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Jeremy Corbyn told Labour members in his 75-minute keynote Party Conference speech they are the “government in waiting” but he crucially failed to note an anti-Semitism row that has raged throughout proceedings in Brighton.

The Labour leader stated that his party stands “on the threshold of power” but also referred to the “oppression” of Palestine.

“Let’s give real support to end the oppression of the Palestinian people, the 50-year occupation and illegal settlement expansion and move to a genuine two-state solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict,” he noted.

A Conservative spokesman said the omission of anti-Semitic concerns illustrated how split Labour is on the issue.

Board of Deputies Chief Executive Gillian Merron

lambasted Mr Corbyn’s speech.

“After disgraceful anti-Jewish incidents at the conference, and the opportunity provided by Labour’s adoption of more specific rules on anti-Semitism, Jeremy Corbyn’s speech was a missed opportunity to address specifically the issue of anti-Semitism,” she said.

“It was also troubling that Jeremy Corbyn made reference to what he called the ‘oppression of the Palestinian people’ without mentioning terrorist attacks, like the cold blooded murder of three Israelis earlier this week.”

The anti-Semitic row at the conference began after a fringe meeting on Monday night when a speaker who contrasted Israeli supporters to Nazis, drew loud applause.

An activist suggested Labour should be able to debate whether the Holocaust happened.

There was also a call for the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM)

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Corbyn misses opportunity in anti-Semitism row CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 was guarded optimism from the Board of Deputies, who welcomed a ruling of taking a stronger stance on anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice.

But it had followed a heated debate on Tuesday, and the Board noted it would “closely monitor” whether the vote brought concrete action in practice.

Delegates had voted unanimously for a stronger line.

The JLM, backed by Mr Corbyn and Labour’s national executive committee, had proposed the motion.

JLM tweeted that over 90 percent of delegates had backed the proposal.

“This is a decisive political victory,” the group noted. “Thanks to those across the Labour movement who supported us - from leadership to grassroots.”

Labour members faced expulsion and other sanctions if guilty of Jewish-hate comments.

The Board leader noted, “We are pleased to hear that Labour National Executive Committee’s proposed rule change, modelled on what was proposed by the Jewish Labour Movement, has been adopted by conference delegates.

“This is particularly important after the ugly scenes we have witnessed during this conference and shows the need for resolute and robust action. However, in order to judge the success or otherwise of the new rules, we will be watching for the results.

“Will those who have maliciously questioned the historical record of the Holocaust, those who have engaged in anti-Jewish conspiracy theories or called for Jews to be purged from Labour still be welcome in Labour, or will they be thrown out as they so obviously should be?”

Crediting the Jewish Labour Movement for its “hard and patient work”, she added, “The fight ti-racism and justice for anin Labour is not over, but today is a step in the right direction.”

During the debate, delegates had rowed o v e r a n Jeremy Corbyn

ti-Semitism, Israel and Jewish advocates for the rule change.

A number of activists condemned the national executive committee for working with the JLM to bring about change. And there were cheers when pro-Palestinian campaigners vowed they would still speak out against Israel.

Whilst some Jewish delegates voiced concerns over their safety, JLM stood firm.

Mike Katz, vice-chair, told Labour delegates not to use anti-Semitic stereotypes when criticising Israel. He also noted that members should be “kicked out” if they engaged in anti-Semitism, bigotry, racism or any other form of hate.

The fiery atmosphere at the debate resulted in National Union of Students vice-chair, Izzy Lenga, tweeting she had felt more unsafe, uncomfortable and upset on the conference floor that at the NUS. Brighton and Hove City Council leader Councillor Warren Morgan, made clear his feelings to Labour Party General Secretary, stating the viability of future party conferences would now be under consideration in the south coast city.

“Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in our city,” he noted in writing.

“As a city we very much appreciate the business that Conference brings to our hotels, restaurants and shops. I am however very concerned at the anti-Semitism being aired publicly in fringe meetings and on the floor of Conference.

“We have a significant Jewish community in Brighton and Hove, and I met with them only last week to discuss the anti-Semitism that already exists on our streets, causing them unnecessary fear and alarm.

“We have the prominent activist and suspended Labour Party member Tony Greenstein here, who indeed was present at the fringe meeting where it was suggested that Holocaust denial should be allowed. His expulsion, in my view, is long overdue.”

Councillor Morgan added, “As Labour leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, I will undoubtedly face questions as to why we allow any event where anti-Semitic views are freely expressed to happen in the city, particularly on council premises.

“As a Labour Party member I expect the enquiry announced today to take firm action; as Leader I will need reassurances that there will be no repeat of the behaviour and actions we have seen this week before any further bookings from

the Party are taken.

“I must apply the same standards to Labour that I would apply to any other Party Conference or political event; whilst none of us can control what is said at meetings which we don’t run, I have to make the strongest possible representation on behalf of the residents of the city who are Jewish.

“We are a City of Sanctuary and I have to speak up against any form of racism as and when it is given a platform in the city.”

The Equality and Human Rights Commission called for a “zero-tolerance” on anti-Semitism.

“Anti-Semitism is racism and the Labour Party needs to do more to establish that it is not a racist party,” commented Rebecca Hilsenrath, EHRC chief executive.

“A zero tolerance approach to anti-Semitism should mean just that.

“When senior party figures are saying there is a problem then the

leadership should take swift action.

It is not acceptable to simply say they oppose these views.

“These comments by party members show that more needs to be done to root out anti-Semitic views that clearly exist in the party.

“Any suggestion of kicking people out of any political party on the grounds of race or religion should be condemned.”

Leading into the conference there were signs of progress on the anti-Semitic theme within Labour. A spokesman for Mr Corbyn stated the party leader was “delighted” with the plan to tackle discrimination.

The JLM noted on its website Mr Corbyn backed a tough line on anti-Semitism.

“We are heartened that the NEC has adopted our rule change proposals,” stated Jeremy Newmark, National Chair of the JLM. “This is another step forward,

however our campaign will not end until these proposals are adopted in full by Conference itself - this is not a given and will require the firm support of the Leadership.

“These constitutional amendments, if passed, will simply bring the Labour’s rules to the place that should have been expected from a political party rooted in values of equality and anti-racism.”

He continued, “The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. That means that if passed at Conference the new rules will need to be firmly implemented to create a zero-tolerance environment for anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination. The Party will then need to take steps to rebuild trust.”

Times move quickly in politics and this is one story that is set to continue.

Congregants warned to stay safe

BY DAVID SAFFER Synagogues have been asked to ensure congregants disperse from shul grounds without delay.

The Community Security Trust instigated the appeal for Rosh Hashanah.

Shuls have clear instructions for congregants to follow at Kol Nidre services tomorrow night and throughout Yom Kippur.

The security instructions have added importance in light of two recorded incidents during Rosh Hashanah. “There were two particular incidents of note over Rosh Hashanah, in which shul congregants were verbally abused,” confirmed Marc Gardener, Director of Communications, CST. “One of these occurred in Manchester, the other in the South of England. In both cases, police are investigating.”

The United Synagogue has backed the initiative.

“The security of our local shuls is always a key priority,” said a US spokesman.

“We fully endorse CST recommendations and will continue to work with them to safeguard the community.”

CST sent the following message for shuls to read out over Yom Tov last week and have asked for it to be repeated for what is traditionally the highest attendance of the High Holidays this weekend.

The message for congregants notes: ‘CST and our shul security team request that you please do not stand and congregate on the pavement outside shul. This is because of what we have seen in recent months with vehicles being used by terrorists. So, please can I ask that you meet with your family and friends inside rather than outside; and when you do leave the Shul grounds, please move away from the building and do not gather in large groups.’

Security preparations have been extensive for the High Holidays by the security body.

CST hosted briefings to prepare police, security volunteers, security officers and commercial

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guards for the large security operation in the run up to the High Holy Day period.

Briefings took place across the country at cities including Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Liverpool, Sussex, Birmingham as well as in London.

Sessions included presentations about security and the threats facing the Jewish community.

Physical training sessions took place to prepare volunteer security officers protecting Jewish communities.

One of the largest took place in London at the beginning of September attended by members of Barnet Police and the Police’s Protective Security Operations.

Participants experienced scenarios, including terrorism-related incidents they could encounter when protecting the community.

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UJIA Annual Dinner: UK Jewish community needs to reboot connection to Israel In an evening that looked firmly to the future, the UJIA Annual Dinner brought home the charity’s vision of a strong British Jewry with a lifelong commitment to Israel. The flagship communal event raised £3.1 million for vital programmes in the UK and Israel, at a time when a strong bond with Israel cannot be taken for granted.

Dinner chair and UJIA trustee Rob Randall told 850 guests, “We are living in dynamic times. The environment around us is evolving and this directly impacts on us as Jews and the way that many feel about expressing their Jewish identity.”

Cyril Korn, 91, a veteran UJIA supporter, led cross-generational

voices showcased in the night’s appeal film, and called on the community to take action: “We need to do more. We have to raise money so that our children and grandchildren can feel Israel and Jewish identity is important for them too.”

Another voice, Simi Bennett, who led Israel Tour and Birthright educational trips, and is now Executive Director of Shaare Zedek UK, said: “It’s clear to me that if we’re to remain a proudly Jewish, proudly Zionist community we depend upon the bonds that UJIA creates, on the programmes UJIA supports and on the people they develop.”

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with over 100 UJIA Young Patrons, youth movement leaders and programme beneficiaries present. Israeli philanthropists from the Jewish Funders Network also joined for the first time.

UJIA chairman Bill Benjamin announced in the welcome speech that he would be stepping down at the end of 2017 after five years of service, saying, “The work of UJIA is never done. The community must always devote itself to engaging young people with our national home and ensuring a lifelong commitment between British Jewry and Israel.” He named UJIA trustee Louise Jacobs as his successor, describing her as “immensely qualified to take on the role owing to her past successes in running communal organisations, her clarity of thought, ability to get things done, knowledge of the community and straight forward manner.”

Guests were privileged to hear from the former Chief of the General Staff of the IDF Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, who gave a strategic overview of the Middle East. He identified Israel’s strengths and accomplishments but said that the country looks to the Jewish Diaspora to partner in strengthening the fabric of the socioeconomic periphery: “I see what you are doing in UJIA, all the projects you do in education, all the projects you do up in the Galilee. This is very, very important in strengthening Israel and it really takes me to the very fact that we are sharing the same ideas, we are sharing the same vision, we are nothing but partners.”

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Erdogan warns Israel after support for Kurdish independence The President of Turkey yesterday warned Israel that continued support for Kurdish independence could sour diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Speaking to the official Anadolu news agency, Recep Tayyip Erdogan advised Israel to “review” its support for Kurdish independence or jeopardise “a lot of steps that we were about to take with Israel”. He continued saying: “It is not possible for us to take steps with those who do not see Turkey as a playmaker in the region. Turkey is a playmaker in the region.”

The Turkish President added that “the waving of Israeli flags there will not save” the Kurds from sanctions imposed upon them by Turkey, after they were seen at recent demonstrations in Iraqi Kurdistan. He also said that the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq would not survive without Turkish assistance to export its oil.

The leader of Israel’s Yesh Atid Party, Yair Lapid, said: “Erdogan’s threat to freeze ties if Israel continues to support Kurdish independence is

empty,” adding that “we don’t take a Gaza-bound protest ship, the Mavi orders from them.”

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UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnsaid that Israel “supports the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people son urged “all sides to refrain from to achieve a state of their own” in provocative statements and actions a statement on 13 September and in the aftermath of the referendum.

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Three Israelis killed and one seriously injured in Har Adar shooting attack

Two civilian security officers and a border policeman were shot dead and another Israeli seriously injured after a shooting attack in Har Adar on Tuesday morning.

The border police officer has been identified as First Sergeant Solomon Gavriyah, aged 20.

The attack occurred outside Har Adar, a settlement close to Jerusalem that lies between Israel and the West Bank.

Police said that the assailant, identified as 37 year old Palestinian Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal from the nearby village of Bayt Surik, arrived at the rear entrance of the community just before 7am.

Arousing suspicion he was questioned prompting him to open fire before being shot and killed by police officers at the scene. Initial reports suggest that the attacker used a handgun reported stolen from an Israeli citizen more than two years ago.

The Shin Bet security service said the assailant did not have a known history of involvement in terrorist activities and possessed a permit to work legally in the West Bank. However, he reportedly had a history of domestic violence and his wife recently fled to Jordan.

Chen Filipovitz, the head of the local council, told Channel 2 News: “Our workers and security coordinator worked as needed.

It was not inside the community but at the gate where workers enter. There are hundreds of workers who enter every day to work in Har Adar and the surrounding communities.”

Terrorist attacks by Palestinians holding legal work permits are rare. 75,000 workers and 20,000 businesspeople hold permits, and recently the Government accepted a recommendation from the IDF to increase the number of Palestinian workers permitted to enter

Israel by 30,000.

Israeli President Reuvin Rivlin said: “Such a brutal terror attack once again shows the daily frontline on which our security forces stand, charged today with the most important mission – the safeguarding and defence of the citizens of Israel. We will continue to confront terror, and will reach all its perpetrators and supporters.”

Hamas praised the attack and issued a statement saying: “Once again Jerusalem proves that it is at the heart of the conflict with the occupation, and that there is no way to get it out of the equation of the conflict.”

Since September 2015, 53 Israelis, a Palestinian man, two visiting Americans, an Eritrean man and a British student have been killed in a wave of attacks by Palestinian assailants, mainly in stabbing, shooting and car ramming attacks.

Netanyahu calls Merkel after German election Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released details yesterday of his telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the German election.

A statement issued by Netanyahu’s office said that he called on Merkel’s future government to “strengthen forces in Germany that accept historical responsibility” for the Nazi Holocaust.

Netanyahu also voiced confidence that the “special relationship between Germany and Israel would deepen and prosper under her leadership”.

The Prime Minister noted that “Israel is concerned over the rise in antisemitism in recent years among political elements on the right and the left and also among Islamic elements”.

Netanyahu refrained from specifically mentioning the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, whose unprecedented electoral gains have made it the third largest party in the Bundestag.

The Prime Minister also emphasised Israel’s policy regarding Iran’s attempts to build new military bases in Syria. Israel is concerned that de-escalation agreements in Syria will allow Iran to entrench and expand its position in the country. potentially encroaching on Israel’s border.

In related news, the AfD appeared to question whether Israel’s existence is in Germany’s national interest. At the party press conference on Monday, Alexander

Gauland, one of the AfD’s leaders, questioned Merkel’s declared policy of a special bilateral relationship. Gauland said that “if Israel’s existence is part of the German national interest then we would have to be prepared to send German soldiers to defend the Jewish state”. He said that if that was indeed the case the relationship was “problematic” and “difficult” as far as he was concerned. He went on to say that “It’s clear that Israel’s existence is an important point for us. But to turn it into a national interest it sounds so simple but there is a continuous war in Israel. The implications of ‘national interest’ is that we would need to be really prepared to sacrifice our lives for the State of Israel”.

In response to the German election results, Israeli MK Nachman Shai of the Zionist Union and chairperson for the Israel-Germany Parliamentary Friendship Group said that the election of the AfD to parliament should send a “warning to Israel and the Jewish people” adding “xenophobia, racism and extremism have conquered a significant part of the German public”.

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Young entrepreneurs raise over £46,000 for Norwood at Gala Charity event leadership and how the company people gain independence so that developed into an internation- they can build fulfilling lives for al brand with over 1.5 million themselves.”

Ahead of addressing the assemmembers.

The 230 guests also watched a bled young tech leaders, business film featuring several people Nor- and finance professionals and entrepreneurs, Tamara Lohan MBE wood supports.

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The event, which raised over £46,000 to support Jewish charity Norwood’s vital services, saw keynote speaker Tamara Lohan, founder of boutique hotel travel specialist Mr & Mrs Smith, speak about her rise to success, digital innovation,

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Ereira said: “Events like tonight are important because it’s a fusion between charity, community and business. It allows young business professionals from all areas to come and meet likeminded people, but also have the opportunity to give something back.”

On the role of YN within the wider Norwood organisation, he added: “I’ve been very proud to watch YN grow into one of the largest networks of young business people within any communal organisation.

I’m more proud to see that we have members who are not only working within the committees but are also

now working within the organisation. It’s just fantastic.”

YN Business, Finance and Entrepreneurs Dinner Committee Co-chair Claudia Lipman added: “Everyone will get something different from tonight. Hopefully there will be some people who are inspired to get involved with Norwood; even in a small or a big way.

For others it could be a networking opportunity and a chance to share ideas with people in their industry, or they’ll meet someone they decide to partner with in the future.”

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She will make this challenge public to the United Nations general assembly, and will also host a meeting with other world leaders and Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter.

Commenting on this, Simon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, said: “We fully welcome the Prime Minister’s decision to take action against hate crime online.

This is an issue we have campaigned on for a long time and this is an important intervention.

“Social media sites have the capacity to reach huge numbers of people of all ages. In a time when terrorist violence is unfortunately on the rise in Britain, we cannot allow the internet to act as a safe haven for extremists. In our view, Theresa May has taken the correct and appropriate stance in combatting one of the causes of the issue.”

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Care home relaunches to provide ‘Choice’ for our aging Jewish community North West London care home, Edinburgh House, has relaunched with a new brand name and visual identity created to reflect the changing needs of the elderly Jewish community.

JewishChoice Elderly Care Campus is the new name for Edinburgh House. The name is built around the concept of ‘choice not need’, an idea fully embraced by Head of Home, Paula Peake who says: “We know that very often our home is a place that elderly Jewish people, and their families, actively choose to live in, rather than because they have no other choice. We want people to remain independent for as long as possible, which means giving real choice at all times.”

Through a single coordinated campus, JewishChoice provides

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an integrated approach and a choice of care options. These are: Choice House – providing the choice of either long-term residential or short-term respite care tailored to individual needs and preferences.

Choice Court – providing the choice to live independently in an on-site apartment as part of the Choice Campus community.

Choice Friendship Club – a day centre providing a choice of services, activities and trips for residents at Choice House and Choice Court, as well as for the surrounding local Jewish area.

The innovative campus approach means that people are able to access different services and facilities at multiple entry points.

For example, residents may spend a short time recuperating at Choice House and then come back to use the Choice Friendship Club services once or twice a week after they return to their own homes.

Or they may initially drop in to Choice Friendship Club, and then later move in to Choice House when they are ready for more long-term care. Equally, residents at Choice House and Choice Court can utilise the facilities and activities provided at Choice Friendship Club whenever they wish.

Project Coordinator, Gerry Temple says:

“We have been providing care for over 250 years and this stepchange is simply the next stage in continuing to meet the needs of our aging Jewish community.

We’re here, right now, actively using a campus-model to provide exceptional levels of care and fantastic choice in a home-from home kosher environment – all at a highly competitive price.”

Details of the new name and future plans were unveiled to an invited group of current residents, their families, staff, Rabbonim and dignitaries at the campus’s annual barbecue on Sunday 17th September 2017.

In an introductory speech at the event, Chair of Board of Directors, Bernard Moccatta said: “Through the JewishChoice campus we are addressing the fact that more and more people are living in to their 90s and 100s – we have actually just celebrated one of our residents turning 105! We constantly receive ‘Good’ CQC ratings and the care provided by our managers and staff is exemplary. Our aim now is to build upon the unrivalled history we have as an organisation and share with the wider community, what has until now been a ‘hidden gem’.”

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Balfour 100 hosting over 160 regional events for centenary

Balfour 100, a coalition of 23 different community organisations, is proud to announce that there are now over 160 events planned.

Throughout October and November events including lectures, panel discussions, community gatherings and Shabbat meals will take place in synagogues, schools and universities. Events are happening across the country including in London, Manchester, Leeds and Scotland. Each event is being organised by a local organising committee and details will be publicised in the area.

The climax of the centenary will be highlighted by Balfour 100 Shabbat celebrations, which will be marked across the denominations.

Simon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, said: “The number of events to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration is testament to the many local communities who are committed to ensuring the centenary’s success. We are proud that people all over the country will have the opportunity to get involved in an event of some kind and learn more about the Declaration itself.”

Norwood launches menswear fashion boutique Jewish charity Norwood opened a menswear fashion boutique on Friday, 15 September at its Golders Green charity shop.

Selling clothing from high-end brands, with many of the donated

A selection of clothes on offer

items still brand new, the boutique’s opening is perfectly timed for Rosh Hashanah celebrations.

Norwood trading operations manager Kayt Mendies said she was “delighted to open the store

after a lot of hard work from the whole team”.

“We really wanted to put together something that stands out from your usual charity shops,” she said.

“People have already come in and commented on the high quality of the clothing, from suits to highend shirts and footwear. Our aim is to provide Golders Green with a real option for men from across the community to come and shop for clothes. We’re really pleased with how it’s gone so far and look forward to seeing more people walking through our doors in the following weeks.”

Business was brisk on the first day of trading and the first shoppers were impressed with what they found. Items available at the boutique range from suits, dress shirts and shoes; as well as the usual selection of high-quality preloved men’s clothing associated

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Early bird shopper Moshe said: “The new shop looks great. I have found some fantastic quality

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shirts. I wear white shirts for my Yeshiva studies during the week so this is really handy to have here.

It’s nice to find such good quality at affordable prices.”

Fellow menswear enthusiast Avaz added: “It’s an amazing place. I love the new prices and layout. I’m in the Norwood shops all the time and it’s great to see this development. The clothes are great, really good quality and I look forward to shopping here in the future.”

Norwood’s Golders Green charity shop, current opening hours Mon - Fri 10am to 5pm and on Sun 10am to 4pm, is located at 87 Golders Green Road, North London. All purchases contribute towards helping Norwood make a real difference to the people’s lives Norwood supports.

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World Jewish Relief launches Mexico Earthquake Appeal Following last weeks devastating earthquake in Mexico, international development agency World Jewish Relief is launching an emergency appeal today to support those affected.

Donations will enable the charity to provide emergency relief such as shelter, emergency accommodation, hygiene kits and essential household items.

News is still emerging of the damage and destruction caused, but the death toll is climbing and there are thousands of people that are in need of assistance particularly in Morelos and Pueblos states, close to the epicentre. World Jewish Relief will be working with a close and trusted partner agency based in Mexico City. Mexico is home to an estimated 40,000 Jews, most of whom live in Mexico City.

World Jewish Relief will be establishing what their needs are after Rosh Hashanah.

World Jewish Relief has launched its Mexico Earthquake Appeal with the backing of the UK Jewish communal agencies.

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Flora Frank receiving her award with Norwood Trustee David Smith A map of the location of the earthquake

Paul Anticoni, World Jewish Relief’s Chief Executive, said: “As we head into Rosh Hashanah, sadly the world is in turmoil once again. Thousands of people have lost everything in Mexico.

On the High Holy Days we recite the Unetaneh Tokef prayer which speaks – terrifyingly – about who will die by earthquake. Jewish tradition teaches us that while we can’t stop natural disasters, we can choose how we respond to them.

Please help us support the people of Mexico.”

This is a separate appeal to World Jewish Relief’s Rosh Hashanah appeal to provide home care workers for older Jews in Eastern Europe. Donations for World Jewish Relief’s Rosh Hashanah appeal will not be spent in Mexico.

Donate online via www.worldjewishrelief.org/mexico or call 0208 736 1250.

Over 200 staff and volunteers enjoyed a night of celebration at Norwood’s fifth annual Volunteer Recognition Awards early in September. Over the evening, Norwood trustees handed out an impressive nine awards.

There were two winners of the Fundraising Award; Flora Frank and the Toy Sweep Committee.

Flora, a great-grandmother, has run over 30 marathons, raising over £300,000 for Norwood. In 2015 she was awarded the British

Empire Medal in the Queen’s birthday honours. The Toy Sweep Committee raises funds throughout the year for children to spend a voucher on toys of their choice at Toys R Us in the run-up to Chanukah.

Flora told the Jewish Weekly that: “ Volunteering is a team effort. It’s as much about the supporters and people who back me as it is about the volunteers and fundraisers being presented with the awards.”

& Volunteer Spotlight Tell us about yourself Until my retirement I have always worked full time except for the first 5 years of my oldest child’s life when I worked part-time. I am married and have 3 children and 8 grand-children. I achieved a degree in chemistry and an MSc in Information Science.

After a short spell as a research chemist I was an information scientist for chemical and pharmaceutical companies prior to going into teaching. I taught for about 6 years in secondary schools and then in Further Education, starting as a part-time chemistry lecturer and ending my career as a senior manager

with responsibility for quality assurance and the professional development of all the staff. I was also an additional inspector for Ofsted until my retirement.

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new to a place. I also strongly feel that it is more important to give than take and have tried to instil this into my children.

Who do you currently volunteer for and what do you do?

I am currently working for JVN; am a governor and trustee for Yavneh College (I chair the local governing body); am

DOREEN MORRIS an associate governor for Bet Schvidler Primary School; chair the new members committee for Edgware United Synagogue and also organise and manage the hand mailing of the shul magazine as well as sit on the shul strategy committee. In addition I supervise a couple of girls in the sixth form at Hasmonean High School with their EPQ (Extended project Qualification)

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How has volunteering changed your life and how do you think it affects the people you volunteer for?

Volunteering is an integral part of my life. It enables me to use my time constructively and provides structure and purpose.

I am unsure how I may affect others – hopefully I can make some positive difference.

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GIFT reaches beyond their 24 hour fundraising target!!

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The charity GIFT this week ran a 24 hour fundraising campaign from 6pm Monday to 6pm Tuesday during which an incredible £550,613 was raised!

Michelle Barnett, Founding Director of GIFT said ‘I would like to personally thank the community for their tremendous support in raising these funds to support GIFT in their vital work, both generous donors and the volunteers giving their time to make phone calls.

GIFT inspires generations of givers through hundreds of educational sessions across London, Manchester and Israel; creating volunteering opportunities through multiple projects aimed at aiding those most in need in the community.

Whilst GIFT is known for being the UK’s largest Jewish food bank, providing food weekly packages for over 2000 people; its focus on educating

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young people in the community to live a life of giving is fundamental to its ethos.

Donations came flooding in from 1158 donors across the world, including well-wishers, volunteers and those benefitting from GIFT’s service in the community. 13 year old Daniel Denton from Edgware, chose to donate £200 from his Barmitzvah money having been inspired at a recent food GIFT packing session.

GIFT Chairman Rabbi Naftali Schiff said “ the spontaneous outpouring of generosity today has been truly overwhelming.

I think people recognise that GIFT is really working for the benefit of all of our communal organisations - not just for itself. “ GIFT partners with over 200 communal organisations, such as schools, hospitals, care homes, youth groups and welfare organisations in providing food and practical assistance

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GIFT’s School Kids’ Initiative creates opportunities such as the GIFT Shabbat Walk, which was recognised by the Prime Minister’s recent Point of Light Award to one of its founders Avi Dubiner for inspiring hundreds of young volunteers on Shabbat to help in the community.

Michelle commented ‘The money raised will allow GIFT to continue our revolution from ME to WE, building the next generation of givers, through educational initiatives and supporting families in need through volunteering opportunities and food distribution.

Thank you again to everyone involved in helping in this successful campaign.’

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Technology risks unite schools US Chesed brings cheer to members this Rosh Hashanah

In a ground-breaking event, schools across North West London joined forces in two separate events for men and women, aimed at helping parents to understand technology and advising on the correct approach to dealing with their children’s use of it.

The women’s meeting, with Rabbi Shloime Yitzchok

Rabbi Gershon Miller, Mashgiach of Gateshead Yeshiva PHOTO CREDIT: SHULI SMUS

Bixenspanner as the headline speaker, took place on Monday evening at Hendon Adass, and the men’s event was on the following night at Kinloss Synagogue, where Rabbi Gershon Miller, the Mashgiach of Gateshead Yeshiva headlined this important event.

More coverage to follow in next week’s edition.

An overview of the crowd at Kinloss

United Synagogue Community Cares volunteers put smiles on the faces of members by delivering over 1400 honey cakes and Rosh Hashanah cards to senior members, people who have been bereaved and people who have been unwell in the past year. A total of 47 synagogues participated in this year’s Honey Cake Project which has been the most communities to have ever participated, including four communities for the first time.

Orah Barnett from the US Chesed department said, “We are delighted that more communities have joined this project than ever before. We thank the volunteers for all their

hard work in delivering these delicious honey cakes. This project is not just about the honey cake, but enables the volunteer to have a conversation with the member to see how they are doing and check if they need support from their local community cares team.”

Rachel Leventhall, the co-ordinator of Kingston Care Group said, “‘Kingston Care group are enjoying visiting our members with the gifts of honey cakes provided by US Chesed. This gesture is very much appreciated by us all.”

This is the first year that Kingston Synagogue has participated in this project.

Bushey Bnei Mitzvah Fair

BY JW REPORTER More than 150 people from around Hertfordshire flocked to Bushey Synagogue to attend a unique event to encourage children and young teenagers to get involved in charitable causes.

In the first ever fair of its kind, parents from Watford, Borehamwood, Stanmore and Bushey came with their children who are approaching Batmitzvah and Barmitzvah age to speak to a whole host of different charities, including Camp Simcha and World Jewish Relief.

Throughout the evening they had the opportunity to meet with 15 charities who all explained their twinning programmes, sponsorship ideas and ways the children could make their Barmitzvah and Batmitzvah celebrations more meaningful for themselves and others.

12 year old Tom Shooter said “I wanted to do something to help others in my Barmitzvah year but had no idea about where to start.

The charity fair gave me so many ideas and I’ve got some great choices now.”

With simcha music playing, and canapes and sushi also served, the atmosphere in Bushey Synagogue was buzzing as the children had fun going around all the different stalls.

Sharonne Durkin from Beit Halochem, a charity which helps

Lili Albert finding out about Camp Simcha programme with her mum Devorah

rehabilitation of wounded soldiers in Israel said, “It was a wonderful initiative and a unique opportunity to see such important causes coming together in Bushey Shul to help inspire the next generation.”

The Rabbi of Bushey Synagogue, Rabbi Elchonon Feldman, said “this was a fantastic event for those who are entering such an important part of their lives, becoming young adults, and they start to

see what a huge difference they can make to others. It was amazing to see so many wanting to do so much.”

Rabbi Elchonon also took the opportunity to introduce Bushey’s newly-appointed Assistant Rabbinical team Rabbi Nick and his wife Shira. They have moved from Hale, South Manchester where they have been working with young families and youth.

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Wohl Ilford Jewish primary school celebrate Rosh Hashanah Pupils at Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary School celebrated Rosh Hashanah with apple and honey provided by the PTA Committee. They also helped to raise money for ‘Jeans for

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Rabbi and Ex-Kosher Holocaust annual memorial service Baker hit the high notes held at Agecroft Cemetery

Survivors, with 2nd and 3rd Generation attended for the Holocaust Memorial service for the Six Million

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Entertaining at the key boards are Rabbi Avrom Baker and Jack Maurer, the retired Kosher master baker, Rabbi Baker is the Care Manager at the Nicky Alliance Centre where Jack entertained last Thursday afternoon.

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Holy Law Shul evacuated on second day of Rosh Hashanah

Holy Law South Broughton Congregation, Bury Old Road, Prestwich was evacuated on Friday morning for over half an hour as the fire alarm went off, the Shul was evacuated with the congregation congregating on the opposite side of the Road, the CST were also on the scene.

Survivors recited Kiddish

A Bury GMP Police van was parked opposite the Shul where you can report any antisemitic incidents.

The all clear was give after half an hour, davening Mussaf then continued.

The fire alarm fault was said to be located in the boiler room.

Mobile Police van opposite the Holy Law South Broughton Synagogue to report antisemitic incidents PHOTO CREDITS: LAWRENCE PURCELL

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AJEX Funds defibrillator for Nicky Alliance Centre The Nicky Alliance Centre in Manchester numbers many AJEX veterans among its membership.

AJEX has now funded the purchase of a defibrillator for the Centre.

Nicky Alliance Centre Chief Executive, Michelle Wiseman, said: “We have always enjoyed a close relationship with AJEX and we always encourage AJEX members to join our Centre. I am grateful that the organisation has funded this important piece of equipment which is so essential to our needs.”

AJEX National Chairman, Colonel Martin Newman, said: “The Nicky provides a superb

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A packed training session of staff and volunteers was conducted at the Centre by First Aid trainer, Nussi Burns.

AJEX National Chairman Colonel Martin Newman, accompanied by AJEX members, presents the cheque to Michelle Wiseman.

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Social action mission to Belarus Sweet times at Leeds Synagogue Enthusiastic bakers packed out Etz Chaim Synagogue reception rooms for the second Rosh Hashanah ‘Great Honey Cake Bake-in’.

Organiser Claire Brown demonstrated how to make her favourite honey cake recipe whilst participants baked a cake for home and another to be served up in shul during a chat ‘n’ chill session over Yom Tov. Whilst cakes were baking, Rabbi Anthony Gilbert dedicated his teaching session on the intricacies of the Shofar and meaning of the blasts to the memory of Louise Haft.

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The lucky participants have already met as a group for Friday night dinner and we can see the potential they have to make this incredible opportunity into an experience that will have ripple effects throughout the Leeds Jewish community. When the group get back from the trip, there will be many opportunities to continue the social action in relation to their newfound friends in Pinsk but also to educate the Leeds Jewish community regarding the cultural experience they will have had. They will meet with Holocaust survivors and be able to look them in the eye with pride and say, ‘We will never forget and are doing something active to perpetuate this message.’

A group exclusively from Leeds, with like minded goals for the future are about to start a journey that will change not only their lives but impact the Pinsk and Leeds Jewish communities.

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Spice duo bring taste Israel to UK

BY DAVID SAFFER Karen Pomerance and Louise Caplin have brought a spicy taste of Israel to an overseas platform in the United Kingdom.

The Hertfordshire businesswomen have been long time friends for more than three decades and it was after a holiday in Eilat several years ago they came up with the idea of setting up their shop, Spice Way, in Battlers Green Farm in Radlett in

2014.

“We’d heard about the spices and made a point of seeking them out on in Eilat,” Karen recalled. “When we discovered them we were overwhelmed by the smells and tastes in the store. We bought as much as we could carry and walking out of the door, I said to Louise, this could be something businesswise for us.”

Spice Way founder Avi Zitherspieler has created an international brand

Karen Pomerance and Louise Caplin

from the most unlikely sources.

In the past decade, his brand, Spicy Way, has become a household name in Israel and has a burgeoning overseas presence.

His flagship store at Beit Lechem Haglilit in northern Israel is the world’s largest herb and spice emporium, a destination in itself with its own visitor centre.

Stores in Netanya and Eilat attract tourists with locals served in city centre shops in Ashkelon and elsewhere.

Abroad, there are franchises in Dusseldorf, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Closer to home in Radlett, Karen and Louise have built an army of fans through their shop and wholesale Spice Way business.

The duo had been looking for a project since Karen gave up a jewellery business and Caplin retired from buying clothing for Marks & Spencer. And after the Eilat holiday they met Zitherspieler and persuaded him to supply them with special spice mixes tailored to British palates, which they started selling to farm shops and delis.

Numerous Great Taste awards

have followed since 2010.

Zitherspieler is famed for serving up daily servings of za’atar (the now fashionable mix of hyssop and sesame seeds) to troops he commanded in the army to keep up their energy when supplies were scarce during combat.

He is known to import spices, which can’t be grown in Israel, because he is passionate the about health benefits of products but the company’s great innovation is selling spice combinations pre-mixed for busy cooks.

Now commonplace in Israeli grocery shops and food markets, popular products include Majadra (a mix of onion, fried lentils), turmeric and cumin to spice up rice.

Miracle Mince (a blend of oregano, garlic, ginger, chilli, allspice, dill, white pepper, caraway and dried onion) is also very popular.

In the north of Israel, which has a large Muslim population, Spicy Way employs Arab workers in fields and production facilities, representing half the workforce.

And in the Galilee, the company works in harmony with Arab neighbours offering another dimension to Zitherspieler’s vision to make the world a better place to live through spices. “Through Spice Way, we are proud of the co-operation between Arabs and Jews,” enthused Karen. “This a model that could be emulated in many other businesses.”

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Spiegler - Still the greatest Israeli footballer of all time

BY DAVID SAFFER

Mordechai Spiegler is a legendary figure of Israeli football decades on from his finest hour as captain of the national team at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.

Spiegler scored Israel’s sole goal of the tournament, which is still the only time his nation has graced the top table of world soccer.

Football fans of a certain age still recall flickering images of yesteryear when Brazil, with Pele in his pomp, claimed The Jules Rimet Trophy with scintillating attacking football.

Iconic moments included Brazilian captain Carlos Alberto lashing home the fourth goal against Italy in a thrilling final and England goalkeeper Gordon Banks making a stunning save from Pele in a superb game against Brazil in Guadalajara during the group stage.

As notable for Jewish fans though was the fact that Israel participated in global tournament.

The Israeli national football team is the only nation to compete in three FIFA confederations having taken part in Asian, Oceania and World Cup qualifiers. Sadly, qualification for the finals in Russia next year appears doomed so the wait to again see Israel at the biggest footballing party goes on.

The Israel Football Association (IFA) was formed following the War of Independence in 1948.

Winners of the Asian Cup in 1964, Israel made the Olympic quarterfinals in 1968, reached 18th in the FIFA rankings back in 2008 but now sit 70th in the latest listings.

Top international players include Yossi Benayoun, Tal Ben Haim and Eyal Berkovic, however, Spiegler,

who made 385 appearances for FC Maccabi Netanya and won 83 international caps, is the most famous and arguably the greatest Jewish footballer of all time.

Israel’s leading goal-scorer with 33 goals, this charismatic footballer was Israeli Player of the Year a record four times and IFA’s top player over 50 years in the UEFA Jubilee awards in 2003.

During a trip to Israel for the Maccabiah Games, I met up with Mordechai to hear his remarkable story.

Born in the Ural mountain region of Russia in August 1944, the Spiegler family arrived in Israel shortly after Israel’s independence travelling from their hometown to Poland then Germany before taking a boat from Marseille to Haifa and eventually settling in Netanya.

“My father, Alexander, was our hero because he saved my mother, Henya, and brothers Moshe, Avigdor, Yaakov and Shmuel,” he recalled. “His was a heroic story.

“There were tough days but we always had reasons to laugh and enjoy being together. I did everything I wanted to do and enjoyed a happy childhood.”

Spiegler’s hometown club spotted his footballing talent when he was eight years old.

“As a kid, I’d kick a ball against the wall trying to save the rebound because I wanted to be a goalkeeper, but I couldn’t save all my shots so understood I’d be a striker not a ‘keeper,” he recalled. “We played ‘street football’ at school, bags were goal posts and we’d play for hours.

“There was no academy at Netanya, but each age category had around 20 kids so you got to play, and I dreamt of making it, but

training with players in their mid to late 20s you have a lot to learn.

You have to be lucky and clever to know who is who, as there were players who may or might not be professional in their own mind around you, but I developed my skills.

“It was not like professional football now, we were amateurs, players came in three times a week to train after working a full day. It was tough trying to make it in the game, so I focused on being a part of the team, not the best I could be from the first moment, but I put everything into it.

“I was a young, talented player with good technique but wanted to make sure I didn’t make a mistakes, so if I made 27 passes, 26 had to be precise. Then with more confidence, you try to dribble past opponents, cross and shoot.”

“I was really motivated to make it and there were coaches who pushed and believed in me.”

Yitzhak Schneor was a former player for Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israeli national team.

Schneor coached Netanya in the 1960/61 season and spotted a young teenager at training.

“I’m sure that if Schneor hadn’t been with Netanya at this time my story would be different,” Mordechai recalled. “Soon after arriving, he took me aside and gave me a chance.

“Schenor liked to nurture young talent and I remember him asking me if I wanted to be a player.

I said of course, Schenor said, listen to me, I can put you in the right direction.

“So I followed his advice and was able to pay him back when he returned as coach for the 1969/70 season as I helped make the first

David Saffer having a chat with Mordechai Spiegler

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team really successful.”

Spiegler made his first team debut in a First Division game against Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1961 and during his army service continued to progress as a player.

“I didn’t score on my Netanya debut but we won 3-0, so was delighted,” he recalled.

“In the army, I was able to still train and played for the Shiryon tank unit team. We had a good squad and won the Army Cup twice.”

Spiegler resumed his playing career with Netanya and quickly impressed though the first team suffered relegation before battling back to top-flight football.

“During this period, I scored goals, gained massive knowledge and began to make a real difference to the team,” he recalled.

By the end of the decade, Spiegler had developed under head coaches Otto Schlefenberg, Emmanuel Scheffer and Schnoer. He was also a regular for the national team.

Following his debut against South Vietnam in a qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics, Spiegler helped Israel win the Asian Cup in 1964.

Boasting only four caps, Spiegler scored in wins against Hong Kong and India before Israel made it a clean sweep of victories against South Korea.

“Representing Israel was always an honour,” Mordechai recalled.

“Winning the Asian Cup was important as it helped me settle into the squad, but we missed out on the 1966 World Cup. “I wanted to learn more by watching world stars so travelled with Netanya to the finals and stayed not far from Arsenal’s ground when they were at Highbury. We stayed same hotel as Russia.

“We saw Portugal play Brazil at Goodison Park, Eusabio starred that day, and I went to the final.

Geoff Hurst’s second was not a goal for me, but I played with him at West Ham a few years later.”

Spiegler was on fire in a couple of friendly matches against the United States during the build up to the Olympics in 1968, scoring twice in a 3-3 draw at Yankee Stadium then all four Israel goals in a 16 minute burst at Temple Stadium, Philadelphia.

“I’d supported Real Madrid as a kid, so knew all about Di Stephano

A trading card of Mordechai Spiegler

and Puskas through the radio and newspapers,” he recalled. “Puskas was a guest at the US games and offered warm compliments, which meant a lot to me. I didn’t play with him but he was a legend of the sport.”

At the Olympics, Israel reached the quarterfinals following group games with Ghana, El Salvador and Hungary.

“We drew with Bulgaria 1-1 but lost on a draw of lots, which was so disappointing. It was a terrible way to go out, penalties would have been better because at least you have a chance. But it was exciting to take part at an Olympics, although football was not the most important sport.”

“To acclimatise we trained at high altitude in Colorado and had a very good coach in Scheffer who I’d been with at Netanya, and he took us into a professional era.

“We went to training camps at Shefayim Kibbutz for three or four days every week. From training three times a week, we now trained three times a day then went back to our clubs.”

Israel as a footballing nation had grown in confidence and reached the World Cup finals after coming through Asia and Oceania Group games against New Zealand prior to a tough play off final against Australia.

Taking a one-goal advantage to Sydney, Spiegler scored the decisive goal in a 2-1 aggregate win.

His 78th minute left-foot strike would be the most important of his international career.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20 Cup, I’m still afraid the keeper will stop the ball!” he quipped. “I am aware all these years later though what a big moment it was for the country and I’m proud I scored it.”

Part timers Israel took on former World Cup winners Uruguay and Italy, and finalists Sweden following the draw. Group B fixtures were played in Puebla and Toluca.

Clear underdogs, Israel lost 2-0 to Uruguay then faced Sweden at the Estadio Luis Dosal in Toluca.

Digging deep, a Spiegler equaliser earned a hard fought draw in a feisty affair.

Israel required a victory over ultra-defensive Italy to advance into the quarterfinals.

Following a creditable goalless draw, Israel departed from Mexico with an enhanced reputation.

“Qualifying for a World Cup finals was our greatest achievement,” Mordechai recalled.

“The Israeli media followed every move of the team, there were many interviews and it was a big football festival. For a small country like ourselves to make it was massive.

“In Israel fans thought we’d be beaten in every game but I was optimistic. My view was we are here, this is the stage where if you are really good enough then show the

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world.

“Our national team was more like a club team. We were together around eight weeks for the tournament but far more during the year.

The squad was settled but if someone was excellent in league games then they came in.

“We played games in preparation and could fit any system, we switched between 4-3-3, 4-5-1 or 4-4-2. Key players included Giora Spiegel, Yitzhak Vissoker, Shmuel Rosenthal and Yeshoshua Feigenbaum. We had a strong side but it was a hard mission and the first match was the toughest. Uruguay outplayed us though we did our best but were not good enough.

“Sweden was a tight game, they led and after my equaliser both teams had chances. Lots of people have asked about my goal, but when you start to play at an early age and kick hundreds of balls it’s another one though it was a massive occasion. I hit the ball and it went straight in, a great moment, but you don’t think it’s a historic at the time. And I didn’t think it would be Israel’s last to this day. You can’t think negative, when someone tells me it wont ever happen again for Israel, I say, why not, it’s a game so it’s possible.

“Italy had big name players like Sandro Mazzola, Gianni Rivera, Angelo Domenghini, Luigi Riva

and Gianinto Fachetti. Drawing 0-0 was a good result for us.

“Uruguay made the semi finals and Italy qualified to the final. Both lost to Brazil.

“We stayed until the final and I commentated for Channel 1 at home. The match is still talked about today, especially the fourth goal by Carlos Alberto. Goals are scored all over the world every day, we see individual, fantastic goals but this one is considered special because it was at the right place and at the right moment of a World Cup final. The teamwork made the goal with four or five wonderful passes before Pele served Alberto. The way Brazil played was more like dancing than playing football.

“Apart from that goal, I remember the save by Banks from Pele when they played England and a great game between West Germany and Italy, which the Italians won 4-3 in extra time.

“Watching Pele, I didn’t think, one day I’d be playing with him but did, and I’ve also been luck to attend 10 World Cups over the years.”

Spiegler prior to the World Cup had been offered terms by Frenchclub Nantes but after the tournament West Ham went close to becoming the first English club to sign an Israeli footballer.

Israel’s captain, just shy of his 26th birthday, played in friendly games Hammers against Portsmouth, Bristol City and Orient.

Spiegler featured in pre-season preparations alongside the likes of Hurst, Bobby Moore, Jimmy Greaves, Trevor Brooking, Frank Lampard, Billy Bonds, Harry Redknapp and Clyde Best.

A deal however fell foul of ‘technical difficulties’ in getting a work permit.

Returning to Israel, together with new manager David Swhweitzer, Spiegler led Netanya to a first league title and Supercup.

“Not joining West Ham was a blow, but I was by now solid and very sure of my ability,” he recalled. “Netanya becoming champions was an amazing experience.

It’s never easy to win a championship but when you finish first with 11 points difference you can say it was easy 50 years on. We were the best team by far.”

During the next campaign, Spiegler returned to West Ham in the midst of a trip to Australia for the national team to line up alongside Eusabio and Uwe Seeler for a European XI in Hurst’s testimonial match in November 1971.

“I’d enjoyed my time at West Ham, so getting the call to play was fantastic, I flew in from Australia to

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play in a great team and occasion at Upton Park,” he recalled.

Spiegler joined Paris St Germain for the 1972/73 season.

“Football was starting to be semi professional in Israel,” Mordechai recalled. “Netanya made it difficult for me to leave as they wanted a fee and eventually got one.

“Playing and living in Paris was a great experience and enjoy going back. When France won the World Cup in ‘98, I was proud because I knew so many people.”

The coming years would see a return to Netanya, and domestic treble, alongside experiencing the razzamatazz of the National American Football Association as it tried to gain a foothold in American sporting culture in the summer of 1975.

And Spiegler could not pick a bigger club to play for as among his teammates at New York Cosmos was none other than Pele.

As a partnership, the pair enjoyed a number of fine displays, none better than a 9-2 win against Washington Diplomats when both strikers bagged two goals apiece.

“I was ambitious and arrived in New York two weeks before Pele landed by helicopter at the training ground,” he recalled. “Playing with Pele was very special.

“It’s not why Pele was so good, it’s how. Pele had the highest qualities

of technique, was strong, quick, had great individual skills but also made the players around him better, which is a first class quality. When you make players better and you are part of bringing the game to a country in a big way, it is amazing.

Not everyone can do it but Pele did.

“Psychologically playing alongside him, you want to play better.

I didn’t run faster, I was up front with Pele as a 1-2 that can play without knowing each other too much. For me it was an achievement to be considered a partnership with the greatest player of all time but it was natural. When you are a kid and dream to be the best, making a partnership and scoring goals, getting headlines, it was a special time in my career.”

Netanya claimed a second title when Spiegler was in Paris, then with Spiegler back in the fold, a domestic treble including the Israeli State Cup came under manager Shmulik Perlman in 1977/78.

Spiegler retired as a player following a season at Hapoel Haifa, though he played during an injury crisis when manager at Beitar Tel Aviv, a season after they won a Second Division title in 1980/81.

Spiegler also had managerial posts at Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Haifa before a first spell as boss of Netanya when he enjoyed his greatest

Article about Israel at the 1970 World Cup

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Above: World Cup 1970 Souvenir Below: A segment from an article on Israel at the World Cup

managerial successes winning the clubs’ fifth title (and last to date), Super Cup and League Cup (a tournament for top-four clubs).

Spiegler later managed Maccabi Jaffa and Tzafirim Holon either side of a second spell at Netanya.

“I enjoyed management as I had a lot of knowledge to pass on,” he recalled. “Coaching Netanya, I told the players the league was about Netanya then the other 15 teams.

“Winning the championship was amazing, only three people have won the championship as a player

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THE JEWISH WEEKLY and coach for a club in Israel, so to be part of that list is a great honour.”

It is his playing career though that endures and makes him part of a conversation for the most influential Jewish footballer across the generations.

In a stellar career, Spiegler played with and against many of the all time greats.

Football fans revel in comparing players from different generations.

So how does Spiegler evaluate the likes of Pele, Eusabio and Cryuff to Maradona and now Messi and Ronaldo?

“It’s simple, if great players of our day were playing today they would still be great players,” Mordechai, who has three children and six grandchildren, said.

“You have to offer tributes to the old and todays stars.

“My wish is not to say, who is better, Messi or Ronaldo. My wish is to see them playing together. I asked Michel Platini when he was at UEFA why he was not organising a charity game so the world could see them together. This is what interests me, not who is a better player.”

Retiring from the sport, Spiegler went into business and has worked

on television, he also gives inspirational speeches to organisations.

“When I give presentations it’s not made for football, it’s about life,” he explained. “The world might have changed but the principles of life are the same in terms of values and respect.

“My mother was a tailor and father a shoemaker, so helping them as a kid, I learnt about accuracy, you had to be precise, and this was a big lesson.

“I talk about professionalism, making a team think the same way for success. I had mentors that taught me properly otherwise I would not be where I am today.”

Spiegler is an Ambassador for the IFA and enjoys promoting Israel’s case to the world. And his footballing status is enduring.

“You dream of being a professional and people think that you are good enough but circumstances and fate all play a part in a career,” he recalled. “Being chosen as the IFA’s best player was very satisfying. I always had belief I’d get there and can have all the talent but when you have the right conductor and manager it all comes together.”

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ASK THE RABBI Looking for answers? Send your question to asktherabbi@thejewishweekly.com Kaporos and animal cruelty Dear Rabbi, I always cringe at this time of year as I am aware that so many religious Jews commit cruelty to animals as they swing chickens around their heads in a so-called “kaporos” - atonement process.

How can causing harm to poor chickens somehow bring atonement to anyone? I am aware of many leading Rabbis, both past and present who advocate using money instead. Apart from it being cruel it’s just plain barmy to think that waving a chicken can clean someone’s slate. Surely it’s time we abandon this anachronism and step into the 21st century.

Yechiel Dear Yechiel, You talk about Rabbis of old op-

customs based on how and whether it appeals to us.

You are right that money is an option, but if you look in Jewish law it advocates using money only if a chicken (or any other living creature that was not used for sacrifices in the Temple, such as a fish) is unavailable.

Finally, let’s deal with your “cruelty” claim. There is no question that fundamental to Judaism is that animals need to be treated humanely. But arguing against the Kaporos ritual on such grounds is a red herring. Do you not eat chicken regularly, or perhaps enjoy chicken soup on a Friday night? Do you ever stop to think how it got there? You probably never give it a second thought beyond just taking it off your butcher’s shelf. The way chickens are treated at kaporos is no better or worse than what happens at any chicken slaughterhouse on a daily basis.

posing the ritual. While some Sephardic codifiers did oppose kaparos, especially with chickens, the earliest source for kaparos pre-dates them. The first reference can be found in Gaonic literature (Otzer HaGeonim, Yoma pg. 6264). The custom appears to have originated in Ashkenazic circles and was always widely accepted.

There are many customs that Sephardim and Ashkenazim differ on, so to cite some to oppose the practise of others is disingenuous.

You claim “it’s barmy” to do such a ritual. I’m guessing you went out to a river on Rosh Hashanah for the traditional “Tashlich” service in order to throw your sins into the river, no less barmy to an outsider.

There is significance to all these rituals, each with their own underlying themes, and while you want to pick and choose based on what appeals to your own sensibilities, in Judaism we don’t refrain from following our millennia old holy

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This week’s Tehillim is Leilui Nishmat Miriam bat Chabba Frecha

This week’s Psalm is the well know song we sing every Shabbat, before Kabbalat Shabbat and during seuda shalishit. ‘Hashem Roey Lo Echsar’ ‘Hashem is my shepherd, I shall not lack.’

G-d bestows his kindness upon us like a shepherd looking after his flock; without his care we would be as helpless as sheep. However, sheep do not feel anxiety, as they are safe in the knowledge that the shepherd will look after them, and King David uses this as a perfect analogy of how we should feel towards G-d.

Just as a shepherd chooses his path carefully, to avoid overstraining his sheep, a truly righteous person will be granted Divine assistance to keep them on the straight and narrow path. As long as a person wants to change, Hashem will help him.

book of death that is open on Yom Kippur looms large in our thoughts, we should trust in G-d that our repentance will save us.

It is customary on Yom Kippur night to say a lot of Tehillim. The sefer Elef L’Magen, a commentary on the Matei Ephraim, says one who says Tehillim regularly can avoid all kinds of spiritual encumbrances, from upon himself, his wife and children, and from upon his whole community. He brings upon himself all manner of divine influence, good blessings, success and heavenly compassion.

This Yom Kippur may we all be forgiven for our sins, merit to be inscribed in the Book of Life and be blessed with a happy and healthy year ahead.

During this week of Yom Kippur, when repentance is on the forefront of all our minds, heading into the holiest day of the year, we should take comfort in the knowledge that all we need is the desire to repent; once we show the initial enthusiasm, G-d will guide us back to the straight and narrow path once more.

We then arrive at one of the most famous verses in the entire book of Tehillim; ‘Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.’ Even though the shadow of the

Finally, let me say this (and with pre-Yom Kippur apologies to the more liberal readers out there): We don’t march to the beat of people who put humans and animals on the same pedestal. Fundamental to Jewish belief is the statement in the Torah: “And G-d said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth.’”

If it’s good enough for G-d, it’s good enough for me.

Connecting to our lost loved ones during Yizkor Dear Rabbi, This will be my first year reciting Yizkor for my mother. I know it is going to be painful for me and while I cannot read the Hebrew, are there any words of inspiration you can share that I can think about at that time.

Gaynor Dear Gaynor, Think about the fact that even as you cannot see your mother, she can certainly see you and is watching over you. Even as you cannot hear her, she is listening to your cries, feeling your pain during this more trying time and yearning for your comfort. And even as you cannot feel her, know that she is reaching out to you, especially at Yizkor and enveloping you in her ethereal embrace.

Also think about this: A father once admonished his young daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was extremely tight and he became upset when the child used an entire roll trying to decorate a box. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the somewhat gift-wrapped box to her father a few days later and said, “This is for you, Daddy, for your

birthday.” He was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction. But when he opened the box his upset flared again when he found it was empty.

“You don’t waste paper and give someone an empty box. When you give someone a present, there’s supposed to be something inside it!” The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes: “But Daddy, it is not empty. I blew kisses into the box and filled it up with so many kisses, all for you.” The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he apologized again and again. The man kept that gold box by his bed for years and whenever he was discouraged, whenever life got him down, he would open the box and take out a kiss, remembering the love of his child who had put it there.

We each carry a gold box in our hearts given to us by our loved ones filled with unconditional love and kisses. During Yizkor we should each grab tight of those gold boxes and cherish its contents. We should be grateful for those who paved the way before us, and resolve to pave the way for those after us. And even as we may invariably cry as we recall our dearly departed, we should ensure that those tears are infused with love and energy, with hope and resilience, with memories of times past and visions of a meaningful reality and a better tomorrow. Open the box and let the love flow through.

Wishing one and all a gmar chatima tova – a truly happy, healthy, sweet and prosperous year ahead!

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witnessed the worshipping of the golden calf and smashed the tablets. Moshe went up again on the first day of the month of Elul and therefore, after forty days and forty

nights, it was on the tenth of Tishrei that he came down from the mountain. That day became the original Yom Hakippurim, a day of atonement for the people. Like Yom Kippur, all of our other happy and sad days on our calendar take place on anniversaries, with just one exception and that’s the festival of Sukkot.

You see, the Torah gives the reason for Sukkot as follows: Ki BaSukkot Hoshavti et B’nei Yisrael Be’ Hotzi’i Otam Me’Eretz Mitzrayim. G-d says: it’s because I caused the Israelites to dwell in Sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. So the right time for Sukkot would be the time when we’re celebrating Pesach. The two festivals actually should be fused into one. Can you imagine having a seder in a sukkah? Hashem wanted to prevent that from taking place!

So, if that’s the case, if He was going to move Sukkot to another time of the year, surely He should have chosen a quiet month where nothing else is happening? We’ve just had the whole month of Elul, Rosh Hashana, the Ten Days of Penitence, we’re leading now into Yom Kippur and then the Shulchan Aruch tells us that as soon as we’ve broken our fast we start to build the Sukkah. Could Hashem not have given us a bit of a break?

Now actually, those who are involved in

planning events and programmes will be able to appreciate the reason Hashem had in mind.

You see, when it comes to a very important event, what matters most is the follow up.

You can have an incredible experience but if nothing follows it, then what was it really all about?

And this is really what we concentrate on, on Yom Kippur. We engage in a day that is filled with prayers, with Cheshbon Hanefesh, with contemplation of where we’re coming from, where we should be going to and then Hashem provides us with an immediate opportunity to translate our dreams into reality, our resolutions into meaningful action and that is why Sukkot, such an incredible opportunity to bond with the creator and to engage with our fellow human beings, comes immediately after Yom Kippur.

Let’s remember this lesson when we plan and stage special events and programmes, and let’s remember it as we approach Yom Hakippurim. We’re going to have a very special and precious day, let’s be aware that Yom Kippur in itself is of great importance but what’s more important will be what the day will lead to.

I wish you all Tzom Kal and a wonderful new year.

daughter shortly after her father - who she would never know - was killed. The family had just returned from the cemetery and would now begin the week of shiva - mourning for their son, brother, husband and father.

Rabbi Gustman went to the funeral, then to the cemetery, and from there went straight to the home of the broken family for a shiva visit. He entered and asked to sit next to the father, Professor Aumann. The father said, “Rabbi, I so appreciate your coming to visit but you have spent all day with our family, feel free to go back to the Yeshiva. I am sure the students are waiting for you.”

Rav Gustman spoke, first in Yiddish and then in Hebrew, so that all those assembled would understand: “I am sure that you don’t know this, but I also once had a son. His name was Meir. He was a beautiful child.

He was taken from my arms by the Germans and murdered. I escaped. I later bartered my child’s shoes so that we would have food, but I was never able to eat the food; I gave it away to others… My Meir is a kadosh, he is holy; he and all the six million who perished are holy.”

Rav Gustman then added: “I will tell you what is transpiring now in the World of Truth in Heaven. My Meir is welcoming your Shlomo into the minyan and is saying to him ‘I died because I am a Jew; but I was a mere child. I couldn’t do anything for anyone else.

But you Shlomo, you died defending the Jewish People and the Land of Israel.’ My Meir,” said Rabbi Gustman, “is a kadosh, he is holy - but your Shlomo is a Shaliach Zibbur - a Cantor in that holy, heavenly minyan.” Rabbi Gustman continued: “I never had the opportunity to sit shiva for my Meir; let me sit here with you just a little longer…”

42 years after the death of his son, Rabbi Gustman sat shiva together with the Aumann family…Professor Aumann listened to the

story. And then he said silently: “I thought I could never be comforted, but Rebbi, you have comforted me.”

Rav Gustman & his wife would attend an annual parade where children would march on Jerusalem in song & dance. A Rabbi who happened upon them one year asked the Rabbi why he spent his valuable time in such a frivolous activity. Rav Gustman explained, “We who saw a generation of children die, take special pleasure in a generation of children who sing and dance in these streets.”

He once commented to someone encouraging to write his memoirs: “I can’t talk about it - even all these years on the pain is still raw, but those shoes – I can tell you I think about those shoes every day of my life.

I see them before my eyes every night before I go to sleep.”

This story demonstrates the compelling connections between past and present; the connections which transpire up above and those which take place down below – and perhaps most of all the connections between the above & below – between this world & the next. We never walk alone because our loved ones are still with us. Death can only take away the physical persona, but the soul lives on. Even after their passing, our loved ones are with us in spirit. They strengthen us when we face challenges, and they smile with us when we celebrate. While we can no longer see them, we can sense their presence.

None of this denies the pain & sorrow of death. But there is comfort in knowing that we are never really apart and that’s what this moment of Yizkor is all about.

Each year since the day I was born, at the onset of Yom Kippur my father would put his warm hand on my head and bless me with the special priestly benediction – what we call birchas habonim – the children’s blessing.

And when there was a geographical divide,

still there would be that moment, just prior to leaving to Shul for Kol Nidrei when I would call him, and he would recite the blessing over the phone. And then just a few short years ago for the first time in 48 years – I didn’t have that experience – and I missed it – and it hurt – and my heart ached.

But fundamental to Jewish belief is that bichayehem ubimoisom loi nifradu – in their passing, just as in their life, they do not become separated. So sometimes I will take a little walk at night, and I will look up to the heavens, and I will have a conversation as no doubt many of you might do. I couldn’t do that previously. Before it would involve picking up a phone at the right time. Now – it’s any time - any place, because even as we may not see our loved ones, they are certainly watching over us. Even as we may not hear them, they are undoubtedly attuned to our words, our tears, whether of sadness or joy. Even as we may no longer be able to hold them, they certainly reach out and hold us in their ethereal embrace. And I know in my heart of hearts that like every year before, just prior to Kol Nidrei, my father OBM will continue to bless me just as all our loved ones will spread their loving hands over our precious heads and bless us all.

May we indeed all be blessed for a good year, a happy year, a healthy year and a prosperous year and may we merit that day when those who sleep will rise and sing and dance with us once more. Gemar Chasima Tova!

Yom Kippur Yom Kippur is an anniversary; it’s the day on which Moshe came down from Mount Sinai on the second occasion. You’ll recall how, on the first occasion, he came down,

Yizkor

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Yizkor: What does it mean to remember?

When you remember a loved one it means you carry something of who they are with you; that they have left some mark of who they are upon our souls. It means that we can summon them back to our minds and hearts even if so many years have already gone by.

It means that even though they are no longer in our midst, we can still see their faces, hear their voices and speak to them in our hearts.

For as long as we remember, they continue to exist in our lives. To remember is to say, “Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure; you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.”

There was a great Rabbi of the last century - Yisroel Zev Gustman. He was a child prodigy and later a judge in the Chief Rabbinical Court of Vilna at around the age of 20. Alas he had to flee at the onset of the Holocaust. Rabbi Gustman escaped, though not unscathed. He hid among corpses. He hid in caves. He hid in a pig pen. He somehow survived.

First in America then later settling in Israel he founded a small Yeshiva. One of the regular participants at his Talmudic lectures was a professor at the Hebrew University, Robert J. Aumann. The year was 1982. Israel was at war. Soldiers were mobilized, reserve units activated. Among those called to duty was a reserves officer, a university student who made his living as a high school teacher: Shlomo Aumann, the son of Prof. Robert Aumann. On the eve of the 19th of Sivan in particularly fierce combat, Shlomo fell in battle.

Shlomo was married and had one child. His widow, Shlomit, gave birth to their second

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BY RABBI A.Z SAUNDERS The 10th of Tishrei in the year 2448 was the day G-d finally forgave the Jews for serving the Golden Calf. G-d therefore chose this day to annually forgive the Jews from their sins as long as they repented. This means that we can break up our lives into small sections called years. If there was no Yom Kippur we would go on sinning with no natural break. Our lives would be one long block of sins. We are fortunate however, that G-d has given us the opportunity to examine our deeds and repent for our sins.

In the Neilah prayers we take this a stage further and thank G-d for giving us this day: “In order to stop our treachery.” We can understand this quite simply. People get frightened when the High Holy Days approach. People might be scared about what may be written down for them for the coming year. This brings about repentance. Even if people return to their sinful ways after the High Holy Days at least they have broken the cycle and achieved something. A good example of this can be found when health inspectors come visiting butchers. During the time they are there, everyone is on their best behavior. All the laws and rules are strictly adhered to. The inspector goes away thinking that these high standards are adhered to all year around. This is the gift G-d has given the Jews. Even though G-d knows everything at all times He only judges us by our behavior over the High Holy Day period.

Therefore, if we are good during the High Holy Day period we can still achieve forgiveness and be inscribed for a good year. This can be seen by the verse in Genesis (chapter 21 verse 17) where G-d saved Yishmael because, “He was good now (i.e. merited saving)”, even though he and his descendants would go on to cause problems for the Jewish people further down the line. Even if it takes until the very end of Yom Kippur for people to repent as it says in Ezekiel (chapter 18 verse 23) “G-d does not desire the death of the wicked; rather they repent and are saved.” We can hopefully take the inspiration from this clean slate we have been given to improve ourselves for the entire year. This is the reason why the High Holy Day period comes at the beginning of the year so we may start as we mean to continue.

There is another aspect to Yom Kippur. The Mishna in Taanit says Yom Kippur is the happiest day in the Jewish calendar.

Note, it does not say the evening after Yom Kippur when we have received atonement for our sins, rather Yom Kippur day itself. This is because Hashem’s ‘Shechina’ [lit. G-d’s presence- explanation of which is beyond the scope of my knowledge] descends to earth, and G-d is closer to us than he is on any other day of the year. We spend our whole day in complete service of him. It is a day where we have no earthly pursuits at all. We don’t eat or drink, wash, anoint ourselves or indulge in sexual relations. We can use every second of the waking day in service of Hashem. It is a day when we are comparable to the angels which is why males wear the kittel (white robe). G-d bestows tremendous mercy and good feeling on the Jews. It is a day where we can pray for anything we wish for and hope to get answers (further terms and conditions may apply!)

We should all feel elated and happy on this day that we are able to get close to G-d. If we have the

mindset that we want to feel the spiritual happiness of the day and crave G-d’s gifts then hopefully G-d will allow us a small snippet of that happiness. (If that doesn’t work, just pretend!)

In Ethics of the Fathers (chapter 4 Mishnah 22) it says ‘one

minute of doing teshuva (repentance) in this world is better than all the bliss and happiness of the next world’. On Yom Kippur we have over 700 minutes (approx.

12 hours of davening time) of doing teshuva. Imagine how great that must feel. It also goes to show how great ‘teshuva’ is to be better than all the bliss of the next world!!!!!

What is ‘Teshuvah’?

Teshuvah (repentance) is made up of three parts: 1.

2.

3.

Acknowledge that a particular action was sinful, i.e. rioting.

Regret the sinful action and wish one had never done it.

Resolve that if one remained on this current lofty level achieved on Yom Kippur, you will not repeat this sin.

Our Rabbis tell us that when a person passes away all his actions and thoughts will be viewed by G-d and the heavenly angels. The embarrassment caused is how our rabbis explain the idea of ‘the fire of hell’. However, if one does

proper teshuvah then those sinful actions will be erased from the video and no embarrassment will be caused. This should hopefully prompt us to make use of this wonderful gift that G-d has given us, and truthfully repent from our sins. Our Rabbis explain that the

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reason we repent 10 times over Yom Kippur is that hopefully one of those times will be sincere. In temple times the focal point of Yom Kippur was the service of the High Priest in the temple where he entered the Holy of Holies four times. As the temple no longer exists we recount the service word for word in the chazzan’s repetition of Mussaf. One should therefore make sure one is versed and alert when it comes to reading this in the synagogue.

The 5 special services on Yom Kippur Kol Nidrei This famous declaration of annulment of our vows is the way our rabbis chose to begin the Yom Kippur service. It is a way of showing how regret can make things better. After the Maariv davening we start Selichot. This is a series of prayers begging G-d for forgiveness. We also chant some wonderful, inspiring songs in which we declare our total inability to achieve anything without G-d’s help.

Shacharit The theme of shacharit is G-d’s power in the world and his sovereignty. The extra prayers focus on the angelic praises of G-d.

The leining in the morning comes from where G-d tells Moses how and what service to perform on Yom Kippur in the temple. The Haftorah comes from Isiah who is telling the people that fasting is pointless if we continue in our evil ways, oppressing the poor and not generally caring about one another. We also read this in the Haforah for Shabbat Shuva ‘Tear your hearts not your clothes and return unto Hashem.’ (Joel chapter 2 verse 13) Mussaf In temple times the focal point of Yom Kippur was the service of the High Priest in the temple where he entered the Holy of Holies four times. As the temple no longer exists we recount the service word for word in the chazzan’s repetition of Mussaf. One should therefore make sure one is versed and alert when it comes to reading this in the synagogue.

Mincha We read the chapter of forbidden relationships in order to warn people when they are all sitting

together of the most severe sins.

This also serves as a reminder that even though we are spiritually uplifted on Yom Kippur, we must guard against such sins. We also read the book of Yonah which shows the power of repentance where the whole city of Nineveh was saved.

Neilah THIS IS THE HOLIEST TIME OF THE WHOLE HIGH HOLY DAY SEASON. Our rabbis tell us that G-d forgives the Jews approximately 15 minutes before the end of Yom Kippur. This corresponds to the time when the ‘He Goat’ containing all the Jews’ sins was pushed down the mountain in the temple times. After forgiveness has been issued one has a few minutes to pray for all one’s needs, which is why ‘Aveinu Malkeinu’ is recited even on Shabbos (we omit it at Kol Nidrie ,Shacharit and Mincha). We also declare our belief in G-d and his sovereignty in a holy, sin -free state. This has such a powerful effect in the lofty spheres. The time during Neilah is the most merciful time of the year.

Both G-d and the Jews are emotional at the prospect of losing the close bond for another year. G-d also wants to bestow leaving presents to his dearest children. Even if one has been in a state of religious slumber and has not heeded any of the calls of the High Holy Days one can achieve forgiveness during Neilah.

A good example of this is the European Cup Final of 1999 between Manchester United and Bayern Munich. Entering injury time Bayern Munich were joyously celebrating their victory. Despite the impending doom United reinvigorated themselves and in a mere 99 seconds had snatched victory from the tonsils of defeat.

This is how we can view Yom Kippur Neilah. Hope is never lost.

Nothing is signed and sealed until the Rabbi blows the shofar.

At the end of the Bible Moses tells the Jews of the forthcoming exiles that the Jews will endure.

The exile will only end when the Jews make one final sincere repentance. Let us hope that we can motivate ourselves, cast off the shackles of materialism and yearn for G-d’s salvation by doing a proper teshuvah. We wouldn’t want to be the ones that stopped the salvation from happening this year, would we?

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by Rabbi Baruch Davis, Chigwell & Hainault United Synagogue (Editor-in-Chief) and Rabbi Chaim Gross (Editor) Publishers Jerusalem. We are grateful to Koren for allowing us to include Rabbi Amital's remarkable and thought-provoking recollections from Yom Kippur 1944 in Hungary.

Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, 1878

by Maurycy Gottlieb, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Sidrah SidrahSummary: Summary: Yom Yom Kippur Kippur Yom Kippur Morning

Yom Kippur Afternoon (Mincha)

From the first Sefer Torah we read the beginning of parashat Acharei Mot which details the Yom Kippur service of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest), including his once-a-year entry into the Holy of Holies and the offerings he brought for himself, his family and the nation.

We read the last part of parashat Acharei Mot, concentrating on the laws of forbidden relationships, such as with close relatives, or with another’s spouse. The nation’s well-being in the Land is dependent upon keeping these laws.

This service included taking two goats on behalf of the nation. The ‘fate’ of the goats was subject to a lottery performed by the Kohen Gadol. The lots would decide which goat would be offered as a sin offering (chatat), and which goat would be taken to the desert and pushed off of a steep cliff.

The Mishnah (Yoma 6:6) tells us that a crimson thread was tied between a rock on the edge of this cliff and the goat’s horns. If the nation had been forgiven its sins, this thread would turn white after the goat had been pushed off.

Point to Consider: why is this passage chosen to be read on Yom Kippur?

Haftarah (Mincha)

Another feature of the Kohen Gadol’s special Yom Kippur service was that he did not wear any of the golden garments that he wore during his normal service. This was so as not to create any allusions to the sin of the golden calf whilst seeking atonement for the nation’s sins (see Talmud Rosh Hashanah 26a).

Yonah (Jonah), a Jewish prophet, is told to go to the non-Jewish city Nineveh, to encourage its citizens to repent. Yonah refuses, instead boarding a ship bound for Tarshish. Yet the ship faces the danger of sinking. Realising that his own rebellion caused this danger, he asked the sailors to be thrown overboard. A big fish swallows Yonah. After three days of suffering inside the fish, Yonah prays to G-d, Who instructs the fish to spit Yonah onto dry land.

G-d reinstructs Yonah to go to Nineveh. Yonah goes, warning the people of Nineveh of the need to repent. They fast and repent, yet Yonah is distressed. G-d eventually comes to Yonah, defending His compassion for the people of Nineveh (see p. 6 article).

Maftir is read from the second Sefer Torah, from the section of parashat Pinchas which details the extra offerings brought on Yom Kippur.

Question: how did the sailors on the boat respond to seeing G-d's exacting treatment of Yonah?(1:15) Answer at bottom of final page.

Haftarah The prophet Yeshaya (chapter 57) states that whilst G-d never ignores wrongdoing, the door to teshuva (repentance) always remains open.

However, that teshuva has to be sincere; fasting and affliction carry little merit if one continues to mistreat other people. Yeshaya encourages not just keeping the laws of Shabbat, but also experiencing its joyous atmosphere, which can allow us to reach our greatest spiritual potential.

We are also privileged to reproduce another extract from the From Exile to Redemption Machzor, about the incredible accomplishments of the late Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe. The Dear Readers, extract describes the Rebbe's efforts to help As we did on Rosh Hashanah, we are delighted other Jews on Yom Kippur and at other times in to again present an enlarged edition of Daf the Displaced Persons camps of Europe after World War Two and how he was the driving force Hashavua Yom Kippur.

SidrahforSummary: Tazria-Metzorah behind the construction of the Laniado Hospital Mindful of the unique sanctity and significance of in Netanya later in his life. On this holiest of days, would three 1st Aliya (Kohen) Vayikra 12:1-23 Yom Kippur and –the memories of people and asmetzora we ponder thealso yearbring ahead, theanimal story ofofferings the and three meal offerings.

After childbirth, a lady would wait several weeks places which it often recalls, we have included Rebbe is humbling and instructive. before an elevation (olah) and a Point to Consider: what is the significance of the articlesbringing from figures past andoffering present.

We hope sin offering (chatat). This completed her post-birth cedar wood, crimson thread and hyssop? (see articles from current colleagues, along these will enhance your observance and The Rashi to 14:4) purification process. with the ever-popular Tribe Scribe, provide experience of theand day.Aharon that someone who God told Moshe 5th Aliya (Chamishi) – 14:21-32 accompaniment some of the most wellhad the appearance of a particular type of skin A metzora whofor could not afford three animal Over the last few months, we have marked the known prayers, music and themes of offering, Yom disease (tzara’at) would have to show the white offerings could instead bring one animal 50th anniversary of the Day War. Asevaluate well as Kippur. blemish to a Kohen.

TheSix Kohen would We hope they will provide you with one meal offering and two birds. and if the affliction of was clearly tzara’at, the decide miraculous deliverance Israel at that time, fresh and inspiring perspectives to go along with 6th Aliya (Shishi) – 14:33-15:15 thus rendering the person impure (tameh). If the the effect on British Jewry was transformative in the uplifting ourThe communities Tzara’at alsoservices affectedwhich houses. house owner case unclear, Kohen would quarantine manywas ways.

To thatthe end, we have included some provide. would report the suspicious signs to a Kohen. The the person in a house for seven days, after which house would be evacuated before the Kohen’s reminiscences from that time by the late Lady the Kohen would re-inspect the afflicted area and arrival. thethe Kohen a deep green or you deepa red On behalfIf of entiresaw Rabbinate, we wish Amelie Jakobovits, one of British Jewry's most declare whether the person was tameh or tahor ‘affliction’, he would order the house to be Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, 1878 beloved personalities, and we thank Vallentine safe and meaningful Yom Kippur; may your (pure). quarantined forAviv a week.

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Haftarah Rabbi ChaimII),Gross From the Book of Melachim (Kings the haftarah (Editor) of the long takes places upon the background siege and ensuing famine of the Shomron area (Samria) by the King of Aram. Four metzora’im were put outside the city gates because of their affliction. They discovered and reported that the Arameans had actually left their camp, which3 allowed the Jews to plunder the camp and thus end their famine.

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by Rabbi Shmuli Sagal, Sutton & District United Synagogue by Rabbi Shmuli Sagal, Sutton & District United Synagogue annulling vows and promises.

If we are striving ourselves of Biblical proportions. is about.

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At Nidrei. certain On points we pray in and teshuva. the content of Kol a day full of of the content of Kol Nidrei.

On a day full supplication. shul full of anticipation, the of of shul full of anticipation, the prayer and repentant speech, we begin by silent solitude, at others in a symphony of song. prayer and repentant speech, we begin by atmosphere on Kol Nidrei night is second to atmosphere on Kol Nidrei night is second to Yom Kippur otherwise known of and power of the spoken We chantthe andpotency we whisper.

We respond and we declaring theis potency power ofthe theDay spoken For so many, the and music andasmemories of declaring none. For so many, the music and memories of none.

Atonement.

This atonement is achieved through word.

In parashat Matot, the Torah states: “If a word.

In parashat Matot, the Torah states: “If a that night form a large part of their Jewish accompany.

But at all times we are uttering that night form a large part of their Jewish a four-stage repentance, asto man takes a vow to G-d or swears an oath to man takes a process vow to of G-d or swears known an oath identity. words, thought-provoking words of prayer and identity. the mitzvah of teshuva.

These are cessation, a prohibition upon himself; he shall not establish a prohibition upon himself; he shall not establish supplication. regret, confession andsetting resolvebefit notthe to repeat Indeed, the music and of the the desecrate his word; according to whatever whatever Indeed, the music and setting befit the awe of the desecrate his word; according toawe transgression.

However, whenof the Rambam However, the words the Nidrei comes from his mouth he shall do” (Bemidbar comes from his mouth he shall do”Kol (Bemidbar occasion. However, the words of the Kol Nidrei occasion.

Yom Kippur is otherwise known as the Day of (Maimonides d. 1204) given defines the mitzvah of 30:3).

G-d gave us 613 mitzvot. Almost all are prayer seem surprising, the context are Atonement. prayer seem surprising, given the context of the 30:3). G-d gave us 613 mitzvot. Almostofallthe atonement is achieved through teshuva, he only mentions the element of already set inThis stone.

In contrast, the mitzvah of service.

Perhaps we would expect a resolute already set in stone. In contrast, the mitzvah of a four-stage service. Perhaps we would expect a resolute confession.

On the eve of Yom Kippur (Prayer), process of repentance, known as In contrast to the other elements vows gives us the licence to create our own reproach regarding repentance, or perhaps a vows gives us the licence to create our own reproach regarding repentance, or perhaps a which involve thought and (in)action, confession turn the 19/20th century the mitzvah of teshuva. are cessation, personal prohibitions.

ByofThese simply saying some stirring reading about Jewish responsibility. stirring reading about Jewish responsibility. personal prohibitions. By simply saying some bynot Jakub Weinles regret, confession resolve to repeat the we can and impose restrictions upon Instead we have a dry legal text concerning words, Instead we have a dry legal text concerning words, we can impose restrictions upon annulling vows and promises. If we are striving ourselves of Biblical proportions. transgression.

However, when the Rambam annulling vows and promises. If we are striving ourselves of Biblical proportions. to ‘begin as we mean to go on’, it seems strange (Maimonides d. 1204) defines the mitzvah of 4 to ‘begin as we mean to go on’, it seems strange In memory of Mordechai Avraham ben Nechemia music of Kol Nidrei sets the mood of the day. that the opening act of the holiest and most The teshuva, he only mentions the element of that the opening act of the holiest and most The music of Kol Nidrei sets the mood of the day. Yet its words frame what the essence of the day spiritually charged day in the Jewish calendar is On the eve of Yom Kippur (Prayer), In contrast to the other elements spiritually charged day in the Jewish calendar is Yet its words frame what the essence of the day isconfession. about. We begin Yom Kippur by annulling our aislegal declaration. turn of the 19/20th century about.

We begin Yom Kippur by annulling our which involve thought andvows. (in)action, a legal declaration. sometimes hastily-taken In so confession doing, we

by Jakub Weinles sometimes hastily-taken vows.

In so doing, we recapture of our speech.

With this Yom Kippur is a day full of words. Without the In memorythe of potency Mordechai Avraham ben Nechemia recapture the potency our speech. this renewed Yom Kippur is a day full of words. Without the distractions appreciation of the power of our words, of eating andofdrinking, we areWith free to renewed appreciation the trying power to of our words, we are ready to embark on a marathon of prayer distractions of eating and drinking, we are free to spend much of the of day engross we are ready to embark on a marathon prayer spend much of the day trying to engross ourselves 4 In memory of Mordechai Avraham ben Nechemia teshuva. in prayer.

At certain points we of pray in and Yizkorinand Yom Kippur and teshuva. ourselves prayer.

At certain points we pray in silent Was Yonah Right to Doubt Nineveh’s Sincerity? solitude, at others in a symphony of song.

by Rabbi Michael Laitner, Jewish Living Division Rabbi; Rabbi, silent solitude, at others in a symphony of song.

We chant andAssistant we whisper.

We respond and we

by Rabbi Daniel Epstein, Cockfosters & N Southgate Synagogue We chant and we whisper.

We respond and we accompany. But at all times we are uttering Finchley United Synagogue accompany. But at all times we are uttering words, thought-provoking words of prayer and As we approach the last few He would forgive them. Indeed the Talmud words, thought-provoking words ofwhich prayer my andThe One ‘tradition’ word ‘Yizkor’ literally means ‘He [G-d] will supplication. hours of Yom Kippur, and states: “…How did they act? — they separated supplication. family has, in common with remember’. Why is this term used, given that Yom Kippur is otherwise known as the Day of feeling rather weary, we the animals from their young offspring and they does not forget? many others, is to write G-d Yom Kippur is otherwise known and as theyahrzeit Day of Atonement. This atonement is achieved through are presented with the said, ‘Master of the Universe, if You will not have the names Atonement. This atonement achievedinthrough a four-stage repentance, known as reading of the Book of mercy upon us, we will not show mercy to these earliest useprocess of this of verb in the Torah states (date of ispassing the The theG-d mitzvah of teshuva.

These are cessation, Yonah (Jonah) during the [young animals]!’” (Ta’anit 16a). a four-stage process of repentance, knownofasthat remembered (“vayizkor”) Noach after Jewish calendar) details confession and had resolve not to repeat the Mincha service. the mitzvah of teshuva.

These are cessation, waters of the Flood subsided (Bereishit deceased relatives on a slip theregret, Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, (known by transgression. However, when the Rambam regret, confession of andpaper resolve not to repeat at the back of athe8:1). the acronym Rav Shaga”r, d. 2007) explains Many of us are familiar with the story.

Yonah was transgression.

However, Yom Kippur machzor (prayer when book). the Rambam (Maimonides d. 1204) defines the mitzvah of that this was tantamount to ‘threatening’ G-d a prophet who lived in the first Temple period. teshuva, he only mentions the element of (Maimonides d. 1204) defines the mitzvah ofRashi (d.1105) explains that this term actually Nineveh wasOn a large non-Jewish city, perhaps the eve of Yom Kippur (Prayer),the with animal cruelty. Surely this was arrogant confession.

In contrast to the of otherjudgment. elements to G-d's attribute teshuva, he prayers only mentions element When Yizkor are recited,the these details,ofrefers most prominent city in the world at the time. behaviour, hardly synonymous with repentance? turn of the 19/20th century which involve thought and of (in)action, confession prayers of the righteous can judgment On the eve Yomturn Kippur (Prayer), which sadly but inevitably to grow the The confession.

In contrast the longer other with elements So why did G-d actually pay heed to such Yonah was unwilling to follow G-d's command by Jakub Weinles into mercy.

G-d ‘remembered’ Noach’s turn of the 19/20th century passing of time,thought help usand to recall, even confession fleetingly, which involve (in)action, behaviour? and implore the people of Nineveh to repent their him. Weinles

by Jakub both close and distant relatives, those who we righteousness and His covenant with ways. He tried to run away from his mission but Rav Shaga”r compares this to some of our knew and those who we did not have the – via a miraculous journey inside the belly of a4 In memory of Mordechai Avraham ben Nechemia experiences on Yom Kippur. Many of us have not opportunity to meet. Some of the memories are This teaches a powerful lesson about the Yizkor large fish – ultimately arrived in Nineveh to fulfil 4 In memory of Mordechai Avraham Nechemia come near to wholehearted repentance, yet we warm, others are raw, whilst for ben some relatives prayers. G-d does not forget and does not need his task. are calling out to G-d to tear up bad decrees. Is or martyrs, painfully, there are no memories to prompting to remember. Yet when we pray sincerely, especially on Yom Kippur, we have the recall at all.

The Mishnah (Ta’anit 2:1) refers to the repentance this not tantamount to arrogance? Is there really opportunity to establish ourselves as righteous of Nineveh, when detailing how cities should pray value in this?

The ‘ultimate’ recollection belongs to G-d, and turn judgment to mercy. on fast days: He answers that the very fact we are turning which makes Yizkor particularly appropriate “…the eldest among [the city elders] shall then towards G-d and addressing Him is a valuable Yizkor therefore is not just our prayer to G-d for for Yom Kippur. The Torah refers to Yom Kippur address [the people] in heart-rending terms: ‘My shift, as we see from the model of Nineveh. At in the plural, ‘Yom Hakippurim’; the medieval deceased relatives and martyrs. It is also a plea brethren, consider that it is not written in respect this critical juncture of Yom Kippur, late in the that He should always relate to them in Heaven German scholar Mahari Weil (d. 1456) explains to [the repentance of] the people of Nineveh, that afternoon, we may be grappling with the with mercy, continually extending the atonement that this indicates that atonement applies to G-d hearkened to their having wrapped overwhelming challenge of psychologically both the living and the dead. This may explain which Mahari Weil referred to. themselves in sackcloth, nor to their fast-days, committing to full repentance. This calming why Yizkor was originally said only on Yom rather that ‘G-d saw their acts, that they had message reassures us that moving ourselves This past summer, I was fortunate to visit the Kippur. It was introduced amongst Ashkenazi even slightly in the right direction is worthy in the turned from their evil ways’” (ibid. 3:10). quaint shul in Llandudno, North Wales, retracing Jews as a prayer for and memorial to those Jews eyes of G-d. my wife’s family roots in the town. Looking at the murdered during the Crusades.

What were these ‘acts’? The King of Nineveh memorial boards, I saw mention made of many of responded to G-d's 40-day ultimatum for In fact, the king’s response, as explained by Rav Sadly, the Crusades are of course not the only her relatives. repentance by telling his nobles to convey this Shaga”r, reminds us that we are not necessarily tragedy which our people have faced and the expected to change everything in one day. message to the people: Yizkor prayers have expanded over the years It was particularly poignant to say Mincha Starving the animals and calling out to G-d may “No man or beast—of flock or herd—shall taste to reflect this. Amongst the most moving (the afternoon prayers) in a shul where four not have been fully altruistic, but at least it was an anything! They shall not graze, and they shall not experiences of recent years at Finchley United generations ago her family had prayed, and to act! Even the smallest of changes can eventually drink water! They shall be covered with Synagogue (Kinloss) has been Rev Simon Hass reflect on how they had bequeathed Judaism to move us towards a path of real growth. sackcloth—man and beast—and shall cry (one of the greatest chazanim in the world, us. It also enabled me to add their details to the mightily to G-d. Let everyone turn back from his who served the Central Synagogue in Great slip of paper in my Yom Kippur machzor and to evil ways and from the injustice of which he is consider how perhaps our practice of Judaism Portland Street for many years before retiring guilty. Who knows but that G-d may turn and to Finchley) leading some of the Yizkor prayers helps our deceased relatives be granted the relent? He may turn back from His wrath, so that on Yom Kippur. The prayers of Rev Hass, who remembrance by G-d that we pray for in Yizkor.

Yonah cast out we do not perish” (ibid. 3:7-8). grew up in Eastern Europe and survived several by the fish, May G-d answer all of our prayers favourably concentration camps, are spine-tingling, It would appear that the king was ‘testing’ G-d wood carving, and always ‘remember’ for the good those no especially when praying for those murdered by telling the people to starve their animals until 1873 longer with us.

Jews of whom there are no remaining memories.

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A Call to Arms

by Lady Amélie Jakobovits z’l, as told by Gloria Tessler Lady Jakobovits and her husband, Chief Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits z’l, arrived in the UK in March 1967 when Rabbi Lord Jakobovits assumed the position of Chief Rabbi shortly before the Six Day War of May/June 1967.

As they left the hall, a young Israeli woman approached them and said, ‘Rabbi Jakobovits.

I cannot pray. Will you please pray on my behalf?’ Her words seemed almost a metaphor for the polarisation between the Jewish religion and the Jewish state, evoking the most spiritual longings expressed in the writings of Amélie’s father, Rabbi Eli Munk, and the reality of war.

The Chief Rabbi looked at the young woman, deeply moved. He recalled the incident frequently and was fated to meet her again, in 1973, at the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, when she repeated her request to him for a prayer.

Extracted from “Amélie, The Story of Lady Jakobovits”, p.199-201, Gloria Tessler, My Yom Kippur Self Checklist Vallentine Mitchell books, London, 1999, ISBNStanmore 9780853033417, withPark kindUnited permission of

by Rabbi Daniel Fine, Community Rabbi, & Canons Later memories would be less euphoric and Stewart Cass of Vallentine Mitchell Publishers.

Synagogue would resonate with the symbolism of the Israeli woman who did not know how to pray. One of In 2007, The Washington • Where in my life do I make space for G-d?

Over recent months, Israel and Jewish Amélie’s most poignant experiences was during a Post placed Joshua Bell, the communities across the world have been visit to Britain of a groupworld-renowned of soldiers wounded in in violinist, • How have I developed myself over the past commemorating the 50th anniversary of the the Yom Kippur War. ‘It so often happened a Washington Metro Station. year?

Six Day War. In these selected extracts from that one of our wounded soldiers His task was towould play the Lady Jakobovits’s biography, written by Gloria approach the Sefer Torah and music ask, “What same which do he I had • Am I a giving person and in what way?

Tessler, the author describes Lady Jakobovits’s whento ahe do? I have never been soplayed close before Seferfilled Boston’s Symphony Hall (for • Do I have clarity on what I want to achieve? If memories of 1967.

Torah.” at least $100 a seat) only three days earlier. This not, how can I take steps to achieve this? time he wore jeans and a t-shirt and modestly 6 JUNE 1967. Amélie and Immanuel had The Six Day aWar dramatic placed hathad on athe groundeffect fronton of the him for • Do I talk and listen to others well?

Amélie paid her first visit to Israel just after the travelled to Gateshead, where he was delivering Jewish community. Fund-raising for Israel donations. liberation of Jerusalem in 1967. She could a lecture, when word came through that war had reached unprecedented heights and numerous • If I could change one thing about myself what barely contain her utter excitement and disbelief broken out in the Middle East. At the request of volunteer groups suddenly of sprang up as from would it be?

In the three-quarters an hour thatif he played, as the plane began its descent, waxing lyrical the late Lavy Bakstansky, then secretary of the nowhere. seven people stopped what they were doing to about her emotions: ‘Can I ever forget the Zionist Federation, and Rev. Reuben Turner, take in the performance, at least for a minute. 27 • If I could tell people in 100 years time one beating of my heart at such a speed that I then director of the Zionist Federation’s gave money, most of them on the run; their thing about my life, what would it be?

Yom Kippur Selffew Checklist thought anyone could see it!’

Even My internally, and particularly structure donations totalled $32, withina the cents change.

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At anof the Synagogue oblivious the presence and music with G-d, what would I speak about? by community leaders, who informed them that Her most vivid memory is of walking with her emergency meeting of rabbis ministers, celebrated violinist only a and few feet away from a huge communal gathering was due to meet at husband through the streets of Jerusalem on In 2007, The he Washington in myI life I make space them. Rabbi There was never a crowd, notwould even for a• •Where the Chief announced that How have felt do a connection withfor G-dG-d? over the My Yom Checklist the Albert Hall that night, which the Chief Rabbi the saddest day in Kippur the JewishSelf calendar, Tisha Postthe placed Joshua Bell, the second. open an Israel office for mobilisation and past year?

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It is a day of total desolation, when a Washington Metro Station.

Is there a particular mitzvah that resonates related activities.

Much has been written about the above event, •year? religious Jews sit on the floor rather than on His task was to play the with me, that I really want to make more of an Jakobovits had only taken office three months yet on inYom Kippur it hasspace further significance.

In 2007, The Washington • Where my life do I make for G-d? chairs, wearing plimsolls and fasting. Yet on that same music which he had • Am I a giving effort with? person and in what way? before and when he stood on the platform We are reminded of the importance of stopping Post placed Bell, theRabbi Maurice Unterman played when he Arch filled night they were among 100,000 otherJoshua Jews who of the Marble the myself lives over we the live,past rather staring at 10,000 people all highly charged and world-renowned violinist, in • to Howcontemplate have I developed Boston’s Symphony Hall (for • •DoHow came streaming from every street in Jerusalem, Synagogue (today the Western I have on what I of want to achieve?

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A second was the requirement to pay all staff. A third was to ensure that hospital staff viewed the hospital as a centre to heal both the wounds of the On one occasion, having been offered new boots body and the pain of the soul. Laniado Hospital

by Rabbi Chaim Fachler by his Chasidim in the camp, he replied: “When all today is the only hospital in the Netanya area, a the survivors here have new boots, you can get non-profit community hospital offering its services The passage below is extracted from the United after liberation that his greatest hour came. In the some for me”. to over 250,000 people, where staff never go on Synagogue’s and Koren Publications Jerusalem’s displaced persons (D.P.) camps of Germany, rather strike and treat every individual regardless of From Exile Towards Redemption Machzor, for the than allow himself prolonged mourning for his own Though it had been the Rebbe’s wish to move to religion, race, or nationality.

The Crescendo that is Neilah modern commemorative days of the State of Israel. losses, he went about spiritually and physically the Land of Israel, he felt that in the aftermath of rehabilitating young survivors.

by Rabbi Senior to movement the War, he was (Major) needed inReuben America Livingstone and went thereLLM TheCF, Rebbe alsoJewish began aChaplain wide-scale Rabbi Chaim Fachler, formerly Director of PR at in 1947.

But his heart was always turned towards HM Armed Forces and Chaplain to AJEX to replace that which had been lost spiritually in Laniado Hospital, is the Rabbi of the SNAC In 1947, the Rebbe was still living in the Israel and in the late 1950s the Rebbe moved the war. He founded Jewish day schools and community in Netanya and Director of International Foehrenwald D.P. camp. On Erev Yom Kippur there there, founding the Kiryat Sanzmeaning community the institutions Neilah, ‘theinclosing would happen when learning. they would back to of higher He golaunched Resource Development at Mayanei Hayeshua was a knock on the door to his room. He went to coastal town of Netanya.

At the inauguration mundane life? of the gates’, is the veryhe finalrevolutionary programmes for comprehensive open it and saw a young girl standing there, with Medical Centre in Bnei Brak. said, “Many times I asked myself on whyYom I wasKippur spared tostudy of the Talmud, creating a programme chance tears in her eyes. … only I remain of my family.

Today know clearly ascalled ask G-d for Iforgiveness; Rabbi Fachler reflects on lessons about Yom Kippur in which master This‘Mifal is a Hashas’, direct parallel to students Yom Kippur, the that it happened so thatthe I could lay the foundation and the Jewish people that can be drawn from the “Rebbe, every year my father would bless me well-known piyut (poem)either 30 or 70 of folios the Talmud each month, anniversary the of giving of the second set of stone for Kiryat Sanz in that our Holy Land”. life of Rabbi Halberstam: before Yom Kippur. My father was burned alive is part of the Neilahfor Tablets. which they a written exam.

It issitmuch easier to make promises and and I have no one to bless me”. prayers says, “Find for us act righteously on the holiest day of the year. Yet After years of planning and fundraising, he also Hundreds enrolled in his girls’ schools and the Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam was born in forgiveness at this hour of the shofar reminds us that the Almighty wants to built the famous Sanz-Laniado Medical Centre in Rebbe 1905 into one of the greatest dynasties of Polish The Rebbe, who had lost all his own children, kept track of do each one’s condition, the closing of the gates”. Apart from being the see what we will ‘when wespiritual get home’.

1976, fulfilling a vow he had made when seriously listened to each Chasidim: Sanz. At the age of 22, he became invited the girl to come in and said, “My child, I will girl’s troubles and gave them culmination of our Yamim Noraim (High wounded during the Death Marches of the all moral support. In particular, he assumed Rabbi in Klausenberg, a city on the Romanian- be your father”.

Holydays) prayers, Neilah is unique among all However, when Neilah begins, we are not yet Holocaust.

Hungarian border (today Cluj, Romania), making for finding them suitable spouses. other prayers of the year. On all other days theresponsibility ready for those finalthem shofar blasts.

Neilah is our Holding his hands over her head, he blessed her him one of the youngest Rabbis of his generation.

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I knew that as commitments in order to correct these issues. If minutes later, a group of forlorn girls came to the that the lay leaders of the town were eventually activity.

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There are certain things which we are not allowed to do on Yom Kippur: 1. The adults don’t eat or drink on Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is a fast, however you kids are allowed to eat. Because Yom Kippur is considered the most special day of the year and because kids can’t fast yet, kids usually get treats on Yom Kippur. Lucky you!

2. We don’t wear leather shoes, as they are usually the most comfortable ones. Therefore, we change into non-leather shoes, such as crocs, slippers or trainers.

3. We are not allowed to shower, bath on Yom Kippur. When we do netilat yadaim in the morning, we wash our hands only until our knuckles.

4. We don’t use creams, perfumes, lotions and other skin care products on Yom Kippur.

May you all have a nice Yom Kippur and a Gmar Chatima Tova!

Besamim-Etrog Traditionally, people smell besamim to make them feel less faint whilst fasting. So why not make a few of the following craft , and hand them out to the adults in your shul. Before smelling besamim, one says a brachah and that way you can get an extra mitzva on Yom Kippur . The bracha is “Baruch Atah Hashem Elokeinu Melech Haolam Borei Minai Besamim”

You will need • An Etrog (ask your father or mother if they kept their Etrog from last year sukkot.

If not, you could purchase a cheap(er) Etrog or use a lemon or Styrofoam ball.

• A pencil • Cloves

Method 1. Take the Etrog and prick holes with the pencil. Make sure you don’t go to deep, try to make the whole as deep as the size of the clove. You can do a pattern in the whole-pricking, to make it even more beautiful!

2. Take the cloves and fill up each hole that you pricked with one clove. Make sure they sit securely.

3. Ready is your own Besamim-Etrog! You can take it to shul and/or leave it at home to be used for havdalah after Yom Kippur and Shabbat.

4. To keep the Basamim-Etrog good for a good few weeks (and even months), squeeze it every few days for the first weeks, to make sure that the cloves stay in tight.

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Matching Game Can you match the descriptions (on the left) to the answers (on the right)?

1. Yom Kippur is the tenth and final day of

A. Shofar

2. Erev Yom Kippur is the day before 3.Yom Kippur is mentioned in the Torah as 4. The prayer services of Yom Kippur 5. The haftarah we read on Yom Kippur, is from the book of 6. The month in which Yom Kippur falls 7. The English name for Yom Kippur

B. Yonah C. Tishrei D. The Day of Atonement E. Yom Kippur

F. The Ten Days of Repentance.

G. Ma’ariv, Shacharit, Mussaf, Minchah, Ne’ilah.

8. The Jewish horn that H. Yom HaKippurim is blown at the end of Yom Kippur (and on Rosh Hashanah)

Answers:

1 & F, 2 & E, 3 & H, 4 & G, 5 & B, 6 & C, 7 & D, 8 & A

This Shabbat is a very unusual one, it is Yom Kippur and your father is not going to be saying Kiddush like usual!

Yom Kippur, in English is known as “The Day of Atonement”. It is the day that Hashem looks at each person, how he did last year and in the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and decides what his or her coming year is going to look like. Sounds a bit scary, no? Don’t worry, children’s prayers are extremely powerful and the gates of Heaven are open on Yom Kippur, so don’t miss your chance to pray! Take this opportunity to really think about how you behaved and what you did last year and to think of ways to be a bit better next year.

The adults (and some kids too!) stand in shul for a big part of the day to ask for forgiveness from Hashem and to pray for a good year. It is a serious day, but not a sad day, and is also called “The Shabbat of Shabbatot”.

Because Yom Kippur is a serious and very holy and special day, there are certain things which we aren’t allowed to do, to be a bit less focussed on comfort and to help us remember what type of day it really is.

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Ingredients:

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Kreplach

FILLING: • 1 cup ground cooked beef or chicken • 1 small onion, grated • 1 teaspoon salt

Method: DOUGH: 1. In a large bowl, combine dough ingredients together.

Knead and roll out thin on a floured board. Cut into 3-inch squares or circles.

FILLING: 1. In a small bowl, mix filling ingredients well. You then take a teaspoon of filling and fill the dough-squares with the filling and fold them closed.

2. The kreplach can now be either boiled or fried, before putting them into the soup.

TO BOIL: 1. Place in boiling salted water. Cook approximately 20 minutes until the kreplach float to top.

TO SAUTE: 1. Heat oil over medium flame. Sauté boiled kreplach until golden brown on both sides.

2. You can now place your kreplach in the soup. Enjoy!

3. Enjoy!

Before Yom Kippur, we eat a nice and filling meal to start the fast. It is a custom to eat “kreplach” in this meal. Kreplach is a Yiddish name for small dumplings filled with chicken, beef or vegetables that we eat with soup. One of the reasons we eat kreplach is that just like we “hide” the filling inside the dough, our sins and the things we didn’t do well in the past year will be “hidden”. This year, you can help your mummy make them with this easy recipe!

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Yom Kippur facts

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On Yom Kippur, people we wish each other an “easy fast” or “gmar chatimah tovah”, which means: “may your judgment be sealed for a good year”.

After Yom Kippur finishes, it is a custom to do something to add to the building of the sukkah. This can be hanging up a decoration or the mezuzah in the sukkah or putting up the schach.

the end of Yom Kippur, after ne’ilah, the shofar is blown, to give us a final reminder to be good people next year.

The singular for the word Kreplech is ‘Krepl’!

One prayer that returns many times in the tefillot on Yom Kippur is the “viduy”. This prayer speaks about the wrongs we have done. This is to remind us of what we have done and to make us think: do I want to make the same mistakes next year?

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This year Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat.

Children are not required to fast but should not say kiddush before eating, however Yom Kippur should be mentioned in benching (Yaaleh Veyavoh).

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By Chaya Sandler 108 Little soldiers lined up neatly, 2 Armies ready for battle, 15 Horses ready to obey their masters, 2 Siblings playing soldiers, 15 Horses that do not divide up equally, 1 Argument that breaks out, 2 Siblings who want the other to have the horse, 1 Very impressed mother, 1,000’s Smiling angels watching.

5 Little girls playing hide and seek, 4 Wide, round eyes gazing longingly, 2 Sweet, kind eyes noticing, 3 Pairs of small hands holding each other, 6 Pitter pattering feet running to hide 7 Little girls now playing hide and seek, 1,000’s Singing angels watching.

24 Boys playing football, 1

Small boy who can’t run very fast.

2 Cheeks burning red 1 Boy who makes a decision, 18 Raised eyebrows, 2 Huge grins 0 Boys picked last because no one wants them on their team, 1,00’s Dancing angels on high.

10 Deep breaths, 3 Timid knocks 2 scuffed trainers running away, 1 Door opened, 1 Gasp, 1 Apology note, Lots Of tears, 4 Arms tightly hugging each other 1,000’s Beaming angels clapping.

12 Tears dripping sadly onto a purple dress, 9

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Sniffles, 4 Kind faces frowning, 8 Feet racing, 4 Piggy banks emptied onto beds, 150 Pennies collected, 1 Ice lolly bought, 5 New friends, 1,000’s Angels cheering.

24 Hours, 10 Days to prepare, 1 Day, where it all comes down to, 1,000,000’s Of acts of kindness and care, 1,000’s Of winking angels, 1,000’s Little children who have no idea how significant their acts are, 24 Hours

1 Favourable judgement.

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Yom Kippur In a Nutshell It is that time of the year again, Yom Kippur is a couple of days ahead. Even though we may often fail to really feel it, Yom Kippur is quite a fearful, serious, daunting time. Why? Because Yom Kippur is the day on which all our deeds from the last year are put on a scale by Hashem.

How much good did I do? How many mistakes, wrongs come on the other side of my scale? Will my scale be exactly balanced, will the good outweigh the bad or -hopefully not- the opposite?

It is written that on Yom Kippur Hashem opens three books: that of the good, that of the bad and that of the “in-betweens”.

What book will I be written in, what judgment will I get for the coming year?

We review our actions of the last year and plead Hashem for forgiveness. One of the ways in which we ask for forgiveness is by reciting the “viduy”. This is a tefillah that is being recited many times throughout the day of Yom Kippur. In this tefillah,

we express what we have done; as a community and as an individual.

In Mussaf (the prayer after Shachrit) we read about the avodah (the service) of the Kohen Gadol (the High Priest) in the Beit Hamekdash (the Temple). We read what his service was like on Yom Kippur in the Beit Hamekdash. It shows us the seriousness of the day, and it shows us that in the end, when we do proper teshuva (repentance), Hashem will forgive us.

When we get to the end of Yom Kippur, we get to the Ne’ilah-service. There is one overriding feeling for this service: the gates are closing! We get to the end of this special day and we want to grab those last hours, minutes, moments!

Yom Kippur ends with one final shofar-blast. One strong sound to show that we have confidence that Hashem has forgiven us.

Like soldiers that celebrate after winning their battle, we blow the shofar to celebrate that we made

it through Yom Kippur and are free of sin.

Yom Kippur gives us an opporunity that we shouldn’t miss.

Try to concentrate on the prayers and have an English Machzar for anything you would need to translate.

It is customary to wish everyone a ‘Gmar Chatima Tova’ which means that they should be judged and inscribed for a Happy New Year.

Wishing you all a Gmar Chatima Tova and an easy fast.

Five ways to make your fasting as easy as pie!

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EAT,EAT,BUT DON’T OVEREAT

STAY HYDRATED Drinking before a fast is essential. Your body needs a lot of fluids every day, and on a day like Yom Kippur, when you can’t drink throughout the whole day, make sure your body gets those fluids before.

By staying hydrated, you avoid getting headaches and dizzy spells on the fast day and you feel better after the fast too.

The meal before Yom Kippur is there for a reason, it fills you up and gives you energy for the day of fasting ahead.

It is good to eat a lot to prepare for the fast, however try not to overeat! Also, avoid foods that will make you thirsty or that digest quickly.

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GRAB THE GRAPES AND MUNCH ON MELON

There are certain foods that contain a lot of water and juices, which, when eaten before the fast, keep your body hydrated throughout the fast. Two such fruits are grapes and melons. Try have a couple of those before you start your fast.

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KEEP YOURSELF BUSY

One of the best ways on Yom Kippur to have a good fast is by distracting your mind and being busy. When you are in shul and are focussed on the prayer, you will see that those foodless-hours pass quicker than you think!

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SMELL THE SPICES

On Yom Kippur, it is a custom to smell some nice-smelling spices.

The reason for this is that we try to make 100 brachot (blessings) a day throughout the year, but as we will likely not reach the 100-target on Yom Kippur because we fast, we smell the spices and make a blessing over them. An added bonus to this is that smelling nice smells triggers a sense of satisfaction in your brain, and makes you feel less faint from fasting.

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News Bites PLAYMOBIL TRAFFIC CONE ‘IN MAN’S LUNG FOR 40 YEARS’

THIRD EARTHQUAKE IN A MONTH HAS HIT MEXICO Rescuers are working hard to help people after three earthquakes in Mexico in the last four weeks.

The most damage was caused by the quake last Tuesday, it was a 7.1 magnitude quake which struck about 75 miles from Mexico City, one of the busiest cities in the world.

It brought down dozens of

buildings and at least 305 people have died.

Thousands of volunteers, as well as the country’s army and police, are working hard to help the people affected. This part of the world is in an earthquake zone and is prone to disasters like this.

lost Playmobil traffic cone” he had received on his seventh birthday.

A report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said the postman told doctors he “regularly played with and even swallowed” the toy pieces during his childhood. Four months after the removal of the tiny traffic cone, the patient’s cough had almost gone and his symptoms had improved markedly, the report said.

MESSAGE IN BOTTLE TURNS UP AFTER 30 YEARS IN NETHERLANDS

SHED OF THE YEAR 2017: QUIRKY MUSHROOM TREE HOUSE TAKES TOP PRIZE They’re usually home to tools, lawn mowers and bikes but these sheds aren’t ordinary sheds!

The winner of the Shed of the Year 2017 contest has been announced and it goes too: The Mushroom House.

The Mushroom House was built for 12-year-old Elsie who’s a big fan of Harry Potter. Elsie’s dad, Ben, built it for her after she gave him £500 of her own money she had saved up to make a toadstool shaped hut.

It has a trap door and glass in the roof so she can see the stars at night.

Doctors removed a toy traffic cone from a patient’s lung - 40 years after he inhaled it by accident.

The 47-year-old man, from Preston, was referred to a respiratory clinic after having a cough for over a year.

Medics suspected the patient - a long-term smoker - had a tumour when scans showed something on his lung.

However, when they removed the mass they discovered it was the “long

There’s also a secret hiding place for sweets!

A message in a bottle thrown into the sea off the Kent coast 30 years ago has been unearthed in the Netherlands.

It was written by five-year-old Carl Marchant from Dartford and thrown from Admiralty Pier in Dover while he was fishing with his father in August 1987.

The bottle was found in sand dunes nearly 400 miles (643 km) away on the island of Terschelling last weekend.

Mr Marchant, who was tracked down by a Dutch radio presenter via BBC Radio Kent and Facebook, said he was shocked.

“I remember throwing bottles into the water but I couldn’t remember when until I actually saw

the letter,” he said.

“We used to do it every time we went fishing in a different place.”

Frank van Dijk, a radio presenter with Omroep Gelderland in Arnhem, said the bottle was discovered during a beach clean and had probably been buried for many years.

“Between the 1960s and 90s the dunes were held in place by bulldozers, so after every storm they

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Yom Kippur is soon and this makes me anxious as usually I have to sit in shul for quite a bit of time and I don’t know what to do. I find it a little boring as I am not very familiar with the prayers and don’t know what to do or think about! Can you help me out?

Anxious Shul-visitor Dear Anxious Shul-visitor, I understand that when you are still young (and sometimes even when you are older!), going to shul can seem so boring, dreadful and altogether something not to look forward to. However, you can make it a better and enjoyable experience.

Take the following: Do you like reading? Take with you a book about Yom Kippur or about Yonah, the haftarah that we read on Yom Kippur.

That way, whenever you get bored, you can read about something that is still connected to Yom Kippur.

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shovelled the sand into the dunes,” he told BBC Radio Kent.

The message from the five-yearold said he had come to Dover “with my mummy and daddy to do some fishing”.

Mr Marchant, who now lives in Faversham, said: “I’ve given up throwing letters into the sea, but I’ve got a son and I might get him to do it now.”

Secondly: one of the biggest reasons why it is hard to concentrate in shul, is that we sometimes have no idea what the prayers are about and what the people around us are saying. If you prepare a little bit, flipping through the machzor (with English translation so that you will understand!) beforehand, you prepare yourself as to what prayers are going to be said. For example: did you know that a big part of the prayers is about the Kohen Gadol (the high priest) in the Beit Hamikdash (Temple)? If you know that, then you can understand the longest part of the prayer. Knowing what is going on is the best remedy to boredom!

Being in shul can be a great experience- if you do it the right way!

I hope this helps.

Wishing you a Gmar Chatima Tova and an easy fast!

Uncle Joey

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Lights, Camera, L’chaim!

BY CHAYA SANDLER “You double checked and triple checked the doors? The bomb shelter? Do you have everything, pyja-mas, climbing rope, fire extinguishers, fire blankets, school uniform, spare socks, tents, food, rescue flares, toothbrushes, the portable ladder-“ “Esti darling Let’s just go ineverything will be fine.”

“OK.” I reluctantly got in the car. everything will be fine. Famous last words.

I should probably back up and explain here. My family is a little... well I’ll say unusual but that doesn’t really cover it. We’re the family that stands trying to look nonchalant when the octopus from the aquar-ium mutates, escapes and tries to eat the staff whilst we surreptitiously wipe the glass off Yanky’s shirt and the chemical super formula off Dovy’s hands. We’re the family that got locked inside a museum one year, camped out in the hallway and set off the fire alarm.

We’re the family that has been banned from the science museum, the park, the library and the Zoo. We’re the family that flooded the water park (all Eli wanted to do was see exactly how loose that bolt was). I once got called into the office because my brother had reanimated a miniature zombie army during his science fair. So was I a bit nervous about driving with my friend across the country to attend my the wedding of my cousin to her cousin? Yes. I sat back in the car on tenterhooks. Talia looked over at me “We’ll be fine.

Really. Just relax and enjoy the wedding.” I nodded but I was too overwrought to enjoy the ride up. Eventually I decided that this was all in Hashem’s hands

anyway and since I’d done my efforts what was I worrying about anyway?

The drive was mostly uneventful, Manchester gave us a typically rainy send off and we set off to warm London (read it was 9 degrees as opposed to 3). We managed to deal with the heavy snow fall on the way (In England that usually means about 1 inch of snow. 1 and a half inches shuts the country down and 2 inches constitutes a national crisis) and we started looking for Adas Beis Yeshurun. We drove past Adas Beis Yisrael, Adas Beis Yakov, Adas Kehilas Yeshrun, Adas Kehilas Yakov, Adas Beis Mordechai, Anshei Beis Yeshurun, Anshei Beis Yeshoroim, Adas Benei Yeshurum and Toras Kehilas Yeshurun Eventually we found the place and pulled up in the car park.

The smell of vodka hit me as I walked in.

They must really like their l’chaims. I didn’t remember Talia mentioning that Shiffy’s (my cousin) new husband (her cousin) was Russian, in fact I distinctly remember Shiffy telling me he was Israeli but all I could see were Russians. They must’ve been Russian immigrants I decided. That explained the vodka then. The thing was I couldn’t see any of my family. They must all be outside already. Then I noticed some English figures but what made them noticeable to me was the way some of them were so ambiguous I would never have noticed them but for the fact they were all trying too hard to blend in. Probably distant relations, they must feel so out of place.

I felt very sympathetic towards the poor things so I decided to do some chessed and make them feel more

comfortable. I walked over to a tall women in a black dress, the chassans family mustn’t have been too religious as I noticed many of the women had quite low necklines and high hems. Well, never mind a bit of outreach won’t do any harm.

It was then I noticed her gun. Oh great. It’s hard enough when my life is one surreal comedy but I never bargained for it becoming a thriller. I tried not to shriek, ended up yelping and scuttled off to find Talia. Peering round the bathroom door I abandoned all sense of dignity and hissed “Talia!” She came out “Is everything alright?” She asked.

“Alright! This wedding is anything but right! It’s a s fishy as.........um......gefiltah fish” Oh . G-d please, if You are going to make my life into an action movie at least give me a good script!Why does fiction make it look so easy? Coming up with a snazzy one liner in the heat of the moment is actually quite tricky. Trust me, I’ve had many crazy moments in surreal situations and gefiltah fish is probably one of my best lines. Which says a lot.

Fortunately before we had to come up with a plan of action to save the day, which to be honest would probably have just got us all killed, the day sort of imploded.

All at once there were shots going over our heads and the Russians were shouting lots of fiendishly sounding threats. “You’ll never take I0X39!” “We will destroy you!” And “You’ll never get out of here alive, Mwahahahah!!” (How on earth they say that with a straight face I’ll never know) The British (who turned out to be MI5 agents) were shouting back snazzy one liners( it’s much easier when you’re a spy. You

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probably get training for it) and generally looking cool whilst performing som-ersaults and back-flips,not for any apparent purpose since they could’ve just walked across the room but I suppose it makes for a more dramatic retell ( Then I vaulted over the table, flipped off the wall and engaged Von Barenshloffengheiser in hand to hand combat, sounds much better then- I walked across the room and hit him).

Talia and I decided this was probably an opportune time for some introspection. Under a table. In the corner. Talia whipped out her phone and called 999 whilst I just prayed, my heart pounding.

“Al right everyone Cut! Let’s take it from the top again but this time with feeling people.”

Under the table Talia and I looked at each other, got up and sneaked off with as much dignity as we could muster feeling just a bit confused. That was until we realised that Adas Beis Yeshurun was on the other side of the car park. This side was a movie set.

“At least we can say we’ve been to a Russian mob wedding” Talia ginned at me.

“Just try explaining that to Aunt Shiffy!”

We sprinted across the car park (and double checked the sign this time) and just made it in time for the chupah. As Shiffy walked to the chupah to the strains of Ashet Chayil, there came the wail of a siren. A police siren. Talia and I looked at each other-oops!

The point of this story was just to show that sometimes things seem very clear cut. She was wrong, he’s so mean, they hate me. But really, we have no idea what’s going on beneath the surface, and for all you know, you may just be the one in the wrong place. Have a great Yom Kippur!

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W oman of W orth Deborah Markham has worked for the Carers Trust EHHR for around 16 years. The Carers Trust (formerly known as Crossroads) is a charity which supports unpaid carers, usually family members or friends, who are looking after those who are ill, frail, disabled or have life-limiting and long-term conditions. Carers Trust is a UK wide charity, which allows carers to get practical help, caresupport, information and homebased respite. Deborah worked in retail for many years, and used to volunteer for Norwood, but when she had her 3rd child, she decided she wanted to do something different, more meaningful, and she saw an advert for a role at The Carers Trust. “When I started working for Carers Trust, I felt like I really found my niche. Something that I really enjoyed”, she told the Jewish Weekly.

Through Carers Trust EHHR, Deborah is involved in the Homeshare Scheme, where she hosts people with dementia at her home in Essex, to enable their carers to have some time to themselves, which is essential.

“Being able to help carers to have a bit of a break to catch up on other parts of their lives, whether it is attending appointments, seeing friends or even just having a rest is very important. Many people don’t fully appreciate the strain in looking after a family member with dementia, and I am happy to be able to help ease the pressures often experienced by family carers, in some way”.

Members can attend up to 4 days a week from 10am to 3pm at her house in South Woodford, and in that time they are able to read books and newspapers, chat with other members, play games or even dance or listen to music from their youth. “I think that being in a family home environment makes them feel comfortable, and many of them have been attending for many years, so I have learnt a lot about them, and am able to tailor their time and what they require based on their individual needs”.

Often with dementia, people’s behaviour can be unpredictable and changeable, and through her ongoing training Deborah

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has learnt how to deal with this. All staff who work for Carers Trust are fully trained and experienced in dealing with all forms of dementia and the issues and complexities which may arise from members due to their condition. “I have always had a great respect for the older generation,” she explains “and feel humbled by that generation and what they have been through.

I think how I would want my parents to be treated, and it is important to treat them with kindness and respect”.

Once a week, with the help of another Carers Trust team member, she takes a group out to take part in activities such as bowling, or attending museums and exhibitions, which they really enjoy. Part of the service she offers involves picking up the clients from where they live (usually with relatives or partners) and then returning them home at the end of the day.

Her enhanced care training also means she is able to help those with higher care needs who may need medication and help with personal care.

She also offers support and

information to relatives to make them aware of other services and organisations that can help them, and their family deal with their situation. “Often they just need a listening ear. It can sometimes be very difficult and stressful caring for loved ones, and sometimes just being able to talk to someone is all they need”.

Deborah really enjoys being able to offer some sort of practical help as well as advice to people through her job, and her husband and children also enjoy welcoming people into their home in this way. Deborah explains, “I feel that it is not only a very rewarding job, but in my opinion, it is also an essential one. I feel really blessed and privileged to do this work. It is the best job in the world”.

Kathy Verges, CEO of Carers Deborah Markham Trust EHHR commented, “Debbie is a wonderful warm are an extremely professional great as a team to ensure the and and kind lady who goes team who are passionate about clients’ needs are at the heart of out of her way to ensure her the service they offer and work the service given”. carers and client’s receive an amazing experience within the If you would like to nominate a ‘Woman Of Homeshare service. She has an Worth’ to be featured on this page then please infectious happy personality and I am proud to have her as a email micaela@thejewishweekly.com colleague. The Homeshare staff

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TSIPPY KRAUS – THE SWISS METHOD – ANTENATAL EDUCATION Tsippy Kraus was living in Israel when she became pregnant for the first time with twins. When she started researching about pregnancy and childbirth, she discovered the concept of the Swiss Method.

The Swiss Method is a technique that was established around 35 years ago, by Esther Marilus who has worked closely with doctors in Switzerland to develop this technique which is now taught in the U.S.A., Israel and throughout Europe. Using breathing techniques, positions and exercises, it helps women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth, which is why it has become such a popular method worldwide. When Tsippy moved to London whilst still pregnant she had some issues and complications which lead to her to having a C-section and spending a month in hospital whilst her babies were in the Special Care Unit. After this stressful experience, she felt very alone and vulnerable, and promised herself that once she had recovered, she wanted to help other women so that they did not go through the same anxieties. Her second pregnancy resulted in her having an unplanned epidural, and after this experience, she contacted Esther Marilus directly to learn more about ‘The Swiss Method’. Tsippy studied under Esther Marilus and she was able learn the techniques herself, and gain a better understanding of pregnancy, labour and birth. By gaining information about ‘The Swiss Method’ she was able to put this into practice with her next pregnancy, which was a water birth and a much more relaxed experience, as well as develop her own business

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based on these teachings.

Tsippy has now been teaching ‘The Swiss Method’ for seven years developing her course through additional training in Spinning Babies, a programme to assist in optimum foetal positioning, Rebozo a method to help the pelvis align the baby using a tightly woven scarf, and Acupressure which uses different pressure points around the body for calmness, relieve sickness and alleviate pain. She is able to use her own personal experiences as well as her training to help pregnant women to feel empowered to make their own decisions, and feel safe and understood at this vulnerable time. “Birth is such a unique experience and so different for each woman. My goal is to empower woman through knowledge and relaxation skills to enable a positive experience.’’

She works closely with the ‘Labour Coach’ group, as well as midwives in various hospitals, private doulas and postnatal support groups, and has created her own unique antenatal course. Tsippy runs the course for groups of between 3 and 6 women. The courses run over six weeks, offering help, advice and support of all aspects of pregnancy and childbirth, including an additional session with a trained breastfeeding coach who can give advice and information on this subject. An extra private

session for couples to attend is also available. These courses, which she runs from her home in Golders Green, can be held either during the day or evening depending on the needs of the group. She is also able to offer Skype courses for those who are housebound or too far to attend, and offers private one-to-one sessions for those wanting private courses or to help with optimal foetal positioning which is used when a baby is breech or in suspected posterior lie.

Between sessions, Tsippy speaks to her clients often, and she is always happy to hear from them.

There is a WhatsApp group which allows everyone on the course to communicate with each other and share their concerns and thoughts. ”By being part of a group, it allows women to feel that there are others going through similar experiences, and this makes them feel less alone.

Tsippy not only works with women and couples having their first child, but often those having additional children who may also need support and advice. “Sometimes women have a very traumatic experience during their first pregnancy, which they don’t want to repeat. I am able to give them the tools to be able to improve on this experience in the future”.

Through teaching women about the choices they will be offered in hospital and the physiology of labour and birth, as well as essential breathing techniques, exercises and positions, Tsippy believes that the Swiss Method allows women the chance to be able to make an informed decision on their own

labour. “A woman recently contacted me to say that she had been in labour for 12 hours and ended up having a caesarean. Although that was not what she had planned, she was at peace with the outcome.

We had gone through a similar scenario in the course and she recognised that although this was not her first choice it was ultimately for the safety of the baby. Having heard this all beforehand avoided her panicking and wondering whether it was really necessary”.

As well as running courses, she also works as a doula for women and couples, offering support and advice throughout labour.

For anyone looking to set up their own business in this area, Tsippy believes that it is important to have an active interest in the medical world and have a good understanding of the techniques and treatments available in relation to pregnancy and childbirth. It is also important to be empathetic and caring towards the women or couples that you are instructing. “It can be a scary time for some women, and you really need to be able to be there for them when they need it, and be able to offer them advice and help”.

Tsippy is of the opinion that when it comes to offering help and advice to pregnant women, on an emotional level it is very important to have no expectations regarding labour or childbirth, as this can sometimes lead to disappointment or resentment when things don’t work out, and from a more practical level to help minimise back pain, support the stomach muscles and allow the baby to obtain optimum position, investing in a good belly band or pelvic girdle can

be extremely beneficial throughout pregnancy.

She really enjoys being able to do a job which can potentially allow women to have the most positive childbirth experience possible.

Through Tsippy’s own past negative experiences, she has managed to overcome this to offer support, care and understanding to others.

“Teaching women something new to help their childbirth experience become more special, and to feel empowered to make the choices that are right for them is really important to me. I love being able to do the job I do and feel really blessed that I have found something that helps others in this way”.

Tsippy will be starting her next course in October, and would like to offer Jewish Weekly readers the following offer – 15%. If you are interested in finding out more about her courses, or the Swiss Method, please contact her on 0208 731 7130 or 07530 758 887. Email tsippy@theswissmethod.co.uk or visit her website www.theswissmethod.co.uk Do you know anyone who specialises in an area of female expertise and would like to be featured on this page? Let us know by emailing micaela@thejewishweekly.com

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Building a succah can be tricky, but often the most difficult bit can be finding ways to decorate it. Here are some handy suggestions that the whole family could get involved in making: •

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Fruit – hanging garlands of seasonal fruit and vegetable can look attractive, but make sure you choose something that won’t perish too quickly, so that they last for the whole of Succos.

Leaves and foliage – you can thread these together or even use them to make pretty pictures.

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Treats - Hang treats from the top, and when your children are behaving let them take one down and enjoy!

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Paper chains – these are easy to make using either coloured paper, wrapping paper, newspaper, or even old magazines.

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Pantry pictures – make interesting pictures using dried pasta, lentils or beans, all of which are probably hiding in the back of your cupboards.

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48 WOMEN

BY MICAELA BLITZ This time of year is always pretty stressful, with the kids going back to school, the Yomim Tovim, and generally realising that the year is disappearing before my eyes, but this year was also the first year without my beloved father, and today would have been his birthday. After 14 months without him, I was still finding it pretty difficult to be honest. As the youngest, and the only girl in a family of 5 children, I was always a ‘daddy’s girl’. We shared the same silly sense of humour, and could make each other cry with laughter over the stupidest things, whilst my mother and brothers looked on in confusion, thinking we were both crazy!

Mum and dad had been together for 50 years. They met through a mutual friend at a wedding party when they were both in their 20’s.

Mum always joked that Dad had fancied himself as a bit of a comedian even then, and had bombarded her with jokes all evening, some of which were pretty corny, but funny just the same. She always said she had gone home from that wedding with an aching mouth from laughing and smiling all evening. That was his way. He always liked to make people laugh, and make light of a situation, never taking anything too seriously. Unfortunately,

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Let it rain including his health.

My mother was and always has been into keeping fit – she ran, she swam, she even yoga’d when she could. Dad on the other hand always said he was too busy with work, his family, the house, to think about himself. He loved his food, especially anything cooked by my mother, and he was partial to a whisky or two on Shabbat or at a simcha, and was never the kind of person to go and see a doctor unless his arm was hanging off!

The phone rings.

It is my mother, she sounds tired.

“Dana, how is it all going?”

“Not bad mum, how are you feeling?”

“Oh you know. Feeling a little bit lost really today. I would normally be preparing for Yom Tov, with your father buzzing around me offering to ‘test’ the food, when actually all he wanted to do is nosh everything!! ” “I know how you feel, but daddy would not want us to be sad on his birthday”.

As I try and encourage mum to be more positive, I hear my youngest son, shouting to my husband outside the window, “Dad, are you sure that you should be hammering that bi….” but before he can finish the sentence the wooden frame of our succah falls to the ground in a

heap as my husband looks on from the top of the stepladder, hammer in one hand and a redundant nail in the other. He looks just about ready to give up completely, grits his teeth, and comes down the ladder.

Poor guy, my husband, Mayer, is many things but a builder, he ain’t.

The fact that it was pelting down with rain - almost enough for Jonah’s whale to swim in - probably wasn’t helping the situation, but he had been determined to get it done today, so I didn’t argue. “Oh daaaadddd, this is taking forever” Sara exclaimed standing at the bottom of the ladder in her waterproof coat and pink wellies.

“Mum, I think I have to go… succah crisis!”

I click the kettle on to make Mayer a nice cup of tea. He looked like he could use it.

That’s what you do isn’t it, in a time of need, make tea? I can’t tell you how many cups of tea my mother and I had drunk as we sat in the hospital waiting room for the doctor’s to come and tell us any news on dad. He had been fine the few days before he had died, when I had seen him, ‘Full of beans’ as he would say. ‘More like jumping beans’ my mother would add, as he always had so much energy and would never sit down. I thought about him lying in bed with tubes, wires and monitors around him, my poor mother’s pale faced looking at

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the man she had known and loved since for most of her life, helplessly in front of her.

I watched as Mayer pulls his hood tighter around his head and tries to work out what to do next.

I had to admit this year everything seemed to be more tricky. Even building the succah, probably because dad used to help Mayer out.

I knew what mum had meant about not even being bothered, but I had found that cooking and baking was a good way to distract myself, and keep my mind of thinking about my dad.

I had been cooking up a storm (maybe not the right use of words given the weather) and had made enough to feed a small army, rather than a family of 5, plus my mother. Mayer tended to befriend people and invite them over.

So this time of year, guests often turned up at our table without much warning over Yom Tov. Not that I minded, it was all part of the fun, and obviously a mitzvah too, so a win-win, but I had to be one step ahead so that no one went hungry, no matter who they were!!

As I watch my children valiantly trying to help Mayer put the succah up for the third time, and remember how I used to help my father with the succah every year. When I was

younger, I would draw pictures, make decorations to hang from the ceiling, and my father would always lift me up so that I could attach fruit and things to the sechach.

When all the lights were set and in place, he would always do a count down, and then let me turn on the lights. Seeing all the lights twinkling inside, with all the decorations and pictures on the wall, was one of the best moments of the year for me.

The rain had continued all afternoon, but Mayer was determined, and finally by around 5 o’clock he had completed his task. The children had got fed up of the constant rain a while ago, but he had stayed out there and worked to get it done.

“Kids, come and see what daddy has done”, I shouted out.

As we all went out to see Mayer’s hard work, the rain continued to shower upon us. I looked up into the sky and remembered one of my dad’s favourite silly jokes.

“When does it rain money? When there is ‘change’ in the weather!”

As I looked at my husband and children I felt calm, happy and at peace. As a wise man once said “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

Happy Birthday Dad! Your memory will forever live on.

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Hot or Cold

BY ALAN FREISHTAT It was week-four of Donny’s weight loss program. He started out great!

He had made enough changes in his eating to already make a big difference. His biggest challenge in terms of over-eating was Shabbat, and he had finally conquered that challenge. For the first time in his adult life he was exercising and not only was his weight dropping, but he felt good and had more energy too. But when he walked into my office last time, I noticed right away that he had a noticeable limp and was in pain. He sat down and told me that he hopes the scale still went down this week because he hadn’t exercised for the last three days. I asked him what happened and he told me that at the end of his walk that Monday morning he wasn’t paying attention and didn’t see a pothole on the pavement. He hit the side of the hole and his ankle bent to the side. It was still somewhat swollen although he did tell

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me that the pain was much less four days later. I asked Donny what he had done to treat his injury and he just shrugged his shoulders and told me he is just living with it, limping along and not doing his exercise assignment. He also mentioned he had put a heating pad on it the second day for about ten minutes.

Here are Donny’s mistakes. He started off great and

now he is letting an injury interfere with his successes more than is necessary. His first mistake was not getting in contact with me immediately after he twisted and sprained his ankle. Was applying heat to the injury the right way to go?

Injuries are almost inevitable if you have been an exerciser for a long time. Mostly, they are minor soft tissue injuries or overuse injuries in your joints. Although

annoying and something that can put you out of action for a short time, most of the time they can be treated easily, without pronounced medical intervention. Obviously if you have reason to believe your injury is serious, you should seek medical care.

When one gets an injury, the first thing to do is to implement the RICE protocol. RICE stands for Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation. RICE can relieve pain, limit swelling and protect injured tissue - all of which help speed the healing process.

Healing occurs as damaged tissue is replaced by collagen, known as scar tissue. When scar tissue completes its repair to the injured area, one can go back to a full workout. Let’s take a closer look at how to implement the RICE procedure.

Rest: Rest is an integral part of the injury rehabilitation process for two reasons. First, rest protects the injured muscle, tendon, ligament or other soft tissue from further injury. Second, a rested limb has the energy necessary to heal itself most effectively.

Ice: Use ice packs, bags of ice, or bags of frozen vegetables wrapped in a thin towel. Make sure the towel isn’t too thick so the treatment will be the more effective.

Cold brings shortterm pain relief and reduces swelling by constricting the blood vessels and in turn, blood-flow, into the area. NEVER LEAVE ICE ON AN INJURY FOR MORE THAN 20 MINUTES. Longterm exposure to cold can cause damage to your skin. The best rule is to ice 15 minutes, remove for 1520 minutes, and then repeat the treatment.

Following treatment, vasodilatation occurs - meaning, the blood vessels expand and bring much-needed nutrients to the area.

Compression: Compression is another way to curb

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swelling. This is important, as swelling impedes the healing process. Compression also reduces pain in some cases. The best way to compress an injury is to wrap it with an ace bandage. I advise wrapping an ice pack under the bandage when the injury first occurs. If you feel throbbing, rewrap the area with slightly less tension on the ace bandage.

Elevation: Elevating the injury is an additional way to bring down swelling. Keep the elevation at the same level as your heart.

After 48 hours, you should feel relief from your injury, and both the swelling and pain should be reduced. In other words, the healing process has begun. If not, see your physician or even go to the emergency room if you deem it necessary. Once the swelling has subsided, try to gently stretch the area and slowly work the range of motion in the joint.

The Heat or Ice Debate Both using heat and ice to treat an injury or muscle soreness can have positive effects, and is always better than no treatment at all. What does each treatment do and which of them should we use when? 20 minutes of cold therapy immediately after an injury is what is recommended. It signals the skin receptors to activate the sympathetic nervous system to constrict blood vessels. That in turn will reduce swelling and inflammation. You can use ice packs for immersion in cold water. The cooling effect also helps to minimize muscle spasms and pain.

If one places a hot pack on the injury, it increases the temperature of the soft tissue around the injury and therefore boosts blood flow, dilates the local blood vessels, and keeps those muscles more elastic, which will also reduce muscle spasm.

By increasing blood flow in this manner, you help clear metabolic waste products like carbon dioxide from the area, helping to speed up healing.

But there is a third alternative and that is alternating heat and ice. Research says this method reduces injury in the first acute stages. It causes your blood vessels to expand (dilate) and then with the ice constrict them. This stimulates blood flow throughout the area. It seems to activate multiple recuperative and physiological mechanisms that enhance recovery (Cochrane 2004). When doing the alternating between the two, use heat first and ice second. You should use the heat for 4 minutes and one minute of ice and do that for 20-25 minutes.

Alan Freishtat is an A.C.E. certified personal trainer and a behavioural change and wellness coach with over 19 years of professional experience. Alan is the creator and director of the “10 Weeks to Health” programme for weight loss and is available for private coaching sessions, consultations, assessments and personalised workout programmes both in his office and by telephone or Skype. Alan also lectures and gives seminars and workshops.

Contact Alan on 02-651-8502 or 050-555-7175, or email alan@alanfitness.com.

For more information visit www.alanfitness.com

Nothing isn’t an Option Unfortunately, many times when someone sustains an injury, they opt out of exercise altogether.

Sometimes my clients call me and tell me their doctor said “no exercise for a week or so”. The thing is this: if you twist an ankle or injure a hand or wrist, why punish your heart and lungs by not doing an aerobic exercise? Be creative and try a bike or elliptical or swimming until the injury fully heals. Many years ago, I severely sprained my foot and ankle and could barely walk, let alone do the running I was used to at that time. But I still lifted weights, worked my abs and used an exercise bike instead. There is almost always a work around when it comes to doing exercise.

Injuries come with the territory, but Donny managed to find alternatives until his ankle injury healed.

His weight loss is continuing even though it is at a slightly slower pace. He now knows that being proactive and using ice and heat can help repair an injury faster. In addition, next week he will be able to start some basic strengthening for that area and we hope it is only another few days until he is back on his feet. Treating an injury properly and finding ways to exercise creatively will “add hours to your day, days to your year, and years to your life.”

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DJERBA El-Griba Synagogue ‘Nothing quiet like it’

By MARCEL MANSON Tel: 020 8954 5074 www.jewishheritagetours.co.uk A Division of West End Travel Email: marcel.manson@westendtravel.co.uk

CONTINUING HIS FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN, MARCEL MANSON OF JEWISH HERITAGE TOURS AND WEST END TRAVEL, TAKES US ON A TOUR OF MORROCO. If you are like me who find the the Sephardic culture both exotic and intoxicating then I have no hesitation in putting the El -Griba Synagogue in Djerba Tunisia as the No 1 Jewish site I have ever seen outside of course of our holy city of Jerusalem My first experience was an invite from the Tunisian government soon after the Arab Spring in Tunisia where the Arab Spring had started.

The Tourism minister welcomed about 85 of us, a mix of travel people, journalists and MP’s to a 3 day tour of the Island off Tunisia called Djerba. We were treated royally of course, but the trip highlight was smack in the centre of the Island , the El-Griba Synagogue protected like Fort Knox by what appeared to be half the Tunisian army. People were praying wearing Fez headgear, but this wasn’t the only Shul - the island still has a religious community operating 11 other Synagogues, Jewish schools, plus kosher shops and facilities.

According to legend, the construction of the synagogue goes back to the High Priests‘ escape following the destruction of Solomon‘s Temple by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II. in the year 586 BCE. The High Priests carried with them a door and a stone of the destroyed Temple‘s altar. Nowadays, visitors can find a stone embedded in one of the synagogue‘s vaults, which is said to be

the original stone from Jerusalem.

The significance and holiness of the synagogue are also explained by other traditions. In one of them, the synagogue has been built in the first half of the 19th century at a spot where, previously, a young, foreign girl (ghriba) had lived, that had not been accepted by the inhabitants of the island. Since she was supposed to have died in a fire that had burnt her cottage but not her body, the Jews of Djerba thought her to be holy and decided to build a synagogue at the said place. In a different version, the girl is a Jewish refugee that fled Jerusalem with a Torah and a stone from the Temple. Upon arriving on Djerba, she died from exhaustion and the synagogue was built at the place of her death.

Tunisia’s southern island of Djerba is known for drawing tourists to its whitewashed buildings, sandy beaches rimmed with turquoise water, and colourful souks. But it’s also notable as a bastion of coexistence. The small island is the home of the last Tunisian Jews, with one of the largest and most vibrant Jewish populations in the Arab world – and the oldest The Jewish population is centred on two enclaves on the inland section of the island: Hara Kebira and Hara Sghira, in the town of Erriadh.

The many small synagogues are tucked away in its curving streets, a quiet reminder of the island’s Jewish heritage. Ghriba Synagogue, however, is emphatically the opposite, unhidden and splendid.

Founded in 586 BC, contemporaneous with the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem, the synagogue speaks to the 2000-year history of Jews in Tunisia. The Jewish population of the island – and of Tunisia as a whole – has diminished significantly in the last 70 years, with many leaving for France and Israel.

Every spring, Jew’s from around

A beautiful sunset in Djerba

the world arrive on the island to celebrate Lag Ba’omer Despite terror attacks in mainland Tunisia in 2015, and the Israeli government’s warnings to its citizens to stay away, the Ghriba pilgrimage remains an opportunity for Tunisian Jews to reconnect with their homeland. Perhaps that’s why the annual event quickly starts to feel like a giant family reunion.

The soft murmur of French, Arabic, and Hebrew fills the smaller chamber of the synagogue as women write messages on hard-boiled eggs: wishes for marriages, children and luck. Women tuck the eggs and their messages in a candle-lit crawlspace in the heart of the synagogue.

Under blue tiled arches, people say prayers and light thick white candles in long metal rows, while a visiting pilgrim leads a performance of traditional songs with the mingling crowd.

Not only Jews attend the festival.

There are Muslims too, sometimes noticeable by the way they tie their headscarves, sometimes blending in with the other revellers. Locals and visitors from other parts of the country partake in the festivities and rituals, lighting candles and singing along.

Everyone is welcomed; the refrain that’s constantly heard among the non-Jewish visitors is that they

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are all Tunisian, and everyone can enjoy the pilgrimage.

Out back and away from the noise of the band, men grill chicken and beef on wooden spits, and people sit together drinking beer. As the day draws to a close and Shabbat, the holy day of rest, draws near, the smell of fresh rain and the sound of security helicopters circling overhead accompany drumbeats as the pilgrims join a procession out of Ghriba Synagogue.

After Shabbat finishes on Saturday night, people return to Ghriba to light Havdala candles and chant prayers, to take selfies and chat: to celebrate the synagogue and the fact of their togetherness. While many of the tourists depart for a dinner party at the island’s one casino, the locals stay behind for one of the Lag B’Omer holiday’s main rituals: the first haircut of a threeyear-old boy.

People eat merguez sausages on sticks and make boozy toasts.

Woman sit on one end of the long picnic tables and men on the other, but the groups mingle and children run back and forth. This religious ritual resembles a big family barbecue.

By the last day of the festival, the pilgrimage completely takes on a party vibe as everyone starts to recognise each other. Inside the synagogue, two Tunisian Muslim

girls in headscarves write wishes in Arabic on their hard boiled eggs.

It’s not their tradition, but it doesn’t matter.

In Djerba, everyone’s eggs sit side by side in the heart of synagogue. As Amal in Houmt Souk put it: “The most important thing for us is to be human.” The Djerba Lag B’Omer experience is clearly something that should not be missed.

I would dearly love to take a group to Djerba so if you are interested in joining such a tour please contact me.

Inside Wl-Griba Synagogue

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Crystal Serenity. A cruising special.

Maturity at its best.

Our travel guru Malcolm Ginsberg takes a trip on a six-star ship.

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Why do people go cruising? There are many alternative ways of taking a holiday. For me the answer is simple.

One visits places not always easily available by air travel and it is all-inclusive with plenty of activities to keep one occupied (or not) throughout the holiday. If you just want to sit in the sun all day and read (between eating) that is no problem providing you choose the right ship. If the weather is inclement most have plenty of lounge space.

It is terrific value too. Where else can you get full board and lodgings plus entertainment for £100 a day.

From Dover, Southampton and Tilbury there is no need to fly and most operators offer coach travel whereby you load your cases into the transport and will not see it until when on board.

The ‘Six-Star’ Crystal Serenity is much more than £100 per day but still

Two of the magnificent ships

inexpensive when compared to The Ritz or any other top grade hotel. For those requiring Kosher it needs to be booked in advance and the maître d’ will be only too happy to introduce you to the chef de cuisine who will explain the very strict vegetarian arrangements. If you are concerned with the stateroom electric door arrangements this can be accommodated and from time to time kosher cruises are operated for parties up to 100 with a shomer on board, a rabbi and a series of special talks. The whole group dines in a private area off the main dining room.

Crystal Serenity itself is rather like a bottle of fine wine. It may be now 14 years old but it has matured (after all it is French built) and epitomises all that is best in cruising. Coming in at 68,000 tonnes, just 1,000 passengers, and 650 crew it is as perfect a cruise ship as you can wish for (and of course the winner of all the various awards).

This ‘super yacht’, all 60,000 tons of her, boasts an emergency helipad, mini-hospital, casino and extensive spa and the finest of eateries.

The dining leaves most London top grade restaurants far behind and the show time entertainment on Serenity is worthy of anything at Las Vegas, New York or the West End. This is where Crystal leaves behind other top luxury operators with smaller ships who just do not have the capacity to put on the most

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outstanding of shows Three sets of lifts means there is no waiting if exercise is not for you, and unlike larger ships the accommodation is spread over only four decks. Getting to where you want to be is very easy.

No cruise ship is going to completely cover for every demand, and the market is very international, but Crystal Serenity is as near perfect as you can get. On a recent voyage about one-third of passengers came from the USA, with Japan (10%), followed by the UK and then Canada.

What is the secret of Crystal’s success?

Nothing is too much trouble, the rule of the ship being the first crew member asked a question by a passenger has to deal with it and make sure there is a positive result. This can even be the Captain.

There is no tipping and for the most part drinks are free. Likewise the speciality feasting, wi-fi and port transport.

The whole operation is extremely smooth and hassle free. Cruises should be as stress less as possible.

One wants a truly relaxing holiday.

Dealing with extras and signing for every additional item can be a nuisance. Even getting on board is very easy. Luggage is collected at the port reception, emigration is quickly passed through, as is security (and the essential anti-virus spray) and you are on board with a glass of Champagne in hand. Here the check-in is completed (most has already been done online – either personally or by the travel agent) by specially trained ship’s staff who know the product, and can quickly deal with any problems.

Unlike major international hotels (particularly in London) where staff are recruited on a short term basis, Crystal personnel come on a 12-month contract, are keen for re-engagement, and never bothered about the length of

their shift.

I had not been on Serenity since January 2011 when it set new standards for a seagoing holiday. For this trip Lisbon was our departure port, a favourite Continental city with plenty of flights from the UK, and from the beginning of November out of London City Airport too. The new cruise terminal is very much in the centre, the Jewish Walking Tour takes you nearby and there is a lively community and active Shul. Lisbon is still cheap by UK standards, Portugal is in the same time zone as Britain, and the English are very welcome.

The cruise to Monaco offered three sea days and an opportunity for quick visits to Madeira, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Lanzarote, Malaga and finally Monaco where there was an opportunity to stay on for a land-based further holiday.

Crystal Serenity berthed very neatly at the Terminal Croisière, Quai Rainer III, Monaco, at the end of an absolutely fantastic nine-night voyage. Blue skies and smooth seas all the way.

There cannot be many who can claim to have docked in the largest ship at the harbour of Monte Carlo, bigger than Azzam (590ft) owned by Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyanlarger, president of the UAE, much larger than Roman Abramovich’s Eclipse (530ft), and towering over all the British Sunseeker Plymouth-built luxury yachts huddling around the waterfront. It is a short walk from the dockside to the centre of the Principality.

Crystal Serenity stayed the night and we reluctantly disembarked the following morning.

For 2018 Serenity is back in Europe offering a programme from April to October with sister ship Symphony completing a World Cruise west to east across the Pacific and through the Panama Canal for a Caribbean summer stay. https://www.crystalcruises. com

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It’s a funny old world

COMEDY BY ED MOSS

I had an email in recently from a company trying to sell me their services. They made two basic mistakes that put me off straight away.

Firstly, the email was sent at 3.44am on a Sunday morning, indicating to me that their worry and concern about my business welfare, as indicated by the help they were offering to sell me, was somewhat, if not, altogether false.

No one writes a prospecting letter at 3.44am on a Sunday morning, irrespective of how badly they might sleep. Especially when their clients include those as featured in the secondary scare-off as below.

Yes, secondly, they proudly boasted that they worked for many of the “UK's prominent brands”, quoting the likes of MoneyGram, Soft and Gentle, Papa John’s Pizza, Cafe Rouge, Fisherman’s Friend, Visit London and Superdrug. All brands whose management are fast asleep at 3.44am on a Sunday morning. Now, I am as far away from being a UK prominent brand as the majority of X-Factor finalists are far away from talent.

And surely this prospector must realise that the first thought of a one-man-and-his-dog operation such as myself would be “I can’t afford the budget that the likes of

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MoneyGram, Fisherman’s Friend or Visit London must have”.

He wrote back saying I was the very first person to mention the above two factors. I then wrote back to correct him by saying I was the first person to mention the above two factors because I had taken the time to write back to him. I further suggested that many would have similarly been put off but wouldn’t have bothered to actually write back themselves, hence the reason no one might have mentioned it to him before now.

He further replied with an “Ahhh! I see what you mean” type of email.

Next.

I had a spat with the TV Licencing people recently. I really object to having to statutorily pay for a service I don’t particularly feel I’m getting, in particular, middle-eastern news that is blatantly one-sided, edited and read by partisan reporters, who never tell the full story and do nothing but encourage hate and ill-feeling amongst the “ignorati” towards the Israel I love.

TV Licencing replied that “I (they) should explain that when you buy a TV Licence, you’re paying for a legal permission to install or use television receiving equipment until the licence expires.

A licence is needed to watch any broadcasted television programme service. This applies even if the channels you watch aren't BBC channels.”

That made me see red. You could have waved the Lotto chief executive’s monthly pay slip in front of me and I wouldn’t have seen such a deep colour red! Even telling me Diane Abbott had been appointed the new Mathematics Tsar wouldn’t have caused such a rise in blood pressure as this response did. (By the way, before you ask, the CEO of Lotto gets about £175k gross pay, pension and bonus each month. One guaranteed Lottery winner a month, eh? Yes, we know who that is).

So, as the perennially grumpy old man, I wrote back once again as follows: “I do not understand why there is the need to pay for a licence to watch channels you do not yourselves fund! Also, if, when I get home to find my recently-purchased litre of milk is sour, I take it back to Sainsbury's (having bought it from them and paid them for it).

I don’t take it back to Arla Dairies in Leeds who produced it.

“Surely, under consumer law or even the Sales of Goods Act (1979 c54) there has to be a clause where an organisation taking money for a good or service that is not being

satisfactorily provided or received has to shoulder some of the responsibility for that lack of service, be it by financial redress or by doing something about improving the service, especially when in TV Licencing's case, there is a compulsory payment requirement!

“Having to, by law, pay for a service one is not getting is morally reprehensible and should be unacceptable in today's society.”

Not that it will make one iota of difference. But I did at least get it off my chest.

Here is an interesting story about foreign exchange that you couldn’t really make up. I was in the market for some Canadian Dollars (not for me, sadly) and looking on the internet discovered the Post Office was offering quite a good rate. So in I launched into the central Post Office in Manchester, and after a somewhat lengthy wait (they have an irritating customer ticketing system that bears no relation to how few counters they have open at any one time), I managed to get to the exchange counter.

However, my wait had been in vain. At £45 more than the price I had seen them online the previous evening, I was told in no uncertain terms that the price I had seen was an “internet price”. No show Sherlock, I thought to myself, seeing as I had seen the price on the internet!

Yes, it seems I should have reserved my Dollars for collection at the Post Office at the time I was on the internet, rather than just arriving on spec. And this was despite the fact I could see plenty of Canadian Dollars languishing in the young lady’s money tray.

I then suggested that I might go and sit down, get on the internet via my smartphone and reserve said dollars now. The counter lady replied, “Yes, that would be a good idea but” – yes, there’s always a “but” - she quickly added that “I wouldn’t be able to collect them until tomorrow, as they had to be ordered and reserved”. To which I replied with a ‘but’ of my own, “But you have loads of Dollars available in your tray which, with only half an hour to go until you close, I cannot see you using”.

“Indeed I have” she responded, “but these Dollars have not been reserved”. To which I replied, becoming more and more confused, “Then surely I could purchase them?”

Now you know what is coming next, but for those who may not, or who are of a delicate disposition, she said: “But you will have to pay the counter price because you have not reserved them and someone else may reserve them tomorrow.”

To which I was going to reply “But if they reserve them tomorrow, they won’t be able to collect them until the day after tomorrow”.

But I thought he better of that, because by now, I had almost given up the will to live, and I was seriously wondering what I had done to deserve my life being made so unnecessarily complicated and difficult over what was a very small and rather uncomplicated task. Yes, the whole affair was indeed fast turning into the financial equivalent of starting the Hadron Collider. By hand. With a 10p box of damp matches. And no abrasive paper on the side of the match box.

I truly despair at times.

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Premier League Roundup

BY DAN SILVER

Poor, Poor Roy Hodgson. After failing to deliver and being sacked by his own national team after four treacherous years as the England manager, he took on the job of saving the seemingly doomed Crystal Palace only two weeks ago. Although things started to look up after being victorious in Palace’s first win of the whole season against Huddersfield in the third round of the league cup, it was same old, same old for the Eagles. The 5-0 loss to Man City at the weekend really showed City’s truly amazing attacking force, but also Palace’s lack of firepower up top, not to mention their shaky defence in the form of the hapless Scott Dann and unsettled Mamadou Sakho. It is now 630 minutes - or seven full games - since Crystal Palace last scored a Premier League goal, on 14 May and in that time, City have scored 29 league goals in eight matches, and show no sign of stopping - whoever is in their line-up.

Gabriel Jesus, who has linked so effectively with Aguero up front this season, was an unused substitute on Saturday and

Roy Hodgson isn’t off to a good start

Bernardo Silva only came on for the last half-hour, as Sane staked his claim for a regular starting place and Sterling continued his fine form. Plus, with David Silva and Kevin de Bruyne pulling the strings, Guardiola must be wondering who is in his strongest team because at the moment City score goals whoever is playing which is why, for me, they are the frontrunners for the title at the moment, but only if they can get their defence to be consistently solid.

Romelu Lukaku scored his sixth Premier League goal of the season to give Manchester United a hardfought victory against a tricky Southampton team. The Belgian striker broke the deadlock on 20 minutes, converting the rebound after Saints goalkeeper Fraser Forster parried his header from Ashley Young’s cross.

The result maintains United’s unbeaten start to their league campaign, although they are second in the table, behind Manchester City on goal difference. But in a bizarre end to the match, referee Craig Pawson sent United boss Jose Mourinho to the stand. Asked why he had been dismissed, Mourinho said: “I don’t know. You have to ask the referee.” The special one’s up to no good once again.

All the controversy regarding Phllippe Coutinho’s big money move has start to settle down which has actually allowed the 25 year old Brazilian playmaker to start showing off his magic once again, that has only all but delighted the Red’s fans who were just impatiently waiting for his comeback. Coutinho set up Mohamed Salah for the opener

and then struck a majestic freekick to give his side a two-goal lead at the King Power Stadium.

Although, Shinji Okazaki poked home from close range just before the break to give Leicester hope, before a frantic five-minute spell in the second half saw the balance of the game fluctuate dramatically.

Jordan Henderson netted from a Liverpool counter attack to make it 3-1 and seemingly secure the points but the hosts responded a minute later when Vardy headed into an empty net after Simon Mignolet pushed Demarai Gray’s shot into his path. Vardy then

earned a penalty when he was brought down by Mignolet, but the Belgian kept out the England striker’s spot-kick, which followed his usual tactic of going straight down the middle. Liverpool’s victory meant they move into the top 5 of the table and Jurgen Klopp believes these three points prove the reds are still up there.

In-form striker Harry Kane scored twice as 10-man Tottenham survived a late fightback from West Ham to win 3-2 and in doing so move up to third in the Premier League. Kane’s header and low strike gave the visitors a 2-0 halftime lead before midfielder Christian Eriksen fired home the third in the 60th minute. Kane scored his fourth goal of the season (and fourth in September) to really ask

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the question, is the boy truly world class? Many big named pundits have all sung the England’s strikers praises with Sky Sports and former Newcastle, Crystal Palace and West Ham manager, Alan Pardew claiming: ‘He could go anywhere in the world. He’s that good.’ But in my opinion, the 24 year old experienced poacher has yet to really test himself in world class competitions against world class teams. Of course the Premier League is the biggest and best league in the world, but on the Champions League stage and internationally (and I don’t mean useless qualifiers against country’s which you’ve barely heard of) he hasn’t proved himself quite yet.

But when or if he does, he will be taking the next step into his career and must be eyeing a big money move to the world’s top clubs in the coming summer.

Finally, Mazeltov to Tomor Hemed on the occasion of his second, and most defining, goal in the Premier League so far. Yes, it’s a shame it had to come up against

Champions League action this week

Newcastle, but the Jewish Israeli born Hemed, was over the moon with his match winning goal on Sunday which was Brighton’s second successive home Premier League victory. The hosts scored when Pascal Gross’ free-kick was headed back across goal by Dale Stephens and the 30 year old beast, who attempts to go to his local synagogue every Friday night when playing a home game the next day, hooked the ball in from six yards out. Newcastle, who had won their past three league matches, had chances, but Mikel Merino’s volley was pushed wide by Mat Ryan, Joselu twice missed when well placed, and substitute Jonjo Shelvey hit a post direct from a corner. Victory lifted the Seagulls to 13th in the table, while Newcastle dropped to ninth. Newcastle’s next game sees them come up against manager Rafael Benitez’s old side, Liverpool, in a game which could define each team’s season and give them a real boost into starting the season with success and continuing that throughout the year.

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Local Jewish football round up

BY DAVID SAFFER

Redbridge Jewish Care A got their Premier Division campaign off to a perfect start with a 5-2 triumph over early pacesetters Brady Maccabi on Sunday.

The Essex side is looking for a strong start in the Maccabi GB SFL after losing out in the title race to Oakwood A last season.

Brady lead the way with six points from three games, however, the top three from last season - defending champions Oakwood, Redbridge and Hendon United Sports – are hot on their heels with maximum points from opening fixtures.

In the other Premier game, North London Raiders A came back from a two-goal deficit to defeat Maccabi London Lions White 4-2.

There were no league matches in Division One where Los Blancos lead the way after two victories.

In Division Two, Temple Fortune B thumped Boca Jewniors 5-0 whilst Catford & Bromley Maccabi enjoyed a 3-0 win at

Faithfold B. Fairlop FC top the table, a point clear of North London Raiders C, Catford & Bromley MACC and Mill Hill Dons, who have two wins apiece.

In the Cyril Anekstein Cup six teams joined Oakwood A and Oakwood B in the second round of the competition.

Bayern Mincha enjoyed a goal fest defeating Mill Hill Dons 6-2.

In other cup ties, Camden Park came through 2-1 against Straw Hat Pirates 2-1, FC Team defeated Temple Fortune A 4-2, Redbridge Jewish Care B and North London Raiders B enjoyed the same scoreline, knocking out North London Raiders C and Redbridge Jewish Care C respectively.

Fairlop made the next round with a 4-1 win at Scrabble.

Four further Cyril Anekstein ties take place on Sunday.

London Lions A remain top of Division 1 in Masters football after humbling HMH 9-1 with Saul Conway scoring four goals.

North London Raiders came

from a behind to defeat Chigwell 3-2.

Temple Fortune defeated Brady Maccabi B 4-1 in Division Two. Marc Morris and Ashley Davidson both struck twice as EHRS triumphed 4-0 against Marshside whilst Glenthorne edged a 2-1 win against Hendon Harriers.

In the Manchester Jewish Soccer League, South Manchester Sports 1st lead the way after three Premier Division games following a 4-0 win against Manchester Maccabi Yellow.

Meanwhile, defending champions Haroldeans signaled their intentions to defend the title after inflicting an 8-1 defeat at previously undefeated Leeds Maccabi.

Adam Shuffman and Adam Barnett struck hat-tricks in a tremendous victory.

In other MJSL fixtures, South Manchester Sports 2nd stunned Sedgley Park Celtic in a 2-1 victory, Maccabi Manchester Blue thumped Prestfield 5-1.

Action from Catford & Bromley Maccabi’s 3-0 win at Faithfold B

EHRS go close with a header against Marshside

EHRS pressure Marshside from a corner kick

Faithfold on the attack against Catford

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London lads American Football podcast proves a hit

BY DAVID SAFFER The National Football League season started with a bang as Kansas City Chiefs defeated defending Super Bowl champions New York Patriots 42-27 in the opening kick off game earlier this month.

No, I’ve not lost touch of my sporting senses - I’m fully aware the Premier League is back in full swing –I’m talking about American Football.

Otherwise known as ‘gridiron’ across the pond, the oval ball game is not a national pastime in the United Kingdom as in America, where it boasts the highest gross revenue of any professional sport, over $13 billion, more than double Premier League figures in 2016, but it has a huge number of dedicated followers in this country.

Culminating in the glitzy Super Bowl, which is amongst the mostwatched global sporting spectacles every year, each ‘in-season’ NFL game at Wembley, the first last Sunday, which saw Jacksonville Jaguars triumph, sells out and four north London lads are tapping into this market with a new podcast that has received rave reviews.

Josh Adley, Jonathan Peters, Andrew Charles and Dan Green known as Adley, ‘JP’, Charles and Greenie when broadcasting – is the quartet behind Brits in the Endzone, offering a UK-take on all things NFL whether its touchdowns, offensive or defensive patterns, the draft, quarterbacks, running backs or red zone et al.

This is a feel-good factor story that is sure to develop for these best mates who love American Football.

“A few years ago, there was nothing else on television when the Philadelphia Eagles were playing,” recalled Josh, who now follows the fortunes of the Eagles. “I had no idea what was going, it made no sense to me but it was kind of cool as the fans were going crazy and I wanted to find out more.

Touchdown!

“Minnesota Vikings played Pittsburgh Steelers in my first game at Wembley and it was an amazing experience. Because it’s not a sport where you have to be on the edge of your seat for 90 minutes like football it was stop-start, so you can take everything in as a full day event.”

Jonathan’s first NFL Wembley game was a drab affair between New York Giants and Miami Dolphins but eventually he got hooked through fellow podcaster Dan. “I didn’t support a team but on our first podcast the guys each picked a team for me to support, we put it on Twitter and got over 600 votes,” he commented.

“Cleveland Browns came out on top so are my team. They have some exciting players so I’m really looking forward to have a team to follow this season.”

Andrew, a lifelong Tottenham Hotspur supporter, became an avid NFL follower after enjoying success against friends in NFL Fantasy Football.

“I had no idea about the players so picked running back Jamaal Charles and a quarterback called Drew Brees, as they tied in with my name,” he recalled. “Both were amazing players and to have the bragging rights amongst friends is great fun, so I wanted to learn more about other positions.

“I picked Jacksonville, who are not very good but they had a couple of exciting young players. This year will be my third Jacksonville game at Wembley and I am now obsessed to the point where if I’d spoken to myself five years ago I’d never have thought it would be anywhere close to now.

“I’ve grown up with Spurs but now also listen to the Jaguars radio show to keep up to date.

“Because I’m new into NFL, I want to know more so it’s dominating my life at the moment.”

“There was always an aura and magic about the NFL,” said Dan, who was introduced to the sport by his dad, follows Los Angeles Charges and is obsessed with all facets of the game.

“I didn’t have the temperament to watch three hours in my early teens but then studied abroad in the US and was amazed just how much everyone was into the sport so drifted into it.

“I found myself watching games for 10 hours on a weekend and it was far more of a social event. I wouldn’t watch football with a group of friends whilst everyone

is talking, drinking and having snacks. But in the US it is a fantastic part of it.

“Ever since, I’ve tried to be at every Wembley game and took a solo trip to America to watch three NFL games back to back to back.”

Dan’s favourite memory was after Super Bowl XLIV when the New Orleans Saints caused a shock when they defeated the Indianapolis Colts in 2010.

“We decided whilst watching the game that if the Saints defied the odds we’d drive through the night to New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras,” he recalled.

“You could see how much it meant to the city after Hurricane Katrina (in 2005).

“There were crazy events going on, everyone was in the best mood you can imagine and it felt like that one victory helped to rebuild a city, it was an incredible weekend.”

So how did the podcast Brits in the Endzone come about?

“I wanted to get stuck into a project for a while, I’d heard a number of American NFL podcasts and felt there was a gap for a fun, four mates in a pub-style one from a UK perspective,” explained Josh.

“There are official podcasts NFL bods are really into it, however we wanted to appeal to people who were like us a couple of years ago, they didn’t know too much about NFL but wanted to find a way into it,” added Andrew.

“There are American podcasts that live and breath NFL. For fans that love the sport there are statsheavy and technical podcasts, but we wanted to take it a step back, talk about fun things going on around the sport, issues interesting us, new perspectives rather than going really serious.”

Dan noted, “We wanted to make it a more energetic, a bit more humorous.

“We also wanted to take a look at the lighter side and funny news stories. We are not pretending to be experts, we’re just four guys who love NFL and want to bring that out.

“It’s about Brits listening to Brit fans, our listeners don’t want to hear a random fact about an American supermarket, they want to hear the British perspective.”

Going back to the first podcast back in May, ‘The Many Talents of Justin Tucker’, it helped that Josh had experience of podcasting as he works in the industry.

“I had an idea how to produce the show in terms of getting it mixed,

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Josh Adley, Jonathan Peters, Andrew Charles and Dan Green - known as Adley, ‘JP’, Charles and Greenie when broadcasting

engineered and recorded,” he explained. “The thing about podcasting is that it’s meant to be like radio but with more freedom.

“There is more of a licence to say what you want, it has to be free discussion, and because we are close mates, although it was nervous getting in front of a mic, after a few minutes you are essentially just chatting with mates. We chat about NFL a lot so it was not out of our comfort zone.

“A lot of time has gone into it, JP (Jonathan) has spent the most, but we all play our part.”

So how has Brits in the Endzone, which is on the Audio Boom platform, been received?

Stats on listeners per podcast, which all have catchy titles are encouraging and well into four figures.

“There was no target, it was just fun and we wanted to see what happens, but it has grown,” explained Josh. “Whilst our numbers are not insane it’s been the off-season so we now hope to double then triple our numbers minimum.”

“Whilst our stats are good at this point, we expect them to increase further as our actual qualitative response has been incredible,” added Dan. “We’ve had great feedback from people saying finally there is a British NFL podcast, and that is great to hear.

“We’ve also engaged with nfl. com writers and producers which validates what we are doing.”

Social media has proved proved a real success.

“We set up a Twitter account to get a following before we’d even recorded so when it came to releasing the first episode we had a fan base that would listen to us,” explained Jonathan.

“We started on zero and now have over 1,500 followers which is increasing all the time.

“Listeners have also randomly emailed, giving us feedback, so we’ve set up a blog for fans which

is proving popular.”

The podcast started out fortnightly but is now weekly as the season is in full swing.

And the American Footballing ‘fab four’ will be at Wembley games and are scheduled to see a Baltimore Ravens NFL game whilst at a forthcoming wedding in Washington.

“Fifteen of us are going, which will be amazing,” enthused Josh.

He added, “It’s about having fun and keeping expectations level.

“We want people to enjoy the show, increase our listenership and who knows where it will go.”

“The NFL games all sell out, it is so popular and people come from all over the country.

Jonathon commented, “The Wembley games was one of the reasons for us starting the podcast. It’s one of the fastest growing sports in the UK, the appetite is there.”

As for predictions, whilst the quartet hope for good seasons regarding their respective teams, Dan believes New England Patriots could make another Super Bowl but plumped for Green Bay Packers, whilst Andrew felt it could be the turn of Atlanta Falcons.

Jonathan noted it was boring to pick the Patriots so pitched for Pittsburgh Steelers whilst Josh also went for Packers.

Summing up the initiative, Dan noted, “Josh as host is confident in front of the mic and not having as much knowledge probes us all. It’s easy with NFL to talk about stuff no one understands, so the guys will ask what something means because listeners will have similar questions.

“If anyone has been intrigued or feels overwhelmed by NFL you won’t with ours. Anyone who wants to get into American Football, this is where you want to be, start listening to us.”

Twitter: @brits_endzone Website: www.britsendzone.com

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