By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) -With the Jewish holiday of Sukkot approaching on Monday night, Rabbi Ben Kurzer wishes he did not need high security for his congregants to say their prayers after last week's attack at a synagogue in Manchester left two Jewish worshippers dead.

Hundreds of mourners gathered in wind and rain Friday for a vigil that combined grief and defiance in the remembrance of two men who were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in the English city of Manchester.

The prime minister said Britain must defeat antisemitic hate, as the King, religious leaders and politicians issue statements.

Chaim Leob lives on a busy corner in Manchester, England, so sirens are not something he would normally find particularly concerning. But Thursday morning was a different story. The police cars just kept coming,

A man drove a car into people outside a synagogue in England and stabbed two of them to death on the holiest day of the Jewish year.

Leaders in the UK's tight-knit Jewish population are asking what more can be done to keep their institutions safe.

Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen born in Syria, has been shot dead by police after launching an attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Melvin Cravitz,

For decades, the large communities of both Jews and Muslims in the suburb of Crumpsall have lived side by side in peace in the diverse Manchester neighbourhood.