Britain's Jews resort to ever-tougher security measures after Manchester attack

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.

“Sadly, for a long time now, we have been slowly upping our security more and more,” Kurzer said, as the light streamed in from the stained glass windows in his London synagogue.

“We would love to live in a country where we didn’t have to do that quite as much.”

Last Thursday, a British man of Syrian descent drove a car into pedestrians and then began stabbing people on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, outside a synagogue in north Manchester. Police said later they accidentally shot one of t