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Tottenham to finally ask fans about banning foul nickname Jewish football fans this week welcomed Tottenham Hotspur’s decision to ask supporters if the club should continue to be associated with the racist slur ‘Yid Army’, writes Adam Decker. The term is widely used by Spurs fans in reference to the club’s Jewish roots, but many Jewish football supporters insist it’s offensive and singing it gives rival fans an excuse to use the word abusively. A spokesperson for Tottenham Hotspur told Jewish News: “We recognise this is a complex issue and the appropriateness of its use should always be assessed. We surveyed fans’ use of the term in 2013 and will now conduct a further fan consultation prior to the new season. “It is important that there’s a focus and a clampdown on the real evil that is antisemitism and that our fans’ use of the Y-word is never cited as an excuse for unacceptable behaviour. There is no excuse. Our fans – Jewish and gentile – have never used the Y-word in an offen-

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sive manner. They use it as a form of self-identification having adopted it to deflect antisemitic abuse.” Jewish football fans are sharply divided on the new consultation. Mike Leigh from the Spurs Show Podcast said he welcomed any consultation but “can’t see how anything is going to change”. He added the club “should be applauded for the ongoing dialogue” but said most fans would opt to continue using the controversial phrase.

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“I don’t think there has been a definitive vote on the matter. If there were I guess around 85 percent of fans would be in favour of continuing the phrase in a positive manner and about 15 percent against. The issue has been all about context. Fans chant it in a celebratory way while rival fans use it in a derogatory way.” Asked if he thought other fans would stop using the term abusively if Spurs fans stopped singing it, Leigh said: “That’s the million dollar question and one always levelled at Spurs fans from pressure groups who want the term banned. Other clubs should get their houses in order before pointing the finger.” He added: “British Jewry has far bigger things to worry about at the moment, like the rise of the farleft and far-right, than the use of a very old word chanted by football fans in a proud and celebratory way. It’s the least of our problems at the moment.” Continued on page 6

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Anne Frank’s step sister Eva Schloss was among those paying tribute to the world-renowned diarist, who would have celebrated her landmark 90th birthday on Wednesday. A portrait marking the occasion has been unveiled, showing how she might have looked today. See page 4

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News / Labour pains

Corbyn under fire over Forbes Jeremy Corbyn was accused this week of “allowing institutional anti-Jewish racism”, as Labour welcomed its newest MP, who stands accused of antisemitism, writes Adam Decker.

Speaking at the first Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) meeting since the EU elections, Jewish MPs Ruth Smeeth and Dame Margaret Hodge attacked the leader for inaction on antisemitism.

This comes as Labour inaugurated Lisa Forbes, the newly-elected MP for Peterborough, who apologised during the fiery PLP meeting for having ‘liked’ an online post that claimed Theresa May had a “Zionist slave masters [sic] agenda”. Claiming she had contacted Jewish community groups after her election last week in order to make amends, she was defended by Corbyn, who reportedly said during the meeting: “I’m absolutely convinced this party must be, is, and will always be, an anti-racist party. That obviously includes antisemitism.” Hodge said she could “not tolerate” antisemitism within the party, while Smeeth noted Corbyn was “allowing institutional anti-Jewish racism”. This comes after it was announced that the Equalities and Human Rights Commission is investigating the Labour Party over claims it has discriminated against

Jeremy Corbyn on the campaign trail in Peterborough with new Labour MP Lisa Forbes

its Jewish members. Senior Labour frontbencher, Barry Gardiner defended Forbes, insisting “she had apologised. She said that this was a careless error”. He added, in the wake of revelations about Tory leadership hopeful Michael

Gove having taking cocaine: “If he can be forgiven for that, then Lisa Forbes can be forgiven for liking a tweet that she didn’t bother to read.” After Forbes’ election the Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council and Community Security

Trust criticised her in a joint statement, saying: “The party’s failure to even try to engage with our concerns is an ongoing symptom of the racist mess, for which it is now being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.”

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Labour has insisted it is “no threat of any kind whatsoever to Jewish people” in response to comments by one of Donald Trump’s top allies. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Jewish leaders this week he would “push back” against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn if he takes any actions against British Jews, even before he can be elected prime minister. He was responding to a question asked by a Jewish leader during a closed door meeting in New York. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that an audio recording of the

meeting was leaked to the newspaper.It said Pompeo was asked if Corbyn “is elected, would you be willing to work with us to take on actions if life becomes very difficult for Jews in the UK?” Pompeo reportedly responded: “It could be Mr Corbyn manages to get elected... You should know, we won’t wait for him to do those things to begin to push back.” “It’s too risky and too important and too hard once it’s already happened,” he said. This comes amid a fouryear row over antisemitism in the Labour Party, with senior members of the Jewish com-

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munity accusing the leader of not taking strong enough action on Jew-hate. Reacting to Pompeo’s comments, Labour told Jewish News it “is fully committed to the support, defence and celebration of the Jewish community and is implacably opposed to antisemitism.” It insisted a “Labour government poses no threat of any kind whatsoever to Jewish people. The security and wellbeing of Jewish people is a priority for our party and in government we will always ensure schools, synagogues and institutions are properly protected.”

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Labour MPs Lloyd Russell-Moyle and Dame Margaret Hodge have agreed “to meet for coffee” after a Twitter spat over antisemitism. The exchange follows criticism made by Hodge on the choice of Lisa Forbes as Labour’s Peterborough by-election candidate at a heated parliamentary meeting. Hodge is believed

to have said she could “not tolerate” antisemitism of any kind within Labour. Russell-Moyle accused Hodge of having a personal vendetta against Jeremy Corbyn, claiming she “abuses” her colleagues on the issue. He tweeted: “She has never forgiven him (Corbyn) and has dedicated her time to undermine him.”

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Factory found / Labour pains / News

Secret Hezbollah bomb factory in north London Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has been urged to support the full proscription of Hezbollah because to not do so was now “untenable”. Dame Louise Ellman’s “urgent” letter follows news that four north-west London properties were raided in 2015 and found to contain bomb-making material. No one was charged, but the Telegraph revealed this week that it was part of an operation against agents of the Lebanon-based militia. Until this year, only Hezbollah’s military wing was proscribed, but in March Home Secretary Sajid Javid banned the organisation in its entirety after Jeremy Hunt became foreign secretary and over-ruled his diplomats’ reluctance. “I am deeply concerned that Labour has refused to support calls for the full proscription of Hezbollah, even after the Government’s U-turn on the issue,” said Ellman, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside.

Hezbollah terror flags flying in London at the Al Quds rally last year

“The bomb materials may have been gathered as part of a plot to kill British Jews,” she said, adding: “In light of these revelations, continued opposition to the full proscription of Hezbollah by the Labour Party is untenable.” Hezbollah was established in the Lebanese civil war and in response to the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 1982. Resist-

ance to Israel is an important part of its agenda, as is representing Lebanon’s Shia community. It has been accused of carrying out terrorist attacks against Jews and Israelis around the world, including in Argentina and Bulgaria, and the UK proscribed its External Security Organisation in 2001, followed by its military wing in 2008.

FAITH MISSING OVER MEND Faith Matters has pledged to stop advising a local counter terrorism programme after a member of a controversial advocacy group was offered a seat at the table. The charity said it would no longer be part of the Redbridge Prevent advisory group after learning that Tahir Butt, national coordinator of MEND’s Islamophobia response unit, was voted in. Fiyaz Mughal, founder and director of Faith Matters, said: “Having divisive groups who have actively attempted to undermine the work of other organisations and who have even called projects tackling anti-Muslim hate as ‘Islamophobic’ is perverse. MEND has sparked controversy

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in the Jewish community in recent years, facing accusations of antisemitism, which the advocacy group refuted. In a statement last year, the Board of Deputies stated MEND’s approach “risks increasing hostility and suspicion between the Jewish and Muslim communities, rather than building trust and empathy.”

Huq rejects complaint in her Wesminster office. The Ealing Central and Acton MP said the accusations were “false and malicious”. The ex-staffer said Huq also removed a “No tolerance for antisemitism” poster from the wall, saying: “We obviously don’t need this anymore.” A spokeswoman for Huq said: “We don’t comment on staffing matters. Any suggestion that Rupa is antisemitic or has acted inappropriately is entirely false and malicious.”

A Labour MP has plunged the party into another antisemitism row after two former employees lodged formal complaints against her. Rupa Huq, 47, was accused of antisemitism from two ex-employees who worked at her office in Westminster until this year, The Times reported. One of the complainants, who worked for Huq for nearly a year, sent the party a 2,500 word-dossier detailing alleged antisemitic incidents

No hiding place for hate BY JOAN RYAN, MP CHAIR, LABOUR FRIENDS OF ISRAEL

Many of us never needed convincing about just how dangerous Hezbollah is. That’s why – alongside Jewish communal organisations and colleagues from across the House of Commons – we campaigned to have this antisemitic terror group proscribed in its entirety. The government finally banned its political wing in February (the military wing was banned under Tony Blair). I was, however, horrified to read the Telegraph’s exposé of a plot by Hezbollah-linked operatives, foiled by security services in 2015, to store explosive materials in London. The terrorists were allegedly stockpiling more ammonium nitrate than Timothy McVeigh used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people, and it seems to have been part of an international conspiracy. However, I am deeply concerned that information about this plot appears to have been withheld from the public and Members of Parliament. This is all the more worrying given that, during this period, Parliament was scrutinising ministers’ decision not to fully ban Hezbollah.

The Security Minister, Ben Wallace, this week suggested the question of whether Hezbollah was proscribed in its entirety was irrelevant to this plot, and that the home secretary’s decision was partly a response to it. I have, therefore, written to Sajid Javid to ask him to urgently answer the following questions: 1. Why were the public and MPs not informed about this plot? 2. Why did the Government not act to fully proscribe Hezbollah in 2015? 3. Did anyone in government order information about the plot to be withheld from the public because of its sensitivity owing to Iran’s funding and support for Hezbollah and the recent conclusion of the Iran nuclear deal? 4. Was the CPS’ decision not to prosecute the individual arrested in relation to the plot the result of the fact that, at this time, only Hezbollah’s military wing was banned in the UK? 5. Was the Opposition made aware by the government of this plot only after it was disrupted? This is an important question given that, in February’s debate on proscription, Labour’s frontbench failed to support a ban – a position opposed by many Labour MPs. Those of us who fought hard for Hezbollah to be totally banned in the UK must now come together to ensure our government takes all necessary steps to ensure this antisemitic terror group has no hiding place in the UK.

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Special Report / Anne Frank at 90

90 reasons to remember Perhaps she would have written books or become a formidable force in politics, but whatever path Anne Frank chose in life, she “almost certainly would have cared for the world”, said Eva Schloss of her late stepsister, who would have marked her 90th birthday yesterday, writes Francine Wolfisz. It was on this day 77 years ago that a young Anne was gifted her beloved red chequered diary for her 13th birthday, while in hiding with her family in Amsterdam. Anne often mused in her entries to her imagined friend “Kitty” that she might one day become a journalist or published writer. After her tragic death at Bergen-Belsen aged just 15, her father, Otto, who survived Auschwitz, made it his life’s mission to fulfil his daughter’s dream. Today, the diary of the young Jewish teenager forced into hiding from Nazi persecution has sold more than 36 million copies around the world and been used to educate young people against the dangers of prejudice and discrimination. For her part, Eva – who also turned 90 this year and became Anne’s posthumous stepsister after her mother, Fritzi, married Otto Frank in the years following the war – has also worked tirelessly to keep the young writer’s poignant message alive. Reflecting on what life could have been had Anne survived the camps, Eva said: “We would have grown up together, we would have been like sisters and that would have been nice, especially as she lost her sister and I lost my brother. I always felt that most, that I had no siblings anymore, and like this we would have been a family.” But Eva, who like Anne, went into hiding in Amsterdam before the family was betrayed and sent to Auschwitz, also recognises the diary might have been overlooked and never published had the young teenager survived. “It was through the diary that

Reflection by artist Fiona Graham-Mackay, imaging Anne at 90, was due to be auctioned at the Anne Frank Trust UK’s gala dinner yesterday

she became a symbol of the 1.5 million children who couldn’t speak for themselves,” she said. “If she had lived, having gone through those terrible things, like me and most of the survivors, she might not have talked about it for many, many years. It’s very difficult to judge which way people would have

gone after such a terrible experience.” When asked if Anne’s message of tolerance is just as relevant nearly 80 years after the diary was first written, Eva – who was awarded an MBE in 2013 for Holocaust education – responded that it was “more relevant than ever”.

She added: “We’ve made some progress, but perhaps not enough. It’s important to go back to your roots and not always live for the future.” Meanwhile, an oil painting, Reflection, by Scottish artist Fiona GrahamMackay, depicting Anne gazing from behind a mirror as a 90-year-old,

watching over her teenage self, was due to be auctioned last night at the Anne Frank Trust UK’s Gala Dinner. The work shows the teenage diarist in her bedroom, in the secret Prinsengracht annexe in which she and her family lived for two years, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

We’ll never know the adult Anne would have been BY GILLIAN WALNES PERRY FOUNDER, ANNE FRANK TRUST

Time creeps up without us even realising how the years have gone by. With Anne Frank, the immense poignancy is that there were many unfortunates in her Holocaust experience that meant she almost could have survived and lived her adult life, perhaps even into very old age. She had good genes – her father, Otto Frank, lived to the age of 90. Tragically, the Frank family was on the very last shipment of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, so had the family been betrayed just a couple of weeks later they may have been able to stay in the Netherlands. Anne and Margot Frank spent that most

terrible of winters, 1944-45, having been moved on to the squalid neglect of BergenBelsen. Had they remained in Auschwitz they probably had slightly more chance of survival once the gas chambers had been blown up. Finally, the two Frank sisters died of starvation, disease and utter despair believing they were orphans, while in fact their beloved father had already been liberated from Auschwitz at the time of their deaths and was making his way back to Amsterdam to await news of them. Had they been aware of this, they may have had motivation to hold on for another three weeks until liberation. What might adult Anne have been like? Would she have been a published writer, as she so envisaged in her diary? Perhaps, or perhaps she may have, after the brutality she

experienced in the camps, changed course. She may have chosen, like Eva Schloss, to leave the Netherlands and join the many survivors seeking a new life in the UK or United States. Or she might have become part of the new Israeli state. She may have become a wife and mother, or neither, struggling to cope with the aftermath of her experiences. The only thing we know for sure is that we will never know who the adult Annelies Marie Frank would have been. I have been fortunate to witnessfor myself over the past three decades how young people, from all cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, respond to Anne’s story. Because she describes with such candour the pains of growing up and frustrations with

the actions of adults, Anne speaks to young people in their formative years. She has done so across the generations since her writing was published seven decades ago. Anne describes so vividly what it really feels like to be persecuted and hated for something beyond your control, and this can be transcribed to the experience of victims of genocide and to victims of mindless bullying. We also have the benefit of an unusually large collection of photographs of her, and the vibrancy of the girl they portray gives her a touchable reality. For my recent book, I interviewed inspired young people and educators from around the world about Anne’s relevance to their own lives, and through them I honestly believe this engagement with Anne Frank will not lessen any time soon.

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Communal conference / Tributes paid / News

Trustee conference held Senior representatives from dozens of Jewish charities have attended a conference to improve diversity on trustee boards. The Jewish Communal Trustees Conference featured speakers on leadership and charities law, while Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) chief executive Simon Johnson spoke about the learning points following an independent inquiry into the JLC. More than 140 attended the conference, which was jointly organised by the Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN) and Lead, the JLC’s leadership division. JVN is now led by Nicky Goldman, formerly of Lead, who said the conference was an “opportunity for trustees from organisations across the Jewish community and beyond to come together to learn best practice”. Workshops included subjects such as

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recruiting trustees, fraud and financial controls, trustees’ duties, grassroots initiatives, measuring success, and safeguarding. Lead executive director Michelle Janes said: “It’s inspiring to see so many people committed to the effective leadership of such a wide range of organisations and who are motivated to continually develop their own leadership skills.”

It said: “We are aware of the tragic death of a young man on 3 June. He was taken unwell at in school grounds. “He was taken to hospital by ambulance and sadly later died. Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends. We also commend the efforts of the young first aider who attended while waiting for the ambu-

lance to arrive. Our thoughts are with the family at this time.” JFS headteacher Rachel Fink also paid tribute to Nick, who was a business development manager. She said: “We are all deeply saddened by the news of Nick’s tragic passing. Our thoughts are with his family.” The funeral was held on Tuesday in Bushey.

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Labour MP Dame Margaret 600 women last year and curHodge hailed the “especially rently undertaking 60 active cases important” work undertaken – amounting to an increase of 500 by Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA), percent in demand of its services – which held its inaugural fundgovernment funding for domestic raising dinner last week, writes abuse organisations had decreased Francine Wolfisz. by 75 percent. More than 300 guests, The Labour MP for Barking, including Luciana Berger, who said: “The work of this organisits as an independent MP for Livsation is particularly important erpool and Wavertree, attended at this time. We are in a situathe event in Swiss Cottage last tion where two thirds [of local Wednesday night, which helped Dame Margaret Hodge at JWA’s dinner authorities] have cut their serraise more than £250,000 for vices and one in five specialist domestic abuse support services. refuges have gone in just a five-year period.” The charity also officially launched its new Dina She also reflected on how being a woman had service, a dedicated support line providing specialist affected her career, saying: “I thought I wanted to be a counselling for Jewish women and girls over 16, who stay-at-home mum, but much as I adored my four chilhave been affected by sexual violence. dren, I got bored. A Labour friend of mine told me to During an appeal, JWA co-chairs Liz Gould and Hilda go onto the council – ‘it’ll keep you sane while you’re Worth highlighted how, despite working with more than changing nappies’ – and I never looked back.”

Spurs to quiz fans on ‘Yid Army’ use Continued from page 1 Among the “other clubs” Leigh referred to is Chelsea, whose fans have a history of chanting abuse. Chelsea fan Ivor Baddiel welcomed the consultation, “but without seeing what questions will be asked, it’s hard to know how effective it will be”. He said: “I’d like to see Spurs properly get to grips with the Y-word issue and ask questions that really drill down in to the issue and make Spurs fans think about it. “If it simply asks whether they think it is OK for Spurs fans to use the

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News / Memorial vandalised / Tonge lashing / IHRA support

A new Kindertransport memorial in Prague that pays tribute to Sir Nicholas Winton’s 1939 rescue effort has been damaged by determined vandals who “came prepared”. Police said they were investigating the attack on the Valediction memorial at Prague’s main railway station, where trains shuttled 669 mostly Jewish children to safety in the UK. The 2017 memorial’s most evocative feature is a pane of glass designed to look like a train window, which is

engraved with handprints of adults and children forced to part by circumstance. Many of the children never saw their parents again. Officers were called to the station on Sunday after the monument was left with a long crack across the length of its window pane. “One hundred per cent, this was planned,” the memorial’s Czech engraver Jan Hunat told The Guardian. He said it had probably been struck from behind with a hammer after being

carefully dislodged from its wooden frame with a chisel or screwdriver. “The person who did this has gone prepared to do it. The glass is 18mm thick and there’s no way it could have been broken otherwise. On one of the hands, even the tips of the fingers are broken,” he said. Tomas Kraus, secretary of the federation of Czech Jewish organisations, said a lack of CCTV meant that the chances of finding the perpetrator were slim. Winton, a banker-turnedhumanitarian who died in

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Hatred then – hatred now 2015 aged 106, helped to shepherd out Jewish children in the months before Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, but never spoke about his

wartime exploits until they were revealed in 1988 by TV presenter Esther Rantzen in a now-famous episode of That’s Life.

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Fabian Society branch is in EALING BACKS IHRA DEFINITION hot water over Tonge event The Fabian Society is investigating its affiliated branch in Tunbridge Wells after it hosted Baroness Jenny Tonge. The former Lib Dem peer (pictured) quit the party in 2016 after she was suspended over alleged antisemitic comments. She suggested Israel was to blame for the rising Jew-hatred behind the mass shooting in Pittsburgh and also hosted a meeting at the House of Lords at which Israel was reportedly compared to the Islamic State. The Fabian Society said on Monday it was investigating “the circumstances that led to an independent affiliated local Fabian society inviting a speaker who is widely known to have resigned from a political party over accusations of antisemitism”. The event, hosted by the

Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells Fabians in March, was titled Baroness Jenny Tonge: Gaza and the Holy Land. The description states the peer’s pro-Palestine advocacy “has led to frequent vilification and accusations of antisemitism which she passionately refutes”. It continues: “We very much look forward to hearing from Jenny on this… and shedding light on the issues based on her knowledge and concern.” Euan Philipps, spokesman

for Labour Against Antisemitism, wrote to the Fabian Society in May, detailing the peer’s track record, and asked: “We wonder why your organisation felt she was an appropriate choice.” In an email seen by Jewish News, the Fabian Society replied saying: “The national Fabian Society has no role in programming [local Fabian] events although we can intervene if there is evidence of serious malpractice.” The left-wing think tank is putting its summer conference on hold while it reviews the programme over concerns about one of the invitations, but refused to give more details. “The UK Fabian Society abhors antisemitism and will never knowingly platform antisemitic speakers,” it wrote.

Ealing Council this week unanimously backed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, making it the last London borough to formally adopt the interpretation of Jew-hate. The definition passed without opposition at a meeting of the full council on Tuesday, despite disruption from protesters gathered behind a Palestinian flag. “Shame on this council for standing with apartheid and imperialism,” a protester chanted. “We will not allow business as usual

while Palestine suffers.” A spokesperson for the Board of Deputies thanked Ealing Council for adopting the definition, adding: “This is truly appreciated by the capital’s Jewish community.” In a statement, the Jewish Leadership Council praised Ealing councillors for “facing down protestors”. It added: “We noted that over the weekend, allegations of anti-Jewish racism from one of Ealing’s MPs, Rupa Huq, against a young Jewish job applicant emerged. These allegations are of grave concern.”

Rabbi supports Dementia UK A top rabbi who has just been elected Conservative Mayor of Hertsmere is to speak at a launch event to celebrate the Rotary Club of Elstree and Borehamwood joining in association with Dementia Club UK. Rabbi Alan Plancey, elected last month, will speak at the free event on Monday held at The Venue Leisure Centre in

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Tributes were paid this week to a nonJewish soldier from Britain who went to fight for the new state of Israel in the 1948 War of Independence and later commanded Israel’s first paratrooper regiment, writes Stephen Oryszczuk. Tom Derek Bowden, a south London cavalry officer who died on Monday aged 97, was one of 5,000 foreigners who volunteered to fight for the nascent state from abroad. They became known by the Hebrew acronym ‘Machal.’ Bowden came from a wealthy family whose business products included Ribena, but he was neither academic nor interested in business and left school at 15. He enlisted with the British Army in 1938, aged 17, and went to fight in the Second World War, where he was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen, seeing the horrors of the Holocaust. Growing up, he had several Jewish friends and an affinity for a community whose music, dancing and traditions he had become familiar with. Although not religious, he was greatly influenced by the famously pro-Zionist Christian officer Orde Wingate, who taught Jewish soldiers not to be restrained but to go on the attack at night. Bowden fought some of the most fero-

cious battles of the Second World War, mainly in British Mandate Palestine. In 1942, he led a cavalry charge in Syria against the Vichy French. He fought under the command of Moshe Dayan, later Israel’s top soldier, and it was here that Dayan lost his eye. Bowden was also badly wounded and spent months in a Jerusalem hospital. Six months after his leg injury, he was back on the battlefield, volunteering for a parachute brigade being recruited near the Suez Canal. His job was to drop flares ahead of parachute landings along the North African coast and in occupied Europe. In 1944, parachuting into Arnhem, his leg was injured again, and he was captured and taken to a prison camp hospital near Hanover. After an escape and subsequent recapture, he was interrogated and found to have diaries and letters from Jewish friends and girlfriends in Palestine. “I knew I shouldn’t have [had them], but I didn’t want to part with them,” he later said. The SS officer who questioned him had until then treated him well, but “when he saw the papers, he told me he would show me how the Germans treated Jews, and I was sent for a month to Bergen-Belsen”. He spent the month piling corpses onto

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carts and tipping them into pits during a typhus outbreak, before returning to Hanover. The experience made it an easy decision to go to Haifa in 1948 to enlist. After the War of Independence he founded the IDF Parachute School, wrote the manual of operations and helped lead the Tzanchanim – the Israeli Paratrooper brigade – which was crucial to Israel’s military victories in 1956 and 1967. Bowden met his wife Eva in Israel, but later came back to England, becoming a farmer in Norfolk. In 2018, he told Jerry Klinger of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, that he helped Jews “to be part of what God started, the rebirth of the Jewish state, the first in 2,000 years”.

MERVYN RETRACES STEPS IN NORMANDY Seventy-five years on, a Jewish veteran has returned to the place where he helped make history, writes Mathilde Frot. Mervyn Kersh, 94, from Cockfosters, travelled to Bayeux in France to commemorate those who fell on D-Day on the 75th anniversary of the landings. The decorated soldier, who received the French Legion d’Honneur in 2015, was among hundreds of veterans to rub shoulders with dignitaries and heads of state, including the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and Theresa May. “I was a guest at the cathedral which is unusual for a Jewish boy,” he told Jewish News. “We came outside and the press and some photographers and civilians went to take photographs.” The veteran was on a nine-day pilgrimage to France with the veterans’ charity D-Day Revisited and his daughter Lynne, 66.

“I spent the nine days crying. We all did,” she said. “Me and the other carers and even the hardened military medical staff who’d been to Basra and God knows where, were reduced to tears. “This was his first visit as a widower and that was another layer of pain to this week,” she added. Serving as a private in the Ordnance Corps, Kersh was among the first officers to land on Gold Beach on the Normandy coast, after an advance party of 10 men sent for reconnaissance was torpedoed, with only one survivor. “The landings was the biggest experience and most emotional one. Landing on the coast with the intention of destroying the Germans,” he said. “They were firing at the biggest ships out at sea and the British were firing above our heads at the Germans. French women, children and old men greeted us with flowers, wine and kisses. I did not take the wine in case it was poisoned, but I did take the flowers and the kisses. I was 19.”

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Kersh was stationed near Bergen-Belsen when the camp was liberated by British troops in April 1945 and gave chocolate to survivors. “It was only after doing this I learned it was the worst thing I could have done,” he told Jewish News in 2015. “These people were walking skeletons. Chocolate was far too rich

for their weak digestive system.” He placed a Star of David on the headstone of a Jewish soldier’s grave last week to shine a spotlight on the contributions Jewish soldiers made on D-Day. “It has hardly been mentioned in the papers. They just will not give space to anything Jewish,” he said. The Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women member, who did not recall being subjected to antisemitic abuse in the army, had trouble securing kosher meals and kept a vegetarian diet on the frontline. “When I went into the army, I let people know I was a boxing champion, so nobody interfered with me,” he said. “But I was arrested the day before [the landings] for not eating meat. They thought I was trying to get out of active service. I did not eat the treyf food. In France, I bought eggs and milk and lived on that,” he said. “I wish I were that fit now.”

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Craig David to top bill at JLGB awards Singer-songwriter Craig David will perform at a landmark event honouring young Jewish volunteers in London in September. He will sing to an audience of young people who have completed one of JLGB’s evolve awards or qualifications this academic year, including the Yoni Jesner Award, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, National Citizen Service, vInspired or OCN. David’s London performance at the 18 September event, for which Jewish News is media partner, will be to more than 1,000 people including parents, teachers, charity partners and community leaders. The event will recognise the achievements of young volunteers and their impact across the community and wider society. “We are thrilled Craig David has agreed to headline the largest celebration to take place in the Jewish community,” said JLGB president Lord Levy. “We know this event will be the catalyst to encourage hundreds

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more young people to complete their awards. By 2021, we hope more than 15,000 young people will be volunteering in their community through the initiative.” The event is being sponsored by the Genesis Philanthropy Group (GPG), a global foundation cofounded by philanthropist Mikhail Fridman and his business partners. “We are delighted to support this landmark event to recognise and thank all young people who give their time and their talents for others,” said GPG president and chief executive Ilia Salita. “That is why this high-profile occasion,

headlined by multi-platinumselling artist Craig David, is not just for volunteers themselves, but also for their families, teachers and all organisations that enable volunteering across the community.” David, 38 – born in Southampton to a Grenadian father and British Jewish mother – shot to fame in 1999, featuring on the single Re-Rewind by Artful Dodger. His music has since touched on different genres, including R ’n’ B, hip-hop, garage and dance. Neil Martin, JLGB chief executive, said: “Hundreds of young people who have already completed their awards this year will receive their personal invitation this week. For all those volunteers still to complete their awards, it’s not too late to unlock the hottest ticket in town.” Young people hoping to earn an invitation to the event can still sign up, log their volunteering hours and complete their award on evolve by the end of July, with further details on JLGB’s evolve website at www.jlgborg/evolve.

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Anger over Hopkins film Jerusalem’s Deputy Mayor, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, has been urged to resign for backing a screening of Katie Hopkins’ film Homelands in the city. Hopkins’ film, which claims to document “forced Jewish and Christian exodus from Western Europe”, was shown at the Jerusalem venue Beit Uri Zvi on Tuesday. Other locations, including the Yad Lebanim Cultural Centre in Ra’anana and Jerusalem’s Menachem Begin

Heritage Centre, cancelled screenings this week after a backlash. Hassan-Nahoum, who watched the film, backed the event, despite concerns raised by Board Deputy Tal Ofer on social media. “There was no hate speech in the movie that was shown so I would suggest you see it before passing judgement,” she said. Ofer called for her resignation, writing: “She has let British Jews and the diaspora down and her position is untenable.”

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Auschwitz and BergenBelsen survivor Ruzena Levy was among seven Jewish refugees named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, writes Mathilde Frot. Levy, along with Walter Kammerling, Gabriele Keenaghan, Ernest Simon, George Hans Vulkan, Robert and Hannah Kirk were awarded British Empire Medals for sharing their testimonies with more than 100,000 schoolchildren around the UK. “I’m over the moon about it. I’m very grateful,” Levy said at a press conference hosted by the Cabinet Office and Holocaust Educational Trust at the Jewish Museum. “I never ever dreamed of this.” It took Levy over half-acentury to find the words to describe her traumatic experiences in Czechoslovakia. The 88-year-old was 15 when she flew to Northern Ireland after being liberated from Auschwitz, the death camp where her siblings and mother were murdered. Levy and her brother Chaskel

arrived in Belfast in February 1947 with a group of Jewish orphans who had also escaped concentration camps. “To be recognised by the country is something unbelievable. Out of nowhere, I became a sort of teacher of history and of things that have happened, unfortunately very sad stories,” she said. Fellow award recipients, the husband and wife Hannah and Robert Kirk, 90 and 94 respectively, married in 1950 after meeting at a club for Jewish refugees. Born in Berlin, Hannah was 10 when she arrived in Southampton on the Kindertransport shortly after Kristallnacht. Over the years, Hannah and Robert, who fled from Hanover, have shared their experiences with 30,000 schoolchildren. Kindertransport escapee Ernest Simon, 89, witnessed the horrors of the Kristallnacht pogrom from his bedroom window and saw the burning of prayer books and Torah scrolls at his synagogue.

Simon arrived in Britain from Vienna aged eight and lived with a foster family before his parents and younger brother were able to secure domestic permits and escape to Leeds. Fellow award recipient, the Vienna-born refugee George (Hans) Vulkan, 89, who lives in London, escaped with some of his family when he was just nine. Vulkan has shared his story with more than 6,500 people in the past five years. Similarly, Kindertransport escapee Gabriele Keenaghan Keenaghan (née Weiss), 92, who lives in North Shields, fled Vienna aged 12 and devoted 30 years to sharing her testimony. Walter Kammerling, 95, arrived on the Kindertransport at 15 after Kristallnacht. He was sent to a refugee camp for children in Essex and later worked on a farm in Northern Ireland. Both his sister and parents perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau and, like many refugees, Kammerling only learnt of their fates after the war.

“I don’t feel I am so special. It’s a great honour,” he said. Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: “Their determination to relive the most difficult period of their lives in order for future generations to know where hate can ultimately lead is an inspiration.” Also on the list, World Jewish Relief’s UK programme director Janice Lopatkin received an Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Darryl Mark Lee, from Altrincham, received an OBE for services to charity. Bromley Reform Synagogue member Dr Pauline Jeffree was awarded a British Empire Medal.

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PUTIN ATTENDS SHOAH MEMORIAL UNVEILING Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the unveiling of a memorial seen by some as Moscow’s first Holocaust monument. The monument, depicting hands pulling open a door’s shutters, was unveiled at Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, and commemorates Jewish resistance fighters. Moscow did have busts of saviours of Jews during the Holocaust and a plaque for the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, but there was no monument to match those of Berlin, Warsaw or Budapest.

IRISH EUROVISION CONTESTANT TROLLED Ireland’s contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest said she received terrifying threats and abusive messages after performing in Israel. Sarah McTernan, 25, told The Irish Sun: “I got hundreds of threats . . . It did freak me out.” “There is still s*** being thrown at me online, but I’m not going to look at it.” She said she knew representing Ireland in Israel would be controversial. “I was aware, but I didn’t know how much of a backlash there would be,” she said. “I was happy to represent my country.”

Poland’s first goal-scorer honoured Footballers have paid their respects to Poland’s first national goal-scorer who was later killed in the Holocaust, ahead of the country’s game against Israel in Warsaw. Jozef Klotz, who was Jewish, played for Jutrzenka Krakow and Makabi Warszawa, and scored the first ever competitive goal for Poland, against Sweden in 1924. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1941, as was national team player Leon Sperling and first division footballer Zygmunt Steuermann, who played for the rival Krakow club and later for Jewish club Hasmonea Lwów.

Josef Klotz, centre, played for Jutrzenka Krakow

Yoav and Eitan Dekel, the great nephew and great-great nephew of Klotz, flew into Warsaw for a moving ceremony on Monday at the headquarters

of the Social Cultural society of Polish Jews (TSKZ), visiting an exhibition about Polish Jewish football players, with a focus on their relative.

At the event, Yoav and Eitan were presented with a shirt with Klotz’s name on it, as the Polish Football Association said it would remember players killed by the Nazis. “[Klotz] wore the red and white of our beautiful country with pride,” said Janusz Basalaj, a director of the Polish football association. “He was a proud Polish player and we will always remember that. The team he played in was made from different religions and this was of great pride for us.” Israeli manager Avram Grant attended the event in his capacity as chair of the Jewish heritage organisation From

The Depths, which works in central and eastern Europe, especially Poland. Grant said: “Jozef Klotz played for the Polish national team because he was a good player, and later he was murdered because someone said that not everyone is equal, that we are different to each other. This connects the most horrendous past to the football that brings people together.” From The Depths founder Jonny Daniels said: “It was an honour to host this important event, remembering what unites us brings us together and puts us all on a level, equal playing field.”

Lack of UK support for ‘Judensau’ campaign A legal campaign by German Jews to remove a 700-year old antisemitic carving etched into a church wall has found little support from Jewish historians and educators in the UK. The lawsuit relates to the infamous 13th century ‘Judensau’, a sandstone relief on the façade of the church in Wittenberg, where Protestant theologian Martin Luther once preached.

It shows three young Jews drinking from a sow’s teats while a rabbi lifts her tail and hind legs to inspect her backside for omens. Last year, Berlin shul member, Michael Düllmann, 75, threatened to take the case to the European Court of Justice, arguing the carving was a criminal offence against modern German Jewry. But the town council and mayor

said it should be left as a reminder of the darker side of German history. The Wiener Library’s Ben Barkow said: “It is an authentic monument to a dreadful past. Removing it would be akin to trying to rewrite history,” while David Jacobs of the Jewish Historical Society agreed. “It should be left, but visitors should have all the information necessary to contextualise it.”

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Shattering scene at Prague station In terms of symbolism, the memorial to the Kindertransport unveiled at Prague’s central railway station in 2017 is overflowing – a glass pane shaped like a carriage window with the engraved hand-marks of young and old. And as news of that memorial’s deliberate and planned vandalism trickled into consciousness on Sunday, it was hard not to see its destruction in terms of symbolism too. It is symbolic not least because a crack is the result of stress, of pressure, of force. Look around. On 24 May, a Jewish cemetery was vandalised in Bordeaux. Two days later, Germany’s antisemitism commissioner suggested it wasn’t safe for Jews to wear a kippah in public. Two days after that, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission launched a statutory investigation into the Labour Party. Pressure? Stress? Force? Doesn’t something always have to give? It was symbolic too for its timing. The memorial is a testament to the rescue of Jewish refugees, yet on the day that news of its vandalism broke, the United Nations warned that the Mediterranean was becoming “a sea of blood” because rescue boats were not picking up those drowning in their bids to reach Europe. Perhaps most symbolic of all is the memorial’s material: glass. For 2,000 years humans have been making glass. Isn’t it apt that a memorial to the rescue of Jews should be made of a material of similar age to the people it depicts? And isn’t it apt that this people, having suffered so much for 2,000 years, whose history is so full of fractures, breaks, stress, pressure and force should, in Europe 2019, see another crack amid a resurgence of far-right nationalism, and consider what it forebodes.

‘Y’ is it still sung? Tottenham Hotspur is to ask supporters if it should ban the racial hate slur ‘Yid’ before the start of the new season. The term is perversely worn as a badge of honour by Spurs’ self-styled, almost entirely non-Jewish ‘Yid Army’, while the overwhelming majority of Jewish football supporters – and indeed this newspaper – see the Y-word for what it is and always has been – a deeply offensive term of abuse. Jewish Tottenham fans are broadly to blame for its continued use. Their hearts rule their heads when they nonchalantly indulge a vicious slur against them out of loyalty to a sports team. When Jews hear the word ‘Yid’, or see it daubed on desecrated synagogues and gravestones, they are unequivocally responsible for standing proudly against it, not proudly for it. Racism will never be eradicated. But treating this foul word with the contempt it deserves is a small step in the right direction. Jewish News’ message to Jewish Spurs fans invited to contribute to this summer’s Y-word consultation is simple: don’t let blind loyalty to your team blind you to the obvious and ugly truth. Do the decent thing. Get rid of Yid.

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Good for some but not for us Former Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush lists why Donald Trump – a “divisive figure”, now there’s an understatement – is better than Barack Obama for Israel (6 June). The thing is, being “better for Israel” gives ultra-nationalists, such as Trump, Hungary’s Viktor Orban or Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, a free pass in the eyes of some in our community. On the campaign trail, Trump told members of his own Republican Jewish Committee that he didn’t need their money, and used antisemitic tropes on election literature. Under Trump, American Jews have seen a surge in antisemitic attacks, including fatal shootings by white supremacists in synagogues.

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Let us not forget also that neoNazis, whom Trump called “good guys”, marched through Charlottesville chanting: “The Jews will not replace us”. Condemnation came there none. Let us also not forget that Obama funded Israel’s vital Iron Dome and Arrow anti-missile systems and signed off on a massive $38billion military aid deal. He withdrew the veto from only one UN security council resolution, far fewer than any of his predecessors. I wonder sometimes why right-wing Jews have an antipathy towards him. Trump and his ilk might be “good for Israel”, but for Jews, not so much. Meh.

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Zionists bravely marching and showing our strength could have been included in the article. Yes, the police did separate both sides on the march for safety reasons. The Zionist supporters took the front, as we have done in previous marches, but certainly the police did not stop Jewish and non-Jewish supporters joining our ranks as you state in your article.

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How identity is used as a tactic to divide DAN JARVIS, MP THE LABOUR PARTY

ast summer, former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks asked whether we still have a place for morality. He did so because at a national level, many of the values, virtues and ideals that bind us together are under assault. I believe that the foundations of that assault were laid 40 years ago, when we were told there was “no such thing as society” and the post-war consensus began to get dismantled. With this, and the policies that accompanied it, Britain began to lose its belief in collective responsibility and shared values. Instead of considering what was right and what was decent, we focused on what was commercially possible and what was legal. As Lord Sacks observed, we gave away our moral agency to the market and the state. Since then, things have got worse. A decade of austerity, the uncertainty of

Brexit, and ever-increasing inequality are now what define our shared experience. It is that which provides the context to people’s moral choices. In the absence of the right solutions, we have instead seen extremists from all flanks ride in with their conspiracies, racism and calls for intolerance; accompanied by shaggyhaired charlatans peddling the poison of false promises. Extremist ideologies are now back in the mainstream. People’s identity is being used as a means of alienation. Never in my memory has the country been more fractured and disunited. In the face of these challenges, it’s the responsibility of all us who have a voice to remind everyone of not just what is good, but also what we have in common. We must say what we see to be right and what we see to be wrong. We must stop tolerating intolerance. The leaders of that fight must be our politicians. As Miqdaad Versi, from the Muslim Council of Britain, wrote last year: it’s time for politicians to show leadership

through the public statements they make. With that in mind, I will repeat what I said last year but have not said enough since. Our country and my party both have a problem with antisemitism. It is source of great shame that the Equality and Human Rights Commission have launched an investigation into allegations of antisemitism in the Labour Party. Antisemitism is racism. The Jewish community has a right and a reason to be concerned. We all have a responsibility to solve this problem. But words alone are not enough; they must be accompanied by deeds. That is why this week, the Sheffield City Region

Combined Authority – which as Mayor I chair – passed a motion to both adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism and to adopt a working definition of Islamophobia. We’ve done so as a demonstration of our commitment to tackling racist and religious hatred wherever we find it. The post-war consensus still defines much of our collective consciousness and, if defended, can once again help guide our moral compass. But defend it we must. That is the challenge we face, and it is one that, despite current challenges, I’m confident that together we will overcome.

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IN THE ABSENCE OF SOLUTIONS, WE HAVE EXTREMISTS FROM ALL FLANKS AND SHAGGYHAIRED CHARLATANS PEDDLING FALSE PROMISES

Remembrance the best way to fight nationalism BABYN YAR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER

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eventy-five years ago last week, a massive Allied force landed on the beaches of Normandy, in the largest military incursion ever. D-Day began the liberation of Europe from the Nazis and laid the foundations for the longest period of peace and harmony across the continent. Around 24,000 British, US and Canadian troops landed under heavy gunfire to defend innocent people all over the world against the fascists who sparked the Second World War. In a huge show of unity, states worked together to demonstrate the power of a human race that defends human rights and builds a better future for all. While Europe has not faced another war of this nature since, the anniversary serves as a timely reminder as to why international cooperation, mutual respect and freedom for minorities is of the utmost importance. So why is it that today we seem to have forgotten the most basic human principle of caring for one another? Political and ideological conflicts have

plagued Europe in recent years. Britain has seen a dramatic rise in support for far-right groups such as the English Defence League and Britain First, with MP and pro-Europe campaigner Jo Cox brutally murdered by a far-right extremist in 2016. Similar far-right groups have even managed to rise to power in Europe, with the Austrian Freedom Party forming a coalition with conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, which fell recently. Spain, once thought to be lost to such politics after its liberation from dictatorship in 1975, saw the election of 24 far-right Vox Party members in April. And it’s not just nationalist politics. Islamophobia, antisemitism and other forms of racism are threatening to choke our shared dream of progress towards a tolerant, equal society.

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Despite the fantasies of many of these farright political ‘leaders’, grand societal change has never come about as a result of one state’s solo effort. A combined force was an indispensable tool for making the D-Day landings a success and today, just as was the case in 1944, a better and more accepting future can only be achieved through the widespread unity of people and collaboration for a greater good, regardless of our differences. Realising this future is the mission of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC), a non-profit educational institution named after the infamous ravine – a Nazi execution site in Kyiv, Ukraine, The centre documents and commemorates genocides, including the Holocaust. Between 1941 and 1943, more than 100,000 Jews, Kyiv intelligentsia, Soviet prisoners of war, psychiatric patients, disabled people, communists and Roma were murdered at Babyn Yar. Ukraine has come a long way since independence in 1991. Recent events, such as democratic presidential elections or the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014, have shown that the country is on a path to developing a new national narrative, based on democratic values and the principles of dignity and justice. This narrative also

reflects our readiness to reconcile with our own divided past, no matter how traumatic. BYHMC’s support includes such luminaries as the President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald S. Lauder, and former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman. Our vision is the 2023 opening of an innovative and inspiring Memorial Center close to the grounds of the Babyn Yar massacre, working with academia and media specialists to create a digital-first education platform. Every D-Day anniversary reminds us we are facing challenges today that echo those of 75 years ago, and we are seeing the rise of divisive forces within Europe and around the world. Of particular concern in Ukraine is the fate of Crimean Tatars and innocent victims of the ongoing war in Donbass. The war and the D-Day landings required a multinational effort to bring those forces to heel. We must commit ourselves to an international effort to ensure that the world never again experiences such tragedy and trauma. We at BYHMC believe that our project is an integral part of that call to action. As long as the fight for human rights and equality continues due to human dignity being in danger, you can expect to hear the Babyn Yar name.

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To forgive and forget still seems too bizarre ALEX BRUMMER

CITY EDITOR, THE DAILY MAIL

y intention for this column was to write about antisemitism in Germany. This was after my confidence in Germany’s status in Europe, as the country that has best come to terms with its Nazi past, was shaken by a lengthy article in The New York Times magazine and reprinted in abridged form in the European edition. The New York Times reported on the rise of new forms of old hatreds stoking fear among the country’s restocked Jewish population of more than 200,000 people. Germany may still be paying reparations to Shoah survivors and have memorialised the Holocaust more comprehensively that some of its Eastern European nations, but some attitudes have not changed. When a 14-year-old student transferred from a Jewish school to a state academy and fellow students learnt of his background, he was bullied relentlessly. His was not the exception; hundreds more cases have since come to light.

This made me wonder why so many British Jews, with German grandparents or parents, had been so quick and willing to reclaim German citizenship after the Brexit referendum of three years ago. It was bad enough that Nazi Germany had chased the family members abroad, deprived them of treasured assets and murdered those left behind. To forgive and forget in a couple of generations and want to reconnect with a country that behaved in such a despicable way seemed bizarre. The reasons were practical: they wanted offspring to be able to work and move freely across Europe post-Brexit. As if qualified British citizens or holidaymakers would somehow be discriminated against because they held British rather than EU compliant passports. All of this reminded me of my father, Menachem Mendel ben Shalom. This week marks the first yahrzeit of his death. He was a tolerant person, but when it came to the Germans, who slaughtered his parents, his brothers, and did so much harm to his surviving sisters, forgiveness was in short supply. I still remember his disapproval when he saw me

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MY FATHER WAS TOLERANT, BUT WHEN IT CAME TO GERMANS, FORGIVENESS WAS IN SHORT SUPPLY driving a German car. His memory is very much on my mind this week. In the eleven months following his death, I (and my brother Daniel) said Kaddish in shul wherever we happened to be. The ritual of saying the prayer and leading services was a comforting experience, as was the support of all those around us, especially the rabbonim. But when the Kaddish stopped, shortly before Pesach, there was a vacuum; it was as if someone had kicked the crutches away. His longevity in some ways made the mourning worse. When he was still with us, I would travel to

our home town of Brighton many weekends to spend time with him. Over Shabbat, we would accompany him to shul. On a bright Sunday, we would sit at the Hove seafront café sipping coffee. I retain great affection for Brighton, but I now find it much more difficult to visit. The associations with both my parents’ upbringing and the pungent salt in the air seem almost too hard to bear. But one year on, there are happier thoughts too. The photographic memories in my study, where I write this, are all around me. The childhood spent on a farm in Ovingdean, a South Downs village along the coast from Brighton, are very much alive. The bonfire night that brought out the fire brigade because the flames from burning tractor tyres could be seen miles away. The reprimand on my 10th birthday after I used the present of a woodworking set to make firewood sold to neighbours in the village. There is so much to savour including the ability of my father, an Orthodox Jew, to get on with anyone. He was tolerant with an effervescent smile. The only loathing in his heart was the Germany legacy of the Holocaust.

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

1CHAI CHALLENGE

A dozen volunteers climbed Snowdon to raise £40,000 for Chai Cancer Care. As part of the Snowdon Triple Challenge, participants cycled, trekked and kayaked across the 22 mile route before conquering Wales’ tallest peak at 3,559 feet above sea level. Chai ambassador Alexandra Maurice, who took part, said: “We challenged our participants in different ways – biking, hiking and kayaking. It was a long day with many highs and lows – not unlike the cancer journey so many of Chai’s clients experience. Many of the group have seen first-hand the incredible support Chai provides and it is always an honour raising money for them, knowing the direct impact it has.”

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Children at Nancy Reuben Primary school were taught about different Jewish communities around the world by Emily Ben-Ze’ev from the interactive workshop Emily’s Adventures in Wonderland. They dressed up in traditional costumes before listening to Yiddish and Ladino music played by the children’s entertainer on her clarinet.

3 SEFER CELEBRATION

Bnei Akiva marked Jerusalem Day by celebrating a Hachnasat Sefer Torah at its London Bayit, parading the new sefer through Temple Fortune with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. He said: “A Sefer Torah is more than a symbol; it is the guarantor of our continuity… And this is what Bnei Akiva does; as a movement for the past 80 years, it has guaranteed that the traditions of previous generations will pass through us onto generations to come.” Celebrations continued with a Hakafot, barbecue and bouncy castle. The sefer will be used for the first time at Bnei Akiva’s Tikkun Leil Shavuot in Edgware before travelling to Manchester for a celebratory Shabbat service.

4TEDDY LOTTERY

Meital Sacker, seven, pictured, brought a giant teddy bear home after her lottery win at Finchley United Synagogue’s Tikkun Leil Shavuot. Some 300 children and parents enjoyed ice cream and cheesecake at the shul and listened to Rabbi Cobi Ebrahimoff speak about the meaning of Shavuot. Meital said: “I had such a fun time staying up late, I learnt interesting things about Shavuot and I’m so happy I won the giant teddy! The ice cream and cheesecake was also really yummy. Thank you Tribe for a fantastic night!”

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5 WALKING FOR SOUP 8 BOOKISH FUN Fifty participants took part in a sponsored walk to raise money for charity and mark 80 years since 10,000 mainly Jewish children were rescued from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The 10km walk through the Jewish East End of London started at the Kindertransport statue in Liverpool Street Station and finished with a hot soup. The evening, run by charity Manna and the Association of Jewish Refugees, raised £6,500, with all proceeds going towards helping Holocaust survivors living in poverty in Israel.

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6 ARTISTIC EVENT

Finchley United Synagogue raised funds for children’s charities Arts Therapies for Children in the UK and Shalva in Jerusalem with an art exhibition featuring the works of 52 artists. A raffle was drawn, with nearly 50 winners taking home works donated by artists exhibiting. Pictured is artist Rina Bakis, with a selection of her work at the event.

7 ENVOY WELCOME

Neil Wigan, Britain’s new Ambassador to Israel, spoke with members of the Zionist Federation (ZF) at a welcome meet and greet. Israel’s Deputy Ambassador, Sharon Bar-Li welcomed Wigan to his new appointment, while the ZF wished him “the best of luck in his ambassadorship” and said it looked forward “to a further strengthening of ties to the already strong bond between the two countries.”

The Jewish non-profit organisation PJ Library toured eight UK primary schools with books to provide pupils and teachers with a chance to discuss Jewish culture and values. Pictured are Sinai Jewish Primary School pupils and PJ Library books. “It has been so successful we have already started taking books for the autumn term,” organisers said.

9 SHAVUOT IN WALES

Twenty-five young adults from progressive communities across the UK spent Shavuot in North Wales to take part in leadership training, text study, and prayer services. The retreat was run by participants on Reform Judaism’s leadership course for young adults and is part of the denomination’s commitment to engaging those in their twenties and thirties within synagogue walls and beyond.

10 ATHENS SHABBAT B’nai B’rith members from the UK and Europe spent a weekend of culture, history and sightseeing in Athens. Participant Minouche Kaftel, a professional actor and singer, said: “It was a fantastic trip, with a great opportunity to meet new people. I loved seeing Athens and spending such a special Shabbat.” Sights on the walking tour included the changing of the guard outside the Greek Parliament and the city’s Holocaust memorial. On Shabbat, the group heard from the D. Efstathios C. Lianos Liantis, Special Secretary of Religious and Cultural Diplomacy and Greece’s first envoy on antisemitism.

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learn some new skills in terms of teaching, give something back and meet new people,” he says. After an initial culture shock and getting used to being in Israel and speaking Hebrew, Ben soon found the experience immensely rewarding. “The children I taught were really appreciative and enjoyed having a native speaker in small classroom sizes, and I made some really good friends I’m still in contact with,” he says. Ben studied politics, and as part of the volunteering segment of the programme, he worked alongside a member of the Knesset on his leadership campaign, which he says was “amazing”. He was teaching children between the ages of 13 and 15 in Rishon LeZion, and found the programme very supportive in helping him know how to teach, despite his lack of previous experience. “We had good support from pedagogical tutors

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Mathilde Frot spends a hectic evening seeing Magen David Adom’s life-saving work first-hand in East Jerusalem

ur ambulance driver hits a switch and the siren blares, bringing a sudden end to the quiet preparation. The on-call medic explains we’re headed to a care home, where an elderly man is experiencing a psychotic episode. The medic, Nathan Schultzman, says he will let the apprentice take over once we arrive. It’s the best way for Gur Hadar – the young apprentice from Maccabim who was performing a routine check of the equipment when we received the unexpected call – to learn, Schultzman says. A typical eight-hour evening shift with Magen David Adom (MDA) in East Jerusalem tends to be quite busy, I was told by volunteers. The outpost in Pisgat Ze’ev, one of the city’s largest neighbourhoods, gets the most interesting calls, they said. It seems this shift will be no different. When we arrive, we are told that the man threatened to throw himself and a nurse out a window. He is tied down to a hospital bed with bed sheets, as teenage volunteers from a basic life support unit are huddled next to the door. Standing with them in the back of the room, I watch as Hadar speaks to the patient and takes his vital signs with care.

Then, 20-year-old Ravit Staub – one of MDA’s 24,000 volunteers aged between 16 and 70+ – steps in and administers an antipsychotic drug. While we transport the patient to a psychiatric hospital some miles away, I sit in the back of the ambulance with him and pray a journey on the neighbourhood’s hilly roads will not wake him up. The next call is unsettling. An elderly patient experiencing pulmonary edema in his flat suffers rapid heavy breathing and chest tightness. His lungs are rapidly filling up with excess liquid, Staub explains, but lowering his blood pressure is not an option, she adds. We must take him to hospital. As the patient’s family watches anxiously from another room, Hadar, Schultzman and Staub lift him up onto a stretcher. While the man’s wife sits in front with the driver, Hadar attempts to stabilise her husband in the back. But I notice sweat dripping down Hadar’s forehead, and I can tell he is nervous. He finds treating elderly health problems difficult because he did not get any experience treating these conditions in the army, he tells me later. The next call is the most upsetting. We enter a small flat on the fourth floor, climbing several steps at a time and carrying heavy equipment. In the bedroom, a pale elderly man with blood

smeared around his lips lays completely still in bed. Huddled around him are members of another emergency unit waiting for Schultzman. I realise he has passed away and my heart skips a beat. In the kitchen, Schultzman asks the man’s wife for permission to resuscitate him. She does not give her consent, Schultzman explains later, as his case was terminal and she wanted to lessen his suffering. While Schultzman writes a death certificate, Staub tells me significantly, seeing my face, that there is no shame in feeling emotional. I wonder whether any of the 40 Britons who fly in from the UK each year to serve alongside MDA staff agree. I am also surprised by the remark. Shadowing the group that evening, never once did I see Staub react emotionally. Riding in a mobile intensive unit with Staub, Schultzman and Hadar, I am deeply impressed by the young volunteer, apprentice and medic with me, all

Left: Mathilde Frot, far right, with the MDA team at Sachnin, in the Galil

several Lifesaver: MDAmedic years my juniors, Nathan Schultzman who put on a brave face as they answer calls of a life and death nature. Among them, Staub, a 20-year-old volunteer from Elazar in the West Bank, who resembles Natasha Lyonne, has a striking background. She says her hometown is within range of rocket fire, but adds that she tries not to think about it. “You’re a goner if you do,” she tells me. Schultzman, 22, from Jerusalem, became a medic after completing his military service. His parents, he reveals, moved here from Lille, France, some years ago. “They are proud because they’ve made aliyah,” he tells me in French. “I have an interesting job and, after college, it’s nice to do a job that’s more well-respected than normal jobs,” Schultzman says.Besides, compared to the army, it’s not as dangerous.

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Clockwise from top: Givenchy Hat, Jardins des Modes, Paris, 1958, by Frank Horvat; Supermodels for American Vogue, New York, 1991, by Peter Lindbergh; and Andy Warhol with Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein, New York, 1965, by Burt Glinn

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Ofir – Nitzan – Tal, from Runways, 2007, by Naomi Leshem

Clockwise from top: Jerry Hall, Russia, 1975, by Norman Parkinson; Carmen (Face Massage), New York, 1946, by Horst P Horst; and Round the Clock, 1987, by Horst P Horst

A collection of 92 stunning photos, including by young Israeli artists, is expected to fetch up to £300,000 at auction in Paris next week

rom Marilyn Monroe to Andy Warhol climbing out of a manhole, Jerry Hall diving in a swimsuit and heels, and supermodels of the 1990s, some of the most iconic photographs of the past 70 years will go under the hammer in Paris next week. All 92 images, which vary in estimate between £400 and £300,000, are from the collection of Jewish philanthropist and New-York based art patron, Leon Constantiner. Candid and intimate shots of Marilyn Monroe sitting at home with her dog, lying on a sofa and clowning around at the Bel Air hotel are included in the auction, which takes place next Wednesday. The collection also includes prints by Vogue photographer Irving Penn and a handful of Helmut Newton’s signature images. A famous shot by Burt Glinn of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein climbing out of a manhole in New York, has been estimated at £4,425. Meanwhile, a photograph of supermodels Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz and Naomi Campbell taken

in 1989 by Herb Ritts is expected to fetch £88,500. Another showing Crawford, Patitz, Seymour and Campbell with Helena Christensen, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer and Karen Mulder for American Vogue in 1991 by Peter Lindbergh is thought to sell for a similar figure. Meanwhile, legendary fashion photographer Richard Avedon’s Dovima with Elephants, from 1955, could sell for more than £300,000. The collection also includes emotive works by young Israeli photographers, such as Barry Frydlender, Naomi Leshem, Sharon Ya’ari, Adi Nes and Ori Gersht. Elodie Morel, Christie’s director of photographs in Europe, said: “It is a great honour to present the Leon Constantiner collection in Paris, the international capital of photography, and also the city of fashion and elegance. “For the first time in Paris, we propose an exceptional collection of images that have become icons, works of art that reflect the creativity of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, who achieved prominence through the greatly increased diffusion of sophisticated magazines.”

From The Sartorialist, 2007, by Scott Schuman

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BY RABBI ZVI SOLOMONS Does God speak to you? It may not be politic to say it, but we are supposed to be a ‘Kingdom of Priests and a Holy People’. God speaks to us through Torah. The greatest Jew of all time was Moses, who spoke to God, as the Torah tells us, the way a person speaks to their fellow – face-to-face. No other prophet had that privilege, as they all spoke to God in visions or dreams. The Torah portion says God spoke from between the cherubim on the Ark. There we kept the Tablets received from Sinai, and the first Torah scroll. The Midrash has a parable. A king had a daughter whom he loved exceedingly. So long as his daughter was small, he would speak with her in public or in the courtyard. When she grew up and reached puberty, the king determined it no longer befit his daughter’s dignity for him to converse with her in public. So he directed that a pavilion be made for his daughter so he could speak with her. Likewise, in our portion we read that when God encountered us in the wilderness, we Jews were like children. At Sinai we started to become responsible, more like adults. So realising we had grown up, God instructed the Israelites to make a Tabernacle, and when He needed to communicate with the Israelites, He did so from the Tabernacle. Numbers 7:8 bears this out when it says: “And when Moses went into the tent of meeting that He might speak with him.”  Rabbi Zvi Solomons serves JCoB.org, the Living Jewish Community in Reading

As a result of her divorce from Jeff, MacKenzie Bezos has become the world’s fourth richest woman. But MacKenzie immediately signed the Giving Pledge and promised to give away at least half of her $36.6billion (£28.8bn) fortune. The Giving Pledge is a truly monumental philanthropic initiative created by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to encourage the world’s wealthiest people to commit to giving away at least half of their wealth to charity. Every time I read about the Giving Pledge, the sheer enormity of the numbers involved and the speed with which this particular new sign-up was declared, I feel a kind of Jewish guilt as to why we, the Jews, didn’t create such a laudable revolution in charitable giving. Hopefully, MacKenzie Bezos and others

will, in turn, inspire many more hugely wealthy people to share their disproportionate material blessings to improve the lot of mankind. There may be some of us who think that, with at least another $18bn still in the bank, perhaps her decision isn’t such a big deal? This is incorrect. The vast majority of super wealthy people have not yet taken the Giving Pledge plunge, and signing up

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to give away half one’s wealth is far more challenging than we may have thought. A number of years ago, I brought together a small group of like-minded young people to found the not-for-profit organisation called GIFT. Its strategic agenda to nurture, teach and deploy a generation of young people to become givers is indeed unfortunately still quite revolutionary in today’s self-obsessed and indulgent world. Giving, which Judaism sees as a moral imperative, is a universal language of love, a way of seeing beyond ourselves. There is no greater pleasure than living a life of giving. In fact, this concept is so much part of our DNA that biblical Hebrew doesn’t even have a term for ‘I have’, the best it can manage is ‘yesh li’ – there is to me. In a day and age when it’s so easy to be focused on the “I” and the “me”, it is incredible to see young people become engaged when they are charged with a mission to give. No surprise however, for we know that to give is to truly live!  Rabbi Naftali Schiff is the founder and chairman of GIFT

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‘Israelites kept slaves’ BY RABBI SANDRA KVIAT “You can acquire slaves from the nations that surround you” (Lev 25.44). It always comes as a shock to my bnei mitzvah students when they get to the part of the Torah that contains laws about slavery by Israelites, not just of Israelites. We all know the Pesach refrain – we were slaves in Egypt – and the idea of freedom from oppression is a core part of our Jewish identities. But in the Torah we also read about the slavery inflicted by the former Hebrew slaves onto others. It’s a hard fact to accept that Jews kept slaves right after Egypt, or that the writers of the Torah chose to discuss slavery while still fresh in the minds of the Israelites. The Torah does highlight some rights and protections, including limiting servitude to six years, giving a sense and value to slaves as human beings. Except, of course, for the non-Israelite slave.

The non-Israelite slave was property, could be mated to breed more slaves, could not choose his or her partner or reject him/her for that matter, and could lose their children if the master decided it. And here lies our discomfort. But how can we use that dismay to inspire us today, in an age in which we know modern slavery exists and not just in faraway countries? We have no issues with questioning the Torah for its lack of denunciation of slavery. But do we ask the same question of our own lives? The least we can do is look for the shadow of forced labour where we live and work. The existence of slaves and slavery laws in our tradition can be seen as a blight, or it can teach us that we should not brush the most difficult aspects of our world under the carpet.

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BY RABBI SYLVIA ROTHSCHILD The living voice describing what eyes have seen and ears have heard is the most powerful tool we have to transmit historical experience and memory to following generations. The Bible attempts to simulate that voice, recording words and events as if in a continuous present, but Biblical text is not enough. Generations of commentators gloss and elucidate, create midrashim and parse meaning; trying to understand and project the experience into the future. Our whole tradition is about remembering in order to act, preserving the voices of the past. Mishna Pesachim (10:5) tells us that “in every generation, it is our duty to see ourselves as if we too came from Egypt”. In other words, we become the living voice – telling the story as if it is our own. Judaism requires us to absorb and integrate its foundational experiences. The Jewish

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story is not a set of historical events. It is our living and experienced story. But even with the best intentions – the best retelling, memorialising and ritualising – the “k’ilu” or “as if” quality remains. Only the living voice of the one who experienced something fully penetrates the fog of an unknowing or uncaring audience. We have recently watched the D-Day commemorations, but it is the voices and images of old men and women telling their story that drove home the stark realities of the war against fascism – and we know those

voices will be stilled. We create archives, libraries and museums to hold their testimony – in their words as well as voices. Yet already other voices are clamouring to tell a distorted story of that time for their own purposes. The death of Semyon Rosenfeld, last survivor of the uprising against the Nazis in Sobibor, has severed the last link to that lived experience. We cannot absorb nor integrate the story of the systematised murder of our people: there is no divine intervention, no redemption. Yet we must hear the echoes of his voice and of others to ensure their story continues to be told. Modernity has given us ways to capture images and replay voices. It is our responsibility to tell those stories loudly in our own living voices, so this history too becomes “as if” ours.  Sylvia Rothschild has been a community rabbi in south London for 30 years

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EARLY YEARS PRACTIONER (RECEPTION ASSISTANT) - FULL TIME LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANT (LSA) – FULL TIME 8.15am – 4.15pm, Monday – Friday (Mondays end at 5.15pm) This is an exciting time to join Rimon Primary School, now in its seventh year. We are looking for excellent and experienced Learning Support Assistant to join our fabulous team in September 2019. We are developing an inspiring curriculum at Rimon, steeped in awareness of & engagement with the modern world around us whilst prioritising excellence & achievement, inclusiveness & diversity, as well as supporting the development of the children’s moral responsibility and pride in their heritage. As a young and growing school, we offer exceptional development opportunities for all our staff and we welcome applicants who are committed to becoming outstanding practitioners. You can find out more about our school at: http://www.rimonschool.org.uk/ Please visit http://www.rimonschool.org.uk/about/recruitment/ to download the application pack (reference LSASEPT19 and RECLSASEPT19).

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