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A rare Jewish prayer book that sold for tens of thousands of pounds at auction, Sept. 5, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Hansons Auctioneers via The Times of Israel)
September 13, 2023, 8:56 pm
Centuries-old Jewish prayer book smashes expectations at UK auction
Illustrated volume, brought to appraisers as afterthought alongside sellers’ Harry Potter book, fetches £57,000
By TOI Staff
An office window shows coronation posters in Golders Green, a heavily Jewish neighborhood of London, May 2, 2023. (Deborah Danan)
May 4, 2023, 4:11 pm
All the Jewish details of King Charles’ coronation
From Shabbat accommodations to Jerusalem oil
By Deborah Danan and Gabe Friedman
September 16, 2022, 2:21 pm
British Jewish lawmaker mourns Queen Elizabeth’s death with parliament speech — and a Kabbalah lesson
Member of the House of Lords invokes Jewish mysticism in his eulogy of Queen Elizabeth
By Ron Kampeas
Queen Elizabeth II visits the concentration camp memorial at Bergen-Belsen in Lohheide, Germany, June 26, 2015. With her are Prince Philip and Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the memorial. (Julian Stratenschulte/Pool/Getty Images)
September 10, 2022, 9:30 pm
What Queen Elizabeth meant to a British Jew like me
The Queen was a friend of the Jewish community in the U.K.
By Jeremy Havardi
Queen Elizabeth II arrives for the opening of the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Oct. 2, 2021. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
September 8, 2022, 4:00 pm
Queen Elizabeth, whose reign encompassed the 20th-century ascent of British Jewry, dead at 96
Elizabeth’s life spanned several of the century’s most consequential wars, the advent of the internet and the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Ron Kampeas
Opening the Borders Railway on the day Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning British monarch, 2015. In her speech, she said she had never aspired to achieve that milestone. (Photo courtesy of the Scottish Government, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
September 8, 2022, 3:12 pm
Queen Elizabeth’s long, complex relationship with the British Jewish community
Though she inspired loyalty among UK Jews throughout her reign, the unofficial royal boycott of visits to Israel irked some members of the community.
By Amy Spiro
Rabbi YY Rubinstein speaks at a charity in New York City, Aug, 5, 2019. (Chazaq/YouTube)
January 6, 2022, 11:28 am
British rabbi ends BBC contributions, saying no Jew with “any pride’ can work there
Rabbi YY Rubinstein cited the BBC’s disputed reporting that victims of an antisemitic incident in London uttered an anti-Muslim slur during the encounter with their attackers.
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A video posted Dec. 1 shows young men harassing Jews on a Chabad bus on a Londaon street. (Screenshot via the Jewish Chronicle)
December 31, 2021, 10:34 am
British Jews criticize BBC after its coverage of an antisemitic incident in London
BBC accused of falsely alleging that victims of a recent antisemitic incident in London had provoked their attackers with an anti-Muslim slur.
By Cnaan Liphshiz
LANCASTER, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 15: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses the audience at the University of Lancaster on November 15, 2019 in Lancaster, England. The Labour leader has announced a major new digital infrastructure policy including free broadband for all. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
November 20, 2019, 3:39 pm
Labour’s anti-Semitism problem is an election issue for non-Jews, too
Celebrities buck party for first time
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
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