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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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  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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”.
    20180719_Jewish_Antisemitism_Protest...jpg
  • 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
  • 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”.
    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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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 try and visit a wealthy man of the area; some houses are so popular they have to wait to get in and they have bouncers on the 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.
    04-purim-6363.jpg
  • 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.
    04-purim_6387.jpg
  • 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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  • Young Orthodox Jewish boy shoot cap guns and bang on drums every time Haman is mentioned in the congregation during the Megillah reading for Purim in Walford road synagogue. 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 for men dress u and to hold carnival-like celebrations.
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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boy dressed as Dennis the menace in the congregation during the Megillah reading for Purim in Walford road synagogue. 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 for men dress u and to hold carnival-like celebrations.
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  • Between the houses of a Jewish street in Stamford Hill the figure of Haman in suspended in the sky during the festival of Purim. A young girl dressed as a fairy for Purim try’s to hit it with her wand. 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.
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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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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy recites the Torah during Bar Mitzvah.  His father and grandfather listen closely to make sure he doesn’t make any mistakes. 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 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy cuts the bread for everyone at his Bar Mitzvah meal. 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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  • Friends of a 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy who have already had their Bar Mitzvah pray without him before his begins, 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 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.
    07-weiss_9053.jpg
  • 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 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, its common to see young children smoking cigarettes on the streets.
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  • 3 generations of women from the same family watch the Purim events from a safe distance. 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 for men dress up and to hold carnival-like celebrations, singing, dancing and getting drunk.
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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.
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  • A man dressed up as a gorilla in the congregation during the Megillah reading for Purim in Walford road synagogue. 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 for men dress u and to hold carnival-like celebrations.
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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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  • 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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  • 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
    09-OJC-birkat-8422.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-8417.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
  • 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-8067.jpg
  • A young Orthodox Jewish boys preparing to pray by wrapping the leather strap of his Tefillin around his arm and a Tallit (prayer shawl) around his shoulders.  The arm-Tefillin, is worn on the upper arm, while the head-Tefillin, is placed above the forehead. They serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. According to Jewish Law, they should be worn during weekday Morning Prayer services.
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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boys preparing to pray by wrapping the leather strap of his Tefillin around his arm and a Tallit (prayer shawl) around his shoulders.  The arm-Tefillin, is worn on the upper arm, while the head-Tefillin, is placed above the forehead. They serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. According to Jewish Law, they should be worn during weekday Morning Prayer services.
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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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  • 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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  • Headstones in a Orthodox Jewish cemetery in Enfield, North London. Space in the cemetery is limited and graves are very close together. The dates on the headstones are from the Jewish calendar.
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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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  • 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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  • An Orthodox Jewish man with the help of a pupil, from the Bobov School, light a torch. The torch will be used to set alight 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 schoolboys from the Bobov School enjoy an ice cream while watching their Lag B’Omer bonfire being put out by local fire fighters after it became out of control. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress celebrate the festival with a feast. The schoolboys drink large amounts of alcohol throughout the day and night, towards the end of the night a fight breaks out between two of the boys.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress celebrate the festival with a feast. The evening quickly moves onto dancing on the tables that sends food flying everywhere. The school boys drink large amounts of alcohol throughout the day and night.
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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. At the end of the day they return to their school and have a celebration feast, the Purim Rabbi performs a song to his class during the meal. Large amounts of alcohol are consumed during the festival.
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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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  • 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. The group perform tasks for cash, here the Purim Rabbi attached a mezuzah (a prayer scroll) to a new doorway to the garden.
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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. The group perform tasks and dance to earn the money, they drink alcohol at every house they visit during the day.
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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. The Purim Rabbi (centre) leads the group with a song, they drink alcohol at every house they visit during the day.
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  • A group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) dressed in fancy dress sing and dance in the street. Other members of the group decorate the double-decker bus with banners that they will travel on for the Jewish festival of Purim. They will visit several local wealthy businessmen collecting money for their school.
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  • Rabbi Herschel Gluck of Walford Road synagogue, Stamford Hill, London.  He is a key figure in the local Hasidic Jewish community and chairman of the Muslim – Jewish forum.
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  • Young Orthodox Jewish girls play on a bouncy castle at a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Women and Men are kept separate at all times including children, they have separate play area’s. 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 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 schoolboys from the Bobov school celebrate Lag B’Omer with a 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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  • A member of the Orthodox Jewish security force the CST patrolling an Orthodox Jewish event in Stamford Hill. The CST has over three thousand volunteers in the UK. They provide training and security throughout the community giving help and advice against crime and anti-Semitism.
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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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  • 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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  • In a communal garden of a Stamford Hill block of flats 3 young Orthodox Jewish boys and one Orthodox Jewish girl collect conkers from the ground and put them into plastic bags.
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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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  • 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 schoolboys from the Bobov School watch their 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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  • A group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) travel around on the back of a flat bed lorry. The boy in the centre of the image is dressed as a Rabbi for the festival of Purim, he is surrounded by his class mates. Dressed in fancy dress for the Jewish festival of Purim they sing and dance to Yiddish music. They will visit several local wealthy businessmen collecting money for their school.
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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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  • 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 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 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 Jewish wedding in Jerusalem
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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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  • Kosher Orthodox Jewish fish shop on Old Hill Street, Stamford Hill, London United Kingdom.
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  • A young Jewish boy keeps watch on the school gate during Kapparot in Stamford Hill, London. Kapparot is a custom in which the sins of a person are symbolically transferred to a fowl, a rooster for a male and a hen for female. One or two local schools use their playgrounds for this practice, it takes place at dawn.
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  • Two Tefillin cases on top of a velvet case used to protect the Tallit and siddur (prayer book containing daily prayers). A Tefillin is the small back box containing prayers written on small scrolls that an Orthodox Jewish man places on his arm and head during Morning Prayer.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish diamond dealer shows off the quality of one of his many diamonds at a Hatton garden workshop, London.  Hatton Garden is the diamond centre of London.
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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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  • 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 grandfather of the baby boy assist the Mohel, friends and family attend the ceremony.
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