Tag: United Kingdom
Online project in Britain sets up learning between students and Holocaust survivors
The United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum has launched an online program that allows schoolchildren at home during the coronavirus pandemic to ask questions to Holocaust survivors.
Connecting the survivors, many of whom are...
UK Labour general secretary resigns after tenure tainted with anti-Semitism
U.K. Labour General Secretary Jennie Formby, who once said it’s “impossible to eradicate anti-Semitism,” has resigned from the position, the party has announced.
Formby said she applied for the role two years ago “to support...
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher donate cargo of PPE to health-care workers in...
British Jewish comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife, Australian actress Isla Fisher, helped donate a cargo of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that was airlifted to healthcare workers in the United Kingdom...
British educational publisher withdraws textbook following complaints of anti-Israel bias
British educational publisher Hodder Education has withdrawn a secondary-education textbook following complaints of anti-Israel bias.
A report by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) said there was “misleading and confusing content” in the textbook, written by...
UK Jewish newspaper ‘back to business’ after anonymous bidder saves it from folding
The Jewish News in the United Kingdom announced on Wednesday that it “is back” after stating earlier this month that, along with The Jewish Chronicle, it would fold as a result of both the state of print newspapers, coupled...
Report: Hostility to Corbyn stymied British Labour Party effort to face anti-Semitism
A leaked internal British Labour Party report into the party’s handling of anti-Semitism claims that inner-party hostility to then-party leader Jeremy Corbyn impeded the party’s efforts to confront the issue.
The 860-page report, which does...
Jeremy Corbyn in historical perspective
The era of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom mercifully came to an end last week, with the election of the more centrist-minded Sir Keir Starmer as his...
UK’s Labour elects new leader after Corbyn with goal to quash anti-Semitism in party
The U.K. Labour Party elected Keir Starmer over the weekend as its new leader, replacing Jeremy Corbyn, who has long been accused of letting anti-Semitism plague the party, in addition to himself holding hateful...
For Israel, recognizing another enemy is second nature
Among the world’s democracies fighting the coronavirus, Israel has so far been by far the most successful.
With a population of about 8.6 million, it had recorded at time of writing 33 deaths from COVID-19....
United Synagogues in UK close under advisement of country’s chief rabbi
The United Synagogue, the largest network of Orthodox communities in the United Kingdom, is closing all of its affiliated synagogues due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis announced that “our Torah obligation to protect...