For decades, members of Britain's Jewish population have marked life's milestones by taking out notices in The Jewish Chronicle, a weekly publication founded in 1841 that bills itself as the world's oldest Jewish newspaper.
The trigger was a series of sensational articles about the war in Gaza that ran in the paper but were later debunked as fabricated, marking a significant editorial failure.
Jake Wallis Simons became the editor of The Jewish Chronicle in 2021. In his time, the paper has taken a more stridently right-wing stance, drawing mixed reactions.
The Chronicle's editor, Jake Wallis Simons, apologized for the articles, took full responsibility for the mistakes that have been made, and pledged to prevent such issues in the future.
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