From the Times: Bridget Phillipson has warned her critics that transgender people must not be used as a “political punchbag” amid accusations that she is blocking guidance on single-sex spaces…. Phillipson said the “majority” of the public accepted the need for female-only provision, and that there were valid questions of “fairness” on issues including women’s sport.…

Photographer Yves Lacroix captures the ruins of a bombed-out Ukraine, with light showing through the cracks: These buildings, like the Ukrainian people, these women and men, are damaged, broken, but remain standing, cracked but not collapsed. So it is not about celebrating destruction here, but rather renewal and better days ahead. Life stronger than destruction.…

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Nicole Lampert in the Telegraph, on UCL and antisemitism: While many British universities – in particular the elite Russell Group to which UCL belongs – saw an existing undercurrent of anti-Zionism explode after the Hamas massacre of October 7 2023, the problem at UCL remains frighteningly acute even as the war in Gaza has ended with an…

Meanwhile, in Brussels:

Photos by Jem Southam, shot along Bristol’s harbourside between 1978 and 1983. From his book The Harbour: The Harbour chronicles a period of significant change for the city which reflects the wider experience of loss and regeneration in Britain at the time. After centuries during which the harbour was a central hub of the commerce…

Guardian article here. While Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year achieved his dream of dragging the US into a military confrontation with Iran, it came at a steep and unprecedented cost for Israel. Seeing Netanyahu beg Donald Trump to be bailed out from a quagmire, a rising number of Americans openly acknowledge that Israel is not an…

From the JC: A child and a Jewish camp leader were thrown out of an Uber on a country road in the middle of the night following a discussion about Judaism and Israel that the driver initiated, it has been claimed. The incident took place just after 3am on Friday morning in Staffordshire. The passengers,…