Clay Crystal was sitting on his front porch in Jackson, Mississippi, as a child in 1967 when he heard the thunderous sound of an explosion echo through his neighborhood. “I had no idea what it was,” said Crystal, who was 13 at the time. He’d later learn from his father, then president of the Beth…
By Sam Tabahriti MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -British police said on Friday they may have accidentally shot two victims, including one who died, in their attempts to bring under control an attack on a Manchester synagogue during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. In Thursday’s attack two men, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin…
London: Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised to do everything in his power to defeat antisemitism and protect Britain’s Jews after the killing of two people at a synagogue in northern England. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks following the incident at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, at 10 Downing Street, London, Britain….
Anti-Semitism has been normalised in middle-class Britain, a Government-backed report has found. The review warned that Jewish people in the UK were suffering increasing prejudice “in our professions, cultural life [and] public services” and felt they were “tolerated rather than being respected”. The report, commissioned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the country’s…