London

Holocaust survivor and her rabbi son punched on London bus

“I hate you Jews. It’s not your place. You took our money,” the assailant reportedly told the 80-year-woman and her son before hitting them.

Ideas

This deadly tragedy at a Yiddish performance is the reason it’s illegal to yell ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater

Yelling fire in a crowded theater is not theoretical: it was drawn from a tragedy that occurred on a cold night in January 1887at the Hebrew Dramatic Club of London, and which took the lives of seventeen people.

Jeremy Corbyn’s brother detained for flyer equating COVID-19 vaccines to Auschwitz

The former Labour leader’s brother rejected any attempt to claim he was anti-Semitic, citing the fact that his ex-wife is Jewish.

Global

Haredi Jews in London hold illegal weddings regularly, Jewish newspaper reveals

Global

London police break up 400-person illegal wedding at haredi Jewish school

Pedestrians walk outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, UK. (Google Maps)

Global

University of London refunds tuition to Jewish student who complained of anti-Semitism

Gal Garber and Mathilde Lair preparing jachnun in their apartment in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 20, 2020. (Mathilde Lair)

Food

How homemade jachnun is giving a lifeline to European Jews in a second COVID wave

A woman from the Bulgarian Jewish community attends a commemoration ceremony at Sofia's synagogue on March 10, 2013 (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Global

Coronavirus crisis is testing the resilience of Europe’s small Jewish communities

Geeta Sidhu-Robbat attends an awards ceremony in London, U.K. on June 17, 2008. (Fiona Hanson - PA Images via Getty Images)

Global

London mayoral hopeful suspended for telling voters in 1997 ‘don’t vote for a Jew’

Global

London man charged with attempted murder in stabbing of rabbi on city street

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