Two-thirds of London’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community had Covid last year – nine times the national average, a study has shown. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found the rate of past infection, known as seroprevalence, was at 64 per cent in the community of around 15,000 people. This compares to rates … 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
Police last night raided a wedding with 400 guests at a Jewish school in north London and fined the organiser £10,000. Five other people were handed £200 fines after officers were called at 9.14pm to the large gathering at Yesodey Hatorah Girls Senior School in Stamford Hill. The windows of the building, which acts as … Read more
Police last night raided a wedding with 400 guests at a Jewish school in north London and fined the organiser £10,000. Five other people were handed £200 fines after officers were called at 9.14pm to the large gathering at Yesodey Hatorah Girls Senior School in Stamford Hill. The windows of the building, which acts as … Read more
The New York City Sheriff’s Office says a Jewish wedding attended by thousands of people in Brooklyn on Monday night was in compliance with state COVID-19 restrictions, despite pictures and video showing crowds of men packed together with no social distancing or masks. Law enforcement watched from a distance as Shlomo Halberstam, the 18-year-old son … Read more
The NYPD has claimed a Jewish wedding attended by thousands of people in Brooklyn on Monday night was in compliance with state COVID-19 restrictions, despite pictures and video showing crowds of men packed together with no social distancing or masks. Cops watched from a distance as Shlomo Halberstam, the 18-year-old son of the head of … Read more
The doorways of several Jewish homes have been smeared with blood in the shape of a cross in a suspected anti-Semitic hate crime. The homes are in Stamford Hill, east London, an area inhabited by around 15,000 members of the ultra orthodox Jewish community. Hackney Police are investigating the crime, which has been likened by … Read more
Teacher with Mediterranean and Jewish heritage is left bewildered as his trade union insists he is black – despite him telling them he is not EXCLUSIVE: Jason Wardill, 42, invited to a meeting of black teachers last year Design technology teacher tried to stop union referring incorrectly to ethnicity National Education Union treats black as a political … Read more
Teacher with Mediterranean and Jewish heritage is left bewildered as his trade union insists he is black – despite him telling them he is not EXCLUSIVE: Jason Wardill, 42, invited to a meeting of black teachers last year Design technology teacher tried to stop union referring incorrectly to ethnicity National Education Union treats black as a political … Read more
State-of-the-art imaging technology has been used to analyse an ancient Jewish manuscript — revealing how it has degraded and been repaired over time. Researchers from Romania used different parts of the light spectra to expose the hidden history of the scroll, which contains chapters from the Hebrew Bible. The findings could help conservators understand how … Read more