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Immanuel College plans to close its prep school next autumn

Primary pupils will be offered places at Kerem in new collaboration between the schools

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November 28, 2024 19:11

Immanuel College, Bushey (photo: Ian Jones)

The unique Ethiopian festival with Jerusalem at its heart

Chag Hasigd, which is celebrated this week, is deeply rooted in the Bible, writes Simon Rocker

4 min read

November 28, 2024 17:00

Ethiopian Jews celebrating the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem last year (Photo: Flash90)

Refugee charity approved for membership of Board of Deputies

HIAS+JCORE and Jnetics become the latest organisations to join the representative body

1 min read

November 28, 2024 12:57

Rabbi David Mason at Limmud (Photo: Gaby Wine)

At 93, Sephardi charity head decides it’s time to retire

In his work for the Montefiore Endowment, Lucien Gubbay helped to restore Orthodox rabbinic ordination to the UK

1 min read

November 27, 2024 17:05

Chief Rabbi urges MPs to ‘choose life’ as Jewish leaders intervene on euthanasia bill

But Progressive leaders explained why they have not signed letters in opposition to or support for the bill

3 min read

November 27, 2024 11:47

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addresses an event (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

No more stringing us along! Golders Green eruv is a yes

Campaign for the new Shabbat boundary wanted to raise £250,000 – and got it

1 min read

November 24, 2024 12:46

Eruv mastermind: the Federation's Rabbi Zimmerman

Better together: the man promoting the benefits of the JCAT school ‘family’

Multi-academy trusts will remain the way forward for many schools, believes Adam Goldstein, the new ceo of the Jewish Community Academy Trust

3 min read

November 24, 2024 10:59

Better together: the man promoting the benefits of the JCAT school ‘family’

Messianism and the second coming of the Donald

Trump is likely to embolden religious hardliners in Israel, who will feel destiny is unfolding

3 min read

November 21, 2024 11:10

A congratulatory billboard on November 7 in Tel Aviv (Getty Images)

Doing better: Ofsted finds improvements at two Charedi girls schools

Inspectors report high academic expectations at secondary schools in Salford and London

1 min read

November 20, 2024 11:03

Shiras Devorah School's educational programme includes visits to London's Science Museum (Photo: Getty Images)

Goodbye to the ladies’ gallery

A standard feature of mainstream Orthodox synagogues is being consigned to history as the demand grows for greater inclusion of women

4 min read

November 17, 2024 11:34

Women in the upstairs gallery at St Johns Wood at the induction ceremony of Chief Rabbi Mirvis in 2013s (Getty Images)

Admissions regulator partly upholds complaint against IJDS

The school says it will amend questions about religious observance on application forms to ensure that they are clear and fair

1 min read

November 15, 2024 10:16

The admissions regulator says that rabbinical references for religious observance on school applications can refer only to public worship, not private prayer (Photo of New West End Synagogue, Getty Images)

Yavneh College to open bulge class in 2025

The Hertfordshire school serves a Jewish population that has grown substantially over the past decade

1 min read

November 13, 2024 11:17

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