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….
(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…
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…
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…
(JTA) — A Jewish family from the United Kingdom complained to police about a young man who was filmed hurling an object in their direction and calling them “dirty Jews” on a London street after shoving their baby stroller. The incident Sunday, which police are treating as a hate crime, escalated after the man pushed…
An Orthodox Jewish man in London was forced to flee from a knife-wielding attacker who threatened to “behead” him on Monday, The Evening Standard reported. The Jewish man was walking to work in the Whitechapel district of east London when he was accosted by a stranger who allegedly called him a “f***** Jew” before pulling…
(JTA) — A women’s-only pond in North London will now be open to transgender swimmers, which will prevent Orthodox Jews from using the pond. A group of haredi Orthodox women are planning to fight the decision, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. Under Jewish law, women cannot be dressed immodestly in front of men. Trans women…
Another football game between European teams, another display of Naziism from one team’s fans. On a cloudy day at London’s Emirate’s Stadium, disgruntled Valencia fans protested their team’s inability to win their football game by screaming and making Nazi salutes. In footage posted to Twitter by Spanish football show La Liga Lowdown, jeering Valencia fans…
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