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The evening will include testimony from Holocaust survivors, Chelsea FC Chairman Bruce Buck, IWM Director General Diane Lees, Rabbi Nicky Liss, renowned journalist Hella Pick, Michael Attenborough and many more special guests to be announced.

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RACHEL PRAISE FOR TACKLING HATRED Countdown star Rachel Riley has revealed she received messages of gratitude from the public for challenging antisemitism. The presenter, whose mother is Jewish, has been critical of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over the issue. The 33-year-old told ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show: “At the same time as all this abuse, which was shocking, all these people were coming forward really grateful, because they’d been doing this, shouting into the ether for the last few years.”

ANTISEMITISM ISSUE ‘INCONCEIVABLE’ Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has told a Jewish audience that it is “inconceivable” the Labour Party should have problems with antisemitism and that his support for Jeremy Corbyn is “not unconditional”.

Burnham, who hails from the Party’s centre-left, was speaking at a Board of Deputies meeting at Manchester Town Hall on Sunday, as the city celebrated 100 years since the founding of its Jewish Representative Council.

Report: Labour ‘in denial’ A hard-hitting report published today charges the Labour Party with being “institutionally antisemitic” and concludes the scale of its antisemitism crisis has been underestimated, writes Jenni Frazer.

Professor Alan Johnson’s report, launched in Westminster on Thursday morning, brings together more than 130 examples of anti-Jewish hatred and denial. His report says that Labour has “failed to understand contemporary antisemitism, failed to prevent the party becoming a host to antisemitism, failed effectively to tackle antisemitism, free from political interference, and failed to root out a culture of antisemitism denial and victim-blaming”.

He is particularly critical of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and told Jewish News there was “an absence of self-criticism” on Corbyn’s part, which made Professor Johnson believe that “he is not capable of leading the party out of this mess”.

Labour had “not really grasped the shape-shifting form of antisemitism”, Professor Johnson said, adding that Corbyn in particular had “shown more than intellectual incuriousness” when it came to his defence of cases such as Raed Salah.

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Alan Johnson’s damning report is particularly critical of Jeremy Corbyn

He noted “the record of the leader, and some of his closest aides, of public support for antisemitic forms of ‘antiZionism’.

“Without criticism of that record by Jeremy Corbyn, party members defend it and the normalisation of antisemitism in the party continues”.

He said the depth of the crisis had been “seriously underestimated.

The antisemitism issue is indicative of something extreme and will be a reason to drag down the Labour vote across the board. The party is unable to understand the distress and pain of a minority community”.

Additionally, said Professor Johnson, “Corbyn is surrounded by people steeped in antisemitic and antiZionist politics”, and antisemitism

was becoming “normalised” within Labour. “The party needs to stop being so defensive and understand that it is antisemitic. The way back into the light is an admission of how bad things are”.

But he warned that “the problem will be much harder to eradicate than has been assumed.”

He expressed concern about the decision to remove responsibility for antisemitism training from the Jewish Labour Movement.

“It strikes me as a terrible decision”, he said, adding that he would go as far as to say that Jewish Voice for Labour was “enabling standard issue bigotry” within Labour, and its members were “actively seeking out spots on TV or columns in papers in order to ‘kosherise’ antisemitism in the party”.

Professor Johnson, who launched his report on Thursday with Labour MP John Mann and the CST’s Dave Rich, said he regarded the work as “a wakeup call to the party’s high command: “End the culture of antisemitism denial and victim-blaming, face up to your failure, put yourselves to school about contemporary antisemitism, and drive the haters out of the party before the party splits and antisemitic discourse turns into anti-Jewish violence.”

SHADOW MINISTER SORRY OVER ‘CLEANSING’ REMARK A shadow minister has apologised after saying MPs who defected to the Independent Group were part of a “necessary cleansing”.

Paul Sweeney, shadow minister for Scotland, told guests at the relaunch of the magazine Tribune in Glasgow that “there’s a necessary cleansing that has to happen in the margins,” according to the Morning Star.

The left-wing daily also reported that the MP for Glasgow North East told guests he regretted the departure of Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree, but dismissed other defectors, describing Chris Leslie as “aloof and arrogant”.

Former Labour MP Ian Austin tweeted: “A Labour MP says that people who have left Labour because of racism and extremism is a ‘necessary cleansing’. Let’s think about this: @pauljsweeney thinks the party is cleaner because people appalled about racism have left.”

Speaking to BBC’s Good Morning Scotland last month, Sweeney

also described some of the defectors as “thwarted careerists”.

He said: “It is clear we need to build trust in this area [antisemitism], but also I would say there are many reasons why the eight MPs defected. I was deeply concerned that Luciana left the party in the circumstances in which she did leave, but there are many others that, frankly, were simply thwarted careerists.”

When contacted by Jewish News, Sweeney apologised and described his statements as “a clumsy choice of words.”

He added: “I meant no offence and apologise for any offence inadvertently caused on my part.”

A Labour Party source said:“Paul Sweeney has apologised for his choice of words, but he was clearly talking about longstanding policy differences that some of the defecting MPs had. He made a clear distinction between how he felt about them leaving and the regret he felt about Luciana Berger.”

Palestine Live group exposed Research by a pro-Israel activist has highlighted the extent to which a suspended Labour member shared antisemitic material on the ‘Palestine Live’ Facebook group she helped set up.

A 230-page report by blogger David Collier, published on his website, sheds light on Elleanne Green’s online activities, as she awaits a party disciplinary hearing. It shows Green

sharing conspiracies, some linking Israel to the 9/11 attacks, others alleging that Zionists “steal children to sell them on the black market” and alleging Mossad was behind terror attacks.

Collier describes her work as “false flag linkage or sharing views of antisemites”.

Jewish News understands that Green’s disciplinary hearing is still to be heard and has approached her for comment.

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6,000 celebrate Jewish life at Big Family Show!

More than 6,000 people flocked to Jewish News’ Big Family Show and Expo on Sunday – the Jewish community’s biggest event of the year.

The excitement was tangible from the moment the event began at the Allianz Stadium in Mill Hill – until its euphoric conclusion six action-packed hours later.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis got the party started with his opening remarks, saying the day showed “the Jewish News and British Jewry at its finest”. He added: “It’s so wonderful to see so much excitement and the sense of thrill and unity, as different parts of the community come together to celebrate.”

Paying tribute to the event’s hosts, broadcaster Nick Ferrari and Countdown presenter Rachel Riley, Mirvis added: “They are two extraordinary people who have been putting their heads above the parapet to stand up and be counted and to counter the forces of antisemitism in this country. We’re exceptionally grateful to you for everything you do.”

He also delivered a poignant tribute to the victims of the New Zealand mosque attack, saying: “We show our full solidarity with those who are mourning and Muslims right across the globe.”

Sacks Morasha Primary School choir kicked off the entertainment on the main stage while other performers included the Israeli Dance Institute, singer Yoni Shine, comedian Bennet Arron and live baking with the Challah Mummy.

As well as sampling Reubens sandwiches, guests tucked into Jasmine Catering’s schwarma and salad bar, enjoyed sushi from Hadar, bagels from Sharon’s bakery, ice cream from Hatov and halva from Sesame Kingdom.

Of course, there was much more than just eating, with young members of the community having fun in the kids’ and youth zone run by JLGB, with laser quest, mini-golf and a dance machine, while charity chief executive Neil Martin went head-to-head with Rachel Riley in a dance-off.

Attendees could get creative featuring on their own Jewish News front page and meeting cartoonist Paul Solomons while also having the chance to use a green screen. Dancing with

Louise gave out free Zumba sessions and Sacha Magic wowed guests with amazing tricks.

Rachel Riley was joined by some of the youngest members of the community posing for selfies with the TV presenter, who has been thrust into the limelight in recent months for her vocal fight against antisemitism.

Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer wrapped up the event with closing comments on the main stage, reflecting on the day’s communal camaraderie and thanking the sponsors and exhibitors.

Dr Beverley Jacobson, chief executive of Norwood, which sponsored the community zone, said: “It was fantastic for Norwood to play such a central part. It was a hugely successful event and the large crowd there on the day gave us the opportunity to talk to as many people as possible directly about the services we run.”

Other sponsors were Savoir Faire, Pituach

By The Sea, Jewish Blind & Disabled, JLGB, Torah Action Life and Leivi Saltman Photography, Jasmine Catering and CLC World Resorts & Hotels.

Torah Action Life’s Rabbi Jonathan Tawil said: “We had the privilege of sponsoring the education zone. The day was full of energy. So many people were impressed by what TAL does and lent support to our important campaign raising more than £500,000 for the new TAL centre in just 36 hours.”

JLGB chief executive Neil Martin said: “We focus on the individual and aim to recognise and enhance every young person’s potential, building their character to develop their leadership, communication, organisation, initiative, resilience, confidence and creativity.

“This event was the perfect opportunity to showcase the range of exciting, interactive

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and meaningful activities and awards we proudly offer to Jewish young Jewish people and their families across the UK. We very much look forward to partnering with Jewish News on more events in the future.”

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HUNT THANKED FOR HEZBOLLAH RULING Community leaders have met Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and thanked him for his role in the Government’s recent full proscription of Hezbollah. Senior executives at the Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies met the man who may soon swap the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for Number 10 Downing Street, discussing the Middle East. It follows the Government was extending the proscription of Hezbollah to include the political wing.

UK CHARITY WINS ANTI-HATE PRIZE A British antisemitism charity has been awarded a top Norwegian prize and the congratulations of Prime Minister Erna Solberg for its work against prejudice. The Antisemitism Policy Trust received the Sjur Lindebrække Memorial Prize at the Norwegian Høyre party conference in Oslo at the weekend.

The award, includes a cash prize of approximately £5,000. Danny Stone, the trust’s chief executive, said: “We are honoured and humbled.

Hamas supporter at UCL A Hamas sympathiser who likened Zionism to Nazism and said the Israeli “lobby” yields “enormous influence” on British Jews spoke at University College London on Tuesday.

The Friends of Palestine Society hosted the event with Azzam Tamimi.

The Palestinian academic has expressed support for the terrorist group, telling a group of protesters in 2009: “Today we are all Hamas.” He said sacrificing himself for Palestine would be “a noble cause”, telling the BBC in 2004 it was “the straight way to pleasing my God and I would do it if I had the opportunity”.

In a tweet from 2014, he wrote: “Is there one crime the #Nazis perpetrated that has not already been perpetrated by the #Zionists in #Palestine.”

In an op-ed in the Guardian, Tamimi said the Israeli “lobby” had created a stalemate, writing:

Tamimi (right) with Israel activist Miko Peled

“The enormous influence yielded by Israel and its lobby on sections of British Jewry has made it rather difficult for Muslims and Jews to work together.”

His forthcoming appearance has been criticised

by the UCL Friends of Israel Society, which said: “Free speech is a core value at UCL and one which we as a society uphold and respect, but a line must be drawn when it descends into hate speech. It is of grave concern to us that someone who targets a national group and who incites others to commit crimes, has been granted the liberty to promote these views.”

Union of Jewish Students campaign organiser Daniel Kosky said the appearance was “deeply disturbing”, and the UJS supported the Friends of Israel Society in its efforts to draw attention to the “hateful and violent language Azzam Tamimi has spewed at rallies and events”.

Kosky added: “We are disappointed that this platform is being offered. We are somewhat reassured by the steps being taken by UCL to ensure no incitement to hatred or violence takes place.”

CORBYN: ‘UK CONCEDED TO ZIONIST FORCES’ An article allegedly written

by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accuses Britain of “conceding to Zionists” in allowing the creation of the state of Israel.

It appeared in a pamphlet written by Labour MPs Sir Gerald Kaufman and Michael Connarty after

a 2011 trip to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, organised by the Council for European-Palestinian Relations and the Palestinian Return Centre.

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“I think it’s time for a serious debate about how one brings justice about for the Palestinian people and how international law, including universal jurisdiction is made a reality for those who have committed

war crimes,” it continued.

In another pamphlet put together after the trip, Corbyn is quoted saying: “It was good to see the various Palestinian groups working together in the face of US and Israeli pressure to separate the Gaza Strip and West Bank from the rest of the Diaspora, which is a classic

colonial divide and rule tactic.”

A Labour spokesperson said: “Jeremy’s report of a visit he and other MPs made to refugee camps in Lebanon in 2011 calls for a serious debate about ensuring justice for the Palestinian people. Jeremy has a long record of campaigning for the rights of Palestinians.”

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‘Folly’ for JLM to quit Labour The chair of the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) has said it would be “irresponsible folly” for his organisation to disaffiliate from the party, writes Justin Cohen.

Ivor Caplin is facing a challenge to his leadership from current vicechair Mike Katz, who has suggested JLM has

failed to listen to its membership over recent months, and Colin Appleby, who is pressing for disaffiliation.

Members overwhelmingly voted to remain two weeks ago, but the issue is expected to return at the AGM next month.

“I believe in staying affiliated – no ifs and no buts,” Caplin said.

“Wiping away 99 years of history would be an irresponsible Warning: JLM chair Ivor Caplin

folly. “ He also rejected suggestions that JLM should cease campaigning for candidates, saying: “There are those who have shown considerable friendship and I wouldn’t want us to be that sort of organisation.”

He declined to comment on whether the issue could be solved while Corbyn remains at the helm, but said: “I would like to see everyone who has a complaint of antisemitism against them immediately expelled.

“That would be the first step the party could take to rebuilding trust with the Jewish community, who are rightly appalled [it has not] dealt with antisemitism.”

But he strongly rejected any suggestion he had not been forceful enough in standing up to the leadership, pointing to “real results” including consistently pressing Jennie Formby and John McDonnell to withdraw the whip from Chris Williamson for his “Jew-baiting, vile behaviour.”

In a mission statement, Katz said there was an “institutional” crisis of leadership, the JLM had failed to listen to members “and we need change”.

Meanwhile, Appleby said: “We need a chair that promises to withdraw support from the Labour party... clear signals that enough really is enough.”

SURVIVOR’S ‘MISTAKE’ SIGNING LETTER One of the signatories of a letter of support for Jeremy Corbyn has distanced himself from its contents, saying he “made a mistake”, writes Mathilde Frot.

Hyman Bindinger, 81, was among a dozen Holocaust survivors who signed an open letter in The Sunday Times arguing Jeremy Corbyn had “bent over backwards to help Jews”.

The note was prompted by an announcement from the Equality and Human Rights Commission that it would look into the Labour

Party’s tackling of antisemitism. Bindinger said he was approached by a “respectable”looking stranger at a wedding and asked to sign the letter. “It was a mistake,” he said. “I must admit that the person came up to me and in the middle of it and the music was blaring and he asked me to sign, and I made a mistake.”

He added: “He showed me that other people signed and I thought ‘I will sign it’… I do not understand what it’s about. I hardly know who Corbyn is. [My friends and family] told me that

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Charedi activist Shraga Stern admitted to coordinating the letter, saying in a statement: “I am proud to say that I facilitated the collection of signatures. I was punctilious in assuring myself that all the signatures were authentic and the signatories knew exactly what they were signing.

“I have no hesitation each and every one is a genuine Holocaust survivor according to accepted definitions of that phrase.”

No confidence vote on Corbyn A motion of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn will be debated at the Jewish Labour Movement annual meeting next month.

The unprecedented motion, proposed by former Labour councillor Joe Goldberg, which could yet be amended, insisted Corbyn’s leadership “combined with past actions shows a complete disregard” for British Jews.

It says the JLM believes “there is a culture of antisemitism from party members, an institutional culture enabling and sustaining it, and a culture of denial that such a problem even exists. The blame for this crisis of antisemitism and the party’s failure to deal with it lies with Jeremy Corbyn. He is therefore unfit to be prime minister and and a Labour government led by him would not be in the interests of British Jews”.

If passed by delegates, it would compel the party’s only Jewish affiliate to “make a proclamation” that it lacks confidence in the leader and to cease campaigning for candidates who are not allies in the fight against antisemitism.

A fortnight ago, JLM members voted overwhelmingly to continue the 99-year affiliation to the party, but the issue is expected to return to the agenda at the AGM.

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MUSLIM SECURITY FUND IS DOUBLED Home Secretary Sajid Javid has doubled Government funding for security at mosques and other places of worship to £1.6m in the wake of the New Zealand attack.

This comes after calls were made this week for the government to bring security spending for UK Muslims more in line with that provided for the Jewish community in the wake of the massacre.

The Government’s commitment to Jewish community security is £14million per year with a fund of about £2.4m for other religious institutions.

TARRANT INSPIRED

BY OSWALD MOSLEY The Australian charged with participating in the killing 50 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques said his main inspiration was Oswald Mosley, the British fascist anti-Semite who was close to the Nazis. Brenton Tarrant, 28, posted a 73-page manifesto on social media before the attacks. His overriding motive in carrying out the massacre was to “remove nonEuropeans from European lands”.

“I mostly agree with Sir Oswald Mosley’s views and consider myself an Eco-fascist by nature,” he wrote, ahead of the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.

‘Few acts are of greater evil the massacre of people at pr British Jews offered heartfelt condolences this week after shootings at two mosques in New Zealand killed 50 people.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it one of the country’s “darkest days”, while authorities detained four suspects and defused explosive devices in the aftermath of the attack.

Brenton Tarrant, 28, an Australian and self-described white supremacist, has been charged over the attacks in Christchurch.

Noting that many of those affected were migrants and refugees, Ardern said the events represented “an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence”.

Messages of sympathy flooded in from around the world, with Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl saying: “We are horrified by this sickening terrorist attack. To the victims, the survivors and their families, together with Muslims around the world who have been targets of rising hatred, whipped up by media hostility, we express our absolute and resolute solidarity.”

The Jewish Leadership Council said: “To violate a place of worship in such a way is unforgivable.”

Chief Rabbi Mirvis noted: “There can be few acts of greater evil than the massacre of peaceful people at prayer. “[This is] terrorism of the most despicable kind, callously planned and motivated by the

scourge of Islamophobia.”

Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism, said: “Murder in a mosque, attacking people at prayer is truly abhorrent and we condemn this act of Islamophobic terror. Our hearts and prayers are with our Muslim brothers and sisters in New Zealand and we express friendship and solidarity with Muslim communities in this country and around the world.”

The Jewish Council for Racial Equality reflected: “As we have seen too many times, this is the result when hate and intolerance are legitimised. Our hearts go out to our Muslim friends and colleagues, we stand with you.”

The tone from New Zealand’s Jewish community was equally s, with the country’s Jewish Council saying it “has no adequate words to describe how sickened and devastated we are”.

It added: “We offer full assistance and support to the Muslim community and stand united with it against the scourge of terrorism and racism, which we must do all we can to banish from New Zealand.

“We are praying for those all those affected and their families.”

The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand said: “Acts of hate have no place in our society. We all have the right to feel as safe in a place of worship as we do in our own homes.”

Above: A Muslim worshipper at a memorial to the 50 victims of the mosque attacks at the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch

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Synagogues across New Zealand remained closed for Shabbat after the attack. “For the first time in history synagogues in New Zealand are shut on Shabbat following the shocking massacre,” said Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog.

He said the agency and New Zealand’s Jewish Council “stand in solidarity with the bereaved families. We are united in fighting violent hatred and racism.”

Auckland Hebrew Congregation said it was cancelling services over

Jewish residents of Pittsburgh have raised £150,000 for New Zealand’s Muslim community, to repay the kindness shown by Muslims after the shul shootings in the city last October.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh organised the fundraising this week. The federation said this week that support for its Christchurch fundraising had come from outside Pittsburgh as well, with 3,000 donors so far.

A spokesman added: “We set up

“concern about security of the community”.

In the UK, the Community Security Trust urged places of worship to be extra cautious with doors kept shut, opened for worshippers and others who are recognised, then closed again.

The New Zealand attack is the first mass shooting at a house of worship since the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre last October, which killed 11 congregants in Pittsburgh.

Police after the killings

this fundraising effort assuming that only the Pittsburgh Jewish community would be interested in giving. We did not expect more than a few dozen people to give.” He said the funds will help the Muslim community recover, adding: “We were motivated by the support that the Pittsburgh Muslim community gave to Jewish Pittsburgh after the October attack.”

“Our relationship with the Muslim community in Pittsburgh is excellent, and got stronger in the wake of the shul attack.”

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HATRED HAS NO BORDER – AND NEITHER DOES LOVE

BY RABBI RALPH GENENDE FORMER RABBI OF AUCKLAND SHUL

I’ve visited Christchurch many times, first as a New Zealand rabbi – helping to dedicate its refurbished shul in the 1990s – and then as a frequent visitor to the South Island. I was there last just a couple of months ago. It’s a place of quiet beauty, with its meandering Avon River, boundless Hagley Park and gentle spirit.

Its serenity (and shul) have been shattered by two recent earthquakes, but its heart was intact. It was battered but proud, bruised not broken. Despite the damage to its cathedral in the square, it was rising from the rubble.

Until last Friday.

There’s a line out of Jewish tradition that is as evocative as it is acute: hatred, it says, knows no borders; it is as boundless as it is barbaric; it is as negating as it is nihilistic.

Never before have I understood the chilling significance of this line as I did last Friday, as the face of the innocent cut down in prayer filled our screens our minds and our hearts with their pain and pathos, bewilderment and betrayal.

Hatred stops at no border post, it doesn’t care for the quiet beauty of a Christchurch,

the tender soul of our Kiwi cousins. Hatred stops at no crossing; its calculus of evil disregards age and gender. It breaks down the security of certainty, the promise of calm and compassion. New Zealand is a refuge for so many who came from so far to seek its welcoming arms…

Hatred came stalking our Muslim cousins in their suburban mosques last Friday. It was on the eve of Shabbat of Zachor, a Shabbat on which we evoke the brutal memory of the very embodiment of evil, Amalek. When it arrived there was a sense of denial and disbelief. How could the serpent of evil dare to desecrate this beautiful garden? How could it strike a supplicant in their hour of prayer? How could he, like Amalek, go first for the old and frail, the weak and the vulnerable, those sitting so peacefully on their benches and prayer mats?

It took 36 minutes to take the lives of 50 people locked in sacred prayer – 36 minutes of death and devastating destruction. We weep for the fallen, we weep for our Muslim brothers and sisters, knowing that, there but for grace, it could have been us.

There’s a line out of Jewish tradition that is as evocative as it is acute: love, it says, knows no borders, it is as boundless as it is breathtaking; it celebrates our common humanity; it demonstrates the dignity and joy of our differences.

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Chief Rabbi Mirvis at London Central Mosque on Monday, standing in solidarity with other faith leaders

Chief attends mosque vigil Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has urged unity between communities, as politicians were warned about letting Islamophobia spread in the wake of the attacks.

He was joined at the London Central mosque by Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Communities Secretary James Brokenshire, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Monday to show solidarity with victims of the mosque attack. Calling for people to “unite against those

who promote otherness”, he addressed guests after victims’ names were read out and a minute’s silence held.

Mirvis said people gathered “as members of the global family of humankind after an attack on us all”, calling for everyone to “unite in full solidarity with broken-hearted Muslims in New Zealand, here in the UK and right around the globe”. He also expressed “total revulsion of the murders of innocent people at prayer, whether in mosques, churches or synagogues”.

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MIRIAM KAYE NAMED NEW HEAD FOR MMK

The deputy head of Sacks Morasha Jewish Primary School is to become the new head teacher at Mathilda Marks-Kennedy (MMK) Jewish Primary.

Miriam Kaye will take up the position from the start of the next academic year in September in MMK’s 60th anniversary year, replacing current head Jillian Dunstan. Established in Golders Green in 1959, it was known to many as Barclay House, before taking the name of philanthropist Mathilda Marks and relocating to Mill Hill in 1989.

REGEV, FERRARI JOIN CHARITY FUNDRAISER

Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev and LBC Radio host Nick Ferrari joined forces at Mill Hill United Synagogue to discuss world affairs and raise money for an Israeli charity helping families with disabled children. More than 350 guests at the event, at which Ferrari revealed he would visit Israel for the first time in September, were told about the work of the Malki Foundation, which helps Jewish, Muslim, Druze and Christian families.

Geoff Hartnell, Malki Foundation UK chair, said there is currently a waiting list of more than 50 children from every part of Israeli society, adding: “Tonight’s event amounts to a very fine kickstart to the charity’s UK Million Shekel Campaign.”

Community’s top military veteran dies, aged 102 The community’s most senior Jewish military veteran who served in the Second World War has passed away at the age of 102.

Sunderland-born Lt Col Mordaunt Cohen died in the early hours of Saturday at the Royal Free Hospital and has been buried in Israel.

His family paid tribute to him as “one of a kind, an extraordinary man and true fighter”.

Survived by his two children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, he was awarded an MBE last year for services to education, teaching about the history and legacy of the Second World War. Saul Taylor, Cohen’s oldest grandson, announced his death on Facebook on behalf of the family.

The announcement said: “Our very special father, grandfather and greatgrandfather, Lt. Col. Mordaunt Cohen MBE, passed away peacefully

Lt Col Cohen receiving his MBE from the Queen last year

during the night.”

Taylor told Jewish News: “Our whole family have always been and will always be proud of him and his achievements.

“We are all benefitting today as a direct result of what he and his comrades did for this country all those years ago.

“He was one of a kind, an extraordinary man and true fighter.”

The family said: “He was particularly passionate of teaching about the Jewish con-

tribution to the war effort, with 60,000 Jews serving in World War Two. “All of this was done with dignity and a profound sense of duty.”

“He will be sorely missed by his many family and friends.”

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis paid his respects, saying: “Lt Col Mordaunt Cohen MBE was a hero. Not only because of his bravery and service in Nigeria, India and Burma, but also because

of the lives he moulded and influenced here at home.

“Mordaunt’s legacy lives on in the remarkable family which he raised, as they follow his example of extraordinary community service and unwavering commitment to Jewish values.”

Born in August 1916, the oldest of four children, he became a solicitor aged 16 and set up his own practice in Sunderland town centre a year before the war broke out.

He soon saw Jewish girls being brought over on Kindertransport and learned from them the great suffering that was going in Europe, so in 1940 he decided to enlist.

Speaking to Jewish News last year, he said he was “especially proud of the immense contribution made by the 60,000 Jewish soldiers who served our country in World War Two,” adding: “I dedicate my awards to the soldiers who didn’t come home.”

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Ten leading educators and policymakers in the field of Holocaust studies took part in a special event at JW3 to consider whether, in light of rising antisemitism, Holocaust education had failed.

After an intensive discussion lasting nearly two hours, the panellists concluded there was more work to do in Holocaust education, but there was not necessarily a causal link to increased antisemitism.

One – perhaps surprising – conclusion was that a strategic error had been made in not including the Arme-

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nian genocide in Holocaust memorial commemorations. An audience member said that the “denial and indifference” of the Armenian

genocide had “given impunity to the Holocaust not being stopped in its tracks”. Wiener Library director Ben Barkow agreed, saying its exclu-

sion was “morally indefensible” and Henry Grunwald said that such exclusion was “an anomaly which ought to be revisited.”

Ruth-Anne Lenga, head of academic programmes at UCL’s Centre for Holocaust Education, noted the major contribution of survivors who spent so much time speaking in schools.

Responding to survivor Mala Tribich, who spoke about a school that had asked her to give a separate presentation to parents, as well as to students, Lenga said: “Survivors don’t do this because they want to do it. It is a compulsion and they feel a duty… in many ways I feel it is a sacrifice, to re-live the nightmare in order

to hope that young people will know more about the Holocaust. We are indebted to you.”

Giving a necessarily brief overview of the state of antisemitism, the CST’s Dave Rich said: “Antisemitism has always posed a danger to us, but the problem comes when it poses a danger to society.”

He said the recent shootings at the New Zealand mosques and last year’s tragedy at Pittsburgh synagogue were pointers of a “far-right, resurgent and murderous,” prompting a need to educate about antisemitism and not just the Holocaust.

The event was organised by Genesis Philanthropy Group and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

POLAND URGED TO BAN IRVING AHEAD OF TOUR The Israeli government has called on Poland to deny entry to British Holocaust denier David Irving, who is set to lead a tour of Nazi camps.

Naftali Bennett, minister of diaspora affairs, made the appeal after it emerged the disgraced historian was running a nine-day ‘Nazi-history tour’ in September, with a schedule that includes death camps such as Treblinka, Sobibór, Belzec and Majdanek.

In a letter to Poland’s ambassador to Israel, Bennett wrote: “Given Irving’s record

of abhorrent statements and outright lies about the history of Holocaust, it is quite clear he intends to use this opportunity to spread further falsehoods and vitriolic narrative.

“In so doing, he will doubtless cause deep offence to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and to all the Jewish people, as well as stoke the already raging fire of hatred and antisemitism we are witnessing around the world today.”

He added: “I therefore respectfully request that the

Government of Poland make it quite clear that Irving and his party will not be granted access to your country, and certainly not to the camps and other sites of memorial to the millions of my people who were murdered in that dark period of history.”

Social media users openly expressed their disapproval of the news that Irving is currently taking deposits for the tour via his website, and even offering discounts, in what would be his first tour of Holocaust sites since 2011.

90% report hate crimes Almost 90 percent of Jewish students in France say they were subjected to antisemitic acts at least once during their studies, according to the magazine L’Express.

A poll conducted by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) in March for the Union of Jewish Students in France (UEJF) interviewed more than 1,400 students about their experiences. Among them, some 405 Jewish students were polled.

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Another 75 percent report “jokes about the Holocaust or Jews”, while a shocking 19 percent say they experienced “antisemitic aggressions.”

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Israel to hold referendum on replacing Britain in EU Benjamin Netanyahu has promised the Israeli people a referendum on joining the European Union, after Brussels said a space was up for grabs after Britain leaves, writes Mordy Chai.

The prime minister, fighting corruption allegations during an election countdown, made the comment during a press conference about the Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Israel in May. “The EU thinks Israel should replace the UK after March,” said Netanyahu, in reply to a question about visits by European countries and reports that some were still considering boycotting the event. “If they want us to replace Britain, it would seem strange to boycott us.”

Pressed on Israel’s possible membership of the EU, he said: “I will put it to the people of Israel in a referendum after the [Eurovision] show. Brussels is upbeat on the economy.

“It feels the eurozone will enjoy a feast of lots of trade deals in the coming years, which Israel could then be party to, so we need to think about it.”

Diplomats and ministers from the UK and Israel have in recent years increasingly stressed their bilateral relations, and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox

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Architects celebrated the council’s green light for their low-carbon Passivhaus design, which follows German construction principles to minimise energy consumption for heating and cooling. When it is

built, it will be one of the first Passivhaus places of worship in the UK. Designers at de Metz Forbes Knight Architects (dMFK) say the shul takes inspiration from the ECO Synagogue initiative and will incorporate a four-metre high prayer hall along with community-focused public areas.

The building will avoid the need for air conditioning by using below-ground labyrinth technologies to cool air.

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this year agreed the UK’s first post-Brexit trade deal with his Israeli counterpart.

News of the EU’s offer, which was pointedly not denied in Brussels, appears to have distracted Israel’s attention from Britain in the past few days, as the latest figures showed EU-Israel trade at record levels.

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Giaufret was recently named diplomat of the year by the Ambassadors’ Club of Israel. The UK’s ambassador, David Quarrey, said Giaufret’s award was “fully deserved”.

CHARLES VISITS WINDIES SYNAGOGUE Prince Charles visited one of the oldest synagogues in the western hemisphere while on a Commonwealth trip to Barbados. The heir-tothe-throne toured the Nidhe Israel synagogue in Bridgetown, built in 1654 then rebuilt in 1831.

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MIZRACHI: ‘CHIEF IS A CANCER’

A rabbi who claims sick children are being punished for sins in a past life has called the Chief Rabbi a “cancer” and “gay-lover” who will “bring a Holocaust on England’s Jews”.

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, who has 200,000 followers on social media, posted a YouTube video in which he says Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis “runs the war against me” and “is a hater of Torah and a very evil person”.

Among Mizrachi’s complaints about Mirvis was that the Chief Rabbi wished England’s football team – “a bunch of goyim,” in Mizrachi’s words – good luck in the World Cup last year. “This is the clown we are dealing with. The cancer is here. Its name is Mirvis.”

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‘Dedicated’ dayan to retire after 30 years The head of the Beth Din of the Federation of Synagogues is standing down after 30 years’ service to the Orthodox Jewish community of London.

Dayan Yisroel Lichtenstein, who was born in the US and studied in Israel before coming to the UK in 1988, said he was retiring from the post in the next year.

Federation president Andrew Cohen said Lichtenstein, who has led the Hendon Beth Hamadrash Synagogue for 20 years, was an independent figure who had “dedicated himself tirelessly” and would be “sorely missed”.

The dayan hit national headlines in 2004 after winning an almighty High Court legal battle against Brian Maccaba, an Irish-born millionaire who “offered to buy” another man’s wife for £1million.

The interest was unwelcome and Lichtenstein interceded on the woman’s behalf, after she came to him for help. Maccaba then sued, accusing Lichtenstein of slandering him, but the charge was thrown out by judges.

Last year, Lichtenstein was among a group of senior rabbis to support the Chief Rabbi’s anti-bullying guide for LGBT+ students at school, saying: “No child should suffer bullying, regardless of his or her inclination.”

However last month he wrote an angry letter to Education Secretary Damien

Fond farewell: Dayan Lichtenstein

Hinds, saying: “Under no circumstances will Charedi schools dilute their passionately held beliefs and sexualise their children.”

Announcing Lichtenstein’s retirement this week, Cohen said: “For the past 30 years, Dayan Lichtenstein has dedicated himself tirelessly to the community in London and further afield. The picture of Orthodox Anglo-Jewry today is very different to what it was in 1988 and this is due in no small part to the avodas hakodesh [sacred service] he has devoted himself to over the years.”

LEADING RABBI CALLED A ‘KAPO’ A senior Stamford Hill rabbi accused of being a “Kapo” by a Charedi activist has said he “barely knows” his attacker and is “embarrassed for him”.

The widely respected Rabbi Avroham Pinter, who is principal of Yesodeh Hatorah Senior Girls’ School and chairman of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregation’s (UOHC) external affairs committee, was reacting to comments made by Shraga Stern, who has organised several letters defending Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Stern called Pinter a “Kapo” in an angry email about education and the teaching of alternative sexualities and gender identities which he sent to hundreds of Charedi residents in London on Sunday.

The term originated in Dachau and refers to Jews who forced other Jews to work, spying on them and reporting misdemeanours to Nazi officers in return for extra rations. It is considered

Outburst: Shraga Stern

the most offensive insult one Jew can use against another.

On Tuesday, Pinter said: “I barely know the guy. He’s just not in my address book, not on my radar. Maybe that’s why he is angry.”

Both men are opposed to Government efforts to force teachers to teach about nonheterosexual relations and gender identities different to those at birth, but Stern appears outraged that Pinter has been discussing concerns with ministers.

On Stern’s anger, Pinter said: “I feel a bit embarrassed for him. To use that word, he’s just destroyed any hopes he had of credibility.”

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Museums get go-ahead to give back art The UK has become the first country in the world to allow its national museums to “indefinitely” return artwork looted from Jewish families during the Nazi era, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

The landmark move follows a debate in the House of Commons on Friday, as MPs agreed to get rid of the 10-year “sunset clause” within the Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act 2009.

This means 17 national institutions can continue returning property lost, seized, stolen or looted during the Nazi era to the original owner’s descendants.

Critics have said routes for claiming lost art “are available only to the rich” and that returning the art “deprives the general public of an opportunity to see these priceless works of art” but the Bill commanded strong crossparty support and passed with ease.

“The 2009 Act is still

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GELLER: ‘I’LL HELP WIN WORLD CUP’ Uri Geller has urged Eddie Jones to take him to the Rugby World Cup after declaring he is the answer to England’s psychological problems.

Jones is to recruit an exert to assist in fixing the recurring theme of his players imploding when in control of matches – a flaw that was exposed at great cost during the recent Guinness Six Nations.

“Eddie Jones, if you hear me now, get me to meet the players,” the spoon-bending entertainer told talkSPORT this week.

needed,” said MP Theresa Villiers, explaining that it overrides the governing statutes of national museums. These legal statutes prohibit the institution from returning property seized by the Nazis, even if the institution believes the claim has merit and wants to return the item to the heirs of the original owner.

“This Bill will enable national museums to return Nazi-looted works of art indefinitely,” said Anne Webber, co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, based in London.

“There is no other country that has made such a commitment.”

The UK’s world-leading stance stands in stark contrast to the record of Germany in returning Nazi-looted art, she said, highlighting an example this week, “which revealed that hidden and shameful history of the Germans having returned looted art to the Nazis who had taken it”.

In September 2017, the UK Government said it would live up to commitments made in

Above: View of a Dutch Square artwork was looted. Inset: Theresa Villiers MP

Washington 18 years earlier, when 44 countries pledged to work for the restoration of property seized during the Holocaust, and Webber said British families were benefiting. “There are many families in the UK who have recovered works of art, who are still trying to find their looted works of art, or who are awaiting their return,” she said. “We have hundreds of missing paintings that we’re looking for on behalf of such families.”

• View of a Dutch Square by the Dutch 17th century painter Jan van der Heyden will this week be returned to the heirs of Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus, who fled Vienna in April 1938,

a month after the ‘Anschluss’.

Gottlieb was a businessman and honorary consul for Czechoslovakia in Austria, and built an art collection totalling 160 pieces, including Van der Heyden’s painting, which they exhibited in their Vienna home, opening it to the public. In 1941, the Gestapo confiscated the collection and the following year sold the painting to Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s friend and photographer. It was found in his office in 1945 by the Allies. John Graykowski, greatgrandson of Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus, thanked Webber for her research and the Dombauverein “for their willingness to reach this fair, just, and proper resolution”.

TURNING DOWN THE VOLUME ON SHUL CHAT The idea of asking Jews to be quiet may be brave, but the United Synagogue is this week launching a kiddush “talking ban”, writes Mordy Chai.

Under the Shabbat morning policy, members would be asked not to talk for the first five minutes.

Conceding that the idea was “controversial”, officials said it came from a US member and is designed to let everyone eat and drink after the service “without worrying that they’re being

rude to fellow congregants by not saying Shabbat Shalom”.

Although the US has suggested a fiveminute ban, individual shuls can decide whether a longer or shorter period is right for them. Communities are also free to decide how it will be policed.

Synagogue chairs were informed of

the policy this week by Rabbinical Council chair Rabbi Nicky Liss, who said a threeweek trial would begin after Purim. If successful, the ban will be extended to all events in US shuls, including wedding receptions and bar and batmitzvahs.

The idea came from Adalia Dalfon who fled Iran’s

regime. “I am so glad they listened to my feedback,” he said. “I am sick and tired of people talking to me at kiddush when I’ve got half a fish ball in my mouth.

“I’ve just sat through the rabbi’s 15-minute sermon – surely having a whisky in peace for a few minutes is the least I deserve.”

US chief executive Steven Wilson said the new policy would please his mother, “who taught me not to talk when my mouth is full”.

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UK urged to oppose ‘bias’

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SECURITY INCREASED FOR DUTCH JEWS

In presenting the report’s findings, commission chair Santiago Canton said “application of lethal force was in the majority of cases authorised unlawfully….This inevitably led to arbitrary deprivation of life”. However, the report did acknowledge “demonstrations were at times violent, with many protesters hurling stones, cutting through the separation fence at points, and launching kites and balloons with burning coals and rags attached to them”.

Security around Dutch-Jewish community buildings increased in the wake of a fatal mass shooting in Utrecht on Monday. Turkish-born suspect Gokmen Tanis, 37, who had only been released from custody in July while awaiting a rape trial, was arrested on Monday evening, just hours after the incident in the central city near Amsterdam.

Investigators are considering terrorism, among other motives, as a possible reason for the attack.

Police also arrested a 40-year-old man “suspected of involvement”.

The British Government has been urged to vote against anti-Israel resolutions at a session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), amid concern arrest warrants could be issued for Israeli soldiers.

On Monday, the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory presented the results of an investigation into IDF snipers’ “excessive use of force” along the Gaza border.

However, critics say the report features a “gross misrepresentation of the facts”.

In a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, Conservative Friends of Israel chair Stephen Crabb MP and president Lord Pickles urged the UK to “vote against bias” at the UNHRC, arguing the commission had “failed to examine the role of terrorist insti-

IRAQI ON TRIAL FOR TEENAGER’S MURDER

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A failed Iraqi asylum seeker has gone on trial in Germany for raping and murdering a 14-year-old Jewish girl. Ali Bashar, 22, denies raping Susanna Maria Feldmann in woodland in Wiesbaden on 22 May last year, but admits strangling her. He said: “Everything went black before my eyes. Then it all happened. I don’t know how it could have happened.” Police were contacted after Susanna failed to return home from a night out with friends. Her body was discovered in June, buried beside a railway line.

UK Jewish leaders have denounced a “despicable” election advert showing a lawmaker killing the chairman of an Arab-Israeli party.

In the Western-type parody, MK Oren Hazan is shown shooting Balad MK Jamal Zahalka. The latter has responded by calling the advert “a call for murder’.

Board of Deputies’ president Marie van der Zyl, said: “Oren Hazan’s video is disgusting. Depicting murder is beyond despicable. This, from the same person we had to condemn after

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gators during the protests”. They added the report “accuses Israeli soldiers of crimes against humanity and calls for their arrest and indictment in the International Criminal Court… This is a gross misrepresentation of the facts and any such ‘accountability’ resolution must be struck down”.

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• The United Nations has condemned Hamas for using force to quell protests by Gaza Palestinians over taxes, unemployment and electricity shortages.

The UN’s Nickolay Mladenov said: “I am alarmed by the brutal beating of journalists and the raiding of homes.”

Tel Aviv has taken a small step towards protecting the lives of “mobile phone zombies”.

LED pavement lights have been installed at a busy crossing to help pedestrians distracted by staring at their phones.

Tomer Dror, head of Tel Aviv’s traffic management division, said the “zombie traffic lights” aim to minimise accidents between vehicles and inattentive pedestrians at crossings.

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NETANYAHU FILES WILL ONLY BE OPENED AFTER THE ELECTION Prosecutors in the corruption cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to get their hands on the investigation files until after the country’s election on 9 April over fears of leaks to the media.The Justice Ministry made the announcement last Monday and the prosecutors and the attorneys for Netanyahu, who denies all the charges, will be given three months to review the materials before a pre-indictment hearing in which Netanyahu can present his argument for dropping the case.

PAPER TELLS HOW TO ‘RECOGNISE JEWS’ A Polish newspaper has run a front page article instructing readers on “how to recognise a Jew”.The Polish-language weekly, Only Poland, lists “names, anthropological features, expressions, appearances, character traits, methods of operation” and “disinformation activities.” The text also reads: “How to defeat them? This cannot go on!”

Only Poland is published by Leszek Bubl, a fringe nationalist political candidate.

Territories ‘not occupied’ The West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights are no longer “occupied” by Israel but “controlled” by Israel, according to the US State Department’s latest annual report on human rights.

The subtle yet seismic shift in language – which is unlikely to be replicated by US allies – had been expected since Mike Pompeo, a Trump supporter and evangelical Christian, replaced Rex Tillerson as US Secretary of State last spring.

Pompeo, whose role in effect makes him America’s top diplomat, has met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu almost once a month.

An Israeli soldier in Nablus

His department’s report, published this week, drops the term “occupied territories” from its description of the Golan Heights, and describes the West Bank and Gaza Strip as “territories under Israeli

control” rather than “occupied”.

The US State Department said there had been “no change in the US’s attitude towards the Palestinian territories” but Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said removing the term ‘occupied’ was “another revelation of the nature of the American administration, which is hostile to the Palestinian people”.

Israel captured the Golan Heights, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 SixDay War. It later annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, as well as East Jerusalem, in moves not recognised internationally.

TWO KILLED IN WEST BANK A father of 12 and an IDF soldier have been killed in West Bank terror attacks.

Rabbi Achiad Ettinger of Eli was shot during an attack on Sunday and died of his wounds on Monday. He was the second person to be killed at the Ariel and Gitai junctions, after Gal Keidan, 19, was shot and stabbed to death.

Ettinger, who managed to fire four bullets at the attacker from his car after being shot in the head and neck, was the founder of the Oz V’emuna hesder yeshiva in South Tel Aviv. His family asked that his organs be donated.

Gal Keidan, 19, the soldier who was stabbed by the attacker, was buried Monday

morning at the Beersheba military cemetery. He was promoted posthumously to the rank of sergeant.

The suspected attacker has been identified as Omar Abu Laila, 19, of the Az-Zawiya village.

He remains on the run but family members have been arrested.

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF

Your weekly digest of stories from the international press BURKINA FASO

A global Jewish charity has celebrated its first UNESCO-funded training programme for hydrology technicians in West Africa. The ORT trainees from Burkina Faso and Senegal learnt about hydraulics, well management, irrigation, aquifers, pipe calculations, sanitation and hygiene in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou.

UNITED STATES

The university campus arm of liberal American Jewish group J-Street has launched its free alternative Birthright 10-day Israel trip. The group said it was challenging Birthright’s erasure of the Palestinian narrative, adding its trip ‘engages fully with Israel’s reality, including its 52-year military occupation’.

CANADA

A new survey of 2,335 Jews across cities in Canada has shown that only one in three considers religion to be an important aspect of their Jewish identity. Authors concluded that ‘for most Canadian Jews today, the basis of Jewish identity is less about religion than about culture, ethnicity or a combination’.

RUSSIA The first ever Russian-language textbook for learners of the rare Judeo-Persian language Juhuri has just been published, in an effort to keep alive the language of Russia’s Juhuro, often known as the ‘Mountain Jews’.

Supermodel Karlie Kloss has comfirmed she’s converted to Judaism to marry Joshua Kushner. “I joined the tribe, mazel,” Kloss said on a US television show this week, raising a glass in a toast.

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Wherever you looked there was activity and vibrancy, smiles and celebration – from the always packed youth zone – to which JLGB spared no effort – to the 130 exhibitors, all raising awareness, offering goodies and doing a roaring trade.

Reubens restaurant brought its famous salt beef sandwiches to north London for the first time; our brilliant cartoonist Paul Solomons conducted hourly masterclasses: PaJeS invited children to make certificates for their favourite teachers while community sponsors Norwood staged speed cycling contests at its packed stand.

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As an outspoken supporter of Dame Margaret Hodge, I fully appreciate her deeply-felt feelings about the Labour Party, which has been a big part of her life and that of her family for six decades.

However, the party’s recent despicable treatment of Dame Margaret should be sufficient to alert her, and many others, to the fact that anyone who is seeking a home containing traditional Labour values will fail to find them in the party’s current incarnation.

The antisemitism that pervades the Labour Party is a saga enhanced by the arrival four years ago of the party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his cohorts of Marxists and Trotskyites.

Who would have thought that the political

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We’re always quick to draw attention to people in the Labour Party who are anti-Jewish. But why is someone allowed to call himself a rabbi [Aharon Bassous] when he invites Yosef Mizrachi, who has

Regarding the reaction the Temple Mount attack reported in Jewish News last week, some kind of reaction is necessary after a police station is firebombed.

Closing off parts of the city was clearly an attempt to limit the fall-out from such a brutal crime.

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RABBI SHOULDN’T BE TOLERATED such sick ideas about Judaism, to speak?

We must not tolerate people like this holding positions of authority in our community.

Laurence Garber By email

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party of Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair would plumb these depths?

As the pied piper gathering in a band of followers for an initiation fee of £3, Corbyn attracted many like-minded members who found a home to facilitate his and in turn their own antisemitic views.

Let’s hope that more MPs in the party with active consciences take the leap and leave the party.

Those who stay must suffer the consequences, along with the rest of the British population, should the nightmare occur of a Corbyn-led government coming to power at the next general election.

Stephen Vishnick Tel Aviv

“No, it should read ‘I love Hamantaschen’.

I shouldn’t have gone to the company that provided Theresa May’s conference letters!”

For Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to call this a “dangerous Israeli escalation which demands an international reaction” just shows how casual and self-indulgent the Palestinian press machine is.

Simon van Someren By email

CORRECTION Last week’s story ‘Board split on vote’, incorrectly stated Gillian Moonman, Laurence Julius, Natalie Shaw, Gary Mond, Jacob Lyons and Jonathan Metliss urged the Board to condemn Netanyahu’s deal with Otzma Yehudit. Rather, they called on the Board to not publicly comment on Israel’s election. We apologise for the error.

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Is survivors’ letter fake?

We read almost daily criticism of antisemitism as practised by the Labour Party.

Imagine my surprise to see in The Sunday Times a letter from a group of British Jewish Holocaust survivors actually defending Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party, and I quote, “of any prejudice against or hostility towards Jews”.

Other than Great Britain granting refuge to Holocaust survivors,

I cannot think of any reason why survivors should defend Labour’s alleged antisemitic attitude.

Could it just be for reasons of its own that the media have blown this whole topic out of proportion?

Perhaps Jewish News could investigate the origins of this letter to ensure that we readers are not unsuspecting victims of fake news.

Henry Carlton Southgate

IRVING’S OBSCENE TOUR The idea that David Irving, a Holocaust denier, could lead tour of some of the most horrifying sites in European history, as if on a day trip to Hitler’s Disney Land, is at best abhorrent and at worst dangerous.

The fact that he calls this a “sightseeing tour” furthers his agenda to minimise the significance of the Holocaust. Irving has found another opportunity to insult the memory of the victims.

Together with JRoots, I have had the privilege of escorting many

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Holocaust survivors to death camps mentioned in Irving’s itinerary. It pains me to consider, even for a moment, that these survivors and the souls of their family members, and the millions of others who died during the Holocaust, could have their memories dishonored in this way. Irving must not be allowed to go ahead with this.

We have a moral obligation to stop him.

Rabbi Naftali Schiff Jewish Futures and JRoots

The letter in last week’s Jewish News in response to Kay Bagon’s criticism of your cartoon was uncalled for. Shamima Begum, who lost her baby in the Syrian refugee camp, indeed has no connection to Israel’s problems, but it does your publication no good to display such schadenfreude about this wretched teenager’s situation – especially in jest.

Maureen Weigert N20

NOT FIT TO LECTURE US I write in response to the column

by Guy Domb in last week’s edition, in which he claims denying Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is “alienating” young people in our community.

Our Jewish students have enough to contend with at university, combating virulent antisemitism and constant Israel bashing, without the likes of Yachad and Breaking the Silence trying to indoctrinate and confuse them further with distorted propaganda about Israel.

They seem to have no basic knowledge of the history of the land nor the conflict. They just peddle the same old same old,

assisting and inciting our enemies against us.

These so-called Jews are of the same ilk as the ones who said jaddish for the Hamas terrorists outside the Houses of Parliament.

They are therefore not fit to be lecturing our Jewish students about anything, and trying to alienate them further from their heritage, as they are nothing more than enemies within our midst, trying to divide our community.

We have seen the same reprehensible behaviour from Code Pink and Jewish Voice for Peace In the US. We dont want it or need it here.

Shelley Hart By email

Shuls must stay open Regarding the New Zealand attack, how does the Jewish Agency closing synagogues show it is “united in fighting violent hatred”? How does preventing its own people from observing their faith support another faith? However well intentioned, it was a pointless but self-inflicted harmful gesture towards its own religious community to show support for another.

Russell Ballen By email

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Unpleasant echoes of car maker’s past ALEX BRUMMER

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rowing up in Brighton, we had a succession of family cars.

We had Austins, Vauxhalls and later on my parents would buy Japanese. But never German. Some years later, my company car was a BMW Estate. I remember visiting my father Michael and his abhorrence that his own family, like millions worldwide, had succumbed to German engineering.

For my father, a refugee from the Shoah and from a family of survivors, all the strides which modern Germany has made to recognise, confront and atone publicly for its Nazi past would never be enough.

After years of being lauded, the German car industry has fallen recently on more difficult times. The efforts by Volkswagen to disguise the true levels of emissions on its diesel vehicles led to clean-out of top management and has so far cost the company an estimated $35bn (£27bn) in penalties and compensation. The nightmare is not yet over.

Earlier this month, the US Securities & Exchange Commission charged VW with

what it described as a “massive fraud”. It arose from the failure of the company and its former chief executive Martin Winterkorn to disclose the true emission standards when issuing debt in the period 201415. VW has denied any wrongdoing.

The diesel scandal together with the advance of the green agenda around the world has become a preoccupation for the motor industry. VW and the other German car makers are struggling to meet tighter emission standards imposed by the EU. This has been a factor behind the slowdown of the German economy.

VW and the other manufacturers have also started to refocus their enterprises on electric cars, recognising Japanese makers and Elon Musk’s Tesla have a head start.

The current boss of Volkswagen, Herbert Diess (relocated from BMW), is leading the drive to change the company’s face.

Recently he upped the ante by saying that VW would have more than 70 electric vehicles (EV) in production by 2028.

But in announcing some of the changes being made at the £64bn manufacturer, Diess made a foot-in-mouth gaffe which was an ugly remainder of VW’s sordid past – he described the company’s financial

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A GENERATION THAT SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS NEEDS NO SUCH REMINDERS AS THIS performance as “EBIT macht frei”. The financial term EBIT means earnings before interest and tax.

The phrase was uncomfortably close to arbeit macht frei or “work sets you free”, the Nazi slogan which infamously is embedded in wrought iron on the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The use of a phrase so resonant of the Holocaust was clumsy and particularly so for VW, given is history.

VW owes its existence to Adolf Hitler and his demand in the 1930s for a ‘people’s car’ which ordinary Germans could afford.

Even worse, the Nazi regime provided a cheap workforce of slave labour drawn from enemies of the National Socialist state, including Jews.

Purloining the language of the Shoah is one of the curses of our age. In particular, it has been used on the left and in sections of Britain’s Labour Party in relation to Zionism and the cause of Israel. But it is inexplicable the chief executive of VW, earning £6.8m a year, should drift into such dangerous territory. VW’s background made the choice of words even more toxic It is not just German bosses who carelessly invoke the Shoah. The Jewish chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, also exercised poor judgement when he flippantly suggested Holocaust deniers might have made an honest mistake.

That remark looks the more unacceptable given how Facebook provided a platform for the alleged Australian shooter Brenton Tarrant, charged in connection with the New Zealand mosque killings.

Diess’s explanation for the VW gaffe, that he was seeking to make a point about how VW’s noxious emissions were now behind its earnings, is feeble.

He has offered a new generation of VW buyers an insight into the horrendous past of the German car makers. An older generation that suffered at the hands of the Nazis needed no such reminders.

United in opposition to horrendous rabbi DAVID TOUBE

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ine years ago a coalition of which I was a member successfully persuaded the Home Office to ban controversial Muslim preacher Zakir Naik from entering the UK. Naik is a tremendously popular televangelist, who delivers obnoxious diatribes on women, gays and terrorism.

Liberal Muslims cheered his exclusion, but his many supporters were furious.

They insisted that the refusal to admit him was motivated by Islamophobia.

There is something of Zakir Naik in Yosef Mizrachi. Both are somewhat comic figures, peddlers of implausible conspiracy theories.

Indeed, I have regularly heard Islamist hate preachers voice many similarly incendiary views to that expressed by this man.

Mizrachi tells his followers that women who are not virgins are “like an open bottle of Coke”. Cancer is caused by “the way the women dress, and that’s because of the sins

that guys and girls makes together”. Down’s Syndrome and autism are “a punishment as a result of a previous life”. People “make fun of rabbis” because they are influenced by “the gay professor in the university”. “Liberal people, lefties, all kinds of gays” are not merely wrong: they are “wicked people”.

The Chief Rabbi, too, is a “clown” and a “very wicked person”. Why? Because “he promotes homosexuality, he promotes Christianity, he promotes Eurovision in Israel, this is what he promotes, everything that Hashem hates”. When the Chief Rabbi speaks, says Mizrachi, “Satan is very happy”.

Mizrachi cannot open his mouth without sowing hatred. He is a malign influence on his audience.

I have to say, it is a source of pride that the Jewish establishment, from the Chief Rabbi down, has been united in its opposition to his planned visit to the UK. It is very easy to oppose extremism from other communities: less so when it emanates from our own.

What is dangerous about Mizrachi is not simply the unpleasant things he has said.

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THOSE WHO OPPOSE MIZRACHI ARE THE SAME ACTIVISITS WHO CAMPAIGNED AGAINST ISLAMIST AGITATORS Rather, it is that he divides the world in two: the righteous and the wicked. Gays, liberals, Jews and rabbis who don’t agree with him are all wicked. Mizrachi and his followers alone have a monopoly of virtue. Our society has become increasingly polarised.

We need to stand firm in the face of those seek to sow division. That is particularly so when a message of hatred is delivered by somebody who claims religious authority, and is directed against some of the most vulnerable people in Britain.

Last week, Mizrachi claimed that Muslim extremists were allowed to speak

in Britain, but that freedom of speech is denied, uniquely, to “the rabbi who teach the real Torah”. That is simply untrue.

Scores of Islamist hate preachers have been banned from entering the UK. I have been involved in many of these exclusion campaigns. So I can tell you that the people who oppose Mizrachi are the very same activists who campaigned against those Islamist agitators.

Indeed, on the morning of his exclusion, the Lead Commissioner for Countering Extremism, Sara Khan – who has been viciously attacked by Islamists for her opposition to their politics – expressed her deep concerns about the proposed speaking tour.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

This is not a matter of freedom of speech. Mizrachi’s message can be viewed freely on the internet. However, Britain has a right to control its own borders.

It must do so in the interests of all our fellow citizens. It is a privilege to enter this country.

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New emojis make for more diversity online HAZEL KAYE

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a new set of emojis will improve how diversity in Britain is represented. Set to hit our phones and tablets in the second half of this year, these newly-approved images will include hearing aids, wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, probing canes, guide dogs and other disability aids.

Whatever your feelings on emojis and social media, we can’t deny they are now a part of our daily lives and becoming more influential and vital.

This is just one of the very many things that has changed since Cecil Rosen founded Jewish Blind & Disabled 50 years ago. Emojis, filters and social media would have seemed a totally alien concept then.

They weren’t even really on our radar as recently as 2014, when the building that bears

his name was opened.

Now, however, as we look forward to the opening of the Dyna and Fala Weinstock Wing of Cecil Rosen Court, offering an additional 19 one or two- bedroom mobility apartments, these have all become part of day-to-day life.

At Jewish Blind & Disabled, we use social media alongside the more traditional media to announce news and events and, with this being our 50th anniversary year, we have a lot going on. This includes the launch of our new Independent Living Advisory (ILA) service, taking Jewish Blind & Disabled’s expertise into the wider community and people’s current homes for the first time.

We have also just launched an Instagram account and, alongside Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, this new venture will allow us to reach a whole new generation of potential donors, supporters and volunteers, as well as those who may need our services today or in the future.

In using social media, we need to speak the right language. Often that is the language of emojis.

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ONE-IN-FIVE PEOPLE WILL EXPERIENCE A DIAGNOSIS OF DISABILITY IN THEIR LIFETIMES. HOWEVER, YOU WOULDN’T KNOW IT FROM THE TV OR SOCIAL MEDIA This is especially true for our tenants, whether they are posting on Facebook or swapping messages with friends and family via WhatsApp. Up until now, we have seen a diverse range of emojis with regards to race, gender, and even hair colour, but few have spoken to the experiences of those with disabilities.

This huge under-representation has been a glaring oversight and one that has left many people with disabilities unable to speak the same language as their contemporaries.

This change will certainly make a huge difference to fixing that, but while we are celebrating this success it’s also important to note it is only the start.

There are still omissions from the new

emoji list. Walking aids is one example and the wheelchair has already been criticised for looking too old-fashioned – both problems I hope will be fixed.

I also fully agree with Phil Talbot from the disability equality charity Scope, who says: “We’d now also like to see greater representation of disabled people and disability across all parts of the media and social media.”

One-in-five people will experience a diagnosis of disability in their lifetimes. However, if you turn on the TV or check your social media, you often wouldn’t know it.

Hopefully these new emojis will be the start of a more representative view of society and not just on social media.

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The scandal of UK aid and hate-filled schools LOUISE ELLMAN MP LABOUR, LIVERPOOL RIVERSIDE

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’m a strong supporter of Britain’s international aid budget and for the money which the UK gives to the Palestinian Authority (PA) being used to promote a two-state solution.

But our government is currently giving millions of pounds each year to Palestinian schools teaching a curriculum which incites hatred, glorifies violence and promotes terror; nothing could do more to harm the cause for peace than fostering old hatreds and prejudices in another generation of children and young people.

This has to stop.

That is why I tabled my International Development Assistance (Values Promoted in Palestinian Authority Schools) bill this week.

My Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) colleagues and I warned the government in September 2017 about the pernicious content of the new curriculum which the PA was about to introduce in its schools.

As the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education has suggested, this curriculum is “more radical than ever, purposefully and strate-

gically encouraging Palestinian children to sacrifice themselves to martyrdom”.

Some of the content is truly horrifying.

Five-year-olds are taught the word for “martyr” as part of their first lessons in Arabic; 11-year-olds taught that martyrdom and jihad are “the most important meanings of life”; and teenagers are taught those who sacrifice themselves will be rewarded with “72 virgin brides in paradise”.

The massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics is endorsed as “the Munich Operation” and cited as a good example of “Palestinian Resistance” against “Zionist interests abroad”.

These lessons in hate are all-pervasive and infest every aspect of the curriculum, while vile antisemitic tropes — that Jews sexually harass Muslim women and that they attempted to kill the Prophet Mohammed – are also promoted.

There is no suggestion that peace with Israel is desirable or possible and references to previous peace agreements, summits and proposals have been expunged.

In their place, are lies about the Al-Aqsa mosque being under threat and calls to “eliminate the usurper” — by conquering Haifa and Jaffa.

The government ignored warnings, then

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PALESTINIAN FIVE-YEAR-OLDS ARE TAUGHT THE WORD FOR ‘MARTYR’, WHILE 11-YEAR-OLDS ARE TOLD THAT JIHAD AND MARTYRDOM ARE ‘IMPORTANT IN LIFE’ promised reviews, and then commissioned an international study of the PA’s schoolbooks, despite IMPACT-se already having undertaken an extensive investigation.

Last week, the government said it had commissioned a scoping exercise for its review – some 11 months after that review was first announced.

Ministers have rejected LFI’s repeated calls for all aid teaching and implementing this curriculum to be suspended until fundamental changes are made.

Instead, UK aid should be directed towards a new Palestinian Peace Fund supporting young people.

The upshot of this scandalous inaction is that by September, this appalling curriculum will have been taught in Palestinian schools for a third year running.

In September, ministers said the PA had “taken action to help address concerns

raised”, but this is simply untrue.

There were no major changes in the current school year, and in January the PA minister of education made clear his rejection of what he called an “attack” on the curriculum led by the “Zionist lobby”.

It’s now time to take action. My bill requires two things.

First, that teaching programmes in PA schools financed by the UK should promote common values such as peace, freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination.

Second, that ministers should conduct an annual review to ensure UK funds are spent in line with UNESCO-derived standards of peace and tolerance in education.

British aid should support the goal — shared by MPs across the House of Commons — of a two-state solution.

It cannot and must not make that goal harder to achieve.

Time to see beyond the Purim masks SIMON DAVIES

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s a child I used to dress up for Purim and go to my sister’s school. One year I was Metal Mickey, another I was ’99 Red Balloons’. However, in recent years when people ask me what I am dressing up for Purim, my response is generally nothing and I then drive off in my chair. I have, for many years been the Scrooge of Purim – now I am sharing my reasons why.

I was inspired to speak out after seeing a post written on Facebook by my cousin, who works in a centre for people with disabilities in Israel.

In the post about Purim celebrations, she said: “Purim is a time when we dress up and put on masks. At our centre, we focus on what’s behind the mask”.

This particularly resonated with me.

I was born with Cerebral Palsy which, for me, among other things, means I am unable to walk or use my voice to talk.

Instead I use an electric wheelchair and speak through a voice synthesiser or an Ipad voice app.

People like me, with obvious disabilities, have trouble getting others to look beyond the wheelchair and see the real person.

Even though I am well-educated, have a marketing degree, enjoy reading crime fiction and am very proud of doing a skydive to fundraise, people just see my chair and my disabilities and assume I am stupid and have nothing to offer or contribute.

My chair is not me. It is simply my tool to help me get around.

What makes things more difficult is that communicating with me requires time, my ipad attached to my chair is my means

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PEOPLE JUST SEE MY DISABILITIES AND ASSUME I HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER to communication. It requires patience, something that due to our busy, modern lives many people seem to be short of.

I spend much of my spare time speaking to volunteers at Jewish Care, as well as pupils in secondary schools about disability. I do this in the hope that I will make a difference to both their own and society’s attitudes towards people living with disabilities. I try to help them to look beyond my chair and see me just like everyone else.

A person with my own interests, family

and feelings. My chair is the mask people don’t look beyond.

So why is this Purim going to be different from all others for me?

After my usual opposition, and with some persuading from my colleagues in Jewish Care’s fundraising and community engagement team where I volunteer on a full-time basis, I have reluctantly agreed to dress up this year.

With the help of my sister I will be wearing an AWESOME costume.

I am confident I will be a serious contender for Jewish Care’s best costume prize and because of this I don’t think my colleagues will encourage me to dress up next year.

This year, the Scrooge of Purim past will be celebrating the festivities while speaking out to encourage people to look beyond the mask and see the real person.

Happy Purim!

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And be seen

Purim celebrations!

The community was all smiles this week as young and old dressed up and made hamantaschen to mark the joyous festival of Purim.

Children of the Beiteinu School at Kingston Liberal Synagogue led the morning Shabbat service and presented a Purim spiel. “It was a lot of hard work to prepare for this but the children were amazing,” said Carolynne Farrer, head of the school. “Not only did they perform in the play but they did a wonderful job of leading the Shabbat morning service.”

Children at Hendon Adath Yisroel Synagogue celebrated Purim with a fancy dress competition and a collection of instruments from India brought in by Emily Ben-Ze’ev from the interactive workshops Emily’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Photo by Yakir Zur

Children at Radlett Reform Synagogue celebrated Purim in fancy dress with a family hamantaschen bake, storytelling and music.

Wolfson Hillel Primary School pupils from Years 1 to 6 and Barnet United Synagogue baked more than 450 Purim hamantaschen using over 13kg of flour for elderly people in the Barnet community, supported by Norwood, Langdon, Chai Cancer Care and Camp Simcha.

More than 120 guests attended Jewish Care’s Purim event, with children dressed as superheroes, lions and dancers for a fancy dress parade. Children sang, danced, had their hair braided and glitter tattoos put on, and decorated masks and hamantaschen.

Pictured is a three-year-old member of East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue collecting a runner-up prize for his Superman outfit at the Purim fancy dress competition.

Pictured are children at an Emunah day care centre in Israel dressing up ahead of Purim. “It is wonderful to see the children having so much fun,” said British Emunah chairman Rosalyn Liss. “We wish Purim Sameach to all our supporters, staff and volunteers who improve the lives of the children in Emunah’s care, often 24/7.”

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Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Mark Regev, the Israeli Ambassador to the UK were among the special guests to attend a sparkling reception at Kantor King Solomon High in Ilford to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the school.

They are pictured with headteacher Hannele Reece.

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Two bereaved Israeli and Palestinian parents, Robi Damelin (pictured) and Bassam Aramin, both of whom both lost a child in the conflict crossed the divide at the second Limmud After Dark event in Harrow. Around 350 guests attended three hours before Shabbat for a packed evening of talks, food and jazz.

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Aish welcomed more than 150 people to its student’s annual Genesis National Weekend at Condover Hall in Shrewsbury.

Students from universities across the UK joined Aish for a weekend of extreme sport.

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“We are holding the seminar in response to the growing number of clients from overseas, said Resource CEO Victoria Sterman. “We give them the help they need in finding work, but often we find they are also struggling with associated problems that many newcomers face.”

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Sydmar Lodge Care Home’s Robert Speker scooped up an award at the Barnet Care Quality Awards at Hendon Town Hall for his work coordinating activities. Speker, who joined the Edgware-based care home in 2015, recently took a resident swimming for the first time in 20 years and organises regular visits from local nurseries and schools.

“I am delighted to receive the award in recognition of my work,” said Speker.

“The greatest appreciation is knowing that I have positively affected our residents’ lives.”

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Behind bars in the real Orange Is The New Black Louise Scodie tours Israel’s only women’s jail, where babies are inmates

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here are more than 25,000 prisoners in Israel. Just 200 of those are female and they’re all housed together in Neve Tirza, the country’s only female prison in Ramla, near Tel Aviv.

I’m visiting Neve Tirza during WIZO UK’s Chairwoman’s mission (discovery trip) to Israel. WIZO is the largest social welfare organisation in Israel; while it doesn’t fund this prison, we’re here to understand the societal context in which it operates.

I’m at the prison on our first morning in Israel. It’s a sobering start to my time here.

The building, cream-coloured and boxy on the outside, hasn’t been touched since it was opened in 1968. It’s in desperate need of repair throughout.

Each small cell houses up to six women, who sleep on metal bunk beds and share a rusty shower. There’s just enough room to exist and I wonder how the women cope with such a lack of personal space. As we quietly tour the facility, a thin inmate grabs the bars of her cell and stares at us. I do my best to avoid eye contact.

I’m surprised by a mum and baby cell, complete with a pink cot and hand-painted Minnie and Mickey on the wall. The mum and baby share a room with two other prisoners as inmates can earn better cells with good behaviour. As a mum to a noisy toddler, I wonder what the two women did to end up sharing with somebody else’s baby.

Sara Friedman has been head warden at Neve Tirza for 12 years, having started here 30 years ago as a teacher. Describing her job as “the most interesting one I’ve had”, she’s calm yet formidable. There’s a wide age range of prisoners: from 14 to 70. The youngest ones live in separate

More than 200 female prisoners of all backgrounds and faiths are incarcerated at Neve Tirza

cells so that they’re not encouraged further into crime by the older ones, although Friedman says the prisoners take a different tack anyway: “When the younger ones come in, the women are protective and motherly. They tell them not to make the same mistakes they did.”

She explains that the staff also have a nurturing job to do. They help the prisoners to keep in touch with their families.

“When a woman comes here, her family falls apart. The kids are sent to boarding school, the husband abandons her. We arrange regular visits and a mother and child programme with a monthly kids’ day. There’s a petting zoo here and other activities for the mums and kids to bring them together.”

A busy programme of work and other activities for the women “shows them there’s a life outside of crime,” says Friedman. They’re employed in manual labour by Israel Prison Industries, an organisation that works with

Israel’s businesses to give prisoners a skill and nominal wages. Kashi Nissim, its manager, says: “When people have a job and a salary, they have a better chance of correction. These are human beings who’ve made mistakes. We have the opportunity to help them to go outside and make a better life.”

On top of work, there’s professional training, from hairdressing to flower arranging, a theatre group and classes in reading, writing and high school matriculation. How do the women fit all of this in? “They multitask!” exclaims Friedman.

The prison’s busy rehabilitation programme is largely successful. Many women leave prison having worked proper jobs and learned new skills. Yet the reoffending rate is a notable 40 percent.

Friedman explains the challenge of prisoners who want to come back to prison.

“Ninety percent of the women here were assaulted in their past. They were the victims

in their family, their families were never safe.

For some, this is their home.”

So desperate was one prisoner to return that she assaulted Friedman to get charged.

“It was midnight and I was jumped on as I got into my car. Somebody started punching me, there was a struggle and a guard came to help. The attacker turned out to be an ex-prisoner who wanted to commit a crime so she could come back inside for a hot meal and a shower. In the end, she got what she wanted. She’s still in prison. That’s just one example of what happens when there’s nobody to take in these women.”

For some prisoners, it may be too late to create a better future. That’s why WIZO believes the key is in prevention. As Ronit Ribak Madari, chair of WIZO UK, says: “We do social integration work because we want to ensure that young women leave vocational school with something they can do. When we change lives, we can build futures.”

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e may have worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry over the past 40 years, from Bob Dylan and Freddie Mercury to Amy Winehouse and The Rolling Stones – but Danny Clifford still quips he’s “the most famous photographer no one has ever heard of.”

Clifford, 60, who grew up in London and today lives in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, is now exhibiting a collection of more than 70 never-before-seen photographs taken throughout his celebrity-filled career at Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead.

Having been interested in photography since a youngster, Clifford was just 13 when he began sneaking into live shows and taking pictures.

On one such occasion, when he slipped

a camera into Earl’s Court, But despite an impressive Clifford captured Americanportfolio of some four million Jewish singer Dylan on stage, shots, Clifford has tended to with the resulting pictures avoid the limelight – although being published by the Evening it has not been due to a lack of Standard in 1978. interest.

Thereafter, Clifford worked “About 10 or 15 years ago a for press agency Fox Photos, big publisher approached me before freelancing for Melody about doing a book. But I blew Maker, Sounds and NME and, Danny Clifford them off and refused the deal. I’ve within a short while, was asked by got pictures of people looking Dylan to become his official photographer. bloody awful with needles hanging out,” he Over the past four decades, the keen says, adding that that he is more interested in Jewish photographer has rubbed shoulders exhibiting “nice pictures for people”. with the giants of music, including Elton Clifford has an endless array of anecdotes John, Leonard Cohen, The Who, Oasis, about the rock stars he spent his life photoGeorge Michael, Frank Sinatra and Pink graphing, many of which are revealed at the Floyd among many others. exhibition.

He was also happy to divulge more about his first encounter with Winehouse during a studio shoot in 2003, where singer Katie Melua was waiting to be photographed.

“I was standing talking to Katie, and Amy walked over,” he says. “I said ‘Hi, it’s lovely to meet you. Why don’t we do the two of you together.”

“Amy said: ‘I don’t want my picture taken with her. She is s*** and doesn’t write her own stuff.’

“She wasn’t nasty, she was lovely – but she said it like it is..”  Rock Stars Don’t Smile runs at Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, until 11 April.

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Torah For Today

SEDRA Tsav

What does it say about: Momo and spreading fear

BY RABBI JEFF BERGER Tsav continues with communal korbanot (offerings) and concludes with the inauguration ceremony of the Mishkan and the secretive induction of the Kohanim.

Korban, from the Hebrew root word karov, was an offering intended to bind its giver closer to God. Though not all offerings were livestock, many involved a mix of kosher animal species. Yet some people ponder whether korbanot still have relevance today.

As a means of addressing fallible human behaviour I believe they do. There are times we’ve done wrong and we may seek forgiveness with a sin offering (a gift and an apology). Equally, when experiencing the joys and blessings of life, we bring a thanksgiving or peace offering (or donate a Kiddush). Today’s acts may differ, but our motivations are the same.

Over the millennia, God’s prophets challenged the behaviour of the Jewish people, explaining that more important than offerings were the intentions of our heart.

Halacha from this week’s parsha even tells us that certain inappropriate actions could disqualify a korban, such as having the wrong thoughts at the time it was being brought.

The prophets explain that the Almighty also treats our prayers as ‘offerings of the lips’. If so, prayers too may be subject to the same. How many times have I mumbled through a prayer service half asleep or too distracted by daily matters?

In this way, Tsav teaches us to ensure our communal prayers reflect as much focus and concentration as possible.

 Rabbi Jeff Berger can be contacted at RabbiJeffLondon@gmail.com

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL The Momo Challenge, a dangerous suicide game targeting children, was recently exposed as an urban legend, but was given credence because of being linked to an unrelated, but frightening sculpture created by a Japanese artist.

Keisuke Aiso, the 46-year-old artist responsible for this artwork has now destroyed Momo, but what does the Torah say about frightening people?

Jewish law forbids the raising of animals that can frighten people. Therefore, a dog that may bark at and attack people must be tethered in an area that is accessible to others.

A parallel to this is jumping out at people of any age or scaring them with creepy disguises. The Momo is one stage beyond a scary costume. It is a doll based on the frightening form of a Japanese legendary

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half-woman, half-hen with a haunting grin and bulging eyes who, according to Japanese tradition, died around the point of childbirth.

At the age of 17, I taught a cheder student who told me his parents had given him worry dolls to confide to, but that they

TAKING INANIMATE OBJECTS SERIOUSLY IS AKIN TO BELIEVING IN WITCHCRAFT AND IDOLATRY

frightened him at night. I taught him to pray to God instead and his worries subsided. Taking inanimate objects seriously is akin to believing in witchcraft and idolatry.

Furthermore, encouraging others to contemplate or commit suicide is an act that is accessory to murder, while promoting a frightening figure based on a legend is the horrification of a human tragedy.

Rachel, one of the matriarchs of Israel, died in childbirth giving birth to Benjamin, but her passing is translated into blessing. According to the prophet Jeremiah, she weeps on high and asks that her children in exile be redeemed.

Rachel has been elevated to the highest level of respect in the collective diasporic memory, and her gravesite is to this day a pilgrimage for prayer, contemplation and marriage requests. Thus, Jews are encouraged to see blessing in the departed, and not magnify horror and lend it an illusory sense of threat and danger.  Rabbi Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to HM Armed Forces

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The Megillah Says What?

‘We killed 75,000 Persians on Purim’

BY RABBI DANNY RICH Although lacking any historicity, the Book of Esther tells of a Persian King, Ahasuerus, his Jewish Queen Esther and an attempt by his chief minister, Haman, to wipe out the Jews on a date selected by the drawing of lots.

Esther’s uncle, Mordechai, discovers the plot and advises his niece to inform the king. The Jews are saved, Haman and his 10 sons are hanged, and the Jews go on to kill 75,000 Persians in defence of their own lives.

The early adherents of Liberal Judaism either ignored or made an articulated decision to reject Purim.

As Britain’s first Liberal Rabbi, Dr Israel Mattuck, wrote: “The story upon which it is based is historically doubtful. And there are some objectionable features in its celebration. For these reasons, but particularly because it lacks religious significance, many Liberal synagogues do not observe it.”

Over the years, Purim re-established itself in Liberal Jewish circles and, in modern times, our communi-

ties are awash with fancy dress and hamantaschen.

There are two important reasons to celebrate a festival whose bloodthirsty ending we still reject – one ancient, and one modern. Following the Talmud injunction that one must recite a blessing on returning to a place having been saved from danger, Jewish communities around the word began to mark their own local ‘Purim’.

With the shocking rise of antisemitism in the UK and beyond, Purim might make an annual moment of reflection for us.

Perhaps, too, the early Liberal Jews missed a feature of the Purim story in which, in typical fairy-tale style, there is a clear division between the ‘goodies’ and the ‘baddies’. If modernity has taught humanity anything it is this: politics, economics, even history and all the manifestations of human existence are rarely “black and white”.  Danny Rich is Senior Rabbi of Liberal Judaism

Progressively Speaking After New Zealand attack, what does National Conversations Week teach about tackling hate?

BY RABBI DEBBIE YOUNG-SOMERS It’s National Conversation Week and, in the aftermath of last week’s New Zealand terrorist attack, it’s a stark reminder there needs to be change in how we tackle conversations of hate. We all know the adage, “three Jews, four opinions”, and disagreement, when done well, can be a fantastic way to stretch our minds and understand the world better.

But the way we’ve been having conversations doesn’t fill me with hope. We saw last week the outcome of some of these poisonous, hatefilled conversations: murder.

The Talmud is a brilliant example of how Judaism excels at framing how conversations should go: The final decision isn’t always important, the path the conversation takes to get there is more interesting. The voice of the minority is recorded, and valued. Those who mistreat the loser in a debate suffer. And the meaning of what is going on can be continually discussed and revisited, only making

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them more and more interesting.

That’s not to say the Talmud always specialises in good conversations. Rashi, the 11th century rabbi who authored essential commentary on the Talmud, is in places dismissed, even mocked, by the next generation of commentators, the Tosafists.

But if people of the future were to look at our discourse today, especially what is written, I wonder if they’ll find it far more mocking and dismissive than that of respectful disagreement.

Conversations can be transformative. Interfaith dialogue has taught

me that I know what I have said, but I have no idea what you have heard!

This has led to conversations going awry, but we as a society have entirely lost the ability to disagree well.

Perhaps we could use the Talmud to demonstrate to the community, and to Britain more broadly, that there are better ways to disagree, and help us enjoy the art of conversation.

Conversations, and feeling heard, are important. But sometimes we need “a little less conversation, a little more action”. When it comes to the horrors of terrorism and mass shootings, thoughts and prayers aren’t enough – we have to act to change the language of hate, to challenge those who hate, to bring more goodness into the world and, as New Zealand’s prime minister of has done, to ensure it is infinitely harder to acquire the weapons that allow mass murder.  Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers is community educator at the Movement for Reform Judaism

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