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Hanukkah, 1946: London

Above from the Hampstead News, January 9th , 1947.

The emphasis on physical fitness that we see here is quite fascinating. It seems like an early attempt to refute the narrative that the Jews of Europe were passive victims during the Holocaust. Physical culture doesn't fit well with the ethos of Orthodox Judaism, what with all that display of flesh, not to mention time taken away from studying.

And trust me, Orthodoxy is what's being covered in that piece. It warmed the cockles of my heart to find the following in the Middlesex County Times for December 21st, 1946:

The congregation still exists!

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In 1951, just six years after World War II, London threw itself a party. The Festival of Britain transformed the bomb-scarred South Bank int

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Hanukkah, 1945: In London, not all of the wartime visitors have gone home

From the West London Chronicle, December 7th, 1945:

Captain William B. Schwartz was born in Russia in 1896 and came to the U.S. ten years later. Like many another Reform rabbi of his generation, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati before receiving his ordination (in 1921) from Hebrew Union College. (The New West End Synagogue was, and remains, Orthodox, making this an example of how the war made everyone become more flexible in their religious practices.) Prior to his induction in 1943 he served Temple Israel, in Lawrence, N.Y. I've been unable to trace his activities after 1945, but I do know that a rabbi by the same name, born in 1896, died in 1959 and is buried in Helena, Arkansas.

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The 1953 coronation was a carnival of celebration as millions rejoiced in the crowning of their Queen. Rich in religious significance, the h

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By the start of the 40s, the United Kingdom was already two years into World War II and several months into the Blitz. Many of London’s mos

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75 years ago on 26 November 1945 British cinema classic Brief Encounter was released — here's how newspapers from the time received the Noel Coward film.

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Here’s a useful rule of thumb for you:

If a parent would be reported to social services for not providing something to their child, it’s probably a basic human need. If a first-world nation is failing to provide it to their citizens, it probably has no right to call itself a first-world nation.

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