Unidentified burglars stole approximately $30,000 worth of Judaica artifacts from a Jewish family in London. The break-in occurred last week at the home of the Palmer family in Edgware, north London. The burglars got away with menorahs, a Seder plate and silver cups, among other items, which they stole at night while four family members…
British Jews are no more at risk from terrorism than they were before the slaying of a British soldier by suspected terrorists, British Jewry’s security unit said. “For the Jewish community security, the primary lessons remain unchanged,” CST wrote Thursday on its website. “Rather than living in fear, we should be alert to the full…
“London seems to be in my bloodstream,” said artist Leon Kossoff. “It is always moving — the skies, the streets, the buildings. The people who walk past me when I draw have become part of my life.” Kossoff’s current exhibition, “London Landscapes,” which opened in London May 8, includes over 90 drawings and 10 paintings…
She has dark eyes, full lips and short hair in one of the favourite styles of London in the “swinging 60s” but who is she? And could she help shed light on the infamous Profumo scandal, the heady tale of espionage, sex and politics that held Britain spellbound in the early 1960s and helped bring…
“After six years, Daniel Radcliffe is officially marking his return to the London stage.” The lede in an article on E! Online yesterday tells us two things. First, that Daniel Radcliffe will be appearing in Malcolm McDonagh’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan.” More importantly however, it proves that it is now acceptable to refer to the…
Non-Jewish residents of the heavily haredi Orthodox-populated London neighborhood of Hackney have launched a campaign to prevent Orthodox Jews from changing city planning regulations. A group named Hackney Planning Watch recently produced a flyer warning: “Your neighborhood is in danger! Want your neighbor to extend their home to cover the whole of their back garden?…
London may be facing a Passover without chicken soup. The city’s ultra-Orthodox kosher supervision authority announced March 7 that nearly all of the chickens slaughtered under their supervision in recent weeks were found to be unkosher. In its statement, the Kashrus Committee of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations said that the 80% of slaughtered…
Britain’s Jewish population is becoming more concentrated, with nearly 60 percent of Jews living in London, new statistics show. According to detailed figures from the 2011 census released this week, 90 percent of the country’s 263,000 Jews live in just 20 percent of its neighborhoods. The most heavily Jewish area was the Orthodox suburb of…
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