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Left to right: Hannah Janulewicz – Rudi’s granddaughter; Michael Newman, AJR CEO, His Excellency Dr Robert Ondrejcsak, Slovak Ambassador Julia Sherwood,
Dr Bea Lewkowicz – Director, AJR Refugee Voices, Jonathan Freedland,
Dr Martin Korcok, Director, Holocaust Museum, Sered
Pic: Malcolm Miller.

The picture on the left shows the young boy, wearing his kippa, on the floor. The picture, right shows him without identifying Jewish symbols, treated on a bed in a ward.

March 21, 2024, 2:55 pm

Children’s hospital investigates claim that nurses forced sick Jewish child out of bed

Wearing a kippa and tzitzit, the boy, who has a serious auto-immune blood disease, was 'kicked out of his bay' by NHS nurses wearing 'Pro-Palestine badges' and had his treatment on the floor

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 20, 2024, 6:20 pm

Death threats force London Uni Israel society to cancel speaker event

EXCLUSIVE: British-Israeli IDF veteran Ely Lassman tells Jewish News he feared for his safety ahead of in-person event to discuss conflict resolution at King's College London

By Michelle Rosenberg

Bradford Girls School, Pic: Anne Frank Trust Facebook

March 20, 2024, 1:44 pm

65 percent of young Muslims ‘have better attitude towards Jews’ after Holocaust education

Researchers at University of Kent spoke to 3,000 school pupils before they started the programme, after completing it, and again a year later.

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 20, 2024, 10:09 am

New project to capture young Jewish European voices launches today

First seven stories published on Kaleidoscope feature entries from Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Turkey and the UK

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 19, 2024, 4:45 pm

Volunteers celebrate 22,000th meal in new ImpACT youth kitchen

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis joins Project ImpACT teens to help feed vulnerable members of society.

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 19, 2024, 2:34 pm

1,000 call for release of hostages at emotional ‘Israel in our Herts’ rally

'We don't have time left. There is a deal on the table and it's the last one'. Daughter of 83-year old Israeli hostage Oded Lifschitz stands alongside Chief Rabbi and cross-communal dignitaries at Borehamwood vigil

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 18, 2024, 3:25 pm

University Jewish Chaplaincy raises £800k to support students on campus

More than 3,000 donors contributed to help combat increasing antisemitism and anti-Zionism at universities across the UK

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 14, 2024, 10:23 am

Refugee charity names new chair

Judith Flacks, former comms head at Jewish Leadership Council and now at Jewish Care, joins HIAS+JCORE

By Jenni Frazer

March 14, 2024, 9:48 am

King Solomon to close for 8 days after union talks collapse

'It is the students that will pay the price with this woeful lack of care and compassion for teaching' says head teacher Michele Phillips after National Education Union reps refused to meet the school team face to face

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 13, 2024, 5:13 pm

Vandals attack Israel solidarity stall at Leeds University

Police Community Support Officer 'spoken to about his handling of the matter' as Israeli flag ripped from table where Jewish students were highlighting anti-semitism and plight of hostages in Gaza

By Michelle Rosenberg

Sadiq Khan, Ramadan, central London, March 2024. Pic: AP

March 13, 2024, 4:51 pm

Sadiq Khan hails Jewish attendance at Ramadan Lights switch-on as sign of ‘hope’

Board of Deputies vice-presidents Edwin Shuker and Amanda Bowman and Nisa-Nashim founder Laura Marks at central London event as 30,000 lights switched on

By Justin Cohen

GIFT volunteers. Elliot Jacobs Photography

March 13, 2024, 12:53 pm

GIFT gala dinner celebrates 20 years of giving and inspiring change

650 supporters join social action charity to champion the continued culture of ‘We’ over ‘Me'.

By Michelle Rosenberg

The Chief Rabbi with JWA at the November 2023 launch of its awareness Shabbat

March 13, 2024, 11:25 am

Jewish Women’s Aid launches vital fundraiser this weekend

Matched campaign for domestic abuse and sexual violence charity hopes to raise £1.5 million

By Michelle Rosenberg

The Empty Shabbat Table installation for the Israeli hostages held by Hamas at the JW3 Jewish community centre in Finchley. Credit: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News

March 13, 2024, 10:36 am

Eighty communities across the UK mark Shabbat For Israel

Hostage families and other speakers engage with tens of thousands of people around the country.

By Jenni Frazer

There are talks underway with people in Manchester, to see whether it would be viable to set up a Gateways in the north.

March 13, 2024, 10:31 am

A learning haven dedicated to individualised education

Gateways, a school with a difference providing innovative alternative education for Jewish students who have dropped out of school, is marking (pun intended) its decade anniversary.

By Jenni Frazer

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