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UK chief rabbi slams government’s decision to suspend arms licenses to Israel

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 05:20:15 +0000

Ephraim Mirvis warns move feeds into 'falsehoods' of genocide in Gaza, will encourage Israel's enemies

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UK chief rabbi: ‘The enormity of this task requires exceptional seriousness’

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:16:34 +0000

Ephraim Mirvis tells UK's Jewish News about growing up in South Africa and fighting apartheid, living in Jerusalem's Old City, his unexpected knighthood and his visit to the UAE

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UK chief rabbi to spend coronation eve with King Charles to avoid breaking Shabbat

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:50:03 +0000

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis will sleep at Clarence House on Friday evening before walking less than one mile to Westminster Abbey to attend coronation ceremony

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UK Jewish school reinstates female lecturer fired over rabbinical ordination

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:39:17 +0000

Chief rabbi's London School of Jewish Studies restores Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz to her position, Jewish News reports; she was dismissed last month for gaining title at NY yeshiva

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Thousands join 48-hour Twitter ‘walkout’ to protest anti-Semitism on platform

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:43:13 +0000

Politicians, celebrities and others lead mass sign-off, sparked by what they say is social media giant's inadequate response -- a 7-day ban -- to UK rapper's anti-Jewish rant

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In India, young British Jews struggle to avoid ‘poorism,’ learn how to help

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:06:12 +0000

UK chief rabbi tries to create 'Jewish foreign policy' with Ben Azzai program, which sends Jewish university students around the world to learn about poverty

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Britain’s Labour adopts its own controversial definition of anti-Semitism

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:34:59 +0000

Defying the Jewish community, chief rabbi, and MPs, the new guidelines omit key references to Israel and can be used to get members under investigation for bigotry off the hook

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UK chief rabbi, Jewish groups slam ‘horrific’ anti-Muslim campaign

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:24:50 +0000

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis slams ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letters as 'totally abhorrent' and a 'reminder of the depravity of Islamophobia'

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Britain’s former chief rabbi behind Pence’s biblical Knesset address

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:49:45 +0000

Jonathan Sacks 'instrumental' in drafting of speech from US vice president that contained many phrases previously used by major Jewish thinker

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Netanyahu in London meets with UK Jewish leaders to mark Balfour centenary

Sun, 05 Nov 2017 14:16:52 +0000

Prime minister sits down with British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews

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‘Greatest Name in Jewish Hotels’ captured in documentary film on British Jewry

Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:09:52 +0000

With its class and kosher food, The Green Park was the seaside vacation destination for post-war England's upwardly mobile religiously observant

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Ex-UK chief rabbi says all denominations have a place at Western Wall

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:27:44 +0000

Jonathan Sacks says that despite uproar, existence of egalitarian prayer area shows cabinet move not a defeat for liberal Jews

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Archbishop of Canterbury makes surprise Gaza visit

Fri, 05 May 2017 07:09:34 +0000

Head of Church of England tours two hospitals and a World War I British cemetery as part of his 10-day Holy Land trip

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Archbishop of Canterbury prays at Western Wall with UK chief rabbi

Wed, 03 May 2017 20:05:57 +0000

At Yad Vashem visit, head of Church of England stresses imperative to fight anti-Semitism, calls it 'the root of all racism' within European culture

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Jewish leaders offer condolences in wake of deadly London attack

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:25:03 +0000

UK chief rabbi says killings will 'serve only to unite us' as European Jewish Congress condemns 'cowardly and barbaric' act

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