On October 2, 2025, on Yom Kippur — the holiest day of the Jewish calendar — a terrorist attack occurred at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in the Crumpsall area of North Manchester.

Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa, which existed for more than two thousand years, virtually disappeared in the 20th century.

The Hadassah Women’s Zionist Organization of America, one of the largest women’s Zionist organizations in the world, was founded on March 3, 1912, by Henrietta Szold.