Welcome to Visit Jewish London

The Jewish Committee for the London Games (JCLG) is the coordinator of UK Jewish Community activity for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

A major part of our mission is to welcome visiting spectators, Jewish athletes and other Jewish Olympic delegates to London and the rest of the UK.

Our goal is to ensure that all visitors have access to relevant Jewish cultural and religious information. To this end we have created this website for you, which aims to provide a one stop shop presenting comprehensive information on Jewish London and the U.K. as a whole in order to help you access everything that you may need during your visit.

The site is also intended to provide appropriate and updated information about the 2012 London Olympic Games, which includes links to partner groups and networks concerned with the wider values and the future legacy of the Games, as well as the Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Metropolitan Police, public bodies and other faith based and religious organisations specifically involved with the Olympic Truce. The Olympic Truce is an original Olympic ideal which aims to ensure that competitors and visitors travel to the Games in peace and security.

You may want to attend a synagogue while you are here in order to participate in a shabbat service, make up a minyan or perhaps you have a yahrzeit and want to say kadesh. We can point you in the direction of a designated commemoration associated with the Games or where shabbat hospitality is available. We have also provided details of the Jewish Museum, Judaic books and gift shops, guided walking tours as well as particulars of other interesting iconic, cultural and famous historical Jewish sites in London.

We aim to provide you with a variety of opportunities to ensure you enjoy a warm, welcoming and interesting visit whilst taking advantage of all that the great city of London has to offer its guests. If you keep strictly kosher, you will need to know where to go to eat, so we have provided information about where you can find kosher or deli style provisions and dine in a wide range of supervised and unsupervised restaurants. So whether you’re into chopped liver, chicken soup, shwarma, falafel, humus, pitta or pizza, we’ve got the nosh for you!

We anticipate that you will find a real Jewish welcome awaiting you, both in London and the Jewish communities in the other Olympic venues around the U.K., from the many Jewish organisations and their staff and members who cannot wait to make your visit one that you will always remember and treasure with great pleasure.

Minute of Silence at the 2012 London Olympics

Tell the International Olympic Committee: 40 Years is Enough!

At the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, eleven members of the Israeli team were murdered. For forty years their families have asked the International Olympic Committee to observe a minute of silence, in their memory. Please help us by signing our petition.

All we are asking for is one minute of silence for the memory of the eleven Israeli athletes, coaches and referees murdered at the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich. Just one minute — at the 2012 London Summer Olympics and at every Olympic Games, to promote peace.

These men were sons; fathers; uncles; brothers; friends; teammates; athletes. They came to Munich in 1972 to play as athletes in the Olympics; they came in peace and went home in coffins, killed in the Olympic Village and during hostage negotiations.

The families of the Munich 11 have worked for four decades to obtain recognition of the Munich massacre from the International Olympic Committee. Repeatedly, these requests have been turned down. The 11 murdered athletes were members of the Olympic family; we feel they should be remembered within the framework of the Olympic Games.

Silence is a fitting tribute for athletes who lost their lives on the Olympic stage. Silence contains no statements, assumptions or beliefs and requires no understanding of language to interpret.

40 years is long enough to wait, so please go to our petition and sign it NOW and please ask your friends to do likewise.

Anti-Semitism

As a visitor to London you are unlikely to suffer anti-Semitism, but as when visiting any large city with diverse neighbourhoods, you should be aware of your surroundings. If you do suffer any form of anti-Semitic attack, or you witness anything suspicious aimed at Jewish people or buildings, please report it immediately to the CST on 020 8457 9999 or at www.thecst.org.uk (or in an emergency, call the Police on 999).

We sincerely hope this website will help you to find exactly what you may be looking for in Jewish London and contribute to your successful visit to the UK and that you all enjoy a fantastic 2012 Olympic and Paralympic experience.

Local Leaders

If you want to plan a celebration for the Games, look no further. Sign up to be a Local Leader and whether you invite three friends or your whole community, we’ll provide you with the tools to make your celebration one to remember.

It’s really simple. Just pick an occasion and get planning. If you need some inspiration, have a look at the ideas that people like you have suggested.

Sign up to become a Local Leader – receive updates with hints and tips and promotional materials, including posters and decoration ideas.

Israeli Paralympics team

For information concerning the Israeli Paralympics team, please see the open letter from Frank Weinberg, Chairman, British Friends of Israel War Disabled.

Feedback & Survey

To assist us in making this website respond better to your requirements whilst in the U.K., please click here to complete our brief online survey.

The content of this website is driven by the organisations that have something to offer that could benefit Jewish visitors to the London 2012 Olympic Games. We are providing you with the platform to tell the world what you have to offer them during the Olympic and Paralympic Games that take place from late July until mid-September 2012.

Please use the and links to submit details of your organisation and any special activities planned for the Olympic period.