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Lansman lobbies Labour for full IHRA definition Momentum founder urges party to accept guidelines with ALL examples EXCLUSIVE Jon Lansman has been lobbying Labour’s leadership for weeks to adopt the international definition of anti-Semitism with all its examples, Jewish News can reveal, writes Justin Cohen.

Sources close to the Momentum founder (pictured, inset) told this newspaper that he “regretted” the fact Jeremy Corbyn’s recent Guardian article “lacked a firm commitment” to include all 11 examples in the party’s code.

The intervention by a close ally, whose Momentum organisation played a key role in propelling Corbyn to the leadership, piles

pressure on the Labour leader to change course, just days after Tom Watson urged full adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition.

Lansman is a member of the national executive committee’s working group on anti-Semitism, convened by general secretary Jennie Formby.

A source said: “Like many other Labour Party members who are close to the leadership, he recognises the necessity of agreeing that definition in order to be able to begin to rebuild trust with the Jewish community, whatever concerns we may have about the application of some of the examples.”

But the source added Lansman stands by the party’s code and believes it adds “precision and clarity” to the process, increasing the ability to deal with those engaging in behaviour that IHRA says may be viewed as anti-Semitic.

Lansman backed the controversial code at last month’s NEC, having described it as a “gold standard” for dealing with anti-Semitism in a political party that demanded “a higher standard of behaviour than the IHRA examples”. He wrote Continued on page 4

TWO FACES OF ISRAEL An Israeli man, his face painted with both Israeli and Druze flags, at Saturday night’s Druze-led rally to protest against the controversial Jewish Nation-State law in Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, Dame Vivien Duffield, one of Britain’s biggest donors to Israel, announced she will now be more “choosy” in selecting causes in the country as she condemned the law, saying “my Israel has died”. See pages 6 and 11

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Corbyn softens on IHRA Jeremy Corbyn’s position on three of the four examples of contemporary anti-Semitism yet to be included in his party’s code has softened and he now looks ready to include them, Jewish News understands, writes Justin Cohen.

But any such movement would still fall short of community leaders’ insistence that there can be no negotiation on the adoption of all 11 examples accompanying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.

He continues to warn against including the allegation that Israel is a ‘racist endeavour’ among the examples that could be viewed as anti-Semitic.

Labour’s governing body has so far agreed to adopt seven examples – leading Jewish organisations yesterday to attack Corbyn for “falsely” claiming the party sought to alter just one.

But in a move that seems unlikely to quell the row, Corbyn is believed to be ready to include three of the missing four, including

the slur that Jews are “more loyal to Israel or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations”.

As things stand, it has been moved to a different section of the code where it is simply described as “wrong”.

The Labour leader is also apparently ready to include among allegations that could be viewed as anti-Semitic comparisons between Israeli policy and Nazi Germany – despite suggestions from some campaigners that his own hosting of an event on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2010 could contravene it. Previously the party suggested such an offence could lead to disciplinary action for bringing the party into disrepute but not for anti-Semitism “unless there is evidence of anti-Semitic intent”, which experts warned would be difficult to prove.

The third additional example is holding Israel to higher standards than other countries.

Corbyn made clear in his article for the Guardian last Friday that he retained concerns over a fourth

Jeremy Corbyn released a video this week in which he apologised for hurt caused by anti-Semitism

example – the claim that Israel is a “racist endeavour”.

He said: “Our code is a good faith attempt to contextualise

THIS IDEOLOGICAL ASSAULT WILL NOT END WITH JEWS

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In an interview in Sunday’s Observer newspaper, Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson warned anti-Semitism must be dealt with, or the party would “disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment”.

It is not certain if by “vortex” Watson meant a black hole or a toilet flush, but the growing stench of Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis suggests the latter, as decent people hold their noses and turn away in disgust.

Arguments about Jews and anti-Semitism are becoming ever more central to the fight over Labour’s future. It is not what we wanted, but if we were to retain our selfrespect, then it is where Corbyn’s actions (and lack of actions) inexorably led us.

If you watched his video message on antiSemitism, or if you read his last-thing-beforeShabbat Guardian article, you will have seen him say with a stern face that people being anti-Semitic “do not speak for me”.

He still, however fails, or refuses, to grasp his own responsibility for what a stinking mess Labour is now in.

This fact is starkly demonstrated by his claim (made in both the article and the video), that Labour’s anti-Semitism problem is a mere statistic.

He has an exact figure for it, a measly little “less than 0.1%”. Labour’s anti-Semitism is, according to Corbyn, just an unfortunate

statistical inevitability that has regrettably slithered into Labour along with all the new members his own popularity has generated.

If anything this is even more insulting than his previous “anti-Semitism and other forms of racism” shtick.

We know what rising anti-Semitism tells us about the state of society in general and what it tells us about a political party: more so when that political party is today’s Corbynista project – essentially a mass movement with totalitarian aspects, driven by social media.

Where Corbyn has spent a lifetime alongside the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and even groups as extreme as the Ayatollah Khomeini-supporting Islamic Human Rights Commission, Watson has long supported Labour Friends of Israel.

He does not work with groups that seek to destroy Israel and Zionism but with those seeking a lasting, fair and just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For this, he is reviled as allegedly being in the pay of Israel.

Watson’s Observer interview hit the press not much more than 24 hours after Corbyn’s ill-judged Guardian article.

Since then, Corbyn’s office has dropped the case against Margaret Hodge, but it remains to be seen if this will satisfy the fast-growing number of Labour MPs speaking out against Team Corbyn’s handling of the anti-Semitism crisis.

These MPs know full well that this is an ideological assault that may begin with their Jewish colleagues, but will most certainly not end with them.

those examples and make them legally watertight for use as part of our disciplinary procedures, as well as to draw on additional

instances of anti-Semitism.

“Our actual differences are in fact very small – they really amount to half of one example

Austin probe labelled ‘a farce and disgrace’ Lawyers for MP Ian Austin have described the Labour’s Party’s investigation into him as a “farce and a disgrace”, after he clashed with the party chairman over its new code on antiSemitism.

Austin’s legal representatives were respond-ing to Labour General Secretary Jennie Formby who wrote to him three weeks ago warning he faced a probe for “abusive conduct”.

The legal response says Austin emailed Formby on 23 July saying: “It has been more than three days since you called me and sent me your letter so can you tell me

Ian Austin

today what I am alleged to have done please?

“If you are not able to tell me, can you tell me why and when you will be able to tell me?”

His lawyers said the “pro-

cess has been a farce and a disgrace. It has plainly been designed to silence our client for his legitimate, honestlyheld criticisms of Mr Corbyn’s failure to address the scourge of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.”

The letter added that the party “has failed to observe the most rudimentary principles of natural justice, due process and transparency” and the party is “prejudging the complaints”.

Formby’s letter to Austin said he “should be aware that any future behaviour of a similar nature to the allegation above could result in further disciplinary action.”

ACTION AGAINST HODGE DROPPED Disciplinary measures against MP Margaret Hodge have been dropped.

Labour threatened to take action after the former minister branded Jeremy Corbyn an “anti-Semite and a racist” to his face during a confrontation in the House of Commons.

After hearing she wouldn’t face disciplinary action, she tweeted: “Just to be clear: there have been no apologies – on either side.”

She added: “I’m pleased that the Labour Party has finally dropped their ‘action’ against me. After 55 years of LP membership, going after me instead of addressing the issue was wrong. In 2018, anti-Semitism has again reared its ugly head... the Labour Party must adopt the IHRA definition in full to start to rebuild trust.

Thanks to everyone for kind messages of support which have kept me going.”

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examples out of 11, touching on free speech in relation to Israel. It is unfortunately the case that this particular example, dealing with Israel and racism, has sometimes been used by those wanting to restrict criticism of Israel that is not anti-Semitic.

“The Commons Home Affairs Committee acknowledged this risk when it looked at IHRA examples.”

Despite community leaders making their position clear, he added: “I feel confident this issue can be resolved through dialogue with community organisations, including the Jewish Labour Movement, during this month’s consultation.”

A source close to Corbyn told Jewish News: “There has been movement, as suggested in the article, on those examples that aren’t explicitly referenced in the article or included word for word in the code. The consultation is open and it looks like we’re ready to include those examples.”

A spokesperson for the Board of Deputies said: “We won’t accept a watered down definition designed to

let anti-Semites off the hook. Labour must stop prevaricating and do the right thing.”

The news comes as deputy leader Tom Watson pressured Corbyn to adopt IHRA with all examples, warning the party would “disappear into an eternal vortex of shame” if it didn’t act. In his article – which the Jewish Labour Movement condemned for being words not action – Corbyn acknowledged the community should have been consulted “more extensively at an earlier stage”.

Corbyn also acknowledged the “real” issue with anti-Semitism in the party and told those spreading poison “you do not do it in my name. You are not my supporters and have no place in our movement”.

The Board and JLC said the article was “ill timed and ill conceived”, having been released just three hours before Shabbat and with parts published previously. A statement said: “We heard and read the same words back in April. None of the clichés and promises have been met. The hatred and vilification has intensified.”

‘BBC IS BIASED IN FAVOUR OF ISRAEL’S EXISTENCE’ Jeremy Corbyn accused the BBC of having a “bias” in favour of saying “Israel has a right to exist”, in a damning Press TV interview that resurfaced this week.

The Labour leader was urged to clarify controversial remarks made on Iran’s state television channel some years ago, where he appears to question the presence of the Jewish state and its nature as a democracy.

Corbyn said: “There is pressure on the BBC… There seems to be a great deal of pressure on the BBC from the Israeli government and the Israeli embassy, and they are very assertive towards all journalists and to the BBC itself – they challenge every single thing on reporting the whole time.

His comments were met with anger from the community, with Simon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council.

He wrote on Twitter: “Sorry Mr Corbyn. Do you therefore think Israel is NOT a democracy, does NOT have a right to exist and does NOT have security concerns? And

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that an organisation is biased if it DOES believe these things? Wow. That seems to differ from the policy of the party you lead.”

Jennifer Gerber, director of Labour Friends of Israel, said: “Labour is now defending Jeremy Corbyn peddling wild conspiracy theories and questioning Israel’s right to exist on Iranian state TV. Let’s be clear: for a party aspiring to be in government, this is not normal behaviour.”

Responding to the video, a

spokesperson for the Labour Party said: “Jeremy was arguing that despite the occupation of Palestinian territory and the lack of a Palestinian state, Israeli concerns and perspectives are more likely to appear prominently in news reporting than Palestinian ones. ”Jeremy is committed to a ​ comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on a two-state solution – a secure Israel alongside a secure and viable state of Palestine.”

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Suspension over Watson Williamson says: ‘Vote Willsman’ ‘Jewish donors’ outburst A Labour Party activist has been swiftly suspended for comments he made on Monday on social media about MP Tom Watson, essentially claiming the party’s deputy leader was in the pay of “Jewish donors”, writes Jenni Frazer.

George McManus withdrew and deleted his Twitter comment, and apologised to Watson, but was nevertheless suspended hours later.

McManus is said to have been backed by Momentum and was standing for a place on Labour’s National Policy Forum. He had tweeted that the Electoral Commission had stated that the MP had received “£50,000+ from Jewish donors”, adding “at least Judas only got 30 pieces of silver”.

The comment was immediately made the subject of an official complaint by Watson’s colleague, Luciana Berger.

She and other MPs, such as Wes Streeting, denounced it as anti-Semitic.

Momentum founder Jon Lansman also decried the

Suspended: McManus

Tom Watson has been the target of anti-Semitic slurs

McManus tweet as antiSemitic. Sources suggested it appeared to have emanated from figures on the Electoral Commission website showing donations to Watson’s office from Sir Trevor Chinn.

However, Lansman responded: “Do you not realise that Trevor Chinn is associated with the most progressive

Jewish causes and charities like the New Israel Fund and Yachad! Your assumptions about Jews’ political attitudes are I am afraid anti-Semitic.”

He later deleted this tweet.

McManus apologised online to Watson, who was subjected to a barrage of hate mail on social media at the weekend after he appeared to clash with

party leader Jeremy Corbyn about how Labour should deal with anti-Semitism.

He wrote: “I’d like to apologise to Tom Watson for my drawing an analogy between accepting money from Jewish donors and the biblical story of the betrayal by Judas.

“I fully accept that such an analogy is wrong and am sorry for making the comparison. I have deleted the original post.”

Streeting, the Labour MP for Ilford North, deploring the original tweet, wrote: “More from the cesspit.

“This isn’t even subtle. This is 100 per cent a classic antiSemitic trope”.

MP Chris Williamson has to make their own mind up. provoked fresh outrage by Many people have already suggesting “we should move voted. He’s apologised and I on” from the fury over Pete think we should move on.”

While he “wouldn’t necesWillsman and condemned his parliamentary colleagues over sarily have expressed himself” an upcoming motion to adopt in the way Willsman did at the the international definition of NEC meeting last month, the anti-Semitism with examples, MP suggested it was a “reasonable question” to ask about writes Justin Cohen.

The long-time NEC evidence for the claim made member faced heavy criti- by a group of 68 rabbis of widecism including from the spread anti-Semitism.

“Then he asked people in Labour left after suggesting Jewish “Trump fanatics” the room if they’d witnessed were behind accusations of anti-Semitism and he made anti-Semitism in Labour and the point some people are angrily insisting he’d never Trump supporters.

“That’s true across society. seen Jew-hate in the party.

Williamson, a close ally His comments didn’t make of Jeremy Corbyn, urged him an individual who isn’t Labour members on Twitter committed to fighting antito back Peter Willsman even Semitism.” before the NEC member, in a public apology, acknowledged there was in fact antiSemitism in Labour.

And speaking hours before Momentum announced it was Chris withdrawing support for him Williamson as one of nine candidates on their slate, Williamson told Jewish News:: “People should vote for him. He’s standing for election and people have

LANSMAN PUSHING CORBYN FOR FULL IHRA Continued from page 1 in the Guardian last month: “I regret that for some Jewish communal organisations, the IHRA wording is so sacrosanct that it cannot be expanded and built on, contextualised and turned into a practical document for a party to enforce.

Neither the Board of Deputies or the Jewish Leadership Council were consulted ahead of the code’s adoption, and the Jewish Labour Move-

ment was invited to a meting to give evidence, without warning it was part of a consultation. Along with others like Rhea Wolfson, Lansman’s concern led the NEC to commit to consult more on IHRA. Jewish News revealed last weeekend that Corbyn is ready to include three examples that are reworded in the current code. But he has made clear his belief that the final missing example – claiming Israel is a

‘racist endeavour’ – has been used to restrict criticism of Israel. The Board and JLC made clear there can be no negotiation on adoption of any of the examples, but Corbyn has nevertheless expressed confidence that a solution can be reached.

The definition is not the only issue on which Lansman has departed from the party line in recent days. It was also reported that he described the decision to pursue disciplinary

action against Margaret Hodge and Ian Austin as a mistake.

He is also facing opposition within Momentum after pushing for the group to withdraw support for Pete Willsman as a candidate for the NEC elections, after his outburst denying anti-Semitism in the party was revealed. However, he also faced condemnation for continuing to campaign for Willsman’s election after witnessing the outburst himself, until

a tape of the attack was published.

Meanwhile, seven leading antiSemitism experts have insisted that any modification of the international definition of Jew-hatred is “no longer the IHRA definition”.

In a pointed intervention, members of the UK delegation to IHRA said: “If one organisation or institution can amend the wording to suit its own needs, then anyone else could do the same.”

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Street’s landmark moment The protesters Cable Street in East fought back with London has been identisticks, rocks, chair fied as one of the top 10 legs and other improlandmarks in England’s vised weapons. Rub“history of power, probish, rotten vegetables test and progress”. and the contents of The accolade has been chamber pots were awarded in a high-prothrown at police by file national campaign women in houses launched this week by along the street. It Historic England. worked – Mosley was The East End street forced to march his where Jews famously troops back. fought fascist thugs in “Although this was the 1930s is listed by hisMounted and foot police in action in Cable Street a violent protest, as a torian David Olusoga in Irreplaceable: A History of England the Great Depression, depriva- nation we should be more aware in 100 Places as being among the tion fostered anti-Semitism and and proud of the Battle of Cable most iconic sites that “bring to life some neighbouring communities Street,” Olusoga says.

Other selected sites include blamed Jews for worsening conEngland’s rich history”.

The Battle of Cable Street took ditions. By 1936, Oswald’s fascists the operations room bunker from place on Sunday 4 October 1936. had become the largest organised where the Battle of Britain was coordinated, the Manchester labAnti-fascist protesters, including anti-Semitic force in Britain.

Hearing of the protest, those oratory in which Ernest Rutherlocal Jewish, socialist, anarchist, Irish and communist groups, opposed to the Mosley march ford pieced together the structure clashed with the police who were blocked various routes into the of the atom, and a sycamore tree protecting a march by the British East End, the last of which was in Tolpuddle, Dorset, under which Union of Fascists, known as the Cable Street, shouting: “They workers agreed to form what became the first trade unions. shall not pass!”

Blackshirts, led by Oswald Mosley.

About 6,000 police tried to By the 1930s, around 183,000 Jews lived in London, mostly in clear the area, and began attacking The Cable Street Mural on the the East End. Exacerbated by those building barricades. former St George’s Town Hall

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Dame Vivien: ‘My Israel died’ One of Britain’s biggest donors to Israel has said she will be more “choosey” in selecting causes as she condemned the country’s new Nation State law, saying “my Israel has died”, writes Joe Millis.

In a forthright interview with Haaretz, Dame Vivien Duffield, the driving force behind JW3 who also backs a wide variety of education and arts projects in Israel, described the new act as an “apartheid law”.

“To be honest, ‘my’ Israel has died”, she said. “I’m a very pragmatic person, but do I like what has been going on in Israel in the past few years? No. I hate what is going on.”

She added she was aware that “hatred is a strong word, but I detest the processes Israel is going through. In my opinion, the vote in the Knesset on the Nation State law, all the latest laws that Israel has passed, are appalling. Dreadful. The new Nation State law is apartheid, it’s South Africa.

“It’s one law for one group and another for a second group. And that’s repulsive. There are two million Arabs in Israel and obviously they have their own language. It’s impossible not to recognise [officially] the language spoken by mil-

lions of citizens.”

Describing Israel as a “wonderful place”, she said she believed it was now “...two states. Tel Aviv is multicultural and sophisticated … it is full of nice people who never go to Jerusalem. And there are other places.

There’s always been a huge difference between people and the chasm has grown recently.

“At first, everyone was poor and they all lived modestly. Today, there are very rich people who live in massive houses, there are serious disconnects between the religious and the secular. In recent years the attitude towards the Arab minority is more brutal than it has ever been.”

Dame Vivien made it clear she was “not influenced by the BDS movement and in the past I have donated to organisations that have fought BDS, in both Britain and Israel. And as far as I am concerned, the developments regarding [Labour leader Jeremy] Corbyn show the depth of anti-Semitism in Britain. However, BDS isn’t as strong as it used to be.”

She said she would continue donating to Israel, “but I will have to be more choosey in what I donate to. The Weizmann Institute in Rehovot [to which the foundation

has donated vast sums and whose Clore Center for Biological Physics is named after her father, Sir Charles Clore] is a non-political, nonIsraeli centre. It helps the whole of humanity. Those are the kinds of projects I will support.”

Dame Vivien supports Israel through the Clore Israel Foundation, of which she is chair. The foundation donates to projects related to education, science, arts, culture, sports, welfare, diverse community and Arab community. Tower of David is one of the foundation’s flagship projects.

It supports the Clore Scholars Programme, an annual award of scholarships for outstanding doctoral students in science from all Israel’s universities, and helps new immigrants with job retraining programmes and job advice.

Israel’s Nation State law, passed on 19 July, specifies the nature of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. It was adopted by the Knesset 62-55, with two abstentions, and as a Basic Law will need a two-thirds majority of the 120-seat Knesset to be repealed.

One of its most contentious clauses says that “the state views

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the development of Jewish communities as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation of such communities”, a move seen as excluding Israel’s minorities.

However, Sara Greenberg, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Adviser for World Jewish Communities, dismissed claims the law represented “apartheid”.

She wrote in the Jerusalem Post:

Anger over burka view Jewish leaders this week condemned Boris Johnson’s “dog whistle racism”, over remarks he made about Muslim women wearing veils.

The prime minister added her voice to calls for Johnson to apologise for his comments about burkas, after Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis did the same on Tuesday.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph on Monday, the former foreign secretary described the the veil as “ridiculous” and “weird” and said women wearing them looked like letter-boxes or bank robbers.

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“Israel already has basic laws to protect individual freedoms and to define the various branches of government. The new basic law does not, however, contradict or supersede the basic laws that protect and guarantee individual rights of all citizens regardless of ethnicity, religion or gender…

“The new law does not erode a single right or protection of any minority.”

Aron Stern, 12, handed his local MP Diane Abbott a five-page letter addressing concerns about government proposals on education that could adversely impact the freedom of strictlyOrthodox schools. Aron told the MP for Hackney and Stoke Newington he wants to live in a country with tolerance and freedom of religion. Proposed changes, he wrote, may force his family to leave the country.

Twitter to say: “Boris Johnson’s comments totally disgraceful. Extraordinary to think he was foreign secretary only a few weeks ago.”

Dr Edie Friedman, chief executive of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality “unequivocally” condemned the former London Mayor’s “dog whistle racism”. The Board of Deputies tweeted: “Solidarity with the Muslim community over rising anti-Muslim incidents. Totally unacceptable, whether on the street or in our politics.” A CST spokesperson added that “it is very obvious why these comments would cause deep offence”.

Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism, said: “Boris Johnson’s overall conclusion, that we should not ban religious face coverings, is right. However, the language he used to describe those who choose to wear burkas was unacceptable.”  Editorial comment, page 16

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OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR DIES The only Israeli director of an Academy Award-winning film has died in Tel Aviv. Moshe Mizrahi, who was 86, directed the 1977 Oscar winner Madame Rosa, which was filmed in France and starred Simone Signoret.

The film, which won for best foreign language on behalf of France, is the story of a former prostitute in Paris who survived Auschwitz. Mizrahi was nominated for Oscars for two other films he directed in the 1970s.

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Corrie on kvetching for soap star Lipman Maureen Lipman has signed up to star as an “outspoken battleaxe” in Coronation Street.

The acclaimed Jewish actress, 72, will play Tyrone Dobbs’ grandmother, Evelyn Plummer, when she arrives on the cobbles in September.

She comes into his life after Tyrone (Alan Halsall) decides to research his family history after the death of his mother Jackie.

The soap’s producer, Iain MacLeod, said: “I am beyond thrilled that we are introducing such a great new character, played by someone of Maureen’s pedigree.

“Evelyn is eye-wateringly withering and will add a fresh dollop of northern humour to the show as she turns Tyrone and Fiz’s lives upside down.”

The Hull-born actress, who made a brief appearance in Corrie in 2002 as snooty landlady Lillian Spencer, describes her new character as “nasty” and “a monster”.

Lipman’s credits include films The Pianist, Educating Rita and Oklahoma! and she has appeared in TV series such as All At Number 20, The Fugitives and Plebs.

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TWINS COME OF AGE, AT 96!

A special barmitzvah takes place this Shabbat when identical 96-year-old twins Jack and Louis Feldman mark their third coming of age.

Born on 12 August 1922 to Polish-born parents, the brothers grew up in the streets around Piccadilly Circus and will enjoy their third callup to the bimah at New North London Synagogue.

Described by Jack’s son, David, as being “typical street kids”, they had their first joint barmitzvah at West End Great Synagogue in Manette Street, where they shared the sedra.

Members of West Central Jewish Boys Club in Fitzroy Square, they left school aged 14 to learn the fur trade, became The twins at their first barmitzvah

skilled furriers and opened their own workshop after the Second World War on Carnaby Street.

They both had lucky escapes during the war, Jack and Louis today when they served in the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Italy. Their elder sister, Nellie, wrote to Winston Churchill to argue they shouldn’t be separated when serving.

The end of the fur trade led to them working in markets, before Jack met Rita, whom he married in February 1970. They have a son, David, and two grandchildren, Sam – who recently celebrated his barmitzvah – and Rafi.

They celebrated their second barmitzvah at the West End Great Synagogue in 2005, from which Louis remembers Adon Alom being sung to O Sole Mio. Their favourite memories are of their parents, whom they still idolise, stories of their time in the army and welcoming new generations of the family.

Both now suffer from dementia, while Jack has had to overcome a triple heart bypass and a car accident which led to a leg amputation.

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News / Facebook letter / Amazon action / No2H8 deadline

Facing up to online denial

NEWS IN BRIEF

509 GOALS IN MATCH FOR SHANI CHARITY

It’s not often that there’s 509 goals scored in a football game before the referee blows the final whistle, but that’s what happened as 180 players took part in an 11-hour “football marathon” for charity.

In the event, Team Walrus beat Team Bear by 260 goals to 249, as the rain lashed down on the Jewish families raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital in memory of five year old Shani Berman.

The match at Watford Power League, in support of the Shine for Shani charity, was met with the first rain in two months, ensuring a wet epic, organised by Simon and Juliet Berman and a team of friends.

Starting at 9am, it featured men, women and children, the youngest three, the oldest in their late 50s, and as the teams battled for the World Cup look-alike trophy, they helped raise more than £10,000.  Visit: www.justgiving. com/shaniberman

Leaders of 23 Holocaust education centres around the world have written an unprecedented joint letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive and founder of Facebook, offering help in tackling Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, writes Jenni Frazer.

In the letter – co-ordinated

by Henry Grunwald, OBE, QC, chairman of the UK National Holocaust Centre and Museum – the signatories say that “we beseech you to work with us to protect society against one of the longest and darkest hatreds which, in the space of just three generations, is seriously beginning to threaten it again.”

Last month, Zuckerberg caused a storm when he said that although he found it personally offensive, Facebook would not take down Holocaust denial sites. He said he believed in freedom of speech.

But those who have signed the letter to him say they offer “tangible, rapidly executable steps towards Facebook becoming part of the solution”.

They say they can deliver “proven educational resources in multiple languages” and “cost-free development programmes for educators on Facebook”.

Facebook, say the signatories, “must not allow complete and utter falsehoods about the Holocaust, and about the Jewish people, to go systematically unchecked.”

The letter describes anti- Semitism as “the canary in the coal mine, the first unravelling of a society’s moral fabric.”

The letter is signed Mark Zuckerberg

Some of the hateful denial and anti-Semitic items on Facebook

by 23 leaders across the world, from Brazil to South Africa, Canada, America, and Australia, as well as a strong presence from the UK. British signatories include the Imperial War Museum and Yad Vashem UK, as well as survivor and campaigner Sir Ben Helfgott.

It is hoped to set up a face-toface meeting with Zuckerberg to hammer out an educational programme as soon as possible.

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Amazon says it has removed items with Nazi or white supremacist symbols from its website after criticism from advocacy groups.

An Amazon executive said the company blocked the accounts of some retailers and might suspend them.

Democratic US representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota complained to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos last month.

The company responded by saying Amazon prohibits listing products that promote or glorify hatred, violence or intolerance.

Some of the controversial listings were highlighted in July by the Partnership for Working Families and the Action Centre on Race and the Economy.

They included swastika pendants, baby onesies with burning cross logos and a cos-

Amazon has removed offensive items

tume that makes the wearer look like he has been lynched, with the model appearing to be a black man.

The groups said that Amazon’s “weak and inadequately enforced” policies allowed racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic groups to generate money and spread their ideas.

Name your anti-hate hero There are just 48 hours left to nominate individuals who have stood up to hate crime in the past 12 months for the third annual No2H8 Awards, jointly organised by a Jewish-Muslim team.

Anyone can put forward those they feel have tackled hate, intolerance and bigotry, whether directed at faith or race groups, the LGBT community or those with disabilities.

Nominations for the 12 awards, now in their third year, must be received by the end of Friday, at which point the names put forward will go through two judging panels before winners are chosen.

This year’s theme is ‘upstanding’ and categories include those working in law enforcement, parliament, media and local authorities. Those making a positive impact

in their communities to stand up to prejudice are also eligible to be entered. Previous winners of the awards – which Jewish News proudly sponsors alongside national titles including The Mirror – include medic Dr Nasser Kurdy, who was stabbed in the neck outside an Altrincham mosque in September 2017 not long after working through the night to treat those injured in the Manchester Arena bomb.

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Buttons project / Organ donors / News

200,000 buttons for Holocaust memorial More than 200,000 buttons have been donated by communities in Bushey, Watford and Elstree, plus pupils at Hertsmere Jewish Primary School (HJPS), to a project creating a memorial to the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust, writes Francine Wolfisz.

B’s Buttons was started after a student, Bliss, at The Lakes School in Windermere, Cumbria, asked for help with understanding the scale of mass murder during the Second World War. She had been inspired by a visit from survivor Arek Hersh, one of 300 displaced children, known collectively as “The Boys”, who were given a new home after the war on the Calgarth Estate in the Lake District, where The Lakes School is now situated.

Alongside history teacher Laura Oram, they came up with the idea of collecting 1.5 million buttons to reflect the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust.

On 8 July, volunteers at Bushey Synagogue counted 143,900 buttons and were joined by survivor Zigi Shipper, one of the surviving members of The Boys, and Abigail Mann of St Albans, who helped spread the word and organise button collections at

at Bushey United and started a collection at HJPS, where her children attend.

She said: “The Year 6 pupils have been studying the Holocaust as part of their World War Two Shoah week and the B’s buttons project was a fantastic way for them to be involved.

“They also Zigi Shipper, Gabi Rolfe and Abigail Mann at the Bushey count designed some ideas for the memorial, which they will UK museums, schools and synagogues.

The buttons were donated by members send to The Lakes School.”

Acting HJPS deputy head Natasha Colof Bushey United, Watford United and lins said: “The children were really excited Elstree Liberal Synagogue.

Collection boxes were also set up at The to bring in the buttons. We feel proud of Kelman Deli, Bushey, which counted 6,000 our contribution and are delighted we have buttons, and Flax’s Foods, Bushey, which taken part in something so important.”

Once 1.5 million buttons have been donated 4,860 buttons.

Meanwhile, Year 6 students at HJPS, collected, they will be turned into a perRadlett, counted 51,335 buttons. Mum-of- manent Holocaust memorial sited on the three Gabi Rolfe helped organise the count grounds at The Lakes School.

MAX’S LAW RECEIVES CAUTIOUS BACKING The Chief Rabbi has welcomed in principle the new organ donation system for England, as long as consent is given in line with halachic advice.

The plan, which aims to tackle donor shortages, shifts the balance of presumption in favour of donation, with an opt out for those who do not wish to take part.

The changes will be known as Max’s Law after Max Johnson, a 10-year-old boy who was saved by a heart transplant.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said: “We have long been of the view that there is a need for a system of organ and tissue donation which is flexible enough to allow individuals and families to give their consent in accordance with halachic advice.

This announcement from the Department of Health and Social Care, appears to provide for us to do exactly that

and, is therefore extremely welcome.” He added: “We will continue to work with the department to ensure that the detailed proposals, once produced, will take full account of our concerns. We would then hope to be in a position to endorse the proposals in full and to provide appropriate guidance.”

Currently, would-be donors must indicate their intentions on the NHS Organ Donor Register, or grieving families must make the decision if a patient’s wish to donate is unknown.

The proposed law is expected to be rolled out by the Government in spring 2020 and is expected to save around 700 lives a year.

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No fly zone: Mandy Blumenthal at the Kuwait Airlines desk at Heathrow Airport

Kuwait Airways has agreed to pay substantial damages plus costs to an Israeli who was refused a ticket on a flight from London to Bangkok on the grounds of her nationality.

Mandy Blumenthal, with the help of UK Lawyers for Israel, issued a claim against Kuwait Airways, claiming damages for racial discrimination and harassment, after she tried to buy a return ticket to Bangkok at Heathrow from the Kuwait Airways desk last November.

UK Lawyers for Israel, a voluntary organisation of lawyers who support Israel, facilitated Blumenthal’s claim by organising her legal representation by barristers John Bowers QC and Benjamin Gray, and David Berens of Fuglers Solicitors.

Blumenthal’s encounter at the Kuwait Airways desk was filmed, and the video is available on YouTube. At first Kuwait Airways were prepared to sell her the ticket but refused once they saw her Israeli passport. The Kuwait Airways ticket clerk repeatedly explained: “Israeli passport holders are not permitted to travel on Kuwait Airways”.

Kuwait Airways has agreed to pay Blumenthal damages, but not admitted liability.

Jonathan Turner, chief executive of UK Lawyers for Israel, confirmed the organisation would be willing to assist other claimants.

David Berens said: “The law is clear: direct discrimination on grounds of nationality in the provision of a service to the public is illegal. Ms Blumenthal has done a service in showing up Kuwait Airways’ illegal policy.

Kuwait Airways is now legally obliged to end this policy or end its services from the UK.’” Blumenthal said: “It is horrible to be singled out, to be told you are not allowed to do something because of who you are. Having someone telling me that he is following instructions, that it is a rule, a policy gave me a sinking feeling inside. In my mind it is an anti-Semitic policy to single out the only Jewish State to boycott.”

Brooke Goldstein, director of The Lawfare Project, said: “It’s hard to believe that in 2018, an airline operating at Heathrow can ban passengers on no other basis than their nationality. Kuwait Airways should be made to choose: either give up your racist, anti-Semitic policy or cease operating out of Heathrow. The airline’s discriminatory policy should have no place in a free society.”

Spokesmen for Jewish Human Rights Watch said: “We took the action against Kuwait Airways because we were disgusted by the fact an airline would ban a person because of their religion and country. We salute Mandy for her bravery. There will be no no-go-zones for Jews.”

JLC reports £70k deficit For the first time in several years, the Jewish Leadership Council is in deficit – to the tune of just under £70,000, writes Jenni Frazer.

The 34-organisation umbrella body, which has just released its Statutory Accounts for the year ended December 2017, attributes the shortfall to the JLC’s investment in education.

The specific investments are in PaJeS, the partnership for Jewish schools department, headed by Rabbi David Meyer. The JLC’s financial input in both 2016 and 2017 allowed PaJeS to expand and develop while providing existing services.

However, the JLC say: “It was agreed that PaJeS should undertake these activities for the benefit of the community in advance of income being received. It had been intended that income would be received during 2017, but for various reasons the income was slower to arrive than had been planned”.

Nevertheless, despite the overall deficit,

the accounts show the JLC’s core activity and projects traded at a material surplus, due, it says, “to careful stewardship, a managed reduction in costs and a staff restructuring to allow for investment in new priorities”.

Donations, it reports, are slightly up on 2016.

Among the new projects is an analysis of residential elderly care in the community, a report on the provision of services on mental health issues among young people – and the overall financial sustainability of the community’s services.

JLC chair Jonathan Goldstein said: “The JLC invested heavily in 2017 in activities which contribute to the long-term vibrancy of our community.

“We have been able to do so thanks to the support of our members, the unstinting generosity of our increasing number of donors, and the professionalism of the staff team.”

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Jewish News meets... UN Human Rights Committee chair

Human rights a ‘loaded term’ Stephen Oryszczuk speaks to the Israeli professor with a key position at the United Nations

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he Israeli professor newly-elected to chair the UN Human Rights Committee has said the new Jewish Nation State Bill could add to the UN’s concerns about civil and political rights in Israel, but that the state should at least get a fair hearing.

Speaking to Jewish News from Geneva, international law expert Yuval Shany said he had just finished hearing representations from Bahrain, Algeria, Laos, Liberia, Gambia and Lithuania, but would recuse himself when it came to Israel in 2020.

The committee he was elected to lead earlier this month is not the same as the UN Human Rights Council, from which the US withdrew

earlier this year citing “chronic bias” against Israel. Instead, it monitors states’ adherence to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a multilateral treaty with 171 state signatories, including Israel. Shany is the first Israeli to be elected to lead it.

A senior researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute and lecturer at Hebrew University, Shany has been on the committee since 2013 and says the ICCPR commits signatories to uphold civil and political rights of citizens, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

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time Israel reported was in October 2014, just weeks after the ceasefire in Gaza, a territory in which it is required to apply the Covenant.

The committee pressed Israel on “the extraterritorial application of the Covenant to Gaza and the West Bank, the military blockade of Gaza, settlement policy, the prohibition of torture and reports of excessive use of force by authorities”.

It also reported that experts had alleged that “Israel gave first-class rights and benefits to Jewish Israeli citizens but treated others as second-class citizens,” before noting further concerns such as “provisions for the Bedouin people, returns of asylum seekers, juvenile justice, gender equality, access to water, punitive housing demolitions, the use of administrative detention and the teaching of the Holocaust”.

While he is clear that he will not participate in Israel’s next review, Shany said the committee’s concerns over first and second-class citizens would be raised again, given the Israeli parliament’s passing of the Nation State Bill this month, which among other things demotes Arabic as an official language (protest pictured, above).

Israel’s supporters in the Diaspora, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Board of Deputies, have all voiced concerns that it could lead to discrimination against Israel’s sizeable non-Jewish minority.

“It’s going to be addressed, no doubt about it,” Shany said. “It raises concerns around different rights to different citizens based on their group affiliation. This new Bill is part of the same dynamic. It introduces a new set of issues.

It adds to the concerns.”

At least his committee appears to have ears for the good as well as the bad. Its 2014 report highlighted positives from Israel, such as increased rights for people with disabilities, and while Shany said he had no wish to prejudge the next review, he acknowledged that there were areas in which recent developments have been positive.

“I’m not speaking as a committee member, but there have been important movements, for instance on the funding for Arab municipalities, which channelled considerable resources to close the equality gap between Israeli and Arab municipalities in areas such as housing, education, environment and employment,” he said.

“So yes, there have been positives, and I don’t think the picture will be all negative. I imagine the committee will take note of these, as they did last time.”

Israel’s record of implementing the committee’s recommendations was “mixed,” he said. “It could be

that people at a professional level would like to advance them, but at a political level it could be difficult.

“So I think Israel will present to the committee a record of partial implementation, certainly not full implementation.”

Asked whether ‘human rights’ is a dirty word in Israel, he says: “It’s a loaded word. Unfortunately, it has become associated with certain positions on the political spectrum, leftist positions, but it really shouldn’t be viewed as such.”

He adds: “I’m worried about this. I see human rights as transcending political positions. There is a very strong history of people on the right of Israeli politics taking strong positions on human rights issues. It is a shame that this is no longer perceived as the case.”

He goes on: “Some human rights organisations that deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are being labelled ‘leftist’. This is being exploited by politicians and in the way they are seen in the public.

“This is very disconcerting, because human rights groups in Israel represent people from all sides of the political spectrum, without distinction, on the basis of the universality of human rights principles.”

That phenomenon, at least, shows no sign of ending. “In the past, we had Likud-led government coalitions with centrist components, but this government is more homogenous in its political orientation,” he says. “Maybe that facilitates this push-back against those groups that are perceived as opposition groups.”

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World News / Iran sanctions / Released docs / News briefs NEWS IN BRIEF

TUNISIA WELCOMES ISRAELI CHESS GIRL The Tunisian Chess Federation has agreed to allow a seven-yearold Israeli girl to participate in an international tournament in Tunisia – having refused to grant her a visa. Following pressure from the FIDE World Chess Federation, authorities backtracked on their decision to refuse entry for Liel Levitan to take part in the World School Individual Championship.

GAL GADOT SET TO AGREE TV DEAL Gal Gadot is close to a deal to star in a TV series about Hedy Lamarr, the film actress who was an inventor. The Israeli star of 2017 megahit Wonder Woman will executive produce the show with her husband and producing partner Yaron Varsano, according to Variety. Lamarr was credited with creating a prototype for a frequency-hopping signal that helps disrupt radio-controlled torpedoes.

STAR CHARLOTTE RAE DIES, AGED 92 Charlotte Rae, who played a wise and caring housewife to a brood of teenage girls on the long-running sitcom The Facts Of Life, has died at the age of 92.Spokesman Harlan Boll said Rae died on Sunday at her Los Angeles home. Rae, who was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, originated the character of Edna Garrett in 1978 during the first season of comedy Diff’rent Strokes, then took Mrs Garrett with her for the spin-off The Facts Of Life, which premiered the following season. That series ran for nine seasons, though Rae left after its seventh.

JEWISH CEMETERY ATTACK IN LITHUANIA A Jewish cemetery in Lithuania has been desecrated and human remains brought to the surface after digging took place, connected to the laying of pipes. Pictures showing freshly dug soil, garbage and bone fragments on the grounds of the cemetery of Siauliai, in northern Lithuania, began circulating on social media amid reports of a coverup of the evidence documented, the Skrastas news site reported.

Soil containing bone fragments was removed after being photographed

by Sania Kerbel, chairperson of the local Jewish community.

Bibi praises Trump for sanctions back on Iran Senior Israeli officials this week lauded the reimposition of US sanctions on Iran as a historic turning point that could lead to the Islamic Republic’s downfall, and urged other countries to follow suit.

“This is an important moment for Israel, for the United States, for the region, and for the entire world,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, moments after Trump signed new sanctions into law.

“It symbolises the determination to curb Iran’s regional aggression and its ongoing plans to arm itself with nuclear weapons,” added the prime minister.

Israeli voices represented a global minority in support of US President Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose the sanctions starting Tuesday, as Europe expressed dismay over the move.

But Netanyahu said European countries should follow Trump’s lead and reimpose sanctions as well. “I call on the European countries, which are

Donald Trump reimposed sanctions on Iran, but the UK has expressed dismay at the move

talking about stopping Iran, to follow suit. It’s time to stop talking, it’s time to do. That’s exactly what the US did and that’s what Europe needs to do.”

Signing an executive order putting the sanctions back in place, Trump restated his opinion that the 2015 international accord to freeze Iran’s

nuclear program in return for lifting sanctions was a “horrible, one-sided deal.”

He said it left the Iranian government flush with cash to use to fuel conflict in the Middle East, and urged all nations “to make clear that the Iranian regime faces a choice: either change its threatening, destabilising behaviour and reinte-

grate with the global economy, or continue down a path of economic isolation.”

Trump warned that those that don’t wind down their ties to the Iranian economy “risk severe consequences” under the reimposed sanctions.

“This courageous decision will be remembered for generations,” Defence Minister

Avigdor Liberman wrote on Twitter. He said Trump had “changed the direction regarding Iran,” despite mixed messages from the US administration, which has offered support for direct talks with Iran’s leadership while also blasting Tehran’s “murderous” rulers and putting new pressure on the regime.

Jerusalem’s embrace of the US sanctions in Iran stood in stark contrast to the European Union, which said it would move to protect countries that remain in Iran. An EU spokesperson said: “We are fully committed to the continued, full and effective implementation of the agreement, as long as Iran respects its nuclearrelated commitments.

“At the same time, the European Union is also committed to maintaining cooperation with the United States, who remains a key partner and ally.”

US ‘pressured’ Israel to quit the West Bank Almost 40 years since former US president Jimmy Carter initiated the negotiations that led to Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt, the Centre for Israel Education is releasing secret papers from the Carter archives detailing the talks.

Most recently, the nonprofit body unveiled a March 1978 meeting in Washington DC between the Carter and Israel prime minister Menachem Begin’s delegations as the US warned there was a risk of losing momentum after Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat unexpectedly visited Jerusalem to address the Knesset.

The conversation showed a US president intent on securing a broader peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world, one that would see Israel relinquish not just the Sinai but most of the West

Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights.

Israel’s foreign minister at the time, Moshe Dayan, strenuously objected, arguing the West Bank falling under Arab control would endanger Israel.

He proposed Israel should not impose sovereignty over the territory but not extract its military from there either.

“Israeli forces will stay there to defend Israel, but not to rule the Palestinians,” he said. “This is equivalent to withdrawal, not in a territorial sense, but in substance.”

The memo showed the Carter administration wanted the withdrawal to establish a Palestinian state, but its diplomats also insisted a complete and total pullout to all pre1967 borders was not a requisite for a deal.

The Israelis said leaving the West Bank was not necessary

Great shakes: Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin at the signing in March 1979

to fulfill United Nations resolution 242, which was passed with Israel’s support following the 1967 Six Day War. The text called on Arab states to accept Israel’s right to “live in peace within secure and recognised boundaries free from threats or acts of force” and for all sides to seek a lasting peace.

The Palestinians objected to the resolution because it made no explicit reference to them, a point Begin’s delegation emphasised in its meeting with Carter when it disapproved of the proposal.

Begin said Sadat had given up his early insistence that

Israel should relinquish Palestinian territories. “The Egyptians initially gave us a proposal calling for withdrawal from Sinai, the West Bank, Gaza and Golan. We said this was impossible,” the former Israeli premier stated.

“We said that 242 does not call for total withdrawal. Sadat agreed to drop this demand.”

Yet it was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security adviser, who issued the direst warning about Israel maintaining its presence in the West Bank, characterising it as possibly an attempt for Israel to “perpetuate [its] control of

the area” rather than merely to protect its people.

The meeting ended with Carter asking Begin to be “flexible” about potential paths forward in negotiations, saying “we have reached the point of possible success. But we are on the verge of seeing that lost.”

The Carter-brokered negotiations between Israel and Egypt resulted in the signing of the Camp David Accords in September 1978.

The Israeli-Egypt peace treaty was later signed in March 1979 and Begin and Sadat were ultimately awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jerusalem Gay Pride / Nation State Law / Israel News

Pride... and prejudice?

More than 50,000 people chanting “We want equality!” joined a march at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday evening in protest against the contentious Nation State Law. Organisers included leaders of the Druze community, whose spiritual leader, Sheikh Muafak Tarif, told the assembly: “Despite our unlimited loyalty to the state, the state doesn’t consider us equals.”

Former Labor MK Shachiv Shnaan, a member of the Druze community who lost his son in a terror attack at the Temple Mount, told the crowd: “When the law was approved, I have

A record crowd of at 30,000 marched in support of the LGBTQ community at the Pride Parade in Jerusalem – one week after more than 60,000 demonstrators in Tel Aviv protested at the Knesset’s passage of a new surrogacy law that excludes gay couples and single men.

Marchers called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign over the surrogacy law and carried signs against the Nation State Law. Participants were questioned and searched before being allowed to enter the parade at specified points along the 1.25-mile route from Liberty Bell Park to Independence Park.

In 2015, a Charedi man stabbed to death marcher Shira Banki, 16, who was attending the parade in support of her LGBTQ friends. Last week’s marchers placed flowers on a memorial at the corner where she was murdered.

The event was organised by the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance “to celebrate the senior individuals and pioneers who have persistently fought for equality, freedom, and human rights of the LGBTQ people”.

At least four counter-demonstrators – members of the extremist Lehava organisation – were arrested during the parade.

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become a second-class citizen, and my son has become a second-class fallen [soldier].”

The law has sparked criticism in Israel, internationally and from Jewish groups abroad.

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told Hadashot TV people with an anti-government political agenda were “stirring divisions” in Israel over the legislation, but former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi disagreed He said: “What has been done is an injustice to 20 percent of Israel’s population. This is not about right or left. This is not an issue of which party you vote for. It’s a matter of values.”

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Thinly-veiled slur?

It took a man with unconcealed ambition to be the next Conservative leader saying something diabolical about Muslims to finally knock the Labour leader’s anti-Semitism crisis off the front pages this week (although not this newspaper’s).

It was heartening to see our community among those speaking loudest against Boris Johnson’s Daily Telegraph column, in which he called the full face veil “ridiculous” and “weird” and said the women who wear them look like letter-boxes or bank robbers.

JLC chairman Jonathan Goldstein branded the former foreign secretary’s comments “disgraceful”, the Board of Deputies called them “totally unacceptable, on the street or in our politics”, while Dr Edie Friedman, chief executive of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality accused Johnson of “dog whistle racism”.

We live in extraordinary times, when senior political figures of all hues feel free to write repugnant words and defend indefensible loyalties, while still expecting to remain electable.

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I consider the suggestion by your newspaper that a Jeremy Corbyn government would pose “an existential threat” to British Jews to be disgraceful scaremongering, deeply offensive to those of us who lost family in the Shoah.

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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has a long history of championing entities dedicated to Israel’s destruction.

It all just adds to the current anti-Zionist/antiSemitic rhetoric emanating from his party and it is in all our interests that it must be met head-on.

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with the term “used Jews”.

If I made similar allegations about Israelis supporting the movement against Corbyn, it would be dismissed as conspiracy theory and it would rightly be suggested this had anti-Semitic overtones. So why is it acceptable for your editor to make insinuations of conspiracy about Jews who support Labour?

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The hypocrite MPs You reported on 3 August “Corbyn tells Labour anti-Semites: You have no place in my party”.

So why has it taken him over two years and hundreds of episodes of anti-Semitism, many of which he has defended or turned a blind eye to in equal measure, to do something?

Plus there is what is now coming out of the internet woodwork showing details of his personal actions over the years that he thought weren’t traceable.

The simple answer is that the hypocrite Labour MPs who wanted him out before the last general election but thought the unexpected result gave them a chance next time if they supported him, have finally got a backbone and can see that he’s now

members of the Labour party should now leave it.

It should be quite clear to everyone that trying to reform Labour from within has failed.

I’m astonished that Rabbi Kanterovitz was a character witness for Freddy David at Southwark Crown Court.

David had, for some months, not hidden his guilt or the scale of the fraud He did not steal £14.5m in a moment of madness. It was systematic and long term.

Although the rabbi apologised, when it came to Freddy his moral compass was demagnetised.

One has every right to expect moral leadership from one’s rabbi. If this is compromised, I suggest such a rabbi has no right to his pulpit.

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more a liability to their own jobs than a future Labour prime minister.

Corbyn’s response is far too little far too late. The ship is starting to sink, the sharks are circling and the MPs are all scrambling for lifejackets.

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LABOUR’S NON-REFORM All of us in the Jewish community have just witnessed another slap in the face as the Labour Party goes ahead and adopts its own definition of anti-Semitism.

All Jewish Labour MPs should now resign the whip and all Jewish

DEFENCE OF DAVID WAS ASTONISHING

I SEE NO ANTI-SEMITISM As the son of a Jewish immigrant in the UK, I’m asking what precisely are your criticisms of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party?

My grandfather was originally a Zionist and fought in the First World War in Palestine, but later renounced Zionism as a misguided aim to pursue at the expense of moral and spiritual values.

My father was a journalist on The Sunday Telegraph and Evening Standard and believed Jewish people in Israel had themselves ended up committing similar types

of atrocities against Palestinians as Hitler committed against the Jews.

The irony of these parallels is not lost on many people and my Jewish father never considered saying so to be anti-Semitic.

When your editor appeared on the BBC to promote a pro-Zionist viewpoint, he directly ignored and misrepresented the perspectives of thousands of Jews in the UK. Giving a balanced viewpoint is OK, but this is not it.

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Can Labour’s two sides continue to coexist?

ROBERT PHILPOT AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST

The latest reports on the row over antiSemitism that has engulfed Jeremy Corbyn have made for an especially grim time for the Labour leader, with one paper alleging Corbyn refers privately to the MP Louise Ellman as the “Member for Tel Aviv.” Corbyn has denied the claim by a former aide.

At the same time, new footage emerged of a 2012 meeting in London addressed by Corbyn in which pro-Palestinian activists compared Israel to Nazi Germany. He is reported to have applauded a poem, Love Letters To Gaza, which included the line: “It is not now the Nazi state but Israel that blocks the seas.”

He was also forced into a rare apology after it was revealed he chaired an event in 2010 on Holocaust Memorial Day, part of a tour called Never Again - For Anyone, which similarly drew comparisons between the Shoah and Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism published images of slides purportedly used at that event, leading Jewish Leadership Council chair

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Jonathan Goldstein to say it was “unimaginable that someone who was genuine in fighting antiSemitism could not object to these slides”.

If the pictures are accurate, he continued, Corbyn must explain himself.

Labour’s already tarnished commitment to tackling anti-Semitism within its ranks was then further undermined by reports the party is clearing some accused of Jew-hatred as it cannot find evidence they are Labour members.

Since Labour’s unexpectedly strong performance in last year’s general election, deputy leader Tom Watson has largely kept quiet. The effective head of Labour’s depleted right, Watson has long had close ties to the Jewish community and is known for his pro-Israel views.

His decision to challenge Corbyn directly in a highly critical newspaper interview, therefore, was striking and a clear shot across Corbyn’s bows.

Watson’s language – the warning that, unless it rids itself of anti-Semitism, Labour risks disappearing “into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment” – was incendiary, after Corbyn’s failed attempt to dampen the flames last Friday with an article published on the eve of Shabbat.

While appearing characteristically defiant, Corbyn on Sunday released a video adopting a softer tone than his article on Friday, apologising for “the hurt that has been caused to many Jewish people” and suggested “if any part of our national community feels threatened, we must all ensure that these fears are put to rest”.

Few of his critics are likely to be convinced by such words.

While there have also been reports in this newspaper that Corbyn may give ground on three of the slurs listed in the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism (he is supposedly holding out on the right to claim Israel is a racist endeavour), this is no foregone conclusion.

It was telling that in his article last Friday,

Corbyn followed the words “this has been a difficult year in the Middle East” with just two examples: “The killing of unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza,” and the passage of Israel’s nation-state law.

As one political commentator wrote: “Corbyn spent his years of political obscurity associating with the sort of cranks who gladly spread conspiracy theories of an anti-Semitic flavour.

Old tropes about bankers, and globalists, and the ‘Israeli lobby’ are the very definition of antiSemitism.

“Corbyn, having lived comfortably among the sort of people who gladly spread this sort of hatred, cannot now deal with the problem. He is the problem.”

It is important to recognise, too, that the Labour leadership and its followers appear to view themselves – not Britain’s Jews – as the real victims in this row, unfairly smeared and slurred by political opponents.

Ultimately, the row over anti-Semitism is simply the most toxic flashpoint in a wider battle: whether the ascendant hard left and moderate centrists can continue to coexist in one party.

Increasingly, it seems they may not.

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Things move fast in the Wacky World of Hatred JENNI FRAZER It is more than tempting, considering the week that we have just had, to focus only on the lunacy afflicting the Labour Party. Every day – no, make that every hour – there is some new manifestation of anti-Semitic racism, primarily emanating from Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters, though not by any means exclusively.

Pity the poor journalist whose unhappy task it is to follow this derangement, to dot its “i”s and cross its “t”s.

Because, as I have observed before, things are moving so fast in the Wacky World of Hatred that it is well-nigh impossible to keep up. A suspension here, a lawyer’s letter there – and my, haven’t the lawyers, principally those retained by Margaret Hodge and Ian Austin, been having fun.

Once it was said, in jest, that for the dozens of Chinese restaurants in Soho there was only one giant subterranean kitchen, with chefs running dementedly from end to end. My fantasy is that somewhere there is

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WE MUST NOW INSIST ON CALLING HIM ‘JOHNSON’, AS THE FAMILIARITY OF HIS PET NAME DOES NOT HELP ANYONE

a group of lawyers – the collective noun for whom is “a disputation of lawyers”, rather wonderfully – who sit, gowns and wigs cast aside, cackling as they hone each phrase with which to shoot down the incompetence and idiocy of the Labour Party.

Social media has been alive with quotes from the lawyers, and my particular favourite is Mishcon de Reya’s trenchant observation to Jennie Formby, Labour’s general secretary, that “it is clear you were making the rules up as you went, and even in defeat you have sought to spin your final decision in a disin-

genuous and false manner”.

Zing! Score 1:0 for the lawyers.

Elsewhere in the forest, however, it seems to me that a lethal dose of legal snark needs to be administered, and quickly, to the Person Formerly Known As Our Foreign Secretary – Lord help us.

Yes, I mean Boris, Boris the Blond, Boris the Bumptious, and – frankly – Boris the Bigot.

Having failed to get his way in Cabinet over the direction of Brexit – and patently, before the referendum, produced unprovable claims as to what would happen if we leave Europe – Boris did the Spectacular Sulk and resigned as foreign secretary.

Not before, of course, having his photograph taken in the course of resigning, looking grave and statesmanlike, though he couldn’t quite bring himself to brush his hair.

And now, what is Boris doing? Why, having unconvincingly slunk off to the backbenches and resumed his “journalistic career” at the Daily Telegraph, the MP for Uxbridge is courting controversy once again.

Johnson, as we must now insist on call-

ing him because granting him the familiarity of a pet name does not help anyone, used his column to write that women who wore face veils “looked like bank robbers” and that those in burqas resembled “letterboxes.”

We Jews know only too well what happens with this kind of Islamophobia, and it is as unacceptable, and as reprehensible, as the vile anti-Semitism which has become part of the national background noise in the past months.

Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis said Johnson should apologise.

Through “allies” – usually code for the person themselves – the former foreign secretary refused, saying he was “speaking up for liberal values” and that any apology would “shut down legitimate debate”.

Shades of, ooh, I don’t know, Labour’s refusal to accept all of the IHRA definitions of anti-Semitism in case it would stifle criticism of Israel.

There are no degrees of disgusting. There is simply disgusting, Johnson has passed that barrier, and we should condemn him, no question.

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Plea to discuss Israel as the Jewish nation state ASA KASHER

PROFESSOR, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

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e need a meaningful discussion about Israel’s new fundamental law. Yet once you mention Israel, darts are thrown, and the nature and complexities of the law itself are cast aside. We should explore several questions.

Given the new law, what is the difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish citizen of Israel? Under this and the other fundamental laws, there ought to be no difference between a Jew and non-Jew in terms of civil rights.

Individually, the state belongs to both of them to exactly the same extent. Collectively, however, there is a difference. In Israel, Jews exercise their right to self-determination.

An Israeli Arab desiring Palestinian selfdetermination will see this collective right implemented when Palestine is established.

Nothing in his status as an Israeli citizen would change.

Isn’t Israel against the idea of a Palestinian State? No. Israel’s Proclamation of Independence recognises the right of every

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AS THE JEWISH NATION STATE, ISRAEL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WELLBEING OF ALL ITS CITIZENS – AND JEWS WHEREVER THEY ARE people to enjoy sovereignty in their own state. All previous Prime Ministers endorsed the two-state solution. The notion of two states is fundamental to the conceptual and moral nature of Israel and its society.

Why should there be nation states in the first place? Rootless cosmopolitanism has not shifted the attitude of millions, who want to express their deep ethnic and cultural affiliations through statehood.

Naturally, we associate Finland with the Finns, Greece with the Greeks and Israel with the Jews.

Why should there be a nation-state for the Jews, who are actually a religious denomination? The Jews constitute a people. We have used elements of our religious past as components of our national culture.

Therefore, it is unacceptable to portray Jews only as religious.

Why should there be a Jewish State rather than a political entity of another nature? Why should the Jews be treated differently than the Finns and the Greeks? There is a national minority of Arabs in Israel, indeed, but there is also a national minority of Swedes in Finland. Is there a difference between Arabs as a minority and Swedes as a minority?

Denying rights to Jews that are granted to others is yet another form of anti-Semitism.

Isn’t this law simply a denial of democracy, and of equal protection for the dignity and rights of all citizens? This new law does not define Israel’s fundamental character, but rather forms just one part of it.

The Fundamental Law of Human Dignity and Liberty forms another. Thus, Israel is the democratic nation-state of the Jewish People.

Why does the new law not say so, loud and clear? Personally, I declined to participate

in meetings of the special parliamentary committee that discussed the draft. The talks were not sufficiently consensual, conceptual or moral.

The new law should have stated how it is fully compatible with the principles of democracy, including the equal protection of human dignity and rights.

Is the new law mainly symbolic, or does it have practical consequences? It does have practical consequences. I take one word in its text to be its conceptual and moral essence: responsibility.

Greece shoulders responsibility for the fate of its citizens, and also for the fate of Greeks everywhere, for example, in Cyprus.

As the Jewish nation-state, Israel is responsible for the existence, security and wellbeing of all its citizens, and also for the fate of the Jews wherever they are.

In conclusion, the new law should be understood as one element of Israel’s constitutional framework.

Clauses and details should have been different, but the major idea that Israel is the democratic nation-state of the Jewish people is impeccable.

The fight over who gets to define anti-Semitism DOV WAXMAN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR

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’m a British Jew, although I have spent my adult life in the United States. I’ve found it more comfortable to be a Jew here, but have always bridled at the notion that Britain is, or is becoming, an inhospitable environment for Jews – whether due to anti-Semitism on the left or among its large Muslim population.

I was shocked when I saw the front pages of Britain’s three leading Jewish newspapers all declaring “United We Stand” and featuring identical editorials warning that if the Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, took power, it would pose “an existential threat to Jewish life in this country.”

What could have prompted such a unanimous and unprecedented expression of concern?

Has the Labour Party joined the ranks of some other European political parties on the far left and far right in trafficking in antiSemitic stereotypes? Has it proposed a ban on male circumcision or the ritual slaughter of animals? Has it denied or downplayed the

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Holocaust? Or has it called for a boycott of Israel or sanctions against it?

In fact, Britain’s Labour Party has done none of those things. What it, specifically its governing body, has done is promulgate a new code of conduct for its members concerning anti-Semitism.

If Labour politicians or activists violate this code of conduct – if they, for instance, say something that the code defines as antiSemitic – then they could be expelled from the party. Surely this is commendable, not deplorable.

The newspapers’ harsh accusation exacerbated a growing sense of insecurity among British Jews, which leads many to fear that

the British Jewish community is much less secure than it actually is.

The outrage over Labour’s definition of anti-Semitism is not about what it says but what it leaves out. Labour’s definition allows for the possibility that it is not anti-Semitic to direct more attention and criticism to Israel’s alleged crimes and misdeeds than toward other democracies (i.e. to have a “double-standard”).

Nor would it necessarily be anti-Semitic to claim that Israel is a “racist endeavour,” or to compare its policies and actions to those of Nazi Germany.

While the feelings and sensitivities of Jews should be considered, they are not sufficient. Jews themselves disagree about whether something is anti-Semitic, especially when it concerns Israel and Zionism.

Who, then, speaks for Jews?

Their communal leadership might be unrepresentative and out of touch with the feelings of many Jews, particularly many of the younger ones.

In the case of British Jewry, there are certainly many on the left who are highly critical of Israel and would not be offended if

it was characterised as a “racist endeavour” (especially since the passage of Israel’s new nation-state law).

It is not just Britain’s Labour Party that is grappling with the challenges posed by defining anti-Semitism and protecting freedom of speech.

For the past two years, the US Congress has been debating the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which seeks to codify into law the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, based on the IHRA’s.

The bill, backed by major Jewish and pro-Israel organisations like the AntiDefamation League and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was passed by the Senate, but stalled in the House of Representatives after an outpouring of criticism, including from the ACLU, which argued that it violated the First Amendment.

The difficulty with defining anti-Semitism today does not mean that we should stop trying.

To combat anti-Semitism, we have to agree on what constitutes it. But perhaps this has simply become impossible in our increasingly politically polarised times.

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My inbox is chock-full of hate from left and right JESS PHILLIPS MP LABOUR, BIRMINGHAM YARDLEY

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y inbox is usually the home of emails from constituents seeking help, invites to endless meetings and events and – frankly – no less marketing emails than before all that GDPR malarkey. I get the occasional crank, sending abusive stuff, but supportive emails far outstrip the hatred.

This week the tone has changed somewhat.

This week I have publicly spoken out about antiSemitism in the Labour Party and Islamaphobia in the Conservative Party, mainly from the neither right or honourable Boris Johnson. My inbox is now full of people telling me, with all the flair of a drunk in a pub, that I should shut my mouth and stop standing up to racial and religious prejudice.

Those who think they are defending the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn at the polite end of the spectrum lecture me on the actions of Israel, as if I am not a vocal critic of the actions of the Israeli government.

Others miss out this justification and go straight for accusing me of being paid by Israel,

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being beholden to some imagined Jewish master. Most commonly, they accuse me of caring about this hatred only as a smear or a political tool.

Some of these anti-Semitic emails don’t mince their words and have “Nuke Israel” or some variation on that as their actual email addresses. I’ve been likened to Joseph Goebbels this week for defending the Jewish community, which is quite the mental gymnastics.

Then, as quickly as the anti-Semitism flooded my emails, the tone moved on to those who were newly offended by my criticism of Boris Johnson’s dog whistle anti- Muslim nonsense. These emails again ranged with what their authors felt was reasoned concerns for Muslim women, as if

Jess Phillips (third left), with fellow Labour MPs Margaret Hodge (second left), Luciana Berger (second right) and Louise Ellman (right) at a demonstration outside a Labour Party anti-Semitism disciplinary hearing

they are all exactly the same and Boris genuinely had their best interest at heart. Ha! Others went straight to shrieking about “Muslim scum” and accusing me of defending terrorists.

The left letter writers accuse me of not caring about racism of the right, and the right accuse me of not caring about racism of the left. Perhaps I’ll link the two groups together in a big round robin. The fact is they are the same. Both simply want me to stop standing up to racism. I won’t.

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The truth is those who sent out these dog whistles against Jews and Muslims want to rally people to their banners. They want to create a force of hatred. They want people like me to feel berated in to silence in the name of free speech. Division bolsters power in the world of personality politics. If you can’t win an argument on its merits, the quickest way to win is to create a hated other to rally against.

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1 TORAH DEDICATION

Hundreds of people gathered at Hampstead Garden Suburb Sephardi synagogue for the dedication of a new Sefer Torah. In memory of Mike Dalah, the evening saw numerous people contribute, writing the last letters of the Torah scroll, after which they took to the streets for dancing. Rabbi Jonathan Tawil said: “This was a momentous occasion for the growing Sephardi community and we look forward to reading from this special Sefer Torah.”

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This week’s news, pictures and social events from across the community

Magen David Adom UK, together with supporters Tony Abrahams, Dennis Marks and Michael Jaffa, hosted a summer evening of live music. The sold-out event, which took place at Potters Bar Golf Club, was attended by 140 people and raised £4,000 for MDA UK. Chief executive Daniel Burger said: “The response for this event has been overwhelming.

The organisers did such a fantastic job and we are grateful for all their efforts in making this event the success that it was. It’s really brilliant to see new faces engaged with MDA UK.”

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3 TWINS’ CHARITY GIFT

Eight-year-old twins Elazar and Yedidya Kaplan celebrated their birthday by donating some of their presents to less fortunate children. Delivering them to the GIFT warehouse in Hendon, their mother Naomi said: “I encouraged my boys to donate some of their gifts after they saw so many homeless people in London. I was so grateful for the opportunity GIFT offered us.

Not only were the boys able to go in and donate the presents, but they were also given a tour of the warehouse, an explanation of what goes on there as well as being given time to wrap up the presents so they can easily be donated.”

Camp Simcha families enjoyed a packed agenda of outings and activities as part of the charity’s annual Keshet holiday scheme. Forty seriously ill children enjoyed a range of days, while three outings to zoos and theme parks were organised for the families. Camp Simcha head of services, Daniel Gillis, said: “For the seriously ill children we support, summer holidays can be particularly hard, seeing their peers going to camps and taking part in activities which they can’t do. This year we also laid on three family days, as it’s important for families to have some stress-free positive days when they can do fun activities together.”

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South London residential care home Nightingale House, in conjunction with Apples and Honey Nightingale nursery, launched an activities day for schools participating in The Linking Network (TLN), a national school linking programme. Organisd by the Faith & Belief Forum in partnership with TLN, Alastair Addison, head of activities at Nightingale House, said: “Our residents always find interacting with children and young people from all backgrounds enriching and they added a sense of fun and vibrancy to our home.”

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Immanuel’s annual Visual Arts Exhibition showcased the ethos and creativity of its Visual Arts Faculty and students. The Sonia and Eli Gottlieb Prizes were awarded to Lydia Sheldon, who took the overall cup, whilst the A-Level Art prize went to Ella Skolnick. Tali Wolf won the A-Level Photography prize, Tali Barnard was the overall winner of the GCSE Art prize, with Joshua Katz the overall winner in the GCSE Photography category.

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B’nai Brith UK Young Professionals (BBYP) held a summer barbecue for young professionals in their 30s and 40s. Attendees heard about BBUK’s projects in the Ukraine and Kiriat Gat as well as finding out more about the London Bureau of International Relations (LBIA) and BBYP’s activities.

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Bushey Synagogue recently welcomed local residents into the shul to explain some of the Jewish rituals and practices.

Part of the Bushey Festival programme and billed as an evening of Jewish food, wine and folktales, highlights included amusing stories read

by Derek Reid, traditional Yiddish songs sung by Pippa Reid and Sas Ezekiel giving a spirited demonstration of shofar blowing. Organiser Leslie Pollock said: “Everyone came away with a much better knowledge of Judaism

The Association of Jewish Refugees celebrated its London volunteers at the German House in Belgrave Square. At the invitation of The Deputy Head of Mission of the German Embassy, Tania Freiin von Uslar-Gleichen, the occasion was shared with Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (ARSP) to mark its 60th anniversary.

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Dr Asher Lewinsohn, a qualified Senior Registrar specialising in anaesthetics and intensive care within the NHS, from Edgware, has received a British Citizen Award for services to healthcare. Gained through the work he’s done within the Jewish community, Hatzola and further afield for the NHS, Lewinsohn (pictured middle) said: “It’s such a fantastic surprise and an incredible honour to have been awarded the BCA.”

Your family announcements Natalie and Ronnie Symons celebrated their golden wedding anniversary

Jacob Selwyn celebrated his barmitzvah at Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue

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Our summer tour of Jew-ty!

This summer’s Israel tours saw 1,600 teenagers, the highest number for eight years, experience the trip of a lifetime, visiting sites of Jewish significance and learning about the history of Zionism. Debra Green, head of UJIA Israel Experience, said: “We’re proud to support a wide array of youth movements, who each provide their own framework for young people, to make a personal connection to Israel, learn and have fun in the process.”

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‘Finding out their names meant everything to me’ Judge Rinder tells Francine Wolfisz about discovering how the Holocaust and mental illness impacted his family on Who Do You Think You Are?

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here are innumerable privileges to being a so-called ‘celebrity’, but this was a total gift,” reflects television personality Judge Rinder, who delves into his family history for this week’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? The 40-year-old star, whose full name is Robert Rinder, signed up to discover more about his maternal grandfather, Morris Malenicky and great-grandfather, Israel Medalyer.

At the heart of his story is his 94-year-old maternal grandmother, Lottie, who he describes as “very much at the quiet centre of our family”.

While her husband Morris survived the Holocaust, little is known of her father Israel, except rumours he was “damaged in the war”.

Turning his attention first to Morris, Rinder tells me he knew his grandfather was the only one still alive after the war, while his parents, four sisters and brother were all killed at Treblinka. However, Rinder knew very little about what Morris had actually experienced.

“When you are the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, it informs just about everything,” explains Rinder, whose mother Angela is chair of the 45 Aid Society.

“I’ve always been very interested and very aware, but like lots of grandchildren of survivors, they never tell their story in one coherent narrative.”

Travelling to his birthplace, in Piotrkow, Poland, Rinder is shown a collection of documents that finally cast light on his grandfather’s hidden past.

In an amazing series of coincidences, Rinder meets historian Netanel Yecheili, who tells him that not only did Morris’ family rent their apartment from his family, who owned the block, but their grandfathers were good friends as children.

Then, when he is presented with Morris’ birth certificate, Rinder notices the date is 11th February, the very same date as his visit and what would have been his grandfather’s 95th birthday. “It was a complete surprise, genuinely unbelievable,” says Rinder. “To be sitting in the very place where he was born on his 95th birthday was incredible.”

He is also given a newspaper article detailing the names of Morris’ parents and siblings, which was written before the war. For Rinder, saying the names out loud for the first time was a deeply poignant moment.

Robert Rinder (right) delves into the past of his greatgrandfather Israel Medalyer (left), and his grandfather Morris Malenicky (above with wife Lottie)

“We all know the significance of memory and saying the name of a person, but to be there in the place they had been and then to also get descriptions was very moving. The material described my great-grandfather as a little man who was always running about – well if you were to draft two lines about my grandfather, that would be him! It was proper human history. It breathed ruach into these people who had previously been nothing but a name. And before that, not even a name.”

While Morris’ family were taken to Treblinka, he was sent to a glass factory in Piotrkow, before going to Buchenwald, Germany and then a sub-camp, Schlieben.

There he meets Sir Ben Helfgott, who knew Morris well and describes to Rinder for the first time how his grandfather looked physically when he arrived at the camp.

“I had absolutely no idea Ben was coming or that my grandfather was sent to Schlieben.

I knew he had been in a camp, but I only knew it as Buchenwald. Sometimes stories would come out, often when you least expected

them. For example, he would say, ‘never push yourself forward’ and then tell me about how he once pushed into a line where the work that people were conscripted into looked easier.

“But it turned out they were working with noxious chemicals. He was discovered and horribly beaten, but that was only the underlying luck of his survival, because while he was forced into harder work, it didn’t include working with these chemicals.”

Following the war, up to 1,000 Theresienstadt orphans were given the chance to go to the UK. The first group were taken to Lake Windermere and included Morris, who Rinder discovers, lied about his age to match the criteria for entry.

However, as a man who “adored this country and loved the rule of law”, Morris was troubled enough to set the record straight when he married Lottie a few years later.

Turning his attention to Israel, Rinder reveals his family had always thought he may have suffered from shell shock, having served in the First World War. But he discovers that Israel served at home and never saw active service. His death certificate reveals however, that he died at Friern Barnet Hospital, a mental health facility.

As more information emerges, Rinder learns that his great-grandfather had probably suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder, having been caught up in Russian military violence against revolutionaries during his childhood.

Discovering a close relative had mental health issues was “a genuine, dark shock to everybody”.

Rinder adds: “It was a secret that one might say was laced with shame. My grandma could never speak of it because it was considered such an appalling affliction. It’s made me want to be part of the conversation, to do what I can to help remove the stigma of mental illness.”

Reflecting over his experience, Rinder says he feels “more connected” to his grandmother, Lottie, and his wider family.

“The gift of this experience isn’t just mine.

My mum and auntie grew up with a Holocaust survivor father with no context, no idea where he came from, where he lived, or what his family were like. To be able to tell them was extraordinary, and enormously important to them.”  Who Do You Think You Are? airs on Mondays, 9pm, BBC One.

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The mother of all dramas Israel has churned out yet another gripping Hebrew-language export with psychological thriller Mama’s Angel, writes Francine Wolfisz

Vered Feldman, Sharon Shtark and Tehilla Yashayauh star in Mama’s Angel, a psychological thriller about the murder of a young child and below, Yoni Meles as Rafa (centre), the prime suspect

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irst there was Homeland and Fauda, then Beauty and The Baker and False Flag. Now Israeli television creatives have churned out another thrilling export, Mama’s Angel, which airs on Channel 4 this Sunday and via Walter Presents, the broadcaster’s on-demand service for foreign language dramas.

The gripping 10-part psychological thriller revolves around prison therapist Yael (Sharon Shtark), who, on the eve of Yom Kippur, is assigned a new inmate, a man accused of murdering his own children.

In a twisted turn of events, Yael’s seven-yearold son, Kfir, is found dead the next morning beside a memorial to air force heroes, not far from the suburban Tel Aviv home she shares with her emotionally-distant husband, Eithan (Yehezkel

Forensic expert Na’ama Saddeh (Vered Feldman) scours the murder scene for clues

Lazarov), a former soldier.

Just days earlier, Eithan recalls seeing 18-year-old Ethiopian artist Rafa (Yoni Meles) vandalising the memorial. While a minor offence, it places him at the scene of the crime and propels him to become the prime suspect, much to the distress of his mother, Nigist (Tehilla Yashayauh).

Detective Benny Mendelovich (Eyal Rozales) must solve the case, but will he agree with forensic expert Na’ama Saddeh (Vered Feldman), who believes they have the wrong man?

For writer Keren Weissman, Mama’s Angel marks her first major foray into television and is already reaping critical success, having earned a nomination for best drama at the Israeli Television Academy Awards.

Citing it as “an exploration of motherhood and its burdens”, she further explains: “It’s a story about how each mother is sure that her child is a wonderful creature. “‘Mama’s Angel’ was a name that came very naturally to me, as it’s something that many Jewish mothers say. I’ve used the term myself many times for my children!

“I originally wrote the series as a way to deal with my own anxieties as a mother. Most of my friends who have children feel they can’t watch this series, but for me I found this very helpful.

Watching the worst case scenario on television is cathartic in a way. My worst fears come out in my writing, but in real life I’m actually very calm!”

Weissman, a mother-of-two, who studied screenwriting at the Tisch Graduate Film School at NYU, recalls how the first seeds of an idea were planted after reading an article in the New York Times seven years ago.

“There was this very intelligent woman, who had fallen in love with a man on death row. As it turns out, he was there for a murder that he didn’t

do. I kept thinking over about a person on death row and someone actually loving him and then I thought about others who had been wrongly accused. For me, that was my starting point.”

As she formulated the twists and turns of her dark thriller, other elements of Weissman’s life began to inform her writing.

While she was born in the US, she was raised in Israel and has spent most of her life in Tel Aviv, where the series is set.

She also has first-hand experience of the prejudices aimed against Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, a theme explored through prime suspect Rafa and his mother, Nigist.

“I have a very good friend who feels she is not accepted. She lives in Tel Aviv and is not religious, and her family have shunned her. She doesn’t really fit in anywhere,” explains Weissman.

“There are plenty of Israelis who don’t consider Ethiopians as ‘real’ Jews. Just recently, Ethiopian workers were fired from a winery for not being ‘Jewish’ enough to touch the wine and grapes. And they, like the Druze and Muslims – who make up 30 percent of the country – are

not mentioned in the Law of Nationality. There’s nothing in there about equality for all. So there’s a long way to go in terms of addressing prejudice.”

As for the subject matter of Mama’s Angel, Weissman soberly reveals “the death of a child is not a foreign subject to me”, having tragically lost her three-year-old sister to cancer when she was aged just 10. I ask Weissman if drawing on her own real-life experiences had in turn made her scripts more realistic.

While they certainly gave her more empathy for her characters, it was not always the case that the truth worked better.

She reveals: “My father’s best friend was head of the Israeli CSI and I worked with him for a few years on getting the details right for the script. The funny thing is, some people didn’t believe such things could really happen.

The truth is almost too hard to accept – but the made-up details are easier to believe!”  Mama’s Angel airs on Sunday, Channel 4, 10pm, with the entire series available on All 4 afterwards

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Marvel at Mumbai

Liz Schaffer explores the colonial past of this thriving Indian city, discovering how a Jewish family transformed its landscape

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Wanting to observe Mumbai’s potential, I based myself in the neighbourhoods of Colaba and Fort. Here are crumbling stately homes, constructed when colonial trade was much in vogue, and house stores selling fabrics and glistening jewels.

Ambling chickens share the road with prestige cars and restored buildings reveal themelves as boutique hotels and galleries.

Should you choose to follow my lead, look to stay at the waterfront grande dame that is the Taj Mahal Palace – home to the Sea Lounge, an ideal afternoon tea setting that in decades past was the favoured spot for couples in arranged marriages to meet for the first time.

Or there’s Abode, the embodiment of old Bombay style with spacious rooms and retro furniture to long for.

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ndia is difficult to define and all things at once – a place where life, and all its complexities, are on full display. This is particularly true of Mumbai, a collection of reclaimed islands by the Arabian Sea. This thriving, cosmopolitan city, one of the world’s most affluent, has long been a centre for trade, and is dotted with vestiges of its colonial past. Some buildings have evolved into icons (the Gothic, gargoylefestooned Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is Unesco-listed), others threaten to crumble with the next monsoon.

Here old and new, decadence and poverty co-exist. The streets are traffic bedlam, with men clad in sarong-like lungis pushing wooden carts through a maze of noisy motorbikes, taxis and trucks.

Forty percent of the population still live in slums, but life in the city is evolving fast and there is a pervading sense of positivity.

with pre-dawn newspaper sorters, marvel at Dadar Flower market and observe Dhobi Ghat, the world’s largest outdoor laundry.

The architecture of Colaba and Fort is stunning, from Art Deco cinemas to museums with facades designed to captivate. One of the most alluring structures is the beautifully-preserved David Sassoon Library, named after Jewish émigré David Sassoon, who moved here from Baghdad.

The Sassoon family is responsible for or contributed to several of Mumbai’s architectural attractions. They include Sassoon Docks, a fishing port with sariadorned Koli fisherwomen selling the morning’s catch, Magen David Synagogue and the powerful Gateway of India, glowing in the evening light, through which the last British troops departed from India.

The Sassoons were also behind the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue. Its interiors are charming but it is the exterior,

painted a brilliant shade of turquoise, that garners the most attention. It fits perfectly with its Kala Ghoda location, the neighbourhood having undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. It houses Mumbai’s arts district, home to the annual Kala Ghoda Arts Festival and has India’s aesthetic heritage on full display.

Visitors can admire street art outside the Jehangir Nicholson Art Gallery and the extensive collection inside of 20th-century Indian art, buy homewares and clothing from stores dedicated to indigenous design, and feast on dishes that show just how delicious fusion cooking can be.

There is Artisans, an independent gallery showcasing traditional craft and design that also hosts regular exhibitions, and Kulture Shop, which provides a platform for India’s graphic artists, Also here are Nicobar, the younger sibling of Good Earth, both stores selling sustainably produced homewares and clothing, and Sabyasachi, a sari, jewellery and clothing shop adored by India’s brides.

Foodies should also make a point of calling in at Trishna and Kala Ghoda Café, a cosy eatery where meals and the setting have a relaxed, modern feel.

Kala Ghoda is a lively, fashionable suburb found in the heart of a city that gives the impression of never being still.

It is an area proud of its heritage, forward thinking, and determined to keep Mumbai moving confidently into the future.

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Top: The Gateway of India; above and right, the bustling, colourful streets of Mumbai

Liz Schaffer travelled to Mumbai with KLM, which has just launched direct flights from its award-winning hub, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, to Mumbai, with connections to and from 17 departure points across the UK. Return economy fares are from £388 (KLM.com). She stayed at Abode Hotel, Mumbai (abodeboutiquehotels.com). Liz is editor of Lodestars Anthology, which publishes their India magazine this month (lodestarsanthology.co.uk)

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Orthodox Judaism

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BY RABBI ALEX CHAPPER WC Fields once wrote: “A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.” This sentiment is the embodiment of the philosophy the Torah tries to engender in us when it says: ‘Do not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your needy brother’ (Devarim 15:7) We know we have a duty to give tzedakah and yet the Torah recognises the failure to respond to the needs of those less fortunate than ourselves. The very next verse exhorts a remedy: “But you shall surely open your hand to him and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need.”

This double expression of the requirement to give charity implies we should give freely and without restraint. Those who believe their wealth has been achieved solely by the work of their hands are anxious to hold on to it tightly, to close their hand. This is the mistake the verse comes to rectify. Our financial situation is not all of our own doing – it is not solely the work of our hands. For that reason God instructs “open your hand”.

Just as God determines what comes into our hand, so he determines what should leave it. It’s a strange phenomenon that not only do we have the capacity to ignore our duty to others, but we can also find somewhat ‘legitimate’ excuses for not giving. If the only way to be charitable is to give repeatedly, then so it has to be done.

One act of charity does not make a charitable person.

The only way is through continuous acts of charity.  Alex Chapper is community rabbi of Borehamwood & Elstree Synagogue

Torah For Today What does the Torah say about...

Jewish News’ 1,066th edition!

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL The year 1066, the year of the Norman Conquest following the Battle of Hastings, is as significant for Judaism as it is for Jews in England, as it led to French-speaking Norman Jews settling in the country trading and investing in properties.

The language used for such transactions was mostly Aramaic, a language shared with the pre-medieval church.

Lovers of Gematria, assigning numerical value to a word, will be interested to know 1066 is the Hebrew numerical value of key theological words. It is also the combined word value of Ruach HaKodesh, Shechinah and Kevod-Adonai, when they are spelled with the transliteration of God’s name, YHWH. Ruach Hakodesh, known as the Holy

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Spirit, communicates through different levels of inspiration or prophecy from God to humankind.

Shechinah means Divine Presence, taken to represent the feminine manifestation of God’s power, the maternal, emotional, creative emanation of the Creator. Kevod-Adonai, the glory of God, is also 1066.

1066, THE YEAR OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS, IS AS SIGNIFICANT FOR JUDAISM AS FOR JEWS IN ENGLAND

These theological concepts drew the line between traditional Judaism and Christianity, as well as other radical or mystical movements within Judaism.

The Holy Spirit forms part of the Trinity, in contrast to pure monotheism as preached by Hebrew prophets.

The glory of God, as seen by Chassidism and in the Tanya, written by the Alter Rebbe of Lubavitch, Shneur Zalman of Liady, is something tangible – kevodo mamash – meaning God’s divinity finds expression in the material world.

The word mamash, concrete, actual or tangible, was the acronym given to the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, as it spelled the three words of his name: Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.

This notion set the Rebbe as the Messiah inviting divine glory to descend into the material world.

I wish Jewish News many happy returns on its 1,066th edition.  Rabbi Ariel Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to HM Armed Forces

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The Bible Says What?

‘When Isaac was born, his father Abraham was 100 and mother Sarah was 90’

BY RABBI DANNY RICH Having been present at the birth of all my four children, the birth of a child still seems something awesome.

But the record of the birth of Isaac (Genesis 21:2) to a centurial Abraham and his 90-year-old wife Sarah is especially impressive, though unremarkable by Biblical norms.

Isaac’s parents’ ages at his birth receives little comment, perhaps indicating it was not as remarkable as we might consider it today, or that the birth of children at any time is an expression of the Divine will.

The whole concept of time, as understood today, may have had little or no relevance to the authors of the Bible and their societies.

Light and dark and seasonal changes were clearly pertinent, but as the Creation story itself in the opening chapter of Genesis indicates, it was the process rather than its details that interests the Bible.

Thus a ‘day’ in Creation may not mean a period of 24 hours but rather

a stage in the development of the natural world in which God, the creative power behind the world, oversaw the miracle of our bountiful world, beginning with light and dark and ending with the human being, the ‘Crown of Creation’.

My four children were all born before by 32nd birthday, but in my congregation I encountered many older parents, some of whom had previously given up the hope of bearing children.

The biblical account reminds us of Sarah’s distress at seemingly not being able to bear a child and her laughter at the prospect.

Perhaps the Genesis story is not so much a comment on the parents’ physical ages but on the length of the wait and how Isaac would become a much-loved inheritor of parental aspirations with all the challenges that this would bring.  Danny Rich is senior rabbi of Liberal Judaism

Progressively Speaking Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen donned disguises to gain access to high-profile politicians for his new show, but is it ever acceptable to deceive another person?

BY RABBI SYLVIA ROTHSCHILD The Torah relates many stories of deceit by our founding families – Abraham and Sarah pretending to be siblings, Jacob deceiving Isaac for the birthright, Jacob’s sons deceiving him over Joseph and Joseph deceiving his visiting brothers in Egypt.

One might gather that deception is acceptable, but Parashat Kedoshim corrects us: “You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another…nor curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind.”

Jewish law develops two concepts to answer this question – geneivat da’at – the theft of mind, knowledge or understanding; and bein Adam le-chavero – how we behave towards each other.

Geneivat da’at includes deception, creating a false impression and preventing a fair evaluation of the situation.

Exceptions to the prohibition are where the intent is to honour someone, should someone feel dishonoured (finding they were not invited when

the [non]inviter knew they could not come), or if the person deceives themselves.

The category bein Adam le-chavero is underpinned by the ethical imperatives of justice and kindness.

Within our dealings with each other, were we guided by these two requirements, perhaps small deceptions could be carried out under the rubric of kindness.

In one’s personal capacity, it is hard to find support for the acceptability of any deception, and then only for the sake of kindness and another’s feelings.

Returning to the stories of our ancestors, we can see a pattern of deceit for a purpose – to save a life,

ensure the correct transmission of covenant, protect a vulnerable sibling, check out a position.

These are task-oriented rather than concerned with personal desires – any humiliation is incidental. In other cases, such as David and Batsheva, their deception led to serious rebuke. Torah never condones deception for gain, and later law positively opposes it.

Today deception is easily practised: the internet facilitates it, fake news is spread for multiple purposes, and we are too often tolerant of unkind or unjust activities if they confirm our biases or seem harmless entertainment.

Our tradition warns that geneivat da’at is particularly cruel for it humiliates another, and must be used only if the task is of sufficient importance. We must judge each deception against this measure and remember the imperatives of justice and kindness.

 Sylvia Rothschild has been a community rabbi in south London for 30 years

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CHANA Dear Carolyn I’m writing to you in a predicament and am not sure if Chana can help.

My daughter is 32 and has been married for four years. She and her husband are very ambitious and committed to furthering their careers. She has told me that they have been trying to start a family for some time, without any success.

I’m devastated for them and upset for my husband and myself as it is our dearest wish for her to have a child and for us to become grandparents. We are worried but don’t want to intrude on the young couple. However,

parties to be willing to use mediation to end a dispute by a negotiated process, facilitated by a mediator, as opposed to having it determined in court.

However, as part of ANDREW MILLER QC the litigation process, MEDIATOR the courts encourage and actually expect the AMQC MEDIATION parties to attempt ADR @2TG (Alternative Dispute Resolution) as part of the Dear Andrew litigation process.

I would like to try mediation In the vast majority of to resolve my court case, but cases, this means using the other party has refused. mediation.

Is there anything I can do to Over the past few years persuade them? the courts have become Adrian stricter in their approach to parties who have Dear Adrian Mediation is a voluntary process refused to try mediation by penalising any party, and therefore parties cannot be even a winning party, in compelled to take part. Being voluntary, the process needs both costs at the end of a trial.

this issue is having a major impact on us too.

Ruth Dear Ruth I am very sorry to hear about your concerns and feel that Chana can be helpful to you.

I understand that you are both worried about your daughter and son-in-law. Additionally, you had hoped that your own lives would move in a certain predictable direction, as has happened with your contemporaries and instead, you are at a painful crossroads yourselves.

By speaking to a Chana support worker, you will have an opportunity to reflect on and manage these feelings and concerns – which are valid and important – and look at how best to support your daughter and son-in-law.

Your role as a ‘wishful grandparent’ is important and we hope that you will call our helpline in confidence to arrange a meeting.

This means that if you refuse to go to mediation but win your case, the court can make a costs order in favour of the losing party.

If your opposing party is legally represented, they should have been advised of this fact by their solicitors or barrister.

If they are not represented, then I advise that you or your solicitors make this point to them.

Additionally, I would continue to encourage your opposing party to try mediation. Be conciliatory in your dealings and show a genuine desire to want to settle the dispute.

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Maybe you could just book for one day to see how it goes and make a deal with your daughter that she only stays for the week if she has a good time?

Good luck and I wish you both a wonderful summer, whatever you decide to do!

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Ladies’ medal haul at inaugural games YOUTH GAMES Team Maccabi GB’s female athletes outshone their male counterparts, returning from the first Maccabi World Youth Games with gold, silver and bronze medals.

Staged in Israel, the tournament was held for 14-16-year-olds and saw the girls win gold and silver in netball, while claiming bronze in the football.

Junior team and project manager Neil Taylor said: “It was incredible to be part of the first Maccabi World Youth Games and even better to be coming home with three well deserved medals. We’re passionate about encouraging girls to take part in a sport they love. Our two netball teams played at the highest possible level, while the footballers

grew in stature in each game, they started as individuals and finished a successful team.”

While not winning any medals, the boys took part in football, basketball and rugby 7s.

Maccabi GB’s Martin Berliner added: “The Games were the vision of the Maccabi World Union CEO Forum who wished to specifically target sports that would engage more female participants. We were proud to be able to take so many girls on the trip, it creates a great socially meaningful opportunity for both the boys and the girls and strengthens the Jewish social network which is what we have been doing for over 80 years in Great Britain.

“I truly believe this event can be a game changer on so many levels and look forward to helping build the second edition of the tournament.”

Hartsbourne event proves a hit

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Snowdon scaled by Bnei Mitzvah kids CHARITY

Hartsbourne Country Club hosted its first golfing event, as 21 teams raised £18,000 for Nightingale Hammerson. Stephen Fisher, a grandson of a former resident, whose sister Susan Grant is a trustee of the charity, said: “Hosting a charity golf event on behalf of Nightingale Hammerson was very special for me”. The charity’s chief executive, Helen Simmons, said: “We’re a well-loved charity whereby trustees, staff and residents and their families feel connected to our work and look for ways to support us. We thank Stephen for introducing a new group of donors to our important work and I look forward to this becoming an annual event.”

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GB’s medal-winning netball teams - winners (main) and silver medalists (inset)

Thirty children and 30 adults raised £50,000 for more than 20 charities, having taken part in this year’s Bnei Mitzvah Challenge. Scaling Mount Snowdon in north Wales, as well as enjoying along with enjoying a relaxing Shabbat, Sarah Sultman, who co-founded the con-

Krav Maga 13 August – 7.00pm www.jw3.org.uk Israeli dancing 13 & 20 August – 7.30pm-9.30pm israelidancing@menorah.org.uk Ladies Pilates 14 & 21 August – 2.00pm-3.00pm admin@belmontus.org.uk Mind Sports Olympiad 2018 22 August – 10.00am www.jw3.org.uk

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cept with two friends, Matthew and Natalie Jackson, said: “Our aim is to inspire our bar/ bat mitzvah children to give, to learn, to fundraise and to think about a cause that could benefit from their celebration and coming of age.” More info about next year’s challenge: bneimitzvahchallenge. wordpress.com

Going the extra miles for charity WALK A group of students walked 10k as they completed the third annual Jewish Care B’nei Mitzvah Walk. Raising £1,500 to help support older people in the community, the year 7 and 8 students, from schools including JCoSS, JFS, Hasmonean and Fortismere Schools, began at Jewish Care’s Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Centre in Golders Green and finished at The Betty and Asher Loftus Centre in Friern Barnet. Jewish Care’s Assistant Director of Fundraising, Esther Gillham, said: “We’d like to say a big thank you and well done to all of the participants who raised £1,500 by walking 10k for Jewish Care. The pro-

gramme has been a great opportunity for them to meet residents and learn a little more about the work of Jewish Care. Giving their time to fundraise, it’s great to see they are demonstrating their responsibility to the community at this important time in their lives.”

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