Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has today demonstrated great courage and conviction in calling out the ongoing scourge of anti-Semitism that has risen during the leadership of Britain’s Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn and the danger that a Corbyn-led government would bring.

This evening, February 12, marks the holiday of Tu BiShvat, which will last all day tomorrow.

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, proposing to divide the territory of the British Mandate in Palestine into two states — Jewish and Arab, with Jerusalem to be made an international zone.