Jennifer Lipman
By Jennifer Lipman
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News Britain’s Chief Rabbi Embraces Limmud, Despite Protest From Ultra-Orthodox
If Jews in America eat out at Chinese restaurants on Christmas, large numbers of British Jews avoid the holiday entirely by heading out to Limmud, the annual learning fest for Jews of all stripes that has spread worldwide since its launch at Oxford University in the 1980s. As the event’s popularity has grown by leaps…
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News London JW3 Jewish Center Aims for Bit of American ‘Exuberance’
Finchley Road, which stretches across London’s northern suburbs, is one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares. Day and night, cars crawl along it, passing supermarkets, furniture stores, a popular multiplex and, lately, a vast construction site for a new project now nearing completion. What’s about to be unveiled here is broadcast loud and clear by the…
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Life Royal Baby, Royal Motherhood?
He’s not yet two days old, only weighs 3.8 kg and doesn’t even have a name. Yet Baby Cambridge, third in line to the throne and pronounced beautiful by his doctor, is currently occupying the world’s attention. Kate, it seems, has done her job. Throughout British royal history, the existence of the heir and the…
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