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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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  • 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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  • An orthodox Jewish family walk on the pavement of a busy road in Stamford Hill, London, England, United Kingdom.  Stamford Hill area is home to one of the largest populations of Orthodox Jewish people.   (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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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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  • Christ the Saviour Serbian Orthodox Cathedral is an unfinished Serbian Orthodox Church on the campus of the University of Pristina, the construction was interrupted by the Kosovo war and it has never been completed. Pristina, Kosovo.  Photographed on the13th of December 2018, Pristina is the capital and largest city of Kosovo, it has a mainly Albanian population along with other smaller communities.  (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Christ the Saviour Serbian Orthodox Cathedral is an unfinished Serbian Orthodox Church on the campus of the University of Pristina, the construction was interrupted by the Kosovo war and it has never been completed. Pristina, Kosovo.  Photographed on the13th of December 2018, Pristina is the capital and largest city of Kosovo, it has a mainly Albanian population along with other smaller communities.  (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Christ the Saviour Serbian Orthodox Cathedral is an unfinished Serbian Orthodox Church on the campus of the University of Pristina, the construction was interrupted by the Kosovo war and it has never been completed. Pristina, Kosovo.  Photographed on the13th of December 2018, Pristina is the capital and largest city of Kosovo, it has a mainly Albanian population along with other smaller communities.  (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boy surrounded by hundreds of Orthodox Jewish men wearing black coats and hats. The men are gathered to see their spiritual leader who has arrived from Antwerp.
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  • Orthodox Jewish children playing in the street of Reizel close an Agudas Israel Housing Association development for low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill, London.  All the children play regularly together, having bike races and playing football. There is a real sense of a community, some mothers are out with their younger children keeping an eye on goings on.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • An Orthodox Jewish diamond dealer shows off the quality of one of his many diamonds at a Hatton garden workshop, London.  Hatton Garden is the diamond centre of London.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men select their Lulav for the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The Lulav is a Palm frond used in the mitzvah of the four species. To qualify for use the Lulav must be perfectly straight with whole leave that lay closely together and not be broken at the top. The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert.
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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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  • An un-identified Orthodox Jew reads the Megillah "The Scroll of Esther" during the Jewish festival of Purim.
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  • Two elderly Orthodox Jewish men with beards wearing black coats and hats chatting on the pavement of a tree lined street called Dunsmuir road 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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  • 5 hats belonging to 5 different men in an Orthodox Jewish family, hanging in the hallway of an home in Stamford Hill, London.
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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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  • Orthodox Jewish teenage boys playing in the street with a replica hand gun. As one pretends to shoot his friend in the chest the other acts as if he has been shot.
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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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  • Young Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for their school (Yeshiva) wait in anticipation of the amount they will receive during a visit to the house of Mr Glick, a well off man of the area. 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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  • Young Orthodox Jewish boy shoot cap guns and bang on drums every time Haman is mentioned 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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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boy dressed as Dennis the menace 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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  • A group of Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for charity try and visit a wealthy man of the area; some houses are so popular they have to wait to get in and they have bouncers on the 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Tefiillin (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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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men select their Etrog (Citron) for the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The etrog is used in the mitzvah of the four species.  Everyone has their own personal choice of etrog, some prefer more bumps, the important thing to look out for is a nice form and shape and it should be unblemished.  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 un-identified Orthodox Jew reads the Megillah "The Scroll of Esther" during the Jewish festival of Purim.
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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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  • The Skyline of Pristina including the National Library of Kosovo “Pjetër Bogdani” and the incomplete  Christ the Saviour Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, on the 13th of December 2018, Pristina, Kosovo.  Pristina is  the capital and largest city of Kosovo, it has a mainly Albanian population along with other smaller communities. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Inside Housing Magazine, the Orthodox Jewsish community. 2004
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  • The Telegraph Saturday Magazine, Splendid Isolation, The Orthodox Jewish community. 2011
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Yom Tov takes place when Passover has finished, Orthodox Jews return to the local supermarkets (Morrisons) to buy leavened products e.g.: cereal, biscuits, cake, and anything that contains yeast.  Shopping hours are extended until 3 AM to allow this to happen.
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  • Yom Tov takes place when Passover has finished, Orthodox Jews return to the local supermarkets (Morrisons) to buy leavened products e.g.: cereal, biscuits, cake, and anything that contains yeast.  Shopping hours are extended until 3 AM to allow this to happen.
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  • Yom Tov takes place when Passover has finished, Orthodox Jews return to the local supermarkets (Morrisons) to buy leavened products e.g.: cereal, biscuits, cake, and anything that contains yeast.  Shopping hours are extended until 3 AM to allow this to happen.
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  • Teams of Orthodox Jewish teenage boys use rolling pins to flatten the matza bread for Passover before it goes into the oven in a room at the back of Bethune Road synagogue. The baking process from start to finish has to be completed within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man checking the unleavened matza bread is properly cooked after taking it out of the oven. They are baking matza bread for Passover out the back of Bethune Road synagogue. The baking process from start to finish has to be completed within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 the Skver East bank synagogue Stamford Hill 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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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress celebrate the festival with a feast. The schoolboys drink large amounts of alcohol throughout the day and night, towards the end of the night a fight breaks out between two of the boys.
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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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  • 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 Purim Rabbi (centre) leads the group with a song, they drink alcohol at every house they visit during the day.
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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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  • 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. This symbolic ceremony sees the baby turn into a boy, he begins to learn the alpha bet and Torah. Wrapped in his brand new Tallit (prayer shawl) hid mother carries him with his family to his brand new school.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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. Here his father carefully shaves his head watched closely by his family. 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. Here his father carefully shaves his head watched closely by his extended family. 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. Here his Grandfather cuts the main part of his hair away watched closely by the boy, his father and family. He will now begin to learn the Torah.
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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 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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  • 'Jihad 4 Israel'.  An Orthodox Jewish man walking past anti semitic graffiti on a wall in Leweston Place, Stamford Hill, London.
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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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  • Yom Tov takes place when Passover has finished, Orthodox Jews return to the local shops (Grodzinski's bakery) to buy leavened products e.g.: bread, biscuits, cake, and anything that contains yeast.  Shopping hours are extended until 3 AM to allow this to happen.
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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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  • 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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  • On the first day of Passover Orthodox Jewish men burn Chamets and the tools used to collect the Chamets on a fire in their garden. While burning these items they recite prayers.
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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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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress celebrate the festival with a feast. The evening quickly moves onto dancing on the tables that sends food flying everywhere. The school boys drink large amounts of alcohol throughout the day and night.
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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. At the end of the day they return to their school and have a celebration feast, the Purim Rabbi performs a song to his class during the meal. Large amounts of alcohol are consumed during the festival.
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  • A group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) travel around on the back of a flat bed lorry. The boy in the centre of the image is dressed as a Rabbi for the festival of Purim, he is surrounded by his class mates. Dressed in fancy dress for the Jewish festival of Purim they sing and dance to Yiddish music. They will visit several local wealthy businessmen collecting money for their school.
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  • A group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) dressed in fancy dress sing and dance in the street. Other members of the group decorate the double-decker bus with banners that they will travel on for the Jewish festival of Purim. They will visit several local wealthy businessmen collecting money for their school.
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  • Chanukah last for 8 days and is the Jewish festival of light. It commemorates the rededication of the temple after it had been defiled. A candle is lit every night. In order to bring light to the world some put the candles in their front window.  Here on the 5th day of Chanukah at a local old peoples home each resident has their personal menorah in the window.
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