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These are great and meant so much coaching staff Brad Gayer team. Winning in the Care B skipper Rank praised his plenty of possession Redbridge Jewish Football team.” the club. “To do Lions enjoyed dangerous GB Southern connected with THEJEWISHWEEKLY.COM Redbridge looking passionate sealed the Maccabi with a everyone first half but close to I love and am One championship something that attack. Gayer went brilliant League Division London Lions he said. “It’s a on the counter Gelder against Maccabi but it was Van about is priceless,” was a great stunning strike breaking the deadlock clear by for us all, this on Sunday. after being sent B at Rowley Lane Jack Van achievementRedbridge club and team,” he who finished clinically half goal and for the on 35 minutes.

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show that it is sufficiently serious about tackling Jewish community leaders expressed their the scourge of antisemitism. The Labour Party utter disgust over the decision not to expel has failed the Jewish community, it has failed its America’s UN Ambassador Haley former Mayor new of London, Ken LivingstonNikki members and it has failed all those who believe from the Labour party after his comments in zero tolerance towards antisemitism.”

BY LEONAdolf SYMONS had no legal validity and in Jonathan which the US linking Hitler to Zionism.

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Jonathan said: “Relations between retaliate newcommunity attempts Public Affairs the Labour Partyagainst and theany Jewish would not tolerateCommittee wilful and convention unapologetic would isolate Israel. when vowed “never again” allow to baitingshe of the Jewishto community, by shamefully have reached a new all-time low.

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guilty of all three charges, the Labour Party he expected to be expelled by the committee has decided to suspend him from holding because the disciplinary panel was dominated office for just one year, despite his shameless, by right-wingers. “I expect to be expelled, Naftali disgraceful and tendentious attempts to link IP47 alwaysInterview have done,with because the Herstik national Zionism to Nazism. All we can conclude from constitutional committee has got 10 right“The state way I see it, declaring defend and thetwo Jewish that happen was only isembarrassing, left-wingers,” Livingstonthere said. this hopelessly wrongnot decision that the party wingers if there’s no trust, there’s no a “new sheriffhis infate town”. ithaswas hurtful.”problem Haleywith alsoantisemitism, referred to an enduring to isAfter learning that Ms he Haley, would relationship and no business.” whosuspended served formerly of Israel’sis it peace partners, stating that be which is unwilling to face up.” for a year,ashegovernor told waiting South Carolina, she was taken “until the shattering Palestinian Shocking, and Authority stunned weredoes just journalists “As I am said not seeking to return to aback byor to thestand “bizarre” levelcouncil, of what aremedia no parliament some ofit’s the supposed expressions to, used there on social for the local hasa great witnessed Israel more the freebies.”

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he is today without the wealth of experience he gained under his uncle’s tutelage. “I believe getting as much experience in your field early on is vital to success, as well as having a mentor to support and guide you, which I had for the first 20 years of my business life.” Stephen’s involvement in all stages of design and selling allowed him to form close relationships with clients, a vital part of his business. “I learned how to manage a business in all areas. This included developing sample ranges, sales, negotiation with factories, through to actually shipping the item to a customer.” Stephen believes strongly in businesses taking full responsibility for their products, saying “Rigorous

“I’m the oldest in this business in the UK, that’s how I stand apart,” says Stephen Roston with a dry laugh. At 59, Stephen, owner and managing director of BS clothing group, has amassed a hugely successful design and supply company, specialising in the production of own brand children’s wear, sold nationally and globally in retail chain stores.

“I left school at 15 and went straight into retail. That led to joining the family business, and then I started my own company 20 years ago.”

Stephen says he wouldn’t be where

it’s how you handle a problem. When it all goes well, everyone can deal with it, but it is not just about how well you do in sales.”

“If someone supplies you something faulty, you don’t want them to go out of business because of it. Deal with it and move on. No one causes a problem on purpose.”

Stephen also deals closely with factories in China and says the keys to doing business with foreign clients and suppliers are understanding their culture and building trust. “Over time, I learnt how best to approach and do business with them. The way I see it, if there’s no trust, there’s no relationship and no business.”

Knowing when to change direction within your career is important for continued success. Stephen branched out eight months ago to do entrepreneur and consultancy work and says it was one of the best decisions he made. “Don’t get me wrong, designing and supplying products is a fantastic business to be in, but it can be a testing one. I was ready for a new path where I could still remain in my chosen career but take things a little easier.”

He now advises on retail selling, working with managers and CEOs of chain stores, as well as large

safety testing was an important part of what I did. I have designed children’s wear for over 35 years, and in my experience, it is the hardest sector to produce. Nothing can go wrong.”

However, Stephen regards human error as a normal and expected occurrence in a driven business environment. “At the end of the day,

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As the dust settles following the Manchester Arena bombing, more details have emerged about the catastrophe, as leaders from around the world continue to offer their tributes and condolences.

Police say that 22-year-old Salman Abedi, a student at Salford University, blew himself up as American singer Ariana Grande had just finished performing her last song on stage.

The casualties were high, with 22 people murdered so far, 59 injured, some critically, and children as young as 8 years old being counted among the dead. The attack took place at just after 10.30pm on Monday night in a public area just outside the entrance to the Manchester Arena next to Victoria station.

Manchester is home to the second largest Jewish community in Britain and several terror attacks have been foiled by the security forces in the past few years including an

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Shock and horror is how so many responded to last Saturday nights devastating attack on London Bridge as details are still emerging of the three Jihadi attackers who have all been named. But questions remain over why two of the three terrorists were known and flagged to security services but nothing was done about them.

Italian authorities say they informed British police and MI5 about the third terrorist, but it seems because more than 3000 other potential radical Islamists were being watched, these three individuals were not deemed dangerous.

Dozens of people across the country have since been detained but many have now been released as police identified the brutal killers just hours after 50 bullets were pumped into their bodies last Saturday night.

Armed with foot-long knives and wearing fake suicide bomb vests during the deadly rampage, Britain suffered it’s third separate Islamic terror attack in just over two months.

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At least during the height of the IRA bombing campaign on the mainland in the seventies and eighties, the terrorists gave a coded warning to police so they “sometimes” had time to evacuate innocent people. But extremist attacks such as these can strike at any time with absolutely no warning.

Security and emergency forces were swift in arriving at the scene of the attack last weekend with years of regular preparation for such a scenario and in doing so saving many more lives. From the time police received telephone calls that a vehicle had hit pedestrians on London Bridge, it took an armed unit just eight minutes to reach the scene, identify the terrorists and shoot all three assailants dead.

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However, he explained that he then walked over to them and said, “Yes, this is me.” Mr Collier said they looked at each other and that Greenstein did not believe he was there for the food. But he returned to his seat and his family. The three men then walked over with security guards to the long table where the Collier family were eating and asked them to leave, which they did.

David Collier said “I am now considering a civil suit against the QEII building as I am a member of the press, who was being evicted on discriminatory grounds.”

The pro-Palestinian event was almost cancelled after Communities Secretary Sajid Javid was concerned that the organisers, Friends of Al Aqsa, had links to terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. But in the end the event was given the go ahead and billed as “the biggest social, cultural and entertainment event on Palestine to ever take place in Europe.”

Speakers included anti-Zionist Israeli-born Ilan Pappe and Miko

Several Jews were evicted from last weekend’s “cultural and family event”, known as Palestine Expo, at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII) in London.

When Jason Silver sat down to eat lunch, which was included in the price of his ticket, and placed a kippa on his head, he was asked to leave. The incident, which was captured on video and went viral on the internet, showed the organisers asking a security guard to remove Mr Silver. Police were called when he insisted that all he was doing was eating lunch, noting that he had been there for three hours and that it was when he put on his kippa that he was asked to leave.

Elsewhere Mr David Collier sat down to eat lunch without a kippa, but with his wife and child, and was spotted by members of a local anti-Israel group called “London Palestine Action.”

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In an astonishing move Sadiq Khan has overturned Barnet Council’s decision to grant planning permission to build a brand new Hasmonean school for boys not far from where the Hasmonean Girls’ School is situated on Page Street in London’s Mill Hill neighbourhood.

The London Mayor cited Green Belt land concerns and ruled that building plans for the new project are far too excessive and could have a negative effect on open space areas and controlling urban growth.

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and it is difficult to see how this need can be met without the redevelopment of Hasmonean or another brand new Orthodox school.

An insider close to the project told the Jewish Weekly that if the expansion plan does not take place, Jewish children will not even have an option to get into a non-Jewish school.

The unnamed source known to The Jewish Weekly said of Sadiq Khan, “This is a person who spoke at Jewish Care and now a Muslim Mayor of all people is overturning a democratic elected council decision to build a new Jewish school.”

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greeted with jubilation as some three-hundred people packed into the committee room to clap and cheer once they knew the decision had been passed.

The boys would have moved into the newly built premises by 2020 and Hasmonean pupils on the new site would have increased from its current annual role of 1100 pupils to 1400 per year. But this latest move from the Mayor’s office has sent shivers into the community because there does not appear to be many other options available to cater for a growing Orthodox community that requires Jewish education for its children.

The insider close to the project did point out that they expected the Mayor’s office may suggest a compromise of turning the Hasmonean on Page Street into a mixed school and thereby save vital Green Belt land. “This however was out of the question and could never be accepted,” the source said.

There are currently 635 boys on the Holders Hill campus in Hendon – a school that was only designed for 350.

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Mrs Carney added, “If it wasn’t for her I could have been burying my son and his pregnant wife – she saved my children’s lives.” She said that she was so thankful the dog stayed over that night.

However Sandra also spoke about her sadness about how their 3-year-old dog, who was like a member of the family, had died.

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Events unfolded quickly when smoke was spotted by a passerby who entered the newspaper store next door to Kay’s kosher grocery store after 7 a.m. Within a few minutes fire services arrived as families in flats above were hanging their children out of windows, screaming for help.

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brandishing a meat cleaver in one hand and what appeared to be a large knife in his other hand. He shouted, “Where is the boss, I will kill him.”

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Speaking at the International Bible Quiz prior to the vote, Prime Minister Netanyahu said “There was no nation in the world to whom Jerusalem was more holy than to the Jewish people.” He continued by saying “I know that today there is a vote in UNESCO that will try to deny that simple truth - we reject UNESCO.”

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Israeli politicians as well as key Jewish organiOn the very day that Israel celebrated 69 years sations blasted the UN agency on Tuesday for of modern independence, UNESCO voted 22choosing to pass a resolution they deemed 10 disavowing Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. anti-Israel in nature.

The UNESCO Executive Board is expected With 23 countries abstaining and three ab- to ratify the result of the vote on Friday. sent altogether, the 58 board members gathered Although the number of countries supportin Paris to approve the resolution referred to ing the absurd UNESCO resolution is getting

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Condemnation from world leaders was swift as the number of deaths were continuing to rise. Prime Minister Theresa May gave a statement outside Downing Street, where she condemned the “appalling” terrorist attack, as “one of the worst terror attacks the UK had seen.” She said that the city had fallen victim to “a callous terrorist attack,” and that her thoughts and prayers were with all the victims, families and friends of those affected.”

President Donald Trump who was visiting Bethlehem to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, told the media that “this wicked ideology must be obliterated.” He went on to say how “all innocent lives must be protected, and my thoughts are with the people of Manchester.”

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n an astonishing move Marine Le Pen stepped down as leader of the National Front party in what is being seen as an apparent calculated move to appear more presidential as she heads into the second and final round to become the next French president.

With an unprecedented total of 11 candidates last Sunday, Marine Le Pen saw off nine of them and will now face the independent and centralist figure Emmanuel Macron on 7 May. This will be the first time since the current presidential system was introduced in 1958 that no candidate from the main centre left or centre right parties have reached the final round.

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Nevertheless Hollande addressed voters from the Elysee Palace, insisting prices will soar, jobs will be lost and the country will be divided if Marine Le Pen is chosen as the next president. He also spoke of the danger of France “becoming isolated and breaking away from the EU” if Le Pen sweeps to power.

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From behind the editors desk As we sit here to write our first year anniversary editorial, many conversations spring to mind. The countless people who told us that there was no gap in the market and it would never work. Yet, by the same token, we also encountered a tremendous thirst from so many others for a new newspaper. People were excited as there had not been a new newspaper in over a generation.

After several months of research and preparation, we launched The Jewish Weekly on March 1 last year. We have delivered up to 15,000 newspapers each week to over 220 locations around the country, and this week we have printed over 16,000. Thousands more enjoy our website across the globe and read our weekly online flip book.

We have become the only free national Jewish newspaper in the UK, with distribution points across London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham and Bournemouth, with people calling our offices every week requesting us to send the paper to new destinations.

Running a newspaper brings us in to contact with many people across the globe. People are constantly emailing and phoning in with all manner of suggestions, compliments, and very occasionally the odd complaint!

Our readership is made up of people of all ages, from the centenarians, who use our paper to catch up each week on all the various activities and events that constantly take place in our wonderful communities, to the young children who haven’t even learned to read with fluency yet, but nevertheless enjoy the Kids section with their parents.

When we initially started the paper, we aspired for a family friendly paper that would cater to all ages. We have shown over the past 12 months that we have something for everyone and we are working hard to add in more exciting features to our paper over time.

This year, some of our headlines expressed the despair and intense grief caused by the tragic murders of Jewish people in Israel and America, as well as the sickening terror attacks in London and Manchester.

Yet we have also celebrated the momentous occasions. We recall the night that we were about to go to print and then the team ended up working through the night redoing our entire front few pages after learning of Shlomo Rubashkin’s release from his excessive and unfair sentence.

With Donald Trump on the scene globally, embassies moving to Jerusalem, a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour party constantly being questioned on anti-Semitism and Brexit looming ever larger each passing day, there is never any shortage of political news.

Our Community section enables our readers the weekly opportunity to see just how many activities are constantly going on across the spectrum of Anglo-Jewry, and we certainly have a great deal to be proud of across all of our communities.

The big charities who work so hard to raise millions at their annual dinners. The skydiving grandmother who beat all the odds and proved you truly can do whatever you set your mind to do. The outreach organisations who regularly inspire their participants with Poland trips, Israel trips, skiing trips and more. All the way to the youth who triumphantly

work hard to raise money for those in need and volunteer for various organisations. Glamorous or unsung. Young and old. North or South.

We celebrate them all.

A range of people fill these pages every week, and between the charities, schools, shuls, sporting events, musical entertainment and many other walks of life, our readers will always find that we truly are a national community paper.

We have conducted many great interviews in the past 12 months, getting the thoughts of Yitzchak Yiftach, one of the first paratroopers at the Kotel in 1967, and hearing from Scott Saunders how the ever popular March of the Living evolved all the way from Hong Kong.

Our recent feature with the international rap star Nissim brought many a tear to the eye, as people read of the many trials and tribulations he encountered as he rejected his upbringing in a world full of drugs and crime on the streets of Seattle, in exchange for the more spiritual world of Mea Shearim.

You can see a selection of our most memorable interviews further on in this supplement, and we have some more interesting people lined up in the next few months for you to look forward to.

No Jewish newspaper is complete without a Judaism section. We take great pride in delivering Torah for both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewry, and of course, we have Rabbi Schochet’s brilliant ‘Ask the Rabbi’ column.

Our Business section offers great advice, and we also provide a weekly look into a different entrepreneur, showing just how much people can achieve with sheer hard work and determination.

Our ‘Behind the Business Card’ section champions women who start businesses completely from scratch, inspiring other budding entrepreneurs who are thinking of starting a new venture themselves.

Our ‘Woman of Worth’ section has become a true favourite, highlighting women from across the community, showing the tremendous good that people don’t always realise happens both in public and in private.

This week, we have started our new ‘Charity Corner’ section, where we will take an in-depth look at a different charity each week, showcasing both the well-known and the unsung heroes who are always there for those who need them at the most crucial times.

Our Food and Nutrition pages offer a mixed range of topics for our readers to choose from to encourage our readers to lead a healthy and active life-style.

Due to popular demand, our well-received weekly Travel section will be expanding in the near future.

You will shortly go on to enjoy the rest of this fantastic supplement, where you will revisit the highlights of the last 12 months. However, we simply cannot end without thanking the various people who make The Jewish Weekly tick, but of course beforehand we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to The Almighty, who has been there for us each and every single step of the way.

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America’s new UN ambassador wowed 18,000 people at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee convention when she vowed to “never again” allow the UN to pass anti-Israel resolutions.

Nikki Haley described UN resolution 2334, which stated Israel’s settlements

had no legal validity and in which the US abstained, as a “kick in the gut” and warned other UN members that the US would retaliate against any new attempts to isolate Israel.

She added: “Never do we not have the backs of our friends. We don’t have a greater friend than Israel and to see

that happen was not only embarrassing, it was hurtful.” Haley also referred to Israel’s peace partners, stating that “until the Palestinian Authority does what it’s supposed to, there are no more freebies.” She received rapturous applause and promised that from her new posting in New York she would

defend the Jewish state declaring there is a “new sheriff in town”. Ms Haley, who served formerly as governor of South Carolina, said she was taken aback by the “bizarre” level of vitriol she has witnessed against Israel in UN bodies.

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The seriousness of the threats was recognised by President Donald Trump. In the opening words of his first speech to a joint session of Congress, President Trump said: “Recent threats targeting Jewish community centres and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms.”

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But give it the title “Cholentfest”, put it into a brightly-lit hall at Finchley United Synagogue in north London, ask for teams to prepare their own versions and you take it about as far from that serene scenario as it’s possible to go.

The fourth annual “Cholentfest” happened last week under the umbrella of Young US. Ten teams took part, each one starting the preparation for their version of this world-famous Jewish classic some 24 hours before the event last Thursday evening.

As one entered the hall, the nostrils were assailed by the smell of so many cholents of differing kinds. Teams names included: Mechalkel Chaim BeChesed; Bee Cholent; Sephardi Mafia; Cholenteers and the Barley Boys. There was even a vegetarian variety, being shepherded by UJIA’s research director Dr Helena Miller and her husband Steve.

The judges who had the hard task of sampling 10 different varieties of the same dish were Harry Lomas, executive head chef at The Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire, pastry chef Ilana Epstein and Young US Rabbi Josh Zaitschek, who founded the contest.

After much discussion, Mechalkel Chaim Bechesed retained the title they won last year with a tried and tested recipe. Avi Werjuka, a member of the winning team, said: “Cholentfest 2017 was brilliant. It was great to challenge ourselves and be a part of the whole event. We were pleased that our efforts paid off, as we were crowned champions again.”

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Israel has had very little contact with The worst incident between Israel and Syria since the latter’s civil war started six Syria since the civil war began. President years ago has increased tension sharply be- Assad’s energies have focused on battling rebel forces and Daesh. Likewise, the face tween the two countries.

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ENDS possess weapons that could inPrime minister Binyamin Netanyahu LONDONlat- Hezbollah 5:53 7:01 er confirmed that the raids intoMANCHESTER Syria were flict damage 6:02 in Israel, 7:11 there is increasing that Syria7:09 also has the capacity to aimed at destroying weaponsLEEDS bound for concern5:56 mix it with its neighbour, should it choose Hezbollah.

On Tuesday, a senior Israeli officer dis- to escalate the current spat.

Dr Mordechai Kedar, a senior lecturer closed in an interview with a news agency that Israel has a plan, codenamed “Safe at Bar-Ilan University, believes that Syria Distance”, to move up to a quarter of a does indeed possess the capability to harm Jessica Ackerman, 8 years old, Israel. “They have chemical weapons that million Menorah Foundation School people from both north and south border areas to safety should a conflict be- they have used repeatedly, and they have missiles. I’m not sure a large volley of misgin with either Hamas or Hezbollah.

siles could be stopped by Israeli systems. Putin to discuss Iran’s attempts to estabIf they decide to go wild with the backing lish a permanent military foothold in Syria of the Russians or the Iranians, they could with a base on the Israeli border. become very problematic.”

Russia remains a key player in the region America’s new UN Ambassador Nikki Haley According to Kedar, Assad has an inter- and has taken the opportunity to fill the est in escalating tensions with Israel. “In void left by America. Now it is on seemBY LEON SYMONS no legal and in which the US order to give himself legitimacy, he wants ingly goodhad terms with validity both protagonists, as to a “kick in the itgut” and America’s UNwith ambassador to bring Israel into a new conflict the Ira- wowed observersabstained, will be keen see whether other eternally UN members that the US people at the American can Israel nians and 18,000 the Russians.” pour warned oil on these troubled Public Committeetheirconvention Israel and Russia Affairs already coordinate waters. would retaliate against any new attempts shewhich vowed to “never again” allow to isolate Israel. air attacks when in Syria, is uncomfortable She added: “Never do we not have UN toBashar pass anti-Israel for Syrian the President al-Assad.resolutions. PARSHA: VAYAKHELof our friends. We don’t have Haley Israel hasNikki carried out described dozens ofUNairresolution the backsPEKUDEI a greater friend than Israel and to see 2334, which stated Israel’s settlements PARSHAT HACHODESH strikes in Syria to prevent weapons’ smuggling to Hezbollah. Iran has also provided Syria with Shia militias from Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.

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scored Michael Rosenthal Ben Retter and the team. thumped set up and had captained squad this season and for Boca.

Hertswood Vale to the Second bottom “It means so much Jewish Care C 6-0. players.” fourth place came Redbridge GB also to former slipped down to players and managers ended the Maccabi The Essex team and “Some of the past note Champions L’Equipe which was fantastic, this reverse. campaign on a winning Elia and for following down for the game, SFL Division Two Josh Gorb (2), Elio on a bit of show Harry Graham (2) were about to be Real Hendon. eight luckily we with a 3-1 win over target. champs finished Cohen were on the everyone. to mark Josh The runaway league Camden Park finished great atmosphere Fortune.

In other fixtures, “There was a with a 3-1 win against MJSL P28 points clear of Temple Kay hit the Division campaign Prager and Jon hosts in a thrilling our achievement.” moved up Premier James Bell, David scored for the FC. league, RC UK FC team. bottom club Spec into fourth Benson Elsewhere, in the Jewniors.

Division 2 champions. target for Nick Stern’s Raiders B moved have been L’Equipe, triumph.

7-2 win at Boca hit back for a North London of my team, who humdinger 6-4 third following a before Finchley could have “I am so proud impossible to One after a ten-goal Raiders led 2-0 at half time and spot in Division many thought was the win.

The visitors led 4-0 able to achieve what said an before Raiders sealed City.  sterling performance.

Alex 3-2 lead against Finchley finally win the league,” scored more in a hero, Akiva Elad Hertshten, and that was to was a hat-trick Jono Rochwerger, and Rob also Jonti Aremband ecstatic Stern.

Gold, Jake Gilbert and David Brown 10 years of highs Goodman, Jacob (2), Avi Mocton “It’s been a tumultuous winning the title is Solomon target. it top off by to the so hit lows, and Singer, who chairman Mark special,” added club

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n an astonishing move Marine Le Pen stepped down as leader of the National Front party in what is being seen as an apparent calculated move to appear more presidential as she heads into the second and final round to become the next French president.

With an unprecedented total of 11 candidates last Sunday, Marine Le Pen saw off nine of them and will now face the independent and centralist figure Emmanuel Macron on 7 May. This will be the first time since the current presidential system was introduced in 1958 that no candidate from the main centre left or centre right parties have reached the final round.

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Nevertheless Hollande addressed voters from the Elysee Palace, insisting prices will soar, jobs will be lost and the country will be divided if Marine Le Pen is chosen as the next president. He also spoke of the danger of France “becoming isolated and breaking away from the EU” if Le Pen sweeps to power.

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BY JAMES MARLOW Labour Party their the scourge of antisemitism. The Jewish community leaders expressed it has failed its expel has failed the Jewish community, utter disgust over the decision not to Haley and it has failed all those who believe members UN Ambassador Ken LivingstonNikki America’s of London, Mayor new former in zero tolerance towards antisemitism.” from the Labour party after his comments US Arkush which the and in Jonathan President validity of Deputies no legal Board had SYMONS LEONAdolf BY Hitler to Zionism. linking Ken expel and thetogut” failure for its in as a “kick condemned Labour was abstained, wowed “This said, Mirvis ambassador UN Ephraim new Rabbi Chief America’s US between that the said: “Relations UN members Jonathan other Livingstone. that it warned to show Israel American at the Party for the Labour a chancepeople 18,000 attempts newcommunity Jewish and theany Partyagainst retaliate the Labour unapologetic would wilful and convention tolerateCommittee Affairs would not Public a new all-time low.

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CONTINUED Continues NGO’s “Breaking the Silence” it’s how you handle a problem. When it all goes well, everyone can deal with it, but it is not just about how well you

do in sales.”

“If someone supplies you something faulty, you don’t want them to go out of business because of it. Deal with it and move on. No one causes a problem on

purpose.”

Stephen also deals closely with factories in China and says the keys to doing business with foreign clients and suppliers are understanding their culture and building trust. “Over time, I learnt how best to approach and do business with them. The way I see it, if

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“I’m the oldest in this business in the UK, that’s how I stand Stephen Roston apart,” says with a dry laugh. At 59, Stephen, owner and managing director of BS clothing group, has amassed a hugely successful design and supply company, specialising in the

production of own brand children’s wear, sold nationally and globally in retail chain stores.

“I left school at 15 and went straight into retail. That led to joining the family business, and then I started my own company 20 years ago.”

Stephen says he wouldn’t be where

there’s no trust, there’s no relationship and no business.”

Knowing when to change direction within your career is important for continued success. Stephen branched out eight months ago to do entrepreneur and consultancy work and says it was one of the best decisions he

he is today without the wealth of experience he gained under his uncle’s tutelage. “I believe getting as much experience in your field early on is vital to success, as well as having a mentor to support and guide you, which I had for the first 20 years of my business life.” Stephen’s involvement in all

stages of design and selling allowed him to form close relationships with clients, a vital part of his business. “I learned how to manage a business in all areas. This included developing sample ranges, sales, negotiation with factories, through to actually shipping the item to

safety testing was an important part of what I did. I have designed children’s wear for over 35 years, and in my experience, it is the hardest sector to

produce. Nothing can go wrong.”

However, Stephen regards human error as a normal and expected occurrence in a driven business environment. “At the end of the day,

a customer.” Stephen believes strongly in businesses taking full responsibility for their products, saying “Rigorous

made. “Don’t get me wrong, designing and supplying products is a fantastic business to be in, but it can be a testing one. I was ready for a new path where I could still remain in my chosen career

but take things a little easier.”

He now advises on retail selling, working with managers and CEOs of chain stores, as well as large

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EWISH charities have benefited to the tune of over £160,000 following the Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday.

Runners completed the iconic 26.2 mile distance spurred on by a stirring atmosphere as over 40,000 participants took to the streets cheered on by supporters.

Participants from across the country drew great acclaim from Jewish organisations.

Eleven runners raised £65k in aid of Chai Cancer Care.

Chai chairman, Louise Hager, praised each runner’s commitment and dedication over many months of training.

Ricky Green raised an astonishing £28k and completed the marathon in five hours.

Coby Bull finished in a similar time raising over £7.5k. “Chai are always at the end of the phone, they help through the emotional roller coaster that is cancer,” he said.

Jonathan Barr, who completed the New York marathon ten weeks post-chemotherapy two years ago, ran alongside wife, Lauren, raising 10k for Chai and the North London Hospice.

“Chai have been a rock, they have shown me such kindness and understanding,” he said.

“The most amazing part were the crowds,” said Mikey Salem, who has raised over £5k. “From the second you cross the start line until the finish the crowd is cheering you on.”

“Every runner goes through good and challenging miles, and miles where you aren’t sure you can do it,” added Charlotte Hamilton, who ran with fiancé Ben Menahem to raise funds for Chai and Jewish Women’s Aid. “It is humbling to cross the finish line for a cause you believe in, which ultimately keeps you going.”

“It’s important to spread awareness and funds so the service can continue to grow,” said Michaela Krantz, who found the event uplifting.

“Family and friends who came to watch really helped keep me going, especially for the last few miles,” said Rachel Caplin, who raced in memory of her mother.

“It was an amazing experience and one I’ve always wanted to be part of,” commented Jo Benjamin.

“The first 15 miles were easy, but it became tougher every mile that passed,” Josh Dvir said.

“The London Marathon is THE charity marathon and it was so worthwhile to run for this amazing organisation,” noted Melanie Ross Ten runners raised £25k for Kisharon.

Rabbi Joshua Conway came home first for the charity in 3 hours 44 minutes.

Saul Mayers and Lorin Bradley ran the marathon together. “The race exceeded all expectations and was truly our most extraordinary experience,” commented Saul.

Miranda Shemen finished in just under four hours followed by mum, Danielle Donne.

Other runners included Eli Patashnik, Deborah Clayden and Vic Aboudara.

“Kisharon has nothing but admiration for the commitment demonstrated by the runners who trained, ran and fundraised for learning disabilities,” said Richard

Franklin, Kisharon communications director.

A further 10 runners representing Leeds Jewish Welfare Board reached beyond its £20k target in the 140th anniversary of the organisation caring for the community.

Philip Myers, brothers Marcus and Jamie Lee, Paul Berwin, Danny Rosenberg, Monica Angel, Deborah Stewart, Elissa Yurowitz and Ilan Sherman ran alongside veteran runner Lloyd Rakusen.

Lloyd, who has completed 15 marathons for the Welfare Board and celebrates his 70th birthday this year, again displayed his ongoing support and commitment.

“The team has worked incredibly hard both in training and in fundraising,” said Tracy Bickler, communications manager.

“All the runners surpassed their individual goals with the promise of donations.

“The support of the community together with the dedication and commitment from the team are humbling and enable us to continue our vital work in the community.”

Dedicated marathon runners raised £20k for Jewish Care.

Josh Domb, 27, ran the course in an impressive 3 hours 10 minutes.

“I’m buzzing, it was an incredible experience from start to finish,” he

said. “Seeing my parents cheering their hearts out with 100 meters to go will stay with me for a very long time.”

Jewish Care director of fundraising and marketing Daniel Carmel-Brown marked his 20th year working for the organisation by finishing his first marathon in just under five hours.

Daniel dedicated his race to his 1,400 colleagues and 3,000 volunteers.

Suffering from cramp at 25 miles, he thought of those who support the Jewish community of London and South East.

“There is digging deep and there is reaching beyond what is normal for a human being to do to achieve a lifetime ambition,” he said. “It was like an out of body experience, it is truly the case that ‘thinking the impossible’ does make things possible.”

Talk Radio producer Matt Blom, 26, completed the marathon.

“The atmosphere is what made it with everyone cheering you on,” he noted. “Running across Tower Bridge is something I will never forget; it was an incredible moment.”

Real estate manager Yael Kohn travelled from Ranana in Israel and completed the marathon in a shade under four hours. “I have

26 APRIL 2017 dreamt of completing this marathon, and to do it supporting the work of Jewish Care is a truly worthy way to achieve this dream,” she said.

Camp Simcha runners raised over £15k to support families coping with serious childhood illness.

“Running the marathon is no small commitment and we are immensely grateful our runners chose to do it,” said chief executive Neville Goldschneider.

Jonny Phillips of Edgware, who has raised over £23,000 for the charity since 2010, completed his fifth London marathon for the charity.

“I know some of the families supported and hear about the unconditional care they get; supporting an amazing charity elevates the whole marathon experience,” he said.

Darrel Yawitch, also from Edgware, completed the course in an impressive 3 hours 7 minutes.

“The atmosphere and cheers really kept me going and the sight of the Camp Simcha staff waiting with a sandwich at the end was wonderful,” he quipped.

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World Jewish Relief fielded its largest ever team of runners this year. 21 people from across the UK, Italy and France donned WJR vests, raising more than £43,000 for the charity.

Chief Executive Paul Anticoni said, “It is incredible to have a Marathon team like this with so many people putting in the training and commitment to support World Jewish Relief. It’s a tremendous achievement and a life-changing experience, not just for the runners but for all the people the money raised will benefit.”

Maurice and Sam Helfgott, received a surprise mention during BBC live coverage, with Brendan Fosters last comment after 37 years.

“Maurice Helfgott, who’s running with his son Sam for World Jewish Relief, brought his father Ben Helfgott to the UK after the war in 1945.

Ben survived the Holocaust, was brought to Britain aged 16 and he ended up being the captain of the Great Britain weight lifting team in the 1956 and ’60 Olympics.

He won a bronze medal in the 1958 Commonwealth Games.

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Good luck to Maurice and Sam and best wishes to Ben who is now 87. That’s my last mention in the London Marathon, thank you.”

British Emunah director Deborah Nathan praised the efforts of the charity’s six runners from London, Leeds and Manchester raising £12k towards a new dormitory at the charity’s children’s centre in Afula, Israel.

“Their achievements will be doubly rewarded with the match funding that Emunah in Israel has secured for the refurbished dormitory building in Afula,” she said.

Jonny Gould was the first team member to pass the finish line in 3 hours 50 minutes followed by Marc Jackson in a fraction under four hours.

“Having my family there gave me a real boost, but experience told me to slow down and enjoy it, which is what I did,” said Jonny of Leeds, running his first London marathon for Emunah.

“The last six miles were a bit challenging and you realise it is as much about mental energy as physical effort,” commented Londoner Marc, spurred on by wife Wendy who runs

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Other runners were Claire Gothelf, David Bondt, Roey Freilich and marathon veteran Flora Frank.

“I got to six miles and wanted to pack it in,” said Claire, who ran in memory of her dad, Harvey Gothelf, and had a picture of him on her back.

“It was so hard, I started off too quickly but I did it and there was a huge sense of satisfaction,” she said.

Claire’s proud mum, Margaret Gothelf, is a long-term Emunah supporter and cheered her daughter on from the sidelines.

First-time runners David Bondt and Roey Freilich took longer than expected due to injury and the sheer number of runners.

“The training app on my phone showed I had actually done 28 miles,” said David.

“The first five miles were okay and then it was tough. Things sped up and I was sprinting but had to stop and talk to Roey as he was injured.

“We ran part of the way arm in arm and then he bravely carried on.”

Miriam Dennis ran for the charity Chana, which supports couples in the Jewish community who may feel isolated and need medical

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Part of the World Jewish Relief team information and support to help them deal with the challenge of infertility. In total, Miriam has raised over £10,000 for Chana and Norwood over a span of four marathons. Jewish Weekly female readers may recall seeing her mum in a previous Eshet Chayil issue, entitled ‘Marathon Mum.’ This achievement is all the more remarkable considering she has had a back operation and arthritis to deal with recently, although she says it’s not as bad as her mum, “who now has a metal hip, shoulder and knee to show for her efforts!”

Great grandmother and Jewish educator, Flora Frank, competed under the Norwood banner while also raising funds for Emunah, crossing the line in six hours 41 minutes. At 72 years old, she has raised nearly £300,000 for charity, in an unbelievable career spanning no less than 35 marathons! Fittingly, she received the British Empire medal as a tribute to her incredible efforts.

The London Marathon clearly shows what the UK Jewish community are capable of and we should all be truly proud of everyone who was involved in this great event.

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Speaking at the International Bible Quiz prior to the vote, Prime Minister Netanyahu said “There was no nation in the world to whom Jerusalem was more holy than to the Jewish people.” He continued by saying “I know that today there is a vote in UNESCO that will try to deny that simple truth - we reject UNESCO.”

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police were also called. Witnesses say they saw a male attempt to enter a kosher food store in an extremely aggressive fashion, shouting anti-Semitic abuse and obscenities.

Staff saw what was taking place outside the shop, and before he could enter they locked the door.

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Speaking at the International Bible Quiz prior to the vote, Prime Minister Netanyahu said “There was no nation in the world to whom Jerusalem was more holy than to the Jewish people.” He continued by saying “I know that today there is a vote in UNESCO that will try to deny that simple truth - we reject UNESCO.”

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brandishing a meat cleaver in one hand and what appeared to be a large knife in his other hand. He shouted, “Where is the boss, I will kill him.”

Staff at the second kosher store replied several times that the owner was not there and the man eventually ran out of the shop and onto the street, still armed with the weapons.

The male described as white then allegedly ran towards two young Jewish girls aged 14 and 8, shouting “You Jews run away from here before I kill you,” according to Shomrim.

When Shomrim arrived at the scene, they were told the armed man had run towards a block of flats close by. Shomrim volunteers followed him into the area and cordoned off the zone, stopping all members of the public from approaching.

Another Shomrim team who arrived on the scene retrieved the CCTV from one of the shops to get an idea of what they were dealing with.

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Jared Kushner on Monday 22 May. The visit has come against a backdrop of controversy following the comments of National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster during a heated press conference on Tuesday.

McMaster was questioned regarding reports that Trump shared classified information with Russian officials in the Oval Office. Whilst outlining the president’s itinerary on his first official foreign trip to the Middle East, the issue of the status of

Jerusalem came up.

When asked whether the Western Wall was part of Israel, McMaster noted twice that it was a “policy decision,” and that the Western Wall was “not part of Israeli territory.”

Trump will visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, which was captured

by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War as part of his whistle stop trip.

The United States has never recognised Israel’s sovereignty over the Old City or other areas acquired in 1967.

In terms of the high profile visit, the American government have ordered more than a thousand rooms in the capital, but the president and his immediate family will be staying at the King David for just the one night.

When high-profile VIPs visit Israel and it becomes clear that person will stay in Jerusalem, top hotels compete for the booking. The Waldorf Astoria and David Citadel were high on the agenda, but in the end, they decided on the King David, as it is said to be the most secure hotel in Israel and easy for both the American and the Israeli secret service to protect.

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As the dust settles following the Manchester Arena bombing, more details have emerged about the catastrophe, as leaders from around the world continue to offer their tributes and condolences.

Police say that 22-year-old Salman Abedi, a student at Salford University, blew himself up as American singer Ariana Grande had just finished performing her last song on stage.

The casualties were high, with 22 people murdered so far, 59 injured, some critically, and children as young as 8 years old being counted among the dead. The attack took place at just after 10.30pm on Monday night in a public area just outside the entrance to the Manchester Arena next to Victoria station.

Manchester is home to the second largest Jewish community in Britain and several terror attacks have been foiled by the security forces in the past few years including an

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Condemnation from world leaders was swift as the number of deaths were continuing to rise. Prime Minister Theresa May gave a statement outside Downing Street, where she condemned the “appalling” terrorist attack, as “one of the worst terror attacks the UK had seen.” She said that the city had fallen victim to “a callous terrorist attack,” and that her thoughts and prayers were with all the victims, families and friends of those affected.”

President Donald Trump who was visiting Bethlehem to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, told the media that “this wicked ideology must be obliterated.” He went on to say how “all innocent lives must be protected, and my thoughts are with the people of Manchester.”

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BY ISSAC SHERMAN This section has earned its fame for inspiring our readers with great in-depth articles on how determined people have started businesses completely and utterly from scratch and turned them into successful companies, providing a living not only for their own families, but for many others too.

This week, we stay true to the theme of inspiration, but digress slightly to show Jewish Weekly readers how one man, working in

the banking sector in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong, decided to change his life and dedicate most of his time to using the Jewish people’s past as an inspiration to better many young people’s futures.

Scott Saunders grew up with virtually no known connection to the Holocaust, other than the fact that he was Jewish. An international career saw him live together with his family for three years in New York, three and a half years in Tokyo and 15 years in Hong Kong, working for

big names such as UBS and JP Morgan.

Living so far from home, community became an important factor in the Saunders’s home, with Scott’s wife particularly involved in various events. Sipping his coffee, Scott smiles as he tells me how he still maintains close contact with many friends from his time abroad, despite being back in London since 2010.

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in shul each week, who simply went by the name of Joseph, Scott always made sure to say Shabbat Shalom and goodbye to him.

But the banker’s life was about to take on a new significance.

Scott was invited to a commemoration evening for Chiune Sugihara, a former Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consulate for Japan in Lithuania.

At the risk of his own execution, he defied his own governments orders to save more than 3500 Jewish families during the

Holocaust by issuing them with transit visas to get out of wartorn Europe and escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis.

From his base in Kovno, Lithuania, the Jews he saved included the famous “Mir Yeshiva,” which still exists today in Israel.

(The story of how Mir ended up in Shanghai is certainly worthy of its own Jewish Weekly article, perhaps at a later date.) Sugihara was awarded the “Righteous Among the Nations” medal by Israel in 1985 for his heroic efforts.

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The evening was so inspiring that Scott decided to further his own research and learning. But his quest dramatically became more personal when he attended the funeral of the old man whom he had sat next to in shul for all those years, but hardly knew. The rabbi mentioned how the deceased’s wife had revealed to him that her husband, Joseph Shimkin, had been one of the recipients of Sugihara’s visas and had arrived in Japan on the very last boat in 1941.

Not only had he himself been saved, but he devised a fake seal of the Japanese’s consulate, enabling him to forge documents Survivor Arek Hirsch that were identical to Sugihara’s.

His fake visas were estimated to ter’s in Modern Jewish History tant event each year, with a full save over several hundred Jews at the age of 49, he realised that five-day program. Scott tells me from Auschwitz and other death many organisations did their own that the aim of the UK March is camps, and he issued these de- thing when it came to the Hol- threefold: “To further Holocaust spite the fact that he had already ocaust, but there was little joint education for university students and young adults, to bring peolost his own wife and child. Af- collaboration.

He decided to get in touch ple of all religious backgrounds ter moving to Japan, he ended with the inter- together, and to touch people’s up staying there, national March identity by encouraging each perremarried and of the Living, son to expand one area of their started a new an international engagement, whether it’s volunfamily. educational pro- teering, helping out on campus or “The fact that gram that brings visiting the sick in hospital.” my ex-neighbour Regarding education, Scott exJewish people in shul had such from all over the plains that studying the history a stunning histoworld to Poland of the nations in Europe is a vital ry which I never on Yom Hasho- cog in understanding how people knew when he ah, Holocaust can end up doing what they did was alive, made a Memorial Day, to the Jews during those terrible profound impact to march the years. He wants the learning to on me,” Scott three kilometres challenge people by covering new tells me, with a from Auschwitz ground and learning about things tiny teardrop glisthat they would never have come to Birkenau. tening in the corThis had been across before. ner of his eye.

When it comes to togetherness going since After that, he 1988, with for- in Poland, people often put aside started getting Remembering the past for a better future mer Chief Rab- political differences to pray tomore involved in gether as one united people, carHolocaust education for young bi of Israel Rabbi Lau, himself people. It began by bringing sur- a survivor, involved from the rying on defiantly after so many vivors in to speak to different beginning. Until 2010, the March years of trouble and hate. “Two groups, and it wasn’t long before had seen over 11,000 Jews com- weeks ago, at the mass Havdalah Scott was leading a group of 10 ing together to examine the roots ceremony, we had 260 people, adults on a trip to Poland togeth- of prejudice, intolerance and arm in arm, with survivors in the er with a few survivors. This first hate, but with no official delega- middle of the room lighting candles. It didn’t matter to anyone trip only made Scott want to go tion from the UK. Together with others, Scott set that some people were from BA, again and to take Holocaust education forward in a bigger way up the March of the Living UK some belonged to Tribe, whilst then he could ever have imagined. to encourage UK participants to others represented other instiAfter moving back to the UK join with the international com- tutions, such as Noam or LJY, in 2010 and completing a mas- munity in marking this impor- [they] all came together as one,”

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Scott recalled.

Touching people’s identity is perhaps the biggest passion that drives him on to organise a march that takes up almost a year of planning each time. “My team spend the entire year before the March, organising fundraising to cover the participants,” which amounts to 95% of the total costs. But it’s all worth it when we see how people stand at the gates of hell and are spurred on by a powerful “call to action.”

Something inside each person sparks them to expand their identity in one small way, which fulfils Scott’s ultimate goal, namely taking each person on a personal

journey of growth, each according to their own level.

Scott’s dream is to make the March of the Living UK a “rite of passage” for young British Jews, in the same way that an Israel tour has become a must. Having grown the UK delegation from just 10 participants in 2010 to 260 this past year, the former Hong Kong banker has truly shown that with great determination and passion, a person can really achieve anything they want if they just believe enough in themselves.

For more information, or to enquire about next year’s March, log on to http://marchoftheliving.org.uk

To further Holocaust education for university students and young adults, to bring people of all religious backgrounds together, and to touch people’s identity by encouraging each person to expand one area of their engagement, whether it’s volunteering, helping out on campus or visiting the sick in hospital.

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eople packed into emember the fallen m Hazikaron serboys, Louis Jacobs, Jack Thorn read member Them” by d Rabbi Jack Riemer. dle was lit by Laura ex- Israeli Defence outhend Rav, Rabbi al Memorial prayer her with the audizmaut celebrations rim Choir singing a

selection of Jewish/ Israeli songs, led by Yael Bebb accompanied by pianist David Blankffield. Soprano Laura Burns sang a variety of songs. Entertainment was also provided by Josh Hodis, a close up magician. Sidney Austin reminisced with Jewish Connections melodies.

The finale was the Shirim Choir singing Yeroushalim Chel Zahav followed by the Hatikvah. Proceeds raised over £1000 and went to the Israeli War Disabled. Sass’s legendary falafel and the Ladies Guild catered for the event.

rvivor Edgar Guest inspired the crowd at Yom Hashoah

King David High School celebrating Israel’s 69th birthday

Ilai proudly showing a picture he painted of an Israeli flag in Gan Kinneret Nursery

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Shock and horror is how so many responded to last Saturday nights devastating attack on London Bridge as details are still emerging of the three Jihadi attackers who have all been named. But questions remain over why two of the three terrorists were known and flagged to security services but nothing was done about them.

Italian authorities say they informed British police and MI5 about the third terrorist, but it seems because more than 3000 other potential radical Islamists were being watched, these three individuals were not deemed dangerous.

Dozens of people across the country have since been detained but many have now been released as police identified the brutal killers just hours after 50 bullets were pumped into their bodies last Saturday night.

Armed with foot-long knives and wearing fake suicide bomb vests during the deadly rampage, Britain suffered it’s third separate Islamic terror attack in just over two months.

One terrorist last Saturday night is reported to have shouted “this is for my family, this is for Islam” as he stabbed victims, while another

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Since 22 March, 34 innocent people have been killed and more than 200 have been injured in the three terrorist attacks. Never before has a British general election campaign been suspended twice due to the suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena and last weekend’s vehicle and stabbing attack on London Bridge and its surrounding streets.

At least during the height of the IRA bombing campaign on the mainland in the seventies and eighties, the terrorists gave a coded warning to police so they “sometimes” had time to evacuate innocent people. But extremist attacks such as these can strike at any time with absolutely no warning.

Security and emergency forces were swift in arriving at the scene of the attack last weekend with years of regular preparation for such a scenario and in doing so saving many more lives. From the time police received telephone calls that a vehicle had hit pedestrians on London Bridge, it took an armed unit just eight minutes to reach the scene, identify the terrorists and shoot all three assailants dead.

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Jewish leaders condemn the London Bridge terror attack.

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JS restaurant in Manchester is firebombed in an arson attack.

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Kays kosher grocery store in Golders Green is destroyed by fire, causing local families to evacuate their homes.

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The Manchester community unite for a Hachnasat Sefer Torah in memory of Rabbi Yehuda Brodie.

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A pro-Israel event in Westminster is cancelled amid fears of another London terror attack.

• Israel tennis star Dudi Sela wins his 22nd career title in Nottingham.

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• Jewish recipients are honoured in the Queen’s birthday honours list.

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King David Primary School pupils Rhys Goldfine and Jamie Cosky put rivalries aside

Shock and horror is how so many responded to last Saturday nights devastating attack on London Bridge as details are still emerging of the three Jihadi attackers who have all been named. But questions remain over why two of the three terrorists were known and flagged to security services but nothing was done about them.

Italian authorities say they informed British police and MI5 about the third terrorist, but it seems because more than 3000 other potential radical Islamists were being watched, these three individuals were not deemed dangerous.

Dozens of people across the country have since been detained but many have now been released as police identified the brutal killers just hours after 50 bullets were pumped into their bodies last Saturday night.

Armed with foot-long knives and wearing fake suicide bomb vests during the deadly rampage, Britain suffered it’s third separate Islamic terror attack in just over two months.

One terrorist last Saturday night is reported to have shouted “this is for my family, this is for Islam” as he stabbed victims, while another

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said “this is for Allah” as he knifed a man near a pub.

Since 22 March, 34 innocent people have been killed and more than 200 have been injured in the three terrorist attacks. Never before has a British general election campaign been suspended twice due to the suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena and last weekend’s vehicle and stabbing attack on London Bridge and its surrounding streets.

At least during the height of the IRA bombing campaign on the mainland in the seventies and eighties, the terrorists gave a coded warning to police so they “sometimes” had time to evacuate innocent people. But extremist attacks such as these can strike at any time with absolutely no warning.

Security and emergency forces were swift in arriving at the scene of the attack last weekend with years of regular preparation for such a scenario and in doing so saving many more lives. From the time police received telephone calls that a vehicle had hit pedestrians on London Bridge, it took an armed unit just eight minutes to reach the scene, identify the terrorists and shoot all three assailants dead.

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BY JAMES MARLOW

A dog named Daisy raised the alarm last Sunday morning on Golders Green Road and probably saved the lives of at least two people. But sadly Daisy, a cross between a poodle and a cavalier, was overwhelmed with smoke inhalation and died in the flat.

Events unfolded quickly when smoke was spotted by a passerby who entered the newspaper store next door to Kay’s kosher grocery store after 7 a.m. Within a few minutes fire services arrived as families in flats above were hanging their children out of windows, screaming for help.

Alex Gibson and his pregnant wife Charlotte had been woken earlier by Daisy, who had been barking intensely. The flat above Kays was filled with black smoke as panic set in and the dog continued to bark. Mr Gibson smashed a window just before fire engines arrived but then saw they were able to get out through the rear stairs. In the confusion the dog ran back into the flat and hid behind some furniture.

At that point a fireman raced up a ladder to take toddlers to safety from the window, but he himself was eventually overcome with

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smoke as he was not wearing a mask and became one of the casualties taken to hospital.

Screams were heard from other flats close by as the black smoke thickened, and Alex was unable to return to locate his mother’s dog.

Sandra Carney from Bell Lane in Hendon told The Jewish Weekly how her son and daughter-in-law asked their mother if her dog could stay over with them that night. “In the end, it was Daisy that saved their lives because she woke them up by barking.”

Mrs Carney added, “If it wasn’t for her I could have been burying my son and his pregnant wife – she saved my children’s lives.” She said that she was so thankful the dog stayed over that night.

However Sandra also spoke about her sadness about how their 3-year-old dog, who was like a member of the family, had died.

“The firemen found her lifeless body and it was so sad.”

Alex and his wife were placed in the flat by the council for two months whilst a more permanent home could be found, “but they lost everything except the night clothes they

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BY JAMES MARLOW The government has frozen the proposal of creating a mixed prayer section at the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem after the cabinet voted this week to temporarily halt the entire process.

In 2015 Prime Minister Netanyahu managed to convince American Reform leaders that his government would in due course pass legislation that would ensure women would be permitted to read from Torah scrolls, wear Tefillin and conduct prayer services at the heart of Judaism’s holiest site alongside their male counterparts.

The alternative form of Judaism and their leaders hailed the January 2016 agreement as a historic day of recognition of their type of Judaism by the Israeli government. But implementation of the plan was almost immediately suspended due to concerns that traditional Judaism was being watered down.

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government containing the religious political parties United Torah Judaism and Shas.

The decision to shelve the plan is a serious blow to the Conservative, Reform, Liberal, Progressive and Reconstructionist movements both in Israel and the diaspora. However the Kotel, as the Western Wall is known in Hebrew, continues to remain open to all Jews and non-Jews but will maintain an Orthodox approach just like in Temple times more than 2000 years earlier.

According to the prime minister’s office, Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Minister Tzahi Hanegbi and Cabinet Secretary Tzahi Braverman to come up with a new plan. The PMO also indicated that some construction work would be undertaken to upgrade the current egalitarian section at the South Wall, known as Robinsons Arch.

The cabinet vote came as the deadline set by the High Court of Justice for the state to respond to petitions against the government by progressive Jewish movements over implementation of the agreement expired earlier this week.

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Several Jews were evicted from last weekend’s “cultural and family event”, known as Palestine Expo, at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII) in London.

When Jason Silver sat down to eat lunch, which was included in the price of his ticket, and placed a kippa on his head, he was asked to leave. The incident, which was captured on video and went viral on the internet, showed the organisers asking a security guard to remove Mr Silver. Police were called when he insisted that all he was doing was eating lunch, noting that he had been there for three hours and that it was when he put on his kippa that he was asked to leave.

Elsewhere Mr David Collier sat down to eat lunch without a kippa, but with his wife and child, and was spotted by members of a local anti-Israel group called “London Palestine Action.”

“I saw an activist called Andrew Nelis before he saw me,” said Mr Collier. “I then saw Jackie Walker enter the room and start talking to him. They began looking over in my direction. Then Tony Greenstein

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However, he explained that he then walked over to them and said, “Yes, this is me.” Mr Collier said they looked at each other and that Greenstein did not believe he was there for the food. But he returned to his seat and his family. The three men then walked over with security guards to the long table where the Collier family were eating and asked them to leave, which they did.

David Collier said “I am now considering a civil suit against the QEII building as I am a member of the press, who was being evicted on discriminatory grounds.”

The pro-Palestinian event was almost cancelled after Communities Secretary Sajid Javid was concerned that the organisers, Friends of Al Aqsa, had links to terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. But in the end the event was given the go ahead and billed as “the biggest social, cultural and entertainment event on Palestine to ever take place in Europe.”

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In an astonishing move Sadiq Khan has overturned Barnet Council’s decision to grant planning permission to build a brand new Hasmonean school for boys not far from where the Hasmonean Girls’ School is situated on Page Street in London’s Mill Hill neighbourhood.

The London Mayor cited Green Belt land concerns and ruled that building plans for the new project are far too excessive and could have a negative effect on open space areas and controlling urban growth.

For several years, Jewish secondary schools in the North West London area have been hugely oversubscribed and parents have been desperate to obtain places in any Jewish school for their children. Numbers will only continue to increase in the coming years

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and it is difficult to see how this need can be met without the redevelopment of Hasmonean or another brand new Orthodox school.

An insider close to the project told the Jewish Weekly that if the expansion plan does not take place, Jewish children will not even have an option to get into a non-Jewish school.

The unnamed source known to The Jewish Weekly said of Sadiq Khan, “This is a person who spoke at Jewish Care and now a Muslim Mayor of all people is overturning a democratic elected council decision to build a new Jewish school.”

In February, Barnet Council’s planning committee narrowly gave the go-ahead through a cross-party vote for a major building redevelopment project on greenbelt land owned by the council. The result was

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greeted with jubilation as some three-hundred people packed into the committee room to clap and cheer once they knew the decision had been passed.

The boys would have moved into the newly built premises by 2020 and Hasmonean pupils on the new site would have increased from its current annual role of 1100 pupils to 1400 per year. But this latest move from the Mayor’s office has sent shivers into the community because there does not appear to be many other options available to cater for a growing Orthodox community that requires Jewish education for its children.

The insider close to the project did point out that they expected the Mayor’s office may suggest a compromise of turning the Hasmonean on Page Street into a mixed school and thereby save vital Green Belt land. “This however was out of the question and could never be accepted,” the source said.

There are currently 635 boys on the Holders Hill campus in Hendon – a school that was only designed for 350.

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RABBI DWECK CRISIS REACHES CONCLUSION - P3 In a letter to Barnet council earlier this week, Mr Khan said that he recognised the importance of meeting educational needs, but felt “the proposed footprint of the school and the extent of development on Green Belt land and open space, is excessive.

On balance, I consider that the potential harm to the Green Belt would not be outweighed.”

A community leader did say that their only hope right now was that

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Mayor Khan did not know about the decision and that the letter had just been sent from his office. But others said that was highly unlikely.

The community is therefore appealing to Sadiq Kahn to reverse his decision in light of the desperate shortage of Jewish schools in North West London and to take into consideration the Jewish community’s long successful tradition of separate schools and excellent exam results.

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Despite Israeli authorities dismantling the metal detectors at the entrance to Temple Mount, the wave of anger from the Arab world has continued, with Terror groups Hamas and Fatah both calling for this Friday to be another ‘day or rage.’

Fatah youth group Shabiba called on Palestinians to remain “steadfast” in the defence of Jerusalem, and The Tanzim, an armed militia affiliated with Fatah, have been organising mass demonstrations throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank.

This is in addition to widespread riots amongst many radical Palestinians, who claim Israel have violated the status quo in the holy site. However some Palestinians were not bothered by the new security procedures until they were threatened by the Muslim Waqf and told not to enter the holy site.

The security cabinet says the detectors and cameras will be replaced with smart, less

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obtrusive, surveillance methods which could mean they will simply be removed to just outside the Lions’ Gate rather than around the Temple Mount area.

Israel installed metal detectors at entry points to the Al-Aksa mosque compound after two

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Over 400 people attended Ner Yisrael Synagogue on Tuesday to hear a fantastic set of speakers on the subject of technology and teens organised by JPEN. The meeting was honoured with the presence of Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu who came to show his support.

Dr Andrea Whyte, presenting the speakers on behalf of JPEN, opened proceedings by speaking to over 350 parents. She remarked that we have to “understand the technology that children have in their pocket” and that we are collectively “taking responsibility to move forward.”

Following this, Rabbi Kimche, Shul Rabbi and a well-respected authority in the NW London community, gave a note of welcome and introduced the evening by talking about the challenges which we face and the influence that phones are having on us and our children. He stated that technology is “equally a problem for adults,” however it is much more acute for youngsters and “the dangers are massive.”

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Around 30,000 athletes participated in 20th Maccabiah Games in Israel. The opening ceremony was televised live on Israel’s Channel 2 news. The ‘Jewish Olympics’ is the third largest sporting event and attracts athletes from 80 countries over a two-week period every four years. Athletes competed for over 2,000 medals in 45 sports across eight cities.

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Maccabiah debutants Team GB girls lacrosse team has claimed at a silver medal at the 20th Maccabiah Games. Competing for the first time in the games the result was an outstanding result during the opening few days action, despite losing the gold medal match to the USA. The Lacrosse team had opened their account with a first ever win at the Maccabiah when they defeated Israel 17-15 in overtime. A thrilling match had finished 15-15 so both teams agreed to play on until someone came out victorious.

Team GB came through and after losing to USA 18-6 in the second group game, defeated Israel 9-3 in the semi-final shoot out to earn another shot at Team USA in the gold medal match in Netanya.

Amy Ansell who set up the team flew out for a surprise visit to see the semi-final clash. “It was an epic game so they have now definitely won a medal,” said an elated Amy, who flew back to London after the game. “The atmosphere was incredible, with parents and supporters excellent.”

Elsewhere, Jonah Alfert picked up the first medal for Team GB when he won bronze in the U55kg category prior to Phil Bloom winning bronze in Masters Judo over100kg category. More Team GB success came in team events with the junior girls and masters’ mens table tennis winning silver in the team event, and junior boys winning bronze.

As the sporting action began in earnest, the U18 Badminton squad kicked off its campaign. Eleanor Levy, 15, who has only been playing the sport for six months won her opening encounter against India. “I came out with very low

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U16s drew with Canada then hit four goals in victories over Italy and Venezuela. The U18 side also drew with Israel then enjoyed superb wins against Spain 2-1 and Germany 2-0. As for the open men team, following a hard fought 1-1 draw with Australia they won close

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expectations and didn’t think I’d win a match so it’s amazing to win a game at the Maccabiah,” she said. “The Team GB spirit, everything surrounding the trip has been amazing, it’s an experience of a lifetime.”

“I’m very excited about playing against Israel and Turkey,” added teammate Ariella Aaronson. “I’ve not been playing for long so mostly came for the experience and it’s been amazing.”

Despite losing their opening clashes, taking part in a Maccabiah has been a positive experience for Joseph Gavzey and Joel Winston, who both chalked up 11 points but went down to the Israeli number

one and two seeds in their opening group stage match. “It’s going to be really tough but we are trying our hardest,” said Joseph. “I’ve been training for two years to get into the team and it’s been worth it, the experience has been incredible.

Being here has been greater than my expectations.

“I’m very much enjoying it,” commented Joel. “It’s exciting, meeting new people and playing against amazing players that I’d not normally come up against.

“There was only a slim chance of getting through the group so to be part is great.”

Team GB Cricket defeated Israel by 85 runs. Marc Reinhold scored

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contest 1-0 against USA. And the Masters 35s drew 1-1 with Israel prior to a 3-1 loss to Chile, whilst the Masters 45s enjoyed a 2-1 victory against Peru. Australia and Canada defeated the Girls and Women’s team respectively.

In junior tennis there were wins for Sam Radiven, Adam Bolchover, Ben Felt and Jamie Osrin while Josh Hennes lost his opening encounter.

But Issy Brand, Katy Spalter, Jasmine Randall, Charlotte Salt and Joe Salt all lost. In masters tennis, Alan Rechtman, Diana Gold, Robert Ollman, Alex Barnett, David Mattey, Sarah Schechter and Sheldon Sussman all claimed wins in opening encounters. Great Britain taking on Australia in open football

Around thirty thousand athletes and supporters from around the world attended the opening ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. Televised live on Israel’s Channel 2 news, the ‘Jewish Olympics’ is the world’s third-largest sporting event and attracts athletes from eighty countries over a two-week period in July. Participants are competing for over two thousand medals in forty-five different sports across eight cities in Israel.

Rio Olympic gold medalist, American swimmer Anthony Ervin, who also won gold at Sydney 2000, lit the Olympic flame at the end of an emotive night with a theme celebrating fifty years since the reunification of Jerusalem.

Athletes also honored as torchbearers were Israeli NBA basketball star Omri Casspi, together with Israeli Olympic medalists Yarden Gerbi and Or Sasson, Israeli paralympic medalist Moran Samuel and French Olympic swimming star Fabien Gilot. Following the lighting ceremony athletes and supporters passionately sang the Israeli national anthem.

The opening ceremony began with a Maccabi youth movement flag parade.Twenty years on from when a bridge collapsed at the 1997 Games, claiming the lives of a number of Australian athletes, the crowd erupted as the Aussie delegation of six hundred athletes entered the stadium for the athletes’ parade. Delegations which

followed included Great Britain, with a four hundred-strong contingent led out by seven-time veteran competitor Bernie Davidson, whose granddaughters, Jazi and Ella, were competing for the first time in football and netball teams respectively. “Carrying the flag at the opening ceremony made me feel like twenty-one years old again,” reflected lawn bowler Bernie. “And having my granddaughters, Jazi and Ella, behind me was a great experience. It was a real honour carrying the flag, I was very surprised and it absolutely lived up to my expectations.”

He added, “The whole package of the Maccabiah is wonderful, you meet so many people from around the world that come up and greet you, and the opening ceremony is unique here in Jerusalem. The Maccabiah is all about what you put into it. You work hard and play hard but the most important thing is sportsmanship.”

Aside from the two-and-a-half thousand person Israeli delegation, the USA had the largest group of eleven-hundred athletes.

At the other end of the spectrum just one competitor represented Portugal and Taiwan, whilst China sent its first ever delegation.

“The opening ceremony was immense. The performances, teams and atmosphere was absolutely brilliant,” said badminton player Joseph Gavzey. “The ceremony was unbelievable, it’s so difficult to put into words,” added teammate Eleanor Levy.“Walking out was scary but you felt really special knowing you had got there

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“Just to experience the opening ceremony was is what I hoped it would be,” commented Ariella Aaronson, also a member of the badminton side. “You see the ceremony in the Olympics, so to see what it feels like when a team walks out, to get that rush of energy and excitement with all the lights flashing around was really special.”

Team GB had a large section of vocal supporters in a passionate crowd, following their family

members. For some the ceremomy is a four-yearly event, for others a first visit. The Schweiger family is following footballer Danny and his daughter Ella, playing for the under-sixteen girls team. Attending the Maccabiah has been an ongoing theme going back many games. Dad Tommy commented, “Being here makes me proud to be a Jew and I’ll cry when the Hatikva is played. The comradeship my family has had through the Maccabiah movement, especially in the UK, goes back years. We have made so many friends and

it’s all about being here. If you win then it’s a bonus.”

“We’re following the under-eighteens football team,” said Susie Margolis from Manchester, who was with husband Simon and daughter Sadie. “We’ve managed to catch a word with Harry at the end of games, which is great. The ceremony is an amazing experience, the atmosphere is fantastic.”

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The call for people to contribute to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund set up by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Houston Jewish Federation comes as kosher food has reportedly run out.

The floods have overtaken Houston and affected close to three quarters of the city’s Jewish population which is estimated to be around 65,000 people.

Most of the Houston Jewish institutions and synagogues were in the path of the deadly force of waters and although households have faced tropical storms and floods in the past, this is by far the most extreme. Half of the total yearly rainfall fell in just three days reaching 50 inches and another 50 inches was expected.

According to YWN, Houston’s Jewish Federation, Jewish Family Service and the Orthodox organization Agudat Yisrael immediately opened disaster relief funds.

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In addition, they each set up and co-ordinated a crisis relief hotline providing food, air conditioning, internet, electricity for a limited time and some housing. Some staff members including therapists were available for people who have hurricane-related anxiety.

Meanwhile, Chabad of Texas coordinated truckloads of kosher food to be sent to the areas hardest hit and set up a kosher food pantry available to the Jewish community as supplies reached the area.

Chabad emissaries in Houston had been preparing and delivering kosher meals to people evacuated to emergency shelters or who took shelter in hotels.

But Houston has always had a limited amount of kosher food.

Even as its Jewish population has rapidly grown in recent years, as has the general population, it remains geographically distant from kosher manufacturing bases on the coasts and the heartland.

Each week, trucks carrying

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A handful of chain supermarkets carry kosher meat, poultry and milk to supply Houston’s Jewish

community. But Hurricane Harvey flooded two of these main supermarkets and caused the other two to shut down. One of those two supermarkets have now been turned

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The Stoke-On-Trent North MP was speaking at the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) one-day conference this week at the JW3 centre in London’s Hampstead.

Ms Smeeth who last year received more than 20,000 hate messages alone on her twitter account, some containing death threats and even more worrying, some from fellow Labour supporters and members, said she meets with Jeremy Corbyn each week after Prime Minister’s Question Time. “It is the highlight of my week” she joked as she explained, “he just cannot get his head around it,” referring to the extreme anti-Israel and anti-Jewish comments from some Labour

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“He honestly believes he is dealing with anti-Semitism,” Ms Smeeth said referring to the calm voice Corbyn uses to express himself when saying the party will not tolerate racist behaviour. But just last week, Shadow Minster Chris Williamson, a key ally of Corbyn, believed that accusations against the Labour Party being anti-Semitic were “dirty, lowdown tricks” and “smears” and that the anti-Semitism claims are just a “weaponisation for political ends.”

In other words, Corbyn’s key allies along with the Labour party in general remain in denial.

The first ever JLM conference heard Labour members from the audience in the main hall and various break-out session rooms raise their concerns. One said that a known Labour “Holocaust denier was reported but nothing was done by the party.” Another said they

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A great deal of “online abuse” was another subject brought up by several party members asking how it can be tackled and dealt with. Yet another asked about losing voters in the last general election because of the perceived anti-Semitism and wanted to know what to do about it. Ruth Smeeth MP immediately replied “We will get those people back once Ken is voted out of the Labour Party.”

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Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is no different and in his first in-depth interview with the Jewish Weekly he considers his Chief Rabbinate to date.

The 11th Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth since the office was introduced in 1704, among many projects initiated, the Centre for Community Excellence (CCE) has been a mainstay project since its inception in 2014. And it is set to develop further.

Coupled with Shabbat UK, hard work has led to successes and far-reaching results.

CCE spearheads a range of ventures namely the Etz Chaim Project, Investing in Rebbetzens, Community Twinning and Rabbis

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“When I was a community Rabbi, creative programming was essential,” Chief Rabbi Mirvis, who was installed to the post on September 1, 2013, recalled.

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“I recalled his frustration and disappointment that his plan was on the launch pad and never happened. For the sake of a relatively small sum of money a community was not allowed to use the wings it had in order to fly and a creatively minded Rabbi was stopped in his tracks.

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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.”

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Fifty years on from the Six-Day War, one photograph of three paratroopers standing by the Western

I wasn’t scared Wall remains the most instantly recognised image of the conflict. Photojournalist David Rubinger took about going to war, the iconic picture that included Yitzhak Yifat who was among the first Israeli soldiers to reach the Kotel you can’t think that after its recapture on June 7, 1967. Israel’s victory captured the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula way, you have to from Egypt, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria. do your mission.

We were waiting to Iconic paratrooper image endures 50 years on from Six Day War board planes for a parachute jump in the Sinai to capture El-Arish, but Hussein ordered Jordanian planes to start bombarding Jerusalem so our mission was changed.

Suddenly we had to board buses to defend Jerusalem.

I didn’t feel there were any historical wings over us but once you realised we’d be going to the Kotel, it hits you.

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Fifty years on from the Six-Day War one photograph of three paratroopers by the Western Wall remains the most notable and instantly recognised image of the conflict.

Photojournalist David Rubinger took the iconic picture of Zion Karasenti, Dr Yitzhak Yifat and Haim Oshri standing by one of Judaism’s holiest sites shortly after its recapture by Israeli forces on June 7, 1967.

Among the first Israeli soldiers to reach the Western Wall, otherwise known as the Kotel, the image symbolises an historic moment for Jewish people during the reunification of Jerusalem.

Since the picture was published around the world, the unsuspecting heroes have got used to telling their part in the story as historic sites returned to Israel sovereignty.

Israel’s victory over neighbouring states captured the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from Jordan and Golan Heights from Syria.

Though the paratroopers hold differing political opinions they have remained friends intrinsically linked by a historic photograph.

Throughout this special

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anniversary year in Israel there have been events to mark the reunification including the recent Maccabiah Games.

And it was during my coverage for The Jewish Weekly, I recalled the events of June ’67 with Yitzhak at the Western Wall itself where his deeds would have an everlasting legacy.

Historians note that leading up to the conflict tensions between Israel and Egypt had risen.

After Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, Israel declared it an act of war, restating its position following the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Falsely believing reports Israel was massing troops on the Syrian border, Nasser mobilised his forces along its border with Israel, but was caught by surprise when preemptive Israeli airstrikes on Egyptian airfields on June 5 all but wiped out Egypt’s air force with few Israeli casualties.

With air supremacy achieved, further Israeli bombardment secured victory in the Sinai.

Nasser however claimed Egypt had defeated the air strikes.

Persuading Syria and Jordan to attack Israel, Israeli retaliation saw IDF forces seize East Jerusalem,

the West Bank and Golan Heights prior to a ceasefire being signed on June 11.

Yitzhak was 24 years old and working as a teacher in Tel Aviv about to enter medical school when war broke out.

A reservist paratrooper, he was not initially called up but received his orders at home to join up with the 66th Battalion on May 23, 1967.

A Corporal in his unit at a kibbutz near Tel Nof airport on the first day of the war, Yitzhak fought in the battle for Ammunition Hill, a heavily guarded military post in Jordanian-occupied territory, west of Mount Scopus, and subsequent conquest of East Jerusalem.

Ammunition Hill was a crucial target as it linked Mount Scopus and West Jerusalem.

Initially though, his orders were far away from this area of the country.

“I wasn’t scared about going to war, you can’t think that way, you have to do your mission, you just do it,” he recalled.

“We were waiting to board planes and parachute jump in the Sinai to capture El-Arish, but Hussein had ordered Jordanian planes to start bombarding Jerusalem.

“We heard there were casualties

so our mission was changed.

“I was upset because this was the first time we would have parachuted behind enemy lines but our Battalion commander, Yossi Yafe, gathered us to say, ‘Look guys, Hussein is bombing Jerusalem so we have to change the mission’.

“Instead of a parachute jump, suddenly we had to board buses to defend Jerusalem.

“At the time, I didn’t feel there were any historical wings over us but once you realised we’d soon be going to the Kotel, it hits you.”

Yitzhak continued, “The bus driver saw us, picked us up and put on the radio.

“We could hear a broadcast in very bad Hebrew. The Egyptian announcer was saying, ‘your airplanes are falling down like flies’, which made us laugh, because we knew he was lying.

“We arrived around midnight in West Jerusalem near a religious neighborhood and during the waiting period rested in a house.

“Women brought soldiers coffee and cakes but I could not eat as I had a really bad toothache.

“At some point, a woman came in from a house nearby, because she’d heard about my toothache and told me her husband was a dentist and would treat me.

“I jumped up like a snake had bitten me in his dentist chair but the pain was soon relieved when he gave me a local anesthetic. The dentist told me with tears in his eyes, if we captured the Kotel, I could see him anytime, free for life.”

The Israeli Jerusalem Command led by General Uzi Narkis decided against an aerial attack on Ammunition Hill due to nearby civilian towns.

Preferring an artillery and ground attack, some of the heaviest fighting of the entire conflict took place with elite Jordanian Legionnaires in bunkers to capture the hill.

The Third Company of the 66th Battalion, 55th Paratroopers Brigade and a Second Company force fought a four-hour battle that ensued at 2.30am.

Israeli Defence Forces were misinformed about the number of Jordanians defending Ammunition Hill.

Thirty-six Israeli and 71 Jordanian soldiers died during the fighting.

Yitzhak has never forgotten the battle or price Israeli forces paid.

“During the early hours of Tuesday (June 6) we moved towards Ammunition Hill and could hear bombing.” he recalled.

“The fighting with the Jordanians was brutal. It was hand-to-hand combat and many soldiers died or were badly injured.”

After the battle of Ammunition Hill, Yitzhak’s combat unit went directly to Augusta Victoria Hospital on Mount Scopus, where more soldiers died in heavy fighting.

The unit continued on to the Old City.

In the midst of this action, after a two-day battle in East Jerusalem, the 55th Brigade had broken through Lion’s Gate leading to the Old City of Jerusalem and reached the Western Wall.

The historic moment was not lost on soldiers amidst emotional scenes.

When Yitzhak and his fellow paratroopers entered Lion’s Gate towards the Western Wall area they gazed up at the 2000 year-old stones in awe when photographer, David Rubinger, sought permission to take what would become his famous shot.

Rubinger would become the most famous photographer of Israel’s

history until his death in March 2017. His journey to this moment in time was remarkable.

Born in Vienna, 1924, he emigrated to Palestine on the Youth Aliya rescue initiative aged 15 after Nazi Germany annexed Austria.

Settling in a Jordan Valley kibbutz, Rubinger served with the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in the Second World War. After his mother died in the Holocaust, a marriage of convenience to a cousin, Anni, enabling her to emigrate to Palestine, lasted over 50 years until her death.

After fighting in the War of Independence, Rubinger began his photographic career and was working for Time Life Magazine at el-Arish on the Sinai Peninsula during the Six Day War. On June 6, he heard rumours about a possible mission in Jerusalem on a radio.

Sensing the moment, Rubinger failed to board an army helicopter for wounded soldiers but leapt on to the next as it took off unaware of its destination, which happened to be Beersheva where his car was parked.

Though exhausted, Rubinger started to drive to Jerusalem, picking up a hitchhiking solider who continued the journey.

In the early hours of June 7, Rubinger saw his family, who told him the Old City was in Israeli hands.

Walking through empty streets to

the Old City, he arrived at Lion’s Gate as paratroopers began breaking through.

With permission from army officials to be on the front-line, Rubinger joined the paratroopers, identifying a tight photographic position between the Western Wall and nearby houses a few metres away, he laid down on the ground.

Yitzhak and other paratroopers walked by shortly afterwards.

Asking permission to take a picture, Rubinger shot the image that would define him as a world-renowned photographer.

Rubinger also took a picture of IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren on the shoulders of paratroopers blowing a shofar around 20 minutes later that is famous in its own right though not to the same acclaim of his paratrooper picture.

Rubinger was not that impressed with the paratrooper image when he developed it but duly passed both pictures to the Army as agreed for his front-line access.

The government press office distributed them for a fee equivalent to £2 each.

Through the years, Rubinger bemoaned the fact that his work had been pirated, but the mass distribution made it iconic, which he recognised.

Indeed, Justice Misha’el Kheshin declared his paratrooper picture “the property of the entire nation” in 2001. There can be no finer

The three Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall

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The men’s section of the Western Wall

tribute.

For Yitzhak, seeing the Kotel close up there were many emotions.

“There was excitement and it was a victory but I had lost many friends,” he recalled.

“David (Rubinger) was laying on the ground, asked us to stop, then took the picture.”

But there was little time for Yitzhak to dwell on the moment, as news came through that Syria was shelling on the northern border.

However, a ceasefire was announced before he had begun to travel north.

Rubinger’s picture was published and newspaper captions at the time claimed the trio was gazing up at the Wall when in fact they were standing with their backs to it looking into the distance.

Its significance soon became apparent and remained over the forthcoming decades.

Indeed, when Israel marked the Six Day War ten years ago, the photograph served as the media logo.

Yitzhak, who entered medical school where he trained as a gynecologist, continued to volunteer for reserve duty in the medical corps into his 60s.

Whilst he feels Israel has made mistakes politically since the ’67 war, he has continued to speak about of this period in his life at schools and events sensing a responsibility to history.

One of the most recognised faces in his country, he is referred to as ‘The paratrooper who looked up at the Wall’ by the Israeli media.

And he has been spotted in the most unusual of places.

One day at the Rockefeller Center in New York when a holocaust survivor greeted him, Yitzhak was quick to point out the famous

picture was about his friends that fought in ’67.

Yitzhak, who lost his wife to cancer, continues to visit the Western Wall, despite his view that it is, in his own words, “more a synagogue than national symbol,” A secular Israeli, alongside fellow Six Day War veterans, he backed a recent campaign by the Women of the Wall about limited access to the Western Wall.

The issue is heavily debated in Israel with Yitzhak vocal in the national media of his country.

“I’m glad we liberated ancient Jerusalem and the Kotel as it is a special place for the Jewish people but its different today,” he explained.

“Many friends gave their lives so for us it’s an insult that people are subject to ultra orthodox rules to touch the Kotel, which we fought very hard for and paid a heavy price.

“We didn’t think it was a synagogue, nor afterward, there is no reason why the Kotel, as holy as it is, can be an ultra orthodox synagogue.

“Everybody should be allowed to pray if he or she feels right to do so.”

On Yom Yerushalayim, Israeli’s main memorial ceremony commemorating the reunification of

David Saffer with Yitzchak Yifat

Jerusalem takes place at Ammunition Hill.

Now a national memorial site, a museum opened in 1975 to tell the story of the battle for Jerusalem during the Six Day War. The hill has 182 olive trees signifying the number of Israeli soldiers that died during the war.

Yitzhak did not seek a place as a cultural hero but inadvertently became one.

Looking back at the onset of summer in ‘67, he humbly recognises his place in Israeli cultural history.

“The picture was not about the three of us, though we became aware of its importance,” he said.

“At the time, we did not think this is a moment in history, even though we came to a place the Jewish people had been longing for generations.

“I’m glad I took part in liberating the Kotel, an unseen part of Jerusalem. It was a historical moment for all Jews, and for us too.

“It was special but all the IDF soldiers made it available to Jews again.”

Editor’s note: Every effort has been made to factually detail the background to this story.

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I’m glad I took part in liberating the Kotel, which was an unseen part of Jerusalem.

There was excitement and it was a victory but I lost many friends. It was a historical moment for all Jews. It was special but all the IDF soldiers made it available to Jews again

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Shabbat UK has made a great impact on British society in appreciating genuine values within challenging times. Shabbat UK reaches out to people, encourages and is appealing.

It sells itself because our Jewish souls appreciate what Shabbat is for us.”

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With the High Holidays once again here it’s a time when Jews around the world reflect, consider challenges and look forward.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is no different and in his first in-depth interview with the Jewish Weekly he considers his Chief Rabbinate to date.

The 11th Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth since the office was introduced in 1704, among

many projects initiated, the Centre for Community Excellence (CCE) has been a mainstay project since its inception in 2014. And it is set to develop further.

Coupled with Shabbat UK, hard work has led to successes and far-reaching results.

CCE spearheads a range of ventures namely the Etz Chaim Project, Investing in Rebbetzens, Community Twinning and Rabbis for Communities.

Each benefits community life, lay leadership and synagogue relations.

“When I was a community Rabbi, creative programming was essential,” Chief Rabbi Mirvis, who was installed to the post on September 1, 2013, recalled.

“One of a number of young Rabbis I was mentoring in an outlying community came up with a brilliant idea for a Shabbat activity but the shul did not have the funds to

bridge the £250 cost.

“I recalled his frustration and disappointment that his plan was on the launch pad and never happened. For the sake of a relatively small sum of money a community was not allowed to use the wings it had in order to fly and a creatively minded Rabbi was stopped in his tracks.

“A prime objective leading up to my commencement in office was to help those types of community

Rabbis start fresh programmes.”

Through CCE, 470 new initiatives in over 100 shuls around the country have taken place.

“Amazing things are happening, it’s palpable, visible and something very real, and they are life shaping for participants.” enthused the Chief Rabbi, who together with his wife, Valerie, has visited communities the length and breadth of the United Kingdom.

Chief Rabbi Mirvis recalled a

joint Shabbaton held by Solihull, Leicester, Newcastle and Sheffield in Bosworth that was particularly noteworthy three years ago.

“Shabbatons are not new but before CCE residential ones were out of reach for the vast majority of communities because of the cost of facilities,” he explained.

“When I heard community Rabbis had come together, who by themselves would not have enough people to populate a hotel, not only did we support them in terms of inspiration, ideas and funding, but Valerie and I went, celebrated with the communities and it was amazing.

“There was such excitement about Shabbat, Yiddishkeit and the capacity of a community to raise the bar, to punch above its weight.

“The event is symbolic of everything that has happened.

These activities have given greater self belief and far more confidence to achieve. We have seen a transformation of the landscape of communities.”

Chief Rabbi Mirvis also praised regional events that are now the norm.

“Regional communities have come up with ideas we never thought of such as spending a Jewish day in London,” he explained.

“We think of spending a Jewish day in Paris or Amsterdam but never realised London could become a mecca for provincial Jews. Participants leave early on a Sunday and get back late at night. They have a kosher meal, visit a Jewish museum or area of Jewish interest, we provide an educator and they do some shopping in Golders Green.

“It’s a most incredible Jewish day, so simple yet so powerful, and has been repeated time and again with our assistance and input.”

As for Shabbat UK, like CCE, it has been a revelation since kicking off in 2014.

The Chief Rabbi has been a guest in Leeds and Manchester the past two years, but can the initiative

move to another level?

Chief Rabbi Mirvis is in no doubt that it can.

“Shabbat UK would not have been the success it has been without CCE because the two have gone hand in hand,” he explained.

“We have been calling on communities to do something unprecedented and they have produced it, but CCE input is crucial in providing ideas, information and funding to allow communities to perform so spectacularly.

“In simple terms it’s about people attending communal meals, activities, a Havdalah concert, challah bakes and so on. But there is a separate level, engagement with Shabbat so people become more spiritually motivated. Its not just about attending an event, it’s feeling your Jewish roots, being proud of our Torah tradition.”

He added, “Shabbat UK has an amazingly powerful message that

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The Shul building itself will always be a nucleus of activities but it needs to be far beyond a house of prayer

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Torah values are cool. When we talk about a digital detox day, you could not have anything more relevant for the 21st century. Shabbat UK has made a great impact on British society in appreciating genuine values within challenging times.

“Each year we go up a notch and this year it will be a few notches.

We have extra special activities that we will be announcing soon.

“The majority of Jews have engaged with Shabbat UK and that is quite a statement.

“A recently published Jewish policy research shows 44 per cent of Jews (census related) are not shul members so to have the majority engaging is a very significant number.

“Shabbat UK reaches out to

people, encourages and is appealing. It sells itself because our Jewish souls appreciate what Shabbat is for us.”

Whilst Shabbat UK has been an undoubted success, Chief Rabbi Mirvis also noted that Shabbat-related activities had increased as a result, on an unprecedented scale.

“We have made it clear, if Shabbat UK was only about one Shabbat it would not be worth the effort, it’s primarily about the follow up,” he explained.

“Mill Hill is an outstanding example because directly as a result of Shabbat UK they have a Friday night monthly event for the community. Then there is Newcastle who had a mini-Shabbat UK. They repeated the challah bake, 80 members from the community of Gateshead made the long walk over the river to join them and they had an amazing Shabbat.

“Stanmore organised a Havdala Jam that attracted a huge variety of people and kids in Allerton, Liverpool launched an inter-generational programme after Shabbat over the winter months that was packed.

“These are some of the many different activities around the country Shabbat UK inspires.”

Chief Rabbi Mirvis turned his thoughts to CCE’s twinning programme.

“Twinning works brilliantly, its so simple yet powerful,” he enthused.

“When Pinner and Norwich spent a Shabbat together there was great community cohesion for a Jewish-centred experience in a historic city. Solihull and Sheffield have now done three joint events, Birmingham Central and Cheltenham have got together, and the trend continues.

“We are inundated with applications from communities for programmes.

“Ideas are passed around when they are successful. We send out ideas, booklets and best practice, this has worked for a community so why not try it?”

As for the CCE inspired Etz

Chaim project, which has seen 160 young adults visit 54 communities run Shabbat and Yom Tov services alongside activities, the Chief Rabbi said it brought an “injection of yiddishkeit” to Shabbat.

Describing the Rebbetzen programme, which has staged leadership skills seminars and trips to Gibraltar and Rome, as an “amazing success”, he was similarly proud of a third regional leaders conference planned for 2018.

“Community leaders share dilemmas, challenges and successes,” the Chief Rabbi said.

“It has worked brilliantly, leaders are in contact and able to benefit in a very productive way.”

Regarding the visiting rabbi initiative, he commented, “It’s impossible for every community in the country to have a Rabbi because there are tiny pockets of Jews but every such group should have a person to turn to, someone to contact for pastoral purposes.

“Every Jewish soul is precious whether they are in Golders Green or somewhere in the regions, so this is project is making an impact.”

Summing up the overall programme, Chief Rabbi Mirvis is hugely optimistic.

“I believe in the strength of our communities,” he enthused. “I’ve seen wonderful commitment and the best thing about CCE is we don’t have a lot of convincing.

“We give ideas, show it can be done, people go for it and the rewards have been enormous.

“We have been able to provide the cream of Jewish leadership from around the world to be accessible to communities and it’s making a big difference.”

He added, “CCE is a hub, the go to place for communities and people to tell us about a great ideas.

We connect people all the time, it has created an amazing collegiality

amongst the Rabbinate, Rebbetzens and lay leadership of communities around the country.

“Our job is to point them in the right direction, offer advice, empower and give them the strength to do what they want to do.

“It is not just a question of paying expenses for a speaker, it’s a matter of professionalising the process.

Ideas have to be clear and feedback is a fundamental process.

“We need to know what people think, was it worthwhile, what do they want to see happening in a Shul. It helps us see the impact on Shul. It also helps the Rabbi and lay leadership so they know they are doing the right thing for members.

“This new dimension to the office is about communities, Judaism, inspiring people and providing added quality to lives. That is the tone of our entire Chief Rabbinate, it is an indivisible part of everything that we are doing.

“We are here to provide services for everybody by creating a warm, friendly, inclusive community environment.

“A smile, a welcoming spirit, a statement that Shul is a home away from home where everyone can feel comfortable regardless of their religiosity.”

In terms of challenges that Jewish communities face, Chief Rabbi Mirvis believes in trying to accentuate the positives.

Take the topic of ‘shrinking communities’ in parts of the country.

“Demographic trends are a worldwide phenomena, its not just here in the UK,” he explained.

“London is different to smaller communities in the regions where by and large it’s about managing decline. The task is how best to cater for a community which is a shadow of what it used to be. How can we gain added self-confidence as opposed to talking ourselves

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We want boys and girls of today to be familiar enough with our services whereby for the rest of their lives they can walk into any shul in the world, hear where the chazan is at, open a siddur and join in the service.

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The Chief Rabbi in discussion with HRH Prince Charles

Feature Spotlight Mordechai Spiegler captained Israel’s national team at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico and scored their only goal of the tournament against Sweden. The finals are still the only time Israel has graced the tournament. Brazil, with Pele in his pomp, won the Jules Rimet Trophy with a scintillating attacking football. Spiegler partnered Pele at New York Cosmos and is recognised by the Israeli Football Association as his country’s greatest player.

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Representing Israel was always an honour. Whenever I watch back my goal against Australia to take us to the World Cup, I’m still afraid the keeper will stop the ball! But I am aware what a big moment it was for the country and proud I scored it

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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

David Saffer having a chat with Mordechai Spiegler

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

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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Israel’s 1970 World Cup squad

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

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

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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

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

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Lots of people have asked about my goal against Sweden in the finals. I hit the ball and it went straight in. It was a great moment, but you don’t think, it’s historic

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Priti Patel has resigned as International Development Secretary after failing to disclose she held meetings with Israeli politicians in recent months.

Rumours were rife throughout Wednesday that Ms Patel would be sacked after being summoned back

by Prime Minister Theresa May from a diplomatic trip to Africa.

Arriving back from Nairobi, Kenya mid-afternoon, Ms Patel was whisked away from Heathrow Airport for a 30-minute showdown at Downing Street with the Prime Minister.

In her resignation letter, Ms Patel said it had been a “privilege” to serve in the cabinet.

Regarding the uproar over meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other political figures from Israel, she noted, “I am sorry that these have served as

a distraction from the work of the Department for International Development and of the Government as a whole. As you know from our discussions I accept that in meeting with organisations and politicians during a private holiday in Israel my actions fell below the high standards that are expected of a Secretary of State.

Ms Patel added, “While my actions were meant with the best of intentions, my actions also fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated.

“I offer a fulsome apology to you and to the Government for what has happened and offer my resignation.”

Replying to Ms Patel’s letter, Theresa May, noted, “The UK and Israel are close allies, and it is right that we should work closely together. But that must be done formally, and through official channels.”

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A Jewish pupil from JCoSS School in North London is in hospital after being stabbed 12 times during an apparent attack by four other boys.

Police were called to the incident at 9.30pm on Tuesday that left a 16 year-old boy suffering from “serious” leg wounds.

The year 12 student was found in Primrose Hill Road with stab wounds and rushed to a central London hospital in a condition described as “serious but stable”.

The Community Security Trust is monitoring the incident, which they believe not to be anti-Semitic.

“Our understanding is that this attack was not motivated by anti-Semitism but it is still something that will deeply concern all parents that hear about it,” said Marc Gardner, CST. “We have been in contact with both the police and the school and

by London Ambulance Service to reports of a person with stab injuries. Officers attended and the Ambulance service rushed the injured boy to a central London hospital.

Police closed roads in the area to conduct enquiries.

Officers believe the victim was in the park with female friends when four suspects approached.

Following a brief altercation, officers believe the victim was physically attacked and stabbed.

The suspects, four white males, were not known to the victim or his friends.

Enquiries are ongoing and no arrests have taken place.

Police are appealing for witnesses.

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“It is vital that we trace and apprehend those responsible for this motiveless and cowardly attack and I appeal to anyone who was in the

park at around 9.30pm who saw a group of males to contact police.

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Khalidi added that PLO Washington representative Husam Zomlot and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat were in contact with the Trump administration.

A State Department official commented, “We continue to be in contact with Palestinian officials about the status of the PLO office in Washington as well as about our larger efforts to advance a lasting and comprehensive peace, these discussions are ongoing.”.

Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki commented to AFP, “What is the use of holding any meetings with them when they close our office? Our meetings begin from our office, and the arrangements are there,” “In practice by closing the office they are freezing all meetings and we are making that official.”

The US consulate in Jerusalem declined to comment but referred to a statement on Saturday noting it was hopeful any “closure will be short-lived.”

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Israel to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Moves towards a boycott of settlement goods could provide a slippery slope to wider boycotts of Israel and this would seriously harm Britain-Israel relations and impair an expanding trade partnership that creates thousands of UK jobs.”

Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush backed BICOM’s document.

“BICOM’s briefing should be widely read, it is cogent and timely,” he said.

“As the report warns, if past form were to be repeated in Government, this could damage Britain’s interests in the Middle East and around the world.

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The PLO requires renewal of its

BICOM CEO James Sorene lambasted Corbyn’s Party in his assessment of the paper.

“Labour’s foreign policy is an issue of deep concern to many of Britain’s closest allies in the Middle East, and around the world,” he said.

“Decades of intelligence and defence cooperation are at risk.

“Booming bilateral trade, inward investment and job creation could be in peril, precisely when we need them the most as we leave the EU. “If Labour move too close to Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah, then this will also undermine international efforts to fight terrorism and even limit the sharing of vital intelligence that saves British lives.”

He further warned, “If Labour recognise a Palestinian state and adopt the Palestinian position of putting international pressure on Israel it could lose its influence with

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A renewal of Middle East peace talks received a major blow after the US State Department decided against renewing a permit for the office of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in Washington last week.

The Palestinians responded by cutting ties with the US Consulate in Jerusalem.

“Communications with the consulate in Jerusalem and meetings between American and Palestinian officials in Palestine are currently frozen because of the decision not to renew the PLO office in Washington’s certification,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s diplomatic affairs adviser Majdi al-Khalidi confirmed to The Jerusalem Post.

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movements that led to Israel’s establishment… The state would not have been established without settlement, without the sacrifice and without the willingness to fight for it, but the international setting in motion was without doubt the Balfour Declaration.” The Knesset will also commemorate the centenary of the Declaration at a ceremony next week, which members of the Joint List have announced they will boycott.

The historic New West End Synagogue in West London was honoured to host a special ceremony for almost 600 people last Sunday with a concept of ‘Hakarat Hatov,’ (gratitude).

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attend several events including a dinner with British Prime Minister Theresa May. Mrs May has said that Britain should mark the centenary “with pride,” whilst Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called the declaration “indispensable to the creation of a great nation.”

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In Los Angeles, outside the Federal Building, reported offensive chants included “F…. Jew” when pro-Israel supporters backing Trump approached a demonstration.

And in Detroit, anti-Israel demonstrators burnt an Israeli flag.

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President Donald Trump has sensationally commuted the prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin.

Bipartisan leaders from across the political spectrum encouraged the action, which was announced yesterday in a White House statement.

The 57-year-old father of 10 children had previously run the

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fired at Israel from Gaza in the last week, the highest concentration since the summer of 2014.

The first attack in the wake of Trump’s announcement came in

Jerusalem when an Israeli security guard was seriously injured after being stabbed by a Palestinian close to the central bus terminal.

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But he was convicted of bank fraud and sentenced thereafter to 27 years in prison in 2009.

Rubashkin has served more than eight years of the sentence, which has been deemed excessive in light of its disparity with sentences imposed for similar crimes.

‘This action is not a Presidential pardon,” the statement noted.

‘It does not vacate Mr. Rubashkins conviction and it leaves in place a term of supervised release and a substantial restitution obligation, which were also part of Mr. Rubashkins sentence.

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and legal scholars have expressed concerns about the evidentiary proceedings in Mr. Rubashkins case and the severity of his sentence.

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In an historic speech on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise in the face of massive opposition especially from his own US State Department and said the words, “I have determined that it is time to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”

The President’s speech was welcomed by millions around the world and many applauded Donald Trump for his courage and commitment despite the Palestinians declaring a day of rage on Friday in response.

President Trump went further by announcing that he is “directing the state department to begin preparations to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem” and confirmed “this will immediately begin the process of hiring architects, engineers and planners

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so that a new Embassy, when completed will be a magnificent tribute to peace.”

Although several American delegations have been in Israel to seek

out a suitable Jerusalem location over the last 12 months, it is believed that a final decision on where the Embassy will be built is still to be made. But high on the list is a

plot of land located on Derech Hevron close to the Peace Forest.

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BY DAVID SAFFER The Board of Deputies has been safeguarding the interests of British Jews since 1760.

The only democratically elected cross-communal Jewish representative body, its President, Jonathan Arkush, has headed up the board since 2015.

With a mission to protect, defend and speak up for the Jewish community, how does he view the post and oraganisation with its many facets of responsibility?

“The Board is essentially the Parliament of British Jews,” said Mr Arkush.

“You have to position the community by saying the right things at the right time. It means leading from the front, which can be uncomfortable but that’s our outward facing role.”

The Board continually demonstrates its ability to make a widespread impact on society whether on issues of shechita or Brit Milah, forcing the Sunday Times to apologise for publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon or even contacting Manchester United when a holocaust denier was set to launch his book at the club.

Concerning the Premier League outfit, within an hour of hearing about the issue the prospective launch was cancelled showing aptly how quick the Board can get things done.

“Somehow it escaped the powers that be at Manchester United that the person who booked the room was a holocaust denier and anti-Semite but we brought it to their attention because someone has to do that,” explained Mr Arkush.

“There are all sorts of amazing things the community will hear about from apologies in newspapers to the government adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism but do people stop to think, how do these things happen?

“The Board’s job is to be an advocate for our community. In some quarters that means lobbying, and I’m unashamed about being a lobbyist.

“We are not a secret lobbyist, everything we do is open, proud and unashamed.

“We are here to put forward our community’s view but lobbying

when you are a small community does not produce results overnight.

“But not many of us sit back and reflect that at 300,000 Jews we make up one half of one percent of the community, but look at how much clout we have.”

The Board builds relationships at national and local government level to ensure the Jewish viewpoint is heard but a lot of its work is invisible,” he explained.

“We try not to blow our own trumpet but we’ve won government support on issues concerning anti-Semitism, shechita, brit milah, faith schools and Israel,” Mr Arkush said.

“A whole range of key advances have been secured for the Jewish community and it is a result of the Board’s patient, careful, skillful and professional advocacy.”

So what are some of the key challenges the Board faces?

Mr Arkush explained that the first was to protect the Jewish community from anti-Semitism.

“Anti-Semitism mutates,” he explained. “You can now be as anti-Semitic as you like and never use the word “Jew” because a lot of anti-Semitism today, sometimes called ‘new anti-Semitism’, is directed at Israel. But it’s a pseudonym for anti-Jewish prejudice because Israel is often treated as the ‘Jew of the Nations’.

“When it comes to core anti-Semitism, which is hatred of Jews for being Jews, this is the central responsibility of the elected representative body. Although we react to anti-Semitism when it happens, it means having in place the necessary legal protections so we can invoke the necessary laws when something does happen. But that is easier said than done.

“The Equalities Act and laws against racial incitement are principal legal instruments to attack anti-Semitism but we need to ensure prosecuting authorities are prepared to use them.

“This is a challenge because the Crown Prosecution Service, which does a very good job, is straining against inadequate resources and often won’t bring prosecutions because they set themselves a high threshold of success. So one of the battles is to get them to prosecute when they should as we have the laws in place.”

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The Board is also on hand to ensure Jewish life continues in the United Kingdom.

“Without shechita we’d survive, but for many, the country would not be as good a place to live without our chicken on Shabbat,” explained. “But what if we couldn’t have Brit Milah? If it became unlawful, the reality is we would not be able to live as Jews in this country.

“However, I’m confident shechita and Brit Milah are secure for the foreseeable future. It’s fragile, but at the moment the government and mainstream parties have pledged to protect Brit Milah and Shechita.”

Protecting Israel’s reputation and fighting ill-informed, malevolent attacks against Israel was next on the agenda for Mr Arkush, who was forthright in his response.

“An attack on Israel we feel personally, because for most of us, Israel is at the centre of our identity and emotional connection with being Jewish,” he said.

“We feel an attack on Israel directly, and if we feel stirrings of discomfort, it’s not because we have encountered anti-Semitism in the sense of being called a “dirty Jew” in the street but because of attacks on Israel.”

As for the media response to Israel, Mr Arkush had illuninating views.

“In the main, people don’t realise the overwhelming majority of British media are supportive of Israel, the dishonorable exceptions being

The Guardian and The Independent,” he explained. “But they have a much smaller readership than the Daily Telegraph, Times, Daily Mail and other newspapers that almost always take a pro-Israel line.

“As for television, it is mixed.

The BBC in our community does not have a good reputation, but on the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign website, their main target in the media is the BBC because they hold that the BBC, and I quote, “is in the grip of the Zionist lobby”.

“When I tell Jewish audiences this they laugh. But the reality is, and it’s not always a message that is well accepted, if you watch the news for a week and write ‘fair’ or ‘unfair’ coverage in two columns, ‘unfair’ and fair’ things are almost always balanced.

“But does that mean the BBC does not say very ‘unfair’ things, no, I don’t want them to say anything unfair, but they do get equally criticised by both.”

As for the advent of social media, again there were fulsome views for the Board’s president.

“Social media has revolutionised many facets of life and it is responsible for some of the perceived growth in anti-Semitism,” Mr Arkush said.

“In the age before Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, if there was a Middle East war and you wanted to get a demonstration out, either pro or anti-Israel, you had to crank out the posters and word-of-mouth for support, but now, put it on Twitter

and 100,000 people hit the streets.

“Social media is a force for good and bad.”

So is the ‘power of the press’ waning because of social media?

“I suspect it is and particularly with upcoming generations who read newspapers less and take more notice of social media,” Mr Arkush said.

“We have a Twitter feed, Facebook accounts and maintain our website. You have to maintain it and we do.”

A lot of research is available about trends surrounding the British Jewry from a plethora of organisations including the Board.

In a recent report, the Board noted 56% of the Jewish community has shul membership, and whilst centrist orthodoxy had gone down 37% since 1990, modern orthodoxy had gone up in the same period over 170%.

A downtrend in synagogue attendance is generally acknowledged, yet elements of orthodoxy do flourish. So is the next generation of British Jews eyeing up different elements of Judaism and is this linked to a surge in the many Jewish schools children can attend?

“The Board is proudly cross-communal and we have made huge advances in our community,” Mr Arkush explained.

“We are much more of a ‘live and let live’ community than when I was as a youngster. We don’t snipe at different sections of our community anymore, or at least rarely,

because we shouldn’t. We all face bigger threats. But it is true that it gets harder to hold onto the middle ground and this is as true for progressive Jews as orthodox Jews.

“A recent Institute of Jewish Policy Research paper on couples and families came up with the intriguing statistic that our out-marriage rate is 26%.

“In my view that is very high, but it has been that level for 20 years.

We should be worried by our statistic and I’m not in the least complacent but in comparison the United States rate is 58% and rising, its not stood still. And when I talk to American colleagues they are desperately worried.

“The United Synagogue has lost ground, but orthodoxy has not because a lot of people in the United Synagogue have become more orthodox. And similarly with progressive families, people have dropped off by a lack of engagement whilst others have become more orthodox.

“But I accept traditional patterns of engagement are changing and synagogue membership is key among them.

“I believe that all synagogue bodies, left to right, face a common challenge of producing a more compelling offering than the one they produce at the moment.

“We have got to get more young people signed up to community membership. These are challenges across all sections of our community.”

Prior to becoming involved with the Board of Deputies, Mr Arkush had a leading role in establishing

Hertsmere Jewish Primary School and Yavneh College.

It’s an area he is justifiably proud and one he enjoys experiencing in his role at the Board.

“Jewish schools are really important and I hope no one is offended when I say creating Hertsmere was by a long way the achievement I’m most proud of in the community,” he said.

“My role at the Board is very important but when I see those children run into school with looks of real enjoyment, excitement and enthusiasm on their faces it is such a pleasure.

“Our community has pulled off a really significant achievement.

“Jewish schools were not popular when I went to school; they were the least successful and most parents would not have put them very high on their list of priorities.

“In North West London there were several schools which were not very good. Now, those very same schools, and new ones, are among the highest performing schools in the country.”

He added, “Lord Jakobovits started the push towards getting more of our children into Jewish schools and we could only do that by creating top quality schools that were better than the competition.

“Now, I have not got any evidence for this as the research is not there yet, and such research as it exists from the United States is not conclusive, but I am convinced that the fact that 65% of our children go to Jewish schools in the big centres of Jewish population such as London and Manchester is down to a

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“And I am convinced that because so many of our young people go to Jewish schools they naturally gravitate to other Jews in their social life at key stages of going to university and being recent graduates. It’s not an accident to me that Jews tend to concentrate on a small number of key universities because that is where their Jewish social life is comfortable.

“I am also convinced that one of the things keeping our out-marriage rate high but stable instead of rocketing like in the United States has been the success of our Jewish schools.

“It’s true that in the US a lot of kids go to Jewish schools, so that is maybe a flaw in my argument but we have a more traditional community, and I think that makes a difference.

“But Jewish schools are not the only answer. It’s about consistent whole-hearted levels of Jewish observance at home. If children don’t get that, then even the best Jewish education runs the risk of being shed when a child gets old enough to choose.”

Interfaith is an area that has an increasing role at the Board, and Mr Arkush is well aware of its importance.

“Because we are such a small minority in the country, it is crucial we play a proactive role in showcasing the best Jewish life has to offer to the non-Jewish world,” he said.

“It is also right to increase our understanding and mutual respect in other faiths.

“Jews and Christians have been doing this for a long time. The Council of Christians and Jews was born out of anti-Jewish hatred in the1930s.

“I have made deeper engagement with Britain’s Muslims a priority of my term as President and spend increasing amounts of my time in mosques talking to them.

“I am certain the overwhelming majority of British Muslims are moderate and don’t harbour anti-Semitism, but some do harbour very odd views about Jews in too high numbers for my comfort. Perhaps 40% of British Muslims don’t understand why Jews make more news than they do. They put it down to sinister motives.

“The only way to combat this is to say to them, and I do, I’m a Jewish communal leader and I’m a Zionist, now, ask me anything you like. I’ve said this in Islamic Centres and mosques all over London, in Birmingham, Leicester, Bradford and Leeds, and shortly I’ll be going to Manchester and Glasgow.

When I do this, they don’t view me through the prism of the Arab-Israel conflict, suddenly a light bulb goes on in their head.

“For too long, they’ve seen us and probably we’ve seen them through one prism, and that’s Israel’s conflict with her neighbours.

But that’s not the right prism. It is a very important conflict and we have a lot to say about it, but it’s a conflict 2,500 miles away.

“I point out that we have a common agenda such as shechita, Brit Milah, faith schools and role of faith in society. These are things that affect our daily lives, not the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours. And they are getting it more and more. They are frightened of extremism because their children get radicalised.

“Interfaith today plays an enormous role in Jewish-Muslim relations.”

Moving on to the strength of Anglo-Jewry nationwide and struggles of outlying communities, Mr Arkush, whose grandfather came from Poland 110 years, was a minister in Scottish communities, in Cardiff then Blackpool where his father grew up, was forthright.

“I’m a massive supporter of small communities but its not easy,” he said.

“I mourn the loss of so much vibrant Jewish life that we used to have in so many of our regional centres. But its well known now that the draw of London and to some extent Manchester has pulled our young people away from once thriving cemusintres of Jewish life like Cardiff, Birmingham, Glasgow and Sunderland, even Leeds dare I say. They have drawn them like a magnet to London, Manchester and also Israel. And our Jewish life is the poorer for it.

“But I admire enormously the dedication of our regional communities and often amazing individuals who keep Jewish life going, but it’ an uphill struggle.

“I welcome the fact that some young people are going back (due to London property prices), but suspect that because so much of Jewish life is about Jewish facilities, critical mass and Jewish cultural engagements, the trend will not be defeated.

“Our regional centres will continue to shrink. That’s the reality and we have to make the best of it.”

He added, “The Board invests enormous effort in helping Jews in regional communities and we have learnt from census data there is Jewish life in every single electoral district of Britain.

“The Internet links people and its been pioneered to great effect in

Scotland.

“A Chanucah party a couple of years ago because of social media attracted three times more people than expected and it’s been replicated successfully across the country.

“There is a Lancaster & Lakes Jewish congregation, another in Cornwall and others that might not be a conventional community, they might not be traditionally orthodox, but they are deeply culturally Jewish and want to get together for Jewish and Israel events to be Jewish together. And as a Board we must support that notion.”

Moving back to politics and how would Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister affect the Jewish community?

“It won’t be very comfortable,” said Mr Arkush.

“I dare say that one of the first acts he’ll do will be to recognise the State of Palestine and that the warm diplomatic relationship that currently exists will deteriorate but it will make precious little difference to Israel,” he said.

“It is possible that as we have seen in Labour events, people with anti-Semitic views crawl out of the woodwork feeling they have more of a licence. But having said that, I don’t think things will change drastically.

“We will find pathways to the government, we will have the strength of our arguments, there will be people who will be difficult in that government as there are in the present government, but there will be people we can do business with.

“However, I don’t underestimate the fact that it will pose challenges for us and we are doing very careful strategic thinking on that issue right now.”

Overall, with the many areas of engagement the Board has to negotiate diplomatically and culturally, Mr Arkush is positive about the future.

“What an extraordinarily, culturally rich, active and amazing community we have with our care organisations, CST, Chief Rabbinate, Synagogal bodies and yes, the Board of Deputies, which are world class,” he said.

“We are thriving as a community and even increasing our numbers if you look at the census.

“I appreciate the high birth rate among Charedim but we are a successful community and must not talk ourselves down. We must talk ourselves up, turn up the volume of Jewish life because we will succeed when we are committed proud Jews.”

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no longer tional Committee (NCC) for furrule fairly on cases.” investigation. Instead, a formal Christine Shawcroft, who was ther warning and anti-racism training herself suspended from the party were decided upon. for supporting the disgraced former In another case, there was a dismayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur cussion about whether the use of the Rahman, where she previously led word ‘Yid’ was a term of anti-Semitthe local Labour group, will now ic abuse. The defendant had claimed be responsible for the body that dethere was nothing “intrinsically ofcides whether to investigate sexist, fensive” about the term and at least racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic one member of the NEC agreed. abuse and other disciplinary cases.

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“Mill Hill is a very diverse, multi help the family of Vijay Patel killed “We believe this to be an unprofaith, close knit community. There in an unprovoked attack last Saturvoked spontaneous incident sparked is a lot of camaraderie where peoby refusal to let the susday night has reached £18,760 as entirely the all intermingle ple interact and The Jewish Weekly went to press. pects buy what they wanted,” said time at all types of shops on the The ‘crowdfunding appeal’ on the Ian Lott, a detective inspector from Broadway.

Just Giving site is “well beyond” Metropolitan Police’s homicide and “When something strikes at one Rabbi Schochet’s expectations of a major crime command. of us it effects all of us, so I felt target. £1,000 “A man has lost his life for no reacompelled to do something on beto uphold the “Admittedly, I set the bar low Jewish com- son other than trying and anticipated half of the immediate law.” it munity to respond. Predominantly exceeding A police spokesman said three have contributed but this is well Mill Hill members other teens became “aggressive, threatenany- but donors have come from beyond ing to vandalise the shop” when Mr thing that I communities.

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This week’s Tehillim is in memory of Miriam bas Shoshana This week’s psalm is one of the most familiar in the entire book of Tehillim, as it’s the first of the extra ones we say every Shabbat morning in Pesukei Dezimrah.

King David shows us how the beauty of nature can be properly appreciated through the lens of Torah. He starts by telling us how “the heavens declare the glory of G-d,” and how “His handiwork is proclaimed by the firmament.” A simple glance up at the skies should leave even the most arrogant of men humbled by the sheer splendour and grandeur of Hashem’s work. For all of man’s great achievements on this earth, no one has ever created air or even a simple looking cloud.

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To me, the third verse of this psalm is one of the most beautiful verses in the whole of Tehillim and it displays striking elegance through its simplicity.

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the entire universe craves normality, stability, structure and peace. (Although certain people have different ideas of how to achieve peace, but that is not the subject of this article!) The simplicity of continuous cycles of day and night provide comfort to King David, happy in the knowledge the Creator of the world is always watching us and providing for us. Nature does not speak, it has no voice; yet its message reverberates around the world daily and if we are just willing to listen, we can hear it louder than anything else in creation.

The former king of the Jews likens nature to a surveyor’s tape: “The precision goes out to the ends of the earth, to the end of the inhabited world.”

I was recently at a Shabbaton Choir concert in aid of Hadassah medical centre and cantors Johnny Turgel and Danny Bergson sang a beautiful duet, composed by Stephen Levy, of these very words. It was soft and gentle, just the very message the Psalmist want to convey. Nature is indeed soft and gentle, but if we analyse it properly, it can show us loud and clear the almighty strength of Hashem.

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Greetings from New Jersey. I love your column. Here’s an interesting one for you. Each year I sell my chametz to a custodian who is employed by me. This year he is actually converting to Judaism, and this process is taking place during Pesach. Alternatively, the non-Jew who’s about to convert can always sell it on to another non-Jew. But that’s too easy and we don’t like easy answers do we?

What happens to the status of my chametz? Also, as a matter of curiosity, does he get to choose to be either Sephardic - lots of rice - or Ashkenazi?

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Only in America! I suppose it would all depend under whose auspices he is doing the conversion. If it is a reform conversion (and who else would be doing conversions in the middle of Pesach) then the good news is he can keep the chametz – he’s still a non-Jew. Sorry, was that too blunt? Assuming it is an Orthodox conversion, I posit the following: A question is raised as to the dishes that belong to a non-Jew who converts.

Do they require immersion in a mikvah? The answer is that as the individual changes status then his dishes become ownerless. When he emerges a Jew, then the Rabbis instituted, for his benefit, that they are now considered newly ac-

Tehillim In this week’s Psalm, King David asks Hashem to champion his cause and avenge him against the nations who are ‘without kindness.’

Rabbi Hirsch explains that the nations of the world will profess dedication to justice, and pretend to abide by the ideals, yet history has unfortunately shown only too brutally that they have not always shown kindness to Jews.

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quired by the Jew. And ownerless dishes acquired by a Jew do not require immersion.

It would follow then that when the individual’s status changes from non-Jew to Jew, then the chametz becomes ownerless. You sold it to a non-Jew and this is someone else. In this instance the Rabbis would not institute that the chametz (like the dishes) should be acquired by him – as that is of no benefit to him, when it is forbidden to him. To that end, the chametz remains ownerless throughout the duration of Pesach. In essence anyone can acquire it, so you’d better be first past the post as soon as Pesach is out!

On the Ashkenazi / Sephardic front, it would arguably have more to do with who does the conver-

This tehillim is for a refuah shelema for Rav Nessanel ben Krayna Leah

sion process. If it is a Sephardic Beth Din, then he can enjoy all the sushi he wants. If it’s Ashkenazi then he’ll just have to remain deprived for eight days. Interestingly enough, according to the leading codifier R’ Ovadiah Yosef, if the conversion takes place in Israel, the homeland of the author of Code of Jewish Law, whose rulings the Sephardim follow, then he is considered Sephardic for all halachic implications, regardless of his place of origin. Otherwise he is considered Ashkenazi.

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“I’m the oldest in this business in the UK, that’s how I stand apart,” says Stephen Roston with a dry laugh. At 59, Stephen, owner and managing director of BS clothing group, has amassed a hugely successful design and supply company, specialising in the production of own brand children’s wear, sold nationally and globally in retail chain stores.

“I left school at 15 and went straight into retail. That led to joining the family business, and then I started my own company 20 years ago.”

Stephen says he wouldn’t be where

safety testing was an important part of what I did. I have designed children’s wear for over 35 years, and in my experience, it is the hardest sector to produce. Nothing can go wrong.”

However, Stephen regards human error as a normal and expected occurrence in a driven business environment. “At the end of the day,

it’s how you handle a problem. When it all goes well, everyone can deal with it, but it is not just about how well you do in sales.”

“If someone supplies you something faulty, you don’t want them to go out of business because of it. Deal with it and move on. No one causes a problem on purpose.”

Stephen also deals closely with factories in China and says the keys to doing business with foreign clients and suppliers are understanding their culture and building trust. “Over time, I learnt how best to approach and do business with them. The way I see it, if there’s no trust, there’s no relationship and no business.”

Knowing when to change direction within your career is important for continued success. Stephen branched out eight months ago to do entrepreneur and consultancy work and says it was one of the best decisions he made. “Don’t get me wrong, designing and supplying products is a fantastic business to be in, but it can be a testing one. I was ready for a new path where I could still remain in my chosen career but take things a little easier.”

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So don’t sweat it, relish the opportunity of going the extra mile and for what it’s worth, this year, Pesach in Israel ends on Friday eve. And guess what? You can’t acquire back your chametz on Shabbat. So they’re stuck the extra day without as well. Now which would you rather? Keeping an extra day Pesach, or knowing it’s over and still not being able to have that pita?

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But whereas on Shavuot it means a little more cheesecake and on Sukkot it entails an extra day of dancing and a few l’chaims, on Pesach it means another day without our staple diet; another day out of routine; another day before we can peel away the silver foil and rediscover the kitchen we left behind more than a week before.

For one more day, we have to go without our rice or our quinoa or maybe our diet coke, depending where you are at on the “stringency scale.” You know it does always intrigue me, how people get all het up about these things.

Every year without fail, “Rabbi may I have quinoa on Pesach?”

You’ve eaten quinoa maybe twice in the past eleven months, once at Aunt Sadie’s house and the other at a Friday night Bat Mitzvah dinner. But now, it’s Pesach and if you can’t have your quinoa you’re not sure you’re going to survive the

Dear Rabbi, Matzah? Why? I get indigestion.

Surely my health is more important.

Gerard

Matzah! Because! Matzah symbolizes humility. It’s plain, flat, unpretentious, unassuming. It reminds us how we need to negate the ego which is the single foremost nemesis to spirituality and the very real cause of everything gone wrong our society. From global wars to petty squabbles; every problem has some element of ego linked. It’s about pride, self-aggrandisement – not wanting to yield to the next person. So look at that flat unleavened bread, get over yourself, stop trying to make sense of everything and enjoy!

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The World Jewish Congress has warned European leaders that anti-Semitism is increasing at an alarming rate.

President Ronald S. Lauder speaking at the Rome International Conference on anti-Semitism told delegates that ‘New Europe’ is looking an awful lot like the Europe of the 1930s.

“In country after country we are watching a growing wave of farright, ultra-national and in some cases neo-Nazi parties gaining strength,” he said.

“As a Jew, I can think of nothing more dangerous.”

Noting governments might face difficulties in cracking down on elements of society, Lauder added: “Democracies have implicit constraints but its leaders must stand up and say – strongly – the hatred of

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Lauder also pointed out that Euro leaders must stand up for other persecuted minorities, including in Africa and the Middle East.

“Jews understand the high price of silence,” he noted.

“The silence, the indifference of almost every world leader in the 1930s allowed Hitler to move closer and closer to Auschwitz.

Lauder added: “I can promise you this, any political leader that stands up against anti-Semitism or any form of bigotry will have the full support of the Jewish people.

“We must do this together, we must never ever be silent.”

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe convened the conference.

Days after Lauder’s statement, the Community Security Trust’s annual report noted that a record number of 1,382 anti-Semitic incidents had

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“Anti-Semitism is a despicable form of abuse that seeks to undermine our values of diversity and openness and which has absolutely no place in British society,” said Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

“I welcome this reports findings that the rise in reported incidents partly reflects the improving response to these horrendous attacks and better information sharing between the CST and police forces around the UK. But even one incident is one too many and any rise in incidents is clearly concerning, which is why this Government will continue its work protecting the Jewish community and other groups

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Israeli Defence Forces have intensified efforts to apprehend a terrorist who stabbed a Rabbi to death in the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Monday afternoon.

The Palestinian assailant stabbed to death Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal in a shocking attack that has outraged Jews around the world.

The father of four was waiting at a hitchhiking post near Jerusalem Boulevard on his way to a Brit Milah circumcision ceremony for his nephew when the sickening incident occurred.

An off-duty IDF officer who witnessed the assault pursued the terrorist, striking him with his vehicle twice. But the killer fled towards the Palestinian village of Kifl Haris, the IDF said.

Security forces immediately

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Binyamin Netanyahu has vehemently rejected police recommendations that he should face bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges on allegations of accepting some £200,000 worth of gifts from two billionaires over a period of 10 years.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday night, the Prime Minister defiantly said, “I will continue to lead the State of Israel responsibly and loyally as long as you, the citizens of Israel, choose me to lead you,” and added “I am sure that the truth will come to light.”

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motivation since his days as an officer. “If I had been working for my own interests, I would be in a completely different place right now, not here. The only reason I do what I do is to protect the security of the people of Israel. Rest assured that the proper legal authorities will see these recommendations as baseless.”

Under Netanyahu’s leadership the country has de-regulated its industries, opened the skies, reached out to African and Asian nations and seen the country become a technological superpower.

Following almost two years of investigation and speculation, Israeli police recommended the 68-year-old leader be tried for alleged fraud, bribery and breach of trust, although the Attorney General will decide whether Netanyahu faces the two charges.

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A Somalian man who plotted to kill members of the Stamford Hill Jewish community has this week been found guilty of preparing for acts of terrorism at the Old Bailey.

Aweys Shikhey was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on March 15th.

The Dutch national had also discussed on WhatsApp about attacking the Queen and Spurs fans as they left Tottenham’s Hotspur’s White Hart Lane stadium.

Commander Dean Haydon, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “To his friends and colleagues Shikhey was, on the face of it, leading a normal life here in London. But unbeknown to them and to his wife and family in Holland, he was a supporter of ISIS and had spent more than a year planning how he could leave the

UK and travel to join them in Syria.

“Thanks to the information we received from the Kenyan authorities and the good work here by my detectives thereafter, we have been able to thwart his attempts and stop him from joining ISIS and committing terrorist acts over there.”

Jurors were told that the 38-yearold delivery driver, who lived in north London, was stopped and arrested by Counter Terrorism officers as he prepared to board a flight to Turkey on route to Syria to fight for Islamic State last May. Officers launched an investigation 12 months ago after a tip off from Kenyan authorities.

Through encrypted messages with a fellow Somalian from Kenya, it became clear that a UK-based man wanted to travel to Syria to join ISIS then allegedly carry out a number of firearms attacks.

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Three Jewish primary schools in north London are set to change the face of Jewish education.

Moriah Jewish Day School, Sacks Morasha Jewish Primary School and Wolfson Hillel Primary School will form the first Jewish community Multi Academy Trust (MAT) later this year.

The Government approved MAT enables a group of schools to combine learning resources and teaching expertise whilst retaining their individual identity.

Moriah in Pinner, and Sacks Morasha, in Finchley, both have over 200 pupils and Wolfson Hillel has over 450 pupils.

The development of the network has been facilitated and supported by the United Synagogue Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the US will select trustees.

US President Michael Goldstein described the proposed new MAT as a “huge milestone in our community’s Jewish education”.

“The strength of the US lies in its bringing together many wonderful local communities, each with their own identity, each contributing in their own way to the success of the whole,” he said.

“The new MAT will bring new strength to its schools whether through sharing successful models of strategic implementation, cost efficiencies or providing staff development opportunities.”

Mr Goldstein added: “The new MAT will take some of the best schools in the UK and help them to become even better.

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in Petah Tikvah but he was pronounced dead from multiple stab wounds to his upper body.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his intentions clear in offering condolences to the victim’s family.

“IDF and Shin Bet forces are in pursuit of the terrorist or terrorists and we will bring them to justice,” he said. “These are difficult moments, but are people come together during such times.”

Netanyahu added: “I fully trust security forces, which are doing an outstanding job of protecting us.”

Ariel Mayor Eli Shaviro appealed to Netanyahu, government ministers and Knesset parliamentarians to respond by annexing settlements in the area.

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Binyamin Netanyahu has vehemently rejected police recommendations that he should face bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges on allegations of accepting some £200,000 worth of gifts from two billionaires over a period of 10 years.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday night, the Prime Minister defiantly said, “I will continue to lead the State of Israel responsibly and loyally as long as you, the citizens of Israel, choose me to lead you,” and added “I am sure that the truth will come to light.”

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Clinton hadhad declared a war on on Clinton declared a war drugs.

YouYou hadhad a major encounter with drugs. a major encounter with uncles were lords thethe police during period My My uncles were big big drugdrug lords police during thisthis period of of at time, the time, were your Where it lead you at the andand afterafter theythey were ar- ar- your life.life.

Where diddid it lead you rested, I never them again until to?to? rested, I never sawsaw them again until I was To make matters worse, I was 17. 17.

To make matters worse, mother at from 37 from a drug I was I was meeting friends my my mother dieddied at 37 a drug meeting mymy friends forfor a a overdose when I was game, loads minioverdose when I was 19, 19, andand the the game, andand wewe sawsaw loads of of minisaddest is that never vans surrounding pitch.

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lights were all flashing, and sudlightsthewere flashing, jumped and suddenly US allMarshalls denly US Marshalls jumped out, gunsthe in hand.

The Marshalls guns in hand. The Marshalls areout, very high-ranking police ofare very high-ranking police ficers, they haven’t showed up be-officers, showed up because wethey stolehaven’t a candy bar! They we stole a candy hadcause us surrounded, with bar! all They the hadaimed us surrounded, guns at us, as wewith had all beenthe guns aimed at us, as wecar, hadwho been travelling in my uncle’s travelling in mywith uncle’s car,and who was in big trouble the law, wasflinashed big trouble law, and it had up on with their the system. it had they flashed theirthey system.

When ranup ouronID’s, saw they ran ourwarrant ID’s, they saw I hadWhen an outstanding from I hadI skipped an outstanding from when court awarrant few years when I skipped court a few and years previously, so I was arrested previously, so I was arrested and spent 2 days in a juvenile centre. spent 2 days in a juvenile centre.

It was like an insane asylum with It was like an insane asylum with irrational teens being held down by irrational teens being held down by guards, it was so crazy. But I went guards, it was so crazy. But I went inside with such peace and confiinside with such peace and confidence, into my small room, with dence, into my small room, with just a Bible for company. just a Bible for company.

After spending the first night After spending the first night

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letters to the Judge and it was simletters to the Judge was simply dismissed.

After and thisitincident, dismissed.

After this I ply joined a missionary trip incident, to help I joined a missionary trip to help build an orphanage in Mexico. build an orphanage in Mexico.

Would you say your years as you say your years a Would born-again Christian wereas a born-again Christian were crucial to your eventual arrival crucial to your eventual arrival at Judaism? at Judaism?

Looking back, I would say this Looking back, I would say this phase was crucial. I started to feel phase was crucial. I started to feel a tremendously deep connection a tremendously deep connection with G-d during this time, and even with G-d during this time, and even though it was not Judathough it was not Judaism, it was definitely ism, it was definitely a vitally important a vitally important step stepononthe theright rightpath path toto truly truly fifinding nding Hashem.

Hashem. UltiUltimately the mately theforce force ofof spirituality spirituality I I was was engaging engaging with, which with, which was wasnot notyet yetthe the real realtruth, truth, truly truly helped helpedme metotoesescape capethe thebig bigmess messmy my life lifewas wasininatatthe thetime. time.

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preaching preachingG-d G-dwith withother otherprisprisoners, oners,mymyoldoldmentor mentorfrom fromthethe Christian club showed Christian club showedupuptotovisit. visit.

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BeBe careful what wish told me!Look Lookat atyou you wish forfor hehe told me! here - youmust mustbebesosospecifi specifi in in here - you cc with G-d! with G-d!

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Something Somethingwas wasmissing. missing.ChristianChristianityitywas wassimply simplynot notdoing doingititfor forme me anymore anymoreLooking Lookingback, back,I Inow nowsee see that thatChristianity Christianitywas wasfar fartoo toofoggy, foggy, it ithad hadmuch muchless less“seichel,”(intel“seichel,”(intellect) lect)than thanJudaism, Judaism,and andthat thatthe theToTorah rahisismuch muchmore moredescriptive descriptiveininreregardstotowhat whattakes takesplace placebetween between gards manand andHashem.

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Google. Not that I would recomGoogle. that I would recommend this Not to everyone, as there is a mend this to everyone, as there is a lot of incorrect information online. incorrect information online.

I lot firstofexperimented with Messianrst experimented with MessianicI fiJudaism before the real thing, ic Judaism the time, real Ithing, however, for before me at the still however, for me at the time, I still learned a lot. learned a lot. asking many quesI then started I then started asking many questions to Rabbi Shmuel Brodie, tions to Rabbi Shmuel Brodie, who gave me Torah books to start who gave me Torah books to start upgrading my learning. I was speupgrading my learning. I was specifically inspired by the Garden cifically inspired by the Garden of Peace by Rabbi Shalom Arush, of Peace by Rabbi Shalom Arush, and the rest of this brilliant series. I and the rest of this brilliant series. I kept talking to G-d, crying to him, kept talking to G-d, crying to him, asking so many questions. Eventuasking so many questions. Eventually, I arrived at the truth. Reb Naally, I arrived at the truth. Reb Nachman chmandid didhis hisfair fairshare sharetoo. too.

Judaism Judaismallowed allowed more more true true feelfeelings ingstotodevelop developand and gave gave me me extra extra clarity and enabled clarity and enabledme meto tohave have true true inner peace. inner peace.

Baruch Hashem she saw the light with me. The whole conversion process took 2 and half years, and was extremely intense. I chose the name Nissim because of the many miracles that I saw.

I retired from music and moved to Israel, living in the Jerusalem neighbourhood Sha’arei Chesed, in the heart of Rechavia.

At the beginning, none of my

family accepted my change, they all thought I was going mad, going crazy.

They were all very upset when I left music for a while; they saw it as a rejection of where I had come from.

After relaunching my music career under my new name Nissim, thank G-d everyone is just so proud of me. I have returned to singing again, and they have seen that I am using my talents, enjoying what I love and utilising Hashem’s gifts, they are so proud of who I am and who I have become. I am now a Breslov Chasid, yet I still produce

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ItIt was was made made even even more more tricky, tricky, asasshe she naturally naturally felt felt itit was was an an atattack tack on on her her entire entire family family and and aa challenge challenge toto her her entire entire Christian Christian upbringing. upbringing. And And the the fact fact that that our our rstbaby babyhad hadbeen been born born the the week week fifirst beforeprobably probablydidn’t didn’thelp help either. either. before CONTINUEDON ONPAGE PAGE23 23 CONTINUED

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courthearing, hearing,thethebig, big,tall tall AtAt thethe court imposingguards guardsoutside outsidetold told andand imposing that they could that I didn’t meme that they could seesee that I didn’t belong here, there was much belong here, as as there was tootoo much a shine coming from face..! of of a shine coming from mymy face..!

I eventually they threw I eventually gotgot offoff asas they threw case.

My entire community outout thethe case.

My entire community showed and they had written showed up,up, and they had allall written

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great rap music.

And you now live in Mea Shearim –a far cry from the days of your youth!

Yes, I moved near the Mir Yeshiva, and every Friday night, we host many students at our home for dinner. My wife has a cut off of 50 guests, otherwise it becomes too much for her! I now use my music as kiruv and go around the world telling my story. Perhaps it doesn’t make as much money as rapping full time, yet I see it as my clear mission from Hashem to spread

the light of Torah around the world, and to inspire people to change, no matter where they have come from.

What would your final message be to Jewish Weekly readers?

As a Breslover, you see at Reb Nachman’s kever (tomb) in Uman on Rosh Hashanah, all sorts of people who were the furthest away, people who were so incredibly far from Hashem. Yet, at some point they suddenly saw the light and returned.

No matter how far you may feel, you just need the desire and you

can achieve great things. My story is truly miraculous, just like the story of Purim, and it has been a pleasure to share it with you. Wishing all Jewish Weekly readers a Happy Purim!

Nissim has a huge following on YouTube and his latest album ‘Lemala’ is available now on iTunes. Visit nissimofficial.com for more details

PHOTO CREDITS: ADRIAN KORSNER, SOUND IMAGES

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After relaunching my music career under my new name Nissim, thank G-d everyone is just so proud of me. I have returned to singing again, and they have seen that I am using my talents, enjoying what I love and utilising Hashem’s gifts, they are so proud of who I am and who I have become. I am now a Breslov Chasid, yet I still produce great rap music.

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