(JTA) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he spoke with Israeli officials for advice on how to combat urban terrorism in the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester. Khan told the London-based Jewish News that his office and Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officials had spoken with officials in Israel. “My office has been in…
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…
(JTA) — A Jewish chaplain in London said his 16-year-old daughter was punched and kicked in a local park in an anti-Semitic attack, and that police did not respond to an emergency call. Alex Goldberg, the Jewish Chaplain at the University of Surrey and Chaplain to Surrey Police, said in a post on Facebook Sunday…
(JTA) — A pro-Israel event in London has been postponed due to security concerns in the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester. The Christians United For Israel’s annual “A Night To Honour Israel,” scheduled for June 22, in Westminster, London, was expected to draw more than 1,000 people. It was postponed on Monday…
(JTA) — British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis called on Britons to remain committed to the values of peace and tolerance in the wake of a terror attack in London that left at least 7 people dead. A white van rammed into pedestrians on London Bridge on Saturday night then began stabbing the bystanders on the…
A man armed with a meat cleaver threatened to kill Jews at a kosher meat store in the northwest London neighborhood of Stamford Hill on Tuesday – in what might have been a case of workplace violence. “Where is the boss, I will kill him!” the 61-year-old man is said to have screamed upon entering…
Tony Kushner’s generation-defining two-part play “Angels in America” premiered in San Francisco in 1991, but to many, its first definitive production was at London’s National Theatre in 1992. The year-long run of “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches” — soon to be followed by part 2, “Angels in America: Perestroika” — cemented the play’s Broadway prospects,…
(JTA) — A London hotel has turned down a request to host a private screening of a film honoring Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for the murder of Israeli Jews. The Palestinian Mission in the United Kingdom had planned to screen “Marwan: A film about the…
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