York Synagogue News Today

  (JTA) — Earlier this month, the small Jewish community in the British city of York celebrated the arrival of a new rabbi, its first since the city’s Jewish community was nearly wiped out in a pogrom in 1190. Or so they thought. Just weeks after the new rabbi, Elisheva Salamo, arrived in the city, […]

Local university says that around 20 years later 'there was once more a thriving Jewish community' in the city, before Jews were ultimately expelled from England in 1290

All were welcome to celebrate the holiday as a York Synagogue demonstrated the lighting of the menorah.