4+ hour, 10+ min ago  (831+ words) The Jews are gone. The start-ups, the scientists and inventors have gone elsewhere. Cabbies in London seem less talkative, and definitely less intrusive. The communal busybodies are gone too, forever involving themselves in things that may not affect them personally,…...

5+ hour, 15+ min ago  (791+ words) We shall rise to a higher state. We shall not dwell in mud huts; we shall build newer and more beautiful houses and possess them in safety," so wrote Theodor Herzl one hundred and thirty years ago in his historic…...

7+ hour, 8+ min ago  (380+ words) Dame Maureen Lipman has revealed she has hired private security for her theatre tour after becoming the target of what she describes as antisemitic harassment linked to her support for Israel. The actress and Jewish community figure said campaigners had…...

11+ hour, 29+ min ago  (762+ words) JERUSALEM " The Pride march in Israel's capital city changed its traditional route on Thursday to end near the Knesset, in a show of force ahead of elections that could have major implications for the status of LGBTQ Israelis. "If the…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (571+ words) The first synagogue service since Kristallnacht in the German city of Wittlich has taken place with a bnei mitzvah celebration. Jack and Ida Levy " third generation members of Northwood and Pinner Liberal (Ark) synagogue, celebrated their barmitzvah and batmitzvah in…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (817+ words) Something troubling is happening in Britain. A sense of fear has quietly returned to everyday life for many Jews and Muslims. Jewish parents worry about children wearing a kippah openly in public. Muslim families feel anxious when daughters travel wearing…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago  (1378+ words) Weeks like this one, where survivors leave us while their warnings remain, Jewish children in British schools are hissed at with the language of gas chambers, exhibitions documenting the massacre of Jews require extraordinary courage simply to exist in London....

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (462+ words) Nearly 100 women from Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Sikh and Bah" communities gathered in Birmingham this week for a summit focused on tackling rising hate crime, poverty and growing social divisions across the UK. The event, organised by the Womens Faith…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (488+ words) The Wiener Holocaust Library launched its latest exhibition this week, with speakers including Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke and journalist Jonathan Freedland." Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims, is the latest free public exhibition on display at the Library's Bloomsbury exhibition gallery…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (355+ words) From opening their doors to the homeless on freezing winter nights, to running food banks that serve their wider neighbourhoods, synagogues across Britain have long been quiet engines of social good. Now, a major new research project wants to understand…...