
Ultra-Orthodox Londoners Roll Up Sleeves to Fight COVID
In hopes of breaking down barriers that sometimes isolate the Orthodox from wider society, community leaders organized the pop-up vaccination event at the end of Shabbat
In hopes of breaking down barriers that sometimes isolate the Orthodox from wider society, community leaders organized the pop-up vaccination event at the end of Shabbat
The move comes ahead of a hearing in the cases regarding the eviction of four families in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood
Since late December, Israel has required those coming from the UAE to go into a two-week quarantine, but authorities say returnees created a chain of infections numbering more than 4,000 people
32-year-old Schlesinger, who represented Israel until a dispute with the national judo association, ends her career with one World Championship and four European championship medals
British scientists also say the variant found in the U.K. still seems to be susceptible to vaccines
What started out as a one-man protest over reported abuse of Muslim minority groups has, nearly two years on, become a wider Jewish protest movement where memories of the Holocaust are never far from demonstrators’ minds
Britain reports almost 40,000 new infections as the mutated variant of the coronavirus, which could be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the original, causes hospital admissions to soar
The swift spread of the coronavirus that spurred lockdown in the U.K. may be caused by a new strain, but there's yet clear scientific information regarding its significance, expert on clinical microbiology says
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis writes in the Guardian that those responsible 'must be held to account and Uighurs able to escape must be given asylum' in rare statement
The novelist, despite his fulminations against the Conservative party, publicly refused to vote for the Labour Party because of Jeremy Corbyn's 'steeped in association with antisemitism'
The country's medicine regulator says it is examining reports of the two adverse reactions and has advised that people with 'a significant history of allergic reactions' do not receive the vaccine
Part of the now-submerged Doggerland would have survived the massive tsunamis triggered by the Storegga Slide and people would have reclaimed the land, until it was finally submerged beneath the rising seas
In a conference hosted by the Jewish Labour Movement, party leader Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner continued their efforts to repair the damages of the Corbyn era
Board of Deputies of British Jews decries 'retrograde step for the party in its relations with the community'
The lavish Netflix drama ‘The Crown’ heats up as Margaret Thatcher and Lady Di clash with members of the world’s most dysfunctional family (after the Mansons)
As one of the stream’s most prominent and influential rabbis, Jonathan Sacks personified the contradictions and limitations of Modern Orthodoxy, especially in the Diaspora – not being traditional enough for Haredim, too cautious for non-Orthodox Jews, and too foreign for Israelis
The former UK Chief Rabbi was a model for a modern Orthodox generation, excelling in both Jewish and secular learning, and elucidating Jewish thought to a global audience with intellect and grace. But he bent those principles with the compromises he made with religious conservatives to his right
U.K. PM Johnson locks down England for 1 month
How one of the world’s most influential center-left parties came to be led by Jeremy Corbyn and how antisemitism proved his undoing
Report by Equality and Human Rights Commission says party is responsible for 'unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination' against Jews
Will Fido go to Heaven? Maybe, if you do: A survey of British pet cemeteries over a century finds wistfulness firming into faith that Bowser will be joining the family in the afterlife
The news comes a day after the British government’s top scientific and medical advisers said coronavirus infections were doubling every seven days and could rise to 49,000 a day
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will chair an emergency response meeting, a so-called COBRA meeting, on Tuesday
'We’re going to get the gloves off' and 'get a car drive to round through town telling everybody Jack Straw’s a Jew,' Liberal Democrats candidate Geeta Sidhu-Robb says in an old video that reemerged
They are unburdened by World War II trauma that compels European democracies to oppose fascism and protect themselves
One man was accused of sharing information on 'nuclear and missile projects' with Israel and the German intelligence service
Israeli researcher reveals how Thomas Cromwell manipulated a copy of the scriptures he gave to King Henry VIII
When it comes to racists and antisemites, the social media giants seem to think there are good people on both sides. This is how we’re fighting back against their inaction
The apology, offered at a High Court hearing in the suit filed by the seven ex-staffers, is part of a policy reversal under the party’s newly elected leader, Keir Starmer
The persistent and ongoing attacks are seen by intelligence officials as an effort to steal intellectual property, rather than to disrupt research