England’s first Holocaust ‘stumbling stone’ will honor a woman who tried to rescue her family
Ada van Dantzig, who studied painting conservation in London, was killed at Auschwitz in 1943
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The French high court’s decision to acquit the man who killed Sarah Halimi, a 65 year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, has triggered a wave of international outcry. Protesters in Los Angeles and New York City stood outside their city’s French Consulates on Thursday demanding justice for Halimi and showing their support for France’s Jewish community. London,…
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(JTA) — As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave birth to her inside a concentration camp just a month before it was liberated. But this spring, as COVID-19 shut down public life, Clarke’s visits to schools and community…
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(JTA) — A London man was charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of a rabbi on a city street. The suspect in custody was identified as Stanley Frances of Stoke Newington, located in northeast London. He is scheduled to appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court on Monday, the London-based Jewish Times reported. He also was…
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In the fortnight since George Floyd perished under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, Britain has been swept by an anger to which large sections of the population are not accustomed. As in every other country in the western world, people have taken to the streets here to demonstrate against racism and police violence….
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Fast Forward London city worker secures Jewish funeral for 95-year-old man who died alone
(JTA) — After several weeks at a London mortuary, the unclaimed body of 95-year-old Herbert Max Fraenkel was slated to be buried in a shared grave at a pauper’s funeral. Fraenkel, who was born in 1924 in Berlin, died alone at his home in January. City workers were unable to locate or identify any of…
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Fast Forward Muslim Woman Defends Jewish Family From Anti-Semitism On London Underground
A Jewish family riding on the London Underground was accosted by a man yelling anti-Semitic language – but was defended by a Muslim woman also riding on the train, video posted to social media Friday showed. The footage, posted by British author and filmmaker Chris Atkins, showed a Jewish man wearing a kippah comforting two…
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A 77-year-old rabbi protesting in London on Monday was arrested and dragged away from the protest by police. Rabbi Jeffrey Newman was among dozens of Jewish protesters demonstrating in the streets outside the house of the Lord Mayor of London, the Jewish News reported. The group, affiliated with the Extinction Rebellion movement, was protesting what…
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