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UK / News Briefs / Religion

UK Jewish Girls School Erased Evolution Questions from Test

By Jewish Press News Desk

The school removed evolution related questions from 52 standardized tests.

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

Britain Bars Quenelle Creator Dieudonne

By JTA

The French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, creator of the anti-Semitic quenelle gesture, was banned from entering Britain by the Home Office, British newspapers reported Monday. Dieudonne reportedly had announced that he would visit London to support Nicolas Anelka, a French national playing for the West Bromwich Albion British soccer team, who has been charged by […]

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Sports

British Soccer Team Apologizes for Nazi-Style Picture

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Soccer and anti-Semitism are two big sports in Britain. What happens when you combine them? You get a logo with a soccer team’s letter shaped in the form of a swastika. The team stated, “No offense intended.”

News Briefs / Religion / Judaism / European Union

European Council Passes Anti-Ritual Circumcision Resolution

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a “violation of the physical integrity of children” was passed overwhelmingly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The council, a pan-European intergovernmental organization that strongly influence European Union decisions, debated and passed the resolution on Tuesday, as reported here. The resolution was based on a […]

Global / News Briefs / Religion

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis Appointed as UK's New Chief Rabbi

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Sunday, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was appointed as the United Kingdom's new chief rabbi. Rabbi Mirvis is the Britain's 11th chief rabbi. Besides being a congregational rabbi, Rabbi Mirvis previously served as the chief rabbi of Ireland from 1985 to 1992. Rabbi Mirvis was born in South Africa in 1956. He moved to Israel in […]

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

British Academy Supporting Racist Lecturer Condemned by UK

By Jewish Press News Desk

Sept. 11 Canberra conference to feature top 9/11 conspiracy theorist, UN Watch urges British Academy to pull support for Richard Falk's Australia event.

America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

Why They Hate Us

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Islam is undergoing a modern crisis which perhaps only its clerics and lay leaders can rescue it from.

News Briefs

Rabbi Sacks Attacking PM, Multiculturalism

By Jewish Press News Desk

Britain's chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, is blaming British Prime Minister David Cameron for failing to do enough to boost marriages in the UK, and saying multiculturalism in Britain has "had its day," The Times reported. Rabbi Sacks said Cameron should recognize marriage in the tax system and do more to support stay at home mothers. […]

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

UK Border Control Gone Berserk? Or Just Anti-Semitic? (VIDEO)UPDATED

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The UK border security agent also told the British man who was going to provide Cantor with summer work experience that any additional attempts to aid Cantor would be useless and “the little Jew will be on his way back to his rich daddy,” in a matter of hours.

News Briefs / Europe

Pamela Geller Banned from England

By Jewish Press News Desk

British media sources are reporting that prominent bloggers Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugged) and Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch) have been banned from entering the UK.

News Briefs / Business and Economy

Teva to Sell Generic Viagra in UK, and Move Patent Filing to Switzerland

By Jewish Press News Desk

Teva, the world leader in generic medication will be soon be launching a generic version of Pfizer's Viagra in the UK and Europe. Pfizer's Viagra patents expired this past week in the UK and parts of Europe, allowing other manufacturers to move in. In the US, a court ruling has prevented Teva from introducing generic […]

Fresno Zionism

Antisemitism in the UK, Then and Now

By Guest Author

In Birkenhead, near Liverpool, slaughterhouse workers had refused to process any more meat for Jewish consumption until the attacks on British soldiers in Palestine stopped.

Fresno Zionism

No ‘Respect’ for Racist Demagogue

By Vic Rosenthal

Background on MP George Galloway, the British legislator who refused to debate an Israeli.

News Briefs / Europe / Religion

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis the Next Chief Rabbi of the UK

By Jewish Press News Desk

Since 1996 Rabbi Mirvis has become synonymous with the ever-growing Finchley Synagogue, one of the biggest congregations in London.

Goldstein on Gelt

From Academia to Industry: The Story of Graphene (Podcast)

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

An interview with Noble Prize winner Professor Andre Geim, the developer of graphene.

Book Reviews

Don't Worry, Be Happy

By J. H. Green

Receiving a difficult medical diagnosis can easily spell trauma, anguish, and hopelessness for a patient and his loved ones. Yet even amidst the dark skies of such a situation, Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein affectionately known simply as YY assures us that there is still hope.

This Ongoing War

What Some Islamists Have Been Up To

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Sometimes the global efforts of the Islamists pay dividends for them. Sometimes they are frustrated by the authorities. Nothing happens very quickly in the battle against them. And no one can seriously claim they are being defeated; on the contrary. Some snapshots from the last 24 hours.

Op-Eds

From the US to the UK, the Left Delegitimizes any Criticism

By Douglas Murray

When the full-tide of left-wing smear and innuendo are arraigned against them conservatives have developed a tendency not of standing up for, or explaining, their principles, but running for the left-wing foot-hills.

Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Europe

UK Urges EU to Classify Hizbollah Military Wing as Terrorist Group

By JTA

Britain's Foreign Minister William Hague urged the European Union to place Hizbullah’s military wing on its list of terrorist organizations.

Analysis

British Allow Anti-Semitic Iranian Propaganda in the UK

By Lee Kaplan

The British have been in the news lately for their stretched-to-the-limit political correctness concerning militant Islamists, and have even been jailing British subjects or fining them for allegedly making insulting remarks about Islam. Despite these convictions for "hate crimes" against Islam the British government seems perfectly willing to overlook the converse: anti-Semitic attacks by Iranian front groups against the Jewish community.

J.E. Dyer

J.E. Dyer: Ceramic Pig Watch - Offensive Speech in Britain

By J. E. Dyer

Ever since the case of the offensive ceramic pigs in 1998, the British have been assiduously refining their methods for dealing with offenses to Islam.

News Briefs

Turkey Proposes to Host Iran Nuclear Talks

By Jewish Press Staff

Turkey's Foreign Minister made the offer in a joint news conference with Iranian counterpart.

News Briefs

Iran Supplying Weapons to Quell Syrian Unrest

By Jewish Press Staff

UK PM Cameron discloses the information to the House of Commons.

News Briefs

Israeli Deputy FM Rebuffs Clegg's Comments on Judea and Samaria

By Jewish Press Staff

Danny Ayalon takes issue with UK Deputy PM's "irresponsible" comments.

Serials

Persuaded – Chapter III

By Barbara Bensoussan

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