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2020-02-01 Britain
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Growing Orthodox community springs to life in Brexit bastion near London
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 [Jerusalem Post] CANVEY ISLAND, England ‐ This scruffy-looking town on the mouth of the Thames River is known for its oysters, sea breeze and the nativism of its residents.
It’s also home to one of Europe’s fastest-growing communities of haredi Orthodox Jews, who make up 1% of the local population just four years after the first families moved from London.
A whopping 72 percent of Canvey Island’s constituency of Castle Point voted for Brexit in the 2016 referendum ‐ 21 points above the national result and the third most pro-Brexit of the United Kingdom’s 650 constituencies.
Brexit, the United Kingdom’s anguished pullout from the European Union, is becoming reality this week. It has toppled two cabinets before its achievement became the core policy of the Conservative Party’s prime minister, Boris Johnson.
Brexit’s proponents say it will restore British sovereignty from the EU, which they perceive as increasingly encroaching on domestic issues. Opponents say it is both rooted in and amplifying xenophobia, as well as financially hazardous.
Wherever the truth lies, a pro-Brexit bastion like Canvey Island hardly seems like the most intuitive place for haredi Jews to settle down.
Yet that’s exactly what Joel Friedman, a 33-year-old father of seven from London, and a handful of his friends did in 2016, when they planted the seed for what has rapidly grown into a community of 76 families who could not afford the housing prices in nearby London.
When Friedman presented his plan to members of his community in the heavily haredi London neighborhood of Stamford Hill, the reactions he encountered ranged from dismissiveness to shock, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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