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Toda raba! say thousands of pupils after charity windfall Jewish schools across Britain gave a warm shalom this week to a £1.2million windfall for Israel education programmes, writes Adam Decker.

The grants from JNF UK will benefit more than 12,000 pupils at 18 primary and secondary schools and aims to help strengthen Jewish identity and young people’s connection to Israel.

Primary schools were eligible to receive grants of up to £10,000 a year, while secondary schools were invited to apply for up to £50,000 a year to expand their Israel education programmes.

The grant programme is unique as it gives the schools the ability to shape the programmes in line with their ethos and decide how the money is spent.

During the year, the schools will partner with one of JNF UK’s projects in Israel, including the Derech Eretz Leadership programme for underprivileged youth and Yerucham Music Conservatory, the only one of its kind in that area of the Negev.

JNF UK chairman Samuel Hayek said: “For more than 100 years, JNF UK has played an integral part in Israel’s development,

Etz Chaim pupils are among those to benefit from the grant

supporting every area of Israeli life. The school programmes will empower the next generation of young Jews, increasing their understanding and knowledge, strengthening the connection they have with the state. It will show them how they can play an important part in Israel’s future.”

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, said: “A strong connection to Israel means a strong Judaism and that’s because Israel is a central element of the Jewish faith.

“It’s for that reason that I welcome enormously this significant investment and initiative.

“The JNF will be enabling

schools to avail themselves of a wide variety of activities and to be able to carry them out within the curriculum of the school and according to the school’s ethos. It’s a brilliant plan.”

Among the schools benefiting from the grant are Hasmonean Primary, London; Mathilda Marks-Kennedy School, Mill Hill; Brodesky School, Leeds; King David Primary, Liverpool; Immanuel College, Bushey; and JFS. A spokesperson for PaJeS, the umbrella organisation for Jewish schools, added: “It is lovely to see an initiative that encourages Israel education in our schools.”

CFI AM HERE NEXT YEAR Theresa May kicked off a tumultuous week in British politics by addressing Monday’s annual lunch of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI). In her address to 800 guests – made hours before she withdrew a scheduled vote on her Brexit plan and two days before facing a vote of no confidence – the prime minister reiterated her “absolute solidarity” with British Jews in fighting antisemitism. Full story on page 2

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PALESTINIAN SHOT AFTER ‘CAR RAMMING’ A Palestinian man in the West Bank who attempted to ram his car into police was shot by Israeli forces. Officers said the driver struck a police vehicle and then attempted to hit forces securing an area near the city of Hebron.

Police say officers opened fire at the car and no Israeli forces were harmed. Police said the driver was taken to hospital and died there.

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death, but did not identify the man.

Theresa May took time out of her crunch week on Brexit to restate “absolute solidarity” with Anglo-Jewry in tackling antisemitism – as Israel’s ambassador hinted at another historic visit by Benjamin Netanyahu to a Gulf state “in the not-too-distant future”, writes Justin Cohen.

The prime minister put aside preparations for her crucial statement in Parliament later in the day to address 800 guests at Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI)’s annual lunch – but did not miss the opportunity to issue a lastditch warning to the 200 parliamentarians present about the dangers of rejecting her deal.

May, who received a prolonged standing ovation from the entire room, said: “As we prepare to begin a new chapter, we will look to friends like Israel to broaden and deepen our links.”

Moments after being

ISRAEL ‘PRESSURES’ GERMANY ON FUNDING Israel is pressuring Germany to end funding for dozens of political, cultural and religious organisations it accuses of anti-Israel agitation both abroad and at home – including the Jewish Museum Berlin – according to an unofficial letter obtained by a German newspaper. Die Tageszeitung, or Taz, obtained a copy of the unsigned seven-page letter sent to the office of Chancellor Angela Merkel and to the Federal Development Ministry urging Germany to “review its funding guidelines”.

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May restates Britain’s solidarity with Israel

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The prime minister was given a standing ovation

praised by Israel’s Ambassador Mark Regev for standing up for Israel over the threat of Hezbollah tunnels and Hamas rocket attacks last week, she pledged: “We will always support Israel’s right to defend itself, today and in the future.

“And in a world where Britain and Israel face many of the same challenges and threats, our security services will continue to deepen their

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“The values that the UK and Israel both prize – liberty, democracy and the rule of law – are unquestionably superior to any of the alternatives against them. But those of us believe in them must be prepared to stand up for them. And we will stand by Israel when it is treated unfairly at the United Nations and have no truck with

boycotts, divestment or sanctions that are simply unacceptable.” She also referred to the “thriving” Christian community in Israel, in stark contrast with other parts of the region.

Courage and vision was now needed from both sides in order to achieve peace, she warned, calling for an end to settlement building and to Palestinian incitement.

And in a broadside aimed at Jeremy Corbyn, she added: “You cannot claim to be tackling racism if you’re not tackling antisemitism – and that starts with being clear and out what antisemitism is.”

Regev insisted ties with the Arab world were at an all-time peak, saying: “I wouldn’t be surprised to see another visit to a Gulf country in the not-toodistant future.”

Other speeches came from CFI honorary president Lord Polak and and Commons chair Stephen Crabb.

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DRASTIC DECLINE IN BIRTHRIGHT NUMBERS The number of young American Jews going on Birthright trips to Israel has almost halved in recent months. A Ha’aretz investigation, taking figures from five key trip providers, revealed drops in take-up figures ranging from 20 percent to 50 percent for its winter season, and claims widespread disengagement with Israel is a reaction to government policies. Birthright, however, said winter registration opened during the High Holy days, “resulting in significantly fewer work days for our recruiters”.

BABY OF MOTHER SHOT IN TERROR ATTACK DIES A baby boy who was delivered prematurely during an emergency operation after his mother was shot in a terror attack in the West Bank has died at the Sha’are Zedek hospital in Jerusalem. Shira Ish-Ran was critically injured on Sunday evening in a driveby shooting, as was her husband Amichai and six other Israelis, as they waited at a bus stop outside the settlement of Ofra. The boy was delivered by emergency C-section at 30 weeks, but his condition deteriorated and he died yesterday.

CORBYN SUPPORTER AVOIDS PRISON AFTER ABUSING MPS A Labour supporter who accused Jewish MPs of “using Judaism as a weapon” to smear Jeremy Corbyn has narrowly avoided jail.

Nick Nelson, 29, who abused Jewish Labour MPs Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth in a series of offensive messages, was told by District Judge Tan Ikram at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday that he was lucky not to be jailed.

Attacking those he saw as “Tories” and “traitors”, Nelson also told Labour MP Wes Streeting to kill himself, but it was his messages to Berger and Smeeth earlier this year that led Ikram to hand down a 10-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.

Nelson pleaded guilty to two offences of “harassment without violence” as Ikram heard how he had sent “abusive and unpleasant” emails to Berger in March, before leaving

Ruth Smeeth, centre, with fellow MPs

similarly abusive telephone messages for Smeeth two months later. These were intercepted by Smeeth’s assistant, Cathy Perry.

His lawyer said: “He felt, rightly or wrongly, that the two MPs were trying to destabilise the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.”

Suspended deputy has ‘nothing to apologise for’ Suspended Finchley Synagogue deputy Roslyn Pine has launched a scathing attack on the Board of Deputies, and specifically its chief executive, for its decision to repeat its unprecedented six-year ban on her attending, writes Joe Millis.

In its decision, the Board’s executive said Pine, who was suspended over comments that have been described as Islamophobic and anti-Arab,

could return early if she apologised, showed contrition and expressed remorse.

However, Pine was clear in her letter to deputies on Monday that no such apology would be made. “I have nothing to apologise for,” she wrote.

“For two decades, I have defended Israel against the worst antisemites at countless meetings in unglamorous venues countrywide, one of

just a handful of foot soldiers, as well as defending Israel and standing against antisemites in the press.”

She called the Board officials “Johnny-come-latelys”, adding they were “more interested in mixing with the great and the good, than in defence of Israel.

Pine shared tweets describing Muslims as “the vilest of animals” as well as calling Arabs “so evil”.

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IDF CHIEF MAY CHALLENGE BIBI

Former Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has emerged as Benjamin Netanyahu’s main challenger for the post of prime minister, after polls showed he had the public’s support. Gantz, who oversaw military operations in Gaza in 2012 and 2014, fought in several wars, including Lebanon, but was last week reported to be setting up his own political party. On Monday, the monthly Peace Index taken by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University, showed 39 percent would choose Gantz, with 46 percent preferring Netanyahu.

PLAYWRIGHT ABUSED OVER NEW SHOW A Jewish playwright whose new production tackles antisemitism while raising funds for a Palestinian charity says he has faced abuse by both Israeli and Palestinian supporters. Stephen Laughton, whose show One Jewish Boy opens at the Red Lion Theatre in Islington on Tuesday, said he had been called “a f****** enabler” by Palestinian supporters and told to “write a play about Palestinian kids being blown to pieces by Jews”. Posters for the show have been defaced.

Report: 89% claim hate has increased Europe’s largest survey on antisemitism “makes for sobering reading”, according to researchers behind the exercise, after finding Jew hatred has become “normalised”.

European Jews feel antisemitism is on the rise and are “protecting themselves by leaving their kippah at home, only discreetly displaying mezuzot, avoiding certain areas in their cities or skipping Jewish events”, they said.

For the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Ipsos Mori and the London-based Institute of Jewish Policy Research (JPR) asked almost 16,400 Jews in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the UK about their experiences and perceptions of antisemitism.

The 12 countries are home to about 96

A total of 28 percent said they were harrassed

percent of European Jewry, although about half of the FRA respondents live in the UK or France.

An astonishing 89 percent said they had seen an increase in antisemitism in the past five years, and although more than half felt their government was trying to help, 38 percent had considered emigrating, and 71 percent of Jews said they sometimes hid items they would normally wear, carry or display that identifies them as Jewish.

Of those surveyed, 28 percent said they suffered antisemitic harassment in the past year, including three percent who said they were physically attacked, while 34 percent said they avoided visiting Jewish events or sites, and 52 percent said they did not report abuse, the majority of which they said was online.

Researchers said: “The survey findings suggest that antisemitism pervades the public sphere, reproducing and engraining negative stereotypes about Jews. Simply being Jewish increases people’s likelihood of being faced with a sustained stream of abuse expressed in different forms, wherever they go, whatever they read and with whomever they engage.”

• Jewish groups this week applauded the European Council’s commitment to fight antisemitism, as a wave of nationalism, populism and extremism sweeps across the continent. Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt of the Conference of European Rabbis welcomed the vote.

SCHAMA SCATHING OVER DIASPORA JIBE British historian Sir Simon Schama has attacked “detestable comments” from Israeli minister and former settler leader Naftali Bennett for saying Diaspora Jews “don’t care about their Judaism or about Israel”.

Schama (pictured) joined hundreds who reacted angrily online after Bennett, who is education minister as well as minister for Diaspora affairs, made the accusations.

Bennett, who heads the right-wing religious nationalist party Jewish Home, was speaking at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, as he prepared to launch a campaign to persuade French Jews to make aliyah.

“There is an unprecedented crisis between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora,” he said. “The reason is a major problem of assimilation and that more and more Jews around the world

don’t care about their Judaism and don’t care about Israel.”

The backlash was immediate, with his spokesman rushing to defend Bennett, saying the minister “was not attacking anyone, he was stressing the problem of assimilation”.

For Schama and many others, however, this didn’t wash, the esteemed historian laying into Bennett online, describing it as “an outrageous affront… to millions of Reform, Conservative and Liberal Jews in vibrant communities who are fighting assimilation, not enabling it”. He added that Bennett’s was “a detestable comment”.

A spokesman for Bennett told Jewish News: “The minister was not criticising any stream of Judaism, Orthodox or non-Orthodox, but expressing concern about unaffiliated Jews who are apathetic about their religious identify.’

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News / Inspirational Evie / Toy drive NEWS IN BRIEF

LESTER QUITS THE HOUSE OF LORDS A Jewish peer accused of offering a charity worker a place in the House of Lords in return for sex has quit. Lord Lester, who was accused of sexual harassment by Jasvinder Sanghera but denies the charges, was investigated by a Lords committee, which recommended he be expelled. This was later reduced to a four-year suspension, which was blocked by fellow peers.

Lester, 82, this week said: “I do not have the strength or health to continue.”

NICK CAVE: ISRAEL BOYCOTT ‘SHAMEFUL’ Musician Nick Cave has called a cultural boycott of Israel “cowardly and shameful” after defending his decision to play two concerts in Tel Aviv last month with his band, Bad Seeds. He said he did not endorse the actions of the Israeli Government, but said the boycotters had made him more determined to go. He told musician Brian Eno by email the boycott “is partly the reason I am playing Israel – not as support for any political entity but as a principled stand against those who wish to bully musicians”.

A legacy for Evie: Making family gatherings in the new ‘going out’ Camp Simcha has launched a campaign to make family nights in the new going out.

Called “Evie’s Night In”, it is the brainchild of 10-year-old Alfie Bladon and his nine-year-old sister Mia, the older siblings of Evie Bladon.

Evie was born in 2012. Oxygen deprivation during her birth resulted in severe brain damage, with doctors saying they did not expect her to survive beyond 48 hours.

However, Evie turned out to be a fighter who went on to celebrate three birthdays with her family, although the 24-hour care she

The Bladon family with little Evie

needed put an enormous strain on her parents, Sam and Lee, as well as Alfie and Mia.

Now the Bladon children are asking everyone to have a Night In. Ideas include a dinner party, quiz night, poker night, sleepover, film night… there are an enormous number of possibilities, they say.

The idea is to invite some friends and, ask them to donate on the night to help someone else, instead of bringing flowers, wine or chocolates.

Alfie explained: “If you have a child with lots of needs, the parents have to work really hard.

“Respite meant Mummy and Daddy could recharge their energy.”

Mia agreed, adding: “Mum and

Dad were always in a better mood the next day!”

Sam explained that every night of support would make a world of difference. “Our hope is that we can raise enough funds for Evie’s Night Owls to become an ongoing service through Camp Simcha,” he said.

“All families like ours, who need respite but aren’t eligible for it, can get this regular support from carers they come to know and trust.

“We hope this initiative will be Evie’s legacy.”  Editorial comment, page 16

SYNAGOGUE TOY DRIVE TO ‘LIGHT UP FACES’ The United Synagogue (US) has called for volunteers to “light up a child’s face” over winter, with toys being donated across synagogues in one of several initiatives.

Michelle Minsky, who heads the US’s Chesed department, said the toy drive was running alongside efforts to distribute presents in hospitals and hospices, while some syngagogues

were opening their kitchens to cook food for the vulnerable.

“If you’re lucky enough to be off work and school over the winter break, then the festive period is a great time to do some volunteering,” she said.

“It will help us improve the lives of vulnerable people in the community and say thank you to the won-

derful people who work in hospices supporting our loved ones day in, day out.”

Those behind the toy drive for vulnerable children asked Jewish families for any gently-used toys no longer wanted, with teddies and dolls also welcome, while elsewhere volunteers were asked to support Tikkun’s ‘Light up a Life’ programme,

taking boxes of chocolates to those not well enough to live in their own homes over the winter period.

• The US is working with the Jewish Volunteering Network to coordinate resources and urged anyone wishing to give a few hours to contact Orah Barnett in the US Chesed department on 020 8343 6238 or send an email to obarnett@theus.org.uk

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PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE CANCELS ISRAEL GIGS A Pink Floyd tribute band cancelled three performances in Israel after being called out by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters and pressure from boycott activists. UK Pink Floyd Experience early on Sunday announced its decision to not appear in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba in shows scheduled to be held early next month, hours after Waters posted a letter online calling on the group not to. The band previously played in Israel last year.

AUSSIES PULL BACK ON EMBASSY TALK Australia’s prime minister appeared to quash reports that he would announce his government’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday. Asked what decision the Cabinet had been reached regarding the the matter during a news conference, Scott Morrison replied that it was premature to discuss the issue, telling reporters that “when I’m in a position to make that announcement, I will.” The country had received complaints from some Muslim countries.

Dangoor leaders mark graduation Photo by Marc Morris

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The 15 community members who finished Lead’s Senior Leadershp Programme

A group of 15 Jewish community go-getters have graduated from an 18-month leadership course, becoming the first cohort to do so.

Senior figures from organisations such as the Office of the Chief Rabbi, the Zionist Federation (ZF), the Union of Jewish Students, the Board of Deputies, Maccabi GB, the United Synagogue, S&P Sephardi Community, UJIA, JAMI and two big Jewish schools all took part.

They were the first to undertake and complete Lead’s new Dangoor Senior Leadership Programme, supported by philanthropist David Dangoor.

Participants included ZF director Arieh Miller, who will take over as chief executive at the Union of Jewish Students from March,

and Amanda Bowman, who became the vicepresident of the Board of Deputies while on the course.

Maccabi GB operations chief Ashley Lerner, Young Norwood vice-chair Ashley Sweetland, and Dan Bacall, the Chief Rabbi’s director of external affairs, joined Moriah Jewish Day School head Ruth Gafson and JFS governor Vicky Fox, alongside former Langdon chief executive Gary Skovron.

Others included UJIA’s director of fundraising Jacalyn Sank da Costa, United Synagogue director of strategy Jo Grose, former S&P board member Jonathan Solomons, JAMI’s deputy head of services Louise Palmer, and Mia Hasenson-Gross, director of human rights group René Cassin.

BERGER WINS MP AWARD

Luciana Berger picked up a ‘People’s Award’ for Labour MP of the Year from a new organisation setting out to make politics more accessible to young people from disadvantaged and minority communities.

The Jewish Labour MP for Liverpool for Liverpool

Wavertree said she was “humbled” by the Patchwork Foundation award, presented last Wednesday at Speaker’s House.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt picked up the ‘Overall MP of the Year’ award in recognition of her work for women’s rights.

MILLER TAKES HELM AT UJS The head of the Zionist Federation (ZF) is to leave to become the next chief executive of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS).

Arieh Miller, 31 (pictured), a former head of digital media and community relations at the Embassy of Israel, is to take over from David DavidiBrown in March,

and will work with incoming UJS president Esther Offenberg, who is Israeli.

Miller has spent more than three years as executive director at the ZF, where he refocused it to engage with students. “I am excited to take on this role for an organisation I know and love,” he said.

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Special Report / Refugee nurses

Women who fled tyranny to become angels of mercy Stephen Oryszczuk hears tributes to a band of heroines who, despite being called ‘enemy aliens’, made a defining contribution to Britain’s health service In a room at the Royal College of Nursing ’s historic Cavendish Square head office, I sit quietly waiting for a talk to begin.

In front of me is a 98-year-old Vienna-born Jewish woman, just back from visiting her daughter in Brighton.

Her name is Margaret, still sharp as a pin despite her years.

She came to the UK just before the war and became a nurse.

She is here to listen to Dr Jane Brooks from the University of Manchester, who is researching the contribution of the 914 young Jewish women like Margaret who fled Nazi Europe to become trained nurses, midwives and probationers here.

Of these, 130 were Czech and 784 German or Austrian. Brooks says they were incredible – and under-appreciated.

“Much has been written about male refugees who were doctors, lawyers, scientists and businessmen, and there is a growing body of research on women who entered Britain on domestic ser-

for women to get into medicine.

I also wasn’t a British subject and had no money, so there were three conditions which just made it totally impossible.” The Wedgwoods advised her to try nursing instead. “I would never advise a person who wanted to be a doctor to go into nursing… However, I did follow that advice,” she says.

There are many other examples.

Marion Ferguson, first director of nursing studies at Bedford College; Charlotte Kratz, an early pioneer of the department of nursing at the University of Manchester; and Ingelore Czarlinski, who arrived on the Kindertransport in July 1939 and later supported the birth of Prince Charles.

“These and countless others supported the newly-formed NHS and created vital spaces for themselves in hospitals and in public health work,” says Brooks.

Progress was not easy. The Jewish Refugee Committee, established in 1933 in London, set up a nursing and midwifery subcommittee to help Jewish refugees become nurses, but in 1940 the national mood changed.

Amid fears of fifth columnists and enemy invasion, nurses including Altschul and Hockey were dismissed as “enemy aliens”.

The nurses from Dalston Hospital, known as The German Hospital, were interned.

Pressured by matrons, the Home Office allowed some to return to their jobs, but for some Jewish refugees the snub could not be forgotten. Among them was nurse Kitty Schafer, dismissed

Left: Annie Altschul, born in Vienna in 1919, trained as a mental health nurse in Mill Hill and pioneered psychiatric research. Her reports are widely cited. Right: Lisbeth Hockey, expelled from Vienna, became the UK’s first director of nursing research in Edinburgh

vice visas,” Brooks says.

“But little has been written about this small, but arguably significant cohort of women.” Margaret nods in agreement.

The late Walter Lacquer, Holocaust historian and former director of the Wiener Library, called this “a remarkable generation” who made their mark in the countries they made their home but also internationally. Brooks says the European Jewish women who came to nurse were no different.

Annie Altschul, studying maths and physics in Austria to Left: Identity card of Liesel (Einstein) Fischer, who became a nurse in the UK. Right: The Reisepass of Mia Fuchs, who fled Austria for Britain in 1939

prepare for a teaching career, fled to the UK when war broke out, becoming a nanny before entering nursing. She later pioneered psychiatric nursing research and became the UK’s first professor of mental health nursing and a staunch advocate of voluntary euthanasia. Her reports are still among the most globally cited.

Lisbeth Hockey, daughter of a government architect in Vienna, was training as a doctor when – as a non-Aryan – she was forced to leave university. She was brought to the UK by the Quakers, worked as a governess for the Wedgwood family, then entered the London Hospital as a student in 1938, later becoming the country’s first director of nursing research.

“I’d wanted to be a doctor and tried to get into medicine here, but there was no way because I was a woman,” she recalls in her oral history, now archived at the RCN. “In those days, it was very rare

from her beloved job at East Croydon General Hospital, because it was close to the airport. “I took everything personally and was extremely upset,” she recalls.

Brooks says: “Paradoxically, it was those refugees least wedded to nursing who sought new positions when restrictions were lifted, whereas those who felt a real love for the work were too saddened by the actions of the government.”

Then as now, it seems we don’t appreciate what we have until we lose it. Closing her presentation, Brooks says: “I did not begin this research because of the current climate, but its resonance is never far from my mind. We live in a time of an unprecedented refugee crisis... I hope this study offers lessons on the value that should be placed on those who have come from overseas and supported the healthcare needs of our nation.”

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Offenberg elected new UJS president

BA MADRICH RULE ‘WON’T AFFECT UK’

“We were faced with a The UK branch of Orthodox youth movement Bnei Akiva choice: Stop working in large has stressed it will not be parts of Europe, or continue Current president Hannah Rose said: affected by a decision of the with the aim of bringing Israeli-German Esther Offenberg “I am proud to have a woman successor, over people closer to mitzvahs. globalShabbat organisationwill to allow has beenAll elected theprovided new president food will be kosher with a kashrut certificate Accommodation be Shabbat friendly inWea leading, defending and enriching Jewish non-observant Jews to be chose to continue.” of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), otherwise indicated breakfast and lunch available for participants to inspect, with the exception of kosher hotel. Unless life on campus in the 100th year of UJS.” However, Hannah Reuben madrichim (youth leaders). writes Joe Millis. the Neot Smadar vegetarian café which only uses kosher and arethedairy dinner isWorld a meat She congratulated other and two candiBnei meal.

Akiva made its (pictured), national director The Birmingham University psychology dates and Jewish students, adding: “It is so decision last month in Man- of Bnei Akiva UK, told Jewish student won 52.9 percent organic of the thirdvegetarian produce but does not have a certificate. inspiring to see almost 1,000 Jewish stuchester, during the annual News: “We would like to round votes, seeing off challenges from dents engaging in our democracy, having conference of European repre- stress that this does not affect Lauren Keiles of Leeds University (47.1 their say and shaping their union.” sentatives of World Bnei Akiva, any of the programming or per cent) and Joanna Phillips of Bath UniMeanwhile, UJS passed a motion supafter reflecting on the ongoing policies of Bnei Akiva UK. versity, who was eliminated at the second porting Israel’s democratic civil society “All Bnei Akiva UK secularisation of European round with 8.8 percent of the 986 votes. organisations, such as Breaking the madrichim must be obserJewish communities.

One of Offenberg’s focuses will be social Silence, Yesh Din and B’Tselem.

A large majority of repre- vant in accordance with our action, introducing initiatives and events Proposed by Noah Libson of Goldsmiths sentatives voted to scrap the halachic requirements, as across campuses. Engagement with Israel University, London, it said: “UJS reprewritten commitment that decided by our Rav. is also close to her heart, and she plans to UJS president-elect Esther Offenberg sents a proud Zionist voice, one which sup“We are proud to have a previously was a prerequisite create a conference to discuss and educate to becoming a madrich. It con- large and established commuabout social, political, cultural and religious and Joanna for being such great candidates ports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. As such, we have the responsibility and running incredible campaigns. tained a clause demanding sig- nity in the UK, and are heading issues in Israel and the Middle East. into our 80th birthday year as “This election year already started off of defending and protecting Israel when it natories observe halacha.

The president-elect also wants to “In some European com- the leading youth voice for reliensure JSocs within the same region can great with the first of having all female can- is slandered, but also ensuring civil society gious Zionism.” munities, it became work together on important campaigns. didates and in the year to come I am excited organisations such as Breaking the Silence, World Bnei Akiva said impossible to operate This way, she plans on strengthening to see more regional work with our cam- Yesh Din and B’Tselem can continue to be it would continue because there connections to be able to stand up and puses, having more student-led initiatives part of and uphold Israeli democracy.”

The conference was addressed by Lord to require that surrounding mental health, celebrating all were no observant combat antisemitism effectively.

Pickles, who lit the Chanukah candles, madrichim lead leaders,” Roi AbeShe plans to create more mental health of our identities and so much more.” observant lifeShe added: “I am looking forward to Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Lord Dubbs cassis, World support with a peer-led support network, styles in “large, implementing my manifesto and working and National Union of Students presiBnei Akiva’s secas well support for international students. established retary general, Offenberg said: “Thank you to everyone with our student community to shape our dent Shakira Martin, who reiterated her communitold the JTA who voted, everyone who was by my side union, so we continue to be the best voice support for Jewish students in their fight against antisemitism. ties”. news agency. throughout these elections and to Lauren of Jewish students we can be.”

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News / Taxi tribute / Gestapo outfit / Nelly doodle

CHARITY APPEALS FOR HELP TO TAKE GIFTS TO REFUGEES

Borehamwood-based charity Goods for Good has appealed for money to take gifts and provisions by truck to refugee children in camps in Kurdistan and Greece.

The group, founded in 2014

by Rosalind Bluestone, who is a Jewish and previously distributed surplus stock for World Jewish Relief, said this week it was “answering a call for help” but needed funding for the lorries to transport the donated goods.

A truck in Macedonia last week loaded with 2,500 duvets for refugees could not be dispatched for lack of funds.

“This is a busy period and it costs about £4,000 to send a truck to Greece and about £6,500 to Kurdistan,” said Bluestone.

She explained that toys were among items waiting to be sent, but the priority was on basics. “These mothers are without basics such as shampoo or blankets, or shoes for their toddlers or nappies for their babies. It’s unimaginable.

It’s now winter,” she added.

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Holocaust foundation From the Depths this week launched a free car service for elderly Righteous Among the Nations in Poland, sending two London taxis to the country, writes Joseph Millis.

The cabs, emblazoned with the symbol of Chelsea Football Club, a major sponsor of the charity, and From the Depths’ “Silent Hero” logo, set off for Poland after the launch on Monday.

British-born From the Depths founder, Jonny Daniels, said: “This is to honour the non-Jews who stood up to save our Jewish brothers and sisters. It was an epic task that often led to people giving their lives to help Jews.”

Daniels said it was significant the launch event happened after the eighth Chanukah candle was lit.

“The light connects us directly to the Righteous Among the Nations. Their stories symbolise the light of hope in a time of darkness,” he added.

Daniels, who visited a town in Poland and was shown a house in which Jews had been hidden and the owner and most of the family murdered for their courage, said: “It was then I took it upon myself – and turned into the main mission of my foundation – that we, as the third and fourth generation after the Holocaust, as millennials, as

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Jonny Daniels with Avram Grant younger people, must stand and do something to honour and remember both the survivors and those murdered, but also the saviours.”

Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski, who hosted the launch, recalled how members of his own family in wartime Poland had

helped Jews to hide from the Nazis.

“When I went back to Poland for the first time in 1983… my aunt recounted how the brother of my grandfather hid Jewish friends and neighbours on his estate,” Kawczynski said.

“One day, his neighbours stopped and told him not to go home because the Germans had surrounded his farm.

He said he had to go back because his wife and daughter were there.

“The Germans made him take off his Polish officer’s boots, they made him dig a grave and they made him watch as they shot his 12-year-old daughter, then his wife. Then they shot him, and his only crime was protecting his Jewish friends and neighbours.”

Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck said the club started its ‘Say No To Antisemitism’ campaign because of club owner Roman Abramovich, who “instructed everyone at Chelsea to put their heads together to come up with ideas (to combat the rise in antisemitism)”.

Also at the launch were Polish Ambassador to the UK Arkady Rzegocki, former Chelsea and Israel coach Avram Grant, who is also honorary chairman of the foundation, BBC journalist Ania Lichtarowicz and taxi fleet owner Farley Freedman, who became involved after a chance encounter on the street in Edgware.

GOOGLE DOODLE IN MEMORY OF NELLY Monday’s Google search engine doodle honoured the 127th birthday of Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), the Jewish poet and refugee from Germany who shared the Nobel Prize in literature with the Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon in 1966. She wrote haunting poems on the Holocaust.

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CAMDEN FANCY DRESS SHOP SCRAPS GESTAPO COSTUME Camden fancy dress shop Escapade has withdrawn a Gestapo uniform from sale after a query from Jewish News and a complaint by a Twitter user.

Carly Minsky tweeted: “I’m horrified that you sell a Gestapo costume literally describing it as ‘the most brutal organisation within the Nazi regime’.”

She also said: “When my partner spoke to your staff, they dismissed his request to discontinue it saying ‘these costumes are just supposed to be fun’”.

Following Jewish News’ call, Escapade director Bhupendra Maisuria said: “In Britain we have a history of mocking dictators and through humour not forget the past or holding a grudge. This can be observed through Freddie Starr’s portrait of Adolf Hitler or John Cleese

The offensive costume [don’t mention the war] goose step.”

However, he accepted “context is very important when wearing such items and what is non-offensive to one person can be highly offensive to another. As such, we will no longer stock this item and

deeply apologise to everyone who took offence”.

He added: “Remembrance of historical atrocities of the past is essential to ensure such ideologies fuelled by extreme nationalist views are not repeated. The design of this costume was mindful to not including Nazi symbolism, but rather to serve as a mockery.”

Minsky said: “I’m relieved Escapade decided to pull the costume; while I am sometimes wary of mob mentality online, this was clearly a case where reasoned explanation alone had not been enough to convince the store’s staff that a Gestapo costume was unacceptable.

“I’m very grateful to members of an anti-racism Facebook group for immediately stepping up to apply more pressure.”

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Jewish News meets... Israel’s ambassador to Ireland

Irish eyes aren’t smiling As you’d expect, Israel’s new ambassador to Ireland won’t be drawn on most things, but when an Irish senator accuses his kin of “Goebbels-style” propaganda in the Emerald Isle, surely he’ll come close?

Speaking to Jewish News this week, Ambassador Ophir Kariv was happier to talk about the Bill being debated when those comments were made last Wednesday. “It’s the most extreme anti-Israel legislation in Europe,” he says. But it’s a start – the word “extreme” is used advisedly by diplomats.

Until two months ago, Kariv was heading the northern Europe desk at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. Now he’s Israel’s man in Dublin, arriving to face the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, which most Irish politicians support.

If passed, the Bill would criminalise Irish residents or businesses for trading with Jewish settlements, making Ireland the first EU state to legalise a boycott. A majority of senators from parties such as Sinn Fein support it and after two readings it is progressing unruffled to the lower house, where Kariv hopes it will meet a brick wall in the form of the Irish government.

“It’s not a pro-Palestinian Bill,” he says,

acknowledging a groundswell of support for the Palestinian cause in his new home. “Why? Because it won’t help Palestinians.”

Supporters of the Bill say it targets only the settlements, which are illegal under international law, and Irish ministers say they “understand” the Bill’s intentions. But, they add swiftly, that doesn’t detract from the fact it would be “contrary to EU law, requiring the State to do something not in its power”.

That is because external trade rules in the Single Market are an “exclusive competence of the European Union, so goods from settlements can only be excluded at an EU level,” not by an individual member state. Kariv agrees. “It criminalises people who trade with Israeli citizens in the place where the Jewish people were born,” he says. “Settlements are part of final-status negotiations, but we should remember the historic aspect to this discussion. The Jewish people were born in the same area as the settlements.”

He seems to suggest boycotting settlements equates to denying the Jewish people the right to exist in their historic homeland, a controversial view given all the UN resolutions and the ’67 borders, but continues apace. “This Bill denies or annuls any connection between these areas

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Above, Ambassador Kariv is greeted by a guard of honour on his arrival in Ireland; right, presenting his credentials to Irish President Michael Higgins and Jews living in these areas, the birthplace of the Jewish people. By criminalising trade contact, you say they have no right to live in this part of the world. It’s a terrible thing to say.”

Although the Bill’s supporters disagree, citing their own legal advice, Ireland’s attorneygeneral thinks all this talk is hypothetical, because the Bill is illegal. Foreign Minister Helen McEntee says if it is it would leave Ireland with a hefty bar tab.

“We have every reason to believe the enactment of this Bill would expose the State to legal action, not only by the European Commission but also by the parties claiming to have been adversely affected by the Bill,” she said. “We expect that the State would be liable for recurring damages so long as the law remained on the Statute Book. This is not a course into which any Government would willingly enter against its own legal advice.”

Kariv won’t be drawn on whether Israel would take legal action, or on Irish internal processes, but says even if the “morally bad” Bill did become law, Irish-Israeli trade is so small that the impact would be “very little”, adding: “I don’t know its impact on Ireland.”

Has incomer Kariv found anti-Israel hostility in Ireland? No, he says, “because people here engage in conversation”. In the Senate, however, there are contrary accusations, levied

by Independent Senator David Norris.

Ireland won’t get full EU backing because “the Germans have such a conscience about the Holocaust that they will never do anything”, says Norris, before adding: “There is a nasty campaign by the Israeli Government against the Bill.” He cites a Facebook video advertisement in which a Palestinian girl launches an attack with a knife, and quotes Israel critic Norman Finkelstein as saying it was placed by the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs.

“This kind of interference is unacceptable,” Norris says. “Other people who have taken posi-

tions on the Bill have had this advertisement pop up too. I point out this kind of Goebbelsstyle operation going on from the Israelis which is to be condemned.”

I put it to Ambassador Kariv a senior Irish politician has just accused the Israeli government of Nazi propaganda – worthy of Goebbels himself – in order to kill anti-Israel legislation.

Surely he’ll be drawn now. So, what says he? “I don’t know about this, but what we do is voice our concerns…” Fine, but he knows about it now – so what does he think?

“Again I’m not aware, but if we go around sharing or expanding allegations about Nazi campaigns, I’m sure Mr Norris will be quite aware of the Nazi anti-Israel, anti-Jewish campaigns Palestinian friends are initiating.”

Is that it? Is there anything more Ambassador Kariv thinks about this remarkable remark that’s been levelled at the state he’s there to represent? “Do I really have to react to this?” he asks, surprised. No, I say, of course not. I just thought he may think it was an extraordinary claim. He sighs, pauses, and speaks. “This kind of antisemitic allegation – and again I want to make sure that not everybody who criticises Israel is an antisemite, not at all, I’m not making the comparison – but when you equate Israel to Nazis, I would refer David Norris to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism to see the category his claim falls into.” So, does Kariv hope to encourage the Irish government to adopt the IHRA definition? He won’t be drawn.

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TV tears / Top tomes / News NEWS IN BRIEF

GENOCIDE POSSIBLE TODAY, SAYS SPIELBERG Steven Spielberg, the Oscarwinning director of the Holocaust film Schindler’s List, has a warning: the possibility of hate leading to genocide is as likely today as it was during the Holocaust.

Spielberg specifically identified the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh as a signal of the rise in hateful ideologies.

“When collective hate organises and gets industrialised, then genocide follows,” Spielberg added this week. “We have to take it more seriously than we have had to in a generation.”

OKONEDO: BEING A JEW HELPS ME ACT

Oscar-nominated Jewish actress Sophie Okonedo has said it is still proving “tricky” to ensure there is true diversity of class in the entertainment industry. The star said there is now much more opportunity for performers from diverse backgrounds, but added that there are still obstacles. Okonedo said the fact she had a Jewish mother and Nigerian father helped her in her acting, adding: “I am not a practising Jew and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is handy for acting.”

Tearful Lewis recalls losing mum as a child Personal finance journalist Martin Lewis made ITV presenters cry as he recalled on Good Morning Britain how his mother died suddenly when he was just 11 years old.

Lewis (pictured), who is Jewish, grew up in Manchester before moving to Cheshire when his father became headteacher at a Jewish special needs school.

However, the family was devastated when his mother was killed in a car accident two days before his 12th birthday.

He later founded the website MoneySavingExpert, selling it for £80 million, and is a regular TV analyst discussing financial issues, but the subject was

deeply personal to him this week, as he held back the tears when talking to ITV’s Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway.

“I lost my mum just before I was 12 and it was very sudden,” he said. “It’s something I struggle to talk about. I’ve done one interview in my life on it, and I won’t do another one… because it took a very long time to recover from that.”

He added: “I’m someone you see on TV and give the veneer of being happy all the time but, of course, all of us have pain and problems and grief just below the surface.”

Lewis, 46, said he was talking about it as he is a patron of bereaved children’s

charity Grief Encounter, which helps youngsters facing family loss, and was appearing on the show to support the channel’s campaign to fight loneliness.

“Things were done differently then,” he wrote in 2015, “so my sister and I didn’t have counselling. The scars from it are still so deep that even now, more than 30 years later, it is still painful for me to talk about.”

In March, he did his first interview about his mother on BBC Radio 5 Live, but later said: “Doing the interview was far more costly emotionally than I had expected. While it was the first time I’d spoken about it publicly in detail, I can’t

actually ever remember it in that depth privately either. Even my wonderful wife learnt things about it from listening.

So I found I was still reeling from doing it even a few days later.”

In the interview, which left Garraway and Shephard struggling to hold back tears of their own, Lewis said he was now working to ensure no other child went through what he did.

Lucky 13 on Wingate book prize longlist Thirteen books have been longlisted for the Jewish world’s literary prize early next year, including two diaries from the Second World War. The 13 books to make it through to the JQ Wingate Prize 2019 list comprise seven novels and six non-fiction books, with “Israel, history, family and faith”

described as “recurring leitmotifs”.

The £4,000 prize money is awarded in February to the author most able to “translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader” and, among this year’s selection are two sets of war diaries, with judges saying they recognised the importance of soldiers’ voices.

JHub director Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, who is chairing the judges’ panel this year, said: “If there is one overriding theme, it is the breadth and diversity of Jewish identity, which is looked at through various lenses by our authors.

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Special Report / Budapest museum

Fears Hungary’s Holocaust museum may rewrite history Holocaust educators in the UK this week expressed “deep concern” about antisemitic rhetoric from the Hungarian government ahead of the planned opening of a new Holocaust museum in Budapest next year, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

The heads of the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust issued stark warnings despite news of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cosying up to the country’s right-wing premier.

The two warned that geopolitics might mean Hungary’s new ‘House of Fates’ museum ends up downplaying Hungary’s role in the Shoah, leading analysts to compare the situation to that seen in Poland last year.

Their concerns were voiced on the same day that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused to condemn last week’s front cover of a progovernment magazine which showed Hungarian Jewish community leader Andras Heisler amid floating banknotes.

Heisler, who leads the Mazsihisz

umbrella group, has criticised the government’s new museum plans, saying they gloss over Hungarian involvement in Nazi crimes, but Israeli officials nevertheless appear to be working closely with Orban (pictured) over the building.

Orban has previously been accused of nodding through an antisemitic smear campaign against Hungarianborn Jewish philanthropist George Soros, an outspoken critic of Orban’s right-wing populism. The Sorosfunded Central European University in Budapest is now facing closure after Orban hit back with legislation.

Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT), told Jewish News: “We are deeply concerned at the populist and often antisemitic rhetoric currently being used in Hungary at the highest levels of government.”

HMDT is a member of the Museums and Memorials Working Group at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which met in Prague last week, where

Marks-Woldman said Hungary had been a top agenda item.

“I have been involved in international discussions on this topic with colleagues from around the world,” she said.

“I urge everyone involved with the new House of Fates museum to engage with the history of the Holocaust with integrity and academic rigour. However challenging, Hungary has an opportunity to explore its complex history and create an appropriate

Memorial to Jewish Hungarian victims of the Shoah on the Danube

museum to the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.”

Holocaust Educational Trust chief executive Karen Pollock agreed, saying: “We share the widely expressed concerns of the majority of the Hungarian Jewish community and organisations such as Yad Vashem regarding the House of Fates.”

She added: “The Hungarian government should engage constructively with the Jewish community and ensure that the museum honestly addresses the history of the Holocaust in Hungary, including the participation and collaboration of Hungarian citizens, however uncomfortable that may be.”

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Special Report / #Wooferendum

Barking at Brexit Daniel Elkan was doggone mad when Britain voted for Brexit. Here he tells Beatrice Sayers how he gathered a band of like-minded dog-lovers

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t was a little over a year after the EU referendum that the notion of taking action began to form in his mind. “So many people I would meet were very downhearted about what was going on, and very upset,” says Daniel Elkan. But he couldn’t see any protests on the streets.

His instinctive appreciation of the loyalty and appeal of dogs, despite not having actually owned one himself, somehow came into play: “One day, I woke up and the word ‘Wooferendum’ had come to me.”

Protests were becoming a habit: he and a friend had taken part in the social media campaign Stop Funding Hate the previous year.

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“People jumped at the chance to be involved,” he says. He printed out the photos and put them up on bus shelters, lamp-posts and in cafés.

That instinct was spurred, Daniel realises, by the book Alone in Berlin, which he had read a few months previously. In Hans Fallada’s novel, part of the way Otto and Anna Quangel resist the Nazis is by writing anonymous, anti-Hitler postcards and leaving them around the city.

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Daniel, 45, invested his own money in the Wooferendum march – a portion of which was recouped through crowdfunding – and persuaded friends to help with graphic design, planning and logistics.

He also created a Wooferendum video, and credits its emotional effect partly to the advice of a Palestinian film-maker he met shortly before the fortnight of shooting began.

“He said don’t put any people in it,” Daniel recalls. “Make it a dogs’ world.”

Over 90 seconds, a series of individual dogs are seen sitting, lying and running around a selection protest cards (“We won’t be muzzled” and “The Wooferendum is coming” they appear to be saying); deeply moving, and the result to some extent of a Palestinian-Jewish collaboration.

The video was used to promote the first Wooferendum march last month, in which hundreds of dog owners, many with their own placards, marched along Whitehall, behind a banner that read “It’s time to bark out!”

In Parliament Square, Labour MP Stella Creasy, the former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and the TV actor Peter Egan spoke passionately on the Wooferendum stage about what they saw as the madness of leaving the EU. The animal rights campaigner Dominic Dyer spoke about the risks posed by Brexit: vet shortages; increases in the cost of pet medicine and pet food; and threats to the EU pet passport scheme.

Further affirmation, and a reward for a year of hard work by Daniel and his team, came with the media reports online and in the next day’s newspapers. As well as a photo on the front page of The Times, The Telegraph carried a picture – taken at one of the march’s Pee Stations – of Chunky the bulldog relieving himself on a photo of its columnist and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

Such was the enthusiasm for “Dogs against

Barking mad: Canine protesters and their humans in London demand a ‘people’s vote’

Brexit” that a second Wooferendum event was held at the People’s Vote march two weeks later. Daniel, his team, speakers and dogs walked with nearly 700,000 human protesters in the bright sunshine.

At the second march, after Daniel had addressed the crowd about the importance of speaking out, his mother, Judith, came forward. Diminutive and confident, she stood, microphone in hand, and told the crowd she was born in Jerusalem in 1945, “the year the world was saved from Nazi slavery”.

That year, the idea of a European Union was born, she said, speaking of that first vision of a post-war Europe “at peace with itself”, and “a possibility of people just moving around Europe in a co-operative, friendly and peaceful way”.

Daniel, a ski writer and co-founder of the Snowcarbon website, which promotes ski holidays by train, describes himself as a non-practising Jew. A former member of Habonim who celebrated his barmitzvah at Alyth, his protest certainly chimes with the religious injunction not to stand idly by. As he puts it: “With Brexit, it was a bit like watching a burning building – I couldn’t just watch it. I had to do something.”

What of the future? “If there is a People’s Vote, which I hope there will be, there’ll be a lot more campaigning to do, and I think we’ll have an even bigger march,” he says.

Meanwhile, anti-Brexit dog lovers can sign up for “Woofletter” updates, spread the People’s Vote message online, and reflect on a campaign with an unmistakably Jewish heritage.  www.woofe rendum.org

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MESSI JOINS BEITAR JERUSALEM FAN CLUB Argentinian football star Lionel Messi has become an official member of the fan club of Israeli team Beitar Jerusalem. Beitar’s team owner, businessman Moshe Hogeg, gave Messi a membership card at an event in Barcelona, during which he presented Finney, the “world’s first ultra-secure blockchain smartphone”. Messi is considered one of the greatest players of all time. in 2017, Hogeg hired Messi as brand ambassador of his company, Sirin Labs.

FRIEND OF KHASHOGGI SUES ISRAELI COMPANY An Israeli cyber surveillance company’s software led to the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, claims a Saudi dissident, who is suing the company to prove it. Omar Abdulaziz, who has asylum in Canada, claims NSO’s software was used by the Saudi government to hack his mobile while he and Khashoggi were working on a project to motivate Saudi youth to fight the regime’s propaganda. The lawsuit accuses NSO of breaching international law, claims the company says are ‘baseless’.

Auschwitz book in ‘factual errors’ row Auschwitz officials this week dismissed best-selling book The Tattooist of Auschwitz as historically unsound, saying it contained inaccuracies, despite the novel claiming to be mostly true.

Heather Morris, a New Zealander whose book about a concentration camp love story has sold almost 400,000 copies in the UK alone, said it is “based on a true story” and “95 percent accurate” with details “researched and confirmed”.

But the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said it could not recommend it as anything other than a work

Criticised: Morris’ novel

of fiction, after the Auschwitz Memorial Research Centre (AMRC) listed a catalogue of

errors, including key details.

The book tells how the camp’s tattooist, Slovakian Jew Lali Sokolov, falls for Gita Furman, a Jewish girl.

Morris said Sokolov told her the story after his wife died.

However, in a short but stinging report published late last week, Wanda WitekMalicka of the AMRC said the centre took an interest in the publication when it was asked to cross-check the 34902 prisoner number given to Gita in the book, only to find her real number was 4562.

A litany of other errors was then uncovered.

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Her priority is to rebuild homes destroyed in earthquakes.

Jewish institutions in Basel are to receive £500,000 in additional security funding from the local government to pay for eight new ‘security assistants with special duties’. The canton of Basel-Stadt said the assistants would be Hebrew-speakers ‘familiar with Jewish customs’ and will have 12-18 months’ training.

A hand-crocheted kippah that belonged to Frank Sinatra has sold at auction for nearly £7,000. The black kippa, with musical notes and the word “Frank” decorating its border, was auctioned in New York as part of a sale of items belonging to the estate of the singer’s late wife, Barbara.

The Catholic News Service (CNS) twice apologised after sending a ‘Happy Chanukah’ tweet that showed a menorah being carried away by victorious Roman soldiers after their destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. CNS apologised for being ‘sloppy in our tweeting’, adding: ‘People were right to be offended.’

A New York rabbi has praised the quietly-growing Jewish community in Dubai as ‘something small but historic’.

Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, a university chaplain who visits students in the region, said it was ironic that Jews now felt safer in a Dubai shul than ‘behind the bulletproof barriers’ of European synagogues.

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Nights in will help secure Evie’s legacy Evie Bladon’s legacy was born when she died, aged three, in 2015. Those familiar with the work of Camp Simcha will have heard of Evie’s Night Owls, a respite service the charity offers to exhausted families caring 24/7. Shortlisted for a Jewish News Night of Heroes Award earlier this year, it is a remarkable example of how grief and loss can channel the most positive change.

Now, Evie’s brother and sister, aged 10 and nine respectively, are launching Evie’s Night In. The idea is that you have a night in with friends but rather than ask them to ‘bring a bottle,’ you ask them to throw into the metaphorical bucket instead.

There are so many good causes out there. All ask for money at this time of year, but few have been inspired by such a fighter. Deprived of oxygen at birth, Evie suffered serious brain damage, which led to cerebral palsy, global developmental delay, epilepsy, severe visual impairment and a number of other medical problems.

She was given two days to live, but survived three years.

Last year, in a personal letter, Prime Minister Theresa May told Evie’s parents: “This work is a remarkable way of honouring Evie’s memory and you should be very proud of what you have achieved.”

If a little girl with such fight in her can outlive expectations by such a margin, and if her heartbroken family can then turn their love for her into help for others in such a phenomenal way, then the least we can do is forego the fizz and commit a few quid to Evie’s legacy.

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WHY ASK WHEN YOU CAN MOAN? Why do some people insist on writing to newspapers when a phone call would do? Had Paul Spector (Letters, 6 December) bothered to call his rabbi, he would have learned that Bournemouth’s Rabbi Adrian Jesner regularly attends National Council of Shechita Board meetings and would have satisfied his concerns.

It is nonsense to declare that, unlike the non-kosher world, “we get no real choice” when it comes to deciding which animal is slaughtered. All grades and price points are catered for by the NCSB and the huge variety is readily displayed in licensed butcher shops.

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CHANUKAH IN THE SQUARE FABULOUS – BUT I DIDN’T GO NUTS FOR DOUGHNUTS I attended a rather wet Chanukah in the Square last week, as I have done for many years.

I cannot fault it. The entertainment and security was faultless. My one complaint was the free doughnuts.

No wonder they were free. I have rarely bitten into a staler, heavier,

doughier doughnut, almost devoid of jam.

I realise it’s impolite to complain about something given away in celebration and good spirit, but really, they are certainly not worth the extra calories.

I’ll bring the Krispy Kreme next year.

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Any animal or bird which is even slightly harmed prior to slaughter is not considered suitable for kosher consumption. To this end, his reference to “small cages, factory reared and fattened” chickens is void as this kind of entrapment and maltreatment causes hock burns (wing and leg damage), making these animals unfit for shechita.

The animal welfare standards demanded by the shechita process ensures special care is taken and that the animals are extremely welltreated from the farm all the way through to slaughter. All our operators are fully licensed and vetted regularly to ensure that the highest animal welfare standards are maintained.

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‘Under my deal, we leave AND we still get to build their pyramids!’

Congratulations to the winners of your young writers competition with WIZO UK. What a wonderful and worthwhile initiative.

I particularly enjoyed reading Dylan Milich’s poem, Make the world a better

place. It contained such optimism it even made an old sceptic like me dream of a better tomorrow.

Mazeltov to Dylan and all the winners.

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Report was a smear Your report of the Zionist Federation (ZF) biennial was little more than a crude smear of me (Jewish News, 2 December).

The headline called me ‘rightwing’ but this is the pejorative phrase the doctrinaire left uses to describe the majority who oppose it and that the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ became virtually meaningless with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then you describe my challenge for the ZF chairmanship as ‘flailing’ – another word intended to denigrate me.

Your reporter wrote that our motion to remove Danny Rich as a ZF

patron was because he ‘had hosted left-leaning Jews from organisations such as Jews for Justice for Palestinians and Jewish Voice for Labour.’

This is nonsense; he had hosted someone people accuse of being an antisemite who desires the end of the Jewish state, and has transgressed the Jerusalem Programme and the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

He has earned an unprecedented rebuke by the JLC chair. The Morning Star could not have done a better job of distortion.

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Robert Feather (Right to pontificate?, Jewish News, 6 December), like other recent correspondents, seems to have misconstrued what I wrote (Contradiction in terms, letters, 8 November) “While the non-Orthodox are entitled to call their places of worship “synagogues”, or their clergy “rabbis”, they have no right to force those who disagree to do so”.

Obviously we differ on the minimal parameters for Judaism, but this need not prevent cooperation on matters of mutual concern. Let us agree to disagree and use the etymologically identical word ‘congregation’, derived from Latin rather than Greek, which does not have any specific implication.

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LEBANON HAS BECOME IRAN – MARK TWO As we are fast learning, there is a mistral blowing down from the north and it comes in the form of blatant threats by a terrorist organisation that has embedded itself into a sovereign country once known as Lebanon, but clearly Iran 2.

Having exposed these tunnels, we must not expect world opinion to be anything but indifferent, especially as the body that was well placed to observe these happenings, the United Nations Interim Force has, as usual where Israel is concerned, turned an ineffectual blind eye.

There’s an obligation on Israel to put Hezbollah on notice that any further attempt to infiltrate its borders will be met with a force that deters such action.

Stephen Vishnick Tel Aviv

PRIDE IN THE ALBERT HALL After your article on the Royal Albert Hall (Jewish News, 6 December 2018), here is more Jewish input.

The Israel Philharmonic visited for the 2011 Proms, which were disrupted by protestors who were ejected, and the BBC had to cut the live radio broadcast, but the true promenaders applauded the orchestra with cheers.

The refurbished foyer by the

box office shows the names of the Israeli benefactors and an etching on a window pane features the Hebrew quote: “A three stringed instrument (or three strand friendship) will not speedily break” and is based on a quotation from Kohelet 4:12. Next time you visit the Royal Albert Hall, look for the etching with pride.

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Festive miracles in the UAE offer hope to all RABBI DAVID ROSEN

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ome remarkable interfaith initiatives have been coming out of the Arab Muslim world, not least those led

by Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, newly-appointed head of the UAE’s supreme Fatwa Council. This octogenarian Islamic scholar, a former Mauritanian minister and Professor of Islamic Studies in Saudi Arabia, has emerged as arguably the most authoritative and impressive opponent against violent Islamist ideology today.

Aside from issuing the strongest condemnations of violence in the name of religion and demolishing false arguments in the name of Islam, he founded the Forum for Peace in Arab lands and convened the Marrakech summit two years ago that issued the declaration based

on the Charter of Medina affirming full equality and civil rights for non-Muslims in Muslim societies.

However, Bin Bayyah has gone further and called for interfaith partnership to combat violence and promote peace around the world. Less than a year ago he convened Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Washington DC for what he termed an Alliance of Values, and he has promoted an Abrahamic “caravan of dialogue” bringing this message to wider audiences.

His peace fora held in the UAE, supported by the royal family, have brought Muslim leaders and thinkers together with representatives from the Christian and Jewish worlds.

But last week’s Muslim-ChristianJewish gathering in Abu Dhabi to deepen interreligious understanding and work together to promote peace, was also remarkable for the broadening of the non-Muslim representation – especially from the Jewish side, with rabbis from Israel, the US, Europe and Australia given

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As the Jewish speaker and the only Israeli present at the opening session of the conference, graced by UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, I brought greetings from Jerusalem and expressed the prayer and hope that all three faith communities will learn to respect the attachments of the other faiths to the holy city.

Little things speak powerfully, and the fact the conference organisers went to great lengths to provide and display publicly kosher food for the Jewish participants was widely acknowledged.

On the second evening, Sheikh Bin Bayyah initiated a private meeting with the Jewish delegation where Hanukah candles were lit, Ma’oz Tzur sung with gusto, and the significance of the holiday expounded to the sheikh.

There was some lambasting of Israel, but far less than I have experienced at other inter-religious conferences in the Muslim world. The degree to which the Jewish participation and contribution was welcomed was striking and reflects significant changes in perceptions in the Arab world, above all due to geopolitical factors

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in the region as a whole. The organisers did not hide the fact this Jewish visibility was entirely with the authorisation and support of the UAE political leadership.

Particularly notable were the lengths our hosts went to to accommodate Jewish observance, taking special care of the needs of the Orthodox and Conservative rabbis who stayed until the end of the conference on Friday and thus had to stay on over Shabbat in the UAE. The only place in the region where a minyan of Jews gathers for Shabbat services, where there are sifrei Torah and kosher food, is Dubai.

So the Muslim Arab conference organisers also went to the expense of relocating us for Shabbat, booking us into a luxury hotel near the meeting house of the fledgling Dubai Jewish community made up of expatriates from around the world.

The community is no stranger to hosting Jewish visitors, including annual visits from the leadership of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) which was also in Dubai this Shabbat. So after lighting Chanukah candles, the rabbis and AJC leaders joined in a rousing kabbalat Shabbat and then a festive dinner.

Shabbat morning was no less of an inspiring religious and communal celebration with an overwhelming feeling this vibrant but hitherto private community was being recognised locally and internationally as albeit a very small but nevertheless integral part of the societal fabric of the UAE. The Abu Dhabi conference was surely a significant indicator of an increasingly positive view on engagement with Jewry on the part of religious and political authorities in the region.

Undoubtedly as this approach continues to develop, the tiny Jewish community of Dubai will become an increasingly significant presence in the Gulf and perhaps beyond.

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Antisemitism data no reason to cry ‘gevalt!’

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here’s no getting away from the grim findings of the latest European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) survey of Jewish people’s experiences and perceptions of antisemitism. Levels of concern have risen more or less everywhere in Europe since the last study in this series in 2012, driven particularly, it seems, by Islamist terrorism against Jewish targets and the discourse many European Jews are encountering in the media, politics and particularly online.

Some will argue, as they often do after these types of surveys, that we knew all this already. Why waste so much time and money – the FRA invested well over half a million euros in this study – to tell us what we already know?

Well first, not everyone knows it. And it’s critical data like these exist, based on the views of more than 16,000 Jews across Europe, to inform policy aimed

at combating antisemitism at both the national and the European levels.

Importantly, other data don’t always pass muster. In too many cases, well-meaning research efforts are largely ignored at a policy level because they were conducted or commissioned by campaign organisations.

“They would find that,” say the critics. But it’s much harder to dismiss the findings of a survey commissioned by an independent expert agency of the European Union drawing on the knowledge and proficiency of many of the leading specialists in the field.

Second, the equivalent data from the 2012 survey did play a key role in shaping policy. The data were used extensively to inform the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-

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CAREFUL DATA ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF THE CHALLENGES

semitism, as well as to establish a senior position within the European Commission dedicated to understanding the concerns of Europe’s Jewish communities and tackling antisemitism across the continent.

The findings have been regularly referenced in high level government papers dealing with this topic, and the data from the new survey are likely to be used even more widely.

Certainly, my team at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, having now completed the process of conducting the survey for the FRA, will continue to carefully analyse the data and publish more specific and detailed findings over the coming year or two to give maximal exposure to the results.

And third, that work will help us to determine, empirically and specifically, where the problems of contemporary antisemitism actually lie.

In many instances, the response to new research in this area is to throw up our arms and cry “gevalt!” But as cathartic as that may sometimes be, it’s not terribly helpful from a policy perspective. What is needed is careful and often painstaking analysis of the data to provide clear evidence of what the challenges

are, where policy interventions have shown signs of success, and therefore what steps need to be taken to shift the needle a little further in the direction we need it to go.

The FRA research, examined alongside other credible data, demonstrates that there have been some improvements over the years.

Contrary to many people’s assumptions, societal attitudes towards Jews are more favourable than they were a generation ago, levels of discrimination against Jews are low and declining, and antisemitic violence is rare.

But the FRA data also reveal that Jews are encountering considerable antisemitic harassment, especially online, that we are increasingly agitated by antisemitism we encounter in the media and politics, and that our perceptions and experiences of antisemitism affect our levels of engagement in Jewish communal life.

Clearly, that needs to change. But to achieve that, we need a combination of hard evidence, cool heads, and the right relationships.

The FRA survey represents an important step in the right direction.

City council should be a little more streetwise JENNI FRAZER

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ello, gentle reader. Work with me on this, please, because a little bit of imagination is required here.

Imagine, if you would, that, say, Westminster Council decides to do a little bit of road-name overhauling. Its councillors look at relatively innocuous thoroughfares such as Oxford Street — and decide that things need jazzing up a bit. The arterial road, they announce, is going to be renamed Gerry Adams Avenue, in honour of the Sinn Fein leader, suspected by some of terrorist-related activities — though nothing was ever proved.

Yes, just imagine the furore over a central London street being renamed in honour of an Irish republican leader. Now transfer that uproar to South Africa, where the Johannesburg City Council has actually, not in imagination, announced that it plans to rename a major arterial road in the city… Leila Khaled Drive.

The initiative, backed by the African National Congress, or ANC, is designed to

honour the notorious Khaled, now 74 and living in Jordan, who in 1969 was one of the Palestinian hijackers of a TWA flight from Rome to Tel Aviv. She acted when she was a member of the hard-line Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Of course, the ANC didn’t just adopt this resolution on its own account. No, it was supported by the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters faction on the council, whose chair, Musa Novela, argued: “It is our duty to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine against the oppressive state of Israel.”

So determined were the ANC and the EFF to extinguish the completely innocuous Sandton Drive from the Johannesburg maps that originally they intended to rename it “City of Ramallah Road”, which I think we can all agree is less than catchy.

In these day of baleful political stupidity, not, alas, confined to the UK and the US, but unfortunately becoming global, it was mildly entertaining to discover that renaming Sandton Drive — which runs through the city and eventually through the largely Jewish

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JUST IMAGINE IF A LONDON STREET WERE RENAMED IN HONOUR OF AN IRA LEADER neighbourhood of Sandton — turned into a fight between two Muslim councillors.

The motion was tabled by Thapelo Amad, whose party, Al Jama’ah, holds one seat out of 270 on the council. And it was vehemently opposed by the Democratic Alliance’s Sergio dos Santos, also a Muslim, who said the move would be wasteful expenditure.

The council might have a point about renaming roads in order to rid post-apartheid South Africa of names associated with colonialism and oppression. But it remains a fact that one of the central artery roads of Johannesburg is still Jan Smuts Avenue, named after the Second Boer War general and former SA prime minister. Why not start there? If Johannesburg City Council has nothing better to do with its time than renaming inoffensive roads, despite

all the dreadful yawning social problems the city faces, then it does not deserve to be taken seriously.

One bizarre side-effect of the proposal to turn Sandton Drive into Leila Khaled Drive is the address of the American consulate, which currently occupies a building at 1, Sandton Drive.

I cannot, for the life of me, see any American administration, much less the current one in Washington, embracing the idea of its consulate at the address of a notorious terrorist.

All in all this is dumb, counter-productive politics, played for the benefit of an unseen international audience.

South Africa could be the beneficiary of Israel’s policy of reaching out to the continent – but not with stupidities like this.

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Opinion

This year’s togetherness points the way forward RICHARD FERRER EDITOR, JEWISH NEWS

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n the beginning there was the Board of Deputies, followed (centuries later) by the Jewish Leadership Council – and rumours of a merger ever since.

Each is vibrant and effective, with a positive influence on British Jewish life. Yet the M-word looms large, because it can be impossible to discern differences between roles with similar titles that represent the same views to the same audience. But what’s not impossible is seeing these two giants of British-Jewish life working as one.

The rare togetherness during the ”Enough Is Enough” campaign in March, in response to the Labour antisemitism scandal, saw all hues of Jews unite. Our communal organisations joined forces and the country was left in no doubt about the perils of political anti-Semitism.

The Board of Deputies rightly prides itself on a quarter of a millennium of history and heritage. Through a time-honoured democratic process, it brings together Jewish people from different walks of life.

As the sole British affiliate to the European Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress, it is the globally recognised body of British Jews. Its voting system delivers a president with a genuine mandate, fully accountable to Deputies. Incumbent Marie van der Zyl and her predecessor Jonathan Arkush are truly proud of and passionate about British-Jewish causes.

At a tender 15 years of age the Jewish Leadership Council is a relative whippersnapper, comprised of some of the community’s most established philanthropists and charities. Sir Mick Davis had a vision to build the JLC into a powerhouse of communal leadership. His successor, Jonathan Goldstein, has added to its membership, which includes the likes of Jewish Care, UJIA and new dynamic organisations such as JW3 and Work Avenue which are now the lifeblood of our community.

Having the leaders of more than 30 of most influential Jewish organisations in one room, seeking solutions and best practice together, is a sight to behold.

Goldstein has made consolidation of communal organisations and resources a priority of his tenure – and rightly so.

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THE JLC AND BOARD SHOULD BUILD ON THE COMMON GROUND THAT HAS UNITED THEM Leading by example by combining the JLC and Board would send a strong message to other community groups that clearly ought to be working more closely.

Following Enough Is Enough, a merger between the two institutions seemed closer than ever. Jonathan Arkush and Jonathan Goldstein cosied up in the Jewish press, talking about closer ties. They even – hold the front page – heaped warm praise on each other’s organisation. The pair seemed primed to deepen co-operation.

There are many areas where the two should tango. Tackling antisemitism, not just in the political sphere but on the streets, in schools, workplaces and on campus; lending support to communities outside London – after all, UK Jewry thrives beyond NW postcodes; establishing new Jewish schools, ensuring every child wanting a

Jewish education has one; training teachers of tomorrow and tackling the shortage of headteachers. Simply put, plotting a clear path for the British Jewry of tomorrow.

They must build on the common ground that united them so effectively this year. The community deserves unity on crucial issues, not conflicting messages of the sort issued by each side following Jeremy Corbyn’s appointment as Labour leader. Separate statements at such a crucial moment was frankly ridiculous.

Mrs Cohen in Golders Green couldn’t care less about internal discord between Jewish groups at a time when our community faces unprecedented external attacks.

We are blessed to have two established, high-profile organisations. But as we gallop towards 2019, we should urge them to work more effectively together – or as one.

Remember the past to build a better future OLIVIA MARKS-WOLDMAN CHIEF EXECUTIVE, HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY TRUST

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t is vital we do everything in our power to ensure that these things never happen again, anywhere in the world.’

This comment was made by Holocaust survivor Helen Aronson, who is a remarkable woman. She feels compelled to share her traumatic experiences to let young people and adults today know what happened in the Holocaust. She does so for several reasons: to educate young people about where prejudice and hostility can ultimately lead; to highlight a period of recent history that shook the foundations of civilisation; to warn against the dangers of Holocaust distortion or outright denial – and to urge the world that it should not be repeated. As survivor Primo Levi said: “It happened; therefore it can happen again.”

The Shoah prompted a new system of international justice and the coining of the word genocide. At the Nuremberg trials, the Allied governments (the US, Britain, Soviet Union and France) took steps to institute a

collaborative system of justice across national borders. This led to the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators for crimes committed against their own citizens and in their own country, as well as their crimes against people in countries the Nazis invaded.

Forged in the aftermath of the Shoah and the Nuremberg trials, the UN Genocide Convention set a legal definition of genocide, and obligated signatory nations to prevent and punish actions of genocide, both in war and in peacetime.

Sunday, 9 December, marked the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Genocide Convention and UN Genocide Prevention Day – a major landmark that prompts us both to reflect and look to the future.

‘My family were evacuated... The train was packed like sardines… altogether 3,000 of us in one train. And it took three days… People died on the train, and they wouldn’t stop for us to bury the dead.’

Reading this, do you think of a deportation to a concentration camp during the Holocaust?

In fact, it was shared with us by Var

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THE UN CONVENTION SET A DEFINITION AND OBLIGED NATIONS TO PREVENT ACTIONS OF GENOCIDE

Ashe Houston, a survivor of the genocide in Cambodia, who, along with her family, was forced from her home by the Khmer Rouge.

Despite the Holocaust, despite the Genocide Convention, and despite Helen’s words above, genocides have taken place again and again: Cambodia in the 1970s, Rwanda in 1994, Bosnia in 1995, and Darfur from 2003.

The Genocide Convention defines the problem, shapes our understanding of international situations and highlights our responsibilities towards them. It is a wonderful example of international collaborative work at the highest levels. Yet its problematic defi-

nition of ‘genocide’ sets a high bar and creates a deeply unseemly and distressing ‘hierarchy of suffering’ today. In many cases, those who have experienced persecution struggle to have their situation assessed as ‘genocide’, hoping to prompt international action.

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, torn from their homes and persecuted because of their beliefs, may one day see a verdict of ‘genocide’, but we should not forget that today, right now, they are in limbo – and suffering deeply.

The way Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is marked in the UK has ensured that recent genocides are commemorated each year.

Alongside reflection and education about the Shoah, the hundreds of thousands of people who mark HMD are able to learn about the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. They reflect on the contemporary resonances of the past, particularly identitybased prejudice and hostility around the world, and even here in the UK, taking vital steps to create a better future.  Share HMDT’s new film: https://twitter.com/HMD_UK

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

1A SONG AND DANCE

Members of Jewish Care’s Edgware & Harrow Community Centre and children from Nagila Nursery, which shares a site, enjoyed a joint Chanukah party last week at the centre, complete with doughnuts and dreidels, dancing and singing.

2 GOLDEN MOMENT

Hampstead Synagogue celebrated its first Golden Girls’ Batmitzvah before a much enhanced congregation.

And be seen!

3A GOOD RUN

The latest news, pictures and social events from across the community

Simeon Barnett was commended for Donor champion of the year at the Anthony Nolan Supporter Awards (ANSAs), recognising his work raising awareness of the need for more stem cell donors for blood cancer patients. Simeon, who has Simeon has raised more than £12,000 for Anthony Nolan’s lifesaving work, received a prestigious commendation at a ceremony held at the Tower of London. Most recently, this year, Simeon raised £6,000 by completing the 26.2 miles of the London Marathon and hosting an auction at work. Additionally, Simeon’s employer, The Gap Partnership, has committed £5,000 to Anthony Nolan.

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4 ENTERPRISING TALK

The Wohl Enterprise Hub was buzzing as 150 delegates descended for the muchanticipated 2018 Women in the Workplace conference.

Billed as the one-stop shop for every woman who works or wants to, from employment to business and everything in between, the event attracted both the entrepreneur and the job seeker, the confident and the simply curious. Laura Marks, founder of national Jewish Muslim women’s network Nisa-Nashim, Mitzvah Day and Women in Jewish Leadership – and former senior vice-president of the Board of Deputies – opened the conference and inspired the delegates with a personal account of her journey. She focused on career change, working in the community, Jewish attitudes to women and key principles to take away, holding this all-women audience completely rapt.

Marks said: “It was inspiring to see so many women from across our community come together with a common aim of progressing in the world of work. I felt honoured to be delivering the keynote address.” She added: “The energy in the room palpable.”

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More than 150 people packed into Lewisham Town Hall for the council’s first Chanukah lighting last Thursday. The event, hosted by Lewisham Council alongside Catford and Bromley Synagogue, is thought to be south London’s largest Chanukah celebration.

Catford and Bromley’s minister and chazan, David Rome, said: “This fantastic evening brought the Jewish community together with our friends from other faiths, something which is so important in our borough.”

Mayor of Lewisham Damien Egan, a member of Bromley Reform Synagogue, lit the evening’s first candle.

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Katie Rothstein, eight, with Chelmsford Jewish Community (CJC) chair Stan Keller lighting the candles at the CJC’s last day of Chanukah party. During the service, Keller revealed 20 little known facts about Chanukah, and members of all ages enjoyed a sing song.

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7 HOLIDAY ON ICE

Amy Bronstein, Antonia Appel and Ellen Johnson were among revellers at JW3’s Chanukah on Ice. There was a silent disco and doughnuts aplenty.

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8 ROUNDABOUT WAY

Rain and wind did not hold back the 150-strong crowd that came along to celebrate the lighting of the

Chanukah menorah at Gants Hill Roundabout on Saturday night. Guests included local Labour MP Wes Streeting and the Leader of Redbridge Council, Jas Athwal, each addressing the large crowd and sharing a message of hope and unity for the borough and beyond.

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More than 150 people attended the Aish Young Professionals “Lumin8” Chanukah party at the Leake Street Tunnel, under the tracks and platforms of Waterloo Station. The party featured an interactive graffiti workshop from some of London’s top street artists and an immersive virtual reality experience.

10 FESTIVE GIFT

GIFT ran Motzi Madness, a special Chanukah social action session this week for the Edgware United Synagogue community, during which the children and their parents decorated glass candle holders, maked electric candle sets for Shabbat for hospital patients and care home residents across London. Rebbetzin Abi Kurzer said: “Especially on Chanukah, when our children receive lots of gifts, it was fantastic for us to run a joint event with GIFT, where the children made beautiful candlesticks for others. We had loads of fun and it felt really good!” GiFT inspires the next generation to become givers through dynamic education, impactful volunteering and helping those in need.

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

Hair today, wigs tomorrow

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More than 50 people had their hair cut at JFS on Sunday to make wigs for children in Israel and the UK with cancer at Zichron Menachem’s Chanucut event. “I am overwhelmed by how many people came out to support children with cancer. It’s amazing to see how one act of chesed can get entire families energised for a good cause,” said Zichron Menachem UK director Eli Seliger.

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It was all light on the night More than 3,500 people braved a cold, wet and windy London night to gather in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the annual Chanukah in the Square, media-partnered by Jewish News. The Akiva School choir entertained the crowd, while Chabadniks handed out doughnuts and popcorn, as well as chanukiahs for those who wanted them. The four candles were lit by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. London Mayor Sadiq Khan – who was introduced by Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl – told the revellers: “As mayor of London, I am so proud to see the menorah in Trafalgar Square. I am here to thank you for the contribution you make to making this the greatest city in the world.” The event was sponsored by the Jewish Leadership Council, the London Jewish Forum and Genesis Philanthropy Group.

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Film / Lifestyle

Life

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‘Their lives were like the Truman Show’ The incredible tale of identical triplets separated at birth and reunited 19 years later is told in a compelling documentary –but there are even more twists to the story, its director tells Francine Wolfisz

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ot many can claim to walk onto campus on their first day of university and be greeted by hugs and kisses from people they have never met before. But that’s what happened to bewildered 19-year-old Robert Shafran, as he strode across Sullivan County Community College, in 1980.

It was a simple case of mistaken identity, but one that would change Shafran’s life forever, as documented in Tim Wardle’s enthralling documentary, Three Identical Strangers.

His doppelgänger, Eddy Galland, who lived nearly 150 miles away in Long Island, shared more than just the same curly black hair, brown eyes and wide smile – he also shared his DNA. Separated at birth, Robert and Eddy were in fact identical twins.

Their somewhat miraculous reunion was lapped up by the media and evoked incredulity among those who read about their heart-warming story, including 19-year-old student David Kellman, who lived in Queens.

Like Robert and Eddy, he, too, had been adopted at birth and shared more than a slight resemblance to the recently-reunited brothers.

When he called Galland’s house and spoke to his mother, she exclaimed: “Oh my God, they’re coming out of the woodwork!”

What ensued was a free-wheeling dive into fame, with the brothers appearing in every paper and magazine and on TV shows. Despite nearly two decades of separation, they not only looked the same, but thought the same, dressed the same and shared the same taste in women and cigarettes. Their likeness was uncanny, if not disconcerting.

What they weren’t prepared for

was another twist to their tale – this time, far more sinister in nature.

“People have said to me that the story goes the wrong way round for a Hollywood narrative – it starts on a high and then goes to a low,” explains Wardle of his directorial debut. “At the start, everyone’s laughing and they believe it will be a romp the whole way through. But I’m just thinking, ‘Oh, you don’t know what’s coming…”

Overjoyed at finding one another, the brothers began questioning why a New York City adoption agency called Louise Wise Services had failed to mention that each child was a triplet born on 12 July 1961.

Chillingly, they discovered the separation had been deliberate and part of a social experiment conducted by prominent AmericanJewish child psychologist Peter Neubauer, who wanted to study the theory of “nature versus nurture”.

Their families were only told they had been selected for a child development study and were regularly visited by psychologists, who filmed the youngster’s milestones, such as learning to walk and talk, and carried out behaviour, personality and intelligence tests.

But the results of that study have never been made public and the Left: Director Tim Wardle.

Top: Triplets Eddy, David and Robert, were reunited in 1980

documents remain buried in the Yale University archives until 2066.

Moreover, the triplets were not the only ones involved in the study – and the real number of other twins and triplets separated by Neubauer’s experiment is unknown to this day.

The documentary, which grossed more than £9 million at the US box office and was handed the special jury prize at Sundance, was four years in the making and includes interviews with Natasha Josefowitz, now 90, who worked as a research assistant for Neubauer, as well as Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzerprize winning journalist who unearthed existence of the experiment in the 1990s.

Bobby and David also recount their experiences in the film, but only after much encouragement from Wardle.

“I got engaged, married and had a child in the time it took me to convince them to take part,” he says wryly.

“But when you see the extent of what they have been through, it’s not

surprising they find it hard to trust people. I think there’s still a huge amount of damage there – you can see it written on their faces. Can you imagine what it would feel like to have the first 19 years of your life be a lie? It’s almost like they have lived a Truman Show-like existence.”

Of the “morally suspect” experiment that had such an immense impact on their lives, Wardle agrees much of it may have been driven by Neubauer’s ego, rather than valid scientific research.

“Psychology in the 1950s and 1960s was like the Wild West. It was trying to establish itself as a science and so you have all these people trying to push the envelope of what’s possible and acceptable. We see that in Milgram’s obedience experiment, or the Stanford prison experiment.

“I see Neubauer as someone who was very smart and influential, and who realised if he could crack nature versus nurture he would probably become one of the most famous psychologists who ever lived.”

Wardle acknowledges the experimentation of twins and triplets has uncomfortable resonances of the Shoah – with that discomfort made particularly acute as the psychologist

and his subjects are Jewish.

“I was always conscious of those echoes and parallels,” reflects Wardle.

“And there’s a central irony that both Neubauer’s family and Kellman’s family fled Austria as a result of the Holocaust, only to end up in America on either side of this experiment.

“My wife, who is Jewish, equally finds watching the film unbelievably difficult. She says the idea Jewish doctors were involved in this so close to the Second World War and the activities of Mengele at Auschwitz is unbearable. We also receive a really strong reaction from Jewish audiences who have watched the film.”

That said, Wardle believes there are also more universal messages in the film, about the importance of family, the abuse of power, and the involvement of free will in our lives.

He says: “On a very human level, you have this wonderful story of brothers separated and then reunited, but then there are also these bigger, quite philosophical themes around nature versus nature. There are so many, twists, turns and layers to their story – and that’s something you don’t often see in documentaries.”  Three Identical Strangers (12A) is on release in cinemas now

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Lifestyle / Travel

Isle be there!

Caron Bluestone returns to the idyllic shores of Sardinia and discovers this Italian island’s fascinating Jewish past

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he Jews are off to Sardinia again.

By rights it’s a statement that shouldn’t mean much by island standards: we have been and gone multiple times in history.

But after a colourful history stretching back thousands of years, which includes exile, expulsion and decimation, a community is slowly starting to build on these shores once more.

This is my fifth time on this wonderful island, which boasts 2,000km of exceptional coastline, with each visit differing as our family grows.

Italians love children and cater well to them.

Sardinia is nigh on a tropical paradise and it’s just a two-hour flight from London Luton with easyJet. The first Jews arrived here more than two millennia ago, having been exiled during the days of the Roman Empire, in the year 19AD. Not much tangible Jewish history is left today, although Jewish influences do remain; the Sardinian word for Friday, cenabura, takes its meaning from the Latin cena pura – pure feast – or Shabbat meal and caputanni, meaning head of the year, from Rosh Hashanah, is used to denote the month of September.

Sant’Antioco, an island reached by ferry or car from the south of Sardinia, houses probably the most interesting of Jewish artefacts. Within

its catacombs, visitors can still see inscriptions written in Hebrew and Latin in one of the only places where these can be found in Italy.

In 1325, when Sardinia came under Spanish rule, life became more pleasant for the Jewish community. Spanish Jews began to arrive, as well as families from Marseille. Many lived in the capital, Cagliari, which at one time housed a large synagogue.

The largest community was in Alghero.

But, just as the community began to flourish, Spain began to persecute its Jewish citizens, first by making immigration illegal under pain of death and finally, in 1492, expulsion.

Many went to Malta, Greece and Calabria. Not until the 19th century did they return with the revolutions in Italian states in 1848 and Jewish emancipation, only for the community to be decimated once more by the Shoah.

Today, Sardinia is seen as an island of opulence and luxury, and for Jewish tourists, things couldn’t be better. There are plenty of kosher options available and while there is no active synagogue, a fledgling Jewish community has begun to emerge.

We headed to the unspoilt north east to Delphina’s 4* Park Hotel Cala Di Lepre, situated just a short hotel shuttle ride away from the pretty port of Palau. Visitors here can enjoy single-storey suites, set to blend in perfectly within a stunning park that features more flora and fauna than a nature reserve and enough bougainvillea to

From top: The stunning pool at the Park Hotel Cala Di Lepre; Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia; Caron with her family; dining at the poolside restaurant

satisfy Chelsea Flower Show.

We were just a short walk away from the calm, turquoise sea and private beach, although there are also three pools, including a dedicated children’s area, at the hotel. There’s even a superb kids club, open until 11pm every day.

Our home for the week was a beautiful, newly-refurbished two-bedroom suite, which offered plenty of space for our family of four.

One caveat: this is definitely a place for the more active. The hotel’s situation on a steep hill means that views are to die for from almost every standpoint, but be prepared to walk off those sumptuous buffets!

Foodies will be very happy here. Take the halfboard, or if you dare, full-board option and you

will be greeted with buffets groaning with the freshest antipasti of meat, fish and vegetarian, as well as gluten-free options. Then there are the pasta, pizza and fish main course options and, if you still have space, mouth-watering desserts.

And, for extra-special meals, Le Terrazze offers a more intimate à la carte restaurant.

Our week in Sardinia flew by, with mornings spent by the pool, and the boys enjoying football and archery, and afternoons on the beach, gazing out to the crystal blue sea, while they attempted to catch fish in their buckets.

On the penultimate day, I made it to the hotel spa, a destination in itself complete with three pools, for a massage that saw me slip into a blissful state of slumber.

As our holiday came to an end, we bid farewell to Sardinia once more, this island offering a piece of paradise. No doubt we will return.

CARON’S TRAVEL TIPS Caron and her family flew to Olbia with easyJet (easyjet.com) from London Luton, with transfers by Just Sardinia ( justsardinia.co.uk).

A week half-board for a family of four at Park Hotel Cala di Lepre (hotelcaladilepre.com/sardinia) starts from €1,995 (£1,777).

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Orthodox Judaism

What’s in a number?

SEDRA Vayigash

This week’s number...

Figuring out Jewish history

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Afraid of losing Benjamin to the Viceroy of Egypt, Judah remonstrates with him, telling him Jacob would die if Benjamin did not return and offers himself as a slave instead.

Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers, telling them: “I am Joseph. Does my father still live?” He reassures them there was a Divine plan for him to look after them in Egypt and that they should tell their father he invites them all to live with him there.

Laden with gifts, they return to Jacob and tell him of his fortune in Egypt. Jacob, having mourned for many years, comes to life. God promises to descend to Egypt with him and eventually bring them out of there, so Jacob leaves Canaan with his family.

Pharaoh meets Jacob and some of Joseph’s brothers, before inviting them to dwell in Goshen, where they can shepherd both their sheep and his. Five years later, the famine reached Egypt and the people had to sell off their land to buy food from Joseph, who managed the Egyptian treasury. In Goshen, Jacob’s descendants flourished. One could well ask whether this obvious privilege caused tremendous jealousy among the Egyptians.

The Chief Rabbi of Eilat, on Shabbat Shemot in 2010, delivered a sermon suggesting the freedom from taxes and landed privileges enjoyed by the children of Jacob eventually became too much for the Egyptians to bear and their plan to enslave the Hebrews was a natural follow-on from that economically untenable situation. Our lesson from this as Jews in the modern world today is to be mindful of not flaunting our success.

 Rabbi Ariel Abel is Padre to HM Armed Forces and serves the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation

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BY RABBI JONNY ROODYN Although the number 70 is associated with an average lifespan, we wish others that they should live until 120.

This seemingly random number is associated with a full lifetime, as symbolised by Moses who lived until 120 with no diminishing of his strength.

The number 120 carries with it another association, namely the number of days when Moses was up Mount Sinai.

Moses ascends the mountain three times, on each occasion remaining there for 40 days and nights.

He goes up the mountain to receive the first set of tablets, which he subsequently breaks owing to the tragic episode of the Golden Calf.

He then goes back up the mountain to ask for forgiveness and makes his final

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ascent to receive the second set of tablets, coming back down on the very first Yom Kippur.

These 120 are in essence a microcosm of his life, which was committed to the teaching of and transmission of the Torah to the Jewish people.

This number takes on an additional dimension with the 120 Men of the Great

THIS NUMBER IS ASSOCIATED WITH A FULL LIFETIME, AS SYMBOLISED BY MOSES

Assembly, the Anshei Knesset Hagedolah, who functioned as the supreme religious and legislative body at the start of the second commonwealth in the land of Israel.

Many of their enactments had the effect of shaping Judaism into what it is today, for example the form and structure of communal prayer and the centrality of the synagogue in Jewish life.

Perhaps one could even say that they were preparing the Jewish people, while they were still dwelling in their land, for the long and arduous exile that was to come.

The parliament of the state of Israel, the Knesset, is modelled on this ancient legislature, 120 democratically-elected delegates.

The symbolism of this name and number is highly significant, proclaiming the message of pride in our return to Zion as a people who have come back home.  Rabbi Roodyn is educational director of Jewish Futures Trust

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Progressive Judaism

Progressively Speaking

The Bible Says What?

How concerned should we be by a new poll claiming Brits treat ethnic minorities poorly?

‘Joseph’s brothers did nothing wrong ’

BY RABBI LAURA JANNER-KLAUSNER

BY RABBI CHARLEY BAGINSKY Have you noticed, over the past few months, that people on the street have been looking at their phones and shaking their faces? I’ve suddenly realised this is people trying to unlock their phones with the recently-introduced facial recognition software.

Despite raising questions about public dignity, it has brought up far more serious questions about this technology’s potential to intensify racial bias. Recent research shows that commercial face recognition software is less accurate when it comes to identifying darker skin.

It reminded me of the ‘cross-race’ effect, the psychological phenomenon that just about everyone has difficulty distinguishing between people of different racial groups.

There are a variety of reasons given for this, ranging from segregation as the norm, where people do not have enough experience with individuals of other racial groups, to the idea that we have a tendency to

brothers have to say for themselves – nothing. They are totally silent, stunned, from the moment Joseph reveals himself.

Joseph is demonstrating the most remarkable level of forgiveness imaginable in relieving the brothers of their wrongdoing, but they are all acutely aware of the damage they did.

Joseph is aware too – and because he recognises how the brothers feel, he goes as far as he can to relieve their guilt.

There is nothing for them to do, but be humble in the face of Joseph’s incredible willingness to excuse them.

The lesson of the story is not that they did nothing wrong – it is Joseph’s lesson of how to forgive even the worst actions of others and the brothers’ lesson of humility when confronted with their own sins.

This week in our synagogues we see the famous story of Joseph reach its dramatic climax. With the tables turned and his brothers at his mercy in Egypt, Joseph unveils himself and lets them know who he really is.

In a scene of great emotion all is forgiven between them, and Joseph invites his whole family to come to Egypt so he can ensure they have all they need.

In all of this joy, it is easy to lose sight of one part of Joseph’s speech.

His brothers had, in their jealousy, sold him into the bondage that saw him carted off to Egypt.

However, Joseph waves all of this away, saying: “It wasn’t you who sold me to Egypt. It was God who did it”.

Just because this is a happy ending, did the brothers really not do anything wrong? If you do something bad, but it all works out in the end, is it not ridiculous to say you were just doing God’s work?

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A recent survey on “unconscious bias” for The Guardian found people from minority ethnic backgrounds were more likely to face negative experiences in the workplace, or out in public spaces, than white people.

It is far too easy for us to deny this has anything to do with the Jewish community or that we are not biased also. Indeed, we have been rightly criticised for not recognising and

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The Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism in the US has put together some amazing resources, which I would encourage all of us to spend time looking at. Another good resource is from Rabbis Susan Talve and Sarah Barasch-Hagans, who have produced their 10 Rules for Engagement for White Jews Joining the #BlackLivesMatter Movement.

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