Founder of organization has called Jews 'Islam's enemies' and it hosted an antisemitic speaker; group has apologized for flyer saying the building previously housed 'non believers'
Oldest Jewish media outlet being purchased by consortium led by Sir Robbie Gibb, ex-head of communications at 10 Downing Street; rival Jewish News to continue publishing as before
Some people named in consortium behind offer say they don't know who the actual funder is; liquidation of JC and rival Jewish News pushed off to midweek
Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News announced last week that they were going into liquidation; Chronicle editor resigns to support outside consortium's takeover attempt
Britain's Jewish News editor on the liquidation of the UK's two main Jewish papers: Our community dearly needs a vibrant, independent and secure newspaper
Jewish News and Jewish Chronicle had previously announced a planned merger, but now say they can't survive the impact of the coronavirus epidemic in their current forms
Newspapers say the move is aimed at ensuring 'the high level of independent quality journalism and community news that the UK Jewish community has come to expect'
In Guardian column, Jonathan Freedland says realization that racism is tolerated for 'larger cause' to stop Brexit means that 'what we thought about this country wasn’t quite true'
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