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  • An orthodox Jewish family walk on the pavement of a busy road in Stamford Hill, London, England, United Kingdom.  Stamford Hill area is home to one of the largest populations of Orthodox Jewish people.
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  • Hassidic Jewish men walking over Westminster Bridge on a day out, London, UK.
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  • Theresa Villiers MP and former cabinet minister joins the campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters to stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
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  • Theresa Villiers MP and former cabinet minister joins the campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters to stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
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  • Theresa Villiers MP and former cabinet minister speaks in support as the campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
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  • Iain Dale, LBC presentor and journalist speaks to campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters as they stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • Iain Dale, LBC presentor and journalist arrives to support and speak to campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters as they stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • An Orthodox Jewish man in traditional clothes looks through a vandalised and smashed window in a bus shelter on the A20 Road in Stamford Hill, London, England.
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  • Hassidic Jewish couple at the South Bank on a day out, London, UK.
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  • Theresa Villiers MP and former cabinet minister joins the campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters to stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • The campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • Placards are seen on the ground as the campaign group, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish community groups and their supporters stage a protest in Parliament Square, London, England on July 19, 2018 against the Labour Party anti-semitism code following the party’s announcement that it will take action against Dame Margaret Hodge MP for calling Jeremy Corbyn an “antisemite”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • Orthadox Jews heading for prayer during the Purim festival in Stanford Hill on 26th February, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Purim is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews.A shtreimel is a fur hat worn by some Jewish men, mainly members of Hasidic Judaism, on Shabbat and Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. Men are encouraged to drink wine or any other alcoholic beverage.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men dance to music in a driveway of a wealthy man of the area whilst waiting to gain access to the household. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.  Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
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  • A group of Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for charity visit a wealthy man of the area; some houses are so popular they have a bouncer on the front door. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity.
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  • Young Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for their school (Yeshiva) wait in anticipation of the amount they will receive during a visit to the house of Mr Glick, a well off man of the area. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
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  • Orthadox Jews celebrating the Purim festival in Stanford Hill on 26th February, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Purim is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews. The spring festival is the most joyful of the Jewish festivals and its customs include wearing masks and costumes, public celebrations and parades Adloyada, and eating hamantaschen Hamans pocket; men are encouraged to drink wine or any other alcoholic beverage.
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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men praying from the same prayer book in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (Blessing of the Sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
    04-purim_6330.jpg
  • Orthadox Jews celebrating the Purim festival in Stanford Hill on 26th February, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Purim is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews. The spring festival is the most joyful of the Jewish festivals and its customs include wearing masks and costumes, public celebrations and parades Adloyada, and eating hamantaschen Hamans pocket; men are encouraged to drink wine or any other alcoholic beverage.
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  • Orthadox Jews celebrating the Purim festival in Stanford Hill on 26th February, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Purim is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews. The spring festival is the most joyful of the Jewish festivals and its customs include wearing masks and costumes, public celebrations and parades Adloyada, and eating hamantaschen Hamans pocket; men are encouraged to drink wine or any other alcoholic beverage.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy sits waiting for his Bar Mitzvah to begin in a Parces hall, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Young men tour the streets wearing fancy dress in an open top bus, drinking and dancing while going round visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their school charity during Purim. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim. Normally one of the group dresses up as Haman (right, covering his face).
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy sits waiting for his Bar Mitzvah to begin in a Parces hall, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • A hand in an open doorway of a property in the heart of the Jewish Kazimierz district of Krakow - the location of Nazi Holocaust evacuations during WW2 and where Steven Spielberg filmed scenes for his film Schindlers List, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland. The Jewish community were systematically removed from Kazimierz and taken to what became the Krakow Ghetto across the Vistula river in the Podgorze district where Oskar Schindlers factory was located and where he went on to save 1,100 Jews from concentration camps all over Poland and Germany. Before the war, 64,000 Jews lived in Krakow but after liberation, only 3-4,000 survived.
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  • Hatzola are a voluntary medical emergency service that provides care to the Orthodox Jewish community of North London.  Here 3 of their volunteers provide care with oxygen to an Orthodox Jewish patient in the back of their ambulance.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish boy climbing on a fence in front of a block of flats with open windows in Reizel close an Agudas Israel Housing Association development for low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill, London.
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  • A young child is allowed by an unseen parent to play  unknowingly on the memorial for Jewish Kinder Transportees at Liverpool Street mainline Station in the City of London. The Kindertransport is a rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools and farms. Often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust.
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
    09-OJC-birkat-8415.jpg
  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
    09-OJC-birkat-8399.jpg
  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
    09-OJC-birkat-8337.jpg
  • Hatzola are a voluntary medical emergency service that provides care to the Orthodox Jewish community of North London.  Here 3 of their volunteers assist an Orthodox Jewish patient wearing an oxygen mask into the back of their ambulance.
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  • Men praying and casting away their sins into the river Lea, Hackney, London for Tashlich. Tashlich is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah).
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress visit local businessmen to collect money for their school. Some of the businessman that they visit read a prayer to the group. The young boys drink alcohol at every house they visit during the day.
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  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
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  • Orthodox Jewish school boys from the Bobov school watching the Lag B’Omer bonfire in the school playground. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Orthodox Jewish children playing in the street of Reizel close an Agudas Israel Housing Association development for low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill, London.  All the children play regularly together, having bike races and playing football. There is a real sense of a community, some mothers are out with their younger children keeping an eye on goings on.
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boy surrounded by hundreds of Orthodox Jewish men wearing black coats and hats. The men are gathered to see their spiritual leader who has arrived from Antwerp.
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  • Aerial view of a Rabbi as he the last candles before the next service in Bevis Marks Synagogue in the City of London - the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom. As we look down on a balcony above, we look down on the holy man as he prepares his place of worship for the London Jewish community. Using a long pole that reaches up to the 7 hanging candelabras (symbolising the seven days of the week, the largest of which - represents the Sabbath) he lights every one. This central candelabrum was donated by the community of the Great Synagogue in Amsterdam, upon which Bevis Marks' interior is largely based. The candles are still lit today for weddings and the Jewish Festivals. The synagogue is located off Bevis Marks, in the City of London, built in 1701 it is a Grade I listed building.
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  • Exterior of the Egg Stores in Stoke Newington on 19th May 2022 in London, United Kingdom. This famous shop, and kosher grocery store on the outskirts of Stamford Hill is a very importand part of the Hasidic Jewish community in the area.
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  • Exterior of the Egg Stores in Stoke Newington on 19th May 2022 in London, United Kingdom. This famous shop, and kosher grocery store on the outskirts of Stamford Hill is a very importand part of the Hasidic Jewish community in the area.
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  • Exterior of the Egg Stores in Stoke Newington on 19th May 2022 in London, United Kingdom. This famous shop, and kosher grocery store on the outskirts of Stamford Hill is a very importand part of the Hasidic Jewish community in the area.
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  • Exterior of the Egg Stores in Stoke Newington on 19th May 2022 in London, United Kingdom. This famous shop, and kosher grocery store on the outskirts of Stamford Hill is a very importand part of the Hasidic Jewish community in the area.
    20220519_egg stores_001.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20110821orthodox jews protestB.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20110821orthodox jews protestI.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20110821orthodox jews protestG.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20110821orthodox jews protestE.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20110821orthodox jews protestD.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Hassidic Jewish man walks into a junk shop on Brick Lane, passing some street art on a nearbuy wall. London, UK.
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  • A Jewish wedding in Jerusalem
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man on a bicycle shopping at the Mahane Yahuda Market, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • Boys dressed in traditional Israeli and Jewish clothes play the flute and mandolin on Ben Yahuda Street, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man and his wife shopping in the Mahane Yahuda Market, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • A Jewish gentleman, bus stop graffiti and an ad for the new Aardman Animations new release Early Man, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • Two orthodox Jewish men with the statue of King Richard 1st while visiting the exterior of Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Richard Coeur de Lion is a Grade II listed equestrian statue of the 12th-century English monarch Richard I, also known as Richard the Lionheart, who reigned from 1189–99. It stands on a granite pedestal in Old Palace Yard outside the Palace of Westminster, facing south towards the entrance to the House of Lords. It was created by Baron Carlo Marochetti,
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  • A scratches, defaces sticker of a Jewish anti-facist group at a bus stop at Elephant & Castle, on 23rd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • Orthodox Jews from Stamford Hill pray outside the tomb of Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, The Shotzer Rebbe who is buried in the Adath Yisroel cemetery, Enfield. Before his death in 1958 (5718 Jewish years) he promised to help everyone who attended his tomb on a Friday morning and lit 3 candles.  It is thought by people in the local community that thousands have had spiritual help after lighting candles and praying here. On Friday the 12th of January 2007 it was the anniversary of his death, hundreds of people turned up to light candles, place them on his tomb and pray.
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  • After the funeral of Rabbi Josef Dunner who died on the 1st of April 2007 hundreds of people follow the car carrying the coffin on its way to the cemetery.  Rabbi Dunner was one of the last German Jewish Orthodox Rabbis ordained before the holocaust and well respected within the local community.
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  • The Mohel washes his hands before the circumcision ceremony begins. On the 8th day after birth a Brit Milah (Circumcision) is performed on a Jewish baby boy (unless there is a medical reason to delay it). The ceremony takes place in the synagogue and the man who carries out the skin removal is know as a Mohel and is medically trained, the boy is also given his Hebrew and/or English names.
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  • Orthodox Jewish teenage boys playing in the street with a replica hand gun. As one pretends to shoot his friend in the chest the other acts as if he has been shot.
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  • The bride (Kallah) assisted by 2 escorts holding candles circles her groom 7 times under the chuppah. There are many reasons for this, Kabbalah (the Jewish tradition of mysticism) says that women, representing the earth, re-enact seven revolutions that the earth made during the seven days of creation.
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  • A Jewish settlement in Palestine. Looking at it through a barbed wire barrier of the security fence.
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  • At the end of the Purim festival and 18 minutes before the beginning of Shabbat the candles are lit in the synagogue and everyone puts their hands toward the main candle to accept the sanctity of Shabbat. Shabbat is the Jewish day of rest and lasts from sunset on Friday night until 1 hour after sunset on Saturday. No work is allowed at all during Shabbat.
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  • In a Stamford Hill Skwer synagogue Jewish men watch the Skwer Rebbe visiting from New York carry the new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) into the Shul. Hundreds of men and women gathered to see the event take place.
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  • On the 8th day after birth a Brit Milah (Circumcision) is performed on a Jewish baby boy (unless there is a medical reason to delay it). The ceremony takes place in the synagogue and the man who carries out the skin removal is know as a Mohel and is medically trained, the boy is also given his Hebrew and/or English names. Here the father and grandfather of the baby boy assist the Mohel, friends and family attend the ceremony.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Boys dressed in traditional Israeli and Jewish clothes play the flute and mandolin on Ben Yahuda Street, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man checking the unleavened matza bread is properly cooked after taking it out of the oven. They are baking matza bread for Passover out the back of Bethune Road synagogue. The baking process from start to finish has to be completed within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher.
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  • Chanukah last for 8 days and is the Jewish festival of light. It commemorates the rededication of the temple after it had been defiled. A candle is lit every night. In order to bring light to the world some put the candles in their front window.  Here at a local old peoples home a resident is being helped by her grandson to light her menorah in the window.
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  • On the 3rd birthday of an Orthodox Jewish boy he has his first ever hair cut in a ceremony called an Upsherin leaving his peyos (sideburns) to grow. Passing a mirror in his hallway this is the first moment he ever sees himself with short hair and a kippah on his head. A kippah is said to be ‘A blessing on the head’ and is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew. He will now begin to learn the Torah.
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  • Women and children struggle to get vouchers for free kosher ice cream, the only kosher ice cream van in the UK visiting a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Women and children struggle to get vouchers for free kosher ice cream, the only kosher ice cream van in the UK visiting a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • People celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee in Springfield Park, Hackney on June 2nd 2022 in London, United Kingdom. An Orthodox Jewish boy on a bicycle watches as steel band players from the Pantonic Steel Orchestra welcome visitors to the park.
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