For the second time in under three months, Britain’s second best selling daily newspaper, the Daily Mail, has shown itself to be completely ignorant of Jewish customs.
Daily Mail Shows Ignorance of Jewish Customs, Again
For the second time in under three months, Britain’s second best selling daily newspaper, the Daily Mail, has shown itself to be completely ignorant of Jewish customs.
A story posted on the paper’s website dailymail.co.uk about Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s preparations for his upcoming New Year’s Eve party featured a picture of the oligarch kindling the candles of a public menorah on the Caribbean island of St. Barts, as is customary during the Jewish festival of Hannukah.
Standing beside Abramovich in the picture is a local Chabad Rabbi. The Daily Mail’s caption reads “Joining in: Abramovich was mingling with the locals on the island and even stopped to light some large candles,” failing to mention anything about the festival of Hannukah.
The omission follows a similar slip up earlier this year, when the paper published photos of Jewish celebrity couple Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump out and about in New York with their baby Arabella Rose. In the shots taken on the Jewish festival of Sukkot, Kushner is holding a traditional lulav – (palm branch). The Daily Mail referred to the lulav, writing, “He also held some flowers in one hand – perhaps a gift for his wife.”
sammy k
i know roman abramowitz’s relatives in crown heights, very nice ppl!!
DONT DISS
DONT DISS THE BEST GOSSIP PAPER IN THE COUNTRY!! why should they know?????? leave em alone
Mendy Hecht
I suspect it’s deliberate because they’re afraid of looking too pro-Jewish because they’re afraid of a particular and rapidly-growing demographic (take a guess) in England today. One of them may even own the paper, which would explain the blatant blind eye turned to anything related to Judaism.
MMB
Heard they;ll be changing their name soon to Daily Islamic Mail, stay tuned.
Moish
Who cares? As he stands there with his half naked shikse girlfriend, u think this is kovoc for chabad??
they can be very jewish
whenever there is a chance to post an article putting jews in a bad light. You should have seen the last one with that girl walking to school and getting spat on…..“the blonde haired and blue eyed girl, was walking to school when…..”. Made Yidden look like the Taliban
Boruch S W
Hey Moshe!!!!