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  • On the 3rd birthday of a Orthodox Jewish boy he has his first ever hair cut leaving his peyos (sideburns) to grow. His Grandfather then places a kippah on his head for the first ever time. A kippah is said to be 'A blessing on the head' and is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew. With both his Grandfathers either side he now begins to learn the Alpha bet so he can read the Torah.
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  • On the 3rd birthday of an Orthodox Jewish boy he has his first ever hair cut in a ceremony called an Upsherin leaving his peyos (sideburns) to grow. Passing a mirror in his hallway this is the first moment he ever sees himself with short hair and a kippah on his head. A kippah is said to be 'A blessing on the head' and is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew. He will now begin to learn the Torah.
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  • In Stamford Hill, London, United Kingdom, on the 3rd birthday of a Orthodox Jewish boy he has his first ever hair cut leaving his peyos (sideburns) to grow. His Grandfather then places a kippah on his head for the first ever time. A kippah is said to be 'A blessing on the head' and is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew. He will now begin to learn the Torah.
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • During the festival of Purim a scuffle breaks out between the Neturei Karta and Zionist Jews as they try to burn the Israeli flag in Stamford Hill, London. The Neturiei Karta oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah.
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man belonging the Bobov Hasidism during Morning Prayer inside a Stamford Hill synagogue. Communal praying in a minyan (quorum) is preferred by men who wear a Tallit (prayer shawl) and a Tefillin (a box containing strips of parchment inscribed with 4 passages of the Torah) on their heads with the leather straps around their arm and hand.
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  • Shabbat is the weekly day of rest for Orthodox Jews; it lasts from sunset on a Friday to 1 hour past sunset on Saturday. The women of the household mark the beginning the Sabbath by lighting the candles and saying prayers. All food for the 3 meals of Shabbat are prepared in advance as no work can be done on Shabbat.
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  • A member of the Neturei Karta demonstrates how he was punched to a community police officer as they were stopped trying to burn the Israeli flag in Stamford Hill, London during the festival of Purim. The Neturiei Karta oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men belonging the Bobov Hasidism during Morning Prayer inside a Stamford Hill synagogue. Communal praying in a minyan (quorum) is preferred by men who wear a Tallit (prayer shawl) and a Tefillin (a box containing strips of parchment inscribed with 4 passages of the Torah) on their heads with the leather straps around their arm and hand.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man walking down Portland Avenue past a Volvo and a sign for the local polling station taped to a tree.  The polling station for the local government elections of May 2006 was in Stamford Hill library.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov School enjoy an ice cream while watching their Lag B'Omer bonfire being put out by local fire fighters after it became out of control. Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • Women and children struggle to get vouchers for free kosher ice cream, the only kosher ice cream van in the UK visiting a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B'Omer. Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • Orthodox Jewish school boys from the Bobov school watching the Lag B'Omer bonfire in the school playground. Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov school celebrate Lag B'Omer with a bonfire in the school playground. Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • Young Orthodox Jewish girls play on a bouncy castle at a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B'Omer. Women and Men are kept separate at all times including children, they have separate play area's. Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • Orthodox Jews from Stamford Hill light candles at the tomb of Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, The Shotzer Rebbe who is buried in the Adath Yisroel cemetery, Enfield. Before his death in 1958 (5718 Jewish years) he promised to help everyone who attended his tomb on a Friday morning and lit 3 candles.  It is thought by people in the local community that thousands have had spiritual help after lighting candles and praying here. On Friday the 12th of January 2007 it was the anniversary of his death, hundreds of people turned up to light candles, place them on his tomb and pray.
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  • Orthodox Jews from Stamford Hill pray outside the tomb of Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, The Shotzer Rebbe who is buried in the Adath Yisroel cemetery, Enfield. Before his death in 1958 (5718 Jewish years) he promised to help everyone who attended his tomb on a Friday morning and lit 3 candles.  It is thought by people in the local community that thousands have had spiritual help after lighting candles and praying here. On Friday the 12th of January 2007 it was the anniversary of his death, hundreds of people turned up to light candles, place them on his tomb and pray.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man with the help of a pupil, from the Bobov School, light a torch. The torch will be used to set alight the Lag B'Omer bonfire in the school playground.  Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov School watch their Lag B'Omer bonfire in the school playground. Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • Mr Rudzinski, a holocaust survivor living in Stamford Hill who is very open about what life was like when he was captured by the Nazi's as a young boy in Germany.
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  • Women and children struggle to get vouchers for free kosher ice cream, the only kosher ice cream van in the UK visiting a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B'Omer. Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • Two men watch their daughters on a fair ground ride in Springfield Park Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B'Omer. Women and Men are kept separate at all times including children, girls and boys take it in turns to go on the rides. Lag B'Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish - Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag'B'Omer.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man on a mobile phone in a snowy January at Springfield Park, Stamford Hill, London.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man on a mobile phone in a snowy January at Springfield Park, Stamford Hill, London.
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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men praying from the same prayer book in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (Blessing of the Sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • Che Guevara has been painted on the Wall. It is common image along the wall separating; Palestine and Israel.
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  • Dr Suad Abu Eideh a well baby doctor examines a 2-week-old baby girl in the village of Battir, West Bank. Médecins Du Monde (MDM), Merlin and the Union of Health Work Committee (UHWC) have teamed up to provide healthcare for communities around the West Bank as their accessibility to previous hospitals and centres is shut off as the Wall continues to be built.
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  • Watched by the grand mother Nihad Qasqas, the well baby nurse for the UHWC and Safa Qasqas the well baby nurse for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) take blood samples for testing from a 2 week old baby girl. Médecins Du Monde (MDM), Merlin, PRCS and the Union of Health Work Committee (UHWC) have teamed up to provide healthcare for communities around the West Bank as their accessibility to previous hospitals and centres is shut off as the Wall continues to be built.
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  • Sunrise over the old city of Nablus, West Bank, Palestine after the usual night of bombings and gun fights.
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  • Emergency medical transport staff lift a patient on a stretcher out of an ambulance into the Al Maqassad hospital in Jerusalem. Médecins Du Monde (MDM) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have set up emergency transport and community first aid training in the West Bank since the Wall was built and has cut off easy access to Jerusalem hospitals.
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  • At the Palestinian headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank, Yasser Arafat's death is mourned by soldiers & visitors at his tomb. Um Abed a local elderly lady and friend of Arafat visited him regularly when he was ill for coffee. She insists his death was suspicious.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy recites the Torah during Bar Mitzvah.  His father and grandfather listen closely to make sure he doesn't make any mistakes. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Friends of a 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy who have already had their Bar Mitzvah pray without him before his begins, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy sits waiting for his Bar Mitzvah to begin in a Parces hall, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • The local Tokea (Blaster) Rabbi Kahn blowing a Shofar for Rosh Hashanah to mark the start of the new year in Stamford Hill. The Shofar is usually made from a Rams horn and is one of the earliest wind instruments known to man. It is considered one of the commandments to hear a Shofar on Rosh Hashanah.
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  • Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don't know the difference between right and wrong, its common to see young children smoking cigarettes on the streets.
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  • A young boy dressed as a Purim Rabbi in white robes and a white tall furry hat crosses Dunsmure road by a local chemist during the festival of Purim.
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  • The items needed for an Orthodox Jewish man during Morning Prayer. A copy of siddur (prayer book containing daily prayers) the Tallit and two tefillins, the leather straps from the arm Tefillin is being worn. Once all these items have been put on correctly Morning Prayer can begin.
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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boys preparing to pray by wrapping the leather strap of his Tefillin around his arm and a Tallit (prayer shawl) around his shoulders.  The arm-Tefillin, is worn on the upper arm, while the head-Tefillin, is placed above the forehead. They serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. According to Jewish Law, they should be worn during weekday Morning Prayer services.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish diamond dealer examines one of his many diamonds at a Hatton garden workshop, London.  Hatton Garden is the diamond centre of London.
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  • Headstones in a Orthodox Jewish cemetery in Enfield, North London. Space in the cemetery is limited and graves are very close together. The dates on the headstones are from the Jewish calendar.
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  • On the 8th day after birth a Brit Milah (Circumcision) is performed on a Jewish baby boy (unless there is a medical reason to delay it). The ceremony takes place in the synagogue and the man who carries out the skin removal is know as a Mohel and is medically trained, the boy is also given his Hebrew and/or English names. Here the father and grandfather of the baby boy assist the Mohel, friends and family attend the ceremony.
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  • On the 8th day after birth a Brit Milah (Circumcision) is performed on a Jewish baby boy (unless there is a medical reason to delay it). The ceremony takes place in the synagogue and the man who carries out the skin removal is know as a Mohel and is medically trained, the boy is also given his Hebrew and/or English names. Here the grandfather of the baby boy assist the Mohel, friends and family attend the ceremony.
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  • The Grand Rebbe of the Bobov Hasidic movement from New York Mordechai Dovid Unger (centre) attaches a mezuzah (a prayer scroll) to the main doorway of a brand new Bobov Synagogue in Lampard Grove, Stamford Hill, London.
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  • Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail writer of many books in Hebrew including his latest 'The tribes of Israel, the lost and the dispersed'. He is also the founder of Amishav and as dedicated his life to research and activity on behalf of the dispersed of Israel.
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  • A group of ultra orthodox Jewish men from the Ashkenazi sect discussing business matters by a hedge in Overlea road, Stamford hill, London.
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  • When a new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) is completed after years of work it is carried in a big community parade to synagogue. Rabbis and leaders young and old from the Ashkenazi Nitra group take it turns to carry the decorated scrolls to their Shul on Clapton Common, Stamford Hill. Members of the community touch and kiss the scrolls as they pass.
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  • Young Orthodox Jewish boys from the Ashkenazi Nitra sect light torches for the procession of their new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) before it is paraded to their synagogue from Portland Avenue to Clapton Common.
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  • The silver crown that is placed on top of the Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) used to mark the scroll as sacred and holy as it's thought to be the living word of god. In the background a scribe is handwriting the last few words with a quill and ink for an Ashkenazi synagogue in Stamford Hill. A Sefer Torah contains 304,805 letters and can take over a year to produce.
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  • Young orthodox Jewish boys extinguishing their flame torches after a Sefer Torah procession with the new scroll to Kehal Chareidim Beth Hamedrash, an Ashkenazi synagogue in Stamford Hill.
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  • Men praying and casting away their sins into the river Lea, Hackney, London for Tashlich. Tashlich is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically 'cast off' the previous year's sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah).
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  • The view of the Rebbe as seen by woman pray in Synagogue from behind a screen called a Mechitza.  Like all Orthodox synagogues woman pray separately to men. In the Viznitz Synagogue (pictured) in Stamford Hill, London women pray from upstairs on a balcony and behind screens (Mechitza).
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  • Woman pray in Synagogue from behind a screen called a Mechitza.  Like all Orthodox synagogues woman pray separately to men. In the Viznitz Synagogue (pictured) in Stamford Hill, London women pray from upstairs on a balcony and behind screens (Mechitza).
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  • Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Halberstam (behind the microphone). Rebbe and current spiritual leader of the Klausenberger dynasty speaking to his followers at the Viznitz Synagogue (their own is too small) in Stamford Hill, London.
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  • A silhouette of an Orthodox Jewish man wearing a furry hat called a Kolpik, traditional Slavic headdress worn on special occasions. This man is standing at the top of stairs at Watermint Quays while Tach Lich takes place by the river below.
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  • The Orthodox Jewish festival of Tu Bishvat is celebrated as the New Year of trees with a symbolic eating of different varieties of fruit. Here in a Stamford Hill synagogue the Chassidic Skver Rebbe visiting from New York blesses the fruits in front of the entire synagogue.
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  • The Orthodox Jewish festival of Tu Bishvat is celebrated as the New Year of trees with a symbolic eating of different varieties of fruit. Here in a Stamford Hill supermarket a woman purchases a selection of different fruits for her family to use in celebration.
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  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically 'cast off' the previous year's sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress visit local businessmen to collect money for their school. Some of the businessman that they visit read a prayer to the group. The young boys drink alcohol at every house they visit during the day.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress visit local businessmen to collect money for their school. The group perform tasks for cash, here the Purim Rabbi attached a mezuzah (a prayer scroll) to a new doorway to the garden.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress visit local businessmen to collect money for their school. The group perform tasks and dance to earn the money, they drink alcohol at every house they visit during the day.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish teenage boy with his finger on the trigger while playing with a replica hand gun.
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  • The bride (Kallah) assisted by 2 escorts holding candles circles her groom 7 times under the chuppah. There are many reasons for this, Kabbalah (the Jewish tradition of mysticism) says that women, representing the earth, re-enact seven revolutions that the earth made during the seven days of creation.
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  • The veiling (bedeken) is when the groom veils his bride immediately before the wedding ceremony. It's a way for him to verify he is marring the right bride and is often preceded by singing and dancing around the bride who sits on a throne like chair. Once she is veiled the ceremony can take place.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men from Old Hill Street Synagogue parade 7 times around the Bimah in the synagogue shaking the Lulav (four species, Lulav, hadass, aravah and etrog) for the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. Symbolically the four species are used as a prayer for rainfall and waved north, south, east, west, up and down 3 times. The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men dance to music in a driveway of a wealthy man of the area whilst waiting to gain access to the household. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don't know the difference between right and wrong.  Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don't know the difference between right and wrong.
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  • A group of Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for charity visit a wealthy man of the area; some houses are so popular they have a bouncer on the front door. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity.
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  • Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don't know the difference between right and wrong.
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  • A man dressed up as a gorilla in the congregation during the Megillah reading for Purim in Walford road synagogue. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther, it is customary for men dress u and to hold carnival-like celebrations.
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  • An Etrog (Citron) on a bed of horsehair inside a presentation box. The etrog is used in the mitzvah of the four species for the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish boy climbing on a fence in front of a block of flats with open windows in Reizel close an Agudas Israel Housing Association development for low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill, London.
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  • Elderly residents having discussions over lunch in Schonfeld square conservatory. Schonfeld square is an Orthodox Jewish (Kosher) old peoples care home run by Agudas Israel Housing Association in Stamford Hill, London.
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  • Elderly residents having discussions over lunch in Schonfeld square, an Orthodox Jewish (Kosher) old peoples care home run by Agudas Israel Housing Association, Stamford Hill, London.
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  • Chief executive of Agudas Israel Housing Association Itta Symons (left) talking with staff and clients while they have lunch in Schonfeld square, an Orthodox Jewish (Kosher) old peoples care home. Stamford Hill, London.
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  • A 28 year-old Orthodox Jewish mother shows off her 3 day-old baby. After having her child she is staying in Beis Brucha, a mother and baby home run by Agudas Israel Housing Association who assist mothers for a up to a week after childbirth with care. Stamford Hill, Hackney, London.
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  • In a communal garden of a Stamford Hill block of flats 3 young Orthodox Jewish boys and one Orthodox Jewish girl collect conkers from the ground and put them into plastic bags.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man in traditional clothes looks through a vandalised and smashed window in a bus shelter on the A20 Road in Stamford Hill, London, England.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men  during Morning Prayer inside a Stamford Hill synagogue. Communal praying in a minyan (quorum) is preferred by men who wear a Tallit (prayer shawl) and a Tefillin (a box containing strips of parchment inscribed with 4 passages of the Torah) on their heads with the leather straps around their arm and hand.
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  • Inside Housing Magazine, the Orthodox Jewsish community. 2004
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  • A settlement sits on top of a hill on the road to Jerusalem from Bethlehem.
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  • Between calls the paramedics pick up water supplies from a local shop in Aizaria north of Jerusalem. Médecins Du Monde (MDM) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have set up emergency medical transport and community first aid training in the West Bank since the Wall was built and has cut off easy access to Jerusalem hospitals.
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  • Alaa Hamad driving the ambulance in response to a 101 emergency call. Médecins Du Monde (MDM) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have set up emergency transport and community first aid training in the West Bank since the Wall's been built and has cut off easy access to Jerusalem hospitals.
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  • Yasser Arafat posters after his death on the wall of a building in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine.
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  • The wall separating Israel (left) and Palestine (right), also known as the security fence cuts through communities in Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank.
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  • A taxi passes a security wall in Nablus, West Bank.
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  • A Jewish settlement in Palestine. Looking at it through a barbed wire barrier of the security fence.
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  • A young Palestinian boy in front of the Wall. Political statements are common decoration along the wall being built by the Israelis to separate Palestine and Israel.
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  • Palestinian women pass through a gap in the controversial Wall between Israel and Palestine rather than going through the Qalandiya checkpoint.
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  • In a Stamford Hill Skwer synagogue Jewish men watch the Skwer Rebbe visiting from New York carry the new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) into the Shul. Hundreds of men and women gathered to see the event take place.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy cuts the bread for everyone at his Bar Mitzvah meal. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically 'cast off' the previous year's sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boys preparing to pray by wrapping the leather strap of his Tefillin around his arm and a Tallit (prayer shawl) around his shoulders.  The arm-Tefillin, is worn on the upper arm, while the head-Tefillin, is placed above the forehead. They serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. According to Jewish Law, they should be worn during weekday Morning Prayer services.
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  • Two Tefillin cases on top of a velvet case used to protect the Tallit and siddur (prayer book containing daily prayers). A Tefillin is the small back box containing prayers written on small scrolls that an Orthodox Jewish man places on his arm and head during Morning Prayer.
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  • A PC computer keyboard for typing marked in English and Hebrew.
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  • Hatzola are a voluntary medical emergency service that provides care to the Orthodox Jewish community of North London.  Here 3 of their volunteers provide care with oxygen to an Orthodox Jewish patient in the back of their ambulance.
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  • Hatzola are a voluntary medical emergency service that provides care to the Orthodox Jewish community of North London.  Here 3 of their volunteers assist an Orthodox Jewish patient wearing an oxygen mask into the back of their ambulance.
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  • Carp fish for sale in a Stamford Hill Jewish run fishmongers.  Fish is traditionally bought on a Friday and eaten as part of the evening meal for the Sabbath.
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  • After the funeral of Rabbi Josef Dunner who died on the 1st of April 2007 hundreds of people follow the car carrying the coffin on its way to the cemetery.  Rabbi Dunner was one of the last German Jewish Orthodox Rabbis ordained before the holocaust and well respected within the local community.
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  • The coffin of Rabbi Josef Dunner who died on the 1st of April 2007 is surrounded in the Adath Yisroel synagogue, Stamford Hill, London for his funeral. Rabbi Dunner was one of the last German Jewish Orthodox Rabbis ordained before the holocaust and well respected within the local community, hundreds of people attended his funeral.
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