UPDATE: The photographer behind the signs apologized, calling them part of an art project. A “Beware of Jews” street sign that appeared in Stamford Hill, a London area home to a large Orthodox Jewish community, has been branded as “disgusting” and “despicable” by local lawmakers. A neighborhood watch group said the red triangular warning sign,…
The Forward plans to regularly monitor on the surge of anti-Semitism in many parts of the country and the world. The mission of this column is not to unduly alarm, but rather to raise awareness of a disturbing trend that, from some vantage points, can prove difficult to spot. 1) Stanford’s Printers Hacked to Print…
A wild brawl erupted between a group of Orthodox Jewish men and a London traffic officer after the cop allegedly ran over a man dressed in traditional Jewish clothing with his moped. “He revved up his bike and drove straight towards him at full speed,” a witness told The Sun. The witness said the traffic…
(JTA) — The Arab mayor of London called for zero tolerance for hate crimes in the wake of a series of anti-Semitic incidents in the British capital. Sadiq Khan met Monday evening with genocide survivors, including from the Holocaust, as part of the city’s programming surrounding International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27. “A brick…
A series of five anti-Semitic hate crimes hit London over the weekend, according to the Jewish Chronicle. In the most egregious case, Jews walking home from Friday night Shabbat services were pelted with eggs. In another, a brick was tossed threw a window, with swastikas drawn onto it. One homeowner left the house to find…
(JTA) — Four haredi Orthodox Jews from London, including a mother and her 13 year-old son, were pelted with gas canisters by at least one man who yelled “Heil Hitler” at them from a moving car. Police apprehended a suspect, 19-year-old Patrick Delaney, who admitted to participating in the attack last week in Tottenham in northern…
(JTA) — A haredi Orthodox Jewish man from London told a family court judge that his 9-year-old daughter was facing ostracism from their community after her mother allowed her to eat McDonald’s and go to a mixed-sex gymnastics class. The girl’s mother had left her husband and their insular community, according to reports in the…
We’ve compiled a list of 39 things to eat, watch, read and do on Chrismukkah. The only hard part now is choosing! Go out for (or make!) hot chocolate Get your sugar rush at one of these restaurants, cafes or bars open on December 24 and 25. • Try Max Brenner’s Pumpkin Spiced Mocha: hot chocolate…
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