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Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis participated today in the funeral of a prominent rabbi in Jerusalem, flouting the country’s ban on large public gatherings amid the pandemic. Shocking images showed the funeral procession for Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik, who died at age 99 and had recently suffered from Covid-19, wending its way through the streets of Jerusalem … Read more
The Chief Rabbi condemned a lockdown-busting wedding at an Orthodox Jewish girls’ school where principal died from coronavirus in the first wave, branding it ‘shameful’. Police raided the wedding inside Yesodey Hatorah Girls’ Senior School in Stamford Hill, north London, which is being used as a coronavirus testing centre, on Thursday night. Prominent members of … Read more
‘The evidence is overwhelming’: Chief Rabbi tears into China over persecution of Uighur Muslims Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said he saw parallels between the treatment of the Uighurs and the oppression of Jews through the centuries He said the evidence painted ‘a devastating picture’ of Uighur persecution More than one million of the Chinese Muslims … Read more
Chief rabbi tells how ‘proud’ he was at helping to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of Downing Street when he warned Labour leader was ‘unfit for high office’ Ephraim Mirvis said majority of Jews ‘gripped by anxiety’ over Corbyn in No10 Chief rabbi made the unprecedented intervention in run up to last year’s election He has said … Read more
Former chief rabbi Lord Sacks dies aged 72 as friends hail him as a ‘giant of both the Jewish community and wider society’ Former chief rabbi and cross-bench peer Lord Jonathan Sacks died this morning He announced he was undergoing treatment for cancer in October Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl described him … Read more
TALK OF THE TOWN: Kate Rothschild’s dilemma over her ex-boyfriend Jay Electronica calling rabbi a ‘coward’ and ‘devil’ before recommending anti-Semitic passages from the Bible to his 373,000 Twitter followers By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:04 BST, 2 August 2020 | Updated: 00:04 BST, 2 August … Read more
Pictures have emerged of a Hasidic rabbi who was stabbed in broad daylight on a London street today in a suspected hate crime before two heroic builders tackled the knifeman to the ground. Yaakov Schlesinger, a senior rabbi and teacher from the Satmar sect in his 50s, was stabbed multiple times after he was approached by … Read more
A rabbi was stabbed in broad daylight on the streets of London today in a suspected hate crime as two hero builders tackled and pinned the knifeman to the floor. Rabbi Alter Yaakov Schlesinger, in his 50s, was queuing outside a Nat West bank branch on Stoke Newington High Street, Hackney, before he was attacked. … Read more
The shared hell of the war changed Britain for the better, and so will the current coronavirus crisis, writes RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS, pictured When this bleak time is over, when schools and pubs and theatres reopen, when we no longer need fear the warmth of a handshake or the closeness of friends, will life simply … Read more