a kiddush spread

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 1hr 20 mins
Vegan pad Thai noodles (Photo: Phil Bekker)
Vegan recipe

Pad Thai noodles with vegan chicken or tofu

The Thai classic gets a vegan makeover

By Philippa Kingsley

Cook time: 10 mins
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