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A beautiful and evocative piece of writing . This has stayed with me all weekend

Superb journalism from Ophira Gottlieb at Manchester's own. We need more of this 👏👇

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

(This is a marvellous, luminous piece of writing)

via @manchestermill.bsky.social

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Thanks Alison

What a beautiful, hopeful piece of journalism. Please take a minute to read.

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

Some of the most thoughtful social commentary atm is coming via @manchestermill.bsky.social

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

Pieces like this are why I subscribe to @manchestermill.bsky.social

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

“My sister and I, we both thought we were the luckiest people in the world, to be born in Manchester of all places.”

A personal story about Jews and Muslims in North Manchester - by @ophiraophira.bsky.social.

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

More great writing via @manchestermill.bsky.social. Nuanced and personal piece on Jewish and Muslim lives in Cheetham Hill, by @ophiraophira.bsky.social

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

Another exceptional, thought-provoking piece of writing from #themanchestermill.

This is exactly the kind of journalism we should be seeing after events like last week's heinous attack.

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

If you read one thing today, please make it this by @ophiraophira.bsky.social at @manchestermill.bsky.social.

A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.

Once again @manchestermill.bsky.social gets to the heart of a thing. I found this moving but also thought @ophiraophira.bsky.social 's honesty about her response to another community's fear important too.

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

After all the bluff and bluster of the last few days online, this is a personal and quietly moving piece on life in North Mancheter.

More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story.

For our weekend read, @ophiraophira.bsky.social went looking for her family past - and found two positive stories about communities living together.

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story.

Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.

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The whole Mill team went to Crumpsall yesterday to meet the community affected by yesterday's attack. We spoke with them, and prayed with them - many of whom were so deep in prayer for Yom Kippur, they didn't even know that two people had been murdered just down the road.

This moving and brilliant reporting from Manchester's own paper is the best antidote to hate you could read today 👇

An article that quotes Bill Williams's pioneering book The Making of Manchester Jewry gets my approval. As always, The Mill's coverage is informed and insightful.

Since many of you are distracted by other things or not following any Jewish media, you should know that today, on one of the holiest days of the year, a man drove his car into a crowd gathering to go into a Synagogue in Manchester then got out and started stabbing people. Two people are dead.

Oh this is so horrible. And on Yom Kippur no less. May God comfort these families.

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’ Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

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Careful, powerful reportage by @manchestermill.bsky.social. Thank you for writing this.

Extraordinary reporting. The terror those people experienced. Unconscionable. The response from the police, the CST and subsequently the whole community prevented an extremely bad situation being far worse.

I hope Manchester's Jewish community and Jews across the UK feel some solidarity tonight.

Reporting by @ophiraophira.bsky.social @molliesimpson.bsky.social @jackdulhanty.bsky.social & @jlaverick.bsky.social.

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’ Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

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On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’ Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

This is a superb and moving piece of reporting by my @manchestermill.bsky.social colleagues.

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The Global Banking School is one of the UK’s most lucrative ‘universities’. But who’s footing the bill? Former staff allege the school accepts students who have no intention of ever repaying their loans

And last week, Jack and @molliesimpson.bsky.social looked at the Global Banking School, a leader in the growing sector of “franchised” higher education. Its revenues have gone up 5000% in five years, but we found its admission policies were, well, lax.

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A death on the streets of Withington On Monday afternoon a homeless man died on the pavement outside a corner shop - who was he?

Then @jackdulhanty.bsky.social was in Withington, investigating the sad death of Paul Jackson, a homeless man who had a cardiac arrest outside a Sainsbury’s. Described by readers as “a perfect insight into what 'homelessness' actually means."

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The man who bought Sammy’s Bar has ‘no connection’ to its previous owner. Apart from being related 26 Bar is keeping things in the family. Plus: GM’s mental health service is in the relegation zone

We also returned to the story of Sammy’s Bar — whose previous owner, Sammy Shonn, was accused of assaulting women there. @molliesimpson.bsky.social found the new iteration of the space, 26 Bar, is owned by someone with a rather glaring connection to Shonn.

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