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Fast Forward Orthodox Teacher Fired For Living With Her Boyfriend Wins Discrimination Case
(JTA) — A teacher at a Jewish nursery school in suburban London who said she was fired for living with her boyfriend won her case of religious and sexual discrimination. Zelda de Groen, 24, sued the Gan Menachem Nursery in Hendon after losing her job in July 2016. She had worked there for four years….
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Call To Boycott JCC Over LGBT Programs
A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis have issued a letter urging community members to boycott JW3, the four-year-old Jewish community center in London. The letter, signed by 25 rabbis, says that some programs at JW3 “promote a way of life which is in total contradiction to Orthodox Judaism and halachah [Jewish law].” It adds that “members…
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News How This Neo-Nazi Came Out As Bisexual — And Jewish
In 1983, Kevin Wilshaw visited Dachau with three fellow neo-Nazis. He had traveled to Germany from England, his home country, and visited Hitler’s house and the Nuremberg Stadium in Munich with his German hosts. He asked them to take him to the nearby concentration camp. “They were very reluctant,” he said. They took him, and…
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Fast Forward British Politician: ‘What Have The Jews Done Good In This World?’
A British woman who once claimed that schools were “brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler” has been listed by the Labour Party as a possible nominee for a city council election. Nasreen Khan wrote incendiary Facebook comments in 2012 about a video called “The Palestine you need to know,”…
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Fast Forward Prince Charles Blamed ‘Foreign Jews’ For Mideast Conflict In 1986 Letter
A newly unearthed letter revealed that Prince Charles of the United Kingdom once blamed the Middle East’s problems on the “influx of foreign Jews” to Israel during the 20th century. The letter, written to a South African friend in 1986 and unearthed from a public archive by the Mail on Sunday newspaper, also urged the…
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Fast Forward Elderly Jewish Woman Attacked In London; Assailant Yelled ‘Jew’ In Polish
(JTA) — A 70-year-old Jewish woman was hospitalized with a concussion after being attacked by an assailant who called her “Zyd,” Polish for “Jew.” The male attacker smashed her head into a brick wall while shouting “Zyd” during the attack on Saturday afternoon in London’s Stamford Hill neighborhood, which has a large Orthodox Jewish population,…
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Fast Forward British Secretary Of State Resigns Over Secret Meetings With Israeli Officials
(JTA) — A government minister in the United Kingdom resigned over secret meetings she had in Israel with government officials while on a family vacation there. Priti Patel, a lawmaker with the ruling Conservative Party, stepped down Wednesday after being called back earlier in the day from an official trip to Africa. In August, she…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Student Almost Misses His Wedding Over British Immigration Snafu
(JTA) — British immigration officers detained for three days a haredi Orthodox citizen of Israel and the United States who arrived in the United Kingdom to marry a citizen of that country. Yosef Goldenberg of Los Angeles, who is studying in Israel, arrived Thursday at London’s Heathrow Airport carrying his American passport en route to his wedding Monday in…
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: היסטאָריקערין וויווי לאַקס באַשרײַבט געשיכטע פֿון לאָנדאָנער ייִדישער פּרעסעVIDEO: Historian Vivi Laks tells history of the London Yiddish Press
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