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Screen-grab from JN video of police intervening at a shul in Stamford Hill where a simcha is taking place

February 19, 2021, 2:17 pm

Police: ‘Majority follow rules but we won’t apologise for lockdown crackdown’

Chief Superintendent Marcus Barnett praised majority of the strictly-Orthodox community in Stamford Hill for following the rules.

By Josh Salisbury

March 12, 2018, 11:33 am

Trauma from conversion therapy: ‘In my Jewish community, being gay isn’t an option’

In parts of strictly-Orthodox Jewish Britain, conversion therapy – discredited as damaging and ineffective – is still being offered to those who confide in rabbis about their feelings. Clare Hedwat hears some traumatic stories

By Clare Hedwat

Screenshot of BBC footage purporting to show the school in question, where the child was allegedly struck by a teacher

February 27, 2018, 2:16 pm

Shul suspends unregistered Charedi school after video shows teacher striking child

'Deep concerns' over BBC footage of incident at Southend and Westcliff Hebrew congregation.

Jonathan Goldstein meeting with members of the Stamford Hill Jewish community

November 21, 2017, 11:37 am

Charedi leaders herald JLC chief’s ‘ground-breaking’ visit to Stamford Hill

Strictly Orthodox figures say it was an 'honour and privilege' to welcome Jewish Leadership Council head Jonathan Goldstein on Sunday

November 29, 2016, 9:34 am

Bitter court battle over Orthodox family split

A man who split from his wife and left the Satmar community has been accused of exposing his children to an 'alien way of life' by allowing them to break Shabbat

By Jewish News Reporter

November 23, 2016, 11:37 am

Mayor concerned after anti-Semitism report by Shomrim

Sadiq Khan said he is worried at the number of hate crimes directed at the Jewish community, which he go 'under-reported'

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Shomrim members on a patrol with ex-Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe in Stamford Hill.

October 10, 2016, 5:10 pm

Report says Orthodox suffer ‘shocking racist abuse daily’

Neighbourhood watch group Shomrim release their findings after a month-long study into anti-Semitism

By Jewish News Reporter

September 29, 2016, 7:50 pm

Shomrim fundraise for homeless man who was attacked

Charedi neighbourhood watch group Shomrim are trying to help Chris Main after he had his artwork stolen and was assaulted

By Patrick Maguire

September 22, 2016, 4:07 pm

Car ad with same-sex couple angers Israel’s Orthodox

Nissan's 'Put your family in the Sentra' ad has led to a counter-campaign by the Orthodox community presenting a 'normal family'

By JTA

A Strictly Orthodox family in traditional dress

September 22, 2016, 11:30 am

Orthodox women told not to wear red or yellow clothes

Women in Stamford Hill's Charedi community warned that wearing 'hot colours' may 'solicit attention'

By Stephen Oryszczuk

A screenshot from the short video showing the abuse of the couple

August 24, 2016, 1:25 pm

Footage shows Jewish family being abused in east London

Police are investigating after the family, including two small children were told they were 'not welcome', and that they should go to back 'Isra-hell'

By Jewish News Reporter

The decree issued by the Satmar community (Source: The Independent)

August 23, 2016, 7:14 pm

Strictly-Orthodox sect bans women from going to university

The Satmar community issued a yiddish edict calling higher education 'dangerous' and 'against the Torah'

August 23, 2016, 12:32 pm

Stamford Hill gets ‘reassuring’ armed police patrol

The Strictly-Orthodox community in north London welcomed the move as a deterrence for anti-Semites

August 15, 2016, 5:23 pm

I’m the shiksa of Stamford Hill

Stamford Hill’s strictly-Orthodox Jewish community has become fiercely polarised along religious lines according to our anonymous writer who, until recently, lived in the area all her life.

August 11, 2016, 11:02 am

Charedi school stays open despite calls for closure

The Department of Education had called for unregistered independent school Talmud Torah Tashbar to close

By Stephen Oryszczuk

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