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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

Board of Deputies of British Jews

A sukkah banner distributed by Hakhel, the Goldberg-Polins' synagogue in Jerusalem, features Hersh's face with the word meaning light. Shlomit Sattler hung the banner in her Jerusalem sukkah. (Courtesy Sattler)
October 16, 2024, 6:33 pm
In new take on tradition, UK group urges families to ‘save seat in sukkah’ for hostages
Board of Deputies of British Jews’ initiative hearkens back to the age-old Jewish practice of inviting symbolic guests to temporary huts built for the Sukkot holiday
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Protesters hold placards and Israeli flags outside the headquarters of the BBC in London on October 16, 2023, to appeal to the corporation to call Hamas 'terrorists.' (Daniel Leal / AFP)
November 3, 2023, 10:06 am
The BBC is under fire for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war – rightly so
The outlet whose founder famously pledged to ‘educate, inform and entertain’ risks its reputation as the most trusted international news provider globally
By Robert Philpot
UJIA CEO Mandie Winston, left, and members of the solidarity mission that her organization organized to Israel, meet Israeli interlocutors in Jerusalem on October 30, 2023. (Courtesy)
November 1, 2023, 11:38 am
Different this time: On Israel trip, UK Jewish leaders share grief and deep concern
Members of solidarity mission say that British Jews are worried about spiking antisemitism at home even as they mourn and pray for the victims of the terrorist attacks on Israel
By Canaan Lidor
Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at a press conference announcing the Jewish Security Alliance at the ADL's investigative research lab. Behind him is Scott Richman, the regional director of ADL’s New York-New Jersey Office, CSS CEO Evan Bernstein and CSI Executive Director Mitch Silber. (Jacob Henry via JTA)
July 25, 2023, 10:15 am
ADL sets up a 7-country international task force on antisemitism
The American group’s partners in the J7 initiative are major Jewish communal organizations in Britain, France, Germany, Argentina, Canada and Australia
By ToI Staff
A pencil said to have belonged to Adolf Hitler on sale at an auction house in Belfast, the United Kingdom, pictured ahead of its auctioning scheduled for June 6, 2023. (Bloomfield Auctions)
June 7, 2023, 9:04 am
Pencil said to have been Hitler’s sells for $6,700 — a 10th of pre-auction estimate
Initialed pencil is sold in Belfast along with other items linked to Nazi dictator; all are bought by online bidders
By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman speaks at the annual Community Security Trust fundraising dinner in London, UK, on March 29, 2023. (CST)
March 30, 2023, 9:35 pm
UK cabinet minister blasts major Jewish group for criticizing immigration policy
Home Secretary Suella Braverman warns Board of Deputies against veering into partisanship while announcing new security funding
By Canaan Lidor
From left to right: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir, Prime Minister and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, and Religious Zionism head MK Bezalel Smotrich, in 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 4, 2022, 7:43 am
More US Jewish groups publicly fret over far-right showing in Israeli election
ADL, National Council of Jewish Women call out Religious Zionist members’ history of ‘racism, homophobia and misogyny’; across the pond, UK Jewry strikes a milder tone
By Judah Ari Gross
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, right, is shown the Codex Valmadonna I book by, from left, President of Board of Deputies of British Jews Vivian Wineman, Chairman of Ostro Minerals Schweiz AG Maurice Ostro and UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks at a reception to mark the Diamond Jubilee in London, February 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)
September 8, 2022, 8:57 pm
Queen Elizabeth’s long, complex relationship with the British Jewish community
She inspired loyalty among UK Jews throughout her reign, hosted Jewish and Israeli leaders, but it irked members of the community that she never visited Israel
By Amy Spiro
Kyiv Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich leads the memorial ceremony and inauguration of a symbolic synagogue at the site of the Babyn Yar Nazi massacre, April 8, 2021. (Courtesy/Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center)
June 15, 2022, 4:11 am
Leading Ukraine rabbi denies sexual misconduct allegations
Organization representing British Jews suspends ties with European Jewish Congress over unspecified ‘misconduct’ allegations against Yaakov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Screen capture from video of Stephen Sizer at the Christ at the Checkpoint conference in 2010, Bethlehem. (YouTube)
May 30, 2022, 9:32 am
Church of England vicar who shared article blaming Israel for 9/11 faces removal
Disciplinary tribunal formed after Jewish umbrella group highlights series of alleged antisemitic acts by Stephen Sizer, who also met with a Hezbollah leader
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony announcing the winners of the Wolf Foundation award, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on February 8, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 28, 2022, 6:00 pm
President condemns UK Jewry’s leading group for lambasting visiting far-right MK
Defending Religious Zionism MK Bezalel Smotrich, Herzog calls remarks by the Board of Deputies against him ‘deeply insulting’ and divisive
By Judah Ari Gross
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations CEO William Daroff (left) and executive vice president Malcolm Hoenlein at The Times of Israel offices in Jerusalem, on February 14, 2022. (Times of Israel)
February 16, 2022, 2:57 am
US Jewish leaders warn of growing antisemitism, say they helped fight Amnesty report
The heads of the Conference of Presidents, William Daroff and Malcolm Hoenlein, speak with ToI about Whoopi Goldberg, Ben & Jerry’s, and the centrality of Israel in US Jewish life
By Judah Ari Gross
MK Bezalel Smotrich visits the illegal outpost of Evyatar, in the West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
February 10, 2022, 12:02 pm
Under fire from mainstream UK Jews, Smotrich says ‘small group’ wants to silence him
Likud party decries ‘blunt and shameful’ statement by Jewish umbrella organization saying far-right MK is unwelcome in Britain
By Tobias Siegal
Head of the Religious Zionist Party MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a rally against the government in Tel Aviv, November 2, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 10, 2022, 12:02 am
Top UK Jewish body tells visiting far-right MK Smotrich to ‘get back on a plane’
In a Hebrew tweet, the Board of Deputies of British Jews says it rejects Religious Zionism lawmaker’s ‘abominable views and hate-provoking ideology’
By ToI Staff
A man (R) appears to make a Nazi salute, in a video showing a group of people accosting Jews on a Chabad bus as they celebrated Hanukkah in London, November 28, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)
January 28, 2022, 8:12 am
UK Jewish groups slam BBC ‘non-apology’ for misreporting antisemitic Hanukkah attack
Board of Deputies of British Jews ‘dismayed’ by broadcaster continuing ‘to cloud issue’ of it claiming call for help in Hebrew was slur aimed at Muslims
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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