1073

FR

EE

You’re the one I lulav!

Succot round-up on pages 17 & 18

OUR EXPERIENCED TEAM CAN HELP YOU WITH: COMPANY COMMERCIAL & EMPLOYMENT FAMILY LITIGATION PROPERTY PRIVATE CLIENT & ELDER LAW

BRITAIN’S BIGGEST JEWISH NEWSPAPER 27 September 2018

•

18 Tishrei 5779

•

Issue No.1073

•

@JewishNewsUK

T: +44 (0)20 8349 0321 www.ogrstockdenton.com

One state of mind VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS For the vast majority of British Jews, this is the image that will sum up the Labour Party’s 2018 conference: a sea of flags pointedly showing one-sided solidarity with one-half of a complex conflict. For many, it was chilling.

Not because Palestinians do not deserve a state, or British Jews don’t empathise deeply with their plight. Not because they are unwilling to criticise Israeli policies or don’t want to see an end to the conflict.

Rather, it is precisely because they do, but know a one-eyed Corbynite approach will never lead to the negotiating table.

Waving the flag of the other party to the conflict – a liberal democracy that leads the way in gay and women’s rights in the region – would have been inconceivable in such a febrile and partisan atmosphere.

Such was the fervour around Palestine in Liverpool this week that it was the only international issue prioritised for its own debate, attracting 188,000 votes from constituency Labour parties compared to Yemen, which got less than 900.

It’s true that, with one vile exception, the debate was conducted using language that didn’t cross the line that it all too often

does on the left. Rhea Wolfson deserves credit for how she chaired the session and challenged the language of denial and conspiracy when it reared its ugly head. But, amid calls for an arms freeze, an end to the ‘blockade’ and calls for a probe into deaths on the Gaza border, there was not a single mention in two hours of Hamas or terrorism, or a single demand for action by the Palestinian leadership.

Corbyn, in his keynote speech, rightly mentioned Yemen and Saudi Arabia before the Palestinians. He touched on the basics: a “secure Israel”

alongside a Palestinian state, but couldn’t resist offering a list of what he saw as Israeli transgressions. Again, his calls for Palestinian action and compromise were conspicuous by their absence. But it was his pledge to recognise Palestine the moment he gets through the door of Number 10 that received the biggest ovation of the entire speech, including when he challenged Theresa May over Brexit. This was the conference when Labour conference-goers firmly pitched their tent as ‘Palestine firsters’.

The question now is whether the demand for a freeze on arms sales is a prelude to something stronger.

Of course it’s not hard to see why so many are attracted to the shiny objects Continued on page 12

Labour Party conference: Full coverage on pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 12 & 14

2

Jewish News 27 September 2018

www.jewishnews.co.uk

News / Labour Party conference

Corbyn: ‘Labour Party is your ally’ Jeremy Corbyn reassured British Jews that Labour is “an ally,” moments before bringing his party’s conference to a rousing end by promising to urgently recognise the State of Palestine when in government.

In his speech to the party faithful in Liverpool on Wednesday, which was quickly deemed “a missed opportunity”

by Jewish representatives, the Labour leader acknowledged a “tough” summer but promised to “eradicate antisemitism both from our party and wider society,” telling Jews: “We are your ally.”

Corbyn acknowledged that the issue had caused “immense hurt and anxiety in the Jewish community” and “great dismay” in the party, as he urged the

Jewish community to help “draw a line under it”.

Jewish Leadership Council chief executive Simon Johnson was left unimpressed, however, saying: “This was a missed opportunity from the Labour Leader. The same words we have heard for months.”

The JLC chief added: “This is just the same rhetoric. Mr Corbyn had a perfect opportunity to show leadership and lay this antisemitism crisis to rest.

He missed the chance to do so.”

After a round of TV interviews, in which he was repeatedly pressed on his handling of the issue, Corbyn said: “This party, this movement, will always be implacable campaigners against antisemitism.”

He added: “The next Labour government will guarantee whatever support necessary to ensure the security of Jewish community centres. We will work with Jewish communities to eradicate antisemitism, both within our party and wider society. And with your help I will fight for that with every breath that I possess.”

Board of Deputies’ president Marie van der Zyl said Corbyn’s words “mean nothing until Labour takes the necessary steps to deal with antisemitism in its ranks,” adding: “Words have long ceased to be enough.

Actions are what matter.”

She said Corbyn had to “offer a heartfelt apology to British Jews and to Israeli victims of

THORNBERRY: PALESTINE USED AS ‘CLOAK’ FOR ANTISEMITISM Emily Thornberry launched a blistering attack on those on the left who use the Palestinian cause as a “cloak” for their hatred of Jews – insisting they must be driven out, writes Justin Cohen.

Delivering a keynote speech to Labour’s annual conference, the shadow foreign secretary insisted she would not hold back from criticising the “racist” policies of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

But in a barnstorming speech, which will be seen as an effort to reach out to the Jewish community, she said: “I know as well – and we must all acknowledge – that there are individuals on the fringes of our movement, who use our legitimate support for Palestine as a cloak and a cover for their despicable hatred of Jewish people and desire to see Israel destroyed.”

And the huge applause that greeted much of the speech reached a crescendo as she insisted such people must be driven out of the party like the movement drove out Oswald Mosley.

Thornberry said: “Let me speak to you from the depths of my heart and my soul and say something I never thought I’d have to say in my lifetime as a Labour member and activist, and it is simply this: that if we want to root out fascism and racism and hatred from our world, and from our country, then we must start with rooting it out of our own party.”

She insisted it was members of the Labour movement that stood with the Jewish community at Cable Street and forced Mosley out of Liverpool without allowing him to say a word.

She said: “We won all those battles! We beat the Blackshirts, and the NF, and the BNP, and

Emily Thornberry at the Labour conference

the EDL, and whatever they call themselves today. It hasn’t been thousands of Tories assembling in the streets to fight the forces of fascism. It’s been the men and women in this room. It’s been Jeremy’s parents. It’s been Jon Lansman and Len McCluskey, Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell.”

Standing metres from Jeremy Corbyn, she said: “We don’t need a new Anti-Nazi league. The Anti-Nazi league is in this room and on this stage.”

But only by “uniting our own party, and ending the pointless conflicts which divide our movement, which poison our online debate, and which distract us” from opposing the government can Labour achieve its vision, she claimed. “If we can’t show the strength to change ourselves, to change the way we behave... how can we hope to change the country, and aspire to change the world?”

the terrorists with whom he has shown solidarity,” before saying: “Labour cannot ‘draw a line under’ this crisis and regain any shred of confidence from the Jewish community until this takes place.”

The Labour leader received a standing ovation for his remarks on the crisis, which has led lifelong Jewish Labour supporters to resign their membership in recent weeks, but it was on the subject of Palestine that he raised the roof.

New wave of demands Hundreds of Palestinian flags were flown on the main floor of the Labour Party conference as delegates passed a motion demanding a freeze on arms sales to Israel and an investigation into the deaths of Palestinians on the Gaza border.

Constituency Labour parties (CLP) this week chose to debate Palestine with 188,000 votes – making it the only international issue to receive a dedicated debate in Liverpool.

Yemen was not debated after receiving 790 votes.

The debate and motion – unanimously carried by a show of hands – focused heavily on the Great Return March this summer, when more than 160 Palestinians were killed in a series of demonstrations,

as Israel used live fire to prevent border breaches. On the deadliest day, when 60 died, Hamas admitted 50 were its members.

The text, put forward by Harlow CLP, demanded an independent international investigation into the “use of force against Palestinian demonstrators”, a freeze on UK arms sales to Israel and an end to the “blockade and closure” of Gaza.

Following the total halt

of US funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, it called for the development of further UK links with the agency that was set up to aid Palestinians after Israel’s creation.

There were loud chants of ‘Palestine will be free’, as flags were waved throughout the room. One delegate took to the platform to decry “double standards” after he was earlier asked to take down an EU flag.

No speaker referred to Hamas or terrorism, or made any demands of the Palestinian leadership during the debate, which was chaired by Jewish outgoing National Executive Committee member, Rhea Wolfson.

EXPELLED ACTIVISTS AT JVL TALK Expelled activists were welcomed to a Jewish Voice for a Labour fringe event at the party conference, where the ‘witch hunt’ was branded as being a plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn.

Tony Greenstein – who was thrown out of the party earlier this year for making offensive comments, including the use of the term “zio”– claimed: “The purpose of the witch hunt is not to get rid of individuals. Its

purpose is to topple Jeremy Corbyn.”

Marc Wadsworth, who was expelled after accusing Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth of “working hand-in-hand” with The Daily Telegraph, was applauded when he arrived.

On Sunday, Labour MP Chris Williamson shared a platform with Greenstein, during an event where the antisemitism row was compared to ‘McCarthyism’.

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

3

Labour Party conference / News

Corbyn hits back at Sacks Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at a former Chief Rabbi for comparing him to Enoch Powell.

Rabbi Lord Sacks compared the Labour leader’s remarks regarding a group of British Zionists with Powell’s incendiary 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech.

On BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show, Corbyn urged Jewish people considering leaving the country if he were elected prime minister to remain in the UK. Following rows over the Labour leadership’s response to problems in the party, Corbyn said he was “absolutely not” an

Jeremy Corbyn talks antisemitism with Andrew Marr

antisemite. “I have spent my whole life opposing racism in any form and I will die fighting racism in any form,” he said.

Sacks was among critics of Corbyn after footage from 2013

showed him claiming a group of British Zionists did not understand “English irony”, but Corbyn said: “I find that quite offensive… I say to Rabbi Sacks, that is beyond excessive.”

SURVIVOR CALLS FOR BALANCE A Holocaust survivor this week called on Jeremy Corbyn to demonstrate his leadership in tackling antisemitism.

Ahead of his closing speech, Susan Pollack told an emotionally-charged fringe meeting at the conference in Liverpool that Corbyn should say “unfounded” attacks against Israel are “not acceptable”.

Her comments came as Corbyn said he had done “everything I can” to tackle all forms of racism.

There was tight security at the event organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) where Pollack was asked what she would like Corbyn to say.

She called for him to speak out against the constant attacks on Israel and indi-

cated that it should face justifiable criticism in the same way as any other country.

“I would like him to say it openly, resolutely that any comment, any attack which is unfounded and any with selected emphasis on Israel ... is not acceptable,” the survivor of the Nazi camps at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen told the meeting.

LFI stand missing from conference Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) did not feature among exhibitors at the Labour Party conference this year, for the first time in recent memory.

A source told Jewish News: “Last year, the LFI stand at conference

became a magnet for conspiracy theorists and young staff members were put in uncomfortable positions.

“It is with great regret that it was decided not to have a stand this year.”

Emily Thornberry at the LFI stand during last year’s conference

NO REGRETS FOR IRAN TV ROLE Jeremy Corbyn has repeatedly refused to say whether he regretted taking thousands of pounds from Iranian propaganda channel Press TV. The Labour leader was asked the same question four times by Channel 4 News presenter Jon

Snow in an interview before Corbyn addressed the Labour conference in Liverpool, and four times he refused to say.

He instead said he appeared on the discredited TV channel only until concerns about its coverage of the Iranian opposi-

tion during an election.

Snow said Iran tortured one of Channel 4’s journalists – Maziar Bahari – and Press TV subsequently filmed Bahari “in with his torturer” in the period when Corbyn was on the channel.

Apology over Wadsworth Labour has apologised after an activist who was expelled for verbally clashing with an MP was allowed into one of its conference events.

Marc Wadsworth (pictured) was thrown out after accusing Jewish MP

Ruth Smeeth of “working hand in hand” with The Daily Telegraph during a tirade at the 2016 launch of the Chakrabarti report on antisemitism. His expulsion in April followed a hearing

by Labour’s disciplinary body that found his behaviour had been “grossly detrimental to the party”.

Wadsworth attended a reception by the Co-operative Party and trade union ASLEF on Monday.

ATTENTION! CLOSERS, NEGOTIATORS, REPRESENTATIVES, SALESMEN/WOMEN

£100,000 per annum We are now hiring an additional three hard working, hungry, ambitious closers to cover London & Home Counties. You will need a reliable car, an iPad/ tablet and five to six days a week total dedication. More importantly a wealth of experience in direct sales to the home consumer is crucial (kitchens, windows, double glazing, solar panels, conservatories, driveways, home energy conservation, insulation etc.)

Our insulation product is imported from Canada and although comparatively new to the UK, 150,000* UK buildings have been insulated to a higher standard with this ground breaking material.

We are also hiring appointment setters looking to earn in excess of £30,000 per year.

Search 100’s of volunteering opportunities on our website

www.jvn.org.uk JVN

heartbeat of the community

If this recruitment opportunity is not for you, you may wish to recommend it or pass it on to a family member, friend or neighbour, who may be seeking a larger income or perhaps a change of career.

Thank you for your attention. If you think that you may fit the criteria please call us for a brief chat. Or send a CV to wb@upa.co.uk

0208 906 5050

(Quote JN 918)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray_foam

4

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

News / Labour Party conference

Watson takes ‘pride’ in LFI

NEWS IN BRIEF

LABOUR COULD LOSE UP TO 1M VOTERS

Tom Watson said he was “proud” of those who attended Labour Friends of Israel (LFI)’s conference event and insisted the party has a “moral obligation” to rid itself of antisemitism, writes Justin Cohen.

In an at-times emotional reception following a summer dominated by the scandal, LFI chair Joan Ryan received a rapturous reception, joking at one point: “I wish you were all in my local party.”

It comes after she narrowly lost a vote of confidence in Enfield North after speaking out on the issue.

Labour’s deputy leader, who also received prolonged applause, said Ryan had been “hounded by those who had just joined the party”. He also mentioned Luciana Berger and Ian Austin, suggesting their efforts offered some hope in difficult times.

“I recognise the hurt that’s been caused, the pain thrust upon our friends in the Jewish community. I know how failing to tackle a problem risks eternal shame…The journey will be long, but we’ll do everything we can to build trust.”

Watson went out of his way to embrace LFI and Israel during his speech, which is traditionally given by the party leader. “I am genuinely proud of each and every one of you for attending this event. We know what this means. I stand here as a proud friend of

Labour could lose one million votes at the next general election owing to the ongoing issue concerning antisemitism, according to a new poll. The results of the survey, carried out by Labour Against Antisemitism, indicate the issues surrounding antisemitism in the party could determine how up to 900,000 people vote. Antisemitism was found to have the biggest impact among not only potential Labour voters, but also those who may vote for the party in the future.

MCCLUSKEY: DO NOT FIGHT ON ENEMY TERMS A senior Union leader has compared the Labour antisemitism row to a fight on ‘our enemy’s territory’, as he levelled criticism at adversaries of Jeremy Corbyn during a pro-Palestine meeting. Unite boss Len McCluskey addressed a Justice for Palestine fringe event during the party conference, where he took aim at MPs who have been critical of the Labour leader. He said the party had been sucked into arguing on enemy turf “like the Charge of the Light Brigade” over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition.

LFI,” he said.

Its work, he added, was “crucial” to better understand the “diversity, achievements and challenges” of the Jewish state. He also welcomed Mark Regev as “our very own ambassador from Israel. It’s great he’s here”.

He recalled visiting Israel with UJS after Oslo, when hopes of peace were high and then, when hopes were at a nadir, visiting the spot where Yitzhak Rabin lost his life.

Hailing the efforts for peace of campaigners such as Israeli Labor MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, who also addressed the gathering, Watson said: “Everyone in this room stands with you on solidarity in that pursuit.”

Watson set out a three-pronged action plan: supporting people in Israel and Palestine working for peace, opposing the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and “fiercely opposing those who draw grotesque parallels between the Jewish state and the Nazis. We have a moral obligation to rid this party of antisemitism”.

Nahmias-Verbin admitted that the constant negative headlines about UK Labour made her question whether it was right to attend the conference, but at the same time she was aware of the “heroic struggle” being fought by many including those who have paid a “heavy

Enabling independent living

Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev, left, listens to Tom Watson at the LFI event

price”. Her party would continue to show solidarity with “many friends” in the party fighting antisemitism and hatred of Israel, despite severing ties with Corbyn’s office.

She said: “I ask you, Mr Corbyn – what kind of leadership have you shown to root this out? By arguing over the internationally accepted definition of antisemitism, you are indicating that you know better than Jews what constitutes antisemitism.”

Saying she criticised the Israeli government daily along with thousands of compatriots, she urged a balanced approach to the conflict from Labour.

“We know making peace requires compromises between moderates, but

CONFERENCE SHOWED AN OBSESSIVE NATURE

BY ADAM LANGLEBEN

JLIVING OFFERS COMFORTABLE, AFFORDABLE SHELTERED HOUSING PROVIDING INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR OLDER PEOPLE. CHAG SAMEACH!

020 8381 4901

|

jliving.org.uk

|

#peaceofmind #jliving

it also demands that the extremists are not strengthened,” she said .

Ryan said too often those outside the region believe peace can be imposed by “politicians providing a platform and credibility to the very extremists whose wave of suicide bombings did so much to damage Oslo in its early years. Our role should be honest brokers – respected and trusted by all sides”.

Regev said successive Labour leaders have supported Israel “precisely because it is an anti-racism cause”. It comes after Corbyn proposed a text to a recent NEC meeting suggesting it should not be considered antisemitic to describe the circumstances around Israel’s foundation as racist.

JEWISH LABOUR MOVEMENT NEC

The journey to Liverpool for the start of the Labour Party conference marked the end of the worst year in the history of the Jewish community’s relationship with the party –one in which Jews took to the streets of Manchester and London to declare, ‘Enough is enough’.

It would be easy to forget the support we have within the broader Labour movement.

The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM)’s conference rally and Labour Friends of Israel’s annual reception had capacity for hundreds and both were overflowing with friends and allies.

Delegates were moved to tears by the testimony of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen survivor Susan Pollack at the Holocaust Educational Trust fringe event, as she and Labour MP Luciana Berger reflected on the resurgence of Holocaust denial and antisemitism, especially within our party.

This mood was reflected on the conference floor, when Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry delivered a defiant speech, condemning antisemites and those wishing for Israel’s destruction as fascists.

Calling for their expulsion, her speech should have been the one Jeremy Corbyn delivered. But the fact that those who have been expelled were visible at confer-

ence, being embraced by MPs and trade union leaders, obliterated the suggestion by Corbyn that he has done all he can.

Once more in his speech, Corbyn ducked the opportunity to show personal leadership in tackling antisemitism on the left. Prime ministers must be brave and go above and beyond everyday expectations and take ultimate personal responsibility for the actions they take on behalf of all of us.

Given the Palestinian flags on the conference floor, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Labour policy remains for a two-state solution; “a secure Israel and a viable and secure Palestine”.

But the frosty reception to strong words on tackling antisemitism from general secretary Jennie Formby at the start of the conference, compared to repeated standing ovations during the debate on Palestine, which were themselves stronger and louder than for the debates on Brexit, Windrush and others, set the tone.

The absence of debates on global conflicts such as Yemen, Syria and Venezuela exemplified the now obsessive pattern of behaviour that is common in many parts of the party.

In spite of the mood music at conference, proud Jewish members took to the floor wearing kippot as an act of defiance.

Replicating the phenomena that has seen JLM grow from hundreds to thousands in three short years, Jews at conference stood proud. We are determined to stay, stand and fight antisemitism, and not be bullied and intimidated out of our party.

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

5

Labour Party conference / News NEWS IN BRIEF

BOMB HOAX HALTS JVL FRINGE MEETING A fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference was halted and a building evacuated after a bomb hoax on Tuesday evening.

Police were called to a meeting in Liverpool showing a film screening organised by Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL). A man called and said: “There are two bombs that will kill many people.” The film being shown by JVL claims to show how the antisemitism row is used to censor pro-Palestinian support for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

CORBYN SUED BY PRO-ISRAEL BLOGGER

Jeremy Corbyn is being sued by a pro-Israel blogger accused by the Labour leader of being “very abusive” towards the Palestinian ambassador. The legal action by Richard Millett, reported by the Daily Mail, is seeking £100,000 in reputational damages from Corbyn over his now infamous 2013 remarks about Zionists not understanding “English irony” and subsequent comments on TV. If the case goes to court and Millett succeeds, Corbyn could face paying up to £100,000 in damages plus a further £100,000 in legal costs.

JN poll: Labour now ‘nasty’ The Labour Party is almost neck and neck with the Tories when it comes to who is viewed as the ‘nasty party’ of British politics, according to a new ComRes poll for Jewish News.

Theresa May famously told the Conservative conference 16 years ago that some viewed her party as ‘nasty’. And despite the recent Windrush scandal and accusations of a hostile environment towards immigration under the Tories, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn is viewed in such terms by 31 percent of Britons compared to 34 percent for the government. 35 percent of the 2,002 adults quizzed ‘don’t know.

The results will come as a blow to Labour as delegates gather in its annual conference in Liverpool and follows a summer dominated by the ongoing antisemitism scandal surrounding the party.

Older people (over 55s) are far more likely to associate the ‘nasty’ tag with Labour than younger respondents (18-34) – 46 percent compared to 18 percent.

ComRes found 48 percent believe Labour was more ‘decent’ under Gordon Brown than it is under Corbyn, twice as many who feel it is more decent now. Overall, young voters are evenly split on which era was more decent – though many would have been under 16 when the former chancellor left office.

‘NO THREAT’ TO JEWISH LABOUR MPS

Jon Snow holds an image of MP Luciana Berger and a policeman

Jeremy Corbyn has insisted that his MPs are not under any threat within Labour’s conference in Liverpool.

His comment came after Jewish MP Luciana Berger was pictured flanked by police protection as she attended an event on the fringe of the annual gathering.

Berger is reported to have sought protection after receiving threats via social media in the wake of her criticisms of the

Choose a new start this new year If you or a loved one have been thinking about care choices, the JewishChoice Elderly Care Campus provides residential, respite and dementia care within a welcoming, kosher, ‘home from home’ environment.

Through our residential care home Choice House, independent apartment living at Choice Court, and our day centre community hub, Choice Friendship Club, we provide exceptionally high levels of care all on one site and at an extremely competitive price. If you feel it may be time for a new start, please contact our welcome team to find out more or to book your visit.

020 8908 4151 Registered charity no: 1162974

But Corbyn received firm backing from those who backed Labour at the last election, with nearly half deeming the party more decent under Corbyn compared with just 27 percent under Brown.

On antisemitism, half of respondents claimed the party is not going enough to tackle the scourge the leadership has acknowledged exists in its ranks, including 31 percent of Labour voters. Just 19 percent say enough is being done, an increase of just one percent on March 2017. Nearly half – 45 percent – say Corbyn is unwilling or unable to act decisively.

ComRes chair Andrew Hawkins said: “There is acknowledgement that British politics has turned nastier. This poll suggests Labour may be slipping into a quagmire of its own making by failing to persuade voters that it is serious about tackling antisemitism and by losing its reputation for decency.

A Labour Party source said: “The Tories are the nasty party. Always were, always will be.”

• www.jewishchoice.org

Labour leadership’s handling of the antiSemitism row.

In an interview with Channel 4 News, Corbyn was shown pictures of the Liverpool Wavertree MP and asked whether he felt concerned that she felt under threat attending her own party’s conference.

He replied: “There is no threat in this conference to anybody. We are a party that is open and inclusive and oppose

anti-Semitism as a totally united party.

I’ve opposed anti-Semitism and racism all my life.”

A Labour spokesman later pointed out that the Jewish Labour Movement rally where Ms Berger received her police escort took place in a venue outside the conference area.

The spokesman said: “We support whatever security is necessary for any of our MPs.

6

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

News / Trade boost / JLM succah NEWS IN BRIEF

ABROMOVICH DENIED SWISS CITIZENSHIP

MICHELLE OBAMA BENEATH THE CHUPPAH

Chelsea Football Club’s RussianJewish billionaire owner Roman Abramovich, who immigrated to Israel in May after being denied a UK visa, was also denied Swiss citizenship last year after local police deem him a “danger to public security and to Switzerland’s reputation,” a newspaper report stated this week.

Michelle Obama officiated at the wedding of a Jewish couple under a chuppah. The former first lady’s involvement in the wedding of Stephanie Moelis Rivkin and Joel Sircus on the banks of Lake Michigan was reported by website TMZ on Sunday. Rivkin is the daughter of Chicago’s deputy mayor.

Fastlens Wholesale Glasses

75% rise in UK exports to Israel since the Brexit referendum result two Exports from the UK years ago. to Israel skyrocketed in Last week Prime Minister Theresa the first six months of May said she wanted that trend to conthis year to £2.6 billion – a tinue. “As the United Kingdom forges a 75 percent increase on the bold new future outside the European eve of Brexit.

Union, we will be seeking free trade deals Diplomats were quick to with our partners around the world,” she trumpet the six-monthly said. gain after the release of In reference to Israeli innovation, she figures from the Israel added: “As a great start-up nation, an Central Bureau of Sta- Israeli envoy Mark Regev and Sam Gyimah MP at tistics, noting that UK the opening of the London Stock Exchange in July engine of enterprise, a world leader in been strong signs of mutual Israeli technology, and a great friend of Britain, exports to Israel in the first half of last year by comparison were interest in Britain, with a third more I want to see an ambitious free trade deal Israeli firms setting up in the UK between our countries.” considerably less at £1.5 billion.

“The new figures reflect what we see on the ground,” said Barry Grossman, director of international trade at the British Embassy in Israel.

“More British companies are interested in the Israeli market, and many Israeli companies realise that the next year presents a huge opportunity to create new business contacts in the world’s fifth largest economy and its biggest financial hub.”

The export boom, which excludes diamonds, was led by a surge in demand for minerals, machinery, electrical equipment and chemical products, as the UK Government now looks beyond the European Union for new trading London Mayor Sadiq Khan holds the lulav to Luciana Berger MP’s etrog outside the Jewish relationships.

Labour Movement’s succah at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool.

Over the past two years, there have

LULAV AT FIRST SIGHT FOR LONDON MAYOR

Having trouble with your Varifocals?

We are Varifocal specialists and with more than 235 years of combined experience, our staff can help solve your problems.

“Cheaper than any known advertised deal” “Most spectacles made while you wait” Open: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm & Sunday 10am-1pm 80 Mowbray Parade, Edgware Way Tel: 020 8958 9393 www.fastlens.co.uk

Please join us for n Prospective Parents Ope Morning and Evening ly I look forward to warm welcoming you to our school.

Juliette Lipshaw Headteacher

BIG SCHOOL BIG HEART BIG OPPORTUNITIES

Wednesday 21 November 19.30-21.30 Thursday 22 November from 9.30am

Sinai School is one of the largest and best equipped Jewish Schools in London and strives to embed a lifelong love of learning.

With a team of dedicated and driven staff we believe that every child has the right to the best education.

Our size means we offer amazing opportunities both inside and outside the classroom whilst we nurture and care for the well-being of every child.

• Modern classrooms, four playgrounds and sports fields • Specialist French, Music, Art and PE teaching • ICT room and clubs • SEN department, sensory room and art therapy • Breakfast and afterschool clubs • Onsite school counsellor

Book your place now 020 8204 1550 eangel@sinai.brent.sch.uk

MILL HILL COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SIXTH FORM Worcester Crescent Mill Hill London NW7 4LL Tel: 020 8238 8180

 ‘The sixth form is outstanding’ – Ofsted  30 subjects offered at A Level  65% of A Level passes at grades A*, A or B Interested students and their parents are invited to attend the

OPEN EVENING on Tuesday 16th October 2018 from 6.00 pm until 7.45 pm

The Head of Sixth Form will speak to visitors in the Main Hall at the beginning of the evening at 6 pm Please note that there is very limited parking on site and in the surrounding streets.

Visitors are strongly advised to park well away from the School.

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

7

Child sanctuary / News NEWS IN BRIEF

UKIP FIGURE ATTACKED OVER HOLOCAUST JIBE A senior Ukip figure has been branded “shameful” after claiming a “Holocaust of our children” was being orchestrated by Muslim sex gangs in English towns and cities.Alan Craig, the party’s children and families spokesman, told the party conference in Birmingham on Friday the practice of preying on mainly “white English girls” could be traced right back “to Mohammed himself”. He described the issue as “the biggest social crime and scandal in our country for 200 years”, accusing authorities of turning a blind eye to what became high-profile cases.

BOOKSHOP COMPARES ABORTION WITH SHOAH A German politician has filed a lawsuit against a Christian bookstore over a window display that compares abortion with the Holocaust. Specifically, the shop window of the Cologne book store features a photo of a cemetery in Wiesbaden under the title, “kindermord.org”, or “child-killer.org”, followed by “Abtreiben macht frei,” which translates to “abortion will set you free”. It is a mock-up of the Nazi slogan over the gates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp which reads “Arbeit macht frei”, or “work will set you free”.

Shul help for child refugees A campaign run by a Liberal Jewish shul in north London has ensured the local authority will offer sanctuary to more child refugees if government funding is provided.

Barnet Council has pledged to take in vulnerable young people fleeing conflict following a campaign run by Finchley Progressive Synagogue alongside Middlesex University Students Union and Citizens UK. Locals will take in three refugees every year over the next 10 years, provided a govern-

Finchley Progressive Synagogue ran the campaign

ment funded scheme to support resettlement is backed.

It comes after Barnet Citizens persuaded the council

to become the first Tory-run authority to act under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme in 2015.

Welcoming the move, the shul’s Rabbi Rebecca Birk stressed the need to do more.

She said: “By engaging positively with the council, we have already secured the resettlement of 50 Syrian families who now call our borough home.

Many visit the synagogue each week and have become true members of our community “Finchley Progressive members strongly believe we can and must do more to help refugees, as a borough and as a country. I am delighted that Barnet continues to be a

Dubs: Let in another 10,000 kids A former minister who arrived in the UK having fled from the Nazis this week suggested a further 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees should be welcomed to the UK. Lord Dubs, who escaped on a Kindertransport from Prague in the summer of 1939 when he was just six, urged a future Labour government to implement a new scheme over a five-year period.

The Labour peer expressed his frustration at the government’s

decision to cap at 480 the number of child asylum seekers to be accepted under an amendment he tabled, rather than his desired 3,000.

He said around 220 unaccompanied minors have been accepted under the scheme, which he described as a “derisory” total.

After praising Labour’s policy towards refugees, Lord Dubs also asked if the party could go further.

He told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool: “What we’d

really like is very simple, so modest that I think it’s almost not enough, but what we’d like is for a Labour government – a Tory government if they’ll do it, but they won’t – to make a commitment to have 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees brought over to Britain from Europe and from the region.

“I’m being very modest – over a five-year period – that’s three per local authority per year. That’s not very much, almost too little.”

leading humanitarian voice on this issue and hope we can encourage other councils to do the same.”

The campaign coincides with the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, which is being honoured by a national campaign to resettle refugee children, spearheaded by the charity Safe Passage.

Both the anniversary and the move are due to be celebrated at a ceremony at the shul on Sunday evening, attended by local MPs Mike Freer and Theresa Villiers.

GAL MAKES WONDROUS CAMEO APPEARANCE IN THE SIMPSONS

Israeli actress Gal Gadot appears in the first episode of the 30th season of the long-running US TV series The Simpsons, when she is interviewed (above) by Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders at an audition to play the role of Bart’s sister, Lisa.

AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 PROGRAMME 10 October 7.30pm Performing Jewishness: Reflections on the Theatre of Harold Pinter with Dr Peter Lawson, Open University 9 November 7.30pm Kristallnacht commemoration dinner Friday night dinner to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and to celebrate survival, freedom, peace and life with guest speaker Freddy Lind 20 November 7.45pm Scriptural Reasoning Text-based interfaith session on the theme of ‘masculinity’, with a mixed faith panel

•New building with Kosher milky & meaty kitchens •Fresh kosher food cooked daily on the premises •Fully staffed 24 hours a day / 365 days a year

•Providing •Providing support support dependant dependant on on the the individual individual clients clients needs needs •Catering for a wide spectrum of clients, including •Catering for a wide spectrum of clients, including mental mental health health / / learning learning disabilities disabilities / / physical physical needs needs • •We We would would liaise liaise with with the the local local authority authority to to obtain obtain funding funding

•50 minute drive from London - J13 M1 •Special fund to pay for all visiting travel expenses

25 November 2018 7.30pm ‘Never Such Innocence’: a narrative recital of words and music from the First World War Described by the BBC’s Katie Derham as ‘incredibly moving’, with Christopher Kent (actor) and Gamal Khamis (pianist). Includes works by Siegfried Sassoon, Arnold Schoenberg, Isaac Rosenberg - to mark his birthday and Vera Brittain, whose daughter Baroness (Shirley) Williams will be in attendance.

2 December 7.30pm (1st night Chanukah) The Maccabees: From Rebels to Kings with Lawrence Joffe, author of “An Illustrated History of the Jewish People” For more information and to book contact 020 7328 1026 or office@newlondon.org.uk 33 Abbey Road, London NW8 0AT www.newlondon.org.uk

18+

8

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

World News / UN anger / Airline anger / News briefs NEWS BRIEFS FORMER NAZI, 94, ON TRIAL IN GERMANY

A former SS guard, now 94, will go on trial on charges of complicity in the mass murders of several hundred prisoners at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp. The regional court of Muenster in western Germany on Friday ordered the unnamed man to be tried before a juvenile court beginning on 6 November. He was not yet 21 at the time of the murders.

He is accused of complicity in the murders of several hundred camp prisoners between 1942 and 1945.

Prosecutors say the man knew about the murders at the Nazi camp and that the guards were essential to the killings.

LIVNI MEETS ABBAS BEHIND THE SCENES

Tzipi Livni met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday and urged him to reopen diplomatic channels with the US for the sake of reaching a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The leader of the opposition, who was staying in the same hotel as Abbas during the ongoing annual UN General Assembly in New York, was criticised by some Israeli lawmakers for meeting with Abbas, who has refused to sit down with Israeli or US government officials over stagnant peace talks. [JTA]

Backlash at UN over Tump embassy move World leaders clashed at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week over their vision of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iran nuclear deal, with Donald Trump defending his decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

In his first appearance since the unpopular move that isolated America in the world forum, its president was unapologetic, saying the decision was “a significant step forward in the Middle East” that “acknowledged the obvious facts”.

While he said the US sought “peace” between Israelis and Palestinians, he did not mention a Palestinian state, but added: “We will not be held hostage to old dogmas, discredited ideologies and so-called experts who have been proven wrong.”

It led Jordan’s King Abdullah II to deliver a

Donald Trump addresses the United Nations on Tuesday

stern riposte to Trump’s expected proposal for a unilateral one-state solution to the conflict, saying: “There is no such thing as a unilateral agreement. It takes at least two parties to make an agreement.”

Beyond Israel, Trump linked US aid to Syrian refugees to international sup-

port for pressure on Iran, saying: “Any solution to the humanitarian crisis in Syria must also include a strategy to address the brutal regime that has fuelled it.”

He accused Iranian leaders of “havoc and slaughter” in the region and of “plundering” the nation’s resources.

Court rejects claim against Gulf airline A Gulf airline can now continue to advertise flights from Germany “for everyone except Israelis” after a Frankfurt court dismissed an appeal claim in a long-running row.

Judges rejected the appeal against Kuwait Airways’ policy of barring Israelis from flying on its planes after an Israeli student studying in Germany was refused his paid-for seat on a flight from Frankfurt to Bangkok in 2016 for reasons of his nationality.

Legal representatives for the student were angered after the High Court of Hesse upheld last year’s ruling in favour of the airline, in part because the student would not have been able to leave the first plane in Kuwait for the connection flight to Bangkok.

“It is hard for me to accept that this airline may continue to advertise flights from Germany to Bangkok for everyone except Israelis, especially given the High Court classifies this action as discriminatory and illegal,” said lawyer

Trapped in poverty, desperate for help...

Will you give a Jewish family a chance this Rosh Hashanah?

Travellers being refused on to the KA plane at Heathrow

Nathan Gelbart.

German politicians must now enact new laws to prevent discrimination based on nationality if further pressure is to be exerted on Kuwait Airways, which has consistently said it must operate in accordance with Kuwaiti law.

Earlier this year, German minister Christian Schmidt said it was “fundamentally unacceptable to exclude citizens because of their nationality”.

Brooke Goldstein of the USbased Lawfare Project, a proIsrael outfit that funded the legal action, said it was “sickening” and “a tragic day for German law”.

START-UP CENTRAL THE ONE STOP SHOP FOR ALL YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL ADVERTISING FREE EVENT TUESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER GOOGLE PRESENTATIONS AT 11.30AM, 1PM & 2PM LUNCH AT 12.30PM

Business workshops and surgeries available throughout the day

BOOK ONLINE AT WWW.THEWORKAVENUE.ORG.UK/SUC18

Please donate today at worldjewishrelief.org/roshhashanah or call 0208 736 1250 Registered Charity No.290767

For further details call 020 8371 3280 or email joanna@theworkavenue.org.uk Finchley Central Registered with Charity Commission 1164762

www.jewishnews.co.uk

27 September 2018 Jewish News

9

10

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

World News / Fuld murder / Syria air strike

Israel acts over terror payment Israel will deduct from the tax revenues it collects for the Palestinian Authority the amount of money that is paid to the teenage terrorist who killed Ari Fuld.

The country’s finance minister Moshe Kahlon also said he would find ways to prevent the family of Khalil Jabarin, 17, from benefiting from the murder of the 45-year-old dual Amer- Ari playing with his son, Nathan ican and Israeli citizen, who was the father of and Liberated Prisoners law, four children.

“Ari was a moral person which rewards Palestinians who loved the land, who who murder Israelis.

In July the Knesset passed loved his fellow man and who was a devoted father of four. a law by a vote of 87 to 15 vote May God avenge his blood,” to withhold in the amount that the Palestinians pay terKahlon added.

Jabarin will reportedly will rorists or their families from receive around £300 a month the money it transfers to the for the next three years from Palestinian Auhority.

US ambassador to Israel the PA under its Prisoners

David Friedman tweeted that such payments must be halted.

“The Palestinian Prisoner Affairs Commission has confirmed that the family of the terrorist who murdered Ari Fuld is ‘eligible to receive a monthly salary’ as compensation for his incarceration. This practice is unconscionable and must stop if there is to be any hope for peace,” he tweeted.

Meanwhile, the falafel store worker who told an Israeli TV that Fuld saved her life by shooting the teenage Palestinian stabber as he chased after her with his brandished knife.

After he was stabbed, Fuld, who served in the Israeli army, ran after the assailant and shot at him before collapsing from his wounds.

Elegant Living for the Over 60s

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF Your weekly digest of stories from the international press LITHUANIA new hair salon’s logo have shown Taoiseach Leo Varadkar promised their displeasure by urinating outside the parlour in protest.

Owners of the Berlin Hair Salon in Hsinchu City said they had made a mistake and the logo was ‘supposed to look like four razor blade marks’.

Pope Francis has warned Lithuanians to guard against the return of ‘pernicious’ anti-Semitic attitudes. The pontiff’s remarks came during a remembrance service in the city of Kaunas, where an estimated 34,000 Lithuanian Jews were rounded up and sent to their deaths. He said Lithuania ‘still bears the scars.’

IRELAND

Israel supporters in Dublin have asked why the Irish taxpayer should continue to fund the ‘murderous ideology’ of Mahmoud Abbas. Following the Palestinian leader’s visit to Ireland, Irish

TAIWAN

Shoppers angered by the apparent image of a swastika in a

Abbas more money to pay for Palestinian refugee services after Donald Trump cut funds.

NETHERLANDS

Amsterdam-based Israeli singer Noam Vazana is to launch a first Ladino pop album. After Jews left the Mediterranean and North Africa for Israel, the ancient Sephardi dialect fell out of use and is now spoken by only a few thousand people. Varzana, 35, hopes to help preserve it in her album ‘Andalusian Brew’.

RUSSIA BLAMES ISRAEL FOR 15 DEATHS Israel provided Russia with misleading information on the location of its airstrikes on targets in Syria, preventing a Russian surveillance plane in the area from moving to a safe zone, Russia’s Defence Ministry claims.

The findings of the Russian Defence Ministry about the accidental shooting down of a Russian plane by Syrian anti-aircraft fire contradicts the IDF findings on the incident, in which 15 Russian troops were killed.

Russian military spokes-man Igor Konashenkov said Israel’s Air Force provided incorrect information about the airstrike

location during negotiation on the “deconfliction channel” set up to avoid conflict between Israel and Russia over activities in Syria.

He said the Israeli Air Force notified Russia of its planned attacks on Syrian targets simultaneously with the start of the strikes instead of in advance, which he said was a violation of 2015 bilateral agreements to prevent such incidents.

Konashenkov accused the pilots of the Israeli F-16 fighter jets of using the Russian Ilyushin IL-20 aircraft as a shield against the Syrian anti-missile system.

LEHRHAUS @ Leo Baeck College Home of Adult Jewish Learning

Leo Baeck College AT THE HEART OF PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM

Study with us this autumn!

Rabbi Hillel says: “…do not say ‘When I am free I will study’, for perhaps you will not become free” – Pirkei Avot 2:6.

Leo Baeck College trains rabbis and educators for the 21st century. In addition, we offer exciting face-to-face and on-line courses for adults, taught by our world renowned faculty and specialist teachers.

LEARN Osprey Court gardens

DI

Osprey also has properties in Marlborough (Town Mill SN8 1NS) and Bromley (Challoner Court BR2 0AB) - Each development can be viewed on our website.

Heathside

Prices range from £325,000 – £610,000 Long Leaseholds

?

R

Each property is equipped with 24-hour emergency systems and every development benefits from beautiful landscaped gardens, communal facilities such as lounge, guest suites, house/estate managers and on-site parking.

VE

P

Newly refurbished properties are available to buy in our outstanding Heathside development on the Finchley Road in Hampstead.

O

SC

DEVELO

CE

N RIE

E

P EX

For more information contact us.

www.ospreymc.co.uk

For further enquiries, please contact Lorraine Wash on

(020) 8569 8364 or email lorraine.wash@ospreymc.co.uk

Our autumn semester courses are now available.

www.lbc.ac.uk

lehrhaus@lbc.ac.uk

020 8349 5600 9253 LBC Lerhaus JN Advert Chosen design 220818.indd 1

23/08/2018 14:56

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

AN EVENING OF MUSIC, LAUGHTER AND STORYTELLING CELEBRATING BARBRA STREISAND

FASCINATING AIDA’S

‘INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE

‘GET YOUR TICKETS BOOKED,

delivered with humour, grace and class’

I promise you won’t be disappointed’

THEATRE WEEKLY

LONDONTHEATRE1

‘SHEER VOCAL VIRTUOSITY’

‘A WORLD CLASS SHOW’

BRITISHTHEATRE.COM

ENCORE RADIO

‘AMAZING. HER VOICE WAS TRULY WONDERFUL’

‘A SUPERB EVENING’S ENTERTAINMENT’

JEWISH NEWS

STAGE TALK

UK TOUR 2018 11 OCT The Albert Halls BOLTON 15 OCT The Other Palace LONDON

24 OCT Jubilee Hall ALDEBURGH 25 OCT Palace Theatre SOUTHEND

LizaPulman.com 28 OCT The Other Palace LONDON 11 NOV The Other Palace LONDON

8 NOV JW3 LONDON 8 DEC The Regal EVESHAM

11

12

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

Editorial comment and letters ISSUE NO.

1073

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS

Palestine Labour Organisation Continued from page 1 Corbyn held out, from free childcare to workers having a stake in the businesses to which they devote their time. Much of what he said would be welcomed by many British Jews.

But as the faithful piled out of the auditorium, reaching for superlatives at the end of what commentators described as an upbeat gathering, some Labour Jews must have been wondering if they had been at an entirely different conference. “It’s been terrible,” one weary Jewish delegate said of the week in Liverpool.

It was not just on the Middle East that many will be left disappointed.

On antisemitism, opportunities to follow the rhetoric of zero-tolerance and being an ‘ally’ on antisemitism were undermined by actions at every single turn.

In an interview in Liverpool, Corbyn pointedly failed to describe the notorious mural that featured heavily in the antisemitism scandal as antisemitic, despite having previously said its content was, and even seemed unable to offer a hint of empathy for Luciana Berger, who was given extra security at the conference.

Len McCluskey, the Unite chief, told a fringe meeting that Corbyn would eventually be proven right over the international definition of antisemitism.

MP Chris Williamson continued to act with apparent impunity, sharing platforms with suspended and expelled activists.

All this in the space of a few extraordinary tough few days on Merseyside.

It’s hardly the mark of a leadership that is going out of its way to build bridges and stood in stark contrast to the uncompromising message from Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry and the verbal embraces of Tom Watson.

As Watson told Labour Friends of Israel’s fringe event, it will be a very long journey to build bridges. This conference has done very little to begin that process.

Send us your comments PO Box 815, London HA8 4SX | letters@thejngroup.com

THE BURKA’S PLACE IN BRITAIN I agree with Brian Gordon (Letters, Jewish News, 14September) that if the burka was banned, the door might be opened for mischievous people to try to extend similar action to other clothing, against the wearers of which they may hold biased opinions.

However, that would be the case only if a ban on the burka was framed in the context of religious extremism.

A ban could be imposed on balaclavas and similar identity-masking facial covering on grounds of security, especially since they are used by bank robbers and others to carry out criminal activities.

Such action would obviously also include the burka, which was, for example, used by one of the

Sketches & kvetches

CONTACT DETAILS Publisher and Editor Richard Ferrer richardf@thejngroup.com

Supplements Editor Brigit Grant brigitg@thejngroup.com

Publisher and News Editor Justin Cohen 020 7692 6952 justinc@thejngroup.com

Sub Editor Alex Galbinski alexg@thejngroup.com

Foreign Editor Stephen Oryszczuk stepheno@thejngroup.com

Online Editor Jack Mendel 020 7692 6942 jackm@thejngroup.com

Features Editor Francine Wolfisz 020 7692 6935 francinew@thejngroup.com Community + Sport Editor Andrew Sherwood 020 7692 6949 andrews@thejngroup.com

Production Manager Diane Spender 020 7692 6953 dianes@thejngroup.com Production Designer Sarah Rothberg

020 7692 6937 sarahr@thejngroup.com Production Designer John Nicholls 020 7692 6953 johnn@thejngroup.com Production Designer Rachel Gaon 020 7692 6937 rachelg@thejngroup.com Sales Beverley Sanford 020 7692 6931 beverleys@thejngroup.com Sales Marc Jacobs 020 7692 6934

marcj@thejngroup.com Sales David Perlmutter 020 7692 6970 davidp@thejngroup.com Sales Brandon Cowan 020 7692 6943 Brandonc@thejngroup.com Accounts Zuzana Kasparova 020 7692 6936 zuzana@thejngroup.com Operations Manager Alon Pelta 020 7692 6930 alon@thejngroup.com

ROSH HASHANAH AND SHABBAT TIMES...

Shabbat comes in Friday night 6.30pm Shabbat goes out Saturday night 7.33pm

Shmini Atzeret comes in Sunday night 6.25pm Simchat Torah comes in Monday night 7.28pm Simchat Torah goes out Tuesday night 7.26pm

‘What a great idea for a hairstyle!’

male terrorists involved in the London bombings on 7 July 2005 to evade arrest and flee the country.

In other words, the ban should be related specifically to public safety and not apply to religious practices at all.

To emphasise this point, a clause might well be added to stress that any clothing that does not compromise security, such as the hijab, kippah or turban, should be permitted.

If this approach is taken, attempts to extend the ban to other types of religious clothing would almost certainly not succeed, while the public would be reassured that all reasonable steps are being taken to ensure its safety.

Martin D Stern Salford

A MATTER OF INFERIORITY FOR BURKA WEARERS? Brian Gordon is wrong, confused and naive to suppose the burka is worn as a free choice by the wearer to preserve modesty and decency in England (Jewish News, 14 September).

What happened to ‘When in Rome’? Many Muslims have confirmed it is not a religious requirement.

There are only two reasons for wearing the burka.

One is because the wearer is having to follow the custom of being regarded as inferior to male Muslims of any age, having to be submis-

sive or as a reminder that females are not equal and cannot aspire to have equality.

The other is to gain attention, hardly consistent with preserving modesty and decency.

I overheard a burka wearer in a major store cross-examining a young shop assistant about the pros and cons of certain cosmetic products.

I told her that, here, if she was disfigured she could get cosmetic surgery on the NHS. She left without thanking me for my advice.

Melvyn Abrahams Edgware

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

13

Editorial comment and letters

Schools not an issue I disagree vehemently with the views expressed in the letter by Simone Aspis saying “faith schools are the issue” (Jewish News 14 September).

The main point was “The increasing incidence of antisemitism is due to increased enrolment of Jewish pupils attending faith-based schools.”

Antisemitism is racism, pure and simple. This evil concept and behaviour has blighted humanity for thousands of years. It has been visited upon all types of Jews, under all circumstances and wherever they have chosen to live or have found refuge following persecution and subsequently built up their lives again.

Nothing in life justifies racism,

although countless reasons have been advanced for its existence.

Simone, we can expect the next generation not to be antisemitic if they are properly educated (at whichever type of school they attend) and also learn at home that racism is abhorrent, deeply divisive and, in a world where so many of our previously-accepted values are open to consideration, wrong at all levels.

After the horror of the Holocaust and other genocides, every child should grow up to reject racism outright. Antisemitism is wrong.

J D Milaric By email

FEE IS THE PROBLEM How has the Labour Party come to be so riddled with the virus of antisemitism?

Could it be a result of the new policy of allowing anyone to vote for the Labour leader on payment of a £3 membership fee?

I understand that prior to this new policy, applicants were vetted to keep out extremists.

Why was this policy changed?

Is it too late to think again?

Joseph Feld NW11

• • •

HOME CARE • DEMENTIA • BRAIN INJURY • PALLIATIVE • LIVE-IN CARE • CALL US NOW!

HOW CAN NASTIES BE NECK & NECK?

Your ComRes opinion poll claims Labour now shares the ‘nasty party’ label with the Tories (jewishnews. co.uk, 21 September).

How can a political party riddled with such open and untamed antisemitism still be neck-and-neck with the Tories?

Labour antisemitism has become so regular and normalised that while people acknowledge it, it isn’t enough for them to change their opinion of the party.

Could you imagine if it was Islamaphobia or non-white incidents being complained of – forms of racism that Comrade Corbyn is against?

Russell Ballen By email

LESSON FOR CORBYNISTAS Seventy years after Ministry of Information director-general Cyril Radcliffe’s 1943 antisemitic sentiments were revealed, one encounters Jeremy Corbyn’s 2013 version.

Jeremy, how’s this one? Context: A young British-born Zionist said he could imagine no nobler death than defending Israel from the Arabs.

An Englishman who overheard these sentiments repeated them to Charles Robert Ashbee, a senior Mandate official, adding laconically: “Fancy having once been an Englishman, and wanting to become” – then

after a pause, and a dropping of the voice to unutterable depths – “a Levantine”! (C. R. Ashbee, A Palestine Notebook 1918-1923, London 1923).

Corbynites, note the following from C. G. Addison’s The Law of Torts (London, 1873): “A man has no right to make himself the medium of propagating scandalous and defamatory accusations, unless he himself believes them to be true, and his belief is not an honest belief if it is formed in a reckless and inconsiderate manner!”

Karl Huttenbauer Berlin

EVEN THE BLIND CAN SEE THE PROBLEM

DISLIKE OF ISRAEL IS FIRST AND SECOND

The attitude of Len McCluskey to members of the Jewish Human Rights Watch at the Labour Party Conference typifies the attitude of the people Jeremy Corbyn surrounds himself with. How can any selfrespecting Jew currently vote for a once great party now demeaned by such individuals? There are none so blind as those who can see.

Robert Dulin St Albans

It seems that the Labour Party regards the Palestine-Israel situation as far more important than Brexit, the NHS and the welfare system.

What more must we witness from the likes of Corbyn, McCluskey and the others? Their dislike of Israel controls their thinking and actions.

If Corbyn becomes prime minister, the antisemites will have won.

Sidney Sands N12

CREATING JEWELLERY THAT’S AS INDIVIDUAL AS YOU  Engagement ring specialist  Fine jewellery repairs

phone: 07877334143 web: memorieshomecare.co.uk

 Remodelling old jewellery

 Valuation reports for insurance  Buy back unwanted jewellery

100 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8NX | 020 7404 4022 | 07973 626789 lewis@lewismalka.com | lewismalka.com twitter.com/lewismalka | Instagram.com/lewismalka

14

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

Opinion

Conservatives could play right into Labour’s hands ALEX BRUMMER

CITY EDITOR, THE DAILY MAIL

W

hen thinking about the Labour Party, it is hard to get beyond images from the Liverpool Party conference of Luciana Berger accompanied by a bodyguard in the city she represents as an MP. Typically, Jeremy Corbyn acolytes seek the diversionary tactic of pointing out that another Labour member, Jo Cox, was assassinated by a right-wing fanatic, as if this allows the antisemitic left off the hook.

The response of Labour’s general secretary, Jennie Formby, to queries about antisemitism is to say that the matter had been successfully resolved. That plainly is untrue, with the party having added its own rider to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. There are enough complaints of antisemitic abuse, 250 on some counts, to keep Labour tied in knots for years.

In conversations in the succah in the past week, it has been hard to escape the Corbyn stigma and the general fears the Jewish community has of a Labour government. No

one is quite clear of Labour’s path to power.

It could be a vote of confidence in Theresa May over Brexit, or something else, but the probabilities are serious.

Community anxieties mean that reasons for Labour’s broader appeal, especially in London and among younger voters, is barely discussed. Yet anyone focused on the Jewish liturgy during the Days of Awe could not but be aware of Judaism’s social justice agenda.

Among the reasons for the populist political votes across Europe in recent months is the belief that the impact of the financial crisis was to create great new inequalities. Low interest rates benefited the rich while the least well off have been victims of payday lenders such as Wonga. Uncomfortably, Wonga is the creation of former Israeli paratrooper Errol Damelin comfortably ensconced with the £45million he received when it floated on the stock market.

What Labour is able to tap into is a deep sense of unease about the way capitalism is working. The average pay for FTSE100 executives climbed by 11 percent in the past financial year to £3.93m at a time when the wages of employees barely have outpaced inflation. Among the FTSE100 bosses the most

❝

THE AVERAGE BOSS’ PAY IN BRITAIN IS NOW 145 TIMES THAT OF THE WORKFORCE egregious offender has been Jeff Fairburn of York-based house builder Persimmon whose pay check was so offensive at a potential £130m that it was capped at £75m.

Other serial overpaid executives included Sir Martin Sorrell, formerly of WPP, whose pay was drastically reduced before he resigned amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

Fortunately, not much has been made of Sorrell’s Jewish background, which would be fodder for traditional left-wing antisemitism that says Jews control the world.

That, incidentally, has been the thrust of hostile correspondence I have received since writing in the Daily Mail of my disgust at Corbyn’s anti-Zionism.

When it comes to social justice, there is a case for government to answer. The average boss’ pay in the UK is now 145 times that of the workforce. Boardroom pay and dividends have risen inexorably since the financial crisis of a decade ago, but employee salaries and household incomes have been static.

Proposals by Labour’s John McDonnell to address the problem by forcing companies to disgorge one percent of their ownership (rising to 10 percent) into an ‘inclusive ownership fund’ is the economics of the madhouse. It would undermine share prices, dividends, pension funds and willingness to invest in the UK. But steps to tackle fairness in the workplace including a higher minimum wage, more profit sharing, fairer bonuses and less greed at the top make sense.

By casting an unfavourable light on greed in the boardroom, Labour is onto a winner.

Similarly, proposals to nationalise railways and water companies and build one million social homes sound wonderful.

Worryingly, people vote with their pockets not on antisemitism. The Tories will play right into Labour’s hands unless they attend head-on the social justice agenda.

Random presumptions of Israel’s villainy are bizarre DAVID WOLCHOVER BARRISTER

I

n a recent Jewish News piece, I suggested that Israel bears no moral obligation to fix the consequences of the Palestinian leadership’s aggressive folly of 1948 when they persuaded five Arab countries to reverse United Nations (UN) resolution 141 by force of arms. If there is no such obligation, it can hardly be racist to bar the return of the refugee descendants.

But are there other ways Israel has been guilty of racism against the Palestinians during its 70 years of existence? Does it systematically oppress them?

No one could sensibly complain about the use of proportionate measures of defence against terrorist acts driven by hatred and the desire to drive Jews out of the land the UN gifted them on 29 November 1947.

But opinions will always differ on whether or not a given measure is proportionate or oppressive. Some people might regard the demolition by the Israel Defence Forces of homes in which young Palestinian terrorists

reside with their innocent parents as a justifiably effective deterrent. Others will baulk at the practice as unconscionably draconian and be not in the least impressed by the fact that it was inherited from the British.

Stone-throwing can endanger life but does it really warrant a response with live rounds?

Shooting Gaza demonstrators posing no discernible threat to Israel’s soldiers has made for very uncomfortable reading.

Of course, individual acts of oppression or cruelty do not make the state of Israel racist.

But it may be another matter if there is evidence of the Israeli authorities habitually turning a blind eye to such acts.

Whether they do so may be debatable, but if there were evidence of institutional toleration, it could hardly be described as antisemitic to denounce this as racist.

Whether or not Israel is racist, we have recently witnessed a new angle on the issue of presumptive Israeli misdeeds that is almost bizarre.

Recently, the Independent website hosted audio footage of some remarks attributed to Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union and

❝

WHEN SOMEONE STARTS A SENTENCE WITH ‘I’M NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORIST, BUT...’ – YOU KNOW WHAT’S COMING

currently president of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), during a fringe meeting at the TUC conference in Manchester.

Referring to the continuing crisis over antisemitism in the Labour Party, Serwotka observed at one point: “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I’ll tell you what – one of the best forms of trying to hide from the atrocities that you are committing is to go on the offensive and actually create a story that does not exist for people on this platform, the trade union movement or, I have to say, for the leader of the Labour Party.”

Even if there were proof of atrocities committed by Israeli forces, Serwotka was admitting making a statement for which in the nature of conspiracy theories for which there is not the slightest shred of evidence.

This is the preposterous notion that the Israeli Government had devised and successfully implemented a diversionary plot to incite or manipulate Jews in Britain to concoct a smear about the Labour Party being too tolerant of antisemites in their midst.

As Yaron Schwalb memorably commented online on the Jewish News report about Serwotka: “When someone starts a sentence with ‘I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but...’ – you know what’s coming.”

What was coming indeed was that old faithful: diabolical Jewish control of the world.

In spite of the traditional protestation about Serwotka’s committed opposition to antisemitism (together with the customary mantra “and all forms of racism”) his words suggest a very different sentiment.

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

15

Opinion

I’m the sum of my parts and the sum of my past RICHARD FERRER EDITOR, JEWISH NEWS

R

emember when EastEnders star Danny Dyer couldn’t believe his mince pies when he found he was related to King Edward III on BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? Well, I’ve just had a bit of a Who Jew You Think You Are? moment, as corr-blimey as a Bow-bells cockney shaking a 14th century monarch out of his family tree.

For 48 years, I thought I was just another humdrum Hebrew, a pedestrian Red Sea pedestrian. That assumption was shattered last week during Yom Kippur, of all days, after my ancestry.com DNA test results popped into my inbox. The saliva sample I’d sent off six weeks earlier revealed, like a bolt from the Jew, that I’m (drum roll, please...) a whopping 99 percent JEWISH! It’s rare for DNA to contain more than 90 percent of one strand, which suggests I’m the end product of an extremely long line of kissing cousins. I’m more inbred than

Grodzinski on a Sunday morning.

The only thing I ever get a 99 in is a Mr Whippy, so I smugly tweeted my results to the presumably less Jewish than me Chief Rabbi. Tellingly, he’s yet to respond (if you need spiritual guidance, Ephraim, you know where to find me).

Before dedicating the rest of the day to parting my bathwater and turning Diet Coke into wine, I dug a little deeper into my results to find the stories behind the science – the shtetls my ancestors fled and the pogrom-free cities they called home.

The 19th century Fruma Ferrers schlepped from east Europe to the East End, from Poland and Ukraine to Stepney and Spitalfields. They chose England over America for its booming textile industry and, ironically, emerging Labour Party.

I’m a bit of an oxymoron (friends will confirm the last two syllables) – loudly and proudly secular and sceptical yet proudly and loudly Jewish. I have my challah and eat it. Before seeing my DNA results, I’d put this contradiction down to 12 years of

Immanuel College

Open Day 2018

❝

I’M AN OXYMORON – LOUDLY SECULAR AND SCEPTICAL YET PROUDLY JEWISH. I HAVE MY CHALLAH AND EAT IT

faith school conditioning, a love of Israel and the psychological scars of being born a generation after Auschwitz. Now the contradictions seem less contradictory.

Take my atavistic urge to have my son Eli circumcised (something a secular sceptic would surely never do). My head (not that one) yelled, “Don’t do it!’, but my heart screamed back: “Shut the hell up already and call a mohel!”

Of course there were tears (mine, not Eli’s), but I’m happy the heart won. It would win again.

Being told who you are for 48 years is

one thing. Seeing who you are is something else. My DNA reveals the sum of my parts and the sum of my past. It reveals not just who I am, but who I was.

My mum, who was adopted, discovered her birth mother went on to have two more children.

After decades of hesitation, she traced her relatives. One, who took the same DNA test as me, appears at the top of my results page.

An uncle I’ve never known.

That proves beyond doubt the test’s enlightening accuracy and, rather helpfully, also explains why I’m such a dab hand at dancing with a bottle on my head.

• Discover your DNA story at ancestry.co.uk

For entry into Year 7 in September 2019 Monday 8th October at 9.15am - 11.00am

For security reasons please RSVP to Lynda Dullop, Director of Admissions:

ldullop@immanuel.herts.sch.uk or 020 8955 8938

16

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

Opinion

How Charedim could take over the Board their supporters on the British Labour Party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

HISTORIAN AND PROFESSOR In the first of these, the signatories expressed their displeasure on hearing n March 1933, shortly after Hitler’s news that if Corbyn became prime accession to power, a leading minister some British Jews would apparCharedi rabbi in Germany, Yechiel ently consider fleeing the UK. Weinberg, made a series of astonJews (they insisted) should pray for ishing public statements in which he the peace and well-being of the country gave a broad welcome to Germany’s in which they happen to live. They should Nazi government. certainly not (they declared) spend time Loyal German Jews (he declared), had antagonising its political leaders. nothing to fear from Nazism. Anti-Semitic At the time of its publication, rumours incidents (he explained) were being deliberwere put about that it was fake. It was not. ately exaggerated by outside forces to further Though the signatures of some leading their own interests. north London charedi rabbonim were Yes (he admitted), there had been some notably absent, the statement was genuacts of violence against Jews, but the Nazis inely signed by no fewer than 29 others, bore no responsibility for them.

Weinberg’s views were not unique to him; including the principal rabbinical authority of the umbrella Union of Orthodox Hebrew they were, in fact, enthusiastically shared by Congregations, Ephraim Padwa. other German charedi leaders – notably Elie The statement has now been followed by Munk, then a rabbi in Bavaria and father of a second in the name of Stamford Hill-based the future Lady Jakobovits.

Charedi activist Shraga Stern, who claims I recalled this grim history as I contemto have been behind the first. Stern now plated the texts of statements issued in 9292 HB JN by Halfcertain Page 210918.qxp_Layout 1 21/09/2018 1 the “Zionist agenda” targets14:26 what Page he terms recent days Charedi rabbis and

GEOFFREY ALDERMAN

I

❝

THE REPORT NOTED CHAREDIM WOULD FORM A MAJORITY OF BRITISH JEWRY BY THE END OF THE CENTURY

that has led to a “smear and witch-hunt” against Corbyn, whom he celebrates as “a long friend to our community.”

Pointing out – quite rightly – that neither the Board of Deputies nor the Jewish Leadership Council represents Charedi Jews, Stern condemns the Board as “a pro-Israel body” that only represents “a very particular part of Jews who are pro-Israel”.

He goes on to claim that discussions are now taking place with a view to setting up “a new body of Board of Deputies of mainstream British Jews”. This, he says, “will focus only on Anglo-Jewish matters and will

represent the entire Jewish population … and act for the many Jews not the few”.

This threat is very real. A study published

by Jewish Policy Research three years ago drew attention to the inevitable demographic outcome that must derive from the high birth rates that are enjoyed by charedim in Britain.

The JPR report concluded that Charedim would form a majority of British Jewry by the end of this century, but some observers have suggested that this scenario could come as soon as 2030.

But Charedim opposed to the present mindset of the Board of Deputies need not wait that long. It would be perfectly possible – now – for every Charedi synagogue in the UK to demand affiliation to the Board. They could then – in the name of democracy – use their voting power to engineer a coup d’état.

This could be followed (who knows?) by the disqualification of all female deputies, the expulsion of all remaining Zionistinclined deputies and the endorsement of a broad anti-Zionist agenda.

Fanciful? I don’t think so.

The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School Nurturing Excellence

Open Day –

Saturday 6 October 2018 1pm-4pm Senior and Preparatory School

Booked tours available throughout the academic year.

020 8266 1700 admissions@habsboys.org.uk registered charity no: 313996

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

17

Community / Succot & Be Seen

1 SOUP-ER WORK!

Children at Nagila PreSchool in Edgware have been getting in the Succot spirit this week by learning about the festival. The two, three and four year olds helped decorate the Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue succah with fruit printing, while Rabbi Emily Jurman and the school’s senior youth worker, Danielle Trainis, explained the significance of the lulav and etrog. Headteacher, Milissa Seiler, who enjoyed the vegetable soup the children had prepared, said: “It was lovely to see our young children learning about their heritage in such a fun way and sharing their excitement as they tried to shake the lulav and etrog.”

And be seen The latest news, pictures and social events from across the community Email us at community@thejngroup.com

2 SUCCAH PREP

Almost 200 Alyth members of all ages came together to decorate the community succah on Sunday morning.

Members of its Sunday morning Galim programme were joined by families to hang fruit and learn how to shake the lulav. Rabbi Mark Goldsmith said: “I’d like to thank Joanna Nagel and Miriam Gerrard May who made sure that the succah s’cach (bamboo roof) was ready so all those decorating were kept relatively dry.” The succah will be used throughout the week and slept in at the Synagogue’s 27th annual Succot Sleepout, which raises money for local homeless charities.

Twenty-five children braved the elements when they turned up at Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Community to build their succah. As well as creating decorations, the volunteers enjoyed cake, with the event combined with its annual ‘Biggest Coffee Morning. More than £800 was raised for Macmillan Cancer Support. Organiser Helen Shapiro said: “It’s amazing how many children will turn up if cake is involved. We’ve raised more than £800 this morning, despite the rain – and the succah looks terrific”.

Photo by Marc Morris

3 CAKE IN THE SUCCAH!

1

4 TORAH DELIGHT

More than 600 people enjoyed Torah Island, games attractions and circus acts at TAL’s family fun day. Founder and director of TAL, Rabbi Jonathan Tawil, said: “It was such an uplifting day with so many smiles! This was an opportunity for the children of the community to get together, learn and have fun. Torah and action definitely equals life!”

2

3

4

18

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

Scene & Be Seen / Community

5

5 VALUED STAFF

6

❝

7

Staff were the focus at Nightingale House’s Staff Wellbeing Day, where they were offered a dedicated programme of activities and sessions to promote mindfulness and wellbeing, including spa treatments, massages, yoga and aerobics classes. Nurse Chara Zervou said: “The welcoming environment of Nightingale Hammerson has come to mean so much to me.

It’s days like these, where I have the chance to step back, that I appreciate what a warm and caring place it is and how much I am valued as a staff member.”

8

6 SHARING EXPERTISE

I LOVED SEEING THE RESIDENTS’ EYES LIGHT UP AS THE CHILDREN INTERACTED WITH THEM 9

Leaders from various Jewish UK housing associations met to share knowledge in their specialist fields. Arranged and hosted by jLiving – which offers support housing primarily to Jewish people in London and the South East – organisations attending included Jewish Blind & Disabled, Brighton and Hove Jewish Housing Association, Birmingham Jewish community centre, Leeds Jewish Housing Association, and Industrial Dwellings Society. jLiving’s June Morton said: “It was our pleasure to host colleagues from other Jewish housing associations and discuss ways of working together.”

10

7 STARRY DATA Photo by Oli Sandler

Hasmonean Year 10 student Shiri Kleinberg took part in a space and STEM summer programme at Kings’ College, London. With her winning group of seven, their experiment looked at intercellular communication though drug

treatment, to study the effects on regeneration in space. Their work, judged by astronaut Michael Foale, will now be shared with NASA scientists.

8 THERAPEUTIC CARE

Residents at Jewish Care’s Betty and Asher Loftus Centre enjoyed a visit from the ARK mobile farm and were able to pat friendly Labradors, feed apples to goats and watch ducks and geese splash about in the bird bath, Alison Prior, manager at Jewish Care Rosetrees home, said: “We know connecting with animals can be a therapeutic, positive experience for older people and it is great to share with relatives and staff.”

9 SUMMER FUN

Sixty young professionals raised £2,000 for JBD at the charity’s Life & Style Committee’s End of Summer Party at the Nordic Bar in Fitzrovia.

Guests played Beer Pong, enjoyed music from a DJ, and had games of Shot Roulette, with prizes up for grabs.

10 PARTY FOR ALL

Young children and their parents joined residents of the Betty and Asher Loftus Centre to enjoy an afternoon at Jewish Care’s JC Tots Intergenerational Party. Entertainment included music and disco from entertainer Ilana Banana, arts and crafts, glitter tattoos and cake. Jenna Kay, chair of JC Tots Committee, said: “The children had so much fun and I loved seeing the residents’ eyes light up as they interacted with them.”

Your family announcements Rachel Silverne celebrated her batmitzvah at New Essex Masorti Synagogue.

Jay Miller celebrated his barmitzvah at Mill Hill United Synagogue

Photo by Karen Zetter

Contributor

Lewis Dobkin celebrated his barmitzvah at Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue

Photo by Kate Swerdlow Photography

Photo by Victor Shack

Samuel Posner celebrated his barmitzvah at Radlett Reform Synagogue

Have you had a recent simcha?

Send your picture to picturedesk@thejngroup.com

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

BEIT HALOCHEM

GIN TASTING EXPERIENCE Join us for our first gin evening with Artisan Drinks.

Numerous gins to try including Artisan honey gin, cocktails, organic black tomato gin and more.

Taster gins served in shot glasses | Gin cocktails Goody bag to take home | Canapes

The Elgin Pub (first floor) 255 Elgin Avenue, London W9 1NJ Thursday 11 October 2018 Doors open: 7.45pm | Prompt start: 8.15pm £35 – Book Online http://bhuk.org/donate/

Go to One-Off Payment, under ‘additional details’ name of event is ‘gin event’

or email sharonne@bhuk.org *Spaces are limited

Bellagio Las Vegas Luxury Resort & Casino s de ht u l Inc r nig pte o c li He

5 nights

ht flig

SAVE

Included

36%

• 5* luxury stay in Las Vegas • 5 nights | 5* Bellagio Las Vegas Luxury Resort & Spa • Return direct flights on British Airways or Virgin Atlantic • 23kg baggage per person • Room only basis • Free Limo Transfers • Complimentary Helicopter night flight with VIP transportation

Daily departures

2018 • September | fr. £1,375 pp • October | fr. £1,299 pp 2019 • January • February • March • April • May

| fr. £1,349 pp | fr. £1,285 pp | fr. £1,287 pp | fr. £1,295 pp | fr. £1,399 pp

0800 368 5017 Email - res@affordableluxurytravel.co.uk FREEPHONE

www.affordableluxurytravel.co.uk 40-42 Riding House Street, London W1W 7ES

• November | fr. £1,249 pp • December | fr. £1,269 pp • June | fr. £1,345 pp • July | fr. £1,467 pp • August | fr. £1,495 pp • September | fr. £1,399 pp

19

20

Jewish News 27 September 2018

www.jewishnews.co.uk

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Life

21

Cancer campaign / Lifestyle

IN THIS SECTION: Travel 23 Competition 31

Life in survival mode T

he word ‘cancer’ was just such a big word to take on,” admits Laura Moses, who was stunned to discover she had been diagnosed with Stage 3 ovarian cancer. But the shock was all the more apparent given Laura’s relatively young age: she was 27.

Now approaching two years of being cancer-free, Laura has decided to give back to the Royal Marsden, where she received a relentless regime of chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy in her battle against the disease, and has spearheaded a series of short films aimed at raising awareness among young women.

In the straight-talking films, released to coincide with Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month, the former Immanuel College student appears alongside cervical cancer survivors Jen Bunn, 34, and Isabel Soldevilla, 30, who were also diagnosed at the age of 27.

“I found I was always the youngest woman in the waiting room, and all the information I so desperately needed was aimed at older women,” reveals the bubbly primary school teacher from Mill Hill, who has helped raise £18,000 for the Royal Marsden through a personal blog charting her own journey with cancer.

Laura, Jen and Isabel are just a handful of the 10,000 new cases of gynaecological cancers diagnosed each year in the UK. There are five cancers affecting women: ovarian, cervical, womb, vaginal and vulval.

Common symptoms include irregular vaginal bleeding, pelvic discomfort, pain during sex, unusual

and get to that end goal of hearing discharge, bloated abdomen, unexplained weight loss or gain, those words, ‘you are ok’.” tiredness or weakness, Speaking candidly about her treatment, Laura passing urine more reveals she had nine often than usual, sessions of chemoconstipation therapy on a weekly and nausea. basis, followed by Cancer surgery and was somethen further thing Laura chemotherapy. had already Despite fearing been acutely she would lose her aware of, hair, the side effects having been told of her treatment were she was a BRCA1 not as severe gene carrier, but admits Laura Moses, with her boyfriend, Alex as Laura had anticipated. she was more But she admits grappling with focused on recognising the symphaving a hysterectomy and effectoms of breast cancer, for which she tively losing her fertility at the age of has a 60 to 90 percent greater risk of just 27. That said, she remains resodeveloping in her lifetime. lutely optimistic about the future.

Unfortunately, the BRCA “The fertility side of things is so mutation, which is more common hard,” she reveals. “I look at myself among Ashkenazi Jewish women, and think it’s sad I won’t get to have also heightens the risk of ovarian that experience, I won’t get to carry cancer. a baby of my own.

Laura first began developing “But I also know I don’t need to period-style cramps, a loss of appegive birth to a child to be their mum. tite and bloatedness, but doctors dismissed her symptoms as constipa- Adoption is something that is open to me. tion. However, she then experienced “It’s weird to be 29 and thinking extreme pelvic pain. She recalls: “I about this, because I never did – it couldn’t sit longer than two or three was the last thing on my radar. But minutes before getting up. I just that’s what cancer brings to you.” didn’t think it could happen – BRCA In the two years since Laura or no BRCA – to somebody in their was given the all-clear, she has 20s. That all changed when I was focused on rebuilding her life, transferred to the Royal Marsden.” returning to work as a primary After discovering a growth on her school teacher and graduating with ovary, Laura was given the devasa master’s degree. tating news by doctors.

For that, she is thankful to “I just went into survival mode the Royal Marsden for “saving and the severity of it didn’t register my life and giving me the chance with me until way down the line. You to be me again”. do all you can to survive and fight

Photo by Blake Ezra Photography

Laura Moses was just 27 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She has now made it her mission to raise awareness among young women, writes Francine Wolfisz

Laura, above, in remission, and below right, when she was sick

Offering hope to other young women with cancer, Laura concludes: “It might not always be plain sailing, but there is light at the end of that tunnel.

“You have to hold onto that and try and see that light, even when it’s pretty hard to do.”  To view the videos, visit royalmarsden.nhs.uk /your-care/cancer-types /gynaecological/ gynaecological-cancer -awareness. Laura’s blog is available at findingcyril.com

22

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

CONSIDERING ALIYAH? Making Aliyah takes a lot of preparation and planning.

Join Dov Newmark for a seminar or personal meeting designed to help you get a head start on building your plans for Aliyah.

The seminar will cover a number of topics including:

•

Your Aliyah rights and benefits

•

Career opportunities in Israel

•

Finding the right community

•

Schools and education

•

Planning for retirement in Israel

•

Go Beyond: Aliyah to Israel’s North, South & Jerusalem ‫זינוק בעלייה‬

A Joint NBN and KKL Initiative Encouraging Aliyah to Israel’s North and South

LONDON

LONDON

ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS

ALIYAH SEMINAR

OCTOBER 8, 9, 11, 12

OCTOBER 8 | 20:00-22:00

TO REGISTER: WWW.NBN.ORG.IL/UK • 0800-075-7200 WORKING IN COOPERATION TO BUILD A STRONGER ISRAEL THROUGH ALIYAH

Every one of us, together

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

23

Travel / Lifestyle

Talking Turkey!

Despite a fall in tourism, Caron Bluestone discovers plenty of reasons to visit this gem of a country between Europe and Asia

T

urkey doesn’t always top everyone’s travel wish list. It has been a contentious destination for a while, due in part to the threat of terror attacks and wayward politics.

They have contributed to a huge drop-off in tourism.

But savvy travellers are starting to return to Turkey’s borders. If you choose wisely and stick to the popular tourist destinations, it remains a safe destination with much to offer as a heady mix of the exotic and the west.

A four-hour flight from London transports you far further in spirit. Turkey also offers exceptional value for money. This has been the case for many years but now, at a time when the pound is weak and European travel is expensive, Turkey is firmly back in favour.

Jews have a history here too – some 2,400 years here at least. The first communities arrived in the fifth century BC, followed by an influx of those expelled from Spain and Portugal 20 centuries later.

Today, the vast majority of Turkish Jews live

Caron and family at the Sensatori resort

in Israel, but the country still boasts modest communities in Istanbul, where there are many historic synagogues, as well as Antalya, the nearest city and destination airport for our trip to Sorgun, on the Mediterranean coast in the south.

Antalya, and Dalaman airport further west, serve all the most popular resorts along the coast, which boasts miles of beautiful beaches extending down to turquoise seas, all Instagram ready. Here you are but a stone’s throw away from Greece, so it’s unsurprising.

We managed to spend a relaxing week, with two children, at peak season at TUI’s Sensatori Barut resort in Sorgun.

I’m not normally one for package holidays, but the Sensatori brand, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, is TUI’s high end, luxury all-inclusive offering and I was keen to see for myself whether the company could truly manage the move from massmarket tourism.

In fact, TUI has taken things one step further with Sensatori. It’s an allsinging, all-dancing all-inclusive experience, with sports and wellbeing, including yoga, pilates, personal training and mindfulness among others all part of the offering.

There’s also a small cinema and indoor and outdoor theatres showing quality productions, if that’s your cup of tea.

The resort, a little daunting at first due to its size, is modern, light, airy, spotlessly clean and perfectly maintained by a dedicated staff for whom nothing is too much trouble.

You can enjoy the manicured gardens or take a trek down to a wide, soft sandy beach that, even with the resort completely full, was still a haven of relaxation. For visitors

The beach with its mountain backdrop at Sorgun, the landscaped Sensatori resort, and one of the relaxing cabanas in the gardens

wanting to go the extra mile, you can even book a cabana. Beautiful white pagodas on stilts, with cushions all around and white nets tied back or drawn for privacy, make for a magical, romantic feel. Here, we lazed most days taking in the views in the much-needed breeze, reading, iPadding or snoozing while drinks and food were brought to us.

Milkshakes and slushies for the kids, iced coffee and cocktails for the grown-ups and a full lunch menu were all on offer, with no need to walk the 50m to the beach restaurant for us.

Talking of food, it’s plentiful and fresh.

There are six restaurants around the property. Be aware that booking in advance in high season is important.

Where Sensatori Barut really scores points is on the facilities for kids, for which I give

the resort top marks.; there is nursery for the younger guests, Play House for the older ones and many organised and sporting activities for the over-sevens, all to Ofsted standards.

Accommodation is divided into adults-only and family sections and our two-bedroom suite for the week was fantastic. It was modern, with bathroom, wet-room shower and two balconies, one with a Jacuzzi and sun loungers. I’m not much a fan of hotel hot tubs, but an outdoor sunset bubble bath overlooking the sea is another thing entirely.

Shopping here is plentiful. The ancient resort town of Side is a five-minute taxi ride from the hotel and apart from being a fantastic place to find bargains and souvenirs, it is also home to some of the most prolific and bestmaintained ruins in Turkey.

There’s even an inscription dating back thousands of years that makes mention of the Jewish population in early Byzantine times.

A visit is a must. Walking on clear glass pedestrian zones suspended above the illuminated excavated ruins is as unnerving as it is fascinating.

WHERE TO STAY...

Caron stayed at the five-star TUI Sensatori Barut Sorgun, currently offering all-inclusive holidays at £565.05 per person for seven nights, based on online booking for two adults sharing and including flights from Gatwick on 8 October and transfers. For more details on this and other offers, visit tui.co.uk

24

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

Lifestyle / Nosh

PLATEExpectations

Black bean vegetable chilli baskets This is a tasty, warming dish is ideal for Succot entertaining. It’s vegan, easy to make in large quantities and the baskets add a little finesse to the finished dish. I love Mexican food and first made it for my daughter’s engagement party. Use drained, rinsed tinned beans to reduce cooking time.

Denise Phillips

PREPARATION TIME 30 MINS

SERVES

6 people

COOKING TIME 2 HOURS 30 MINUTES

200g dried black beans or you can used 2 x 400g tinned black beans 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 carrots – peeled and roughly chopped 2 red onions – peeled and roughly chopped 3 red peppers – deseeded and roughly chopped 2 green chillies – deseeded and finely chopped 3 garlic cloves – peeled and roughly chopped 10 large plum tomatoes – roughly chopped 1 tablespoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon cinnamon 25g dark chocolate – roughly chopped 2 tablespoons tomato purée 1 tablespoon brown sugar 150ml vegetable stock Salt and freshly ground black pepper

for 50 minutes in a steam oven or until soft. Drain and set aside.

2 Heat a deep frying pan with olive oil. Add the carrots, onions, peppers, chillies and garlic. Cook for three minutes and then add the tomatoes, oregano, cinnamon, chocolate, tomato purée, brown sugar and stock.

3 Bring to the boil and simmer covered for 20 minutes. Add the black beans.

Check seasoning and spoon into the prepared baskets.

For the baskets

1 Preheat the oven to 200°C/ Gas mark 6.

2 Using a pastry brush, lightly coat the inside of an 11cm ramekin / glass ovenware dish with rapeseed oil.

3 Brush the tortilla on both sides with a little oil and mould into the ramekin.

4 Bake for approximately 15 minutes or until golden. Remove immediately and To serve: Spoon the hot black bean mole into the baskets, garnish with a side dish or avocado and a slice of lime

SEE MORE OF DENISE’S RECIPIES AT

www.jewishcookery.com

INGREDIENTS

Ingredients

METHOD 1 Cook the black beans in simmering water for one hour, or steam at 100°C

set aside on a rack to cool. (These can be made three to four days in advance and stored in an airtight container).

With

Tortilla basket: 6 tortilla wraps (wholewheat or plain) 2 tablespoons rapeseed oil MY NEXT COKERY CLASS: Tuesday, 9 October: Best of autumn

[N]

GLORIOUS FOOD CONTEMPORARY TURKISH CUISINE WHETSTONE 020 8445 2196

EDGWARE 020 8951 4460

HATCH END 020 8421 1525

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

25

Orthodox Judaism

Torah For Today

SEDRA

Shabbat Chol Hamoed

BY RABBI ALEX CHAPPER After the spiritual drama of the High Holy days, it could appear that Succot is somewhat of an anti-climax. Having filled our shuls and homes with the sublime spirit worthy of this time of year, we then leave it all behind for the succah – a simple, flimsy and seemingly undignified hut. Is this the most appropriate way to end the holiday season?

Succot is referred to as zeman simchateinu – the season of our rejoicing and various explanations are offered for this description. It displays our joy and confidence that we have been judged favourably for the coming year, and is a symbol of the unity of the Jewish people.

However, my favourite reason is that its central observance – dwelling in the succah – is the only mitzvah that can be performed with the entire body. Other mitzvot require the use of one or more of our faculties, but the succah is unique in requiring our whole being to enter into it. The opportunity to connect with God at the beginning of a new year is a source of great delight.

This fact is emphasised in the Talmud, which refers to Succot simply as ha’chag – “the festival”. It is the archetypal celebration of our relationship with God and Judaism.

If our approach to our heritage is half-hearted, then we cannot possibly hope to be uplifted by it. Only when we practice Judaism with our whole being, fully investing both heart and soul, do we experience the joy that is its essence.  Rabbi Alex Chapper serves Elstree & Borehamwood Synagogue and is the Children’s Rabbi, childrensrabbi.com

What does the Torah say about...

Having a second vote on Brexit?

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Rumours about the possibility of a second Brexit vote ebb and flow. But should the people have been given a say in such a big decision affecting the nation and its future? What does the Torah say about this?

In the Bible, people have had a great say in their leaders’ choices: Moses was petitioned by the daughters of Jethro for an inheritance and also by the mourners, who were unable to practise the Passover and these popular petitions created new laws.

In a later episode, Moses sent out spies to the land even though it was securely promised by God himself, to reassure the people and make sure that the future expedition received democratic approval through their elected princes.

❝

Even King Saul’s son, Jonathan, condemned to death by his father, was reprieved because the people insisted on it.

However, in the case of the Brexit campaign, one may claim the electorate was bamboozled and led astray by misinformation, perhaps on both sides, regarding the true cost of leaving and the benefits to be had.

EVEN KING SAUL’S SON, JONATHAN, CONDEMNED TO DEATH, WAS SAVED BECAUSE THE PEOPLE INSISTED ON IT

Therefore, the matter of mekach ta-ut could apply here. If a person enters into a contract or other legal process based on information, there is a strong argument to correct the data informing the parties and vote again.

What is the remedy for this seemingly intractable situation? Perhaps a vote to ask the people whether they want a second vote.

Such a process is costly, but not wasteful. The next step would be to allow economists and not politicians to run the campaign.

Just as courts require experts before passing judgment, so the electorate need economists to inform them of the risks they are taking by voting one way or the other.

If this was a pension scheme, the FCA would have regulated it. Who was regulating the Brexit vote campaign?  Rabbi Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to HM Armed Forces

‫גלאט‬ ‫כשר‬

shefa.mehadrin

Glatt Kosher

26

Jewish News 27 September 2018

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Progressive Judaism

The Bible Says What?

Progressively Speaking Why speak out against antisemitism if it makes us the target of abuse?

‘God encouraged human sacrifice’

BY RABBI YUVAL KEREN There is no doubt the story of the Akeidah, the binding of Isaac, is one of the most dramatic in the entire Torah.

The Akeidah is the cruellest test that can be devised. God asks Abraham to take his most precious possession, his only son, the son God Himself had promised him, the one he and Sarah waited for nearly 100 years to hug.

It’s no wonder this passage presents us with a big problem and not only with Abraham, whom we know is kind and hospitable. How can the good, just and merciful God devise such a cruel test?

What is a rational and Progressive interpretation for today?

In biblical times, and in other cultures of the area, we hear about human sacrifices – especially leaders sacrificing their nearest and dearest, in the hope they could save a kingdom from destruction. Yet the Torah and the Prophets attack this ritual.

The test of Abraham was designed to tell him and us that the ram, found in the thicket, was the substitute for Isaac. Animal sacrifice was considered a higher form of worship, and the old and cruel customs should cease.

Animal sacrifice continued from Abraham’s days and for more than 1,500 years until the destruction of the second Temple. Our prayer today is superior to Temple sacrifice – it can be performed everywhere, can be individual or communal and you can pray aloud or in your heart.

Abraham passed the test, but was willing to go all the way and sacrifice the one thing that was most precious to him. In doing so, he failed the test of understanding the nuances of God’s instructions.

With the words of our mouths and meditations of our hearts we can have personal communication with the Almighty, everywhere and at any time.  Rabbi Yuval Keren serves Southgate Progressive Synagogue

BY RABBI MARK GOLDSMITH In Reform and Liberal synagogues over Yom Kippur, we read a different chapter of the Book of Leviticus than that recited in Orthodox shuls.

We read Leviticus Chapter 19. This is known as the “holiness code,” because it sets out the human behaviour that can enable a person to behave in a way that emulates God. The reading in Reform Synagogues ends with the words: “Love your neighbour as yourself”.

Just before this we hear, “Do not hate your brother or sister in your heart; you shall, though, reprove, or reason with, your fellow frankly”, then “Do not stand idly by while the blood of your neighbour is shed”.

These words are a mandate to every Jew to be a person who stands up and speaks out when they see injustice, whether it affects them directly, or they become aware that it is happening to another person.

Jews don’t ‘turn the other cheek’, but rather aim to confront injustice

head on and with respect. We do not admire those who keep silent.

Actress Tracy Ann Oberman and Countdown presenter Rachel Riley (pictured) have joined those who have done just that.

Oberman joined many others angered by Labour Momentum’s invitation to the Polish graffiti artist Ewa Jasiewicz, who sprayed the former Nazi Warsaw Ghetto wall with graffiti, comparing Nazi actions during the Second World War to Israel’s in Gaza and the West Bank.

This unjust and invidious comparison is one that is clearly

antisemitic, as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition, which the Labour Party has now adopted.

Meanwhile, Riley was called “brainwashed and thick” as she expressed her opinions of Jeremy Corbyn’s actions over antisemitism.

Both she and Oberman were attacked viciously through social media for what they said and had themselves shared, before speaking out about how hurt they were by the trolling abuse they received.

They are right to share their upset at what has been public emotional abuse and they were right to have shared their opinions in the first place, as each was sure that they were calling out injustice.

It is a constant Jewish duty to do what we can to make the world fairer and more just. We will never achieve that by just staying shtum.  Rabbi Mark Goldsmith serves Alyth Synagogue

Expert Travel Ltd ATOL 3840

IATA 9123151-2

ABTA 28190

Join Altermans Solicitors as a Consultant Over the last three years, six of us have joined Altermans as consultants – to work in property, company commercial, litigation, employment, private client and family law. All of us have been partners elsewhere, and know the pain of running a team, hitting chargeable targets and driving revenue.

However, each of us knew deep down that what we wanted to do was find somewhere where we could work for our clients in a friendly and supportive environment.

We found it at Altermans in Finchley, North London.

The firm is run by Gabriel Alterman, who is growing a business where lawyers can work on their own or build a small team that meets their needs. The firm is not a “virtual network”. We work together, talk together and respect each other’s expertise.

We share fees, reward each other for referrals, and have regular gatherings – both social and work – to make sure we’re on track.

If this sounds like a firm where you could find a niche and be at home, get in touch to arrange a chat and come and meet us.

There’s no management-speak; just lawyers working together.

You can contact Gabriel directly at gabriel@altermans.co.uk or by phone on 07794 085 617. Our website is at www.altermans.co.uk for more details of the firm.

EILAT

NEW NON-STOP FLIGHTS THIS WINTER Weekly departures from Luton on Wednesday & Sundays with Wizz Air

7, 10, 11, 14, 17 and many more durations available All your favourite hotels: King Soloman’s Palace Dan Eilat Dan Panorama Royal Beach Royal Garden

Lagoona Sport Agamim Queen of Sheeba and many more...

Call for these and many other amazing offers Early booking offers. £200 reductions on selected holidays Pearl House – rear entrance! 746 Finchley Road, London. NW11 7TH Expert Travel – the agents who are always here to help you Don’t book online! Book with us

fly expert@aol.com

020 8922 1234

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

27

Professional advice from our panel / Ask Our Experts

Ask our Our trusty team of advisers answer your questions about everything from law and finance to dating and dentistry.

This week: Paying rent in Israel before making aliyah, benefits of lip-reading classes and private health cover...

NAOMI FELTHAM INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS SPECIALIST

CURRENCIES DIRECT Dear Naomi I’ve decided to start renting a property in Netanya while keeping my house in London.

Once we decide on the area we’d like to live in, we will then start the aliyah process, although that will not be for at least another 18 months. While renting, what is the best process to send my funds to Israel? Obviously, the exchange rates are moving all the time, meaning I may have to find more or less to cover the total amount.

Richard Dear Richard With potential aliyah families, we get this question

Dear Dina I do agree, the name lipreading classes sounds daunting. But here’s the good news:

SUE CIPIN CHARITY EXECUTIVE

JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION Dear Sue My daughter has suggested I join a lipreading class as she thinks it will help me.

I’m 74 and, at my age, I find the idea of going back into a classroom and starting to do something new, on my own, rather daunting. Do you think I’ll fit in? Can I do it?

Dina

1. Most people who attend have had to overcome the same worries that you’re having.

2. Most participants are around your age.

3. It’s not a classroom set-up – it’s more like a small meeting, where everyone has a hearing loss and is facilitated to participate fully.

4. You can come and observe a session at JDA without having to commit. I’d recommend this.

Our Monday classes are topical, interesting and lots of fun (I always hear them laughing together from

all the time. Obviously, the British Pound to Israeli Shekel is very inconsistent at the moment and everyone wants to ensure they are getting the most for their money.

Our advice would be to register with Currencies Direct. All we require is some basic information about you and the transfers you intend to make, proof of identity and proof of address.

Once this is complete you will be assigned your own dedicated dealer, who will be able to give you professional advice on your situation and information on the best transfer options.

Usually for monthly payments of a mortgage, we’d advise setting up a regular transfer with us. You simply set up a direct debit with us and each month the money is released. We can even fix the rate for you for up to a year so you don’t lose out on additional money.

If you have any other queries, feel free to contact me on naomi.f@currenciesdirect.com or 07590 735202.

upstairs in my office!).

In an entertaining manner, you’ll learn about lip shapes, communication strategies and tactics that will help you to follow conversations. And, with different topics covered each week, you’ll also learn all kinds of interesting things, giving you more to talk about with family and friends.

Everyone comments on how refreshing it is to spend time with others who are in the same boat, and discuss the challenges they share and ways to overcome them. They really look forward to their weekly meet-up.

So the answer is yes – you can do it! Get in touch and arrange to come along to give it a try. You’ll see for yourself how enjoyable it is – and not daunting at all.

The FREE Resource to help you get back into work Free support, learning and opportunities to help Jewish people find their feet in the job market One-to-one advisor support

Fully equipped workspace

Networking opportunities

Mock interviews

Over 10 different seminars IT training

Get your career back on track by getting in touch to see how we can help you.

Call us on 020 8346 4000 or visit www.resource-centre.org

PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SPECIALIST

PATIENT HEALTH Dear Trevor I’ve had health insurance private cover with April insurance, which I was really pleased with, but they have now written to me so say they will no longer cover me when the policy expires.

My husband and I have had several claims and are anxious about what to do

Registered in England Number 5211299 Charity Registration Number 1106331

MY SPOUSE HAS DEMENTIA, WHO WILL HELP ME ORGANISE MY PAPERWORK? CAN I AVOID FALLING INTO DEBT? HOW DO I KNOW IF I’M ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS ?

CAN YOU HELP SUPPORT ME THROUGH MY DIVORCE? DO I NEED PROBATE? I HAVE NO FAMILY TO RELY ON

COULD THIS BE YOU? We’ll take the weight off your shoulders When there’s nowhere else to turn, Paperweight can help you take control of your financial, legal and administrative affairs.

To donate, volunteer or access our services London: 0208 455 4996 - Manchester: 0161 507 5480 www.paperweighttrust.com

Charity Registration No. 1146302

– please could you advise as I don’t trust the idea of buying a policy online.

Sharon

TREVOR GEE

Vocational loans

Dear Sharon It came as a shock to everyone with April insurance that it has withdrawn from the market, leaving all its clients exposed. Let me explain where you stand.

April will continue to cover all their clients up to the expiry of their policy and pay for the claims as usual.

You and your husband will need to take out a new policy with another health insurer. Doing it yourself can be a nightmare, which is why intermediaries such as ourselves are licensed

to advise, impartially and without any fees whatsoever.

Many different health insurers will cover you, although each will try and ‘sell’ their own products.

In deciding which is the most suitable plan for you both, pre-existing conditions can have continued cover as an option, or it may be suitable to start a brand new policy, where the NHS will look after some conditions and your health policy covers the rest.

It is not a one-size fits all.

Why is buying online health insurance risky?

Because it is essential not just to tell you about what you will get, but crucially, what will not be covered.

If you want a chat with Patient Health, we will be pleased to advise.

28

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

Ask Our Experts / Professional advice from our panel

Our Experts Do you have a question for a member of our team? Email: editorial@thejngroup.com CHARITY EXECUTIVE

PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SPECIALIST 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

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

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

TELECOMS SPECIALIST

HOROLOGIST NICOLAS KALMUS Qualifications: • Specialises in the sale of fine watches on behalf of clients to achieve highest possible price.

• Offers professional watch servicing for Rolex, Cartier, Omega, TAG Heuer, Chopard.

• Provides vintage watch restoration, valuation and auction services.

• Member of the British Horological Institute.

NICOLAS WATCH CO. 020 7788 9059 www.nicolaswatch.co nic@nicolaswatch.co / @nicolaswatchco

PROPERTY SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST

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

JEREMY ASSOUS Qualifications: • Director of Assous & Co Ltd.

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

ASSOUS & CO 0203 475 9559 jeremy@assous.co.uk www.assous.co.uk

JEWELLER

SOCIAL WORKER

• 20+ years’ experience and access to network of 20,000 experts.

• Specialist in finding innovative solutions to all property related challenges.

• Brexit, accidental landlords, negative equity, tenant buyers, subletting, assisted sales, lease options, repossessions, HMO, buy-to-let.

CHARITY EXECUTIVE 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.

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

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

DIRECTOR OF LEGACIES

REMOVALS MANAGING DIRECTOR

PRINCIPAL, PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL

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

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

Member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

•

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

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

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

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

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

• Set up Dancing with Louise 10 years ago.

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

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

DANCING WITH LOUISE 020 8203 5242 www.dancingwithlouise.co.uk louise@dancingwithlouise.co.uk

• •

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

29

Professional advice from our panel / Ask Our Experts

ACCOUNTANT

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

CONSULTANT UROLOGICAL SURGEON

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.

GEORGE FOWLIS Qualifications: • BSc (Hons) Yale, MD, FEBU, FRCS (Urol) • More than 20 years experience as a consultant urological surgeon, having worked as NHS consultant for 15 years and in independent practice for past five years.

• Work covers all aspects of urology, with a sub-speciality interest in oncology.

• Tailors treatment to each individual patient and involves patients in all aspects, including investigations and choice of treatment.

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

• • • •

FAMILY SOLICITOR

• •

PALLIATIVE CARE MANAGER

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.

POLLY LANDSBERG Qualifications: • Worked in health and social care for more than 35 years.

• A degree in nursing and a diploma in health visiting.

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the palliative and end of life care service.

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

SWEETTREE HOME CARE SERVICES 020 7644 9500 www.sweettree.co.uk polly.landsberg@sweettree.co.uk

• • •

Got a question for a member of our team?

Email: editorial@thejngroup.com

Transition Workshops For young people with special education needs and disabilities, moving on can feel overwhelming.

As parents and carers, you want the best possible future for them. Our SEND Post 18 workshops will help them achieve it.

Learn more or book: call the Kennedy Leigh Family Centre on 020 8457 4745.

Patron Her Majesty The Queen Registered Charity No. 1059050

30

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

BISTRO THE WALK MEDITERRANEAN SPECIALIST RESTAURANT

We specialise in soft and hard landscaping, composite decking & artificial lawns.

Supply plants, shrubs & trees

Bistro the walk offers you the warmest Mediterranean welcome. We want you to feel at home with us, take your time to enjoy the finest mediterranean style cuisine cooked fresh for you using locally sourced ingredients. Our welcoming friendly staff are here to help and advise you on our food, or simply help you to relax, enjoy your meal and let you unwind. We are open from 12pm and stay open all day, serving food until we close at eleven in the evening.

Whatever the time of day or night you will enjoy a relaxed and informal dining experience. View our menu online.

We pride ourselves on our great range of food and wine and we have a really good range of vegetarian dishes available. Enjoy your next meal with us at Bistro the Walk.

Free design service

020 8502 9550 | 07736 670531 enquiries@russellandson.com | www.russellandson.com |

Creating that perfect garden for you

Tel. 01707 664 660 Opening Hours:

Monday to Friday 12pm - 10.30pm Saturday 12pm - 11pm Sunday 12pm - 10pm

88 High Street, Potters Bar, Herts, EN6 5AT

We wish to purchase any Diamond & Gold Jewellery 9 ct per gram 9ct 14ct 14 ct per gram 18ct 18 ct per gram 21ct 21 ct per gram 22ct 22 ct per gram 24ct 24 ct per gram Platinum950 Platinum 950 per gram Silver925ag Silver 925ag per gram Half Sovereigns Half Sovereigns Full Sovereigns Full Sovereigns Krugerrands 1oz Krugerands

www.howcashfordiamonds.co.uk

£10.51 £12.04per/g £16.39 £18.78per/g £21.02 £24.07per/g £28.09per/g £24.52 £29.40per/g £25.67 £32.07per/g £28.00 £23.92per/g £17.15 £0.37 per/g £0.27 £109.37 each £102.68 £218.74 each £205.36 £936.05 each £871.68

If you are thinking of selling, the price of diamonds has never been higher! in any shape, size, clarity or colour.

WE PAY MORE than all our competitors.

Try us, and you will not be disappointed!

272 Barnet Lane London N20 48BFriern Hendon Lane, Finchley, London, N30NH 1TT Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm (Closed Weekends & Bank Holidays)

Don’t waste time & energy with the auction houses.

We will give you a free evaluation.

We pay more! , No commission taken , instant payment.

If you cannot get to us, home visits are also available by appointment.

Personal & confidential Customer Service Price Offered Instantly Same Day payment A free valuation from our in house gemmologist and gold experts on anything you may wish to sell.

Jewellery Cave Ltd 48b Hendon Lane London N3 1TT T: 02084468538 E:jonathan@jewellerycave.co.uk

Open Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm (anytime) Saturday 9am to 1pm (by appointment)

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

31

Win a men’s suit / Fun, games and prizes

WIN A DOBELL SUIT Jewish News and Dobell have teamed up to offer one lucky reader a men’s suit of their choice from their own fantastic range, worth up to a value of £160!

Dobell is the online home of stylish, high quality and affordable formal and smart wear for men.

The company prides itself on its products, value and service; qualities that are appreciated by its ever-increasing and loyal customer base.

As experts in the smart wear arena, Dobell is the one-stop shop for any formal event for which you may need to dress.

Whether it’s a wedding, black tie gala,

WORTH £160!

day out at the races or an all-important job interview, Dobell will have the right attire for you at impressive prices and without compromising on quality. Additionally, there are a wide range of suits, choose from a variety of styles, including linen, tartan, tweed or wool, available in regular, tailored and skinny fit.  For more details, visit dobell.co.uk

TO BE IN WITH A CHANCE OF WINNING, ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: Which popular American drama did Meghan Markle star in before marrying Prince Harry?

ENTER ONLINE:

A: Shoots

jewishnews.co.uk

B: Boots

Closing date 11 October 2018

C: Suits

Hilarious Hebrew Hilarious Hebrew Word of the Week Word of the Week

THE JEWISH NEWS CROSSWORD THE JewishNews CROSSWORD 1

2

3

4

7

5

6

8

120 YEARS OF ZIONISM ”ZIONISM IS AN INFINITE IDEAL”

The WZO and ZF run subsidised Ulpan (Hebrew language) classes across the UK. For more information, contact ulpanuk@wzo.org.il or call 020 8202 0202

9

10

11

12 13

14

15

16

17

18 19

22

The Hebrew word for 'elephant' is… pil ‫פִּיל‬ *** From the book Hilarious Hebrew – the Fun and Fast Way to Learn the Language, available on Amazon and in book and gift shops around NW London. www.hilarioushebrew.com

21

23

ACROSS 11 Preserved in a 1 Scent (5) tin (6) 4 Satirical show (5) 14 Miles from 7 Adjustable chair (7) anywhere (6) 8 Race (an engine) (3) 17 Plant similar to the 9 Long‑leaved lettuce (3) sweet potato (3)

Last issue’s solutions ACROSS: 1 Ripe 3 Abject 8 Best man 9 Die 10 Fair-haired 13 Uneconomic 17 Odd 18 Blasted 19 Always 20 Bray DOWN: 1 Robe 2 Pasta 4 Ban 5 Elder 6 Trendy 7 Embryo 11 Amoral 12 Cupola 14 Endow 15 Inter 16 Idly 18 Bay

All puzzles © Puzzler Media Ltd - www.puzzler.com

See next issue for solution.

27/09

COMPETITION TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

By Paul Solomons

The ELEPHANT is ill, he needs to take a PILL

20

19 Opposite of ‘begin’ (3) 20 Enthusiastic (7) 22 Beat off (5) 23 ___ up, be quick (5) DOWN 1 Emotional comfort (6) 2 Long‑legged bird (3) 3 Sound reasoning (5) 4 Race again (5) 5 Assortment (7) 6 Jealous emotion (4) 10 Quicken (5,2) 12 Creative activity (3) 13 Risqué (6) 15 Tripe, chitterlings etc (5) 16 This planet (5) 18 High‑priced (4) 21 Corn spike (3)

Terms and conditions: One reader will win a suit of their choice from the Dobell range, up to the value of £160. Prize subject to stock and sizing availability. Excludes branded products. Prize is as stated, not transferable, not refundable and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or exchanged in whole or in part for cash. By supplying your email address, you agree to receive marketing information from the JN Media Group or any of its affiliates and carefully-selected third parties. The promotion excludes employees of Miroma and the promoter, their immediate families, their agents or anyone professionally connected to the relevant promotion. Proof of eligibility must be provided on request.

For full Ts and Cs, see jewishnews.co.uk.

Closing date: 11 October 2018.

32

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

Business Services Directory ANTIQUES 44

The Jewish News 22 September 2016

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Stirling of Kensal Green

Top prices paid

BUSINESS SERVICES DIRECTORY

Antique – Reproduction – Retro Furniture (any condition)

Carer Epstein, Archie Shine, Clothing Hille, G Plan, etc.

Dining Suites, Lounges Suites, Bookcases, Carer Desks, Cabinets, Mirrors, Lights, etc.

FURS WANTED Auxiliary Nurse Cash paid for Mink House clearances Available to support jackets, coats,

you in your home. boleros, stoles, Single items to complete homes also fox coats, Days/nights. jackets etc.

MARYLEBONE ANTIQUES Very reasonable rates. - 8 CHURCH STREET NW8 8ED Wardrobes cleared Call 0208 958 2939 614 744 (ANYTIME) Call 01277 352 560 or 0749507866 026 168

Computer

0207 723 7415 (SHOP) closed Sunday & Monday

STUART SHUSTER - e-mail - info@maryleboneantiques.co.uk

Man on a Bike will get MAKE SURE YOUfast!

CONTACT US BEFORE SELLING you working Rapid Response IT support for your PC & Mac Networks, virus problems, broadband, wireless systems, new computers and everything else you may need.

ANTIQUES For small businesses & home users.

Antiques

WE BUY ANTIQUES

All quality furniture bought & sold.

Antique – Reproduction – Retro Furniture (any condition)

Best prices paid for complete house clearEpstein, Archie Shine, Hille, G Plan, etc. ances Lounges includingSuites, china, Bookcases, books, Dining Suites, clothing etc. Also rubbish clearance Desks, Cabinets, Mirrors, Lights, etc. service, lofts, sheds, garages etc House clearances

VERY HIGH PRICES PAID. FREE HOME VISITS. www.antiquesbuyers.co.uk All Antique Furniture Hille & Epstein Diamond Gold, Silver,CALL Paintings, FORJewellery, APPOINTMENTS SUEPorcelain, ON: Glass, Bronzes, Oriental Judaica Antiques etc.

0800 Ivories, 840 2035 or & 07956268290

Single items to complete Please contact Gordonhomes Stirling

020 8960 5401 or 07825 224144

FullOPEN house8am clearances TO 9pmorganised.

7 DAYS. RD LONDON. Please look PORTOBELLO at our website for more details

CHURCH STREET ANTIQUES � 8 CHURCH STREET NW8 8ED

͔͚͚͛͜ ͚͕͘ ͛͘͘ (ANYTIME) Email: gordonstirling65@gmail.com

www.antiquesbuyers.co.uk

0207 723 7415 (SHOP)

FOR APPOINTMENTS CALL SUE ON: CHARITY & WELFARE 0800 840 2035 or 07956268290 17-443-ER Helpline advert v1.qxp_Helpline 85x45mm 24/11/2017 10:02 OPEN 8am TO 9pm 7 DAYS. PORTOBELLO RD LONDON.

020 8731 6171 • www.manonabike.co.uk CharityManuscripts, & Welfare Books, Ephemera, Works of Art and Silver

Top prices paid

VERY HIGH PRICES PAID. FREE HOME VISITS. All Antique Furniture Hille & Epstein Diamond Jewellery, Gold, Silver, Paintings, Porcelain, Glass, Bronzes, Ivories, Oriental & Judaica Antiques etc.

Full house clearances organised.

WE BUY ANTIQUES Please look at our website for more details

Call Ian Green, Man on a Bike on

ANTIQUE JUDAICA & HEBRAICA

Established over 60 years.

Know who you are dealing with.

closed Sunday & Monday STUART SHUSTER � e�mail � stuart@churchstreetantiques.net

MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT US BEFORE SELLING Company Number: 3024499 Charity Number: 1047045

WHEN YOU NEED HELP, CALL OUR HELPLINE. HIGHEST PRICES PAID!

ARE YOU BEREAVED?

JCL Antiques Ltd. 07791Counselling 798492 for adults & children who are experiencing loss. Support groups offered. joseph.landau@yahoo.co.uk Call The Jewish Bereavement Counselling Service in confidence

For confidential advice, information and support contact us on

020 8922 2222 IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHICH WAY TO TURN, helpline@jcare.org REMEMBER OUR HELPLINE. For Charity confidential advice, information and support don’t forget Jewish Care Direct.

Reg No. 802559

020 8922 2222 jcdirect@jcare.org

jewishcare.org/helpline

020 8951 3881 • 07765 693 160 CHARITY & WELFARE E: enquiries@jbcs.org.uk

020 8951 3881 enquiries@jbcs.org.uk | www.jbcs.org.uk

We are here to helpASSOCIATION WESTLON HOUSING

with free support, advice and information and confidential counselling.

Kosher refuge provision availableAccommodation for women and children in need.

Sheltered

We have anFree open waiting list for our friendly Confidential National Helpline 0808and 801 comfortable 0500 warden assisted advice@jwa.org.uk sheltered housing• schemes for Jewish people www.jwa.org.uk in Ealing, East Finchley and Hendon. We provide 24-hour warden support, seven days a week; a residents’ lounge and kitchen, laundry, a sunny patio and garden.

For further details and application forms, please contact Westlon Housing Association on 020 8201 8484

Charity Reg No. 802559

Jami supports and represents people with mental illness across Jewish community.

1 inthe 4 people will

experience illness.

Give support • Getmental support • Get involved

Leave a legacy to Jami to support those with 020 8458 2223 | info@jamiuk.org a mental illness across the Jewish community. www.jamiuk.org

WESTLON HOUSING ASSOCIATION

020 8458 2223 info@jamiuk.org www.jamiuk.org #jamithinkahead

ARE YOU BEREAVED? Counselling for adults & children who are experiencing loss, and support groups.

Contact The Jewish Bereavement Counselling Service in confidence

Are you a Jewish woman experiencing domestic violence?

With abuse in your home, do you worry about your children?

Sheltered Accommodation We have an open waiting list for our friendly and comfortable warden assisted housing domestic schemes in Ealing, East Are you a Jewishsheltered woman experiencing violence?

Finchley and provide warden support, With abuse in Hendon. your home,We do you worry 24-hour about your children? seven days a week; residents’ Weaare here tolounge help and kitchen, laundry, a sunny patio and garden.counselling. with free support, advice and information and confidential

#jamithinkahead

Kosher Refuge available for women and children in need.

For further details and application forms, please contact Free Confidential Helpline 0808 801 0500 Westlon HousingNational Association on 020 8201 8484

Reg Charity No. 1003345

Reg Charity No. 1003345

advice@jwa.org.uk • www.jwa.org.uk

HOME & MAINTENANCE

Home & Maintenance

L

K

No further, your

LOCAL PLUMBERS

Hall & Randall Plumbers

CENTRAL HEATING, PLUMBING REPAIRS & ADVISORY SERVICE EMERGENCY REPAIRS, BLOCKED PIPES DRAINAGE GUTTERING, ROOFING, CENTRAL HEATING AND BOILERS 12 MONTHS GUARANTEE, 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE

020 8953 2094 office

PLUMBSAFE (UK) LTD

Home Maintenance HOME & & MAINTENANCE

| boiler repairs and installation | complete central heating | | power flushing | complete bathroom installation service | | landlords certificates | project management | home purchase reports |

All NW-London postcodes covered

07860 881505 or 0800 610 12 12

COMPUTER

Eagels Garden Service

TIME DRY CLEANERS

PROFESSIONAL Man on a Bike will PAINTING, DECORATING you working fast! & PAPER HANGING

ď ľTree surgeon ď ľFencing ď ľPatios ď ľGarden Maintainers ď ľGarden Clearance Hedge Trimmers

Free pick up & delivery, same day services, repair / alterations 188 Philip Lane, Tottenham, London. N15 4JW

TEL: 0203 719 2678 W: time-dry-cleaners.business.site E: timedrycleaners@outlook.com

"

| boiler repairs and installation | complete central heating | " #

flushing | complete bathroom service | | power

+ " ) installation "# ,! " | landlords certificates project management home purchase reports

| " |

| !

#

All NW-London postcodes covered

!

07860 881505 or 0800 610 12 12 ) *" " - *'

Not shabbat

DRY CLEANERS

Contact On: 07944240186 02084400226

and !

For all your heating plumbing requirements

Not shabbat

PLUMBSAFEUK.COM

office@hallandrandall.com

Specialist Dry Cleaning – Jewish Garments

! “Better

Safe Than Sorry� ! #

For all your heating and plumbing requirements

020 8207 3286 home 020 8386 8798 hallandrandallplumbers.com

(UK)

P LUMBSAFE LTD

LONDON

“Better Safe Than Sorry�

London 020 8485 8176

PLUMBSAFEUK.COM

PROPERTY

get

City and Guilds Electrician

All types of electrical work undertaken

Rewiring, extra sockets, BT points, Economy 7

storage heaters, Shabbat time switches, security lighting, Over 20Response years experience Rapid IT support for your PC & Mac LED spotlights, fault finding, CCTVportable appliance tests,

Friendly, reliable & Networks, virus problems, broadband, wireless landlord tests andsystems, house buyer’s surveys. service. personal competitive rates Very new computers and everything else may need.

Foryou an efficient reliable and friendly service.

Call Harvey Solomons on For small businesses home users.

STEPHEN: 07973 342&422 srindsmc@hotmail.com

020 8958 6495 / 07836 648 554

Call Ian Green, Man on a Bike on

020 8731 6171 • www.manonabike.co.uk

ADVERTISE IN THE UK’S BIGGEST JEWISH NEWSPAPER FOR LESS THAN £24.00 A WEEK

Call Marc today on 020 7692 6943

Jewish

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

33

Business Services Directory STONEMASON

ADVERTISE IN THE UK’S BIGGEST JEWISH NEWSPAPER FOR LESS THAN £24 A WEEK Email Sales today at

sales@thejngroup.com

Gary Green Memorials 14 Claybury Broadway, Clayhall, Ilford Tel: 020 8551 6866 Fax: 020 8503 9889

41 Manor Park Crescent, Edgware, Middx Tel: 020 8381 1525 Fax: 020 8381 1535 www.garygreenmemorials.co.uk

A. ELFES LTD

New Memorials • Inscriptions • Renovations across the U.K

New memorials Additional inscriptions & renovations Gants Hill

12 Beehive Lane Gants Hill, IG1 3RD Telephone

For current promotions freephone

0800 018 7275

Edgware

130 High Street Edgware, HA8 7EL Telephone

Memorial Masters The Handel Smithy,105 High Street Middlesex, HA8 7DB www.memorialmasters.co.uk

0207 754 4659 0207 754 4646

www.memorialgroup.co.uk

SILVER

Jewish News presents

Wedding and bar/ batmitzvah show

11 November 2018 The Village Hotel, Elstree Show sponsors

Contact us today to book your stand! 020 7692 6959 sales@thejngroup.com LEGACY- LEAVE A GIFT IN YOUR MEMORY Secure our

children’s future

Please include

CST in your Will

Charity no. 1042391

Every gift makes a difference legacy@cst.org.uk

Legacy advert 84x40.indd 1

Leave the legacy of independence to people like Joel.

LEAVE A LEGACY AND CREATE THE FUTURE LEADERS OF ISRAEL

PLease remember us in your wiLL.

Trojan House, 34 Arcadia Avenue London N3 2JU t: 020 8371 1580 e: info@youthaliyah.org.uk www.youthaliyah.org.uk Charity No: 1077913

eNABLeD visit www.Jbd.org or caLL 020 8371 6611

Registered Charity No. 259480

020 8457 3700

www.cst.org.uk

07/04/2017 Your legacy is a gift for young disabled children to make their lives easier by remembering us in your will.

Email: shabatonlmenucha@gmail.com Phone: 0203 3979837 Registered Charity: 1155729

15-040-ER Small legacy advert v3.qxp_Legacy 16/11/2017 08:26 Page 1

HELP US CONTINUE TO BE THERE FOR OUR COMMUNITY WITH A GIFT IN YOUR WILL. Call Alison on 020 8922 2833 for more information or email arubenstein@jcare.org Charity Reg No. 802559

ADVERTISE IN THE UK’S BIGGEST JEWISH NEWSPAPER FOR LESS THAN £24 A WEEK Email Sales today at sales@thejngroup.com

14:47

34

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish News 27 September 2018

Active

How did you keep active this week?

Send details of what you’ve been up to and forthcoming events to: andrews@thejngroup.com

Rebbe with a cause!

FUNDRAISING WALK Members of a shul threatened with closure completed a sponsored walk to raise funds for their community and pay tribute to the rabbi who helped them – recreating the nine-mile walk he makes every Shabbat to lead their service.

Stamford Hill-based Rabbi Zalmy Brackman has walked to Leytonstone and Wanstead Synagogue (LAWS) every week for more than a year – apart from the High Holy Days – having been prompted to do so after it had been faced with closure, due to a lack of numbers.

Answering a call to officiate services, the 31-year-old said: “I first started going once a month, and there was no minyan. That became twice a month, then every week, but we still couldn’t get ten men. However, as the weeks passed, more people started attending, and I’m glad to say we now have a minyan.”

Seeing a rise in membership since his intervention, the father-of-four enjoys the 75-minute walk,

saying how it offers some “lovely scenery”, and thanks his wife Chaia, who looks after their four sons while he’s out.

Enjoying what he does, he’s also glad to have had the opportunity to help. “Part of the Lubavitch philosophy is helping out the [Jewish] community and that’s what this allows me to do”, he says.

To celebrate his actions – and raise essential funds for the synagogue, 10 members of LAWS retraced his steps, where they were welcomed by the Chabad Lubavitch community, davened mincha and maariv and joined a cross-community farbrengen (Chasidic gathering).

Looking forward to continuing his walks and helping the synagogue prosper, Rabbi Brackman added: “Hopefully I’ll be able to do so. I enjoy it, everyone is very friendly and welcoming and it serves a great cause.”

Rabbi Zalmy Blackman, with two of his sons (main); members of LAWS, recreating the rabbi’s walk to raise funds for the synagogue (inset)

Rocky treble flattens Faithfold Tigers roar back to top table MGBSFL Hat-tricks from Rocky Spitzer (pictured), Chaim Korman, and Zack Lewis saw Hendon move joint-top of the Premier Division as it thrashed Faithfold A 10-4.

Jonti Aremband was also on target, with manager Jordan Sapler saying: “The three of them were unplayable.”

Fairlop took advantage of Redbridge A dropping its

first points of the season in Division One, as James Jaconelli’s strike saw it beat NL Raiders A 1-0 – and go jointtop of the table. Hertswood Vale are two points clear at the top of the Division Two table after claiming its third straight win. Jonny Kaye, James Millet and Harry Graham goals seeing it to a 3-1 win at Faithfold C.

 Review: jewishnews.co.uk

ACTIV8 STAY ACTIVE NEXT WEEK...

1 2 3 4

Krav Maga for women 30 Sept – 10.00am www.jw3.org.uk Israeli dancing at Ealing 30 Sept – 10.30am-12.00pm office@ealingsynagogue.org.uk Kinloss junior table tennis 1 Oct – 6.00pm-7.30pm stuartlondon@btconnect.com Feldenkrais Health & fitness class 3 Oct – 10.30am www.jw3.org.uk

5 6 7 8

Pilates 4 Oct – 9.30am www.jw3.org.uk

MASTERS St John’s Wood Tigers and Brady A maintained their 100 percent winning start to the season.

Leading the way on goal difference, The Tigers fought back from falling behind early on, to beat Hendon 2-1, thanks to an own goal and John Perloff strike. They’re joined on six points by

Brady, who beat EHRS 3-0 with Ashley Davidson (pictured), Mark Wagman and Adam Gishon all on target. London Lions bounced back from its opening day defeat with a 7-1 win over Temple Fortune. Michael Abraham scored a hat-trick, Darren Dryer bagged a double, with Danny Schindler and Ory Halperin completing the rout.

Chigwell’s youthful schemers CAMP

Tai Chi at Shaare Zedek 4 Oct – 1.45pm-2.45pm cede@tesco.net Zumba 4 Oct – 3.00pm-3.45pm office@kinloss.org.uk 9th East Finchley Brownies 4 Oct – 5.45pm-7.15pm BrownOwlHGS@hotmail.com

AND IF YOU’RE FEELING INACTIVE...

Simchat Torah Dinner and Gin Tasting 1 Oct – 8.30pm www.aleitzion.co.uk/booking

Chigwell and Hainault Jewish Youth Club’s annual summer scheme saw more than 100 children enjoy a range of activities, ranging from arts and crafts to sport and dance. Now in its 27th year, youth director Sandra Waldman said: “All the children attending the scheme

had a great time, they always want to come back for more and all left with a smile on their face. Chigs has incredible volunteers who give up their time to ensure that the scheme is a success and were this year supported by a team of committed and experienced staff.”

27 September 2018 Jewish News

www.jewishnews.co.uk

Deafness separates people from people — Helen Keller

“

Yom Tov is special — it’s family time. But when my hearing went, I couldn’t keep up with the conversation. I had no idea what everyone was talking about and felt very alone.

Then I got this lovely piece of equipment from JDA! I can hear more clearly and it’s wonderful to be able to sit around the table and chat with my family again…all five generations of us!

At 102, I have a lot to talk about!

Thanks to JDA, more and more people with hearing loss are feeling the joy of connecting with their loved ones again.

”

Please show you care by making a donation today.

020 8446 0502 www.jdeaf.org.uk Registered Charity No. 1105845 Company Limited by Guarantee 4983830

35

36

Jewish News 27 September 2018

www.jewishnews.co.uk

BIG Event Jewish News presents

The

Wedding and bar/ batmitzvah show

Sunday 11 November 2018 The Village Hotel, Elstree Show sponsors

Photo: Gary Perlmutter Photography