An Orthodox Jewish public school in London must stop asking parents about their sex lives in order for their children to gain admission, a school watchdog ordered. The Hasmonean High School in Barnet in north London asks parents on its admission form whether they observe the laws of family purity, under which women abstain from…
Neighbors of the London Kabbalah Centre complained about excessive noise coming from its sukkah during the recent holiday. In a formal complaint filed with the Westminster City Council, a neighbor said there was 36 hours of prayers, clapping and chanting between Friday evening and the middle of Sunday morning, the Evening Standard reported. One neighbor…
A Satmar Hasidic school in a London borough apologized for using the term “goyim” on worksheets following a newspaper report that its preschoolers were being taught that non-Jews are evil. An article published Tuesday in the Independent newspaper, a major British daily, focused on a worksheet on the Holocaust used by the young students at…
One hundred years ago, on July 1, 1915, a Jewish decorative art association called Ben Ouri was founded in the heart of London’s East End. It was led by Lazar Berson, a charismatic Russian Jewish émigré artist whose vision was to create a Jewish arts society that would support Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant artists and craftsmen,…
A neo-Nazi rally held in central London was dwarfed by a large counter-demonstration staged by Jewish and anti-racism groups. About 25 neo-Nazis demonstrated Saturday against “Jewish privilege” and the “Jewification of Great Britain,” in a rally that had been ordered moved by police from the heavily Jewish-populated Golders Green neighborhood of the Barnet borough to…
Police ordered a neo-Nazi demonstration planned for a London suburb with a large Jewish population to be moved. The decision to relocate Saturday’s demonstration from the Golders Green neighborhood of the Barnet borough to central London followed weeks of intense conversations with Barnet and British officials and law enforcement, according to Britain’s security watchdog, Community…
(JTA) — Like many European Jews, Stephen Lever has mostly stopped wearing his yarmulke on the street in recent years. A Londoner, Lever said he fears joining the hundreds of Jews accosted annually in his native United Kingdom, often by Muslim or Arab extremists seeking to exact retribution for Israel’s actions. More than 1,000 anti-Semitic…
An all woman’s screening at a London JCC of an Israeli movie by a haredi Orthodox film-maker was cancelled after a complaint to the country’s the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. “Gift of Fire” directed by Rechy Elias, was scheduled to be shown as part of the Israeli Film and Television Festival, Seret 2015. A…
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