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We are under attack

New Statesman·Rachel Cunliffe·about 1 month ago
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(Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Two weeks ago, a friend asked how I was doing. Not great , I replied. There’s been an attack on a synagogue where I grew up . They paused, puzzled. But you didn’t grow up anywhere near Kenton . I never thought I’d be explaining that no, the north London synagogue in Finchley at which a brick and two bottles thought to contain petrol were thrown on 15 April is a different one to the north London synagogue in Kenton where a bottle containing an accelerant was thrown through the window on 18 April. The former is a stone’s throw from the house I lived in for two decades, which I have attended many times, most recently for a funeral last year. The latter is at least seven miles away, and I think I have only been there once, for a Bat Mitzvah 21 years ago. Both incidents are completely separate to the attack on 17 April on a building formerly occupied by the charity Jewish Futures that promotes Jewish education and community engagement.…

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