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Fast Forward WATCH: This Jewish Wedding Was Almost Totally Ruined — By A Bomb Threat
After a bomb threat nearly ruined one couple’s perfect wedding, their wedding planners salvaged it with a makeshift chuppah, reported the Jewish Chronicle. Dan and Gaby Rosehill were moments from being named husband and wife by their rabbi at the picturesque Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. Just after the ritual sheva brachot, staff from the…
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Fast Forward British Soccer Team Asks Fans To Cease Anti-Semitic Chant
(JTA) — The British soccer team Chelsea called on its own fans to stop singing an anti-Semitic chant in tribute to the signing of a new player. Spanish national Alvaro Morata signed this summer with Chelsea, arriving from the Real Madrid team. Morata scored on Saturday against Leicester City, again prompting the chant: “Alvaro, oh,…
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Fast Forward British Chief Rabbi Tells Orthodox To Be More Open To Gays
(JTA) — British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis called on a meeting of more than 100 Orthodox rabbis to be more inclusive toward the LGBTQ community. On Tuesday, at his annual pre-High Holidays conference for the rabbinate, Mirvis also called for extra concern for other special groups as well. “Every person is precious. Single parents, women,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Couple Celebrates 83rd Wedding Anniversary — She’s 104 And He’s 105
(JTA) — Two Jewish centenarians in Britain celebrated their 83rd wedding anniversary, becoming what is thought to be the country’s longest married couple. Helen and Maurice Kaye, aged 104 and 105, celebrated their anniversary last week surrounded by their family at home in Bournemouth, the Jewish Chronicle of London reported Thursday, noting the longevity milestone….
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Fast Forward ‘Hitler Was A Good Man!’ Attacker Targets Orthodox Girls In London
A man brandishing glass bottles and yelling ‘Hitler was a good man!’ attacked two Jewish girls in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of London on Sunday, the Independent reported. The Metropolitan Police reported that the man threw a bottle at the girls but “narrowly missed.” The girls, aged 15 and 16, were “badly shaken” but were…
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Fast Forward British Activist Says Jewish Group Tried To Shut Down One-Woman Show
(JTA) — An activist suspended by Britain’s Labour Party for saying Jews led the slave trade has accused the country’s top Jewish governing body of trying to shut down her one-woman show. Jackie Walker, whose show “The Lynching” is to open Friday night as part of the Edinburgh Festival, accused the Board of Deputies of British…
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Fast Forward Sunday Times Columnist Fired For Anti-Semitic Op-ed
The British newspaper The Sunday Times has apologized after publishing a column in its Irish edition on Sunday claiming that some BBC television hosts earned high salaries because they are Jewish. The piece has been taken off the newspaper’s website and the paper’s editor issued an apology. The article, by Kevin Myers, was prompted by…
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Fast Forward British Anti-Semitic Incidents Soar To Record
(JTA) — The Jewish community of the United Kingdom recorded 767 anti-Semitic attacks in the first half of 2017 — the highest figure recorded within six months since monitoring began in 1984. The total number of incidents recorded from Jan. 1 to July 1 by the Community Security Trust, British Jewry’s watchdog on anti-Semitism, constitute…
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