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Fast Forward 250-Year-Old British Torah Scroll Is Returned to Cornwall Community
A Torah scroll that has spent more than 100 years in a British museum was returned to its Jewish community, the Falmouth Packet newpaper reported. The Torah was one of four scrolls that had been kept in the Royal Cornwall Museum since the closing of the Falmouth Synagogue in 1892. The 250-year-old Torah scroll was…
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Fast Forward British Imam Convicted in U.S. Court on Terrorism-Related Charges
A British imam was convicted in a U.S. court on terrorism-related charges linking him to al-Qaida and a fatal kidnapping plot. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a former imam at London’s Finsbury Park mosque, was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on all 11 charges following a four-week trial. The jury found that Mustafa had been involved…
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Music Ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone Says Wealth Turns British Jews to Right
British Jews increasingly support the country’s Conservative Party because they are richer than they used to be, the former mayor of London said. Ken Livingstone made the comment Monday on the BBC’s Newsnight program, during a discussion about how ethnic minorities vote. He said that income, not minority status, determined a person’s voting preference. “As…
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Fast Forward British ‘Bloody Jew’ Lawmaker Quits in Scandal
A British lawmaker who was caught on camera describing an Israeli soldier as a “bloody Jew” resigned in the wake of a corruption scandal. Patrick Mercer, of the Conservative Party, stepped down last week in advance of a report on the corruption probe that would have seem him suspended from Parliament for six months. Mercer…
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Fast Forward British Actor Bob Hoskins Dies at 71 Following Bout of Pneumonia
British actor Bob Hoskins, whose roles ranged from London gangsters to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and who starred opposite a cast of cartoon characters in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, has died after a bout of pneumonia, his publicist said on Wednesday. He was 71. A statement issued on behalf of his wife Linda and…
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Fast Forward London Synagogue Worshippers Pluck Baby From Burning Car
A baby was saved from a burning car outside a London synagogue when two men rushed out of a Passover service to rescue him moments before the vehicle turned into a fireball. The family of four was trapped inside their Peugeot when it caught fire on a street in north London’s Tottenham section Sunday, according…
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Opinion Does Israel Advocacy Belong on British Campuses?
Young British Jews stake out a liberal stance on Israel. / YouTube American and British Jewish communal institutions alike are presently grappling with the question of what to do with the “evil son” — he who, in the words of the Passover Haggadah, “by divorcing himself from the community…denies our very essence.” In the United…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi’ Clothing Store Opens in Heart of Jewish London
A British watchdog on anti-Semitism protested the sale of clothes that are popular with neo-Nazis in a heavily-Jewish neighborhood of London. The Thor Viking store opened recently in North Finchley yards away from the office of the chief rabbi of Britain, The Jewish Chronicle of London reported Thursday, and is selling the Thor Steinar brand…
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