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Fast Forward British Jews Warn America: Brexit Vote Shows Donald Trump Could Win
(JTA) — If you’re a Jewish-American liberal who believes that Donald Trump could never become president, British Jews have one word of warning: Brexit. Following the shocking referendum vote in June favoring a British exit from the European Union, many British Jews now believe that their liberal circles and cosmopolitan lifestyles had left them largely…
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Fast Forward Britain’s ‘Titanics’ Kosher Deli Sinks Under Financial Pressure
Titanics, a historic kosher deli in Manchester, England, has met the same fate as its namesake: It’s gone under. The last branch of the store, the oldest kosher delicatessen in Manchester — named for the ill-fated liner because its founder survived the famous shipwreck — was recently forced to close its doors. “It is a very…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Event at British Parliament Turns Into ‘Jew-Hating Festival’
Britain’s House of Lords has been home to some of that country’s greatest debates. But according to the Jewish Chronicle, the upper chamber of parliament hosted on Tuesday an anti-Israel event that verged into anti-Semitism. “If anybody is anti-Semitic, it’s the Israelis themselves,” said one speaker, at the event organized by Baroness Jenny Tonge and…
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Life The Secret Jewishness of Inspector Hercule Poirot
When I noticed the other day that Liz Meriwether had recommended Agatha Christie’s Poirot as an “antidote to the 2016 election” in New York Magazine back in August, I had one of those moments where you can deeply, personally, relate to an article. Here is Meriwether, on fictional private detective Hercule Poirot’s signature mustache: “As…
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Opinion Is It Just Me or Was That Anti-Semitic? A British Jew’s Constant Question
A few months ago, here in London, I was at a party talking to a man who worked in artificial intelligence. We were discussing what a robot-filled future might look like, but when he found out I was Jewish we got onto the subject of Jews. The AI researcher admired Judaism because it was the…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders’ Brother Crushed in British Parliamentary Election
Former Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ elder brother lost badly in his race to be elected to the British parliament. Larry Sanders was running as the Green Party candidate for the vacated House of Commons seat of former prime minister David Cameron in Witney, in the southern English countryside near Oxford. He came fourth out…
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Fast Forward Jewish Member of UK Parliament Frightened By Anti-Semitic Personal Attacks
— Luciana Berger, a well-known Jewish lawmaker in Britain’s Labour Party, said her family was pained and worried over threats and anti-Semitic slurs made at her. Berger, who rarely speaks about her private life in interviews, made the statements in a filmed interview posted online Wednesday by the Liverpool Echo ahead of Britain’s National Hate…
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Community How a Small Group of British Jews Raised a Big Amount of Money for Child Refugees
Over the past seven weeks, the British Jewish community raised £200,000 ($260,000) for the resettlement of 100 unaccompanied children from the Calais refugee camp here in the UK. The campaign was initiated by a group of leaders from Masorti (Conservative) communities in and around London, who came together in the early summer to try and…
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