Jewish history. The BBC reports: "Police are investigating reports of a burglary at a university in which two busts of the first president of Israel were taken. Footage circulating online showed two masked people smashing a glass display case in the University of Manchester's chemistry building and removing two busts of Chaim Weizmann, who had been a lecturer there in the early 1900s." The University has issued an appeal for tolerance. Update 6 Nov: Bust beheaded. See the CJS's online exhibition on 'Manchester and Zionism' for more information on the role of Manchester and the University in the modern history of the Jewish national movement.
