Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1945, World War II surrender ceremonies took place across the Japanese Empire.

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Still, the timing had one effect: on Yom Kippur almost every Jew attends shul, even those who won’t be back for another year. Thus, almost every British Jew realises it could have been them. On ...

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