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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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Food Dutch Bill Puts Kosher Meat in Jeopardy
Local kosher and halal meat may not be available for long in the Netherlands. Dutch lawmakers voted today to approve a law proposed by the Dutch Animal Rights Party that would ban kosher and halal slaughter, CNN’s Belief Blog reports. The bill requires that animals in the country be stunned or anesthetized before being slaughtered….
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The Schmooze Israel Celebrates the Royal Wedding
Welcome to Modi’in, the Israeli city that is so British that people drink tea at four o’clock, stand in orderly lines at the bus stop (unheard of in this part of the world) and play cricket. Well today, it became even more so. One street in the city is today covered in red white and…
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