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Rabbi Lara Haft Yom-Tov issues personal apology to New North London Synagogue community Ireland’s Bambie Thug says ‘f*** the EBU’ after finishing behind Israel at Eurovision By Jewish News Reporter OPINION: Europe’s lack of vision in not seeing Israel’s Eden Golan as a person By Rachel Blain Lord Cameron to BBC: Time to call Hamas terrorists By JN Reporter Fights and yelling: anger at government boils over on Yom Hazikaron By Jotam Confino in Israel Families at Ashdod military cemetery shout at national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: ‘Get out of here, criminal. You haven’t been in the army for a minute’ ‘A year of national mourning’: Israel marks Memorial Day amid ongoing war By Jotam Confino in Israel Society of Authors narrowly rejects Gaza motion By Jenni Frazer Foreign Office investigating Hamas claim British-Israeli hostage killed in Gaza By Lee Harpin Most Popular 1 Masorti rabbi who called Israel ‘war criminals’ under internal investigation 2 Lord Cameron to BBC: Time to call Hamas terrorists 3 Ireland’s Bambie Thug says ‘f*** the EBU’ after finishing behind Israel at Eurovision 4 Israel selects Eden Golan to represent the country at Eurovision 5 Communal leaders welcome election of new Board president Rosenberg 6 Phil Rosenberg elected new Board president 7 Kindertransport refugees receive standing ovation at 85th anniversary concert 8 WIN! We’re giving away a £10,000 party! 9 OPINION: Europe’s lack of vision in not seeing Israel’s Eden Golan as a person 10 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ‘We’re here to show our voice,’ says Israel’s Eurovision contender The latest Jewish News Read this week’s digital edition Click Here More issues Communal leaders welcome election of new Board president Rosenberg By Lee Harpin Former president Jonathan Arkush says Phil Rosenberg’s victory was a ‘huge achievement at the age of 38’ Phil Rosenberg elected new Board president By Lee Harpin Church leaders join fight to protect Bevis Marks By Jenni Frazer Tel Aviv Pride cancelled out of respect for hostages By Michelle Rosenberg Kindertransport refugees receive standing ovation at 85th anniversary concert By Dan Hardoon Surviving kinder, among them Lady Grenfell-Baines, Lord Alf Dubs and Bronia Snow, hailed as national treasures” at Wigmore Hall event. NUS slams claims it has severed ties with Jewish student body as an ‘online lie’ By Lee Harpin UK’s Kennel Club sorry for ‘misjudgment’ in rejecting Jerusalem as puppy name By Beatrice Sayers NUS stops attempt by anti-Zionist activists to force vote on breaking link with UJS By Lee Harpin COMPETITION WIN! We’re giving away a £10,000 party! By Jewish News presents The Big Event Jewish News, along with our generous partners Doubletree by Hilton London Elstree and WA Carr & Son productions, is offering one lucky reader an extraordinary luxury event package. BOOK The Orthodox Jew who was no such thing By Jenni Frazer Author Reuven Fenton talks about the wild premise of his debut novel – the story of a comic road trip with a highly eclectic group of travellers Holocaust survivor’s diaries are discovered 80 years after she wrote them By Marianne Nikolov and Nikolett Nikolov Sunak says university leaders have moral duty to protect Jewish students from intimidation By Lee Harpin Europe’s university rectors called on to protect Jewish students By Michelle Rosenberg Downing Street to host crisis meeting with university leaders over campus antisemitism By Lee Harpin On His Majesty’s Service: Norwood granted patronage by King Charles By Michelle Rosenberg Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, World Jewish Relief and JLGB also retain their royal patronage UJS president tells Downing Street meeting of ‘year like no other’ for Jewish students By Lee Harpin Edward Isaacs outlines the threats and intimidation since 7 October in campuses across UK North London business group set to cycle for memorial honouring 26,000 Holocaust victims By Michelle Rosenberg Jewish schools network CEO to be torchbearer at Yom Ha’atzmaut ceremony in Israel By Michelle Rosenberg Rabbi David Meyer, of the Partnership of Jewish Schools, is one of two diaspora participants picked for the event Virtual reality puts viewers in locations where 7/10 massacre took place By Michelle Rosenberg New conspiracy theory guide for MPs and candidates warns of threat to UK democracy By Lee Harpin Israel boycott ban covering universities ‘no thought control’, says minister By JN Reporter The economy is entering a new ‘Super Cycle’ says Goldman Sachs guru By Candice Krieger Investment analyst and author of a new book Peter Oppenheimer says decarbonisation and AI will have a significant impact on the financial markets which are sitting at the edge of change German sports figures mark Yom Hashoah in Israel By Jenni Frazer Maccabi GB’s yellow candles light up the world By Jenni Frazer ‘We come together this evening as proud Jews to remember the Shoah’ By Lee Harpin This year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration in London, held as antisemitism rises across the globe after 7 October, took place in Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster Key to their freedom: symbolic shlissel challah event raises more than £4,500 By Michelle Rosenberg Lord Levy gives heartfelt tribute to Rabbi Avrohom Pinter as street opened in his name By Lee Harpin Medals of heroic RAF officer expected to reach £1k at auction By Michelle Rosenberg Flight Lieutenant Gerald Wilton’s family fled the Nazis in Austria in 1938. He was a member of the exclusive caterpillar club, renown for using a parachute to escape a disabled aircraft ‘The bridge between his beloved Morocco and the Jewish people’: Sydney Assor dies aged 93 By Michelle Rosenberg Tributes paid to leader of Moroccan Jewish community in the UK who died on 26 April Top Ops Michelle Rosenberg Oscars of education recognises Immanuel College teacher Assistant head of Jewish education Michael Lewis shortlisted for subject lead of the year in prestigious TES school awards JON BOYD OPINION: We often don’t realise it but Israel shapes much of Jewish life in the Diaspora This Yom Ha’atzmaut we would do well to appreciate the role the country has played for the past 76 years, writes Jon Boyd Avi Hasson OPINION: Driving innovation forward: Israel’s 76-year legacy ‘For a world restless to address pressing shared challenges, Israel has the solutions’, writes Avi Hasson Avi Gil OPINION: What happens when Israel’s military and government arms aren’t shaking hands? The war with Hamas has demonstrated the importance of aligning military operations with political objectives Michael Rubin OPINION: How a Labour Government could advance peace in the Middle East LFI’s Michael Rubin urges a Keir Starmer administration to bring together the international community to fund peacebuilding projects involving Israelis and Palestinians to underpin any future peace process Stephen Smith OPINION: AI allows us to truly bear witness to the horrors of 7 October A virtual reality testimony project tells the story of the 2023 atrocity in southern Israel Hadley Freeman OPINION: This undeniably, overwhelmingly, feels different for all Jews In a powerful extract from her essay in the latest issue of Jewish Quarterly, Hadley Freeman reflects on why universities have become the sites of some of the most sickening examples of anti-Jewish hate since 7/10 Edward Misrahi OPINION: Where have all our leaders gone? ‘I am pretty sure...