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New Golders Green eruv to go live this week

It is intended to benefit strictly Orthodox families who do not currently use the existing eruv covering the area

By Simon Rocker

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New Golders Green eruv to go live this week

Councillor Benzion Papier (Hackney Conservatives)

Charedi Beth Din denounces Hackney councillor in get case

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The chewy fruit that spells hope and resilience

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Podcast host: Dr Tanya White (tanyawhite.org)

What would Rabbi Sacks have said after October 7?

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January 21, 2025 17:47

Good Charedi school gets even better, says Ofsted

Inspectors lavish praise on Menorah High School for Girls

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January 21, 2025 17:12

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Board of Deputies keeps mum on yeshivah regulation controversy

The representative body says it will not be commenting on government’s new education proposals

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January 21, 2025 14:18

Charedi protest against the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

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Board president Phil Rosenberg told Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley the community owed the force ‘a huge amount of appreciation’

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January 20, 2025 23:26

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley addresses Board of Deputies on Sunday (Photo: YouTube)

High Court criticises Beth Din over decade-long, £100k father v son dispute

A beth din composed of rabbis from the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations had found in favour of father against his rabbinical son

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January 20, 2025 15:35

The Rolls Building in London, where High Court cases are heard (photo: Roger Green/Wikimedia Commons)

Charedi leader calls government moves to regulate yeshivot ‘alarming’

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German Federal Council President Manuela Schwesig (Centre L) addresses a speech during the opening ceremony for the National Holocaust Museum, at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, on March 10, 2024. Eighty years after World War II, the Netherlands is poised to open its first Holocaust museum, as before the war and the Nazi occupation, the Netherlands was home to a vibrant Jewish community of around 140,000 people, mainly concentrated in Amsterdam and by the time the Holocaust was over, an estimated 75 percent -- 102,000 people -- had been murdered. (Photo by Patrick van Emst / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by PATRICK VAN EMST/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)