Israeli settlements high on agenda at Limmud U.K. 2012

Published on December 24, 2012

A group that encourages Jews to oppose the Israeli occupation sparked a lively debate at its debut session at the 2012 U.K. Limmud Conference on Jewish life and identity. Yachad, which was founded in 2010, “aims to discuss the occupation not with the outside world, but within Jewish communities,” the group’s chairman, Daniel Reisel, told listeners at a lecture on Sunday.

June 28, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on June 28, 2012

May 3, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on May 3, 2012

Unusual coalition gov’t leaves British Jews uncertain on policy

Published on May 12, 2010

With Britons uncertain of how the country’s first coalition government since World War II will go about governing, the country’s Jewish community appears to be taking a wait-and-see approach to the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government.

Record anti-Semitism weighs heavily on British Jews

By Vanessa Bulkacz
Published on September 13, 2007

With anti-Semitism in Britain at record levels, life is changing in subtle and not-so-subtle ways for the country's Jews.

British Jews’ ambivalence up to bat in ‘Wondrous’

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 16, 2006

David Wiseman is a 12-year-old Jewish boy growing up in London in the early 1960s, and his passion is cricket. He spends most of his free time rearranging and talking to his card collection of British and West Indian cricket greats, who in turn talk back to him.The movie about David, his immigrant parents and the changing neighborhood and country in which he grows up was originally called, "Outfielder," a title that might have attracted legions of unwitting baseball fans in the United States. Now, the more awkward title is "Wondrous Oblivion," and if that turns off potential viewers, it will be their loss.