Getty Images Think Yiddish, dress British is getting a revamp: Mel Brooks is about to make his solo London debut. According to [the Telegraph]( (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11445043/Mel-Brooks-first-ever-London-show-announced.html ‘the Telegraph’)), the 88-year-old will bring his particular brand of Jewish comedy to The Prince of Wales Theatre “for an evening of storytelling about his childhood memories and Hollywood anecdotes,…
A far-right nationalist group is planning a rally in a haredi Orthodox neighborhood of London to protest against what it calls the “Jewification of Great Britain.” The rally, set for March 22, is being organized by a group called Liberate Stamford Hill, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. The Stamford Hill neighborhood is said to have…
Britain will build a new Holocaust memorial in the center of London with the help of $50 million in government funds. The announcement of the future memorial, which will also be home to an education center, was made on Tuesday, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the former Auschwitz concentration camp. “We stand in…
Hate crimes against Jews in London more than doubled last year, according to the Scotland Yard. The police headquarters for metropolitan London reported 299 hate crimes against Jewish people between the start of April and the end of December of 2014. This represented a rise of 128 percent over the corresponding period in 2013, when…
More than 20 cars and buildings in a Jewish community in north London were vandalized with swastikas. The Nazi symbol was drawn on approximately 27 cars in the Osbaldeston Road area of Stoke Newington on Sunday night, The Daily Mail reported. An unnamed 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with the vandalism Tuesday. The neighborhood…
(JTA) — A London school was daubed twice with swastikas in separate incidents within a week. Police are investigating the vandalism discovered Monday at the Jubilee Primary School in the Hackney borough’s Stoke Newington neighborhood, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Hackney has a large Orthodox Jewish population and is near the heavily haredi Orthodox neighborhood of…
Was Jack the Ripper, one of the most notorious murderers of all time, and the subject of more than 125 years of ongoing investigations into his identity, Jewish? This allegation, as old as the crimes themselves, was given new life with the publication in September of Russell Edwards’s book “Naming Jack the Ripper,” the latest…
A passenger on a London bus who shouted anti-Semitic epithets was given a 16-week prison sentence. Ian Campbell, 42, of London pleaded guilty last month to a racially aggravated public order offense. He was sentenced in Magistrates Court in Hendon last week, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported Friday. He also was sentenced to four weeks…
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