For Jewish News October 5 2025 To stand in Trafalgar Square on a blustery October Sunday afternoon was to remove any doubt about how much British Jews are hurting. This was a rally, planned months ago, to mark the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks against southern Israel on 7 October 2023. But there was […]
For Jewish News July 16 2025 A shocked audience of more than 400 people listened in silence as two of the best-known former hostages in Gaza, Aviva and Keith Siegel, recounted their harrowing experiences at the hands of their Hamas captors. And then the audience at Finchley Synagogue rose in applause for a couple who […]
For Jewish News August 5 2024 The “small but tight-knit” Southport Jewish community has said prayers and taken part in the town’s vigil for those killed and wounded in last week’s tragic knife attack on a children’s dance class. Victor Isenwater, chair of Southport Hebrew Congregation, told Jewish News: ““It is a difficult time for […]
For Jewish News August 5 2024 He is the managing director of one of the biggest kitchen appliance companies in Britain — and certainly understands what it means to be boiling hot. But Stephen Johnson’s life in August is set to be very different, as he aims to raise at least £50,000 by walking the […]
For Jewish News July 2024 The artist Leon Fenster now walks around London eyeing up likely spaces for one of his gigantic murals — buoyed with the success of his newest installation on the walls of JW3, the stories and legends of Jewish London. Fenster, who was brought up in Edgware and Stanmore before his […]
Bury South constituency profile June 2024 The strangest thing about the Bury South constituency —part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester —is that it does not actually include the rambunctious market town of Bury itself. That honour belongs to the neighbouring constituency of Bury North, currently the most marginal seat in Britain as it […]
For Jewish News April 2024 Bneyah Moshe’s arrival into the world has become one of the most talked-about births at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus. For the baby’s parents, Astar Moshe and Shlomi Tobi, are survivors of the Nova music festival massacre on October 7 last year, and the need to save their future child […]
For JN April 2024 This week’s World Central Kitchen tragedy and the death of seven foreign aid workers “could have been prevented”, according to an experienced humanitarian aid entrepreneur, and a senior American former general. Moti Kahana is an American-Israel businessman who heads the humanitarian aid agency GDC (Global Development Company), which provides logistical support […]
For Jewish News March 26 2024 Two Israeli brothers who were detained for two hours of “interrogation” by Border Force personnel at Manchester Airport have told Jewish News that once they told the officers they were Jewish, “the attitude just got worse”. Daniel Sharabi, 24, and his brother Neriya, 22, arrived in Manchester on Sunday, […]
For Jewish News March 2024 A new threat to Bevis Marks Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in Britain, has been published by the City of London. And the attempt, just two years after the City refused an application for a 47-storey tower block which would have overshadowed the synagogue, comes from the same developers — but […]