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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

British Haredim

Members of the Jewish community celebrate Purim in Manchester, in northern England, on March 17, 2022. (OLI SCARFF / AFP)
August 18, 2022, 9:12 am
As Manchester’s Jewish community grows, a local kosher certifier shuts down
Closure highlights the wide-scale demographic and social shifts reshaping the UK Jewish community, as Haredi residents with strict kosher requirements grow in numbers
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative photo of Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport (Oxyman/Wikimedia Commons/File)
October 31, 2017, 4:58 pm
UK holds yeshiva student for 3 days, until he almost misses own wedding
After 3 days, Israel’s Deri intervenes on Yosef Goldenberg’s behalf, promises British immigration that newlyweds will leave country in 10 days
By JTA
Illustrative: ultra-Orthodox men walking along the street in the Stamford Hill area of London, Jan. 17, 2015. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images via JTA)
August 24, 2016, 3:08 am
Satmar decree bars women from higher education
Yiddish-language injunction issued by New York leaders of the Hasidic sect warns of ‘dangerous’ influence of secularism in women’s university studies
By JTA
British lawmaker Luciana Berger meeting with members of the Jewish Representative Council of the Manchester area, May 8, 2016. (Courtesy of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region/via JTA)
July 23, 2016, 1:41 pm
As London prices climb, Manchester beckons Jews from far and near
For England’s religiously observant communities, the capital’s high cost of living is increasingly prohibitive
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at Dover in action (screen capture: YouTube)
June 10, 2016, 7:22 am
Haredi teens give $7,000 to their UK lifeboat rescuers
Letter from Ahavas Yisrael Community Center says donation shows ‘their warmest gratitude and appreciation’
By JTA
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)
April 3, 2016, 7:43 pm
Report: 1,000 London students attend illegal Jewish schools
Haredi community, education officials said turning a blind eye to schools that refuse to teach national curriculum
By JTA
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)
October 16, 2015, 11:29 pm
Study: Ultra-Orthodox will make up half UK’s Jews by 2031
Report authors warn community must plan for population growth or it could experience lack of jobs, ‘social unrest’
By JTA
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)
June 4, 2015, 5:37 pm
Belz reverses on expelling kids of women drivers
Community leaders balk following outcry in Jewish community and from the UK government
By JTA
Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London (screen capture: YouTube/Mick Byrne)
June 1, 2015, 8:38 pm
Equal-rights board slams UK Hasidic ban on women drivers
Commission says Belz sect ruling against mothers driving their children to school ‘has no place in our society’
By ToI Staff
Nicky Morgan, the UK Secretary of State for Eduction, alongside Prime Minister David Cameron in the House of Commons, October 2014 (AP Photo/Parliamentary Recording Unit via AP)
May 29, 2015, 7:25 pm
UK government investigates Belz rabbis’ ban on women drivers
Minister calls ruling ‘unacceptable in modern Britain’; children driven to school by their mothers in north London community face expulsion
By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)
May 28, 2015, 4:58 pm
UK Haredi rabbis ban women drivers
Under new directive in north London, children driven to school by their mothers will be expelled; rabbis say policy upholds modesty
By Tamar Pileggi
Britain's chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis (photo credit: John Rifkin/File)
December 24, 2013, 2:21 am
In first, UK chief rabbi addresses Limmud conference
Haredi critics claim annual meeting, which brings together Jews of all strains, is a danger to British Jewry
By JTA
October 10, 2012, 6:38 pm
Suspected arson reported at London-area Jewish school
Police seek witnesses to fire in Haredi area of English capital
October 5, 2012, 5:33 pm
Gambling British haredim blamed for spate of burglaries
Teens accused of breaking into synagogue in latest criminal episode
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