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David Miliband speaking during the Sir Martin Gilbert Memorial Lecture (Credit: ©️Jeremy Rosenberg)

David Miliband: I will remain in Labour while Dame Margaret Hodge is member

Former foreign secretary said it’s ‘very painful’ to hear antisemitism in the same sentence as the Labour Party, while giving the annual Sir Martin Gilbert Memorial lecture

Nottingham Trent University's Arkwright Building, 2000 (Wikimedia Commons)

Uni expels student over image of Charedi man with Palestine sticker on mouth

By Jewish News Reporter

Nottingham Trent ‘permanently excludes’ student known as ‘Jonathan’, who had not yet started his first year, amid a reportedly antisemitic social media post last month

University of Leicester (Credit: Google Maps Street View)

EHRC report: Two thirds of minority students don’t report racism on campus

By Jewish News Reporter

A person with a flag of Israel stands next to flowers and candles in front of a synagogue in Halle, Germany, following a terror shooting on Yom Kippur in 2019 (AP Photo/Jens Meyer via Jewish News)

After Halle attack report finds one in four Germans holds antisemitic beliefs

By Jewish News Reporter

Shock survey by World Jewish Congress finds that a quarter of the population may hold views including Jews having ‘too much power over the economy’

Rabbi Yisroel hugs a member of the congregation of Chabad of Poway the day after a deadly shooting took place there, on Sunday, April 28, 2019 in Poway, Calif. (Credit Image: © TNS via ZUMA Wire)

12 white supremacists arrested for threats to US communities since Pittsburgh

By JTA

Activists say neo-Nazis tried to torch a Jewish centre in Budapest

By JTA

Salma Yaqoob speaking at an anti-Israel rally in London

Labour urged to ‘expel’ mayoral hopeful who shared Rothschild bankers article

By Jewish News Reporter

Former vice-chair of George Galloway’s ‘Respect’ Party, Salma Yaqoob, is standing to be its West Midlands candidate

Shortlisted candidate Aysha Raza questioned the removal of Mear One's mural in 2012

Fears raised over ‘unfit’ Labour candidates ahead of possible election

By Mathilde Frot

MP Ruth Smeeth worries a number of possible candidates could be ‘completely unfit’ as the party was plunged into a new row this week

AnalysisVoice of the Jewish News: Eyes on Labour lists, and next stop, the Moon!

By Jewish News

Top Ops

Jeffrey Newman

OPINION: Why I got arrested at the Extinction Rebellion protest in London

After being detained during a demonstration last week, Rabbi Jeffrey Newman explains what inspired him to wear a kippah and take to the streets

Alex Brummer

OPINION: America’s tradition of free speech encourages variety

Alex Brummer reflects on the state of U.S. politics, amid impeachment threats against President Donald Trump

Edwin Shuker

OPINION: We must pay Kurds our debt of gratitude

Board of Deputies Iraq-born Vice President, Edwin Shuker, says the Kurdish people should get our support, as they have defended local Jewish communities in their hour of need

Lyn Julius

OPINION: Buffeted by Egyptian winds of exile

Lyn Julius reflects on a book which touches upon Cairo’s former Jewish community before they were persecuted and ‘blown-out’ of the country

September 1972, an armed Palestinian on a balcony, after terrorists took Israeli team members hostage

Photographs That Changed The World: Munich’s face of terror

By Francine Wolfisz

Francine Wolfisz reviews a new history series looking at photographs that changed the world – including the stark image of a terrorist captured at the 1972 Olympic Games

Progressively Speaking: Overcoming hatred a year on from the Pittsburgh terror

By Deborah Blausten

Deborah Blausten reflects on the progressive Jewish response to the terror attack last year at the Tree of Life shul

AnalysisTorah For Today! This week: National Dress

By Rabbi Ariel Abel

AnalysisSedra of the week: bereishit

By Rebbetzen Joanne Dove

AnalysisThe Bible Says What? ‘Burn female cows and sprinkle ourselves with their ashes’

By Rabbi Danny Rich

More Headlines

Rachel Riley among stars going ‘undercover’ in covert poppy appeal campaign

By Jewish News Reporter

LtR: Prof. Rivka Dresner-Polak (grant winner), Prof. Eli Keshet (grant winner), Prof. Ruth Armin (co-chair of the UK-IL Science Committee), Dr. Amnon Buxboim (grant winner), HMA Neil Wigan, Prof. Ittai Ben Porath, Dr. Dina Zur (representing grant winner, Prof. Anat Lowenstein)

Seven bilateral research projects win £2.8m in medical funding

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Facebook and community groups publish guide to protect Jews on the site

By Jewish News Reporter

Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson touches down at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel with CEO Shai Weiss.

Richard Branson hails Israeli entrepreneurs as he arrives on new Virgin flight

By Jenni Frazer

Yesodey Hatorah's Senior Girls School in Stamford Hill

Charedi school ranked community’s best performing in progress table

By Jewish News Reporter

Argentina to finally play football in Israel after 2018 cancellation

By JTA

Win tickets to the RSC’s Measure for Measure at the Barbican!

By Francine Wolfisz

Following his spellbinding production of The Tempest in 2017, Royal Shakespeare Company’s Artistic Director Gregory Doran transports Shakespeare’s dark comedy to 1900s Vienna

Win a Revstar RS420 from Yamaha, worth £300!

Eat & Drink: Spicy Carrot Soup with cashew and coriander Salsa

By Denise Phillips

Win tickets to see Noises Off at the Garrick Theatre!

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