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Fast Forward Rabbi Says Police Never Came To Help Daughter Attacked In London Park
(JTA) — A Jewish chaplain in London said his 16-year-old daughter was punched and kicked in a local park in an anti-Semitic attack, and that police did not respond to an emergency call. Alex Goldberg, the Jewish Chaplain at the University of Surrey and Chaplain to Surrey Police, said in a post on Facebook Sunday…
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Fast Forward Arsonists Strike 2 Kosher Restaurants In Terror-Scarred Manchester
(JTA) — Police in Manchester, in northeastern England, say that arson attacks on two kosher restaurants are “anti-Semitic hate crimes.” The attacks, which police say they believe are linked, took place in the north Manchester neighborhood of Prestwich within five days of each other, the latest on Tuesday, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. On Friday…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Cry Foul As British Chief Sephardic Rabbi Praises Acceptance Of Gays
(JTA) — The United Kingdom’s top Sephardic rabbi became the center of an international controversy after he praised societal acceptance of homosexuality as a “fantastic development.” Rabbi Joseph Dweck came under fire after making the comment at a lecture last month. An Orthodox rabbi in London asked a rabbinic court to look into removing Dweck from his position, and a…
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Fast Forward ‘Anti-Semitic’ British Campaign Poster Shows Theresa May With Star Of David Earrings
A giant campaign banner hung in a popular outdoor venue in one of England’s largest cities on Tuesday shows Prime Minister Theresa May in Star of David-shaped earrings, which some Jewish observers called “anti-Semitic.” The banner, which was hung Tuesday at the Bear Pit roundabout in Bristol, lists positive statements about Labour Party leader Jeremy…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Event In London Postponed Over Security Fears
(JTA) — A pro-Israel event in London has been postponed due to security concerns in the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester. The Christians United For Israel’s annual “A Night To Honour Israel,” scheduled for June 22, in Westminster, London, was expected to draw more than 1,000 people. It was postponed on Monday…
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Fast Forward 5 Reasons Some British Jews Are Backing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party
(JTA) — Relations between British Jewry and the country’s Labour Party, which used to be their political home, appear to be at a historic lowpoint. Ahead of the June 8 general elections in the United Kingdom, a Jewish Chronicle poll from last week put support for the center-left party — which has seen repeated scandals involving…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Sends Condolences To UK Over Manchester Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent condolences on behalf of the Israeli people to British Prime Minister Theresa May for the terror attack at a pop concert in Manchester. Netanyahu, speaking by phone with May on Wednesday evening, said Israel was ready to extend all necessary assistance to their joint war against terrorism,…
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Fast Forward How Manchester Jews Prepared For Attack Like Ariana Grande Concert Bombing
(JTA) — Britain’s bloodiest terrorist attack in over a decade occurred Monday just two miles from Rabbi Yisroel Cohen’s synagogue. Yet one day after the deadly bombing in Manchester, Cohen told JTA he has no intention of changing security arrangements at his congregation. In fact Cohen, a Chabad emissary who works in a Jewish enclave…
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