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Bibi clings on for record fifth term Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to form another governing coalition and secure an unprecedented fifth spell as Israel’s prime minister after voters gave his Likud Party the platform it required to continue in power, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

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King Bibi’s reign goes on Continued from Page One However Blue and White (B&W), which declared victory on Tuesday night and thanked Netanyahu for his service, is now set to lead Israel’s opposition, despite the final result not being known until Thursday, when soldiers’ votes are counted.

“Netanyahu is on his way to forming another right-wing government, with a clear majority and far-right members, perhaps in significant ministerial positions,” said Dr Nimrod Goren, director of the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies (Mitvim).

Emeritus Professor Colin Shindler from SOAS, University of London, said the large turnout for B&W and Likud signalled “a return to twoparty politics and a swing from the far-right to the centre-right”.

Shindler said: “The electorate placed security and economic wellbeing above any moral judgement of Netanyahu – better the devil you know syndrome.”

B&W is a merged group jointly led by ex-Israel Defence Forces (IDF) chief Gantz and former TV presenter Yair Lapid, who served as finance

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Veteran Israeli commentator Nahum Barnea likes to compare Israeli elections with the old joke from the British Army during the First World War. After several weeks of tough fighting the commander gathers his troops and tells them there is good news and bad news. The good news is that you can all change your underwear. The bad news is that you need to swap with each other.

So, Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to form a very similar government to his last, including the two Orthodox parties and Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu, who could seek a return to the Finance Ministry.

Likewise, Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beteinu may want to return to the Defence

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Ministry he quit in December, demanding a more robust approach to Hamas. It is far from certain Netanyahu will allow that, since the understandings formulated by Egypt looks to be moving in a positive direction.

But there is no doubt that Netanyahu is the big winner of the election. Despite the shadow of corruption charges, he managed to increase Likud’s share of the seats. The dominant issue was a referendum on his leadership and he got an impressive mandate. He should now overtake the David Ben-Gurion to become the country’s longest serving leader.

Credit also goes to his main rival, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz. The challenge for him now is his staying power in the less glamorous role as Head of the Opposition. Despite unpleasant campaign rhetoric, this was another victory for Israel’s vibrant democracy.  Richard Pater is Israel director at Bicom

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minister under Netanyahu until 2014, after forming the Yesh Atid party and winning 19 seats in his parliamentary debut.

Gantz and Lapid had agreed to alternate in the role of prime minister if they were tasked with forming a governing coalition for the next five-year term, but analysts always warned this would be difficult given the parliamentary arithmetic.

The task of forming the next government – a process of horse-trading that can take several weeks – is constitutionally offered by the Israeli President, currently Likudnik Reuven Rivlin. His job is to offer it to the politician he judges best able to build a ruling coalition comprising at least 61 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

That is set to be offered to Netanyahu, who is more acceptable to a posse of smaller Orthodox, right-wing and religious-nationalist parties. This week’s vote saw the biggest ever share of seats for Orthodox parties – 16 in total – and a drop in seats for Arab parties compared to the 2015 election.

Netanyahu’s legal woes mean new parliamentarians will be asked to protect him from prosecution, but

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Netanyahu’s ‘victory’ / Israel Election Shindler warned that “potential coalition partners from the small parties will exact a high political price for passing an immunity law”.

One of the night’s biggest losers was Zehut, a right-wing libertarian party led by Temple Mount agitator Moshe Feiglin, who was banned from entering Britain in 2008. With populist policies such as the legalisation of cannabis, he was expected to gain four or five seats and play kingmaker, but instead failed to make the cut.

Likewise, the New Right also failed to reach the parliamentary threshold of 3.25 percent. Led by Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, who broke away from Jewish Home, they had been hoping the strength of their personalities would be enough.

The two big Orthodox parties are natural Netanyahu allies. United Torah Judaism and Shas have both previously served in his governments and have refused to serve with Lapid, who has called for an end to the Charedi IDF exemption.

Almost 200 progressive British Jews watched the election results come in at the JW3 culture centre in Finchley Road, listening to a panel of Israeli and Palestinian experts convened by Yachad, New Israel Fund and One Voice.

Reacting to the results, Yachad director Hannah Weisfeld said: “While

we may be set to witness the formation of another Netanyahu-led government, a significant number of people in Israel voted for change and this is a reason to remain hopeful.”

Indeed, Gantz and Lapid have reason to cheer. B&W outperformed all expectations, with its promise to clean up Israeli politics, impose a three-term prime ministerial limit, amend the Nation-State Bill, allow civil marriage, expand egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, invest in education and health and bring more women and Orthodox Jews into the workplace.

The other big story of the evening was the dissolution of the Labor party as a political force, managing

only six seats, while low Israeli Arab turnout also reduced the Arab bloc’s ability to swing events.

Although Gantz has ruled out governing with Netanyahu, there remains an outside chance of a “national unity government” – not seen in Israel since the 1980s – if Netanyahu feels he is ceding too many ministries to smaller parties.

Israel’s ultimate “political survivor” may yet extend a hand to his former military chief given that, for the first time in recent elections, the two biggest parties could now form a government on their own. That which is ruled out on the campaign trail isn’t completely ruled out.  Editorial comment, page 32

Master statesman plays total blinder DR NIMROD GOREN

fewer than 10 percent of the Knesset.

While Blue and White’s 35 seats is a major achievement for a first-time ANALYSIS political run, it does not endorse a two-state solution, and includes Benjamin Netanyahu’s new govern- some right-wing hardliners on the ment will likely continue the path Palestinian issue.

Netanyahu has portrayed himself of Israel’s current foreign policy. In 2009, he paid lip service to a two-state as a master-statesman and highsolution but now speaks openly about lighted his relations with (mostly) annexing settlements. Whether or populist and anti-liberal world not he will follow through, his next leaders.

This trend is set to continue, government will further tighten Israel’s grip on the territories, to pre- further eroding the democratic comvent any prospects of a viable Pales- ponent of Israel’s foreign relations.

Despite its weakness, Israel’s tinian state.

US President Donald Trump is opposition must present an alterclosely aligned with Netanyahu and native vision based on advancing is expected to give him leeway over peace, increasing regional belonging such policies. The EU today is less in Europe and the Middle East, and united against Netanyahu’s policies anchoring Israel to the club of liberal democracies. than in the past.

This will not be easy, but Israel’s So it may need a Democratic US administration in 2020 to present friends around the world need and enforce some red lines, in part to know that there is more to because Netanyahu will face no sig- Israel and its foreign relations than nificant domestic opposition on Netanyahu. foreign policy or national security Dr Nimrod Goren is director of the Israeli Institute for issues.

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Praise for Bibi – but also caution British Jewish leaders congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on what seems like a fifth term as prime minister, but cautioned against the “deeply alarming rhetoric” heard throughout the election campaign.

While acknowledging Netanyahu’s “significant achievement,” Board of Deputies’ president Marie van der Zyl said it was a “polarising campaign”.

Van der Zyl said: “Politicians from all sides need to work hard to build trust with every section of Israeli society and not take actions and decisions which deepen divides.”

Speaking at the JW3 culture centre on Tuesday night, Palestinian social entrepreneur Ruba Huleihel agreed that the 2019 election would be remembered “for its divisiveness and personal attacks,” but all main parties were culpable.

In one such instance, ex-IDF chief of staff and former defence minister Moshe

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Ya’alon, who ran alongside Lt Gen Benny Gantz for the Blue and White party, accused Netanyahu of “treason” in the run-up to the election. Netanyahu in turn accused Gantz of being blackmailed by Iran.

Meanwhile, Michael Ben Ari, the leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, became the first election candidate to be banned from running, for suggesting anyone who speaks ill of Jews should be executed.

The Zionist Federation congratulated Netanyahu, adding: “This is how democracy plays out. [Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud] Abbas should take note.”

UK Jewish group Na’amod said: “As British Jews, it is painful to see our communal representatives congratulating Netanyahu when they stayed silent as he ushered far-right extremists into the Knesset.”

The obliteration of progressive views

BY TOMER PINES

CHAIR OF YOUNG LABOR IN ISRAEL

The election result carries significant and historic meaning only acknowledged by a few, namely the near-complete obliteration of progressive Zionism in Israel.

The mandate for Israelis who support peace, a welfare state and civil equality has fallen from 56 seats during the Rabin administration to 11 seats today. The process isn’t coincidental, and left-wing Israelis must be aware of it.

The gradual weakening of the Zionist left stems from the 1990s and the way Israeli debate is dictated by the rightwing, led by Netanyahu.

They have incited, divided Israel’s population segments, and mercilessly struck their political opponents. The Israeli left stands in shock, having failed to create a different agenda.

In its weakness, the left’s strategy became ‘wearing a

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costume’, that is aligning its positions with those of the right. In doing so, it neglected the battlefield.

The Israeli left gave up on its own agenda, wore its leaders down and failed at the ballot box. The lack of an alternative meant Israelis yet again put their trust in the right, which recognised this lack of genuine competition and radicalised its political positions against Arabs and the media.

There are no shortcuts in politics. Those who believe in democracy, equality and peace must re-examine and realise to win support you must show the public your position, not wait to see theirs.

The Zionist left must also build bridges with Israeli Arabs – a fifth of all Israelis.

To not do so is to fall into a right-wing trap, and to shirk a minority that just wants to incorporate into Israeli life.

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Email leak sparks new round of accusations A shocking report in The Sunday the Jewish community will not Times claiming Labour failed to understand how, many years on take disciplinary action against from the first concerns about antihundreds of members accused semitism being raised, we have of antisemitism has reignited not got to grips with it.” a bitter row in the party.

Labour’s general secretary According to the newsJennie Formby wrote to MPs on paper, leaked emails revealed Monday, dismissing the report members reported a year ago as “selective and misrepresentafor posting comments such tive”. “We do not tolerate leaking as “Heil Hitler” and “F*** the of staff correspondence, party Jews” have not been expelled. records, and we robustly dispute The report claimed a Lanca- Hundreds of Labour members still face investigation the claims of the article from shire councillor who attacked which lines have been selectively “Jewish” media and the Rothschilds was warning after being reported by an MP leaked from emails to grossly misrepresent reinstated after she argued she had used for saying the Board of Deputies were their overall contents,” she wrote. the word “Jewish” as a “blanket term of “c****” and that saying so was “not antiFormby added this caused “considerable description without racist connotations”. semitic, it’s anti-c***. See Israel”. distress to staff who are working hard to A Corbyn ally and the chief of Labour’s The Times report said 454 of 863 com- stamp out antisemitism in our Party”. governance and legal unit, Thomas Gar- plaints were unresolved, including 249 MP Dame Louise Ellman said: “This is diner was accused in the report of frus- where the party had not started an inves- further, shocking evidence of the claims we trating efforts to fast-track the investiga- tigation, and that of 409 cases where a have been making that the Leader’s office tion of a member who condemned two decision was reached, 191 members faced interferes with the complaints process.”

Jewish MPs, Ruth Smeeth and Dame Mar- no further action, 145 received a formal The Parliamentary Labour Party garet Hodge, for being “s***-stirring c** warning and fewer than 30 were expelled. demanded a full report on each claim and buckets in the pay of Israel”.

Labour deputy leader MP Tom Watson a statement of solidarity with the Jewish In another case, a member was said: “This makes for deeply shocking and Labour Movement. MPs also demanded believed to have been let off with a depressing reading. Labour members and the leadership publish its response to the

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JLM hands Corbyn no-confidence vote The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) has passed a vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

The motion was passed “overwhelmingly” at its annual general meeting on Sunday.

A motion noting the “crisis of antisemitism” within the party since Corbyn’s election as leader was passed “almost unanimously”.

The no-confidence motion was passed despite a plea from shadow attorney general Bar-

oness Shami Chakrabarti not to “personalise” the issue by focusing on Corbyn because he “won’t be leader forever”.

The JLM meeting took place after Labour again found itself embroiled in a row over its handling of antisemitism complaints after a newspaper said it had seen leaked internal documents showing the party’s system for dealing with complaints had been beset by delays, inaction and interference from the leader’s office.

Katz wins vote to become JLM chair Mike Katz won the election to become the next chair of the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) and stated solidarity is a two-way street.

He told Jewish News: “If MPs, councillors, MSPs etc are clear, consistent and strong in backing us, we will be clear, consistent and strong in backing them.”

Katz, who beat incumbent national chair, former MP and minister Ivor Caplin, said JLM was now “working to rule” and the party leadership was on “a final warning”.

Stoke MP Ruth Smeeth took up the position of parliamentary chair after Luciana Berger was hounded out of the party owing to antisemitic abuse.

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Let’s see what stay and fight looks like

BY JOE GOLDBERG

EXECUTIVE MEMBER, JLM, AND FORMER LABOUR COUNCILLOR The Labour Party was founded to ensure working people could stand on their own two feet. Poale Zion – now Jewish Labour Movement – was founded prior to the Labour Party to ensure Jewish working people could stand on their own two feet. Our affiliation to the Labour Party is predicated on us sharing these endeavours. Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has now created a schism in our solidarity.

On Sunday, in electing its new chair and in passing a motion of no confidence in Corbyn and the general secretary of the Labour Party, we reclaimed the spirit of Dov Ber Borochov, our founding father.

It was he who identified that for Jewish working people to progress, we must first achieve recognition and liberation as a Jewish nation – ultimately through the realisation of the Jewish state – and then as working people.

Every Jewish person knows we are small in number, and this dictates that we will always be a small part of the Labour Party. It makes our decision to stay and fight to secure our

platform within the party even bolder.

It is for this very reason we made the decision to not only pass a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn – we made clear he is unfit to be prime minister.

There can be no doubt now that our decision last month to remain affiliated was not a motion of confidence in the leader, but a recognition that remaining within our party gives us more opportunity to win.

That is why we also defined what “stay and fight” looks like. It is no longer going to be good enough to tweet condemnations.

We expect elected members of the Labour Party to be affiliate members of ours and, if not, explain why. We expect them to explain why they have not taken action to tackle antisemitism when it exists in their own Constituency Labour Party. We expect them to demand antisemites are withdrawn from political groups.

Already the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) – key defenders of Jackie Walker – has evoked the antisemitic trope of Jews being backstabbers with calls for us to be expelled from the Labour Party.

Our actions have been noticed. Its president is Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. He must now resign from the LRC. Anything less makes clear he is on the wrong side of history and represents a hostile threat to Jewish working lives.

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‘COSMOPOLITAN’ TWEET CAUSES UPSET A trade union official has refused to apologise for an “antisemitic” comment about Brexit that referred to “rootless cosmopolitans”. Paul Embery tweeted on Sunday: “I fear this encapsulates the divide in our society – between a rootless, cosmopolitan, bohemian middle-class […] and a rooted, communitarian, patriotic working-class.” The remark followed an exchange of messages about Brexit sent in response to a tweet by Gary Lineker questioning support for ending freedom of movement.

ADVISOR SACKED OVER SOROS INSULT A government adviser who was knighted in 2016, has been sacked after referring to a “Soros empire” in Hungary and defending its prime minister Viktor Orbán against allegations of antisemitism. Speaking to The New Statesman’s George Eaton, Sir Roger Scruton, 75, said: “Anybody who doesn’t think there’s a Soros empire in Hungary has not observed the facts.” Scruton, who was chair of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, also dismissed allegations of antisemitism levelled against Orbán as “nonsense.”

Falconer shares party fears Lord Falconer has become the most senior Labour figure yet to suggest the party’s actions on antisemitism could render it institutionally antisemitic, writes Justin Cohen.

The former Lord Chancellor’s stark warning came after The Sunday Times published details of a leaked database suggesting hundreds of complaints of antisemitism have yet to be resolved.

Echoing the Macpherson definition of institutional racism, Fal- Lord Falconer

coner – who had been poised to take over a review of the party’s disciplinary process – told Jewish News: “Can antisemitism be detected in the party’s processes, attitudes or behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping? Looks frighteningly like it as every day goes by.”

The Equalities and Human Rights Commisson (EHRC) is currently deciding whether to launch a statutory investigation into Labour after saying it may have “unlawfully discriminated against people because of

their ethnicity and religious belief”.

Iabour vigorously denied the claims, responding to the EHRC last week.

The Jewish Leadership Council’s Jonathan Goldstein labelled the party institutionally antisemitic last year in the wake of the controversy over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which Labour only adopted with all its examples after a huge row with MPs and community leaders. Luciana Berger repeated the term when she resigned from the party.

Falconer was in the process of agreeing terms with Labour to conduct a review when the EHRC intervened last month. The peer said at the time the EHRC “may well” move to an offi-

cial probe – a move he would welcome to shine a “bright light” on how disciplinary complaints have been dealt with.

This comes as Labour’s general secretary Jennie Formby wrote to MPs, complaining that a Sunday Times report on the way the party dealt with antisemitism was “selective and misrepresentative”.

She wrote: “The Labour Party is clear – we take all complaints of antisemitism extremely seriously and we are committed to rooting it out.

“All complaints about antisemitism are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures. For data protection and confidentiality reasons, we do not and cannot comment on individual cases.”

MOMENTUM DIRECTOR REMOVED The former head of Labour’s disputes panel, who claimed the antisemitism row had been “stirred up” to attack Jeremy Corbyn, has been removed as director of Momentum.

Christine Shawcroft hit out at Momentum on Facebook last month for withdrawing

its support for Pete Willsman, after he was recorded calling some members of the Jewish community “Trump fanatics”.

In the post, she wrote she had offered to stand down as director if she got a “guarantee that the nonsense last year about withdrawing

support from someone on an agreed NEC slate, then again objecting to an excellent candidate for the NCC, wouldn’t happen in future” but she did not.

Shawcroft told Jewish News: “I was extremely concerned about a small number

of officers taking a decision to remove support from Peter Willsman for the NEC elections, and then again they didn’t want to support Stephen Marks for the NCC....

“I wanted assurances they would be more democratic in future.”

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

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FORMER ENVOY GETS NHS ROLE interventions of all its citizens Britain’s former ambassador for decades, together with records to Israel has been appointed of the effects of that intervention. to lead the NHS’s digital Companies designing new revolution. drugs, treatments, diagnostics Matthew Gould was Britand processes are desperate for ain’s man in Tel Aviv from this know-how in order to build 2010 to 2015, and built bilatbetter products. eral bridges in science and Gould has long champitechnology. oned technological cooperaSince 2015, he has been tion between British and Israeli director of cyber security companies, forming the UK and information assurance Israel Tech Hub from the British at the Cabinet Office, but last New role: Matthew Gould Embassy, which matches bigger Thursday he was announced as the new chief executive of NHSX, a govern- British companies with Israeli start-ups.

He also kick-started the Britain Israel ment unit charged with setting national policy and developing best practice for NHS tech- Research and Academic Exchange Partnership (BIRAX) with the British Council, and this ininology, digital and data.

The unit’s duties include sharing NHS data, tiative has led to millions of pounds on bilatwhich is seen as an incredibly valuable resource eral research in which scientists work together by health and technology companies around in fields such as regenerative medicine.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “Matthe world, who are queuing up for access to the national data set. This is because the UK has kept thew has a wealth of experience in managing centralised and reliable records of the health large digital projects.”

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Charities boycott Brunei Jewish Care will no longer be hosting events at The Dorchester Hotel for the foreseeable future, as calls to boycott the venue grow over Brunei’s anti-LGBT law.

The Jewish charity said it would boycott the venue and any other hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei for future events. This comes after Brunei adopted a new law punishing homosexual sex and women charged with adultery with death by stoning.

The new law prompted a campaign led by George Clooney and Elton John for a boycott of the Brunei Sultan’s hotels, including The Dorchester.

Jewish Care’s director of fundraising and community engagement Adam Overlander-Kaye said: “Last month Jewish Care hosted its annual

Young Jewish Care’s Patron’s dinner at The Dorchester. This will be the last event we host at this hotel, or any other hotel owned by the Sultan of Brunei, for the foreseeable future”.

Magen David Adom UK said it would actively seek alternative venues to The Dorchester for its annual dinner in November owing to concerns over human rights in Brunei.

A spokesman for Magen David Adom UK confirmed it had held events in The Dorchester twice since 2017, but he added: “However, in light of the ongoing human rights issues in Brunei, which contradict our core humanitarian values as a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, we will be actively seeking an alternative venue for this year’s annual dinner in November as well as all future events.”

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News / Airbnb U-turn / Scientist mourned / Interfaith women

Airbnb reverses West Bank ban Airbnb has reversed its decision to remove West Bank settlement listings from its website.

The policy change was decided following a court settlement on Monday between the holiday rental company and a dozen American-Jewish plaintiffs who sued the company, organised by Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center, a pro-Israel law organisation.

A copy of the settlement obtained by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency says Airbnb will now allow rentals in both Palestinian areas and Israeli settlements of the West Bank.

“Airbnb takes no position on the Host-Plaintiffs’ claims, or others’ claims, to legal title to the properties on which the accommodations are located,” the court settlement reads. “All listings for accommodations located in the Affected Region [the West Bank] will at all times be per-

mitted on its platform, subject to applicable laws, rules, and regulations.”

Airbnb announced in November that it would remove some 200 rental listings in West Bank settlements, because it contended that the settlements “are at the core of the dispute between

Israelis and Palestinians.” The movement to boycott Israel saw the decision as a victory.

But Airbnb never removed the listings.

A week after the decision, Shurat Hadin organised the suit on behalf of a dozen AmericanJewish families, most of whom own properties in West Bank settlements.

The suit was filed under the Fair Housing Act, which was meant to prevent discrimination against minorities in the United States.

As Airbnb is based in the United States, it must adhere to the act in all its rental listings worldwide.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs claimed that Airbnb was discriminating against them for being Jewish, given that it still allowed listings

by Palestinian Muslims and Christians in the West Bank.

“The policy Airbnb announced last November was abject discrimination against Jewish users of the website,” Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the president of Shurat Hadin, said in a statement.

“Whatever one’s political view, discrimination based on religious affiliation should never be the solution.”

In a statement, Airbnb said it does not support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel and will donate any profits from the West Bank to humanitarian groups.

It also will apply the same policy to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two disputed territories adjacent to Georgia, and evaluate its listings in other disputed territories.

Airbnb has yet to announce where it will donate the profits.

GENIUS BIOLOGIST MOURNED A revolutionary Jewish biologist who won a Nobel Prize for his work at Cambridge University has died aged 92.

Born in South Africa in 1927 to a Lithuanian father and a Latvian mother, Sydney Brenner’s beginnings were modest.

His father, a cobbler, was illiterate, but at the age of four Brenner taught himself to read from newspapers, which were used instead of tablecloths, “by looking at letters and finding out sounds”.

He later joked he only ended up at medical school aged 15 “to escape” and achieved his degree aged 18, writing his first paper that year.

A scholarship to Oxford soon followed, and he went on to make some of the most significant discoveries in the history of biology, transforming the understanding of how life works at the molecular level.

Brenner discovered the letters in a DNA sequence that determine which

amino acids ribosomes should use to assemble proteins.

He also established the role played by RNA in carrying the “code of life” held in the DNA sequence.

Francis Crick and Brenner, who received a Nobel prize in 2002, worked together at Cambridge for 20 years, their work marked by “a series of brilliant, sudden insights”, according to peers.

Sydney Brenner helped decipher the genetic code

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Women unite for campaign against racism

Rachel Riley at the Nisa-Nashim conference

Some mostly 250 Jewish and Muslim women at an event featuring Countdown host Rachel Riley and Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick have pledged to stand shoulder to shoulder against racism.

The group launched its #ActiveAllies campaign at an annual conference hosted by the Jewish and Muslim women’s network NisaNashim at the University of Westminster on Sunday.

Delegates vowed to

encourage and enable Jewish and Muslim women to speak out about hatred against their faith groups and against all other women.

Among the pledges was a commitment to urge political parties to review processes for preventing and dealing with Islamophobia and antisemitism.

The group held a vigil for the victims of attacks in Christchurch and Pittsburgh, with delegates praying together and per-

forming a song featuring lyrics in Hebrew, Arabic and English.

Dick told delegates: “It’s important to celebrate what we have in common... to recognise differences and respect them.

“And it’s important to work together for a better future.”

Laura Marks and Julie Siddiqi, co-chairs of NisaNashim, said: “The time for talking is over, now it’s time for us to take united action.

BUILDING for 70 years

Gan Yavne, not far from the famous port city of Ashdod, is one of Israel’s fastest growing towns. In order to serve the ever expanding population, Magen David Adom UK is crowdfunding £400,000 to build a new ambulance station. The future of many of Israel’s newest communities depends on investment from organisations such as Magen David Adom. The infrastructure and development is not just material: it is at the heart of the local community.

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Holy-day! Madonna set to rock the stage at Eurovision UK wins Eurovision (sort of) as Netta finds out she’s British!

Israeli Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai is officially a little bit British, after a DNA test revealed she is 1.5 percent Celt.

The singer discovered more about her genetic roots ahead of this year’s competition, which takes place in Tel Aviv next month.

It showed that she is 51.4 percent Sephardic Jewish from North Africa, 45.4 percent Ashkenazi Jewish, with 1.7 percent Baltic and 1.5 percent Irish, Scottish, and Welsh.

Barzilai, who met Prince William on his visit to Israel last year, was able to trace her family tree back nearly 300 years, and said she had a lifelong affinity for Irish people.

Her great-grandfather Natan Barzilai, a blacksmith, was from Tomashov Lubelski in Poland. The family’s name was Szpisajzen before it was changed to Barzilai.

As part of the project, DNA researchers from MyHeritage traced the Szpisajzen family to several buildings in the town, including her great-grandfather’s home.

Madonna fans will cherish this: the queen of pop is set to perform at the Eurovision final in Tel Aviv next month.

Israel’s public broadcaster KAN confirmed the 60-year-old icon will make an appearance on stage, with the expected $1million (£770,000) cost being met by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams.

Her Eurovision gig will mark the fourth time Madonna has performed in the Holy Land, following on from shows in 1993, 2009 and 2012.

Madonna has also enjoyed personal trips to Israel previously, having become an active follower of Kabbalah after an introduction by her friend, Jewish actress Sandra Bernhard.

Following her reported appearance at this year’s Eurovision grand finale, which will be held on 18 May, boycott campaigners called on Madonna to reconsider the event.

An open letter from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) – part of a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign – suggested her appearance would be used by the Israeli government “to mask its deepening oppression of Palestinians”.

The statement posted to social media read: “Palestinians hope that you will not undermine our struggle for freedom, justice and equality by performing at

Madonna will perform two songs at next month’s Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv

Eurovision in apartheid Tel Aviv, on the ruins of the ethnically-cleansed village of al-Shaykh Muwannis.

The call from Palestinian artists to boycott Eurovision hosted by Israel is supported by more than 100,000 people signing petitions,

Jewish Care has unveiled its new 64-bed care home, Anita Dorfman House, which has just opened at Sandringham in Stanmore.

It is expected that the first residents, who are currently staying at Princess Alexandra House on the 16-acre site, will move in next month.

The project was supported by the Dorfman Foundation and named after Sir Lloyd Dorfman’s mother Anita, aged 91.

Sir Lloyd said: “We are thrilled to be associated with Jewish Care’s new visionary Sandringham campus and to have supported the new care home.

“We wanted to honour my mother, and are delighted that so many people will be looked after in

this home bearing her name.”

Jewish Care president Lord Levy said: “Today is an exciting milestone for our hugely ambitious Sandringham development.

“We are extremely grateful to Sir Lloyd Dorfman and his family for their generous support, which has enabled us to honour Anita Dorfman by naming the new home Anita Dorfman House – a new home for current residents at Princess Alexandra House and members of the wider local community.”

Anita Dorfman said: “I am thrilled to lend my name to Jewish Care’s new home. Having recently

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Sir Lloyd Dorfman with Anita

celebrated my 91st birthday, this is a lovely belated birthday present.

“It is a fantastic charity and I am proud the family foundation has a long association with it and has supported this project.”

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more than 100 LGBTQIA groups, more than 20 Israeli artists, and hundreds of prominent international artists.

The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Israel after Netta Barzilai won last year with her song, Toy.

Measles scare on El Al flight An El Al flight attendant was taken to hospital after contracting measles on a flight from Tel Aviv.

She was unconscious and on a respirator, according to initial reports. It is also thought the she had been vaccinated.

The Jerusalem Post said a passenger with the virus had boarded the flight to New York.

Israel has seen a serious outbreak of measles recently, due mostly to lower than average vaccination rates in the Charedi community, and two Israelis have died from the disease.

Charedi communities in New York who also have low vaccination rates have similarly reported measles outbreaks.

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Film pair seek refugees saved by Dutch heroine Dutch film-makers are asking British Jews for help on a documentary about a social worker who became a Holocaust hero helping 10,000 Jewish children to safety on the Kindertransport.

Resistance fighter Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, nicknamed Truus, was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, for her wartime efforts – including smuggling children out under her skirt.

In December 1938, she travelled to Vienna and managed to arrange the departure of a Kindertransport train packed with 600 Jewish children. Of

these, 500 went to England and 100 went to the Netherlands.

For the next nine months, she worked with Sir Nicholas Winton and others to arrange similar transports for Jews stranded in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden to England and unoccupied France and Spain.

On the day Holland surrendered, she helped to smuggle 74 Jewish children from an Amsterdam orphanage to a Dutch port where they boarded the freighter SS Bodegraven to Liverpool .

The Dutch filmmakers, Pamela Sturhoofd and Jes-

sica van Tijn, are giving a talk at the Association of Jewish Refugees on 14 April. They are calling for any British Jewish families with relatives who may have been saved by Truus to get in touch.

Seven students of the Montefiore College have been awarded their rabbinical diplomas at a ceremony at Bevis Marks Synagogue.

The four or five-year part-time Montefiore Semicha study course is one of only two in the UK accepted for membership of the Rabbinical Council of America, alongside the Gateshead yore-yoreh simicha.

The Montefiore Endowment has now trained more than 20 new rabbis, including senior clergy from across the Orthodox religious spectrum.

Graduates have gone on to serve in the US, Australia, Hong Kong, Turkey, Germany, Portugal and Israel.

The diplomas were signed

by Dayan Ezra Basri, Rav Yosef Carmel, Rabbi Zalman

Nehemia Goldberg, Rabbi Abraham Levy, Rabbi Nahum Rabinovich and Rabbi Lord Sacks.

The UK contingent includes rabbis from the Sephardi Community, the United Synagogue, the Federation of Synagogues, Chabad and Charedi kehillot, described as “a rare example of religious inclusivity and one that is heartwarming to behold”.

The Montefiore Endowment is motivated by a desire “to strengthen Anglo-Jewry’s middle-of-the-road tradition”, which its says is fast being eroded by the extremes of the religious right and the religious left”.

It approaches halachic decision-making “with mildness, stresses the middle way and avoids extremes”.

Geertruida with a bust in her honour, pictured in 1965

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In the past two years, they have traced 23 people saved thanks to the work of Miss Wijsmuller and others.

Their documentary, Truus’ Children, is scheduled to premiere later this year.

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SHTISEL STAR HELPS JNF UK RAISE £60K Shtisel star Michael Aloni charmed 600 people at two sold-out events at Marriott Hotel Regents Park, which raised more than £60,000 for the charity JNF UK last Sunday. The 35-year-old Israeli actor, who hosts The Voice Israel, is best known for playing the part of Akiva in the Netflix TV show Shtisel. Part of a strictlyOrthodox family, his character abandons a career in teaching to become an artist and breaks off three separate engagements. All proceeds will be used to support cancer patients in Israel.

NUS DISQUALIFIES STUDENT OVER POST A student running for a role in the National Union of Students (NUS) has been disqualified from the election following “antisemitic” social media posts. Zeid Truscott was running for a seat on the NUS national executive committee, which is the main scrutiny body for NUS’ political leadership.

Chief returning officer Jules Mason tweeted: “Despite being informed of the potential of disqualification, a candidate has not complied with my ruling in respect to a complaint made about them concerning antisemitism. I have disqualified the candidate.”

Hasmo has a million reasons to say thanks A school appealing for donations online has raised more than £1million in under two days – smashing their £750,000 target.

Hasmonean High School set up a campaign on Sunday morning on the fundraising platform CauseMatch, asking for donations from members of the community.

The campaign collected donations from more than 1,300 people, with a group of governors, trustees and com-

munity members doubling each donation made.

Among the donors, Benjamin and Dr Shoshana Perl contributed £10,000, writing on the fundraising campaign website: “With admiration to a top school.”

Moishe and Shmayah Stimler also donated £10,000, writing on the page: “Thank you all the staff and governors of the school, wishing this event every success.”

Hasmonean High School raised £1m via an online appeal

In an email to parents, executive headteacher Andrew McClusky expressed his “deep gratitude” to all those involved who made the campaign “such a fabulous success”.

He thanked fundraising chair Ben Shooter and his wife Katie, governors Jacqueline Benjamin and Jonny Feinmesser, fundraising coordinator Dawn Murray and parent Simon Dryer for supporting the campaign.

“My thanks extends to their whole families as I know that so much family time was sacrificed to ensure this campaign succeeded,” he wrote.

“I have said it before and I will say it again: the strength of Hasmonean High School is the community that it serves.

“At a time when all schools face huge financial challenges, due to government funds decreasing and staff costs rising, these funds have never been needed more.”

HMD theme for 2020 announced

Dr Martin Stern, Susan Pollack, Lily Ebert, Maurice Blik and Dame Penelope Wilton at the HMD 2020 launch

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT)’s theme for 2020 has been announced as ‘Stand Together’, urging people to fight hatred and remember the victims of racism at a time when “identity-based hostility is increasing”.

On Tuesday, educators revealed plans for next year’s day of remembrance, as a new national commemorative project was launched with the help of sculptor and Shoah survivor Maurice Blik.

The theme was launched at a ceremony in London attended

by Shoah survivors Susan Pollack, Lily Ebert, Dr Martin Stern and Blik, as well as Safet Vukalic, a survivor of the Bosnian genocide, and actress Penelope Wilton.

The theme explores how genocidal regimes deliberately fracture societies by marginalising communities, and how this can be challenged by individuals uniting and speaking out against oppression.

Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the HMDT UK said: “During the Holocaust and genocide, communities were deliberately divided and individuals persecuted because of their identity. Despite the dangers, some people chose to stand together with those targeted, challenging the divisive actions of genocidal regimes.”

“At a time when we know identity-based hostility is increasing, it is important we stand together with others facing prejudice.”

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Yavneh College has confirmed it will open a one-off bulge class for the next academic year to offer an additional 30 places in Year 7.

The Borehamwood school, situated in one of the largest Jewish communities in the UK, made the decision in response to growing demand for places.

Executive headteacher Spencer Lewis said: “We are pleased to be able to help families without school places for September by providing them with the first-class secular and Jewish education of which we are so proud here at the Yavneh schools.”

A spokeswoman for Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), a division of the Jewish Leadership Council, said the organisation was “delighted” by the news.

“It is an important decision that will help ease the waiting lists across all the schools in north-

Yavneh will have an extra 30 places in Y7

west London,” she added. But PaJeS said it remained “concerned” about the growing need for places in schools across the community.

“We have approached the Department of Education with options of either building a new school or expanding the current provision.

We are hopeful they will approve one of these options shortly.”

UJS gives antisemitism training The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) is set to deliver training on antisemitism to the executive body of the National Union of Students (NUS) after a motion was passed at the latter’s national conference in Glasgow on Tuesday.

The motion, together with another condemning Islamophobia, was put forward by Bristol student Sally Patterson, daughter of former Board of Deputies’ senior vice-presi-

dent and Mitzvah Day founder Laura Marks.

“Antisemitism is unacceptable in all its forms,” the motion read. “There is a problem with antisemitism in the NUS and the student movement, and previous efforts by NUS to challenge this have clearly not been working.”

The UJS, in its 100th anniversary year, said the motion’s adoption represented “hugely positive strides in combatting

antisemitism on university campuses”, according to UJS campaigns organiser Daniel Kosky.

“We look forward to delivering antisemitism training for the NUS National Executive Committee.

“There is still a long way to go to ensure that NUS is fit for Jewish students.

“We hope to continue our collaborative work long into the future.”

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News / Cancer claims / Annabelle mourned

Mother is accused of faking cancer for cash A Jewish mother has been charged with fraudulently raising more than £45,000 in cash from the public after pretending to have cancer and needing funds for treatment.

Nicole Elkabbas, from Edge End Road, Broadstairs, Kent, was investigated by detectives who questioned whether she actually had the deadly illness she claimed to have in an online fundraising campaign.

Elkabbas, 40, was charged last Friday with six counts of fraud between February and August 2018, during which time she was said to have wrongly accepted £45,350 from compassionate donors.

Elkabbas described herself as working in PR for Qatar Holding, a global investment house, having previously worked as an executive manager of jewellery and fashion accessories at Harrods.

Charged: Nicole Elkabbas

She was also known for her appearances as a standup comedienne, with promoters claiming she was due to hit TV screens with a new comedy sketch show for Channel 4.

Promoters wrote of her: “A Londoner that is now proud to be Kent based, has spent most of her working

career in the luxury fashion sector, having grown up in both north and east London.”

Elkabbas has been granted police bail pending a court appearance on 2 May before Margate magistrates.

A spokesman for Kent Police said: “A Thanet woman has been charged with fraudulently accepting £45,350 in donations for an illness she allegedly did not have.

Nicole Elkabbas is charged with six counts of fraud following an investigation by detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate.

“She is alleged to have falsely claimed to have required treatment for cancer in order to receive donations from members of the public, between February and August 2018.”

Jewish News reported on Elkabbas’ online fundraising campaign last March.

Warm tributes to ‘bubbly’ JFS pupil Heartfelt tributes have been paid to a 22-year-old former JFS pupil believed to have plunged to her death from the eighth floor window of a block of flats in Enfield.

Annabelle Lancaster was found with severe injuries in a car park near the eight-storey Brookbank building on Sunday afternoon.

Police say she died at the scene and confirmed they had arrested a 26-year-old man on

suspicion of murder. He has been released on bail to return on a date in late April.

A friend who gave her name as Courtney, 22, laid flowers at the spot where she was found.

“I knew Annabelle from when we were staying in a mother and baby unit together,” she said. “I know she was really close with her family, especially with her mum.

“She was one of those really bubbly girls, always up for

Tragic: Annabelle Lancaster

a laugh. She was always so happy.”

JFS headteacher Rachel Fink said: “We are all deeply saddened by the news of Annabelle’s tragic passing.”

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A group of more than 70 people have concluded their meditation retreat in Morocco with a royal banquet attended by two of King Mohammed VI’s ministers in Marrakech. The trip was organised

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Good hair day for charitable kids Eighteen girls had their plaits chopped off at a salon in Temple Fortune to make wigs for children who have lost their locks owing to chemotherapy treatment for cancer.

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Zichron Menachem UK chairman Eli Seliger said he was “blown away by the dedication of all the volunteers and people involved. It was a heartwarming event.”

HOB hairstylist Selena said: ‘It gives me goosebumps thinking of the incredible process of giving we are a part of.”

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Donnie’s legacy sees family raise £25,000 for care units The family of a baby boy who passed away at just 142 days old in 2017 have raised a staggering £25,000 to provide extra help in neonatal intensive care units, writes Adam Decker.

Marcel and Ruth Berenblut’s son Daniel Ephraim – aka Donnie – was born with Edwards Syndrome, a genetic disorder. He weighed 1.7kg (3lb 3oz).

In his first few weeks, Donnie’s lung collapsed, he developed an infection, and doctors worried about the weakness of his heart.

Surgery was ruled out.

As Donnie approached four weeks, Marcel and Ruth told friends and family he had already lived longer than doctors expected.

Aged 50 days, with the help of two nurses and a host of medical equipment, including his everpresent feeding tube and oxygen supply, Donnie made it out of his ward “as far as a view of blue skies, trees and red buses”.

At eight weeks, he went outside for the first time, for a family picnic in the park. “This is about him feeling the sun on his face and the wind in his hair,” his parents wrote.

The Berenblut family together for Donnie’s 100-day birthday

“And about us enjoying his life with him and creating memories.”

Donnie passed away in September 2017, but not before seeing Trafalgar Square, Regent’s Park, Hyde Park and London Zoo with his family, including brothers Rafi and Ami and sister Yael.

In a moving journal entry written during Donnie’s final days, now posted online, Ruth says: “I have always believed I could deal with anything which came my

way. Not because I am strong but because I am pragmatic. And for 136 days that was more or less true.

“But that time is over and this week Donnie has needed me to be immersed in the present – to be still and to hold him close ... my challenge is to be kind, to stroke him and talk to him when I am tired and numb and weakened by watching his decline even though I know that he is unaware of it, and not to be hard on myself if I can’t.”

A SONG FOR CHARITY IN MEMORY OF AVIDAN child,” said Eitan. “We A Hendon couple were lucky enough have raised £4,000 to have supportive for Camp Simcha in family and friends, less than a week with but there are things a song in memory that unless you’ve of their prematureexperienced it, just born son Avidan, aren’t thought about: who died five weeks incubator covers, preafter his birth, writes mature nappies, preMathilde Frot. mature bottles, milk Gabriella and delivery, premature Eitan Freilich clothes, the preemie released the song, octopus.” called Lo Iyrah, last Gabriella added: Sunday to coincide “The neonatal expewith the brit milah of Avidan’s twin Eitan, Gabriella and Nathaniel rience is often compared to a rollerbrother Nathaniel.

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News / War memorial / Social action / Shoah donations / UN resolution

Kinder in New York New York’s performing arts college, The New School, has joined forces with The Kindertransport Association in America to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the wartime rescue movement that brought around 10,000 Jewish children to Britain.

For three days this week, ending tomorrow, there are performances, screenings and panel discussions.

The highlight is a US premiere of Carl Davis’s Last Train To Tomorrow, a dramatic work for orchestra, actors and a children’s choir, based on the story of the Kindertransport.

Musician and composer Davis, 82, is American-born, but has made his home in London since 1961. It is the fifth performance of his work that he has conducted, which he decribes as an emotional journey each time.

At the forefront of the commemoration is Ilse Melamid, née Hoenigsberg, who is a member of The New School’s board of governors and herself a Kind.

Ilse was born in Vienna in 1928. Her father ran an interior decorating business while her mother looked after her and her younger sister. After Kristallnacht in November 1938 her father was interned in Dachau, and when he was released after a year, fled Austria for Italy.

Ilse remembers: “I was excited about the journey [out of Vienna] and did not foresee it was a forever goodbye. I recall staying overnight with a Dutch family, before sailing from the Hook of Holland for London.”

But when the Kinder arrived in Liverpool Street Station, Ilse was collected by a childless couple who took her to their

home in Prescot, Lancashire, where she was deeply unhappy until she left, aged 14. “By the time I was 18 I lived alone in London, worked as a secretary, taught stenography but had very little secondary education.”

Ilse’s mother and sister were sent to Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz. In 1950, after surviving being interned in Italy and having searched unsuccessfully for his wife and younger daughter, her father moved to Australia where he had family.

Ilse decided to join him but, tragically, he died before she arrived.

Will Milberg of the New School for Social Research, which is taking part in the programme, said: “The Kindertransport provided sanctuary for children. Sanctuary is also at the heart of what we do. Our university in exile brought nearly 200 scholars from Nazi Europe to the US.”

Moscow takes part German companies in Good Deeds Day donate to Yad Vashem Thousands of Russians took part this week in the annual global charity event, Good Deeds Day. On 7 April, which was also World Health Day, campaigns were organised by the Jewish student organisation, the Hillel Russia, attracting volunteers in Moscow, St Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk, Penza, Krasnoyarsk, and Saratov.

Good Deeds Day in Russia brought together over 1,000 Moscow students, charity fund volunteers, activists and caring people.

This year, participants in Moscow took part in one of 10 charitable activities, including dog walking, blood donation, and collecting clothes for homeless people and low-income families. The project was supported

by Genesis Philanthropy Group, the Joint Distribution Committee and The Challenger.

United Nations condems both Islamophobia and antisemitism In the wake of the New Zealand mosque attacks, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning both Islamophobia and antisemitism.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon led a diplomatic effort to change the wording of the resolution, which initially included a condemnation of Islamophobia, but had no mention of antisemitism.

The ambassador convinced several states to avoid supporting the resolution if it did not mention antisemitism. After the debate, he said: “Our diplomatic efforts have shown we will not allow the international community to remain silent while a wave of antisemitism spreads throughout the world.”

Noa Forman, who represented

UN ambassador Danny Danon

Israel in the discussion, said: “We strongly condemn this horrifying act of terrorism. It is critical that the General Assembly sends a strong message against a religious base, hatred and hate crimes, but we must do it in such a way that

unites us all.”

Jonathan Cohen, acting Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, referred to the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in the US. He said: “Many of us in this room represent nations whose people have been victims of terrorist attacks. Americans know all too well the pain of such attacks, most recently with the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Yazidis and Christians victimised by Isis also know this pain.

“Opposing this terrorism unites countries around the world. While we’ve made progress in our fight against terrorism, we must remain vigilant. Together, we must continue to fight terrorism and all its forms wherever it exists.”

Five German companies – Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen and the football club Borussia Dortmund— have announced they will donate €5 million to Yad Vashem.

Making the declaration in Berlin last week, the companies said they viewed the initiative as “a clear sign of our solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust, and as our responsibility, past and future, in the fight against racism and antisemitism”.

Yad Vashem houses the world’s largest collection of Holocaust-era artefacts, and will build new space for archiving and research. The aim is to secure the museum’s collection for future generations. Construction of the new 45,000 sq ft Shoah Heritage Collections Centre is set to begin in August.

The five German companies said they were “committing ourselves to understanding between nations, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence”.

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A street fight between drunk homeless people spilled into a synagogue in Buenos Aires on Friday night. Rabbi Uriel Husni of the Mikdash Yosef Orthodox synagogue sustained minor injuries after tackling a man threatening worshippers with a broken bottle. Fears it was an antisemitic proved unfounded.

The president of the new Jewish Council of the Emirates heralded a “rekindling of the Judeo-Islamic tradition” after the opening of a synagogue in Dubai. Ross Kriel said the Arab world’s first new shul in generations, known locally as “the villa”, would offer Hebrew classes and kosher catering in a low-key setting.

Police are investigating the artist who built a Berlin Holocaust Memorial replica outside the home of a far-right leader. Björn Höcke, a leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), first tried to sue Philipp Ruch. Left-wing politicians said the investigation into Ruch “sends a devastating political signal”.

The African National Congress has downgraded its embassy in Israel to a liaison office, a year after the South African government withdrew its envoy in protest at the killing of protesters on the Gaza border. The office will have “no political or trade mandate” and will only deal with consular affairs.

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IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS AND THE CHELSEA FOUNDATION PRESENT

LIGHT FROM THE DARK

4 APRIL 2019

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SOUVENIR PULL-OUT

THURSDAY 4 APRIL 2019 AT STAMFORD BRIDGE An inspiring evening hosted by David Baddiel, featuring untold stories of strength and survival amidst the horror of the Holocaust.

All proceeds will go to the Imperial War Museum’s vital project to redevelop their Second World War and Holocaust Galleries.

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Jewish News and Chelsea team up for Holocaust education Gala fundraising dinner at Stamford Bridge for Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Galleries

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helsea Football Club in partnership with Jewish News held a gala dinner last week to raise funds for the Imperial War Museum’s new Holocaust Galleries in London, writes Adam Decker.

The event, presented by comedian David Baddiel and titled Light From The Dark, was attended by 350 guests including British Olympic Association former chairman Lord Coe, Chelsea FC chairman Bruce Buck and Rabbi Nicky Liss for the Chief Rabbi.

Attendees heard from Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller who delivered an inspirational message saying: “We survivors are fighting to ensure the world never forgets what happened and to ensure it never happens again. I believe I am alive today because of my attitude to life – I fought for survival and continue to do so.”

On his own experiences as a descendant of Holocaust survivors, Baddiel said: “It seems odd when discussing the Holocaust to be inspired by stories, but the worst events can often bring out the best in people. My grandparents survived, which I think is an inspiration of itself. Tonight was

a great, uplifting and important event.

Well done to Chelsea for supporting the Imperial War Museum’s efforts to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive.”

The museum in London is expanding its Holocaust and Second World War galleries and creating a new learning centre to become the first in the word to connect physically and thematically the Holocaust with the Second World War. The new galleries will open in 2021. Almost 90% of the funding has already been secured – thanks in no small part to a donation from Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich – leaving £2million still to be raised.

Diane Lees CBE, Director-General of the Imperial War Museums, said: “It is incredible to be here tonight and hear from survivors. On behalf of the Imperial War Museums, I’d like to thank Roman Abramovich, Bruce Buck and everyone at the Chelsea Foundation for organising this fascinating evening.

“We shall soon be in a world where there are no living witnesses to the events of the Second World War and the Holocaust, so our duty to educate future generations has never been more pressing.

“We are delighted to be working in partnership with

Chelsea Foundation’s ‘Say No to Antisemitism’ campaign, which highlights the importance of education and awareness of the past to ensure a better future for us all.”

Chelsea’s Say No to Antisemitism campaign recently won an award at the London Football Awards. The project, launched in early 2018, includes an educational programme on antisemitism and its effect on Jewish people and the wider community.

Chelsea FC chairman Bruce Buck told Jewish News: “This is a very important event enabling Chelsea to partner up with the Imperial War Museum, bringing awareness to their Holocaust project and our antisemitism project. Education is crucial to help solve antisemitism and the Imperial War Museum is pulling together a project which will certainly help.

Buck added: “All sporting institutions are doing good causes of different kinds.

We hope other football clubs in the UK and other sporting institutions worldwide will start their own antisemitism projects, and we would be happy to assist others.”

Under the direction of club owner Roman Abramovich, the club’s dedication to

Holocaust education has also included Holocaust survivor Harry Spiro attending a meeting of the first team to speak about his experiences, and an event in Parliament hosted by House of Commons Speaker John Bercow.

Guests also heard from Judge Robert Rinder, who recalled his experiences on the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are? In a powerful address, Rinder warned: “It is critical to remember that this hate did not emerge all of a sudden – it emerged against the backdrop of democracy.

It took place because people forgot to protect democracy, to think about it and above all forgot to remember. We will not forget to remember because organisations like the Imperial War Museum are the custodians of truth who help us and future generations.

While we help them, we protect democracy.”

Journalist Hella Pick, who arrived on the Kindertransport from Austria, also discussed her experiences with Michael Attenborough, whose family hosted two German-Jewish girls for seven years from 1939.

The evening featured a live auction bid, with prizes including a private tour of the

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Guests also heard the Topaz String Trio performing works by the composer Hans Neumeyer written before his death in Theresienstadt in 1944.

Robert Singer, CEO of the World Jewish Congress, which has worked closely with Chelsea FC in countering antisemitism, said: “Chelsea is doing a fantastic job in leading the charge against antisemitism in sports.

“The only way to deal with Holocaust denial, and all forms of antisemitism and hatred, is through strong leadership. This means publicly denouncing and condemning antisemitism whenever it rears its head.

Premier league players are leaders and role models among young people and fan bases, so the fact Chelsea has taken a stance on this is very significant and important.”

Speaking to Jewish News, Lord Coe added: “I’ve spent my whole life fighting discrimination in sport in any guise or form, so for me this is a very instinctive place to be.

“Sport is the number-one social worker in every community and we need the world to recognise the work sport is doing.”

Reflecting on the evening, Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer said: “We are proud to have teamed up with Chelsea Football Club for such a momentous event. It was incredibly moving to spend the evening in the company of survivors and see first hand what the Imperial War Museum’s magnificent work means to them.”

Main: Host David Baddiel. Insets: Rabbi Nicky Liss, Robert Rinder and Lord Coe. Above: Chelsea stars backing the campaign

HOW ROMAN ABRAMOVICH INSPIRED OUR CAMPAIGN

BY BRUCE BUCK

CHAIRMAN, CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB

In 2017, Roman Abramovich instructed all of us at Chelsea to ramp up efforts to tackle antisemtism on and off the pitch.

This is how we came to launch our Say No To Antisemitism campaign – a wide-ranging initiative to tackle antisemitism and to educate fans, football and the wider community on the dangers of intolerance.

Since we started the campaign, we have become convinced that education is the absolute key to making a difference.

Understanding history plays an important role in changing attitudes, and we are proud to be able to contribute to a new landmark gallery that will benefit millions of visitors from around the world and improve education and awareness about the Holocaust.

The club was privileged to host a fundraiser for the Imperial War Museum (IWM) London’s new £30.5 million Holocaust gallery, at Stamford Bridge last week. We

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EDUCATION IS KEY TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME

were delighted to partner with Jewish News for this special occasion.

It is a project of huge significance to our owner, Mr Abramovich, and the whole of Chelsea Football Club.

The event, From Darkness into Light, was hosted by comedian and writer, David Baddiel, and we were honoured to hear the memories and stories from Holocaust survivors and those saved in the Kindertransports.

The evening was both moving and inspirational and I’m sure that none of our guests will forget it.

Through teaching, learning and remembering what has happened, we can continue our fight against anti-Semitism and ensure an act of such hatred never happens again.

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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich inspired his club to launch the #SayNoToAntisemitism campaign

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Israelis say: better the Bibi we know The Israeli ballot papers listed dozens of options, yet for most voters there were only two: with Bibi or against him.

Benjamin Netanyahu, four-term Likud prime minister, was recommended for indictment on serious corruption charges just six weeks ago, after a twoyear police investigation and an extended review from Israel’s attorney-general. However, when he refused to resign, few thought he was a spent force. This election proved that to be true and the feeling was perhaps best summed up by religious voter Yaacov Lemash, 76, who said: “It was the first time I voted for Bibi.

I know some of the things he did were wrong, but I’m not looking for a rabbi.

I’m looking for a leader.”

The recommendation – pending a final hearing – could yet see him serve far less than his full term, but if he puts together a coalition of the willing, as seems likely, he could push through laws granting himself immunity from prosecution.

Those who voted for ‘anyone but Bibi’ see reasons to cheer. Bibi’s challenger, Benny Gantz, Netanyahu’s former IDF Chief of Staff, lacks his charisma, but his security credentials are second to none. With a matching 35 seats, Gantz came from nowhere to become a major political force.

The opposite is true of Labor, which founded the Israeli state, but has now stopped talking about two states. The Israeli left has been “obliterated”, but the signs were there. A recent poll showed 63 percent of Israelis now identify as rightwing; only 15 percent left-wing. And the young are the most right-wing of all.

Netanyahu’s other Trump card is the US president, who did all he could to help his friend. He moved the embassy. He recognised the Golan as Israeli.

He closed Palestinian diplomatic offices in Washington. He designated Iran’s military a terrorist entity. He shredded the Palestinian aid budget.

All he needed was a hat reading “Make Bibi Great Again”.

Yet 35 seats means the electorate listened when told by the 6ft 5in General that Israel needed a change of direction. With Netanyahu’s promise to annex West Bank settlements, Gantz could be right. Even Netanyahu’s hawkish US backers have balked at his policies of late, while US Democratic frontrunner Beto O’Rourke called Netanyahu an outright “racist” this week.

Don’t be surprised if Bibi doesn’t follow through. Three days before the 2015 election, he said he no longer favoured a two-state solution. A day after the election, suddenly he was in favour again.

It was an old Bibi trick, from an old survivor, who showed his colours again in this election. As the going got muddy, Bibi got slinging. So, it is a case of ‘carry on as before’. Better the Bibi you know.

Smaller parties will side with “King Bibi” as his rule continues.

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TRUMP’S A FLAWED BUT TRUE FRIEND I was delighted to read a short but highly significant item in a recent edition headlined “Trump recognises Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over Golan” (Jewish News, 28 March).

Many people (Jewish and otherwise), do not have a good word to say about the US president.

However, while I consider that much of what he says is wrong, disrespectful and even incendiary, he reminds me of Megillah Ecclesiastes 7.20 – “For there is not a just man upon Earth that doeth good, and sinneth not.”

The reverse is surely true of President Trump, especially in his dealings with Israel.

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Recently, on 25 March, Trump recognised Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

On 9 May last year, he pulled the USA out of the Iran nuclear deal, while on 6 December 2017, he affirmed the USA’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The American Embassy has now been relocated there from Tel Aviv.

I don’t condone much of what President Trump says and does, but recognise he is a true friend of Israel.

The verse in Ecclesiastes applies to many other politicians and world leaders – who don’t have a good word to say about Israel.

J D Milaric By email

PUTTING BEGUM WITH BERESHEET CHEAPENS ISRAEL’S SPACE SUCCESS Your correspondent Simon Aaron still does not seem to grasp the point of my original letter.

This was not just that Shamima Begum was an easy target but that the cartoon featured Beresheet, the Israeli moonshot, and Israel is a

country not involved with the issue of whether Britons who joined ISIS should lose their citizenship.

Surely we should be applauding Israel’s successful moon launch, not using it for propaganda.

Kay Bagon Herts

HELP AJAX IDENTIFY THESE HEROES AJEX Archives is seeking the family of two men. The first is Pte John Fileman, Royal Sussex Reg, of 27 Highbury Place, London, believed died or killed on 4 Oct 1914. He is not remembered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and we are seeking a correction.

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SUPPORT YOUR SAFE HAVEN Although I have sympathy with your reader Janet Maltz (Letters, Jewish News, 4 April), I for one am not surprised at the low level of Jewish support she experienced at the recent demo carried out by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

It appears that in the UK where matters regarding Israel are concerned, that giant of a nation in the Middle East can be left to stand on its own two feet and its people left to support themselves.

However, as far as British Jews are concerned, many have traditionally voted Labour.

Although they might now vote otherwise at any future election, their protestations against anti-

Zionist and anti-Israel views have previously been somewhat muted to say the least, and at times their silence unfortunately has been quite deafening.

We are faced with the turmoil created by the Brexit negotiations, meaning an election might come about soon. With the possibility of a shoo-in for Jeremy Corbyn, it is time for concerted action to galvanise collective Jewish minds, as what was once considered a nightmare might indeed become reality.

British Jews should stand proud in their support for Israel, as it might turn out to be a safe haven.

1941 and we would like the details because a commemorative information board is being put up in early June near where the house stood.

My email is Lcurbach@aol.com

Roger Water’s criticism of Israel as ‘the murderer of children by cowards with sniper rifles from behind fortified positions’ asserts Jewish soldiers are murdering infants.

Considering shots are fired into crowds intent on storming the border of Israel with all that that implies, his certainty such deaths were intentional is over-emotional and a huge presumption.

Nor then should the idea that such an act reflects the policy of a country be tacked on to this assertion.

Lesley Urbach London N3

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MUCH MORE THAN TOMATOES Two letter writers on 28 March, Angela Goldstein and Mervyn Smith, reached the same conclusion: today’s youth is ignorant of the facts surrounding Israel’s birth and current situation.

There is a charity, Middle East Education (www.middleeastedu. co.uk) that exists in order to fulfil this need.

Its speakers, a Muslim and a Jew give balanced talks together about the subject of ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict, Both Sides of the Story’.

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Don’t make it easy for Corbynites to divide us JENNI FRAZER

well-known maverick activist Shraga Stern, who has positioned himself as a friend of Corbyn, in contrast to much of the mainstream Anglo-Jewish community.

There are, of course, benefits for Corbyn to publicly display good relations with what the outside world think are authentic Jews – certainly many Stamford Hillites conform to uninformed nonJewish ideas of what Jews look like.

And Stern has transfixed his community by launching an unprecedented attack on Yesodey Hatorah School principal (and long-time Labour local politician) Rabbi Avrohom Pinter, calling him a “kapo” – and refusing to apologise for the insult.

Part of this war of words is Stern’s apparent determination to be top Jew in Labour’s eyes, rather than Rabbi Pinter.

He describes himself as “a proud and loyal member of the Hackney Constituency Labour Party, and it will always be my privilege to meet the leader of the Labour Party to discuss matters of mutual interest”.

Centrist Jewish organisations have, for a long time, seemed to sideline the concerns of the strictly-Orthodox, although there

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omething murky is going on in Stamford Hill. It seems there are three main issues swirling around the strictlyOrthodox community, although it’s easy enough to imagine that it’s all one ongoing row.

One is the argument about whether or not parents should vaccinate their children, in light of renewed outbreaks of measles in strictly-Orthodox circles.

The second is opposition to government policy on the teaching of LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues in schools – and a chance to attack the Chief Rabbi, whose authority is largely not accepted in Stamford Hill, for his more emollient rulings on LGBT. And the third, inevitably, is the always divisive figure of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was briefly the talk of Stamford Hill last month over a planned meeting — which was then cancelled – to meet Rabbi Herschel Gluck and other Charedi activists.

The meeting was brokered by the now

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CENTRIST JEWISH GROUPS SEEM TO SIDELINE CONCERNS OF THE STRICTLYORTHODOX have been some successful co-operative interventions, such as the campaign relating to St Pancras coroner Mary Hassell and her unacceptable policy over death registration.

While the Board of Deputies has always said it would like to have Charedi representation, no president of the Board has successfully persuaded Charedi people to become deputies.

And such is the fragmentation within Stamford Hill that it would be a Herculean task to figure out who represented whom.

Thus a handy vacuum has been created for Shraga Stern to persuade Jeremy Corbyn and Hackney Labour MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary Diane Abbott, that he speaks for the strictly-Orthodox.

Both Stern and Rabbi Pinter, in point of fact, are opposed to LGBT teachings in Orthodox schools, but Stern’s allegation that Rabbi Pinter was a “kapo” – a vile insult – apparently stemmed from his belief that Rabbi Pinter was getting far too cosy with government ministers in his attempt to oppose the issue.

Frankly, I don’t see how Stern’s own cosying up to Corbyn is any different.

He says himself: “As recent national events are demonstrating, he is a prime minister ‘in waiting’.

In these troubled times it is essential that British Jewry maintains contact with all the country’s political leaders. Not to do so would be an act of extreme folly”.

In such troubled times, indeed, such as the endless repellent catalogue of antisemitism within the Labour Party headed by the “prime minister in waiting”, it’s too easy for Stamford Hill to write off criticism by mainstream British Jewry; and too easy for official Anglo-Jewry to ignore what is going on in Stamford Hill.

Our joint aim, surely, should be not to let Corbynites divide us.

Act now to stop this social media scourge perpetrator was apparently acting as a “lone wolf”. Third, both believed there was a “genocide” against whites under way.

THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER Fourth, both were active on social media, where they found validation. ast week, as reported on the It is the last point that should serve front page of this newspaper, I met with police at New Scotland as a wake-up call to law enforcement, the Yard to present the Simon media, community activists, governments, Wiesenthal Center’s 2019 Digital and, especially, the social media companies.

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and Voat. In addition, the New Zealand massacres were actually “live-streamed”, meaning broadcast live on social media.

A Facebook representative told me that the company had removed 1.5 million postings of the massacre, with millions more posted on other sites. The broadcast of mass murder is not only a desecration of the dead but a further threat to the living, as such outrages are used to recruit more extremists to hateful causes.

The Wiesenthal Center demanded that Facebook and other companies, including Twitter and YouTube, change their policies to make it impossible for the next deadly

hate crime to be broadcast worldwide.

The internet has created a reality where everything global is local and every local act is instantaneously global. This is understood by domestic extremists and international terrorist groups. We were impressed and reassured that Scotland Yard is aware of these new trends and is doing is best to track online bigots, antisemites and supporters of terrorism. But it is not enough. It is time for all of us to man the defences on this new battlefield.

The Jewish world – starting with the family unit – can and must do more to monitor nefarious social media activity targeted at us. If you experience or are made aware by your children of threatening activity online, report it to the internet provider and to us at the Wiesenthal Center (information@wiesenthal.net).

In addition, Jewish communities must create new alliances with other people of goodwill targeted by bigotry.

By working together, we will be in a stronger position to demand the internet giants take stronger measures to degrade and defeat a growing online menace.

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This sick death threat will not stop me speaking out MAAJID NAWAZ

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n Sunday, a hard drive of Labour Party emails and a confidential database revealed how the party has been interfering in, delaying or otherwise completely ignoring hundreds of internal complaints of antisemitism On the day this news broke, I dedicated an hour on my LBC show to debate the topic, declaring as I have done for months now that I believe the Labour Party to have descended into institutional antisemitism.

This time though, something dark and twisted occurred.

As the debate heated up, I was sent a horrific death threat via our LBC text messaging service, live on air. I caution readers that the threat is disturbing, graphic and cruel. Nevertheless, I will go on to reproduce it here, for reasons that I will go on to explain.

Before that, it is worth recapping the sheer scale of Labour’s abject failure in addressing the complaints of antisemitism raised. Astonishingly, members who were investigated for posting comments online such as “Heil Hitler”, “F*** the Jews” and “Jews are the problem” have not been expelled.

The confidential spreadsheet revealed how 454 of 863 complaints remain unresolved, including 250 that remain totally untouched. Fewer than 30 members were expelled.

As a result, Labour’s Jewish affiliate has passed an almost unanimous no-confidence motion in Corbyn.

Natural then, for a political talk radio host to want to debate this scandal. Except that’s not how extremists work. They seek to silence instead of reflect, and they seek to instil fear instead of hope. With that, here is the violent message that was sent to me: “Maajid Nawaz, you are a Zionist jew!

You filled us with great Anger! You are a Zionist Jewish superamacist (sic) and Zionist jewish terrorist and posing as a paki-

stani, you will be silenced! The swords are sharpened and the guns loaded, you interupt (sic) the truthful callers and call their truth misinformation, you are trained to misinform and confuse, you have Satanic attitude!

You are deeply rotten! You will be smashed with a hammer on the head! you laugh like a hyena! You are a hyena!”

I am a deep believer in sunlight being the best disinfectant. The reproduction of this message is necessary to place in full view the poisonous atmosphere our political culture has plummeted to.

Only in this way, when repeated time after time, will those who remain in total denial wake up to the cesspit of views that float around the modern left, and pass as ‘support for Palestine’.

Only by repeatedly exposing the antisemitism critics of Labour receive regularly will the tired old disingenuous trope that ‘criticising Israel is not anti-Semitic’ (as if anyone serious claims it is) give way to a more serious attempt at understanding the concerns our Jewish communities and others – for I am a

liberal Muslim, not a Jew – are raising.

Antisemitic hate crimes have been rising year-on-year over the course of the past decade. As non-Jewish minorities like me are now facing similar treatment at the hands of these same antisemites, will others among the so-called progressive left finally recognise the monster they’ve unleashed?

Let us not pretend that this sort of language does not deter and scare people, preventing free and fair speech, stifling thought and censoring democratic debate.

This cowardly threat will not deter me from speaking up in defence of our minority communities across the board – just as I did last month when I was violently attacked with a weapon by a white racist in London.

So let me make this absolutely clear: you, the sender(s) of this text, are a bunch of antisemitic cowards. We right minded Britons: Muslims, Jews and everyone else standing together, will defeat you.

Just as this nation defeated the scourge of antisemitism the last time it reared its ugly head on our continent.

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Jewish schools face a battle for survival BRIAN GORDON

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ur faith schools are undergoing an unprecedented crisis. Parliament is in the process of passing legislation compelling all schools to include Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in the syllabus. Regulations are also in place to force all schools to teach about LGBT+ lifestyles.

Teaching RSE , under the banner of “safeguarding”, may be a perceived antidote to the malaise within general society, saturated as it is by pornography, abuse and promiscuity.

LGBT+ instruction may indeed follow today’s political preoccupation with equalities and political correctness. But they are inappropriate in a Torah-orientated environment.

In our strictly-Orthodox schools it is unacceptable to be explicit about sexual relationships. It is also forbidden to teach same-gender lifestyles. These principles are absolute, non-negotiable red lines.

They apply, broadly speaking, to other major religions too, notably Catholicism and Islam. Legislating to impose such teachings on schools founded on those faiths is a curtailment of freedom.

There is no desire within our community to deny children an appreciation of human relationships. Nevertheless, teaching the “facts of life” has no place in the Orthodox classroom.

They are imparted sensitively in a technology- restricted environment by a combination of parental input , discussion among peers, and the subtle appreciation of Bible, Talmud and laws of modesty.

The religious moral context excludes beyond question physical relationships before marriage. Many Orthodox marriages take place at a very early age – unlike secular society . The overwhelming majority are stable and productive.

There is also no wish to discriminate against those choosing to live same-gender lifestyles – despite the same being forbidden in the Bible and , until quite recently, in civil law. Appreciation of tolerance and

abhorrence of prejudice can be effectively conveyed without the study or promotion of the lifestyles themselves. Yet these are the dictatorial requirements now being forced on faith schools, to be arbitrarily enforced by DfE civil servants and officious Ofsted inspectors.

There are numerous politicians who strongly support faith schools, recognising their immense achievements, often well above secular schools. I know from my discussions with MPs and council colleagues how horrified many are on being informed how such schools are being hounded and threatened over RSE and LGBT+ .

Politicians can only appreciate the scale of the problem when they are properly lobbied and apprised of the volume of public anger , and the fact that the majority of UK Jewish children – tens of thousands – now attend strictly-Orthodox schools.

Unfortunately, our community has been decidedly weak in campaigning to protect our schools. The Board of Deputies and Partnerships for Jewish Schools cannot fulfil this task since there is virtually no Charedi representa-

tion within them and, to be fair, they cannot advocate passionately for things they do not believe in.

The Values Foundation – an excellent inter-faith lobbying group working within Parliament – has been launched, with strictlyOrthodox rabbinical backing. But what it can achieve at this late stage is limited. By now a massive political campaign, possibly including peaceful protests, ought to have been launched. Sadly, this has not happened.

That religion is a listed “protected characteristic” under the Equalities Act 2010 is a fact too frequently overlooked. In the opinion of senior legal experts, compelling faith schools to teach material contrary to their ethos is a violation of the Act and tantamount to antireligious discrimination.

Whether a concerted legal challenge would succeed in the courts may still be an academic question. If faith schools are in due course severely penalised or even closed down for refusing to yield to these intolerant regulations, such action may become a necessity.

Indeed, it could be a battle for survival.

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1BUS HELPS HOMELESS

Maidenhead Synagogue has converted a purple double-decker bus into a night shelter for rough sleepers in the local area. The bus, which was acquired by the synagogue, had the seating taken out and 12 beds installed upstairs, with a kitchen, desk and bathroom downstairs. It will drive to the town centre in the evenings to pick up rough sleepers for the night.

Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, pictured to the right of the door, said: “Many of the homeless are people who had jobs and homes until recently, but whose lives have now spiralled out of control and into the streets.

The bus is part of the synagogue’s involvement in the wider community and represents our commitment to social action.”

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2CHOIR COMPETITION

Thirteen choirs from across Jewish Care’s residential homes and centres took part in an annual singing competition at Redbridge Jewish Community Centre. The award to the overall winners went to Vi and John Rubens House with their original composition performed with musicians from Wigmore Hall’s Music for Life. Pictured are the Vi and John Rubens Community Choir with judges.

3 SPACE FANTASTIC

Emily Ben-Ze’ev, from the interactive workshops Emily’s Adventures in Wonderland, visited the Lubavitch Boys’ Primary School. The pupils tried on special space googles, learnt about the exploits of American astronaut Neil Armstrong and took part in experiments about gravity.

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Pictured are the 4th Hendon Brownies in their costumes at a meeting with the Mayor of Harrow, Councillor Kareema Marikar. “Anyone interested in joining can email hendonbrownies@gmail.com for more details,” said Ruth Posner, leader in charge of the 4th Hendon Brownies.

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Students, who attend the Aish Genesis programme, flew to Ukraine to visit communities, schools and orphanages. The first such social action trip organised

by GIFT started with a visit to Babi Yar, a memorial to the largest single massacre of Jews. Students are pictured balloon-modelling in an orphanage before meeting Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi, Moshe Reuven Azman. GIFT senior educator Rabbi Avrohom Zeidman said: “With the help of JRoots, we were able to provide an action- packed trip combining Jewish heritage, social action and inspiration for the students. “

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More than 60 people attended Belmont’s latest speakers’ corner event.

Bletchley Park guide Michael Kushner (pictured) told of the 200 Jewish mathematicians, philologists and chess players, who worked in country house Bletchley Park cracking Germany’s secret codes during the Second World War. The next guest will be Robert Hutton, author of Agent Jack, who was charged with deceiving potential ‘fifth columnists’.

CARE AWARD

Staff at Jewish Care’s Hyman Fine House in Brighton received the Quality Hallmark Award at a ceremony in London for its standard of care to residents up until the end of their lives. Natasha Carson, registered manager of Hyman Fine House, said: “We work hard to ensure our residents have meaningful lives and that they are supported as individuals.”

7 GLORY BOYS

Pupils from Lubavitch Junior Boys School brought back plaques and medals from the International Chidon Sefer Hamitzvos tournament in New York City. The event was broadcasted live to more than 25,000 people around the world. “We are very proud of all the boys. They are a credit to their parents and the school,” said Rabbi Nissan

9 LUNCH FOR ALL

Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Community hosted the first of its monthly home-made lunches, to be held on the last Thursday of each month. Rabbi Naomi said: “This was a huge success. We aim to welcome all members and friends to lunch and chat at Kol Chai”. Pictured is Rabbi Naomi, third from left, with congregants Janet Lipton, Pauline Grant, Bette Fraser, Robin Grant, Carole Binysh and Vivien Collins.

10 BRIDGE TO HELP

Nearly 100 bridge players gathered for a tournament in Totteridge organised

by Arlene Barc, Debbie Kanter, Penny Kenton (pictured) and Isabelle Oberman to raise funds for the Paperweight Trust’s family law support unit.

The charity provides free legal advice and help with domestic administrative affairs to the Jewish community.

Your family announcements Miranda Leighton celebrated her batmitzvah at Barnet Synagogue

Bo Nathan celebrated her batmitzvah at Luton Hoo

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A baby on the Titanic was saved... thanks to his bris As the world’s most famous maritime disaster marks its 107th anniversary, Joy Sable discovers the intriguing tale of a Jewish mother separated from her son during their rescue…

air – an act which probably saved his life. “In the chaos as people tried to reach the lifeboats, Philip was torn from Leah’s arms,” says Ian. The baby was tossed into a lifeboat, but Leah did not know this, fainted, and was thrown into another lifeboat.

It is believed that a pregnant Italian woman named Argene del Carlo caught Philip and wrapped him in a blanket.

Ian continues: “Leah was picked up by the Carpathia, one of the ships involved in searching for survivors. Filly was also picked up, but his mother didn’t know it. It was only when she heard a baby crying on deck that she recognised him as her own son.”

At this point, an argument broke out henever Ian Lester between Leah, the real mother, and the Italian watches James Cameron’s woman who claimed baby Filly as her own. blockbuster Titanic, he’s The captain of the Carpathia, Arthur reminded of a real-life story Rostron, was called upon to act as King about the doomed ocean liner that is far Solomon in this dilemma. more enthralling than a fictional “Leah said the baby was hers and romance between the decks. she could prove it,” Ian says. “Filly, Ian is related through his being Jewish, had been circumgrandmother to Leah Aks, one cised – something that would of the 706 survivors of the not have been carried out world’s most famous marion an Italian Catholic baby. time disaster.

There was no disputing At the age of just 18, she this and, happily, the baby wanted to cross the Atlantic was returned to his rightful to join her husband Sam, a mother.” tailor who had already settled Arriving finally in New in America. She was accomYork, Leah and Filly were panied by her 10-month-old son, taken to a shelter run by the Philip, better known as Filly.

Ian Lester Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, “She originally came from where they stayed until Filly’s Warsaw and then came to the UK,” says Ian, father Sam could collect them.

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Their story now takes another strange “She travelled in steerage – third class. She turn. Within a year, Leah gave birth to had originally planned to travel on an earlier another child, this time a girl. ship, but her mother persuaded her to choose Leah was so grateful to have been saved the Titanic, because she thought it was the by the Carpathia that she decided to name safest ship around.” her daughter Sara Carpathia Aks. That, of course, turned out to be a tragic The Catholic nuns who ran the hospital misconception. On 15 April 1912, 107 years where Sara was born were pleased to have ago this week, the pride and joy of the White Leah as a patient, as they knew she had Star Line hit an iceberg, tearing a massive hole survived the sinking of the Titanic. along the side of the vessel and causing five of However, there was some confusion over the “watertight” compartments to flood. registering Sara’s name, and she was given At least 1,500 people lost their lives in the the middle name of Titanic by mistake – icy waters of the Atlantic, while more than probably the only person ever to be named 700 were saved. Ian’s cousin was one of the after the doomed liner. lucky ones as Leah managed to battle her way Leah eventually passed away in 1967, through the terrified passengers and found having lived the rest of her life in the United herself on deck.

States. Filly, whose life had begun in such a According to some reports, Madeleine dramatic fashion, died in 1991.

Astor, the young wife of millionaire John Sara Titanic Aks found out about the Jacob Astor, covered Filly’s head with her mistake in registering her birth only when silk scarf to protect him from the cold night she applied for a passport as an adult.

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Today, the descendants of Leah and Sam Aks are scattered across the US and when Ian makes one of his regular trips across the Atlantic he often meets up with his cousins and they remind themselves of the extraordinary story of ‘Uncle Filly’.

Says Ian: “It is an amazing story and I’m proud to have had a relative who survived such a terrible event.

“People are fascinated to hear about Leah and how she was able to identify her son – just because he’d had a bris.”

Clockwise from top: Sam and Leah Aks with ‘Filly’; Capt. Arthur H. Rostron, master of the Carpathia; Madeleine Astor, credited with saving Filly’s life; artist Willy Stöwer’s engraving of Titanic’s last moments.

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ASTRONOMICAL! Israel’s moon mission beams back stunning images some 400,000 pounds of humanmade debris left behind already on the moon’s surface.

Beresheet is a joint venture between the Israeli non-profit SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, with the NIS 370-million (£79m) funded almost entirely by private donations from philanthropists.

Israel is on track to join the United States, Russia (as the USSR), Japan, China, the European Space Agency and India in visiting the moon via probes, though only the US, Russia and China have scored successful landings.

Other nations have seen their probes crash-land onto the surface.

Wave if you can see me: The Earth looks like a mere dot away in the distance thanks to this stunning photograph taken by the Beresheet space craft as it passes by the far side of the moon. Inset: The moon’s crater-filled surface comes into sharp focus as the craft completes a manoeuvre just 470km away from its destination.

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If the landing is successful, it will mark the first time that a privately-financed mission has reached the moon.

Once there, the spacecraft will carry out two or three days of experiments collecting data about the moon’s magnetic fields, before shutting down and joining

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Seder brisket with pomegranate and lemon gremolata

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PREPARATION TIME 25 MINUTES, PLUS 2 HOURS REFRIGERATION

A new recipe that is tried and tested is just what one needs for seder night. This succulent piece of brisket just melts in the mouth. Make it in advance, slice and keep warm. What could be easier?

Serves 6-8

COOKING TIME 2 HOURS 40 MINUTES

Brisket: 4 garlic cloves – peeled and finely chopped Coarse salt and freshly-ground pepper 1 piece beef brisket 1.8kg - 2kg 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 lemons – zest and juice 2 tablespoons beef powder with 300ml hot water to make beef stock 150ml red wine / Kiddush wine

METHOD 1 Prepare the brisket by mashing garlic and a pinch of salt using a mortar and pestle, rolling pin or the side of a knife, until a paste forms.

2 Smear brisket with the paste and transfer to a baking dish.

3 Refrigerate, covered, for at least two hours or overnight.

4 Preheat oven to 160°C / 325°F / Gas mark 3.

5 Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat.

6 Sear brisket until browned on all sides, about 10 minutes, and then transfer to an ovenware dish.

7 Pour lemon juice, stock and wine over brisket and cook covered for 2 hours.

Uncover for a final 15 minutes.

8 To make the gremolata / herb topping, combine the parsley, chives, split almonds, lemon zest and garlic. Season with sea salt. Add pomegranate seeds.

9 Slice brisket. Serve with pan juices and pomegranate gremolata.

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Pomegranate gremolata / herb topping: 3 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 3 tablespoons chopped fresh chives 100g split almonds 1 lemon – zest only 2 garlic cloves – peeled and finely chopped Flaked sea salt 1 pomegranate – remove seeds

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SEDRA Metzora Hagodol

Torah For Today What does it say about... Madeleine McCann?

BY RABBI ZVI SOLOMONS

BY RABBI JONNY ROODYN This week’s sedra, Metzorah, is full of technical laws of purity and impurity, mostly centred around the biblical disease of tzaraat, most commonly mistranslated as leprosy. It was clear to the sages of the Talmud that this was no normal disease, as evidenced by the fact the diagnosis was made by a Kohen and not a doctor. Rather, this disease is seen as a physical manifestation of a spiritual ailment that requires the afflicted individual to seek help urgently.

The Talmud teaches us Tzaraat comes for several reasons, most notably the sin of lashon hara, speaking ill of others. The remarkable thing about lashon hara is it is forbidden to speak negatively about someone, even if the comment is 100 percent true! Slander (motzi shem ra) is a different sin altogether.

Even if something is true, it is still lowly for us to choose to focus on another’s shortcomings. (There are, of course, times when it may be necessary and conditions must be met, but that’s beyond the scope of this short idea).

In fact, the very word tzaraat, is related to the term ‘tzar ayin’, one who looks badly at others. However ‘life and death are in the hands of the tongue’, meaning words are incredibly powerful. The Hebrew word for ‘word’ is davar, which can also mean ‘thing’. A word is a thing!

Although we don’t apply the technical laws of tzaraat nowadays, the message behind it is as relevant now as it ever was. In the era of social media, we are reminded to be extra careful with what we say and post!  Rabbi Jonny Roodyn is education director of Jewish Edgware Flyer:Layout 1 3/4/19 13:58 Page 1 Futures Trust

On 3 May 2007, just short of her fourth birthday, Madeleine McCann (pictured) disappeared. Her distraught parents have never given up on finding their daughter, who would now be almost 16, but recent headlines suggest the search for Madeleine may soon come to an end as funds dry up.

What does the Torah say in such situations? When a person is missing, but there is no evidence to suggest they are no longer alive, should the search for them continue? What advice would a rabbi give the parents in such a case?

There is a principle in halacha that we do not abandon hope, even in the most desperate situation.

For example, we do not tell a person that a situation is hopeless, even as we recite the confession on a death bed.

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being discovered.

The laws of marriage define a person as missing (for the purposes of mamzerut status) if there was no likelihood of their being found, and these are quite broadly defined not to cause hardship to women caught in such a situation.

Had little Madeleine been lost in a plane crash or similar disaster, there might have been some rationale to say we should assume the worst.

These days there is often the opportunity, through DNA tests, to discover the awful truth.

In this case, however, we simply do not know and the fate of Madeleine remains a mystery.

Rabbis suggest in such situations that we say psalms, the traditional balm of the heart and mind in situations of distress.

Psalms 20, 121, 130 and 142 are the most appropriate, although we believe that saying any tehillim (psalms) helps, as there is always hope.  Zvi Solomons is rabbi of JCoB.org, the Living Jewish Community in Reading

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The Bible Says What?

‘God consumed Aaron’s sons with fire’

BY STUDENT RABBI DEBORAH BLAUSTEN In the book of Leviticus, Aaron’s sons are killed for bringing a “strange fire” before God. On the opening day of the tabernacle, after the first sacrifices have been brought, Nadav and Avihu bring a sacrificial offering of their own design, an offering that the Torah says they had “not been commanded to bring”.

Commentators have sought to explain why, suggesting that perhaps because the incident is followed by the instruction to not enter the sanctuary when drunk, it was as a punishment for drunk and disrespectful behaviour.

Most other commentaries focus on the act of bringing the strange fire.

Samson Raphael Hirsch says: “Their sin was not consulting their father, ultimately making themselves the highest authority and disregarding the tradition of their elders”.

Hirsch and others make the assumption that someone who does

something different or diverts from the received wisdom is doing it out of arrogance or disrespect.

There is no reason to assume Nadav and Avihu acted with bad intentions, but the Torah and its interpreters suggest even well-meaning acts can be misread if you don’t help someone else understand what you are doing.

When people bring ‘strange fire’ into communal spaces and suggest new ways of doing things, perhaps the story’s painful end is also cautionary. It reminds us we all have the potential to consume others’ enthusiasm or new ideas with the punishing weight of established norms.

Nadav and Avihu’s story is about how we respond to new and different ideas and the potential catastrophic consequences of not giving people the benefit of the doubt.  Deborah Blausten is a rabbinic student at Leo Baeck College

Progressively Speaking What social welfare lessons does the Passover story hold?

BY RABBI AARON GOLDSTEIN The Passover story may be the same each year but, like a good joke, the magic lies in how and where you tell it. Most in Liberal Judaism enjoy a tradition over Passover, spending the first night at a family seder and the second at a communal one.

This gives us the opportunity to be closer to family and friends, but also get to know those further from our general life experience. For me, this presents three key social welfare and justice opportunities.

First, it brings together all the generations, sitting around the same table, as they tell and respond to the story of the Exodus from Egypt – a timely antidote to the referendum on the EU, and the fallout since, which has highlighted major differences in the outlook of our generations.

The conversation sparked by the Haggadah can help us understand each other, whether that is grandchildren talking to their grandparents or cheder pupils chatting with

community elders.

Recently-introduced items to the seder plate by the younger generation, such as oranges and Miriam’s Cup – which represent our key Liberal commitment to equality for all – are also conversation starters that can begin to break down generational barriers.

Passover is also a time that asks us to consider the homeless. This is both those who are physically homeless – including refugees and people fleeing terror as our ancestors did in the Pesach story – but also those

without a family or trapped in an abusive home.

There are also those who are spiritually homeless during Passover.

Maybe they feel restricted by a form of Judaism where they can’t be who they want or love who they want, or maybe they just yearn for practices that fit with modern day life.

We must help these people find a home within our Liberal community.

Finally, Pesach is about freedom.

While we have ours, there are many who do not. Those are the people we should fight for now.

When I was a teenager, this meant protesting apartheid outside South Africa House on the third night.

For my family today, including my teenage children, it has led to connections with Darfuri asylum seekers and thinking of modern-day slavery in this country.  Rabbi Aaron Goldstein serves Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue

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It is also worth checking with your insurers where you are covered to wear your valuables.

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Resource Development Manager - Taglit Birthright - Israel UK

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A dynamic, independent, progressive synagogue of over 500 families

Director of Community & Education A unique opportunity to take a leading role, together with Rabbi Benji Stanley and our professional team, to effectively champion and drive both Education and Community Engagement within a vibrant and growing progressive Synagogue in Central London.

The heart of this role is building relationships and initiatives within the community in order to deliver a high quality educational programme for all ages. You will be an experienced Jewish educator with the ability to develop and deliver curricula, and also have proven skills in community organising to build one-to-one relationships, develop leaders and build effective teams.

This is a full time, permanent position at a senior level and represents an exciting and rewarding challenge for an inspirational candidate.

4 days a week may be considered for the right person.

Salary commensurate with experience.

For a copy of the full Job Description or more information, please email: exec.director@westminstersynagogue.org All enquiries treated in the strictest of confidence.

Closing Date: Tuesday 7th May 2019

Birthright Israel provides a gift of a peer-group educational trip to Israel, for young Jewish adults ages 18 to 26. The goal of the trip is to strengthen the connection of young Jewish adults worldwide to their Jewish identity, Jewish communities and Israel.

Birthright Israel UK Events We are looking for a highly motivated Resource Development Manager to join our global team and Recruitment Coordinator This new role presents a unique and compelling leadership opportunity to be a principal architect of a development program that strengthens Taglit Birthright Israel in the UK

Send your ONE PAGE CV for ‘Birthright Recruitment Coordinator’ • Creativity, motivation, an abilityEvent to take & initiative, think globally, and take an active role in building a Development infrastructure to MichalH@israelexperience.org Core Requirements

• Ability to multi-task and turn an idea it into a reality • High interpersonal and communication skills and a passion for building an inspiring a For more information go to http://tiny.cc/4lecpy network of supporters • Self-motivated, sees opportunities instead of roadblocks, thrives in a start-up environment The job includes recruiting people for Birthright Israel trips, creating events to promote Birthright Israel, it involves traveling • Plan, coordinate and measure a robust development strategy and field work across the UK new and Social Media knowledge. and • Build upon the existing network, in order to develop markets for philanthropic

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community support • Raise awareness for Taglit -Birthright within the Jewish community, • Plan and implement communication projects and engagement events • Manage relationships with key partners in the UK • Represent Birthright at local events and engagements as well as on an international platform

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• Opportunity to be part of an entrepreneurial enterprise • Ability to grow and develop a project and create a real, meaningful change • Be part of a network of passionate change-makers working to build a better world • Competitive salary • National and international travel opportunities • This position reports directly to VP Resource Development in Israel • This is a full-time permanent position in London • Some weekend and evening work may be required Please send your CV and covering letter to info-development@taglitbri.com

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Friday 2 Mornings only Applications for Reception September 2017 in must be received by the School AND Barnet

with particular responsibility for Limmudei Kodesh across on Sunday 15th January 2017. the Foundation Stage who is able to integrate Our Admissions Policy and Application Forms are available from theacross School or ourboth website Chol and Kodesh curricula. www.hasmonean-pri.barnet.sch.uk Further details are available from. the school office.

Please apply by submitting a CV to: admin@hasmonean-pri.barnet.sch.uk This post is subject to safer recruitment procedures.

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HMC Independent Jewish Day School for Children aged 4-18

Immanuel College are seeking to appoint engaging and passionate professionals who will share and promote the high standards of teaching, pastoral care and Jewish life and learning that are the core values of the school. We are excited to announce that we have the following opportunities:

Teacher of English • Teacher of Mathematics Year 4 Class Teacher • Informal Jewish Educator Head of Informal Jewish Education We value individuals who are committed to the success of their pupils as well as being keen to take responsibility for extra-curricular clubs and activities run by the department.

The successful applicants must be able to engage with skill and confidence to well-motivated and intelligent classes, and be able to inspire, challenge and support our pupils.

In return, we offer our staff: • An outstanding opportunity to contribute to a School with a strong sense of community • A full programme of induction and support for all staff • A strong culture of professional development • Salaries that are commensurate with experience, subsidised staff lunches and free on-site car parking.

For more information and to apply please visit our website www.immanuelcollege.co.uk/vacancies or www.tes.com/jobs Head Master: Mr Gary Griffin BA (Soc) Hons, Elstree Road, Bushey, Herts WD23 4EB Tel: 020 8950 0604 Immanuel College is a thriving and successful HMC co-educational Jewish day school for children aged 4 to 18.

We welcome, on an equal basis, all applications regardless of faith. We welcome applications from NQTs as well as highly experienced teachers.

Immanuel College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.

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Stirling of Kensal Green

Top prices paid

BUSINESS SERVICES DIRECTORY

Antique â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Reproduction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Retro Furniture (any condition)

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

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

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

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

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

Computer

0207 723 7415 (SHOP) closed Sunday & Monday

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

Man on a Bike will get MAKE SURE YOUfast!

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

ANTIQUES For small businesses & home users.

Antiques

WE BUY ANTIQUES

All quality furniture bought & sold.

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

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

0800 Ivories, 840 2035 or & 07956268290

Single items to complete Please contact Gordonhomes Stirling

020 8960 5401 or 07825 224144

FullOPEN house8am clearances TO 9pmorganised.

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

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0207 723 7415 (SHOP)

FOR APPOINTMENTS CALL SUE ON: closed Sunday & Monday CHARITY & WELFARE CHILDREN STUART SHUSTER â&#x20AC;? eâ&#x20AC;?mail â&#x20AC;? stuart@churchstreetantiques.net 0800 840 2035 or 07956268290 17-443-ER Helpline advert v1.qxp_Helpline 85x45mm 24/11/2017 10:02 OPEN 8am TO 9pm 7 DAYS. PORTOBELLO RD LONDON.

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

Full house clearances organised.

WE BUY ANTIQUES Please look at our website for more details

Call Ian Green, Man on a Bike on

ANTIQUE JUDAICA & HEBRAICA

Established over 60 years.

Know who you are dealing with.

MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT US BEFORE SELLING

We have a community nursery shop offering our customers top brands with a personal service.

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

ARE YOU BEREAVED?

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

For confidential advice, information and support contact us on

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

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CLOTHING

A. ELFES LTD

FURS WANTED The specialist masons in creating bespoke Granite and Marble Memorials for all Cemeteries.

Clayhall Showroom 14 Claybury Broadway Ilford. IG5 0LQ T: 0208 551 6866

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TAILOR

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(Third floor, inside the Brazilian Centre)

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PET SITTER

CAPITAL PET SITTING Caring for your best friend in your own home

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

e: capitalpetsittinguk@gmail.com

t: 07472 464240

Email Sales today at sales@thejngroup.com

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JEWISH WAR VETERANS

Leave the legacy of independence to people like Joel.

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& THEIR DEPENDANTS NEED Tel: 020 8202 2323 Web: www.ajex.org.uk Email: headoffice@ajex.org.uk Registered Charity No: 1082148

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LEAVE A LEGACY AND CREATE THE FUTURE LEADERS OF ISRAEL Trojan House, 34 Arcadia Avenue London N3 2JU t: 020 8371 1580 e: info@youthaliyah.org.uk www.youthaliyah.org.uk Charity No: 1077913

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

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