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.

Photo:  tomertu / Shutterstock.com With the arrival of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Light, we can begin to see the light at the end of this difficult year we have all been through.

On the morning of June 25, after the ceasefire between Israel and Iran, a flight from Paris with 110 new repatriates landed at Ben-Gurion Airport.