2025-10-08
28 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today, the sorrow and fear within Britain's Jewish community after the Manchester terror attack.
So I grew up in a lovely place called Sheetal.
which is sort of a suburb of South Manchester.
My grandparents, on my father's side, were some of the first Jews who moved to the area.
There was a synagogue not far down the road,
and my dad was one of the first boys to be bar mitzvahed in that synagogue when it first opened.
Abigail Radner is the Guardian's lifestyle editor,
who grew up in South Manchester and has now returned there to raise her young family.
And there was a Jewish school not far,
which remains the only Jewish primary school in South Manchester,
which I attended for primary school and where my own children now attend in a very full circle way.
And it is something I'm very proud of today.
On the morning of the 2nd of October, she was at home,
marking the day of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
getting ready to go to synagogue or shul.
Even if you're not particularly religious or particularly observant,
which I'm not, Yom Kippur is such a big day for Jews.
We go to synagogue both the evening before,
which is a special service called Col Nidre, and the day of.