Brexit

Boris Johnson vows to solve Northern Ireland’s Brexit-related kosher food shortages

Northern Ireland remains in the European Union market which Britain has left, leading to bureaucratic complications affecting a small Jewish community.

A Brexit Passover food shortage is forcing the Jews of Ireland and Northern Ireland to work together

“Before, we very seldom cooperated on much — if anything at all,” said the head of Ireland’s Jewish Representative Council.

Jewish children playing on Canvey Island, UK on Dec. 13, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In a Brexit bastion near London, a growing Orthodox community springs to life

Canvey Island’s Jews say they feel safer in that scruffy Conservative town than in the multicultural British capital.

Labour Party opponents arrive at Jeremy Corbyn's final rally in Hoxton, London on December 11, 2019. (Beata Zawrzel/Getty Images)

Global

For some British Jews, elections feel like the walls are closing in

Ideas

I’m a proud British Jew troubled by Corbyn’s anti-Semitism problem — but I’m still voting for Labour

Hugh Grant, left, canvassing in Finchley, London, with Liberal Democratic parliament candidate Luciana Berger, right, Dec. 1, 2019. (David Mirzoeff/PA Images via Getty Images)

Global

Hugh Grant campaigns with Luciana Berger in London’s most Jewish borough

Brexit Party's Islington North candidate Yosef David. (Courtesy)

Global

An Orthodox Jew is running for Jeremy Corbyn’s Parliament seat. He’ll need a miracle.

Lance Forman showing off the final product of his smoked salmon factory in the East End of London, the United Kingdom on Sept. 4, 2019 (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Global

A Brexit Party politician owns London’s oldest smoked salmon factory

Global

Giant swastika painted on London factory owes to his pro-Brexit stance, Jewish owner says

Global

Swastika daubed on London fish factory owned by pro-Brexit Jewish politician

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