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Terror in Manchester—and the Future of Britain
People are seen outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester. (Press Association via AP Images)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Brendan O’Neill, and others on the Yom Kippur attack.
By Bari Weiss
10.03.25 — The Big Read
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Yesterday in Manchester, England, a man named Jihad al-Shamie took a knife and a car and on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, attacked people outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue. Two were killed. Another three were hospitalized.

I wish I could say I was shocked after hearing the news.

Sorrow, yes. Anger, yes. But shock? To be s…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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