May 4, 2018
ALONG THE ANGLOSPHERE:
Now majority Muslim, kids at UK's King David Jewish school still pray in Hebrew: A decades-long depletion in number of Jews living outside of London means that boys in taqiyah and girls in hijabs sing 'Hatikvah' to start the school day (CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, 5/04/18, JTA)
Like hundreds of Jewish institutions in the Diaspora, the King David School celebrated Israel's 70th Independence Day with blue-and-white flags and group singing of the "Hatikvah" national anthem.But the King David is not like most other Jewish schools.Most of the dozens of students in the 53-year-old elementary school in a suburb of this gritty English city come from Muslim families -- the result of a decades-long depletion in the size of most Jewish communities outside London and growing immigration from South Asia and the Middle East. According to parents and community observers, 80 percent of the students are Muslim.
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 4, 2018 4:20 AM