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Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz on election night

VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS After 10 years of Benjamin Netanyahu, could this be the end? If so, it is quite a moment. Younger readers will not remember a time when he did not lead the State of Israel. Indeed, he wanted voters to imagine no other scenario.

Yet this week, those who’ve followed his career certainly think his premiership is over. He needed to pull a rabbit

from a hat in this election, they say, but conjured merely essence of rabbit.

It is too early to write the political obituary of Israel’s wiliest operator – his career was far from over late on Wednesday evening as Jewish News went to print. But if he has lost power then he has lost control, because he needed power to give him immunity

from prosecution. Vultures now circle.

Who comes next? If they can muster 61 seats, it is former IDF chief Benny Gantz and former TV personality Yair Lapid, an unlikely double act who maintained their voter support from April.

They call themselves centrists but in reality they are far from dovish. Gantz supports annexing Palestinian land and

“disproportionate force” in Gaza.

Gantz’s promise on Tuesday was to “bring hope and change, without corruption, without extremism,” which sounded like he’d carry on carrying on minus the legal drama and pandering to extremists, which Netanyahu was reduced to.

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Dismay at plans to discuss antisemitism on Shabbat Revised proposals to speed up the way antisemitism cases are dealt with by Labour are to be debated on Shabbat at the party’s annual conference, writes Justin Cohen.

Jeremy Corbyn proposed in July to give new powers to the party’s general secretary and a small group of NEC officers to expel members guilty of flagrant antisemitism – something that only the National Constitutional Committee could previously do.

But the suggestions were criticised by the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) for giving control to a few “nodding” individuals close to the leadership. A community source noted they were “the polar opposite of the independent” process leaders have long demanded amid evidence of interventions by allies of the leadership. Jewish News revealed that major community organisations and the JLM had not been consulted over the summer.

The proposals returned to the ruling National Executive Committee this week, but afterwards a Labour spokesman made no specific mention of the general secretary or officers of the NEC. Instead, it is understood panels made up of NEC members – who meet more regularly than the party’s top disciplinary body, the National Constitutional Committee – would have the power to expel members. The NEC

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JEWISH & MUSLIM LEADERS IN ITALY FOR INTERFAITH SUMMIT Religious leaders gathered in southern Italy for an interfaith summit on challenges faced by Jewish and Muslim communities across Europe.

Delegates from across 15 countries met for the conference organised by the Muslim Jewish Leadership Council. The organisation is an interfaith group of Muslim and Jewish members who, according to its website, seek to promote “intercultural and interreligious dialogue.”

Shechita UK’s Shimon Cohen said he was “proud” to be taking part in the event. “Recognising our differences can help us help each other,” he added.

WOMAN WHO CLAIMED ZIONISTS ‘ABUSE SHOAH’ IN MAYOR BID There have been fears that Jeremy Corbyn’s allies have interfered in the disciplinary process

panels, which are advised by barristers, will have the power to expel in serious cases where there is clear documentary evidence, such as social media posts or videos.

Jewish News can reveal a timetable for the conference lists the ‘rule change debate’, which will include a vote on the new disciplinary proposals, for this Saturday, which could prevent Orthodox delegates from taking part.

The proposals fall well short of the independent process that MPs and community leaders demanded amid evidence of interference by allies of the leadership, which still enjoys a majority on the NEC.

A Labour spokesman said: “The vast majority of Labour members are motivated by equality, justice and fairness. The party has taken decisive and robust disciplinary action following complaints about a small minority of party members.”

A JLM spokesperson said: “Time and again, the party leadership and the NEC have demonstrated a complete failure in both judgement and commitment to tackle antisemitism. With a statutory investigation by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission well underway, this is the latest example of institutional failing.”

A left-wing activist who once said “Zionists abuse the memory of the Holocaust to bolster support for Israel and its murderous policies” is to stand as Labour’s candidate for West Midlands’ mayor.

Salma Yacoob, former vice-chair of the defunct Respect Party set up by George Galloway, said on Wednesday that she would challenge the current Conservative mayor Andy Street in May 2020.

Her candidacy was welcomed by Jon Lansman, a member of Labour’s ruling national executive and co-founder of grassroots group Momentum.

However, in a comment piece for The Guardian in December 2006, while arguing for Muslims to take part in Holocaust remembrance services, she said conflict in the Middle East had been the principal reason for Muslim reluctance.

Mayor ‘backs antisemitic party’ Lib Dem London mayoral candiwhether loudly calling out antisemdate Siobhan Benita has accused itism within the Labour Party, her Labour rival Sadiq Khan of standing up for our tolerance propping up a party “that has and diversity, campaigning failed to drive out antisemrelentlessly against Brexit, itism”. or being a global figurehead Speaking at the party conin the fight against the rise ference in Bournemouth, of far-right populism. she said: “Sadiq Khan has “He will keep leading the announced that he will stand fight for London’s openness, again. But what exactly does tolerance, diversity and internahe stand for? He has failed to tionalism.”

Mayor Sadiq Khan tackle knife crime, he has failed Khan has said he was to clean London’s toxic air. “proud” to join the Jewish “And, unlike Chuka [Umunna] and Luciana Labour Movement earlier this year as an affil[Berger], he continues to prop up a Brexit-facil- iate member, urging party colleagues to do the itating, deeply divided Labour party, that has same. failed to drive out antisemitism.”

He added at the time that it was “important A spokesperson for the mayor dissmissed that we come together… to do whatever we can the allegations, saying: “Sadiq has cham- to make Jewish people feel at home in our party pioned and embodied London’s values: once again”.

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Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) has revealed it will not have a stand at the party’s annual conference over safety concerns amid the “ongoing abuse of Jewish party members”.

LFI will not be joining organisations such as the BBC, the British Red Cross and Sky News exhibiting at the five-day conference in Brighton this weekend.

But the parliamentary group, which did not exhibit last year for the first time in recent memory, will hold a fringe event on Tuesday evening chaired by Dame Louise Ellman MP, with Deputy Leader Tom Watson and Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev speaking.

LFI said it did not consider it would be

“responsible” to place staff at the event due to safety concerns following “incidents of antisemitism in previous years”.

“The ongoing abuse of Jewish party members – highlighted by July’s Panorama programme – and the failure of Jeremy Corbyn to do anything to deter his supporters from engaging in it, means that we have decided it would not be appropriate for us to have a stand at Labour party conference this year,” LFI said.

“Our staff have faced incidents of antisemitism in previous years and, given that the situation appears to have further deteriorated, we do not feel it is responsible as an employer to put them in this environment.”

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Extra £100k pledged to fight antisemitism Boris Johnson’s new Communities and Local Government Secretary, Robert Jenrick, made a barnstorming address to the Board of Deputies on Sunday, pledging an extra £100,000 to tackle antisemitism and a commitment not to tolerate “organisations which compromise the safety of Jews”, writes Jenni Frazer.

Jenrick, whose wife Michal is an Israeli-born corporate lawyer, has three daughters who are being brought up as Jewish. So he has an inbuilt familiarity with the Jewish community, which shone out from his remarks, telling deputies that he was going to come down heavily on both local councils and universities which did not adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

The secretary of state, a lawyer by profession whose Newark constituency is home to the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, declared: “As the prime minister has already made clear, our nation would be less without our Jewish citizens. I cannot imagine a Britain without our Jewish friends, neighbours, and loved ones. But I am all too aware of the challenges that you face.

The scourge of antisemitism is a stain on our society. Whether on our streets or in the comfort of our homes, using social media, there is no place for antisemitic abuse and this government will do everything possible to ensure that Jewish people feel safe wherever they are.” said he regretted that others had not followed the government in its adoption of the IHRA

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definition of antisemitism. Local councils, Jenrick said, had “a duty to act and to stamp out antisemitism wherever they find it. So I do find it troubling in some cases that we are seeing the reverse. I will be writing to all councils insisting that they adopt the IHRA at the earliest opportunity and use it at all appropriate occasions — including in their disciplinary proceedings”.

To applause, Jenrick said that the government was going to provide an additional £100,000 to tackle the spread of online antisemitism on social media.

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Israeli Election 2019 – Round 2

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The Israeli electorate has spoken, but no one quite understands what they said. So, yet another chapter of political horse-trading began yesterday after its two biggest parties failed to win a clear mandate to govern following this week’s general election.

Analysts of all stripes predicted that the result may signal the beginning of the end of Benjamin Netanyahu’s 10-year reign, with the first attorney general hearing into charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust set to take place in a fortnight.

By Wednesday afternoon, with 92 percent of the vote counted, neither the Likud incumbent nor challenger Benny Gantz of Blue and White could claim outright victory, the latter winning 32 of the 120 Knesset seats to the ruling party’s 31.

The Joint List of Arab parties had a predicted 13 seats, the right-wing secular Yisrael Beitenu won nine, as did the strictly Orthodox party Shas. Another Charedi party, United Torah Judaism, won eight

seats, and the right-wing settler coalition Yamina won seven – however, when the exit polls were broadcast, the party split in two. On the left, Labor- Gesher won six seats and Democratic Union won five.

Both Gantz and Netanyahu need smaller parties to form a government, but despite the former’s claim that “talks are underway to form a government,” neither bloc has enough seats for a parliamentary majority of 61 seats.

Yisrael Beitenu, led by former minister Avigdor Lieberman, almost doubled its support, up from five seats in April, and again holds the balance of power. As a result, Moldova-born Lieberman has been labelled a “kingmaker”. His refusal to join Netanyahu’s government in April led to this week’s vote.

The final result of the vote may only be known later this week. Israel’s Central Elections Committee said it was still counting votes, amid accusations by Netanyahu of “voter fraud and irregularities”, particularly in Arab areas.

With all eyes on his next move, Lieberman told a campaign rally in Jerusalem on Tuesday night that “we have only one option - a national, liberal, broad government comprising Yisrael Beitenu, Likud and Blue and White”.

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Kingmaker, Avigdor Lieberman, flanked by Netanyahu (left) and Gantz

religious services, such as marriage, and end yeshiva students’ IDF exemption. It could also affect prayer at the Western Wall.

“Since neither bloc attained a majority, a lot of political horse-trading will take place in the days to come,” said Colin Shin-

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dler, emeritus professor of Israel studies at SOAS, University of London.

The task of asking a political leader to form a government now falls to Israeli Presi-

dent Reuven Rivlin. His office said he would “be guided by the need to form a government in Israel as quickly as possible and to implement the will of the people… as well as the need to avoid a third general election”.

There are several possibilities for forming a government, said Shindler. This includes “a broad coalition of the blocs - with or without Netanyahu”, with “rotational government [such as] two years for the Likud, two years for Blue and White”.

The situation was fluid, he warned, since “there may be defections to the other side”, but the main take-home point from the night was Netanyahu’s slip in status.

His legal woes, which have embroiled his wife Sara and other family members and friends, have been ongoing for years, and it is only in power that he can protect himself, by having his coalition partners grant him immunity.

At Likud headquarters on Tuesday evening, Netanyahu tried to sound upbeat, saying: “Soon, the plan of the century will be presented by my close friend President Trump and the negotiations with President Trump will shape the future of Israel.”

In echoes of Theresa May’s election rallying cry from 2017, he added: “Because of this, Israel needs a strong and stable Zionist government that is committed to Israel

as a national state for the Jewish people…

There can’t be a government supported by Arab parties.”

Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, said: “We are witnessing a dramatic outcome. After a decade, there is a very high likelihood that Netanyahu is no longer going to be the prime minister.”

It could be “days, perhaps weeks, before we know the prime minister”, he said, adding: “This is an unprecedented situation, because neither Netanyahu nor Gantz has a majority.”

In the UK, left-wing Zionist group Yachad said the result meant that Netanyahu was “not a magician”, adding: “Despite his advantages as incumbent and his ruthless campaign, including violations of Israeli election laws, he has no clear path to governing.”

Shindler agreed that “it is unclear whether Netanyahu will survive,” adding: “The preindictment hearing will take place in a couple of weeks to determine whether charges of corruption, bribery and breach of trust will be laid.

“Netanyahu has been labelled ‘the magician’ in Israel for his political trickery, but it may just be that he has run out of rabbits to pull out of the hat.”

SCORES ON THE DOORS (with 92% of votes counted) BLUE AND WHITE - 32 LIKUD - 31 JOINT LIST - 13 YISRAEL BEITENU - 9 SHAS - 9 UNITED TORAH JUDAISM - 8 YAMINA - 7 LABOR-GESHER - 6 DEMOCRATIC UNION - 5 JEWISH POWER - 0

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Jewish far-right power bid fails The far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), comprising disciples of Meir Kahane, appears not to have made the 3.25 percent cut to get into the next Knesset, avoiding what BICOM chief executive James Sorene warned could have been Israel’s “moment of international embarrassment”.

Kahane was an American rabbi who advocated the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and co-founded the terrorist-designated Jewish Defence League.

He was assassinated in 1990.

The party is led by Itamar Ben-Gvir, a lawyer who represents Jewish terrorists, including those guilty of the Duma arson attack in 2015, when a Palestinian family, including a baby, was burned alive. Exempted from IDF service because of his extreme views, Hebron settler Ben-Gvir first appeared on TV just weeks before Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was shot in

Otzma Yehudit party members Michael Ben Ari, Itamar Ben Gvir, right and Baruch Marzel

1995. Brandishing a Cadillac emblem, he said: “We got to his car, we’ll get to him too.”

The party’s personnel have advocated policies such as expelling Israeli Arabs accused of disloyalty and banning marriage between Jews and Arabs.

Some polls predicted it would win four seats, but it appears to have missed out.

While that was bad news for Netanyahu, some British Jewish groups breathed a sigh

of relief. Yachad said: “Though powerful players in Israeli politics, including the prime minister himself, tried to bring the Kahanists into the mainstream, the Israeli public rejected this Jewish-supremacist party.”

Meanwhile, Likud MK Miki Zohar, acknowledged the controversial camera bill that his party pushed in recent weeks ended up hurting it on election day. “That didn’t serve us, it hurt us.,” he said.

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BY DR NIMROD GOREN HEAD OF MITVIM While the Israeli election results does not yet tell us who the next prime minister will be, or who will form the next government, it does indicate that Netanyahu’s dominant grip over the political system is coming to an end.

His party lost seats, his right-wing bloc does not have the required majority and his legal issues will come back to

haunt him soon. Netanyahu’s campaign, which was full of negativity, fear-mongering and disinformation, failed to achieve its electoral goals.

International leaders, among Vladimir Putin, Victor Orbán and even Donald Trump, seem to have been among the first to realise Netanyahu’s political weakness.

This poll did not produce

an ideological shift from right to left, and this will limit the extent of foreign policy change we can expect, but it did open up a path for leadership change, block far-right parties, and empower Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Given Israel’s difficult reality, these are important first steps towards change.  Dr Nimrod Goren is Head of Mitzvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies

Win for Lieberman and Arabs

BY RICHARD PATER POLITICAL ANALYST Israeli politics could be stalemated as neither Likud nor Blue and White can form a majority without the other.

Among the winners on the night, Avigdor Lieberman from Yisrael Beteinu received nine seats. According to experts, the “generation and a half” of

ex-Soviet voters accounts for a base of only five seats, so for him to almost double that tally suggests his pitch for a broad secular government resonated with some right-wing voters.

The other big winner, with 13 seats, is the Joint (Arab) List. They could become the

main opposition party and as such would be given security briefings.

Centrists are now urging President Reuven Rivlin to play a more dominant role in pushing for a national unity government, lest Israel faces a dreaded third election.  Richard Pater is a political analyst based in Jerusalem and Director of BICOM’s Israel Office

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Williamson legal fight goes to the High Court Chris Williamson’s legal fight against his suspension from the Labour over allegations of antisemitism has reached the High Court.

The Derby North MP was suspended in February after he claimed Labour had been “too apologetic” in response to criticism of its handling of antisemitism allegations.

He was readmitted to the party and issued with a formal warning following a hearing of a National Executive Committee (NEC) antisemitism panel in June – prompting an outcry from MPs, peers and Jewish groups. But he was suspended again in July after a second panel reviewed the decision to reinstate him and found it “cannot safely stand”.

Williamson has raised nearly £60,000 to fund his legal challenge. At a hearing in London last Thursday, his barrister Aileen McColgan described the decision to reopen the case as a “hasty volte-face” made as a result of “howls of outrage from the press” at his readmission.

She said it appeared “the defendant is determined to have him removed from the party regardless of considerations of fairness, and has the hallmarks of a witch hunt against the claimant”, adding: “It is manifestly unfair and therefore contrary to the defendant’s rule book

and to the common law.”

McColgan said it was also unfair a separate suspension was imposed on 3 September over additional allegations of misconduct, which were “similar in nature” to the first set of allegations.

McColgan told Justice Pepperall there was no challenge to Chris Williamson the 26 June decision to give Williamson a warning, and his case was about whether the decision to refer his disciplinary to a second panel was within Labour Party rules – submitting the party was “not entitled” to do so.

Rachel Crasnow QC, representing Labour, said the decision, which was “made in good faith”, was permitted by the party’s rules as all disputes panel decisions were “provisional” on approval by the NEC’s organisation committee.

In written submissions, she said the full NEC disputes panel decided to remit Williamson’s case for review after hearing that one of the original panel members, MP Keith Vaz, had raised objections about “the release of confidential information from that panel and concerns around his (Mr Vaz’s) health at the time it was convened”.

Justice Pepperall said he hopes to deliver his judegement in the next couple of weeks.

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Michael Gove issued a thinly-veiled rebuke to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at Monday night’s UJIA annual dinner, warning: “Antisemitism is finding expression in our Parliament”, writes Richard Ferrer.

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who was introduced on stage by Mark Regev, Israel’s ambassador to the UK, delivered a passionate and wide-ranging speech, without notes, reflecting on how antisemitism has “morphed” over the centuries to what it is today – “claiming Jewish people, of all peoples, cannot have their own state, cannot have a secure nation, cannot exercise self-determinisation.”

Gove, who also warmly praised the work of UJIA chair Louise Jacobs, added: “Today, antisemitism finds expression through the boycott divestment and sanctions movement, in our media and in our Parliament.

There is a point of view in these areas that says the Israeli state is illegitimate and every Jewish citizen of Britain who takes pride and has respect for all that Israel has achieved is somehow an accomplice in a criminal act.”

He warned: Gove with UJIA chair “There’s no surer Louise Jacobs

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After a five-year wait, nominations for Jewish News’ ‘40 under 40’ list opened again today, as judging panels prepared to nail down the definitive ‘Who’s Who’ of young leaders in Anglo-Jewry.

Jewish News last published its much-cited list of heavy communal hitters back in 2014, and can now reveal that a new list is set to be compiled for 2020, alongside a ‘25 under 25’ and ‘18 under 18’ countdown.

Previous winners, such as Lib Dem MP Luciana Berger, have migrated to the judging panel, and will help come up with the blue

riband lists, set to be announced in the spring.

From today, anyone can visit www.jewish news.co.uk to nominate the person they feel has made an impact. Many of those who made the list last time have gone on to take the community’s most senior leadership positions.

The three 2020 lists, sponsored by the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC), each have their own judging panel, specially tailored to the age category. The ’18 under 18’ panel will comprise an unprecedented gathering of school- and youth-leaders.

To qualify for the ‘25 under 25’ or ‘40 under 40’ lists, nominees must be under that age by 1 April

2020, whereas to qualify for the ‘18 under 18’ list, nominees must have been under the age of 18 by 1 September 2019.

Previous inclusion on any list does not prohibit entry for 2020, but all nominations must be no later than 13 November 2019.

Some, alas, are now over the age of entry, such as several figures from the last ‘40 under 40’ list, including Senior Sephardi Rabbi Joseph Dweck, New Israel Fund UK chief executive Adam Ognall, and Pears Foundation director Amy Braier.

Joining Berger to judge next year’s ’40 under 40’ list will be 23 senior figures repre-

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Chair of judges Andrew Gilbert said: “While the lists are fun they are important in giving recognition, telling stories and highlighting trends.

I am looking forward to these lists, receiving the nominations, the process and the excitement and speculation over the results.”  Nominate now at jewishnews.co.uk

Luciana Berger, the Liberal Democrat MP and former 40 under 40 winner, with fellow stars of our 40 Under 40 list at a celebratory reception in 2010 OUR 40 UNDER 40 AND 25 UNDER 25 PANELS, DRAWN FROM ALL SIDES OF OUR COMMUNITY

Our list is wide open – your nomination is vital

BY ANDREW GILBERT CHAIR OF JUDGES

It is five years since Jewish News last published its now iconic 40 under 40 list.

More than half the names will be definitely new as Elliott Goldstein, Neil Martin, Rabbi Joe Dweck, Amy Braier, Rabbi Miriam Berger, Adam Dawson, Shraga Zaltsmaan, Rabbi Bentzi Sudak, Rabbi Daniel Rowe, Adam Ognall, David Menton, Alan Mendoza, Jonni Berger, Ari Jesner, Susie Gordon, Mekella Broomberg, Jo Greenaway, Rachely Plancey, Daniel Carmel-Brown and Rabbi Nicky Liss, who all made the list last time, are now over 40. All continue to have an impact on our community.

Luciana Berger, who topped the last list and would still have been eligible, is now on the judging panel, leaving two of the top 10 and seven of the top 20 in contention – so the list is wide open and your nominations vital.

Nominees must be under 40 on 1 April 2020.

Our 40 under 40 judging panel will also judge a separate 25 under 25. What we found in previous list was that the Under-25 cohort produced a different list that was more reflective on young adult, campus and youth activity and rather than fitting in a few names on the 40 it was more a stand alone list. To qualify nominees have to be under 25 on 1 April 2020.

We first ran 18 Under 18 three years ago and we learned it needed a panel of its own, so we have brought together the leadership of our Jewish schools, youth organisations and students to make up this panel.

While the list will not be ranked we will look to three to five names where the panel wants to give special credit.

As we want everyone who is currently at secondary school or sixthform college to be eligible, to qualify nominees must be under 18 on 1 September 2019.

Rabbi Charley Baginsky

Director of Strategy & Partnerships, Liberal Judaism

Luciana Berger

MP and number one in the 40 under 40 2015

Rabbi Miriam Berger

Senior Rabbi, Finchley Reform Synagogue and top 10 40 under 40 in 2010

Carolyn Bogush

UJS Trustee

Justin Cohen

News Editor, Jewish News

David Ereira

Life President, Norwood & VP of S&P Sephardi Community

Richard Ferrer

Editor, Jewish News

Debbie Fox

Vice chair, JLC, Trustee, Jami

Andrew Gilbert

Chair 40 Under 40 panel

Elliott Goldstein

Chair, Reshet, vice chair LSJS and number one in 40 Under 40 in 2010

Joanne Greenaway

Chief executive, London School of Jewish Studies

Mordche Grosskopf

Consort to Mayor of Haringey and chair, Tottenham Jewish Association

Maurice Helfgott

Chair, UJS Trustees

Michelle Janes

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News / Jewish News 18 Under 18

Leadership getting younger

BY SIMON JOHNSON the generation in their 40s and 50s.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE, JEWISH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Five years ago, as one of my first tasks as newly-appointed CEO of the JLC, I signed off on our supporting the Jewish News campaign to nominate 40 Under 40 and 25 Under 25.

We are delighted to be back supporting it once again and I am intrigued to see all those who are nominated.

In the five years since the last version, it is true to say that our community’s leadership is getting younger.

The leadership of major communal organisations has shifted to

Programmes from LEAD, the leadership division of the JLC, such as the Adam Science Leadership Programme, and GameChangers, have given more and more people the tools and the confidence to exercise their skills in the leadership of the community.

Grassroots leadership has flourished, more people are becoming involved in the young sections of our communal bodies and a range of initiatives have been created by their vigour and determination.

Last time, a large number of young and talented female leaders – 16 of the top 40 – were recognised. Of the

Eighteen

25 under 25, four of the top five were women. I expect this trend to continue.

Then there were the breeding grounds for the leaders. Last time, it was UJS, youth movements and Limmud that provided most nominees.

I expect that to continue this year, but also to see school governors, grassroots leaders and people within the Charedi community recognised.

Of course, I am biased towards BBYO as a breeding ground for leadership as an alumnus myself. I was proud the winners of both editions last time had also gone through BBYO. The JLC is pleased to support the creation of this survey of the best of our young leaders.

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Some of the high-flyers who starred in our previous 18 Under 18 list: Clockwise from top left: Amitai Landau-Pope; Dawn Bennett; Dania Mann-Wineberg; Michal Morgenstern and Nathan Boroda

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Special Report / JLGB’s big night

Craig David helps JLGB More than 1,200 people attended last night’s JLGB celebration of youth volunteering at London’s Round-

house, with headline act Craig David wowing the crowd, writes Adam Decker.

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the event, for which Jewish News was proud media sponsor, underlined the “game-changing” nature of the new youth eVOLve volunteering programme led by JLGB. The event, supported

by Genesis Philanthropy Group, was open to all young volunteers who completed a JLGB volunteering award on the online platform, together with their friends, families and supporters.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was there to congratulate all the young volunteers for their acts of kindness and service, together with JLGB president Lord Levy.

“What a fantastic evening, what an incredible performance from Craig David and what phenomenal young volunteers we are blessed to have,” said Levy.

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He added: “The potential collective impact of the next generation is remarkable, with over 450,000 volunteering hours being offered to our community through eVOLve. I urge us all to harness it.”

Marsha Gladstone, mother of Yoni Jesner, spoke movingly to the hundreds of volunteers present who

achieved the Yoni Jesner Award on eVOLve. Yoni devoted his free time to helping others before his life was tragically cut short by a suicide bomb attack on a Tel Aviv bus in September 2002. Since then, thousands of young volunteers have been inspired by Yoni’s example.

Ilia Salita, president and chief executive of main sponsors Genesis Philanthropy Group (GPG) said: “Hundreds of young Jewish volunteers celebrated more than one hundred thousand hours of time spent helping others.”

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celebrate volunteers Jordana Price

JLGB youth trustee and co-presenter of the Volunteer Celebration, Jordana attended her first JLGB camp in 2014, aged 15.

Now aged 20 and studying at Cambridge, she has taken on leadership roles within JLGB, including co-chair of the Voice Youth Forum and leader of the productions team on winter camp.

She got the Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze Award with JLGB and completed 500 hours of volunteering as a JLGB leader, winning the vInspired volunteering award in the process, and says she has changed a lot since that first camp in 2014, and Israel Tour the following year.

“When I first went on a JLGB camp, I was quite shy and reserved,” she said.

“JLGB leaders helped me

to grow my confidence. I started to develop my leadership skills and take on new roles. At every level, I was helped to develop as a person and a young leader. Through JLGB training weekends, I learnt how to give presentations, motivate people and develop resilience.”

Rafi Levy

Hasmo student Rafi, who is in his bar mitzvah year, achieved the Yoni Jesner Award by helping families in need of additional support in Borehamwood and Edgware. This included 35 hours of volunteering as part of GIFT’s Shabbat Walk initiative, which matches young volunteers with opportunities to visit families with financial difficulties or children with additional needs. The award completed, he still volunteers

with the families, helping with homework and giving the parents a well-earned break.

“Yoni Jesner paved the way for me,” said Rafi, referencing the gifted Jewish student from Glasgow who was 19 when he was killed in a terrorist attack in Israel while studying in a yeshiva during his gap year.

“He used to volunteer a lot and helped me realise the good you can do with your time.”

Amelia Le Ray

Amelia, 15, has completed the Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze Award with JLGB, prewparing arrival packs and sleeping packs for unaccompanied child refugees in the UK on the Separated Child Foundation’s ‘Purple Packing’ scheme. Her role focussed on preparing arrival packs and sleeping packs for

unaccompanied child refugees in the UK. She said she enjoyed her volunteering, in particular supporting displaced children to receive vital support as they start to rebuild their lives in Britain.

Aranda Tuduwage

As part of the National Citizen Service award, 16-year-old Aranda launched a photography exhibition aimed at improving self-esteem among young people. This was a creative response to the issues of negative body image that are associated with images on social media.

Aranda worked with Autograph ABP, a charity that explores issues of identity and human rights through photography, to create the exhibition, and said it was “amazing to

be able to work creatively with people from different places”.

Yona Taub

Yona is a student at Immanuel College and through the National Citizen Service programme she was given the chance to visit The Hive and Sport England to learn about discrimination in sport.

Following her visit, 16-year old Yona ran a sports fair to dismantle stereotypes that position sport as a ‘man’s game’ and to encourage women and girls to get actively involved.

She also regularly volunteers as a leader at Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue’s Bnei Akiva Tribe (BAT) youth group, helping to run fun and engaging activities for children in

Six of the night’s 400 award winners years 6 and 7 on Shabbat afternoons.

Jude Lewis

Jude is a volunteer sports coach for the Duke of Edinburgh Award, about which he is passionate. “The most important lesson I have taken away from the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is the value of volunteering,” said the 16-year old student. “There is nothing more invigorating than seeing the people that you help with a smile on their face. The happiness that you can bring, is amazing.” He worked with young autistic children, which he described as “an incredible experience,” adding: “I helped them they were part of a community. Everyone should do the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. The programme gives you a real sense of purpose.”

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News / MP cleared / Scrabble change / Ryan quits

MP Rupa Huq cleared of antisemitism charge A Labour MP accused of antisemitic behaviour has been cleared of wrongdoing by the party following complaints by former staff.

Labour launched an investigation into the allegations after two former staffers lodged formal complaints against Rupa Huq

(pictured), attracting media coverage in June.

A panel, advised by an independent barrister, found allegations were “unproven”, concluding on 2 September with no further action.

The MP for Ealing Central and Acton told Ealing Today: “I’m naturally pleased that the panel, which is advised by an independent barrister, reached this decision. The rise in antisemitism both across the world and in UK society is deeply troubling and I am absolutely committed to standing with our Jewish brothers and sisters and working to tackle this prejudice within our Party and wider society.

“I will also continue to focus on representing everyone in Ealing and Acton as well as my bit of Chiswick as their MP since 2015.”

Huq had denied the allegations in June, which her spokesperson described at the time as being “entirely false and

malicious”.

According to The Times, one complainant had alleged the MP taunted him over a Magen David badge pinned to his satchel, while another had accused Huq of making a former member of staff “listen to conspiracy theories surrounding the Jewish community”.

One of the complaints alleged Huq removed a “No tolerance for antisemitism” poster from her office wall when the first complainant was off sick, stating: “We obviously don’t need this anymore.”

According to the report, an email was allegedly sent from Huq’s parliamentary account to an employee about a Jewish student applying for a role. “Will have to say no but don’t want him to claim antisemitism,” the email reportedly read.

One of the complainants had also accused Huq of devising “a separate line of questioning based on Judaism and loyalty to Israel” when interviewing another Jewish candidate last September.

JOAN RYAN TO QUIT AS MP Former Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) chair Joan Ryan (pictured) has announced she will not contest the next general election.

This comes after she quit Labour in February, saying it had been “infected with the scourge of antisemitism”, defecting to Change UK. She was first elected as an MP in 1997.

Taking to Twitter to announce she wouldn’t stand again, she said it had been “a huge privilege & honour to

serve as the MP for Enfield North”.

Paying tribute, Jennifer Gerber, director of LFI, said: “It has been an enormous privilege to work with Joan over the past four years. In Parliament, she has been a true friend of Israel and ally of the Jewish community, and has bravely and unstintingly fought the antisemitism crisis over which Jeremy Corbyn has presided.”

Scrabble scraps ‘jew’ slur The Association of British Scrabble Players has updated its definition of ‘jew’ as a verb, after complaints from British Jews that it was offensive.

The word is taken not only as a noun but as a verb, defined as “to haggle, get the better of”.

This week, the Jewish Chronicle reported that association chairman Mike Whiteoak, who is himself Jewish, had confirmed that the definition of the verb ‘jew’ had now been labelled “offensive”.

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He added: “This is different from including swear words or other racist insults, because ‘Jew’ is a normal word that antisemites have given an alternative meaning as a way of slandering all Jewish people.”

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Shechita support / JLM concerns / News

Villiers’ shechita pledge The new Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has pledged “to protect freedom of religious faiths at home and overseas” and to allow the slaughtering of both kosher and halal meat, writes Jenni Frazer.

Theresa Villiers, who succeeded Michael Gove in July, said she “recognised the importance” to both the Jewish and Muslim communities of eating kosher and halal food.

Speaking on behalf of the government, Villiers, a close ally of the community who has been vice-chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel, said she supported the current rules governing shechita and halal.

She said: “Slaughter across the board is heavily regulated and religious communities have been subject to extra regulations. But I believe, as the new secretary of state, that it is very important for people to be able to follow their faith.”

Villiers acknowledged that there had been amendments tabled to the Agriculture Bill in Parliament’s last session that could have affected the Jewish community.

But she said: “I would not have supported those amendments, and in any case the Bill has fallen with the proroguing of Parlia-

ment”. This does not prevent the Bill being brought back in the Queen’s Speech when Parliament resumes next month.

As far as any impact Brexit might have, Villers was guarded. She said much depended on whether there was a Withdrawal Agreement and if its clauses gave the EU power to regulate slaughter or food labelling, or whether that might become a domestic issue.

“Some form of WA might commit us to EU rules”, she said. Potentially, however, it was up to the UK to decide about labelling.

Labelling is a controversial issue, with some animal welfare

campaigners clamouring for a label to state whether supermarket products are from animals slaughtered according to religious rules. Jewish groups have said that if labelling were to be extended, it should be applied to all methods of slaughter.

Shimon Cohen, campaign director of Shechita UK, told Jewish News: “We are grateful that the secretary of state has again confirmed the government’s long standing policy in support of shechita.

“We are delighted to have the government’s support at this time; confidant that the secretary of state will continue to work with us as we navigate the impact of Brexit on shechita.”

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Grant offer for animal pain study An animal welfare charity in Hertfordshire is offering up to £150,000 for students in Israel to show that animals experience pain.

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), based near St Albans, offered the award “to support an innovative animal welfare research project in Israel”.

UFAW is a sister charity of the Humane Slaughter Association, which “played a key role” in the passage of legislation requiring mechanical stunning of animals prior to slaughter.

It supports proposals that all meat

should be labelled at the point of sale, “indicating whether, and what, preslaughter stunning was used”.

UFAW said its award for the 2020 UFAW SAWI Research Training Scholarship (RTS) was “aimed at advancing animal welfare or improving our understanding of animal welfare challenges.

The money is intended to provide funding to undertake research leading to the award of a doctoral degree, and is open to applicants from any institution based in Israel that can grant a doctoral degree.

JLM fears future Appeal to Raab The Jewish Labour Movement fears it could be “next” after Labour’s ruling body unanimously backed calls to abolish the party’s student wing.

Labour’s ruling body, the NEC, approved a motion put forward by Momentum founder Jon Lansman calling for a reformed student body.

Labour Students denied accusations they had failed to pay affiliation fees on time.

A Jewish Labour Movement source told Jewish News: “This sets a worrying and dangerous precedent. JLM has been affiliated to Labour for almost a century.

“If they can expel students on such spurious grounds, are we next?”

UK Jewish leaders have held their first meeting with new Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to press the case for Britain’s defence of Israel.

Brexiteer Raab, who backed Boris Johnson in the Tory leadership race after he was eliminated, was asked to use UK diplomatic support to challenge states seeking to delegitimise Israel in international forums.

Raab said: “It was a pleasure to host members of the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council at the Foreign Office. Now, more than ever, we must do more to fight the scourge of antisemitism and all racism. I look forward to continuing to work closely together in the future.”

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The return festival will involve Tel Aviv’s art museum, Cameri theatre and the city’s performing arts centre, with music from The Beatles, Amy Winehouse, Ed Sheeran, Adele and Queen due to fill the night sky, washed down with fish, chips and warm beer.

London in Tel Aviv will also see a selection of performances from the Brighton-based Hofesh Shechter Dance Company, which was set up by an Israeli choreographer based in the British capital and now gets UK Government support. There will be Shakespeare with a twist, courtesy of the RSC (Reduced Shakespeare Company) at the Cameri Theatre, while audiences at the art museum will hear cellist Natalie Klein and composer-conductor Gil Shochat perform works by Bach, Brahms and Chopin.

The event is being organised by UK businessman Marc Worth, former chairman of the Britain-Israel Chamber of Commerce.

Fish and chips and warm ale are heading to Tel Aviv

FAKE NEWS(PAPER) IS SET FOR AIRING Barnet’s community is front and centre in The Jewish Enquirer, a new six-episode sitcom that follows a hapless journalist working on a Jewish newspaper.

The first two episodes of the comedy series will be shown at the JW3 on November 20 as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival.

The sitcom, which has drawn comparisons to Curb Your Enthusiasm and Alan Partridge, is centred on Paul Green, played by Tim Downie, a 40-something reporter for the fictional Jewish Enquirer.

Tim Downie as Paul Green

“I originally wrote it not as a Jewish newspaper but as the Barnet Enquirer,” the series’ creator Gary Sinyor told

Jewish News. “But it was quite clearly a Jewish thing that I had been avoiding, so I just said ‘why don’t I call it the Jewish Enquirer and be done with it’.”

Sinyor, who wrote, directed and produced the series, is known for his 1993 film Leon the Pig Farmer, and this latest series marks his return to Jewish comedy.

The Jewish Enquirer was shot entirely in Finchley, he revealed. “I just went to all the places I go to, and shot in those places so that gives it an element of realism,” Sinyor said.

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News / Hurricane help / Brexit fundraiser / Shtisel mania

From Borehamwood Brexit talk raises £25k for charity to ravaged Bahamas Jewish supporters of a small Borehamwood charity have sent a container of humanitarian aid to the Bahamas, after Hurricane Dorian shredded many of the islands’ buildings.

“The container is now on its way,” said Rosalind Bluestone, who founded Goods for Good in her dining room in 2014, having previously run World Jewish Relief’s Gifts in Kind.

“It is packed with mattresses, feminine hygiene products, warm blankets, and shovels with a value

Aid on its way to the Bahamas

of £104,352. We now need to raise £7,000 to cover the costs.”

Nike, Next, Puma, the Dune Group Comfy Quilts and others donated surplus stock, and have stumped up for the 70,000 left homeless by the Category 5 storm. More than 1,300 people are still missing.

She added: “This is the first time we have been able to send a container of humanitarian aid to a disaster zone.

Working with our charity partners in Holland and the Bahamas, we knew that we had the capacity to supply some of the goods urgently needed.”

With more than 200 volunteers, the charity has distributed more than £18 million of essential items to vulnerable people in need in 20 countries, mainly in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Africa, and the Philippines.

Dune Group chair Daniel Rubin said: “We are delighted to support Good for Good with logistics and warehouses. They have an impact on hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged people living in challenging circumstances by providing them with essential items they need but can’t afford.”

Labour’s Lord Andrew Adonis and Tory MEP Daniel Hannan debated Brexit this week, helping Jewish Care to raise £25,000, writes Mathilde Frot.

More than 200 people gathered at Claridge’s in Mayfair to listen to the two politicians discuss their views on Brexit over breakfast.

Opening the debate, Lord Howard Leigh praised the Jewish charity’s work supporting members of the community who live

Adonis (left) versus Hannan

with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Moderating the Brexit debate, Sky News political correspondent

Tamara Cohen quipped she “had not spoken in front of that many Jews since my batmitzvah”.

Lord Adonis said that leaving the EU would be a “mistake” and a “national act of self-harm” incurring a “generation long negotiation”.

Hannan quoted former PM Winston Churchill: “We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.”

GALLIM GAP YEAR The United Synagogue is hoping to attract 20 young people for its new 11-month gap year programme in Israel starting next September.

Called Gallim (Hebrew for ‘waves’), it will be based in Tel Aviv and surrounding areas, with work placements with hospitals, nursery and museums four days a week. When they are not volunteering, participants can expect to hike to the Kinneret and in Eilat, ski in Mount Hermon, stay on a Kibbutz or join shabbat programmes in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Sderot.

Volunteers will live independently in an apartment, cooking for themselves, under the guidance of group mentors, in what organisers say is a chance to learn Hebrew, experience daily-life in the country and contribute to Israeli society.

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FROM MEAH SHE’ARIM TO MANCHESTER Shtisel star Michael Aloni returned to the UK this week for two packed-out events in London and Manchester with JNF UK.

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Delayed review of PA school books underway tify where action needs to A major government review into be taken and help ensure incitement and antisemitism in children get a quality eduPalestinian textbooks that was due cation.” to have been completed this month He added that “antihas only just begun, writes Stephen semitism, violence and Oryszczuk. hate have no place in any The Department for Intersociety.” national Development (DfID) The six-month delay announced the review with the EU has been due to a change six months ago, saying it would be of Palestinian Education complete by September 2019. HowMinister and to contractual ever, contractual disputes with the negotiations between the reviewing institute alongside a PalEU and the Georg Eckert estinian cabinet reshuffle meant Institute for International that the work began only this month.

Textbook Research, which In March, DfID said: “The results Palestinian students in the West Bank city of Ramallah is carrying out the work. of the review will be used to identify The UK has increased its aid budget the steps necessary to ensure such books said there had been “some delays” and promote peace and tolerance. Work on while any new completion was yet to be to Palestinian refugees in recent months, this topic will begin immediately, with announced, it was likely to be 2020. “After and UK aid helps pay vetted Palestinian results from the review available to the some delays, the EU has now started work teachers’ salaries, but it does not pay Palestinian Authority and partners by on the review,” a DfID spokesman said. for textbooks for primary or secondary “This independent review, which has schoolchildren in the occupied PalesSeptember 2019.”

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An Orthodox rabbi in Manchester, facing dismissal by his relatively liberal congregation, is considering a lawsuit for religious and age-based discrimination if he is fired.

The prospect of a precedent-setting lawsuit is the latest twist in a protracted struggle in Manchester between Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag and some of his congregants.

The threat, reported by the Jewish Telegraph, came from unnamed supporters of Guttentag at his Whitefield Synagogue. The congregation’s board, which has employed Guttentag for more than a decade, has called a 19 September meeting to “confirm the termination of the contract of employment” of Guttentag and Cantor Joseph Muller.

In November, the board decided to “restructure the roles” of both spiritual leaders, whose remuneration was taking “too much of [the] budget,” the board said. But other issues include the board’s belief that Guttentag, who in 2010 described himself as “strictly Orthodox,” is “too rightwing and strict” for the synagogue’s “middle-of-the-road-membership”, an unnamed source told the Telegraph. The board tried to fire him in 2012.

Establishing a kollel religious seminary and ban on girls reciting Torah in front of the ark during Shabbat bat mitzvah ceremonies are also contentious, the article said.

Riley’s pledge to silence hate trolls The public figures have Ex-England striker Gary Lineker and Jewish Count- been convinced by new down presenter Rachel Riley research that suggests hate are among clebrities who speech is being inadvertently have pledged not to publicise spread via social media when the social media abuse they insults, put downs or worse are quoted or shared. receive from trolls.

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Rachel Riley those being badgThey want to ered online. stamp out entirely The reports recommends those who are using social media to spread racist, sexist, muting notifications and xenophobic and other hateful taking a break from social messaging via retweets and media, before escalating public shaming by well-known anything thought to be unlawful. figures on social media.

Manchester racism review Members of a big Reform Jewish community in central Manchester have told the Law Commission how they experience hatred on the streets of the city.

Members of the Reform Jackson’s Row Synagogue gave feedback as part of the Commission’s travelling review as it seeks to understand whether the UK’s current hate crime law is fit-forpurpose.

I started in my post two years ago and in that time I have been shocked by the stories of antisemitism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia that my community shares about their experiences on the streets of Manchester,” Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen told the commission.

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The two vehicles were involved in an accident on Monday in Cockfosters

Two people were taken to hospital after a lorry crashed into the back of a bus on Monday’s morning school run to JCoSS. The school confirmed no students were seriously injured in the incident.

The London Ambulance Service was called to reports of a road traffic collision on Cockfosters Road at approximately 8.30am.

A spokesman for the service said: “We dispatched an incident response officer, a medic in a response car and three ambulance crews. We also dispatched our hazardous area response team.

“We assessed a number of people at the scene. We took two patients to hospital: one

of these to a major trauma centre.”

One of the parents who was at the scene revealed her daughter suffered a friction burn to her nose from the seat in front. “The school was fantastic and so were the emergency services,” she told Jewish News.

JCoSS headteacher Patrick Moriarty said: “We have been extraordinarily proud of our students throughout this incident.

Their behaviour, resilience and maturity have been a huge credit to them and to the school.

“We have contacted the police as a matter of routine today, but are not aware of any information on the condition of the lorry driver.”

LONDON’S TOP COP DAME CRESSIDA DICK MEETS WITH JEWISH LEADERS Two of the first engagements made by the newly honoured Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, were with the Jewish community, writes Jenni Frazer.

Last Wednesday, after her return from Australia, where she discussed counterterrorism with southern hemisphere colleagues, Dame Cressida spoke to more than 130 UK and European rabbis as part of Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s pre-High Holy Days seminar.

The police chief, who received her damehood as part of former Prime Minister Theresa May’s resignation honours, addressed a packed audience under Cressida Dick (centre)

the auspices of the UK Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (UKAJLJ).

Dame Cressida spoke about hate crime and combating terrorism. She said there had been 600 antisemitic hate crimes reported nationally in the past six months, 60 percent in the Met’s jurisdiction. However, while not seeking to diminish the issue or be complacent, she said the vast majority of such hate crimes were not violent.

Praising the Met’s relationship with the Community Security Trust (CST), Dame Cressida called it “exceptional”, adding that she believed it was “very important that CST helps other minority communities”.

She also spoke warmly of links with Israeli police. The Met Assistant Commissioner, Neil Basu, was in Israel last week, meeting opposite numbers in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and discussing technology and training in what Dame Cressida called “a very important relationship”.

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Chief: Secularists are now more combative

Humanists UK chief executive Andrew Copson

respect. By all means, live your lives according to the values you hold dear.

However, if it is freedom you seek, please do not campaign against our freedom to practice our faith.”

Rabbi Mirvis expressed concern about Humanists UK, a charity opposed to state-funded faith schools, saying that those “who campaign against the existence of faith schools are in effect campaigning against my freedom to raise my children in accordance with the tenets of my faith.

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Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has said he fears humanists are becoming “ever-more combative” towards faith communities, writes Mathilde Frot.

Speaking at a conference in Madrid this week, the Chief Rabbi called on proponents of the movement to cease campaigning against religious practices like faith schools or circumcision in boys.

Rabbi Mirvis told the conference: “We are finding that, often, Humanism, and other secularist approaches, seek out opportunities to attack faith. I have always believed that when it comes to self-definition, the finest way for people to describe themselves is by explaining what they live for. It is a failing of human nature that, increasingly, people self-define according to what they are against.”

Mirvis added: “Humanism, with a small ‘h’, sits at the centre of what it means to be a Jew. But there is a different Humanism, with a capital ‘H’, which I fear is becoming ever-more combative in the way in which it regards faith communities.

“So to my humanist friends, I call out to you in friendship and with

“We may play different instruments, each one with a unique sound, but when we all play together under the baton of respectful cooperation, we can create beautiful harmony,” he said.

In response, the charity’s chief executive Andrew Copson said: “We work with many religious groups with whom we share liberal social values. The coalition we co-founded for the reform of faith schools was chaired by a rabbi,” he added, referring to the Accord Coalition, a group

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“We are ready to engage likewise with the Rabbi Mirvis at any time to explore what we share and how we can work together towards any shared goals and in the cause of greater mutual understanding,” Copson added.

“I much regret these words of Rabbi Mirvis and don’t believe they are fair, or that they reflect any attempt to engage either with our principles or our work.”

Rabbi Mirvis also extended criticism to Stephen Evans, the CEO of the National Secular Society, over his stance on circumcision.

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Tributes to ‘remarkable’ Gen Hundreds of people paid tribute to the “bride of Belsen”, survivor Gena Turgel, who gave a voice to the millions of victims murdered by the Nazis, writes Mathilde Frot.

Actress Tracy Ann Oberman, TV presenter Natasha Kaplinsky, Lord Eric Pickles and former MP Ed Balls were among those honouring Gena at artsdepot in North Finchley last Thursday, along with the Holocaust Educational Trust and Mizrachi UK. Gena, who died last year at the age of 95, dedicated her life to sharing her testimony with hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, publishing in 1987 her memoir, I Light A Candle.

She survived the Krakow ghetto, a death march, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and BergenBelsen before marrying British solider Norman Turgel under a makeshift chuppah in Belsen six months after her liberation.

Gena, who helped care for Anne Frank while

the diarist was dying from typhus, met the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 2015 and was made an MBE for her contribution to Holocaust education.

Speakers shared memories of Gena, and attendees were given a chance to admire her beautiful wedding dress fashioned from parachute silk, which was brought in for the occasion from the Imperial War Museum, and will soon be displayed at its new Holocaust exhibition.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis described Gena as a “symbol of everything that is good and great” in a short clip played at the event.

“For me, she represented tivka, hope, for humanity at this challenging time because she was determined to guarantee that good would always prevail over evil, that light would always get the better of darkness,” he said. “We all have been impacted by her in a positive way.”

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Historic shul bought in Valleys A Jewish heritage organisation has bought a disused but architecturally significant 147-year-old synagogue in the Welsh valleys, with plans to turn it into a museum of Welsh Jewry, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

The Foundation for Jewish Heritage, based in London and led by founder and chief executive Michael Mail, announced on Thursday it had bought Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue, more than a year after first declaring an interest.

“We are delighted to have bought the former Merthyr Tydfil synagogue, which is currently in a very poor state,” said Mail.

“The building is a nationally-recognised historic site, which we want to use to tell a unique national story of the Welsh Jewish community. In restoring the building, we want it to once again play a meaningful role in the life of Merthyr.”

A Grade II stone structure completed in 1872 and designed in Gothic Revival style, it is the oldest purpose-built synagogue still standing in Wales and is considered “architecturally one of the most important synagogues in the UK today”.

Merthyr Tydfil was the industrial powerhouse of Wales in the 19th century, and its largest town. There has been a Jewish presence there since the 1830s and the Foundation said the synagogue “reflected a community that was growing and prospering”, with more than 400 members in the early 20th century.

However, as the town’s fortunes changed, the Jewish community of Merthyr dwindled, and in 1983 the synagogue was sold.

It was used for various purposes, but since 2006 it has lain empty, except for a colony of bats.

“Its condition has deteriorated and the fabric of the building has been compromised, with a gaping hole in the roof and broken windows,” the Foundation said last year.

In its annual report, filed at the end of September last year, it said the site had “become our current special focus”, along with the Great Synagogue in Slonim Belarus and the Etz Hayim synagogue in Izmir Turkey.

After the Merthyr synagogue was put up for sale, the Foundation canvassed views on the creation of a “Welsh Jewish heritage centre that would recognise, celebrate and educate about the 250-year history of the Jewish community in Wales”.

It said the idea was “well received by the Merthyr Municipality” and local Jewish and heritage communities in Wales, and a feasibility study was undertaken, considering issues such as future funding, including the possibility of a Heritage Lottery Fund bid.

The Foundation, which claims historian Sir Simon Schama among its trustees, would not be drawn on the purchase price, and was now seeking funding for the restoration work.

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Merthyr Tydfil Shul will house a museum of Welsh Jewry

It hopes to work with a team in South Wales currently creating an oral history of Welsh life of yesteryear, and a team led by Professor Nathan Abrams at the University of Bangor, which is fundraising to preserve and showcase Jewish life in North Wales.

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the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, while her grandson chazan Jonny Turgel performed Dreams of a Nation, accompanied by an eight-piece band, and running commentary

by Rabbi Andrew Shaw chronicling Israel’s birth.

“Gena loved listening to music and also to Jonny as well,” the musician’s cousin Adam Tash told Jewish News before the performance.

He said: “She was so proud of him, and one of the last events she came to, she went to listen to Jonny in Dreams of a Nation [at Bushey United Synagogue last year]. She said it was one of the best days of her life. She really enjoyed it.

“Through music, you get a feeling of closeness to somebody and her love for Israel really comes out of it. It tells a story. It’s her life,” he added.

Speaking at the event, Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) chief executive Karen Pollock praised Gena’s work. “She was one of the most remarkable people I have ever met. Glam-

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ena, who was ‘admired by all’

Gena’s family lights six candles to remember those who perished in the Shoah

orous, witty and forthright, she was admired by all she met, including students, teachers, politicians and royalty,” she said.

“Gena was awarded an MBE for her determined efforts to ensure we all remember and learn about the Holocaust.”

Kaplinsky shared fond memories of her famous apple strudel, saying she thought she had been invited to a private lunch with Gena to taste her favourite dessert. However, she said: “Where we were going to be eating apple strudel was a hall and I was the guest speaker, and Gena had sold tickets.”

She added: “Gena is someone I will never forget. She had so much dignity and pride.

Most of all, she was utterly charming. She was so proud of her family and never missed an opportunity to share her devotion to them.”

Oberman told attendees: “One of the things we all remember about Gena was her abundance of spirit and overwhelming generosity.”

Gena’s family said in a statement: “We are delighted so many are joining us to remember our remarkable grandmother. We look forward to honouring her memory and sharing her story, passions and values.”

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YOUTUBER DROPS DONATION Esther was an ‘inspiration’ A Swedish YouTuber with 101 million subscribers has withdrawn a promised donation to an antisemitism charity amid a whirlwind of online conspiracy theories.

Felix Kjellberg, who posts video blogs under the name ‘PewDiePie,’ had said he would give $50,000 (£40,150) to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), but this week backtracked after fans hit out against his decision.

In 2017, ADL cheered Disney’s decision to cut commercial ties with PewDiePie after he paid two Indian men to hold up banners reading ‘Death to Jews’. He said the stunt was to “show how crazy the modern world is”, and how people “would say anything for five dollars”, but a later video showed a man dressed as Jesus saying: “Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong.”

In 2018, the ADL mentioned him in its rundown of the year’s “top 11 moments of hate”.

Earlier this year, the star was referenced by the man accused of committing the Christchurch mass shootings. Kjellberg said he was “absolutely sickened” by that and was concerned he

PewDiePie and his ‘Death to Jews’ prank

was being linked to the alt-right and far-right movements. He promised to donate funds from a sponsorship deal to the ADL, describing it as fighting “bigotry and prejudice in all its forms”.

This sparked frenzied online rumours he was being blackmailed by the ADL, and in his most recent video, he retracted the promised donation while acknowledging fans had gone into “full conspiracy mode”.

He said he had “made the mistake of picking a charity I was advised to instead of [one] I’m personally passionate about,” adding he would still be giving the money to an anti-hate charity.

Tributes have been paid to Jewish Care resident Esther Shupick, who has died aged 101.

The Lady Sarah Cohen House resident appeared in this year’s Jewish Care dinner film, shown to 900 guests. The night raised £5.2 million for the charity.

The short clip was filmed on Esther’s birthday and features an interview with actress Tracy Ann Oberman, who told her: “You’re inspirational.”

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RABBIS MEET UP IN LONDON Almost 50 rabbis from across Europe met in London last week for the Conference of European Rabbis’ Young Rabbis Seminar. The event, held at Finchley United Synagogue, focused on issues affecting communities across Europe, including Jewish identity and strategies for supporting victims of abuse. Rabbi Lebel, the organisation’s rabbinical director, opened the seminar which gathered together young rabbinical talent from across the continent, including Moldova and Turkey.

CONCERNS OVER SCOT CENSUS Scottish politicians have been told that omitting ‘Jewish’ under ‘Ethnicity’ in the next census risks “under-counting” Scotland’s Jewish population. The comments were made by Amy Wilson, director of statistical services at National Records of Scotland. It comes after Ephraim Borowski of the Scottish Councils of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC) told the Board of Deputies that more than a quarter of those who ticked ‘Jewish’ under ‘Ethnicity’ did not tick ‘Jewish’ under ‘Religion.

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Vandals attack EU’s Israel headquarters The office of the European Union’s delegation in Israel was vandalised with graffiti reading “Get out EU” and “German money kills Jews.”

The graffiti was spray painted in red paint on the offices in Ramat Gan, located next to Tel Aviv on Sunday.

Anti-asylum seeker activist, Sheffi Paz, filmed herself committing the vandalism, and later admitted to it. In the video, broadcast on Channel 12 TV, Paz says: “Stop subsidising terrorists, stop financing illegal immigration and get out of Israel.”

Paz is a supporter of the nationalist-religious Yamina party and has been praised by its leader Ayelet Shaked. She is the head of the South Tel Aviv Liberation Front, committed to the deportation of all asylum seekers from Israel.

EU Ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret said in a statement: “Today the lobby of the EU Delegation was vandalised with threatening slogans on the walls. No one of my colleagues was in the office as we are closed on Sunday. This incident is deplorable and has to be condemned. We will continue to do our job.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz condemned the attack.

“I am appalled by and condemn the disgraceful vandalism of the EU Mission in Israel.

Far right activists daubed the EU office

Israel is committed to maintaining the security of all diplomatic missions The Israeli police are investigating the case, and I expect the culprits will be swiftly brought to justice,” he said in a tweet.

Delegation staff members gave the police footage from the building’s security cameras and filed an official complaint to the Foreign Ministry.

German politician storms out A far-right German politician, notorious for controversial statements on Holocaust commemoration, has threatened a journalist for comparing his quotes to those of Hitler.

Björn Höcke, who leads the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern state of Thuringia, walked out of an interview, threatening a journalist from the state broadcaster ZDF with “massive consequences”.

The journalist had earlier put a quote to six of Höcke’s AfD colleagues and asked them whether it was by Höcke or from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Kampf Only one said it was probably from Hitler. In fact, it was Höcke, a former history teacher,

who said: “When the turning point is reached, then we Germans won’t do things by halves, we will dispose of the rubbish heaps of modernity.”

Journalist David Gebhard asked Höcke whether his use of phrases with Nazi associations, such as Volksverderber (corruptor of the people) and Lebensraum (living space), was accidental or deliberate.

In May 2018, speaking at a beer hall rally in Dresden, Höcke called Berlin’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame” and urged for a “180 degree reversal” on how Germany commemorates and atones for the Nazi era.

“We Germans are the only people in the world that have planted a monument of shame in the heart of their capital,” he said.

Josef Schuster of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said the comments were “antisemitic”, adding: “I’d have never dared imagine it possible for a politician to say such things 70 years after the Shoah.”

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Seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher is “conscious” after receiving pioneering treatment in Paris from a Jewish cardiologist, Le Parisien has claimed. The race driver was spotted arriving at GeorgesPompidou Hospital in an ambulance registered in Geneva. Hospital staff told the regional that Schumacher was “conscious”, but neither the former racing driver’s management nor the hospital confirmed reports when reached by Jewish News.

A Palestinian woman was shot and killed at a West Bank checkpoint after she pulled out a knife and tried to stab an Israeli police officer.

The woman killed at the Qalandiya checkpoint in northern Jerusalem was identified as Alaa Wahdan, 28, from the nearby Qalandiya refugee camp, Haaretz reported.

The Palestinian Maan news agency reported that the woman was 50.

She reportedly ignored calls from police to halt.

A teenager is accused of deliberately swerving his car – twice – at two Jewish men while the passengers yelled insults about their religion.

The incident occurred on Saturday in Jackson, New Jersey. The men were standing near the curb in front of a home and had to jump out of the way. A witness called police to report the incident, according to the report. Police tracked down the driver, a juvenile, after being given the car’s licence plate number.

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Special Report / Who is a Jew?

Being Jewish is not a black or white issue A recent survey found there are more Jews of colour than thought, writes Josefin Dolesten The Jewish community has been undercounting the number of people of colour in the United States who identify as Jewish.

Researchers examined 25 population studies of American Jews and found that many failed to ask about race and the methods they used meant that non-white Jews were undersampled.

“The Jewish community has consistently been inconsistent with respect to how it attempts to account for Jews of colour within the American Jewish community,” said lead researcher Ari Kelman from Stanford University.

Using three of the most comprehensive surveys that did ask about race and ethnicity, the researchers said they could estimate that 12-15 percent of US Jews are people of colour.

The surveys used to come up with the esti-

Participants in a think tank hosted by the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative. (Courtesy of Jews of Color Field Building Initiative)

mate – the American Jewish Population Project, or AJPP, and community surveys done in New York in 2011 and San Francisco in 2017 – found a range of 10 to 14 percent Jews of

colour. These surveys included data on people who self-identify as non-white, mixed race or Hispanic, and about 11 percent of Jews were in this category.

However, the researchers believe that this is an underestimation, saying it is probably in the range of 12 to 15 percent. Kelman said: “We offer population estimates based on data that was gathered inconsistently, so they should be read, interpreted and shared as we wrote them, which is as estimates.”

The report, released earlier this month, was commissioned by the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative (JCFBI), which seeks to advance and educate about Jews of colour.

It was funded with a £28,700 grant from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

It comes at a time when the Jewish community is increasingly focusing on race and diversity. The Reform movement, the Jewish Renewal movement, the Jewish Women’s Archive and Repair the World have launched initiatives or said they are focusing on educating and promoting diversity in the community.

JCFBI director Ilana Kaufman commissioned the research because of the dearth of data available on the issue. “There are all these questions that come up when talking about Jews of colour and there’s a paucity of information,” said Kaufman, whose mother is Ashkenazi and father is African-American.

Presenting the results last week at the UJAFederation of New York, Kaufman recalled speaking about racism in the community two years ago. Following the presentation, an audience member said he had rarely come across people of colour in the community.

“I think you’re really a unicorn and that this whole discussion around Jews of colour and community diversity is much more an issue for the very few Jews of colour in the community,” she recalled the man telling her.

Kaufman added: “That story illustrates the… space between the perception and the reality of our US Jewish community, and we have to use tools and data and facts to inform who we are.”

The researchers found that studies undercounted Jews of colour in various ways,

including by failing to ask about race and ethnicity, or doing so in inconsistent and incomplete ways.

For example, some surveys asked if respondents were Hispanic or Sephardi without asking about any other racial or ethnic groups.

The way many studies sampled respondents was also problematic, the researchers said. Some recruited respondents who had “distinctively Jewish names” or by relying on community lists.

The researchers said that disadvantages Jews of colour, because many of them do not have stereotypically Jewish names and often are underrepresented in communal organisations.

Gamal Palmer, the Los Angeles federation’s senior vice president of leadership development, said the lack of data on the racial makeup of the Jewish community creates “a blind spot”, where organisations are not properly able to create programming to engage people of colour.

“Our hope is that this will give us some tools and some perspectives to help us direct our work towards the JoC [Jews of Colour] community in a way that is effective and meaningful,” he said.

In addition to federation officials, representatives of 70 to 100 communal groups, as well as city government staff, are expected to attend the Los Angeles event. Palmer, an African-American Jew, hopes the event will help communal leaders make sure Jews of colour don’t feel alienated.

Creating inclusive spaces means “people going to synagogue or sending their kids to camp, and that there shouldn’t be a worry about whether they’ll be accepted, whether someone will say something offensive or make them feel like that they’re not Jewish,” Palmer said, adding that he had experienced such comments and questioning.

Kaufman hopes the project will challenge that notion. “We need to think about ourselves, see ourselves as racially diverse,” she said. “We need to think about all of our communities as environments that should function as multiracial, diverse environments, even if there’s limited racial diversity in the micropopulation.”

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Jewish News meets... the 90-year-old Wimbledon champ

Len won’t take a break Whereas many of us may feel a pang of guilt at beating the youngster of the competition in the semi-finals, that was not the overriding emotion of Jewish tennis player Lennie Lawrence when he made it through to the finals earlier this summer, writes David Legmann.

“I was giving him five years,” said Lawrence, speaking to Jewish News. “He only turned 85 this year.”

Lawrence, 90, went on to win the Singles at the British Seniors’ Closed Grass Court Championships for Over 85s at Wimbledon at the end of August, and reached the semi-final of the Doubles with his partner Len Phillips, born five years later, in 1934.

“I have won Wimbledon four times in different age groups,” said Lawrence. “In 2015, my partner and I were 85+ World Doubles Champions.”

Despite the medals haul, he was a relatively late starter in tennis terms, having first picked up a racket competitively aged 35. However, he appears to have made up for lost time, reaching world champion status in later life.

He is currently ranked 42 in the world.

How does the Jewish tennis champ feel after his latest Wimbledon victory? “I felt very pleased at winning the title, and felt even more pleased at beating the No 1 seed in the semi-final as I was giving him five years.

“In the final, I played the No 2 seed and won the first game fairly comfortable, 6-2, but had a hard tussle in the second set and managed to win it in the tie break, 10-8,” he said, adding that it was “an extremely hot day”.

Lawrence now lives in Watford, but was born in the East End of London in 1929, to a religious family. He tried tennis in his teens, near the end of the Second World War, but preferred table tennis.

Only 20 years later did he rediscover a passion for the court, joining the Chandos Tennis Club in the 1960s.

“I first tried to join a club called Templars, round the corner from where I lived, but they were not very interested in taking Jewish people at the time.

When I told them I was Jewish, they said they had a quota for Jews and suggested I try Chandos,” he said.

More accepting of his Jewish background, Lawrence’s new club proved a blessing. “I liked it so much I took it up seriously and nagged all the good players at Chandos to play with me,” he recalled. “They very kindly did, and I progressed.” He is now the club’s president and admits that remaining an active 90-year-old sportsman “has its challenges”, including injuries.

Among his many court wounds has been a “completely torn tendon” in the shoulder,

A love for life: Tennis champion Lennie Lawrence fires a backhand across the net

which required extensive surgery to reattach it.

“When I had my shoulder injury, I had my arm in a sling 24/7. I had to sleep in it and shower in it, for nine weeks. I couldn’t play tennis for 10 months.” Yet far from showing signs of slowing down, Lawrence is full-steam ahead.

“On Thursday, I will be captaining the UK Men’s 85+ and we’re going to Croatia for the world championships. The following week, I’ll play in the Super Seniors’ Singles tournament.” It makes you tired just listening to him.

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Ukraine memorial / Righteous Poles / Russian shul / Moving stories / Diaspora News

Babi Yar memorial chosen includes a long ramp resembling a ditch or fissure leading to the core exhibition located 20 metres below ground.

The walls of the ramp rise up around the visitor, ultimately encasing them underground.

The journey made by visitors is intended to mirror the path taken by Babi Yar victims towards their place of their death in the ravine.

After travelling through the core exhibition, visitors will emerge into a luminous atrium, off which there are multiple teaching rooms.

The judging panel included Sir David Adjaye, who was recently forced to redesign his winning proposal for a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens in London, situated adjacent to the House of Parliament.

Photo by @Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

The winning design has been chosen for a new Holocaust memorial and education centre at the site of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine.

The site is where 33,771 Jews were killed in a ravine near today’s Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in over just two days by Nazi soldiers in September 1941, one of the largest single Holocaust massacres.

Last week, an expert jury unanimously selected the best architectural design, submitted by the Austrian architects Querkraft Architekten and Viennabased landscape architect Kieran Fraser.

The future Holocaust Memorial Center will be a museum, memorial, archive and research platform, allowing public dialogue and reflection on the tragedy.

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Your weekly digest of stories from the international press UNITED STATES

Artworks by children from around the world have been installed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The #HeartsTogether initiative is to show support for a community still reeling from a deadly terrorist attack in October 2018. Children from towns suffering mass shootings contributed drawings.

HUNGARY

Tributes have been paid to acclaimed Jewish author and anti-Communist dissident Gyorgy (George) Konrad, after he passed away aged 86. Konrad survived the Holocaust by jumping on a train to Budapest hours

before his town’s Jewish residents were deported to Auschwitz.

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Jewish refugees who returned to Germany have attended a Berlin City Hall event celebrating 50 years since the programme to support them was set up. Up to 35,000 Jews have returned to Germany since the Holocaust. In 1933, there were 165,000 Jews living in Berlin, but by 1945 that number had fallen to 7,000.

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A new Torah scroll was dedicated in Bratislava last week, making it the first one to be completed in the country since the Holocaust.

A 3D rendering of what the memorial will look like

Righteous Poles honoured

The medal given to the ‘heroic and exceptional’ Righteous among the Nations

A special event was held in Warsaw to honour 30 Poles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

The group, some of whom are aged over 100, made their way to the capital on Sunday for a luncheon organised by Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR).

The rescuers have all been recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum.

More than 27,000 non-Jews risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis during the war,

Local authorities in the Russian city of Syzran have returned a synagogue to the local Jewish community 90 years after it was shuttered by the Communists.

The 1,500 sq. ft. synagogue, built in 1910 and closed 20 years later, was returned last week, the SyzranSmall website reported.

Syzran, in the Volga region, at the foot of the Ural Mountains, has a small Jewish com-

The synagogue of Syzran

munity, which numbered just 150 during the war.

Mayor Nikolay Lyadin said it would be listed as a Monument for Preservation, adding that it would be rededicated and receive a Torah scroll.

The Jewish community asked for the return of the synagogue in 1943, during the Stalin’s era. The request was unusual, since Jewish communities were rarely granted concessions from Soviet authorities.

Jewish communities around the Volga flourished after the 1950s because universities there did not discriminate against Jewish students who were not admitted to higher education institutions further west.

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RUSSIAN CITY RETURNS SHUL AFTER 90 YEARS

WHAT A NIGHT FOR BIRTHRIGHT! Some 2,500 young Jews attended the Taglit-Birthright festivities in Odessa, Ukraine, to encourage candidates to sign up for a trip to Israel. It was the largest Birthright gathering outside the Jewish state.

the most of any nation, but many have since passed away.

“These righteous gentiles are dwindling in number, such that the JFR luncheon is likely to be among the last of such commemorations of its kind,” the organisation said.

The event was also attended by foreign diplomats, as well as religious and community leaders, who spoke at the gathering.

Israeli ambassador-designate Alexander Ben-Zvi and US Deputy Chief of Mission Bix Aliu, who is of Albanian heritage, both paid tribute to

the rescuers’ extraordinary courage.

JFR vice president Stanlee Stahl said: “These are heroic people of exceptional character who risked their lives and those of their families to save Jews during the Holocaust. This special event is designed to recognise them and give them the proper honour they deserve.”

JFR is one of several organisations that provide monthly financial assistance to the Righteous in 18 European countries. The majority live in Eastern Europe, with Poland having the largest number.

Yad Vashem online exhibition opening Yad Vashem is set to mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War by uploading a new exhibition featuring personal stories depicting Jewish family life in Europe in 1939.

The accounts included in the exhibition describe the progression of the war using Holocaust-era documents, photographs and artefacts from Yad Vashem’s archives.

Survivors such as Mira Zabludowski describe the noise of machine guns and “the thunder of planes reverberating in the air” to an “increase in terror” and of having “to run to save those buried alive under the rubble”.

The exhibition also presents the story of the Majer family from Belgrade. Of the 21 people featured in one family photograph, one died before the war, 19 were killed during the Holocaust, and only one survived. “Even 80 years on it is still hard to understand the huge discrepancy between Jewish life before the war and their tragic fate during the Holocaust,” said researcher and curator Yona Kobo. “We see families form Yugoslavia, Germany, Austria, Poland, Romania, Greece and Czechoslovakia in their happiest days – weddings, births and other joyous events.

“But we also see them in hard financial times, searching for escape routes, struggling to cope with their worsening daily lives – and in the end, the mass murder of the Jews.”

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Five years ago Jeremy Corbyn was just an unruly backbencher and Donald Trump a narcissistic property investor, nobody had heard the term Brexit and Jewish News published its most recent 40 Under 40 list of community movers and shakers.

Today the world of 2014 seems almost unrecognisable, making this week’s return of not only 40 Under 40 but also 25 Under 25 and 18 Under 18 such a revealing and intriguing proposition.

In conjunction with the Jewish Leadership Council, we once again aim to pinpoint those who appear poised to occupy senior roles within communal organisations as well as those likely to shape the direction and perceptions of Anglo-Jewry in fields such as politics, charity and education.

Jewish News readers are invited to nominate individuals they believe to be deserving of inclusion in our final list of 40 individuals aged under 40, which will be published – with great fanfare – across four special issues from February 2020.

Nominations will also come from our panel, selected from across our diverse and dynamic community.

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Continued from page 1 While hardly motivating, it didn’t seem to matter, because he wasn’t Netanyahu, and in the end, in September 2019, that finally seemed enough. This laid bare another key question in all this: would most British Jews mourn Netanyahu’s downfall? After all, the vast majority of British Jews want Israel to thrive – ALL of Israel, not just the Jewish bits.

Sweat not. If Gantz is now the man to lead Israel, he will make sure it is protected – from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Iran and who knows who else.

After all, that was his job for a many more years than anyone else in this race.

If wise, Gantz may also choose to repair relations within Israel, after years of divisiveness caused by a prime minister who has cynically, often out of what he perceived as necessity, used division for party-political gain. If he did, it would breathe new and much-needed life into the Israel-Diaspora relationship. That would be an outcome virtually every British Jew would welcome.

He may not get a chance. Netanyahu may yet have rabbits to pull. If he does, it wouldn’t be the first time. Israeli politics, if nothing else, surprises.

Watch this space.

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Regavim upholds the law We are engaged British Jews who care as deeply about Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state, as do the signatories to “Don’t settle for this” (Jewish News, 5 September 2019).

We are shocked that members of our community could send a letter of such hatred and bile, based on ignorance, about an organisation dedicated to monitoring the relentless theft of land, enshrined in international law, as under Jewish sovereignty.

Extant binding international treaties, particularly the Mandate for Palestine of 1922, call for the “close settlement of Jews” on all the land west of the Jordan river, allotted to the future Jewish state. Thus was the “settlement enterprise” legally mandated.

One cannot “illegally occupy” land that one owns.

The 1995 Oslo 2 accords, mandated which of Areas A, B and C, could be settled by Arabs and which

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Nahamu’s declared main objective is that of “tackling extremism within the Jewish community”. Its website is in my view littered with hostile innuendo concerning the strictly-Orthodox.

I do not believe for a moment that my brief negative article about that organisation in the Jewish Tribune – a report based on a press release, not an opinion piece – could

possibly have triggered “a surge in donations”, as claimed (Jewish News, 5 September).

If that were the case, I would indeed be comforted – not just by the diversity of the Jewish Tribune’s readership, but by my own newly-discovered fundraising skills, which I would be tempted to employ for far more worthy causes.

Brian Gordon, Edgware

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CONWAY MADE IT CLEAR THERE WERE CONCERNS WITH RACISM When selecting their candidate to contest the seat for Finchley and Golders Green, the constituency Labour Party chose from a wide field, a local Jewish woman with strong links to our community. She was also known for her work on interfaith programmes and wider charity and community work.

In the original article, she made it quite clear there were serious concerns about the level of antisemitism within the Labour Party and reported that she was not only an active supporter of the #enoughisenough campaign but was using her position as the Labour candidate standing in one of the UK’s largest Jewish communities to address these issues directly with senior party staff.

It is completely disingenuous to suggest that when Ms Conway referred to the Equality and Human Rights Commission investigation she meant it was ‘complicit in weaponising the issue’ when, in fact, she was making a simple point that there is a legitimate investigation.

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by Jewish leadership organisations for using antisemitism to promote her brand of right-wing politics.

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Auschwitz pictures are matter of selfie respect JENNI FRAZER

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nadvertently, I’ve been caught in a social media war because of a selfie.

I should explain. It took me years, despite writing professionally about the Holocaust and all its horrors, to visit the worst of the Nazi concentration camps —Auschwitz.

I visited Mauthausen and Teresienstadt years ago and was somewhat horrified at my response: a terrible outpouring of emotion which I couldn’t help but wonder, was it fake on my part, or genuine? After all, as far as I know, I had not lost anyone in the camps — or indeed in the Holocaust at all. I say “as far as I know” advisedly, because such eastern European relatives as I may have had, have vanished in our family history. I have no means of knowing if they died peacefully or in torment.

So I really didn’t trust my tears and was nervous about going to Auschwitz, which I eventually did a few years ago under the auspices of March of the Living.

This was a much better — or worse — experience. We travelled with survivors and

educators, clearly laying out what had happened and where. This time, I felt, if I had tears, they were not insincere but motivated by empathy and better understanding.

The one thing that made me deeply uncomfortable, however, was the constant validation of visitor experience by the clicking of cameras. People were posing under the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” entrance, or standing for group shots against a barracks background.

I hated it, and I was visiting at a time when the selfie phenomenon had barely begun.

And so to today, where a perfect storm of bitching has erupted over a picture taken of a young woman, maybe in her late teens or early 20s — old enough to know better, anyway — posing on the railway tracks leading to the Birkenau part of the camp (pictured). Her pose, I’m sorry to say, invites

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the question of whether her behind looks big in the picture.

The Auschwitz Museum, which has been asking for respectful behaviour for months now, acknowledged that “pictures can capture important moments and shape our memory”. But, the museum added: “There are lines that should not be crossed. The lines of respect and decency. The lines of simple common sense.”

Frankly, I would have thought this rather gentle warning was basic stuff. You don’t, you simply don’t, take tourist-type selfies at a site where mass murder took place. Anyone who doesn’t understand this should not be there.

However. Several people who shared this observation made the same point on Facebook and Twitter — and, inevitably, unleashed the lunatics, a number of whom made vulgar and sexist comments about the woman in question.

And, unfortunately, it suddenly became a discussion about presumed misogyny on the part of those who had re-published her picture “without her permission”, had “shamed” her, had “humiliated” her.

Well, she didn’t seem to have thought twice about shaming and humiliating the memory of those who had died where she was standing. And I wonder if those people so eager to leap to her defence would have been so keen had the person posing been a young man.

Take away the misogyny element and what you are left with is a young person being stupid.

We were all young once. But it doesn’t mean we can’t learn from our mistakes.

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You require wide vision to cross a narrow bridge MIKE BLUESTONE

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ol Ha’olam kulo, gesher tsar me’od, ve’ha’ikar lo le’fached Klal…’ (The whole world is a narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to be afraid…)

The immortal words associated with the late Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, are embedded in Jewish memory, especially since the Holocaust, when those words were frequently uttered by Jewish victims as they met their dreadful, and unspeakable fate in concentration camps.

Why, you may ask, am I, as national chairman of AJEX, the UK’s Jewish veterans’ organisation, writing today in this vein?

The answer is that many members of our community are simply afraid. Sadly, fear has entered the Jewish psyche in the UK, a country which for generations has been a sanctuary for our community and whose people have been good and kind to us for

hundreds of years. These fears emanate from political uncertainty, and a clear and worrying rise in antisemitism, both from the hard left and far right. We live in a highly charged political climate where the spotlight is very much on our community, a spotlight we wish would be switchd off.

Of course, you know all of this, but the reason AJEX is now ramping up its engagement in combating antisemitism is despite the feelings of many of us that we are possibly re-living the 1930s and 40s, (although the landscape today is different to that dark period), we as the principal Jewish

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First and foremost, history does not repeat itself in exact terms. There are similarities in historical events and crises, but the outcomes of fear and threats depend to a large extent on how we face up to them and how we manage our responses.

Strong communal leadership is vital, as is adopting a defiant stance, not cowering or living in denial, and these are all key factors in fighting hatred and racism.

The core pillars of AJEX are to provide welfare, educational, and remembrance services and support to our members, but while we at AJEX take heart from the bold-

ness of other communal organisations who are calling out antisemitism and combating it, such as the Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council and the Community Security Trust, we as former servicemen and women will not remain silent either.

We will continue to promote the values of AJEX and service to Queen and country, and just as in the post-war period, when fascists once again appeared on the streets of the UK, we will play our part in combating such hatred, be it antisemitism or any other form of racism or bigotry.

We will also steadfastly continue to support the hundreds of current serving Jewish servicemen and women in HM forces, through the umbrella Jewish Military Association (JMA) of which AJEX, and the Jewish Committee for HM Forces are key components.

There is no magic bullet to cure fear, but maybe we should keep in mind the words of Rebbe Nachman, and work hard to quell our fears, however narrow the bridges in front of us may seem.

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It is thrilling to watch our community evolve NEIL MARTIN

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More than half of all pupils in Jewish schools are now working towards a volunteering award through JLGB’s eVOLve youth volunteering and skills initiative, which last night celebrated its fifth anniversary since first launched by the Chief Rabbi in 2014.

One of London’s most iconic music venues, the Roundhouse, was filled to capacity thanks to the support of Genesis Philanthropy Group, as JLGB brought together hundreds

of young award recipients from across the entire eVOLve award journey. This included participants from the Yoni Jesner Award, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, National Citizen Service and Open College Network Qualifications.

Through harnessing the collective power and impact of young volunteers, eVOLve’s vision was to create a digital social action journey that empowers Jewish young people to fully engage in meaningful volunteering, while enhancing their employability and transferable skills, enabling them to become active citizens in their local community and wider society.

The project was JLGB’s response to the ever-changing needs of young volunteers, bringing together all key stakeholders from across the community to ensure that youth social action becomes more accessible and more rewarding than ever before. Five years later, and with more than 150,000 hours already logged on the eVOLve platform, I think it’s safe to say that these phenomenal young people have created a revolution in youth volunteering.

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We’re still seeing Jewish clues in Kubrick’s work NATHAN ABRAMS

PROFESSOR OF FILM, BANGOR UNIVERSITY

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wenty years ago, legendary film director Stanley Kubrick released his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, and died a week later, aged 70.

It is worth remembering that the director of The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Lolita was rarely thought of as a Jewish director.

He never denied his ethnicity, but neither did he follow any religion. His Jewish parents did not practice much Judaism at home, Kubrick did not have a barmitzvah, and he said very little about the subject in his lifetime, although the traditional mourner’s Kaddish was performed at his funeral.

Despite the vast interest in Kubrick, there has been little exploration of his Jewish identity. Kubrick, though, did not just spring from nowhere. His origins and ethnicity played a part in shaping

Eyes Wide Shut was based on Jewish author Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 Traumnovelle (Rhapsody: A Dream Novel). Set in fin-de-siècle Vienna that was awash with Jews and Jewishness, it was described by the Nazis as “Jewish filth”.

Yet, in adapting it, Kubrick seems to have purged the story of its European and Jewish elements, possibly to give his film a broader and more universal appeal. He refused to give the main characters – Bill and Alice Harford (memorably played by real life married couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) – a recognisably Jewish name. As he told Jewish screenwriter Frederic Raphael, he wanted Bill to be a “Harrison Ford-ish goy”.

But, the source text was suffused with Jews and Jewishness to its very core, and Kubrick’s superficial whitewashing could not remove its Jewish traces. At the same time, he inserted a wholly-invented Jewish character, not found in the novella, called Victor Ziegler, played by recognisably Jewish actor/director Sydney Pollack.

his view of the world. Jewishness had a significant effect upon him, expressed, in part, by his desire to make a film about the Holocaust.

Kubrick may not have been practicing, but the religious framework of Jewishness and Judaism that surrounded him, however diluted, influenced his films. Its impact is apparent in his films obliquely, rarely explicitly, typically via analogies and metaphors that incorporated extensive biblical and other Jewish and Hebrew imagery.

Yet, Kubrick’s signature technique of misdirection, which he learned from his passion for chess (a very Jewish pastime!) simultaneously expressed his Jewishness while distracting many from recognising it.

Although he made 13 films (a barmitzvah of films no less), Kubrick described Eyes Wide Shut as his best. It was the culmination of a lifetime’s work, the one project he had wanted to make since becoming a filmmaker in the early 1950s. It was his most personal, autobiographical and complex movie, in terms of its and his Jewishness.

This character was a collection of classic anti-Jewish stereotypes: rich, corrupt and sexually perverse.

Kubrick further inserted a series of Jewish clues, but only for those able to decode them, wanting his audience to work hard. These are outlined in both of my books, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (2018) and Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (2019). One clear example is the knishery he had built on the set at Pinewood, modelled on the real-life Yonah Schimmel’s in the Lower East Side. Perhaps only a Jewish (or New York) audience would get its significance. Everyone else would just think it was a bakery.

It was a deeply personal project for Kubrick, perhaps more than any other.

That he chose this project over the other unfinished ones – Napoleon, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Aryan Papers (his film about the Holocaust) – is a testament to its importance and hence is the key to understanding Kubrick and his ethnicity.

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More than 100 people helped to raise over £30,000 for cardiac research at Great Ormond Street Hospital in memory of five-year-old Immanuel College pupil Shani Berman, who died of a congenital heart defect in 2017. The eight-hour event started at the hospital before finishing 20 miles away in Borehamwood. Participants were given the option of walking the 13-mile distance from Hampstead Heath or the five and 3/4-mile distance, a reference to the age Shani was when she died.

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Countdown star Rachel Riley stirred chocolate and prepared drinks at a charity event in north London, with celebrity chef Denise Phillips leading cooking demonstrations. The event, attended by more than 80 people, also featured a Q&A session with Riley, who told attendees about her recent wedding, love for Manchester United and activism against antisemitism. Enough funds were raised to purchase two gait trainer walkers for children with disabilities at Alyn Paediatric Hospital in Jerusalem.

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Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger was in Barnet where she spoke as part of a panel of pro-Remain politicians. She shared a stage with Independent MP Heidi Allen, Green Party co-leader Sian Berry and Lib Dem MEP Luisa Porritt for the event organised

by Chipping Barnet for Europe.

She told the audience: “It was so refreshing to join this allwomen panel, discussing with the audience how we can best stop the ongoing chaos and stop Brexit.”

4COOKING FOR ISRAEL TV chef Lisa Roukin shared her new recipes for Rosh Hashanah at a cooking demonstration in aid of Migdal Ohr UK to raise funds for food parcels to be sent to families in Israel before the Jewish New Year and at Passover. Amit Fraser, executive director of Migdal Ohr UK, said: “Israel has made tremendous progress in improving the welfare and development of the country, but still more than 260,000 children remain atrisk in Israel, a figure we cannot live with, especially considering this is one of the highest poverty rates in the developed world.”

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Students returned from an eight-week internship in Israel with Aish, Olami and JLE. One participant interned with ALEH hospital, for children with disabilities, while another had a placement at the Finance Ministry.

Aish’s director of campus, Rabbi Gideon Goldwater said the trip as “helped inspire and enthuse our participants with a strong desire to maintain their Jewish involvement.”

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Israeli tenor Shimi Goodman, accompanied on the piano by composer Chris Hamilton regaled a north London audience with melodies from musicals such as Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables. The evening raised funds for Israeli charities Forgotten People Fund and Musicians of Tomorrow, with the Nicholas Roth Memorial Trust and MyIsrael.

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More than 40 Jewish peers and allies in the House of Lords were invited for honey cake and tea overlooking the River Thames at an event sponsored by the Jewish Leadership Council ahead of Rosh Hashanah.

Hosted by Lord Palmer, Baroness Neuberger (pictured), Lord Mendelsohn and Baroness Altmann, there were speeches by Baroness Altmann, and Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev.

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faced stiff competition at a tournament at Barnet’s Dyrham Park Country Club, raising a total of £40,000 for Jewish Care. The funds will go to the charity’s Rela Goldhill at Otto Schiff, which serves adults with physical disabilities and sensory impairments. The winning team, pictured with professional golfer Chris Gane, scored 94 points.

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Twenty Israeli former elite soldiers were hosted by Borehamwood and Elstree United Synagogue, Ohr Yisrael and Elstree Shtiebel as participants in Peace of Mind, a nine-month rehabilitation programme run

by Metiv, the Israel Psychotrauma Center, to help veterans face the transition back into civilian life. Highlights of the week included a tour of Westminster, a trip to see the Lion King and an evening at a golf driving range. Organisers said the group had never picked up a golf club before but veterans were hitting targets on the range with “incredible accuracy” within 10 minutes.

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Guest speaker Col Richard Kemp said UK and Israel relations have “never been stronger” at a reception in central London held

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The way we WAR...

A new film claims Winston Churchill and Hollywood director Alexander Korda used ‘subtle propaganda’ to sway American opinion to join the war, writes Francine Wolfisz

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here are many things that one can attribute to Alexander Korda. He was Britain’s first film maven to receive a knighthood, the driving force behind a string of cinematic successes, such as The Thief of Baghdad and The Third Man and even a talent scout, with the likes of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier signed up well before Hollywood became familiar with those names.

Intriguingly, the Hungarian-Jewish émigré provided cover to MI6 agents working in Europe during the war by pretending they were employed by his company, London Films.

But what is less well-known is his enduring friendship with Winston Churchill – and the suggestion the pair collaborated in bringing the United States into the Second World War through the medium of film.

That tantalising scenario is now explored for the first time in a new BBC4 documentary, Churchill and the Movie Mogul, which features evidence from previously unseen documents.

Among those offering their opinions are Charles Drazin, who wrote a detailed biography on Korda, Lady Williams, one of Churchill’s last surviving secretaries, and Churchill biographer David Lough.

According to the documentary, Korda was introduced to Churchill in 1934 by Colonel Claude Dansey, the deputy head of MI6, who fought alongside him during the Boer War. At this time, Churchill’s political career was in the doldrums, having resigned from the Conservative shadow cabinet only years earlier.

Fast friends: Winston Churchill (left) and Alexander Korda

As director John Fleet notes: “Churchill’s views were against the mainstream at this time, so Korda was making a bold statement by supporting him.”

Why then did they become such fast friends?

“They were on the same page politically, they were both outsiders in that Churchill was halfAmerican and Korda from Hungary, and in a way they were kindred spirits. Churchill was also a polymath. He had an incredible knowledge of all kinds of things and advised Korda on a film, Conquest of the Air, about the history of aviation, as well as about British history. But he didn’t just know the details – he knew how to turn it into an entertaining story.

Churchill was seen as the go-to-guy.”

Meanwhile to Churchill, Korda fitted well into his “adventurous” circle of friends, who included Brendan Bracken and Lord Beaverbrook . “He sought out the rebels who could get cut through the red tape and get things done.”

After meeting him, Korda hired Churchill as a screenwriter, paying him a handsome £10,000 for two screenplays that while never made cemented the beginning of an enduring friendship.

From then on, Churchill played something of an advisory role, with the documentary claiming that the pair collaborated to pump out “subtle propa-

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ganda” through the guise of historical dramas, in a bid to sway American opinion towards joining the Allies during the Second World War. Lady Hamilton, made in 1941 and known as That Hamilton Woman in the States, was one such example.

Churchill, by now prime minister, is said to have enjoyed repeatedly watching the cinematic smash starring Olivier as Admiral Nelson and Leigh as his mistress and there is the suggestion he may have even written the scene in which Nelson warned against any peace deal with Napoleon: “Believe me gentleman, he wants to be the master of the world,” cries Oliver as the heroic Nelson. “You cannot make peace with dictators. You have to destroy them.”

The message to America is evident, but did such subconscious cries to battle really convince them to join the war?

“In realistic terms, Pearl Harbour was the defining reason why America joined the war,” concludes Fleet. “But the truth is that nobody goes to war for one reason alone and there’s no doubt these films helped shift public attitudes and convince the Americans there was an injustice that needed to be addressed.”  Churchill and the Movie Mogul airs on 25 September, 9pm, on BBC4.

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THEATRE Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO, Hannah Moscovitch’s great-grandmother, Chaya, set off from Bucharest as a young, childless widow, intent on starting a new life in Canada.

On arrival, she went to Pier 2, the Canadian equivalent of Ellis Island, where she met Chaim, a 19-year-old who fled Brașov following the murder of his relatives during a pogrom.

Their serendipitous meeting inspired playwright Moscovitch to pen the critically-acclaimed Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, which opened this week for a 10-day run in London.

The touching musical-play hybrid is set against edgy Klezmer-inspired compositions, which were co-written

by Moscovitch’s director husband, Christian Barry, and folk musician, Ben Caplan, who also takes on the role of the “chutzpahdik” narrator.

Describing Moscovitch’s writing as “a thing of spectacular beauty”, Caplan says the tale is as relevant to stories of refugees today as it was 100 years ago.

“We were all affected by the image of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, whose body washed up in 2015 on a Turkish beach, as well as by the words of former prime minister Stephen Harper, who referred to “Old Stock Canadians” to draw distinctions with new arrivals, which I thought

Top: Eric Da Costa as Chaim and Mary Fay Coady as Chaya. Below: Ben Caplan

was just reprehensible. It’s easy to refer to migrants as numbers, but it’s completely dehumanising and loses the stories of these individual lives.”

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story runs at Wilton’s Music Hall, Whitechapel, until Saturday, 28 September, www.wiltons.org.uk

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ART Yigal Ozeri: Insistently Real

LOOKING STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE VIEWER’S EYE, these sylphlike models smile, gaze and ponder as they have their picture taken – except not all is as it seems.

For as much as they seem like high-resolution photographs, the images are, in fact, oil paintings

by Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri.

Known for his expertise in hyper-realistic paintings of beautiful women and landscapes, the work of Ozeri – who today lives in New York – has been featured in collections around the world, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum of New York, The Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Now the talented 61-yearold’s latest work can be viewed for a limited time at Pontone Gallery in London. You have to see it to believe it!

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Lech fly away!

Lucy Daltroff enjoys the thrills and spills of a summer car rally around one of Austria’s most famous ski regions Thousands of visitors flock to Lech to enjoy the lush green surroundings

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Florian’s brother’s estate providing the wines. uring the winter months, Lech is the The décor is traditional, complete with place to be. This charming Austrian wooden panelling and antiques, all in contrast village is synonymous with skiing with the three-storey modern Badehaus spa that and luxury, attracting a well-heeled offers a large menu of treatments and a 15-metre clientele, including royals and celebrities long heated outdoor pool with unrestricted who come here for their winter sports. views of the Omeshorn Mountain.

Lech is very well-connected to its surroundIn the foreground is Lech: an Austrian village ings, with mechanical lifts and groomed pistes transporting visitors to the neighbouring villages surrounded by lush green mountains, the highest topped with liberal lashings of snow. of Zürs, St Christoph, St Anton, Stuben, and The prosperity of this whole region of Austria Warth – so it was interesting to hear that until is mainly down to the engineer Rudolf the end of the 19th century, the village actuGomperz (1878-1942), the son of ally used to spend its coldest months an aristocratic Viennese Jewish isolated and completely cut off family and pioneer of winter from the outside world. sports tourism.

But it’s not just a destination Rudolf studied railway for winter. The stunning scenery engineering in Berlin and makes it a great place to visit later worked on the Baghdad outside ski season. railway. While there, he Lech is in the Arlberg contracted malaria and was region of Austria, where a sent to St Anton to recuperate, fellow guest at the Gasthof Post where he settled and stayed.

Hotel tells me that even in the He soon devoted his energy warmer months, the high altitude to skiing, developing and producing means hayfever symptoms are At the Classic Car rally equipment both for civilian and lessened and there are no mosquimilitary use. After Hitler took power in 1933, toes either. I loved it immediately.

Gomperz had to resign from the German Ski The five-star hotel from Relais & Chateaux Association and then following the annexation has been run by the same family since 1937 of Austria, was fired from the tourist bureau and and Florian Moosbrugger and his wife Sandra required to wear the Star of David. continue it as a personal enterprise, with their Tragically, Rudolf was deported to the Maly young daughters helping out at reception and

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Trostinets extermination camp in Belarus and shot on 26 May 1942. But his legacy lives on, as thousands flock to to explore the beauty of this region every year.

One novel way to do that is to take part in the annual Arlberg Classic Car Rally, which marked its 10th anniversary this year and sees treasured vehicles compete on the scenic mountain roads between Lech and Warth.

Bundling into a 1970s Volkswagen Beetle was fun, but Inside the luxurious rooms at Gasthof Post Hotel in Lech in sharp contrast to the vintage months, to relax and enjoy a delicious lunch.

Porsches and Maseratis on either side. Although As an alternative to hiking, Zugertal near to no motor head, I felt the palpable excitement Lech is the highest golf course in Austria at 1,500 of seeing the black and white starter flag comes metres above sea level, on what is probably the down in front of the windscreen – then off on only flat area of land in the whole region. starter orders. The drive was stunning, espeStraddling the Lech River, I wondered if the cially around the Lech Canyon. perfect setting ever caused players to lose their Spectators along the route cheered us concentration, but I suppose like all things, even through. Of course we didn’t win, but the event amazing views can become the norm. was so invigorating it didn’t really matter.

The best value way to explore the region is with a Lech Card, which costs 22 Euros for two LUCY’S TRAVEL TIPS days and enables free entry and free transport to Lucy stayed at the Gasthof Post Hotel in Lech, virtually everything, including E-biking tours. where rooms start from £258.95 per night, I opted to see more of this stunning landwww.postlech.com. For more information scape by hiking from Oberlech to Wanderweg. about Lech, visit www.lechzuers.com, and for Afterwards it was good to descend to the Boden the Lech Card, visit www.mylechcard.at/en Alpe restaurant, open just during the summer

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Honey apple cake

or Ashkenazi Jews, Rosh Hashanah tables tend to feature one of two desserts: honey cake or apple cake.

The former (lekach) is sweetened with honey and flavored with strong coffee and spices like cinnamon, ginger, and cloves.

The latter (apfelkuchen) comes chockablock with tender apples that give the cake an extra moist crumb. But really, why choose? This version combines the best aspects of both desserts into one cake that celebrates the full, complex sweetness of the autumnal New Year season. It tastes lovely right away, but the flavours deepen and blossom the second day.

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F [180°C] and lightly grease a 10-in [25-cm] Bundt pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, 11/2 tsp of the cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, and salt into a large bowl.

2. In a stand mixer or using a handheld electric mixer, beat the oil, coffee, 1 cup [200 g] of the brown sugar, and the honey on medium speed until fully combined. Add the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla, beating to combine after each addition and scraping down the bowl as necessary. Add the flour mixture in two additions, beating on low speed until just combined.

SERVES: 8

3. Stir together the apples, the remaining 1/3 cup [65 g] brown sugar, and the remaining 1 tsp cinnamon in a medium bowl.

INGREDIENTS 2 1/4 cups [315 g] All-Purpose Flour 1 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Baking Soda 2 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon 1 tsp Ground Ginger 1/2 tsp Ground Allspice 1/2 tsp Ground Cloves 3/4 tsp Kosher Salt 3/4 cup [180 ml] Vegetable Oil 1/2 cup [120 ml] Strong Brewed Coffee 1 1/3 cups [265 g] Packed Light Brown Sugar 1/2 cup [170 g] Honey 3 Large Eggs 11/2 tsp Vanilla Extract 4 cups [430 G] Finely Chopped, peeled Baking Apples (3 or 4 medium) Confectioners’ sugar for serving

4. Spread about half of the batter evenly into the prepared Bundt pan and spoon the apple mixture evenly over the top. Spread the remaining batter over the apples. Bake until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. (Start checking at 50 minutes to avoid overbaking.) Remove from the oven. Set the pan on a wire rack for 30 minutes to allow the apples inside to cool and set.

5. To unmold the cake, run a sharp knife between the cake and the pan, then gently invert the cake onto a wire rack to cool completely. Just before serving, transfer the cake to a serving plate and dust the top with confectioners’ sugar. Serve at room temperature. Store covered at room temperature for up to 5 days, or wrap tightly in plastic wrap and freeze for up to 3 months.

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s one of the world’s most accomplished businessmen, you’d think not much could stump Lord Sugar. But when it comes to Brexit, the astute tycoon is at a loss. In fact he’s “sick and tired of the whole damn thing”.

In only his second interview with a Jewish newspaper, Lord Sugar professes: “You know what? To be completely honest, I couldn’t care less any more. Let the younger people sort it out because I have no clue. I’ve said my bit. It’s been very frustrating. I’ll just go with the flow, whatever happens.”

So, as with many of us, the former Tottenham chairman will watch from the side lines as Prime Minister Boris Johnson still

prepares to leave the EU by 31 October.

Deflated by Brexit he might be, but Lord Sugar, 72, remains undiminished in his spirit and enthusiasm for his hit television show, The Apprentice. The 15th series of the Baftawinning programme airs early next month – in what, he acknowledges, is a very different landscape to when it launched back in 2005.

“We’ve gone through an amazing journey in those 15 years. Not least to say the advent of the internet, Facebook, Google and all of these social media things that never existed in those days. Consequently, a lot of businesses are now reliant on social media. That is one of the biggest changes.”

He adds: “The interesting thing is, of course, that some of the candidates for the

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The Apprentice shows no signs of losing its popularity. The show is one of the BBC’s most watched programmes – close to six million viewers tuned in for last year’s final. Its large following among young people is something Lord Sugar is particularly proud of.

It has made Lord Sugar, a former Labour peer, arguably the UK’s most recognisable businessman and may have played a part in him being asked to join Gordon Brown’s business leaders council in 2005.

The programme follows 16 budding business people as they compete in a series of business-themed tasks for the chance of winning the life-changing prize – £250,000 and a business partnership with Lord Sugar.

The wannabe entrepreneurs are often sent overseas for their tasks and the forthcoming series is no exception (although he can’t yet reveal where). So, would The Apprentice go to Israel? “The Israeli Embassy asked us to do a task out there but either the production company or the BBC were concerned about the candidates’ security. I know that’s a terrible thing to say but we know it’s a vulnerable area.

I think that’s one of the reasons that we have not been able to go there.”

Lord Sugar is open to doing a task in Israel.

He doesn’t go there much himself – he has been “maybe twice” but this is no reflection on his Jewish identity.

An atheist, Lord Sugar considers himself strongly Jewish – but for him it’s not about going to Israel or shul. “We are proud of being Jewish, and it’s more of a culture. I don’t see it as a religion because I’m not religious. We are proud of our culture.

It’s as simple as that.”

Lord Sugar grew up in Hackney, the youngest of four children born to mother Fay and father Nathan, a tailor.

His self-made story is well-known. Not tempted to follow his family into the clothing industry Lord Sugar had a flare for engineering. A tape recorder that he was bought for his barmitzvah triggered a real interest in technology. He left school at 16 and started selling car aerials from the back of a van he bought for £100.

Aged 21 he started electronics company Amstrad, short for Alan Michael Sugar Trading. In the early 1980s he moved into home computers, selling them at competitive prices and by 1989, aged 42, he was the 15th richest person in the UK. Amstrad was sold to

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Sky in 2007 in a £125million deal.

Today Lord Sugar has several business interests including property firm, Amsprop, managed by his son, and Amscreen. There are also the joint ventures he runs with previous Apprentice winners (more on this later).

Lord Sugar was knighted in 2000 for his services to business, and in 2009 was granted a lifetime Labour peerage. He donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to Labour over the years, but became disillusioned with their anti-business approach and famously quit the party in 2015 after an 18-year association. He now sits as an Independent Crossbencher.

In June he backed Boris Johnson, tweeting to his 5.3 million followers: “Anyone who can stop @jeremycorbynfrom becoming PM has my backing.”

Lord Sugar has been extremely vocal in his contempt for Corbyn over his failure to tackle antisemitism.

Does he worry about the future of British Jewry? “Certainly there have been a lot of concerns brought about in recent times with Corbyn and his Labour Party, which has been disgraceful and is still running on. He finds it very very difficult to grab the bull by the horns and stop it, which leads me to believe he doesn’t really mind that it is going on. It’s as simple as that. Corbyn has said the right things but I don’t think he means it.”

Not afraid to stick his head above the parapet, Lord Sugar says he “cannot understand” how Tony Blair’s former top fundraiser Lord Levy has not left the Labour Party in the wake of the widespread antisemitism allegations.

“I am surprised some famous Jewish people like Lord Levy remain Labour supporters whereas a lot of other Jewish Labour peers have left the Party in protest. I’ve spoken to Michael about this and can’t understand why he doesn’t go.

He is what I would call England’s ‘Super Jew’ – he’s the one that raises all the money for Jewish Care and things like that yet he is still sitting in the Labour Party. That’s his own business. I suppose, he does what he wants to do, but that amazes me.”

Lord Sugar himself has repeatedly promised to leave the country if Corbyn becomes prime minister. Where would he go? “The USA or anywhere but England. I will go, literally go. I am not saying I will go on the day that he wins the election – plans will have to be made

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Lord Sugar interview / Business and it will take time to reorganise myself but there will be no future under that man. He would ruin this country.”

With an estimated fortune of £1.22billion, Lord Sugar, who owns a Rolls Royce with a AMS 1 license plate, can afford to take his foot off the gas, but shows no signs of slowing down. He is passionate about building businesses and helping young entrepreneurs succeed. In 2011 he changed the format of The Apprentice – instead of the winner landing a job working in one of his businesses, Lord Sugar would now invest £250,000 for the winner to use towards their business plan, and a 50/50 business partnership. He has also set up Amsvest, to invest in and help businesses

grow by offering finance and dedicated expertise in a range of areas. A recent recipient is Buzbee’s Beverages, which produces tonic waters sweetened with natural honey. He remains an active partner in former Apprentice candidate Susie Ma’s Tropic Skincare.

Although Ma didn’t win in 2011, Lord Sugar decided to invest in the vegan skincare range, which recorded a reported turnover of £29.5 million for 2018 after selling 3.3 million units last year. So where does man with the Midas touch see business opportunities today?

“Website businesses have had their day.

Things like Friends Reunited and all that type of stuff. I don’t think there’s an opportunity now again for another Google, or another eBay or Amazon. On the high street I fear for the future of great institutions like Marks and Spencer, unless they transition themselves totally into food, because the younger generation buys everything online. The offerings that they are made is very simple; they send stuff back if they don’t like it, or they can order three dresses with the intention of only buying one. So, it’s very much an e-commerce world we live in now, but I’m still interested in people that manufacture things rather than services.

That’s what I’m looking for.”

He believes it’s just as easy to be a self-made success today. “If you’ve got the acumen and the idea, there’s nothing stopping you. Obviously you can’t make television sets in the back of a garage anymore because the world has changed but there’s lots of opportunities, and we see

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Lord Sugar with Karen Brady, Claude Littner and previous Apprentice winners

it everyday – young entrepreneurs becoming millionaires quite quickly.”

Lord Sugar has a strong following among young aspiring entrepreneurs and in 2015 was named the best business rolemodel for young people in the UK. As for his own rolemodels he says Lord Weinstock, former head of General Electric, was an inspiration and cites media mogul Rupert Murdoch as a “big influence” in the way that he went about things. “He took a lot of risk and went into things in a very big way and I have a lot of admiration for him.”

Outside the boardroom, Lord Sugar enjoys spending time with his family: his wife Ann

– the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last year – their three children and seven grandchildren. He supports Jewish Care and he donates his Apprentice fee to Great Ormond Street Hospital. He enjoys tennis, cycling and flying – he has his own planes – and goes to Tottenham home games.

And as for his hopes for the Jewish new year: “They are no different to what they are every year – that the family and everybody else are happy and healthy. That’s all you can worry about, and that’s all you can think about – health and happiness.” And a Corbyn-free government? “Yeh.”

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Property / Later living

Deborah Cicurel discovers luxury living begins at Landsby retirement flats in Stanmore If you’re 65 and over and considering a change of scenery, a good option might be one of the plush new apartments at Landsby in Stanmore, masterminded by Elysian Residences.

Set on Merrion Avenue, the later living community comprises six storeys and offers 101 new-build one and two-bedroom apartments, including 10 penthouses.

The development, which will be completed at the end of this year, also offers private members club-style amenities, including a restaurant, gym and beauty salon, as well as a cards room, arts and crafts area and a library.

Prices start from £490,000 for a onebedroom, 600 sq ft apartment and twobedroom apartments from £720,000 for a 900 sq ft flat, while penthouses with private terraces are available from £1.25 million.

A reception room in Landsby’s show flat, which is located by Stanmore Tube station

The exterior of the apartments; the lobby and library; and one of the spacious bedrooms A sneak peek at the two-bedroom show flat reveals spacious, sleek accommodation with high-end specifications, luxurious fittings, stylish engineered timber flooring and large open-plan living areas ideal for entertaining.

Contemporary kitchens are kitted out with Siemens or Miele appliances, quartz stone composite worktops with porcelain tile or stone splashbacks and concealed lighting.

Bathrooms have underfloor heating, slipresistant porcelain tiles, chrome accessories, recessed shelving and marble detailing.

Bedrooms not only have cosy carpets and spotlights, but also generously-sized dressing areas with built-in cupboards, complete with automatic lighting and chic leather handles.

There’s plenty of storage, an efficient heating system with independent controls, and a services cupboard with a Siemens

washing machine.

If you didn’t know this was a complex specifically designed for later living, you’d never guess it: any young professional looking to go up on the property ladder would be impressed by the plans for neutral, warm and luxurious interior design, landscaped grounds, Art Deco architecture and leafy surroundings.

Only small clues, such as the consistent step-free access, and generous shower seats, point to the fact this development has been designed with the over-65s in mind.

Ian Brownridge, sales and marketing director of Elysian Residences, describes the development as a “five-star private members’ club”.

Unlike similar developments, such as Elton House in Bushey and Sunrise of Elstree, which are marketed as care homes, Brownridge points out “the emphasis with Landsby is on

creating an active and engaged community, as well as a place to live”.

A programme of free daily events for residents will be curated, from exercise classes, bridge nights and new language learning, to cookery displays, concerts and walking clubs.

The large communal roof terrace has superb views on a clear day, Brownridge reveals, and the luxury rooftop gym will host regular yoga, pilates and aerobics classes at no extra cost, while personal trainers are also available for fitness-conscious residents.

Room service is available for residents who prefer to stay in their own flats, as is integretated healthcare. “Should residents need care, there will be an on-site team that can cater to all needs, including end-of-life care,” he adds.

There are options with regards to the decor. “Residents can choose their own interior style, working with the development’s design team, or bringing in their own redecorators to style their flats however they like,” Brownridge adds. “Each flat has outside space, so residents can enjoy sunny days.”

Transportation is included, with an eightseater Mercedes on hand to whisk residents away to local points of interest, including the shopping centre, swimming pool and supermarket. Trips further afield, whether to theatres, galleries or the cinema, are also an option for culture aficionados.

There’s valet and underground parking and charging points for electric vehicles and mobility scooters. Weekly cleaning is also included and the team can organise anything else residents might require, from chef services to extra care, and a concierge provides additional assistance, such as help with laundry and arranging private drivers.

Brownridge says that about 20 percent of the flats have already been reserved, with around 70 percent of future occupants coming from the Jewish community. “Stanmore Synagogue is five minutes’ away, while Stanmore Station is less than two minutes’ walk, making the development ideally situated for socialising,” he explains. “If residents have family visiting, there’s a guest suite they can rent, so everyone has plenty of space.”

Bookings to see the show apartment can be made by appointment – but take your family along; they’re likely to beg you to book the guest suite for them quick smart.

 Details: 020 3143 8876 or email landsby@elysianresidences.com

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Orthodox Judaism

SEDRA Ki Tavo

BY RABBI YONASAN CALLER Throughout life, we all experience joy as well as sadness, satisfaction as well as disappointment.

A Jewish farmer is no different. Each year he experiences the full gamut of emotions since the success of his crops is unpredictable and the weather is not under his control.

In autumn, he prays and hopes for a rainy winter, in early spring, he plants with faith that his crops will prosper, and in the summer, he either celebrates his bountiful and luscious produce or he laments an unsuccessful season, before starting the entire process again!

As discussed at the beginning of the sedra, there was a mitzvah in Temple times to bring to the Temple the bikkurim (first ripe fruits of the seven special species), to hand them to the Priests and to recite a declaration that succinctly recounts the journey of the Jewish People - from being tormented and enslaved in Egypt through to entering the Land of Israel. Having experienced a long winter, toiled vigorously in the fields and prayed and hoped for a successful crop, performing the mitzvah of bikkurim was a joyful, heartfelt outpouring of gratitude to God for the blessing of fruit and the gift of the Land of Israel.

While we are unable to perform this mitzvah nowadays in the absence of the Temple, we can continue to express our gratitude for the infinite blessings in our life – both to God as well as to the many people and organisations who assist and support us in ways that we may never even realise.

 Rabbi Yonasan Caller is the educational director of Aish Gesher at Yeshivat Aish HaTorah, Jerusalem

Torah For Today What does the Torah say about: Neanderthals

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Scientists in France this week discovered hundreds of fossilised footprints belonging to a single group of Neanderthals, who are said to have lived 80,000 years ago. So, what does the Torah say about this?

Although creation is measured in days, and mankind appears on the sixth day, only the most diehard literalists will insist that we are the only humanoid species who have ever lived.

The Midrash speaks of 80 generations who lived before the Adam who was our ancestor, and they were made extinct.

As to the expression of the passage of time in human history in tens of thousands of years, this appears in the Book of Psalms. “For a thousand years are in Your sight as a passing day and a night-watch”.

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This prayer, uttered by its composer “Moses, man of God” – speaks of time in terms exponential to our own.

THE MIDRASH SPEAKS OF 80 GENERATIONS WHO LIVED BEFORE ADAM

The Neanderthals whose footprints have been found on a beach in Normandy were found alongside tools and cooking remnants typical of that period. Scientific evidence is significant in Jewish law, in that it changes any presumptions we have received as truth previously.

Therefore, even if a literal approach to Scripture shuts off prehistory, scientific observation of our environment requires of us to reappraise what we know and what we think we know. Maimonides was of the view that if we find out new information about the world, we must adjust, as the rabbis of old only knew as much as that which had been found in their time.

How does the life and disappearance of Neanderthals affect us now? The Midrash states that the reason for the disappearance of the 80 pre-Adam generations was because their conduct was displeasing to Him. We might therefore be fortunate to exist - but we must also deserve to.  Rabbi Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to Merseyside Army Cadet Force

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Health / Tobacco fears

Health of young Israelis is going up in SMOKE A stark increase in smoking rates among Israelis is putting into jeopardy the country’s high life expectancy, writes Andrew Tobin

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srael has one of the highest life expectancies in the world – 82.5 years, on average. But a surprising increase in smoking rates may threaten that status.

In line with with global trends, the smoking rate in Israel fell from about 45 percent in the early 1980s to about 20 percent or less in the years since 2011. However, in its recent report on smoking, Israel’s Health Ministry recorded the biggest single-year setback in more than a decade, with the rate rising to 22.5 percent in 2016 from 19.7 percent the previous year.

“This is unheard of in the developed world,” said Leah Rosen, who heads Tel Aviv University’s Health Promotion Department. “There’s an epidemiological curve of tobacco use, and as people start to get sick from smoking, the [smoking] rate starts going down, and it never goes back up.

We have now broken that trend.”

Health professionals and anti-smoking activists have long sounded the alarm about smoking in the Jewish state – the decline of the national smoking rate had slowed before 2016 – and many have accused the government of not taking the threat seriously enough.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of death in Israel. According to the Health Ministry, approximately 8,000 Israelis die each year for reasons linked to smoking, among them 800 non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke inhalation.

The Jewish state’s new smoking rate is comparatively high – ranking 28 out of 35 European countries, according to the World Health Organization. Europe has the highest rate of any region.

In the Health Ministry report, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman acknowledged “a decline in efforts” to combat smoking and pledged

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“The increase in smoking rates, which brings Israel back above the 20 percent mark, demands that the healthcare system re-examine its policies for coping with tobacco products and whether to allocate more resources to contend with the problem,” he said.

Litzman, of the Charedi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, came under fire for hindering efforts to curb cigarette advertisements and for opposing regulations that would require manufacturers to put warning images on cigarette packages, saying, “it’s not aesthetic”.

In January, reporters for Israel’s Channel 2 TV station, posing as agents for a company that imports electronic cigarettes, paid thousands of shekels to a go-between to schedule meetings with Litzman and the Health Ministry’s head of public health services. The undercover reporters were assured on camera that no legislation restricting the sale of e-cigarettes in Israel was expected. Although e-cigarettes are not tobacco products, they often contain nicotine and other chemicals that could pose health risks to users.

A Health Ministry spokesperson said Litzman had not been aware of the payments and that he has a well-known “policy of keeping his door open to any person or organisation or company that wishes to see him”.

Rosen said Israel should introduce additional warnings on cigarette packages and strict limitations on how tobacco can be marketed and where it can be used. One of the most impactful policy changes, she said, would be to close a loophole in cigarette taxation – allowing for loose tobacco to be taxed at a lower rate than pre-rolled cigarettes.

Taxes on cigarette packs have risen in the past few years – the most recent increase brought the toll to three shekels a pack, up from 2.5 shekels. The price of a pack is now between 25 and 35 shekels (about £5 to £7.50). But a growing number of Israelis have started

Smoking in Israel is on the increase, partially owing to lower taxes on loose tobacco

smoking loose tobacco, which costs about 43 percent less than buying the same amount of tobacco in a pack, according to Israeli daily Haaretz.

Elad Sheffer, an activist with anti-smoking group Clean Air, said it was nonsensical to tax loose tobacco at a lower rate. “There is no case in terms of health or economics because cheaper cigarettes aren’t any less dangerous than expensive ones,” he said in a 2015 policy statement.

Amit Farag, a 24-year-old waitress in Tel Aviv, switched to hand-rolled cigarettes a few years ago because packs were too expensive but said she and most of her friends would prefer to smoke Marlboros.

Yehuda Glick, a Knesset member for the ruling Likud party, said he recently sent a letter to the Finance Ministry, requesting a boost in the tax on loose tobacco, but was told no increases were being introduced for now. He said he personally brought up the matter with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said he would look into the matter. In the meantime, Glick is working on a bill to reduce smoking among Israelis aged under 21, since many begin smoking in secondary school or during their army service.

Rosen agreed Israel’s anti-smoking policies should focus on young people. Although Israel last year enacted a ban on smoking at educational institutions, she said it needs to be better enforced. The Health Ministry found 24.8 percent of males and 14.9 percent of females were smoking by the time they began military service.

A study Rosen spearheaded found that by the time they were discharged from the army, 40 percent of men and 32 percent of women smoked – a 42 percent increase over the course of service. The good news, she added, is that as one of Israel’s most powerful institutions, the army is in a position to get Israel back on the wagon.

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Progressive Judaism

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The Bible Says What?

Are vaccines in line with Jewish thinking?

‘God will rejoice in making you perish’

BY RABBI LAURA JANNER-KLAUSNER

Laura Janner-Klausner is senior rabbi for the Movement for Reform Judaism

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justice being done. Even this must make us pause. It may be a duty for justice to be carried out, but it is surely inappropriate to relish a punishment to such an extent?

We can read this passage as not being about God as an entity, but God as representing the constant that we turn to for guidance.

If we turn our backs on our Jewish values and practice then we corrupt them. The same values which have the potential to lead us to good will then lead us down a path of destruction, because we have perverted them. We must make it a central goal to defend and protect our values and practice.

During the current month of Elul, the Shofar reminds us of our annual time to check how we are doing and ensure we return to those values we hold dear.

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This week’s Torah portion is truly remarkable. The latter parts of Ki Tavo contain a list of the blessings that will come to the Children of Israel for keeping the commandments, followed by a long and harrowing list of the curses that await should they fail.

Almost anything imaginable and unimaginable is listed here as a consequence, from those you would expect, such as plague and famine to the truly gruesome and unusual – including that people will end up eating their own children.

Most shocking of all though is the description of God’s role in all of this. In Deuteronomy 28:63, it says that just as God rejoiced in doing good to the people, so would God rejoice in causing the people to perish and destroying them. How can our God delight in something so terrible?

Some may say it is because ours is a God of justice, who delights in

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threatening conditions.

Vaccines qualify as refu’ah bedukah, proven remedies and are an obligation.

So both at a personal or family level, Liberal Judaism emphasises our responsibility to others: “Al tifrosh min ha’tzibbur – Do not separate yourself from the community.”

However on this specific issue, my colleague Rabbi Dr Maragaret Jacobi points out that both the Royal Society for Public Health and Faculty of Public Health oppose the senior GPs’ plan, on the grounds there are better ways to increase MMR vaccination rates.

So as long as these other means are vigorously pursued to fufil our Jewish principles, then it seems best not to impose compulsory vaccination for school entry at present. Rabbi Aaron Goldstein is senior rabbi at Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue

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to sell, part exchange for something new, or redesign it into a new piece of jewellery. Can you help me?

Regards Cynthia Dear Cynthia First, gold is almost at an all time high again, the price is almost 50% higher than 18 months ago, so even though it had dropped

a fraction in the last week it’s still a great time to cash in what you have. Bear in mind, who uses cigarette cases any more?

Second, regarding your diamond ring, prices are still high, especially because of our weak pound, as diamonds are traded in US dollars, but this year the price of bigger stones had dropped by about 20%, due to global problems and illiquidity in the diamond market So if you come into our Hendon Lane showroom, I can give you an exact offer for your diamond or suggest a new design, or show you something nice in a part exchange.

Feel free to contact us at your convenience.

STEPHEN MORRIS REMOVALS MANAGING DIRECTOR

STEPHEN MORRIS SHIPPING LTD Dear Stephen Please explain how insurance coverage works for shipments from the UK to Israel. Is it necessary?

Paul Dear Paul We have been moving people and fine art and antiques across the world for nearly 50 years. We have a reputa-

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Insurance is important, not just for peace of mind but to cover such matters as ‘general average’ which is part of the cover that we offer when shipping by sea.

As much as I would like to say that there is never any damage within our shipments, some damage is inevitable when so many items are moved over such a great distance.

We offer insurance through Zurich Insurance plc, a large and reputable company.

Before we ship, we supply an insurance application form so that you can list the main items and groups of items that you are sending.

The value declared should be a sensible replacement value

in Israel and, in the unlikely event of any damage, Insurers will look to first repair the item or to replace it.

If a replacement is not available, then a cash settlement may be possible.

We suggest photographing any valuable items prior to packing and linking the photos to the application for insurance and to the packing inventory that we will create.

There are extended cover options for pairs and sets and to cover such things as mould or mildew and electrical or mechanical derangement.

So yes, peace of mind is then possible at what can already be a stressful time with the move from one country to another.

We do our very best to make the move as easy as possible.

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Our Experts Got a question for a member of our team?

Email: editorial@thejngroup.com PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SPECIALIST

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

INSURANCE CONSULTANCY ASHLEY PRAGER Qualifications: • Professional insurance and reinsurance broker. Offering PI/D&O cover, marine and aviation, property owners, ATE insurance, home and contents, fine art, HNW. • Specialist in insurance and reinsurance disputes, utilising Insurance backed products. (Including non insurance business disputes).

• Ensuring clients do not pay more than required.

RISK RESOLUTIONS 020 3411 4050 www.risk-resolutions.com ashley.prager@risk-resolutions.com

WEALTH MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

TREVOR GEE Qualifications: •Managing director, consultants in affordable family and corporate health insurance.

• Specialise in maximising cover, lowering premiums and pre-existing conditions.

• Excellent knowledge of health insurers, cover levels and hospital lists.

• Board member UK International Health Management Ass • LLB, solicitor finals, FCA Regulated 773729.

DR BEV JACOBSON Qualifications: • Able to draw on the expertise of Norwood’s professional staff team, including social workers, educational psychologists, behavioural specialists, speech and language and occupational therapists, teachers, psychologists, benefit advisors and psychotherapists.

• Expertise in services available for children and their families and young people with special educational needs and adults with learning disabilities and autism.

WAYNE GROSSMAN DIPPFS Qualifications: • Experienced in providing comprehensive wealth planning services to individuals, couples, families, trustees and businesses • Retirement planning and pension review • Family wealth preservation • Financial risk identification and mitigation

PATIENT HEALTH 020 3146 3444/5/6 www.patienthealth.co.uk trevor.gee@patienthealth.co.uk

NORWOOD 020 8809 8809 www.norwood.org.uk bev.jacobson@norwood.org.uk

KINETIC WEALTH MANAGEMENT 07799 645 494 www.kineticwealthmanagement.co.uk wayne.grossman@sjpp.co.uk

TELECOMS SPECIALIST

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MAXI ROSE Qualifications: • MD at RCUK since 1999. Grown the business into three substantial UK branches serving clients worldwide – USA, Europe & Middle East.

• Telecoms specialist in business & consumer mobile solutions, landline and broadband services and Ofcom Telecoms registered reseller.

• Successfully established the RCUK International Travel

TANYA MANN RENNICK Qualifications: • Expert speaker on Mindset and Emotional Resilience at the House of Lords and European Parliament. Author and contributor to Amazon bestseller Extraordinary Women.

• Helping men and women facing professional and personal challenges including relationship breakdown, poor life balance, career crossroads, post divorce/bereavement.

• Practical applicable solutions for instantaneous results.

SUE CIPIN Qualifications: • 18 years’ hands-on experience, leading JDA in significant growth and development.

• Deep understanding of the impact of deafness on people at all stages of life, and their families.

• Practical and emotional support for families of deaf children.

• Extensive services for people affected by hearing loss/tinnitus.

RCUK 020 8815 4115 www.rcuk.com Maxi@RCUK.com

TANYA MANN RENNICK 07545431822 www.tanyamannrennick.com tanya@tanyamannrennick.com

JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION 020 8446 0502 mail@jdeaf.org.uk www.jdeaf.org.uk

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JONATHAN WILLIAMS Qualifications: • Jewellery manufacturer since 1980s.

• Expert in the manufacture and supply of diamond jewellery, wedding rings and general jewellery.

• Specialist in supply of diamonds to the public at trade prices.

DAVID SEGEL Qualifications: • Managing director of West End Travel, established in 1972.

• Leading UK El Al agent with branches in Swiss Cottage and Edgware.

• Specialist in Israel travel, cruises and kosher holidays.

• Leading business travel company, ranked in top 50 UK agents.

• Frequent travel broadcaster on radio and TV.

CARL WOOLF Qualifications: • 20+ years experience as a criminal defence solicitor and higher court advocate.

• Specialising in all aspects of criminal law including murder, drug offences, fraud and money laundering, offences of violence, sexual offences and all aspects of road traffic law.

• Visiting associate professor at Brunel University.

JEWELLERY CAVE LTD 020 8446 8538 www.jewellerycave.co.uk jonathan@jewellerycave.co.uk

WEST END TRAVEL 020 7644 1500 www.westendtravel.co.uk David.Segel@westendtravel.co.uk

NOBLE SOLICITORS 01582 544 370 carl.woolf@noblesolicitors.co.uk

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PRINCIPAL, PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL

CAROLYN ADDLEMAN Qualifications: Lawyer with more than 15 years’ experience in will drafting and trust and estate administration, eight years at KKL Executor and Trustee Company.

Keeps in close contact with clients to ensure all legal and pastoral needs are cared for.

Member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

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STEPHEN MORRIS Qualifications: • Managing Director of Stephen Morris Shipping Ltd. • 45 years’ experience in shipping household and personal effects.

• Chosen mover for four royal families and three UK prime ministers.

• Offering proven quality specialist advice for moving anyone across the world or round the corner.

LOUISE LEACH Qualifications: • Professional choreographer qualified in dance, drama and Zumba (ZIN, ISTD & LAMDA), gaining an honours degree at Birmingham University.

• Former contestant on ITV’s Popstars, reaching bootcamp with Myleene Klass, Suzanne Shaw and Kym Marsh.

• Set up Dancing with Louise 10 years ago.

KKL EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE COMPANY 0800 358 3587 www.kkl.org.uk wills@kkl.org.uk

STEPHEN MORRIS SHIPPING LTD 020 8832 2222 www.shipsms.co.uk stephen@shipsms.co.uk

DANCING WITH LOUISE 020 8203 5242 www.dancingwithlouise.co.uk louise@dancingwithlouise.co.uk

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ACCOUNTANT ADAM SHELLEY Qualifications: • FCCA chartered certified accountant.

• Accounting, taxation and business advisory services.

• Entrepreneurial business specialist including start-up businesses.

• Specialises in charities; Personal tax returns.

• Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation Volunteer of the Year JVN award

SOBELL RHODES 020 8429 8800 www.sobellrhodes.co.uk a.shelley@sobellrhodes.co.uk

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HEALTH & FITNESS ANNA SCHUCHMAN & CHARLOTTE WIKLER Qualifications: • Founders of aceLIFESTYLE, offering practical solutions for becoming and remaining fit, strong and healthy.

• Creators of the aceTRANSFORMATION 12-week weight-loss program.

• Level 3 Personal Trainers and Nutritional Consultants.

• Qualified to help ante and postnatal clients, teenagers and those of all abilities and ages.

MAN ON A BIKE 020 8731 6171 www.manonabike.co.uk mail@manonabike.co.uk

ACELIFESTYLE 07968 484501 www.ace-lifestyle.com info@ace-lifestyle.com

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IAN GREEN Qualifications: • Launched Man on a Bike IT consultancy 15 years ago to provide computer support for the home and small businesses.

• Clients range from legal firms in the City to families, small business owners and synagogues.

• More than 18 years’ experience.

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NAOMI FELTHAM Qualifications: • Leading currency transfer provider since 1996 with over 500 expert employees.

• Excellent exchange rates on your transfers to/from Israel.

• Offices worldwide, with local support in Israel, the UK, mainland Europe and the USA. • Free expert guidance from your dedicated Account. Manager

CAROLYN COHEN Qualifications: • Supports couples dealing with infertility and reproductive health.

• Strictly confidential helpline.

• Specialist medical support and information.

• Counselling for individuals and couples and educational events.

• Expert medical advisory panel.

HOWARD GOLD Qualifications: • Member of the Federation of Master Builders.

• Member of the Consumer Protection Association offering an underwritten insurance backed guarantee of 5 years on all projects.

• Providing a tailored end-to-end property service for residential property clients in north and north-west London. Focusing on a quality service.

CURRENCIES DIRECT 07922 131 152 / 020 7847 9447 www.currenciesdirect.com/jn Naomi.feltham@currenciesdirect.com

CHANA 020 8203 8455 Helpline: 020 8201 5774 / 020 8800 0018 www.chana.org.uk info@chana.org.uk

HPS 077 1005 7233 / 020 89588191 wwww.hpsuk.com howard@hpsuk.com

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ANAR LAKHA Qualifications: • Postgraduate medical ultrasound diploma.

• Qualified to perform diagnostic ultrasound scans in obstetrics, gynaecology, general abdominal, aortic surveillance screening, renal, paediatrics and other.

• Private Hendon practice.

HARRISON GALGUT Qualifications: • Experienced wedding and event photographer.

• Specialism in portraits and light management.

• BSc(Hons), BTEC music tech, specialising in film, and member of Royal Photographic Society.

LISA WIMBORNE Qualifications: Able to draw on the charity’s 50 years of experience in enabling people with physical disabilities or impaired vision to live independently, including: • The provision of specialist accommodation with 24/7 on site support.

• Knowledge of the innovations that empower people and the benefits available.

• Understanding of the impact of a disability diagnosis.

ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC CENTRE 07854 223 136 www.ultrasounddiagnosticcentre.com info@ultrasounddiagnosticcentre.com

EDIT6 07962599154 www.edit6.co.uk harrison@edit6.co.uk

JEWISH BLIND & DISABLED 020 8371 6611 www.jbd.org Lisa@jbd.org

ALIYAH ADVISER

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DOV NEWMARK Qualifications: • Director of UK Aliyah for Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organisation that helps facilitate aliyah from the UK. • Conducts monthly seminars and personal aliyah meetings in London.

• An expert in working together with clients to help plan a successful aliyah.

ERIC SALAMON Qualifications: • Provides free professional one-to-one advice at Resource to help unemployed into work.

• Offers mock interviews and workshops to maximise job prospects.

• Expert in corporate management holding director level marketing, commercial and general management roles.

NEFESH B’NEFESH 0800 075 7200 www.nbn.org.il dov@nbn.org.il

RESOURCE THE JEWISH EMPLOYMENT ADVICE CENTRE 020 8346 4000 www.resource-centre.org office@resource-centre.org

ISRAEL PROPERTY EXPERT

SPECIALIST DEMENTIA NURSE CONSULTANT

DARREN RICH Qualifications: Broker based in Israel who escorts clients throughout the process.

All real estate solutions under one roof.

Specialist in sales and rentals all over Israel.

In house legal and financial experts.

Best after-sales service in Israel.

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RIKKI LORENTI Qualifications: • Specialist dementia nurse consultant with more than 30 years’ experience in mental health care. Worked extensively with both elderly and early-onset dementia clients.

• Focusing on the needs of family carers, providing psychological support, home and lifestyle advice and connection to additional services, helping families to cope with challenges that arise along the dementia journey.

HOME IN ISRAEL REAL ESTATE GROUP 020 8089 1446 www.homeinisrael.com darren@homeinisrael.net

SWEETTREE HOME CARE SERVICES 020 7644 9500 www.sweettree.co.uk rikki.lorenti@sweettree.co.uk

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Headteacher: Miss Judith Caplan B.Ed Hons NPQH 180 Willesden Lane, London NW6 7PP T: 020 8459 3378

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LISBON Jewish TOUR

A French couple’s passion for Portuguese Jewish history is now the number one tour in Lisbon.

The project leaders: Patricia and Joseph, a French couple living in Lisbon with their family for 30 years, and dedicated members of the local Jewish community. They will tell you with enthusiasm the singular and fascinating history of the Jewish community of Portugal over the centuries, and you will discover an unknown Lisbon.

And they are the only ones to make you enjoy a walk off the beaten track for a total immersion in the true Jewish past, past that it is very difficult, if not impossible to discover alone. This captivating information, the fruit of 25 years of study of the history of Portuguese Jews, is never mentioned in the guides.

You will learn the incredible and especially unknown role of the Jewish community of Lisbon during the Second World War. Described as Portugal’s ‘Schindler’ Aristide Sousa Mendes was appointed consul-general in Bordeaux in 1940 where he saved tens of thousands of lives by issuing visas only to then be punished by his own government after the war. He died in obscurity in 1954, poor and reduced to being fed by a local Jewish soup kitchen.

You will learn also about the fantastic history of Portuguese Marranos, whose brands are still alive today in the country, for those who know how to discover the codes. Jewish legacy that many Portuguese claim, declaring with a smile through a friendly conversation: "We Portuguese, all have a " costelada judaica ".

The guided tour allows to discover the Shaaré Tikvá synagogue dating back to the early 20th century and all the emblematic neighborhoods of Lisbon (Bairro Alto, Baixa, Carmo, Chiado, Principe Real, Rato) with a close relationship with Jewish life, and your hosts will give you the keys to unlock all the secrets of the Jewish community's history, totally unknown to the general public.

Check out the guestbook and get an idea of the quality of the welcome and services offered by Kosher in Lisbon. All comments are unanimous: This guided visit of the Jewish Lisbon was for all the culmination of their stay in Lisbon.

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