Columnists resign from London Jewish Chronicle amid allegations that Gaza news was fabricated
“With the heaviest of hearts, I need to break my connection,” wrote one longtime columnist
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A few weeks ago I was contacted via a friend by the chair of Dulwich and West Norwood Constituency Labour Party, which represents the London Borough adjacent to the one in which I live. The individual asked me if I would run a training session for them on anti-Semitism. Aside from my extensive involvement in…
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Breaking News British PM Vows in Op-Ed to Protect British Jews
British Prime Minister Theresa May launched a personal appeal to her country’s Jewish community on Thursday, writing in an op-ed that she and her government would fight anti-Semitism through all means at its disposal. “I want to speak very directly to every Jewish family in the UK, to assure you of my personal determination to…
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News Jew Vs. Jew, Brit Vs. Brit, No One Agrees on Brexit
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,…
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Opinion In WWI, Jews Fought for Britain. So Why Didn’t Britain Fight for Jews?
“Britain has been all she could be to Jews” — a recruitment poster issued at the beginning of World War I reads — “Jews will be all they can to Britain: Join the special Jewish unit.” At the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, it was the policy of the established Jewish community in Britain…
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Breaking News MyHeritage Adds British Paper Archives to Family Tree Site
MyHeritage, an-Israel based genealogy website, will now include in its database the archives of the Jewish Chronicle and two Israeli historical databases. In a release, the website, based in Or Yehuda in central Israel, said the London-based Chronicle’s archive included “over 200,000 pages and millions of names, and dates back to 1841.” “Based in London…
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The Schmooze Yiddishe Momma (No Longer) For Sale
James Doyan, A British man from North London, has done what generations of harassed Jewish sons only wish was possible: put his mother up for sale on eBay. “My Yiddishe Momma for sale. Beautiful, great cook, educated, articulate, family focused, caring — priceless,” read the ad, according to a recent article in Britain’s Jewish Chronicle….
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