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Fast Forward British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Blasts Israel for Gaza ‘Collective Punishment’
Israel’s retaliatory air strikes on Gaza have been “deliberately disproportionate” and amount to “collective punishment”, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday, in unusually robust criticism of a close British ally Clegg made his comments on the tenth day of fighting between Israel and Hamas during a five-hour humanitarian truce which prompted a…
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News Why British Orthodox Rabbi Fasts for Ramadan
(JTA) — A few hours into the 10th day of Ramadan, Rabbi Natan Levy was swapping fasting tips with a Muslim fellow passenger aboard the London Northern train line. Specifically, they were debating the merits of having a very large meal before sunrise — a technique adopted by many observant Muslims who are trying to cope…
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Fast Forward British SodaStream Repair Store Shut After 2 Years of Protests
An Israeli-owned store in England that sold replacement parts for SodaStream closed after two years of weekly boycott protests. The EcoStream shop in the coastal town of Brighton shut down last week, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The store sold the recyclable bottles for the SodaStream machines made in the factory in the West Bank settlement…
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Fast Forward British Jews Sell Headquarters for $10M
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has sold its central London headquarters for nearly $10 million. The board will remain in the building, in the Bloomsbury neighborhood, until early next year, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. It will relocate to the London Borough of Camden, where other Jewish and general communal organizations are sited….
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Fast Forward Jewish Gravestones Vandalized in Britain
Gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in England were painted with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti, and some were toppled. The vandalism in Manchester was discovered Monday; it is believed the attack occurred on Sunday or early Monday. A similar attack occurred earlier this month, according to the Manchester Evening News. Inspector Mike Reid of the Greater…
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Fast Forward British Soccer Fans Can Now Chant ‘Yid’ Without Fear of Arrest
Fans of the British soccer team Tottenham Hotspurs who use the term “yid” will not be arrested, British police said. Constable Steve Payne of London’s Metropolitan Police told a meeting of team fans last week that using the word is no longer an arrestable offense, but that fans could still be charged if accused of…
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Fast Forward Nazi Soldier Lived in Britain for 66 Years Until Death
A Nazi soldier who helped murder Jews during the Holocaust lived undetected in London for 66 years until his recent death, a British Nazi hunter said. The man, a former SS soldier in a unit that massacred Poles and Jews during World War II, was identified as Serhij Woronyj by the Daily Mail, which reported…
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Fast Forward Nachman Sudak, Chabad’s Emissary in Britain, Dies at 78
Rabbi Nachman Sudak, the chief emissary for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the United Kingdom, has died. Sudak died Sunday in London; he was 78. Directed personally by the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to move to London in 1959, Sudak lived there for the rest of his life, according to Chabad.org, developing and overseeing a…
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