Some 100 British fashion figures gathered at a London Synagogue for a religious and social event hosted by Fashion & Beauty Against Antisemitism.
called it a “special fashion kiddush,” and after a morning of prayers, guests spilled into the synagogue’s reception hall to graze on traditional foods, including honey cake, cholent and latkes, fish balls and mini-bagels with chopped herring.
The actress, a familiar face on TV and the first British actress to play Shylock, said she called on generations of strong women in her family to inform her role in the play, which is set in East London in the 1930s., attacking and intimidating Jewish residents “but the people, the working class, the Irish, the trade unions, the ordinary heroes stood shoulder-to-shoulder” with the Jews, and defended them, Oberman said.
Lyons said: “It’s been an incredibly tough few months, contrasted by a tremendous sense of togetherness. We hope this kiddush will be an opportunity to amplify that sense of solidarity and bring some much-needed light to all of us.”
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