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News Flinder Boyd’s British Dream Dies
For 32-year-old Flinder Boyd, there will undoubtedly be a slight sense of disappointment when he watches the Great Britain basketball team take the court at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Playing in the Olympics once loomed large as the culmination of Boyd’s career that included 10 years playing professionally in Europe and a standout…
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Fast Forward Meir Soloveichik on British Chief Rabbi Short List
Three U.S. rabbis are among those being considered to become Britain’s chief rabbi. Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and associate rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, is expected in London in a few days for meetings with British Jewish leaders, the Times of Israel…
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Fast Forward British Town Marks Old Jewish Cemetery
A Jewish heritage committee in Oxford marked an medieval Jewish cemetery in the university town. The burial site, not in use since the 1290 expulsion of the Jews from Britain, is located at the city’s Rose Garden, and was identified by Pam Manix, a historian and a member of Oxford Jewish Heritage. The Jewish Chronicle…
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Food UK’s Lone Kosher Pub Loses Certification
“It’s not actually a Jewish pub,” explained Robert Greene, business partner at [The Castle][1] in North London, which has a dance floor, garden patio, real ale menu and a halachic twist: it’s the only kosher pub in the country. “We’re providing a service that everyone can enjoy, the food just happens to be kosher —…
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Culture Britain’s Jewish Press Baroness
The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer — Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer Bantam Books, 348 pages, $30 By Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren In an era when women were not permitted to vote, when marriage was the only vocation that proper girls were encouraged to pursue, when doctors linked too…
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Opinion British Union Chooses Sanctions Over Israeli Workers
The British Trades Union Congress this September passed a resolution reaffirming its position against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. There’s nothing wrong with, or unusual about, left-wing trade unionists showing solidarity with the dispossessed. What is unusual — and troubling — is the line dictating that TUC affiliates review their bilateral relations with all…
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Food Washington State Upholds Kosher Slaughter Law
Last month, The Dutch Animal Rights Party pushed a bill through the lower house of the Dutch Parliament that would outlaw the slaughter of animals without stunning. The law, if ratified by the upper house of parliament, will in essence make locally raised and slaughtered kosher (and halal) meat illegal. A similar law was passed…
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Opinion Is Murdoch’s Mess Bad for the Jews?
It was only a matter of time before someone would ask whether the international scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s empire was good for the Jews. And if you feel compelled to ask, the answer is almost always “no.” JTA’s Ron Kampeas essentially posed the question in a story contending that some supporters of Israel are worried…
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