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Fast Forward London Enclave Objects to Zoning Changes Proposed by Orthodox Jews
Non-Jewish residents of the heavily haredi Orthodox-populated London neighborhood of Hackney have launched a campaign to prevent Orthodox Jews from changing city planning regulations. A group named Hackney Planning Watch recently produced a flyer warning: “Your neighborhood is in danger! Want your neighbor to extend their home to cover the whole of their back garden?…
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Fast Forward British Labour Leader Ed Miliband Vows To Back Israel and Protect Jewish Rites
Ed Miliband, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, has pledged to oppose boycotts of Israel and to protect Jewish customs, including circumcision and ritual slaughter. Speaking Thursday before a crowd of 300 at an event organized by Britain’s main Jewish umbrella group, the leader of the British opposition, who is Jewish, warned of the need…
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Fast Forward 60% of British Jews Live in London
Britain’s Jewish population is becoming more concentrated, with nearly 60 percent of Jews living in London, new statistics show. According to detailed figures from the 2011 census released this week, 90 percent of the country’s 263,000 Jews live in just 20 percent of its neighborhoods. The most heavily Jewish area was the Orthodox suburb of…
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Fast Forward Exeter Synagogue, One of Britain’s Oldest, Plans 250th Anniversary Renovation
One of Britain’s oldest synagogues will be renovated ahead of its 250th anniversary. The Exeter Synagogue restoration project is slated to begin in March and is expected to end in time for the synagogue’s anniversary ceremony in July, a spokesperson for the synagogue told the BBC. The roof of the synagogue, which is located about…
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Fast Forward Swansea’s Israeli Soccer Star Itay Schechter Skips Training Trip to Dubai
An Israeli soccer player for a British team is sitting out a team visit to Dubai because of tensions between the emirate and Israel. The 25-year-old striker, Itay Schechter, who plays for Swansea City, was prevented from attending the six-day group training session, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Wednesday. The United Arab Emirates does not…
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Opinion Institution of Chief Rabbi Has Outlived Its Usefulness
Finally, after more than a year of deliberation, the United Kingdom has chosen Ephraim Mirvis to be its new chief rabbi, replacing Lord Jonathan Sacks. Actually, much of that sentence isn’t correct. It isn’t “the United Kingdom” that chooses the chief rabbi. For all its pretensions to established status, the chief rabbinate has only a…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise by 5% in Britain
Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain rose 5 percent over the previous year, making 2012 the third highest number of incidents on record. The Community Service Trust, British Jewry’s security unit, reported Thursday that there were 640 reported anti-Semitic incidents, compared to 608 in 2011. Some 100 of the incidents were reported as part of a new…
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Opinion British Lawmaker’s Holocaust Day Shame
Prior to Holocaust Memorial Day — officially commemorated across Europe on Sunday — a Book of Commitment was placed in the British House of Commons for Members of Parliament to sign. The purpose of this simple act is to “publicly commit both to remembering the Holocaust and to working towards a future in which prejudice…
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