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INSPIRING STORIES RUTH NACHSHON PARTNER Roxi – female yellow labrador When Ruth gave birth to her son Uriya, she experienced both the greatest joy and the deepest sorrow of her life.

That day, she became the mother of a beautiful baby boy she’d waited nine months to admire only to discover she would never see his adorable face, his tiny toes or his fleeting smiles. During labour, Ruth went suddenly, completely, and permanently blind.

Although the blindness was sudden, she knew it was a possibility.

Retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary condition, caused her mother, her aunt and her sister to become blind. Ruth remembered how much she hated leading her mother, with her long white cane, down a village road. “It felt shameful,” she recalled. “I despised the pitying looks she received from people.” Ruth swore, as a young girl, that she would be a different mother – who would do things for her child and not the opposite.

Yet, Ruth’s new life was hard for her. She had to care for her baby, while her husband, a career soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), worked long hours. And every step of the way, she had to rely on her family and friends – or the humiliating white cane – to tap, tap her way for errands and to take her son to preschool.

But she has always been an achiever – receiving degrees in human resources, marketing and sales. She practiced reflexology out of her home, while finding time to become an accomplished dancer, working with ceramics and sculpture, and participating in many sports, including biking and hiking. She decided nothing would stand in the way of achieving her independence.

She turned to the Israel Guide Dog Centre for the Blind and waited for the call to come. After more than a year, it did. And Roxi came into her life.

“I am no longer alone,” she said. “I can rely on myself – and Roxi – to do what I want.”

Roxi leads her around obstacles, takes her to supermarkets and cafes, and most importantly, helps deliver Uriya safely to school.

“Now I am just a mother – like all other mothers.”

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We’re still in the first stages of getting acquainted, but I can see he behaves well and obeys my commands

For Eli, retreat was never an option. Hit by shrapnel, bleeding from head to foot, his unit nearly wiped out and facing overwhelming odds, Eli wouldn’t abandon his post in a tank. In a prolonged battle with 30 Egyptian tanks during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Eli single-handedly knocked out four enemy tanks. When the enemy pulverised his tank and tore his body to shreds, he just continued to figt. Pulling pieces of shrapnel from his body, Eli faced down a rocket lobbed directly at him by the other side – but refused to budge from his position.

When it was all over, Eli had lost his arm, his face was riddled with shrapnel, and his eyes were destroyed. But his heroic action against crushing forces halted the enemy advance and carried the day.

For his bravery, he received the IDF’s ‘Ot Mofet’ citation. Through it all, Eli remembers saying one thing to himself: “We have to finish this.”

Today, more than 40 years later, Eli has never stopped figting. A man of few words, with a no-nonsense attitude, he has trained himself to be an excellent hiker, tandem bike rider, swimmer and skier.

For Eli there are no limits. When asked why a guide dog, he replied, “Independence!”

During initial training, Eli and Glen had developed their own language of touch and communication and they’re like old friends sharing a joke. “Glen is smart,” Eli remarks proudly.

“We’re still in the first stages of getting acquainted, but I can see he behaves well and obeys my commands.”

After his last guide dog died, Eli found it difficut to rely on others, so he turned to the Israel Guide Dog Centre. “Not only can I speak to Glen in Hebrew, but the centre is close to my home and the waiting time is so much shorter than in the US.” There, Eli had to wait for one-to-one training with an instructor because many clients were being trained simultaneously. At the centre, the ratio of instructors to clients is lower and the wait significatly shorter. Eli sums it up: “I like the fact my time isn’t being wasted.” But for him, the battle is ongoing. After learning to ski, he and Glen went on a trip to Europe. “But, of course, Glen and I have to attend to matters at home. There are a lot of people here who need our help.”

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FACTS AND FIGURES In Israel there are about 24,000 people who are legally recognized as blind

Most people with blindness have become blind during the course of their lives Only a small percent are born with blindness

Among the blind, about 20% have complete vision loss The remainder have some residual vision

Guide dogs work approximately 8 years

Dogs that are not accepted into guide dog training, “Change careers� and go to Soldiers with PTSD, children with autism, or others with special needs.

Every year, about 65% of the blind who receive their Blind Certification are over the age of 65

The success rate between male and female dogs is identical

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Prime minister hits back at Jews Against Boris group

by Jenni Frazer @JenniFrazer

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed that, if he is re-elected, he will “crack down on all varieties of antisemitism and prejudice, including Islamophobia”, and pledged that an inquiry on varying forms of racism would “start before the end of the year and be entirely independent”.

Speaking to Jewish News on Wednesday, Johnson dismissed charges that he used “selective outrage” about antisemitism as “rather unfair”.

He cited both his Jewish and Muslim antecedents in his defence. His comments came after a group calling itself ‘Jews Against Boris’ took out a full-page advert in the Jewish Chronicle that attacked the prime minister for “openly appealing to the far-right to secure power”. It added: “He is demonising minorities, promoting discriminatory policies and undermining the democratic safeguards that we rely on.”

Thirty-five years ago, Johnson was a volunteer on Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi,

and, although he has visited Israel many times since, he said his stint in the “steamy environment” of washingup in the kibbutz kitchens had laid the foundations of his love of Israel.

But he did not accept criticism that he had been the architect behind Britain’s tough United Nations resolution just over three years ago, denouncing Israel’s settlement policy. “We were merely echoing Britain’s policy [on settlements],” he insisted. “The best way forward is a two-state solution”.

The prime minister denounced payments in the Palestinian territories for the families of terrorists, saying: “We should not be bankrolling terror.” If he wins the election he would insist on “more stringent conditions attached” and a “much closer scrutiny” of money given to the Palestinian administration.

He would not be inclined to follow the Labour pledge of recognising the state of Palestine as an early act in government, he said. A Tory government would not recognise a Palestinian state unless there were more moves towards peace from the Palestinians.

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Ivan Lewis has become the second Labour Party MP to urge Brits to vote Tory on 12 December. Lewis, who is Jewish, resigned from Labour last December, citing a lack of action on antisemitism. At the time he was suspended by the party pending an investigation into sexual harassment claims made against him, which he strongly denied. Now standing as an independent for Bury South, Lewis said this week it was “the only way to stop Corbyn in Bury South”, adding it was “in the best interests of the constituency and the country”.

The New Statesman has declined to back a party at next week’s general election, castigating Jeremy Corbyn for his handling of the row over antisemitism and his stance on Brexit.

The left-leaning weekly magazine took the extraordinary step yesterday in an online Leader column. But it encourages readers to judge local candidates based on their “merits” and to vote tactically “to deprive Mr Johnson’s hard Brexit Conservatives of a majority”, praising Luciana Berger among a list of “fine parliamentarians”.

Corbyn is ‘sorry’ for Labour antisemitism Jeremy Corbyn apologised this week for the row over antisemitism that has overshadowed much of Labour’s election campaign, but insisted he had “dealt with it”.

Interviewed by ITV host Phillip Schofield, the Labour leader was asked at least three times to apologise to the community and was challenged on Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’ claim last week that a “new poison sanctioned from the top has taken root in the Labour Party”.

“Our party and me do not accept antisemitism in any form,” Corbyn told This Morning.

“Obviously, I am very sorry for everything that’s happened, but I want to make this clear: I am dealing with it. I have dealt with it.”

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LAWYER CONVINCES ON ANTISEMITISM Historian Sir Richard Evans has been persuaded by the solicitor Anthony Julius not to back Labour. Evans, an expert on Nazi Germany, tweeted on Sunday that he would vote Labour despite its “failure to deal with antisemitism in the party”. Julius wrote an open letter to him, saying: “Antisemites cannot be social reformers.

Their antisemitism incapacitates them. As a result, antisemitism does not just injure Jews. It encourages misconceptions about the causes of social conflicts – of suffering and deprivation – and therefore prolongs their existence, to everyone’s loss.”

CONCERN AT CALL FOR HALAL BAN The Board of Deputies expressed concern after a co-leader of the Green Party called for a ban on halal meat.

Jonathan Bartley made the comments on BBC North West, but later said he was speaking in a personal capacity.

The Greens’ manifesto prefers detailed labelling of slaughter method.

Board president Marie van der Zyl said: “Such a move [ie. a ban] would have grave implications for religious freedom and the functioning of Muslim and Jewish life in the UK.”

Berger eyes Hugh majority Liberal Democrat candidate Luciana Berger said on Tuesday she was “appalled” at the Labour Party’s selection of candidates accused of posting antisemitic material online, writes Mathilde Frot.

She was interviewed on-stage by LBC presenter and former Liberal Democrat candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn Maajid Nawaz at a standing-room-only event at Brampton College in Hendon.

Berger, who is standing in Finchley and Golders Green against incumbent Conservative Mike Freer, said her “record of sticking up for the Jewish community speaks for itself.”

The Liberal Democrat hopeful tore into the Labour Party for backing candidates accused of posting material “which happens to be antisemitic,” despite online records being “there for all to see.”

She added: “I am appalled that they have allowed these candidates to be continue to be candidates at this election,” she said, before praising her own party’s decision to drop a “Lib Dem candidate who was found to have done the same” within “half an hour” in an apparent reference to Waheed Rafiq.

Speaking to Jewish News after the event, she reiterated a claim made during the event that candidates from both main political parties had privately voiced “very vociferous in the views about the leadership”.

Meanwhile, Berger was joined by a surprise canvasser on the campaign trail on Sunday: the actor Hugh Grant.

The Notting Hill star helped with her campaign as part of an attempt to encourage tactical voting against Brexit which he said was “the responsibility of all of us”.

Luciana Berger and Hugh Grant out and about in Finchley

Freer targeted by graffiti

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Conservative candidate Mike Freer said he was “upset” by antisemitic graffiti daubed over an election campaign board in Golders Green.

Pictures taken by community watch group Shomrim show a swastika with the words “Boris out! Hail Boris” outside a Jewish home in Golders Green.

Freer, who is standing in Finchley and Golders Green, told Jewish News

Labour’s candidate for Chipping Barnet faced questions about antisemitism and her party’s pledge to suspend some British arms sales to Israel at a hustings at JCoSS on Monday.

Emma Whysall, who is campaigning to unseat Conservative hopeful Theresa Villiers in the marginal, was joined on Monday by candidates Isabelle Parasram (Liberal Democrat) and Theresa

on Monday: “I was upset to see it. It just shows that the poison of antisemitism is never far from the surface.”

Villiers (Conservatives) at the Barnet school. Whysall apologised for what she saw as Labour’s failure to tackle antisemitism in its membership and vowed to be an ally to the community. “I understand that there are many in this room who find it very difficult a Labour government and who are scared of imagining a Labour government,” she told the audience.

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General Election 2019 / The battle for Finchley and Golders Green

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by Jenni Frazer @JenniFrazer

Probably the flashpoint constituency in the whole of London, if not nationally, is Finchley and Golders Green, part of which was once the fiefdom of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

For in the manicured avenues of Hampstead Garden Suburb and the occasionally grim council properties of Cricklewood, a fierce three-way street battle is being fought. Finchley and Golders Green has the highest Jewish community vote in the country, and 68.9 percent of the electorate voted Remain in the referendum.

And fighting to retain his seat is Conservative Mike Freer, a government whip who campaigned for Remain but has since decided that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s deal is one that can effectively take Britain out of Europe.

Freer, an MP since 2010, narrowly won in 2017, beating Labour’s Jeremy Newmark by a slender 1,657 majority. The Lib Dems came a very low third in that election with 3,463 votes.

But there have been political convulsions since 2017 and the dynamic has changed. Now, in the formidable person of Luciana Berger, the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, the Lib Dems have a glamorous candidate with a strong profile within the Jewish community.

And it is the long-time deputy leader of Barnet Council’s Labour group, Ross Houston,

who may well be struggling, because of the Corbyn factor and many Jewish voters’ reluctance to give him their support.

All three candidates have been getting the big guns out to support them: Tulip Saddiq, the Remain-supporting incumbent of nearby Hampstead and Kilburn, turned up at Houston’s launch, while Chancellor Sajid Javid and former premier Theresa May backed Freer.

Berger had different support: she was accompanied on doorstep canvassing by the wily former New Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell, thrown out of Labour for saying he would vote LibDem; and, rather more starrily, singer Fergal Shearkey and actor Hugh Grant. Houston has been endorsed by Shadow front-bencher Sir Keir Starmer and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Freer, it would be fair to say, is less than happy at being opposed by Berger. On a sunny day in Finchley Central, with the phones in the local Conservative Party offices bleeping repeatedly, Freer, with justification, presents himself as a warm friend of the Jewish community.

He is certainly that, an active member of the Conservative Friends of Israel, and a frequent and familiar attender at any number of local communal events. But he says flatly: “If you want to fight antisemitism, why not stand in a seat where you [Berger] can take out an antisemite, take out the Corbynistas?”

It’s an argument which was made in 2017, when Jeremy Newmark and Mike Katz, both

Luciana Berger on the campaign trail with new ally Alastair Campbell

active members of the Jewish community, stood in the adjoining seats of Finchley and Golders Green and Hendon. But Freer — who says this election does not feel that different from 2017 — makes the point even more strongly today.

“The threat here”, he says, “is do the LibDems siphon off votes from me to allow the Labour candidate to go through the middle?” And, he says, “we need to increase the number of people who will stand up for the Jewish community, not simply replace them. It’s not a zero-sum game. There are opportunities to take out Corbynistas who have slender majorities and if you want to rid the Labour Party of antisemitism, then we need to increase the number of people in the Labour Party who will make that fight.

But overall, we need to increase that number as a total — why aren’t people taking the battle to people like Emma Dent Coad [in Kensington]?”

It’s “lazy politics”, Freer believes, “saying, let’s go to Finchley and Golders Green because it’s got a big Jewish vote or a big Remain vote.

The idea that the community is homogenous and will vote one way just because of a candidate’s faith is not particularly accurate”.

Though he says otherwise, Freer may be rattled: he has made a point of contacting former residents who now live in Israel to see if they might vote in this election (an entitlement given to people for up to 15 years after they leave the UK). “It’s not chasing votes”, he insists, “it’s democracy. There are over 1,000 overseas votes registered in this constituency, from America, Japan, Europe… why shouldn’t I ask for that support? I have had positive feedback on this.”

Any candidate who says he or she is not anxious about an election “is lying to you”, says Freer. He says he is a fighter and — in the unlikely event that he were to become Prime Minister — says he would put a great deal of effort into harmonising social care and “putting a lot of money into dementia research”.

One clue to what makes Mike Freer tick comes in his impassioned response to the Holocaust. He’s visited Auschwitz and “come away angry” at denial. But, as a gay man, he is painfully aware that “if the transports [to the con-

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centration camps] were happening today, I’d be on those trains”.

Like Freer, whom he knows well from shared days on Barnet Council, his Labour opponent, Ross Houston, is not from London but has lived in the constituency for more than 20 years and is keen to stress both his familiarity with the Jewish community, and with local issues.

He has served as deputy leader of the Labour group on Barnet Council, and was nominated quite late in the day by the constituency party, which was keen to have a local nominee.

Glasgow-born and raised in Kirkcaldy, he describes himself as “a passionate Remainer”.

Though muttering cheerfully about “whose idea was it to hold an election in this weather”, Houston and his team nevertheless knocked on 1,800 doors in Finchley and Golders Green the weekend before speaking to the Jewish News. His feedback, he says, “is our core vote is holding up”.

Houston is the antithesis of a Corbynite candidate and would, if pressed, describe himself as a follower of Gordon Brown, the last Labour prime minister. He is a specialist in housing, both in local government and in his own job. His policies, he says, “are in line with those of the Jewish Labour Movement”, and it was important for the party to have someone local as their candidate whose beliefs would be in accord with theirs, “calling out antisemitism wherever we see it”.

Naturally, he says, the issue comes up repeatedly on the doorstep. “It’s clearly a difficult election this time and there is a different dynamic with the Lib Dem push for the seat. A couple of weeks in, I feel more confident. Perhaps the Lib Dems have chosen the wrong seat [to contest].”

Houston — who has visited Israel and encountered Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on his last trip — has strong views on the question of campaigning to put Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street. “It’s not the predominant issue — a number of our left-wing Jewish members are in fact very pro-Corbyn. What does come up a lot is Brexit and school cuts. But my position is very clear: I think the party needs to implement the EHRC recommendations in full,

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centre of the Bagel Belt and I welcome that.

“When cases [of antisemitism] have been badly handled, I want to know about it and I want it dealt with, there have to be consequences. It’s an opportunity not just for our party but for other parties, good practice in how they handle these cases. I think it’s ridiculous that we have ended up with the perception of not dealing with these cases, and for the party, we really need to have a completely independent process. .”

On Brexit, Houston is a veteran Remain campaigner but says the Lib Dem policy on stopping Brexit is “counter-productive. We will win a People’s Vote and enough people have changed their views three years on. If we revoke, any Leave voter will feel their vote has been stolen.”

He says it is “a great shame” that Luciana Berger left the Labour Party, but the candidate Mike Freer, front row, second right, is aiming to secure the seat for the fourth time herself seems to have no regrets, expressing great happiness at the reception she is getting in tree since 2010. She has a high personal recogni- Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street. the constituency — and praising her “wonderful tion factor, not just among the Jewish commuWhat else comes up on the doorstep, she says, team”. Berger famously left Labour in February nity, and has local roots. “My parents had their are issues of national security and, inevitably, this year, citing relentless antisemitism and first marital home here and it’s where my home antisemitism. But it is Brexit and the LibDems’ insisting that the party had actually left her. She is. I know the constituency very well.” firm opposition which is the core concern — and was a founding member of the new, but shortBerger is a fierce opponent of Brexit and she Berger points out that she was one of the few lived independent group of Change MPs, before thinks, judging by the way it comes up in her MPs who defied the Labour whip after the refjoining Jo Swinson’s Liberal Democrats in Sep- canvassing encounters, that her opposition is erendum, and did not vote to trigger Article 50. tember and becoming the party’s spokesperson what may swing it for a Lib Dem victory in this She rejects utterly suggestions that she was for health, wellbeing and social care. election. “It is a very real challenge that the parachuted into running for this seat, saying So it has been a rapid trajectory for Berger, country faces.” She is absolutely convinced that that not only was “it not in my gift” to pick and though she is of course a Commons veteran, her party leader, Jo Swinson, will not prop up a choose, but that she had to undergo a complete JGT Advert 165x260mm v2B.qxp_JN advert 165x260mm 28/11/2019 14:09 Page having beenFinal Labour’s MP for Liverpool Waverminority Labour government which1 would see democratic process in order to become the can-

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didate. “I even had to take a test”, she smiles, the first time for a long time she had to do that.

As for her former Labour colleagues, Berger says “they have a lot to answer for” in continuing to campaign for a party with Jeremy Corbyn as its leader. They are “hedging their bets” as to the outcome of the election, and she would urge them “to stand up and be counted”. But she has a central belief which could just as easily apply to each of the three candidates in this most delicate of constituencies. “Being an MP”, she says, “is a public service, not a job”. On that, at least, Freer, Houston and Berger are in agreement.

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Netanyahu irked British officials in part by the last-minute and presumptive nature of his announcement, so soon after the terror attack at London Bridge, and in part because of his stated aim of meeting US officials, not British representatives.

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School bomb hoaxer jailed A man who targeted Jewish schools in the UK as part of a wider terrorist campaign of bomb hoaxes here and abroad has been jailed for four years.

A judge at Exeter Crown Court heard that Jewish schools were “over-represented” in the targets chosen by Andreas Dowling (pictured) as he made 107 bomb hoaxes in the UK, US and Canada between 2014 and 2016 .

Prosecutors said Dowling, 24, from Cornwall, used text-to-voice software to hide his identity from law enforcement officials and that “some of the offences were motivated by racism”, with some motivated by money.

Simon Laws QC, prosecuting, said Jewish schools were “over-rep-

resented” as targets in the British hoaxes and were selected “based on racial or religious identity of the students”.

Laws added that threats to the Jewish schools referred to bombs going off at 4.20pm, a reference to Adolf Hitler’s birthday, 20 April. “It is on occasion of celebration in far right circles,” he explained. “It was only the Jewish schools that this unusually precise time was given.”

Among the other targets of Dowling were the Palace of Westminster and the 2015 Super Bowl, as well as US police departments.

He signed off some hoax calls with “Allahu Akbar”, a Muslim declaration of faith. The hoaxes affected 44,000 pupils in the UK.

LOW SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL BOYCOTTS A poll gauging British attitudes to boycotts of Israel has shown that just under half of all respondents opposed it as a measure.

The Populus poll, carried out for the UK–Israel think tank BICOM, showed 46 percent disagreed with campaigns to withhold their custom to force a change in Israeli policy, roughly similar to last year.

The survey also measured “warmth” towards Israel at 19 percent, or one in

five, while 21 percent expressed similar affection towards Palestinians.

Britons felt Israel was Britain’s most important Middle East ally in the fight against terrorism.

BICOM chief executive James Sorene said: “In a highly volatile political environment, the most striking feature of these results is their stability.

“Warmth towards Israel and the Pal-

estinians has largely stayed the same for five years, though we have seen small decreases in both this year. Support for boycotts of Israel is unchanged and low.”

He added: “The importance of close defence and intelligence ties between Britain and Israel is acknowledged in the survey with 44 percent of people saying Israel is an important partner for Britain in the fight against terrorism.”

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UJIA Women and WIZO UK are launching a joint campaign, Joining Hands, on Sunday, asking people to post on social media a photograph of hands joined together.

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Ronit Ribak Madari, of WIZO, says the organisation has been “committed to empowering women” since its establishment 100 years ago. Karen Goodkind, trustee and chair of UJIA Women and Lion of Judah, added: “We are demonstrating how two organisations can share resources and positively collaborate.”

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News / Sleep out / Rabbi attacked / Interfaith awards

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faith leaders from different communities will be sleeping out.”

Chief Rabbi Mirvis said: “The peace and security of a roof over one’s head is a fundamental human necessity. A home is not only a place where a person lays their head at night but the physical foundation upon which people can build for themselves a life of dignity and accomplishment.

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On-stage performances will include Dame Helen, who will read a bedtime story, and sets from musicians Travis and Tom Walker.

In New York’s Times Square, those taking part will be treated to a bedtime story read by Will Smith.

Rabbi beaten in Stamford Hill A rabbi visiting London was beaten and left on the ground bleeding in Stamford Hill.

The incident happened on Friday night, the Campaign Against Antisemitism

reported. After Shabbat, the unnamed man, described by British media as a “senior rabbi”, flew to Israel.

The two teenagers who assaulted the rabbi alleg-

edly shouted “Kill Jews” and “F*** Jews” during the attack, according to neighbourhood watch group Shomrim.

The attack has been reported to the police.

INTERFAITH GROUP AWARDS HEROES

A total of £20,000 was handed out to 40 London projects as an interfaith group co-hosted an awards ceremony honouring the capital’s unsung heroes.

The projects winning the London Faith & Belief Community Awards at the Royal

Society of Medicine ranged from inspiring youth and supporting women to peace and reconciliation.

The Faith and Belief Forum, formerly Three Faiths Forum, organised the awards with the Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London’s Council on

Faith, chaired by Jewish philanthropist David Dangoor.

Faith and Belief Forum’s Phil Champain said: “When there is so much division in society, it is more important than ever to celebrate those who work to bring people together.”

Young Jews protest Regavim Young British Jews descended on Kentish Town last Sunday to blockade a talk by an Israeli organisation accused of waging “lawfare” against Palestinian communities.

Activists from anti-occupation group Na’amod linked arms and stood in front of the entrance to a community

centre which was hosting a rescheduled talk by Naomi Linder Kahn, a director of Regavim.

Up to 25 Na’amod protesters sang songs, describing Regavim’s activities using a megaphone and recited Birkat HaBayit, the Jewish prayer for the home. A separate pro-

test by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign took place nearby.

Na’amod member Josh Cohen said the decision by her host – UK Lawyers for Israel – to welcome Regavim to the UK “demonstrates the depths of the moral crisis in our community when it comes to the occupation”.

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NUMBER OF ISRAELIBORN UK RESIDENTS DOUBLES SINCE 2001 New government figures have shown that there are approximately 21,000 British residents who were born in Israel – but only 8,000 who have Israeli nationality.

The estimated figures embed a huge generational increase in the number of Israelis coming to the UK, with the 2001 Census recording only 11,890 British citizens born in Israel.

The new dataset was taken from the Annual Population Survey, which is the Labour Force Survey plus various sample boosts, and released this week by the Office of National Statistics. It sheds new light on the number of Israelis, or Israeli-born residents, living in the UK. Based on data from July 2018 to June 2019, the statistics show some surprising population centres for Israeli nationals, with around 1,000 in Waverley and an estimated 2,000 living near the University of Cambridge, where a vibrant tech scene has grown.

Of those born in Israel, around 1,000 live in Bury, Leeds and Scotland, while 2,000 live in the Orthodox north London area of Hackney and 5,000 people born in Israel live in Barnet, which has one of the largest Jewish populations of any borough.

Concern over organ donor law Jews who want to donate their organs when they die may soon have their final wish thwarted by religious family members who disagree with organ donation, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

It has emerged that friends and relatives, including those being advised by rabbis, will be able to override the presumed or express consent of Jews who opted in to organ donation after a new law takes effect in the spring.

Conflicting information had been sent to thousands of Orthodox Jews in the UK from two of the country’s largest Orthodox groups. One said families need only object to stop donation, while the other said families needed “proof” the deceased did not wish to donate. Yet another said Jews who opted to donate could have their wishes overridden.

At present, anyone can register their desire or not to donate their organs upon their death and that will remain the case after Max and Keira’s Law takes effect.

The change in emphasis applies to those who do not register a wish either way.

Currently, the government does not presume consent if a person has not recorded their wish on the NHS Organ Donor Register, but from next year people will be deemed to have consented in the absence of any expressed wish.

The NHS has not defined exactly who

Friends and relatives might be able to override a patient’s wishes to donate

will have power to override consent and when, citing the pending completion of a Code of Practice following a consultation, but said a family’s agreement was key. “Ultimately, if the family don’t want it to happen, it won’t happen,” a senior figure at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), told Jewish News.

Strictly Orthodox Jews say religious law prohibits organ donation because the body must be intact at burial. The only exception, they say, comes when an Orthodox rabbinic council agrees to it.

Typically this is only when a transplant will imminently save a Jewish life.

In other strands of Judaism, donating organs is encouraged on the grounds it

saves a life, but there is disagreement over whether “death” includes brain stem death, such as when a person is kept alive on life support, or only when a person’s heart stops beating. Hearts and lungs can only be taken for transplant in situations of brain stem death.

Earlier this year, the Human Tissue Authority, which is the regulator for organs, tissues and cells, launched a public consultation on guidance for healthcare professionals about the implementation of deemed consent.

This week, the NHS said final decisions on organ donation will be taken by a specialist nurse in liaison with the family, but Jewish groups have sought to

amend Paragraph 53 of the Draft Code, which states the family “does not have the legal right to overrule appropriate consent” if they object to the donation.

Jewish Community Council director Levi Shapiro said: “We’ve explained to the NHS the family should have the right to override the deceased person, for example, if they haven’t recorded an interest or if they have mistakenly recorded ‘opt-in’ but the family wants to override that.”

The Federation of Synagogues’ Beth Din told members last week: “If family members seek to prevent the donation of the deceased’s organs, they will have to provide proof that the deceased expressed their opposition to the donation. Absence of such evidence will constitute deemed consent and the family will not be able to prevent the donation.”

But the Office of the Rabbinate of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (UOHC) told its members: “NHS guidance and practices are clear that no donation can be considered without engaging the family to ascertain the most recent wish of the deceased. This is the case even in the event where the deceased chose to opt-in.”

The NHSBT confirmed the UOHC interpretation was likely to be accurate, but said consensus would be sought.

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News / Sex education / Language concerns

Parents ‘pressed’ over school sex ed Parents of strictly-Orthodox Jewish children in the UK say schools are pressing them to withdraw their children from relationship and sex education (RSE) classes, writes Adam Decker.

Two parents, speaking anonymously, told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme that two schools – Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School and Lubavitch Senior Girls’ School – had urged them to write asking to take their children out of RSE lessons.

“Our children need sex education more than any other child in the country because our community is so insular,” one said. “There is no other way in which a child in this community could learn about healthy sex and relationships because the internet and all forms of national media are banned.”

Mandatory RSE lessons, which aim to explain the basics of reproduction and different types of sexuality, gender and relationships, come into effect in schools next year. However, following pressure from faith group lobbyists, the government recently agreed to a parental opt-out until children reach a

EDUCATION POLICY WARNING The umbrella body for Jewish schools has issued a precis summarising the education policies of Britain’s three main political parties amid warning that some could “adversely affect” Jewish education in the UK. Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), a division of the Jewish Leadership Council, published the briefing document this week, highlighting the commitments of the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats and what their promises may mean for faith schools in the UK. A PaJeS spokeswoman said: “Whilst education may not be one of the key electoral issues in this election, it is troubling that hidden within some manifestos are proposals that

could adversely affect a significant proportion of our schools.”

Ofsted would be retained and strengthened by the Tories, but replaced by Labour and the Liberal Democrats. The Tories likewise say they would keep the 50 percent cap, whereby half of all school places at faith schools are “open places” allocated without reference to faith.

Labour has promised an arts pupil premium, free school meals at primary school, maximum class sizes of 30, and the transfer of academies into local authorities, but the party’s plans to “close the tax loopholes enjoyed by elite private schools” could impact private Jewish schools such as Immanuel College.

Two schools have asked parents to opt out of sex education

certain age.

One telephone recording, obtained by the BBC programmes, shows someone from one of the schools telling a parent that “we need parents to formally say ‘I do not want you to teach my child about single-gender relationships or sex education in the school’, unless you do, as a parent, want that”.

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Meanwhile, a mother at Lubavitch said staff asked parents to help “prevent” RSE lessons, telling the programme she was “disgusted”.

Its headteacher Helen Freeman said the school had “worked hard to ensure parents are fully informed about the legislative changes pertaining to RSE”, adding: “Our intention was to inform parents of their legal right to opt their children out of sex education.”

Yesodey Hatorah principal Rabbi Avroham Pinter hit out at the BBC for pursuing a “hate campaign” and the anonymous parents, calling their complaints “vexatious”.

He said most parents at his school “do not expect their children to be given sex education in a school classroom”.

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A statue has been unveiled of Nancy Astor, the first female MP to take her seat in Parliament, despite claims she was sympathetic towards Adolf Hitler.

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for 25 years. Former prime minister Theresa May unveiled the statue near Astor’s home in Plymouth last week, saying her appointment meant “our country and our democracy were changed for the better”. Professor David Feldman of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, has told how he discovered that Lady Astor argued Jews were to blame in some measure for their persecution.

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sraelis swapped the beach for The Beatles and Bissli for bangers and mash as the first London in Tel Aviv festival brought a taste of Britain to the Mediterranean coastline.

While fears abound over the potential impact of a Jeremy Corbyn government on bilateral relations, cultural ties were celebrated with a four-day extravaganza of music, comedy, dance and sport attended by tens of thousands of Tel Avivians.

Highlights of the event included the world premiere of a new show by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, club nights by top British DJs and a football match between Special Olympics GB and Israel.

“It’s been amazing and we were delighted with the sizes of the audiences. We relied upon the support of individuals who believe that politics has no place in the cultural world and that freedom to express oneself through the arts should not be withheld,” said festival founder Marc Worth.

“It was established to showcase the diverse and exceptional talent that these two vibrant cities have to offer.”

For three nights, the square housing the Tel Aviv Museum of Art played host to a free

open air food and music festival supported by the municipality, with trucks serving bangers and mash, fish and chips (with hummus, naturally) as well as other treats, such as alcoholic ice cream.

Marina Shtir knew she had to make the journey from Ashkelon as soon as she saw the event advertised online. “I’m a fan of British culture – I love all the television series from London and have been a big fan of George Michael and the Beatles since I was a teenager,” she said.

“I hope the festival will be repeated in future years, perhaps with a section about the history of the British people.

I was in London about eight years ago, but this makes me want to go back.”

While the weather bore little resemblance to plummeting temperatures back home, revellers posed in front of replica red phone boxes and sampled a variety of English beers – with some trying out their finest English accents after a pint or two.

Crowds swelled to more than 1,000 as Queen tribute act Rockville took to the stage.

“We heard the music from the street,” said student Roni. “Everyone is having fun. It’s good to see people united and dancing with their kids.”

Virgin Atlantic, the festival’s headline sponsors, which recently started a new route from London, set up a makeshift airport lounge, where cabin crew and keen surfer Anuli hailed the city’s “fantastic vibe”. She added: “Some corners of Tel Aviv remind me of London, some of Miami. You don’t see this side of Tel Aviv in Britain.”

The festival kicked off with a spellbinding dance performance conceived by Londonbased Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter that brought an extended standing ovation.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company returned to Israel for the first time in nearly two decades to perform Hamlet’s Big Adventure – complete with references to burekas and rugelach and even a brief rendition of Hava Nagila. Described as a “hysterical (and completely fictional) prequel to Hamlet”, the festival brochure told audiences: “If you like Shakespeare you will like this show. If you hate Shakespeare you’ll love this show.”

Austin Tichenor, who co-wrote and performed in the play, described the Israeli audiences as “lovely and friendly”, adding: “I was a little surprised most of the cultural references landed.”

Despite the movement calling on artists to boycott Israel, he said “no one ever questioned it”.

He said: “It’s better to have people talking.

All I can do is entertain, and it’s nice to be able to entertain people around the world.”

He is now hoping the show will come to the Edinburgh Fringe for its UK premiere.

The cast were surrounded by locals hoping for photos after the show, including professional translator and Shakespeare fan, Lirit Zindani, who said: “People always ask me to help them improve their English for business or other reasons. It is a growing necessity that can’t merely be satisfied by learning basic grammar rules. Culture has a major role in connecting people around the world.”

Elsewhere, young audiences partied into the early hours on Friday and Saturday nights to the beats of 10 visiting British DJs and bands at uber-cool venue Teder.

Piers James, among those to perform, said: “Tel Aviv is one the greatest cities I’ve ever been to. The people, the food, the energy and whole vibe was incredible.

We made history in Teder and can’t wait to come back and do it all again.”

It was in Boris Johnson’s trade mission as London mayor where the seeds of a cultural exchange between the two cities was born – and led to Tel Aviv in London Festival in 2017.

Last week’s return leg – put together by sibling producers Tali and Yoav Tzemach – was also backed by UJIA, the Wolfson Foundation and Nissim Levy.

Worth is now hoping to bring the festival back to Tel Aviv in 2021 with a number of highprofile acts. It was a wish echoed by Tel Aviv’s Mayor, Ron Huldai, who said in kicking off the festival last Wednesday: “We are very different in our histories, in size and number of

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‘Their confidence is incredible’ here has been amazing – we don’t get to spend time on the beach in Scotland. Everyone at home is jealous.”

Ryan Anstey, 23, said he “almost cried” at being reunited with his teammates in Israel, which he described as a “beautiful country”. As he joined players from both sides in signing a ball, which will later be auctioned for charity, he added: “After playing, I want to go into coaching – I can learn a lot from them and them from me.”

Discussions are already underway about further collaborations between the two countries, including a possible ‫ה״ב‬match in London, while SO is return in contact with Kisharon and Langdon to explore winning medals. It’s incredible to watch their involving more Jewish children in its activities. confidence grow and we need more people to The unique match was sparked by a conversation know what awesome athletes they are.” between festival founder Marc Worth and Sharon Athletes with an IQ under 75 are eligible to Levy-Balanga, CEO of SO Israel and a key organiser compete in the Special Olympics – which brought of the event. She said: “Our athletes are our teachers. more than 7,500 people from around the globe to Once we see our athletes are the same as us, we the World Games in Abu Dhabi – with many on the autistic spectrum. During last week’s match, the ‫ה״ב‬learn to appreciate difference. When I measure the impact of the Special Olympics, it’s about those GB side was complemented by seven British olim without disabilities, and a group of prominent actors, without disabilities.” While the Special Olympics is apolitical, she hoped the GB team would tell those artists and musicians joined the Israeli side. back home about the Israel they saw for themselves.

And while Israel may have lost on the field, it Former footballer Gidon Moliaff, the founder clearly gained admirers off it including GB captain of sport goods company Mega Sport, said he was Joe McKenzie. The 25-year-old listed training at “excited” to host the event at his home.

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A group of young British footballers crowned world champions at the last Special Olympics have taken part in an historic match against their Israeli counterparts near Tel Aviv.

The athletes with intellectual disabilities touched down in Israel as part of the London in Tel Aviv Festival – becoming the first foreign delegation of Special Olympics (SO) athletes to compete in the country.

The 16-strong group trained at Maccabi Tel Aviv’s ground and bartered at Carmel Market, ahead of last Thursday’s big match attended by representatives of the Israeli Olympic and Paralympic Committees and the Peres Centre.

The visit was sponsored by Nissim Levy and UJIA. Michelle Carney, CEO of Special Olympics GB, told Jewish News: “This was an amazing opportunity to reunite the gold medal-winning team after the World Games, but also to offer a cultural experience and meet fellow athletes, which is so important In the lads’ growth as people and footballers.

“We try to develop our athletes as leaders, speakers and increase their employability skills. Some were told they would never amount to anything – and now they‘re

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I hope some of the performers will stay on to enjoy our beautiful city.”

Audiences also enjoyed iconic British films, a series of talks linking food and tech and shows by artists Karen Russo and Rachel Maclean.

World-renowned cellist Natalie Clein joined pianist and conductor Gil Shohat for a recital, saying later: “It’s always very exciting for me to come to Israel and be a little part of the musical culture there. It feels uniquely special to play pieces like Bloch’s Three Scenes from Jewish Life for an Israeli audience.”

British Ambassador Neil Wigan, who hosted a reception for the performers, told Jewish News: “Tel Aviv is lucky to have this event. I’m delighted about how excited Israelis are by British culture and by this event. The replies have been even more positive than expected, even to British food.”

Praising Worth as someone who “gets stuff done”, he added: “I’m shamefully putting pressure on Marc to ensure this is not the last of its kind.”

Expressing delight at its involvement, a spokesperson for Virgin said: “London is one of the most popular destination among the Israeli public, and one of our goals in this new route is to bring closer the two cultures. We’re hoping to have another successful project like this soon.”

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UN IN HEZBOLLAH DISARMING CALL A call by the United Nations for Hezbollah to disarm has been described as “highly significant” by a UK–Israel think-tank. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres called on the Lebanese Armed Forces to disarm the Lebanon-based Shi’ite militia, which is supported

by Iran. Guterres said the UN’s Interim Force in Lebanon could not operate in areas controlled by Hezbollah and urged the country’s government to disarm it. It is highly unusual for the UN to ask a state to disarm the military wing of an organisation that part-comprises that state’s government.

JANE FONDA MAKES ‘NUREMBERG’ CALL Actress Jane Fonda has demanded that fuel companies be held responsible for their actions “like at Nuremberg.” She made the apparent reference on Tuesday to the millitary trials that saw Nazi war criminals brought to justice in the German city of Nuremberg between 1945 and 1949. Asked if she believed the climate issue was comparable to Nuremberg, Fonda replied: “I think it’s worse.”

UK Jewish response to Aids was ‘way ahead of other faiths’ Volunteers who helped Jews with HIV and AIDS when little was known of the virus have said Anglo-Jewry’s response was “way ahead” of other faiths at the time, writes James Martin.

The early years were filled with myths and stigmas, said Laurence Lewis, among the first cohort of volunteers for the Jewish AIDS Trust (JAT), but the community’s attitude to the issue and its impact made a huge difference. “There was a pragmatic approach, which meant our community listened to information about the disease.”

“I was determined to see all those myths out there debunked, like the idea that you could get it from saliva, or touch. So JAT made sure the message got out to synagogues and to our youth groups, that this was a disease that could only be contracted in two ways – through blood and sexual fluids.”

He said “people listened, and it helped greatly”. It “meant people living with HIV/AIDS were treated with more empathy and dignity… It also dampened some of the hysteria that communities can sometimes whip up.”

The 63-year-old, who lives in

People light candles around the symbol for last week’s World Aids Day. Inset: Jewish Aids Trust’s Laurence Lewis

Finchley, said he joined a group of 20 volunteers who helped to support Jewish people who received an HIV diagnosis in the 1980s and 1990s because he was used to visiting the elderly on a regular basis.

“As we know, the HIV/AIDS virus was a death sentence up to the mid90s,” he explained. “I arranged kosher

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food for a patient to arrive before Shabbat out of respect for his religious parents who didn’t want him to receive food during Shabbat. Things like that were often important in bringing together families.”

Lewis is proud of the way the community communicated the needs of

every person. “We quickly identified that there were women with the illness too, and a British-Jewish woman became a volunteer speaker to schools,” he said. “We were always talking to a mainly heterosexual audience, and she was proof that the heterosexual community was at risk too.”

It was a particular tragedy during the height of the epidemic in the early 1990s that led to a change in the community’s relationships and sex education, he said. “A former head boy of JFS died of an AIDS-related illness in his mid-twenties, and it was that closeness of impact that led to us being given a platform to speak about sexual health.

“It was a classic example of pragmatism. I could go in and talk at JFS, I couldn’t proactively say the ‘c-word’ – condoms — but if asked, I could tell pupils that condoms were something that could protect them from serious woes.”

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A British woman who accused a group of Israeli men of gangrape at a resort in Cyprus has been told by a judge that public mischief charges against her will proceed to trial, after prosecutors said she lied.

In a series of pre-trial arguments in court on Thursday, her lawyers challenged the admissibility of the woman’s retraction statement.

The woman, 19, who has not been named, said she was raped by the young men in Ayia Napa in July, after she had gone to a hotel room voluntarily with one of the group.

She said the alleged rape took place after the other members of his 12-strong group burst into the room while she was with him. The incident is believed to have been filmed on a mobile phone.

The British group Justice Abroad says she was interrogated at a Cypriot police station for eight hours without a lawyer by officers who “never suspected she was telling the truth”. Her defence team,

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comprising a British QC, say the officers subjected her to “quickfire questioning and aggressive behaviour” when she had post-traumatic stress and she was “denied access to a lawyer”, which is contrary to EU and Cypriot law. The Israelis were soon freed and welcomed home as “heroes”.

Her lawyers showed that one officer “added false prejudicial information” to her initial statement about the amount of time she had been drinking, and another told

her that “if she did not agree to retract her statement she would next see her mother when she appeared in court in handcuffs”.

In court, a forensic linguist from the University of Manchester gave evidence that the woman’s retraction statement had not been drafted by her. The judge disagreed that it was made under duress and ruled it admissible. Michael Polak, of Justice Abroad, said it was “disappointed and surprised” by the ruling.

DUKE DROPS JEWISH CHARITY Prince Andrew’s withdrawal from public life this week hit an interfaith charity founded by a Jewish philanthropist.

Until last month the Duke of York had been a patron of the Maimonides Foundation, whose mission is to “promote understanding and respect between people from the three Abrahamic faiths through the power of art, creativity, dialogue and education”.

The foundation was set up

by Professor David Khalili.

Born in Iran, he has been based in London since the 1980s, where he earned a living from

investing in property. A collector of Islamic art, he founded the Maimonides Foundation in 1995, which he still chairs, with a desire to foster understanding and co-operation between Jews, Christians and Muslims through cultural and academic programmes.

At the launch of a learning resource for schoolchildren at London Central Mosque in 2012, he told an audience including Prince Andrew that he was motivated and inspired by the Queen and her diverse Commonwealth of nations.

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Jewish groups hailed the University of Bristol’s full adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism (IHRA) as an “important first step” towards protecting students.

The decision was announced on Monday amid growing pressure on the university to adopt in full the definition of anti-Jewish racism and all its accompanying examples.

It comes after Jewish stu-

dents staged a protest last month outside a university trustee meeting where the decision was to be debated.

Jewish groups welcomed the move – a sign both the Bristol J-Soc and Union of Jewish Students said demonstrated the university had “listened to their Jewish students.”

“The University of Bristol has not been free of antisemitic incidents, and the adoption of this definition is an important first step in

helping the university tackle anti-Jewish racism,” read a statement from the J-Soc and Union of Jewish Students.

Board of Deputies vice president Amanda Bowman described the move as “an important first step towards protecting Jewish students, academics and staff.”

“The definition, with its examples, is a useful yardstick to determine whether specific actions are or are not antisemitic,” she added.

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EUROPEAN RABBIS: RELIGION IS UNDER SEVERE THREAT European Rabbis have said religious practice is under “severe threat” right across the continent, in the sternest warning of its kind in years.

The remarks were made in Geneva at a meeting of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) to discuss Jewish life in the region.

CER president Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt said: “Everywhere in Europe, our religious practice is severely under threat. The continued efforts made by several European nations to restrict our ability to observe important religious customs and traditions are increasingly worrying and problematic.”

It follows the recent ban on non-stun slaughter in two regions of Belgium and a challenge to nonmedical infant circumcision in Iceland, with the possibility of similar moves in Sweden, France and Germany.

“The importance of protecting Jewish life in Europe is of the utmost importance within today’s political and social climate,” said Goldschmidt. “The future of the Jews in Europe is once again thrown into question. Many are experiencing huge anxiety about whether they are able to continue living on this continent.”

ISRAELIS MAKE CARBONNEUTRAL BREAKTHROUGH A remarkable Israeli invention could pave the way toward carbon-neutral fuels.

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have produced a genetically engineered bacteria that can live on carbon dioxide rather than sugar.

The extraordinary leap could lead to the low-emissions production of carbon for use in biofuels or food that would also help to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere, where it is helping to drive global warming.

Plants and ocean-living cyanobacteria perform photosynthesis, taking the energy from light to transform CO2 into a form of organic carbon that can be used to build DNA, proteins and fats.

As these photosynthesisers can be difficult to moderate genetically, the Weizmann team, under Professor Ron Milo, took E. coli bacteria – more commonly associated with food poisoning – and spent 10 years weaning them off sugar and training them to

Genetically-engineered bacteria can live on CO2

“eat” carbon dioxide instead.

Through genetic engineering, they enabled the bacteria to convert CO2 into organic carbon, substituting the energy of the sun – a vital ingredient in the photosynthesis process. Milo said: “Our findings are a significant milestone towards our goal of efficient, green scientific applications.”

Meanwhile, in another potential breakthrough, Israeli researchers have used a small molecule to induce the self-destruction of pancreatic cancer cells in mice. The treatment reduced the number of cancer cells by as much as 90

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The research – led by Prof Malka Cohen-Armon and her team at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr Talia Golan’s team at the Cancer Research Center at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan – holds “great potential for the development of a new effective therapy to treat this aggressive cancer in humans,” Tel Aviv University said in a statement.

The paper was published in the October issue of the journal Oncotarget, a peer-reviewed biomedical journal covering oncology research.

UNITED STATES

Diplomatic relations with Israel will be renewed after Bolivia’s left-wing President Evo Morales resigned last month. Bolivia cut ties in protest at Israel’s actions in Gaza in 2008-9.

Morales formally recognised the State of Palestine in 2010 but has now sought asylum in Mexico after disputed elections.

Jewish actor and comedian Seth Rogen has said he learned Yiddish in his “most Jewish role yet” for American Pickle, out next year. He plays Herschel Greenbaum, a Yiddish speaking immigrant to the US at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a pickle barrel and emerges, fully preserved, in Brooklyn in 2018.

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An extraordinary row has broken out between the US-based AntiDefamation League (ADL) and the South African Jewish Board of Deputies after an ADL survey found South Africa was ”one of the world’s most antisemitic countries”. The Board denied this and said pollsters had misunderstood the country’s culture.

Prosecutors in Warsaw have dropped a case against a Holocaust scholar for “insulting the nation” after claiming that Poles killed more Jews than Germans during the Second World War. Polish nationalists said Jan Tomasz Gross distorted history to smear the country. He faced three years in jail if found guilty.

Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were killed in the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai when he was two, celebrated his barmitzvah last weekend in his home town of Afula in northern Israel.

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Dear Jewish News reader. By the time you read this newspaper next week, you’ll have either voted – or chosen to simply abstain altogether – in what has been billed as “the election of a generation”.

But just imagine if Messrs Johnson, Corbyn and Farage, alongside Lib Dem’s Jo Swinson, were no longer a political option – and the prime minister were in fact you. That was the somewhat attractive, somewhat daunting proposal we put to some of the stalwarts of our community this week on pages 32 and 33, asking them what they would put into action if they were handed the keys to Downing Street.

Rabbi Prime Minister Laura Janner-Klausner refreshingly pledged she would simply, “tell the truth, no matter how hard it is to hear,” while Prime Ministers Simon Johnson and Gideon Falter would “push extremists to the extreme” and “proscribe the entirety of Hamas” respectively.

On the issue of creating a fairer society, Prime Minister Laura Marks would seek to stamp out “misogynistic views against women”, while Prime Minister Neil Martin would “strive to develop a society that values young people”, and Prime Minister Dr Beverley Jacobson would ensure everyone is educated about disability.

In the social sector, Prime Minister Daniel Carmel-Brown would seek to “tackle the social care crisis gripping the nation”, while Prime Minister Naomi Dickson would “urgently” push through the domestic abuse bill.

Improving the lives of refugees, ethnic minorities and asylum seekers would be top of the list for Prime Minister Edie Friedman, while for Prime Minister Olivia Marks-Waldman, Holocaust education would be a leading priority.

Fairer, more caring, more truthful, more tolerant – that’s the society our 12 prime ministers would seek to deliver. We can only hope whoever waves from outside No.10 next week thinks the same.

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Britain’s day of destiny I write this as a personal appeal to all fellow members of the community to recognise the massive contrast between the two options that face us at this election. It’s Prime Minister Johnson or Prime Minister Corbyn – as clear-cut as that.

The Conservative-led governments of the past nine years have been excellent on Jewish issues. Their policies have been solidly pro-Israel, with legislation against boycotts, the banning of Hezbollah and promotion of trade with Israel. Those governments’ active determination to combat antisemitism has been second to none, with continued funding for Jewish security, Holocaust education and commemoration, and the

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Luciana Berger makes a point of telling us how she left Labour because of the antisemitism she experienced.

Her story is flawed. Why did she stand in 2017 as a Labour candidate when the party was led by Corbyn, then wait until 2019 to leave?

Moreover, her new party, the Lib Dems, is part of the Remain Alliance together with the Green Party. The latter supports the antisemitic BDS movement and the compulsory labelling

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promotion of the wider definition of antisemitism.

The thought of a Labour-led government is horrifying. The antisemitism with which Labour is riddled has been publicised far and wide.

There is nothing further to say about the party’s odious leader that has not already been said, not least by the Chief Rabbi.

The ambition of the Momentum faction that controls Labour is to turn Britain into a communist, terrorist-appeasing, nuclear-disarmed state where democracy, tolerance and respect for religious values would become forgotten concepts.

of meat slaughtered by the “approved Jewish method”.

The Lib Dems running her in a constituency with the highest Jewish population is reminiscent of Mosley running Jewish boxing hero ‘Kid’ Lewis in the East End in the 1932 general election as candidate for his New Party, also hoping for his coreligionists’ votes.

Lewis failed and, it’s to be hoped, Berger will too.

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THIS ISN’T GENTLE, KIND POLITICS I wonder if Mr Corbyn, the chief executive of kinder and gentler politics, would like to have “an open door” chat with my daughter, who attends a university located five minutes from his house... where a highly organised annual BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaign/Labour week-long event took place in her campus ... where views including “the Jews caused 9/11” etc are joyfully shouted to everyone.

I first wondered what Palestine has to do with all the really important issues facing Britain today, and what the average decent British Jewish community has ever done to deserve this vile behaviour.

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This is obviously hypothetical, but it’s the same sentiment behind what must be Mr Corbyn’s belief that antisemitism is not the same as other racisms, and so is acceptable as a mainstream ideology in the UK. I wondered what he would do if this were an annual event he came across in his home town.

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It is also interesting that she has released

her name, yet the Jewish family, although they were the victims, have not. Surely she has put herself in danger, yet again, from people who don’t like her actions?

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Jewish leaders have not spoken out consistently ALEX BRUMMER

CITY EDITOR, THE DAILY MAIL

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he way the British Jewish community is led has over the years been much admired by non-Christian denominations. But it is confusing.

I am always struck that when the media urgently looks for a spokesperson, it is never quite sure where to go.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews, which has been around more than 250-years with its semi-democratic structure, ought to be the first port of call.

But layered on top of that we have the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC), formed because some community worthies felt the Board did not always throw up the effective leadership and is hamstrung by a sclerotic decision-making structure and a lack of resources. There is a view that at times of intense stress in the community, as at present, it has been too timid.

The creation of the Campaign Against AntiSemitism, a grassroots group made up largely by a younger cohort, was a direct reaction to what

was perceived as a lacklustre response to the Gaza Operation Protective Edge in 2014. The ‘Campaign’ was created spontaneously, organising rallies to combat the anti-Jewish sentiment whipped up by Israel’s action.

One of the consequences of this plethora of Jewish organisations is that successive UK governments never quite know who is in charge.

As a former Board vice-president, I watched with some bemusement the clashing opinions each year as to who would represent the community at the regular meetings at No 10 Downing Street.

Jews have the clout, but the voice was muffled by the search for prestige.

Amid all of this, the religious leaders, from all branches of Judaism, stood above the fray. When necessary, they have drawn upon their immense moral authority and intellect to have their say.

In recent times there has never been a more effective intervention in politics than that of Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis during the current General Election campaign.

Labour’s feeble approach to dealing with anti-Jewish and anti-Israel insults and invective has been shameful, hence Mirvis’ article in

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THE COMMUNITY’S RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED TO TAKE A STAND The Times. His and an earlier intervention by a leading progressive Rabbi Jonathan Romain were brave, far-sighted and necessary.

The authority of the community’s religious leaders has not necessarily been recognised in the past by all sections of British Jewry. But they have been encouraged – by the timidity of the secular leadership – to take a stand.

Yes, the Board, together with the JLC and Jewish News, have been assiduous in organising hustings. But the role of referee has silenced them as effective organisations publicly campaigning against Corbyn and antisemitism.

There is almost as much on the Board’s website about combatting antisemitism

in Hungary (important as it is) as there is about Corbyn and the weakness of Labour in confronting its demons. As Mirvis observed, Labour’s approach to anti-Jewish attitudes has been mendacious and the soul of a tolerant nation challenged.

Every Jewish person I encounter in my daily life – even those with no connection to the community at all – are filled with a dread greater than anything in our lifetimes. The community digs deep to support the Board and the JLC digs deep to support itself and Jewish institutions.

But when it has come to being a consistent public voice, in a bitterly fought election campaign where Jewish candidates are in the line of fire, leadership has disappointed.

The chips will be down on 12 December, and the community cannot afford silence. Timidity should not be an option. The voices of Rabbis Mirvis, Baroness Julia Neuberger, Romain and others have resonated and been listened to.

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Chanukah in the Square – so, what’s not to like?

RACHEL CREEGER COMEDIAN

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’ve always been a Chaukah fan. I mean – eight days of doughnuts, what’s not to like? But growing up, there was one aspect that excited me most.

For some it’s the thrill of presents, whether eight small or one large. I remember my friends and siblings using the Argos catalogue as some kind of mystical advent calendar, leaving it in obvious places with relevant page corners turned down in the hopes of receiving the latest fad.

For others, it’s the joy of candle lighting, the chance to play with fire in a parentally sanctioned way. Show me the child who doesn’t enjoy turning the candle just that bit too long when trying to drip the wax into the holder for added safety.

And those arguments about what exactly constitutes a latke? Just potato? Potato and egg? Onion or not? Or most controversial of all, my grandmother’s matzah meal batter with neither potato nor onion, served with sugar and cinnamon after candle lighting?

Readers, I am imagining your horrified faces at that suggestion, even my own

husband is probably forcing a smile at seeing me in print while screaming inside: “BUT THOSE ARE BUBBELAS! FOR PESACH!” (Trust me, matzah meal latkes rock. Worth every calorie.)

But I’m a showbiz luvvie, so above the smell of the grease and the roar of the fryer, it was all about the Chanukah concerts.

Whether in the synagogue hall, school or community centre, these events were the highlight of my year. Even Purim couldn’t hold a candle to them.

Heading out in your costume on a dark wintry night seemed like the height of glamour. The building would be decorated, the ladies’ guild / PTA / volunteers would have put out tables of treats, there would be games and activities – dreidel spinning for the kids, roulette for the adults (same same, but different), eating doughnuts without licking your lips (oh no! I’ll have to try again!)

And before that, we would get to perform.

Those glittering productions where, as small children, we would proudly hold a silver foil-covered cardboard sword and shield that would have been about as much use to a Maccabee as a silver foil-covered cardboard sword and shield.

The reworded pop songs such as “I light a candle, two this night, in light our history reappears, and in this show we will discover, that Chanukah is all we want to hear” (sorry, Sir Paul). The pantos full of puns: “The one on the floor, the one that has-my-knee-on.” ... “The prince was afraid of the Chanukah dragon because he ate knights.” ... “There were insects everywhere, but she managed to s-mack-a-bee before it stung her on the temple.”

Teachers wrote material like that every year, and didn’t feel the least bit gelty about it. They brought everyone together, every generation, to celebrate our survival. Not just at the hands of the ancient Syrian-Greeks – the teachers had survived the migraine generating rehearsal period. The parents had survived our pre-show emotional rollercoaster driven horrific behaviour. The relief was palpable, on all counts. And as little ones

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As older kids we sang “Ocho Kandelikas”.

As teens we sang Adam Sandler’s slightly edgier ode to the festival. As a community and a family we all sang Maoz Tzur. And we still get to do that, every year, for eight nights.

Being asked to host Chanukah in the Square last year was an incredible honour, and being asked back again even more so.

Sharing one of my favourite times of year with thousands of members of my extended family, whatever their Jewish connection, is incredibly special. And this year it has everything I loved as a child: games, activities, food and music. They’ll need to prise that foil-covered cardboard sword and shield out of my hand at the end. I can’t wait. u This year’s Chanukah In The Square takes place in Trafalgar Square on Sunday, 22 December. 2.30pm start.

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The kids are not alright – and we need to act now LIONEL SALAMA

CO-FOUNDER, HOPE AGENCY

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espite the advances of the past 25 years, Jewish continuity is more in danger than ever.

Last month, some 2,000 British Jewish teenagers began their time at university.

They will have been welcomed by a plethora of organisations offering them opportunities for Jewish engagement, but little of it will have resonated. Yet, if we lose them at university it will be difficult, if not impossible, to reconnect with them later. Time on campus has always been important; for many, it may now be the final frontier for Jewish engagement.

Thirty-eight years ago I was also beginning my time on campus – a law degree at the LSE. Over the next three years, my Jewish engagement came alive, along with my political sensibilities. It was the aftermath of the Lebanon War, and Jewish societies were regularly subjected to visits from Jewish anti-Zionists such as Lenni Brenner, Professor Uri Davis and Tony Greenstein. Along with involvement in

the Campaign for Soviet Jewry, I emerged from college a very engaged and proud Jew. It had all been good preparation for a year working at the Union of Jewish Students, the highlight of which involved helping to assemble 1,000 Jewish students at Sunderland Polytechnic to overturn a student union motion banning the Jewish society from meeting.

Oh no, we were certainly not going to turn the other cheek.

Fast forward to a few years ago and I’m in a meeting with a major donor to an Israel charity, listening to him relaying a Friday night dinner conversation with one of his children, home from university.

He had asked how the week on campus had been, to which his son had replied it had been ‘Israel Apartheid Week’. When his father had asked what the JSoc had done, he replied: “Oh, we just kept our heads down.”

The father then asked me: “How is it, with so many of our teenagers now in Jewish secondary schools, they arrive so unprepared to explain Israel’s actions on campus?”

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THEY ARE RIGHTLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, WORRYING ABOUT THE EXTINCTION OF EVERY SPECIES… EXCEPT PERHAPS THE JEWS students for the campus political scene has since been introduced but, like a number of such initiatives, it needs more funding.

Another one in need of greater support is the excellent March of the Living, next year celebrating its tenth anniversary in this country. Others, such as the decades-old Israel Summer Tour, probably need a major rethink in the context of our whole approach to Israel education.

The key problem, though, is that all these youth programmes and activities are run by organisations operating in silos. Nothing is joined up. So, while we readily proclaim that our children are the future community, there isn’t actually an integrated plan for achieving this. The result is extraordinary inefficiencies and low impact.

Just look at the campus environment: too many organisations competing for the minority who want a Friday night dinner and spending millions of pounds in the process. It really is time to wake up and smell the chicken soup.

Twenty-five years ago, I worked on the advertising campaign to promote the organisation Jewish Continuity, the bold initiative from the then Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

The campaign dramatised the claim of the American Pew Institute that the US Jewish community was losing half its future membership to out-marriage.

It also gave impetus to the rapid growth of Jewish secondary schools, regularly trumpeted as a great achievement. Certainly the numbers enrolled are impressive – double what they were a quarter of a century ago, as are the academic achievements highlighted by the recent GCSE and A-level results.

Unfortunately, though, there’s a but.

The future engagement of those 2,000 plus Jewish teenagers who have just arrived on campus, the majority of whom are coming from a Jewish secondary school, is very much in doubt. They’re more likely to want to go to the local pub than seek out a Friday night dinner.

After seven years in a Jewish secondary school, it’s perhaps understandable they want to experiment a little. They also seem somewhat less inclined to take up the fight for Jewish rights.

Being a proud young Jew today is not easy.

The backdrop I grew up with has gone. No Soviet Jewry Campaign (we don’t even teach our children about it) and Israel the pioneer, the victor in the Six-Day War, the miraculous

victor in the Yom Kippur War, the triumphant rescuer at Entebbe... is now largely replaced by a portrait of Israel the oppressor.

While we didn’t have to contend with the tsunami on social media, we have failed our children in adopting an air of resignation that nothing can be done to rebalance the debate. The recent powerful campaign against antisemitism in the Labour Party is a rare and welcome exception.

Our young are, of course, like all young people. They care about different issues from those that we used to get worked up about.

They are rightly very concerned about the environment, worrying about the extinction of every species... except perhaps the Jews.

For their parents, the discussion over Friday night dinner revolves around one simple question: will their child find a Jewish partner?

Well, the odds are diminishing for a number of reasons, but our community’s approach to its social engineering programmes is certainly not helping.

The challenge starts at 12 and probably continues to around 32. Although there are a myriad of interventions seeking to help – bar/batmitzvah programmes, youth movements, Israel trips, secondary schools, campus organisations and young adult programmes – there is no comprehensive strategic plan. Some of it certainly involves duplication, so funds are being wasted.

Virtually none of it understands the digital world. Bizarrely, in all other aspects of our lives we are ready to respond to the challenges of the digital revolution, but the Jewish world remains well behind the curve.

Paradoxically, I don’t think this is a challenge that requires more money, but rather a sensible plan to spend the current budget far more wisely. Those with interests to protect will no doubt reject this, but I know the major donors who are relied upon to fund most of this will be pleased. Like all areas of charitable giving today, they want to see impact and so should we.

The future of Jewish charitable funding itself is also dependent on whether we succeed in engaging the next generation. Already the alarm bells are ringing, with a worrying generational breakdown emerging among donor families. Their grandparents gave from the heart – thank goodness some are still around to provide support. Their parents are now guided by their head and are asking the tough questions about impact. And the children? Well, they are increasingly disengaged from our community and therefore disinclined to give to it at all.

Rabbi Lord Sacks was certainly ahead of his time, but despite the advances of the past 25 years Jewish continuity is more in danger than ever. The call to action of the Soviet Jewry campaign that energised my generation was ‘If not now, when?’, which seems particularly apt for the urgency we face here.

That’s why we’ve established an initiative called Achshav, the Hebrew word for ‘now’, and we’d love to hear your thoughts at uwww.achshav.org

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Competing fears at ballot box next week DAVID HIRSH

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ome people can’t imagine how anything but keeping Jeremy Corbyn out could even matter.

The Labour leader is considered to be steeped in antisemitic politics, and his party has made an enemy of Britain’s Jews. Antisemitism is anti-democratic politics, not an add-on eccentricity.

One could reasonably debate the value of any specific proposal in the Labour manifesto but, taken as a whole, it is a ‘transitional demand’. Corbyn’s people wrote it believing it is so extravagant that it cannot be delivered under the system they call ‘capitalism’.

The manifesto is intended to precipitate a crisis that they hope will bring down the democratic state and replace it with… well, insert your own fantasy. This Corbynite fantasy is intrinsically intertwined with the idea that liberal democratic states, which they name ‘imperialism’, are the underlying oppressive force on our planet. And in this

worldview, the United States of America and Israel occupy a special and symbolic place at the vanguard of all that is evil. Corbyn’s anti-Americanism – his contempt for those he thinks have no culture, no roots in the soil, and who are only interested in money – is related to the antisemitism of which he is accused.

In normal times, most people would simply vote Tory, and Corbyn would be finished. But today’s Conservative party is no less radically wrecked than the Labour party.

Back in the 1960s, when Enoch Powell tried to make xenophobia and racism into principles of public policy, he was defeated but how his politics of resentment has returned. We

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saw the Tory party roll over before a radical agenda of smashing up the democratic institutions of post totalitarian Europe; we saw it frivolously overthrow the Thatcherite legacy of a European free market and Europe’s part in extending that across the world.

Labour’s attempts to normalise its own antisemitism by pointing at Tory Islamophobia and racism brought only more shame onto itself. But Boris Johnson’s answers to questions about Islamophobia last weekend seemed retrospectively to have legitimised Labour’s analogy, because Johnson borrowed every one of Corbyn’s own stock answers.

We oppose all racism; nothing racist about me; dragging up things I said in the distant past; my grandfather knew the Koran by heart; my mother was at Cable Street.

It is simply a fact that the Brexit movement is in part fuelled by xenophobia and racism and that the Johnson/Brexit Tory party has plugged into this source of energy.

We do not forget the Windrush scandal.

People who had been in this country for decades were thrown out of their jobs and

their country because the government had decided to create a ‘hostile environment’.

We do not forget that Johnson forced the Queen to close down Parliament so he would not have to bow to its sovereignty.

How did anybody think this was legal? And when he found it was not legal, he shrugged at the Supreme Court like I shrug at the traffic warden in Ballards Lane. Closing down Parliament, even if you invent a fancy word to describe it, is not how democracy works.

Like Donald Trump, Johnson is a vulgar and untrustworthy man; he is not kind or thoughtful; he is selfish; he is a predator. He is not fit to lead.

What frightens you more, Corbyn or Johson? Labour’s antisemitism or Tory populism? Corbyn leading a minority government or Johnson with a rampant majority?

I cannot help you weigh up the competing fears. These questions about how we feel each threat are visceral.

This is not a crisis of the right or of the left, but a crisis of our democratic community as a whole.

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1CHAGIGAT CEREMONY

Year 3 pupils at Immanuel College put on an all-singing and dancing performance to show off their Torah knowledge and celebrate their Chagigat HaChumash (Torah celebration). Parents, grandparents and the children were inspired by guest of honour Rabbi Alan Garber, of Shenley United Synagogue, who spoke about the Torah being a guide for life. In an emotional ceremony, parents handed to their children the Chumash they had decorated for them ahead of the big day.

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

Children in the community reached out for their wigs and bows and adorned their locks with fabulous styles during Mad Hair Day. Pictured is Maya Davidson of Shofar Nursery who was among those taking part in aid of Chai Cancer Care. Other schools participated, including Sinai Jewish Primary School, Sacks Morasha Jewish Primary School, Nancy Reuben Primary School and JFS. The day raised funds for the charity’s Chai in Schools programme, which helps teaching staff support children going through a cancer diagnosis in the family and sends specialist play and art therapists and counsellors into schools to work with children affected. Sinai headteacher Juliette Lipshaw said: “Supporting events such as Chai’s Mad Hair Day is a creative and hands-on way for the children to support such a worthwhile cause.”

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3SCIENTIFIC FUN

At Simon Marks Jewish Primary School’s annual Science Day, nursery children took part in a cooking experiment, while pupils in Years 3 and 4 held a puppet show after a lesson on how shadows are formed. Pictured are pupils in Years 5 and 6 dissecting an animal heart. Meanwhile, Years 1 and 2 carried out an experiment, demonstrating how sound can travel.

“I thought dissection was done at secondary school. This is amazing,” said a parent. Headteacher Gulcan Asdoyuran Metin hailed the day as an opportunity to “inspire and motivate our children to develop their scientific knowledge and understanding”. She added: “It was wonderful to see the whole school participating.”

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Chanukah came early for 60 children and their families who went to Smyths Toys Superstores for Norwood’s annual – and 19th – Toy Sweep. Families joined in on the fun, with doughnuts, balloon modelling and plenty to do before the serious business of toy choosing.

Pictured is Sara, who uses Norwood’s family support service. Debra Kleinman, of Norwood’s Toy Sweep committee, said the initiative is “a fantastic event and there’s a lot to organise and lots of volunteers involved in making it happen”, adding: “But the children’s smiles on the day make it all worthwhile.”

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The former home of a German-born Jewish artist and Austrian-born musician and writer has been given a blue plaque. The Association of Jewish Refugees unveiled the plaque for Milein Cosman and Hans Keller at the house in Willow Road, Hampstead, now home to Jewish lawyer and author Philippe Sands and his wife Natalia Schiffrin.

They said: “Milein Cosman and Hans Keller contributed hugely to the arts and musical heritage of Britain and Europe.” Guests included Cosman and Keller’s niece, Ena Blyth, Austrian Ambassador Michael Zimmermann and German embassy official Ralf Teepe.

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journey to Israel, and her husband, Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev, and David Dangoor.

8 MDA TREK

Eighteen Magen David Adom UK supporters trekked across Israel to raise £85,000 for the country’s national emergency services to rebuild an ambulance station in Rahat, the world’s largest Bedouin settlement, in the Negev.

They toured the Tel Hashomer blood centre, spent a night in Bedouin tents and hiked in the Ramon crater and took part in ambulance shifts. Suzi West said it was an “absolutely humbling experience to meet the MDA teams”.

6 SURVIVOR HONOUR 9 FERRARI POWER Auschwitz and BergenBelsen survivor Rachel Levy was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to Holocaust education. The Selig Court resident named in The Queen’s Birthday honours received the award from LordLieutenant of Greater London Sir Kenneth Olisa at the Tower of London.

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Harif, a charity representing Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, marked the exodus of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries at an event in north London coorganised with the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation. Pictured are Harif’s Michelle Huberman, Lyn and Laurence Julius and Sandra Dangoor with Vered Regev, whose family fled Aleppo on foot and whose greatgrandmother died during the

LBC presenter Nick Ferrari joined 200 guests at a Jewish Care’s Local Angels lunch, which raised £33,000 for north-east London services. Pictured is committee member Karen Leibovitch with Ferrari. He said: “I have a lot in common with the Jewish community because of my Italian background, where it’s also always family first. The work Jewish Care does is of irreplaceable value.”

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Kerem School pupils commemorated the departure and expulsion of Jewish refugees from Arab countries with a visit from Edwin Shuker, Board of Deputies vice-chair.

Groups around the world marked 30 November, the day after the UN decision to partition Palestine, when antiJewish riots broke out in Arab countries.

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Two sensational series, 16 Emmys and three Golden Globes later, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, starring Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein is returning to our screens once again.

The hotly-anticipated third series of the award-winning show from husband-and-wife team Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino airs on Amazon Prime from tomorrow (Friday).

In the newest episodes, Jewish housewifeturned-comic Midge Maisel (Brosnahan) and her manager, Susie (Borstein) leave behind the dingy underground comedy clubs of New York for the more salubrious climes of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago and Miami,

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“I’m not a prostitute, I’m a comic,” protests Midge. “Is there a difference?” her mother, Rose (Marin Hinkle) retorts. “Yes, prostitutes get paid more.”

Her estranged husband, Joel (Michael Zegen) returns, alongside Jane Lynch as stand-up comic Sophie Lennon, Midge’s arch-enemy and Joel’s parents, Moshe (Kevin Pollak) and Shirley (Caroline Aaron).

Meanwhile, This Is Us and Black Panther star Sterling K Brown joins the cast.

Mrs Maisel returns on Friday 6 December, on Amazon Prime

COMEDY Lenny Beige Sings Neil Diamond

Comedian Steve Furst returns with his alter-ego, Lenny Beige, to present a night paying homage to iconic Jewish singer-songwriter, Neil Diamond.

The evening includes all of Diamond’s greatest hits, including Sweet Caroline, Caroline America, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers and Forever in Blue Jeans, Jeans accompanied by a four-piece band under the musical direction of British blues legend Todd Sharpville.

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MUSIC Drake

Drake has been named as the most-streamed artist of the decade, according to new stats released by Spotify.

The Canadian-Jewish rapper has racked up an incredible 28 billion streams, while his most popular song, One Dance, has been played 1.7 billion times alone.

His chart-topper came just behind Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You, which was the most streamed song, with 2.3bn plays.

Sheeran, Post Malone, Ariana Grande and Eminem were the other most streamed artists of the 2010s. The most streamed song of 2019 was Señorita by Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes, which scored more than one billion streams.

Drake, whose mother is Jewish, has repeatedly referred to his own Judaism in his songs and threw himself a barmitzvah-themed 31st birthday party.

When he hosted Saturday Night Live, his monologue was titled Drake’s Bar Mitzvah. He also attended Jewish day school in Toronto.

BOOKS The Wingate Literary Prize The long-list for the 2020 Wingate Prize for Jewish literature has been announced, with Live a Little

by Howard Jacobson and Linda Grant’s A Stranger City among those in the running.

Both fiction and non-fiction are considered for the £4,000 prize, which is awarded to the best book to “translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader”, and this week’s 12 were whittled down from 70 entries.

Other authors to make the longlist include Alba Arikha, Benjamin Balint, Nathan Englander, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Jacques Semelin, Dan Shapiro and Gary Shteyngart.

The shortlist will be announced in February, with the winner announced at an event at JW3 on 16 March 2020.

in Palestine – and they arrived in Haifa two years after leaving home.

Tragically, Mira’s parents (pictured left, with their children), who remained in Lodz, both perished in the Holocaust. Her mother died of starvation in the Lodz ghetto in 1942, while her father was among the final group of Jews deported to the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944.

The first drama in the series features the story of two Jewish children, nineyear-old Gustav and his elder sister, Franziska, who escaped Czechoslovakia shortly after the Nazi invasion in March 1939. But the pair faced the terrible dilemma of perhaps never seeing their parents again, after securing a place on the Kindertransport.

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Inside Feature: If I were prime minister: 12 stalwarts tell us what they would do

RADIO This Is Your Country Now Too The incredible story of a teenager who escaped from Nazi-occupied Poland to Palestine during the Second World War features in a new seven-part drama series about child refugees, airing on BBC Radio 4.

This Is your Country Now Too runs from Sunday, 8 December to Sunday, 15 December, with each drama detailing the story of a young person who arrived on British territory as a refugee across the decades, including from East Africa in the 1960s and Afghanistan in the 1990s.

Mira Hamermesh (pictured with friends, right) was just 16 in November 1939 when she and her older brother Mietek escaped from Nazi-occupied Poland to Lwow, which was under the control of the Soviets. Their eventual goal was to reach their sister Genia

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Weekend / General Election 2019

If I were prime minister...

With seven days to go until the General Election, we ask community stalwarts what they would do if they were handed the coveted keys to Downing Street…

I would acknowledge and celebrate differences between people, say sorry if I caused hurt, ask experts for help, change my mind if I was wrong, watch my language as I know it can cause damage, acknowledge my prejudices and put them aside, challenge deeplyheld misogynistic views against women in positions of power, heap praise on our young people and work tirelessly for the common good, rather than for extreme politics.

Obviously, I would make Mitzvah Day part of the national curriculum. Perhaps – and most regrettably – I wouldn’t expect to last for long!

Laura Marks OBE, founder of Mitzvah Day and chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust If I were prime minister, I would increase funding to the health and social care sector.

With an ageing population, and what can only be described as a social care crisis gripping the nation, it has never been more important to invest in the sector, not just now, but for the future.

I would also push to bring the health care sector into the digital age, as we have seen at Jewish Care how much electronic care plans can make a difference to people’s individual care.

Daniel Carmel-Brown, chief executive of Jewish Care

If I were Prime Minister, I would strive to help develop a society that values young people and their contributions to their local and wider communities.

“I would do this by making every effort to train, develop and support them through their transition from a young person to adult, to become active citizens and leaders in society.

Neil Martin OBE, chief executive of JLGB If I had the precious task of being prime minister, I hope that I would tell the truth, even when it might be hard to hear.

The Talmud points to the solid foundations of a life based on truthfulness.

Our sages taught that the letters that make up the Hebrew word emet, truth, represents solidity against the fragility of falsehood.

We must never forget the importance of truth to our democracy, which increasingly seems to rest on fragile foundations.

Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism

I would take concrete steps to improve the lives of asylum seekers, refugees and ethnic minorities in the UK. These would include immediate legislation to allow asylum seekers the right to work; reunite refugee families; resettle unaccompanied refugee children and young people in the UK; protect the Race Disparity Unit, which monitors the extent of racial inequality in Britain; provide funding for a permanent memorial to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade.

“In addition, I would make sure that my party has clear and transparent procedures for dealing with all forms of racism, including antisemitism, Islamophobia and antiblack racism and tackle poverty and homelessness, which disproportionately affects these groups.

Dr Edie Friedman, executive director of Jewish Council for Racial Equality My manifesto (I have zero political ambition in the UK) is: 1. Access to justice for all. The inability of most people to obtain legal advice is a blot on society. Rights that cannot be afforded are not rights.

2. Access to medicine. The abolition of NICE (the National Institute of Clinical Excellence) is long overdue. Apart from the unfortunate acronym, the unavailability of medicines because of economists is a disgrace.

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General Election 2019 / Weekend 3) Homelessness must be eradicated from yesterday.

Apart from the absolute human right of having shelter, the fact that in the 21st century people are dying on the streets is a scandal. I have resisted the temptation to outlaw antisemitism – it should not exist. Laws need to be enforced recognising that hate speech is very serious and, unchecked, leads to physical manifestation of that hatred.

I would compel social media companies to open accounts only for those who can provide evidence of an address.

I would make it illegal to say “as a Jew” or “and all other forms of racism”.

Mark Lewis, media lawyer If I were prime minister, and elected next week, I would first try and remove the hostility and lack of civility from our political discourse.

The prime minister would have to take the lead on this. I would try to lead the country back to the centre and try to push extremists back to the extremes.

Tolerance and respect would be the watchwords. I would concentrate on helping people to feel more safe and secure. I would look to better enfranchise younger people, and that would need us to make a much better effort at dealing with environmental concerns and creating a more sustainable future.

I would rebuild business confidence so that we got our economy growing again. And I would help to rebuild the confidence of the Jewish community, so that we can once again celebrate our faith, culture and heritage without any need to worry about our futures.

Simon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council If I were prime minister, I would fight for a fair society, eradicating all forms of sexism, antisemitism and racism.

I would urgently push through the domestic abuse bill to combat violence against women, to ensure better support, housing and legal remedies for the one in four women suffering from domestic abuse, and sustainable funding for support services.

I would ensure rape victims had access to better criminal justice support, so that no woman experiences additional

trauma through having to retell their ordeal in court.

I would work tirelessly to end violence against women and girls by ensuring that relationships and sex education were an integral part of our education system.

Naomi Dickson, chief executive of Jewish Women’s Aid The long answer is as follows: My eldest daughter, Talya, has learning disabilities. One day, I was out in the park with my youngest daughter and her friends when some disabled adults arrived. As they got out their vehicle these little girls pointed their fingers and laughed.

My youngest daughter said: “Mummy, my friends don’t understand about being disabled.”

So I gathered this little group around and tried to explain to them what disability was. They didn’t mean to be mean, they just didn’t know what to do. I told them that whenever they see people like that they should be holding out a hand, not pointing a finger.

Since then, my life has largely been about continuing that process and seizing the potential for social reform. We need to educate the world about disability, because the more we do, the more opportunities will open up for people and that is only right and fair.

Dr Beverley Jacobson, chief executive of Norwood It doesn’t look like many people want to be prime minister in today’s political climate, but if I woke up one day and found I had the job I’d make changes.

I’d ensure all parties were obliged by law to uphold standards based on Campaign Against Antisemitsm’s Manifesto for Fighting Antisemitism, propose

legislation to add the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism to the Equality Act, proscribe the entirety of Hamas under the Terrorism Act, regulate social media companies and make them co-operate with the police, make too many changes to the Crown Prosecution Service to enumerate here, and do a few other things (Instagramming one’s food will become illegal).

Then I’d go to see the Queen for tea, resign, and return to civilian life.

Gideon Falter, chief executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism I would build a movement to defend our democratic state and culture.

We are threatened by the politics of resentment which is fostered by leaders who want to be adored, and then obeyed, as the voice of ‘the people’.

Genuine democracy is a complex, always unfinished, negotiation between a diversity of human beings.

‘Populism’ by contrast makes ‘the people’ indivisible and abstract.

Totalitarian movements have won when citizens came to believe that knowledge, law and liberty were fake. We need to educate ourselves and to toughen up, so we won’t be defenceless in the face of the coming totalitarian threat.

David Hirsch, sociology lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London If I were prime minister, I would want to encourage empathy and tolerance at this time of deep division and widespread prejudice.

Every school and local authority would mark Holocaust Memorial Day – we know that when people take part in it, they learn more, empathise more and go on to do more, taking action as a result of what they have learnt.

I would want to enact HMDT’s aim of learning from genocide for a better future, and see the UK playing a strong role in international coordinated responses protecting people from identity-based violence and genocidal regimes.

Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT)

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‘In Natzweiler, you were always afraid’ Stephen Oryszczuk learns about the oldest known survivor of a Nazi extermination camp, which was the first to be liberated Last week marked three quarters of a century since the first Nazi extermination camp was liberated and the world first caught a glimpse of the Holocaust – but few today know the camp’s name.

Natzweiler-Struthof, a relatively small death camp in the mountains of Alsace, is now home to a striking Holocaust memorial in the grounds of a cemetery, but was once the site of industrial murder. Among those to survive was Boris Pahor.

Pahor, 106, is the oldest known survivor of a Nazi concentration camp and, having told his story in the form of a book called Necropolis, he was the subject of an emotional BBC documentary with Alan Yentob last week, entitled The Man Who Saw Too Much.

Arrested in Italy for anti-fascist writings, Pahor was locked up in Natzweiler, a camp built soon after the Nazis occupied France in 1940. It was

the first camp to be liberated by the Western Allies in 1944.

A British intelligence officer at the time recorded that “the majority of deaths were caused by shooting” and outlined Nazi medical experiments as well as torture. He said freezing winter temperatures led many to die from swollen limbs.

In the one-hour BBC documentary, Yentob retraced Pahor’s steps.

A loyal Slovenian born in Trieste, Pahor recalls the joy of hot water on his freezing body, even though he knew the camp’s furnace was powered by burning bodies.

Pahor was first sent to Dachau, where he was beaten with a strap until he looked “like a zebra”, then transferred to Natzweiler, a camp for political prisoners and resistance fighters, who were given a number and labelled with a red triangle. There were also a small number of Jews, gypsies and

Boris Pahor, right, pictured with Alan Yentob, recalls his experiences

Jehovah’s Witnesses there.

Of the 52,000 people who entered the camp, 22,000 never left, and 86 Jews were murdered there in order to provide skeletons for what one historian interviewed called a ‘zoological museum of an extinct species’.

Pahor survived because a chance

encounter with the camp’s Norwegian doctor meant the doctor retained his services as a translator, with Pahor staying in the barracks.

“They made me a diarrhoea nurse, right there in the worst condition,” Pahor told Yentob from his home in Trieste. “Whoever had a job that

enabled them to stay in the barracks had a hope of survival.”

The camp, whose end came about 75 years ago this week, was built next to a fashionable 1930s ski resort, where the local hotel was commandeered for SS officers and where the village hall was turned into a gas chamber.

Camp commandant Josef Kramer, who lived in a large house with a pool, personally gassed the 80 Jews for the “skeleton collection”.

Kramer was later transferred to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen, where he was nicknamed “the Beast of Belsen” by prisoners.

Yentob’s visit to Natzweiler for the documentary comes 55 years after Pahor himself returned to the camp, recalling his time there.

“You came in at the top and the gallows welcomed you,” he recalls.

“You were told there was an oven down there and that there was no way out but through the chimney. In Natzweiler, you were always afraid.” u The Man Who Saw Too Much is available to view on BBC iPlayer

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Orthodox Judaism

SEDRA Veyetze

BY RABBI NAFTALI SCHIFF Jacob makes a swift getaway to his uncle (and future fatherin-law) Lavan and his life undergoes a dramatic transformation.

Until this point, he has been depicted exclusively as a scholar, rather than dealing with the world’s harsh practical realities.

Upon resting, he experiences the famous dream of a ladder connecting heaven and earth with angelic figures travelling up and down. Unlike Joseph and Pharaoh, whose dreams are interpreted in a specific manner, Jacob’s is never given an explanation in the text, but is discussed at length by the commentators. As he prepares to immerse himself in a foreign environment, Jacob needs to learn an important lesson that is to become a cornerstone of Jewish thought.

The ladder has its head in the heavens; we are a people who live with lofty, Godly ideas and ideals. However, these ideas can and must be translated into this world, expressed as a life of action guided by ethics, morals and values. This message is to become Jacob’s guiding light as he navigates the challenge of a father-in-law who seeks to deceive him at every turn.

Jacob displays an astuteness that enables him not only to survive, but also flourish with his integrity intact. This is how he can later tell his brother Esau that despite dwelling with Lavan, he has remained faithful to the Torah’s every detail and values.

The Torah never demands we withdraw from the physical world; rather, we seek to elevate ourselves so even the smallest of actions become purposeful. The ultimate way to do this is through the Torah, the Creator’s manual for a meaningful life.

◆ Rabbi Naftali Schiff is founder and chief executive of Jewish Futures

What’s in a number?

This week’s digits...

15

BY REBBETZIN DINA GOLKER The number 15 is significant in Judaism in various ways.

It is the date when both Pesach (15 Nisan) and Succot (15 Tishri) begin, and the Talmud finds common halachic features between the two festivals based on this confluence of dates.

Fifteen is also the date of three ‘minor festivals’. The first of these is 15 Shevat, the New Year for Trees, when it has become customary to eat 15 different kinds of fruit.

Interestingly, the second is 15 Av, which the Mishnah tells us used to be one of the two happiest days in the Jewish calendar – alongside Yom Kippur!

The Talmud tells us 15 Av was the day when the various Israelite tribes were first permitted to intermarry – in the era of the Judges – thereby abolishing the Torah’s

temporary ban on this.

It was also when border restrictions established by Jeroboam, ruler of the 10 northern tribes of Israel, were removed.

The 15 Av also marks the date the Roman government finally gave permission for Jews killed at Bethar, part of the Bar Kochba revolt, to be decently buried.

Our third ‘minor’ festival is Shushan

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THESE FESTIVALS OCCUR ON THE 15TH, WHEN THE MOON IS AT ITS BRIGHTEST

Purim (pictured, inset), celebrated annually as Purim – on 15 Adar – by the residents of Jerusalem and all cities surrounded by a wall from the time of Joshua.

It is surely no coincidence that all these joyful occasions occur on 15th of the month, when the moon is at its fullest and attains its maximum size and brightness.

Our sages compare the Jewish people to the moon: just when they are at their nadir and about to vanish from history, they invariably re-emerge in their full splendour.

Finally, we have the 15 Songs of Ascent composed by David and Solomon, and recited by the Levites making their ceremonial ascent, via 15 steps, in the Temple, every Succot.

To this day, they are recited every Shabbat afternoon during the winter months, thereby acknowledging their immense historical and spiritual significance. ◆ Dina Golker is the assistant rebbetzin of St John’s Wood Synagogue

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Progressive Judaism

The Bible Says What?

‘Abraham and Isaac were right to tell lies’

BY RABBI LAURA JANNER-KLAUSNER Is she your wife or your sister? Three times in the chapter of Genesis, our patriarchs lie about the identity of their spouses. While staying as the guest of a foreign king, Abraham twice tries to pass Sarah off as his sister, not his wife. Later, Isaac does the same with Rebecca. How can this untruth be justified?

The defence given in each instance is that the men feared they would be murdered by people who were jealous of their wives.

This seems like a reasonable justification – we are commanded to place the preservation of life above all other mitzvot, even telling the truth.

Famously, Rabbis Hillel and Shammai disagreed over whether it was right to tell an unattractive bride she was beautiful on her wedding day.

The Talmudic commentaries on the ethics of lying concluded that sometimes it was even acceptable to lie to prevent someone’s feelings from being hurt.

In this parshah, the ethics of lying are more complicated than merely justifying Abraham’s actions on the basis of the preservation of life.

In trying to protect himself, Abraham put Sarah at risk of unwanted sexual advances from other men.

He also puts his host, the King Abimelech, at risk of damnation from God, because the King was unaware that to touch Sarah was a sin.

As a consequence, all the women of the Abimelech household are briefly rendered infertile by God. In extreme situations we may make the decision to lie to save our life or the life of someone else – but this is never without consequences.

Even if a moral decision involves choosing between the lesser of two evils, we must always acknowledge that even a lesser evil may have serious repercussions.

u Laura Janner-Klausner is Senior Rabbi for the Movement for Reform Judaism

Progressively Speaking Making promises we cannot keep

BY RABBI ALEXANDRA WRIGHT How are we to assess the inviolability of the promises made in the manifestos of all parties in these weeks before the General Election?

In ancient times, making a promise or uttering an oath was a solemn undertaking. When Abraham makes his servant swear to find a wife from the land of his birth, the man is bound before God and will only be cleared if the woman does not agree to return with him (Genesis 24:8).

And when King Saul lays an oath upon his troops to fast until night time, they abstain from eating honey that has spilt on the ground, afraid that breaking the oath will cause defeat by the Philistines.

Promises in the Hebrew Bible are mostly made by God: to Noah, Abraham, Jacob and the people of Israel.

When God promises to give Abraham a son, or swears to Jacob that he will accompany him and bring him back to the land of his fathers,

those promises are fulfilled.

God’s word is pure says the Psalmist, a sign of God’s covenant and of God’s love for Israel. God’s promise is underpinned by righteousness, loving-kindness and mercy.

The prophets hold out hope, because God promises restoration to the land, help and healing.

And so, to make an oath or a promise is to adhere to a bond of truth in the presence of God. To break that bond is an act of falsehood – “for God will not hold guiltless one who swears falsely by His name” (Exodus 20:7).

The one who violates God’s name

in this way, by lying or breaking a promise, is considered disloyal to God. It is akin to apostasy.

We need to be careful what we promise to others and to ourselves.

Abraham promised his visitors “a morsel of bread”, but then “ran to the herd” and offered them a lavish meal.

From this, says Rabbi Eleazar we learn, “the righteous promise little and perform much; whereas the wicked promise much and do not perform even little”.

Whether a marriage vow or a political pledge, to break a promise is to rupture trust; it is to degrade the value of words and destroy hope.

Let us pray the words spoken and written by our leaders for greater well-being for ourselves and our planet are carefully chosen and can, in time, be judiciously implemented. u Alexandra Wright is Senior Rabbi at The Liberal Jewish Synagogue

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Ella Dear Ella At present you submit an annual tax return showing all your income for the tax year and you need to submit this to HMRC by 31 January following the end of the tax year.

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• 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.

VANESSA LLOYD PLATT Qualifications: • Qualification: 40 years experience as a matrimonial and divorce solicitor and mediator, specialising in all aspects of family matrimonial law, including: • Divorce, Pre/post-nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, domestic violence, children’s cases, grandparents’ rights to see grandchildren, adoption, family disputes.

• Frequent broadcaster on national and International radio and television.

DR ADAM NEWMAN Qualifications: • Dentist at the Gingerbread House, a BUPA Platinum practice in Shenley, Radlett.

• Providing NHS and private dentistry including whitening, cosmetic and restorative treatment. Other treatments including implants provided by in-house specialists.

• BDS, Member of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners RCS England.

GDC registered 212542.

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LLOYD PLATT & COMPANY SOLICITORS 020 8343 2998 www.divorcesolicitors.com lloydplatt@divorcesolicitors.com

GINGERBREAD HOUSE 01923 852 852 www.gingerbreadhealth.co.uk Adam.newman@gingerbreadhealth.co.uk

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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

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.

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

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

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

DIRECTOR OF LEGACIES

REMOVALS MANAGING DIRECTOR

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.

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INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS SPECIALIST

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.

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.

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

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

ISRAELI ACCOUNTANT LEON HARRIS Qualifications: • Leon is an Israeli and UK accountant based in Ramat Gan, Israel.

• He is a Partner at Harris Horoviz Consulting & Tax Ltd. • The firm specializes in Israeli and international tax advice, accounting and tax reporting for investors, Olim and businesses.

PHOTOGRAPHER 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.

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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.

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CLAIRE STRAUS Qualifications: • Free professional one-to-one advice at Resource to help unemployed into work.

• Practical support, workshops and networking opportunities to maximise prospects.

• Career coach with MSc in career management and coaching with a background in human resources and general management and experience of private, public and voluntary sectors.

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Fundraising Writer £30,000 per annum Full-time, 35 hours a week We're looking to recruit an outstanding writer to join our busy Fundraising team to secure funding for our communities and vital projects.

You will work across a number of United Synagogue Departments including Tribe, Chesed and Community to create compelling and exciting proposals for trusts, foundations and major donors and produce project updates and final reports for them.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record in grant-writing, excellent communication skills and a good eye for detail.

Closing date for receipt of applications: Monday, 23rd December, 2019 To view the job description and apply for this position, please log on to our website www.theus.org.uk/jobs

HEAD OF FINANCE Edgware, Middlesex £: Attractive Package

Are you a proven Financial Controller / Head of Finance who is able provide accurate, reliable and timely information to the rest of the leadership team to enable them to make more informed decisions?

Are you able to lead effectively whilst motivating and developing those around you? Are you able to get things done, whilst acting with total sensitivity and discretion? Do you want to work for a highly regarded and well respected business who are on amazing journey? If the answer is yes, then please keep on reading This is a newly created role which will see you manage the finance team and as a senior member of the business you will deliver strategies and goals alongside the rest of the SMT and ensure that all reporting is produced to the necessary standards and that tight financial controls are implemented within the organisation.

Given the size of the business you must be a “hands on” qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) who is happy getting into the detail but also providing true commercial support to the wider business

If you would like to know more please get in touch to mpurtow@accountancyaction.com enclosing your latest CV

The United Synagogue Registered Charity No. 242552

Part-time Mid-Level/Senior Paediatric Occupational Therapists (minimum 17.5 hours per week) FTE Salary for 35 hours/week: £32,000 to £37,000 dependent on experience NORWOOD is one of the UK’s oldest charities and supports children, families and adults with a wide range of needs and challenges to lead the lives they choose. As part of Norwood’s multi-disciplinary Children’s Services, our paediatric occupational therapists work to enable children with special educational needs to maximise their potential in school and the community. The service, with bases in Hendon and Hackney, supports children across North- & North-West London and provides support, advice and training for schools and families.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Highly motivated and flexible paediatric occupational therapists • Experience working in mainstream educational settings • Experience working with children whose provision is provided by an EHCP • Experience with carrying out assessments and making recommendations • • • •

for EHCP applications and annual reviews Excellent time management and organizational skills Ability to work independently and as part of a team Excellent verbal and written communication skills Car driver with regular access to a car

SOME OF OUR BENEFITS:

• Friendly and supportive team • Excellent supervision and CPD opportunities • Flexible working hours • Opportunities for developing skills across a wide range of needs • Well-resourced service • Early finish on a Friday (all year round 1pm close) For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Tanya Rihtman, Occupational Therapy Manager: Tanya.Rihtman@norwood.org.uk If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please apply with your CV and cover letter to jobs@norwood.org.uk This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure.

Patron: Her Majesty The Queen

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WIN A ROMANTIC MINI-BREAK IN LUMLEY CASTLE! Jewish News and Lumley Castle in County Durham have teamed up to offer one lucky reader an overnight stay for two, worth more than £200!

When it comes to heritage, grandeur and the warmest of welcomes, few hotels can match the stunning Lumley Castle.

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