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Westminster shul members Amelie and Daniel Linsey were among those killed in the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo. Inset: Aftermath of the hotel bomb blast

Heartfelt tributes were paid in Parliament yesterday to two Jewish siblings who were among hundreds murdered in the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka, writes Adam Decker.

Speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday, Lord Leigh of Hurley paid profound respect to Amelie, 15, and Daniel Linsey, 19, members of Westminster synagogue, where he is president.

The much-loved brother and sister were

among eight Brits who perished in coordinated attacks which claimed more than 350 lives.

Lord Leigh told the House: “While the intended target of this atrocity were clearly meant to be Christian, the terrorists’ bombs did not discriminate. The Linsey family were members of my synagogue They shared the same classes as my children. Amelie celebrated her batmitzvah last March, reading with poise, maturity and warmth from the Torah.”

He added: “Daniel was especially interested

in Jewish festivals. He came to our synagogue before Purim… to help our staff setting up for the evening festivities. We have pledged as a community to offer our love and support to the Linsey family and do everything we can every step of the way. The Jewish community is used to counselling mourners who have been affected by terrorists’ bombs and this is another chapter in a sad and sorry book.”

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‘My daughter seemed to move, my son didn’t’ Continued from page 1 double its efforts to ensure that the bodies of the siblings are returned as soon as possible.”

He added: “The families are trying to make progress and would be very grateful for any assistance she can provide through the civil service, to ensure that happens as quickly as possible, as required by the Jewish faith.”

Baroness Goldie paid tribute to Lord Leigh’s “poignant” comments, saying it “indicates starkly the enormity of what has happened when children are the victims of this mindless criminality. On the issue of helping to transport and return bodies to this country, there is help available”, but she suggested Lord Leigh should “speak to me after” the debate to see if there “was something specific I can do”.

Amelie and Daniel’s father, Matthew Linsey, spoke to CNN in an emotional interview, during which he paid respects to his children in the wake of the bombings.

He recalled the aftermath of the explosion, saying: “When the bomb went off, it’s hard to describe... it’s like a wave coming through of pressure.

“My children were so nice. They went

A candle-lit vigil in Colombo

down to the buffet and got the food for me and filled up my plate. And then I said I wanted a bit more. My daughter said I’ll get it, and then the bomb went off and they were both running towards me.”

Saying his instinct was to get out “as soon as possible”, he added: “Maybe I should have just stayed and covered them with my body... after a second blast near the hotel lift, they “both were unconscious”.

“My daughter seemed to be moving, my son wasn’t. A woman offered to take my daughter downstairs to the ambulance.

I needed help moving my son. Someone

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helped me move him down the stairs and they both ended up in the same hospital.

I travelled with my son to hospital.”

In the hospital, he said he “yelled for help” and lost his voice, adding: “The people were very helpful... they did their best. They were very efficient and kind.”

Meanwhile, British Jewish leaders joined international figures in condemning the attacks. Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl tweeted: “We condemn the shocking bomb attacks on those murdered innocently. Our sympathies are with the victims and their families.”

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said: “The sheer scale of the violence places it among the most inhuman acts of mass murder in living memory. Our hearts go out to the countless people mourning the loss of loved ones. We grieve alongside you.”

Senior Reform Rabbi Laura JannerKlausner tweeted: “Jewish communities stand in solidarity with our Christian friends, rejecting hatred and violence wherever it occurs.”

In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said: “We stand ready to assist the authorities in Sri Lanka at this difficult time. The entire world must unite in the battle against the scourge of terrorism.”

Sri Lankans bury their dead after the bombings

Israel’s honorary consul in Colombo this week described how the country was “in shock”, but said concern about Muslim extremism had been growing, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

While Israel has no embassy in Sri Lanka, its diplomat Wicky Wickramatunga was just outside the capital when the attacks occurred, and told Jewish News the country’s security services had “not paid attention” to terror threats.

“The civil war here ended almost 10 years ago, and since then we had no major disasters,” he said. “Even during the war, we never had such well-organised, synchronised bombings. It is unprecedented.

“The country is still in

shock. It’s unbelievable. That never happened in Sri Lanka.”

At the time of the attacks, Wickramatunga said there were about 1,000 Israeli tourists visiting the country, plus two Chabad rabbis who live there, but they escaped unharmed.

Wickramatunga said: “Muslim extremism has been growing at a very, very rapid rate, especially over the past six years. We could see extremism was getting into society; men were growing beards, women wearing long closed garments.

“We could see the uprising of this particular extremist group [NTJ]. There were warnings, but the authorities did not pay much attention.”

RABBI’S TWEET CRITICISED An Orthodox rabbi has faced criticism for asking a Labour MP mourning a relative killed in the Sri Lanka blasts: “Doesn’t your leader support Islamists?”

Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq expressed solidarity with Sri Lanka after 359 people were killed in the attacks,

and revealed she lost a relative in the attacks.

Rabbi Zvi Solomons of the Jewish Community of Berkshire replied: “So sorry to hear this Tulip.

Doesn’t your leader support Islamists like this?

Are you still supporting him?” He said his condolences were “heartfelt” but stood by his comments.

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Some of Sri Lanka’s worst terror attacks in its civil war have targeted religious sites. In recent years there have been scores of attacks on religious minorities, with churches and mosques both facing violence. But historically, Christians and Muslims have had good relations in Sri Lanka, where both minority religions straddle ethnic groups.

While National Thowheeth Jamath may have been the perpetrators of the Easter attacks, it is unlikely such a small group could have coordinated on this scale without international help.

What happened here was part of a global picture.

Christianity is the world’s most persecuted religion. Here, Christianity is the state religion, but in 144 countries Christians are harassed for their beliefs.

At the Council of Christians and Jews

(CCJ), we encourage Jews to stand in solidarity with persecuted Christians through our ‘If Not Now, When’ campaign. The tragedy is already being used as political fuel to support nationalist and Islamophobic agendas. There have been small retaliatory incidents against Muslims in Sri Lanka.

Such cycles of violence and hate can lead only to more violence. Instead, we should take this moment to stand with people of all faiths, and to pledge tolerance and respect towards each other.

At the height of the Sri Lankan civil war, troubles, religion and the religious helped to foster dialogue and to end the violence.

On each day of Pesach the Hallel prayers are said. These contain the line: “The heavens are God’s, but the earth God gave to humankind.”

It is our responsibility to make a just, loving, and peaceful world.

Let us grieve for all the victims and resolve to stand with all communities, and call out prejudice and hate wherever we see it.

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Morris shows a lack LABOUR MP SORRY FOR FAKE ‘IDF SOLDIERS’ TWEET of basic knowledge A Labour MP has apologised for sharing a video he claimed was of Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian youth – but which was actually of Guatemalan troops.

Grahame Morris was criticised on Monday after posting a video on Twitter showing a young man being beaten, and claiming it was Israel Defence Forces (IDF) personnel.

The Easington MP tweeted: “Marvellous, absolutely marvellous the Israeli Army, the best financed, best trained, best equipped army in the world caught on camera beating up Palestinian children for the fun of it.

May God forgive them. What would Jim Royle say on an Easter Monday.”

Twitter users quickly pointed out the video he shared was not of Israeli soldiers, but Guatemalan troops, as reported by Al Jazeera in August 2015.

Morris had shared a post by left wing activist Rachael Cousins, who tweets as Rachael_Swindon. Cousins, who has previously posted antisemitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds, deleted the tweet, but the MP’s message, sent at 5.14pm, was online for at least four hours, garnering thousands of comments in criticism.

On Tuesday morning he tweeted:

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Grahame Morris posted a tweet wrongly accusing the IDF of brutality

“I am sorry for sharing a post which purports to show the IDF hurting children but it was in fact the Guatemalan Army. My error demonstrates the dangers of fake news online and I will be more diligent in future in checking my sources.”

Labour declined to comment, but highlighted Morris had replied in response to another Twitter user who told him he’d “got this one wrong”.

Morris said: “You are right and many apologies for my honest mistake there are lots of verifiable documented examples of the IDF abusing Palestinian child prisoners I have seen for

myself in Court in the West Bank – but am harvesting and documenting a few more of my trolls yet thanks [sic]”.

The Jewish Leadership Council said: “Grahame Morris’ half-hearted apology is something we have seen far too often when people are exposed for their hatred of Israel. Rather than apologising unequivocally and promising to do better, he has chosen hostility and the spreading of fake news over sincerity and accuracy.”

The IDF tweeted: “The only marvellous thing here are your lies. These are not IDF soldiers.”

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It took Grahame Morris 17 hours to apologise properly for retweeting a video, incorrectly claiming to show Israeli soldiers beating a teenager, posted by “Rachael Swindon”, a high-profile pro-Corbyn Twitter account previously caught sharing hate speech about the Rothschilds. This despite it being made clear within an hour that the video was from Guatemala.

The MP for Easington was chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the

Middle East. You’d think he had developed some basic understanding of the issues and how dangerous these kind of lies can be. Not a chance.

His intervention was ignorant. But once the lies were exposed he left the tweet up for hours after he knew the video had nothing to do with Israel.

His action was designed to stir anger towards Israel. It was also evidence of a double-standard. Once informed it was Guatemalan soldiers, Morris didn’t condemn the actual incident.

CORBYN HINTED 7/7 ISRAEL LINK Jeremy Corbyn appears to have hinted the 7/7 London bombings were linked to UK support for Israel – days after 52 people were killed.

Writing for the Morning Star in July 2005, Corbyn cited a report by the think tank Chatham House, which found the invasion of Iraq to have “given a boost to al-Qaida”.

The column, written long before Corbyn became Labour leader, was

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Corbyn wrote: “Chatham House’s report... holds that a widely held belief that the US and Britain are supportive of Israel, despite the plight of the Palestinian people, is a major factor influencing opinion all over the Middle East.”

The party told Jewish News it has no issue with Corbyn’s remarks.

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EHRC ‘EVIDENCE’ NOW ENOUGH FOR INQUIRY Evidence of antisemitism in Labour received by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) meets the legal threshold for a statutory investigation, according to a report. A source within the EHRC told The Sunday Times: “The investigation being considered by lawyers will very likely look at systematic unlawful acts of antisemitism by members of the party.” The EHRC is set to discuss the evidence at a meeting next month, according to the report. A spokesperson told Jewish News the EHRC has not set a timeline on the process.

MILNE: PERES AWARD DUE TO ‘ALLIANCES’ A new video shows Jeremy Corbyn’s chief of communications Seumas Milne suggesting former Israeli president Shimon Peres was knighted due to “national alliances”. In the 2009 clip he also says:: “One of the things that is impressive about the Zionist movement… is many of its activists are incredibly hard-working and dedicated. They bombard the media day in day out with their obsessive campaigns.”

MEP candidate ‘regrets’ smear A Labour Party candidate at the forthcoming European elections said he “regrets” suggesting antisemitism was being used as a “smear” to undermine Jeremy Corbyn.

Martin Mayer, a former member of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), is reported to be standing in the Yorkshire and Humber area in May’s poll.

The Sunday Telegraph reported Mayer sent an email in 2016 entitled “How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour party’s antisemitism crisis”, in which he wrote: “Labour’s Blairite Right wing have used the smear of antisemitism to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.”

A report from Labour Against the Witchhunt from Sheffield last May said Mayer “shared fascinating stories from his time on the Labour Party NEC and the many ‘bogus’ claims of antisemitism he witnessed first hand”.

Mayer said: “When I was on the NEC I was shocked and appalled to see cases of antisemitism within our party.

“I was also concerned about factionalism undermining the integrity of the disciplinary processes and the fight against antisemitism.

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Board of Deputies’ president Marie van der Zyl, and its chief executive and former Labour MP Gillian Merron thanked Labour deputy leader Tom Watson for meeting with them in Parliament to discuss tackling antisemitism. Watson intervened in cases of alleged antisemitism, leading to criticism from the Party’s General Secretary.

Why was this message different from others?

Former NEC member Martin Mayer

“I regret the language I used to express this and I would not use it today. Since then, I have learnt a lot more about this subject and I realise that words like ‘smear’ have the effect of downplaying and dismissing this very serious issue.

“I did not deny the problem exists within our party, and I believe anyone who denies it is contributing to the problem. As we’ve seen from the figures that the party recently released, this is a small minority in our party, but they must be kicked out.”

Labour has been ridiculed on social media after its Pesach greeting featured a loaf of bread.

Last Friday’s message, posted on both the main Labour account and London Labour, wished a ‘Happy Passover from everyone at the Labour Party’, above images of a cup of wine, a Magen David and bread.

The message was removed

after 45 minutes.

The Board of Deputies’ Phil Rosenberg – a former Labour councillor – wrote: “Which major political party would include a picture of bread in their Passover message?

Passover being a festival in which bread is forbidden to Jews. Yep, you guessed it: Labour.”

In a message from Tory mayoral hopeful Shaun Bailey, a greeting in Hebrew was written backwards.

When antisemitism and misogyny meet

BY DAVID HIRSH

LECTURER AND ACADEMIC AUTHOR The Labour Party has finally suspended a member who abused two MPs, Ruth Smeeth and Dame Margaret Hodge, calling them “a couple of s**t-stirring c*m buckets bought and paid for by Israel”.

Something happens at the intersection of antisemitism and misogyny, which creates a fury greater than the sum of its parts and which drips with sexual violence.

The party only suspended this abuser after the case was leaked to The Sunday Times, which reported that Thomas Gardiner, “a Corbyn ally and the powerful chief of Labour’s governance and legal unit”, frustrated efforts by a member of his staff to fast-track the investigation of this incident.

Ms Smeeth personally messaged Jeremy Corbyn on WhatsApp to ask him what he was going to do about this. She got two ticks but no response. And her mother had to read it in the paper over her cornflakes on Sunday morning.

Earlier this month, a Labour staffer secretly leaked emails to the paper, which proved the Labour machine is unwilling and unable to deal with the hundreds of cases of explicit antisemitism that have been reported to it.

They also demonstrated that, while the leader of the party says dealing with these cases

is not his job, his private office takes a keen interest. It has intervened in the process to help some of Corbyn’s allies who have allowed their antisemitism to slip into the open.

We knew the Labour machine would turn ferociously against the whistle-blower within its own staff. Institutional racism requires a strict policing of the boundaries between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’.

I myself am still banned from the email discussions within my own trade union, after having published some of the antisemitic material there, which was considered legitimate by the internal union culture. That was in 2008; that is, so far, an 11-year sentence.

Everybody who is expelled from Labour for antisemitism joins a growing mob of other furious, resentful individuals. They accuse Corbyn of bending to Zionist power and they nurture a growing faction of comrades still in the party who support them.

Expulsions significantly miss the point. The antisemitism that is recognisable to everybody is only a side-effect of the hidden and deep political problem on the left.

Jews are itching to help heal Labour, but Labour needs to ask for their help. And Labour won’t. Because the Labour we love is the Labour of our nostalgic dreams; it existed in some ways and at some times, but for the moment it is gone, replaced by the socialism of our nightmares; the socialism that held us responsible for capitalism; the socialism from which our grandparents fled; the socialism of the gulag.

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‘All who are hungry’ made real mother was here from Chicago.

A Charedi family in Finchley was When [Bianchini] walked in among the UK homes to open the door, she gave her a big their door to a stranger this American hug. Right away she Pesach following a social felt at home.” media appeal.

She added: “The seder Business development went on until 3am. There was entrepreneur Yael Simon, 50, singing, laughing. She loved it hosted Annelise Bianchini, and had a great time.” an actor originally from the US, Bianchini, 31, from Califor a seder last week. fornia, said: “I didn’t want to be The two did not know each Above: Annelise other when Bianchini walked Bianchini. Right: Yael alone and not celebrate it, so through the door to share a seder Simon’s seder table I reached out. This was my most religious seder. I don’t think with Simon’s family – but she I managed to do a seder last year. was immediately greeted with a hug.

“She moved in from America and did The year before I was able to do some kind of seder. not know anyone,” Simon told Jewish News.

“It was incredible. When I came in, her “She showed up. Luckily for me, my

mother answered and she gave me this big hug. I just chatted to them a long time.

The dinner was really fun.”

She added: “I didn’t feel like an outsider at all. I don’t speak Hebrew, I don’t read Hebrew, but I love the sound of it.

“They read in Hebrew and I read in English. I asked questions about why we were doing certain things and I learned a lot.”

The two were introduced after James Masters, a UK-based freelance journalist, posted an appeal on Twitter for host families and anyone on their own looking for a seder.

The appeal, retweeted dozens of times, received interest from families in London, Manchester and Brighton and beyond, with hosts in New York, Milan and Israel.

Jonny urges Britain to be mindful A Jewish mental health campaigner based in London is spearheading “the world’s largest mindfulness lesson” next month.

Jonny Benjamin, whose initiative will raise money for his new charity, is asking schools across the world to take part for 30 minutes at 11am on Friday, 10 May. The session will include relaxation techniques and breathing exercises

as an introduction to mindfulness, after a major poll last year found that 48 percent of parents were worried about their children’s mental health in relation to exams.

“It’s so important for young children to recognise feelings of anxiety, be able to speak openly about how they are feeling, and

learn how to handle them,” said Benjamin, whose own mental health problems led to a suicide attempt.

Benjamin, whose new charity is called Beyond Shame Beyond Stigma, is hoping that tens of millions of children and their teachers will take part.

FATHER AND SON IN COURT A father and son have appeared in court accused of laundering more than £10million from the illegal sale of Viagra and other pills and supplying false information to the Charity Commission.

Edward Cohen, 67, from Stamford Hill and his son David, 38, from Golders Green, answer charges at Southwark Crown Court in a trial expected to continue until 21 June.

David Cohen denies supplying false information to the commission, becoming concerned in criminal property, acquiring criminal property, theft and benefit fraud, while Edward Cohen denies supplying false information to the commission, two charges of becoming concerned in criminal property, acquiring criminal property and theft.

The trial continues.

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Rabbi Jacobi dies, aged 93 Tributes have been paid to revered Liberal Judaism vice-president and Kindertransport refugee Rabbi Harry Jacobi who died yesterday, writes Mathilde Frot.

“It is with great sadness that we learnt of the passing of Rabbi Harry Jacobi z”l earlier this morning,” Liberal Judaism wrote on social media on Wednesday.

“Our condolences and prayers go to the Jacobi family. We will be posting tributes and memories of Harry over the coming days.”

Jacobi, who was born in Germany and lost most of his family in the Shoah, fled Nazi persecution on the last boat out of Holland.

He went on to serve Southgate Progressive Synagogue, Wembley and District Liberal Synagogue and finally the Zurich Progressive community.

Retiring in England, he became active in the Liberal Judaism movement and was chair of its Rabbinic Conference and for many years the Beit Din. Michael Newman, of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), said: “We are deeply saddened at the passing of Rabbi Harry Jacobi, who was a stalwart AJR member.

“Harry will be remembered with great fondness for his thoughtful sermons at memorial services and as a passionate educator about the Kindertransport and the Holocaust.”

Writing for Jewish News in 2015, Jacobi stated: “We must become more inclusive than exclusive, encourage and enable those who wish to join us. We must say ‘yes’ instead of the prevalent ‘no’. Permit rather than forbid.”

His funeral takes place at Golders Green Crematorium on Hoop Lane on Monday at 3pm.

SWASTIKAS PROBED Police are investigating reports swastikas were etched into the back of a book left on a Jewish newspaper stand in Golders Green.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed enquiries are ongoing after they received an allegation of a hate crime on Golders Green Road yesterday.

A police spokesperson said: “It was reported that a Jewish book was left on a newspaper stand and antisemitic graffiti etched into the back.”

Joseph Cassidy, who reported the incident to the police, is crowdfunding money to create a film to raise awareness of modern-day antisemitism.

He told Jewish News he conducted research in Golders Green on 18 April and left the book-printed version of his crowdfunding appeal in a newspaper stand for about five minutes, with a note saying “please put back after reading”.

“I decided to go back home, and it was while I was waiting for a train that

I decided to flick through the book and discovered the swastikas etched in the back,” he said.

He added: “I don’t think words can truly describe what I felt. I’ve experienced antisemitism throughout my childhood growing up and going to a school where I was targeted and bullied for being Jewish.

“So I wouldn’t say I was surprised to see this level of hatred, but it definitely shocked and deeply saddened me.”

HEBREW MAKES ITS MARK An exhibition opens tomorrow at the British Library called Writing: Making Your Mark, tracing the evolution of writing from hieroglyphics to cursive script and beyond. Included in the exhibition as an example of Hebrew writing is a page with the Ma Nishtana taken from a Haggadah from the mid-15th century.

FALL LED TO ‘AVOIDABLE DEATH’

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The family of a Jewish woman suffering from cancer who died after falling down stairs at Mill Hill Broadway train station has said her death was “utterly avoidable”.

Priscilla Tropp, 76, who had leukaemia, was treated at the bottom of the stairs in circumstances partially disputed by Thameslink, which refused to elaborate until the conculsion of a coroner’s inquest.

Tropp, a member of Edgware United Synagogue, died in the Royal Free Hospital on 27 November after suffering a cardiac arrest, internal bleeding and a ruptured spleen, an inquest heard on Tuesday.

Her family said she suffered “undignified” treatment, according to a report in The Jewish Chronicle, adding that Govia Thameslink Railway staff failed to contact police or a central control office, and did not know that the station had a defibrillator.

The inquest was told that Tropp had fallen down stairs at the same station months earlier and that the government had subsequently

The team tasked with leading the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) into its 100-year anniversary was announced this week, with campaigns coordinator Daniel Kosky remaining in his post for another year.

The new team will be led by Israeli-born Esther Offenberg, who grew up in Berlin before studying psychology at Birmingham. She has been on the National Union of Students’ Democratic Procedures Committee for the past year.

Earlier this year, she won a three-way battle against Lauren Keiles and Joanna Phillips to lead UJS and takes the reins this summer alongside Kosky, Georgia Boroda, Bradley Langer, Lauren Lethbridge and Shiri Wolff.

“This is a team that will have students at the heart of everything we do,” she said. “Each of us brings an area of experience, passion and drive for the work we will be doing and I can’t wait to get stuck in.

allocated funding for step-free access at Mill Hill Broadway.

In a statement issued after Tuesday’s inquest, her family paid tribute to an “amazing wife, mother and grandmother” and “an active and extremely capable 76-year-old”, who “managed her condition with positivity, determination and dignity”.

They added: “She lost her life due to a fall but… it could have been anyone. She fell and this tragic accident led to the needless loss of a very valuable life – someone who had given so much to so many. It was utterly avoidable.”

The 2018-19 team did some incredible work, pioneering new projects and events on campuses.

I can’t wait for our team to continue to move them forward.”

Kosky was praised for “a hugely successful year”, passing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism on many campuses and opposing antiIsrael motions at student unions in the UK. They are joined by another Israeli – Haifa-born Wolff, who grew up in Prague before studying HR management at Lancaster University, where she was treasurer of the Jewish society.

Manchester-born Boroda and Essex pair Langer and Lethbridge complete the line-up, with Lethbridge focusing on Holocaust education, Langer assisting Kosky on campaigns and Boroda working Esther on interfaith and Offenberg social action.

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Remains of 300 Nazi victims to be buried The remains of more than 300 victims of the Nazis are to be buried in Germany next month after medics found a Berlin professor’s wartime tissue samples in a hospital archive.

Most of the 1mm samples were taken from female German dissidents or resistance fighters executed by the Third Reich and collected by Professor Hermann Stieve, who had been studying the effects of stress on menstruation.

Stieve was one of the few senior German medics not to join the Nazi party but was considered sympathetic to the German nationalist cause and soon became the director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy.

Faced with a shortage of female organs, he arranged for samples to be taken from the bodies of female dissidents moments after they were shot, hanged or beheaded, and has since been criticised for knowing where the samples

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“My disability had virtually brought our social life to a halt, but living here, we’re kept busy with clubs and activities, not to mention all our new friends and neighbours.”

Survivors escort a coffin containing the remains of six Holocaust victims at Bushey New Cemetery in January

came from.

He died in 1952, his research having earned him accolades in the medical world, and his family later passed the collections to a university hospital, where they lay forgotten for decades, until being rediscovered by chance in 2016.

The ceremony in Germany next month echoes the moving service held at Bushey New Cemetery in London in January, when the remains of six

Holocaust victims were finally laid to rest.

Their DNA had earlier been discovered in a clod of earth taken from the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by a London-based Holocaust survivor on his return more than two decades ago. It had been stored in the archives of the Imperial War Museum and returned to the Jewish community once the discovery was made.

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BILLIONAIRES PLEDGE £93M Two Jewish billionaires have pledged a total of £93 million towards the restoration of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral, which was ravaged in a fire.

Brazilian philanthropist Lily Safra said she would give £16m to fund the restoration efforts of the iconic church, which was badly damaged last Monday, Correio 24 Horas reported. And Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the French owner of L’Oréal, pledged £76m, according to CBS. The donations account for about 17 percent of the £538m collected so far.

Bettencourt Meyers announced the donation on Twitter following French President Emmanuel Macron’s call

on philanthropists to help collect funds for the operation.

Her father, André Bettencourt, wrote numerous articles for two pro-Nazi publications during the Second World War II, one of which was financed by the Nazi government in Germany. Bettencourt Meyers married Jean-Pierre Meyers,

a French Jewish businessman descended from a family of rabbis, and converted to Judaism.

Meanwhile, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) announced last Wednesday that it would donate funds to help repair Notre-Dame.

Its CEO, David Harris, said in a statement: “Whether Catholic or not, Notre-Dame Cathedral is an integral part of our shared legacy and soul. It represents centuries of French and European faith, culture, history and imagination. We share the pain of the French people and Catholics worldwide in watching this landmark house of worship burn.”

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Tel Aviv residents are preparing to host Shabbat dinners for first-time visitors to Israel next month, as partygoers head there for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality’s Shabbat Dinner Project is encouraging would-be hosts to sign up to share their Jewish tradition at sunset on Friday, 17 May, ahead of the competition’s Saturday finale.

Organisers will match tourists to hosts, taking account of any religious or cultural background, promising “a unique immersive experience with a home-cooked meal while learning about Jewish traditions that have been observed for centuries”.

Tel Aviv-Yafo Mayor Ron Huldai said: “This is one of many ways to connect the thousands of tourists to Tel Aviv families and introduce them to the wonderful Jewish tradition of Shabbat in Israel.”

More than 250 El Al crew members have been vaccinated against measles after a flight attendant contracted the disease during a flight.

The attendant, 43, was hospitalised earlier this month, in a coma with suspected brain damage owing to complications from the measles virus. She had only received one shot of the measles vaccine, instead of the recommended two.

A 10-year-old boy who also contracted the measles virus on a plane is currently hospitalised in Israel on a respirator with suspected brain damage, according to reports.

Israel’s Health Ministry ordered all local airlines to vaccinate their staff against measles, especially those who come into contact with travellers.

El Al set up a special clinic at Ben Gurion Airport in order to ensure that all staff get inoculated. [JTA]

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World News / Ukrainian poll / Historic seder

Ukraine elects Jewish president Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been given an overwhelming directive to oversee change after collecting more than 70 percent of the votes in the Ukrainian election.

With nearly all ballots counted, he received 73 percent of the vote compared to incumbent President Petro Poroshenko’s 24 percent.

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The first-time candidate, 41, who stars in Servant of the People, a TV sitcom about a high school teacher who becomes president almost by accident, appeared to have won in both the west and the east, a rarity in post-Soviet Ukraine.

If Zelenskiy is sworn in as president, his prime minister — at least for a while and possibly until the parliamentary elections scheduled

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to take place sometime later this year – will be Volodymyr Groysman, a Jewish politician who was the mayor of the

city of Vinnytsia.

Zelenskiy campaigned on unifying Ukraine, which is torn by bitter debates over

national identity and a bloody conflict with Russia-backed separatists.

More unusual to some, however, was how Zelensky appears to have won the elections so decisively in spite of how his Jewish ancestry – his mother, Rima, is Jewish, and he has jokingly referred to this during the campaign — is well known in Ukraine.

Born in Kryvyi Rih, near Dnipro, to a Jewish family of scientists, Zelenskiy has not mentioned his Jewish identity often in interviews before or during the campaign, which critics say is purposefully vague.

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Jewish families have held a seder at the site of the Warsaw Ghetto for the first time since Nazi troops stormed it in 1943 to kill or deport its residents.

Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, Chief Rabbi of Chabad-Poland, hosted the special Pesach meal in the heart of what was for-

merly the infamous ghetto, with families from Israel, Europe and the US. It was held 76 years to the day since the uprising broke in 19 April 1943, when Nazi German troops stormed in.

They expected the deportation process to last three days, but were ambushed by Jewish fighters.

Stambler said it was be “a magnificent show of spiritual triumph, families of ghetto survivors celebrating the festival of redemption together”.

Among those attending were Yosef Nachum and Nakmi’a Ben-Shem (previously Feldschuh). Their daughter Sharon described how her aunt – child prodigy Josima Feldschuh, the celebrated young pianist of the Ghetto – died on 21 April 1943, just before her 14th birthday, while in hiding.

“Her very last meal took place the prior evening, the seder night of 1943,” she said.

“This year, we joined the seder in Poland together with her family. In her city, on the day

Archive image of workers in the Warsaw Ghetto

she passed away.”

She added: “It is deeply meaningful to us to celebrate together as free Jews in a place where so many, including our own family, perished.”

Other guests included members of the Spielman family, whose uncle Vlaidslav was a world-famous pianist, and Albert Stankovski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, which is under construction by the Polish government.

“Before the war, approxi-

Songfest party packs A pro-Israel group has unveiled its new Eurovision-themed party packs which feature Madonna and Netta Barzilai face masks and an Israeli flag.

The group, We Believe In Israel, launched a petition against a boycott of Eurovision Israel earlier this month, collecting nearly 5,000 signatures.

The packs also contain balloons, “I am a

Zionist” badges, Israeli flag bunting and games.

Director Luke Akehurst said: “With the Eurovision Song Contest being hosted in Tel Aviv, 18 May is a big night for Eurovision fans and people who love Israel.

“Our pack will help make it an even more fun and more Israel-themed evening.”

The special packs can be purchased online for £12.50 from 29 April.

mately one third of Warsaw was Jewish,” said Stankovski.

“Commemorating pre-war Jewish Warsaw and celebrating the growth of the current Jewish community is of the utmost importance to us. The Passover celebration is a vital part of this process.”

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum will be housed in the former children’ hospital established by Jewish families Bersohn and Bauman as a clinic for children of all faiths.

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TOULOUSE KILLER’S BROTHER IS JAILED The brother of the gunman who killed four at a Jewish school in France in 2012 will spend 30 years in jail after being found guilty of being an accomplice in the murders. Abdelkader Merah, 36, received the three-decade jail term from a Paris appeals court after being found guilty of complicity in the slayings by Mohammed Merah at the Toulouse school, as well as of three soldiers. Merah killed Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and two of his children as well as another girl in 2012 at the Otzar Hatorah school.

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Festival landmark / ORT unites / Yiddish plan / World News

LUCKY 13 FOR LIMMUD MOSCOW Limmud FSU – the education festival for Jews of the former Soviet Union – celebrated its barmitzvah year in style with a record 2,100 participants enjoying more than 350 lectures, panels and a children’s programme.

The event took place in Moscow, where Limmud FSU began, and keynote speakers included Limmud FSU president Aaron Frenkel, the president and chief executive of Genesis Philanthropy Group, (GPG) Ilia Salita, Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Berel Lazar, Israel’s minister of Jerusalem affairs and minister of environmental protection, Ze’ev Elkin and the Israeli ambassador to Russia, Gary Koren.

A special event took place on the first night of the conference, to honour the legendary rabbi and scholar Adin Steinsaltz, 81, who took part in the first Limmud FSU. He is noted for having opened the first officially recognised yeshiva in Soviet Russia back in 1989.

One of his first students was Elkin,

Participants at the latest Limmud FSU, which took place in Moscow

who paid warm tribute to his former teacher. Ukrainian-born Elkin emigrated to Israel in 1990 and recalled attending Steinsaltz’s classes.

He told the Limmud audience: “It

was a place where one could always be assured of an interesting lesson or the possibility of spending Shabbat. For me, the first yeshiva in Russia was for me a real home.”

RARE HAGGADAH GOES ON DISPLAY For a few brief days New Yorkers had the chance to view – and, perhaps, to buy – a rare treasure. It was what has become known as the Lombard Haggadah, created in Milan in the late 14th century and containing 75 delicately wrought watercolour paintings.

The Haggadah, a jewel of the medieval world, was last on public display at the Paris World’s Fair in 1900, when it belonged to a French family. It was then sold in 1927 in London to collector of Hebrew manuscripts, Zalman Schocken, and has remained in private hands ever since. It survives as the earliest stand-alone Italian Haggadah. Of the greatest rarity, it is one of three illustrated medieval Haggadot still privately owned.

NEWS IN BRIEF

MEASLES FEAR CITED IN BUS STOP ROW The measles outbreak that has gripped New York and its strictly Orthodox community has reportedly led to a bus driver refusing to stop for a Brooklyn Jewish man to board her bus.

According to newspaper reports, a man was standing at a bus stop in Williamsburg, a neighbourhood largely populated

by Orthodox Jews. The bus sailed past the stop but the man caught up with it when it was stuck in traffic. The driver covered her face and shouted “Measles!” while refusing to take his ticket.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is investigating complaints against the driver made by the United Jewish Organisations of Williamsburg, which is working with the city to curb the outbreak by educating the community and encouraging vaccination.

NYC’S YIDDISH SCHOOL PLAN A New York City Council member has proposed opening a dual-language Yiddish-English programme in a city public school.

Mark Levine, who represents parts of upper Manhattan and is the chair of the City Council’s Jewish Caucus, is working to open the programme in a kindergarten classroom in autumn 2020, according to the Forward Jewish newspaper.

The secular Yiddish-language programme would be the only one of its kind in the United States.

Levine told the Forward: “I’ve been inspired by young activists who are looking to keep this language alive,

and keep its literature and theatre and culture alive by passing it on to the next generation”.

Because it would be a publicly-funded programme, the Yiddish teaching would be devoid of religious content.

Questions have already been raised as to who would attend such classes, since spoken Yiddish is already the main language of strictly Orthodox Jews who would be unlikely to send their children to secular tuition.

There are dual language programmes in New York City public schools in more than 20 languages, including Urdu, Polish, Albanian, Russian and Spanish.

At his session about the phenomenon of Russian-speaking Jewry, Salita shared GPG’s observations of Russian-speaking Jewish communities around the world. He described major trends and surprises in resettlement stories of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union and discussed GPG’s vision on what the future holds for this important population.

Participant Inna Kagan said: “This is my fifth time at Limmud FSU, and I can definitely say that it just keeps getting better and better. Amazing energy, atmosphere, and so many high-quality lectures that makes it almost impossible to choose. I just love it.”

The co-founder of Limmud FSU, Chaim Chesler said: “It’s truly unbelievable that we reached our 13th milestone in Moscow, the very place where Limmud FSU was born, and we’re honoured to continue serving an important part in the life of the local Jewish community.”

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POLISH CONSUL IS NAMED RIGHTEOUS Poland’s wartime consul in Switzerland, believed to have saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, has been named Righteous Among the Nations

by Yad Vashem.

The honour for the late Konstanty Rokicki was announced before Pesach. Yad Vashem also hailed the work of other consuls in the mission, Stefan Jan Ryniewicz and Lados Alksander.

But it was Rokicki who was at the centre of a covert operation to issue fake Paraguayan passports to thousands of Jews, many of whom were associated with the strictlyOrthodox Agudat Yisrael group.

The scheme, carried out with the assistance of the Paraguayan consul, was discovered by Swiss police in 1943, but not before Rokicki had helped to smuggle the fake passports to Jews in Poland and the Netherlands.

ORT gets it Together Thousands of students and teachers united to mark ORT Day – the annual celebration of the world’s leading Jewish education network.

The events took place in more than 25 countries to mark the 139th anniversary of the signing of ORT’s founding document in St Petersburg, Russia, on 10 April 1880.

It was a day of connection, togetherness and celebration as students, teachers, graduates and beneficiaries acknowledged their membership of a movement which is passionate about making the world a better place through education.

This year’s theme was “ORT Together”, expressed in a series of classes, competitions and social media campaigns. Students demonstrated the ORT Together hand gestures while others made innovative variations of the ORT “O” logo created using their hands, bodies, cakes, flowers and other ideas.

A postcard exchange between students at different ORT schools saw 280 cards sent between Panama and Ukraine, Spain and Mexico, and Russia and France.

One of the highlights of the day was an inter-

Life is as it ORT to be for these children

active quiz, featuring 12 teams of ORT students from around the world, including from Moldova, Colombia and Estonia.

The result sparked huge celebrations at the Buenos Aires school, with students hugging each other and chanting in front of the interactive screen.

Natasha Shaw, ORT Day co-ordinator, said: “This is a great example of how sharing knowledge and experiences can unite us. The ORT family creates a sense of belonging where we can all learn from each other’s passion and perspective.”

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UNITED STATES

More than 500 doctors who serve Jewish communities in the US have signed a letter urging Jewish children and young adults to get vaccinated. It comes amid a measles outbreak in New York’s Charedi community, with 555 cases reported already this year – twice that of 2018.

Prominent rabbis have joined the campaign.

ARGENTINA

An entire gang whose members viciously attacked Argentina’s chief rabbi during a burglary in February has now been arrested, Buenos Aires police said. Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich was left with nine broken ribs and a punctured lung.

JORDAN

Israel let 200 Gazan Christians aged 55 or over to travel to Jordan for Easter. Up to 900 Gazan Christians applied to travel to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, but were denied.

BRAZIL

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum and centre in Jerusalem, has criticised the far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for saying the crimes of the Holocaust could be forgiven, saying it was ‘not in anyone’s position to determine’. Israeli president Reuven Rivlin said: ‘No-one will order the Jewish people’s forgiveness and no interest will buy it.’

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Special Report / Artificial Intelligence

The crucial fight for control between AI and its creators The Chief Rabbi is among those who’ve expressed concerns about trusting artificial intelligence to make moral choices. Stephen Oryszczuk investigates

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hief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has warned of “a desperate struggle for control between artificial intelligence (AI) and its creators”.

His concern follows the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 in October, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 last month, killing more than 340 people in total. Initial reports suggest the pilots lost their battle against the planes’ intelligent software. While no Luddite, Mirvis nevertheless believes events are prompting urgency, and says we should all be having these conversations immediately and openly.

“I am troubled,” Mirvis told BBC Radio listeners. “What happens when soulless artificial intelligence, devoid of feeling or emotion, is

called upon to make moral or ethical choices on our behalf?”

He posed questions to illustrate the point.

Will a driverless car prioritise the life of a passenger or pedestrian in an emergency? How will healthcare AIs decide who gets life-saving treatment first? Who will military AIs choose to kill?

“The development of AI has the potential to be the source of enormous blessing for our world by augmenting human capacity, and not by replacing it,” said Mirvis, who reiterated his points at the European Parliament. “But it is imperative that this technology be harnessed to serve us, rather than the reverse.”

According to the Book of Genesis, says Mirvis, humankind is required to subdue the Earth and

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establish a dominion of morality over it. So can we ever justifiably abdicate that moral responsibility to computers or their programmers?

Jewish computer scientists were among the first in the field of AI and ethics, long before intelligent robots were designed to work in nuclear reactors, fight wars or care for the elderly.

In 2000, Eliezer Yudkowsky founded the Machine Intelligence Research Unit in California. Its initial purpose was to facilitate AI’s development, but by 2005 Yudkowsky was warning it could become “super-intelligent” and pose risks to humanity.

Around the same time, American author, inventor and “futurist” Ray Kurzweil said: “Our strategy should be to optimise the likelihood that future non-biological intelligence will reflect our values of liberty, tolerance, and respect for knowledge and diversity. The best way to accomplish this is to foster those values in our society.”

Ominously, he also warned “greater intelligence will always find a way to circumvent measures that are the product of lesser intelligence”.

So, even if we hard-wire AIs to respect our cosmopolitan values, could they choose to “circumvent” them? To a large extent, we have already ceded control of an AI’s means to achieve its goals. The designers of IBM’s Deep Blue – which beat world champion Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997 – did not know the computer’s next move.

They only knew it would try to win.

While Mirvis says all will be well if AI “is harnessed to serve us”, American philosopher and computer scientist Susan Schneider suggests this is too simple, presupposing AI will only out-think us while always lacking consciousness. But if AI does develop “conscious experience”, she says

ethicists worry “it would be wrong to force AIs to serve us if they can suffer and feel emotions”.

Rabbi Jack Abramowitz of the US-based Orthodox Union agrees. “If they are determined to be intelligent and aware, and able to feel and suffer, then they should enjoy the same rights we would give to anybody.”

Schneider warns consciousness “could make AIs volatile or unpredictable” and is refining a test to measure this, but Yudkowsky thinks the only way AI would ever do us harm is if we somehow allowed it.

AIs may well “take actions undesirable to its programmers” he says, but this “will be as a consequence of the programmers’ actions”. The code “will not want to circumvent its designed-in preferences, run amok and start rendering down humans for spare atoms, unless we write code that does so – or write a programme that writes a programme which does so”.

The mechanics of AI are moving faster than the ethics. In Israel, a shining witness to this is the staggering $100 million just spent on the Weizmann Institute’s new Artificial Intelligence Centre for Scientific Exploration.

In terms of Mirvis’ ethical parameters within its confines, there appear few boundaries at this point. Two of the centre’s top boffins told JTA last month: “We are not told what to investigate.

It’s all driven by the curiosity and ingenuity of the researchers themselves.”

Who ultimately does the driving in the future – subduing the Earth to maintain dominion over it – remains to be seen. The final coding in the “desperate struggle for control between AI and its creators”, as described by Mirvis, remains unwritten.

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Fake news and fake apologies Two Labour MPs have been caught bang-to-rights spreading obscene fake news. Both were let off without so much as a wrist-slap.

First, Richard Burgon, MP for Leeds East, who flatly denied calling Zionism “the enemy of peace”, was shown video of him saying precisely that.

Rather than say sorry for lying, Tricky Dicky simply noted: “It is now clear that I did [say “Zionism is the enemy of peace”] and regret doing so.”

He was swiftly followed by Grahame Morris, MP, who shared a video of Guatemalan soldiers attacking a young man, claiming Israeli soldiers had dished out the brutal beating. After being told of his – arguably wilful – gaffe, the right honourable member for Easington said: “Many apologies for my honest mistake.” He then cushioned his regret with more anti-Israel twaddle.

Rather than issuing a faux mea culpa, Morris – who’s long been loudly and proudly anti-Israel (he compared IDF lone soldiers to ISIS) – might one fine day reflect on how he eagerly mines the darkest ideological corners of the web for his news updates.

Like their leader Jeremy Corbyn at the wreath laying for Black September terrorists, Burgon and Morris were “present but not involved” in their own genuinely-held opinions. They adolescently refuse to take responsibility for what they say and with whom they cavort because they have a ready-made get out of jail free card. Spout a mealy-mouthed ‘apology’ and Labour will not act.

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“So let me get this straight... when you said the tweet contained something Jews are trying to avoid, did you mean bread or the Labour Party?”

STILL DRAWING WRONG CONCLUSION ON BEGUM To what extent do I need to keep spelling out the ISIS problem to your letter writer Kay Bagon? While I accept Israel has no involvement in the issue of whether Britons who joined ISIS should lose their citizenship, the fact remains Israel has a very real issue with ISIS in general.

In the year Shamima Begum ran off to join ISIS, the terror group announced it would attack Israel “for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people”, and further described all Jews as “the first enemy of the Muslims”.

ISIS proudly announced it was “getting closer to Israel from all directions, from Sinai and from Damascus and more”. It released a video claiming “we will enter al-Aqsa mosque as conquerors, using our car bombs to strike the Jewish ramparts… We assure you that soon there will not be a single Jew left in Jerusalem and throughout the country. We will move to eradicate the disease of the Jewish people worldwide”. Ms Begum adopted this ideology.

With that in mind, I consider a sufficient degree of artistic interpretation was open to your cartoonist to make the observation that Ms Begum is unwelcome in any civilised country – be it the UK, Israel or elsewhere.

That was the point of the cartoon.

Simon Aaron By email

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Editorial comment and letters

Define the undefinable Muslim activists say they need a definition of Islamophobia for the same reason Jews need a definition of antisemitism. But Jews do not need a definition of antisemitism.

Jews have had thousands of years to learn what Jew hatred looks like. It is the rest of the world, and particularly the Labour Party, that

needs to learn what antisemitism looks like today. I sympathise with Muslims in their cause but let’s not pretend antisemitism and Islamophobia are alike. They are not. One has had much longer to evolve. It looks very different as a result.

Jack Haworth By email

schools’ in this country, we should remember: half of them are schools of our faith.

We have seen and heard Labour MP Richard Burgon [pictured] making an anti- Israel speech, despite denying he made it. The list of Labour members openly making hateful statements gets longer by the day.

It now seems there is a fair chance Labour, riddled with anti-Israel feeling, will replace the Conservative party, owing to the Tories’ ineptitude. We may see a further increase in antisemitism here. Thankfully, there is one country where we are safe.

Eran Lloyd By email

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HAVE FAITH IN THE FIGURES I applaud the CST for training Hindu priests (Issue 1102), but was surprised to learn that there are only seven Hindu schools in the UK, for a Hindu population of 817,000. Compare this to 49 Jewish schools in the UK for a Jewish population of 290,000.

I looked into it further and found that there are 12 Sikh schools for a Sikh population of 432,000 and 31 Muslim schools for a Muslim population of 2.6 million. This means that there are as many Jewish schools in the UK as there are Muslim, Sikh and Hindu schools combined.

So, when people talk about ‘faith

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ALL THE LEFT’S FAULT Tomer Pines’s column (11 April) on the tragic failure of the progressive Zionist left in the recent Israeli election is a lesson in both myopia and delusion.

His use of the word ‘progressive’ is meant to convey an enlightened way ahead, some sort of nirvana that the Right cannot possibly contemplate, but in fact masks the abject failure of the left’s years of appeasement and elitism and his conclusion that the Left’s demise is because of some right-wing trap, is symptomatic of their failure to face reality.

Rabin/Peres meant Oslo, which meant Arafat, Hamas, terror, murder, suicide bombings. Even Ariel

Sharon’s Gaza evacuation sparked war, bombs and chaos.

As for the idea that only the left cares about peace, welfare and civil equality, nobody believes that any more.

The Zionist left has little to offer in the realms of Israel’s security and the safety of its citizens, falling back on the worn out, bankrupt idea that, in Tomer’s words, ‘the Israeli Arabs just want to incorporate into Israeli life’. That’s why the left was wiped out in the elections and until it can see these truisms, it will continue to be irrelevant.

Daniel Baum Baker Street

A lack of intelligence I read with interest your online feature on Artificial Intelligence [on page 10 of this week’s issue] and agree with your analysts, including a rabbi who say we should give robots rights if they develop consciousness. Indeed, there are

many non-robotic life forms living on my street who enjoy a full suite of rights without having demonstrated the pre-condition we demand of AI.

Ian Adams Stanmore

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Opinion

How many homeless did you pass today?

RABBI OLIVER SPIKE JOSEPH

NEW NORTH LONDON SYNAGOGUE AND HAVURAH

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oday I walked, cycled and drove past more than a dozen people sleeping on the streets or in seemingly-vulnerable circumstances.

Before I head for home tonight, I will walk past another dozen men, women and young people who may sleep on the street.

Sometimes I stop and talk to homeless people, offer them a hot drink or something to eat. Last week, I stopped at a petrol station in the late evening and met a woman huddled in the doorway. We spoke for a few minutes. She was trying to put together £15 for a hostel for that night. I bought her some hot food and a cuppa and went on my way.

To do nothing flies in the face of Judaism’s ethical and legal tradition.

When we open the Hagadah, the first words we read that are unique to the Seder are ‘ha

lach’ma an’ya’, ‘this is the bread of poverty, let all who are needy come and eat’. There is a direct correlation between the poverty of the Egyptian slavery and Exodus and our outlook on current poverty and suffering. In Torah, we read that we should not turn away from the orphan and the widow. The ethical soul of the Torah is devout in its protection and care for the most vulnerable in our communities because of the biblical stories we read of our enslavement and Exodus and because of our historic experience of vulnerability and persecution.

Because of our slavery we must not enslave, because of our poverty we must not turn a blind eye to poverty. As a community we must find answers for those who find themselves living in insecure housing and on the streets.

The Rambam wrote in his code on charitable giving that the highest level of tzedakah is enabling a person to live self-sufficiently. This is the work of Shelter UK in relation to housing insecurity. Shelter looks to challenge the structural causes that lie at the root of homelessness.

It is not enough to drop a coin in a hat or buy someone coffee.

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OUR COMMUNITY MUST PARTNER WITH OUTSIDE CHARITIES TO DEFEAT HOMELESSNESS Our community and those charities with whom we share similar values must partner together to defeat homelessness systemically.

Tzelem: Rabbinic Call for Social and Economic Justice in the UK and Shelter, one of the UK’s leading housing charities, have teamed up to tackle one of the most fixable problems in the housing sector known as ‘No DSS’. ‘No DSS’ is the discriminatory label that letting agents and landlords place on housing adverts to indicate that people who receive housing benefits are ineligible to apply for their property.

Shelter’s research shows almost one-inthree renters who receive housing benefit has

experienced this type of discrimination. This equates to hundreds of thousands of people.

‘No DSS’ harms the most vulnerable in our communities disproportionately: those with medical or mental health problems and single parents.

We are bound by Torah law to protect society’s most vulnerable and supporting Shelter’s campaign to end this unjust and potentially unlawful discrimination is a robust response to this crisis.

As you walk home tonight, the rough sleeping you see is just the tip of the iceberg.

Behind the visible thousands living on our streets are many more in insecure housing or on the edge of homelessness. We must not walk by these people and ignore their crisis.

As landlords and active members of our community, we must respond in a clear voice with the same words we call out from the Passover seder. This year, we answer the question of how we will work to combat homelessness.

As tradition teaches us: ‘Do not oppress the stranger, for you were strangers in Egypt’ [Exodus/Shemot 22:20].

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Corbyn shrugs his way to point of no return SIMON JOHNSON

CHIEF EXECUTIVE, JEWISH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

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ast week a photograph was posted on social media. It showed the scene at a meeting between the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Jeremy Corbyn.

Ms Pelosi spoke animatedly. Mr Corbyn, on the other hand, was slumped in his chair, arms folded in a classic defensive posture, with a look on his face of weary resignation and defiance.

I looked at that picture and thought: “Where have we seen that before”? Then I remembered. That was the posture Corbyn adopted with us in the Jewish community’s meeting with him – exactly one year ago this week.

He was defensive, slumping back in his chair, shrugging his shoulders and folding his arms whenever the conversation turned to something he did not want to hear. In fact, the phrase “Corbyn Shrugged”, used as a headline for a column we wrote earlier, has been widely

adopted in political commentary. Comedian Matt Forde had a whole routine about it in his Edinburgh Festival show.

As meetings go, our meeting with Jeremy Corbyn was among our least successful. We had asked for six straightforward, concrete actions to be taken by the Labour Party leader to rebuild trust among the Jewish community that the party was prepared to stand up to anti-Jewish racism.

Of the six requests, Corbyn, accompanied

by Seumas Milne, Jennie Formby and Andrew Gwynne, agreed to not a single one.

That unsuccessful meeting, at which Corbyn failed to live up to his promise of being a militant opponent of antisemitism, has been the start of a year of frustration for the Jewish community.

There was a summer of near-constant revelations about Corbyn, including the famous “wreath-laying” saga. There was the drawn out battle within the National Executive Committee to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, something Corbyn even at the last moment tried to water down to

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THE COMMUNITY IS IMMENSELY FRUSTRATED BY A LACK OF ACTION protect the right of his supporters to call Israel a “racist endeavour”.

In recent weeks, there have been revelations in The Sunday Times of the leader’s office intervening in disciplinary cases.

The Labour Party is now facing the possibility of an investigation by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

Corbyn appears not to have been willing to confront the fact that, of the nine MPs who have resigned the whip and left the Party, four cited antisemitism as their reason to do so.

The Jewish community is immensely frustrated that, despite Corbyn’s promise to fight against “all sorts of racism”, antisemitism within Labour appears to have got worse.

Corbyn has not taken the action necessary to stamp it out. That prompted the Jewish Leadership Council to mark the anniversary of the meeting by issuing our new short film, Dear Jeremy Corbyn. This film illustrates how, despite his promises, the community remains frustrated at how the situation has become worse. It questions how much Corbyn really cares about the issue and wonders if he is actually indifferent to the fact there is anti-Jewish racism within the party.

The film questions whether Corbyn has responded fast enough, been firm enough, transparent enough, empathetic enough and active enough to address the anti-Jewish racism within the party.

This film reminds the community that, one year ago, Corbyn refused to agree to any of the actions we had proposed. He seems not to want to take the necessary action to rebuild trust with the wider community.

It seems that we are close to the point of no return. Corbyn needs to take the firm and visible action to counter the widely-held perception that the party, which he leads, is now institutionally racist towards Jews.

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‘J. Frazer’ technically wrote us this column JENNI FRAZER

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’m writing this before Pesach has even started in the knowledge that it will be pretty much over by the time people get to read this in the print edition of the Jewish News. So I hope you all have/have had a lovely chag.

The celebration of Pesach, however, got me thinking: would people agree that it can be termed a women’s festival? It’s women, after all, who clean and cook and shop to make the magic of Pesach happen, and we all know it’s massively labour intensive — in other words, bloody hard work.

So why do I feel a creeping rise in antagonism to women, not just in the religious world but in the political one, too? Many would have been hard put to it to find women featuring in the recent Israeli elections. Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg has become a novelty, rather than the norm, Tsipi Livni is out of politics, and even the much-vaunted “progressive” Blue and White Party has only nine women in the list of

those who made it to the new Knesset.

Perhaps the disrespect for women in public life can be encapsulated in the shocking story of the rabbi who went to vote in B’nei Brak and refused to enter the polling station until a female election worker was removed from the premises.

The woman, who was a teller for Likud, refused, to her great credit, to leave the building, despite being offered money to do so. Eventually Likud Knesset Members “arranged” for her to have a lunch break and thus the rabbi was able to cast his ballot, his life unsullied by a female presence.

The rabbi in question was the leader of the Ger Chasidic dynasty, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter. I imagine that the reason that the Likud hierarchy colluded in this shameful behaviour was that they were concerned at losing the potential votes not just of Rabbi Alter, but also his followers.

However, just read the excuse trotted out by one of his disciples: “The rabbi did not intend to insult the woman, but saw her presence at the polling station as a matter of respectability… the

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THE WHOLE TONE IS DISTASTEFUL, AS THOUGH ALTER’S LIFE WOULD BE POLLUTED IF HE SAW A WOMAN rabbi does not receive women or look at them”.

I suppose the rabbi never had a mother, either, or indeed any other female relatives. The whole tone of this is so distasteful, as though Rabbi Alter’s life would be polluted if a woman crossed his line of vision.

Meanwhile, in America, I read the depressing story of Deborah Abrams Kaplan, a photographer who was approached by a writer from a Bobov Chasidic magazine, who wanted to use her pictures of the Manischewitz matzah

factory to illustrate an article.

She very generously told the writer he could have the pictures for free, provided she was credited in the publication. He agreed: but when the magazine was due to go to press she was asked if the credit line could read “D A Kaplan” for “technical reasons”.

And the technical reasons were that the publication, Sha’arei Zion, did not use the full first name of women while they were alive, only their initials. In other words, to dupe the reader into believing that the pictures had been taken by a man, and thus once again airbrushing women out of the story.

A furious Deborah Kaplan (you go, girl) duly revoked her permission for the magazine to use the pictures for free. Only payment, she said, would give the editors the right to credit her with initials. No pay, no play. Astonishingly, they paid up and she has fittingly donated the money to three women’s charities.

What century are we in, again? Next Pesach, perhaps, women should leave it to the men to do the work. Then we’d see how keen they are on pretending we don’t exist.

Let’s all speak up in the name of justice AMY WOOLFSON

HUMAN RIGHTS BARRISTER

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ewish people don’t need to be warned about genocide. We know it doesn’t happen overnight. We know it starts with a culture being demonised and with hate and repression becoming normal. Then people start disappearing.

That’s what is happening today in China. It is estimated that more than a million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities are being detained indefinitely in ‘re-education’ camps in the western Xinjiang Region.

The range of people detained in the camps, from elderly women to intellectuals and celebrated artists, undermines the official line that they are being detained in order to receive training. They are being detained as part of a wider effort by the Chinese government to subdue and erase Uyghur culture.

Who are the Uyghurs? They are a Turkic minority, ethnically and culturally very different from China’s Han majority. The majority of Uyghurs – around 11 million – live in Xinjiang, but there are significant communities in central Asia, Turkey, Germany and the United States. There is a small Uyghur

establish rights for community here in the UK too. all humanity. On Many Uyghurs practice Islam, and do not being told he would speak Mandarin as a first language. Since 1949, be awarded the the Uyghur homeland has been a part of the Nobel Peace Prize in People’s Republic of China. Decades of Han 1968, he replied: “I migration and discriminatory policies towards am very happy”. But, Uyghur people have led to tensions and he added, “I would sporadic violence. be happier if there The repression of the Uyghurs has were a little more escalated massively since 2016. The Chinese justice in the world”. government says it is responding to extremism René Cassin, the in the Uyghur community and it is true that Jewish human rights some Uyghurs have gone to fight in Syria. charity named in But the Chinese government’s response his honour, hosts has been to punish millions of people, many an event on 9 May of whom have been labelled extreme for such Uyghur people at a livestock market in Kashgar, China to highlight the things as refusing to eat pork or speaking to a Uyghur crisis and The Universal Declaration on Human relative overseas. ask what solidarity the Jewish community can Rights was co-drafted by René Cassin, a Life for Uyghurs outside the camps is bleak offer – in the hope of bringing ‘a little more French-Jewish lawyer who lost many family too. As well as the constant fear of the people justice’ to the world in René Cassin’s name. members in the Holocaust. His aim was to of being taken away, the Chinese government has banned expressions of Uyghur culture.

The Uyghur language is being removed from schools and public spaces. Mosques are empty.

Neighbourhoods are bulldozed.

What can we do? I believe we have a special responsibility as Jews to bear witness to what is happening and speak up against it whenever we can.

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1PESACH PARCELS

Children from the Whitefield community in Manchester are pictured with the raw soup ingredient packages they prepared for families supported by GIFT. The Jewish charity gave out thousands of pounds worth of Pesach food to families ahead of the festival.

Volunteers from Whitefield Synagogue prepared the packages by cutting up an assortment of fresh vegetables, which were vacuum-packed and sent out to families with the rest of their Pesach food parcels. The charity distributes weekly food parcels to more than 250 families across London and Manchester as well as offering practical and tutoring help for children after school.

To volunteer, email info@jgift. org or call 020 8457 4429.

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2 LGBT SEDER

The Jewish LGBT+ Group, formerly known as JGLG, celebrated its annual second night three-course catered seder in north London with more than 30 members of the LGBT+ community and their partners. It was led by the group’s chair David Rubin.

3 GARDEN DEDICATED

Kingston Liberal Synagogue’s new garden has been named The Kehillah [community] Garden and will be dedicated to the late member Annemarie Seelig, whose legacy allowed for the garden to be developed. The name was chosen in a competition and vote and revealed at the communal seder. Rabbi René Pfertzel also confirmed the community will decide on a Hebrew name for the synagogue in the autumn.

4MOCK SEDER

Members of Jewish Care’s Redbridge Community Centre took part in a mock seder to celebrate Passover. Pictured is Ernest Green raising his glass of wine to mark the special occasion in the Jewish calendar.

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More than 150 graduates took part in a career networking session held by the community’s employment hub Work Avenue.

Professionals from Ralph Lauren, the Bank of England, Apple and Jewish News’ very own Jack Mendel chatted to young people gearing up for the next stage in their working lives.

6COMMUNAL MEAL

More than 140 members and friends of East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue gathered at Clore Tikva School for a communal seder held on the second night of Pesach, led by the shul’s Rabbi David Hulbert (pictured). Chilli peppers were added to the seder plate to represent climate change and global warming, and the four questions were changed to ones about Brexit. Hulbert said: “It was great to have so many people of all ages sharing the festival and singing together.” Shul chair Stewart Spivak said: “There was such a lovely atmosphere in the hall, a baby of only a few weeks old and some members and friends of 90 years plus. I was delighted to be part of it.”

said Elstree and Borehamwood Conservatives.

8 CARD PLAY

Jean Islin (pictured), a member of Jewish Care’s Stepney Community Centre, was among 50 card players to take part in a tournament at The Betty and Asher Loftus Centre, playing bridge, Kalooki and Rummikub. “I had a wonderful day,” Jean said.

The lunch was sponsored and organised by the charity’s Bridge Extravaganza fundraising committee.

9 CIVIC SERVICE

The Liberal Synagogue Elstree marked its 50th anniversary with a civic service led by Rabbi Pete Tobias and attended by Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire Robert Vos, the Mayor of Hertsmere Councillor Brenda Batten, and the Town Mayor of Borehamwood Councillor Victor Eni. Tobias’ Pesach-themed sermon urged listeners to remember slavery still exists and that people should continue to work towards freedom and equality.

Kiddush was served by the Kabbalat Torah class.

7 RUBBISH REMOVAL 10 ISRAELI CHOIR Mason Jacobs, seven, from Borehamwood, spent Monday morning picking up rubbish on streets around Hillside Avenue with friends and family. He invited local councillors Farida Turner, Víctor Eni, Meenal Sachdev and Susan Brown.

“It was lovely to meet such passionate young leaders who care about their environment,”

The Bat-Kol girls’ choir from Israel Conservatory of Music performed Israeli folk, traditional Yiddish and modern classic songs for residents and nursery children at Jewish care home Nightingale House.

After the concert, the choir joined residents for songs and prayers and a Kabbalat Shabbat ceremony with the nursery.

Your family announcements Esti Cohen celebrated her batmitzvah at Seed Synagogue, Edgware

Jazzy Lesner celebrated her batmitzvah at Apollonia

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Louie Vincent celebrated his barmitzvah at Watford & District United Synagogue

Leo Arazi celebrated his barmitzvah at Borehamwood & Elstree Synagogue

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Life

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School making a world of difference

Louise Scodie visits Israel’s Givat Haviva International School, dedicated to breaking divisions – and now looking for UK students

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his is a place where we make dreams happen. It’s the most inspiring and complex school I know.” Yuval Dvir speaks passionately about Givat Haviva International School (GHIS), which, as headteacher, he has presided over since its opening last year.

Yuval is equally fascinating when talking about his 55 students, aged 16 to 18, whom he describes as “open-minded, curious, passionate and cool”.

I’m taking a tour of GHIS – based an hour north of Tel Aviv – and soon see what Yuval means. This place is different from other secondary schools.

For a start, its goal is to create future world leaders, with conflict resolution, leadership development and social entrepreneurship on the curriculum alongside the academic international baccalaureate (IB) qualification.

Then there’s the school’s setting: the Givat Haviva Coexistence Centre, dedicated to achieving harmony in Israel. Its modern building is surrounded by beautifully-manicured gardens, with a “peace sculpture” to greet visitors as they enter. It’s also an international school: Year 11 and 12 students from around the world come here to live and learn together.

The student body is 50 percent Israeli, divided equally between Jews and Palestinians, and 50 percent from 16 other countries. They study, volunteer and hang out together, despite their wide-ranging backgrounds.

The year 11 students I meet are diverse, impressive and remarkably self-possessed. There’s Christina from South Sudan, who applied for the school via Facebook, while her friends were being married off at 15. She sits with Diana, a fiercely intel-

Students from Givat Haviva International School come from all over the world, attracted by its aim of achieving harmony in Israel

ligent girl from Kazakhstan, who says: “I grew up with no father. I thought I was stuck. But I taught myself English in a year so I could study somewhere where I could get a high school education, learn how to solve conflicts and start changing the world. My dreams have begun to become true.

Now I have the skills not just to dream, but to act.”

As befits a school set in a coexistence centre, encouraging dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian students is high on the agenda.

Wahid grew up in an Arab Muslim village and says the school has transformed his world view.

“Interacting with ‘the other side’ was never an option growing up,” he says. “I thought communicating with Jews would be a real challenge, but slowly I found I could build friendships and learn to love [them]. I’ve found a peaceful platform to express my ideas.”

The sentiment is shared by Wahid’s Israeli classmates, including Avi from Modi’in. He tells me: “My time at GHIS has been transformative.

At first I was worried I wouldn’t be accepted by everyone, because I was the only religious Jew.

But I’ve become friends with Palestinians, Israelis from almost all religious backgrounds, and people from all over the world. The experience has helped me understand other perspectives and people.”

Former Londoner Clare King Lassman works in development and external affairs at Givat Haviva and is part of its founding team.

She says her team looks for students “who are curious, able to thrive in a close-knit community and want to make a difference in the world”.

Although there aren’t currently any pupils from the UK, the school is recruiting for them.

In fact, Yuval issues this striking clarion call: “We want UK students. The UK is facing a radical social crisis. It needs young leaders who are trained in shared society leadership, leaders, who can offer a paradigm shift for British society.”

That may sound alarming, but the GHIS team is focused on bringing about positive solutions through leadership and many of the students are already aiming to lead change in their home country after university. Diana says: “I have big plans. I want to go back to Kazakhstan to share my

knowledge, to help women and children like me.”

Christina is already causing waves in her homeland. She tells me: “When I came here, I opened up doors for girls back home to be educated. Other parents are saying, ‘Why don’t we send our girls to school too?’ I’m a model for change. I’m showing that you don’t have to get married at 15. My parents are so proud.”

While it sounds idyllic, coexistence also takes effort and understanding, according to the students. It also presents an opportunity to grow and mature, as Noga says: “Living in a community can be tough. You have to deal with your issues.

If I fight with someone, I’ll see them in class. I have to deal with it.”

That’s one of the many reasons why Clare is so enthusiastic about GHIS. “It’s a great privilege to work here,: she says. “Our country is so incredibly divided. Living and learning together breaks down barriers and creates powerful friendships. This is the way it should be.”  Applications for GHIS are now open.

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KING BIBI – AND OTHERS – COME TO THE UK

Yossi Madmony’s Redemption

More than 30 films and 43 screenings all over the UK are set to light up audiences in the 2019 Israeli Film Festival, Seret UK, writes Jenni Frazer.

The festival, bringing the best of contemporary Israeli film and TV, runs from 29 April to 12 May, in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Brighton, and, for the first time, Cambridge. All screenings will have English subtitles.

Among the many premieres and hot

tickets is the UK premiere of King Bibi, a fascinating documentary on Israel’s longest-serving prime minister.

Director Dan Shadur will be in London to take part in a Q&A session after the screening on 4 May at London’s Picturehouse Central cinema.

The opening night gala features the UK premiere of the drama Good Morning Son, directed, written by and starring Sharon Bar-Ziv. A young IDF soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury

when he enters a booby-trapped house in Gaza. His family and friends are with him day and night in his hospital room, talking to and touching him, waiting for him to surface from his coma.

Among the themes this year is an indepth look at social diversity in Israel, with an emphasis on the difference between secular and religious life. Shtisel fans will be able to hear one of the hit series’ co-writers, Yehonatan Indursky, the writing talent behind Autonomies, a

new Israeli TV series with an intriguing take on an alternate Israel. It presents a nation torn and divided by a wall into the secular ‘state of Israel’, with Tel Aviv as its capital, and the ‘Charedi Autonomy’ in Jerusalem, run by a strictly-Orthodox religious group. Certainly Indursky must be one of the few writers who has spent time at an Orthodox yeshiva and at the Sam Spiegel film school in Israel.

He is talking on a panel on 6 May.  Details: seret-international.org

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PLATEExpectations

Sweet potato and lemongrass soup

PREPARATION TIME 25 MINUTES

Denise Phillips Serves 6

COOKING TIME 20 MINUTES

INGREDIENTS 2 tablespoons rapeseed oil / vegetable oil 2 red onions – peeled and chopped 2 cloves garlic – peeled and chopped 2 cm fresh ginger – peeled and finely chopped 2 stalks of lemongrass – stalks trimmed and very finely chopped 1 tablespoon ground coriander 1kg sweet potato – peeled and roughly chopped 1 litre vegetable stock 350g Passover coconut milk Salt and pepper – to taste

METHOD 1 Heat the oil in a deep saucepan. Add the onions, garlic, ginger, lemongrass and coriander and sauté for 5 minutes for the flavours to expand.

2 Add the sweet potato, vegetable stock and coconut milk.

3 Bring to the boil and simmer covered for about 20 minutes or until the sweet potato is soft.

Topping: Toasted desiccated coconut Chilli flakes – optional

4 Liquidise or puree the soup with a stick blender and season. Serve hot.

5 Top with a sprinkling of toasted desiccated coconut and chilli flakes.

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This soup has a beautiful smooth texture with an aromatic coconut and subtle lemongrass flavour. Lemongrass, which is widely available in supermarkets, adds a subtle Asian flavour to the dish. This hearty vegan recipe works great served in small bowls as starter, or a larger serving as a low-calorie lunch.

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SEDRA Eighth Day Pesach

Torah For Today What does the Torah say about... Black holes

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL

BY RABBI JEFF BERGER A remarkable thing about Judaism is whichever synagogue one goes to around the world, one expects the Torah portion will be the same. But sometimes the reading in the diaspora is incongruous with the reading in Israel.

This year is one of those occasions, because Israel celebrates seven days of Pesach, whereas for us the eighth day falls on Shabbat when we’ll be reading the portion for Yom Tov. In Israel they’ll have moved on to Acharei Mot, and so on.

Our convergence doesn’t reoccur until 1 August, when in Israel they read Masei and, here, we’ll read Matot-Masei. Personally, this divergence leaves me wanting to make more effort to unite with those living in Israel during the coming months.

For the eighth day in the diaspora, both Ashkenazim and Sephardim have special customs for the festival conclusion.

The custom among Asheknazim is to host a Seudat Mashiach (Messiah’s Feast) between Mincha and the close of the festival.

The more devout will eat matzah and drink four cups of wine (or grape juice) as at the seder. Often such a gathering includes a lecture about the Utopian world of the Messiah.

Sephardim have the North African tradition of Mimouna, celebrating the first eating of Chametz after the festival.

The Talmud tells us that “in Nisan, the Israelites were redeemed and in Nisan they will be redeemed again”. Whichever way one commemorates the end of Pesach, hopefully it will help bring forward our complete redemption.  Rabbi Jeff Berger is the founding rabbi of Rambam Sephardi Synagogue in Elstree/Borehamwood

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Scientists recently hailed the first ever image of a black hole in Messier 87, a galaxy 55 million light years away from earth. What does the Torah say about science and demystifying the universe?

The Torah begins by recording how the heavenly bodies were set into motion to populate and illuminate the skies of our planetary system over the first four days of creation.

The cosmos is featured as a matter of wonderment to Isaiah, who asks of us to “raise our eyes high above and see who created these? He who brings them out in their number and calls to each one by its name.”

Thus, Isaiah tells us that there is a personal connection the Creator has with each one of the heavenly bodies.

On earth, primaeval man, Adam, called each of the species by a name

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with all his creation.

In this way, we can fulfil the mitzvah of “knowing God”, alternatively rendered “to love God”.

Indeed, Maimonides points out that this is the first commandment of faith, implied in the second verse of the Shema.

Maimonides instructs that without knowledge of the natural sciences, one cannot hope to truly appreciate His creation.

The significance of black holes is that they suck in and recycle material in space.

In Jewish tradition, darkness is not a lack of light, but a positive creation.

It may at first appear destructive and bad, hence Isaiah states: “He forms light and creates evil.”

However, our prayer books reword Isaiah to read: “He forms light and creates darkness.”

Demystifying the universe binds us to the Creator and his wondrous works.  Rabbi Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to HM Armed Forces

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Progressively Speaking

Bible Says What?

Extinction Rebellion is doing a mitzvah for the British public

‘We forgot to keep Passover for 400 years’

BY RABBI MARK GOLDSMITH One of the great aspects of Pesach is the seder meal has power to connect people to their Judaism, even when they have stopped observing pretty much everything else. This family observance in the home, or communally in the synagogue, works to bring Jews together to remember and appreciate our liberation and also our connection to our people’s past. It has amazing staying power.

It was not always so. According to the account of King Josiah’s reign in the Books of Kings (2:23:21) and Chronicles (2:35:1-18), the Jews did not observe Passover for a good 400 years, from the time of the Prophet Samuel (around 1050 BCE) to Josiah’s own time (around 620 BCE).

Josiah got Passover celebrated again after a Sefer Torah was found in the Temple in Jerusalem, which by his reign was a centre for idol worship as much as for Judaism. Biblical scholars say this episode tells us about the origins of the Book of Deuteronomy,

which insists that Passover should be celebrated in just one place. Josiah brought Passover back into Jewish life.

Passover subsequently became so popular that the Roman Jewish historian Josephus (Wars of the Jews 6:9:3 422-427) reports around the year 60 CE that more than half a million Jews would come to Jerusalem each year to eat their Passover lamb, having had it prepared at the Temple, sitting in the family groups that are the origin of our seder tables, and the roasted bone on our seder plates.

Jewish history shows us that Judaism has remarkable resilience.

We should never write off any Jew’s participation in our people. Passover tells us to always have the door open to draw in anyone who wants to be with us and share our values.  Formerly rabbi at Alyth Synagogue, Mark Goldsmith has been appointed Senior Rabbi of Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue from this summer

BY RABBI RABBI DANNY RICH Climate change is without doubt the challenge of our age. Scientific consensus concludes that, without an unprecedented reduction in carbon emissions, some regions of the earth will become uninhabitable and severe food shortages may result.

Extinction Rebellion – which includes a group of Extinction Rebellion Jews – has made headlines as it seeks to persuade the government, by non-violent action, to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions to zero.

Some believe the goal of a reduction to zero in the short term is impractical, and point out the UK is doing relatively well. According to the Committee on Climate Change, the UK emissions were 43 percent below 1990 levels in 2017.

The first carbon budget (2008-12) has been met and the UK is on track to outperform the second (2013-17) and third (2018-22). However it is not on track to meet the fourth, which covers the period 2023-27.

I’m sure many readers will also have little sympathy for the inconvenience of disruption to public transport and the blocking of bridges and public spaces, which the Extinction Rebellion activities have caused.

Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly true that Extinction Rebellion is doing a Jewish and public good in asking each of us to contemplate the future of our planet and consider our particular responsibility.

Last week, as Pesach began, Liberal communities listened to this retelling of the 10 plagues from the Extinction Jews Rebellion Haggadah: The bloody Nile of the Exodus reminds us that 90 percent

of the ocean is dangerously polluted; the proliferation of frogs recalls the danger of rising sea levels; the lice are symbolic of the toxicity of the air we breathe; the flies and livestock prompt us that, in the last decade, 41 percent of insect species have been lost – and many mammals too; the boils draw our attention to a World Health Organisation estimate that climate change is anticipated to cause an additional 250,000 deaths per annum between 2030 and 2050; the hail may well be repeated as a symptom of modern climate change; the locusts point to the potential inability to feed the world’s population; and the darkness and death of the first born may be a foretaste of a modern world without international legally binding climate control.

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WEST END TRAVEL Dear David We’ve never visited New York and would love to surprise our three children with a kosher funfilled trip in June or July. I’d appreciate your advice.

Herbert Dear Herbert You will love New York – it is one of the most exciting cities in the world, and spring and summer are the perfect times to visit with warm days assured. You can most definitely look forward to a fun-filled week of sightseeing, Broadway theatre shows, concerts, opera, museums and

DARREN RICH ISRAEL PROPERTY EXPERT

HOME IN ISRAEL REAL ESTATE GROUP Dear Darren Would you advise buying a home off-plan or should we consider a resale?

Jason Dear Jason There are advantages and disadvantages with both options. Buying a home off-plan allows you to choose the floor and design it to your

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This allows payment to be spread over the construction period, and capital growth together with price increases results in good capital gain.

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During the building process, mortgage payments may be payable, but with a resale they will be payable sooner. This means you may need to service the mortgage before a tenant can pay it for a longer period.

Jewish interest tours and fine dining. Both Virgin Atlantic and British Airways offer very attractive airfares, and you can choose from a wide choice of excellent hotels, ranging from highly deluxe to more modest accommodation according to your budget.

New York is a thrilling and vibrant city, but it can be expensive, so I would recommend you purchase a run-around pass, which would also grant you admission to more than 70 top city attractions, including the Empire State building on the famous Fifth Avenue. The three-hour Circle Line cruise around Manhattan is a marvellous way of seeing the city in all its splendour and is a must.

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