UK chief rabbi after latest arson attack: Society must understand ‘how dangerous this moment is’

Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis slams the “cowardly” arson attack on a London synagogue, saying that society must understand “how dangerous this moment is.”

Kenton United Synagogue was lightly damaged in the overnight attack, the third Jewish site targeted in a number of days in the British capital.

“Last night yet another synagogue, this time in Kenton, was targeted in a cowardly arson attack. It follows the attack in Finchley on Wednesday and the attempted attack on what was the Jewish Futures building in Hendon on Friday night, making three Jewish sites attacked in London in less than a week,” he says.

“A sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community of the UK is gathering momentum. This sustained attack on our community’s ability to worship and live in safety is an attack on the values that bind us all together,” he writes on X. “Thank God, no lives have been lost, but we cannot, and must not, wait for that to change before we understand just how dangerous this moment is for all of our society.”