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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Arts Council England has awarded an estimated £17,000 to a ludicrous show which mocks the death of Diana and has the late Queen admitting to plotting her death.
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis will sleep at Clarence House on Friday evening before walking less than one mile to Westminster Abbey to attend coronation ceremony
The night before King Charles's coronation, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and his wife will be guests of the royal couple in order to observe Shabbat and still attend the coronation.
At western synagogue in queens, new york, the rabbi surveys the damage. the storm put the entire neighborhood and temple under at least four feet of water. the once-pristine sanctuary now has buckling floors, the holy books are unusable, but because of their religious content they cannot be burned, so they sit covered outdoors awaiting their fate. >> in judaism, we don't today things away. we have to take our prayer books and give them a proper burial. that's how we show that they're sacred and they're not just tossed aside. >> reporter: many houses of worship across the northeast are in the s...