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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Yom Kippur Terror attack in Manchester, UK

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

News, Yonit Levi, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Jews, Religion & Spirituality, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Israel Podcast, Middle East, Jonathan Freedland, Documentary

4.7770 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Yonit and Jonathan digest the terror attack which killed two British Jews at prayer during Yom Kippur services in Manchester. Where does this leave the British Jewish community - and what does it say about diaspora Jewish life in increasingly vexed times?

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0:00.0

It's Unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland in London.

0:08.7

And I'm Unite Levy in Tel Aviv.

0:11.2

Yoni, we were planning a regular episode for today.

0:15.8

Instead, I'm speaking to you now just a couple of hours after Yom Kippur is finished here in Britain.

0:24.4

And like a lot of people, I was in synagogue today when sort of whispered word went around the congregation of terrible news, of a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester in England,

0:41.6

in which we now know two people were killed and at least two, possibly three are very seriously

0:48.4

injured. And we're sort of reeling from that, to be honest. And a memory came back to me, which I know I talked about here with you, of a child of my

0:58.7

earliest memories, a childhood memory of being in synagogue on Yom Kippur in 1973 when I was six

1:05.7

years old.

1:06.1

And I think I told you that there was this kind of whisper went around the shul people, you know,

1:12.0

and allowed to have radio and TV on and so on.

1:14.9

But word had emerged that Israel was under attack and it was the on-keeper war.

1:18.2

And I remember as a child seeing the anxious faces of adults around.

1:23.7

And that was a one-off experience.

1:25.7

But today in synagogue, something very much like it, that mood of the outside world seeping in.

1:32.8

And in this case, coming in in deadly fashion right as it were on our doorstep.

1:40.3

Yeah, I mean, I was thinking of you.

1:41.7

We have a two-hour time difference.

1:44.0

And, you know, we both fast. I opened my phone and I understood what happened and I was thinking exactly about that. I wondered if you were in synagogue, if you had heard about it. Will you hear about it only after you open your phone? What would be the, you know, the mood and what it would be like. And I kind of wrote you an email and we immediately

2:01.6

decided to record this episode. But it really feels like, and you're obviously much better

2:07.3

situated to explain this than I am, but it really feels like it is a very dark day for the

2:13.0

Jewish community in the UK. And I've been discussing this with a few friends, again, in a couple of hours,

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