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THE REMAINS OF MY COUSINS MURDERED AT AUSCHWITZ? IS THE CHIEF RABBI ADDRESSING THEM IN HIS EULOGY? Steven Wilson

Survivors including Agnes Grunwald-Spier, Lily Ebert, Renee Salt and Harry Bibring escort a coffin containing the remains of six Holocaust victims to its final resting place at Bushey New Cemetery

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Chief Executive of the United Synagogue at Sunday’s burial of six Holocaust victims at Bushey New Cemetery

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News / MP outrage / Chief’s warning

Williamson‘whitewash’

by Joe Millis joem@jewishnews.co.uk @JewishNewsUK

Leaders of the British Jewish community last night told a controversial Labour MP that “no one in the community is fooled” by his signing of the Holocaust Educational Trust’s (HET) Book of Commitment in Parliament.

Chris Williamson, who has been branded a “Jew-baiter” by the Jewish Labour Movement, shared a tweet of him signing the book on Wednesday. He wrote: “Hatred and bigotry led to the unimaginable horrors of the holocaust.

We must never forget and always strive to build a better, peaceful and compassionate world through love and solidarity.”

However, Jewish Leadership Council President Jonathan Goldstein wrote to Williamson, saying: “I have been contacted by many members of the British Jewish community, and other opponents of antisemitism, who were disgusted to see you so publicly signing the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment in the House of Commons. I share their disgust.

“I do not disagree with the wording of the tweet that accompanied your self-publicity, but I reject its legitimacy, given the way in which you repeatedly smear the loyalty and motivation of British Jews, and others, who voice sincere concern about the disgraceful levels of antisemitism within

Chris Williamson signs Commitment Book

today’s Labour Party.”

He added: “You would not treat the fears of any other British minority group with such hostility, either inside or outside the Labour Party. For me, it is summed up by how you recently rushed to defend one of Britain’s most notorious anti-

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“Your actions to date have not helped to oppose antisemitism. If anything, they repeatedly risk fuelling distrust and hatred against anyone concerned by antisemitism, which inevitably breeds suspicion against all British Jews and all Jewish members of the Labour Party.”

“No one in the Jewish community is fooled by those who try to whitewash their own prejudices by using Holocaust Memorial Day as their smokescreen. You cannot be opposed to antisemitism whilst simultaneously promoting antisemites.”

HET chief executive Karen Pollock was also scathing. “While we want all Members to pledge to remember the Holocaust, with antisemitism on the rise, denial and deliberate distortion of the Holocaust seemingly becoming more mainstream, an MP’s signature means nothing without tangible action. Words in a book are not enough.

“For those MPs who consort with Holocaust deniers, say antisemitism is a smear and deny the lived experiences of Jewish people, their motivations for signing can and should be questioned.

“Signing the Trust’s Book of Commitment does not absolve MPs of past associations or comments. Rather, their signature on our page means we now expect significant action without delay. If there is no action, we know the assurances were false and their sympathy, fake. Making a mockery of the memory of the Holocaust is repulsive.”

NEWS IN BRIEF

BREXIT EXPLOITATION RISK Far-right exploitation of Brexit threatens British Jews, a top counter-terrorism expert has warned. The Community Security Trust (CST) echoed concerns of the Met’s Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, who spoke of the “creeping rise” in extreme far-right groups, in light of Britain’s departure from the EU. Basu warned of people being radicalised, saying the “febrile” atmosphere surrounding Brexit could give rise to division, allowing a way in for extremist ideology. He said there was no intelligence pointing to an increased risk of terror attacks after Brexit, but he was concerned about a potential rise in hate crime. CST director of communications Mark Gardner said: “This warning should be taken extremely seriously. It matches CST’s own analysis of the situation, based upon what we see and hear within far-right circles.”

25 RABBIS IN POVERTY PLEA A group of 25 cross-denominational rabbis has urged the government to do far more to tackle child poverty, with an estimated three million British children expected to go hungry during this year’s summer holidays. Writing to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Amber Rudd MP on Monday, they expressed concern about “the dire state of child poverty in the UK”, highlighting the House of Commons’ own impact assessment. An audit last year reported that three million British children are now at risk of going hungry outside term-time, with 5.2 million expected to live in poverty by 2020/21, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Chief: Labour still not tackling antisemitism The Chief Rabbi this week warned he is “still waiting” to see antisemitism taken seriously by the Labour Party.

Ephraim Mirvis said Labour had adopted an international definition of antisemitism and made some “pretty impressive” comments about the issue, but that the Jewish community was yet to see sufficient action taken.

He warned that “tension” continued to exist between the Jewish community and the Labour Party, and said he

was “very concerned” by the situation.

Jeremy Corbyn came under intense pressure last year over allegations that under his leadership, Labour had not taken enough action to deal with antisemitic remarks and behaviour among its ranks.

In September, the ruling National Executive Committee adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition in full, after coming under attack for initially omitting some of its

examples of antisemitic behaviour. But the Chief Rabbi told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Emma Barnett: “We continue to be deeply concerned about the fact that it doesn’t appear the Labour Party is taking antisemitism seriously enough.

“There’s a great backlog of cases that haven’t been dealt with. It took some time and some effort for the IHRA definition of antisemitism to be passed, but we haven’t yet seen it being properly implemented.”

HEAD’S APARTHEID WILLSMAN TAKES WEEK DESPAIR ON HIS ENEMIES The principal of King’s College has explained how he sought to resolve problems that caused disruptions at pro-Israel meetings on campus, saying he “abhorred” Israel Apartheid Week.

Addressing the Board of Deputies on Sunday, professor Ed Byrne said he and his staff had been “working closely with the Jewish Society and the Board of Deputies and others for over a year. He said “management of events has been overhauled, we’ve implemented new processes with greatly improved oversight, greatly improved risk mitigation, with the whole aim of ensuring respectful free speech”.

A prominent Labour activist who last year caused anger after ranting about Jewish “Trump fanatics”, has doubled down on his remarks in a Twitter rant.

Pete Willsman, who retained his place on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) in September, has asked his “empty-headed critics” to provide evidence of claimed antisemitism in the party. This comes after he was recorded ranting in an NEC meeting about Jews who were “Trump fanatics” and demanding 70 rabbis produce “evidence of widespread antisemitism in the Labour Party”.

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 / News

Rachel shows her fighting spirit A prominent victim of horrific abuse by diminishing the Holocaust ... the messages supporters of Jeremy Corbyn has said anti- I’m sent are indistinguishable from neo-Nazis semitism is a “national scandal” that needs – but the red rose and Palestinian flags are to be put in the spotlight, writes Joe Millis. a giveaway.”

Addressing the Holocaust Educational Since speaking out, she said she had attracted trust’s annual Lord Merlyn-Rees memorial a “who’s who of antisemitism, from the far event in Parliament on Tuesday, Countdown right and the hard left”. co-presenter Rachel Riley said: “There needs “Without irony,” Riley said to laughter, “if to be a bigger spotlight on antisemitism in this I had a penny for every time ‘evidence’ was country. There should be a national scandal.” given that I was a paid shill, I really would be Riley, who said her “mum’s Jewish while as rich as a Rothschild.” The classic tactic, she dad’s religion is Manchester United – I spent said, was “gaslighting. The victim becomes more time at the Theatre of Dreams [Old Traf- the aggressor and the aggressor becomes the ford] than shul” – added that the Enough is wronged party”.

Enough protest outside Parliament last year But “knowledge and truth are our only ignited her fear about antisemitism. weapons,” said Riley, who said she was spurred When she took to Twitter to express her into action by the “Israel is a Racist Endeavour” opposition to comments by the Labour posters appearing after Labour adopted the leadership and Corbyn supporters, she faced International Holocaust Remembrance Allia torrent of abuse. ance antisemitism definition.

“In the name of Labour, I’ve been called “You need to know next to nothing to propaa hypocrite, lying propagandist, tits-teeth-and- gate Nazi or Soviet Jew-hating propaganda arse clothes horse dolly bird, weaponiser of reframed to fit today’s narrative, which spreads anti-Semitism, fascist, right-wing extremist, like wildfire and is dangerous. But you need to Nazi sympathiser, Twitter cancer, thick Tory, know nearly everything to stop it. The odds are brainwashed, an anti-Semite, white suprema- stacked in the antisemite’s favour.” cist, hate preacher, Zio political trollster, not The packed House of Commons terrace also a real Jew, a child bully, conspiracy theorist, heard from Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Labour a paedo-protector minion puppet who my dead MP Dame Margaret Hodge, survivor Eva grandfather would be disgusted by,” she said.

Clarke – who received a British Empire Medal “I was vilified as a paid Israeli shill, a paedo- in the New Year’s Honours list – and Holoprotector and a Rothschild banker,” Riley said. caust Educational Trust chief executive Karen x 165mm_Layout 22/01/2019 19:09everyone Page 1 to “be louder”.

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News / Malaysia scandal / Foley honoured

HERO ‘I called Jews hook-nosed HOLOCAUST FOLEY HONOURED because Israel does wrong’ The British Government this week Steve Bannon. condemned Malaysia’s refusal to On visas, Mohamad said allow in Israeli athletes for a comMalaysia had no diplomatic relapetition as “fundamentally wrong”. tions with Israel, adding: “We feel The Foreign Office criticised they were doing a lot of wrong the ban on the athletes taking things but getting away with it part in the international Parabecause nobody dares to say anylympic Swimming World Champithing against them.” onships in Malaysia after Labour’s Challenged on the unfairdeputy leader Tom Watson wrote ness of denying individuals visas to Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt because of their state’s actions, on Monday, calling for the UK to Mohamad said: “It is also unfair to take action. He said the contest call me antisemitic. I’m not antishould be cancelled if Israelis are semitic. The Arabs are all Semitic refused entry.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad speaking at Oxford Union people.”

A spokesperson for the Mohamad has previously Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: Watson made the comments after said Jews are “hook-nosed” and have an “We do not agree with the Malaysian Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir “instinctive” sense of money. At Oxford, Government’s position on this. It is fun- Mohamad, told Oxford students he was after being accused of racism, he said: “We damentally wrong. Israeli athletes should denying visas to the Israelis because he talk about freedom of speech and yet you not be banned from competing.” disagreed with the actions of the Israeli cannot say anything against Israel, against The International Paralympic Com- state. He also said he made comments the Jews. Why is that so?” mittee told Jewish News it “will be about “hook-nosed” Jews because he feels On Israel, he added: “We can’t do much discussing this matter at their governing Israel has done “wrong things”. about the Israeli Government. They are board meeting this week”.

Mohamad, 93, was speaking in the pres- very powerful. But we don’t have to show On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Emily tigious Oxford Union debating chamber, friendship towards them. We have borThornberry, Labour Shadow Foreign where students have heard from – and ders to allow people we like to come to Secretary, said she agreed with Watson challenged – other divisive world figures Malaysia. People who have done wrong “100 percent”. such as Donald Trump’s former adviser things we consider unfit to visit.”

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has unveiled a bust of Frank Foley, the British wartime diplomat who saved scores of Jewish lives – including the father-in-law of Cabinet colleague James Brokenshire.

Foley, recognised in 1999

by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among Nations, was a British MI6 officer at the British Embassy in Berlin who helped thousands of Jewish families escape from Nazi Germany after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of the Second World War. At the annual Holocaust Memorial Day event yesterday, Hunt spoke about his “lifechanging” trip to Auschwitz with the Holocaust Educational Trust.

“We visited a museum to commemorate the Poles who had sheltered Jews. The penalty, of course, was death, not just for the individual, but for every member of that individual’s family. More than 5,000 Poles took that risk. Many others across Europe looked

Jeremy Hunt and Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich

away. What would each of us do if history repeated itself?,” he added.

He said it was “an incredible privilege to honour some of those who did not look away, and who worked for the Foreign Office, or our sister organisation, the Secret Intelligence Service”.

He added: “We should reflect it was not the state as a whole, but remarkable individuals like Frank Foley who did the right thing, made the correct moral choice, often in defiance of the rules. So here I ask: what would each of us have done if we had been in his place?”

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2019/ News

11,000 events to be held for memorial day Hundreds of thousands of people marking this Sunday’s Holocaust Memorial Day will be urged to consider not only the Shoah but also the terror in Rwanda 25 years ago and Cambodia 40 years ago.

At an estimated 11,000 events nationwide, young and old will reflect on the Nazis’ genocide against millions of Jews, the Hutu slaughter of a million Tutsi, and the 1.8 million Cambodians killed by Pol Pot’s murderous Khmer Rouge, often with pickaxes to save bullets.

In 1994, Hutus took just 100 days to kill one million Tutsis, after a plane carrying Rwanda’s president was shot down.

Hutus took to the radio waves to tell their kin it was their “duty” to wipe out Tutsis.

In Cambodia, Pol Pot sought to “reconstruct” the country along communist lines. Minorities, including Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai were all targeted, as were Muslim, Buddhists and Christians.

In central London, senior politicians, dignitaries and religious leaders will join survivors of each genocide, on 27 January – the day Auschwitz-Birkenau camp was liberated – for the national commemorative event organised by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT).

Addressing this year’s theme – ‘torn from home’ – speeches and readings will be interspersed with film, music and poetry in community centres, schools, libraries, museums, arts venues, prisons

and places of worship.

“At a time when our world often feels fragile and vulnerable, we need to share the experiences of people who have been torn from their homes and persecuted because of their identity,” said HMDT chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman.

“On Holocaust Memorial Day, we can all take steps to ensure that we learn lessons for a better future.”

Organisers said this year’s theme explores the idea of ‘home’ – a place of safety and security – and how the enforced loss of home is an integral part of the trauma faced by anyone experiencing persecution and genocide.  See www.hmd.org.uk for events Theresa May’s remarks in the HMD Book of Commitment

Mayor makes ‘strong commitment’ at City Hall ceremony London Mayor Sadiq Khan joined survivors of the Holocaust and the Cambodian genocide at a moving City Hall ceremony in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day. The mayor read a poem called Homesick about losing one’s home,

and committed Londoners to “oppose hatred and intolerance in all its forms”.

Those present included Holocaust survivor and educator Susan Pollack and Sokphal Din, who survived the genocide in Cambodia.

London Assembly chair Tony

Arbour led the service with Senior Masorti Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg providing the main address.

Olivia Marks-Woldman of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said: “We are pleased to see the mayor and the London Assembly making a strong

commitment to remembering all those murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution and in the genocides which followed.”

Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust said Jason Pollack’s story “personifies the theme of HMD,

having experienced vast swathes of antisemitism in her home town before being forcibly deported”.

She added: “We must treasure this precious testimony and become witnesses to the stories of survivors.”

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Special report / Historic Holocaust burial

Each person had their own profound reason to be at the United Synagogue’s New Cemetery in Bushey on Sunday to witness the burial of six unknown Jews murdered in Auschwitz, writes Richard Ferrer.

For the 50 survivors in attendance, many of whom escorted the tiny coffin containing the bones and ashes of five adults and a child to its final resting place, this was a moment 73 years in the making – a chance to finally, symbolically, grant their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters the burial they were denied.

Others among more than 1,200 mourners, inside two overflowing prayer halls and outside in the chilly January air, were there to bear witness to a momentous moment in post-Holocaust history – Britain’s first public funeral for Shoah victims.

The remains had been stored for two decades by the Imperial War Museum after being donated by an unnamed individual – believed to be a survivor. After testing confirmed they were adult and child remains, the museum contacted Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who recommended swift burial.

Attendees, including the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Israel’s Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev, Communities Secretary James Brokenshire, Lord Eric Pickles and Lord Lieutenant Robert Voss as the official representative of the Queen, heard Dayan Ivan Binstock begin the service with a specially written eulogy entitled Six Of Our Millions.

He asked: “Whose ashes are you? From where have you come? How is it possible to articulate our pain? For the ashes of our families, for the dust of our communities. For the broken tables of our people. The remnants of our youths and elders, our brides and grooms, our sons and daughters, our rabbis and our leaders, our school masters and school mistresses, our parents and infants. After 70 years you have come to rest – perhaps your place can begin to comfort us.”

In a deeply poignant address which moved many to tears, Mirvis spoke personally to the infant among the six, saying: “Your childhood was robbed. You experienced such fear and dread, then the ultimate wickedness saw your life taken.

We don’t know who you are, your name, if you were male or female, or the details of your family. But we do know you were Jewish. All of us here feel a strong connection to you.

“We remember you every day of our lives. You give us constant inspiration. You represent more than one million other children who were murdered. We have been given the privilege to show you dignity here at your funeral.”

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Above: Survivors escort the coffin to the grave. Left: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

Mirvis added: “Here today is the ambassador of Israel. When you went to your death, you wouldn’t have believed such a post could exist – the ambassador of the Jewish state.

“When you were sent to your death, there was no light at the end of your suffering. Yet only three years after the Holocaust, the state of Israel was born.”

Following the 45-minute service, which was introduced

by Doreen Samuels, chair of the United Synagogue Burial Society and movingly conducted by Rabbi Nicky Liss of Highgate Synagogue, mourners followed survivors, including Zigi Shipper, Harry Bibring, Renee Salt and Agnes GrunwaldSpier, to the grave site, where the remains were buried in earth from Israel. A memorial garden will be built on the site.

Lily Ebert, whose mother and siblings perished at Auschwitz, attended thanks to Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, which arranged for many of the survivors to be there.

She said: “For our parents, children, babies, not only did they [the Nazis] take our lives, but they didn’t even let us have a burial. Now we have something that is very important to us.”

Looking on as prayers were said, Pickles – who is who is cochair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Advisory Board – reflected: “It’s profoundly moving to witness these five adults and child being laid to rest, here in the English countryside. It brings the horrors of what they must have endured so much closer to home.”

Brokenshire said: “We must continue to challenge racism, antisemitism and bigotry and where hatred can lead. That’s why this has been such a unique occasion to be able to give some dig-

nity, some respect, some acknowledgement to those six souls who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

“I hope it will bring people together and underline that message of never again, never forget, and that none of us can simply stand by the side and allow this to happen.”

Grunwald-Spier, an author and historian born in Budapest in 1944, believes her grandfather was killed at Auschwitz but explained that her family has not been able to find out the truth.

She said: “In a way, these people represent all those millions who have no grave and whose families can’t mourn them properly because they don’t know what happened to them.”

Steven Wilson, chief executive of the United Synagogue, said: “Like many of the 1,200 attendees of the funeral, I looked at the coffin and wondered whether it might contain the remains of any of my relatives. Our Belgian cousins, Hermann and Albert Schindler, were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Was the Chief Rabbi addressing them in his eulogy?”

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Historic Holocaust burial / Special report

‘Your presence here inspires us all to preach compassion’

BY EPHRAIM MIRVIS THE CHIEF RABBI

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n our tradition there are occasions which call on us to adopt a style of hesped or eulogy, in which we directly address the departed. I believe that this extraordinary funeral today calls upon us to do just that. And so my words are addressed to you – our six kedoshim.

We don’t know who you are.

We don’t know your names. We don’t know if you are male or female. We don’t know which countries you came from. We don’t know what you did for a living. We don’t have details of your families. But there is one thing that we do know – you were Jewish. And it was for that single reason that you were brutally murdered.

Within the crowd of so many people here today, there are those who are wondering whether, here in front of us, among the six of you, perhaps there is a mother, a father, a grandmother, a grandfather, a sister, a brother. Six million of our people were so cruelly murdered and the vast majority of the members of their families did not have the opportunity to bring them to their eternal rest.

All of us here feel a very strong and personal connection to you. We remember you on every single day of our lives.

We recall what happened to

you; to your brothers and sisters. You give us continuous inspiration with regard to how we live our lives. We have been reliably informed you are five adults and one child.

Let me now address, for a few moments, just the child among you. Children are usually brought up, indeed they are entitled, to a childhood of happiness, of joy, of fun; a childhood in which they can look forward to becoming independent adults, to raise their own families and see the continuity of their family lines. But your childhood was robbed.

You never became an adult.

Your life was filled with fear and dread. You witnessed much cruelty. And then, the ultimate wickedness was perpetrated when your life, as a mere child, was taken from you.

We have here six ‘kedoshim’.

Five of you represent close to five million Jewish adults. And you, the child, represent just over one million children brutally killed in the Shoah.

Surrounding you right now are Holocaust survivors. Unlike you, who perished, they survived. And since the end of the Shoah, they have been your prime ambassadors, bringing a message of peace and unity to the world. They have been educating many within our societies about what happened to

you to ensure that it will never happen again. And now that they are elderly, we accept the responsibility upon our shoulders to guarantee that their legacy will continue forever and the lessons of the Shoah will never be forgotten.

We remember the origins of the Holocaust. It started within a democratic society and was perpetrated by seemingly decent, cultured and sophisticated people. The message that is conveyed by the very presence of your remains before us today is that if antisemitism exists and it is allowed to go unchecked, what begins as hate speech can easily become hate

crime and people can reach the lowest ebb of human conduct.

Coming here today, people must have wondered, “What are we going to see? For a burial of six people, will we see six coffins?” But no. You were reduced to ashes and bone fragments, and now a tiny coffin has enough space for you all. You were stripped of all dignity in life and in death, but here today, we have been given the privilege of showing you dignity at a proper Jewish funeral.

You were murdered because you were Jews. There was an intention, through what become known as ‘the final solution’ to annihilate

our entire people. We have a responsibility to you, to compensate for your loss. The finest tribute that we can make to your memory is to guarantee the continuity of our people; to study our Torah, to practise our mitzvot, to strengthen our Jewish identity, to guarantee our survival as a people from generation to generation – and in that way, we will triumph!

We will prevail! ‘Am Yisrael Chai’ - the Jewish people will live on forever and ever!

And a second pledge, inspired by this extraordinary funeral today and your very presence before us, should surely be made by everyone

right around the world who is aware of this event. It is up to us to preach love rather than hate.

It is up to us all, particularly at a time where tragically there is an increase in antisemitism when there is an increase in racism and xenophobia, where there is so much hatred in our world, to promote friendship, love, unity and compassion; to confront antisemitism and all forms of discrimination; to appreciate and to cherish the Divinity of Almighty God within every soul on earth.  This is an edited version of the Chief Rabbi’s funeral euology. The full version can be read at jewishnews.co.uk

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News / Jake’s campaign

The family of a five-year-old Jewish boy from Borehamwood are appealing for help to fund experimental cancer treatment in the United States when his NHS treatment ends, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

Jake Cohen, who attends Yavneh Primary when he is fit enough, was three when he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer called neuroblastoma.

With just 100 cases per year, neuroblastoma affects babies and infants and, despite warranting the most intense treatment regime of any form of cancer, recurs in up to half of all instances. Survival rates for relapsed neuroblastoma are around 10 percent.

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Parents of Jake, five, appeal to community to help cancer fight and Adam say they need a Plan B. “We are raising funds in case Jake needs to access further treatment not available on the NHS to either keep the cancer from returning or clear the disease if his frontline treatment doesn’t go to plan,” said Hannah.

Jake’s parents are particularly interested in the clinical trial of Bivalent Vaccine in New York, whereby a new drug still being studied shows signs of helping the body’s immune system target and kill the cancerous tumours.

It follows a difficult year in which the youngster underwent high-dose chemo at Great Ormond Street Hospital which led to liver problems. The family described it in a blog post as like “being kicked when you’re down, and then kicked again, and then a few more times for good measure”.

They are now raising

money through the charity Solving Kids’ Cancer, with donations going into a pot for Jake’s non-NHS treatment should he need it. The money is distributed to other appeals or research if not.

“Our journey has had so many unexpected additional steps, we just want to ensure we are ready for whatever the future may bring in terms of Jake’s treatment,” said Hannah. Since launching the campaign in early December we have raised £60,000, mostly through sharing our story on social media.

“We have been blown away by the generosity we have been shown, but are still a long way from the money we’re likely to need.”

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Jewish women get down to business Jewish women’s contribution to the global economy was celebrated this week at a twoday conference at the London Stock Exchange, writes Joe Millis.

The gathering of the Jewish Women’s Business Network (JWBN) heard from leading female entrepreneurs, lawyers and other corporate leaders about how they have pushed their businesses forward.

The entrepreneurs came from the UK, Europe, the US and Israel, while the Lords Pickles and Polak also attended, as did Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss.

Addressing the gathering, just after the opening bell on Monday, Diane Côté, the Chief Risk Officer and Chair of Women Inspired Network, LSE Group, said: “We are celebrating the contribution of Jewish women to the world economy. “We are committed to equality in the workplace, between men and women and our aim is to get to women into 40 percent of senior leadership roles by 2020.”

She added that her organisation conference was set up “to inspire and promote gender equality”, while she hoped the conference would be “the beginning of new partnerships, new beginnings and new friendships.”

Emma Sinclair, the co-founder of EnterpriseAlumi and UNICEF adviser – and the youngest person in the world to have floated a company – recalled how she became a “stock exchange fanatic”. She said: “Most kids’ parents test their children on the times table or spelling, but my dad played ‘Guess the Share Price’ with me on our way to school. It was only later in life that I realised that this was very strange. And, when I went to university – when they introduced tuition fees – I traded shares and was able to pay for my education that way.”

Truss said she had been at many openings at the LSE, but “this is the strongest collection of people I have seen here. It’s brilliant to welcome guests from the UK, Europe, the US and Israel – people with drive who really change the world.” She added that there was a “latent energy of thousands of women in the UK who could, but don’t yet, set up their own business.

Women are the most untapped resource in the UK, with 1.2 million potential businesses that could be set up.

“I am big supporter of disruptors and women are the greatest disruptors since they can see things that old business cannot.”

One of the JWBN founders, Justine Zwerling, head of primary markets Israel, LSE Group, told Jewish News: “The concept of our global network began in my garden in a moshav in the hills of Jerusalem this spring – where 20 women of from all walks of life joined me for a networking brunch – the first question was ‘who are you and what do you do’, the second ‘how can we help each other’.

“From this small gathering the results were business opportunities, collaborations, friendships and job creation.”

Zwerling said that with the other JWBN founders, Yael Simon, Justine Colley, Jodi Karpes and Zehava Kahen, she “began building this global network with the blessing and support of our host Diane Côté”.

“We are delighted to hold the first LSEG Jewish Women’s Business Network event in collaboration with our Women Inspired Network. It is a great honour to host these women at London Stock Exchange Group. The event and Market Open ceremony celebrate the innovative spirit of Jewish businesswomen.”

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News / JLGB funding / Building’s secrets NEWS IN BRIEF

JEWISH MAN FOUND STABBED IN KEW A Jewish businessman and philanthropist is recovering in hospital after being stabbed near the heart during an attempted car-jacking in Kew Gardens on Sunday morning.

Eric Salama, 57, who manages an international marketing company, was returning to his Ford Focus RS after getting coffee at a local café when he realised there was a man in the front seat of his car. In the ensuing confrontation Salama was stabbed, but stumbled back into the café, where staff stemmed the bleeding.

£1.8m boost for youth volunteers The Jewish community has welcomed a massive funding boost for youth volunteering after a “game-changing” £1.8 million Big Lottery win.

The money, to be spent over three years, will go to the Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade (JLGB) and caps a hat-trick of recent grant successes for the 123-year-old organisa-

tion, following two big funding announcements from philanthropists and foundations last year.

JLGB, headed by Neil Martin, said the triple cash injection – from Big Lottery, Genesis Philanthropy Group and Youth United Foundation – would “revolutionise the face of Jewish youth volunteering”,

UCL VOTE REJECTS IHRA DEFINITION Students at University College London have voted overwhelmingly against adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism, in a move criticised by Jewish students. The motion was debated at UCL on Monday night, with Jewish students voicing support for the IHRA definition, which has been adopted by local councils, political parties, prosecutors and the National Union of Students. Students voted 212 to 78 not to adopt IHRA, voicing concerns it limits free speech.

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The platform incorporates national schemes such as the Duke of Edinburgh Award with more local initiatives at synagogues and schools, and has already won the backing of Jewish community leaders.

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A Russian émigré Jew who became one of London’s star architects in the 1930s built secret details into his most famous buildings that expressed his horror of Nazi persecution, a new book reveals.

Berthold Lubetkin, who kept his Jewish identity a secret owing to antisemitic attitudes of the day, built the renowned Highpoint I and II apartment blocks in Highgate, in 1935 and 1938 respectively.

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puzzled students of architecture, in a book called ‘Berthold Lubetkin’s Highpoint II and the Jewish Contribution to Modern English Architecture.’

Dr Deborah Lewittes began examining the differences between the two blocks and entrance statues in Highpoint II, mysteriously designed as Greek female figures.

Lewittes said statues of these “fallen women” used as architectural supports were symbols of “past sins” and “vengeance,” and Lubetkin incorporated them to reflect his anger and despair at events unfolding in his former homelands at the hands of the Nazis.

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Landmark Interview / 50th anniversary of Baghdad hangings

‘I’m scared to do this interview, but I must say what happened’ For 50 years, Faiza Saigh stayed silent about her brother’s hanging in Iraq, not even telling family.

She breaks her silence to Stephen Oryszczuk

“My mother went immediately and left us at home with my father.

We hardly saw her for the next two months, until the day they hanged him. She was searching everywhere, begging them to let her bring him food.

Nobody would give her any information. She was going from government

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WE LIVED IN TERROR. EVERY KNOCK AT THE DOOR YOU FELT WAS SOMEONE TO TAKE YOU AWAY building to government building, prison to prison. My father was sick with worry and needed Valium. He and Daoud were very close.

“One night, my father stayed up listening to the radio as always.

He heard the trial being broadcast, that night, Daoud and the others confessing to spying for Israel, ‘we went here, we did this...’ They confessed and that’s when the judge ordered their death by hanging. They were killed there and then. Early the next morning, before 5am, their bodies were put in the square.

“We heard they tortured them.

It was freezing in those two winter months, severe cold, and I had a dream one night that Daoud was sleeping on a block of ice [breaks down crying]. We used to buy ice from a van in the street as we didn’t have freezers. I dreamt he had to sleep on one of those blocks. We

heard they were taking their nails off.

They made them confess.

“My mother never told us what happened next, but I found out after she died in 2012. When my mother heard their execution had been ordered, she didn’t think it would happen, so she went to take a taxi to the airport to fly to Basra.

“David Cohen [the son of the Cohen family, with whom she had stayed], was told to go with her to the road to get a taxi. He was 15 at the time. He now lives in England and told me what happened. My mother asked the driver to take her to the airport. He looked at her and said ‘Lady, don’t you know?

They’re hanging the spies in Liberty Square. All the roads are blocked.’ My mother asked the driver to take her to the square. There were thousands of people. She went and saw the bodies, the people dancing underneath.

“She asked the Cohens to take care of things like burial, shiva, whatever needs doing, so she could return to her family. She couldn’t fly so she took a taxi all the way to Basra, five hours.

Later they brought three people to be hanged in Basra as well, to make a point. The whole country despised the spies. They were using the Jews to show they had power, using us like guinea pigs.

“My father got diarrhoea when he heard about Daoud. I couldn’t move from my bed for a week. I was in my final year at uni, everybody knew me, knew Daoud. How could I go back? It was January, my final year was May, so I forced myself to go. Even my closest friends were scared to talk to me. I remember my first lecture back, five minutes in, I burst out crying, sobbing so loud, it was uncontrollable. Nobody

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“There’s still fear,” she says, contemplating this month’s 50th anniversary of the ‘Baghdad Hangings’, during which nine innocent Jews were hanged in the Iraqi capital’s Liberation Square. “I’m still scared about who’s reading 50 years later.”

Faiza was aged 20, living at home in Basra while studying at the city’s university, when Daoud – or David – was taken. Much of what she tells me over the next hour, in an emotional fight through tears and memory, she is yet to tell her own family.

“I’ve spent the past few days thinking about things I haven’t thought about for 50 years,” she says.

The following is Faiza’s account of what happened in her own words.

“We lived in Iraq all our lives, parents, grandparents... Jews were not allowed to leave the country. We lived in Basra, me, my mother, my father, my younger sister and my brother Daoud. My oldest brother Faoud was studying in England, but the government later said any Jews studying abroad must return or have their citizenship revoked, so my father told him to stay. We were living in terror.

Every knock at the door you felt was someone coming to take you away. We had a comfortable life; my father was a banker and my brother worked with him. There was a Jewish community in Basra; others lived in Baghdad.

“I was in my final year at uni when I came home one day to find something not right. I was told the police had come to take Daoud away. They said it was ‘just a few hours, just a few questions, we’ll bring him back.’ When they didn’t, my mother started searching for him. We heard Daoud wasn’t the only one – a few doors down, another Jewish man of a similar age to my brother had been taken, too. Some were husbands, some fathers, one man his wife was pregnant. The police said they had all gone to Baghdad.

knew what to do with me, then the lecturer just carried on like nothing happened. People didn’t treat us badly but they were too scared to show sympathy. I felt different, like a black sheep, the sister of the spy.

“Eventually, the families got together; we were all in the same situation. The way we were being treated, it was like the Gestapo. I got married in 1970. My husband was in Baghdad, so we lived there from 1970-71.

“I had a girl [and] we left when she was three months old, in 1971. We escaped through the Kurdish areas in the north after we heard somebody was arranging it. We left everything.

We just had a small suitcase. We had to leave sentimental things like photos.

We came to England because my brother was here.

“Faoud first found out about Daoud when he read it in the newspaper and he fainted. When my mother passed away six years ago, I saw she had lots of photos of Daoud and pages of his calligraphy. She was very brave to go looking for him for two months. Daoud had just turned 23 when they killed him. He was innocent. There were no

Above left: Faiza with family in Iraq. Above: Faiza Saigh holds a photo of her brother, Daoud

politics. We were Jewish, that’s it.

“I wish I could move to Israel. My son made aliyah 18 months ago. I also have a daughter here. I’m 70 now, things don’t get easier. I have blocked most of this from my mind completely, since it happened, since I came. I don’t know what my father must have felt hearing the radio that night, one by one, hearing them confess, hearing Daoud. I understand they were given to the synagogue for burial.

“My family is here now. My oldest brother still lives in Edgware, my younger sister is in London, too. They thought nothing of killing the Jews.

It was to scare us, to scare everyone.

After they finished with us, they began killing each other. Now, 50 years later, I’m still scared. I was scared to do this interview, scared to think who might read it. But I decided to do it, with the encouragement of my son. I have to say what happened.”  An extended version of this interview is available online

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Essex mosque honours Muslim Shoah heroes Senior figures at Eton Road mosque in Ilford were in defiant mood this week after hosting a ground-breaking exhibition on Muslim heroes of the Holocaust.

Political leaders and communal activists were among the 70 people who attended the ‘Love Your Neighbour’ event, defying a small protest outside.

Addressing the audience, Bashir Chaudhry, chairman of Eton Road Mosque, said: “When I was asked to host this event I said we certainly shall support it and we shall learn something from it.

“This exhibition opened my eyes to how Jews and Muslims worked together in that difficult time.”

Chaudhry added: “For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had emails and calls saying I shouldn’t be hosting this event here in a Muslim centre. I said to them: no, you are wrong.

“No protest was going to stop us and we were determined that whatever happens we would go ahead.”

The exhibition demonstrated how Muslim Albanians not only protected their own Jewish citizens, but also offered sanctuary to Jewish refugees who had arrived in Albania and faced deporta-

Rabbi Herschel Gluck with mosque chairman Bashir Chaudhry

tion to concentration camps.

Yusuf Patel, Community Engagement Coordinator at Redbridge Council, told Jewish News: “Here today, we are an example of standing strong and not allowing certain sections of some communities to disrupt this event.

“Our message to those extremists is: this is just the beginning.”

It was announced last month that Golders Green mosque was to host the Yad Vashem exhibition on Sunday 6 January.

The mosque had hoped the event would

BEVIS MARKS HONOURS IRAQ HANGING VICTIMS A moving candlelit memorial service for Jews falsely accused of spying and killed in Baghdad 50 years ago will be held at Bevis Marks Synagogue next month.

The open-to-all event on 19 February in the historic central London shul will recall the victims of the so-called Baghdad Hangings, when in 1969 Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party hanged Jewish men accused of being Israeli spies.

Several Iraqi Jewish families who lost family members managed to escape the country and later made their homes in London, among them Sabah Zubaida, board president of S&P Sephardi UK. The event, described as a “sombre and fitting tribute to our Sephardi brothers and sisters,” will include poignant personal testimony, with some stories - including one published in Jewish News today (see page 15) – only now being told for the first time.

Senior Sephardi Rabbi Joseph Dweck, who will attend alongside Chief Rabbi

help to improve dialogue with its neighbours, following objections to the opening of the Centre for Islamic Understanding.

However, the event was cancelled three days before it was due to take place following pressure by opponents of the exhibit. They included Roshan Salih, editor of the British Muslim news site 5 Pillars and a journalist with Press TV, who urged people to boycott it.

This week, he tweeted: “Zionists will consider this [event] a win in their quest to get Israel accepted and unfortunately it is to a certain extent. That said, this is a very small mosque and the event is being held in semi-secrecy. This give me confidence that the mainstream Muslim community won’t accept public events with Israelis/hard core Zionists.”

Among those attending the exhibition were Councillor Jas Athwal, leader of Redbridge Council, Fiyaz Mughal of Faith Matters and Vivian Aisen, Director of Public Diplomacy at the Israeli Embassy.

Other attendees included Sara Khan, Lead Commissioner for Countering Extremism, and Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg, who represented the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.

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RYANAIR: ISRAEL MOST PROMISING MARKET Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary believes Israel is one of the most promising tourism destinations and plans to expand the low-cost airline’s operations there. O’Leary, visiting Israel on Tuesday, told Channel 13 news: “We can bring millions more to Israel, we will grow as fast as the authorities allow us to.” He said it would also offer flights from Israel to some “200 new airports and destinations” and also met representatives from the Ministry of Tourism and the Israel Airports Authority.

AIRPORT NEAR EILAT OFFICIALLY DEDICATED The Ramon International Airport in southern Israel was officially inaugurated on Monday. The first flights, domestic and charter only, will begin arriving at the airport – named after named for Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, and his son Asaf, early next month. International flights will begin in September or October.

The airport, in the Timna Valley in southern Israel about 10 miles north of Eilat, will replace the old Eilat City Airport. A shuttle will carry travellers from the resort town to the airport until a rail line is built.

Hava Camilla! Dancing duchess celebrates centre’s 80th birthday

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The Duchess of Cornwall showed off her moves yesterday as she helped mark the 80th anniversary of Jewish Care’s Brenner Centre in Stepney Green.

Camilla linked arms with other guests and centre members in a circle dance to Hava Nagila, performed live by the musician Beverley Stone.

The small community centre in East London has received several Royal visits since its opening, including three visits from Queen Elizabeth in 1956, 1974 and 1987.

The only remaining Jewish service left in the area, it is open Monday to Friday and is a place for centre members to reminisce, enjoy hot kosher food and attend weekly Sabbath meals.

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She said: “We sometimes go to places that are a bit sad, but this place is one of the most uplifting community centres I’ve ever been to.

“Meeting all you wonderful, inspirational people has been a real treat and how most of you look so young, I don’t know.

“I really wanted to say ‘thank you very much indeed’ and congratulate everybody who helps, who runs and who keeps this centre going. It’s so important in this day and age to have places like this.”

The Duchess met with members, including Beattie Orwell, 101, the

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Above: The Duchess of Cornwall joins in the dancing to Hava Nagilah at Jewish Care’s Brenner Centre and, above left, chats to a resident.

Inset left: The Queen Mother with a centre member

former Mayoress of Tower Hamlets, and the oldest centre member.

She also spoke with Marion Davies, a lifelong East Ender and a resident of Tower Hamlets, who was evacuated during the war for just one day.

Davies, whose father was a bespoke tailor on Savile Row and whose mother came from a family of butchers, said she was evacuated to Weston Turville aged

seven. She returned to London after just one day in Buckinghamshire, saying: “If my mum and dad were going to die in the Blitz, I wanted to die too.”

The 87-year-old widow, who described herself as “a Jewish Cockney”, said she had been “overcome with emotion” to meet Camilla. “I kept saying to myself, ‘don’t cry’, because the black eye make-up is going to run,” she said.

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Israel Brexit deal agreed British and Israeli ministers have announced they have agreed a post-Brexit trade agreement in principle.

International Development Secretary Liam Fox, a key Cabinet supporter of Brexit, made the announcement on yesterday afternoon alongside Israel’s Industry and Economy Minister, Eli Cohen.

The news was welcomed by diplomats, including Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev, who tweeted that it was “more excellent news for the rapidly growing UK-Israel partnership”, after more than £7 billion in bilateral trade was recorded in 2018.

Fox and Cohen made the announcement of a trade deal agreed “in principle” at the

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“I’m delighted that, as Britain prepares to leave the European Union, and to ensure continuity for our businesses in both directions, we’ve reached agreement in principle today with our colleagues in Israel,” said Fox, who is an arch Brexiteer.

“Israel has been one of the most cooperative and productive partners in this relationship, where our trade is already strong and set to go further,” he said, adding that it was a “precursor to an even more ambitious agreement in the future”.

Cohen said he felt the inprinciple agreement would “accelerate, increase and strengthen our economic relationship”, with a UK-Israel trade and investment conference scheduled for London in the coming months.

Shortly after taking over at the Department for International Trade in 2016, Fox set up the UK-Israel Trade Working Group “designed to identify and remove barriers to trade between our two countries”.

OFFENSIVE T-SHIRT WITHDRAWN An online clothes retailer in the US has withdrawn a $25 (£19) T-shirt splashed with the words ‘At Least I’m Not Jewish’ and apologised for any offence caused.

Zazzle pulled its user-designed product on Sunday, saying it “does not tolerate or accept hate on our site”, after an outcry from Jewish consumers who accused it of “rocking antisemitism like it’s the hottest look”.

In a statement, Zazzle said: “As an open marketplace, we are faced with the opportunity to allow people to express their creativity and sentiments, coupled with the challenge of expression that upsets and offends.

“When a product is brought to our attention that violates our terms of service, we take swift action to have the product removed.”

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IDF hits Iran in Syria Israel attacked Iranian bases inside Syria in a missile onslaught on Monday.

In a rare public acknowledgement of action in Syria, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it attacked up to 10 sites including an arms depot and a training ground used by Iran’s elite Quds Force.

Israel’s action, focused on the airport south of the capital Damascus, was launched in response to rockets fired from Syria on Sunday over the Golan Heights, where it was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system.

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Video footage of the ground-toground missiles flying towards Israel was captured on the head-cameras of

Israeli skiers enjoying the snow, and later posted online by the IDF. Syrian residents also posted footage of the night-time raids that followed as the IDF warned Syria not to retaliate as it bombed the Quds bases.

Syrian air-defence systems were nevertheless deployed, leading Israel’s military chiefs to target the Syrian army’s surface-to-air missile launchers too.

“We warned the Syrians not to fire anti-aircraft missiles at our planes during the strike and they chose to fire anyway,” said an IDF spokesman.

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Israeli youngsters having fun in the snow after wintry weather saw Jerusalem and the north of Israel affected by freezing and treacherous conditions while dusty winds hit the West Bank and hail fell in Tel Aviv.

Israeli troops have demolished the home of a Palestinian accused of killing Ari Fuld, an American and Israeli citizen, in an attack in the West Bank in September.

The home of the family of Khalil Jabarin, 16, was blown up on Friday in the village of Yatta near Hebron, Israeli media reported.

The teenager, who is standing trial in Israel for murder, is accused of fatally stabbing father-of-four Fuld in September.

Fuld’s brother, Hillel, is scheduled to honour his brother’s

memory next month at a conference in Vienna celebrating Israeli innovation.

“Part of my travelling and speaking is about perpetuating Ari’s legacy,” Hillel Fuld, a tech blogger, said of his attendance at the Startup Nation Meets Europe.

The three-day-conference, set up by the non-profit 110HUB, is due to begin on 7 February.

“Ari impacted the world through technology,” Hillel Fuld added. “We can influence the global community with a computer.”

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Your weekly digest of stories from the international press ITALY

The Holocaust memorial ‘stumbling stones’ project in Italy is to extend to another 30 towns and cities beyond the capital.

The expansion follows the theft of 20 brass plate ‘cobblestones’ sunk into the ground in Rome by German artist Gunter Demnig.

They are placed in front of the homes of deported Jews.

BELGIUM

The European Parliament in Brussels has told the continent’s states to do more to find and recover Nazi-looted art, with 110,000 pieces still missing. A resolution mandating more provenance research was passed ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day,

with lawmakers calling it ‘a powerful declaration of support’ for survivors.

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The tiny town of Belmonte is seeking to become the third officially-recognised Jewish community in Portugal after Lisbon and Porto. The status, if designated, would confer national funding. With a population of 6,000, the town has a synagogue, a Jewish museum and an annual kosher food market.

KENYA

Tributes were paid to a Jewish American man killed in the Al-Shabaab attack in Nairobi.

Businessman Jason Spindler, who survived 9/11, was in Kenya working on a power-grid project.

The director of the Auschwitz Museum, Piotr Cywinski, has been given the National Order of the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration awarded by the French state.

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Soldiers of tolerance Every Holocaust Memorial Day is different. Every year we have fewer survivors to link us to horror we cannot forget. Every year we feel the lessons of the past are more pressing than the last.

This year is no different. The world is changing. Internationalism is giving way to nationalism, and dangerous games played by those stoking the fears of their kin, so-called ‘strongmen’ invoking blood and boundaries, blaming an ethnic, racial or national ‘other’ for their country’s every ill.

We know it well – we’ve long been the ‘other’. But across the world, new generations forget lessons of the old. Witness the Brexit debate and its focus on economics, when the main reason for uniting Europe – understood by Churchill – was as an antidote to war.

Holocaust Memorial Day – which importantly incorporates lessons from other genocides – is needed both to remember those killed and to remind ourselves of what mankind is capable of if we forget. Indeed, genocide may already have been committed on our watch – of the Rohingya in Myanmar, of the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq. What did we do to stop it, to save them?

When we say ‘never again’ we do not mean ‘never again for Jews’. As a people we take seriously our obligation to heal the world. In today’s age that means bridging divisions and protecting the vulnerable: the blamed, the hated, the targeted and persecuted, the dehumanised, and finally, those to be disposed of.

At Bushey on Sunday, as we laid to rest six unknown Jews killed at Auschwitz for those very reasons, after that very same process of ‘othering,’ each representing a million dead, and as we approach Sunday’s HMD events, we remember how that fight never ends. But a fight it is – for tolerance, against hate – and fight we will. Soldiers against hatred, we salute you.

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HEAD IN HANDS THE WRONG IMAGE This month the community saw something fantastic – our press taking time to focus on the wellbeing of their constituents with articles.

Dozens of synagogues and other organisations gave sermons, held discussions and ran activities.

Most bravely, many in our communities stood up for the first time to share the impact of mental ill health on their own lives. Jami’s third annual Mental Health Awareness Shabbat continues to grow as it helps to reduce stigma.

However, we still have a long way to go. Press articles about mental health are often illustrated with stock images of people holding their head in their hands. But people with mental health problems don’t look depressed all the time!

These ‘head clutcher’ images have been

Our youth revolution Sketches & kvetches There is a quiet revolution underway in Jewish youth development. For years, there’s been no shortage of opportunities or those willing to help, but it always felt patchy and disjointed.

Then, in 2014, with support from the Wohl Foundation, a new programme was created to bring together all those influencing and impacting a Jewish child’s development – teachers, parents, youth leaders, rabbis, mentors, charities, national award bodies – and a platform for their coordination was created.

Now, after this week’s Big Lottery boost, JLGB is set to roll it out, getting more children and young adults involved and engaged. We all know that when Jews get out there and volunteer we learn and grow.

When that social action is coordinated in the way promised, its effect promises to be revolutionary. Watch this space.

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“Every time we throw our knickers at the stage, the anti-missile defence system shoots them down!”

acknowledged by charities and campaigners as actually being harmful – the hidden face can exacerbate the stigma associated with those living with a mental illness and put people off seeking help.

Just because someone isn’t curled up in a ball doesn’t mean they are not struggling and that we need to offer support. Time to Change, an anti-stigma campaign, has released a series of pictures for free use by the media to portray mental health more accurately. We encourage our community journalists to use them.

Meanwhile, everyone can continue this amazing work to ensure our community embraces its mental health.

Liz Jessel Head of Development, Jami

WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT BEING A JEW? HERE’S A WAY TO FIND OUT I was initially interested, then very surprised, and finally pleased to have read one particular letter, entitled ‘Stop hurling stones’, published in a recent edition of your newspaper (Jewish News, 10 January) The writer stated, “In any case, what’s so special about being a Jew?” Maybe readers could be invited to provide concise answers with one letter selected from those received to be published each week.

Alternatively, or in addition, Jewish News might wish to run a weekly series of answers, since this question presents an opportunity for your paper to build up a bank of answers drawn

from Jews right across the religious and any other spectrum that comprise your readership.

I agree with the writer that in dealing with this question we have no basis to assert that Jews are better than gentiles or any other people.

However, special means, among other things, unique, historic, distinctive and noteworthy – which are reasonable benchmarks to use for this purpose.

I for one feel proud and privileged to be a Jew, and am happy to engage with anybody as to why this is the case.

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Hospital co-existence

‘YIDDISHKEIT’ AT FAULT IN SHTISEL

Your article ‘Hadassah – the hospital with co-existence on call’ (JN, 17 January) sets out the way Jewish and Muslim staff and patients work together at this facility and are treated as “the embodiment of co-existence that lays to rest the lie that Israel practises apartheid”.

Another outstanding example of such work is the Save a Child’s Heart unit at Wolfson Hospital

We have just finished watching both series 1 and 2 of Shtisel on Netflix.

I was horrified to see that after the death of their mother, Shulem was listening to a comedy cassette but his brother Nucham was listening to classical music.

What has happened to yiddishkeit in Jerusalem?

By the way, will there be a series 3?

in Holon. This provides urgentlyneeded paediatric heart surgery for children from developing countries (including those from Hamas families living in Gaza) as well as comprehensive training programmes for doctors from such countries.

This is in all cases regardless of race, religion and nationality.

Tony Cotton Trustee, Save a Child’s Heart UK

MOVING WORDS AT BUSHEY I’ve just returned from the funeral at Bushey Cemetery of the remains of six Holocaust victims and would like to pay tribute to our extraordinary Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis.

His address during the service, when he spoke personally to the child victim who was buried among five adults, was among the most beautiful speeches I’ve heard.

Even now, hours after the event, the thought of that address, the power of those words, simply reduces me to tears.

Meredith and Alec Gaba Cardiff

ARE WE BACK TO BURNING BOOKS?

Thank you, Chief Rabbi, for all that you do.

Melanie Hartog By email

Users of a Norfolk minilibrary have found neo-Nazi books among its collection.

Holocaust Educational Trust chief executive Karen Pollock says “they belong in the bin of history”. Would burning them help? Who did that?

Emma Abelson By email

MOHAMAD AND THE UNION For Malaysia’s prime minister Mahathir Mohamad to ban disabled Israeli swimmers from the world para swimming championships in his country is reprehensible enough, but what was the Oxford Union (OU) thinking giving this man a further forum for his disgusting views?

Don’t worry – we already know the answer; something along the lines of being seen to be fair to all sides of an argument, the importance of free speech, etc, etc.

Perhaps those who forward such arguments will have been given pause at the way this unpleasant man used exactly the same justification for using the OU to repeat his ghastly beliefs.

It is reported that when it was pointed out remarks made previously about Jewish people being “hooked nosed” with “an instinctive sense of money” were antisemitic,

he responded: “We are free to say what we like, we can say something that can be regarded as antisemitic by the Jews.

“That is their right to hold such an opinion of me. It is my right to tell them they have been doing a lot of wrong things.

“Why can’t we say anything against Israel, against the Jews?”

It gets worse.

Part of Mohamad’s address also concerned what he thought of the Israeli government.

“This is a government that does not care about the opinion of others,” he said.

“That’s why they keep on committing war crimes all the time… so if they don’t like it, they can say they don’t like it, I don’t care.”

It wasn’t just the words but the reaction – the remarks, we are told, were greeted by “applause and laughter”. It’s frightening.

Malcolm Ericson By email

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Finding common cause during my trip to Tripoli ALEX GOLDBERG

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hey told me that I was the first rabbi to enter Lebanon’s second city of Tripoli since the 1970s.

I was trying to make friends and not history when I met the Grand Mufti, the Orthodox and Catholic archbishops of the city. It almost didn’t happen.

I’ve visited Arab countries in the past, but the unstable security situation in this part of the Middle East meant I received a stream of additional safety advice from both the Lokahi Foundation, which invited me, as well as Arab and Jewish friends who have worked in the country. In short, their advice was no Hebrew writing, no yarmulke, no tallit.

I replaced my yarmulke with a rather trendy head covering from Urban Outfitters and had to strip down the packaging of my Hermolis kosher meals to the plastic transparent wrappings in order to minimise the Hebrew writing.

In the past year, I’ve re-engaged in dialogue in the Middle East and I’d come to Lebanon precisely to learn from its rich and

complex tapestry of religious and political identities. In essence, I’d come to understand different narratives. I believe that only by understanding each other’s view of the past can you hope to weave them together to create a common future.

In Beirut and Tripoli, people openly speak about their experiences during the 15-year civil war. While much of downtown Beirut has been beautifully renovated, including the religious buildings such as the synagogue, mosques and churches, the deep personal scars of conflict are harder to fix.

In Tripoli, I saw that these wounds were only now starting to heal in a city in which fighting still intermittently erupts between militants from the Alawite Shia and Sunni communities. It’s for this reason the British Government does not advise travelling there.

I’d come to find out more about how religious leaders from Catholic, Orthodox, Druze, Sunni and Alawite communities were working together to build community cohesion in the city. The heavy army presence on the streets of Tripoli was testimony to the fact their quest was far riskier than the

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London interfaith projects I’ve led.

The clergy were formal at first but, slowly, they revealed the blossoming nature of their personal relationships. While speaking about a project with young students, one Christian cleric said “I brought a student to meet this one. They were astonished to meet such a goodlooking imam”. The others laughed. It was at the end of this encounter that one of the Catholic priests started talking about the old synagogue. “It’s been sold. There are no Jews left, but you’re here now. It’s a start”.

Two days later, one of my new Lebanese friends was kind enough to take me to the mountain town of Deir el Qamar. We went around in circles looking for a small 17th century synagogue. I knew we’d found it

when I stuck my head through the open window and clearly saw the niche that once held Torah scrolls.

For 300 years, this had been a place of Jewish prayer and learning. It might take 50 years or more, but I believe it might be again one day. While politics has largely failed in the region, I’ve observed during my encounters that there’s a growing grassroots movement calling for peace and reconciliation.

Another Lokahi fellow, Rim-Sarah Allouise, best summed this spirit for me: “In this chaos, we need to listen to each other, have empathy for one another, try to understand each other and simply respect each other. It’s up to us, the people, to take effective actions for peacemaking; nobody will do it on our behalf.”

Why a good broigus makes must-see TV MARION HABERMAN

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n amazing thing is happening in television... there’s actually something good on! The highly bingeable The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and Israel’s newest hit to stream on Netflix, Shtisel both offer an entertaining, smart, well written and gorgeously produced backdrop to highlight a Jewish family. In many ways, these shows are complete opposites, but what makes them both so addictive is what they have in common: a seemingly inescapable extended Jewish family meddling in everything.

Today’s millennials are accused of being the ‘umbilical cord’ generation. We left for college with our mobile phones, and called our mums on the way to class each morning.

We moved back in when the economy tanked, and researchers in historical, sociological and psychological disciplines are all trying to figure out why we’re just so stunted.

Maisel and Shtisel’s central characters also

suffer some of these typical millennial tropes.

They still live at home, they can’t secure a normal successful career or marriage and, most entertaining of all, they constantly disappoint their overbearing Jewish parents.

Perhaps this is also the most believable and relatable central storyline in both series – and also the most appealing.

Set in the strictly-Orthodox community of present-day Geula in Jerusalem, Shtisel follows the life of Akiva (Kiveh) Shtisel whose bachelorhood beguiles even the most seasoned shadchan, and his inappropriate career pursuits cause shame on his family.

Set in a starkly contrasting 1950s Manhattan, Mrs Maisel follows the similarly conflicted lead character of Miriam (Midge) Maisel, a culturally affiliated Jew who also pursues a career path embarrassing for her respectable family, a female comedian.

Even though Midge Maisel’s parents’ dramatics and Kiveh Shtisel’s father’s antics continually create a tornado of drama and misdirection for their offspring, Midge and Kiveh forgive them again and again and return to the comforts of home each time.

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IN JUDAISM, IT’S NOT JUST A MITZVAH TO CREATE A FAMILY, IT’S THE MITZVAH. THIS ANCIENT VALUE HAS RESULTED IN THE CORE NARRATIVE OF BOTH OF THESE HIT SHOWS their children. When Midge’s marriage falls apart, her father, a mathematics professor at Columbia University, can hardly teach a lesson to his class and her mother can’t get out of bed. Kiveh’s father, Shulem, obsessively prays for a marriage for his son and spends countless hours meeting with the local matchmaker trying to make something happen. When, inevitably, Kiveh screws it up again, Shulem can’t bear to even be in the same room as him.

In Judaism, it’s not just a mitzvah to create a family, it’s the mitzvah: to be fruitful and multiply and to pass along Judaism from one generation to the next, l’dor v’dor. This ancient value has resulted in the core narra-

tive of both of these hit shows, and Jews and non-Jews alike are fascinated by it.

Perhaps with today’s continually isolating lifestyle of long hours in a cubicle, followed by an evening FaceTiming an endless scroll on a tiny screen, and a trendy commitment to self-love, what viewers of Shtisel and Maisel are looking for is that basic human need that Judaism has so long triumphed: the support network of a (pestering, but loving) family.

And, maybe, millenials aren’t so ‘stunted’ after all. Maybe we’re just trying to figure out how to grow up without growing out of our most important lifelong relationship – the one with our family.

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12 years on the front line of Jewish volunteering LEONIE LEWIS

OUTGOING DIRECTOR JEWISH VOLUNTEERING NETWORK

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fter 12 years at the helm of the leading faith-based volunteering charity, I have decided to retire.

It is time to move on; time for a new direction for the charity and time for me to pass on the wonderful Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN) mantle.

Do I leave the charity in a good place? Have I made a difference? And what is my legacy?

Since becoming the first JVN director, I have witnessed and experienced key changes in volunteering and, in my view, volunteering just ain’t what it used to be. The biggest (and most noticeable) change has been the growth in popularity of short-term or microvolunteering activity. We hope they provide an introduction to longer-term relationships, but I appreciate that, with modern-day lifestyles and changes to worklife balance, this won’t always happen.

Thus, for a certain group of people, volunteering has become something packaged into small bursts throughout the year. It’s a chance

for them to get instant gratification, whether in a couple of hours or a day’s event.

I’ve seen hundreds apply for one-off volunteering opportunities, where they become volunteers almost instantaneously. This does not require copious form filling, interviews or training. These are definite advantages, especially for millennials and others under retirement age. Their lives are inordinately busy.

Additionally, this generation is accustomed to online engagement. Friendships are frequently formed and sustained through social media, jobs found on a website, and finding a suitable partner is the result of a few clever algorithms.

I wonder, however, if one-off volunteering should really be the trigger for more sustained interest in a charity’s work and ongoing involvement – and if it could ever become this?

One-off activity is now an end goal for many volunteers. A consequence of this is an array of small voluntary activities that attract people who are often less likely to volunteer in the longterm, but can still add value to the charity’s work through short-term contributions. The challenge is whether charities will be able to forge lasting relationships with volunteers.

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THE CHALLENGE IS WHETHER CHARITIES WILL BE ABLE TO FORGE LASTING RELATIONSHIPS A balance needs to be found between volunteering that effectively sustains a service required by the charity in a way that has longterm positive consequences, while fulfilling the volunteer’s needs for immediacy and enjoyment. Charities will need to get smarter about the types of opportunities they have available and volunteers must understand the value of an ongoing, regular contribution of their time.

I have overseen the introduction of microvolunteering to the Jewish community, offering easy and immediate online opportunities to volunteer. The behaviour of a new generation and the emergence of distinct demographic groups of would-be volunteers, each with their own list of demands, has led us to explore fresh

ideas. We work with charities to provide volunteering opportunities that complement people’s lifestyle demands. We support those with mental health challenges and learning disabilities who want to contribute to society.

We use the latest technology and social media platforms to communicate and showcase a plethora of opportunities from the Jewish and wider community. This is supplemented by comprehensive training programmes for both volunteers and volunteer managers, and we offer advice providing clarity around charity governance issues. JVN is a focal point, from which we promote and impart a culture of volunteering to the Jewish community and beyond.

I can only hope my legacy has lasting impact but, as volunteering changes day by day, JVN might also need to adapt. Perceptions and expressions of volunteering may change with JVN’s influence. When they do, I hope it represents a positive step in the direction of volunteers having real, enduring impact on people’s lives through longer-term engagement. I hope my influence and leadership has helped pave the way for a new and exciting chapter of volunteering in our community.

Populist loathing rips the fabric of society NAVED SIDDIQI

TRUSTEE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY TRUST

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arlier this week, as I made my way to my daughter’s secondary school “student consultation”, I heard a radio report about plans for the burial of six victims of the Holocaust. I asked the history teacher how the school marked Holocaust Memorial Day, and a vague reference was offered to it being mentioned in an assembly.

I continued matter-of-factly, “and what about what happened in Bosnia?” It seemed to puzzle our subject specialist, who suggested I enquire at the ‘religion and philosophy’ table. I wasn’t surprised or dismayed by this, if anything, I expected it.

The teacher was aged around 30 and was innocently oblivious of Europe’s darkest chapter after the Second World War. The importance of remembering the forgotten, the cost of missed opportunities in our places of education, and the plural co-existence of millennial (and younger)

lives, are key reasons why I am passionate about the work and impact of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, of which I became a Trustee last year.

Sunday’s Holocaust Memorial Day is as essential and relevant as ever. I so strongly believe that the lessons of the Holocaust underpin the safety and peace of our collective lives, and that is why I, a Muslim by faith, have become a trustee to support the furthering of this work.

And we have more to do. I want to help these messages go further afield so they are understood more deeply across different faiths and ethnic groups.

Too often, I have too much explaining to do from the outset. Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, I explain, is not a “Jewish organisation”, and our work is neither exclusively “for Jews”, nor only “about Jews” who suffered.

Our work centres on lessons from dark episodes in modern history, beginning with the murder of six million Jewish people in the Holocaust and millions of others targeted under Nazi persecution, and covering the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and

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Darfur. By extension, our lessons encompass other atrocities, where people are persecuted on the basis of their identity. Cross-faith and cross-ethnic partnering are essential.

It is important to recognise that each genocide we mark on Holocaust Memorial Day has its own identity and history. They were, after all, targeted persecution of certain groups of people. Education here is crucial: our understanding of one horrific crime does not diminish the importance of another.

On the contrary, an enlightened understanding of power used to eliminate a people because of who they are should strengthen our common understanding. This, for me, is the broader value of understanding the Holocaust in its British and European context.

We can bring the lessons of the genocide in Bosnia into our history classes. We can connect with the pain of families torn

apart by the genocide in Rwanda. We can raise searching questions about the ongoing persecution of the (Muslim) Rohingya in Myanmar.

We can also educate people to think carefully about the dangers of populist loathing against a people.

Our work at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is really about the fabric of civilisation.

I have seen sparks of hope, but there is more do for a greater sense of communal ownership and connection with our aims.

Nothing compares to hearing directly from a survivor, and we are making new connections each year with families and communities connected to later genocides.

I am convinced that the further this trend of outreach and diversity travels, the more we can confidently say the words “Never Again”, in unison.

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1 PLANTING A GIFT

Year 4 children at Akiva Primary School decorated plant pots as part of their Mitzvah Day and Tu B’Shvat activities.

The pots were given this week to residents at Jewish Care’s Ruben’s House in Finchley, who were delighted and planted seeds in them.

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At Kisharon’s Tuffkid nursery the children learned about Tu B’Shvat, and used it as an opportunity to discuss how important trees are, as they provide fruit for us to eat, furniture to sit on and a home for birds and other animals. As well as learning some special songs for Tu B’Shvat, the children were also taught the blessing for fruit that comes from trees. In preparation for their homework task – shopping for fruit in preparation for Tu B’Shvat – the children were busy setting up their very own Tuffkid fruit shop, where they had tills, money and different types of fruit for sale to practise buying fruit.

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There were two seders at Radlett Reform’s cheder to celebrate Tu B’Shvat – one for the younger children and another for the older year groups, along with their parents.

Children tasted fruits with an inedible outside, fruits with a removable stone, and fruits where you can eat them whole. They drank different fruit juices, thinking about Jews from our own community, Israel, and the wider world. They had lessons thinking about environmental issues and what people can do to help prevent climate change. All children went home with a green heart sticker to #ShowTheLove!, to provoke discussion at home.

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The London School of Jewish Studies celebrated Tu B’Shvat with a wonderful seder, including lots of singing led by Sammy and Jamie Rubin. Different kinds of fruits and nuts, as well as four mixtures of red and white wine, were enjoyed by all.

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More than 60 serving Jewish UK Armed Forces personnel from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force gathered for the Armed Forces Jewish Community annual weekend, at Amport House in Hampshire – home of UK Military Chaplaincy. It was led by Senior Jewish Chaplain to HM Armed Forces, Major (Padre) Rabbi Reuven Livingstone.

6PLANT RENEWAL Children at Emunah Day Care Centres across Israel planted flowers and shrubs to celebrate Tu B’Shvat. “The festival is a time for Israel’s renewal and growth,” said British Emunah director, Deborah Nathan.

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7 DINNER CHAT

The Masorti Judaism annual dinner 2019 attracted 265 guests and raised £112,000 so far. Keynote speaker, professor Robert Winston, in conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, spoke about his scientific career, his published work on God, and the role of people of faith in public life. He answered questions on House of Lords discussions, Brexit and NHS pressures.

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About 200 of the UK’s best informal educators met at the Runnymede on Thames Hotel for the sixth Aleinu

Outreach Conference – a joint project of Jewish Futures, Aish, Seed, the Jewish Learning Exchange and the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue. It was an opportunity for the UK’s outreach organisations to collaborate on educational issues, as well as providing a professional training programme.

9MORNING STUDY Fifty Immanuel College pupils were immersed in Talmud Torah during their termly Boker Iyun (Morning of Study).

They prepared for lessons in their pairs, and heard from Rabbi Elchonon Feldman (Bushey US), Rabbi Eliezer Zobin (Immanuel College principal and Senior Rabbi of Ner Yisrael) and Rebbetzin Shalvie Friedman (Aish UK).

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Belmont Shul hosted a communitywide event on the threat from extremism. Attending were Harrow Councillors Graham Henson and Marilyn Ashton, community cohesion officer Samia Malik, and representatives from Harrow Interfaith Group to hear from anti-racist group, Hope not Hate.

Jemma Levene and Joe Mulhall explained the risk of young children and teenagers, in particular, going from what seems an innocent website to darker material very quickly.

Your family announcements Jake Reeback celebrated his barmitzvah at Bushey United Synagogue

Ruby Messulam celebrated her batmitzvah at London Marriott Hotel Regents Park

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Lasting Power of Attorney Dear Monica, My mother is approaching her 85th birthday.

While she is of sound mind and mentally capable, I have noticed that she is becoming increasingly frail and this has made me worry about her.

We don’t know what the future will hold, and I have seen several of my friends’ parents succumbing to dementia, and sadly they were not able to plan ahead whilethey had the chance.

I think it is time to set up a Lasting Power of Attorney, although I am rather anxious about bringing up the subject. I am looking for some guidance on this. How do you work out which child or sibling would become the attorney?

Is it worth using a solicitor? Should we do it ourselves? It seems like a complicated area and I would appreciate some expert advice.

LJ, Finchley

Your legal worries answered by our expert Wills and Probate Solicitor, Monica Cervellini, at Gregory Abrams Davidson Solicitors

Dear LJ, You are correct. This can be a complicated area and one that is very difficult to discuss with family members.

The growing awareness of dementia has seen an increasing understanding by the general public of the need for a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), allowing you to appoint one or more attorneys to make important decisions on your behalf, if and when capacity is lost. There are two types of LPA – a financial LPA – giving the attorney power to deal with your property and financial affairs and a health LPA – giving the attorney powers in respect of your current and future welfare and medical treatment.

The forms are standardised and cannot be deviated from. It is also designed with ‘tick’ boxes. However, despite their apparent ‘simplicity’ a number of drafting errors can result in unlawful additions you have made being struck out by the court upon registration of the LPA, or even worse, the LPA being completely rejected by the court.

Part 3 of the LPA form is creating constant problems – this allows you to choose from three options in the event that you have appointed two or more attorneys. The attorneys must act either jointly, or they can act independently of each other (jointly and severally), or a mix of the two with them acting jointly for some decisions and jointly and severally for other decisions.

Practical day to day problems can arise with a joint appointment. If an attorney is away on holiday, the remaining attorney cannot act. If an attorney dies, the remaining attorney(s) cannot continue to act – i.e. the Power ends unless replacement attorneys have been appointed.

Likewise, choosing jointly for some matters and jointly and severally for others has both the aforementioned problems, but also the added difficulty of deciding which decisions fall within which of the options.

Moreover, the court is receiving a growing quantity of powers that attempt to allow one attorney to act in all matters independently with the remaining attorneys acting jointly at all times.

The court is adamant that only one of the three specific options listed above under the ‘tick box’ regime can be chosen from Part 3 and any attempt to deviate from these or any modification to them will be rejected outright.

In the vast majority of cases, Gregory Abrams Davidson Solicitors would recommend “jointly and severally” as the appropriate choice for

a donor (the second of the three options discussed above).

As ever, an apparent saving of legal fees by not having used a solicitor will turn out to have been a false economy. Furthermore, instructing a law firm that is experienced in these matters will give you assurance that someone outside of the family knows who you have appointed as your attorney and can also avoid disputes that you were of sound mind at the time of doing so.

We would caution you from being beguiled into thinking that the simplicity of a ‘tick-box’ means that the decision is simple and straight forward.

Far from it!

Monica Cervellini originally practiced at a law firm in Pescara, Italy, gaining experience in litigation and civil law matters. She spent more than years in an international law firm in the city of London, where she was tasked with handling private clients, with a particular focus on international probate matters involving multi-jurisdictional issues (primarily Italian and English). Her experience in probate cases has varied from simple assets involving straightforward procedures, to more complicated procedures, which included part of the estate being abroad, or Wills drafted under different rules and jurisdictions, for both UK domiciled and non-domiciled individuals.

To get in touch with Monica for any Wills and Probate enquiries email: mcervellini@gadlegal.co.uk or call: 020 8209 0166.

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We endured, we’re here Jenni Frazer reviews a new documentary recalling the horrors of the Nazi death camps through the eyes of those who survived them

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he faces loom at the viewer out of the dark, captured in almost too much detail, the experiences of a lifetime etched on their skin. Some of the faces are familiar, some could belong to any senior citizen.

But these are not just any senior citizens.

They are Holocaust survivors, and not just any survivors, but among the last living witnesses to the six year-long attempted complete annihilation of the Jewish people.

These are the people who have been inexorably damaged by what happened to them, and their testimonies shudder from the screen in this weekend’s BBC2 documentary The Last Survivors.

The 90-minute film is the result of months of painstaking work by producer and director Arthur Cary, who was commissioned to make the feature by the BBC to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday.

Alison Kirkham, controller of BBC Factual Commissioning, described the work to a preview screening audience at London’s JW3.

“We believe that there are shared moments in our collective history that merit re-examination, and it is our role as broadcasters to preserve them for posterity,” she said. “That is absolutely the case with this film”.

In drifts and fragments, the personal stories of some of these men and women, all now in their 80s or even 90s, weave in between depictions of their lives today.

Here is Ivor Perl, walking his dog in apparent domestic harmony.

He sits on a bench and looks out at a chocolate-box view of parkland. “That’s the trouble with being a survivor,” he reflects. “Everything tends to remind you of something.”

His mind’s eye takes the viewer back to his time in Dachau, with barbed wire in front of him instead of a tranquil tree line.

Or here is Frank Bright, pottering about in his Suffolk home with his wife Cynthia, admitting that he cannot really communicate with many people “because they don’t know what I’m talking about. I mean, how many people in England see their parents murdered, or see a gas chamber in action?”

Arthur Cary, perhaps like the viewer, wonders what effect the Holocaust has had on the Brights’ married life. “I’ve no idea,” retorts Cynthia. “I don’t know what he would have been like if he hadn’t been through all that”.

Upstairs, Frank’s fingers hover over a school photograph, taken in 1942. He points to each classmate: “Did not survive, did not survive, did not survive…”

Showing the film crew around his garden,

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dotted with statues he has made, is Maurice Blik.

Speaking with an unexpected Cockney accent, he turns out to have a tragic hidden story to tell behind his overtly “can-do” exterior.

Today a former president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, he was born in Amsterdam in 1939 and ended the war being liberated from Belsen.

And it was in Belsen, he tells us, that his baby sister was born and died, a heartbreaking

memory as he remembers a first “sculpture” that he tried to give her as her birthday present. She didn’t even make it to one year old, Blik recalls.

The Last Survivors is unusual in its attempt to explore the effect of the survivors’ experiences on their families.

Judy, Ivor Perl’s daughter, is at times exasperated with her father but also intent on showing him bottomless love and affection — and of attempting to explain the events to her own daughter, as the family goes to Auschwitz together.

Manfred Goldberg, who swore never to return to his home town of Kassel, does so, with his wife, as he unveils a Stolpersteine (memorial stone) in the name of his little brother, Herman.

Tears run down the faces of the onlookers as he recites Kaddish.

We meet, probably for the first time on screen, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch’s daughter Maya Jacob Wallfisch, and get some sense of the survivor mother’s desperate attempt to recreate “a normal” family from the ashes of

Clockwise from top left: Susan Pollack: ‘It is a warning film;’ Maurice Blik with one of his sculptures; Ivor Perl: ‘Everything reminds you;’ Manfred Goldberg with a painting of his lost brother

her destroyed one.

Anita, a cellist, smokes heavily throughout the film and pours cold water on sentimentalising the choices she made.

And we see Susan Pollack, born in Hungary, another Belsen survivor who is seen, incongruously, dancing in her flat towards the end of the film. It is, she says, “a warning film, it tells people, beware”.

Do the survivors have anything in common?

On the face of it, very little. But in fact, this remarkable film shows that they do, summed up, perhaps, by Maurice Blik.

“Here I am, take note!” he declares. He didn’t want being a survivor to define him.

But he, like the others, now feels a need to retell his story.  The Last Survivors is on BBC2, Sunday, 9pm.

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Beyond Schindler’s List – 10 iconic Holocaust films From the seminal Schindler’s List and Auschwitz to uplifting stories of survival and resistance, here are our pick of the memorable films and documentaries to watch now Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Defiance

Defiance (2008)

Directed by Edward Zwick, Defiance tells the true-life story of the Bielski partisans, a group led by Belarusian Jewish brothers, who saved and recruited Jews in Belarus during the Second World War. The film stars Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski, Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski, and George MacKay as Aron Bielski. Available to rent or buy on Amazon

no Jews were murdered by gassing at Auschwitz. It was a tension-filled case watched by the world’s media that ultimately vindicated Lipstadt and left Irving’s reputation in tatters as a falsifier of history. The stellar cast also includes Andrew Scott as solicitor Anthony Julius and Tom Wilkinson as barrister Richard Rampton.

Available on Netflix, and to rent or buy on Amazon

Schindler’s List (1993)

One of the greatest Holocaust films of all time and recipient of seven Academy Awards, Steven Spielberg’s sweeping epic Schindler’s List follows the real-life story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German businessman who saved the lives of more than 1,000 mostly Polish Jews by employing them in his factories during the Schindler’s List Second World War. The stellar cast includes Ralph Fiennes as sadistic SS officer Amon Goeth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler’s Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. Available on Netflix, and to rent or buy on Amazon

Denial (2016)

Gripping courtroom drama based on the real-life trial in which American academic Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) was sued by British author David Irving (Timothy Spall) after she described him as a ‘Holocaust denier’.

During the trial, Irving maintained

Denial

An alternative history from director Quentin Tarantino, which presents two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany’s leadership.

One is planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), a young French-Jewish cinema Inglourious Ba sterds proprietor, the other by a team of Jewish-American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Operation Finale (2018) Pitt). The stellar cast also includes Thrilling drama from director Chris Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender Weitz retelling the true-life story of and Diane Kruger. Available to rent Mossad agent Peter Malkin (Oscar or buy on Amazon Isaac) and his team, who covertly hunted down and captured Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (Ben Kingsley), The Resistance Banker The Pianist while hiding (2018) in Argentina.

Chosen as Netherland’s Operation entry for next year’s The Pianist (2002) Finale shows Oscars, The ResistThis powerful biographical drama Eichmann’s ance Banker shows the directed by Roman Polanski is subsequent audacious actions of based on the Holocaust memoir of arrest and trial Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Walraven van Hall and in Israel in his brother, Gijsbert, Władysław Szpilman (played by The 1961, where he Adrien Brody). Nominated for seven members of a promiResistance Banker was ultimately Oscars, The Pianist picked up three for nent banking family, executed for who for three years best director, best adapted screenplay his crimes. Available on Netflix bankrolled the Dutch resistance.

(Ronald Harwood) and best actor, as Together, they stole $250million from well as the Palme d’Or at the 2002 Nazi-controlled coffers and borrowed Cannes Film Festival. Available to Son of Saul (2015) an additional $250m from other rent or buy on Amazon Winner of the Academy Awards for bankers to carry out attacks, smuggle best foreign language film, director Allied pilots to safety and provide László Nemes’ drama revolves Auschwitz: The Nazis and financial support to at least 8,000 around Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), the Final Solution (2005) Jews in hiding during the Second an inmate chosen to work in the Powerful six-part documentary series World War. The bravery Sonderkommando at Auschwitz. from the BBC, which presents an inof van Hall, who Aside from the unspeakable horror depth look at the story of Auschwitz was recognised he witnesses, he sees a boy among the and features interviews with former as a Righteous bodies who might be his son, and feels inmates, guards and re-enactments of Among the he must find a rabbi to give the child historic events.

Nations a proper Jewish burial. Available to From conception to reality, mass at Yad rent or buy on Amazon murder, experimentation and ultiVashem in mately liberation and revenge, the 1978, is powseries covers all aspects of this notoRed Trees (2017) erfully told. rious Nazi camp, where more than Award-winning director Marina Available one million Jews were sent to their Willer’s father was among 12 Jewish on Netflix deaths. Available on Netflix 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 Pigott-Smith), from war-torn Eastern Europe to the solace of South America.

The visually-stunning film features footage shot by Academy Award nominee Red César Charlone (City of God).

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Lucia yourself!

Mark Silver enjoys a luxurious stay in St Lucia and discovers the natural beauty of this Carribean island

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urely it was divine intervention.

Here I was on the beautiful island of St Lucia being pampered galore and hoping to connect with my Jewish roots – but I have to admit I was struggling – when something super happened. Or rather someone named ‘Super’.

I was told about an inspirational young rabbi, Avraham Super, who recently moved to the Eastern Caribbean paradise from Miami and is working hard to build a Jewish community here so tourists can enjoy a Shabbat service, a reading of the Scroll, get married under a chupah or participate in anything else that he can support.

His mission is impressive, but that’s not the only thing that impressed me on the island. My other half, Ilisa, and I were treated like royalty during our time at two fabulous hotels – a few nights at the magnificent Marigot Bay Resort and Marina followed by an equally-perfect stay at the stunning Sugar Beach. Honestly, if Kate and Wills had been invited, they could not have been treated better.

St Lucia boasts a lovely temperature throughout the year, but we were equally pleased by the warm reception we received from the staff at both hotels. If you don’t want a stuffiness that you can find at some elite hotels, then choose

these properties. If you like a laugh and a joke, that famous laid-back Caribbean charm – and the highest degree of professionalism – then look no further.

The setting at Marigot Bay is picture postcard.

It has been described as one of the most stunning bays in the world and has featured on the big screen in several films, including for the 1967 classic Doctor Dolittle, starring Rex Harrison. It’s certainly a place where you will want to do-little!

The days were slow and relaxing and the evenings kicked off with a scrummy cocktail before, perhaps, a fine dining experience at The Grill, where the freshly-caught fish melted in your mouth. Retiring to bed was a pleasure as the guest rooms are exquisite and so is the turn-down service, including a new hand-written message by our bedside table every evening.

On one night, there was a note (and a delicious chocolate) that read: ‘’The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart’’. How lovely.

One evening the hotel put Above: The stunning setting at Sugar Beach. on the mother of all barbeques and Right and below: Visitors to St Lucia can enon another we enjoyed a private dining joy looking at paradise. Inset: Mark and Ilisa experience in a treehouse. Chef Billy, from admire the breathtaking scenery Elvis’s homeland of Memphis, created a magnificent dinner in the most romantic of settings.

Our stay also included a very special spa treatment in the form of Volcano Energy Therapy, involving health-boosting mud sourced from the famous Sulphur Springs in Saint Lucia.

Considering the quality of the hotel and the benefits of the treatment, $130 (about £100) was a more than reasonable price. Sulphur mud is applied over the whole body, you then shower it off, before the best bit of a hot stone back massage, which really helps to relax the muscles.

Apart from improving various ailments, the mud will leave your skin feeling revitalised and silky smooth.

It also slowly draws the toxins out of your body. Make sure you drink plenty of water after your treatment and try to avoid alcohol – not so easy if you acquire a taste for the rum at Marigot Bay’s Rum Cave!

It would have been a total wrench to depart from Marigot Bay, but we were fortunate to be moving on to another gem in Sugar Beach, about an hour away. A very different backdrop as this hotel is right on the beach, with more views to die for. Indeed, just like our first ‘home’, this is no ordinary setting, as it is bang in the middle of the world-famous Pitons – mountains formed from volcanic eruptions and a Unesco World Heritage site. Breathtaking is often an overused description but not here.

Again, I kept interrupting my sunbathing to admire the scenery. To the left is Gros Piton and to the right Petit Piton, with the clear Caribbean Sea in the middle.

Although reluctant to leave our two wonderful hotels, we did venture out and discovered

that St Lucia really is one of the most gorgeous places on the planet. About 30 minutes’ drive from Marigot Bay is Lushan Country Life, where you tour a plantation and enjoy nature at its best.

Kids and adults alike will enjoy the cooking stop to taste delicious fresh doughnuts.

If you want to lose those extra calories then try a ride with Bike St Lucia in a jungle about 20 minutes from Sugar Beach. You are taken on a short boat trip to be greeted by ‘Bike’ Tyson, a delightful young man, who probably could have gone a few rounds with the former heavyweight champ, but is a gentle giant. Needless to say, the experience was a big hit. Peddling for 45 minutes built up an appetite and we dined at nearby Jade Mountain, the island’s most exclusive hotel.

There are about 20,000 Jews who come to St Lucia every year, whether it be staying on shore or just visiting for the day via the many cruise ships. Rabbi Super is aiming to welcome as many as possible and integrate the 200 Jews currently residing here.

He has even created the island’s first shul at his home in popular Rodney Bay.

MARK’S TRAVEL TIPS Mark and Ilisa stayed at Marigot Bay Resort and Marina (marigotbayresort.com), which offers Resort View Rooms from £274 per room, per night, on a B&B basis, based on two adults sharing. He also stayed at Sugar Beach, where prices start from £335 per night in a Luxury Sugar Mill Room, room only based on double occupancy and excluding 20 per cent tax and service charge. Details: 001 758 456 8000 or viceroyhotelsandresorts.com/en/sugarbeach

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Torah For Today

SEDRA Yitro

What does the Torah say about... Clare’s Law

BY RABBI JONNY ROODYN It appears the entire Torah is leading up to this week’s sedra, where the Heavens open and the entire nation receive the Ten Commandments.

These commandments, and by extension the entire Torah, were not given to Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, despite their greatness. Evidently, it was essential that a nation would receive the Torah rather than individuals.

This point is borne out in the preamble to the Ten Commandments, with our national mission statement. “And you shall be to Me a kingdom of princes and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:6).

The purpose of the giving of the Torah was far more than just the enactment of a series of rules and a legal system. The stated objective was to build a nation that would impact the world, functioning as priests to all of humanity. Perhaps this is why the whole process of slavery and the subsequent exodus from Egypt was necessary in order to arrive at this point.

The horrors of slavery redefined our relationship with the physical world, made us somewhat less dependent on it for our security and planted within our national psyche a deep desire for social justice, regardless of the cost.

The giving of the Torah empowered the Jewish people to step up to the bar, to lead by example, and teach morality and ethics to the world.

In doing so, we bring all of humanity to a sense of awareness of an Infinite Creator who brought the universe into existence. This is what is meant by the term, Kiddush Hashem, sanctification of God’s Name.

This is an ongoing mission that will last until the coming of the Messiah, which will be the culmination of the events that took place at Mount Sinai.

As members of the “priestly nation”, we all have a role to play to make that utopian dream a reality.

 Rabbi Jonny Roodyn is education director of Jewish Futures Trust

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Clare’s Law, which came into force this week, allows individuals with good reason to enquire from the police about someone who might have a past record of domestic violence and disclose it to them.

What does the Torah say about this?

Disclosure is the key to finding out the truth about another person.

When Tamar faced Judah and asked “to whom does this staff and signet belong?” Judah said: “You are more righteous than I.” Judah could easily have kept secret the embarrassing information about his sexual liaison with his daughter-in-law and caused her death for out-of-wedlock pregnancy.

One blatant risk at the point of

matchmaking is the potential to hide problematic elements about someone’s character and instead encourage a couple to marry.

This is not permitted under Jewish law. Many dead marriages and agunah situations could be avoided if only early disclosure of violence on the part of one or both partners was accessible.

In the same way that tests for genetically inherited diseases are now the norm, so should criminal checks be made.

This fulfils the ethical commandment of the Torah: “And you come clean before God and Israel”.

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tions before solemnising important positions in the community.

Rabbis, ecclesiasts and community workers should undergo an ECRB. The standard set by Jewish communities should be at least as high, if not higher than our surrounding society and should certainly not fall lower.

Arguably, worries over privacy have gone too far in securing rights for offenders, and the danger to vulnerable and unsuspecting persons is equivalent to placing a stumbling block before the blind.

Of course, confidentiality – known as shmirat sod – still applies, and employers must not be allowed access to information relevant only to the domestic situation.

However, there is no doubt Clare’s Law is not only welcome, but long overdue.  Rabbi Ariel Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to HM Armed Forces

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The Bible Says What?

Adam is male and female in the first creation story

BY RABBI SANDRA KVIAT And God said, “Let us make Adam in our image, after our likeness... And God created Adam in God’s image, in the image of God, God created it; male and female God created them” Genesis 1:26, 27 It comes as a surprise to some that there are two creation stories in the Torah. Most remember only the second, which includes the rib incident.

The first is intriguing and complex, as the language moves between singular and plural. When you read the text closely, it becomes clear that one option is to see the first person Adam (earthling) as both male and female, a ‘they’ rather than a ‘him’ or ‘her’.

Transgender awareness has been raised recently and we are all trying to grapple with what that means. One of the outcomes of the debate is the questioning it has entailed for all of us, no matter where you stand or how you understand the issue.

To add to the complexity when looking at Jewish texts, it is worth

noting that the ancient rabbis operated with seven genders – male, female, androgynos (both male and female sexual characteristics), tumtum (indeterminate or obscured sexual characteristics), aylonit (female at birth, but develops male characteristics in puberty and is infertile), saris hama (male at birth, but develops female characteristics in puberty) and golem (something unfinished or not clearly shaped, not to be mistaken for its later interpretation as a magic creature).

By engaging with this story of the first person, our ‘prototype’, we can see humanity as something multivaried and complex. Perhaps the most important part of this story is that Adam was created “in God’s image” (b’zelem elohim). We are all created in the divine image in all its complexity.

Before any classification or differentiation lies a core of sacredness in us all.  Rabbi Sandra Kviat serves Crouch End Chavurah

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BY RABBI MARK GOLDSMITH In 2017, the Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 1,382 antiSemitic incidents in the UK. Tell MAMA, the Muslim organisation which measures anti-Muslim attacks, recorded 1,201 anti-Muslim incidents in the UK. Torah reminds us we “know the heart of the stranger” (Exodus 23:9), which means Jews should certainly feel an obligation to help prevent Islamophobia and all forms of religious and ethnic hatred.

The Talmud principle of mipnei darchei shalom, pursuing caring relationships between people of different faiths for the sake of peace for all, strengthens the obligation (Gittin 61a). The CST has put that into action for many years by sharing its expertise with Tel MAMA and other faith community protection organisations. The Board of Deputies has done the same, navigating the complex waters of Muslim community representation to find partners to share our common interests. There is no

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A recent issue of common interest has been the need for a universally accepted definition of antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Without these, how can we expect our government authorities, national organisations such as political parties and educators effectively to call out and act against hate and those who spread it?

These definitions must not be so broad that they categorise legitimate debate about a faith, its principles and

effects as hatred, and they must not be so narrow that they make acceptable traumatic and delegitimating attacks on a faith and its adherents.

The near-universal acceptance of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism has been a good example of practice and gives the whole country a baseline for where debate stops and hate begins. There is no such broadly accepted definition of Islamophobia.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on the issue of finding a definition of Islamophobia has this month got into hot water with the extremist nature of some groups it has consulted.

A definition of hatred of Jews or Muslims we can all sign up to must be built from a consensus of the broad sweep of a community and will inevitably be unable to take in extremist views.  Rabbi Mark Goldsmith serves Alyth Synagogue

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JEWISH BLIND & DISABLED Dear Hazel I find it increasingly difficult to do basic everyday tasks. Dressing has become more difficult as my arthritis gets worse and, although I still love cooking, lifting pots and pans is becoming such a trial that I no longer do much of my favourite pastime. Even lifting the kettle is something I dread. I know about your fabulous developments of mobility apartments but don’t want to leave the family home yet, especially as I’m fortunate enough to have my children live very nearby. Is there anything you can suggest to help me stay here, where I’m surrounded by such wonderful memories?

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JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION Dear Sue I run a 60+ group at a synagogue. As they grow older, a lot of people tell me they can no longer hear well enough to enjoy socialising in large groups.

Some of them are becoming reluctant to take part in the activities and find it hard to follow the regular talks we organise. What can we do at this end to make it easier

for them? They don’t want to stop coming and we need some advice. Can anyone from your organisation give a talk about the services you offer and ways you can help them and us?

Miriam Dear Miriam With pleasure! Just contact us directly to look at ways in which you can make your group activities more accessible to people who no longer hear as well as they did.

A member of our outreach team would also be delighted to visit your group to give a talk about hearing loss and how we can help individuals to make their daily lives easier.

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I know for sure that our Independent Living Adviser will be able to suggest products that could make all the difference to you. If you like, she can come to visit you in your home, assess just what your needs are and then recommend the aids that will help.

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If you would like more information or to arrange a visit please just email ila@jbd.org or call 020 8371 6611 ex 613.

Here’s to many more fulfilling years in your family home.

latest specialist equipment they can try, our trained consultants who can advise on all aspects of managing their hearing loss, our hearing aid maintenance services, social groups, lipreading classes, tinnitus support and more!

Please phone or email us – it would be lovely to show your group members that everyone can still enjoy coming to your group.

It will also be useful for them to learn about opportunities available to them at JDA, which they may not be aware of and which exist to enable them to keep getting the very best out of life.

Please call Gabrielle on 020 8446 0214 or email gabrielle@jdeaf.org.uk who will be happy to chat with you and get the ball rolling.

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Factors contributing to infertility may involve either or both of you and may be medicallybased, lifestyle-based or simply unexplainable.

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