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The last survivors of the Kindertransport — the 10,000 children who came to Britain in 1938 from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia — are to receive one-off compensation payments, as a result of prolonged negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German government, writes Jenni Frazer.

Greg Schneider, executive vicepresident of the Claims Conference, announced this week that each would receive £2,245.98 out of a total fund of £2.2million. He added: “There’s no cap on the fund, so if there turn out to be more than 1,000 people eligible everyone will still receive £2,245.”

An estimated 1,000 Kinder are thought to be alive, aged between 80 and 100. Half are believed to live in the United Kingdom, with the rest spread throughout the United States, Israel, Canada and Australia.

The Claims Conference has spent years negotiating with the German government for payments to be made to surviving Kinder, some of whom, it is acknowledged, did receive some payment in the 1950s.

Additionally, the Kinder were included in a variety of other payments such as pensions and help with their home care and welfare.

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‘Welcome news, but it’s too late for many of the Kinder’ homes, their loving parents, to live in a country where the language and culture were different and alien.”

Asked what he planned to do with the money, Erich said he would like to buy an antique from before the war, to serve as a memory to his parents. But he added: “The money is welcome, but it is too late for some of the Kinder”.

By Jenni Frazer jenni@jennifrazer.com @Jennifrazer

In 1939, three brothers – Jacques, aged 11, Oswald, 10, and little Erich, just four – were waved off a Vienna station platform by their parents, Schapse and Mina Reich. The boys did not know it, but they were never to see their parents again.

Erich – now “Sir Erich” – made a new life in Britain, having been sent to live with foster carers in Dorking, but says he has no memories at all of his parents or of life at home in Vienna. What he does know is that for the 10,000 children and young people who came to Britain on the Kindertransport, life would never be the same again.

This week’s news that the German Government had agreed a payment to the surviving Kinder “came like a bolt out of the blue” to Sir Erich, who chairs the Kindertransport committee at the Association of Jewish Refugees.

“It’s not a life-changing sum of money,” he told Jewish News, “but it is very important because it is a recognition of what the Kinder went through. They left their warm

HOW TO CLAIM The Kindertransport Fund will open on 1 January 2019 and begin processing eligible applications.

Having claimed under previous compensation programmes will not bar claimants from receiving this new benefit, despite the fact some potential recipients have already received small sums under other programmes.

Eligibility criteria were determined by the German Government, and, in the case of the Kind, this means those who “escaped from the place of your residence due to an impending Nazi threat”.

Sir Erich Reich next to Frank Meisler’s iconic Kindertransport sculpture at Liverpool Street station

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In a tweet on Sunday, the Board claimed Australia had recognised Jerusalem – without qualifying the West or East of the city – saying: “Great to see recognition of the simple truth of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital gaining pace. Thank you Australia!”

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The tweet followed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement that Canberra “looks forward to moving our embassy to West Jerusalem when practical, in support of, and after the final status determination.”

Yachad director Hannah Weisfeld said she was “surprised” it showed “such little thought about the political consequences… Suggesting this is about a ‘simple truth’ is the most simplistic statement you could possibly make

about Jerusalem”.

Human rights lawyer Adam Wagner noted the Board’s social media output was “all over the place on Israel-Palestine and has been for a while… They should be much more cautious and measured.”

A Board spokesperson said: “Our position, which is consistent with that taken by our counterparts in the Australian Jewish community, international Jewish leaders and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, is to welcome the Australian Government’s direction of travel.”

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author has been condemned for saying a book by notorious antisemite David Icke is among those on her nightstand.

Alice Walker (pictured), who wrote The Color Purple, told The New York Times Book Review in “Icke’s books there is the whole of existence, on this planet and several others, to think about. A curious person’s dream come true”.

Icke is a former Coventry City goalkeeperturned-BBC sports broadcaster who promotes the forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,

and supports conspiracy theories about “Rothschild Zionists” controlling the world.

Walker singled out And the Truth Shall Set You Free, which Icke had to issue himself after his publisher declined. It describes the Talmud as “among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet”.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt said: “We’re deeply disappointed The New York Times Book Review would print author Alice Walker’s unqualified endorsement of a book by notorious British antisemitic conspiracy theorist David Icke.”

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Germany agrees to compensation Continued from page 1 They remain eligible for these new payments.

But Schneider said the Kinder, currently marking the 80th anniversary of their historic journey to Britain, had never received anything to compensate for “lost childhood and the psychological trauma they endured, and we hope people will take it as a validation of that suffering”.

He said that throughout the negotiations he had been thinking about the parents of the children.

“Imagine having to put your child on a train, and in some cases pick one sibling rather than another, put on a brave face and wave goodbye, knowing that you would almost certainly never see your son or daughter again. It is simply heartbreaking.”

Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, the Claims Conference special negotiator, said: “This

Safe at last: Kindertransport youngsters arriving in the UK

payment comes at a time when we are commemorating 80 years since these children took their fateful journey from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.

“After having to endure a life forever severed from their parents and families, no

one can ever profess to make them whole; [but] they are receiving a small measure of justice”.

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KINDER INQUIRIES BEGAN ROLLING IN THIS WEEK night so as not to attract the attention of the local population, with limited possessions in their one suitcase and parents forewarned about becoming emotional as they waved off their children amid a febrile atmosphere The announcement of oppression. that the German govIn some instances, ernment will make a only one parent was one-time payment to permitted to accomthe child refugees who pany their child to the came to Britain on station; in others, siba Kindertransport is lings ran after the trains. both welcome and symOnce in England, they bolic and comes at a then faced alone the time of unprecedented challenges of a foreign interest in the Kinder. culture and language, Unlike previous milestones, the 80th anniver- Visa issued to a Jewish woman who while some were even mistreated. The Claims sary of the creation and accompanied a Kinder to the UK Conference deserves start of the operation, through which some 10,000, mostly Jewish, great credit for negotiating this special award.

And, as the AJR has done throughout children were given sanctuary in this country, is a point at which to evaluate how this unique our existence, we will assist applicants. The story is portrayed and its legacy in inspiring inquiries have already started rolling in.

The advent of these gesture payments will policy towards refugees fleeing persecution.

Although the amount each Kind will receive also make for an interesting discussion at the is relatively modest – €2,500, roughly £2,250 conference, Remembering and Rethinking: The – the recognition of the singular plight of the International forum on the Kindertransport at 80, that the AJR is organising in April.

Kinder is immeasurable.

It will bring together educators, scholars, In most cases, the transports bearing the children had to leave in what must have policy makers and journalists as well as the seemed like a clandestine operation; late at Kinder and their families.

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WORLD ORT TO GET PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE Jewish educational network ORT is to receive a prestigious humanitarian award presented by one of the world’s leading social justice campaigners, the Reverend Jesse Jackson. The global organisation will receive the Let Freedom Ring Award, in honour of its commitment to equality in education and its efforts to bridge the gap between ability and opportunity.

Jackson said: “World ORT has been a knowledge-based economy that prioritises intellectual capital in all aspects of life and society.”

BRITISH EMUNAH GETS NEW HEAD

British Emunah has appointed a new executive director. Lynda Dullop, currently director of admissions and operations at Immanuel College, takes up her role in March and will run the charity’s Hendon headquarters and be responsible for raising funds to support 37 projects across Israel for at-risk or disadvantaged children and families. She said: “Raising funds for vulnerable, less privileged children and in Israel is very appealing and so important.” British Emunah chair Rosalyn Liss described Dullop as “a highly-respected professional”.

Labour decision aids EU in Hamas dispute Decisions made by former Labour cabinet ministers Jack Straw and Gordon Brown in 2001 have helped the European Union win a legal battle against Hamas.

Gaza’s terrorist rulers, whose political leadership is partly based in Doha, are seeking to unfreeze funds held on the continent.

Their lawyers challenged the technical legality of the

way in which the EU adopted its asset freeze.

They said the EU had not adopted a Common Position but instead relied on US legal decisions designating Hamas a terror organisation, which would have rendered the EU’s asset freeze illegal.

However, the Luxembourg court found the UK had done so and that this was sufficient.

Judges cited Straw’s decision to blacklist the organisation

in March 2001, and Brown’s decision to freeze Hamas accounts.

Judges said Straw, who used the UK Terrorism Act 2000 to proscribe Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem on 29 March 2001, was UK home secretary at the time, so “has the status of competent authority within the meaning of the Common Position”.

The court was also able to rely on a decision made by

Decisions by Brown and Straw aided the EU’s legal fight

then-Chancellor Brown on 6 December 2001 to freeze the group’s assets.

Lawyers representing the terror organisation had

argued the EU’s freezing of the group’s assets was “a violation of its right to property” and that it was “disproportionate and intolerable”.

LABOUR OFFICIAL ‘BLAMED ALL WARS ON JEWS’ The Labour Party’s West Midlands organiser has been suspended for blaming “all the wars in the world” on Jews.

Mohammed Yasin this week became the most senior party figure to be suspended since former London mayor Ken Livingstone, after the surfacing of a social media comment he made in February 2016.

The party took action after being handed a dossier – not seen by Jewish News – on Yasin’s past comments and

Mohammed Yasin and Jeremy Corbyn

social media shares by The Sunday Times, with topics ranging from Israel to

the Holocaust and the Rothschilds.

The paper said one of the examples showed Yasin sharing a post from the Lord Dreadnought site, which quoted actor Mel Gibson saying: “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”

The post, which attacked “Zionist madness”, allegedly shows people laughing, under the line “when someone tells me it’s not the Jews”.

Another post Yasin allegedly shared considers “why Israel is a problem” before detailing how the US had funded

the Israeli military “due to Holocaust propaganda” while another reportedly said US imperialism “needs Israel to keep the masses permanently at war”.

The Times alleges Yasin shared a picture showing a rabbi next to the words: “Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. They have no place in the world, only to serve the people of Israel.”

A Labour spokesman said: “We take all allegations seriously and fully investigate them in accordance with our rules and procedures.”

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BFUH NAMES NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE A veteran fundraiser and member of Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue is joining British Friends of United Hatzalah (BFUH) as its new chief executive.

Assaf Admoni previously headed British Friends of Migdal Ohr, following spells at Childline, Leonard Cheshire, Norwood and the National Autistic Society. United Hatzalah is a first responder charity in Israel, with trained volunteers reacting to medical emergencies on motorcycle ambulances, often arriving first to perform life-saving resuscitation.

FIRST BRIT NAMED ON MDA BOARD

A British supporter of Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) has become the first non-Israeli elected to sit on its Israeli board of trustees. Irving Carter, vice-president of MDA UK, will serve on the board in an honorary capacity, bestowed on him by Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev at a fundraising dinner. MDA UK chief executive Daniel Burger said Carter was “one of Magen David Adom’s greatest supporters,” adding: “This demonstrates how MDA in Israel relies on Jewish communities.”

Chelsea teams up with JN for Shoah education Jewish News has teamed up with Chelsea Football Club to hold a fundraising dinner featuring untold stories of strength and survival from the horror of the Holocaust.

Light from the Dark will take place at the club’s Stamford Bridge stadium on 24 January and all proceeds will go to the Imperial War Museum’s (IWM) project to redevelop its Second World War and Holocaust Galleries.

Hosted by award-winning comedian and writer David Baddiel, the evening will feature inspiring stories from Holocaust survivors, including renowned journalist Hella Pick.

The will also be testimony from Chelsea FC chairman Bruce Buck, IWM director general Diane Lees, Rabbi Nicky Liss, Chelsea FC first team players and many more special guests still to be announced.

Musical entertainment will include a performance of a special piece by composer Neumeyer, who died in Thereseienstadt in 1944.

There will also be the opportunity to bid on unique items in a live auction, including the chance to fly in an iconic T9 Spitfire, travel with the Chelsea team to a European away match, or even the chance to be a Premier League chairman for the day.

Chelsea said: “All funds raised from the event will go towards the construction of IWMs new gallery and with the support of Jewish News, we are confident the evening will be a great success.”

Khan keen on Israel trip Sadiq Khan will visit Israel as “soon as possible”, but has ruled out a trip next year because of his re-election campaign.

The London Mayor spoke to Jewish News about the importance of economic and cultural ties between the capital and Tel Aviv, as well as fighting antisemitism in London but said: “Next year I might be focused on winning re-election in 2020, but as soon as we can, we’re going to go.

“I’ve met with the mayors

of some of the great cities in Israel, and we’re keen to go when we can. I’m keen, if for no other reason, to reassure the world post-Brexit …we’re going to carry on being openminded, outward-looking and pluralistic.”

He spoke about furthering cultural links between London and Israel, and urged nonJewish Londoners to “try and understand the psychological trauma our Jewish friends feel when they saw the [Pittsburgh] terror attack”.

ANTISEMITISM ‘A SMEAR’ Roman Abramovich launched a campaign to tackle antisemitism back in January

Meanwhile, the club, which is fourth in the Premiership, has promised to take the strongest possible action against any supporters found to have sung antisemitic chants during its game last week in Budapest. Minutes into a Europa League clash with Vidi in Budapest’s Groupama Arena, some Chelsea fans were heard singing a derogatory chant about Tottenham supporters, featuring antisemitic language.

Chelsea attacked the “brainpower” of those fans who “shamed the club” at the match.

A left-wing Labour group has suggested claims of antisemitism in the party are “ruling class propaganda”, aimed at preventing Jeremy Corbyn from being prime minister.

The Labour Representation Committee (LRC), whose president is Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, said in a 39-point statement that “anti-Zionists” were being expelled from Labour while “more and more councils are adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance

Association (sic) [IHRA] definition and examples of antisemitism and using it to discipline workers”.

The LRC conference manifesto, Preparing our Movement for the Struggles Ahead, says: “The preferred option of the ruling class is to prevent Corbyn becoming PM. Labour Against Antisemitism’s Euan Philipps told the Jewish Chronicle the LRC’s comments were “outrageous” and McDonnell should “resign immediately” as its president.

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Reasons to be cheerful: Islington bans Atzmon Islington Council has banned “antisemite” Gilad Atzmon from performing with legendary band The Blockheads on Friday night, writes Adam Decker.

Jewish News can reveal the council confirmed following a complaint from a member of the Jewish community, that the controversial Israeli jazz musician would not be allowed to perform at the Councilowned Assembly Hall.

Atzmon’s past statements have included, “Jewish ideology is driving our planet into catastrophe” and “I’m not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act.”

He has also argued that we should “take seriously” the idea that “Jews are trying to take over the world”.

In a statement, Islington Council said: “Under the 2010 Equality Act, the Council must, in exercise of its functions, have due regard to

the need to foster good relations between different races and religions within the banner.

“The council took account of the fact that Mr Atzmon’s presence at the hall, and knowledge of his presence among residents of the borough, might harm such relationships, as well as the council’s duty to tackle prejudice and promote understanding within the borough.”

Welcoming the decision, Stephen Silverman, director of investigations and enforcement at Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), said: “Gilad Atzmon is a notorious antisemite who makes extensive and frequent use of social media to broadcast his hateful views about Jews to the public. Antisemites must be made to suffer the consequences of their racism.

“In banning Mr Atzmon from playing in its borough, Islington Council has taken a commendable stance that upholds the principle of

Band ban: Gilad Atzmon

zero tolerance for antisemitism, and shown admirable solidarity with the Jewish community.”

Earlier this year, Atzmon was successfully sued by Campaign Against Antisemitism chairman Gideon Falter, after the musician accused him of personally profiting from fabricating antisemitic incidents.

Atzmon has recorded and performed with numerous highprofile artists, including Sir Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams and

The Blockheads are ‘outraged’ at the decision by Islington Council

Sinéad O’Connor.

Mark Gallaher of The Blockheads – whose hits include Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3 – told Jewish News the band was “outraged” at the ruling.

“Everyone may not agree with

Gilad but, in this country, he is supposed to have the right to air his opinions freely and encourage open discussion on matters that are important to him,” he added.

Atzmon has been approached for comment.

Band’s boycott U-turn A Pink Floyd tribute band has reversed its decision to boycott Israel and will perform there next month, writes Joe Millis.

The UK Pink Floyd Experience had originally called off its three shows in Be’er Sheva (4 January), Tel Aviv (5 January) and Haifa (6 January) after former Floyd frontman Roger Waters wrote on Facebook that singing his songs in Israel would be “an act of unconscionable malice and disrespect”.

Waters is well-known for his support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS). However, the tribute band said: “In January 2017 the show was invited to perform in Israel… The shows got a wonderful reception from friendly and enthusiastic audiences.

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“Our decision to accept the invitations to play in Israel were completely non-political and neither endorses nor criticises anyone’s political views in this situation.” It said it was “obliged to fulfil our contractual obligation to perform in Israel in January, adding: “However, we have changed our set and will perform a one-off special concert together with Israeli Pink Floyd Tribute Band Echoes.”

It said it deeply regretted “the upset caused by all of this, it was far from our intention to stir up all this anger and hatred, when the opposite was what was intended”. Israeli musician and concert organiser Ziv Rubinstein said: “It was a terrible situation, their lives were threatened, they were very scared.”

THOUSANDS OF FESTIVALGOERS SET FOR LIMMUD An estimated 2,500 people will descend on Birmingham this weekend to take part in the annual celebration of Jewish learning and fun, Limmud Festival, writes Joe Millis.

The participants, from a record 41 countries, will hear and see presenters from Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis to Israeli Eurovision winner Dana International.

And with the festival – which runs from 23 to 27 December – focusing on Sephardi and Mizrachi culture (as well as the

growing LGBTQ+ activism in the community), other participants include Joseph Dweck, senior rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, flamenco dancer Leilah Broukhim, artist Siona Benjamin, Bukharan social innovator Ruben Shimonov, the Banot band, author and chef Gil Hovav, historian Jack Wertheimer, and comedians Rachel Creeger and Benji Lovitt.

“Our team of volunteers has fashioned a Limmud Fes-

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tival where every participant can curate their own journey,” said event chair Jonathan Robinson. “The programme will ignite many Jewish conversations.”  Jewish News will report from the festival

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Only nine non-invasive Hackney post-mortems Up to 42 times as many non-invasive post-mortem examinations were carried out in areas with large Muslim populations last year than were ordered in the inner north London area overseen by coroner Mary Hassell, Jewish News can reveal.

Official figures show there were only nine non-invasive post-mortems conducted in Hassell’s area in 2017, which includes Hackney and Stamford Hill, despite a huge row and legal battle over how she handles cases involving religious families.

Jewish leaders have called for the greater use of noninvasive techniques such as CT or MRI scans, which can sometimes prevent the need to open and examine the body internally, and are ordered at

Mary Hassell, above, was taken to court by families who prefer techniques such as CT or MRI scans

the coroner’s discretion, with the deceased’s family agreeing to meet the costs.

The number of non-invasive post-mortems conducted in Hassell’s patch matched the number from 2016 but, by contrast, there were 378 noninvasive post-mortems conducted in the Black Country in the West Midlands, up from 179 in 2016.

Similarly there were 373 non-invasive post-mortems in South Yorkshire, up from 140 in 2016, while there were another 267 in West Yorkshire, which includes Bradford, and 100 in Leicester.

In 2015, Hassell was taken to court again by a Jewish family who wanted a family member to have a scan instead of a surgical post-mortem.

They won an injunction and the right to a judicial review in the High Court, where judges ruled later that year religious families can ask for scans or blood tests if their religion demands the corpse remains intact.

A spokesman for the Adath Yisroel Burial Society said at the time that judges had “stepped in to prevent breaches of human rights, allowing the applicants to follow their religious beliefs… On both occasions the autopsies demanded

by Ms Hassell proved completely unnecessary as noninvasive scans conclusively established the cause of death”.

Two months ago, the burial society said relations with Hassell were much-improved, after she lost another court case brought by the society, in which judges deemed her “cab rank rule” policy of releasing bodies unlawful.

The only way is merger The merger between two of Essex’s largest synagogues has been approved by the United Synagogue Council, after the two communities overwhelmingly backed the move.

Redbridge and Ilford United Synagogues will now hold a competition to decide

the name of the new community, in Beehive Lane, the current home of Ilford shul.

As part of this merger, a refurbishment programme will be undertaken in the new year to ensure that the new community has improved facilities for its more than 2,000 members.

MAY: JEWS SHOULD FEEL SAFE Theresa May has called for 2019 to be the year in which “every one of us” commits to tackling antisemitism.

John Mann MP told May that for 400 years Britain “has been a place of safety and security” for Jews” but said “2018, many in the Jewish community are questioning whether this will be the case into the future, and

a disturbingly large number of young Jewish people, are questioning whether they should remain in this country.”

May said: “Jewish people should be able to feel safe and secure in this country. I never thought I would see the day when [Jews] living in this country questioned whether they should stay.”

Widow of Ramon dies Rona Ramon, the widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who perished on board the space shuttle Columbia, has died.

She became a public figure and established the Ramon Foundation to promote academic excellence and social leadership among Israeli

youth, died on Monday at the age of 54 of pancreatic cancer.

Ramon’s oldest son Asaf, an Israel Air Force pilot who flew an F-16 fighter jet, died in 2009, six years after his father, in a training accident. She had been required to sign a letter allowing him to follow his father into the Air Force.

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Is Raab poised to be the next in a short line of Jewish PMs? Jeremy Havardi on what history could have in store for the former Brexit secretary

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ccording to some, Dominic Raab, the former Brexit Secretary, is the frontrunner to replace Theresa May as prime minister in the event she resigns. His articulate manner and telegenic appearance have persuaded many he is the best candidate for the top job.

If he achieved this, Raab would be the second person, either Jewish or of partial Jewish ancestry, to become UK prime minister. Raab is the son of a Czech Jewish refugee who fled to Britain in 1938, leaving behind family who would later perish in the Shoah.

Exactly 150 years ago, Britain had its first Jewish prime minister in the form of the charismatic and witty Benjamin Disraeli. Despite his father baptising him as a child into the Anglican faith, ‘Dizzy’ remained a Jew, possibly in his own eyes as well as those of his detractors.

As historian Derek Taylor points out: “Disraeli was always known as ‘The old Jew’ and there are books detailing the antisemitism he suffered throughout his political career.” When he stood for election, he faced cries of ‘Shylock’ and, later, people accused him of having a ‘foreign’ mentality.

Disraeli, the ‘One Nation’ Tory, would go on to reinvent the Conservatives, and as a two-time prime minister, introduce social reforms in housing, public health and labour relations.

British Jews have also been leaders of the opposition (Michael Howard for the Conservatives, Ed Miliband for Labour), Foreign Secretary (Rufus Isaacs, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and David Miliband), Home Secretary (Herbert Samuel, Leon Brittan and Michael Howard) and Chancellor (Nigel Lawson and, as recently revealed, George Osborne).

Ed and David Miliband, Lord Lawson and Lord Howard came close, but Benjamin ‘Dizzy’ Disraeli, right, remains one of a kind There have also been Jewish Governor Generals in British colonies, including Sir Matthew Nathan (Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong) and both Sir Isaac Isaacs and Sir Zelman Cowen (Australia).

There has been a Jewish Chief Minister of Singapore (David Marshall) and Gibraltar (Joshua Hassan).

As politicians, Jews have risen to prominence in Europe. France has had a number of Jewish prime ministers, including Leon Blum who in the 1930s intro-

duced important labour reforms in the National Unity government. After being imprisoned during the Vichy era, he became prime minister briefly in a post-war coalition government.

Pierre Mendes-France and René Mayer also served as prime minister for short periods in the postwar period, as did Michel Debré who, although raised as a Catholic, was the son of a famous Jewish physician.

Italy’s three Jewish prime ministers were Luigi Luzzatti, Alessandro Fortis and Sidney Sonnino (of Jewish ancestry from his father). Luzzatti was noted for

introducing measures of social reform, including compulsory accident insurance and voluntary insurance schemes.

In 1970, Bruno Kreisky became the first socialist (and Jewish) chancellor of Catholic Austria, and he, too, implemented reforms, including the decriminalisation of homosexuality and equality for women.

There was rather less liberalism in the rule of Matyas Rakosi who, as Hungary’s de facto ruler until 1956, oversaw the death and imprisonment of thousands of his fellow countrymen.

Ruth Dreifuss became president of the Swiss Confederation in 1999, the first woman to hold this position. Jan Fischer, the son of a Jewish Holocaust survivor father and a Catholic mother, was prime minister of the Czech Republic between 2009-10.

In Russia and the Baltic States, too, Jews have risen to the most prominent political positions. Sergey Kiriyenko (Jewish father), Mikhail Fradkov and Yevgeny Primakov all served as prime minister of Russia under Presidents Yeltsin and Putin, while Zurab Zhvania became Georgia’s fourth prime minister in 2004, dying in suspicious circumstances the following year. Volodymyr Groysman has held the same

position in Ukraine since 2016.

When Latvia became independent, Zigfrids Anna Meierovics served as its first foreign minister and later became prime minister in the 1920s.

Meanwhile, in formerly communist Romania, Petre Roman became prime minister when the country went through its first free elections post 1989.

But Jews have also wielded political power elsewhere. London-born Julius Vogel was New Zealand’s prime minister between 1873 and 1875, a position also held briefly by Sir Francis Bell in 1925. Sir John Key, who won three elections, is the son of a Holocaust survivor.

Jews have been either prime minister or president in Peru (Pedro Kuczynski, Salomon Ghitis, Efrain Goldenberg and Yehude Simon), the Dominican Republic (Francisco Carvajal), Honduras (Juan Lindo, Ricardo Maduro), Panama (Eric Delvalle) and Guyana (Janet Jagan). Lindo, of Jewish ancestry from his father, was previously head of state in El Salvador!

In many countries over the past two centuries, Jews or those of Jewish ancestry have taken the ultimate responsibility for their country’s welfare, security and international standing.

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Jews with postgraduate qualifications are the least engaged members of the Jewish community, according to research published by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), writes Joe Millis.

The research, Academic Achievement and Engagement in Jewish Life: First Signs of a Brain Drain?, uses four sample surveys of British Jews conducted over the past 23 years.

It focuses on the way in which highly-educated Jews differ from others in their sense of identity, religious and ethnic behaviour, their marriage choices, perceptions of Israel and their social involvement in Jewish life.

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a readiness to acknowledge and adapt to such findings may be crucial to any effort on behalf of the Jewish community leadership to address the issues of intellectual mobility it highlights.

JPR executive director Jonathan Boyd said: “Among the more important claims made in this report is Miller’s finding that the active Jewish community is failing to retain a representative proportion of the most academically qualified Jews.

“We are, in effect, losing some of our collective intellectual resources, with the possibility that the Jewishly identified community will be progressively denuded of its best intellectual resources, assuming we measure intellectualism along academic lines.”

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found that the gap in levels of Jewish communal engagement between postgraduates and others is particularly substantial in areas such as synagogue membership, outmarriage, charitable priorities and support for Israeli Government policy.

It also noted that highly educated Jews were about half as likely as non-graduates to see their fellow Jews as a source of natural support, or to express concern about Jewish continuity.

High academic achievers, however, were more likely The community is ‘losing some than others to cite positive of its intellectual resources’ traits and values, such as fairness, respect, dislike of preju- Jews can be largely attributed dice, love of learning, as exam- to their more critical evaluaples of how they feel their Jew- tion of the Jewish community, rather than any weakness in ishness has affected them.

The drop in Jewish engage- their personal identity as Jews.

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remain anonymous, Tributes have been paid to took to Facebook to pay a former JFS pupil who was tribute, saying: “Anyone tragically killed during a car who spent more than five crash in Spain. minutes with Keren will Friends of Keren Brody know how special she is remembered her as a “wonand how heartbreaking it derful human” after she was is that we lost her so sudinvolved in a fatal accident denly. Everything about near Madrid at the weekend. this is so devastating.

The 24-year-old from Edg“Keren is one of the ware moved to the country best people I know, unisix weeks ago to learn Spanish and pursue her career as ‘Wonderful human’: Keren Brody versally liked by everyone she crossed paths with, a a translator, after studying glorious, wonderful human who deserves so French at the University of Warwick.

During a trip near Madrid with friends, the much better.”

Her friends and family paid respects to her on car Keren was travelling in was involved in a collision with a bus. Keren died from her inju- her Facebook profile, writing that she was “kind, loving, clever, ambitious and adventurous”. ries on Sunday after being taken to hospital.

Keren is due to be buried in Israel.

One of her close friends, who wished to

NE0-NAZI COUPLE JAILED A neo-Nazi couple who named their baby son in honour of Hitler have been jailed for membership of a terrorist group.

Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, were found guilty after a trial of being members of the extreme right-wing organisation National Action, which was banned in 2016.

Thomas was jailed for six years and six months while Patatas was sentenced to five

years. A sentencing judge told them they both had “a long history of violent, racist beliefs”.

At trial, the jury heard Thomas and Patatas gave their child the middle name Adolf, which Thomas said was in “admiration” of Hitler.

In conversation with another National Action member, Patatas said “all Jews must be put to death”, while Thomas had once told his partner he found “all nonwhites intolerable”.

Patatas and Thomas

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Australia’s capital gain Australia has decided to formally recognise West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but will not move its embassy until there is a peace settlement between Israel and Palestinians, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced.

He said Australia will recognise East Jerusalem as Palestine’s capital only after a settlement has been reached on a two-state solution. Its embassy will not be moved from Tel Aviv until such a time.

While the embassy move is delayed, Morrison said the government will establish a defence and trade office in Jerusalem and will also start looking for an

Australia has formally recognised West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

appropriate site for the embassy.

He said in a speech last Saturday: “The Australian Government has decided that Australia now recognises west Jerusalem

– as the seat of the Knesset and many of the institutions of government – is the capital of Israel.”

He said the decision respects both a commitment to a two-state solution and longstanding respect for relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in a move that is not internationally recognised.

Israel considers East Jerusalem an indivisible part of its capital, while the Palestinians seek the area, home to the city’s most sensitive holy sites, as the capital of a future state.

‘NEW LOW’ FOR DIASPORA American Jewish leaders this week launched a scathing attack on Israeli policies, saying they want to “throw their hands up” because of Netanyahu’s attitude towards the Palestinians, Trump and Progressive Jews.

The leaders have also warned top officials from the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs that “relations between Israel and US Jewry are at their lowest point since the state of Israel was established”.

Eric Goldstein, the chief executive of the UJA-Federation of New

York – the largest in the US – said that two main issues distance AmericanJews from supporting Israel: the strong support shown to the Trump administration by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the actions taken by his government in regard to the Palestinians.

“People who, up until three years ago, were the biggest supporters of Israel now say to us they want to throw up, that all of their love and labour on behalf of Israel went down the drain,” Goldstein said.

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF

Your weekly digest of stories from the international press CYPRUS

The Cypriot Government has invoiced its Jewish community £5,390 for security costs for their Chanukah celebrations, one week after the European Union said all states would protect Jewish communities, including financing their security. Brussels-based Jewish groups called it ‘an insult’.

UNITED STATES

Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen will get kosher matzah ball soup, gefilte fish and rugelach in prison. Cohen paid porn stars to keep shtum about their nights with Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. The prison Cohen is destined to call home has been described as ‘federal Jewish heaven’.

ITALY

The head of Italian Jewry, Noemi Di Segni, said the new nationalist government in Rome must be a partner, despite Interior Minister Matteo Salvini criticising refugees, referring to female politicians as sex dolls, and lamenting how he cannot expel the country’s Roma.

NIGERIA

Police have arrested 51 Nigerians who claim to be Jewish, accusing them of belonging to a banned Biafran separatist organisation.

The marchers, many of whom carried prayer shawls and wore kippot, were detained in the Nigerian state of Abia last week.

Biafra was at the centre of a civil war between 1967-70.

More than 35 gravestones and a monument to Shoah victims were defaced with swastikas and antisemitic graffiti in Herrlisheim’s Jewish cemetery, which is in the north of Strasbourg, France, last Friday.

TEARS & TRIBUTES AT FUNERAL

Family and friends of Sgt. Yosef Cohen at his funeral in Jerusalem. Cohen, 19, (inset) of the Kfir Brigade’s strictlyOrthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion, was shot dead in the West Bank with Staff Sergeant Yovel Moryosef, 20.

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Children who lost their childhood

This week, Germany finally agreed compensation for those who fled the country’s Nazi regime as children on the Kindertransport. Each of them, now in their 80s or older, will receive one-off payments of around £2,250.

These are the children tortured by a lifetime of faded memories of mums and dads who found the inner strength to do the unimaginable – send their little ones into the unknown to save them from Nazi terror. Most never saw their parents again – the fathers and mothers they waved behind among the six million.

In all, more than 10,000 children were rescued. About 1,000 of those who boarded Kindertransport trains are alive today, the majority living in this country.

To its credit, the German state has been punctilious about the claims process. Since 1952, some £55 billion has been paid to more than 800,000 victims. Previous survivors have had claims accepted for loss of education and livelihood, but this is the first time there has been recognition of loss of childhood.

The Kinder, by virtue of fleeing their parents and their homes, are said to have lost their childhood, even if they found sanctuary with sympathetic families. It’s a meagre sum, but no amount given can compensate for what was taken. As this week’s front page asks: How do you put a price on childhood? How, indeed.

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LET’S COMMEND PM, NOT CONDEMN I refer to Emma Arnold’s letter, ‘I Hear Sartre Laugh’, criticising Jewish News’ positive coverage of Theresa May and must take issue with her (Jewish News, 6 December).

Come what may, our prime minister has been a good political friend to the UK Jewish community and, on the international stage, to Israel. She has vigorously spoken out against antisemitism and maintained the right of Israel to exist, free from military and terrorist attacks.

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ORGANIC FREE RANGE IS MORE HUMANE I was amazed to read the letter from Shimon Cohen regarding kosher meat (Jewish News, 13 December 2018). To state all price points are catered for is simply not correct.

However, I agree animal welfare is paramount, which is the essence of kashrut.

How does Mr Cohen explain that we have only one choice of chicken – those kept in small cages, fattened

with growth hormones and slaughtered after a brief existence? Does he want us to believe our chickens and beef are equivalent to free range organic produce, free of antibiotic and growth hormones and generally available to the wider public? If this is true why isn’t he publicising this every time there’s a flurry of anti-schechita activity?

Paul Spector Bournemouth

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time for us during one of the most difficult political times in UK history – Brexit.

Leslie Acker in her letter, ‘Our PM’s Priorities Are Spot On’, rightly commends Theresa May and alludes to the future if, or more likely, when, she ceases to be the PM. The next PM could well be Jeremy Corbyn, who, together with his acolytes, and not so merry band of antisemites, will not have any Jewish person laughing.

Many great former Labour leaders and luminaries will then be turning, not laughing, in their graves. Credit where it’s due and it certainly is to you, Mrs May. J D Milaric By email

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AJEX archives are seeking surviving friends and relatives of Pte Mark Feld (born 1925), who died on duty in August 1946 in a Warwickshire Army camp, with special regard to his

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Thank you, JNF UK In these troubled times, it is all too easy to feel our community is on its last legs. Politically, and £1m boost for Israel socially, we are under education greater pressures than at Toda raba! say thousands of pupils after charity windfall any time in recent decades. So what a breath of fresh air it was to read on the front page of last week’s Jewish News about JNF UK’s wonderful £1.2 million grant to boost Israel education in our schools.

The money will benefit thousands

of youngsters and give them a stronger relationship with the Jewish state – the sort of relationship, I hope, that I enjoyed when I was a schoolboy. Thank you to JNF UK for all you do for our community.

Next time we read something negative in the press, keep in mind that it isn’t all bad news all of the time.

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Jewish schools across Britain gave a warm shalom this week to a £1.2million windfall for Israel education programmes, writes Adam Decker.

The grants from JNF UK will benefit more than 12,000 pupils at 18 primary and secondary schools and aims to help strengthen Jewish identity and young people’s connection to Israel.

Primary schools were eligible to receive grants of up to £10,000 a year, while secondary schools were invited to apply for up to £50,000 a year to expand their Israel education programmes.

The grant programme is unique as it gives the schools the ability to shape the programmes in line with their ethos and decide how the money is spent.

During the year, the schools will partner with one of JNF UK’s projects in Israel, including the Derech Eretz Leadership programme for underprivileged youth and Yerucham Music Conservatory, the only one of its kind in that area of the Negev.

JNF UK chairman Samuel Hayek said: “For more than 100 years, JNF UK has played an integral part in Israel’s development,

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supporting every area of Israeli life. The school programmes will empower the next generation of young Jews, increasing their understanding and knowledge, strengthening the connection they have with the state. It will show them how they can play an important part in Israel’s future.”

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, said: “A strong connection to Israel means a strong Judaism and that’s because Israel is a central element of the Jewish faith.

“It’s for that reason that I welcome enormously this significant investment and initiative.

“The JNF will be enabling

schools to avail themselves of a wide variety of activities and to be able to carry them out within the curriculum of the school and according to the school’s ethos. It’s a brilliant plan.”

Among the schools benefiting from the grant are Hasmonean Primary, London; Mathilda Marks-Kennedy School, Mill Hill; Brodesky School, Leeds; King David Primary, Liverpool; Immanuel College, Bushey; and JFS. A spokesperson for PaJeS, the umbrella organisation for Jewish schools, added: “It is lovely to see an initiative that encourages Israel education in our schools.”

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‘FLAILING’ WAS TOO MILD Jonathan Hoffman complained on last week’s letters page about what he termed the distortion in your reporting of the events at the Zionist Federation biennial (Jewish News, 13 December).

I was at the event with my partner, and let me tell you that “flailing” was a mild way to describe the reception to Mr Hoffman’s candidacy and motion. “Shellacking” and “one hell of a beating” come to mind.

FAIR DINKUM, COBBER

I’m delighted that, after 70 years, Australia has at last recognised West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

I am likewise delighted to now recognise West Canberra as the capital of Australia.

Naturally, in the spirit of solidarity, East Canberra should now be put under UN control as the future capital of the native Australians.

As they say in Oz, “Fair dinkum, cobber.”

Jeremy Zeid By email

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Mr Hoffman received just four votes for his candidacy and three for his motion.

Assuming he voted for himself, that makes three and two supporters respectively.

As for his anger at being described at right-wing, that, too, is mild considering Mr Hoffman’s oft-stated positions on Israel.

You reported last week that the acclaimed Israeli General, Benny Gantz, is considering challenging Bibi Netanyahu for the job of Israeli prime minister (Jewish News, 13 December).

If this comes to pass and the general prevails, he’ll definitely be the gantzer macher!

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WE’RE BETTER TOGETHER Your editor’s piece last week on why the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) and Board of Deputies should work more closely and even consider merging was illuminating.

I have long wondered why we need two umbrella organisations duplicating one another’s work.

The Board is a remarkable communal body. I am unaware of another with its longevity. It exerts its positive influence across the country and is an enriching presence in and

around my neck of the woods.

I’m less familiar with the JLC, which still seems distant to the Jew in the street. It clearly has clout. I was unaware it includes the likes of JW3 and Jewish Care in its membership.

As a community, we are so much better, stronger and safer when we are together. I hope the Board and JLC keep this in mind.

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Chelsea on the attack to clean up reputation ALEX BRUMMER

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hen my young sons and I first became season ticket holders at Chelsea in the early 1990s our seats were in the friendly ‘family section.’ Imagine our shock when I spotted that the person sitting next to us, with his child dressed in a blue babygro on his knee, had a swastika tattooed on his arm. The fan swore like a trooper at opposing players (and our own) and seemed to reserve the epithet ‘donkey’ for black players.

This person plainly represented the worst of supporters but, over the years, I came to think widespread racism was a thing of the past. The visceral, tribal hatred of Tottenham I fondly imagined was down to the self-identification of the north London’s club as ‘Yids’ and bitter London rivalry. Clearly, one totally underestimated the fierce racism among sections of fans. This in spite of the fact that black and Asian supporters – who sit near us in the upper section of the East Stand – always are treated by those around them with

respect and comradery.

Recent events have shaken confidence that the appalling behaviour and antisemitism that plagued football in the 1970s and 1980s had been eliminated. The myth is that it is now confined to continental clubs like Roma unused, as we are in Britain, to seeing so many black players.

How wrong you can be. In successive weeks we have seen the reputation of Chelsea Football Club eviscerated. An unexpected victory against Premier League champions Manchester City was overshadowed by the sight of four fans, hatred on their faces, allegedly hurling racist abuse at England star Raheem Sterling. The fans have been identified and suspended and the incident probed

by CFC and the Metropolitan Police.

Worse followed. When Chelsea fans travelled to the Europa League tie against Vidi in Hungary last week they saw it as an opportunity to put their antisemitism on display. Under the leadership of hard man Viktor Orban, Hungary has shown flashes of its Second World War racism – turning fire, for instance, on Hungarian-Jewish billion-

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The paradox of this renewed outbreak of racism and antisemitism is that it comes at a time when Chelsea’s beleaguered owner.

Russian-Jewish billionaire Roman Abramovich, has been running an all-out campaign to rid Chelsea of such tendencies.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was recently a guest at the ground to endorse a reinvigorated campaign against antisemitism.

Indeed, the match programme for the Manchester City game, at which the Sterling

incident occurred, includes the announcement that Chelsea has teamed up with Kick it Out to release ‘a uncompromising short film encouraging people to report abuse.’

Produced by writer Ivor Baddiel, a Chelsea fan, the film seeks to raise awareness of the consequences of antisemitic behaviour, its effect on Jewish fans and the wider community. The club’s chairman Bruce Buck was seen at a recent game in Brighton pleading for calm among away fans. Fans of Brighton, owned by local Jewish philanthropist Tony Bloom, taunted the Chelsea contingent with a chant of ‘Racists! Racists! Racists!’

Arguably the public debate on antiemitism has been given some legitimacy by the Labour Party’s tolerance of anti-Zionist abuse and the embrace of right-wing activist Tommy Robinson by an enfeebled UKIP. But no one should doubt Abramovich’s personal commitment to the cause of defending Jews. After all, he recently has donated £30.5m to upgrading the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Galleries and is committed to using Stamford Bridge to raise further funds for the cause.

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US-Saudi alliance vital for hopes of regional stability DAVID WOLCHOVER BARRISTER AND AUTHOR

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n 29 December 1170, four royal courtiers waylaid Archbishop Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. As it happens, I have a personal interest in the story: it was my son-in-law’s putative ancestor (and namesake) who delivered the crushing mortal blow.

King Henry II, of course, had nothing to do with the assassination. It was all a dreadful misunderstanding. In a fit of frustrated pique over some transient tiff, Henry had supposedly muttered: “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” Never was it the king’s aim to be taken literally, but his dim-witted knights tragically missed the point of his rhetorical irony – it is not known if they were Jewish – and Henry lost his beloved soulmate.

Thoughts of the Becket killing come to mind in the wake of the murder in Istanbul of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, arch-critic of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince

Mohammed bin Salman. The parallels are uncanny. The prince’s henchmen reportedly demanded Khashoggi return with them to Riyadh. Henry’s men wanted Becket to accompany them to Winchester for questioning. In each case, the victim refused.

The Saudis admit members of the hit squad were close to the prince, but bin Salman implicitly denies sanctioning the murder when he loudly proclaims his country’s determination to get to the bottom of the atrocity. So what’s he saying?

That he never ordered the killing but his misguided acolytes must have misread his intent when he mouthed angry imprecations against his exiled nemesis? If Henry could get away with it, so might yet the prince.

He might urge us to accept it would have been folly to embark on a crime easily exposed. But how often have I commended that argument to juries, only to hear them pronounce the word “guilty”?

It might stick in the craw to acknowledge the demands of geopolitical reality, but it will probably benefit the state of Israel and the prospects for regional stability if Donald

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We should never lose sight of the continuing existential threat to Israel posed by the mullahs of Iran. We should not for one moment forget the regime’s sponsorship of Hezbollah, now equipped in Lebanon and Syria with an estimated 40 times the number of rockets the faction deployed in 2006.

Nor should we overlook what horrors Iran’s current President, Hassan Rouhani, is capable of perpetrating.

Just like bin Salman, he beguiles, but as I have previously asserted in this newspaper and demonstrated elsewhere, he was one of the Iranian government’s three principal conspirators who plotted the Lockerbie

bombing in 1988 (forget about Ghaddafi).

Whatever Trump’s other failings, with Benjamin Netanyahu he is spot on when it comes to the mullahs. It will be remembered that on 4 November 1979, agents of the then-new Iranian regime under Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the American Embassy in Tehran and held its 52 staff hostage for 444 days.

The 39th anniversary is the date the Trump administration has set for proscribing crude oil purchases from Iran.

The loss of revenue may finally pave the way for the collapse of the mullahs and the founding of a true secular democracy.

Trump’s alliance with the House of Saud is vital. It is absolutely pivotal.

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Schindler’s List’s rightful place in popular culture JORDAN HOFFMAN FILM CRITIC

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don’t think I could watch Schindler’s List again,” my mother says, when I tell her I have just attended a press screening for the 25th-anniversary re-release of the film.

It’s an understandable position, one Steven Spielberg himself mentions in a short introduction at the beginning of the new 4K digital print. “Hearing these stories is difficult,” he warns, “but it is important to see the worst and the best in people.”

This is Schindler’s List in a nutshell for me. It is important to me, and for the Jewish experience, but it is also — and I wish there were a better word — entertaining.

Oskar Schindler was a mediocre businessman who could succeed only when he had access to slave labour. He exploited Poland’s Jews for war profiteering and his sexual appetites. Then, at some point along the way, he realised he needed to stop the abuse and somehow undo his actions. He liquidated his wealth to save the lives of his

workers and became synonymous with the Righteous Gentile. And since 1993 he has been the face of Holocaust cinema.

This was controversial in its day. How could the most important film about the Holocaust be about someone who isn’t Jewish? And leave it to facile Spielberg, some said, to make a Holocaust movie with a (somewhat) happy ending.

Critic J. Hoberman famously criticised the scene in the Auschwitz showers, where a trainload of Schindlerjuden were sent in error, requiring Schindler to swoop in like a goyim-ex-machina for a rescue. Is it not beyond good taste to use the images of petrified Jews, quivering naked in the showers, hoping for water and not Zyklon-B? That mix-up actually happened. Spielberg’s decision to include it is “difficult to watch”, and probably the most psychologically cruel moment in the whole film, but it is the lowest point, the deepest valley of death, juxtaposed later with the hilltop of life, the Schindler Jews “today” in Israel.

The final walk is the sequence I remember best because, in 1993, I worked as a cinema

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usher, and when that last scene hit I knew I had to gather my dustpan and sweep up for the next screening. There would be people dabbing their eyes as they exited, but like any job you grow a little immune to it.

Even with Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman playing John Williams’s outstanding score, I’d hope they’d clear out a little faster so I could get back to my menial tasks.

If I could go back now I would find those people, especially any with numbers on their arms, and be a little kinder.

Something else I took for granted was just how boldly Zionist the film’s conclusion is. After Schindler and his wife flee, a lone rider approaches Itzhak Stern and the other Jewish workers.

“Are there any Jews left?” he asks. No response. Another question: “Where should we go?” Answer: “Don’t go east, that’s for sure. They hate you there. I wouldn’t go west either, if I were you.”

Then: “We could use some food.” Answer: “Isn’t there a town over there?”

The music comes up: Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (“Jerusalem of Gold”). Not very subtle.

Now, it’s practically a criminal act to suggest Jews should make a homeland in Israel without first offering a list of prevarications.

Here’s a record it wasn’t always this way.

A recent survey showed one out of five millennials in the USA had minimal understanding of the Holocaust. This is upsetting, but maybe not so new.

In 1993, at New York University of all places, two different non-Jewish classmates felt the need to “apologise” to me after seeing the film. Other Jewish students reported the same phenomenon. It made us feel awkward. None of us had anything to do with the Holocaust; it was all okay.

That’s the difference for me between seeing the film then and now. The big conclusion, in which Schindler, played by the strong and broad Liam Neeson, has the realisation that he “could have got more out”, was, I confess, something I once lightly ribbed as being a little over the top. Naturally, it’s the part that kills me most today.

Here we have the enormous Neeson sobbing and collapsing into the arms of the tiny and frail Ben Kingsley, overcome by guilt that he has been part of the system for so long and that he has been too greedy, or too frightened, to take a stand.

This is a moment all of us who have lived a little bit must confront in ourselves. No, we are not living in the Third Reich, but even in our personal lives, and with our families, or even with ourselves, are we doing enough?

Are we doing what’s right? No, probably not, at least not always.

So, as my mother says, and as Spielberg acknowledges, it’s hard to watch Schindler’s List. But it is outstanding.

It’s difficult to speak solely about the craft of something so emotionally fraught, but this is masterful film making. It opens with a benediction, a candle prayer in colour, the smoke cutting to the puff of a train then the rhythmic thrum of bureaucracy.

Stamps, names, papers. Schindler arrives in Krakow and schemes his way to his position. He impresses the right Germans and enlists the right Jew. It’s like a heist picture, and the music is upbeat and propulsive.

Even his repossession of a rich Jewish home as the well-heeled owners are dismissed to the dirty ghetto is cut together with a degree of playfulness.

Like Schindler himself, we are removed from the horror, navigating the waves to come out on top. Until, thankfully, something comes along to change it.

I’ve seen Schindler’s List a number of times and yes, perhaps due to its “happy ending”, I know I’ll watch it again. I can’t say the same for Son of Saul, a remarkable artistic triumph that exploits cinematic formalism in all the best ways, but is too unbearably bleak to revisit.

There will likely never be another Holocaust film as widely accepted as Schindler’s List, a critical and economic phenomenon but luckily a triumph as well.

Go out and see it again in a cinema. And may we all live long enough to see its next revival in another 25 years.

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

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Incredible support enabled Chai Cancer Care, the Jewish community’s only dedicated cancer support organisation to hit its target £1.2 million at its annual dinner on 10 December. The event, called Navigation, was held for the fourth time at the Roundhouse, in Camden Town, and was attended by 700 guests, raising the muchneeded funds for Chai to provide its all-encompassing specialist support and care services to 3,486 people in the community affected by a cancer diagnosis.

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2 LAS VEGAS LEGACY More than 50 clients and friends of KKL Executor and Trustee (KKL) were treated to a Las Vegas-themed extravaganza at the annual Chanukah party of JNF UK’s legacy department. It was a full house at the Hendon Hall Hotel and participants of this year’s JNF UK Legacy Mission to Israel were among the guests. Entertainment was provided by Antony ‘The Voice of Vegas’ Myers, who sang classics by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin and Neil Diamond.

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3BOND – A GOOD START Shelanu, the most recent addition to the Jewish Futures family of organisations, hosted its first major event on the last night of Chanukah.

The upscale party, which attracted close to 250 Israeliborn young professionals living in London, was held at the Bond in Motion exhibition at the London Film Museum. The event, which promoted Shelanu’s ongoing educational and social activities across the capital, was “a resounding success and a great start”, said co-director Yogev Cohen.

4CARING COMMUNITY

A group of of 25 teenagers took part in the launch of the Impact Care Awards on Sunday, part of the Chabad Lubavitch CTeen project to involve local Jewish youth in care and community work. “The future of Leeds Jewish community is in safe hands,” said Rabbi Reuven Cohen. Presentations were made by Ashley Cohen and Deborah Selwyn from Donisthorpe Hall, Tracy Bickler from Leeds Jewish Welfare Board, and Becky and Shelley Joyce from Homeless Street Angels.

“I was very inspired by the Homeless Angels talk and will do my very best to help the less fortunate,” said Oliver Burton, 12.

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University Jewish Chaplaincy has raised £150,000 over the course of 30 hours in a nail-biting all-or-nothing fundraising campaign on the last night of Chanukah. During this interactive telethon, hundreds of Jewish students in 12 regions made calls explaining how they have benefited from chaplaincy’s work on campus.

In total, nearly 800 people donated to the campaign, in amounts as small as £2 and going up to several thousand.

More than 225 guests attended the 22nd annual Jewish Care Bridge Extravaganza at The Landmark hotel in central London. The event raised £100,000, which will help to fund the running costs of the buses Jewish Care uses to take people from their homes to its day centres. The event has raised £1,800,000 since it started.

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A community interfaith meeting, organised by The Mosque & Islamic Centre of Brent, was held on Sunday to advance knowledge and mutual understanding of the teachings, traditions and practices of the different faith communities in Britain. Mayor of Brent, Councillor Arshad Mahmood attended, and Hampstead Synagogue was represented by Rabbi Michael Harris and Anthony Ostrin.

8 BEAUTIFUL GAME Leyton Orient players,

Arthur Janata and Craig Clay kept up their team’s high performance this season when they visited residents at Jewish Care’s Vi & John Rubens House on Mitzvah Day. Goalkeeper Arthur, 18, and midfielder Craig, 26, teamed up with Harry Buitekant, 98, Harold Gordon, 90 and Howard Wayland, 67, for a game of table football.

Buitekant said: “They may not be in the premiership but they’re still my favourites.”

There was plenty to talk about, including Orient’s current position at the top of the Vanarama National League as well as highlights of the games and players from years gone by.

9 100 NOT OUT

One hundred guests joined long-standing Barnet Synagogue member Eva Mutkin to celebrate her 100th birthday with an afternoon tea at the shul. With her to celebrate were Rabbi Barry Lerer of Barnet Synagogue, her second cousin Dayan Ivan Binstock, and the Mayor of Barnet, Reuben Thompstone.

Eva was presented with a card from the Queen, a paperweight from the mayor and certificates from Barnet Shul.

10 WEMBLEY WAY Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis joined Rabbi Simon Harris and Wembley Synagogue members at a lunch to celebrate its 90 anniversary.

Mirvis spoke about the seeds of Jewish life, which had been planted and nurtured by members over the decades.

Your family announcements Amy Reeves celebrated her batmitzvah at New North London Synagogue

Noah Bohm celebrated his barmitzvah at Ohr Yisrael, Elstree Federation Synagogue

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Theatre / Lifestyle

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A new tradition!

The revival of the much-loved musical Fiddler On The Roof explores universal themes of love, racism and oppression, its leading actress tells Francine Wolfisz

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he first Broadway production might have opened more than 50 years ago, while the setting evokes the shtetl life that exists no more – and yet, Fiddler On The Roof quietly reminds audiences antisemitism and racism are still very much problems of today.

“Sadly, it feels so relevant right now,” says leading actress Judy Kuhn, who stars as Golde in Trevor Nunn’s critically-praised revival currently running at The Menier Chocolate Factory.

“People are being thrown out of their homes on a regular basis and refugees are trying desperately to find a better life for themselves.

It’s happening all over the world.

Those last images of Tevye and his family being forced to leave their homes is one that we see in the newspapers every day.”

Despite this, it’s not unusual for Kuhn to notice “gasps” from the audience as the show reaches its final scenes.

“People, of course, think of Fiddler as funny, with all the joyous dancing and all the music, which is there – but I think they forget how heartrending it is also.”

At times uplifting, but also strikingly poignant, Fiddler On The Roof opened in 1964 to great critical acclaim.

Based on a series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, Fiddler On The Roof features the unforgettable music of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick and was the first in musical theatre history to surpass 3,000 performances in a single run.

The musical remains one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, has won nine Tony Awards and spawned a critically-acclaimed 1971 film starring Topol as Tevye.

For this latest revival in London, Nunn has focused on making the production more intimate, by placing the audience up close to the actors.

In terms of the storyline, Fiddler is a show that is quintessentially Jewish, agrees Kuhn, and yet its huge success over decades shows that its appeal spreads well beyond Jewish audiences.

Judy Kuhn as Golde

Above: Fiddler On The Roof, starring Andy Nyman as Tevye, right

The four-time Tony Award nominee, who sang the title role in Disney’s animated 1995 film, Pocahontas, tells me: “Like with any great piece of art, the more specific it is, the more universal it is.

“The immigrant experience seems so palpable for so many people, wherever their family came from or for whatever reason they came to their country, especially in America.

“That’s the beauty of the piece and of all well-written theatre – it might not be your experience, but there’s something everyone can relate to and learn from.”

For Kuhn, the dilemma posed for her character is one she says directly relates to her, given her own Jewish family history.

“It’s certainly true to my grandparents, my mother’s parents, who emigrated a little later than this takes place, but their experience was the same – they were thrown out of their homes, had to flee Russia and made their way across Europe and eventually to New York.

“My father’s family came to America much earlier in the mid-19th century, but yes, the show absolutely does link me to my own family’s journey.”

Kuhn adds that her character Golde “reminds me of my grandmother in a certain kind of way”.

Describing her character, she says: “Golde is very practical, no nonsense, kind of the glue in her family. I think she discovers in the course of the show what it means to love and to care for the people in her life. She’s such a strong person and I really appreciate that about her.”

Aside from evoking the struggles of shtetl life, Fiddler is of course most famous for its soundtrack, which includes a string of well-known songs, including If I Were A Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset, Matchmaker and To Life.

For Kuhn, though, her personal favourite is Do You Love Me?, a touching duet between Tevye and Golde. “It’s one of the great love songs of all time,” she enthuses.

While her latest role does not involve much singing, Kuhn is well-known for her vocal talents – she famously sang Colours of the Wind in Pocahontas, which won its composers an Academy Award for best original song in 1995.

She looks back on that opportunity “with great fondness, a really special time”.

But it’s on the stage, as much as in the recording studio that Kuhn feels equally at home. For now, that home is Anatevka and the trials faced by Tevye and his family.

While the show may have been around for a long time, she hopes audiences will nevertheless “come away finding something unexpected”. She adds: “I hope they are moved by it, and leave with an understanding of its relevance, especially with what’s happening in the world today.”  Fiddler On The Roof runs at The Menier Chocolate Factory until 9 March 2019. Tickets: 020 7378 1713 or www.menier chocolatefactory.com

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Lifestyle / What to watch

What we can’t wait to watch in 2019...

From gripping dramas and real-life stories to gangsters, spies and hilarious housewives, here’s our top 10 Jewish shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime

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This powerful documentary from directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, the team responsible for Jesus Camp (a 2006 film about youngsters at an evangelical summer camp) follows three ex-Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn as they adapt to their new secular lifestyles. Etty Ausch is in the midst of a custody battle with her former husband, whom she claims was abusive throughout their marriage, while Luzer Twersky, who left behind his wife and children when he decided to stop being religious, is seen trying to make it as an actor. Meanwhile, Ari Hershkowitz reveals he was a child sex abuse victim and has struggled since leaving his community with drug addiction.

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Award-winning director Marina Willer’s father was among only 12 Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during the Second World War. In Red Trees, she traces the perilous journey taken by the family, as told through the voice of her father, Alfred (narrated by Tim PigottSmith), from war-torn Eastern Europe to the solace of South America. The visually-stunning film features footage shot by Academy Award-nominee César Charlone (City of God).

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With more shtick than you can shake a stick at, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which picked up no fewer than eight Emmy Awards the first time around, has just returned for a new series. Rachel Brosnahan stars as Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a young The Marvelous Mrs Maisel Jewish 1950s housewife-turned aspiring stand-up comic, alongside unit from the 2006 Lebanon War Alex Borstein as her manager, Susie who reunite for a final mission – Myerson, and Tony Shalhoub as to rescue the girlfriend of one of her bewildered father, Abe. Created the commandos, who has been

by Gilmore Girls writer Amy abducted by a cartel in Sherman-Palladino, Columbia. A second and inspired by her series is already in the Jewish comedian works for the thrillfather, the show ing drama, which is a homage to all won best series things Jewish, at the first Canfrom bris and neseries festival brisket, to Palwin earlier this year. and pickles. Just Available on when you think it Netflix from 10 can’t get any more January Jewish, the cast takes off to the Borscht Belt The Resistance Banker in the Catskills for the FOREVER second series.

PURE Available on Amazon Video This stranger-than-fiction docuand included with Prime mentary, which won an Emmy Award earlier this year, deals with the racist subculture among fans of Jerusalem’s Beitar soccer club, IsWHEN raeli director Maya Zinshtein’s film HEROES FLY focuses on La Familia, a group of Written and directed by Omri far-right, anti-Arab Beitar fans and Givron, co-creator of Hostages and their response to the team signbased on a book by Amir Gutfreing its first Muslim players — two und, the show tells the story of four Chechens — as well as to the wave veterans of a special commando of lone-wolf attacks that engulfed Israel in 2015.

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Maktub

A box office hit in its native Israel, Maktub revolves around Steve (Guy Amir) and Chuma (Hanan Savyon) as two small-time gangsters, who decide to change their ways after becoming the sole survivors of a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Jerusalem. They visit

the Western Wall to give thanks, where they accidentally pull out a note left by a man who asks for God’s help in rekindling the passion in his marriage — he earns little and must work long hours, leaving no time for romance. Chuma sees it as a sign and insists they were spared to become his guardian angels and also grant wishes to others who have left prayers in the sacred wall.

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This real-life thriller is directed by Ariel Vromen and based on Uri Bar-Joseph’s bestselling novel, The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel. The gripping plot tells the story of high-ranking Egyptian official Ashraf Marwan, who became a spy for Israel despite being the son-in-law of former Egyptian President Garmal Abdel Nasser and adviser to his successor, Anwar Sadat. Available on Netflix

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provide financial support to at least 8,000 Jews in hiding during World War II. The bravery of van Hall, who was recognised as a Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem in 1978, is powerfully told. Available on Netflix

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Gripping drama from director Chris Weitz retelling the true-life story of Mossad agent Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac) and his team, who covertly hunted down and captured Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (Ben Kingsley), while hiding in Argentina. Operation Finale shows Eichmann’s subsequent arrest and trial in Israel in 1961, where he was ultimately executed for his crimes.

Shtisel

Chosen as Netherland’s entry for next year’s Oscars, The Resistance Banker shows the audacious actions of Walraven van Hall and his brother, Gijsbert, members of a prominent banking family, who for three years bankrolled the Dutch resistance.

Together, they stole $250million from Nazi-controlled coffers and borrowed an additional $250m from other bankers to carry out attacks, smuggle Allied pilots to safety and

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Shtisel first aired in 2013 in Israel, but the popular drama’s reach will now be global thanks to a deal announced with Netflix. Focusing on a fictional, ultra-orthodox family from Jerusalem, this family drama follows a young bachelor and his widowed father, who search for love within the strict rules of religious observance.

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Travel / Lifestyle

It’ll be alright on the Dolomites!

Rachel Soffer travels to the stunning Italian-Austrian border and enjoys the breathtaking views of this world heritage site

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rom the moment you arrive in the picturesque Dolomites town of Ortisei, you’re in for a treat.

The attention to detail in this region, nestled between the Italian and Austrian borders, is more than evident and nothing short of spectacular, as we make our way towards our accommodation.

Winding and weaving our way through the Italian Alps, we were met with spectacular views of perfectly-constructed Bavarian-style homes and buildings.

Arriving at the Adler Hotel in Ortisei, we felt an immediate sense of calm. The smell of the hotel, the calming music playing and the very welcoming and polite nature of the staff all felt like the start of something very special indeed.

This historic hotel, which has maintained many of its original features, including its 19th century grand staircase, is just a short train ride away from Verona, a charming town that plays host to more than just the house with a little balcony said to be the inspiration behind Romeo and Juliet’s famous scene.

There is also a massive 1st century Roman amphitheatre, which still hosts concerts and large-scale opera performances today.

But Jewish travellers may also want to visit the Great Synagogue, with its grand 18th century architecture.

Other places of interest include the city of Bolzano, around an hour’s drive away, which is also home to the South Tyrol Museum of Archae-

ology, where the famous Ötzi the Iceman – a perfectly preserved 5,000-year-old man – is on show.

But, first, we eagerly explored the Adler Hotel. Inside, it feels spacious and open, but equally evokes a serenity and a sense of privacy; the hotel is designed from top to bottom to help guests unwind and escape in the most stylish of ways.

Upon reaching our room we were struck by the beautiful, original wood carving on the wall, as designed by one of the founders.

Then we saw the view from our private balcony; breathtakingly special vistas of the mountains, as well as the local town.

We were treated to fresh fruit, tea and coffee in our room and, dining at the Adler Dolomites ensures you escape the pressures and noise of dayto-day life too.

Not only does the hotel cater for all dietary needs, with fresh fish, fruit, vegetables and much more on offer, but it feels very much like a luxurious home away from home.

Each section of the dining room has a slightly different feel to it, ranging from cosy mountain lodge to grand dining room, and where you eat is entirely down to you.

The quaint ski town of Ortisei and its surrounding region could well have come straight from a picture postcard and is a delight to explore, with shops selling artisan wood carvings, clothing, gelato, boutiques and gift shops, meaning you’re never short of options.

Our stay coincided with an annual concert,

Top: View from the Adler Hotel of houses around town. Above: Rachel and David enjoy a bike trip around town. Left: A relaxation room overlooking the mountains

during which the locals dress in traditional 19th century outfits and dance through the town orchestrated by a marching band. It was easy to imagine what life was like in Ortisei in days gone by.

Hotel guests get free e-bike rentals, so exploring the scenes just a stone’s throw away from the hotel is easy. In under five minutes of cycling, you’ll find view after breathtaking view of meadows, mountains and undisturbed towns perched upon mountains.

There is also a cable car (just €20 per person) with a journey time of under 15 minutes, which takes you more than 2,000m up to the peak of the town, a UNESCO heritage site.

The sights atop Ortisei were ones that cannot be forgotten. We walked around the endless

meadows and reached the Adler Lodge, yet another gem in the Adler crown, which offered freshly-made coffee and fresh milk from the very cows grazing on those wonderful meadows.

Returning to our hotel, we had a huge choice of spa treatments, saunas, steam rooms, whirlpools and relaxation areas. One of the flagship treatments of the Adler Dolomites is the Savonage treatment, which cleanses skin and relaxes the body, leaving you feeling as refreshed as you do relaxed.

After the treatment, there is the choice of lounging in one of the numerous relaxation rooms, visiting the on-site doctor at the adjacent Adler Balance for a health consultation or simply lying outside beneath warm mountain sunshine.

The Adler Dolomites is a hidden beauty in this region and we will definitely consider coming back here again.

RACHEL’S TRAVEL TIPS Rachel flew from Stansted to Verona with Ryanair and then travelled by train to Bolzano. Ortosei is a 45 minute car journey away. She stayed at the Adler Spa Resort Dolomiti, where a double superior room starts from €1,464 for four nights, on a half-board basis. Details: adler-dolomiti.com/en

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PREPARATION TIME 20 MINS PLUS 15 MINS TO REST

Sesame spiced roasted turkey thigh

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Serves 4ES -6

COOKING TIME 2 HOURS

Ingredients

METHOD

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Spice mix: 2 tablespoons sesame seeds, 2 tablespoons dried oregano, 1 tablespoon dried thyme, 2 teaspoons

1 Dust the meat in the spice mix.

2 Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan. Brown the turkey on both sides

1.2kg skinless, boneless turkey thigh

just to seal the spices and colour the flesh. Add the onions and cook for three minutes.

3 Transfer to an ovenware dish.

4 Add the stock and wine/apple juice so the meat is covered.

5 Stir in the garlic, olives and lemon juice.

6 Preheat the oven to 160°C/320°F/Gas mark 3.

7 Roast covered for two hours.

8 Remove from the oven. Place the meat on a carving board, cover with foil and leave to rest for 15 minutes.

9 Slice the meat and return to the ovenware dish. Keep warm in the oven/ hot plate until ready to serve.

2 red onions – peeled and cut into crescents

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I was excited to discover a new cut of meat – boneless, skinless turkey thigh at my butcher – and decided to make this recipe with it. You could, of course, use chicken pieces if you prefer.

I have lightly dusted the meat in a sesame herb spice mix and then slow roasted it for two hours to tenderise. Prepare up to two days in advance ready for the oven.

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BY RABBI SHAULY STROM

BY RABBI BORUCH BOUDILOVSKY Three verses, narrating the death of Joseph, seal the book of Genesis. Like Jacob, his father, Joseph asked to be buried in Israel, not Egypt. However, he did not request to be buried immediately. Instead, Joseph instructed the people of Israel to take his remains along with them only when they eventually leave Egypt.

As one of the most powerful people in the greatest civilisation of his time, Joseph could easily have arranged for a burial in the place of his choice soon after his passing. It is possible he knew the people of Israel would endure unimaginable suffering in Egypt. Either because of a shrewd prediction or because Joseph may have been told by his ancestors that God revealed to Abraham, ‘You shall surely know that your seed will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will enslave them and oppress them for four hundred years’ (Genesis 15: 13).

Dreading an unbearable future for his nation, Joseph wisely and lovingly planted a seed of hope, which would inspire the people to dream of freedom and the land of their ancestors.

Before his death, he declared: ‘God will surely remember you and take you up out of this land to the land that He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob’ (Genesis 50:24). This message of hope became the core Jewish identity of the slaves over subsequent dark centuries. Because of their collective oath, they promised to take his remains with them on the day of their freedom. In his final recorded message to his family, and in the closing verses of Genesis, Joseph ensured the nation would never forget they are destined to be free.

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Monday, 10 December marked a great moment for space discovery. Fortyone years after launch, and having surveyed Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto, Voyager 2 become the second man-made object to reach interstellar space – the area between star systems in a galaxy.

Rabbi Luzzato, a philosopher from the 18th century, says the universe was created in order for humanity to explore. Voyager 2 shows mankind’s ability to surpass expectations, but also is a terrific example of never giving up on something in which you have invested.

There is a revealing episode in last week’s Torah portion that highlights this very idea. Jacob is estranged from Joseph, his favourite child, who

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Rashi explains the physiological mechanism of forgetfulness exists to enable people to “move on” and not wallow in grief and despair over losing a loved one.

But Jacob was unable to be comforted over the loss of Joseph – and, in reality, his son was alive and living as viceroy of Egypt.

The Jewish story has always been one of hope and today’s Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah, is a song all about hope and vision towards the future.

Similarly, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks says: “Judaism is a journey to the future. It is the only civilsation whose golden age is yet to come.” It is this hope that has kept the Jewish nation going for two millennia – and the same hope that meant Jacob refused to be comforted.

As Lord Sacks adds: “And so must we.”  Rabbi Shauly Strom is an educator at Aish UK

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The Bible Says What?

Limmud reminds us how disagreements and differences can be put aside

‘You can’t kill a burglar during the day, but it’s fine at night’

BY RABBI DANNY RICH Parashat Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1 – 24:16) is an early attempt to create a comprehensive law code and, thus, is a miscellany of obligations and prohibitions. It observes: “If a thief is found tunnelling and is beaten to death there is no bloodguilt but, if the sun has risen, there is bloodguilt and restitution must be made....”

This states that if the burglary takes place in daylight and it is assumed the burglar had no intent other than to steal, the householder could have prevented the burglary or further harm without killing the thief.

In the event the burglar loses his life, compensation is payable, which affirms the general Torah principle of the sanctity of human life – even a burglar – over the protection of property.

A thief at night, however, is a different matter from both the perspective of the burglar and of the householder. It is assumed that at night, a residence will be occupied by

BY RABBI DEBBIE YOUNG-SOMERS

sleeping persons who, when awoken, cannot be sure of the intention of the burglar, who might respond with violence if disturbed.

It is further assumed the burglar will fight to get away, and therefore, the legal condition of ‘imminent threat’ justifies the householder’s claim of ‘lawful self-defence’.

In English law, it is similarly assumed that a residence is occupied at nighttime, which aggravates the offence.

A householder may take ‘reasonable’ steps to protect him or herself, other residents and indeed one’s property, but ‘reasonable’ is always a matter of judgment and circumstances.

The Torah lays down a sensible and sensitive teaching by which, while every life including the burglar’s has value, there are circumstances where a householder may claim the necessity of taking that life.  Danny Rich is Senior Rabbi of Liberal Judaism and has sat as a magistrate for more than 20 years

I’ve wanted to run away many times this year. Perhaps buy a farm or B&B, and get away from the endless noise, nastiness and nudging of community life. It has felt like an even more turbulent year than normal, and, at times, the noise of Jewish disagreement has become so unpleasant I’ve wanted to switch it off.

After years in the world of interfaith, I have come to value what my friend, the Rev Patrick Morrow, calls ‘a quality of disagreement’.

There have been times where we have totally lost any quality to our disagreements – despite the interfaith world being the place where some of the most productive intrafaith encounter happens!

But I’m ending the year at Limmud, one of the most hopeful Jewish places. For the next week, a gathering of some 2,500 Jews will study and play, debate and eat together.

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But this year felt the year to head back, to be reminded that the British Jewish community can do togetherness, respectful disagreement, and can even have multiple denominations and political affiliations sharing a building, praying in ways that suit them, and still come together for a good nosh and natter afterwards.

I’m sure plenty will want to remind us of the times their favoured speaker or group were shouted down or controversially uninvited

at Limmud. But these stories are a tiny minority of the Limmud experience, and largely it is a place of open debate and positive disagreement – a wonderful Jewish paradigm.

The best and the worst of the community has played out this year on social media, and this has also been the place (as well as on the streets) where many of us have become aware once again of our vulnerability as Jews and as a community.

When we are able to all come together, to remember what in our Judaism is worth celebrating, it changes the narrative for us internally, and perhaps gives us the strength to challenge the narratives that worry us externally.

It is being together in that one space as a vast, diverse, debating body that certainly gives me hope. May 2019 be a better year for us all.  Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers is community educator at The Movement for Reform Judaism

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Chicken

With English Mushrooms With Straw Mushrooms With Chinese Mushrooms With Seasonal Greens With Asparagus With Lemon Smoked & Shredded With Baby Sweetcorn Sweet and Sour Kaifeng Style Sweet and Sour Hong Kong Style Special Fried With Cashew Nuts in Yellow Bean Sauce Sliced with Black Bean Sauce & Green Pepper Sliced Mango Chicken Sliced Chicken with Chinese Leaves Char Siu Chicken Pineapple Chicken Peking Style Honey Chicken Chicken & Almonds in Yellow Bean Sauce Chicken & Broccoli Kaifeng Chicken with Lemongrass Sweet Chilli Chicken Sar Cha Chicken Chicken with Aubergine

£9.00 £9.00 £5.00 £9.00 £9.00 £4.50 £7.00 £7.00 £11.00 £6.50 £11.00 £11.00 £11.00 £8.00

Fish

Steamed Fish (Whole) Fried Fish in Rich Soya Sauce (Whole) Sweet and Sour Fish Slices Fillet of Fish with Garlic and Spring Onion Stir Fried Fish Slices Drunken Fish

Hot & Spicy

Singapore Chicken Spicy Kung Po Chicken Curried Chicken Wings Double Cooked Spicy Lamb Tibetan Lamb Ma Po Spicy Lamb Bean Curd Spicy Bean Curd Family Style

£30.00 £20.00 £34.00 £54.00 £58.00 £19.00

£25.00 £25.00 £23.00 £23.00 £23.00 £23.00

£15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £10.00

Vegetarian

Mixed Vegetables £6.50 Mixed Vegetables in Coconut Cream £6.50 Asparagus & Straw Mushrooms £10.50 Stir Fried French Beans Peking Style £7.00 Lo Hon Vegetables £6.50 Four Braised Vegetables £6.50 Egg Plant in Garlic Sauce £7.50 Stir Fried Bean Sprouts £5.50 Braised Bean Curd £9.50 Braised Bean Curd in Black Bean Sauce £9.50 Sweet and Sour Bean Curd £9.50 Spiced Vegetables in Kaifeng’s Oriental Sauce £6.50 Sweet and Sour Mixed Vegetables £6.50 Broccoli Peking Style £7.50 Broccoli & Chinese Mushrooms £10.50 Pak Choi £10.00 Chinese Leaves with Chinese Mushrooms £10.00

Reception or buffet at home?

Vegetarian Spring Rolls 20 pcs. with Sweet and Sour Sauce Seaweed * Honey Glazed Chicken Wings 25 pcs.

Chicken in Black Bean Sauce * Lamb with Ginger and Spring Onion * Egg Fried Rice *

£15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00

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£18.00 £18.00 £18.00 £18.00 £18.00 £17.00 £17.00 £15.50 £15.50 £18.00 £19.50 £11.00

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£15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50 £15.50

£15.00 £15.00

Mini Spring Rolls 30 pcs. with Sweet and Sour Sauce Sesame Chicken Toast 32 pcs.

Sweet and Sour Chicken Hong Kong Style * Beef with Mushrooms * Noodles and Bean Sprouts*

* approx 4 portions

£30.00 £32.00 £54.00 £58.00 £22.00