Billionaire investor George Soros took out a bet of more than 100 million euros ($111 million) that Deutsche Bank shares would fall at the time of Britain’s vote to quit the European Union, according to a regulatory filing. Soros, who is renowned for successfully betting against the pound in 1992, had a “short” position of…
My 8-year-old son Cai didn’t like the tension around the Brexit talk. He knew an “out” vote meant we’ll probably move from our new home in Luxembourg since my Welsh husband would become ineligible to work in his current job for the EU. As the only British people he knows voted to stay, he can’t…
In early June my son Coby was finishing up a pre-college work-study year in China. I was headed to Tel Aviv for a conference. We decided to spend a few weeks together in Israel, visiting family and catching up with friends. Coby found a cheap flight that landed him in Amman, Jordan, where I met…
It’s all over and the results are clear. British voters chose to leave the European Union. Even before the deal is finalized, we can see the winners and losers. Xenophobic UKIP and the right flank of the Tories won, and the losers are outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the British…
— Britain’s Jewish leaders had mixed reactions to the country’s surprising vote in favor of leaving the European Union, with few offering an opinion on whether or not leaving the EU is a good idea. Several praised Prime Minister David Cameron, who announced after the vote that he would resign, for his record on Jewish issues and…
In September 1938, six weeks before Kristallnacht, my German Jewish grandfather, who had fought for his country in the First World War, left Berlin on one of the proverbial last trains out. After several years in New York and then Knoxville, he would eventually settle in Texas in 1943. In Berlin he had been a…
As Britain’s referendum on whether to leave the European Union crept closer over the past few weeks, it became more and more clearly a question upon which the country — as well as its Jewish community — was sharply divided. “I’m honestly can’t stop crying,” Rebecca Filer, a Jewish student at the University of Bristol,…
What do the BDS movement and Brexit have in common? A lot, actually. If you don’t live in Europe, you might not think that Thursday’s referendum on whether or not Great Britain should remain in the European Union has much to do with you. But, if you care about Israel’s economy and are opposed to…
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