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‘Parliament is right place for Shoah tribute’ Pickles and Balls hit back as Jewish peers criticise plans Two senior political heavyweights this week hit back at Jewish peers for criticising the Government’s new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre opposite Parliament, writes Adam Decker.

Labour’s Ed Balls and Tory peer Lord (Eric) Pickles (pictured below), former cabinet ministers who now co-chair the foundation behind the project, hit out against their detractors in an exclusive opinion piece for Jewish News this week.

The pair said the peers’ objections were twoand-a-half years too late, that they had “fundamentally misunderstood” the process, and that the idea of searching for another “non-existent better site” now would be a waste of money.

It follows a letter published in The Times on Tuesday in which eight nobles, some of whom lost family in the Shoah, said the £100million memorial plans for Victoria Tower Gardens Royal Park “evoke neither the Holocaust nor Jewish history”.

In a stinging blow, the signatories – including

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TV executive Lord (Michael) Grade, bioethicist Baroness (Ruth) Deech and Lib Dem grandee Lord (Monroe) Palmer – said the centrepiece recommendation from David Cameron’s Holocaust Commission should be scrapped, with money reallocated to Holocaust education instead.

Yet Balls and Pickles said their critics “betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the status of the drawings,” released last month for consultation, as the peers took aim at the winning design from architect Sir David Adjaye and Anglo-Israeli sculptor Ron Arad.

“As peers who lost close family members in the Holocaust or were deeply affected by it, we write in support of the letter objecting to the location and design of the planned Holocaust memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens,” the peers said.

“The design evokes neither the Holocaust nor Jewish history. The risk is that its purpose will not be obvious to passers-by and it will not be treated with appropriate respect.” The pair further added that while they Continued on page 4

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Javid: ‘I’ll always support Israel’ Sajid Javid has spoken of how a school trip to Israel by his brother 40 years ago set off his lifelong support for Israel, as he paid tribute to Labour MPs for standing up for the country and fighting antisemitism, writes Justin Cohen.

The home secretary delivered a keynote address at Conservative Friends of Israel’s conference reception, with communities secretary James Brokenshire, defence secretary Gavin Williamson and party chairman Brandon Lewis also addressing the 500-strong audience. Scores more were unable to get into the packed room.

Javid joked it was a larger crowd than attended his main conference speech earlier in the day, before recalling his brother’s school visit aged 11. “I’d never heard the word ‘Israel’,” he said. “My dad explained the history, how it came about and why it is such a special place.

Since then I always wanted to visit.”

He first travelled to Israel – where he has previously said he would choose to live out of any country in the Middle East – on honeymoon and returned repeatedly for business and with his close friend Robert Halfon MP, who told the audience there was no need for any communal pessimism while a “true” friend like Javid remains in Government.

“I vowed to myself that whatever opportunity I get in Government, I’ll always try to help and support Israel, and that’s what I’ve done ever since,” said Javid, mentioning how he

Home Secretary Sajid Javid at CFI

stood up to regular calls to back BDS as business secretary by boosting trade with Israel and promoting the IHRA to councils as communities secretary.

In what was seen by some as a nod to communal calls for the outlawing of Hezbollah in full, the home secretary said he was “looking at

what more we can do to strengthen our already strong partnership with Israel, especially in security.

“Now as home secretary, there is so much more I want to do, and am doing, and I will continue to do, to work with Israel. Already I have made it absolutely clear that the Home Office will continue to support our Jewish friends, our Jewish population in this country in every way that we can.”

Javid also paid tribute to Labour Friends of Israel, saying: “One thing we agree on is antisemitism is wrong in every shape and form and we all support the state of Israel.

“Today is an opportunity to extend that hand of friendship and to tell them on Israel and their fight against antisemitism we stand with them.”

Brokenshire hailed the “incredible”work of CFI in linking parliamentarians from both countries and praised “an enduring partnership in technology, medicine, academia and in our shared values” over seven decades.

To loud applause, he added: “Israel has the right to defend itself. We pray for peace for all communities. As a true friend of Israel we’re here to help.”

He heaped praise on CFI parliamentary cochair Lord Pickles for enhancing bilateral relations and for his work on the new national Holocaust memorial. Brokenshire – who described himself as “communities secretary standing for all communities” – emphasised the “respon-

sibility” of the Conservatives to “stand up and call out antisemitism wherever we see it”, in a side-swipe at Labour.

Williamson praised the UK-Israel relationship, stating: “In terms of defence, Britain and Israel are working increasingly closely together.

There’s a real bond and a real understanding about the importance of working together. That bond, that friendship is so vitally important to both nations.”

Lord Eric, serving as MC, drew huge cheers by asking the audience who is a Zionist and by mentioning the Balfour Declaration.

Shaun Bailey, the Tory’s London mayoral candidate, described himself as a “CFI graduate” whose visit to the region with the organisation opened his eyes to the reality. Praising the contribution of the community to the capital, he said: “In any ups and downs as a fellow good Londoner I’ll stand with you.”

Stephen Crabb, who chairs CFI in the Commons, rounded on the “poison of antisemitism” that has “reared it’s ugly head in British politics”. He added: “We work with some very brave and courageous Labour MPs that stand with Labour Friends of Israel. The bravery that they show when they stand up...to defend Israel is something to be admired”.

The meeting was also addressed by Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev, CFI lay chair Andrew Heller and Chipping Barnet MP Theresa Villiers.

Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab’s personal recollections were warmly received

‘Father inspired me to fight antisemitism’ Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab told the conference that the experiences of his father, who fled the Nazis aged six, inspired him to fight antisemitism “until my last breath”.

Raab, 44, who took over from David Davis in July, grew up in Buckinghamshire and used his speech at this week’s rally to recall his Czech-born father Peter’s early passage to England to underscore his determination to fight racism.

He told the conference his father “grew up knowing his grandmother, grandfather, most of his relatives, the

loved ones he left behind, had been systematically slaughtered for no other reason than they were Jews”.

Raab said his father “never forgot what happened to his family”, adding: “I will honour his memory by fighting the scourge of antisemitism and racism until my last breath.”

A solicitor by training, Raab worked in Ramallah during the summer of 1998 and helped the principal Palestinian negotiator on the Oslo Accords, later returning to the UK to work on the Arab-Israeli desk at the Foreign Office.

Raab, who voted for Britain to leave the EU, has previously spoken about his father, notably in discussions about immigration in the run-up to the Brexit referendum.

He said: “I like the fact we are a melting pot. I just worry about the impact.”

His conference floor reference to antisemitism was expected to be a running theme this week, as Tories take turns to attack Labour over their record of antagonising the Jewish community by perceived inaction over the past three years.

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PM brands Labour a ‘national tragedy’ Theresa May aimed a savage personal attack at Jeremy Corbyn over Labour antisemitism and claimed his Labour Party offered the country only “bogus solutions”.

The prime minister used her Conservative Party conference keynote speech to hit out at Mr Corbyn and his allies, highlighting the bitter row over antisemitism and claiming the current Labour leadership rejected the “common values” once shared by both main parties.

“What has befallen Labour is a national tragedy,” she said.

Comparing Corbyn to his predecessors, the Prime Minister said: “Would Neil Kinnock, who stood up to the hard-left, have stood by while his own MPs faced deselection, and needed police protection at their

Theresa May speaking at the conference on Wednesday

party conference?

“Would Jim Callaghan, who served in the Royal Navy, have asked the Russian government to confirm the findings of our own intelligence agencies?

“Would Clement Attlee, Churchill’s trusted deputy during the Second World War, have told British

Jews they didn’t know the meaning of antisemitism?”

She added: “What has it come to when Jewish families today seriously discuss where they should go if Jeremy Corbyn becomes prime minister of this country?

“When a leading Labour MP says his party is ‘institu-

tionally racist’?

“When the leader of the Labour Party is happy to appear on Iranian state TV, but attacks our free media here in Britain? That is what Jeremy Corbyn has done to the Labour Party.

“It is our duty, in this Conservative Party, to make sure he can never do it to our country.”

In a clear pitch for mainstream voters she claimed were “appalled” by Corbyn, she said she wanted the “decent, moderate and patriotic” Conservatives to be “a party for the whole country”.

Labour chairman Ian Lavery said: “While the country is crying out for real change, all Theresa May and her party offer are pinched ideas and tinkering around at the edges, relying on petty attacks to cover up their lack of vision.”

‘LET US STAND WITH OUR JEWISH FRIENDS AGAINST PREJUDICE’ Environment Secretary Michael Gove has become the latest bighitting Tory to bash Labour over its antisemitism crisis, telling the party conference “Hamas-hugging Jeremy Corbyn” should “never be let anywhere near Downing Street”.

Gove, who has long been a champion of Jewish causes, said Labour under Corbyn had become “a toxic cocktail of unrepentant MarxismLeninism and unacceptable antisemitism”.

He said: “They are giving all the errors of the 20th century another chance to wreck our society. We’ve seen how this story ends before: in misery and shame. When our Jewish friends and neighbours live in fear for their futures, let us stand with them against prejudice, against intimidation, against bigotry and against hate.”

Gove said the message of “unshakeable solidarity with the Jewish community” should come “loud and clear” from the Conservative conference, before calling Corbyn a “Moscow-loving, Hamas-

Environment Secretary Michael Gove at the conference

hugging, high-taxing, moderatebashing, job-destroying, national anthem-avoiding, NATO-hating, class war-provoking, one-man museum of economic folly”.

His speech had echoes of that of fellow Brexiteer Boris Johnson, who, at last year’s conference, called Corbyn a “NATO-bashing, Tridentscrapping would-be abolisher of the British Army… He says he admires Bolivarian revolutionary socialism, I say he’s Caracas”.

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McDonnell backs JVL Shoah memorial chairs defend site head’s MP bid Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has turbocharged the campaign of Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) co-founder Jenny Manson to become an MP, after agreeing to appear at an event with her in Barnet.

McDonnell will take part in a head-to-head with Manson next Thursday to be live-screened by Barnet Momentum, the grassroots left-wing group championing her bid to become a Labour MP. Manson,whoseUkrainianmother grew up in Haifa after escaping a pogrom, is a secular Jew and vociferous Israel critic. Now crowdfunding for her parliamentary candidacy, she has previously served as a Labour councillor for four years and stood for Hendon North in 1987.

Manson joined Jews for Justice for Palestinians in 2001 and, in 2017, helped set up JVL as a Jewish socialist network seen as an antidote to the Jewish

Labour Movement (JLM), from which she has repeatedly defended Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

McDonnell recently told Jewish News he had good relations with JLM and said former tax inspector Manson “will make an excellent candidate”, adding: “Jenny is a fine socialist and a splendid advocate on behalf of our movement.”

His support will raise eyebrows so soon after the party conference, in which Corbyn told the mainstream Jewish community Labour was “an ally”, because JVL held a counter-demonstration at the ‘Enough is Enough’ rally earlier this year, arguing the crisis had been blown out of all proportion by right-wing Jews.

The Labour frontbencher denied the idea that endorsing Manson’s candidacy would further

Above: JVL co-founder and Labour MP hopeful Jenny Manson. Left: John McDonnell will appear with her in Barnet

damage Labour-Jewish community relations in an interview with Jewish News last month.

“I don’t think it would,” he said.

“We’ve got to get to a situation where we can create a climate where people can have disagreements but respect each other.

“The JVL is a way in which views can be expressed. We keep saying the Labour party [is] a broad church on a range of views.”

QC withdraws support for ‘witch-hunt’ group Leading QC Michael Mansfield (pictured) has withdrawn his sponsorship of a group that believes Labour’s antisemitism scandal is a political witch-hunt after being shown “unacceptable” messages.

The high-profile barrister said he was pulling his support for Labour Against the Witch-hunt (LAW) after he was “alerted to material promulgated by the campaign”, prompting

a strenuous denial from the group.

In a statement, Mansfield said: “Both the tenor and content are unacceptable. For these reasons, I wish to withdraw my sponsorship, while wishing to maintain my support for a responsible and vigorous critique of any government which flagrantly undermines the rule of law.”

Mansfield said he gave his support “to defend the right of those who

wished to voice legitimate criticisms of the government of Israel and their repeated violation of international law from being unfairly categorised as antisemitism”.

In a statement yesterday, however, the LAW steering committee denied it was behind the messages, saying it “deplores some of the tweets that have been issued in our name”.

They added: “We have only just been informed of the content of some of the tweets and wish to distance LAW from them in the strongest possible terms.”

Continued from page 1 supported Cameron’s aim to fund a new memorial, objections to the current proposal were “well-founded”.

While local residents and environmentalists have previously raised concerns about the project, for which the government has earmarked £50million, Jewish community representatives have whole-heartedly backed plans to dig up part of the small park next to Parliament in order to build a partially subterranean memorial.

Other signatories include former P&O chairman Lord (Jeffrey) Sterling, textiles magnate Lord (Simon) Haskel, Hampstead businessman Lord (Parry) Mitchell, gastroenterologist Lord (Leslie) Turnberg, and former Lib Dem QC Lord (Alex) Carlile, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.

In their letter, they write: “The aims need to be thought through. There are other memorials in this country, such as in Hyde Park, the Imperial War Museum and Newark; and yet antisemitism and disproportionate hatred of Israel are rising, most shockingly

The winning memorial design, due to be built opposite Parliament

among the young, who have had Holocaust education at school.”

They add that it would be better to use the money for a smaller Westminster memorial or other relevant projects, but Pickles and Balls said Victoria Tower Gardens was “the best place” and “already the home to memorials that celebrate the fight against slavery, inequality and injustice”.

The pair added: “It would not be prudent to expend public money on a fruitless search for a non-existent better site.” ¿ Editorial comment, page 14

WARM TRIBUTES PAID TO ‘DEAR FRIEND’ MICHAEL Tributes have been paid to veteran journalist and author Michael Freedland (pictured), father of Guardian columnist Jonathan, after he passed away this week, aged 83.

His lifelong career working at titles such as The Economist, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator and The Guardian, also included a broadcasting spell at BBC London in the 1980s, presenting on BBC Radio Two, and even lecturing on cruise ships.

Earlier this year, the accomplished biographer published his first work touching on the Shoah, writing about

survivor Sir Ben Helfgott, and his Jewish identity was keenly felt and aired, from the early 1970s, when he launched his radio show, You Don’t Have to be Jewish, which ran for nearly a quarter of a century.

Helfgott paid tribute to Freedland, telling Jewish News: “He was a wonderful journalist and personality, as well as a dear friend.

“His remarkable ability to bring a subject to life and engage and entertain an audience will be sorely missed in the Jewish community and far beyond.”

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WJR launches appeal to help quake victims World Jewish Relief this week launched an emergency appeal in response to the Indonesiaian earthquake and tsunami that has so far claimed 1,400.

The 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, followed by a devastating tsunami. Buildings collapsed and homes were washed away as the tidal water engulfed the coastal areas, while the capital Palu, still has no electricity with communications severely limited.

People remain trapped inside the rubble after homes, hotels and shopping centres collapsed, while rescuers

have been digging by hand to find survivors. With numbers expected to rise, the WJR emergency team is assessing the situation in Indonesia, to determine how to best support the people affected by the tragedy.

Launching its Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami Appeal with the backing of the UK Jewish communal agencies and senior rabbis, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said: “There can be no more sobering reminder of human vulnerability than the harrowing images from Indonesia.

“Once again, WJR is providing us with a vehicle for offering support to

those in desperate need. Please help in any way you can.”

Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism, said: “Our prayers say, ‘as God supports the needy when they call, may we respond with generosity and compassion’.

Let’s make these words real with our actions.”

Jonathan Wittenberg, Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism, said: “We must reach out in our hearts and prayers to the families whose lives have been devastated, and offer what practical help we can.”

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Vigil for terror victims The Zionist Federation of the UK and Ireland joined forces with Mizrachi UK to hold a vigil in Hendon on Sunday, remembering the victims of Palestinian terror in Israel.

Held just a week after the murder of activist Ari Fuld, participants used the event as an opportunity to stand together, remembering not just Fuld, but all victims murdered in cold blood by terrorists targeting civilians indiscriminately.

More than 100 attended the vigil, held on Hoshana Raba, erev chag, in the centre of Hendon. They held signs with the names of victims and when they were killed, signs outlining the numbers who have been killed and injured, and calling for an end to the “pay to slay” policy of the Palestinian Authority whereby perpetrators of terrorism are given a salary while in Israeli prisons.

Survivors survey the damage following the earthquake and tsunami

executive of Liberal Judaism, added: “WJR is once again at the forefront of putting our Jewish values into practice. The tsunami in Indonesia is devastating for its victims and it is a Jewish moral imperative to respond.”

WJR chief executive Paul Anti-

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MALAYSIAN PM’S UK VISIT IS DENOUNCED Jewish groups have denounced the UK visit of 93-year-old Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, who has said Jews “rule the world by proxy”. Fresh from his anti-Israel speech at the United Nations last week, Mohamad visited Imperial College and the University of Oxford before giving a speech to prestigious think-tank Chatham House. Jewish groups pointed to his 2012 blog post, in which the prime minister said: “Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight for them.”

FROM WONDERWOMAN TO A SUPER SLEUTH Israeli actress Gal Gadot is set to star in next year’s remake of the Agatha Christie novel Death on the Nile. According to Deadline.com, the 33-year-old was selected by Fox to play the role of Lennet Ridgeway Doyle, a rich heiress, with the film set to be released in 2019. It’s a busy time for Gadot, who is currently filming the Wonder Woman sequel, will appear in the animated Ralph Breaks the Internet this November, and is also set to star opposite Dwayne Johnson in an art heist movie, Red Notice.

Search begins for our class of 2019 The search began this week for the true heroes of Jewish primary and secondary school education, as nominations opened for the fourth Jewish School Awards.

A joint project between Jewish News and Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), the awards ceremony is now among the highest profile communal events, and this time will be held at the JW3 community centre on 11 February.

New categories for 2019 will recognise excellence in Israel education, initiatives in art and literacy, and chesed (loving kindness), and nominations can be made through the website of either PaJeS or Jewish News.

Acknowledging the importance of a child’s early and later development, the judges next year will for the first time consider nominees for outstanding practice in the foundation stage in a primary school, as well as excellence in facilitating student responsibility for older children.

The awards received more than 400 nominations last year, which marked the first time non-teaching staff were recognised among the top talent from the country’s 120 Jewish schools.

As with previous years, each of the 2019 winners will be given £5,000 for a project of his or her choice that will benefit the school involved in some way.

Each runner-up will receive £1,000.

“We are delighted to be holding our fourth Jewish

Schools Awards,” said PaJeS director Rabbi David Meyer.

“This annual occasion is now a well-respected communal event and an opportunity to recognise the excellent teaching provided by all those working in Jewish schools across the UK.” He said the dedication of teaching staff “ensures the education of the next generation of our community”, adding: “We look forward to receiving nominations from the whole Apples all round: The happy line-up at this year’s Jewish Schools Awards community and to show- winners’ ceremony. Above, how we reported the event on our front page casing the wonderful This year’s awards shone a light on support staff accomplishments of the and those working on mental health in schools, an staff in our schools.”

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Jack has ‘time of his life’ at EasyJet An eight-year-old Jewish boy with learning difficulties had “the time of his life” last week after being shown the inner workings of a plane by its crew.

Jack Azagury-Slattery, who has autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was treated to the tour after his drawings of an EasyJet plane were picked up by the company’s management.

The youngster, a pupil at Sinai Jewish Primary School, was grinning from ear to ear as he was given VIP access at the airline’s Luton academy, with staff letting him fly in the pilot’s seat, operate the tannoy system, close the doors

and slide down the evacuation slide.

“It was a dream come true,” said his mother, Deborah. “What an amazing thing to offer a young boy. Jack has many struggles, but at Luton he was in heaven.”

When Deborah put his latest drawings on Facebook, someone forwarded them to the company, who got in touch.

“They asked if they could use his drawings,” she said. “We chatted and they offered for him to come and spend the day there. He had the time of his life. He really felt special. I could see it in his face. I was really grateful.”

She added: “It is important to point out when companies acknowledge children, and children with special needs, in that way and help make their lives a little better.”

Jack was a finalist in the young artist category of this year’s Visual Art Open, winning judges’ approval after submitting his black-marker scene of the school playground. “He has a talent for drawing. He finds it calming,” said Deborah.

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Ambulances donated to Israel Christian Friends of Magen David Adom UK (CFMDA) have donated two ambulances to Israel in remembrance of the 1948 Hadassah Convoy Massacre.

During the tragedy two ambulances were blown up, killing 78 people, including doctors, nurses, students, patients, Hebrew University faculty members, Haganah fighters and a British soldier.

The ceremony was held on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus, adjacent to the location of the incident, with a reception at Hadassah Hospital, where the 1948 convoy was headed.

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Members of CFMDA with one of two donated vehicles

widow of Norman Feingold of CFMDA and Barbara Goldstein, deputy executive director of Hadassah Jerusalem Office, Former Ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub, said: “Many thanks for this amazing gift to the people of Israel”, while CFMDA UK president Rev-

erend Mark Madeley, said: “CFMDA was formed in 2006 during the Second Lebanon war as a very practical way of showing our support for Israel.”

Christians in the UK have since donated seven ambulances and an emergency room to the people of Israel.

JVN CHIEF TO STEP DOWN The head of the Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN) Leonie Lewis is stepping down, 10 years after helping to establish it, leaving fellow community grandee Nicky Goldman to take over.

JVN trustee David Lazarus commended Lewis’ “excellent commitment and drive in running the charity”, adding: “Leonie has done a fantastic job of taking JVN from its

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The JVN fostered a pioneering interfaith relationship with Christian groups after

the latter approached Lewis (pictured) with a view to setting up something similar to JVN for local churches. The model is now being replicated

by Muslim groups.

Goldman put in place a first-rate leadership development programme at Lead, a division of the Jewish Leadership Council. She assumes her role as JVN chief executive in 2019.

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The price of living in Golders Analysts have revealed what salary Londoners need to earn to get a mortgage on a one-bedroom property in areas with large Jewish populations, with an eye-watering £73,000 required for Golders Green.

The figure contrasts sharply with £42,000 needed to get a mortgage in Hendon, just two Tube stops away, whereas those eyeing Hampstead will need to pull in almost six figures.

Salaries needed for one-beds in Finchley ranged from £49,000 to £57,000, with Mill Hill properties requiring annual pay of £51,000, while hopeful owners in Brent Cross and Edgware would need £46,000 and £45,000 respectively.

All hope for Jewish would-be home-buyers is not lost, however, because in Redbridge in east London, where there is a strong Jewish community, you need only earn £17,000 – highly achievable for many.

It follows research released today by TotallyMoney.com and is based on a one-bedroom property within one kilometre of all London Underground, Overground, and DLR stations.

Researchers took median prices, assumed a 10 percent deposit and 40 percent of earnings being spent on monthly repayments over a standard 25-year mortgage, with tax factored in across all tax bands.

Areas with large Jewish populations were all a snip compared to Knightsbridge, where bank managers would need to see a

You’ll need an annual salary of £73,000 to secure a mortgage on a one-bedroom property in Golders Green, while the same sized home in Redbridge requires considerably less

salary of £248,000.

Meanwhile, the original East End Jews of Whitechapel would no doubt choke on their chicken soup to learn that a one-bed in the place they once called home now needs an

annual income of £84,000.

Analysts said the study makes for stark reading, and that teachers, firefighters and nurses, who earn between £28,000 and £31,000 on average, could afford to buy just

two percent of the properties surveyed.

“Our research shows that even if you can save enough for the deposit, your options are even more limited than you might suspect,” said TotallyMoney’s Mark Maloney.

“What’s more, the research considers onebedroom properties only, meaning that those with families or those hoping to start a family will have even fewer options available to them.”

Estate agent Steve Wayne from Benjamin Stevens said: “As with all cities, the closer you get to the centre, the more the property prices will go up, so it’s not surprising that areas with large Jewish populations, such as Golders Green, Finchley, Edgware and Hendon, may not be the cheapest, but they are also far from the most expensive.”

He said their attractions included good road and rail travel links, the choice of schools and their relatively short distance time from the centre of London.

“These sorts of attractions warrant higher prices. Jewish communities in East London will always be slightly cheaper, as you are slightly further out.”

TOP LAWYER FACES TRIBUNAL The former director of UK Lawyers for Israel who brought the Al-Quds Day rally to a halt earlier this year is preparing to defend himself in a disciplinary tribunal in response to messages on social media.

Mark Lewis (pictured), a well-known media lawyer and wheelchair user who recently told the BBC he was making aliyah in response to antisemitism in the UK, is accused of sending “offensive and profane communications” in 2016.

Lewis is believed to have responded to racist messages. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) took the unusual action of saying it “does not condone the actions of any individuals involved in exchanges with Mr Lewis on Twitter”. He faces two charges, including posting “offensive and profane communications towards a third party” on Facebook on 26 May last year

and of using his Twitter account to publicly post “offensive and profane communications” between 2015 and 2016, which publicly identified him as a solicitor. Lewis has said: “It is a matter of great principle that one can respond robustly to intimidating racist death threats.”

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The government is to change the law to enable heterosexual couples to enter into civil partnerships, following a campaign by a Jewish pair.

Ministers said the move, announced at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, was an “important step forward for equality”.

It follows a Supreme Court ruling in June that legislation on civil partnerships, which are currently open only to same-sex couples, was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. It unanimously ruled in favour of Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, a Jewish couple from London, who mounted a legal challenge to be allowed to have a civil partnership.

In any case, the government had launched a review of the legislation in England and Wales, while the Scottish government has also issued a consultation paper on the subject.

Steinfeld and Keidan welcomed the news, and called on ministers to bring forward legislation as swiftly as possible.

“This is great news and a major step in the right direction, but we will only celebrate when legislation is agreed and the government confirms the date for when the first different-sex civil partnership can take place,” they said in a statement.

“We’ve been struggling for four long years to open civil partnerships to all for the millions of couples like us who want legal recognition and financial protection for their relationship.”

The government said extending them to opposite-sex couples in England and Wales would provide greater security for those who wanted legal recognition for their relationship but did not want to get married.

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News / Jewish history / Nobel Prize Members and clergy of Cardiff’s Jewish community, pictured in early 20th century

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Lottery funds to tell Wales’ Jewish story Jewish historians in Wales have had a £40,000 boost from the National Lottery for a project exploring how Jews helped develop the region.

The money, which will go to the Jewish History Association of South Wales, will be used to record testimonies to collect and preserve oral histories showcasing the 250-year-old community. The collection will then tour in 2019.

Swansea’s Jewish burial ground dates from 1768, while the Cardiff community began in the 1840s, with two remaining synagogues – one Orthodox and one Reform.

As mining and industry boomed so, too, did the Jewish presence in places such as Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypridd, Newport, Brynmawr, Tredegar and Llanelli.

“The important role of the Jewish community in Wales has been little understood or appreciated,” says Richard Bellamy, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in Wales, whose grant makes up more than 80 percent of the total needed.

“The project will bring that contribution to life. Thanks to National Lottery players, HLF grants enable everyone to share their stories and celebrate the richness of different cultures and traditions.”

Private contributions garnered through crowdfunding have helped raise the rest of the money, with one Jewish care home pitching in, while an anonymous donor said they would match donations up to £5,000.

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Prize for physics alongStrickland and side two others who Mourou helped develop have been recognised for short and intense laser advances in laser physics. pulses that have broad The Swedish Royal industrial and medical Academy of Sciences applications. awarded the £770,000 The awarding of the prize, to Arthur Ashkin of the United States, along Arthur Ashkin was recognised for prize to Strickland ended a drought for women with Gerard Mourou advances in laser physics winning any of the presof France and Canada’s tigious prizes. ticles such as viruses without Donna Strickland, for She is the first woman to “groundbreaking inventions damaging them.

Ashkin was born in New be named a Nobel laureate in the field of laser physics”.

The academy said Ashkin York, Brooklyn, in 1922 to since 2015.

She is also only the third to developed “optical twee- parents Isadore and Anna, zers” that can grab tiny par- Jewish immigrants who have won the physics prize.

MUSLIMS SHOW SOLIDARITY INSIDE THEIR SUCCAHS Three mosques embraced the Jewish festival of Sukkot on Sunday, erecting a succah for their Muslim community to learn more about it. The initiative began in 2015 as an act of solidarity after an attack on a kosher deli in Paris and is led by Faiths Forum for London.

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BANK OF ENGLAND GETS FIRST SUCCAH The Bank of England erected a succah for its Jewish workers for the first time in its centuries-long history. The succah was the first such installation in the bank’s 324 years of existence. Members of the bank’s maintenance team helped its Jewish Network erect the tabernacle on a first-floor balcony, which was open to the sky, at its HQ in Threadneedle Street. The bank was opened in 1694, 38 years after the resettlement of Jews in England.

ISRAELI DIPLOMAT’S DAUGHER ABUSED The daughter of Israel’s Consul General in New York Dani Dayan and an student at Columbia University, said she is being harassed and threatened by the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine.Ofir Dayan said she has been called a “murderer” and “terrorist” by angry mobs of Palestinian supporters and that when her father spoke at the university in February she was handed a publication calling the consul general a “war criminal.”

Nightingale end-of-life care praised End of life care in the Jewish community was highly commended this week as Nightingale House won the presitgious Care Home Of The Year award.

Nightingale House in Clapham won the accolade, handed out by the National Gold Standards Framework Centre for End of Life Care (GSF), beating nine other entrants to win coveted accreditation from a panel of judges.

“Without a shadow of a doubt, GSF helped us achieve the ‘outstanding’ rating from the Care

our residents.”

Quality Commission The home has this summer,” said been providing Simon Pedzisi, care to the care director Jewish comat the 215-bed munity for Nightingale more than House, where 175 years, and the average judges praised age of resithe “excellent level dents on admisof dedication to living sion is 92. “For us to demonstrate high stand- Nightingale House well until the end of life, and of understanding and ards of care means we are demonstrating high standards of end compassionate care at the end of life”.

They added: “It offers deeply of life care because of the age profile of

impressive, systematic, individual and movingly compassionate end of life care for residents.”

During 2018, no Nightingale House residents died in hospital – all residents who died did so in the nursing home, their preferred place.

Pedzisi said staff are encouraged to treat every day as though it could be the resident’s last.

He added: “From pre-admission, we are already thinking about their journey towards the end of life and how we can facilitate the most comfortable journey.”

MITZVAH DAY JOINS JLC ‘Minor impact’ on schools Mitzvah Day Mitzvah Day has began life at JHub become the 35th in West Hampmember of the stead, supported by Jewish Leadership the Pears FoundaCouncil (JLC) as it tion, and works to celebrates its tenth spread the Jewish anniversary year. values of tikkun olam The social action United on Mitzvah Day (repairing the world), charity, founded by former Board of Deputies senior vice- gemilut chasadim (loving kindness) and president Laura Marks, has grown into tzedek (charity and assistance).

“The JLC is delighted to have such an international organisation building bridges with other faith communities, a wonderful communal organisation and Marks said representation at the join our membership,” said JLC chair Jonathan Goldstein.

JLC will help that effort.

Jewish education chiefs say there is little to fear from Labour’s policy of bringing back free schools and academies under local authority control.

Last week, Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner MP (pictured) said Labour would “immediately end the Tories’ academy and free schools programmes”.

Several Jewish primary and secondary schools have been set up as free schools, and more are becoming academies, with three Orthodox secondaries

in Stamford Hill forming the Lubavitch Multi-Academy Trust.

Rayner said Labour would seek to “bring all publicly-funded schools back into the mainstream public sector, with a common rule book and under local democratic control”, but also suggested academies could choose not to.

Partnerships for Jewish Schools director Rabbi David Meyer said the policy “may prove problematic for schools planning to become academies or form multi-academy trusts” but added Labour made the speech in opposition.

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Seven killed in latest Gaza border clashes Violence has erupted again along the Israeli border with Gaza with seven Palestinians, including two boys, shot and killed by the IDF after Israel said its troops were attacked.

In one of the deadliest clashes since May, Israeli forces shot and injured 90 others, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as Israel said it was acting “in accordance with standard operating procedures”.

The IDF said “rioters sabotaged security infrastructure, attempted to cross the security fence and infiltrate into Israel in several locations and hurled over 100 improvised explosive devices and grenades towards IDF troops and the security fence”. The IDF added that no Israeli soldiers were injured.

Among the seven dead was 12-yearold Nassir al-Mosabeh who, according to his sister, was helping medics.

His friend told Reuters: “I do not know what the occupation saw in him to kill him. What did he do to them? Did he kill anybody?”

The weekly border protests began at the end of March and came to inter-

Palestinian protesters flee tear gas on the Gaza border

national attention in May when the US Embassy move prompted violent scenes and scores of deaths. Young UK Jews protested against Israel’s actions but were later criticised because most of the dead protesters were Hamas terrorists.

The latest confrontation follows a dire warning from the World Bank last week that Gaza’s economy was “in freefall” and that the “crippling economic state” was adding to the “human distress”. Half of Gaza’s population is unemployed.

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TRUMP: TWO STATES THE BEST SOLUTION For the first time since becoming US President, Donald Trump this week told reporters he believes two states – Israel and one for the Palestinians – “works best”.

“I like two-state solution,” Trump stated as he posed for photographs with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN. “That’s what I think works best.

That’s my feeling. Now you may have a different feeling. I don’t think so. But I think two-state solution works best.”

Trump has previously been vague on the topic, suggesting he would support whatever the parties might agree to, including a onestate resolution that might see the Palestinian territories become part of Israel.

Trump later told a news conference that reaching a two-state solution is “more difficult because it’s a real estate deal” but that ultimately it “works better because you have people governing themselves”.

He added that he would still support Israel and the Palestinians should they opt for a one-state solution, although he believed that was less likely.

He said: “Bottom line: If the

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Israelis and Palestinians want onestate, that’s OK with me. If they want two states, that’s OK with me.

I’m happy if they’re happy.”

In his earlier comments, Trump said his much-anticipated but still unreleased Middle East peace plan could be presented in the next two to four months, but was not specific as to timing.

He has been heavily criticised by the Palestinians for moves they say show bias toward Israel, starting with his recognition last year of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Palestinians also claim the holy city as the capital of an eventual state.

Real Madrid hosts teenage ‘terrorist’ Spanish footballing giant Real Madrid has been branded ‘shameful’ after welcoming Palestinian teenage activist Ahed Tamimi to its stadium before a big match last weekend.

Tamimi was sentenced in March to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of assault, including one that was videotaped and went viral on social media in which she slapped a soldier in front of her house.

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istry spokesman Emanuel Nachshon said of the visit in a tweet: “The prestigious soccer club of Real Madrid embraces a terrorist inciting to hatred and violence. Shameful.”

Tamimi’s mother was also jailed for incitement for filming her daughter with a mobile phone camera calling on her fellow Palestinians to stab Israelis, throw rocks at them and offer themselves as suicide bombers in order to “liberate Palestine”.

Ahed Tamimi with her father and club official Emilio Butragueño

Welcoming her to its Santiago Bernabéu stadium on Saturday, ahead of the match with local rivals Atletico Madrid, the host team presented her with a Real Madrid jersey with her name on the back.

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The family of late Jewish rocker Randy Wolfe are suing Led Zeppelin again, accusing the British band of stealing the introduction to Wolfe’s song for the hit Stairway to Heaven. Trustees for Wolfe say he had copyright through his band, Spirit, but that Jimmy Page riffed it from Spirit’s song Taurus.

A multi-million dollar project to translate the Babylonian Talmud into Italian was heralded at the United Nations last week. Since 2011, Italian researchers have been using specialist software called Traduco to translate the 2,711 double-sided pages of the Talmud’s original Aramaic into Italian.

The Dutch Jewish community has cheered the country’s first naturally-grown etrog fruit in decades.

Rachel Levy from Utrecht used a garden on her balcony during the hot summer to produce the rare sight of the home-grown citrus fruit used for ceremonial purposes over Succot.

Right-wing populists who scored highly in an election last month have demanded Sweden’s embassy should move to Jerusalem. The Swedish Democrats, which campaigns against Muslim immigration, said: ‘Sweden should do what is selfevident, and as Jews knew for 3,000 years.’

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Memorial worthy of prime location Objections to the new Holocaust Memorial at Victoria Tower Gardens made this week by eight peers of the realm were strange for several reasons, not least because they came from Jews who lost families in the Shoah, who would – you’d have thought – be most keen on it.

Their alternative suggestion – to use the money for Holocaust education instead – was well-meaning, but not a little late, and not an either/or as they presented.

The community, along with memorial co-chairs Lord Pickles and Ed Balls, have been left a little perplexed by all this, believing that it was an argument held and won some years ago. So, why intervene now?

In part the peers’ objection is to the design, arguing in essence that it doesn’t scream ‘Holocaust’ at you. But look at the profound effect Berlin’s memorial has had on international visitors. That, from a series of granite blocks.

The peers also raise the point that the Imperial War Museum, only a mile away, has its own excellent Holocaust Galleries, but fail to recognise that this serves a different audience.

In its location search, the government’s aim was “to find the most meaningful location which could best reflect the impact of the Holocaust”. It said Victoria Tower Gardens “best suited joint aims, being the most significant location and offering the greatest value”.

Several studies, including environmental and flood risk, have been undertaken, and every care is being made to minimise the impact. Planners have already moved the site north for fear of disturbing tree roots.

The arguments, in short, seem like nimbyism.

True, no one wants to see London’s parks uprooted, but backers hope the memorial and learning centre will take root deep in the public conscience, reminding us all what happens when hate takes hold.

If that isn’t worth a prime location, we don’t know what is.

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The ‘little people’ syndrome As one outside the community but an interested observer (I am not Jewish but my wife is), I am reminded by recent events of a famous quote from the film Lawrence of Arabia in which Lawrence tells Sherif Ali: “So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people.”

Change a key word and read faction against faction or even religion against non-religion, and there is a point here for us all.

I am not raising it because I wish to attack the Arabs. The point is fighting among yourselves undermines your cause, whoever you are.

And what brings this on? The news that moves are being made to gather enough signatures for

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a no-confidence vote in Board of Deputies vice-president Sheila Gewolb over, and I quote, “her statement this summer expressing concern about Israel’s new Nation State law”.

I confess freely as a non-Jew that many of the intricacies of Jewish life are beyond my reach.

This applies also to Jewish political life. I do not know Ms Gewolb, and if there are other considerations at play I am not aware of them.

But such action as seems to be contemplated in this case because she dared to express a point of view seems extreme.

Whatever happened to “two Jews, three opinions”?

Alan Marcin St Albans

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GROUPTHINK FLAG-WAVERS Like most Jewish people I know, I have no problem with Labour delegates waving Palestinian flags at their party conference, or even the flag of the only democracy in the region.

Yet imagine if someone had unfurled the Star of David. The obtuse, one-eyed group-think of Corbynism is no better exemplified than in its deranged obsession with

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Never a murmur about victims of, say, the 20 most bloody conflicts currently taking place, among which Israel-Palestine does not figure. Are those flag-waving delegates at the Labour conference driven by a murky hidden agenda? Perish the thought.

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A stain on Germany I read with incredulity and much heartache the item entitled “Court rejects claim against Gulf airline.”

Germany is surely the one country that should have, and unfailingly demonstrate, zero tolerance of racial discrimination. German law, one would have thought, could not uphold such behaviour in 2018, in whatever form, and from wherever it manifests itself.

However, it has happened. Kuwait Airways can legally bar passengers from flights if they are Israelis.

Within living memory of the Holocaust, and other genocides, the German legal system has, through

a landmark decision, effectively recognised and legalised racial discrimination by this airline.

I am sure various people will point to there being many factors to consider and a need to look at the ruling in the light of a more complex situation.

Not for me – this is racial discrimination, pure and simple, against Israeli citizens.

It is a sad indictment of Kuwait and Germany.

Kuwait, I am not surprised at – but Germany?

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NO PLACE FOR SUCH LETTERS I’m again forced to write to ask you to stop publishing letters that openly incite discrimination against Muslims.

Martin D Stern’s last week for example, seeking a pretext to ban burkas while making sure Jewish religious clothing is unrestricted or that glorify the harassment of Muslims, eg Melvyn Abrahams’ letter last week, bragging brazenly about how he had

made bullying and demeaning comments to a Muslim women in a public place. The Jewish community has a serious problem with bigotry towards our Muslim fellow-citizens.

A responsible newspaper would try to tackle this problem, not perpetuate it.

Gabriel Webber Student rabbi

THE CHAREDI ‘MAJORITY’ I write in response to Geoffrey Alderman’s column last week, in which he describes a threat to the voice of mainstream British Jewry as a result of the recent pro-Corbyn letter signed by numerous Stamford Hill rabbis.

Alderman bases the threat on a JPR Report suggesting Charedim could form a majority of British Jewry by 2030.

He should know that most Charedim do not live in Stamford Hill.

Those in north-west London, Manchester and Gateshead equal a far larger number.

The vast majority of the latter group of Charedim are definitely not pro-Corbyn and not anti-Zionist, at least to such an extent as to overlook the dangers of antisemitism.

Daniel Goldwater By email

NO HONEST BROKER Between the words and actions of US President Donald Trump and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, it is ordinary Israelis and Palestinians who are trapped in a volatile situation (Jewish News, 27 September). There is no honest broker for peace.

Trump’s decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, and his announcement that

the US will no longer be contributing to the UN Relief and Works Agency to support the Palestinians, was a nod to the right-wing (Jewish and non-Jewish) Zionists in the US, but what has he actually done to pursue a peaceful resolution to the stalemate?

Meanwhile, Corbyn’s supporters present him as the saviour of

the Palestinians – how will he succeed where others have failed, particularly when he speaks only to one side and shares platforms with antisemites and, even, those who would want to see Israel wiped off the map?

Israelis and Palestinians deserve better.

Joe Dillon Hitchin

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s I was driving locally, my attention was snagged by a sea of unexpected blue and white.

All the traffic slowed to take in what was happening on the little patch of green facing onto the main road.

It was a demonstration – about 20 or so people wrapping themselves in Israeli flags, and waving banners denouncing ‘Pay to Slay’.

The demonstrators looked pleased with themselves, but I think if you didn’t have any idea what Pay to Slay means, you wouldn’t be any wiser after a quick drive-past.

Pay to Slay is the shorthand way of describing a policy operated by the Palestinian Authority (PA), in which families of Palestinians who carried out attacks against Israelis are financially rewarded, commensurate with the amount of time they serve in Israeli jails. The PA justifies this unpleasant action by saying if it did not support the families, Hamas would.

Now America is considering swingeing legislation against the PA, which it wants

to stop legitimising terror by rewarding violence. I don’t have any problems with that approach, but, sadly, as seems to be usual with Trump, it is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and risks a blowback that will make the already delicate situation between Israelis and Palestinians even worse.

As ever, the mantra should be that being smart should take precedence over being right.

There are smart ways to operate – and I am not sure that wrapping oneself – literally — in the Israeli flag is the way to denounce Pay to Slay.

Perhaps it was the sight of all those flags that I found disturbing – not quite as disturbing, however, as the forest of Palestinian banners waved in tribal loyalty at the Labour Party conference.

I came away from Liverpool muttering under my breath, “Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn”, just to see how it sounded, and I felt faintly sick.

Liverpool, should we be in any doubt, was just a taster of what’s in store if Theresa May’s government makes a complete and utter hash of the Brexit negotiations to the point where a political convulsion will allow

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PERHAPS IT WAS THE SIGHT OF ALL THOSE FLAGS I FOUND DISTURBING – NOT AS DISTURBING AS THE PALESTINIAN BANNERS AT LABOUR CONFERENCE Corbyn in through the front door of No 10, through a back-door channel.

It’s been a vile couple of weeks and there is every sign that things will continue to degenerate. We face anxiety externally and internally, but for some people nothing anyone can say or do is good enough.

Example: the hoax bomb call phoned in to a Jewish Voice for Labour event in Liverpool, believed by Merseyside police to be a credible enough threat to cancel the event. The Board of Deputies, doing its best in a feral atmosphere, denounced the call as antisemitic. Immediate ferocious response to the Board from some on the right of the Jewish community. Are we now in a time when fake bomb threats are tolerable –

because we don’t agree with the politics of those at whom such threats are levied?

Example: endless, vituperative attempts by those on the left to “prove” that MP Luciana Berger did not have police protection in Liverpool. No matter how often they were told that no one received protection inside the conference security zone – not even Corbyn – the haters, and anyone defending Berger, got the full force of “kinder, gentler politics” – ie foul-mouthed abuse.

Let’s agree as follows: physical, verbal and emotional abuse is wrong and unacceptable.

We are smarter than this. And for me, if you want to wrap yourself in an Israeli flag, downtown Hendon is not the place to do it.

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BY ED BALLS & LORD PICKLES

CO-CHAIRS, UK HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (UKHMF)

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e have no doubt that Victoria Tower Gardens is the best place to build a memorial to the Holocaust, and a Learning Centre.

The site sits firmly on the street of power and government in London: stretching from Parliament along Whitehall, passing Downing Street and the great ministries of the Second World War. Here the British response to the Holocaust was formulated and enacted.

The memorial’s close proximity to Parliament will remind visitors of the importance of democracy in defeating tyranny, and remind legislators that Parliament has the power to protect or oppress its citizens.

No other site comes even close in offering this unambiguous symbolism.

The gardens are already the home to memorials that celebrate the fight against slavery, inequality and injustice. A Holocaust memorial is a perfect fit to this long established theme of the Gardens.

The Learning Centre will look at the Holocaust through British eyes and examine subsequent genocides in an honest way. At a time when other countries are attempting to rewrite history, Britain has a chance to set an example of truthfulness.

Members of the House of Lords are perfectly entitled to object to any development. Particularly if they have properties nearby, or their place of work is adjacent, which in the case of the proposed Holocaust memorial and subterranean Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens is clearly the case. Their rights are no different from any other citizen and are bound by the same rules and procedures as everyone else.

The letter reproduced in the Times on Tuesday, signed by a number of peers, betrays a misunderstanding of the status of the drawings, recently released by UKHMF.

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Survivor Ben Helfgott with the co-chairs of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation

They do not represent a formal planning application, but part of the consultations leading up to a formal submission which are some weeks away.

The design will be modified following the consultations.

The letter also makes a number of suggestions for alternative sites for the memorial, these might have been sensibly debated two and a half years ago at the time the announcement to Parliament in January 2016 by the then prime minister, selecting Victoria Tower Gardens.

An international competition for a design for a memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens was announced in September 2016.

The competition was site specific and attracted entries from distinguished architects from around the world.

The winning team led by Sir David Adjaye was announced in October 2017. In March this year we were appointed to oversee the construction of a memorial and learning centre on Victoria Tower Gardens.

None of these facts will have gone unnoticed by their Lordships, who as lawmakers know the importance of acting timely and prudently.

It is not timely to revisit a decision taken two and a half years ago nor would it be prudent to expend public money on a fruitless search for a none existent better site.

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neglected park. It has poor drainage, which leads to trapped surface water in inclement weather creating mud during winter and hard dusty surface in summer.

The grass is not hardy, nor the garden particularly well maintained.

Only the fully ambulant can take full advantage of the seated views by the riverside.

The development will improve the drainage to the benefit of the ground surface and surrounding trees offering them a more secure future.

We will sow grass suitable to the parks heavy use and make the riverside walks friendly to wheelchair users.

The development will enhance the Park offering improved views of the River Thames and the Palace of Westminster. The memorial takes up seven percent of the surface of the Park, the Learning Centre will be below ground, an attractive gentle slope will add to amenity of visitors.

We will continue to talk constructively and offer sensible solutions to matters such as traffic and security.

This memorial is for the whole nation and future generations. One we can all be proud of. It will stand as a permanent challenge to our Parliament to learn the lessons of history and play its full part in making sure the tragedy of the Holocaust can never be repeated.

IT WILL LOOK AT THE SHOAH THROUGH BRITISH EYES. WHILE OTHER COUNTRIES ARE ATTEMPTING TO REWRITE HISTORY, BRITAIN HAS A CHANCE TO SET AN EXAMPLE

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At Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue more than 60 people of all ages helped decorate its Noah’s Ark-themed succah.

Volunteers from Kingston Liberal Synagogue, led by Rabbi René Pfertzel, decorated its succah, with the youngest children helping tie fruit to hang from the roof.

Year 4 Etz Chaim Primary School pupils sang and chatted to residents of Jewish Care’s Clore Manor home, before visiting its succah.

An entire Torah was unwound for the first time at Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Community to celebrate Simchat Torah.

At the Chabad Lubavitch UK succah in EC4, hundreds of local businessmen and women enjoyed lunch and the chance to network.

Hertsmere Jewish Primary School raised more than £600 by taking part in the ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning 2018’ for Macmillan Cancer Support, which was held in its succah.

East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue’s succah included a bring and share supper for Liberal Judaism’s East London community.

Mathilda Marks-Kennedy’s school council judged 56 entries to a model succah competition.

Pictured is the winner of the Wow Factor, complete with working lights and clay models of the family, including a dog.

Jewish Care’s Maurice & Vivienne Wohl Campus held a succot gathering for residents of the homes, members of the Michael Sobell Community Centre and Jewish Care volunteers and staff, with their pastoral leader, Rabbi Menachem Junik.

Rabbis Andrew Goldstein, Aaron Goldstein, Lea Muhlstein and Cantor Tamara Wolfson united for a special succot service at Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue.

Sinai Jewish Primary School pupils, including Louie Norman, Levi Sorsky and Jamie Dickman, pictured, ate lunch throughout the week in the school playground’s succah.

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Resource, the charity helping the community into employment, joined with the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) to deliver a free workshop. Fifty students and recent graduates attended ‘Leave Uni, Start Work – Make It Happen’, and were taken through a recruitment process, preparation for a job search and what recruiters look for. CEO Victoria Sterman said: “With our 25 years’ experience, Resource is uniquely qualified to guide graduates into the start of their careers.”

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St Albans Masorti Synagogue and Herts Welcomes Syrian Families were finalists in the Good Neighbour category of the 2018 Herts Advertiser Community Awards for hosting a family tea for 14 local Syrian refugee families.

Coordinator Helen Singer said: “We wanted to learn about each other’s cultures, and what better way to start than in the kitchen.”

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Regents Park provided the venue for B’nai B’rith’s Young Professionals Moroccan Picnic. Organised by Valerie Tesler and held to support the charitable work of B’nai B’rith UK, previous events have included a weekend in Luxembourg, dinner dates and a private viewing of the Amy Winehouse exhibition at the Jewish Museum in London.

8 INTERFAITH IFTAR

The Joseph Interfaith Foundation was invited to participate in the Open Iftar Project at Al-Manaar Heritage Centre. Organised jointly by Open Tent Project and Visit my Mosque Project, the event was held as both Yom Kippur and the fast of Ashura were within 24 hours of each other.

Mehri Niknam MBE, executive director of The Foundation spoke on the similarities between the principles of fasting in Judaism and Islam.

9 QUIZZICAL WOMEN

jLiving’s annual quiz had a feminine touch, with questions based on women’s achievements, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The winners of the coveted ‘Smartest Scheme’ were the team from Gordon Court in Edgware, pictured with chief executive June Morton and chair Adam Gamsu, centre.

10 FILM FOR ANNE

No Asylum - The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story was screened in the UK for the first time, at Conway Hall in London. The Holocaust documentary, which shows the desperate attempts made by Otto Frank to get his family out of Europe and save them from the Nazis, came about following a discovery at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, by a volunteer who came upon lost letters he wrote. Pictured are Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, Anne’s posthumous stepsister who appears in the film, with its producer Paula Fouce, who held a Q&A session after the screening, and MC Malcolm Stern.

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From Stern to Eichmann Naomi Pfefferman speaks to Sir Ben Kingsley about his portrayal of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in new thriller Operation Finale

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sk Sir Ben Kingsley why he was keen to portray Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in the new film Operation Finale and he describes the traumatic incident in which he first learned about the Holocaust.

The 74-year-old British actor was then in grammar school and at home alone when he turned on a documentary about the liberation of the BergenBelsen concentration camp.

“I remember my heart stopped beating for a while,” says Kingsley, who is not Jewish but believes he may have some Jewish relatives on his mother’s side. “I nearly passed out. And I have been indelibly connected to the Holocaust ever since.”

His connection was enhanced when he asked his grandmother about the atrocities, and she said that “Hitler was right” to have killed Jews.

“I went into deep shock and was unable to counter her,” Kingsley says.

“But something must have clicked in my innermost soul that said: ‘Grandmother, I will make you eat your words.

I will pay you back for that. You have not distorted or poisoned my mind.’”

Kingsley went on to portray Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in the HBO film Murderers Among Us; the Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern in Schindler’s List; and Anne Frank’s father in a 2001 ABC mini-series. He also won an Academy Award for his turn as the titular Indian independence leader in 1982’s Gandhi.

During research for his Shoahthemed films, Kingsley became close friends with Holocaust survivor, activist

and author Elie Wiesel.

Not long before Wiesel’s death in 2016, the actor vowed to him that “the next time I walk onto a film set that is appropriate to your story, I will dedicate my performance to you”.

So when Kingsley was offered the Eichmann role in Operation Finale after Wiesel’s death – a film that focuses on the Holocaust architect’s capture – he jumped at the chance.

Just as he famously carried a picture of Anne Frank during the filming of Schindler’s List, he carried a photo of Wiesel during the filming of Operation Finale, which is now in cinemas and on Netflix. “Every day as promised, I looked at a picture of Elie that I carried in my pocket and said: ‘I’m doing this for you,’” says Kingsley.

Operation Finale tells the story of Peter Malkin and other Mossad agents who covertly hunted and captured Eichmann hiding in Argentina and brought him to Israel for trial in 1961, where he was ultimately executed.

The heart of the story is the cat-andmouse game between Malkin (played

by Oscar Isaac) and Eichmann, both of whom were master manipulators, according to the film’s director, Chris Weitz (About A Boy and A Better Life).

“Each one is trying to convince the other of something,” says Weitz, whose father, fashion designer John Weitz, escaped Nazi Germany in 1933 aged 10.

“Malkin wanted to convince Eichmann to sign a paper indicating that he was willing to go to trial in Jerusalem.

And Eichmann is trying out various defences that he will eventually use in Israeli court. So in that regard, there

is the subterfuge of the escaped war criminal and also the subterfuge of the spy as he’s trying to turn a source.”

As for Eichmann, Weitz, 48, says: “The evidence shows a very chameleonlike figure who is constantly trying to serve his own ends and ambitions.”

Kingsley unabashedly sees his character as evil. “Not only did he commit these crimes as an architect of the Final Solution, he went to his grave proud of what he had done – utterly unrepentant,” he says.

Yet Kingsley said he chose not to portray Eichmann as “a B-movie, cartoony, comic strip villain”.

“That would have done a terrible disservice to the victims and the survivors I know and love,” he said. “It’s important for us to accept that the Nazis were ‘normal’ people. Twisted people, but they didn’t come from Mars.”

As research for the film, Weitz and Kingsley relied in part on the expertise of former Mossad agent Avner Abraham, who has curated a nowtouring exhibition about Eichmann.

Weitz said he had “trepidations”

Above: Sir Ben as Adolf Eichmann, pictured inset, at his 1961 trial, in Operation Finale, and, left, the cast of the film.

Below: As Itzhak Stern in Schindler’s List

about depicting images of the Holocaust, and so chose to do so through the lens of the Mossad agents’ memories. “[Their] memoirs indicate they found it deeply unsettling to be so near the person who had taken part in the murder of their families,” he says.

“Some of them were disappointed that all this evil could have the face of this rather unprepossessing man, which felt terribly out of scale to all the damage that had been done.” (JTA)  Operation Finale (12A) is now on limited release at select Curzon cinemas and available to view on Netflix

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A leader judged by his lack of words and action Rarely has there been a moment when Labour, Jeremy Corbyn and allegations of antisemitism have stayed out of the headlines. Now, in his newly-updated edition of The Left’s Jewish Problem, author Dave Rich examines how the grip of Labour’s hard left have increasingly strengthened and why attitudes towards Jews and Zionism have polarised politics across the nation. In this extract, Rich looks at the problem of “institutional antisemitism” and questions Corbyn’s own responses to the left’s controversial “Jewish problem”…

Facebook groups that bear his name, or in tweets that use pro-Corbyn hashtags.

By the middle of 2018, Corbyn had changed his public line, acknowledging that antisemitism was a genuine problem in starkly different terms from how he spoke about it two years earlier, but whether this was done out of genuine enlightenment or to try to stop negative headlines is questionable, as he still seems to lack either the understanding or the willingness to take the necessary steps to fix the problem.

This relates directly to the question of whether Corbyn is personally antisemitic.

There is no doubt that he strongly and genuinely believes that he opposes all forms t is not possible to change an organiof racism. There is also no doubt that he sational culture through procedural has Jewish friends and comrades on the left tweaks, or rule changes, or by hiring going back decades. more staff to implement the same flawed He repeatedly condemns antisemitism processes. in generic terms and pledges to oppose it.

It requires education, personal example, Nevertheless, his behaviour since becoming sacrifice and a willingness to listen to and leader raises troubling questions. work with an organisation’s strongest It is hard to fathom how the leader of critics. a political movement can be so slow to It needs difficult self-reflection and open acceptance of the problem and, as the report intervene and so apparently reluctant to take personal responsibility for solving the of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry pointed problem, if he is as personally disturbed by out, most of all it needs leadership; but in antisemitism as he claims. the midst of all this, the leader of the Labour His public statements on the issue still Party has stood largely oblivious. suggest he sees this as a problem that affects In December 2017, speaking at a recepother people, rather than something that tion of the Jewish Labour Movement to has come from within his own political mark the festival of Chanukah, Corbyn world. declared without irony that ‘there is zero There is a lack of the political and tolerance of antisemitism in the Labour moral urgency that characterises Corbyn’s Party and that is how it should remain’. The response to other injustices in the world. evidence repeatedly suggests otherwise.

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Ultimately, it is not possible to peer into somebody’s soul and discover with any certainty what they really think and believe about Jews. Perhaps even Corbyn does not truly know or understand his own deepest thoughts and imaginings about the cultural and political figure of ‘The Jew’.

All that can be done, as with any politician, is to judge him by his words and actions – and by his lack of words and actions. By this measure he has been found repeatedly wanting.

As the leader of the Labour Party, whose supporters have effective control of most of its decision-making roles and committees and who benefits from a huge army of loyal

grassroots followers, Corbyn could lead the cultural change that the party and the broader left need to truly eradicate this antisemitism – if he chooses to do so.

The question is not whether he has the power to do it or whether, in theory, he would want to.

The question is whether, as a lifelong product and leader of that same political culture, he is even capable of recognising that this is the choice he needs to make.”  The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism by Dave Rich is published by Biteback, priced £12.99 (paperback). Available now

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BY RABBI NAFTALI SCHIFF The elation of Simchat Torah propels us to throw ourselves into beginning a new cycle of the Torah , which provides us with an opportunity to delve deeper into familiar stories and themes. As Jews we embrace questions on the Torah and its commentaries, they draw our attention to subtleties and nuances that reveal new layers of understanding and lessons for life.

When we make kiddush on Friday night, we read threeand-a-half verses from Bereishit describing the conclusion of the six days of creation and the first Shabbat. These verses conclude asher bara Elokim la’asot, God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because He abstained from all His work “which God created to make”. The word la’asot, “to make”, appears not to add anything to the verse.

The word also appears in kiddush on Shabbat morning, la’asot et haShabbat, “to make the Shabbat”. One idea behind this is what we get from Shabbat, and by extension any Jewish experience, will be directly affected by what we invest into it. Shabbat is provided as a weekly opportunity, but we still need to make it happen.

The Mishna makes a remarkable statement. Just as Adam was created as an individual, so each person is obliged to proclaim “The whole world was created just for me!”

At face value, this seems like the most selfish, hedonistic, almost un-Jewish statement ever! Some commentators explain that the word la’asot refers to us. Seeing the world as created “just for me”, means I am obligated to to continue and even complete the act of creation, as it won’t happen by itself.

Rabbi Naftali Schiff is chief executive of Jewish Futures Trust

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BY RABBI ALEX CHAPPER Perhaps one of the best known numerical values in Judaism is 18, because it is synonymous with the word chai, meaning life.

For this reason, monetary gifts are often given in multiples of chai and are invariably made as a donation to remember a departed loved one.

Although as one gabbai (warden) once acerbically remarked, ‘Meit is worth more!’ (‘meit’ being the Hebrew word for ‘death’, which has the value of 440!)

The Amidah, which is the central prayer of every service, was originally composed with 18 blessings and is still referred to as the Shemoneh Esrei – the Hebrew words for the number 18.

The Talmud records a variety of reasons for this: To correspond to the

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IN JUDAISM, 18 IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE WORD CHAI, WHICH MEANS ‘LIFE’

because for matzah to be kosher for use on Pesach, it must be made in a maximum of 18 minutes, as this is the time it takes for dough to rise and that is why you might see the words ‘18 minutes’ printed on the box.

Although golf is a popular game among Jewish people, I have not been able to uncover the significance of it consisting of 18 holes, but suggest it may reflect life itself being a journey into the unknown, where we encounter the rough and fairways with the ultimate aim to make it back to the clubhouse for a l’chaim!

In the 18th chapter of Vayikra, God instructs us: ‘You shall keep My laws and My rules, by the pursuit of which a person shall live: I am God.’ The phrase v’chai bahem – and live by them is the source of the Jewish principle that the sanctity of human life is paramount.  Rabbi Alex Chapper serves Elstree & Borehamwood Synagogue and is the Children’s Rabbi,

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The Bible Says What?

‘Adam and Eve were equals’

BY RABBI SYLVIA ROTHSCHILD Genesis has two creation stories, each with a different structure and a different name for God. The first, with the numbered days of the first week, has Elohim create humanity in God’s image at the end of the process, and this humanity is neither singular nor male.

The second, where humanity was created even before the Garden of Eden was made, has one human fashioned from the dust of the earth, and placed into Eden.

But it is already clear that one living being is a lonely being, so God creates the animals and birds.

The human names them but does not develop a mutual relationship with them, and ultimately God has to create more human beings.

To do this, God does not create a new thing, but takes from the existing human to form the being who will be in relationship with it.

How we translate what God takes from the first being is critical to how

we understand gender politics.

And how it has been translated in the past is a direct outcome of such politics.

For God takes from the side of the first human, and not, as it is frequently translated, a rib from it.

This root appears more than 40 times in the Bible, and is never translated as anything other than “side” except in this passage, and first found in the Septuagint.

If we look more closely we see the word always describes something that is leaned upon or (in the case of Jacob), limped upon.

So what is the Bible telling us with this word? When God divides the Adam into ish (man) and isha (woman), the two are equal. One might ask why this understanding disappeared when the Bible is so clear.  Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild has been a community rabbi in south London for 30 years

Progressively Speaking Should we welcome the Chief Rabbi’s LGBTQI+ guide for Orthodox schools?

BY RABBI AARON GOLDSTEIN As the chair of the Liberal Conference of Rabbis and Cantors, I am delighted to welcome this new guide on behalf of my colleagues and our movement.

Many members of Liberal Jewish families attend Orthodox schools, while more still are proud members of both the Jewish and LGBTQI+ communities.

This new guide should help to reduce prejudice and potential harm in schools, as well as across the whole of the Jewish community.

I am particularly pleased that Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has written the guide in partnership with KeshetUK, an outstanding education charity that works to ensure Jewish LGBTQI+ people and their families are included throughout Jewish life in the UK. It’s also positive to note that a training programme for Orthodox rabbis, teachers and

educators will now follow so that all students can reach their full potential, free from homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying, discrimination and fear.

The year of 5778 was certainly one of progress in which longstanding principles and practices of Liberal Judaism have been adopted across the spectrum.

A year in which we witnessed the smicha (ordination) of Dina Brawer as the UK’s first female Orthodox rabbi has now concluded with this compassionate acknowledgment of the need to safeguard all our children regardless of sexuality or gender.

Liberal Judaism is proud to be at the cutting edge of Judaism, responding to contemporary issues such as these.

And I am proud that this creates the conversation for others to follow in time.

Indeed, for me, this is exactly

the advantage of having different denominations within Judaism.

They complement each other.

Some lead in a sometimes radical and sometimes progressive way; some follow in time; and there are those whose critique helps to concretise the more universal moral.

For example, the senior Israeli Charedi rabbi who accused the guide of “drawing sinners into our camp” just displays a lack of understanding of sexuality that ultimately has caused incredible heartache, mental health issues, family separations and suicide.

That is why we applaud Rabbi Mirvis for his recognition of LGBTQI+ issues. Yasher Koach to the Chief Rabbi.  Rabbi Aaron Goldstein is chair of the Liberal Conference of Rabbis and Cantors and senior rabbi at Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue

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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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

• Set up Dancing with Louise 10 years ago.

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

Promotes a constructive and non-confrontational approach.

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

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Where there’s a Will there’s Our highly qualified team will: · Offer expert legal advice. · Reduce Inheritance Tax liability or eradicate it completely. · Ensure your Will is legally watertight & validly executed. · Act as Executor in the administration of your Estate.

All this is entirely free of charge*, when you leave a legacy to JNF UK to help support its vital work in Israel For a free no-obligation consultation contact 0800 358 3587 | wills@kkl.org.uk | www.kkl.org.uk

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Finchley Reform Synagogue

This Chanukah give the gift of food to a child living in poverty

British Emunah is a UK registered charity which relies entirely on donations to support 37 Emunah projects in Israel. Our mission is to build stronger families by breaking the cycles of neglect and abuse and the projects support over 10,000 children on a daily basis by providing residential homes, high schools, day care and family support centres as well as trauma therapy and counselling centres.

Executive Director (NW London) Full Time Competitive Salary Working closely with our small team of staff and committed and supportive trustees and volunteers, your main duties will include: • Developing the long term vision and strategy to ensure the ongoing growth and success of Emunah, • Developing and implementing the fundraising strategy for British Emunah in order to broaden the historic donor base demographic; and • Managing a small office based team.

The successful individual will be passionate about helping vulnerable children and families, possess excellent relationship building skills with a track record of successful fundraising, experience of managing a team of staff and be happy to get involved in all aspects of the charity when necessary.

Looking for a gift this Chanukah for the person who has everything?

Closing date: Thursday 25th October 2018

Why not give a beautiful Food Fund gift card from Emunah and help If provide you havehungry good knowledge the UK Jewish community as well as of Israel children inofIsrael with a daily hot meal. and Israeli affairs and would like to receive an Information Pack for this role, and details on how to apply, please send your CV and Supporting Statement to Food Fund cards can emunah_RDS@yahoo.com be purchased at www.emunah.org.uk/shop

020 8203 6066 www.emunah.org.uk Follow British Emunah

British Emunah Fund - Registered charity number 215398

Under the guidance of an inspirational and forward-thinking clergy team, alongside an energetic lay-leadership, our synagogue membership has enjoyed steady growth over the past decade, creating one of the country’s most vibrant Reform communities. We are seeking new members to join our team.

Operations Director (full-time) Salary commensurate with skills and experience We are seeking an outstanding professional to work as our Operations Director. This person will provide operational leadership and effective management of FRS staff, finances and facilities. As part of the Senior Professional Team, this person will oversee the delivery of the strategic objectives of FRS. Critical to the role is the ability to ensure strong relationships are developed with synagogue members and other professionals. This person should have significant management experience, including project management and the ability to successfully deliver on a wide area of responsibilities in a fast paced environment. This is a full time post with evening and weekend work.

For fur ther informa tion, pl eas e co ntact Sam Cliff ord on recruitment@frsonline.org . Closing date for applications is 15th October, with interviews taking place on the week of 22nd October.

PA to the Senior Professional Team (part-time, 25 hours per week) Salary commensurate with skills and experience We are seeking a skilled individual to work as a PA to the Senior Professional Team in a busy and dynamic environment. This person will support the diverse and sometimes confidential work of the clergy team and Operations Director. You will have excellent IT and communication skills, a track record of providing excellent customer service and relevant experience of working as an efficient PA, supporting senior staff members.

For further information or an application pack, please contact Jon Freedman on jon.freedman@frsonline.org or 020 8446 3244. Closing date for applications is 15th October, with interviews taking place on the week of 22nd October.

Communications Department

Communications Department

PR and Communications Manager Salary - £31,000 per annum Hours – Full-time, 35 a week

Part-time Graphic Designer and Brand Lead

We are looking for an individual who is a brilliant writer with superb people skills

Based at our central offices, you will be responsible for producing strong artwork for a range of marketing materials.

These might include traditional print items such as brochures, leaflets, posters etc. but also new media such as an Instagram campaign. In addition to this you will own the United Synagogue brand and help us build brand presence.

You will have full responsibility for our PR planner, web content and weekly ‘You and US’ email which goes out to more than 23,000 people. You will be responsible for the United Synagogue’s presence on Facebook and Twitter and help us build new communication channels through, for example, Instagram.

As a successful candidate, you will be experienced in one or more of PR, press relations or external affairs, excellent interpersonal communication skills, ability to deal with challenging, high pressured situation and people as well as conflicting demands. You will also have the ability to work unsupervised in a professional manner and project manage you own area of work.

Closing date for receipt of applications – 18th October 2018 To view the job description and apply for this position, please log on to our website www.theus.org.uk/vacancies United Synagogue Registered Charity No. 242552

£31,000 pro rata We are looking for a talented Graphic Designer to shake things up.

To succeed in this role you will be fluent in Adobe In Design, Illustrator and Photoshop, understand how to develop a brand and be proficient and strategic in social media platforms, confident and efficient.

The ideal candidate will be a creative team player with excellent communication and organisational skills. You will have meticulous attention to detail and excellent typography skills and will be able to demonstrate a portfolio of artistic and imaginative projects. You will also be adaptable and self-motivated and will be able to demonstrate the ability to deliver results under pressure within tight deadlines and objectives.

Closing date for receipt of applications – 18th October 2018 To view the job description and apply for this position, please log on to our website www.theus.org.uk/vacancies United Synagogue Registered Charity No. 242552

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Barmitzvah boy’s walk of passage FUNDRAISING WALK Jake Segal wanted to do something different for his forthcoming barmitzvah – so carried out a 100-mile walk to raise money for Jewish Care Dementia Services, in memory of his late papa.

The 12-year-old Yavneh College pupil said: “My papa Norman died from Alzheimer’s when I was three. With my barmitzvah coming up, I wanted to do something to remember him as it makes me sad that he won’t be there and I know he would have been really proud of me.”

Completing the challenge within a month, he walked around the capital with friends, explored Hampton Court and spent a day in Brighton walking with his grandma and grandpa. He said: “I felt it was important to raise money for a Jewish charity to mark my barmitzvah, to help people in the community and because my papa died of Alzheimer’s, I want to help other families who are in the same position.”

Not wanting the task to be too easy, he said: “We didn’t plan or schedule it, but did ensure I went the extra mile by getting off the train earlier than needed and walk to places we’d normally drive to. I found some days easier than

others and felt very happy when I finally completed it.”

Proud of his efforts, parents Yvette and Paul said: “He told us he wanted to do something worthwhile to keep active, but to also help raise money for charity. Jake would have loved to have had his papa at his barmitzvah and this is his way of thinking about him.”

His sister Chloe said: “When he puts his mind to something he won’t stop until it’s done! Although he’s a pain, he’s still a very kind, athletic, person.”

Also grateful for his efforts is Esther Gilham, assistant director of fundraising. She said: “We’d like to congratulate and thank Jake for taking on this impressive challenge which shows imagination and dedication. Jake is helping to make a real difference.”

Looking ahead to further fundraising projects, he said: “I had a lot of support from lots of different people and have so far managed to raise more than £500. Although this was initially a one-off, it was a lot of fun and I may do another one some time.”

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O’s top after bashing Brady MGBSFL Oakwood A moved joint-top of the Premier Division table as Kyle Bentwood’s first career hat-trick saw them win 6-1 at Brady. Josh Cuby, Sam Cantor and Brad Wine (pictured) were also on target.

Redbridge A stormed to the top of the Division One table – on goal difference – as Nate Kashket’s treble inspired it to an 11-1 win over

Scrabble A. Carl Dobrin scored twice, with Josh Wynn, James Berkley, Dan Andrews, Jamie Bernstein, Dave Green and an own goal completing the rout.

Faithfold B are a point clear in Division Two after Adam Hersh’s hat-trick helped it to a 5-1 win at Temple Fortune.

Gav Noe and Jack Joseph were also on target.

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Jake - third from left, next to sister Chloe, with friends Sophie and Jamie Rosen (main); Jake, as a baby, with papa Norman (inset)

David is Harriers’ golden guy RUNNING Long-distance runner David Stone won gold in the U17 Youth Development League, though it wasn’t enough to help qualify his club for the European Club final. Finishing first in the 3,000m race, seven seconds ahead of second place, he earned maximum points for Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers,

though it wasn’t enough to see them finish above Blackheath and Bromley to book its place at the prestigious club final.

His most recent run took place in the Southern Road Relay, where as part of a weakened Shaftesbury team, he finished second in the fourth and final leg, bringing the team’s finishing place up from 13th to sixth.

Steve’s iron will to honour dad CHARITY A 38-year-old man who broke his neck while playing rugby 10 years ago will this weekend compete in an Iron Man tournament in memory of his late father.

Steve Robertson (pictured right with his father John), will take part in the event in Barcelona to raise money for Norwood, where his father volunteered for two years.

Entered in the event by his friend Dan Denning and his wife – who then surprised him by telling him about it at the start

of the year, he said: “Since suffering the injury, I’ve been getting my sporting fix and keeping fit in other ways. Taking part in an Iron Man is something that Dan and I had discussed previously, usually over a few beers, but I don’t think I’d ever seriously considered it. Suddenly I was given that push, and to be honest I think I was in denial about the whole thing until about eight weeks ago!”

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