Liam Hoare
By Liam Hoare
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News Irving Carter, 76, British philanthropist who funded emergency medical services in Israel
(JTA) — If there was one institution with whom Irving Carter was most closely associated, it was Magen David Adom, the Israeli affiliate of the Red Cross. The vice president of MDA’s British fundraising arm, Carter’s donations over three decades funded the procurement of dozens of ambulances, 12 bikes, two mobile blood banks and a…
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News Michael Goldmeier, 73, led largest British Jewish health care agency
. (JTA) — When Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet became rabbi of London’s Orthodox Mill Hill Synagogue in 1993, he entered into a congregation rich with communal leaders. Among them was Michael Goldmeier, a man once described by the head of the British chief rabbi’s office as “one of the most prominent members of Anglo Jewry.” Schochet…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism’s rise in Europe is more than a far left, far right problem
Whether anti-Semitism stems more so from the far-right, far-left, or Muslim extremism remains a matter of contentious debate. Germany’s interior ministry says the far-right is responsible for 90% of anti-Semitic hate crimes in that country. The monitoring organization RIAS Berlin paints more of a mixed picture. And now the Institute for Zionist Strategies—a not-particularly-prestigious right-wing…
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Opinion Labour Voters: There’s No Excuse.
“The Labour Party is no longer a safe space for Jewish people.” So reads the damning opening line of the Jewish Labour Movement’s thoroughly-depressing submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s investigation into Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis, made public just one week before British voters go to the polls on Thursday. The Jewish Labour Movement…
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Opinion Can Britain’s Chief Rabbi Convince Voters Not To Support Anti-Semitic Labour?
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis op-ed, published in the Times of London on Monday, reads as if it were written by a man who didn’t want to write the piece but believed he had no choice. “Convention dictates that the Chief Rabbi stays well away from party politics,” Mirvis writes, but “challenging racism” — specifically,…
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Opinion This Week Proves It: Anti-Semitism On The Right Is The Only Real Threat To Jews
This week provided yet another illustration that despite the endless handwringing about anti-Semitism on the left, it is far-right extremism which constitutes the paramount threat to American Jewish life today. On Friday, Richard Holzer, a self-described skinhead and former KKK member, was arrested by federal authorities, accused of plotting to blow up a synagogue in…
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Opinion The Germany Yom Kippur Attack Is A New Kind Of Anti-Jewish Terror
The anti-Semitic motive of Stephan B. could not have been clearer. Dressed in military fatigues, he attempted yesterday to shoot his way into the synagogue and then Jewish cemetery in Halle, Germany, as members of the small, religiously conservative community made up largely of those with roots in the former Soviet Union gathered on Yom…
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Opinion Social Media Is The New Frontier Of Anti-Semitism
The 892 anti-Semitic incidents recorded by Britain’s Community Security Trust (CST) between January and June of this year set another unfortunate record. A rise of 10% compared to the same period in 2018, the uptick indicates not only that anti-Semitism in Britain is becoming evermore pervasive, but also that inside the Jewish community there is…
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