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Miriam Shaviv

Labour leader Ed Miliband, gestures, as he makes his keynote speech to delegates, during his party's annual conference, Sept. 24, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/PA, Gareth Fuller)
April 6, 2014, 3:10 pm
British opposition leader to visit Israel this week
Ed Miliband, the son of Jewish immigrants, set to meet senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, speak to Israeli students
By Raphael Ahren and Miriam Shaviv
Interior of new upscale London kosher eatery, 1701. (photo credit: courtesy)
December 17, 2013, 4:28 am
Kosher London restaurant changing way world views Jewish cuisine
Tucked behind the historic Bevis Marks Synagogue, Restaurant 1701 is listed in Michelin Guide just months after opening; now it shoots for a star
By Miriam Shaviv
Author Eve Harris (photo credit: Karolina Urbaniak)
October 28, 2013, 3:15 pm
The book bringing ultra-Orthodox Jews to the masses
After teaching in a UK haredi girls school, secular Jewish author Eve Harris writes a sympathetic 400-page novel about that world’s biggest problems
By Miriam Shaviv
Prof. David Newman in front of Windsor Castle. (photo credit: courtesy)
October 16, 2013, 2:21 pm
It is possible to be a lefty Zionist, says BGU prof
As a sign ‘from above,’ Prof. David Newman is awarded an OBE for promoting academic links between Israel and the UK
By Miriam Shaviv
JW3, the London JCC. (©NinaSologubenko)
October 2, 2013, 7:22 pm
Unusually for UK Jewry, London’s JCC is Jewish, ‘loud and proud’
At new community center JW3, CEO bids to broaden cultural conversation beyond Israel and anti-Semitism
By Miriam Shaviv
Labour leader Ed Miliband (right), with Prime Minister David Cameron at the State Opening of Parliament in 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire, Pool)
October 2, 2013, 3:48 pm
UK Labor leader denies his Marxist father ‘hated Britain’
Ed Miliband, son of Belgian Jewish immigrant, leads polls to become UK’s next PM; is under attack from right-wing Daily Mail
By JTA and Miriam Shaviv
UK Prime Minister David Cameron meeting Holocaust survivors (left) Martin Bennet and Josef Perl on September 16, 2013. (photo credit: Blake Ezra Photography)
September 17, 2013, 10:48 am
Cameron: I wanted to act in Syria because of the lessons of the Holocaust
Those who opposed action, after seeing ‘those children gassed to death by Assad,’ will feel ‘shame’ in the future, says British PM
By Miriam Shaviv
Thomas Bach (photo credit: Sven Teschke/Wikipedia commons)
September 11, 2013, 1:06 am
New Olympic chief heads Arab-German trade group set up to boycott Israel
Thomas Bach supported predecessor Jacques Rogge in refusing to hold a moment of silence at 2012 Olympics for the 11 Israelis murdered at 1972 Munich Games
By JTA and Miriam Shaviv
Philip Sharp (center), England's "Rampant Rabbi," has "married" six women and fathered 18 children, not all of whom are pictured here. (Courtesy of Judith Sharp)
September 2, 2013, 7:31 pm
Polygamous ‘rabbi’ stirs up UK with unusual wifestyle
With his ‘rampant’ approach to marriage, London native Philip Sharp is as good at landing wives as attention in the tabloids
By Miriam Shaviv
Outgoing chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks (left), walking with Ephraim Mirvis (right) and Prince Charles (behind them in center). (photo credit: Yakir Zur)
September 1, 2013, 11:55 pm
Taking helm, new British chief rabbi puts synagogues at center
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said to focus on the internal challenges of the community, marking a departure from the past
By Miriam Shaviv
Britain's Board of Deputies has represented the country's Jews since the 18th century, and some feel its approach hasn't aged well. (Courtesy of the Board of Deputies)
August 25, 2013, 3:46 am
Will merger unite UK Jewry or divide it further?
Proposed union of major communal organizations could streamline agenda, but critics fear it will empower an unelected elite
By Miriam Shaviv
Former Education Minister Roman Giertych just before a TV electoral debate, Oct.15, 2007. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 30, 2013, 1:15 pm
Jewish group hires former far-right Polish leader to lead fight for ritual slaughter
Exclusive: While European Jewish organizations express shock, Roman Giertych accepts his family’s anti-Semitic past, disavows it, and promises positive results by September
By Miriam Shaviv
British-born Beth Alexander lost her battle for custody of her twin sons, Samuel and Benjamin. (TOI archive)
July 29, 2013, 12:04 pm
Austrian court grants full custody to father of Schlesinger twins
Judge stands by negative assessment of mother’s mental health, despite a conflicting subsequent, court-commissioned report
By Miriam Shaviv
The Prince of Cambridge, George Alexander Louis, July 23, 2013. The boy will be third in line to the British throne. (photo credit: AP/John Stillwell, Pool)
July 25, 2013, 11:22 am
Middleton, Shmiddleton. Britain’s new royal heir is not a Jew
Despite the claims of dubious experts, unnamed Sephardi rabbis, and an Iranian news agency, Prince George will not be England’s very first Yiddishe monarch
By Miriam Shaviv
A mask depicting Britain's Duchess of Cambridge and clocks showing New York and London time, placed by members of the media, are seen across from St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Sunday, July 21, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)
July 22, 2013, 6:26 pm
Kate labors in Jewish-funded wing
Duchess of Cambridge taken to birthing complex donated in the 1930s by philanthropist Frank Charles Lindo
By Miriam Shaviv
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