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Culture Long a friend of the Jews, King Charles is a mensch for all seasons
The English monarch is a noted fan of Jewish culture and has championed many a Jewish cause
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Books How a Jewish teacher uprooted and relocated her school to escape the Nazis
In a new book, the heroic story of Anna Essinger finally gets its due
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Culture Why Audrey Gelman’s pastoral fantasy doesn’t make sense for Jews
The Wing founder's new "country store" is inspired by a fictional English village — with its own rabbi
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Fast Forward Police arrest suspect caught on camera beating Orthodox Jews in London
(JTA) — In two separate incidents in the past week, two Orthodox Jews were assaulted in London and a Jewish teenager was attacked in Milan, Italy. On Wednesday, British police arrested a man who was caught on security camera footage assaulting two Orthodox men on the street in the heavily-Orthodox London neighborhood of Stamford Hill….
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in the United Kingdom
In Bradford, a plaque celebrates the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, the brainchild of war criminal Alfred Rosenberg
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News U.K. Jews, already under tight security, say the Texas synagogue attack is not a cause for panic
LONDON, England – As American Jews are grappling with how to maximize security measures, concerned about their safety, Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom are cautioning against panic in the aftermath of Saturday’s attack at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. “I don’t think the fact of anti-Jewish terrorism came as a shock to anyone,”…
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Opinion Growing up in Israel, I had never heard of Rabbi Sacks. After his death, I fell in love with his message
In Nov. 2020, I came across a minor story on an inside page of an Israeli newspaper, reporting that Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom “and one of the most important thinkers of our time,” had passed away. I had never come across his name before, so I thought that…
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Fast Forward ‘Noah’s Ark’ called unseaworthy, detained off British coastline
Noah’s Ark is in hot water: the biblical version’s 21st century replica was detained by British maritime authorities who deemed it unseaworthy to be towed from Ipswich, England back to the Netherlands. Aad Peters, a Ditch television and theater producer, is the current owner of the ark – a floating museum of Bible exhibits. The…
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Fast Forward What does the election of Mark Carney mean for Canadian Jews and Israel?
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News Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
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