A penny to the head, a fist to the face, scanning for horns… when did it first happen to you? A call from a British Rabbi for Jewish Twitter users to share their #FirstAntisemiticExperience has yielded a surge of painful memories on the social media site. Rabbi Zvi Solomons serves the Jewish Community of Berkshire,…
A bombshell report in the London Jewish Chronicle published February 9 revealed that an internal audit of the Jewish Leadership Council, a U.K. Jewish group, found that the organization’s former head had misused charitable funds, and that its board chose not to report the wrongdoing to the police. The former head of the group, Jeremy…
An Islamic group’s plan to build a mosque in a major center of London’s Jewish community has sparked outrage among Jewish residents — and outrage over the outrage — the Jewish Chronicle reported. The backlash began after a former concert venue in the Golders Green neighborhood was bought by the Center for Islamic Enlightening. A…
The United Kingdom’s ruling Conservative Party may be able to maintain power — just barely — after disastrous results in the Thursday election cost the Tories their overall majority in the House of Commons. But things could have been much worse for Prime Minister Theresa May had it not been for Jewish voters in key…
How far can Britain’s Labour party fall? That appears to remain the only open question as the general election – which seems certain to return Theresa May’s government to power with a vastly increased parliamentary majority – kicks off. But if Labour’s condition across the country as a whole is critical — polls currently show…
Over the past seven weeks, the British Jewish community raised £200,000 ($260,000) for the resettlement of 100 unaccompanied children from the Calais refugee camp here in the UK. The campaign was initiated by a group of leaders from Masorti (Conservative) communities in and around London, who came together in the early summer to try and…
According to Dave Rich in The New York Times, the left in Britain has a serious anti-Semitism problem. Indeed, he explains, under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, antipathy or profound insensitivity to Israel and Judaism has all but taken over the Labour Party. Why should American Jews care about parochial British politics two thousand miles…
As the reality of Brexit seeps in, some Brits of Jewish ancestry are finding an unexpected way to remain affiliated with the European Union — by applying for German citizenship. Following the June referendum, in which Britain voted to leave the European Union, applications for German citizenship have soared. At least 100 families or individuals…
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