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'Too Jewish?' – why Jewish stories still make some audiences uncomfortable

Why Jewish stories still provoke discomfort – and why that discomfort matters

|ByRYAN CRAIG
The Rosenbergs, a middle-class Jewish family from Edgware, played by Nicholas Woodeson as the father, David Rosenberg, and Tracy-Ann Oberman as mother, Lesley Rosenberg, in Ryan Craig’s play, staged recently in a London theater.
Police officers work as people gather outside the Old Bailey after British police officer Martyn Blake was acquitted of the 2022 murder of Chris Kaba, in London, Britain, October 21, 2024.

Wanstead man charged with arson of former London synagogue amid rising attacks

Moses Edwards was charged with arson at a former East London synagogue, part of a growing wave of attacks on Jewish and Israeli sites in the UK.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Police Cars are seen outside Finchley Reform Synagogue on April 15, 2026 in London, England. Police are treating the attempted arson attack on the Finchley Reform Synagogue as an antisemitic hate crime.

Third person arrested in Finchley Reform Synagogue arson investigation

The 19-year-old man joined a 38-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man who were arrested at the same Watford address on April 15, the same day of the attack.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Essa Suleiman stabbed two London Jews with a knife before being overpowered by Jewish volunteer security and Metropolitan Police.

History of violence against Jews, police: What we know about Golders Green attacker - explainer

An investigation by Campaign Against Antisemitism and confirmed by The Jerusalem Post reveals a long history of violence that includes attacking officials and disrupting demonstrations.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

This is why you should visit London in June - opinion

Is June the best time to visit London? Probably so, especially this summer. 

JUNE 15, 2024ByMICHAEL LEVIN
JOLLY LONDON in June?

‘It is an obligation to remember the hostages’: Powerful London exhibit recreates Hamas tunnels

The exhibition is based on the testimonies of hostages who have been freed, returned home, and told their stories, as well as footage from Hamas.

JANUARY 17, 2024ByNICOLE LAMPERT
The search for tunnel shafts continues.

Why I won't return to the UK: I have no other country but Israel - comment

According to the Metropolitan Police, antisemitic hate crimes in London are up a staggering 1,350%.

OCTOBER 28, 2023ByANDREA SAMUELS
A protester holds a flag as he sits on a traffic light post during a (different, years earlier) pro-Palestine demonstration outside Downing Street in London, Britain, June 12, 2021.

Sister and aunt of kidnapped by Hamas recites Kaddish in London

During the event, Bibas asked for the prayer to be said on behalf of her sister-in-law, Shir Bibas, who couldn't attend her own parents' funeral due to her current captivity in Gaza.

OCTOBER 24, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Photos of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza fill empty seats on an El Al flight carrying military and medical equipment to Israel, October 23 2023.

Britain's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community wary of state intrusion in education

The government says it needs the new legislation as there is no legal obligation to report whether a child is home-schooled.

JULY 6, 2023ByREUTERS
Haredi students at the Jerusalem College of Technology

Notices in London call to boycott Jewish News for its Israel coverage

The fliers asked the Jewish community to boycott Jewish News for their reports on Huwara riots and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

MARCH 12, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jewish men talk in Golders Green, London, January 10, 2015. The Community Security Trust (CST), which provides security advice to Britain's estimated 260,000 Jews, said police in London and Manchester in northern England had agreed to increase patrols at synagogues and other venues over the next day

Attacker of British Rabbi sentenced to 43 months in jail

Souraka Djabouri, 19, was sentenced to the more than 3.5-year term in a youth offenders’ institution on Friday after admitting to striking Rabbi Goodwin over the head with a brick.

AUGUST 9, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Shoppers cross Oxford Street, London, Britain, December 28, 2021.

London's Jews split into East and West - now they've reconciled

The historic Bevis Marks Synagogue and the story of the Jewish immigrants to London. "Life was a constant struggle, but it had its warmth."

NOVEMBER 11, 2021ByRAYMOND APPLE
The Bevis Marks Synagogue.

Belgium bans kosher slaughter, paving way for possible EU ban

Stunning an animal before ritual slaughtering is contrary to Kosher and Halal practices.

JANUARY 1, 2021ByBARUCH MOORE
A man performs the ancient Jewish ritual of kaparot

Hasidic man stabbed in London in suspected hate crime

The man, in his 50s, is believed to be in a stable condition despite receiving knife wounds to the head.

JUNE 13, 2020ByDONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
Jews and non-Jews gather in solidarity to protest against Antisemitism at Parliament Square in London on Sunday