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ROYAL LIFE-SAVER ARRIVES IN ISRAEL

After 70 years without an official Royal visit, MDA UK was delighted to be part of Prince William’s landmark visit to Israel, during which he was able to witness the breadth and depth of MDA’s life-saving service.

The historic Royal visit took place between 25th-28th June. To commemorate the important occasion, MDA UK dedicated one of the nine medicycles purchased from its recent Pesach appeal in Prince William’s honour. The medicycle is inscribed with the following: Presented to the people of Israel by Magen David Adom in the UK to commemorate the visit by HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, June 2018.

This medicycle is included as one of the ‘70 Medicycles for 70 Years’ that MDA UK is gifting to the people of Israel this year. Now, just over halfway through the year, the ‘70 for 70’ campaign to mark the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence is well underway and MDA UK is very close to hitting its

target. Communities and committees up and down the country have been fundraising to help MDA UK achieve its goal. So far, the total number of medicycles donated is at 50. As part of the push for the final few medicycles, MDA UK has written to Shuls to ask them to consider choosing MDA UK’s ‘70 for 70’ campaign for their Kol Nidre appeal.

The Royal visit has provided the people of Israel with so much excitement and pride and it was important for Magen David Adom UK to do something to mark this momentous occasion. As a former air ambulance pilot, Prince William will no doubt be aware of how important the donation of these life-saving vehicles are to the wellbeing of the people.

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THE LEGACY OF LIFE

The fact that Magen David Adom’s existence precedes that of the State of Israel has not stopped us from celebrating its 70th anniversary with a full programme of events and fundraising initiatives.

Indeed, it was as part of the recent Legacy Mission that we, together with our expat supporters in Israel, raised a glass to MDA’s 88th birthday over dinner in Jerusalem.

As you will have read in our cover story, the ’70 for 70’ campaign is well underway. At the half way point of the year we have already raised the funds for 50 medicycles, 19 ambulances and a station in Mitzpe Adi. We are well on course to hit the 70 target by Chanukah and who would have known when we started this in January that one of medicycles would be dedicated in honour of Prince William!

This year has witnessed a boost not just in fundraising but also in the number of supporters and committees across the UK and even beyond. After a series of well-attended fundraisers in Dublin, the local community has asked us to help them launch MDA Ireland. In the pipeline is something similar in Gibraltar.

As ever, we were only too pleased to help.

There is nothing that cements a donor’s love for Magen David Adom more than seeing our work at close hand. In the coming months, over 50 trekkers will cover the length and breadth of Israel in support of these endeavours,

As part of Magen David Adom UK’s celebrations for Israel’s 70th, the organisation arranged an inaugural Legacy Mission to Israel. The trip took place between 3rd – 8th June and 10 participants had the opportunity to see first-hand the difference a legacy to MDA makes.

During this life-saving and life-changing mission, participants visited some of Israel’s most beautiful sights from the Old City to Masada. The group also visited the construcion site of what will be the new £90m National Blood & Logistics Centre in Ramla and heard from MDA executives about Magen David Adom’s role as Israel’s only national medical emergency and blood service.

(I) thoroughly enjoyed every minute and really appreciate the planning and care that went into making everyone so welcome and cared for.

Participant, Sharon Stone I was particularly impressed by the valuable, essential role played by Magen David Adom in particular its fast, streamlined new bikes and the dedication of its staff and volunteers.

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In between the more strenuous activities the participants enjoyed exploring Israeli cuisine, including an exceptional dinner with MDA UK President Sir Ian & Lady Gainsford at The Rooftop Restaurant at the Mamilla hotel.

Each year, legacies to Magen David Adom are directly responsible for saving the lives of thousands of people in Israel. To find out more about leaving a legacy to MDA, please contact Racheli on 020 8201 5900

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The fight for Zionism Jewish debate over Israel is more vicious than ever, warns former JLC chief Increasingly polarised Jewish communities are threatening the viability of Zionism and Israel, a community grandee warned this week, writes Adam Decker.

Conservative Party chairman Sir Mick Davis, a former chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council and head of the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission, issues his caution in this week’s Jewish News.

In it, he warns of a “Jewish far-left and a Jewish far-right,” both of which erupted into the open in May, after hostilities along the Gaza border led a group of mainly young British Jews to say kaddish for the dead, who were largely Hamas members.

Highlighting a “crisis” at the heart of British and worldwide Jewry, he writes: “Jewish discourse around Israel has never been more polarised, vicious or impoverished.

“The damage this could do to Stark warning: Sir Mick Davis

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Jewish communities, our confidence in our values, our long-term viability and the long-term viability of Zionism – and with it the state of Israel – is an existential threat.”

Davis has previously penned misgivings about a lack of leadership and vision from the current Israeli leadership, but has seldom issued such a stern warning about the future of Britain’s community owing to unchallenged “polarised extremism”.

He said the kaddish argument – which led to death threats and rabbis using the term ‘kapo’ – “made clear the existence of a British Jewish far-right and far-left, both dominating the discourse despite most of the community finding them objectionable”.

In May, the leading figure in progressive Judaism in the UK warned that the Jewish community was on a “path to self-destruction,” with Senior Reform Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner describing the polarised abuse as akin to “self-harm”.

This week Davis upped the ante, describing “an uncompromising and self-indulgent far-left and far-right, seeking to outdo each other in acts of provocation, naval-gazing and virtue-signalling”.

He said this meant large numbers of

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Jews were disengaging completely, because anyone trying to address the real issues were “shot down with online vitriol”.

He said: “Caught between a right for whom Israel can do no wrong and a left for whom Israel can do no right, it is little wonder that large swaths of Jews in the middle choose to say nothing, leaving the floor for the partisans to slug it out between themselves.”

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News / Shoah denial / Disputes role / Intifada fashion NEWS IN BRIEF

LORD AHMAD GIVEN SPECIAL ENVOY ROLE Foreign Office Minister Lord Tariq Ahmad has been appointed as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

For the role, the peer will “promote inter-faith respect and dialogue internationally”, with a particular focus on persecuted minorities.

A former vice-president of British Muslim youth organisation AMYA, Ahmad is a member of the Ahmadiyya community and previously held the role of Minister for Countering Extremism.

MP’S SETTLEMENT SANCTIONS CALL Ilford North MP Wes Streeting has called for “targeted economic sanctions” against Jewish settlements. In a speech in the House of Commons, Streeting said he was calling for the sanctions “in light of the demolitions taking place in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar”. He added: “I am a friend of Israel, but what’s happening is a deliberate policy intention of the Israeli government, which has no concern or regard for a two-state solution and wants to expand settlements.”

Lipstadt: Labour enables ‘softcore’ Holocaust denial The American professor who won a landmark legal battle against Holocaust denier David Irving has said Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has made “softcore” Holocaust denial acceptable.

Dr Deborah Lipstadt, who was sued by Irving for libel in 2000, made the claims while speaking at the Holocaust Educational Trust’s annual conference in Westminster.

The professor of Holocaust Studies at Emory University, who said Corbyn’s leadership had led to anti-Semitism becoming “embedded” in the party, suggested it was now socially acceptable to

Deborah Lipstadt at the conference

Lord Pickles, far left, was among those attending HET’s annual conference

show disdain or intolerance towards the Holocaust.

“What we see today more of is softcore Holocaust denial, where everything becomes a genocide, where people say ‘I’m so tired of hearing about this, why am I always hearing about the Holocaust, too much about the Holocaust, oh you Jews and the Holocaust, jokes about the Holocaust…’”

The academic described how

comparisons between the conduct of Israeli soldiers and the Nazis fell into this category, saying: “To talk about a genocide, or to talk about the Nazi-like tactics of the Israeli army is ludicrous.

“Every army makes mistakes, every army does things wrong. There are things the Israeli army does wrong, but to compare it to Nazis is softcore denial.”

In making her point, she made

reference to former London mayor Ken Livingstone and his inflammatory comments about Hitler and Zionists, over which the Corbyn ally finally resigned his membership of the Labour party earlier this year.

Speaking about Livingstone’s remarks, she said: “That’s the kind of softcore denial I worry about much more. It’s subtly anti-Semitic and it’s clearly denial because it rewrites history.”

Lipstadt’s story was turned into a book, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, and, two years ago, was made into a film called Denial, starring Rachel Weisz.

A Labour Party spokesperson said Corbyn was “a militant opponent of anti-Semitism”, adding: “Any complaints of anti-Semitism, including Holocaust denial, are taken extremely seriously and are fully investigated, and appropriate disciplinary action, in line with party rules and procedures.”

‘Concern’ over Labour role The organisation charged with defending British Jews from anti-Semitism has poured scorn on the Labour Party’s appointment to the role of chair of the disputes panel because she defended Ken Livingstone.

The Community Security Trust (CST) was reacting to news of the appointment of Claudia Webbe to the senior position on Labour’s National Executive Committee, after the previous role holder stood down when it was revealed she supported a party member suspended on anti-Semitism allegations.

In 2006, Webbe defended Livingstone when

he was suspended, writing publicly about his anti-racism work, and the CST said her record would trouble Britain’s Jewish community.

CST director Mark Gardner said: “Claudia Webbe’s past support for Ken Livingstone will only add to our community’s concerns about the integrity of Labour’s disciplinary process.”

Teams from both the Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies are due to meet Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and general secretary Jennie Formby later this month for their second meeting in quick succession.

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A political adviser working with Britain’s largest union was this week seen wearing a T-shirt supporting ‘the Intifada’ and depicting an armed Palestinian.

Shelly Asquith, who works for Unite the union, was formerly vice president of welfare at the National Union of Students (NUS), and was appointed as the student, youth and young trade unionists co-ordinator for Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign.

In a photograph, which was posted to Twitter, the 27-year-old is seen wearing a T-shirt showing a masked Palestinian aiming a slingshot, with wording that reads: “Victory for the Intifada”.

Asquith, from Essex, is a regular columnist for Labour List and describes herself as “an activist”.

She previously suffered rape threats after being featured in a Daily Mail story, in which she was described as “an agitator”. The newspaper quoted her criticising anti-terror legislation, saying: “The government has defined extremism in the

Asquith in ‘Victory for the Intifada’ T-shirt

Prevent strategy as vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values which is breaking the rule of law. Well, I think there are some laws that should be broken.”

Unite has been approached for comment.

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Janner case / Judges’ ruling / NHS plans/ News

Janner accuser charged

The man who sparked a £2.5million police investigation into an alleged Westminster paedophile ring, which he claimed included Lord Janner, has been charged with lying and committing fraud.

The accuser, 50, known only as ‘Nick’ as his name has been withheld for legal reasons, made a series of bombshell allegations including killings, rape and torture by senior figures in politics, the Army and security services.

His claims sparked the Metropolitan Police investigation Operation Midland, during which officers raided the homes of prominent figures including Lord Bramall, the late ex-Home Secretary Lord Brittan, who was Jewish, and former Tory MP Harvey Proctor – but closed without a single arrest.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)

Labour peer and ex-MP Lord Janner

announced on Tuesday that ‘Nick’ is to be charged with 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of fraud.

Labour peer and former MP Lord Janner, was among those accused. He died in 2015, before his name was cleared.

His son, Daniel Janner QC, had vowed to bring a private prosecution if the CPS did not pursue the charges.

He said on Tuesday that he would now “happily” drop those plans.

Proctor said: “The decision of the CPS to prosecute Nick for perverting the course of justice and fraud is to be welcomed. Justice must now be allowed to take its course.

“Northumbria Police are to be congratulated for their thorough and robust investigation.

“I hope there will be no unnecessary delays in arranging the trial. The torture that was and is Operation Midland should end as soon as is possible.”

NEW RULING ON ISRAEL BOYCOTTS Three High Court judges have ruled that councils must consider the effect on an area’s Jewish population if it is to debate Israel boycotts.

The case, put forward by Jewish Human Rights Watch (JHRW), was brought to tackle “disguised” resolutions being adopted to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign by local authorities.

Lawyers for Leicester City Council, which in 2014 voted to boycott settlement goods, argued that in debating such resolutions, it did not need to

Israeli model could ‘revolutionise’ the NHS The way Israel amalgamates and uses patient records could revolutionise the functioning of the NHS, the chief executive of the Nuffield Trust has said.

Speaking to The Guardian, Nigel Edwards praised Israel’s “single patient record” system and said it

could be adopted in the UK after a series of security breaches led to the cancellation of the government’s huge planned medical database.

The head of the influential think tank said the Israeli system means “your health practitioner knows exactly what is happening to you,

what your needs are”, adding: “They get reminders it’s time for you to have various preventative care, they have alerts about drugs which might interact negatively with each other.”

On one level, medical data sharing can mean sharing records with healthcare practitioners, but on

another it can mean sharing results on a much larger scale, leading to improvements in care and research.

This can lead to models that show who is more at risk of developing conditions and preventing them.

Israel’s single patient record system could be adopted in the UK

give due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and to foster good community relations.

The council also argued that a duty to do so would infringe councillors’ rights to free speech.

However the judges disagreed, ruling instead that such debates did attract the protection of the Public Sector Equality Duty.

Campaigners this week described it as “very significant” victory on “a major point of principle”.

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News / HBFS case / Atzmon in court / CPS trial

Finance boss faces £14m fraud trial A wealth manager well-known to London’s Jewish community is to appear before a judge and jury later this month charged with fraud totalling £14-15 million “spanning 15 years”, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

The case of Freddy David, a former managing director of Hertfordshire-based HBFS, was referred to the crown court

by City of London Magistrates on Monday.

Prosecutors said further witness statements were being included, which would add

“another seven figures” to the amount in question.

David, 49, from Elstree, did not enter a plea and was bailed to appear before Southwark Crown Court on 30 July, magistrates having concluded that the case was “too serious” to be heard by them.

One of the Jewish community’s best known financial advisers, David was charged with obtaining money transfer by deception and fraud by abuse of position.

He stepped down from

HBFS late last year amid an investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and was arrested in November.

He led the wealth management company, which says it helps clients “put off the taxman”, since 2005, and, together with his wife Hannah – who stood as a Conservative Party candidate in Harrow West last year – he is thought to have owned it.

A spokesman for the firm last year sought to avoid customers’ panic, saying: “We will

be cooperating fully with the FCA investigation into this matter. We have assured our clients that all money is completely secure.”

The company offers help placing money in offshore “wrappers” for those with £100,000 or more to invest, helping clients legally avoid capital gains tax, corporation tax and income tax.

It also offers advice on trusts, ISAs, equities, bonds and pensions, and advises clients how to legally avoid inheritance tax.

Charged: Freddy David faces a crown court trial

Atzmon forced to apologise in court for libel Israeli-born jazz musician Gilad Atzmon was obliged to make a humiliating apology in the High Court on Monday, after having libelled the chairman of Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), Gideon Falter, writes Jenni Frazer.

But Atzmon, whose costs and damages are understood to have run into tens of thousands of pounds, was not in court himself, instead obliging his

solicitor, Jeffrey Smele, to speak on his behalf.

Atzmon had used his website for five months from July to December last year to publish a series of allegations against Mr Falter, under the title “Antisemitism is merely a business plan”.

He claimed Falter fabricated anti-Semitic incidents in order to profit personally and to support the activities of the CAA.

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At an earlier hearing, Atzmon’s lawyers attempted to claim that the words complained of in the libel action were not what Falter said they meant, but this claim was dismissed by Judge Matthew Nicklin.

Instead, as Falter’s counsel, William Bennett, made clear, “the allegations were false. They were hugely insulting to Mr Falter and caused significant consternation”.

In his statement, read out in open court, Atzmon acknowledged that the allegations were false, agreed not to republish them, and agreed to pay damages.

Falter, who told Jewish News he was “not surprised that Atzmon had not shown his face in court”, said: “I am delighted that through the work of libel lawyers Mark Lewis and William Bennett I have been able to set the record straight.”

AL QUDS CASE DROPPED Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is taking legal advice after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) controversially dropped a prosecution – due to begin next week – against the convenor of the Al Quds Day march in central London, writes Jenni Frazer.

Nazim Ali, who is a director of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), aroused fury in 2017 by verbal attacks on “Zionists who give money to the Tory Party, to kill people in high rise blocks... Careful of those rabbis who belong to the Board of Deputies who have got blood on their hands”.

During the demonstration, Ali, a pharmacist, shouted through a megaphone: “We are fed up of the Zionists. We are fed up of their rabbis.

We are fed up of their synagogues. We are fed up of their supporters.”

Last December, the CPS announced it was not ready to prosecute Ali for offences of inciting racial or religious hatred, or a public order offence. Instead, CAA launched its own private prosecution against Ali, accusing him of using “threatening or abusive words or behaviour, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby”.

The case was due to have been heard at City of London Magistrates Court next Monday, but the CPS announced it had taken over the prosecution – and was then dropping the case.

According to a press statement from the IHRC, the CPS decision was a direct result of a petition by Ali, who said he viewed the CAA case as “an abuse of judicial process and an attempt to silence those who oppose Zionism”.

CAA chairman Gideon Falter told Jewish News: “This decision by the CPS is an appalling betrayal of British Jews, and we are now taking advice on using judicial review proceedings to

Nazim Ali with a Neturei Karta member

force the CPS to either prosecute Mr Ali itself – or let us get on with the job. We have called for zero tolerance enforcement of the law against antiSemitism and that is what politicians have promised, but it seems the CPS is not only abandoning British Jews, it is intent on actively intervening to block us when we stand up for ourselves.

“While we prepare to take action in the courts, the attorney-general must urgently investigate the behaviour of the CPS and its horrifying resistance to prosecuting anti-Semites.”

But IHRC chair Massoud Shadjareh said: “We are relieved and pleased the CPS has seen the CAA’s prosecution attempt for what it is. This was a witch hunt against Mr Ali that demonstrated all the typical characteristics of the pro-Israel lobby’s tactics to undermine people’s right to defend the oppressed Palestinian people.

“We will stand by any pro-Palestinian activist who is maliciously prosecuted by CAA or its allies. This victory shows us that the pro-Israel lobby cannot use the British legal system to bully their critics into silence.”

The CPS has been asked for comment but did not respond by press deadline.

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Acid victims relive attack five years on A woman who had acid thrown at her while on a volunteer trip to Zanzibar has spoken of her guilt at recovering enough to take up a place at university, while her more severely-injured friend was left “going through it at home, every second, of every day”, writes Francine Wolfisz.

Kirstie Trup, 23, from Hampstead Garden Suburb, needed skin grafts to her face, arm and shoulder, while her friend, Katie Gee, also 23, from East Finchley, was left with 30 per cent burns to her body and lost an ear, following the attack in 2013.

The two friends, then aged 18, were working as volunteer English teachers to local children when two men on a moped drove up and threw a jerry can full of a corrosive substance in their faces, before speeding off.

No one has ever been arrested over the incident.

Now nearly five years later, the pair revealed how their lives have been irrevocably changed since.

Speaking to Jane Garvey on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Katie recalled how they were spending their final day on the island when the attack happened.

“At first, it was like boiling hot coffee, that’s what I thought it was, for five seconds. And then after that you clock on that it wasn’t that, but the smell as well. A very sour, acidic smell, like milk that had gone off, but very strong.”

Kirstie remembered there was “a lot of screaming, a lot of swearing” and chaos in the minutes following the attack.

While she ran over to two tourists holding bottles of water, before collapsing to the ground, Katie’s first instinct was to try and pursue her attackers.

“I was wearing a jumper over my t-shirt and wiped my eyes, as I tried to get the number plate of the motorbike. I didn’t see it because they were too far away. My mind went into overdrive.

I ran off to a nearby restaurant, which had an outdoor shower and turned on all the taps.”

Katie was later helped by two tourists, Nadine and

Sam, who heard her screams and ran over with bottles of water. They also later assisted in phoning the pair’s friends and family to tell them what had happened.

Garvey asked how their friendship was affected in the months following their experience, especially given that Katie’s injuries were lifechanging.

Katie said: “There have been times it’s been very difficult. There were two completely different outcomes to what happened. We agreed to separate the situation from our friendship, because it wasn’t either of our faults, the outcome of what happened.”

When asked if she felt any sense of guilt, Kirstie said: “Yes, definitely. The first year was really hard, because my life continued. I went to university, which was tough at times, but Katie was going through it at home, every second, of every day.”

Katie spent two months in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where she underwent skin graft surgery every other day and had her ear removed.

After returning home, she then endured five days a week in physiotherapy and had to wear pressure suits and face masks, as part of her skin rehabilitation.

She said her family and friends had been “absolutely amazing, very supportive” over the last five years and was now moving on with her life, having completed a degree and is now pursuing a career in commercial property.

Kirstie, who has also since graduated and wants to work in the legal profession, admitted the experience still affects her.

“I get moments, I feel anxious in certain situations. But you get through them, you calm down,” she said.

Katie meanwhile, revealed she was inspired by the words of pop legend Cher, during a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show.

“She said, ‘If if doesn’t matter in five years’ time, then it doesn’t matter now – that is what I now live by.”

NEWS IN BRIEF

CHABAD RABBIS HOLD CONFERENCE Almost 100 Chabad rabbis from across the UK came together in the picturesque village of Market Bosworth for a two-day conference. Topics covered in sessions at the UK National Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Rabbis ranged from adult education and financial planning, to working with young people.

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Crunch talks between Ofsted and community A Conservative Party lobbyist has chaired a crunch meeting between Ofsted and the umbrella organisation representing Jewish education after the latest downgrade of an Orthodox Jewish school in London.

Lord (Stuart) Polak, the honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel, chaired the meeting between the national inspectorate and Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), a division of the Jewish Leadership Council, “to help foster a closer partnership and to discuss concerns surrounding inspections of Jewish schools”.

Polak is director of the Stamford Hill-based Lubavitch MultiAcademy Trust, which was incorporated in February. The academy comprises Lubavitch Senior Girls’ School, Lubavitch Ruth Lunzer Girls’ Primary School, and Lubavitch Junior Boys’ School.

After the meeting, PaJeS said it would work “closely with Ofsted to help build schools’ understanding of how they can comply with requirements around equali-

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PaJeS has said it will work closely with Ofsted to help schools comply with requirements around equalities and British values

ties and fundamental British values in a way that is in line with their religious beliefs”.

PaJeS praised Ofsted “for its determination to reach a meaningful solution and ease the considerable concerns of the community,” after flagship Stamford Hill school Yesodey HaTorah was deemed ‘inadequate’.

In a damning report published last week, inspectors criticised the school for censoring textbooks, removing helpline numbers and refusing to teach pupils the basics of reproduction in sci-

ence, concluding that the school’s leadership had an “overgenerous” view of its teaching quality. The school said Ofsted was part of a “secularist plot”.

PaJeS director Rabbi David Meyer said: “We are delighted that, together with Ofsted, we have found a way for Jewish schools to be true to their ethos and meet the standards expected by Ofsted.

“We look forward to continuing to build greater understanding between [Ofsted] and Jewish schools.”

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hostility between the educational authorities – particularly Ofsted – and our Charedi community.

Many Jewish schools have an excellent relationship with the educational authorities, with a lot of Jewish schools in the centrist Orthodox and Progressive denominations scoring very highly with Ofsted.

For a long time, various parts of the Charedi school sector were no different.

However, over recent months and years, this has changed because of an often aggressive and intransigent approach from the regulator. Of course, there are some very valid points to what Ofsted is raising and to what the government is seeking to achieve.

Nobody could disagree that the health, safety and security of our children is paramount, as is a good, rounded education that will allow them to thrive in both Jewish and other settings. None of this should be in conflict with any Jewish way of life.

On the one hand, no Jewish child

should have an education that robs them of the ability to earn a living and consigns them to poverty. On the other hand, just as we are proud of the central role that Gateshead Yeshiva plays in world Jewry, all Jews would be proud to see these schools breed the next generation of great Torah scholars.

Many of the Charedi schools have long achieved this balance and all should aspire to reach these high standards. For this reason, the Department for Education and Ofsted’s adversarial approach is wrong and counterproductive.

We need the educational establishment to stop what seems to be a nearceaseless attack on a way of life that, while different, is causing no harm and is, in so many ways, a blessing.

What should happen is a proper conversation with all the issues on the table and a workable way forward found that supports the objectives of a harmonious and prosperous society while respecting the ethos of this valued section of our community.

We will continue to work with the educational authorities, liaising with partners including the newly formed Chinuch UK, to argue for a better quality of dialogue, not driven by the prejudices of an illiberal secularism, but aimed at the best outcome for children.

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Leader withdrawn / Tour claims / News NEWS BRIEFS

CORBYN ‘MISSED ISRAEL OPPORTUNITY’

The chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council has said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn “missed an opportunity” to visit Israel on his recent trip to the Middle East and suggested he take a leaf out of Prince William’s book. Writing in The Times, Jonathan Goldstein said Corbyn’s refusal to go to Israel “speaks volumes about his willingness to learn anything outside his narrow view of foreign policy”.

He compared Corbyn’s visit to a Palestinian refugee camp with the prince’s, who “went to Israel and the Palestinian territories, where he learnt of co-existence projects and of the vibrancy of the region’s people”.

FOOTBALLER BANNED OVER ‘RACIST ABUSE’ A footballer has been handed a fivematch ban by the Football Association for calling an opposition player a “f****** Jew”. Scott Shulton, who plays for sixth-tier side Hemel Hempstead in the Vanarama National League South, was racially abused by a former teammate at Braintree Town in January. In addition to his match ban, the accused was also fined £300, an additional £100 in costs, and will have to attend an education course. Shulton said: “It’s been a long process but it was important to stand up to it, not only for myself but for others who have experienced or who will encounter it.”

RSY Israel tour leader dropped A youth leader for the Reform movement who took part in the controversial ‘Kaddish for Gaza’, will not lead an Israel tour this summer.

The Movement for Reform Judaism confirmed this week that Nina Morris-Evans will not take tour as a madricha (leader) for its youth wing, RSY-Netzer, saying it is “in the best interests of the participants”.

Morris-Evans was one of around 50 mainly young participants who provoked communal anger by taking part in the public show of mourning for those killed on 14 May in Gaza border Nina Morris-Evans

Israel tour participants meet up during their summer experience

clashes. However, shortly before the Kaddish event, it became apparent that 50 of the 62 dead were Hamas members.

In a joint statement, RSY-Netzer, Reform Judaism and UJIA, which oversees Israel tours from 13 move-

ments across the religious and ideological spectrum, said: “Over the course of extensive dialogue with an Israel tour leader, unfortunately it has become clear to RSY-Netzer, Reform Judaism and UJIA that we cannot arrive at a position of certainty that

leading tour is in the best interests of the participants.

“As it is a personnel issue, all three organisations have a duty of care and we cannot therefore discuss the details of this process any further.”

Morris-Evans has been asked for comment. In an article for Jewish News at the time, the Reform youth leader condemned the use of live ammunition, and said she did not accept that the Israel Defence Forces were acting in self-defence and insisted the group was not condoning terror by “Jewishly mourning” the Gaza victims.

But she provoked further anger by saying: “Who these people were – or which group they are affiliated to – is an insignificant issue compared to the reality of their murder.”

She later apologised for the use of the word ‘murder’.

Women quit Birthright over ‘bias’ Five young women who quit a free Birthright tour of Israel to “see the occupation for ourselves” have accused the organisation of “telling a one-sided story”.

American Danielle Raskin, 22, and four friends, posted an open letter online after accusing the organisation of “using

a political agenda to educate thousands of American Jews” and of “deliberately hiding the truth” of the occupation.

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School plans / Phone policy / Shoah artefacts / News

Work starts on £12m Kisharon School site Builders have begun work on the new £12.5 million Kisharon School in Hendon for children with learning difficulties, with pupils thrilled to be given a practical demonstration of a

digger and dump truck.

The charity, which helps children aged four to 19 with complex learning disabilities, said it was “thrilled” to finally begin work on the project,

Dr Beverley Jacobson with the digger outside Kisharon

which is due to be finished in 2020 and will result in new state-of-the-art facilities.

Funding for the new Parson Street development, which will cater for 72 school-aged pupils in four units, has almost been met – there is £1m still to find.

Kisharon chairman Philip Goldberg said the new facilities were “much-needed”.

They will include indoor and outdoor teaching spaces with breakout rooms, an early years assessment unit, a profound and multiple learning disability area and an autistic zone.

Pupils will have access to multiple therapy rooms, a food technology unit, a multipurpose school hall and shul, and a hydrotherapy pool.

Chief executive Dr Beverley Jacobson, who is leaving Kisharon to head up Norwood, has challenged herself to raise £75,000 to endow a classroom in memory of her late father, Dr Bentley Phillips.

Camp uniform donated A striped concentration camp uniform and items including shoes and utensils have been donated to the new Holocaust Heritage and Learning Centre at the University of Huddersfield.

The items, which will be exhibited to the public, were donated from the former concentration camps of Buchenwald and MittelbauDora.

This week, the university said it would “help to encapsulate the horror of the Holocaust and will be among the most evocative items on display” at a new exhibition when the centre opens in September.

Funding for the centre was boosted with a £600,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and those behind the project include the

JFS this week banned the use of mobile phones in the interest of the “mental health and well-being of children”, writes Jack Mendel.

Following her appointment as the new headteacher of Europe’s largest Jewish secondary school, Rachel Fink sent a letter to parents this week explaining the decision.

It comes after a year-and-ahalf from the school’s decision to permit some use of phones for educational purposes, which she says in the letter “had a detrimental impact on the overall learning environment of our school”.

Fink wrote: “While we acknowledge the positive impact technology can bring to society and to learning environments, we are aware of the deep and long lasting effects of the excessive use of mobile devices can have on students.”

She continued: “Mobile phones and other devices are a distraction to learning and are not needed within school.”

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JFS has written to parents about its new phone policy

to ban all mobile phones and other devices from the school campus for all students in years 7-11”, while she said she recognises that some students need them for travelling or communication outside of school hours.

Students are told phones “must be switched off and safely stored in students’ lockers upon arrival”, and “should not be kept with students in blazer pockets or bags”, with sanctions to penalise rule breakers.

Penalties include confiscation, with harsher consequences including permanent exclusion or the involvement of police, should “bullying, harassing or intimidating [of] staff or students” be done through mobiles.

The new policy was rolled out on Monday, and the school says it will be “strictly enforced”.

Fink asked for “the support of all parents in assisting your children with this transition”.

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Among the loaned objects are drinking and eating bowls, spoons and a shoe, plus the uniform of a Polish prisoner who survived.

Centre director Emma King said: “It is amazing to have such precious and original artefacts from the original camp settings, for people to be able to actually see the reality of daily life in the camps.”

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Mum’s plea for help to fight MS A Jewish mum from Edgware is seeking help to get pioneering treatment in Moscow for her multiple sclerosis.

Fiona Elias, 34, launched the crowdfunding appeal to pay for doctors at A. A. Maximov Hospital in Russia to

try a new stem cell technique, which has been described as “rebooting the immune system to factory settings”.

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relapse will strike, how long it will last or how it might affect me. I wake up every morning not certain that I will be able to get myself out of bed.”

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Divorce rule / Hoaxer convicted / World News

Israel gets tough on gets Leading rabbis this week welcomed an Israeli decision to ban Jewish men who refuse to give their wives a religious divorce, and to detain them as they cross into Israel.

The reaction followed the passing of a new law by the Israeli Knesset to bar from entry men who refuse to grant a religious divorce – or get – to their wives following a civil divorce, leaving them unable to marry again according to Jewish law.

In recent years, Europe’s top rabbis have taken up the case of the women, who are

often referred to as agunot, or “chained”, describing men’s repeated refusal to grant a get as a form of “domestic violence”.

Now any man identified by

a diaspora rabbinical court as a “recalcitrant husband” can be detained upon arrival in Israel, and can be forced to attend divorce proceedings.

The rabbis and Israeli

authorities hope that detainment on entering Israel will act as a deterrent to the men.

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, whose organisation pushed for the law, said: “It is my fervent prayer that the new law will pave the way to hope for women who seek to live their life free of the shackles of an unwanted and dysfunctional marriage.

“Get refusal is a form of domestic violence and the global Jewish community must act to protect its women.”

ISRAELI GUILTY OF HOAX BOMB THREATS A Jewish-Israeli from Ashkelon has been convicted of making up to 2,000 bomb hoax threats to Jewish schools and institutions in the UK and around the world.

Michael Kadar, 19, who has dual USIsraeli citizenship, was convicted in Israel this week after a two-year campaign in which he forced evacuations at Jewish schools in the UK and at London’s Jewish Museum.

The court heard how Kadar, who

began his campaign in 2015, made bomb threats over the internet to extort money, targeting the Jewish community but also British Airways, which led to an emergency landing on a flight.

His parents said Kadar has autism and should not be considered legally responsible for his actions. Kadar was convicted of extortion, money laundering and assaulting a police officer and will be sentenced at a later date.

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF

Your weekly digest of stories from the international press UKRAINE

Jewish volunteers in Lviv have helped rescue almost 100 Jewish headstones used to pave a street during the Nazi era. The early 20th century headstones, laid tightly-packed, were covered over by a road surface. The discovery was made last week by city workers making repairs.

Most stones appeared intact.

SPAIN

The High Court of Justice in Asturias has confirmed that a city council’s policy of boycotting Israel is unconstitutional. The City Council of Castrillon in northern Spain passed a motion effectively boycotting Israel, Israeli businesses and companies doing business with Israel in August last year.

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The Greek national basketball team has a new Jewish coach.

Former NBA manager David Blatt, an American-Israeli, will be paid a reported $1.8 million (£760,230) for two years’ work. He has coached a team in Turkey for the past two years, and led the Russian national team to bronze at the London Olympics 2012.

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More than two dozen US Jewish organisations, including the Orthodox Union, signed an open letter opposing Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown because it separates children from their families at the US border. Trump’s wife Melania added her support, saying she “hates to see it”.

The UK-supported Emunah day care centre in Netivot had a close call on Monday when an incendiary balloon sent from Gaza landed on its grounds. No one was hurt as children and staff had left the premises.

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World News / Tank commander / Kotel outrage / Flight drama NEWS IN BRIEF

HERZOG APOLOGISES FOR ‘PLAGUE’ REMARK

The new chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel said his remarks comparing intermarriage to a “plague” had been misunderstood. Isaac Herzog used the Hebrew word for “plague” to describe marriages in the diaspora between Jews and those of other faiths and said there must be “a solution”. Herzog later said he was using it as a slang word and “didn’t mean it in any negative terms.” Negative reactions to his original remarks had “distorted the meaning,” he added. “A Jew is a Jew is a Jew.”

BLOOMBERG MAY RUN FOR US PRESIDENCY

Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg is considering running for US president in 2020, CBS News reported. The former New York City mayor said he regrets he did not stay in the 2016 race because he believes he could have won or prevented Donald Trump from winning. Bloomberg now 76, also considered runs for the presidency in 2008 and 2012.

He has now said he will spend £60million to help to elect Democrats in the midterm elections to have the party control of the House of Representatives.

Charlotte shows her caliber Charlotte FeldDavidovici moved to Israel to serve in the IDF

A young Jewish woman born and raised in Britain has become one of Israel’s first female tank commanders after passing a gruelling combat course.

Charlotte Feld-Davidovici, 20, who lives in Tel Aviv, is one of only four women to pass the Israel Defence Force’s special pilot programme of the

460th Brigade, and she has used the opportunity to urge the IDF to give more responsibility to women.

Feld-Davidovici, who attended JFS and saw five colleagues drop out of the course before it finished, is now lined up to take the senior frontline combat role within the Armored Corps of the Border Defense Array.

It is the first time the role has been offered to women.

The programme comprises of five weeks of assess-

ment and selection followed by eight weeks of basic infantry training, six weeks of training in specific roles then a further 16 weeks of advanced training, ending with a ‘war week’ including fire, navigation, urban warfare training and tank commander exams.

The training was described by the IDF as “identical to that of male combat soldiers with only small changes to their routine activity” and “a success

both from the instructional and the operational perspectives. The soldiers achieved all the goals set for them”.

Feld-Davidovici began her combat training in one of the Border Force battalions after moving to Israel from the UK two years ago.

“My motivation is high because I moved to Israel to serve in the IDF and chose to be a combat soldier,” she said.

“I believe the IDF should give greater responsibility to women in all fields.”

Nude model at Kotel NEW FLIGHT DELAY A Belgian model detained by police in Egypt for posing naked in front of old temples did so again near the Western Wall in Jerusalem for an exhibition in her native country.

The photo of Marisa Papen, 26, on a terrace of a private residence overlooking the Western Wall plaza is now on sale in a Belgian gallery.

Titled Road to Liberation, the picture has Papen reclining in a plastic chair. The perspective has her naked body serve as the foreground to the

women’s section of the Western Wall.

The picture does not include the Al Aqsa Mosque, which towers over the Western Wall plaza and would have been prominently visible.

“For all the picture’s alleged provocative nature, I think it [the mosque] was edited out,” said Michael Freilich, editor-in-chief of the Joods Actueel Jewish paper. “I guess they don’t want too much controversy.”

Papen was detained in Egypt last year for 24 hours for posing nude.

The pilot of an Austrian Airlines flight had to leave the cockpit and persuade several women to change their seats after Charedi men refused to sit next to female passengers.

The Friday morning flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna left 40 minutes late and was delayed for another half hour in Austrian airspace after failing to miss the morning rush hour, Ynet reported.

The 26 Charedi men had been scheduled to fly to Vienna on the Polish national airline LOT, but

when that flight was cancelled moved to the Austrian Airlines flight.

Stewardesses on the flight reportedly tried to convince the men to take their assigned seats but those next to women refused.

The incident came a week after an El Al flight from New York to Israel was similarly delayed.

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Special Report Prince William in Israel

William of the Wall

Prince William prayed at the Western Wall at the conclusion of his historic Middle East tour, writes Justin Cohen.

The second-in-line to the throne became the first British royal to travel to Israel and the Palestinian Territories when he embarked on a five-day tour of the region last week.

While he held talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the presidents of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the focus

of the visit was on meeting young people on both sides.

Wearing a kippah for the second time on the tour, the Duke of Cambridge, at Judaism’s holiest site, followed tradition by placing his hand on the wall in silent reflection, before taking several steps back.

Joined by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and surrounded by worshippers, he placed a note in the cracks in the wall during one of the

William lays a wreath at Princess Alice’s final resting place on the Mount of Olives

most keenly-anticipated moments of the trip.

Describing William as “an extraordinary man”, Mirvis said: “Today we experienced a moment of history which will live long in the memory of Jews around the world.”

He told Jewish News: “The excitement was palpable. I’ve never seen before at the Kotel all services coming to a standstill. Everyone appreciated it was a moment in history and it was great to be there.”

He also visited the Temple Mount and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in a walk around the Old City – his final act of the tour.

William earlier made a poignant pilgrimage and laid flowers to the final resting place in Jerusalem of his great-grandmother, Princess Alice, who was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for saving a Jewish family during the Holocaust.

Alice, the mother of Prince Philip, hid the three members of the Cohen family – Rachel, Tilda and Michelle – in her palace in Athens during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

She personally saw to it that the persecuted Jewish family had everything they needed, and even visited them in their hiding place, spending many hours in their company.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last year visited the Stutthof camp, following in the footsteps of his father Prince Charles, who has long taken a particular interest in honouring survivors of the Holocaust and those who came to Britain on the Kindertransport.

WIlliam’s great-grandmother Princess Alice

During the carefully-calibrated tour, William praised the “essential vibrancy” of Israel and told Palestinians their plight had not been forgotten – a pledge he apparently added at the last minute after meeting figures from both the West Bank and Gaza.

The Foreign Office, which advises on royal travel, had for 70 years of Israel’s existence avoided an official royal visit because of the political sensitivities in the region, with many suggesting it would not happen until a peace deal was reached.

The Sunday Mirror quoted a royal source as saying: “The visit had a profound effect on the Duke. The places he visited, the people he met and the stories he heard have all moved him very deeply.”

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FOR SALE William’s trip was a by Auction breath of fresh heir DAVID QUARREY UK AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL It was a week no one in the British Embassy in Israel will forget. As we assembled on the tarmac at Ben Gurion airport, there was a palpable sense that this would be a visit like no other.

Our instructions from Kensington Palace were clear. The Duke of Cambridge did not want to do what most visitors do.

He wanted to get a real sense of Israel, of what makes the country tick and what drives its extraordinary successes in tech and innovation. And he wanted to meet the young people who represent Israel’s future.

Israel responded to the Duke’s interest with great affection and enthusiasm. Children from different communities cheered his penalties on a Jaffa football field. Young Israeli tech entrepreneurs demonstrated the best of Start-Up Nation.

Crowds on Tel Aviv beach were delighted to see the Duke of Cambridge cooling off with some watermelon while chatting to surfers. And people gathered

hours in advance to see the Duke stroll down iconic Rothschild Boulevard with Eurovision winner Netta.

There were solemn, powerful moments too. The Duke of Cambridge was determined to pay his respects to the memory of those who had died in the Holocaust.

It was profoundly moving at Yad Vashem as he laid his wreath in the Hall of Remembrance and the Chief Rabbi sang the memorial prayer.

The Duke of Cambridge said in his speech at my residence that the relationship between the UK and Israel has never been stronger. He also noted how much the UK and Israel have in common, as two open, dynamic societies.

I hope that the guest list for that party gave the Duke of Cambridge a sense of Israel’s diversity and creativity: from the Prime Minister and Mrs Netanyahu to the Chief Justice to top model Bar Refaeli and singer Ivri Lider; brilliant scientists and start-up pioneers; and businesspeople who are driving our record trade and investment numbers.

When I spoke to the Chief Rabbi after he had accompanied the Duke of Cambridge to the Western Wall, we agreed it had indeed been a visit like no other.

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“I am well aware that the responsibility falls now to my generation, to keep the memory alive of that great crime, as the Holocaust generation passes on. And I commit myself to doing this.”

These powerful words came from the future King, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, during his historic visit to Israel. They sent a powerful statement.

They fill me with hope, that the future of Holocaust education and remembrance have a safe place on our national agenda.

His words echo the mission of the Holocaust Educational Trust – we believe firmly that the next generation need to take the baton of Holocaust education and remembrance, and within our community of young Ambassadors this dedication to our cause is palpable.

This was as prominent to me as ever when earlier this week 300 young people gathered in London for our Ambassador Conference to learn more about the Holocaust, hear survivor testimony and use their voices to speak the truth of the Holocaust.

They learned about the complex history of the past, they considered the challenges we

face today as we talk about the Holocaust and the grim reality of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism – and what it means for them as passionate advocates for our cause.

These ambassadors are on a journey with us. They have become champions, dedicated to sharing the memory of the past.

And in this mission, they stand shoulder to shoulder with royalty. We are proud to also call Prince William a true champion of our cause. Only last year, we were delighted to take the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on a visit to Stutthof.

They met survivors of the camp – Zigi Shipper BEM and Manfred Goldberg. At the time, Their Royal Highnesses said that the “shattering visit” had reminded them of the “horrendous murder of six million Jews”.

It was a profoundly moving experience for all of us who were there, and one that the Prince himself reflected on after his visit to Yad Vashem. It was a powerful day, one I am sure none of us will ever forget.

William’s visit was not only unprecedented but he walked a challenging diplomatic tightrope, delicately and masterfully.

He is a champion for all of us – for survivors, for young people committed to remembering the past, to those of us invested with the responsibility for educating the next generation and to the Jewish community here, and around the world. He is a champion of kindness and humanity.

We owe him a debt of gratitude.

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Editorial comment and letters VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS

Refusing debate is just not Jewish For millennia Jews have debated. In writing, around the dinner table, it’s what we do, and it has stood us in good stead. By comparison, we’ve not had long (70 years) to debate the actions and direction of the State of Israel, but debate it we have – and then some. So on one level it is bizarre to think some of the most respected people in our community, those who don’t warn unless there’s a real threat, now say the nature of the debate is risking the viability of that community, of Zionism and of Israel. Yet that is what Senior Reform Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner did in May, and what Sir Mick Davis – a Zionist with an unimpeachable record of supporting Israel and Jewish causes – did this week.

The problem is polarisation and extremism (admittedly mirrored in society at large) and how this is causing Jews to “leave the floor”. That it is happening is beyond doubt. Most of us know people who have simply switched off, chosen to walk away from a crucial element of their Jewishness, such is the vicious nature of today’s commentary, such are the legions of “far-left” and “far-right” Jews just waiting to type their latest vitriol or scream in someone’s face.

Jews feel harangued online and off for their views on Israel, Palestine, peace and the “ugly” new legislation passing through the Knesset, to use Sir Mick’s phrase, so now don’t offer them. Debating used to broaden mindsets, offer different perspectives. Not, it seems, for Jews and Israel.

How did this come to be? For thousands of years before the concept of ‘safe spaces’ even entered the dictionary, it was a given that for Jews the debate itself was a safe space to offer thoughts without fear of abuse, character assassination, smear, accusations of being a ‘kapo’ or, at worst, death threats. The Jews of old, of tradition, would be appalled by this unwillingness to hear alternative views, or to learn that Jews now fear voicing them because extreme bloggers post photos and identities online. A Jew’s views should never threaten their safety, only their argument, as more powerful arguments are respectfully made.

That we refuse do so these days is abhorrent. Not so much because it is vile in itself but because it is so un-Jewish. We must remember who we are: a people with more than one opinion, who have done well because we’ve heard them all.

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TIME AIRLINES STOPPED NONSENSE I’m tempted to reflect on the irony of the good news of Prince William’s visit to Israel being almost immediately counterbalanced by the bad news of more bad behaviour in the air by some of our citizens.

Your paper last week had another story of an aircraft delay caused by Charedim passengers refusing to sit next to women on an El Al service from New York to Tel Aviv.

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This time, the reporting has been more extensive, amid signs of growing public backlash.

The Times of Israel said a plane had “again” been held up, and quoted Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid saying on Twitter: “Once again a primitive group of Charedis moved and humiliated women on a flight. If for once they’re removed from the flight without hesitation or recompense, this disgrace will end.”

El Al has now said any passenger who refuses seating “will be immediately removed”. For the sake of all passengers, such action cannot come too soon.

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IS LABOUR LEADER MASKING A WISH FOR ISRAEL’S DEMISE? So Mr Corbyn wants a right of return for the Palestinian people? (Jewish News, 28 June 18). If what he is saying pertains to millions of so-called Palestinian Arabs suddenly knocking on the door of 22 Acacia Avenue, Haifa, forget it.

It has been 70 years since the birth of the state of Israel and the Palestinians have to ‘move on’.

Even my old house in Stamford Hill has been knocked down.

However, if Corbyn wants a right of return because it would decimate the Jewish population of Israel, just say so.

Why can’t he say so?

I will tell you.

He is masking his true views of the Jewish homeland. It seems to me that to Corbyn, a good Jew is an anti-Zionist, so a bad Jew must be a Zionist.

How such a man can call himself the leader of the party for the people beats me.

Let’s get him out and get a proper leader in, such as Tom Watson who supported Luciana Berger during the anti-Semitic debate in Parliament and is a friend of Israel.

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Editorial comment and letters

Personal agendas

Debate: Dr Ghada Karmi On 18 June, Dr Ghada Karmi spoke at a debate held by ‘Intelligence Squared’ against the motion – The World should recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The other speakers were Jack Straw, Ehud Olmert and Natasha Hausdorff.

During her speech, Dr Karmi quoted an inaccurate statistic. This was corrected by the chairperson, the BBC’s Emily Maitlis and later, Olmert during his speech. However, Dr Karmi refused to accept the

revision.

She then made a statement apropos of the definition of the slogan: ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free’. Once again, her interpretation of this slogan was contradicted by facts raised by the chairperson – a quotation from Mahmoud Abbas. Once again, she refused to accept the veracity of the evidence presented to her.

Higher education should of course present a broad range of ideas to its students, but surely lecturers must be willing and able to differentiate between propaganda, opinion and fact.

It is worrying that Dr Karmi’s views should be given a platform of respectability, a safe space to fester in the university’s lecture hall.

Surely it is not appropriate that academia is utilised as a platform to promote a personal political agenda and to allow this brings the otherwise excellent University of Exeter into disrepute.

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IT’S TIME FOR MORE MODERATE VOICES

If Labour MPs were serious about anti-Semitism, they would insist Mr Corbyn stands down and would vote in a moderate leader, man or woman, who supports Israel.

People should ignore the Labour Party, boycott it and move on to another that makes them feel at home.

Labour is no home for a decent Jew any more.

A good Jew will stand up for his or her religion, be proud and always stand up for Israel or be a friend, now more than ever. It is our blood.

Victor Rones Bracknell

CORRECT TO QUIT UNHRC I disagree with the conclusion of your editorial comment “Better to reform from in than out?” (Jewish News, 21 June) on the United States quitting membership of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for being a ‘cesspool of political bias’.

The number seven is profoundly significant in Judaism, and mostly with positive overtones. But not so with the UNHRC that has on its business agenda, and has done for a long time now, Item 7 “Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territo-

ries”. This is up for discussion at every council session.

Yes, only democratic Israel has been singled out for constant condemnation of her activities and supposedly, in the eyes of the member countries, continuing human rights abuses.

The UNHRC is never going to be reformed by its members. You either accept that, or leave the organisation. Sometimes in life, quitting is fitting.

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This will be a very proud weekend for LGBT+ Jews DALIA FLEMING

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his Friday night, hundreds of LGBT+ Jews and others will gather at West London Synagogue for a special service to mark Pride in London. The next morning, KeshetUK – the organisation working so no one has to choose between their Jewish and LGBT+ identity – will lead the Jewish contingent at the annual Pride in London celebration in central London. Rabbis, teachers, families and friends will together celebrate the progress towards equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Jewish and British communities.

For many years, Jewish LGBT+ people could not be open about who they were.

LGBT+ Jews were faced with the choice of living a lie, or coming out as LGBT+ and risking public shaming and ostracism.

Many lives were ruined, and much talent

was wasted. One in three lesbian, gay and bisexual people of faith, and one in four transgender people of faith, still aren’t open with anyone in their faith community about their LGBT+ identity.

Even so, we can all feel proud that we live in a world where, increasingly, this no longer is the case.

Jewish LGBT+ people have made, and continue to make, important contributions to the Jewish and wider community.

Community leaders, business people, scientists and artists, writers and thinkers, social activists, rabbis and educators, parents and children – in every aspect of life, LGBT+ people are shaping Jewish life and lives, and enriching our whole society.

These contributions are something to be proud of. We are therefore excited to partner with Jewish News to showcase a selection of 10 LGBT+ Jewish people who inspire us. Diverse in their sexuality and gender identity, with different religious affiliations and none, this group is not a top 10. Instead, it’s a glimpse into how LGBT+ people contribute to the vitality of our communities.

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This positive visibility is important. It’s still all too easy for Jewish LGBT+ people to feel that our community thinks there is something shameful about being LGBT+.

We read news stories about demands to boycott Jewish community centres for activities designed to support LGBT+ people.

Young people tell us they fear bullying at school and their parents tell us they fear rejection from their synagogue.

Vandals and vindictive people seek to silence and sideline LGBT+ Jews and those who speak out in their support.

We have another message. In spite of all this, LGBT+ Jews are playing a proactive and positive part in Jewish life while embracing

and expressing their identities.

Pride offers us an opportunity to celebrate what LGBT+ people have already achieved and reflect on the journeys still to come.

We celebrate our own freedom, and recognise that there are communities and countries where LGBT+ people still live in fear.

LGBT+ Jews are visible and vocal in so many areas of Jewish life. By valuing their contribution and making it visible, we honour our commitment to the principle that every Jew has a right to their heritage and faith, and has a place in Jewish life.

Those of us coming together this weekend are passionately proud to be playing our part in creating and celebrating community.

We know there will be others this weekend who still stand alone, and we call on our community to reach out with this message: we value you for the person you are, and there is a place for you in our family, our community, our world.

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Opinion

‘British values’ now a euphemism for dogma SHIMON COHEN

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avid Brown’s Jewish News article last week did not reflect the ethos of Jewish schools or how the ‘British values’ agenda has been enforced. As Orthodox Jews, our community is proud to demonstrate two fundamental values: respect and tolerance. These are fundamental British values and it is a shame Ofsted has failed to show these values towards many of London’s Orthodox Jewish schools.

If there was a problem with homophobic or gender-based bullying in Orthodox Jewish schools, this would undoubtedly be a serious issue that would need to be addressed.

However, it is wrong to suggest Ofsted has been threatening schools with closure because of evidence of bullying or intolerance.

Jewish schools with high standards, both academically and in terms of pupils’ wellbeing and development, are being deemed unsatisfactory only because of a failure to teach ideas which contravene traditional

Jewish values. The message to schools is clear – teach a secular, non-Jewish world view or face closure. Mr Brown has got it the wrong way around – Ofsted are the fundamentalists, accepting no deviation from their doctrine, and those of us who care about the continuity of Jewish education have been given every reason to be fearful. No wonder parents increasingly view Ofsted inspections as a thinly-veiled exercise in social engineering.

The breakdown in the relationship between Ofsted and many of our schools has been rapid and distressing. Schools recently praised for promoting learning and nurturing honest, diligent, respectful pupils have now been branded as failing schools.

The fact these judgments are being made by an organisation set up to promote educational excellence is baffling. Perhaps the most upsetting aspect of this deteriorating relationship is the implication that Orthodox schools, and by extension our community, are somehow un-British because we oppose Ofsted’s new definition of ‘British values’.

Anyone with a basic grasp of Jewish history can see a resemblance to that most perni-

cious of anti-Semitic tropes: that we Jews are essentially alien and our loyalty to our faith somehow opposes the countries we live in.

The manner in which Ofsted has cast Orthodox Jewish education as an un-British exercise is a sad indictment that their doctrinaire interpretation of ‘British values’ falls short of the real meaning of the term.

As Rabbi Frand said at a recent gathering of 7,000 members of the community voicing concerns about Ofsted: “We thank God that we are privileged to live in a tolerant country.”

The definition of tolerance in a democracy is a willingness to accept there are a variety of different viewpoints and we do not have a right to impose our viewpoint on others, especially on peaceful, law-abiding minorities.

How ironic then, that Ofsted defines ‘tolerance for those of different faiths and beliefs’ as a fundamental value, but seems completely unable to grasp what this means in practice.

There is always room for improvement and all our schools are constantly striving to be better. However, the Orthodox community is proud of its values and remains committed to teaching its children about the central importance of having respect for all and, at the same time, maintaining a firm loyalty to Jewish principles and faith. The merits of this approach are successive generations of proud religious Jews contributing to British society.

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Federation’s proud legacy is something to celebrate GEOFFREY ALDERMAN AUTHOR & ACADEMIC

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he Federation of Synagogues’ establishment followed the great emigration of Jews from Eastern Europe that helped to reshape Jewish life in Britain at the end of the 19th century: a ‘native’ Anglo-Jewish population of perhaps 60,000 souls was swamped by twice as many mostly poor Yiddishspeaking Jews [they included my maternal great-grandparents], some propelled to these shores by pogrom and persecution, but most just seeking a better life.

In London, they found an already-established set of Jewish communities, ruled over by an interrelated set of mega-wealthy families. The United Synagogue, dating from 1870, was orthodox in theory but less so in practice, operating a network of ‘cathedral’ synagogues with membership and burial fees quite out of the reach of the immigrants.

For a range of communal purposes, the immigrants needed an overarching structure, but one that would provide them with the

maximum amount of autonomy. The then-MP for Whitechapel, the banker [and fluent Yiddish speaker] Samuel Montagu, offered to fund a solution: a federation of legally autonomous congregations whose enjoyment of communal services – such as a dedicated burial ground and membership of the London Shechita Board – would be dependent upon them recognising the authority of the United Synagogue’s ‘chief rabbi’.

And so it was that on Sunday 16 October 1887, at the Spital Square Synagogue, Spitalfields, 16 East End ‘minor’ shuls met under Montagu’s chairmanship: the Federation of Synagogues was born.

The Federation has had – to put it mildly – a colourful history. Samuel Montagu was a Sabbath-observant orthodox Jew. He admired the religious tenacity of the immigrants but was fearful of their leanings towards socialism and Zionism. He made no secret of his ambition to use the Federation as an instrument of social control – employing a succession of rabbis and preachers to assist in this task.

At his death (1911), Montagu was naturally succeeded as head of the Federation by his eldest son, Louis, who did not speak Yiddish

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and was not religiously observant. In 1919, Louis added his signature to an infamous letter published in the anti-Semitic Morning Post, accusing the Jewish masses of the East End of harbouring revolutionary tendencies.

A cabal of angry Federation members, led by one Morry Davis, determined to be rid of Louis, whose resignation they engineered. In due course, Davis, Labour leader of Stepney Borough Council and a well-known local racketeer, became the Federation’s third president. His presidency ended with his imprisonment (on a matter unrelated to his Federation activities), in 1944.

It’s as well to remember that in the period between the two World Wars, the Federation

was the largest synagogal body in the British Isles. In the wake of the Davis scandal, the United Synagogue did its best to kill off the organisation, which wartime bombing had deprived of its East End heartland.

That this ambition did not succeed was due largely to the Federation’s sixth president, Morry Lederman. While Lederman’s financial misdeeds ought to have earned him a prison sentence (he stole money from the Federation, which Davis never did), he played the game of communal politics to near perfection.

It’s said that the centre-ground of British Jewry is contracting. This is certainly not true of the Federation, which has for some years been expanding its Greater London synagogal base while at the same time putting down new roots in Manchester.

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Opinion

Israel’s simple solution – help the children of war JENNI FRAZER

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ious politicians and columnists alike have something in common – they praise action when it is “the right thing to do”.

I will lay bets that almost everyone, no matter where on the political spectrum, is in agreement on one thing – the lousy state of Israel’s public image. Well, I have an instant solution and it does indeed lie in doing something because it is the right thing to do.

Israel suffers endless international abuse for many of its actions but, frankly, a sin of omission is often as bad as a sin of commission. In other words, not doing something, particularly if you can, is frequently just as bad as an action.

Last summer, I had the privilege of working on a film, Love Your Enemies, which told the story of how Israeli medics in northern hospitals were giving unprecedented treatment to Syrians, military personnel and civilian alike. At the time of

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making our film, Israel had treated more than 4,000 Syrians and was on the verge of establishing a field hospital on the other side of the border so that it could help even more.

Two things stood out for me from working on the film. First, despite the worldclass treatment they were receiving, not one Syrian asked to stay in Israel. They wanted to go home to their families and villages on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.

The second thing that emerged, and became a mantra of the film, happened when we asked why Israel was carrying out the treatment. Cynically, it might have been assumed it was a public relations initiative, but no country invests the sums Israel has in treating Syrians just for the sake of PR. But as we were told repeatedly, Israel was helping the Syrians not only for PR, but because it was “the right thing to do”. And in addition, as one surgeon told us, if his treatment of Syrians led the population of that country to view Israel differently, not as the Satanic enemy but a neighbour with an outstretched hand – well, that could only be a good thing, couldn’t it?

And so we fast-forward to today’s burgeoning humanitarian disaster assembling on Israel’s northern border, as the Syrian regime seeks to re-take the rebelheld south of the country. At least 11,000 Syrians are said to have taken refuge on the border with Israel, presenting a massive headache for Israel’s government.

Last Friday, six Syrians, including four

children, were brought to Israeli hospitals for medical assistance. Three hundred tents, 13 tons of food, 15 tons of baby food, 30 tons of clothes, medical supplies and medicines were transferred via the good offices of the Israeli army to those on the Syrian side.

At the same time, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated flatly that not one Syrian refugee will be permitted to enter Israel. Jordan closed its borders two years ago and refuses to change its policy.

So where are all the fleeing Syrians supposed to go? Ironically, according to one Syrian family, the Israeli border is now “the safest place to be”.

Lieberman may, as former IDF spokesman Lieut Col Peter Lerner suggested, have issued his blanket policy because of fears that Iranian infiltrators may get into Israel disguised as Syrian civilians.

But surely this can’t apply to the many hundreds of orphaned children who are now living in terror in appalling conditions on the Golan. Israel has a simple solution – help the children. It’s the right thing to do.

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At war with ourselves in the battle for Zionism SIR MICK DAVIS FORMER JLC CHAIRMAN

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ecent debates have highlighted a crisis, not just for the British Jewish community but the Jewish people at large. Jewish discourse around Israel has never been more polarised, vicious or impoverished. The damage this could do to Jewish communities, our confidence in our values, our long-term viability and the long-term viability of Zionism – and with it the state of Israel – is an existential threat.

Events after May’s spike in violence on the Gaza border made clear the existence of a British Jewish far-right and far-left, both dominating the discourse despite most of the community finding them objectionable. Some far-left Jews said kaddish in Parliament Square for Palestinians killed near the border fence, including those from terrorist organisations. Far-right Jews responded to this provocative act with abusive language, use of terms like “kapo”, issuing death

threats and seeking to hound Kaddish participants from their jobs. Weeks later, the controversy still rages.

There isn’t much real discussion of the complex situation and the in fact quite tragic circumstances of the ordinary people of Gaza, the absence of anything resembling a peace process or the increasing tensions in the Israeldiaspora relationship. Such discussion can barely take place in a public space dominated by a self-indulgent far-left and far-right, seeking to outdo each other in acts of provocation, navelgazing and virtue signalling. Those who attempt to address the real issues are likely to be shot down with online vitriol.

Recent experience has reminded me that when engaging in measured, legitimate criticism of Israel’s government two things are guaranteed. First, you will be assailed from the right by those who ignore what you have said to construct strawman arguments based on what you haven’t. They don’t debate your points but delegitimise your right to make them.

You don’t live in Israel so keep your mouth shut, they say, without demanding silence from

those they agree with, wherever they live. It’s not your kids in the army, they argue, even if it isn’t theirs either. You’re only saying that to impress your anti-Israel friends at dinner parties, they suggest, as if dining with anti-Semites is the preferred leisure activity of any Jew who disagrees with them. Or better still you are accused of being a “palace Jew”; craven, self- serving and of little moral worth.

Second, your criticisms will be jumped on by those on the left, who also distort what you have said, seeking within it vindication for their own prejudices even where there is none.

Your concern that a divide is opening up between Israel and the diaspora becomes misconstrued as advocating for a rift. Your acknowledgment that Israel isn’t perfect taken as a statement of its evil. Caught between a right for whom Israel can do no wrong and a left for whom Israel can do no right, it is little wonder that large swathes of Jews in the middle choose to say nothing, leaving the floor for the partisans to slug it out between themselves.

Debate cannot continue to be conducted in a spirit of hatred and incitement rather than respect and shared peoplehood, with an agenda set by the extremes. If it does then the centrality of the state of Israel to Jewish life, which has been integral to the maintenance, vibrancy and sustainability of Jewish communities, could disintegrate as whole sections of the community simply switch off because they can’t stand the noise.

Red lines that framed our communal discourse have become blurred. We have failed to police our boundaries, right and left. To the left, we see young people, even in some Zionist youth movements, internalising the Palestinian narrative before they’ve even comprehended how blessed they are to grow up in a world in which a Jewish state exists, exposing a Zionist educational deficit that needs addressing.

We see a failure of empathy with Israelis and their security needs in a perilous region. And we see the community’s far-left fringe denying or minimising the existence of left-wing antiSemitic anti-Zionism and eyeing their chance to drive a wedge between UK Jews and Israel.

On the right, some activists have proved to have no boundaries at all. For them, expressing the most basic empathy for the Palestinians is taboo while expressing empathy for imprisoned former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson is acceptable.

And like so many forms of populism, this emergent British Jewish far-right wallows in

perceived victimhood at the hands of “an elite” – in this case the “Jewish establishment”.

Far from victimising this right-wing fringe, however, we’ve indulged and humoured it, viewing it as oafish and shrill but no great threat to the community’s consensus values. Much like the British centre-left viewed its far-left fringe, before it was engulfed by it.

This polarisation has taken hold in part because of a lack of Zionist leadership. And for Zionist leadership we look, naturally, to Israel but find little to inspire. The language of peace and two states for two peoples has been taken off the agenda. In 1947, Israel’s founders accepted two states – they accepted that a 2,000-year-old dream could only become reality if land was traded for the certainty of statehood.

But they also embedded another value at the core of the Jewish state’s being – of democracy and all it entails. Israel, thankfully, is today a regional super power that, notwithstanding a chaotic and dangerous neighbourhood bringing daily threats and dilemmas, has never been better able to defend itself.

But around the world the Jewish people are increasingly insecure and cannot afford to be at war with ourselves. But the ongoing corrosive impact of Israel governing the lives of another people is being illustrated in ugly legislation, a rise in anti-Arab racism and disturbing debates and initiatives across the Jewish world.

These trends represent an existential threat to the values that underpinned the establishment of the state of Israel 70 years ago as Jewish and democratic, to the unity of diaspora communities and to their ties to Israel.

They have also emboldened our own rightwing fringe, which is more vitriolic and aggressive than ever but increasingly focusing its ire not just on opponents of the community, nor even on the community’s far-left, but on anyone within the community who thinks that a debate over Israel’s direction is worth having. At the same time, a Jewish far-left has adopted a narrative on Israel indistinguishable from left-wing anti-Zionists, and while they sneer at the liberal Zionists among us, they sniff an opportunity to win recruits.

It is up to all of us who cherish both our connection to Israel and our commitment to its democratic values and those of our community to stand firm and reject the provocations of those who would sow discord among us.

Only then will we be able to safeguard our Zionism from implosion.

A community divided: Young Jews recite ‘Kaddish for Gaza’ in Westminster

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

1BAKES FOR BUSES

The community donned its collective baking hat when it took part in Jewish Care’s Great Jewish Bake Day. For the event, which is in its sixth year and was media sponsored

by Jewish News, 22 schools, nurseries, cheder and brownie groups raised money for Jewish Care buses. Children from Nagila Nursery iced cupcakes with older members of Jewish Care’s Edgware & Harrow Community Centre. Jewish Care and Etz Chaim School president, Lord Levy, lent a hand at the preparations for the school’s bake sale, while other planned school sales included Moriah, Sacks Morasha, Immanuel College, Rosh Pinah, Clore Shalom, Rimon Primary Schools, Little Bix and Gilah Nurseries and Stanmore Brownie Group. The charity’s buses take older, isolated people to Jewish Care community centres and centres for people living with dementia, to enjoy a day of activities, socialise and have a cooked meal.

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2SCHOOL CELEBRATION

Wolfson Hillel Primary School celebrated its 25th anniversary at Hillelfest.

More than 1,000 students, parents, staff, family and friends enjoyed activities ranging from donkey and fairground rides to stalls, beauty, balloons and soft play. The day included a BBQ and big screen showing the World Cup, and raised £12,500.

Agnes Grunwald-Spier was at Oxford Brookes University to receive her honorary doctorate of arts for her work on the Holocaust. Attending with her three sons and two friends she met at college (pictured), she was presented with her degree by the chancellor, Dame Katherine Grainger, a five-times Olympic rower medallist. She said: “It was lovely.

My acceptance speech was well received and after a super lunch, my sons, friends and I went punting on the river, which was delightful as it was such a glorious afternoon.”

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Pupils from Simon Marks School were joined by Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott for its Summer Fair. Year Six children ran a smoothie making stall, while families enjoyed a bouncy castle, face painting, hair braiding and belly dancing. Abbot said: “Simon Marks has a great reputation as a community-based, caring school with a strong religious and ethical basis.”

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8 TEVYE AT SHUL

Lucy Ronson Allalouf celebrated her batmitzvah both in London and Jerusalem – the latter alongside 10 bar and batmitzvah kids with special needs at Shalva National Center. Having decided she wanted to raise money to sponsor a gala bar-batmitzvah celebration for her 10 new friends, she raised nearly £9,000 by selling her artwork, which funded the evening. Shalva chairman Avi Samuels said: “I’m so grateful to Lucy, to her dear parents and the extended family for believing in Shalva’s mission, and for sharing their beautiful simchah with us in the most amazing way here at Shalva.”

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there are a lot of kids in Israel who come from scrambled and messed-up homes, who are less fortunate than me.

Thanks to Emunah, the money I have raised will mean better lives for neglected boys and girls my age.”

JW3 hosted its annual young professionals brunch with Holocaust survivors – Joan Salter, Harry Bibring, Martin Stern, Marla Tribich, Eve Kugler, Harry Olmer, Helen Aronson and Zigi Shipper.

Tulip Siddiq MP opened the event, which was chaired by Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer. The talk ended with survivors joining 75 young professionals for brunch to tell their stories in more depth.

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7 JACOB’S CHALLENGE Thirteen-year-old Jacob Selwyn successfully completed the ‘13 Rubik’s challenge’ – scrambling 13 Rubik’s cubes and puzzles in under 13 minutes – and, in doing so, raised £2,300 for Emunah ahead of his barmitzvah at Borehamwood and Elstree United Synagogue. The Yavneh College student said: “I took on the challenge because I know

More than 70 seniors enjoyed lunch and an afternoon of entertainment, which was put on by volunteers at Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue. Watching a show by the shul’s own production of Fiddler on Stanmore’s Roof, the gathering is now an annual event, which started as an initiative from Mitzvah Day.

9 STARDUST AT CHAI

Chai hosted a coffee morning for more than 60 of its volunteers, at an event entitled A sprinkle of stardust with Maureen. The award-winning film, theatre and television actress, Maureen Lipman CBE, regaled the audience with stories about her life and career, and said: “I always receive more than I give when I spend time at Chai. It is a real ‘machia’”.

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SEPHARDI FOOD

The S&P Sephardi Community hosted a summer cooking demo, which was attended by more than 100 people. Showcasing a range of Sephardi dishes at Lauderdale Road Synagogue, Margalit Dweck (wife of Rabbi Joseph Dweck) and Linda Dangoor, demonstrated and served 14 summer recipes.

Your family announcements Tracey Bernholt and Neil Levy celebrated their wedding at Sopwell House

Emily Sacks celebrated her batmitzvah in Radlett Reform Synagogue Photo by Gary Perlmutter Photography

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Lucy Sharpe and James Arnold celebrated their wedding at Sheraton Grand London Park Lane

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usiness is not always strictly about making profit – sometimes it’s also about giving back. Eureka Cove is one such example and as its co-founder, Jackie Loebenberg, tells me: “Our business has soul, it has depth.

“Yes, we are a business and my husband has built a very successful former food business, but our lives have changed.”

Eureka Cove, launched by Jackie with her South-African born husband, Richie Loebenberg in October 2016, is a provider of tasty frozen kosher ready meals.

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Richie, 63, an alumni of Leiths cookery school, and former CEO and founder of

Great Foods, now branded Gosh! – Free From, has more than 40 years’ experience in food retailing and manufacturing.

He travels the world in search of enticing flavours and ingredients, and the dishes have been developed by Michelin-starred chef Paul van Staveren under the supervision of KCS. But just after launching the company, the couple faced a life-changing situation after Jackie was diagnosed with breast cancer.

They nevertheless pressed on with Eureka Cove, despite Jackie having to undergo gruelling chemotherapy and a double mastectomy and reconstruction.

“Cancer has no boundaries; it’s not selective,” she states. “We want to move forward by attracting a wider audience for our messages of healthy eating and healthy lifestyle.”

Eureka Cove already donates 25p from every £4 meal to Chai Cancer Care, which Jackie, 56, credits as having kept her going.

“We had tremendous support from Chai,” she says. “Their centre has been like a second home and I continue to visit. That’s what spurred me on to try to make a difference – I’m so thankful.”

The company has donated freezers to the charity, and Chai clients in Hendon and Manchester can buy ready meals at a reduced price. Again, the proceeds are fed back to the charity.

“After my chemo finished last June, Richie

Eureka Cove was founded by husband-andwife team, Jackie and Richie Loebenberg

and I discussed what we wanted to do for the future and the feeling was that we want to give back – to the community and to society,” Jackie explains.

“That has very much been our objective and it’s been an interesting journey.”

The couple have lined up another fundraising initiative on 26 August at Brent Cross Shopping Centre to launch the Captain Calamity adventures at Eureka Cove – the Great Clean Up. There will be three free shows, which will have a recycling theme, accompanied by music, magic, amazing bubbles and interactive storytelling, in aid of Chai

in Schools. The shows will also be performed on 3 September at Tesco in Borehamwood, where the meals will be on promotion.

“It’s an exciting entrée into the children’s entertainment world for us,” says Jackie, although the company is not new to promoting learning. Eureka Education helps run intergenerational programmes providing Jewish education in schools, synagogues and community centres.

“We’ve appointed Laurie Rosenberg, a Pikuach inspector, as our educational liaison director, to tackle some really important lessons and messages, including ocean clean up, cyber safety, anti-bullying and healthy eating.”

The couple, who are members of Mill Hill Synagogue, are also in discussions about ways to support other secular charities.

“We are quite multi-faceted in what we want to do and the direction we want to take the business,” explains Jackie.

On the subject of business, the couple recently reviewed the pricing structure of the Eureka Cove range “to create food that is more affordable for everyone” by bringing out products with an RRP of £4.

Eureka Cove offers regular promotions, with the next one – allowing consumers to buy one Eureka Cove frozen meal and get one free – running in Tesco from 15 August until 4 September.

There are also plans to launch a poultry range, under the banner of Eureka Essentials.

“We live in quite a selfish society, but this country is great and we can all make it greater,” explains Jackie.

“Our community engagement is our proudest moment. We’re proud to support Chai and that we are giving back to community life. We are enjoying sharing. It’s about looking out and seeing who we can reach, who we can touch.”  www.eurekacove.com

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Making us proud!

Ahead of Pride in London this weekend, we take a look at 10 prime movers shaping attitudes and acceptance of LGBT+ Jews in Britain

Shaan Surat Knan

Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah

Isabella Segal

Elliot Jebreel

Joe Hyman

Peggy Sherwood MBE

Rabbi Mark Solomon

Natalie Grazin

Shaan is one of the most vocal and visible campaigners within and beyond the Jewish community on LGBT+ inclusion, inspiring people with his openness during his transition.

As founder of oral history projects Rainbow Jews, Twilight People and Rainbow Pilgrims, Shaan has secured Lottery Heritage funding to bring the lives and lessons of LGBT+ Jews and LGBT+ people from a range of cultures to tens of thousands of people across the UK. Shaan works for Liberal Judaism and through the Rainbow Pilgrims project has campaigned for the repeal of anti-gay laws in the Commonwealth Shaan says: “It’s perfectly fine to be trans and a person of faith. Don’t let anyone tell you the opposite.”

Joe has inspired hundreds of young people, students and community members with his bravery in discussing his experience of being gay and having a commitment to halachic Judaism.

Currently studying at Yeshivat Hadar in New York City, Joe has held voluntary and professional roles nurturing and nourishing Jewish communities from Leeds to London through Leeds J-Soc, Central London Friday night dinners and Bnei Akiva.

Joe worked with Bnei Akiva leaders to find sensitive ways to approach Judaism and sexuality, culminating in changes to how the movement responds to homosexuality and a powerful and unprecedented talk given by Joe to BA leaders, which was seen online by thousands.

Rabbi Elli is a fearless, thoughtful and feminist activist and author. She is a pioneer of lesbian and gay inclusion, spearheading the changes within Liberal Judaism, which culminated in new policy and the creation of an anthology of ceremonies. Prior to the rabbinate she engaged in feminist activism, research, writing and editing.

Her leadership has included work at the Women’s Research and Resources Centre collective, which created the Jewish feminist magazine, Shifra, and being assistant editor of Women’s Studies International Forum.

Before moving to Brighton, where she’s been rabbi for 18 years, she was director of programmes for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain and the Sternberg Centre’s deputy director.

Peggy Sherwood MBE was recognised in 2017 for her service to the Jewish community and for championing inclusion after 15 years as President of the Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group (now the Jewish LGBT+ Group), the longest such established group in the world.

Having been the only woman when she first attended a JGLG event, Peggy is particularly proud of the growing participation and leadership demonstrated by women and non-binary people within the group.

During her tenure, JGLG built bridges through joint events with Imaan, a group for LGBT+ Muslims, and by initiating an interfaith pride service which brought together Christians, Jews, Quakers and Muslims.

Isabella is a pioneering trans activist and role model. As head of forensic accounting at Nyman Libson Paul and the partner responsible for diversity and inclusion at the firm, Isabella has advocated and advanced the visibility and inclusion of trans people within the business community. This was recognised in 2014 and 2015, with Isabella appearing in the Top 100 LGBT lists of OUTstanding, an LGBT professional networking and campaigning group.

Isabella has shared her story through media and inspired audiences at Limmud, University of the 3rd Age and Bushey Synagogue.

Isabella is an ambassador for Transformation Diversity & Inclusion and gives talks for Diversity Role Models on homophobia and transphobia.

Rabbi Mark Solomon was the first UK Orthodox rabbi to come out as gay, having studied for the rabbinate at the Lubavitcher Yeshivah Gedolah in Melbourne, Kfar Chabad in Israel, and Jews’ College, London. Rabbi Solomon is currently the rabbi for Liberal Jewish communities in Edinburgh and Leicester.

Recognising his deep commitment to interfaith dialogue, he was appointed the first interfaith consultant for Liberal Judaism. Rabbi Solomon is co-chair of the London Society of Jews and Christians, co-convenor of Westminster Scriptural Reasoning, and a regular participant and speaker at the annual Jewish-Christian-Muslim conferences and Jewish-Christian Bible Week in Germany.

Elliot is a passionate, persuasive and at times provocative advocate for embracing the full range of diverse identities in UK Jewish life.

As a trustee of Sephardi Voices UK, Elliot has expanded understanding beyond the Jewish community of the rich cultures of Jews across the globe, including with a recent exhibition at the Jewish Museum in London.

Elliot co-founded the Jewish network of the civil service, is an alumnus of the Adam Science Foundation Leadership Programme, and co-chairs the programme team for Limmud Festival 2018. Elliot is now a civil servant and has worked in the Department for Work and Pensions, and at the Treasury. He also sits as a magistrate on the Central London bench.

As one of the first Lead Gamechangers, co-chair of governors at Alma Jewish primary school, and co-founder of Imahot v’Avot (a group for families with same-sex parents), Natalie is a pioneering lay leader advancing pluralist and diverse education and community.

Natalie is a coach and organisational consultant, formerly at McKinsey, and works with clients in senior management and clinical roles across the NHS. Natalie deploys her skills to develop the impact and leadership of a range of Jewish charities, including JW3 and UJIA. Before joining McKinsey, Natalie worked with the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery and The Health Foundation.

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Communal trailblazers / Lifestyle

Loud and proud: Jewish participants at last year’s London Pride with Reform Judaism’s Senior Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner (centre)

Talk about it.

It helps.

Hannah Taylor

As head of operations at the Faith & Belief Forum (formerly 3FF), Hannah spearheads projects tackling prejudice and building bridges across communities during times of increased violence and polarisation in the UK. Previously, Hannah worked at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue specialising in the use of social media to influence attitudes, tackle intolerance and inspire social change.

This included leading the Nothing Holy about Hatred initiative tacking homophobia with and within faith communities.

With a background in equality and diversity, particularly in relation to faith, interfaith and LGBT issues, Hannah is also a trustee for the LGBT Consortium.

Hannah is a proud and passionate leader who combines patience, pragmatism and proper northern spirit and humour to make Britain a safer and stronger society.

Michael Etherton

As chief executive of UK Jewish Film, Michael’s commercial and creative skills have expanded UK Jewish Film onto the international stage, producing and programming film festivals in Geneva, Hong Kong, Zurich, Montreal and Tel Aviv.

He has also established major year-round partnerships in London and across the UK, expanding the programme to more than 450 additional films annually.

Michael has recently overseen a National Lottery-funded educational outreach programme and has launched a new FilmLab programme to inspire and support work from a new generation of filmmakers.

A champion of diversity in the arts, Michael is musical director of Mosaic Voices, chairman of the Young Actors Theatre, Islington, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Jewish News meets... Sir Lloyd Dorfman/ Lifestyle

The business of giving Jenni Frazer speaks to the newly-knighted Sir Lloyd Dorfman, founder of Travelex, the world’s largest retailer of foreign exchange, and supporter of the arts Charity at heart: Sir Lloyd Dorfman also serves as deputy chairman of the Community Security Trust

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or the newly-knighted, it has been a heady few weeks. Along with his new title for services to philanthropy and the arts, Sir Lloyd has become a colonel and has been busy getting fitted for various uniforms at a military tailor.

Unsurprisingly, both honours have reverberated in the Dorfman family. His knighthood, he says, has bounced his mother Anita, a busy 90-year-old, to “10 out of 10 on the kvellometer”, and while he is plainly thrilled at the award, made in June’s Queen’s Birthday Honours, he is evidently enjoying just as much his new role as honorary colonel of the Third Battalion of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment.

Sir Lloyd’s path to his knighthood– he was made CBE in 2008 for his charitable work – is pretty straightforward. After growing up in the West End of London and attending St Paul’s School, he chose not to go to university and, instead, after a year studying for the Bar, founded a business which became the world’s largest retailer of foreign exchange, Travelex.

“I liked the Bar, but didn’t like studying”, he says. But the Bar brought him one of the great prizes of his life, his wife, Sarah, whose sister was on Dorfman’s course. At 22, the couple married and for a short time he went to work for his father-in-law in the city, gaining some commercial expertise.

He knew what he wanted to do – make money – but not how to achieve it. “Within three months of starting work [in September 1973] I was getting an absolute baptism of fire, because there were miners’ strikes, three-day working weeks, and [in October of that year] a Middle East war. There was a quadrupling of oil prices, bank collapses and the Bank of England trying to hold everything together. It was an incredible apprenticeship. I was going to meetings where not only the borrowers were in trouble, but the banks were in trouble, too.”

Dorfman doesn’t think of himself as a

gambler, more of a calculated risk-taker. Call it a gamble or a calculated risk, he spotted a niche in the market and filled it when he founded Travelex in 1976, working out of single shop in central London.

The business was sold in 2015; he retained a five percent shareholding until August last year.

“I was never a foreign exchange expert”, says Dorfman. “I was and am a builder of businesses”. He attributes some of his

Sir Dorfman with former Prime Minister David Cameron at a CST dinner

success to maintaining a narrow focus, not trying to spread himself too widely, and retaining an interest in niche businesses.

In property, for example, he was chairman and majority shareholder in The Office Group, which specialised in flexible offices.

This too did well, selling last year for £500 million to the Blackstone group. Currently he is building up a new company, Doddle, which is a retail “click and collect” enterprise.

Last year he began a new project with his son, financing, producing and servicing in the media world.

“I often say, stick to what you know. Better to be a specialist than a generalist. And, as far as the banks were concerned, crumbs from

their table — foreign exchange — became a banquet for us”.

As he became more successful in business, opportunities arose to marry his non-business passion – the arts – with his financial expertise. Most famously this coalesced when Travelex joined forces with the National Theatre (NT) to offer a tranche of £10 tickets designed to encourage young people to join NT audiences.

Dorfman, who served on the board of the National Theatre for more than nine years and is now a board member of Nick Hytner’s London Theatre Group, was introduced to Hytner by Susan Chinn, wife of Sir Trevor.

Unlike many of his Jewish communal contemporaries, Dorfman stuck to what he knew and enjoyed, becoming a trustee of the Royal Opera House, the Royal Academy Trust, BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts), and – spectacularly – having one of the NT’s three theatres named for his family, so that the Cottesloe became the Dorfman Theatre.

He is also chairman of Prince Charles’s charity for young people, the Prince’s Trust.

But in the Jewish world, he is a trustee of JW3, the Jewish community centre for London, and is deputy chairman of the Community Security Trust.

Wearing his Jewish hats, he is worried about the future: about whether the younger generation “get it” in terms of an obligation to practise philanthropy in the way that he has; about anti-Semitism and how it differs today from how things were when the CST was first founded; and, almost more than anything, about the “burden” of running the Jewish community.

“The one thing that needs to happen is to merge some of our charities. There is a burden of rising costs and expenses.

“There are around 2,300 Jewish charities.

There is a finite pool of resources, and I think there is an obligation – easier to say than to do – to try and merge some of these charities

and make them a lot more effective.”

“It’s important we look after our own,” says Dorfman, “but it’s also important we do our bit in terms of the wider community.

For example, I’ve just been involved in the first building project at Westminster Abbey for 275 years”. It’s a tower at the side of the Abbey, designed to take visitors up to the galleries of the church.

Pitching the project to his wife, Dorfman told her: “This is not any old church, this is our national church, this is the seat of the Coronations of our kings and queens – and don’t think church, think museum”.

Of the 30 or so donors to the £25 million Abbey project, five are Jewish famllies. “One of my fellow Jewish donors said he saw it as a way of saying thank you to this country, which had embraced and welcomed our forefathers. Our community has always punched above our weight, and I think it’s in our DNA to give”.

The new knight has a parting thought.

“I can do stuff now, and I can make a difference. I couldn’t be a passenger.”

As his fellow board members will attest, Lloyd Dorfman has a knack of making things happen.

Dorfman pictured at the National Theatre

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PLATEExpectationsDenise Phillips With

Jewish Care’s Great Jewish Bake Day biscuits biscuits!

This week’s recipe is in association with Jewish Care’s Great Jewish Bake Day, which is helping to raise much-needed funds to keep the charity’s buses on the road. Jewish Care buses take older, isolated people in the community and those with dementia to community centres, so they can enjoy a day of entertaining activities, have a cooked meal and socialise.

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PREPARATION TIME 30 MINS

SERVES

60 mini biscuits

COOKING TIME 25 MINS

120g coconut oil 2 tablespoons almond milk 100g agave nectar 600g oats

METHOD 1 In a small saucepan, slowly melt the coconut oil. Add to this the milk

75g coconut sugar/xylitol

and agave to make a syrupy mixture. Set aside to cool.

2 Preheat the oven to 150°C. 3 Whizz the oats in a food processor until they resemble a flour mix.

4 Transfer to a large bowl with the coconut sugar/xylitol, baking powder, bicarbonate soda and salt.

5 Add the syrup mixture, vanilla essence, zest and lemon juice and mix again. With a wooden spoon fold in the cranberries and coconut flour.

6 Line two baking trays with baking parchment paper.

7 Roll out the biscuit dough between two pieces of cling film/

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder Pinch of salt 1 tsp vanilla essence Zest and juice of 2 lemons 2 tablespoons dried cranberries

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Orthodox Judaism

SEDRA Pinchas

It’s Biblical

BY RABBI SAM TAYLOR Moses turned to the Almighty and requested that He appoint a leader for the Jewish people, since Moses would soon not be with them. God had previously told him he would not enter the promised land. In Parshat Chukat we read the account of Moses’ transgression, resulting in the decree that he would not be able to enter. Why did Moses wait until now to ask for a replacement?

The Kotzk Rebbe explained that Moses was not originally at a loss for a candidate. As soon as he learnt that neither he nor Aaron would enter the land, Moses assumed that the future leader of the Jews would be Pinchas.

As we see from the role he played at the end of Parashat Balak, Pinchas’ ability to lead and make decisions on the spur of the moment was phenomenal. He took action alone, publicly, and responsibly, and saved the people from God’s wrath. Moses knew him well, he was his great-nephew, and knew of his abilities well in advance.

However, when Pinchas acted as he did, Moses understood he could not be a leader. While God endorsed Pinchas’ behaviour, it was not an act of leadership. There is a place, and even the necessity, for zealots in the community; extreme circumstances demand extreme responses.

But zealots cannot be leaders and Moses turned to God to ask for a replacement. He asked that the people not be “as sheep that have no shepherd”, because real leadership is about being a shepherd, not a saviour.  Sam Taylor is the community rabbi of Western Marble Arch Synagogue

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BY RABBI JEFF BERGER THIS WEEK:

AMOS

The life of a Jewish prophet was not easy.

No one likes criticism. People prefer praise. Tradition records Amos, the third of the Trei Asar (12 Prophets), was killed by the son of Amaziah, high priest of Beth-El. Sheep herder and timber farmer before becoming prophet, Amos lived during the First Temple period when Jeroboam II reigned over the Northern Kingdom (786741 BCE). The north was more powerful than the southern Kingdom of Judah – having conquered much of Syria, Moab and Ammon – and had set-up local statues and altars, as alternatives to making the festive pilgrimage.

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sive generations.

Born in Tekoa, near In response to his Jerusalem, Amos took banishment, he wrote, his reproach to the capi‘Behold days will come … tal town of Beth-El. when there will be famHe complained that ine in the land; not for prosperity had led to bread nor for water, but institutional corruption for the word of God.’ and social injustice.

Amos preached the Affluent residents Almighty was everignored their needy present in the world for neighbours, engaging in Jews and non-Jews alike. immorality instead.

He asserted that In Beit-El, Amos anGod expected people nounced the collapse of The prophet Amos to act ethically towards the Jeroboam II dynasty their fellow human beings, above offering and was forced to flee. Instead, he invenprayers and sacrifices. His most controvertively wrote out his prophesies, creating a sial vision was that despite being a chosen record for contemporaries and for succesnation, the Jewish people had a moral contract with God and would face exile and dispersion if they acted immorally.

Despite his warning that many would perish, Amos also predicted ‘the fallen tabernacle of David would be restored’. Rabbi Jeff Berger serves the Rambam Sephardi Synagogue in Elstree and Borehamwood

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The Bible Says What? Progressively Speaking ‘An Israelite can rape a woman on the battlefield and convert her’

What does Prince William’s history-making trip to Israel mean for British Jews?

BY RABBI NEIL JANES No part of Jewish law has ever condoned rape in wartime or included it as part of military strategy. However, there is no escape that Deuteronomy 21:10-14 describes the practice of raping women taken captive and forcibly removing them from their family.

Of course, there are interpretations of this text: this could be the Hebrew Bible some 3,000 years ago trying to steer away from a prevalent practice – in which women were raped and then abandoned by the rapist. Granted, a horrific protection, but the law means the woman cannot be abandoned and must be supported the rest of her life.

The rabbinic texts 2,000 years ago narrow this yet further, defining the specifics of the war described, that the man cannot rape multiple women or capture women for his father and the reason the Torah may permit such an act in the first place.

In any event, the texts only imagine a scenario never witnessed in living

memory. The rabbis had not been out in battle, so the text is already decontextualised and removed from reality.

The rabbis do imagine the possibility of an Israelite soldier raping a non-Israelite woman on the battlefield. From that plain sense there is no escape.

What do we make of this terrifying text? First and foremost, Judaism does not permit rape. But in a world increasingly aware of violence, assault and oppression of women, through #metoo, we have duty to confront our traditions.

The Biblical texts deal with the consequences of warfare in the Ancient Near East. Today the pressing issues of sexual violence remain.

Only by confronting our texts of terror honestly and sincerely, with their interpretative history, can we deal with the problem and protect against any literalism in their application.  Rabbi Neil Janes is executive director of the Lyons Learning Project

BY RABBI DANNY RICH I’m a student of history and it never ceases to amaze me that if I open a world atlas dated, say, 1862, the British Empire held sway over more than 400 million people.

That was a quarter of the world’s population, and comprised a similar portion of the globe’s landmass.

It’s ironic, perhaps,that the rule of Queen Victoria did not include what is now Israel, the Palestinian territories or Jordan.

In any case, Jordan was then a ‘backwater’ of the increasingly unstable Ottoman Empire Indeed 1862 was, in fact, the last time a member of the British royal family paid an official visit to the region as the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, toured the Galilee, Bethlehem and Jaffa and was accompanied by a chief rabbi to the Western Wall, Solomon’s Pool and Rachel’s Tomb.

The official visit of William,

Duke of Cambridge, is historic and ought be welcomed by Jews of all denominations and by those who believe that talking is a better means of achieving long-term peace than war.

Although the region was part of the Ottoman Empire until the middle of the First World War, the United Kingdom played a significant role in the 20th century.

The issuing of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, heralded as the first recognition by a world power of the right of the Jewish people to a national homeland, and Britain’s subsequent United Nations trusteeship perhaps gives the United Kingdom a unique opportunity in the region today.

Despite allegations of a ‘proArab bias’ on the part of the British Foreign Office, relations between Britain and Israel are thriving on the diplomatic, political, trade and

cultural fronts. English is, of course, widely spoken in Israel, and Brexit gives added impetus for the United Kingdom to develop further relations with states outside Europe.

Perhaps most significantly, there is the decision by US President Donald Trump to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

This has put into question, certainly by Palestinians, whether America can retain a role as a peace broker in the region.

In all these circumstances the United Kingdom has an opportunity to use its offices – including the historic visit of Prince William – to work towards a lasting and just peace agreement.

After all, in the words of Theodor Herzl: “If you will it, it is no dream…”.  Danny Rich is the senior rabbi of Liberal Judaism

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RCUK Dear Maxi I’m a CFO at a growing company and we currently have a staff of 23. When I started work here, the company consisted of the managing director, an administrator and a few other staff. We have come a long way since then and arranging and supervising each staff member’s mobile phone contract is becoming a nightmare. It is taking time out of my day that I don’t have. A large part of the problem is that these plans are connected to different networks (different users report better network based on their home location), all with different contract end dates. Can you recommend any tips to help manage this? I’m looking for a neater solution than endless overspend checking and long phone calls to customer service.

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RESOURCE Dear Lesley As a jobseeker, I know I’ll have to talk about what I’m good at, but it feels really hard. Any tips?

Sophie Dear Sophie You’re right on both counts!

You do need to be able to tell a potential employer about your skills and strengths and many jobseekers do find this quite daunting. But

there’s a simple formula that can help. It’s known as STAR – Situation, Task, Action, Result.

Here’s an example: “I was marketing manager at a large sports complex (situation).

Membership numbers were declining and I needed to find a way to boost the figures (task). I started asking guests and non members for their contact details, used targeted emails to get marketing messages to the right audiences and introduced whatsapp groups to increase engagement (action).

Within 12 months, membership had increased by 15 percent (result)”.

STARs are really useful for describing your achievements in paid or voluntary roles or other areas of your life, in

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Dear Michael That does sound like a bit of a nightmare, but, unfortunately, it is a nightmare that we do hear about from potential new customers from time to time.

What you are describing is definitely possible.

In short, one employee can be on a plan with O2 and a second employee can be connected to Vodafone, each with their personalised tariff and allowances, both with the same start and upgrade dates and both sharing a single bill from RCUK. In this way, each user is using the cellular network that best suits their location, but with any queries directed to RCUK, rather than needing to call multiple providers.

Lastly, for multiple user companies, such as yourselves, I would recommend a review and management service, such as our RCUK Bureau.

This is designed to take out the daily hassle of your telecoms portfolio, where a dedicated member of our team will complete a quarterly review to address any overspend and adapt your tariff to best serve your needs, saving you time as well as money.

I wish you luck in growing your business.

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Rather than just being a list of activities, the formula enables you to show how you made a difference, especially if you can quantify the result using numbers or percentages or provide evidence, such as positive customer feedback.

STARs work whether you are a waiter in a small café providing great customer service or an accountant saving a multi-national company millions of pounds.

They’re good for interviews, CVs and networking conversations.

Do pay us a visit at Resource – helping you to identify achievements is a key part of our introductory seminar and subsequent meetings with your advisor.

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Second, several health insurers do not increase their premiums according to their previous claims or conditions – they regard this approach to be fairer by not penalising the policyholder.

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Perhaps also consider increasing the excess, in order to decrease the monthly premium.

Importantly, I would suggest getting an adviser each year to look at whether it is worthwhile changing your insurer as rates can vary hugely.

Please ensure that if you do this, that your preexisting conditions can still be covered.

Most of the health insurers will periodically offer one or two month premium savings for new clients, so always ask your intermediary about them.

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Diego’s delight after first Wimbledon win TENNIS Diego Schwartzman was a happy man on Tuesday afternoon after he won his first ever match at Wimbledon. The Jewish Argentine, who’s currently ranked 11 in the world and the 14th seed at SW19, turned in a comprehensive win, beating Bosnian Mirza Basic, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 in just 90 minutes.

He said: “I’m really happy with my first win here. It has maybe played a little bit on my mind [having not won at Wimbledon], but I wasn’t thinking about the past during the match and have been unlucky in the past with the draw. I was happy with my performance, but I know I can improve a lot – and I need to if I’m to beat Jiri Vesely in the next round, I need to improve and know I can do.”

Dudi Sela’s first match on centre court ended in a straight-sets defeat to Rafael Nadal – but the Israeli was still able to take positives from the match.

It was his first competitive match since the end of May, due to him carrying an injury.

He said: “I think I played OK, I didn’t expect to play that well having not played for such a long time. I was a bit nervous, it’s tough to play your first match [of the season] on grass against Nadal on Centre Court. I came here hoping for a good draw, as I can play well on grass but the draw came out – and it wasn’t the best one.”

Elsewhere, Italian Camila Giorgi is through to the third round, while Israeli Jonathan Erlich is through to the second round of the doubles.

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Karina’s ready for Denmark duathlon DUATHLON Karina Kaufmann will be getting into the GB saddle at the weekend when she takes part in the ITU world duathlon championships in Denmark. The mother-offour from East Finchley has overcome a late injury – a double sprain on her right ankle – and is now raring to go. She said: “I will do everything possible to hit that start line in as best shape as possible. I get horrid race nerves, but always feel amazing as I cross the finish line. I am really looking

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Saying she’s aiming for at least a top-15 world placing – and a top-six place within Team GB – she says: “It’s the best feeling in the world to wear my team GB kit, it’s a relatively small field but all the ladies are super-fast and the best from their country so the competition is going to be tough.” Sponsored by Skybound Capital, as well as receiving support from Seven Feet Apart – whose sneakers shell be wearing, she’ll also be sporting her own training company Freerange Fitness logo.

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It may be all over ... but we won’t know, because England play Sweden during Shabbat!

From an extended Shabbat schluff to staging a shul lock-in – or simply running away to a remote island – more observant fans might have to go to extremes to avoid finding out the England v Sweden quarter-final score, when the two teams meet on Saturday.

The Three Lions’ biggest game in two decades kicks off at 3pm, so the Shomer Shabbat will have to wait nearly six hours to find out if Gareth Southgate’s side has gone through to the semi-finals, a feat not achieved in 18 years.

Richard Verber, communications director of United Synagogue (US), said: “Being in the ‘easy’ side of the World Cup draw may help the England football team, but it’s proving a challenge for Jewish fans with the quarter-final falling on Shabbat.

“I know of US members coming up with all sorts of elaborate ways to avoid finding out the score until after Shabbat, including an extended Shabbat schluff, having seudah shelishit in the park and staging a lock-in at shul. I hope their efforts will contribute to a place in the semi-final!”

The mid-afternoon start, however, means shulgoers can say an extra prayer, just hours before kick-off, and Rabbi Michael Laitner, senior rabbi of United Synagogue Jewish Living and assistant rabbi of Finchley Synagogue, believes that will be the case.

He said: “I know I’ll be praying extra hard every morning, especially on Shabbat, and am sure this will be replicated across all our US shuls. Come on England!”

Synagogues have already got into the World Cup spirit, with England’s dramatic last-16 penalty shoot-out win against Colombia on Tuesday evening screened at three US – Highgate, Mill Hill and Finchley, while Belmont hosted a ladies-only supper quiz, as the men watched the match.

Earlier in the day, Jewish Care hosted a special 1966 day at Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre. Run in partnership with Maccabi GB, Sporting Memories Foundation and Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, pupils from Independent Jewish Day School shared World Cup trivia and sporting memories with members.

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BRITISH MPS VISIT MDA IN ISRAEL Magen David Adom was delighted to welcome British MPs from Northern Ireland and Conservative Friends of Israel to Israel in May. On Tuesday 29th May, a delegation of Members of Parliament from Northern Ireland visited Israel. The delegation was led by Northern Ireland Friends of Israel President Gerald Steinberg and Co-Chairman Steven Jaffe.

Last year Steinberg and Jaffe along with the community and Northern Ireland Friends of Israel funded two life-saving medicycles via Magen David Adom UK which are serving today in Jerusalem and Lod. To date, both medicycles have treated over 1,300 patients in various emergency calls.

Gerald Steinberg was excited to see the medicycles for the first time and presented them to the members of the delegation, explaining their importance to the people of Israel.

The MPs were particularly interested in how MDA’s technology is used to shorten response times and reduce the time taken in the field, and the time taken for patients to receive treatment in hospital.

The MPs reviewed the cutting-edge use of video communication with patients which takes the Emergency Medical Services system to the next level of efficiency and professionalism. They were also shown an array of emergency vehicles that had been donated by the UK community.

MDA UK Chief Executive, Daniel Burger, said: ‘This was a really exciting opportunity for British MPs to get an insight into some of Magen David Adom’s work and to also see the practical results of support for MDA in the UK. We look forward to welcoming more British parliamentary delegations to Israel in the future.’

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Magen David Adom UK supporters dedicated one station, seven medicycles and one motorbike to MDA in Israel, with a further nine medicycles purchased with funds raised from our Pesach appeal.

To find out more about dedicating a station or vehicle to Magen David Adom in Israel, plese contact Michelle on 020 8201 5900

The dedications: Irving & Gillian Carter dedicated a station at Mitzpe Adi in honour of their grandson Jack Segal’s barmitzvah.

Daniel & Ally Rubin and family dedicated a medicycle in Tel Aviv.

Hartsbourne Ladies Committee dedicated a medicycle at MDA’s Basel Station, Tel Aviv from the funds raised at their charity golf day.

Richard & Lisa Woolfson and family dedicated a medicycle at MDA’s Basel Station, Tel Aviv.

St John’s Wood Synagogue dedicated two medicycles with the money raised from their Kol Nidrei appeal at the homes of Hazel & John Cosgrove and John & Barbara Nathan in Herzilya.

Jeremy Newman and family dedicated a rapid response motorbike in Herzilya.

The King David & Yavneh Schools dedicated a medicycle in Jerusalem.

Max & Jess Ashton & families dedicated a medicycle in memory of their father, Paul.

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MDA SENDS HELP TO GUATEMALA MDA Paramedic Tal Rabin joined the Israeli Foreign Affairs, National Security Council, Israeli Health Ministry and MDA Aid delegation that left for Guatemala following the eruption of the volcano Fuego that has killed at least 100.

In Guatemala, Tal has helped transfer the wounded to the main hospitals in the country and coordinate the activities of the doctors of the Israeli delegation with the local Red Cross.

Before boarding the plane to Guatemala, Tal said: “I am proud to be part of an Israeli delegation that is going to assist the wounded in the disaster in Guatemala.”

UPCOMING EVENTS Hendon MDA trip to Hughenden Manor 1st August 2018 Contact Natalie Feldman on 020 8201 5900 MDA Gibraltar Dinner 13th September Contact Ben Bar-Lev on 020 8201 5900 October Trek 6th - 11th October 2018 SOLD OUT Green Prince Tour w/c 15th October 2018 Contact Natalie Feldman on 020 8201 5900 November Trek 12th - 18th November 2018 Contact Michelle Rosenberg on 020 8201 5900 London MDA UK Annual Dinner 26th November 2018 Contact Natalie Feldman on 020 8201 5900 Impromptu Lunch with Melanie Phillips 16th October 2018 Contact Natalie Feldman on 020 8201 5900 Hendon MDA UK Annual Dinner 9th December 2018 Contact Natalie Feldman on 020 8201 5900

TREK ISRAEL. SAVE LIVES. To celebrate Israel at 70, over 50 participants will be trekking Israel and raising funds for MDA UK. The multi-terrain trek (6th-11th October) is already sold out and there are just a few places still available on the November trek (12th-18th).

Each trek will aim to raise £70k to put new life-saving vehicles on the road for Israel’s 70th birthday.

Highlights will include a tour of the blood centre at Tel Hashomer, the building site of the new National Blood & Logistics Centre in Ramla, hiking through the Golan Heights, visits to key IDF bases and a visit to the Ziv hospital in Tsfat to learn about the Syrian refugees and the humanitarian crisis.

Additionally, all the trekkers will get the unparalleled opportunity to take part in an ambulance shift with Magen David Adom.

Trekkers will see first-hand where their fundraising money is going at the same time as meeting people similar to themselves: united in a desire to challenge themselves and raise money for an incredible organisation all at once.

Spaces are filling up quickly for our November trek, please get in touch with Michelle on 020 8201 5900 or email michellerosenberg@mdauk.org for more information.

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