Anxiety mounts in London’s Jewish community amid wave of antisemitic attacks | CNN

A week of assaults on synagogues and other communal buildings has created an atmosphere of heightened anxiety in London’s Jewish community. And yet this series of antisemitic criminal acts has also strengthened the resolve of some of those affected. The rabbi of Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, northwest London, which was attacked by arsonists over the weekend, took to social media on Sunday to show members of his congregation gathering in his home to pray. “We must not be deterred by what is taking place out there. It must not in any way affect who we are as Jews,” Rabbi Yehuda Black said on X. He is not the only one, according to Michael Wegier, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who told CNN the community is feeling “anxious but resilient.” “I’m hearing people who are nervous about sending their kids to Jewish schools or coming to synagogue, but one also hears exactly the opposite,” he said in a telephone interview. “There are people who are saying ‘we won’t be cowed, we’ve been here since the mid-17th century and we’re not going anywhere.’” Nobody was injured in the Kenton attack, which caused minor smoke damage, according