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Welcome to Babylon, city of sybarites and sin
4+ hour, 59+ min ago (764+ words) The Times Welcome to Babylon, city of sybarites and sin For 2, 000 years, Babylon wasn't just a hotbed of sex and depravity, it was the cultural centre of the world, argues the historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Q: Which Hollywood leading man's middle name…...
Met will not divert pro-Palestinian rally away from synagogue
6+ hour, 40+ min ago (394+ words) Jewish worshippers leaving Westminster Synagogue on Saturday will be caught up in the Nakba Day rally after police refused to alter the route...
Lord Sugar: "I'm proud to be Jewish, but I am an atheist'
20+ hour, 3+ min ago (660+ words) Lord Sugar is one of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs, with a net worth of "1. 138 billion. He set up Amstrad in 1968 and sold it in 2007 for "125 million. He was the majority owner of Tottenham Hotspur FC from 1991 to 2001 and has…...
Meet the rabbi behind the world's biggest porn site. ..
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (14+ words) (Second column, 14th story, link)...
Sunday Times letters: Golders Green attack and antisemitism
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (591+ words) I know my father would be as appalled as I am by the normalising of hate speech under the guise of democracy in these islands, which has given antisemitism a free pass. Living in Northern Ireland I know and remember…...
Why is it only in Ireland that I worry about being Jewish?
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (414+ words) When I was heading from New York to Germany as a college student in 1994 for a six-month study-abroad programme, my mother left the following (somewhat melodramatic) warning ringing in my ears: "Don't tell anyone you're Jewish " you never know." I…...
Antisemitism is not just disastrous for Jews
1+ week, 3+ day ago (607+ words) History shows that this ancient hatred destroys nations: is it too late for Britain to wake up and pull back from the brink?...
Times letters: The search for ways to root out antisemitism
1+ week, 1+ day ago (692+ words) But realistically, British values are not being protected by governments. Unless we recognise that "importing and naturalising people who harbour ideologies we don't want" will in due course demographically overwhelm us, we are heading for a future of civil strife…...
Times letters: "Hate" marches and the safety of British Jews
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1135+ words) The Times Times letters: "Hate" marches and the safety of British Jews Sir, Mark Rowley is quoted as saying Jews are "at the centre of a ghastly Venn diagram of hate" as they are targeted by extremists and terrorists on…...
Time to stand with the Jews, come what may
1+ week, 5+ day ago (716+ words) There is a grim guessing game being played out over Friday night dinner in some of London's Jewish households, I'm told. Families debate who among their gentile friends would have protected them from persecution a century ago, and who have…...