Jacob Judah
By Jacob Judah
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News In Moldova, Ukrainian Jewish refugees find refuge from the war in synagogues and Jewish centers
CHISINAU, Moldova (JTA) — A mother cradles her child. An old man clutches a large plastic bag into which he has crammed all the belongings he could fit. The children who are old enough to understand what is happening are silent, those who are not are tugging gently at their grandmothers’ coats. This is one…
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Fast Forward London’s Wiener Library is the world’s oldest Holocaust archive. It’s still collecting material.
LONDON (JTA) — There are two sketches of Philipp Manes, a leading early-20th-century German-Jewish businessman, in the notebooks that he kept with him during his two-year imprisonment at the Theresienstadt transit camp. Both are drawn shortly before Manes was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944, and could not be more different. One portrait shows Manes…
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News ‘Not a safe space’: Prestigious Jewish schools in London are shaken by allegations of sexual abuse
LONDON (JTA) — Two of London’s most prestigious Jewish schools are in turmoil after they were implicated on a website for Brits to share their stories of sexual abuse. The website, Everyone’s Invited, launched in March after the disappearance and murder of Sarah Everard launched a national conversation about the safety of women. Among the…
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News In English city, shrinking Jewish community gets a boost from Orthodox neighbors — and hope from Reform synagogue
LONDON (JTA) — Newcastle, the heart of northeast England, is not a small city with its approximately 300,000 inhabitants. But to the few British Jews that cast their eyes northward from Manchester and London, the city is little more than what it was in Roman times – an outpost straddling the edges of Hadrian’s Wall….
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