The lives of refugees who fled from antisemitic persecution will be celebrated in a week-long series of events to mark the 70th anniversary of the Association of Jewish Refugees.
More than 750 people attended the main national Yom HaShoah ceremony on Sunday in Hyde Park, one of more than 20 commemorative events held around the country.
An American Jewish publisher has donated £1 million towards the creation of an indoor Jacobean theatre at Shakespeare's Globe.
Sara Miller McCune, founder and executive chairwoman of academic publishers, Sage, visited the site of the £7 million project in London this week and met the Globe's honorary president, actress Zoe Wanamaker.
The University of Westminster has cancelled an event it was due to host featuring Israeli anti-Zionist Gilad Atzmon.
A panel discussion examining "Israel criminality in the wake of the Goldstone Retract" was due to be held in a rented room at the university on Tuesday, but was called off last week.
Organisers of Sunday's Hyde Park ceremony to commemorate Yom HaShoah - the Jewish re-membrance day for Holocaust victims - are hoping for a four-figure turnout.
The Forum for Yom HaShoah, a cross-communal initiative, points out that there will be two dozen other commemorative events around the country.
