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'Too Jewish?' – why Jewish stories still make some audiences uncomfortable

Why Jewish stories still provoke discomfort – and why that discomfort matters

|ByRYAN CRAIG
The Rosenbergs, a middle-class Jewish family from Edgware, played by Nicholas Woodeson as the father, David Rosenberg, and Tracy-Ann Oberman as mother, Lesley Rosenberg, in Ryan Craig’s play, staged recently in a London theater.
Police officers work as people gather outside the Old Bailey after British police officer Martyn Blake was acquitted of the 2022 murder of Chris Kaba, in London, Britain, October 21, 2024.

Wanstead man charged with arson of former London synagogue amid rising attacks

Moses Edwards was charged with arson at a former East London synagogue, part of a growing wave of attacks on Jewish and Israeli sites in the UK.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Police Cars are seen outside Finchley Reform Synagogue on April 15, 2026 in London, England. Police are treating the attempted arson attack on the Finchley Reform Synagogue as an antisemitic hate crime.

Third person arrested in Finchley Reform Synagogue arson investigation

The 19-year-old man joined a 38-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man who were arrested at the same Watford address on April 15, the same day of the attack.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Essa Suleiman stabbed two London Jews with a knife before being overpowered by Jewish volunteer security and Metropolitan Police.

History of violence against Jews, police: What we know about Golders Green attacker - explainer

An investigation by Campaign Against Antisemitism and confirmed by The Jerusalem Post reveals a long history of violence that includes attacking officials and disrupting demonstrations.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Rule of law: The mystery of Miriam Naor

As Asher Grunis leaves the stage, the debate on judicial intervention and whether the new chief justice will be for or against it has been reignited.

JANUARY 8, 2015ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
MIRIAM NAOR

UK Jews feel anti-Semitic backlash

Community Security Trust warns that situation could deteriorate significantly; Large pro-Palestinian demo held outside Downing Street.

JULY 20, 2014ByJERRY LEWIS
Demonstrators march in central London July 19

Disraeli childhood home, British Jewry HQ sold for $10 million

Board of Deputies of British Jews will be relocating to London's Camden neighborhood.

JUNE 27, 2014ByJTA
The childhood home of Benjamin Disraeli.