london jewish community

Haredim hold prayer meeting in protest of bill threatening Yeshivas

Haredi campaigners have expressed fear that the Bill would lead to state interference in yeshivas and force them to teach secular subjects.

'F*** Israel': Attackers pelt London bus carrying Jewish school children

Four of the attackers jumped onto the bus and shouted at the JFS students.

Jewish schoolgirls attacked by man hurling glass bottles in London, one badly wounded

The attack took place in Stamford Hill, which has a large Orthodox Jewish population.

Swastikas, Heil Hitler daubed in sand of Hendon Golf Club

Hendon Golf Club stated that it had been "the victim of race-related vandalism."

London anti-Israel protesters applaud Hezbollah as antisemitism rises in the city

This comes as the number of antisemitic hate crimes in London overtake the number of Islamophobic incidents for the first time on record.

UK Police investigating attempted kidnapping of haredi man in north London

Two men can be seen approaching a haredi man while another opens the trunk of their car which was stopped in the middle of the street.

Fire at B'Tselem building Jerusalem, January 10, 2016

Four wounded in possible antisemitic arson of London house, suspect arrested

The 60-year-old man arrested on suspicion of arson near the scene of the midday Hackney borough blaze reportedly made "a number of threatening comments, some of which were allegedly antisemitic."

Pro-Palestinian protest areas become no-go zones for Jews in London

Advisers to the British Home Office have warned that the British capital has become a "no-go zone for Jews" following pro-Palestinian demonstrations

By MAARIV
08/03/2024

Golders Green knifeman pleads guilty in London court. blames alcohol

Gabriel Abdullah's barrister claimed that the incident had occurred due to Abdullah trying to self-medicate his paranoid schizophrenia with alcohol.

Leading British rabbi against Rafah invasion: ‘If I said nothing, I couldn’t live with myself'

"I write out of dread at the future hatred this is likely to engender, and out of fear that these actions may haunt us, and the good name of Israel and the Jewish People, for generations.”

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
14/02/2024
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