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Oh, the irony!

Lord Sacks accuses ‘lifelong anti-racist’ Corbyn of giving the most hateful political speech since Enoch Powell Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks delivered a stunning rebuke to Jeremy Corbyn this week, accusing the Labour leader of being an “anti-Semite” responsible for the most racially offensive political views since Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech 50 years ago, writes Adam Decker.

In an interview with the New Statesman, Sacks laid into Corbyn, who in 2013 was filmed at a meeting saying Zionists did not understand British irony, despite having lived in the UK for many years. Sacks said the comments were “the most offensive statement made by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech”.

He added: “It was divisive, hateful and, like Powell’s speech, it undermines the existence of an entire group of British citizens by depicting them as alien.”

Conservative MP Powell made his infamous speech 50 years ago, in which he warned of the effects of mass migration to

Jeremy Corbyn delivering his divisive 2013 speech. Right: Enoch Powell

the UK. It was widely deemed racist and incendiary. He was swiftly sacked from his shadow cabinet position.

According to the video of his comments at the conference organised by the Palestine Return Centre, Corbyn was referring to a previous meeting addressed by the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian.

He said Hassassian’s speech was “dutifully recorded by the thankfully silent Zionists who were in the audience on that occasion and then came up and berated him afterwards for what he had said”.

Corbyn added: “They clearly have two problems: one is they don’t want to study history and secondly having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, they don’t understand English irony either.”

In a rare and extraordinary political attack from a religious leader, Sacks said Corbyn “has given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate who want to kill Jews and remove Israel from the map”.

He continued: “When [Corbyn] implies that, however long they have lived here, Jews are not fully British, he is using the language of classic pre-war European antiSemitism.

“When challenged with such facts, the evidence for which is before our eyes, first he denies, then he equivocates, then he obfuscates. This is low, dishonest and dangerous.

He has legitimised the public expression of hate, and where he leads, others will follow.”

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News / Labour anti-Semitism

Anger over irony slur

31k sign ‘Corbyn must go’ petition

Continued from page 1 Sacks added: “Now, within living memory of the Holocaust, and while Jews are being murdered elsewhere in Europe for being Jews, we have an anti-Semite as the leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition.

That is why Jews feel so threatened by Mr Corbyn and those who support him.”

The long-serving former Chief Rabbi, who is a renowned ethicist, presents a four-part series on morality, due to be aired on BBC Radio 4, and was being interviewed about the series, but he was clearly riled when asked about Corbyn.

“For more than three-and-a-half centuries, the Jews of Britain have contributed to every aspect of national life,” said Sacks.

“Mr Corbyn’s embrace of hate defiles our politics and demeans the country we love.”

The comments, spoken by Corbyn in 2013 at a conference organised by the Palestine Return Centre, which has close links to both Hamas and Corbyn, were made public by Mail Online.

The meeting, at Friends House, Euston, was promoted by the website of Hamas and discussed the British legacy in Palestine.

The event was advertised online by Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades, which is designated a terrorist group by Britain, the EU, the United States and other countries.

According to Mail Online, in one of the

A petition branding Jeremy Corbyn ‘anti-Semitic’ and saying he “must go” has passed 28,000 signatures.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) initiative is seeking to remove the Labour leader after a string of incidents involving events at which he has previously appeared.

The appeal, which gathered pace after being launched on Sunday, hitting 31,050 signatures on Wednesday, urges action after “events from Jeremy Corbyn’s disturbing past have trickled into the light”.

The Labour leader has come under pressure over a number of issues linked to anti-Semitism in the party, including the party’s definition of the term, his 2014 visit to a Palestinian cemetery in Tunisia and meetings

Jeremy Corbyn at a 2013 event promoted by Hamas, in which he accused British Zionists of needing a “lesson” in English irony. Picture: Daily Mail

speeches, made by 9/11 conspiracy theorist Alan Hart, Zionism was described as a “cancer at the heart of international affairs”. It was also called a “monster” and compared to Nazi Germany.

Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, expressed fury at Corbyn’s comments. She said: “The video of the leader of UK Labour, making inexcusable comments – defended by a party spokesman – makes me, as a proud British Jew, feel unwelcome in my own party.”

Gideon Falter, chairman of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, called Corbyn’s portrayal of “Zionists” as foreign to Britain and recognisable by their ignorance and humourlessness “utterly shameful”.

Labour Friends of Israel director Jennifer Gerber added: “The thousands of Israelis who have family members killed

by Hamas terrorism will not understand why Mr Corbyn believes these are suitable people to associate with.”  Opinion, pages 18 & 21

with those connected to the Palestinian cause, including from Hamas. Most recently, he caused outrage after comments he made in 2013, when he said British Zionists had “no sense of English irony” despite having “lived in Britain all their lives”, were made public.

At the bottom of the petition, CAA states that a challenge on Corbyn’s leadership needs either 52 Labour MPs to propose a vote of no confidence, or for them to set up their own political party. It then calls on the Parliamentary Labour Party to “take action”.

COMMUNITY URGES LEADER TO APOLOGISE FOR ‘HURT’ Community leaders wrote to Labour’s general secretary on Wednesday, urging leader Jeremy Corbyn to “acknowledge his own failings and offer a heartfelt apology”.

Gillian Merron, chief executive of the Board of Deputies, wrote to Jennie Formy, setting out key steps the party must take to tackle its anti-Semitism crisis, including resolving outstanding disciplinary cases, addressing denial of anti-Semitism and Corbyn’s past.

Merron urges Corbyn to “acknowledge his own failings and offer a heartfelt apology to British Jews and to the Israeli victims of the terrorists with whom he has shown solidarity”, to be able to move forward. She also urges Labour to adopt the “full IHRA definition, with all its examples and unamended”.

Mark Gardner of the Community Security Trust and Simon Johnson of the Jewish Leadership Council separately co-wrote to Formby calling for Corbyn to “undertake a deep cultural change.”

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They stress “most British Jews are Zionist and understand the word Zionism in its real sense, rather than in the perverted ways in which it, and Israel, are viciously abused on the platforms Mr Corbyn has repeatedly shared throughout his political life.”

They urge Corbyn to make a “public acknowledgement of, and apology for, the hurt his close associations and words over many years in extreme anti-Israel and anti-Zionist settings have caused the Jewish community”.

Labour denies case backlog The Labour Party has denied there are anti-Semitism cases stacking up for investigation and quashed rumours that those making “vexatious” claims of anti-Semitism would themselves be disciplined.

Labour sources said both stories were nonsense, after The Times reported there

were hundreds of outstanding issues and the team handling them had been reduced to one.

Elsewhere, in a blog on the left-leaning news site Skwawkbox, there were suggestions that the party’s new code of conduct would clamp down on those thought to be

making malicious or vexatious claims.

Describing it as “fiction”, a Labour source explained the idea of including a section on vexatious claims was not up for discussion, saying: “The working group has not and is not considering this proposal.”

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Sentence appeal / BBC warning / MP action / News

Fraudster Freddy David BBC ‘MISLEADS’ OVER ISRAEL appeals against sentence Freddy David, jailed for six years for defrauding investors in his now defunct wealth management company HBFS, is to appeal against his sentence, it has been announced, writes Jenni Frazer.

The disgraced managing director of HBFS ran a Ponzi scheme in which he created a fake investment product in “an imaginary Bank of Scotland account”.

Ultimately he stole £14.5million over a 10-year period, and many of his victims – some of whom have been left almost destitute – were members of the Jewish community in his own congregation of Borehamwood and Elstree.

Rabbi Chaim Kanterovitz of Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue, and Rabbi Jeff Berger of the Rambam Sephardi Synagogue, both gave character references for David, who mainly used the money he stole to fund his gambling addiction.

Kanterovitz later apologised for his action, as did Simon Mitchell, the synagogue’s chairman.

David also put embezzled funds into investing in the Let’s Meat restaurant in Borehamwood, in school fees for his three children and in holidays in Israel.

At Southwark Crown Court last month, David pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud and deception and was sentenced to four and

A pro-Israel group in Britain has said the BBC is “deliberately misleading” in its coverage of Israel and Gaza.

The Israel Britain Alliance (IBA) said it was trying to highlight the BBC’s “misreporting” when it came to rocket-fire from the Strip and Israel’s response, complaining that the national broadcaster often leads on the response.

“Every broadcaster can make mistakes, but there is now evidence from the pattern and frequency of these misleading reports from the BBC that they are not blunders, but are instead deliberate editorial decisions,” said IBA director Michael McCann, who added that the BBC was “breaching its Royal Charter”.

McCann said IBA was working with moni-

toring group BBC Watch and had focused on coverage of eight rocket attacks over the past two years, seven of which led on Israel’s response.

McCann added there had been 19 attacks in the same period that were not covered by the BBC. He was urging supporters “to ask their MPs to highlight the evidence we’ve uncovered to the BBC board”, he said, adding: “[The board] are responsible for ensuring the Corporation fulfils its mission and public purposes as set out in the BBC Charter. It’s time they did their job.”

A BBC spokesman said: “BBC News is committed to accurate and impartial coverage and rejects the unfounded accusation of ‘fake news’ made by the Israel Britain Alliance.”

MP ‘tried to silence’ Jewish aide Guilty: Financial fraudster Freddy David

six years, to run concurrently. He has now appealed against that sentence, although he was likely to serve only half that time before being freed on licence.

Two subsequent hearings, of confiscation of David’s assets and compensation for the victims, which will be paid out of those assets, are due to take place later this year.  Editorial comment, page 15

A senior Labour MP “used taxpayer funds to silence” a long-time Jewish aide after she complained about anti-Semitism in the party.

According to The Daily Telegraph, in 2016, Khalid Mahmood (pictured) pictured) suspended pictured his assistant and erstwhile lover Elaina Cohen after she posted two tweets accusing his fellow MP Naz Shah of being “anti-Zionist”.

Her comments came after it was revealed Shah, who would later be suspended by the party leader, had written a Facebook post calling for the reloca-

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When she was found blameless, she returned to work, but claims she was sidelined and replaced. She sued on the basis of religious discrimination, leading to a settlement, allegedly paid for with taxpayer money. As part of the deal, Cohen, who still works for Mahmood, was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

“We’re in the middle of an anti-Semitism storm, and I had two years of hell over two tweets trying to bring it to the party’s attention,” Cohen said.

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News / GCSE results

And so it came to pass!

Students at JFS in Kenton, left, and at JCoSS in Barnet, were thrilled to celebrate another set of wonderful GCSE results, despite a tough new exam regime

Jewish secondary schools have once again proved they are among the best in the land, as students recorded outstanding GCSE results under a tough new exam regime.

New categories ranging from one to nine means that seven is the equivalent of an A grade, eight is equivalent to an A* and nine amounts to what would be an A** rating. Only two percent of exams in the country fall into this new top slot.

In the fight to top the tables, three large Jewish schools in London came in virtually neckand-neck last Thursday, with little to separate JFS in Kenton, Yavneh College in Borehamwood

and Hasmonean High School in Hendon.

The Sunday Times ranked JFS and Yavneh 67th and 65th best state secondary schools in the country last year, while Hasmonean came in at 87th. This year, Hasmonean got slightly better grades, with 53 percent of results in the coveted seven-to-nine category (A grade or above) and 92 percent getting a five (C) or above.

At JFS, 51 percent of exams scored a seven-tonine, and 91 percent were at fve or above, while at Yavneh, 50 percent were rated seven or above, and 92 percent were at five or above.

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Headteacher Andrew McClusky said it was “wonderful to see both our brightest students and those who find academic study more challenging all achieving outstanding results”.

Debbie Lebrett, head of Hasmonean Boys and acting head of Hasmonean Girls, said students had “continued to find success in secular studies while maintaining a focus on both Jewish leaning and leadership opportunities”.

Some schools paid tribute to stand-out performers. At Yavneh, several students scooped at least six grade nines, including Sophie Horne, Nathan Silver, Natasha Sweiry, Jamie Grossman, Sophie Baxter, Danny Berlin, Rebecca Franklin, Ben Gruneberg, Renee Yantin and Josh Beach.

Headteacher Spencer Lewis said he was “absolutely delighted with another fantastic set of results”, adding: “Pupils should be very proud of what they have achieved in an environment where GCSEs have become more difficult than ever.”

Hasmonean teachers tipped their hat to, among others, Rafi Davis, Refael Davis, Joanna Pearlman, Rosa Pearlman and Hannah Pearlman, who all had at least five grade nine results.

At JFS, where 17 percent of exams hit the top grade, headteacher Rachel Fink paid tribute to the hard work put in, saying students had “demonstrated commitment to their own learning”.

She added: “We join them and their families in celebrating their success. This is reflected not only in the number of top grades but, more importantly, in the progress measure for the entire cohort. It reflects the strong partnership between school and home. I thank our staff for their tireless dedication and expertise.”

Pupils at Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ High School excelled, with 92 percent of entries receiving A*-C or 9-4. Forty-seven percent of entrants received an A*/A or an equivalent, with 14 students receiving a 9 -7 or an A* or A grade in

eight or more subjects.

School principal Rabbi Avrohom Pinter said: “Our students always amaze us with their results, and this year’s pupils have achieved more than we could have ever imagined.”

At fee-paying Immanuel College in Bushey, grades were higher than last year, with 78 percent of exams returning a seven-to-nine (A-A**) rating, and 15 percent hitting the top nine grade.

Headteacher Gary Griffin said results were “hugely impressive”.

At Kantor King Solomon High School in Ilford, which has 900 students, headteacher Hannele Reece acknowledged the progress made in GCSE grades, with religious studies a particular success.

Among the school’s top performers with at least seven grade nines were Jack Chevin, Sophie Daniels, Saule Miskinyte and Jacob West.

“I am so proud for the entire school,” said Reece. “The staff, students, parents, governors and the entire community have committed to the success.”

Patrick Moriarty, headteacher of the crossdenominational Jewish secondary in New Barnet, described as a “fabulous” achievement the 40 percent of grades that were rated as 7 to 9.

It is only the school’s fourth set of GSCE results since its founding in 2010, but a quarter of students achieved at least eight GCSEs at grade seven or better, and 16 students got at least six grade nines. The school praised not only those topping the table but also those “who have far exceeded personal goals and targets”, including Amy Woloski, Noa Taylor, Louis Rogove, Miri Goodlink, Noa Ben-Menahem, Edouard Hirsch, Lia Avigdor and Joseph Lever.

At Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Elstree, which has many Jewish students, there were personal successes, including for Jasper Federman, one of the vice-presidents of BBYO, and Joshua Birns, who is madrich of Bnei Akiva.

Federman was “over the moon” with his three grade 9s and five grade eights, while Birns, who is warden of Mill Hill Youth, said he was “ecstatic” after landing five grade nines and seven grade A*s.

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Must-see TV / News

The producer of a new two-part BBC Two series about the attitudes of British Jews to anti-Semitism and Israel, which airs next Tuesday and Wednesday, has described how she felt “a huge obligation to get it right”.

Lucie Kon, herself a British Jew, said she “felt passionately about making the series”, which is entitled We Are British Jews, but that it took several months to find eight Jews who reflected “the plurality of voices in the British Jewish community”.

With a range of opinions, beliefs and practices, the group visits Israel, on “a journey to explore what it means to be Jewish in Britain today and examine some of the most pressing questions and challenges facing the Jewish community at home and in Israel”.

In the first episode, the group meets in Manchester to hear from the Community Security Trust (CST) to explore what anti-Semitism looks like in modern Britain and reflect on how perceptions of Israel affect them.

They meet the owner of a kosher restaurant that was attacked by arsonists last year, talk to Jewish Labour MP Louise Ellman and meet Jewish students who say they need security for Israel events on campus.

The group then travels to Israel, and

to a kibbutz, where different views on the Israel Defence Forces are shared, before heading to the West Bank and to the settlement of Efrat, where they meet a settler who explains why he thinks this is just a regular town.

In Hebron, the group meets a spokesman for Jewish settlers and a Jewish activist whose father was murdered by a Palestinian, plus a Palestinian activist and a Palestinian farmer living near Hebron who says his land was bulldozed by Israelis.

The trip concludes in Jerusalem, where the group visits the Western Wall, and later meet two fathers – one Palestinian and one Israeli – who both lost young daughters to the conflict and now work together for peace.

Over the series, several group members are shown walking out of talks by

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BBC focuses on UK Jewish life

Above, participants on the BBC2 series, We Are British Jews, on the Aish balcony overlooking the Western Wall in Jerusalem, at which Emma, left, prays

Palestinians because they disagree with what they hear. One 28-year-old British Jewish woman made aliyah after filming finished.

The Jewish group encompasses a mix of political views, and includes a woman who spent time volunteering at Palestinian refugee camps, who says: “When I hear the word ‘Israel’, I instantly feel uncomfortable.”

Another participant is a Jewish man, 58, from Plymouth, an ardent supporter of Israel, despite never

having been. He describes it as “like going to meet the woman I’m in love with who I’ve never met before”.

Reflecting on her experience, Sylvia, an Orthodox Jewish grandmother and semi-retired kosher caterer, said the most surprising aspect was “the happy discovery that we all seemed to like each other in spite of our differing opinions on the politics existing in and surrounding Israel,” adding: “That is the essence of being Jewish. We are all connected...”

Kon, who consulted widely in the planning stages, said: “This has been a really important and meaningful project to be involved with, and one we all felt a huge obligation to get right.

I hope [viewers]... will come away with the realisation that the British Jewish community, while thriving, has a host of challenges to grapple with.”  We Are British Jews airs on Tuesday and Wednesday at 9pm on BBC Two

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News / Archive opened / Arson hearing / Student row NEWS BRIEFS HEBREW WATCH FROM TITANIC SELLS FOR £45K A pocket watch with Hebrew letters on its face that belonged to a Jewish Russian immigrant who died aboard the Titanic has sold at auction for £45,000.Heritage Auctions offered the pocket watch at its headquarters in Dallas last Saturday in a public auction. The watch, which features Moses holding the Ten Commandments on its back, was purchased by John Miottel, a collector of timepieces relating to the Titanic disaster.

He already owns timepieces from Titanic victim John Jacob Astor, the liner’s richest passenger.

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A woman who fled the Nazis as a child and later led a campaign to save an Amazonian tribe is to receive Germany’s top cultural honour. Claudia Andujar, who will receive the prestigious Goethe Medal at a ceremony in Weimar on Tuesday, dedicated much of her life to helping the Yanomami tribe in northern Brazil, leading to the establishment of the world’s largest forested area under indigenous control. Previous winners of the Goethe Medal include conductor Daniel Barenboim and the spy novelist John Le Carré.

British officials blamed for war anti-Semitism Anti-Semitic sentiments skyrocketed in Britain during the Second World War, but the nation’s leaders took little action to counter it, according to documents released by the National Archives.

According to The Times, which obtained the files, British officials blamed the Jews for the problem, which manifested itself in the spread of conspiracy theories, vandalism and the distribution of anti-Semitic literature.

In a letter dated May 1943, Ministry of Information Director-General Cyril Radcliffe described how anti-Semitism had spiked across the country except in north eastern England and Northern Ireland.

“All the others showed general agreement on the fact that from the beginning of the war there had been a considerable increase in antisemitic[sic] feeling,” he wrote. “They seemed to regard it as quite beyond argu-

An air raid shelter in London during the Second World War

ment that the increase of antisemitic feeling was caused by serious errors of conduct on the part of Jews.”

Continuing his letter, Radcliffe himself engaged in antiSemitism, seemingly blaming the Jews for their own plight.

“I reminded them that it was part of the tragedy of the Jewish position that their peculiar qualities that one could well admire in easier times of peace, such as their commercial initiative and drive and their determination

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to preserve themselves as an independent community in the midst of the nations they lived in, were just the things that told against them in wartime when a nation dislikes the struggle for individual advantages and feels the need for homogeneity above everything else,” he said.

The Times recounted how many British people blamed the Jews for a March 1943 stampede at a bomb shelter that killed more than 170 people.

Shul arson suspect sent to mental ward A man who allegedly set fire to Exeter’s historic synagogue in a Sabbath Day arson attack is to be transferred from prison to a mental hospital.

Tristan Morgan, 51, who was assessed as unfit to attend Exeter Crown Court, was accused of arson with intent to endanger life.

The case was adjourned until October while doctors prepare a psychiatric report.

The blaze at the synagogue,

one of the most historic in Britain, caused fire and smoke damage to an area around the door after an accelerant was poured inside at around 8pm, when the building was empty.

It is the third oldest shul in Britain. Its most notable feature is an Aron Kodesh carved in wood but designed to resemble marble.

The building was restored after being damaged in a German bombing raid in 1942.

UJS ‘disgust’ by Rothschild attack The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) has said it is “disgusted” by “blatantly anti-Semitic” comments by a senior member of the National Union of Students (NUS)’ ruling body.

Ayo Olatunji, a medical student and member of the NUS National Executive Council, was criticised for “continuing to indulge in a racist trope” after suggesting that a conspiracy surrounded the Roth-

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schild Jewish banking family.

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UJS called for the NUS to take “appropriate measures”.

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Twitter fight / Simon mourned/ News

Harry Potter author in Twitter row over Labour anti-Semitism Author J K Rowling went headto-head with a fellow British writer on Twitter this week over his criticism of Jewish complaints about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

In a tweet on Sunday, Simon Maginn, who has written five thrillers under his own name and satirical comedies under the name Simon Nolan, called Jewish outrage over Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s 2013 comments indicating that “Zionists” do not understand British culture “patently synthetic outrage”. He called on a Jewish tweeter to “explain your deep and wounding sense of injury”.

Rowling, who is not Jewish, tweeted in response: “How dare you tell a Jew that their outrage is ‘patently synthetic’? How dare you demand that they lay bare their pain and fear on demand, for your personal evaluation? What other minority would you speak to this way?”

J K Rowling and (right) two of her tweets

Maginn then called on Rowling to explain, noting that Corbyn has said that his comments did not refer to Jews but was “a rather complicated joke about the Palestinian Ambassador’s fluency in English”.

The opening salvos set up a back and forth that lasted throughout Sunday. Rowling tweeted several quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre’s AntiSemite and Jew, a famous essay on anti-Semitism,

and lambasted Maginn for demanding that a British Jew explain how he feels under anti-Semitic attack “when there are literally hundreds of accounts currently online

explaining how British Jews currently feel”.

Maginn accused Rowling of “libel” for publicly calling him an anti-Semite in one of her tweets.

TRIBUTES TO CLASS ACT NEIL SIMON Tributes have been pouring in for playwright and Broadway icon Neil Simon after he passed away aged 91.

Simon (pictured right with actress Sally Struthers), who died of pneumonia in hospital, was described as a “clutch hitter” by fellow Jewish writer and producer Mel Brooks, with whom he worked in the 1950s.

“When we needed the punchline, he delivered”, Brooks wrote on Twitter. “He also delivered 32 plays and over 20 movies. He was one of the least jealous writers you could ever work with.”

The Pulitzer-winning playwright received more Tony and Oscar nominations than any other writer, and is best known for works such as The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys, the Brighton Beach Trilogy, Barefoot in the Park and Goodbye Girl.

Alongside Brooks and actor Carl Reiner, Simon was brought up in the Bronx to Jewish parents, and the trio enjoyed poking fun at their

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Jewish New York origins – a familiar background for much of their early audiences.

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Simon passed away in a Manhattan hospital, with his wife and two daughters by his bedside. As a show of respect, the lights on Broadway were dimmed.

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Special Report

What’s in a hyphen?

Academics claim punctuating the word ‘anti-Semitism’ undermines its potency and distorts its true meaning, writes Matt Lebovic

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n April 2015, Microsoft received an unusual memo.

Crafted on behalf of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), a group of scholars issued a “Memo on Spelling of Antisemitism”, urging a change to the mammoth hightech company’s auto-correct spelling policy. Until then, a hyphen had been perfunctorily added between “anti” and “Semitism” in the word commonly used for prejudice against Jews.

Far from being an innocuous debate over semantics, the IHRA claimed that a hyphened “antiSemitism” gave credence to discredited Nazi racial theories, wherein humanity was divided into superior and inferior subcategories.

Additionally, claimed the scholars, a hyphen dilutes and distorts the term’s meaning by implying that groups other than Jews are included within the supposed “Semites” being opposed.

Case in point is a 2015 speech given by consumer rights advocate Ralph Nader: “[Supporters of Israel] know how to accuse people of antiSemitism if any issue on Israel is criticised, even though the worst anti-Semitism in the world today is against Arabs and Arab-Americans,” he said.

Addressing a gathering of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the four-time presidential nominee’s remarks focused heavily on Jews and Israel.

According to Nader, a longtime critic of the Jewish state, “The Semitic race is Arabs and Jews and Jews do not own the phrase anti-Semitism.”

For this and other remarks, Nader was accused of “linguistically hijacking” the term anti-Semitism by some critics.

Like the word “Aryan”, the term “Semitism” is based on a mythical conglomeration of languages and race, as opposed to science. “Semites” were people who spoke one of several related languages, all of whom traced their roots to the Bible’s Shem, Noah’s son.

The term “antisemitism”, coined in 1879, was not a reference to groups of people who spoke similar Levant-based languages. Rather, as “invented” by German journalist Wilhelm Marr, “antisemitism” was intended to give an air of modernity and science to old-fashioned Jew-hatred.

After its inception in Germany,

Protesters in Westminster say no to antisemitism or anti-Semitism, depending on your preference

antisemitism – without a hyphen – spread across the continent. The term was never hyphenated in German, Spanish, or French. In English, however, the term has come to appear with a hyphen in most popular usages, outside of Europe.

For the IHRA, the addition of a hyphen to antisemitism is problematic in part because the group sees the hyphen as a “[legitimisation] of a form of pseudo-scientific racial classification that was thoroughly discredited by association with Nazi ideology”.

According to the alliance, adding a hyphen also “divides the term, stripping it from its meaning of opposition and hatred toward Jews.

Antisemitism should be read as a unified term so that the meaning of the generic term for modern Jew-hatred is clear.

“At a time of increased violence and rhetoric aimed towards Jews, it is urgent that there is clarity and no room for confusion or obfuscation when dealing with antisemitism,” stated the alliance.

Since 2015, governments around the world have adopted the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism, and Microsoft no longer “forces” a hyphen into the term. However,

most English-language media outlets and writers outside of academia – including this one – continue to employ a hyphenated antiSemitism.

Unlike those in the ivory tower, in the assessment of some Jewish communal practitioners, now is not the time for a semantic debate. When questioned by The Times of Israel, very few experts expressed concern about anti-Semitism continuing to be spelled with a hyphen among the general public.

Ken Jacobson, the Anti-Defamation League’s deputy national director, believes the conversation is “intellectually dueling and largely divorced from reality”.

In Jacobson’s assessment, the debate “is an overreaction to Arab claims that they can’t be antiSemites because they are a Semitic people”, he said.

Calling the term anti-Semitism “archaic and strange”, Jacobson noted that “it took the shock of Russian pogroms and the Holocaust to bring the term into everyday usage”.

Because the term anti-Semitism has been spelled with a hyphen “millions of times in every vehicle possible”, said Jacobson, “changing it will not enhance anyone’s under-

standing and could even undermine a word that aptly conveys the power of this evil”.

For Rob Leikind, head of Boston’s American Jewish Committee chapter, “There are good arguments with which to contend that the spelling ‘antisemitism’ more accurately depicts anti-Jewish hostility or prejudice than the spelling ‘antiSemitism.’”

However, said Leikind, “‘antiSemitism’ is the common way to spell the word, some extremists excepted. Nearly everyone understands that this word references Jews alone, and changing to ‘antisemitism’ would accomplish little beyond causing additional confusion”.

But among experts questioned, several made cases for the importance of ‘antisemitism’, as opposed to ‘anti-Semitism’.

“The term anti-Semitism (as you apparently spell it) is meaningless, because there is no Semitism one can be ‘anti’ to,” wrote Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer in an email.

According to Bauer, “There are Semitic languages, including, for instance, Tigrean in Ethiopia, and the term hardly refers to antipathy towards the Tigre.

“You cannot be anti-Semitic just as you cannot be anti-Indo-European,” said Bauer.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, head of the AMCHA Initiative focused on campus anti-Semitism, wrote that “Anti-anything – with a hyphen – describes a state of being opposed to a particular policy, idea or thing at a particular time.”

However, added Rossman-Benjamin, anti-Semitism goes beyond ‘opposition’ to Jews, and involves “a profound and irrational hatred of them, a phenomenon embedded in our collective consciousness that has existed longer than any other form of hatred”. She explained: “Anti-Semitism – with the hyphen – does not seem to me to capture this understanding of the word.”

According to Rossman-Benjamin, a hyphen-less antisemitism “is also the recognised spelling among scholars of antisemitism and the one we use in all of our scholarly work”, adding: “The confusion arises because anti-Semitism – with the hyphen – has become the accepted spelling in most dictionaries and spellcheckers.”

Despite her case for ditching the hyphen, Rossman-Benjamin was pragmatic about the likelihood of “anti-Semitism” disappearing from popular use.

“The approach we take is to use antisemitism in the vast majority of our work, including scholarly articles, research, reports and presentations,” she said.

“However, when writing for news outlets we have no problem including the hyphen to be consistent with the preferred spelling of reporters, editors and fact-checkers, and it saves us much back-and-forth on corrections.”

Another organisation with a focus on combating Judeophobia on campus is StandWithUs, which provides activists with strategies and materials about – for example – how to defend Israel against the boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, director of Indiana University’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, concludes: “Will spelling the word in an unhyphenated way as ‘antisemite’ and not ‘anti-Semite’ correct its misuse? Probably not for those who willfully misuse it, but for others, it may clarify that no one ever beat or cursed a Jew because he hated ‘Semitism’, but only because he hated Jews.”

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An 83-year-old who has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to purchase ambulances for Israel was honoured yesterday by the prime minister, writes Adam Decker.

Norman Rosenbaum, a retired surgeon who was honoured at Jewish News’ Night of Heroes Awards in February, received the Points of Light Award from Theresa May yesterday, for helping to buy 11 ambulances for Magen David Adom (MDA).

In February, Rosenbaum melted hearts at the awards ceremony in central London, as he passed on his Community Hero award to Kerry Rosenfeld, who raised £7 million to try to find a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the devastating disease afflicting her son.

Through his shul – Cockfosters and N. Southgate Synagogue – Rosenbaum has helped buy 11 ambulances, which have treated 63,000 people. One was purchased in partnership with Jewish News. He is currently raising money for his twelfth, a sterling effort this week recognised by Prime Minister Theresa May. “Your dedication to fundraising in support of MDA’s important work is inspirational,” she said. “The ambulances you have purchased are saving lives and enabling the organisation to reach people in need of urgent medical care in emergencies.”

Rosenbaum said it was an “unexpected and overwhelming honour”, adding: “It shows that volunteers are highly valued, and together can make an incredible difference.”

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Campaigning vet’s victory for Lucy Nine years of campaigning by a Jewish vet has resulted in a significant victory in the battle to end puppy cruelty, writes Clare Hedwat.

Under new rules, anyone buying or adopting a pet less than six months old will have to deal directly with a breeder or rescue centre.

Lucy, a Cavalier King Charles dog who spent most of her life malnourished, petrified and pregnant in a tiny cage, inspired PupAid founder and vet Marc Abraham to launch the #LucysLaw campaign to ban third-party puppy sales – dealers who enable farming behind closed doors and which force thousands of

Marc Abraham with a canine friend

animals to breed in appalling conditions.

Abraham kicked off the campaign in Parliament in December, with the support of The Daily Mirror, Downton Abbey actor Peter Egan, fellow campaigners, and politicians.

An Early Day Motion for #LucysLaw attracted the support of more than 130 MPs and over 100,000 animal lovers signed the #LucysLaw e-petition to get it debated in Westminster, including celebrities Ricky Gervais and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Congratulating the three-time winner of ‘Vet of the Year’, Secretariat and co-founder of the All Party

Parliamentary Group for Dog Welfare (APDAWG) for his campaign, Environment Secretary Michael Gove singled out Abraham’s “pioneering work as a vet, as someone who puts animal welfare at the heart of everything that he does”.

In his speech at 10 Downing Street, Gove said: “We will eliminate puppy farming. We will make sure third party sales of kittens and puppies ends.”

He added: “Far too many of the pets that people, with the best will in the world, bring into their homes have been brought up in squalid circumstances, in

circumstances of pain and suffering and misery, which should never be inflicted on any living thing.”

Abraham added: “For years, irresponsible breeders in the UK and abroad – so-called ‘puppy farmers’ – have always used third parties e.g. pet shops to keep themselves wellhidden from the buying public.

“By banning third-party sellers, Lucy’s Law will ensure all breeders are accountable, making it the first major step in tackling puppy farm cruelty.

“This is a tribute to Lucy and all the victims of the third-party puppy trade.”

ON YER BIKE... THE NEW WAY TO HELP A CHARITY A Jewish mental-health charity has opened a shop in Borehamwood selling “recycled cycles” refurbished by prisoners who undergoing rehabilitation.

Jami, which supports the mentalhealth needs of the community, opened the ‘Head Room Bikes’ social enterprise earlier this month, with profits being ploughed back into the charity’s work.

While some bikes are donated from Jewish community members, others are sourced from HM Prison Service, with pris-

oners reconditioning the cycles in an effort to learn skills and find later employment.

The bike shop, which held a soft launch in May, is the specialist charity’s latest social-enterprise addition, and sits alongside its Head Room Café in Golders Green Jami’s new head of social enterprise Warren Traeger said: “We are excited to bring this new initiative to the local community. Cycling is one of the UK’s most popular pastimes and as well as the positive physical effects, provides incredible

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‘ANNE FRANK’ SHOP TO CHANGE NAME A bakery in Amsterdam called Anne & Frank is to change its name after social media users blasted it as “tasteless”. The owner of the business, which is located near the Anne Frank House in the Dutch capital, told local media: “It seemed like a nice name to me.”

The man, identified only as ‘Roberto,’ added that Anne Frank was “a hero” of his, saying: “It wasn’t my intention to offend anyone.” Social media commentators said it would still have been in bad taste even if the owners were called Anne and Frank, which they aren’t.

VANDALISM AT TWO JEWISH CEMETERIES A Jewish cemetery in Mysłowice near Krakow has been vandalised for the second time in less than a month, with at least 30 headstones pushed over or shattered. Some had just been repaired after an earlier incident. Separately, a swastika was etched on the wall of the Jewish cemetery at Malmo in Sweden last month. The city has about 350,000 residents, of whom about one-third are from Muslimmajority countries, and has reported dozens of anti-Semitic incidents a year.

Almost 70 men, women, and children have taken part in an extraordinary “wild swim” down the River Elbe in Kolin, Prague, in an initiative sparked by a UK Channel swimmer, and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, writes Jenni Frazer.

The Hana Greenfield Memorial Swim was held to commemorate the life and times of one of the few survivors of the Nazi deportation of the 500 Jews of Kolin. Greenfield swam regularly in the Elbe in the 1930s before being deported to Terezin and then to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

After liberation, she moved to Britain then Israel, becoming a noted author, journalist and educator. She helped to keep the memory of Kolin’s Jews alive, instituting an annual prize for school students to write about the town’s Jewish heritage.

Kolin and Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue have long been connected, as the congregation holds one of the town’s prized Czech Memorial Scrolls.

Seventy swimmers took part in the event on the River Elbe. Inset: Meira Partem and Jane Drapkin

When Greenfield’s daughter, Meira Partem, wanted to commemorate her mother’s life and work, she contacted NPLS member Jane Drapkin, an experienced “wild swimmer” who has also swum the English Channel.

The two planned a weekend of events which included services at Kolin’s 320-year-old synagogue conducted by NPLS emeritus rabbi

Andrew Goldstein, and the swim, organised

by Kolin’s swimming club. The river has just been cleaned, making the event the first time for 80 years people have been able to swim freely in the waters.

The date coincided with the birthdate of legendary Kolin rabbi Dr Richard Feder, who conducted Christian as well as Jewish funerals in Terezin, where he was interned for most of the war.

Rabbi Feder returned to build a memorial to the more than 500 members of his congregation who

died and went on to become the first Chief Rabbi of Bohemia and Moravia. He died, aged, 95, in 1970.

Sixteen swimmers from the UK took part in the event, together with participants from Israel, Serbia, Germany and Belgium, as well as the local Kolin club members. Also taking part was the oldest participant, Sue Bard, 73, from Edinburgh’s Sukkat Shalom Liberal Community.

Many children also took part, plus Hana Greenfield’s widower, Murray, 92, and four generations of the Greenfield family from Israel.

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MERKEL TRIP TO ISRAEL PLANNED

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to visit Israel in early October, her first visit in four years, amid growing US-Europe tension over Iran.

Merkel’s Germany is leading efforts to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which offered Iran sanctions relief in exchange for a rollback of its nuclear programme, and which has long been denounced by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Merkel will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa during her visit.

SHOAH LINK BEHIND TRUMP LAWYER PLEA Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen turned on his former boss after a conversation with his father in which the elder Cohen told his son he did not survive the Holocaust to have his name tarnished by the US president, The Wall Street Journal reported. The lawyer and fixer pleaded guilty to eight counts, including violations of campaign finance rules during the 2016 presidential race – and implicated his former boss in the process.

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Plans for a new museum about the ‘Mountain Jews of the Caucasus’ in the northern Azerbaijani town of Krasnaiya Sloboda are progressing after a wealthy expat living in Russia said he wouldd fund it. The oncevibrant community has its own language – Juhuri, a mix of Farsi, Hebrew, Aramaic and Turkic.

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Norman’s a mensch to be truly proud of Scour a Yiddish dictionary and you’ll find Norman Rosenbaum’s name under ‘mensch’. Well, one day.

Having spent his career fixing people as a surgeon, he has continued to save lives in retirement. Norman has been the driving force behind Cockfosters and N. Southgate Synagogue’s purchase of 11 ambulances for Magen David Adom – a record for any community in the world. We look forward to reporting on number 12 soon.

His mensch status was further elevated earlier this year when he ensured there wasn’t a dry eye in the house at Jewish News’ Night of Heroes by selflessly handing over his trophy to fellow finalist Kerry Rosenfeld.

So we couldn’t have been more delighted that he is now being recognised by Prime Minister Theresa May with a Points of Light award.

We can hardly think of anyone more deserving.

A man with no shame It was revealed this week that Freddy David, jailed for six years for defrauding hundreds of people out of more than £14million to feed his lifestyle and gambling habit, is to appeal against the length of his six-year sentence. The least this man who destroyed so many lives can do is serve his time quietly and remorsefully, rather than subject his victims to further trauma.

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I LOST A FORTUNE TO FRAUDSTER As a victim of Freddy David, who has lost hundreds of thousands of pounds and had a victim statement quoted in many newspapers, I would like to respond to the letter from S I Solomon of Hendon (Jewish News, 23 August).

I am sure I speak on behalf of all those who have been victims of Freddy David when I say what a lovely mitzvah Mr Solomon has done by asking the community to help to raise funds so the victims can be compensated.

Mr Solomon and I have never met, but I shed tears of happiness when I read his words.

However, I must correct one aspect of the letter which claimed the victims caused their own downfall. Freddy David advertised widely in the Jewish media. He was supposed to be among the top Jewish financial advisers in the country.

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‘You know, I voted for Corbyn when he first became leader and believe me, I certainly understand irony now!’

I invested four bonds with him over a period of four years. The rates which I received were between four percent and five percent, not eight percent as stated in Mr Solomon’s letter.

Moreover, Freddy David assured me my money was safe with him and he gave me documents with the name and address where my bonds were to be invested.

The only things I have to cling on to are my family and the fact that the mitzvahs I do on a daily basis have been rewarded. I have been nominated for a volunteers award by Norwood.

To finish on a sour note, the victims have now been notified that Freddy David intends to appeal his prison sentence.

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SIXTY YEARS AFTER RITE OF PASSAGE Sixty years ago, the 10th year of Israel’s independence, I was on an old tub called the SS Artza en route to Israel. I was 17, and I had never been abroad. I was club captain at Clapton Jewish Youth Centre.

The club founders, Celia and Lou Rose, organised the trip via the Jewish Agency, which was promoting aliyah.

The cost for the six weeks was £60, which my parents could not afford – Dad was a £20-a-week tailor in a factory.

Mr Rose asked if they could manage £40. I went, with just £20 in my pocket.

I brought only one souvenir home, a tiny three-inch high Aron Kodesh, with scroll, but on the trip we went countrywide, including Kfar Hanassi, a very British Habonim

kibbutz (Stamford Hill with sunshine), picking sorghum and getting sunburnt.

I visited family on neighbouring Kfar Blum, contacting my Margalit cousins, Londoners who had arrived in 1947, just before immigration ended. We toured for a month and as we sailed away the sun was going down and many were in tears. We knew we would never again do anything as exciting.

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Views are not our own It says a lot for Jewish News that it’s willing to give space to views so far from the mainstream one wonders how the word Jewish can be appended to them at all.

Seeing these Jews of the fringe using the Holocaust, Israel and Zionism to support their far-left views, something the mainstream is frequently berated for doing, is chutzpah of a different kind altogether.

Mr Ganz (Jewish News, 9 August) is affronted by suggestions that Corbyn’s Labour Party poses an existential threat to Jewish life here.

His grounds for adopting this position owe a lot to his father having “spent time in Buchenwald”. Certainly something to make one sit up and think, but arriving at the proper conclusion will be possible only in time. When the future becomes the present, we will all know – and then it might well be too late.

As for Mr Halperin, in the same edition of the paper he points to his Zionist family background. This, he says, helps him arrive at the conclusion there is no anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. His views are worthy of little more than a curt dismissal.

WE ARE ALIVE AND WELL, DAME VIVIEN

Even his idol Jeremy Corbyn accepts the party suffers from antiSemitism and vows more earnestly each and every day to root it out.

So how do we come to a more accurate conclusion on the position of Mr Ganz? The 650 signatories of Jewish Voice outrage look less impressive bearing in mind the affiliations the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council can demonstrate. And that’s not to mention the huge majority of Labour MP’s calling Corbyn out.

In a community of around 300,000, some 650 signatures from hard-bitten activists barely registers on the Richter Scale.

They say those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it.

Most of the Bundists who returned to Russia from the West and what was to become Israel to join Stalin in the great Socialist experiment ended their days in Siberia, wondering where it had all gone wrong.

The answer was simple. They were Jews, and Jews have always carried the can. They are still doing so.

I suggest Dame Vivien Duffield’s outburst against Israel (Jewish News, 9 August) is nothing less than philanthropic blackmail.

Certainly the projects/ organisations that will no longer benefit from Dame Vivien’s largesse will suffer.

However, it appears she is putting her political bias before any real concern for the particular institutions she previously supported.

If her Israel is dead, I can assure her we are alive and certainly well, living in a vibrant democracy with equality for all before the law.

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LUDICROUS BORIS EDITORIAL Eight European countries have banned the burka for good reason: it represents the imposition of Muslim influence over their surroundings. It also neatly complements mass publicprayer gatherings demonstrating Muslim power. These are reinforced with terrorist bombings, knifings and car-rammings, all intended to cower and subjugate. The submission process has been ably led by our Prime Minister and others who have refused to acknowledge what is happening.

I disagree with Boris Johnson – the burka should be banned – but I agree

with his attempt to lighten the atmosphere. The British were once known for their sense of humour and maybe the Jews also; only Islam is intolerant and has no sense of humour.

I was therefore dismayed to read your report on Boris and its repercussions; more so your ludicrous editorial (Jewish News, 9 August) on the subject. I am among many who feel Islam has no place in Europe and certainly not in Britain. I’m wondering where Judaism now fits.

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Luvvies should think before pointing a finger ALEX BRUMMER

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ne imagines the crossover readership between luvvies journal The Stage and Jewish News is not that great. So few of our readers will have read a headline telling us how Britain’s theatre glitterati, encouraged by Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone, broke cover to condemn the ‘bombing of a cultural centre in Gaza by Israeli forces’.

Even ardent Israel supporters might have concerns over the retaliatory strike against the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre in Gaza City in response to Hamas violence. But the willingness of the cream of UK theatre production including Rufus Norris artistic director of the taxpayer funded National Theatre, Phyllida Lloyd the director of Mamma Mia and the playwright Caryl Churchill along with others to lay the blame for events at Israel’s door was not very measured. This at a moment when British Jewry finds itself under siege from the Labour Party.

My wife works in performance and The Stage

is delivered to our home every week. But I don’t recall Britain’s directors, producers and playwrights making too much fuss about the cultural vandalism of ISIS in northern Iraq or Syria.

My concern is not about the willingness of theatre royalty to protest. It appears that the UK’s creative community had developed close ties with the cultural centre in Gaza City.

It is more about the knee-jerk rush to judgement by the UK artistic community and the reporting of The Stage, which provided almost no context for what happened.

All that the prominently headlined story noted, in an attempt at balance, was that the Israeli strike on 9 August took place because it was ‘believed that [the building] was being used as a headquarters by Hamas’.

We have been here before, knowing how Hamas, an internationally denounced terrorist organisation, has systematically appropriated civil institutions, from hospitals to schools, for raining terror rockets on Israel. What is most off-putting about the condemnation and the way it has been reported is the lack of balance.

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back to March, with the ‘March of Return’ protests, which demanded the return of homes in Israel belonging to Arab refugees and their descendants. At their peak, thousands of people, including embedded Hamas operatives, took part. In May, when the protesters threatened to overwhelm the border, 50 people were killed.

The agitation has continued. Young Gazans have set fire to thousands of acres in Israel by flying burning kites and balloons over the border.

Militant groups have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, driving citizens, including children, into shelters from the border town of Sderot to Ashkelon. What the luvvies might not under-

stand is how this impacts on innocent children in Israel, how their cultural activities and education are also interrupted, and how many of those affected are in need of some kind of therapy.

Moreover, the Israeli Government (to the chagrin of the political right) has been working flat out to try and reach some kind of lasting ceasefire with Hamas so as to quell the assaults on its population. As a confidence-building measure, it has opened the Erez crossing between the two countries and traffic is up by 58 percent in recent months.

No one can be happy when civil institutions such as Al-Mishal are affected by the tit-for-tat violence. But there has been no independent verification of the circumstances of the strike, including Israel’s claim that the centre had been used for military purposes, or Hamas’ denial.

The willingness of the theatre community to rush to the defence of the Hamas version of events is disturbing. It demonstrates an unjust prejudice against Israel and a military and security apparatus that was at pains to warn the Gazans of its intentions.

Hamas doesn’t bother with such niceties.

To his love-blind fans, Corbyn does no wrong DAVID HIRSH

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t an event in 2013 to discuss the British legacy in Palestine, Jeremy Corbyn said: “The other evening we had a meeting in Parliament in which Manuel made an incredibly powerful and passionate and effective speech about the history of Palestine and the rights of the Palestinian people. This was dutifully recorded by the – thankfully silent – Zionists who were in the audience on that occasion and then came up and berated him afterwards for what he had said. They clearly have two problems: one is they don’t want to study history and, secondly, having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, they don’t understand English irony either. Manuel does understand English irony and he uses it very, very effectively.”

I think he meant that Zionists, even if they’ve lived in this country all their lives, aren’t properly English. They don’t understand what the Englishers are really like or what they mean when they speak in a sophisticated English way.

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No, you may say, he was talking about people with certain political commitments, he wasn’t talking about Jews as Jews so this cannot be anti-Semitism. He was only talking about Zionists (in this usage of the word it is understood to mean racists, apologists for human rights abuses, pro-apartheid and Nazis).

But wait. The charge is one of an inability to understand English irony, in spite of having lived among real Englishers all your life. How is that related to a political identity?

Well, you say, Zionists aren’t really English because they themselves choose loyalty to a foreign nation rather than to Britain. So it is their own choice not to be properly English; not an anti-Semitic libel at all, but a choice to be disloyal to your own nation and to be loyal to a global and racist nation far away. But no.

This actually isn’t Corbyn’s usual political

anti-Semitism; Corbyn is enjoying the oldfashioned English view of Jews, and he’s doing it to humiliate the Jews he’s talking about. They live among us but they’re not really one of us. It is as if the political requirement to humiliate the Zionists just finds its words in the anti-Semitic subconscious of the English middle-class man.

Sometimes people say that hostility to Zionists cannot be anti-Semitic because many Zionists are not Jewish. Imagine if Corbyn had said this about a non-Jewish Zionist. Take for example the well-known Zionist Tony Blair.

What sense would these words possibly have made in that context? ‘Blair has lived among us all his life, but still doesn’t understand English irony.’ Corbyn would never say that because it wouldn’t mean anything. It wouldn’t key into any emotional order; it wouldn’t humiliate Blair, it would just sound weird.

Imagine if a politician had said this about a group of black or Muslim people: that in spite of having lived in this country for all their lives, they were unable to understand English irony.

Corbyn’s word ‘dutifully’ is interesting, too.

Duty to what? To a foreign power, to a global Israel lobby. They were recording a Labour backbencher making an anti-Semitic speech.

They are the aggressors, Corbyn is the victim.

Anti-Semites are always victims of Jews.

So, supporter of Jeremy Corbyn. Do you now

think he sometimes slips into anti-Semitism? Or maybe it doesn’t count, because it’s been weaponised by the Daily Mail? Watch the video. Feel his contempt; the transcript doesn’t do it justice.

You’re going to say it’s fake news, old comments dredged up out of context. That he was talking about Zionists, not Jews. That it’s all smears and lies. That it’s a one off. That you don’t care because Corbyn’s good and I’m bad.

You’re going to resist connecting this incident to Corbyn’s claim that Hamas and Hezbollah are dedicated to peace, social justice and political justice; or Corbyn being paid £20,000 for fronting programmes for the anti-Semitic Iranian propaganda mouthpiece Press TV. You won’t connect it to Corbyn’s defence of conspiracist Stephen “9/11 Israel did it” Sizer, saying he was a victim of the Israel lobby. Oh, incidentally, you can see Sizer on the Daily Mail video just behind Corbyn.

You won’t connect it to Corbyn’s defence of blood libler Raed Salah; to his honouring of the planners of the Munich Olympic murders or to his claim that the UK Foreign Office is controlled by the Israel lobby. Need I go on? No, because it’ll make no difference. Corbyn, like Donald Trump, cannot be harmed by new revelations. His supporters are so emotionally and psychologically invested in his basic goodness that nothing could emerge that cannot be explained away.

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Auntie must confront an uncomfortable reality MICHAEL MCCANN

DIRECTOR, ISRAEL BRITAIN ALLIANCE

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he British Broadcasting Corporation is as close to being a secular religious institution as you will find. This oxymoron is deliberate.

The corporation has come a long way since Arthur Burrows crackled over the airwaves in 1922. It is a £5bn a year operation; the largest investor in TV news production; it is watched and listened to by 96 percent of the UK population and, according to respected sources, the BBC World Service makes the UK a world leader in soft power.

“Soft power” is the term used to explain the use of positive attraction and persuasion to achieve global influence. And that’s why the Israel Britain Alliance (IBA) is about to launch a campaign that charges the BBC of bias against Israel. People believe what the BBC says, even when it is wrong. And the problem with the corporation’s complaints structure is that it forces

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complaints into silos, and nobody, except BBC management, sees the full picture.

Some people think it heresy to suggest that the BBC deliberately gets it wrong. But that’s the evidence-based charge the IBA campaign will make. There are numerous examples to support our claim. However, we’ll focus on just one – the rocket attacks on Israel’s southern border. Since Israel left Gaza in 2005, it has faced attacks from Hamas and other terror factions.

In the past two years, there have been eight BBC reports of rocket fire. In seven of the reports, the coverage started with

Israel’s response, rather than the chronological order of events.

In that same period, there were 19 rocket attacks, including four carried out by ISIS from the Sinai, that weren’t reported. Why is this important?

Impartiality is a keystone of the BBC’s Royal Charter, but it also has a public duty to inform and educate its audience.

On Israel, it fails.

The upside-down reporting of the rocket attacks leads the audience to the conclusion that Israel is the aggressor. The reality of the situation, that it is responding to attacks, is usually buried in the article.

The advertising tycoon David Ogilvy noted that five times more people read headlines than read the body copy.

So this isn’t just poor journalism; it’s journalism that misleads and is consumed by 96 percent of the UK population and 500 million people across the world.

There is also a connected issue to consider: At the core of the Labour Party’s anti-Semitism stands Israel. As a former

Labour MP, I could have told you that before the current hullabaloo started.

Jeremy Corbyn wants/needs the freedom to describe Israel as a racist endeavour.

One of the accelerants that feeds that incendiary view, which in turn feeds antiSemitism, is the fallacy that Israel is a bad country that gratuitously and with malice aforethought attacks the Palestinians.

Corbyn’s hatred of Israel is visceral, but it is aided and abetted by elements of the media. It could be argued that Channel 4 is equally bad, but that operation doesn’t have the clout of the revered BBC. Our campaign therefore will focus on the body chosen to safeguard the BBC’s integrity, which is its board.

The IBA will face down the opprobrium of those who think the BBC is infallible because the corporation is not – and an institution as strong and powerful as “Auntie” must confront this uncomfortable reality.  To join the IBA campaign, go to www.israelbritain.org.uk/BBC

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Opinion

Corbyn drowning in Labour’s river of filth RICHARD FERRER EDITOR, JEWISH NEWS

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ritish Jews have been trapped in Labour’s anti-Semitism twilight zone for more than three years, but this week’s intervention by former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, comparing Jeremy Corbyn’s smear about British Zionists needing a lesson in English irony with Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech takes us down a yet murkier path.

Relations between British Jews and the man most likely to be the next prime minster have gone from bad to worse to desperate. Twilight is turning to darkness.

The Labour leader’s unforgivable slur, accusing me and my fellow British born-and-bred Zionists of not being truly English, was the most depressing and distressing episode yet in a saga noted for its chilling low points.

Even level-headed Lord Sacks, a calm and considered figurehead not given to hyperbole, could bite his lip no longer.

For more than a century, Labour has proudly stood against racism like no other political mainstream movement.

Yet an admired thinker like Lord Sacks has seen fit to publicly label its current leader an anti-Semite guilty of giving the most offensive political speech since Powell quoted one of his constituent saying: “In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.”

The enormity of that accusation cannot be overstated.

So, where do we go from here?

Next week Labour’s National Executive Committee is expected to be coerced, kicking and screaming, into approving the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s standard definition of anti-Semitism, albeit loaded with caveats giving party members wiggle room to call Israel racist without risking expulsion.

It will do little or nothing to lighten the mood.

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sleeve – to speak with brutal honestly about his own conduct. His years taking tea with more nutters than the Mad Hatter; pandering to the psychopaths of Hamas and Hezbollah; standing shoulder-toshoulder with scumbag Holocaust deniers and screw-loose Islamist hate preaches; mourning the death of the Munich Olympic murderers; calling those behind the murder of a Jewish bride and her father on her wedding day “brothers”; being paid thousands of pounds to spread filthy conspiracy theories about Israel on Russian and Iranian propaganda TV channels. Corbyn is

a man flailing in his own filth.

Of course, he will claim until his last breath to be pursuing a just peace for all sides, but Corbyn is no honest broker.

An intermediary does not support one side while openly attacking, alienating and insulting the other.

Most tellingly, it’s not just Lord Sacks who thinks Corbyn has crossed the red line from anti-Zionism into anti-Semitism.

His party’s flimsy 2016 inquiry into Labour anti-Semitism, authored by the conspicuously silent Shami Chakrabarti, also finds him guilty as charged.

On page 12 of 28, now Baroness Chakrabarti writes: “Crucially, I have heard testimony and heard for myself first-hand, the way in which the word ‘Zionist’ has been used personally, abusively or as a euphemism for ‘Jew’.”

You know you’re in trouble when the woman you gifted a peerage to in return for firmly closing the lid on your anti-Semitism crisis inadvertently finds you guilty as charged.

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

1 AMERICA CALLING

Tribe took 30 participants on a trip to New York and Washington DC with Rabbi Eli Levin, madrichim (leaders) and United Synagogue professional staff, visiting famous landmarks in both cities including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and White House (pictured). US events coordinator Nomi Goldberg, who ran the trip, said it was “a fun, interesting and engaging programme that combined that buzz of New York whilst also providing a platform for the group to feel proud of their Jewish identity and heritage”.

And be seen This week’s news, pictures and social events from across the community

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Captain Calamity, aka Dov Citron, took over Brent Cross shopping centre on Sunday, entertaining children and parents to raise money for Chai Cancer Care. The theme of the show was recycling, with the event sponsored by kosher frozenfood brand Eureka Cove as part of its education initiative. Eureka Cove’s joint owner Jackie Loebenberg said: “We want to put something back into the community through education and we thought this was an ideal way to do it.”

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JCOSS student Kayla Sussman decided to celebrate her upcoming batmitzvah – which takes place this weekend – by designing and selling a cookbook to raise money for charity.

The 12-year-old Finchley Reform member will be donating £2,000 – and rising – to Click, one of Myisrael’s under-theradar charities, which empowers elderly people in Israel to lead healthy and fulfilled lives. Sussman said: “I chose to donate the money I raised to Click because I have four happy grandparents and I would hate to think they were ever feeling lonely. So I want to help other grandparents to make sure they never feel alone either.” Her book can be purchased at: www.myisraelcharity.org/cookbook - recipe tips and pics: @kaylascharitycookbook

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Tenants at Jewish Blind & Disabled’s Aztec House in Woodford enjoyed a strawberries and cream tea which was prepared by volunteers including Lea, Renee and Madalaine (pictured). Marion Order and Phyllis Cohen, who were among the more than 20 attendees, said: “The volunteers are marvellous and never let us down – they are always extremely helpful and devote so much of their time to help the Aztec House community.”

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Artist Georgia Groundland will hold her own commercial gallery early next year. The 18-year-old King David High School pupil, who recently completed her A-Levels, secured the exhibition at Hale’s Gateway Gallery when she was named best artist at their recent schools’ show. She said: “I didn’t expect to win, as I felt that all of the work exhibited was so unique in comparison to mine. It was a huge surprise.”

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Ethan Clerck and Yonatan Singer were named joint-winners of the Annual Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary School Jewish Mastermind Challenge. Pictured with Gavriel Sher and Ava Rose, the quartet competed alongside fellow Year 6 pupils for the prize. Jewish Studies lead Deborah Harris said the contest was “a hard competition and very close – the standard of pupils’ knowledge was extremely high”.

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The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) unveiled a commemorative plaque in honour of Anna Essinger at Bunce Court, in Otterden, Kent.

A German Jew, she was the founder and headmistress of Bunce Court School. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the school’s closure, and the ceremony was attended by family members of Essinger and former pupils, including immunologist Leslie Brent.

AJR trustee Frank Harding said: “Through the AJR plaque scheme, we are honouring prominent Jewish émigrés from Nazism who made a significant contribution to their adopted homeland.”

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Young US gave 40 guests a sweet treat at an evening of cocktails and candy-making at Spun Candy in Spitalfields.

Attendees enjoyed a hands-on workshop on lollipop-making.

Young US’ Tamara Jacobson said: “Young US are always looking for interesting innovative experiences for members of our community.”

Immanuel College, in conjunction with UJIA, hosted its annual Israel Get Connected Day, with the focus being on 70 years of Israel past, present and future. Ambassador Mark Regev spoke about Israel’s journey and achievements, and an Israeli-themed lunch was followed by sessions on contemporary issues in Israel, including Save a Child’s Heart charity, Sephardic Jews, innovation, Arab-Israeli relations and Charedi Israeli women. The event concluded with a heated debate on Israel’s current and future politics and the challenges it faces.

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Members of Belmont Synagogue heard from its vice chairman, Barbara Mazliah, as to how she used World Jewish Relief (WJR) to find out how members of her family escaped Nazi persecution and settled in England. WJR’s Rebecca Singer spoke about the charity’s work at the outbreak of the Second World War and the support it now gives to people living in Eastern Europe.

Your family announcements Sarah Kaye celebrated her batmitzvah at Abridge Golf Club, Romford

Charlie Dagul celebrated his barmitzvah at St Johns Wood Synagogue

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Thirteen finalists, listed below, are gearing up to wow the judges when they perform at the finals on Sunday, 7 October.

This year’s panel includes impressionist Francine Lewis, who reached the semifinals of Britain’s Got Talent, comedian Steve Furst, broadcaster Russ Kane and Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer.

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Singer-songwriter Beatrice Lancet, 15, South Hampstead High School Do you belong to a shul? South Hampstead.

What makes your act different from others? I’m a singer-songwriter. I try to create a powerful bond with my audience through the subjects I write about, as well as the music I play, which I’ve been told is very memorable.

How long have you been performing ? I’ve been song writing for about eight years and, over the past few years, I’ve been performing at open mics, which I love. I will be performing a charity gig for the PDSA animal charity on 1 September.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? I heard about it through the paper and wanted to be part of it to support Jewish Care.

Do you think you can win? It’s up to the judges. I’m really looking forward to performing because it is supporting an amazing cause, Jewish Care.

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? My dream is to continue to perform and share my music.

I have been working very hard to achieve a future in the music business, hopefully as a major success. But if one person hears one of my songs and relates to it, that’s my job done!

Stand-up comedian Gary Davis, middle-aged Profession? Sit-down office worker/stand-up

mary School, and Paige Goldie, 12, Yavneh College Do you belong to a shul?

Jemima belongs to Borehamwood and Elstree United and Paige to Edgware & Hendon Reform.

What makes your act different from others?

We are the only ones doing gymnastics and do cool tricks.

How long have you been performing for? Since the age of seven; we have performed with clubs in London and Scotland at gymnastics festivals.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? Our parents saw it in the newspaper.

Do you think you can win?

Definitely!

What’s the big dream?

Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? We want to go to the Olympics and compete for Team GB.

comedian.

Do you belong to a shul? I don’t belong to one, but I do have the ear of God... and the nose of my uncle.

What makes your act different from others? I’m very different from someone who plays the cello.

How long have you been performing? Four years.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? I heard there were sandwiches.

Do you think you can win? I’m not putting on clean pants for nothing!

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? To make people laugh. It has to happen sometime.

Classical singer James Harvey, 20, student at Leeds Beckett University Do you belong to a shul? Watford United Synagogue.

How long have you been performing? For 14 years, including four years’ vocal training at the Royal Academy of Music. Highlights of my

Clockwise from left: Joel Brahams, Sophie Delin and Shelli Chitiyat

time there include winning the senior singing prize, as well as playing the role of Tamino.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? I am always enthusiastic about taking part in musical events within the Jewish community.

Do you think you can win? Yes. What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? My biggest dream would be to perform lead tenor in Puccini’s Tosca or play Valjean in Les Misérables.

Gymnasts Jemima and Paige (Tumbling Twins) Jemima Clayden, 10, Sinai Jewish Pri-

Singer Joel Brahams, 10, Akiva School Do you belong to a shul? New North London Synagogue.

What makes your act different from others?

I’m told I sing with an unusual amount of emotion for a boy my age. I have been known to move adults to tears when they hear me sing.

How long have you been performing ? Since I was two.

I started singing ballads when I was three. I remember singing Rolling in the Deep by Adele.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? I thought it could boost my career in the Jewish community.

Do you think you can win? Yes, because there are not that many boys my age singing songs of my musical genre.

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? Absolutely Hollywood! I am aiming for the top. I will know I have done that when my picture is on the walls of L’Artista in Golders Green!

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Jews Got Talent / Lifestyle Singer Mitchell Lathbury, 29 Profession: Postman Do you belong to a shul? Southgate and District Reform Synagogue.

How long have you been performing? Since the age of three.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? A new challenge and my mum; a proud Jewish woman who I wanted to make proud.

Do you think you can win? Yes! What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? Hollywood! I want to be a full-time performer and I’m hoping this competition can help me do that.

Female pop folk group: Miriam’s Sister Jess Gold, 48, singer-songwriter, Jane Kelson, 48, singer-songwriter and fundraiser, Rosalyn Miller, 32, GP and singer-songwriter and Judith Harris, 27, violin teacher Do you belong to a shul? Finchley Reform, Pinner United and Barnet synagogues.

What makes your act different from others? A unique combination of beautiful harmonies, funny, original songs and a playful approach to performing. We all sing and play instruments too!

How long have you been performing? The first Miriam’s Sister performance was Jess and Ros together at Limmud in the Woods in August 2016. We have all performed separately since we were children.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? We thought it would be great to support this fun event that gives people pleasure, but also supports the amazing work of Jewish Care.

Do you think you can win? We’d like to think we can, but we know it’s going to be really tough, because everyone is so talented.

We want the best act to win, whoever that is.

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? We want to write and perform songs that make people laugh, cry and touch the soul. Jess has already ditched the day job, the rest are on the way!

Magician Nathan Earl, 23, semi-professional magician, street performer and Marvin’s Magic demonstrator Do you belong to a shul? St John’s Wood Synagogue.

What makes your act different from others? Being a magician is different from other performing arts because the audience always wonders what you’re going to do and things that may seem impossible are actually possible in the hands of people like me. On top of that, my style combines classic and contemporary magic.

How long have you been performing?

Seven years.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? I saw an ad for it and thought I must enter!

Do you think you can win? I would like to think I am in with a good chance.

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? To be a full-time working professional magician.

Primary school dance troupe: Nevatim Ages seven to 11, from Alexandra Park School, Akiva Primary School and South Hampstead High School What makes your act different from others? We all love dancing. Our act is Israeli folk dancing, which is different from contemporary dancing that people often like doing.

How long have you been performing? Since some of us were about four.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? Ella Ben-Ezra, 10, says: “I feel like it’s special to be part of it, as a Jew and an Israeli. I feel I am part of a community and proud of it.”

Do you think you can win? Yes! As long as we all try our best and work as a team, we will succeed!

Clockwise from top Left: Yoni Shine; Nevatim Israeli Dance Group; Nathan Earl. Below left: Miriam’s Sister; Beatrice Lancet. Inset: Mitchell Lathbury

What’s the big dream?

Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? Eve Glass, aged eight, says: “I would love to continue Israeli dancing. I like watching the older children and adult groups dance and hope to be like them one day.”

Singer Shelly Chitiyat, 10, Mathilda Marks Kennedy School What makes your act different from others? I’m going to be singing Papa from the movie Yentl,, which I sang for my grandpa’s memorial. I love this song as it’s a prayer to someone you really love who passes away.

Sadly we all have someone we have lost and missing and I think the audience can connect to this song like I did.

How long have you been performing? Since I started talking! I love singing, but have been performing since I started vocal lessons with my teacher, Viv Bellos. A few months ago I performed in Israel in the Mann Auditorium and in Jerusalem in front of 3,000 people. I also dance in Kidanza with Hila Moussaioff and play the piano.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? I love singing, but most importantly it’s also for a good cause. All the money raised will go to Jewish Care and will help people in need.

Do you think you can win? I will try.

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? Hollywood.

Rock ’n’ Roll band Simply Gray We have a combined age of 450 years young, ranging from retired to IT and most places in between Do you belong to a shul? West London and Pinner synagogues.

What makes your act different from others? We are a classic rock and roll band and there are six of us.

How long have you been performing?

Mostly from when we were 13.

What motivated you to audition? It looked like fun.

Do you think you can win? It doesn’t really matter!

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? Hollywood sounds good.

Singer Sophie Delin 24, nanny and actor What makes your act different from others? I have a real passion for musical theatre and the great old-school style of singing that people remember.

How long have you been performing? I have been singing since I was three.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? My mum really encouraged me to enter.

Do you think you can win? I will give it my best go at winning.

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? My dream is to perform in musicals, so it could be either.

Singer Yoni Shine Age 11, JFS What makes your act different from others? Everyone is special. My particular talent lies in my musical ability. People say I have a unique and angelic voice and that I sing from the soul.

How long have you been performing? I have been singing for three years.

What motivated you to audition for JGT? I love singing and performing and this year’s JGT sounded like a great opportunity for me to do just that!

Do you think you can win? I’m not so desperate to win. I just love singing and performing. Winning JGT would be an extra bonus and would hopefully bring me more opportunities in the future.

What’s the big dream? Hollywood or day job alongside your talent? I would love to reach people and inspire them with my music.

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t’s known as the Eternal City – and while Jews certainly haven’t been there since time began, Italy’s capital has hosted the community for an astounding 22 centuries, ever since the First Temple was destroyed.

That was just one of the fascinating facts to emerge on a five-day trip to Rome organised by ECJS (European Centre for Jewish Students).

Our first stop in this city steeped in ancient Jewish heritage was the Great Synagogue, the first Italian synagogue built after unification in 1870. It is a stunning example of the European ‘cathedral’ shuls, the baroque-style marble interior and wooden seats transporting you immediately back to a different era.

Our local guide then took us to the adjacent Spanish Synagogue, a Moorish-style small building with beautiful architectural details dating back to the 16th century.

The nearby Jewish Museum of Rome (Museo Ebraico di Roma) contains an extensive selection of Judaica, including items from the Middle Ages and Renaissance era, as well as an exhaustive history of the city’s Jewish Ghetto.

Although never forced to convert, the Jews were obligated to attend church services in order to “persuade” them to do so.

A visit to the Ghetto, where the Jews lived until the city was freed from the Papacy, is a real treat, with a dozen kosher eateries, including meat, milk, and café houses. I ate in Ba’Ghetto’s dairy restaurant, which also runs an adjacent meat restaurant.

The fried zucchini, Roman artichoke and penne arrabiata were cooked to perfection and went down well – as did the Chianti.

Our second day was spent enjoying a tour of the ancient city, a whistle-stop journey through layers of antiquity starting in the period that lent Rome its name.

We learnt about the Jewish presence in the city for more than 2,000 years – which makes it one of the oldest continuous communities in the world – saw the ruins of an ancient apartment building and visited the Roman Forum, once the centre of Roman life and the meeting place of the senate.

We strolled across the Via Sacra, the main thoroughfare of Rome, passing the Palatine Hill, until we reached the Arch of Titus, the south panel depicting the spoils of war taken from the Temple in Jerusalem.

We ended our journey through the Arch of Constantine and found ourselves standing at the site of the world-renowned Colosseum,

where many a Roman citizen was entertained by gruesome gladiatorial combat.

After a relaxing Shabbat spent at the Sheraton Roma, an impressive hotel located six miles from the city, we continued our journey through history in earnest.

A city-centre tour included the Piazza Venezia, the central hub, the bustling Piazza Navona and the fountain of the four rivers, which represents the four continents through which papal authority has spread: the Nile in Africa, the Danube in Europe, the Ganges in Asia and the Río de la Main picture: The splendid Colosseum in the centre of Rome.

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Above: The Trevi Fountain. Below: James Martin with the Not for the faint-hearted, the group from the European Centre for Jewish Students monumental Spanish Steps – 135 The Vatican Museum contains an impresin total – connect the Piazza di Spagna at the sive art collection built up over centuries, base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti at the top, including classical sculptures and masterpieces while a visit to Rome wouldn’t be complete of Renaissance art, while the breathtaking Siswithout seeing the beautiful Trevi Fountain, tine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo, is where an estimated €3,000 (£2,720) a day are worth the entrance fee alone. The variety of bibthrown in by people wishing for good luck. lical, mythical and allegorical images makes it a The best, however, was saved for last, with staggering narrative of creation and thought. my final day spent visiting the Vatican. The St Peter’s Basilica was the final point on the group tour is a must and saves on long waits at journey. Aside from being a renowned work the entrance as tens of thousands of visitors of Renaissance architecture, at 720 ft long and come here every day.

490 ft wide, it is also easily the largest church By taking the tour, you will find yourself in the world and it is from this impressive place proceeding quickly through the buildings. that the Pope appears to thousands-strong Don’t forget the audio guide, essential in order crowds throughout the year. to absorb the surroundings.

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SEDRA Ki Tavo

BY RABBI ZVI SOLOMONS There is a passage in this week’s sedra that we read this Shabbat but also at the seder. It’s the passage often translated as “A Syrian sought to destroy my father”. It contains a brief synopsis of the story of the Exodus, about our survival against all odds, our persecution and our redemption.

However, the straight meaning of the passage’s words is that our ancestor, Abraham, was a wandering Syrian. The passage itself was to be recited on bringing the first fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem. If the fruits were too plentiful, or you lived far away, you would buy fruit to use for this purpose in the Temple. This was why there were money-changers there.

A Jew in Britain today cannot fail to feel the irony of this passage, at the same time the formula for recitation on doing our duty to God, and also a reminder that in every generation people tried to destroy us. The rabbis’ play on the word oved (wandering) to make it into Ibed (enslaved) brings out part of the paradox of being a Jew in modernity – we seek to do our duty and at the same time others seek to enslave us.

A second passage in the second aliyah on tithes reminds us of our duty and desires. We are not to short-change the Levite or the poor. This second aliyah ends with eretz zavat chalav u-d’vash – a land flowing with milk and honey.

After a summer crammed with progressively vile revelations of anti-Semitism, these first two readings in our portion remind us to do our duty as Jews whatever the opposition, and to remain faithful to our desire to see Israel strong and successful.

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BY RABBI NAFTALI SCHIFF The number 70 resonates with my own personal Jewish identity more than any other. Furthermore, I’d like to suggest that the set of concepts represented by 70 throughout our literature most personify our contemporary Jewish generation.

The Twelve Tribes and their families were numbered 70 when they were led down to Egypt by our father Jacob more than 3,000 years ago. From these 70 people the Jewish people was formed.

The Torah lists 70 nations; the members of the Sanhedrin were versed in 70 languages; the Talmud talks of 70 facets and perspectives via which to view the Torah; the Kabbalah informs us there exist 70 root personalities and souls; man’s days are numbered threescore and 10 and the epicentre of the Jewish worldYerushalayim has 70 names!

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Seventy in Judaism is the universal number; the collective that encompasses all opinions, personalities and people.

The Jewish people are charged with being a moral light unto the nations – a beacon of decency, morality and goodness.

The nations are encouraged to come up to Yerushalayim to learn from our ways. Out of it will emanate the teachings of those 70 ways – simply diverse perspectives, styles and expressions around the one.

We are today 70 years since Israel’s establishment; our people represent the collective wisdom of 70 approaches, styles and cultures and, 70 years later, our people have risen again to be part of the miracle of a nation reborn in its land.

The Talmud in Berachot 30 devotes many lines advising us as to the manner in which we face the centre of Yerushalayim

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when we pray. Instead of a detailed and seemingly laborious paragraph, surely it could have simply advised us to face the same geographical coordinate? I believe the answer talks directly to our generation – the first in 2,000 years to live with the reality of our return to Yerushalayim, namely, a justification and recognition of the simultaneously diverse, collective and unifying nature of Judaism and Am Yisrael and the call to our generation.

The Talmud could have just informed us of a coordinate at the centre of Yerushalayim to face whenever we pray. Instead, it spends 15 lines teaching that Jews from different parts of the world necessarily view it from a different perspective.

May we, the generation of 70, rise to the magnificent challenge of raising the flag of Tzion – the City of 70 names – with the deepest understanding, respect and embrace of the challenging nature of inclusion of 70 diverse perspectives of one truth and reality!  Rabbi Naftali Schiff is founder and chief executive of Jewish Futures

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The Bible Says What?

Progressively Speaking What did Madonna’s self-aggrandising tribute to Aretha Franklin teach about ‘respect’ for others?

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BY RABBI DR RENE PFERTZEL Genesis 19 tells of the devastating fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the salvation of Lot, his nameless wife and their two daughters.

As they flee the terrible destruction of the cities, Lot’s wife turns to look and is immediately petrified and becomes a “pillar of salt” (19:26).

The commandment was clear: “Flee for your life, do not look behind you”, but Lot’s wife, whom the Rabbis called Idit (Tanchuma, Vayera 8), decided to do just that.

Traditional commentators explain the transformation as her punishment for disobeying God. Did she share the wicked cities’ fate because she was as wicked as their inhabitants? Did she have other daughters in the cities and wanted to make sure they were all right?

The Christian New Testament even cites this passage as a warning against looking back when the second return happens (Luke 17:31-33).

But, one may wonder, why do

people disobey? Instead of being just disobedience, isn’t it an act of defiance, or even revolt?

When the cities are destroyed, and possibly hundreds of people killed, Lot and his daughters simply turn and flee. But Lot’s wife looks back.

The Russian poetess, Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) asks the question: “Who will grieve for this woman, who suffered death because she chose to turn?” (Lot’s Wife, 1924).

Idit represents those who decide not to turn a blind eye to suffering, to destruction, even though she had to pay a very high price. From disobedience to radical choice, her fate reminds us of the price one has sometimes to pay to stand up.

Here, literature and poetry come to rescue of traditional religious commentaries, which can sometime be trapped and go around in circles.  Dr Rene Pfertzel is rabbi at Kingston Liberal Synagogue

BY RABBI LAURA JANNER-KLAUSNER Perhaps nobody is as synonymous with the word respect as Aretha Franklin. It is a sad irony that many see her as the victim of a serious lack of it after her recent passing.

Madonna aimed to pay tribute to Franklin at the MTV Video Music Awards, but it’s safe to say many thought she had missed the mark in a speech more about herself.

I don’t envy Madonna’s task. Showing respect to the dead is hard enough, never mind someone of such stature and on such a public stage.

What does our tradition teach us about showing our respect in the right way? Kavod ha-met, respect for the dead, is a value our Jewish tradi-

tion takes incredibly seriously. Our customs are meticulous and take every possible step to give dignity to the person who has departed.

Traditionally, a sign of respect is never to leave the body alone at this time, ensuring instead there is someone at their side on this final journey.

The mourners do not eat, drink or carry out commandments while in the presence of the deceased, because it would be unkind to do things the deceased can no longer do.

These are extraordinary lengths to go to, but only emphasise the importance we place on giving of ourselves to show respect for another.

This value comes

through even more with the hesped, the eulogy. The word itself comes from the concept of praising the person and their qualities.

What is particularly noteworthy is how the eulogy is considered for the benefit of the deceased, not of the living.

If a person has declared he or she doesn’t want a eulogy, that is to be respected, because it isn’t

for us. We pay respect not for our benefit, but for that of the deceased.

These traditions all point in one direction, that paying respect is about us giving of ourselves and is intended to place the person we are remembering at the centre.

This is why Madonna’s effort caused such upset. The Jewish tradition teaches us that these initial moments after bereavement aren’t about us – there will be time for that later in the process.

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RESOURCE CENTRE The handshake is another key example. The Dear Eric I hear an awful lot about body limp, sweaty handshake language being important in an versus the firm, positive but not bone-crunching one. interview. What exactly does The way you stand, as tall as this mean and what do I need you can, feet firmly placed to do to be fluent in it? and no hands in pockets, Jason signals confidence and being positive.

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

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

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

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

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

• Strictly confidential helpline.

• Specialist medical support and information.

• Counselling for individuals and couples and educational events.

• Expert medical advisory panel.

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

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

WEALTH AND FINANCIAL ADVISOR

KITCHEN DESIGNER

ELAINE KERR Qualifications: • Able to draw on the expertise of Norwood’s professional staff team, including social workers, educational psychologists, drug and alcohol specialists, speech & language and occupational therapists, teachers, psychologists, benefit advisers.

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

NEIL POOLE MBA DipPFS Qualifications: • Experienced in providing comprehensive wealth planning services to individuals, couples, families, trustees and businesses • Retirement planning and pension review • Family wealth preservation • Financial risk identification and mitigation

SHANTI PANCHANI Qualifications: • Experienced Designer with more than 25 years’ experience in German and English kitchens and have supplied kosher-friendly kitchens for more than 10 years • We provide a full circle approach from designing, supplying and installing your new kitchen including appliances and speciality worktops.

• We deal with suppliers who are flexible in design.

NORWOOD 020 8809 8809 www.norwood.org.uk elaine.kerr@norwood.org.uk

NEIL POOLE 07710 757 503 www.neilpoole.com neil.poole@sjpp.co.uk

THE HOME CONSULTANCY 07738 067671 www.thehomeconsultancy.com shanti@thehomeconsultancy.com

ESTATE AGENT

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

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

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

• Successfully established the RCUK International Travel

STEVE WAYNE Qualifications: • Owner of Benjamin Stevens established in 2004 with offices in Edgware and Bushey and dealing with all surrounding areas.

• Specialist in buy 2 let investments and managing lettings portfolios.

• Deals with residential sales locally and an expert on all things property in North West London.

• Partner at Frederick George & Co

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

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

• Practical and emotional support for families of deaf children.

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

RCUK 020 8815 4115 www.rcuk.biz maxi@rcuk.biz

BENJAMIN STEVENS ESTATE AGENTS 020 8950 7777 www.benjaminstevens.co.uk Steve@benjaminstevens.co.uk

JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION 020 8446 0502 info@jewishdeaf.org.uk www.jewishdeaf.org.uk

TELECOMS SPECIALIST

JEWELLER

TRAVEL AGENT

CRIMINAL DEFENCE SOLICITOR

JONATHAN WILLIAMS Qualifications: • Jewellery manufacturer since 1980s.

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

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

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

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

• Specialist in Israel travel, cruises and kosher holidays.

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

• Frequent travel broadcaster on radio and TV.

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

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

• Visiting associate professor at Brunel University.

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

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

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

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REMOVALS MANAGING DIRECTOR

PRINCIPAL, PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL

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

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

Member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

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

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

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

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

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

• Set up Dancing with Louise 10 years ago.

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

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

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IT SPECIALIST

HEARING AID AUDIOLOGIST

MELVYN SOBELL Qualifications: • Chartered accountant FCA. • Accounting, taxation and business advisory services.

• Specialises in forensic accounting.

• CEDR accredited mediator.

• Expert witness advice for all financial matters.

EWA KOZLOWSKA MSHAA Qualifications: • Fully qualified, HCPC registered, Hearing Aid Audiologist.

• Specialist in hearing healthcare including tinnitus management and wax removal.

• Fully understands the impact of hearing loss and will work with you to find the best solution for your unique hearing needs and lifestyle.

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

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

• More than 18 years’ experience.

SOBELL RHODES 020 8429 8800 www.sobellrhodes.co.uk m.sobell@sobellrhodes.co.uk

BLOOM HEARING SPECIALISTS 020 8869 9999 www.bloomhearing.co.uk pinner@bloomhearing.co.uk

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

INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS SPECIALIST

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

BUILDING CONTRACTOR

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

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

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

BAYLA PERRIN Qualifications: • Free professional service delivering immediate practical help with domestic administrative matters, assisting those alone and in crisis.

• Providing workable solutions for debt management, budgeting, bills, utilities, insurance, welfare & benefits, form filling, financial correspondence, bureaucracy and divorce procedures. Cross communal and throughout London.

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

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

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

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

THE PAPERWEIGHT TRUST 020 8455 4996 www.paperweighttrust.com info@paperweighttrust.com

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

MEDIATOR

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

ANDREW MILLER QC Qualifications: • Mediator with more than 25 years of experience of using mediation to economically resolve commercial disputes.

• Queen’s Counsel (Barrister) with 25+ years legal experience of conducting commercial cases.

• Providing a cost-effective and time-efficient alternative to the court litigation process.

HAZEL KAYE Qualifications: • Able to draw on the charity’s 45+ years of experience in providing specialist accommodation designed to enable independence.

• Knowledge of the features and innovations that can empower people to undertake everyday tasks and awareness of relevant grants and benefits available.

• Understands the impact of a diagnosis of disability.

ROHIT SHETTY Qualifications: • M.S (Orth), DNB (Orth), FRCS (Tr & Orth), Dip (Tr & Orth) • Clinical Interests: Minimal invasive keyhole spinal fusion, spinal injections, Complex adult deformity and reconstructive surgery • Main sub speciality area of interest is adult reconstructive deformity

AMQC MEDIATION @ 2TG 020 7822 1260 www.2tg.co.uk amqc@2tg.co.uk

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

HIGHGATE PRIVATE HOSPITAL 020 8003 0889 www.highgatehospital.co.uk enquiries@highgatehospital.co.uk

SPECIALIST CAREER ADVISER

SENIOR ALIYA CONSULTANT SHARON GLASSMAN Qualifications: Born and raised in Israel.

Worked in the private sector.

15 years experience with new olim while working for the government.

Vast knowledge of the Israeli business and labour market.

ERIC SALAMON Qualifications: • Career in corporate management working for among others Mars Confectionery, CBS Entertainment, Storehouse Retail & H.J. Heinz Foods, holding director level marketing, commercial and general management roles.

Provides specialist advice to help unemployed get work.

Free one-to-one mock interviews and workshops on making an impact.

THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL 020 8371 5258 www.jewishagency.org sharong@jafi.org

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

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DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

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NICKI BONES Qualifications: • Registered mental health nurse with more than 30 years’ experience in areas supporting people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

• Founding member of SweetTree Home Care Services.

• Proudly leads SweetTree team to the forefront of home care and specialist services delivery.

FREEMANS SOLICITORS 020 7935 3522 www.freemanssolicitors.net rg@freemanssolicitors.net

SWEETTREE HOME CARE SERVICES 020 7644 9554 www.sweettree.co.uk info@sweettree.co.uk

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Email: editorial@thejngroup.com

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REBEKAH GERSHUNY Qualifications: Member of Resolution, Law Society Accredited and registered with the Family Mediation Council.

Collaborative family lawyer, with more than 20 years’ experience and founder of family mediation practice, Evolve Family Mediation.

Promotes a constructive and non-confrontational approach.

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SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER'S HUMAN ANTIDOTE TO SERIOUSLY ILL PALESTINIAN PATIENTS

BY KEN STEPHENS

Raied Baloum, Sheba Medical Center’s, Liaison to the Palestinian Authority (PA), has one of the most fascinating and challenging jobs within Israel’s medical bureaucracy.

From Sunday-Thursday, 52 weeks a year, Raied is swamped with requests from the PA’s Ministry of Health to accept seriously ill men, women and children from Gaza and the West Bank for various treatments at Sheba Medical Center-Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan. While it’s true that a number of hospitals in Israel treat Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, Sheba is entrusted with dealing with the “toughest” medical cases, especially sick children from Gaza, many of whom suffer from genetic diseases and various forms of cancer.

Raied, who lives in Taibe (an IsraeliArab city in Central Israel), had been working as a social worker who was graduated into this exacting position by Sheba’s management in 2008. Since assuming the job, Raied deals with a multitude of daily hurdles, from reading the medical requests from PA doctors and health bureaucrats and deciding who can be treated at Sheba, to working with Shabak (aka Shin Bet, Israel’s Security Agency) on security background checks for potential patients, who need to cross into Israel at various border checkpoints.

It’s a non-stop task that constantly tests Raied’s fortitude. “There are times when I have to block my cellphone number because of the sheer volume of requests to admit someone for treatment, which can be very emotional if you are speaking with a parent of a sick child, a ranking official in the PA etc. We really try and accommodate as many patients as possible from the PA, but not everyone can be

admitted because we have just so many beds and doctors available,” Raied admitted.

Raied is assisted by two young Israeli Arab women, who help greet and process the paperwork for Palestinian patients. “Boring is not a word that you will hear around the office,” one of them remarked.

“There is never a dull moment.”

Within Sheba’s Safra Children’s Hospital, 40% of all patients found throughout the various wards are from the Palestinian Authority. It is not unusual to see the mothers and grandmothers of sick children, who need long term care (mostly cancer and genetic diseases) in the playground areas inside and outside the Children’s Hospital throughout the day. Raied is also responsible for making sure that these family members who must stay in Israel for weeks and sometimes months, are fed and provided with basic services (a room, laundry etc.) on the Sheba campus.

And then there are the split second decisions. “There are times when there is no more room in the hospital. Yet we will receive urgent, sometimes frantic phone calls from the PA to deal with an emergency case. It could be anything from car/bus accident victims to severe burns, heart attacks etc. Because I’m dealing with situations like this all the time, I know of at least 400 cases, where without emergency treatment from Sheba’s medical staff, these people of all ages from the PA, would have died,” Raied revealed.

There are many compelling stories that Raied can tell you about but he derives the most satisfaction from seeing the daily interaction between the Palestinians and Israeli Jews.

“In many cases, the children might

Raied Baloum not have ever met a Jew before and as we know they have been told

some horrible things about the IDF soldiers… that they are monsters,”

he recalled. “Well, those perceptions can change quickly. On Purim or Chanukah, many soldiers from the IDF come to visit, speak to the kids and hand out candies to everyone.

When one of the soldiers gave candy to one of the Palestinian children, he asked his mother, ‘Why are they giving me candy?’

These encounters are fascinating, emotional and important for both Jews and Palestinian Arabs. It’s a bridge to peace. We even try and accommodate those children who are terminally ill to arrange either a trip to the beach or a nice park with their parents. These are the things that are not being reported in the

mass media, which is a shame.”

While the job can at times can be frustrating based on the complicated dynamics between Israel and the PA, Raied is proud of the fact that he has been directly responsible for providing a lifeline to those in need. He maintains cordial relations with the PA, Israeli authorities and of course the patients and their families.

Raied related, “I can honestly say with confidence that Sheba Medical Center’s talented staff has treated tens of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank over the years, where we have saved the lives of many, many children and adults. This gives me great satisfaction and motivation.”

sheba – israel’s largest medical center Sheba is the beating heart of Israeli medicine. Every year, 1 in 5 Israelis are treated at Sheba. Sheba’s

world-class innovation and medical research are changing the face of modern medicine, in Israel and around the world. With an emphasis on patient care and integrated medicine, Sheba is doing more than treating illness … it is changing lives.

• Sheba treats 1.5 million people per year.

• Sheba’s staff of 8,060 includes 1,425 doctors.

• Sheba performs 260,000 diagnostic imaging exams per year • Sheba conducts 1,600,000 lab exams per year

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Cyclists in tandem for charity CYCLING A group of 20 teenage boys raised more than £25,000 for charity by taking part in a 124-mile bike ride from London to Poole. The teenagers initiated and carried out the challenge, which took 13 hours, with the sponsorship money going towards the GIFT Shabbat Walk Project.

Led by Eliezer Gilbert, with the support of Dovi Weltscher and Shira Joseph, the boys enjoyed a lunch, sponsored by the Normandie Hotel on completion of the ride, with the day culminating with a BBQ on the beach,

where they heard from Rabbi Jesner, the Rabbi of Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation.

Moishe Kantor, one of the coordinators and a volunteer who came up with the idea, said: “This bike ride exceeded all expectations. Everyone is so proud to have completed this and we had the best time. We have benefited so much from our involvement as volunteers for The GIFT Shabbat Walk and just wanted to give something back”.

You can still sponsor the boys at: justgiving.com/ companyteams/GIFT2018bikeriders The cyclists have so far raised more than £25,000 for GIFT having completed a 200km cycle from London to Poole

Stepping up for Norwood Teenager Jamie Cahill has spent the past month walking 120km to raise money for Norwood, ahead of his barmitzvah this weekend. Reaching his daily goal of 7,000 steps in a number of ways, including tennis camp and trekking through local parks, he decided to raise money for the charity having had help from its Speech and Language Therapist, Debbie Selouk, when he was having trouble

at school. He said: “Ever since my mum contacted Debbie in Year Five she’s been a great help and even now, two years later, she’s still very helpful. I just want her to know how grateful I am. I’m really enjoying it and the exercise, and the fact I’m doing a good thing for charity is making me feel a lot better.” Jamie’s fundraising page can be found at: justgiving.com/fundraising/jamie-wc

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A medley of medals for Team GB JCC GAMES Team Maccabi GB won 72 medals at the JCC Maccabi Games. The squad of 71 athletes and managers took part in 10 days of sporting competition, mixed with cultural activities, with medals coming in a variety of sports including track and field, U14 football, table tennis

and swimming. Joint head of delegation, Janice and Ian Aarons said: “These Games allow young Jewish athletes their first opportunity of representing their country at an international sports event. They’ve not only represented their country, but also their community and enhanced their Jewish identity.”

Hannah Mark, Josh Reeback, Hettie Virchis and Millie Aslan won the 100m relay

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Julia Glushko (pictured) claimed her most impressive win of recent years after she booked her place in the second round of the US Open. Beating Romanian Monica Niculescu, a player who sits more than 100 places above her in the world rankings, she fought back from going a set down and overcome a serious looking knee injury, to claim a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 win. She next faces the world number 20, Japan’s Naomi Osaka, later on today. Elsewhere, Italian Camila Giorgi was in second round action last night, taking on Venus Williams. In the men’s draw, Argentine Diego Schwartzman beat compatriot Federico Delbonis 6-2, 7-6, 6-2 to set up a second round clash against Spain’s Jaume

Munar, but American Noah Rubin was beaten 3-6, 1-6, 6-4, 6-7 by Russian Mikhail Kukushkin. Israel’s other representative, Jonathan Erlich, teaming up with Pakistan’s Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, got his doubles campaign underway last night.

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