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• Israeli, Palestinian partner on a book of fiction

  June 13, 2004 9:00am

  A best-selling Israeli author and a London-based Palestinian writer collaborate on a fictional account of life in the Middle East in vignettes and characters that refuse to conform to stereotypes.

• Photos revive Auschwitz-bombing debate

  March 23, 2004 10:00am

  Britain’s move to make World War II aerial reconnaissance photos available online has reopened the 60-year-old debate over whether Allied forces could have bombed the concentration camps in order to stop the killing.

• Anti-Semitic incidents up in Britain

  February 22, 2004 10:00am

  A British monitoring group has reported that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain last year was the second-highest total in two decades. The tension caused by the turmoil in the Middle East is blamed for the spike.

• What will come of activist’s death?

  January 15, 2004 10:00am

  British Jews from across the political spectrum hope that some good — such as a re-evaluation of Israeli military policy — may yet come from the death of a British university student shot by an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip.

• Scandal rocks Hollinger empire

  January 4, 2004 10:00am

  Conrad Black, one of the world´s most vocally pro-Israel newspaper barons, looks set to lose his media empire in the wake of financial scandals.

• The rise of Conrad Black

  January 4, 2004 10:00am

  Conrad Black grew up in a wealthy family of brewers, but already in college he set his sights on the world of media ownership.

• British chief rabbi asked to quit

  December 23, 2003 10:00am

  A key leader of Britan´s Jewish community called on the country´s Orthodox chief rabbi to resign for allegedly failing to speak out on key issues like anti-Semitism and Israel.

• Mideast talks in London yield little

  November 30, 2003 10:00am

  Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials held meetings outside of London, accomplishing little, but signaling that additional talks aimed at restarting negotiations may be on the way.

• Oxford professor suspended

  October 29, 2003 10:00am

  British Jewry’s main organization praised Oxford University for suspending a professor who rejected a graduate student for being Israeli — but a British Jewish student group says the punishment isn’t sufficient.

• Kosher slaughter to be cut?

  October 2, 2003 9:00am

  Emboldened by this summer’s recommendation by the British Farm Animal Welfare Council that all animals in the country be stunned before being slaughtered, a British vegetarian group is planning to launch a new campaign against kosher slaughter.