Board distances itself from Muslim Council of Britain over Muslim Brotherhood...
The Board of Deputies has distanced itself from the Muslim Council of Britain after the latter was found to have links to the Muslim Brotherhood. Secretary General of the MCB, chair Dr Shuja Shafi...
View ArticleAttack on bus used to carry Arab Israelis in Egypt
An attacker has fired at an Egyptian security post outside a hotel near the Giza Pyramids, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry said no one was hurt in the incident at the Three Pyramids Hotel, but...
View ArticleFrench Jewish politician found dead in home
Alain Ghozland A local French politician has been found dead in his apartment with multiple stab wounds. Alain Ghozland, 73, a Republican councillor from Creteil near Paris, which has a large Jewish...
View ArticleJews and Muslims in Manchester join for annual kosher meal
Muslim and Jewish guests dine together Jews and Muslims came together in Manchester for an annual kosher meal. Taking place on Sunday, members of the Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester gathered...
View ArticleWho Betrayed the Jews? New book explores the hidden side of the Shoah
FROM NEIGHBOURS and friends to businesses, the police, the government – even the legal system designed to protect them – Jews found themselves betrayed, attacked and subjected to untold horror during...
View ArticleOPINION: In Jerusalem, most Jews and Arabs simply crave normality
by Mordechai Beck, Jerusalem-based writer Mordechai Beck If you visit Jerusalem today, you’ll probably avoid the eastern part of the city and for good reason; it is from there that the stabbings and...
View ArticleFive dead in weekend of violence in Israel
Palestinians The level of violence in Israel showed no sign of abating this week, after several deadly days in which both Jews and Palestinians were involved in assaults. On Sunday, two men were shot...
View ArticleLabour promises ‘robust action’ after Oxford anti-Semitism allegations
The Labour Party has vowed to take “robust action” against students at Oxford University if they are found to have displayed “anti-Semitic behaviour”, after the co-chair of the university’s Labour...
View ArticleHundreds of families contact WJR after digitisation of family records
Hundreds of Jewish families across the world have contacted a Jewish charity based in London following the digitisation of family members’ records, charting how Jews left Europe for Britain before the...
View ArticleSPECIAL REPORT: Inside the Israeli-Arab village of Jisr Azarqa
Alex Brummer visits the Israeli-Arab village of Jisr Azarqa and witnesses the social and political obstacles that create uneasy relations between Jews and Muslims The sandy pathway between Jisr...
View ArticleYoung Voices: A safe space for Hebrew
by Imogen Resnick Imogen Resnick My first taste of Hebrew Café – a new initiative for students and graduates of RSY-Netzer – was definitely a contrast to your usual pub excursion. A small group of us...
View ArticleThe quiet courage of sisters who saved 29 Jewish families
Anne Sebba Ida Cook and her sister Louise had a secret mission – to help save Jews. Francine Wolfisz talks to Anne Sebba about a new book on their exploits To the outside world, Mary Burchell was a...
View ArticleJewish pupils send drawings of hope and peace to child refugees
By Alex Galbinski A group of primary school parents and staff have joined forces to make a difference to the lives of refugees and migrants living in the ‘Jungle’ at Calais. Some of the Eden Primary...
View ArticleRemaining Yemeni Jews airlifted to Israel in secret operation
Most of the last Jews in Yemen have been rescued from the war-torn Arabian nation and brought to Israel in a secret operation to “bring Yemeni Jewry home”.
View ArticleNaz Shah chaired charity with councillor who compared Israel-Palestine with...
The Bradford co-chaired a charity with a Labour councillor who has compared the Israel-Palestinian conflict to the Holocaust.
View ArticleShadow minister accused of sending ‘extreme’ Israel tweet
MP Clive Lewis accused of sending “extreme” tweets, saying Israel should be “in the Middle West”
View ArticleSecond chances: Giving kids in the Galil a new outlook on life
We visit a UJIA-funded kibbutz in the northern Galil that’s giving troubled youngsters a new outlook on life
View ArticleSadiq Khan: Some Jews and Muslims don’t back me – I’ll build bridges
In exclusive interview, London’s new mayor sets his sights on tackling prejudice and speaks of plans to visit Israel
View ArticleMemorial service to honour Sir Nicholas Winton
Event at London’s Guildhall in memory of the man who saved 669 Czechoslovakian children from the Nazis
View ArticleBoxing champ Tyson Fury in anti-Semitic video rant
British heavyweight in foul-mouthed tirade against “Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers all the TV stations”
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