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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Manchester

Illustrative: Police officers guard the gates to Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
May 14, 2024, 9:12 pm
Two men accused in UK of plotting ISIS-style machine gun terror attack on Jews
Court told the two planned to gun down Jews in Manchester; chief rabbi says news ‘harrowing’; police say they believe there is ‘no longer a wider risk to the public’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A screenshot of a video clip in which a member of the UK Border Force allegedly harasses two Israeli brothers at Manchester Airport, March 24, 2024. (X video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 26, 2024, 9:49 am
UK probing alleged harassment of Oct. 7 survivors by Manchester airport authorities
Jewish council says 2 Israelis invited to share their experiences at Nova rave massacre were detained for 2 hours, told ‘you’re not going to do what you’re doing in Gaza over here’
By ToI Staff
Danny Darlington (Courtesy)
November 14, 2023, 8:21 pm
Danny Darlington, 34: UK photographer whose final snapshots were Israel
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz, October 7
By ToI Staff
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: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)
April 1, 2022, 10:00 pm
In first, Britain jails businessman for refusing to grant his wife a Jewish divorce
‘You sought to manipulate and control her all in the knowledge that it would substantially impact her mental health,’ judge tells Alan Moher, who will serve 18 months in prison
By ToI Staff
The permanent display at the Manchester Jewish Museum in England celebrates the blue-collar roots of the community, when many of its members worked in steel and textile. (Chris Payne via JTA)
July 4, 2021, 10:13 am
Renovated Manchester Jewish Museum celebrates the community’s roots
Housed in a former synagogue, museum documents the rise from Jews’ past as industrial laborers in the city’s urban center to their becoming residents of its leafy suburbs
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Alta Fixsler lies in hospital in Manchester, England, in 2019. (Courtesy of the family via JTA)
June 22, 2021, 6:50 pm
Fate of hospitalized British Jewish toddler to be decided Wednesday
British court ordered 2-year-old Alta Fixsler removed from life support, pending hearing; her parents want to transfer her to Jerusalem for treatment, against hospital’s wishes
By JTA and ToI Staff
Manchester bomber Salman Abedi (far right, red shirt) attends protest outside the UAE embassy in London, hours after he demonstrated against visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015 (Screen grab/Daily Mail)
October 10, 2020, 10:49 am
Manchester suicide bomber attended anti-Netanyahu protest 2 years earlier
Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017, was already on MI5’s radar when he joined demo by Corbyn-backed group against London visit by Israeli PM
By ToI Staff
David Kross as Bert Trautmann in 'The Keeper' (Jürgen Olczyk/Menemsha Films)
October 2, 2020, 11:56 am
How an ex-Nazi found UK soccer stardom thanks to a refugee rabbi’s intervention
Docudrama ‘The Keeper’ tells the amazing true story of Bert Trautmann’s journey from German POW to Manchester City goalie. But questions remain over his wartime service in Ukraine
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The time capsule extracted from a wall during renovations at what used to be a synagogue in Manchester, UK. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Manchester via JTA)
September 25, 2020, 11:04 pm
150-year-old time capsule found in wall of oldest synagogue in Manchester
Glass jar containing newspapers, synagogue documents and coins extracted from Spanish shul that’s now the English city’s Jewish Museum
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Billboards advertising property for rent and for sale are seen on London's Finchley Road, Wednesday, April 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Max Nash)
August 26, 2020, 9:51 am
UK renters’ union rejects Jewish applicant: ‘Sorry, no time for Zionists’
Acorn Union issues apology after prospective renter in Manchester was told ‘we are a pro-Palestine organization,’ says it has launched internal probe
By Marcy Oster
Left: naked eye vs Right: multispectral imaging. A lamed (the letter 'L' in Hebrew) is written on the left side of the fragment and the Hebrew word 'Shabbat' is visible in the upper right hand corner. (© Copyright The University of Manchester)
May 20, 2020, 10:08 am
‘Shabbat’ revealed: UK’s ‘blank’ Dead Sea Scroll fragments yield a holy surprise
The University of Manchester’s Reed Collection was just a pile of 2,000-year-old leather scraps from Qumran — until Prof. Joan Taylor spotted one ghostly letter, then another…
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
NHS workers are swabbed at a drive-in facility to test for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, set up in the car park on the outskirts of Manchester on April 4, 2020. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)
April 4, 2020, 6:46 pm
Rabbi Osher Yaakov Westheim, British authority on kosher laws, dies of virus
Westheim, known for high standards, headed the Kashrut Department of the Manchester Beth Din until 2004 and would conduct surprise inspections at sites around Europe
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Anti-Semitic graffiti in the Hampstead neighborhood of northwest London, photographed on December 29, 2019. (Twitter screen capture)
February 6, 2020, 4:13 am
UK anti-Semitism soars to record high, up 7% since 2018, says watchdog
Britain’s Community Security Trust records 1,805 anti-Semitic hate incidents, including 158 violent assaults, nationwide in 2019
By ToI Staff
Two men British police want to identify after verbal anti-Semitic attack on November 17, 2019 (Greater Manchester Police from CCTV footage)
December 8, 2019, 2:42 pm
UK police asks for help in identifying suspects in Manchester anti-Semitic abuse
Two men were filmed hurling insults at Jewish man last month at kebab shop, saying Jews should be ‘wiped out’ and giving Nazi salute
By ToI Staff
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