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Unlike so much about Israel and the Palestinians, at least football is not a matter of life and death. Rather, it’s a cause for hope.

Chelsea women’s football team returned last month from a pre-season trip to Israel, taking centre stage in a unique scheme that’s united more than 25,000 Arab and Jewish youngsters on the football pitch since 2002.

The children play in mixed teams and decide the rules and settle differences as a group. They learn each other’s language and culture, break down emotional barriers and – for the first time in their young lives – see each other as people not opponents.

The Twinned Peace Sport Schools initiative, backed by FIFA and the Israeli Football Association, is run by the Peres Centre For Peace, whose chairman Chemi Peres, son of the late Israeli president Shimon Peres, says 80 percent of participants develop a more positive perception of the ‘other’. He says: “Life here is full of dangers and difficulties, but It is possible to play together, live together and build a better future. We never lose hope.”

The greatest obstacles are scepticism that sport can offer any solutions and suspicion – most Israelis view Palestinians with deep mistrust and most Palestinians view contact with Israelis as “gadr” [treason].

But keep your cynicism at bay until you’ve heard what it means to the eight to 12-year-olds taking part. Youngsters like Bayan Jalayta, a bright-eyed 11-year-old Palestinian girl, who’s travelled 30 miles from the West Bank town of Jericho to the Shefayim national football centre near Tel Aviv for Chelsea’s training session. “I used to be afraid of them [Jews],” she tells me through an interpreter.

“Then I met them and they were just like me, only with different clothing and language. I’ve learned about them and they’ve learned about me.

We talk about how we feel and how we live. When we play the rest of the world doesn’t matter, at least for a while.”

Bayan’s friend Ramas Hege, also 11 and from Jericho, her long jet black hair in tight plaits, is eagerly eavesdropping and asks the translator to tell me: “This is something new and exciting in our lives. Being here feels important. I don’t like the anger between Israelis and Palestinians, but I do like this. It makes me feel we have things in common.”

I’m suddenly surrounded by a crowd of yellow-bibbed pre-teens, keen to share their story. Among them is Ramas’ teammate Yael Bouchis, a Jewish girl from the nearby town of Bet Shemesh: “This is my favourite place to be,” she smiles. “I’ve made friends with children I would never meet anywhere else.

People who change the way I look at life.”

The kids only go so far. When I ask (perhaps unfairly), ’What were you taught about Jews/Arabs growing up?’ and ‘Why has the Palestinian Authority boycotted the scheme?’ they all pass the ball. One child does boldly answer, then has second thoughts and asks not to be named or quoted. Fair enough. Who knows the repercussions she feared.

Palestinian girls like Ramas and Bayan are from a generation with few opportunities to mix. Their only knowledge of ‘the other’ is soldiers and settlers. Equally, for Israelis like Yael, their sole experience of Palestinians is rocket attacks and terror tunnels. Both sides arrive with deep psychological baggage. That’s the project’s precarious starting point.

Yet watching the kids interact with the Chelsea players it’s hard to know which is Arab and Jew. Star striker Ramona Bachmann is teaching keepie uppies, defender Deanna Cooper leads running drills, centre back Anita Asante poses for selfies while Chelsea women’s charismatic manager Emma Hayes provides the piggy backs. The kids are in raptures.

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the session. “This was just about kids running around without any worries. We should let children be children and let them play without labels. We used to separately label the men’s and women’s teams at Chelsea – now they are both called ‘first teams’. It’s the same here. There are no Israeli or Palestinian sides, just a team. I hope we see the impact this is having the next time we come here.”

Anwan Zeidan, the project’s Palestinian coordinator since 2005, has brought his teenage daughter Zeina along. She’s witnessed first hand the positive impact her father’s had on her generation. “The change is slow but it is happening,” Zeina proudly tells me in perfect English.

“People who don’t live here have the wrong idea about Palestinian women. They think we are uneducated, marry young and have lots of children. The girls my father coaches learn about empowerment. That way they can grow up to be whatever they want to be.”

Later, at the Peres Centre in Jaffa, Tamar Hay-Sagiv from the peace education department sets out the scale of the challenge: “In theory this is about football, but it goes way beyond that. Jewish kids go to Jewish schools, Arab kids go to Arab schools. They never meet.

We offer that chance. But there are so many misconceptions, stereotypes and religious, cul-

tural and language barriers and deep mistrust to overcome. That where we come in.”

Tamar says nothing is possible without the mums and dads. “We arrange parent get-togethers once or twice a year. But I’ll be honest and say the motivation for meeting is generally higher among Palestinian parents who have a strong desire to get out of their community and general curiosity about the Israeli side. Ultimately, Palestinian and Israeli parents need to trust in the scheme.

Sadly, in the current climate it takes courage and bravery to send your child to a scheme that has the word ‘peace’ in the title.”

She concludes: “There is no doubt that the everyday political reality challenges us and the participants. The educational process can see us move two steps forward and three steps back. So it’s crucial these are long-term projects rather than one-off sessions. We must convey optimism and hope to the children and parents because, in the end, this generation needs to understand it’s their responsibility to change and influence the future.”

My thoughts return to the training pitch an hour earlier, watching 11-year-old Ramas from Jericho score a goal to tie the match and seeing her Jewish teammates hug and high-five her. It was, in many ways, a wonderful equaliser.

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Fast and furious Labour MP Ellman faces confidence motion on Kol Nidre as Hodge forced into deselection fight

Two Jewish Labour MPs critical of Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of their party’s antisemitism crisis have been targeted by activists seeking their deselection, writes Adam Decker.

Dame Margaret Hodge, 75, the MP for Barking, and Dame Louise Ellman, 73, the MP for Liverpool Riverside, face reselection contests and no-confidence votes, with Ellman’s fate set to be discussed on Kol Nidre – the start of the Yom Kippur fast.

The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) and the Board of Deputies furiously criticised the party, as both MPs said they would fight to retain their seats. Hodge has been an MP for 25

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years, and Ellman for 22 years.

JLM chair Mike Katz said Hodge had been “a steadfast campaigner

against racism, fascism and intolerance throughout her political life”.

He added: “She saw off the [far-

right] BNP in Barking and has over the last few years been determined in her opposition to antisemitism in Labour.

“This is a shameful moment for a party which claims to embody the values of equality and diversity.”

The Board said Hodge “should be lauded as a hero not threatened with deselection”, adding that “Labour shelters antisemites while attacking anti-racism campaigners”.

John Pawson, of the Constituency Labour Party (CLP) for Barking and Dagenham, told Labour List that Hodge “has not been made to face a full selection process because of antisemitism… Neither she nor local members are claiming this is about antisemitism

and there has been no evidence produced to support this claim”.

A motion of no-confidence in Ellman was lodged this week by the her local Liverpool Riverside CLP, citing comments last week in which she said she would “understand” if Jews left the UK if Corbyn became prime minister. Ellman, who became the chair of Labour Friends of Israel two months ago, has been another critic of Corbyn, but the no-confidence motion stated that the branch was “fully behind” the Labour leader.

Referring to Ellman’s recent comments, it added: “We have no confidence that our MP will carry out the Continued on page 2

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Chancellor affirms his ‘love’ for Israel Chancellor Sajid Javid expressed his “love” for Israel at a Tory conference fringe event on Tuesday.

“When I look at Israel, it is a country that aligns with all of our values. It’s great to see how strongly this party supports the values of Israel at every level,” Javid said.

Professing his “love” for Israel, Javid described his visit to Yad Vashem this year as home secretary as “something I will never forget”.

Issuing a rallying cry to “everyone in this room” to combat rising levels of antisemitism in the UK, he said: “Anyone with a sense of history knows full well why the Jewish community feels uneasy now, and nowadays we don’t have to look to the past to learn, sadly you just have to look around you.”

Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl, who thanked attendees for their support for

Chancellor Sajid Javid at Conservative Friends of Israel conference

the Jewish community and Israel.

Together we have got to defeat racism and antisemitism. I’m proud of the way you are approaching all of this and of your support for Israel, the Middle East’s only democracy.”

Also attending were Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev, who discussed trade between Israel and the UK. He said that under this Government, “the Israel-UK partnership is stronger than ever before. Our trade is growing beyond the £8.6billion we had last year, we have just signed a trade agreement… that’s prosperity and that’s jobs”.

Solicitor General Michael Ellis, the MP for Northampton North, in his closing remarks, praised Israel as “a country for whom the rule of law matters… We support Israel, we support its people, we support its freedoms, it’s a country who projects way beyond its weight, a country the size of Wales, a country with a tiny population, but a country that is admired and respected the world over, not least

by Her Majesty’s Government and by everyone in this room”.

PM blasts ‘fratricidal antisemitic Marxists’ Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week declared he wanted to beat “the fratricidal antisemitic Marxists” in an attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party.

In an address at the Manchester Convention Centre on Wednesday, he told the Tory faithful: “Let’s get Johnson delivering his keynote speech Brexit Done. Let’s get this thing done, and then let’s get A Labour Party source said: “This ready to make our case to the country baseless political attack comes from the against the fratricidal antisemitic Prime Minister who is a cheerleader Marxists who were in Brighton last for Donald Trump who refused to conweek.” demn neo-fascists in Charlottesville Labour, which is under investiga- who chanted ‘Jews will not replace us’, tion by the Equalities Human Rights and who supports governments which Commission over allegations of anti- actively promote antisemitic policies in semitism, has denied claims it handled Hungary and Poland. complaints unfairly.

“Boris Johnson’s party is rife with In a statement earlier this year, racism, with polls showing a majority a spokeswoman for the party said it of Conservative members hold bigremains “fully committed to the sup- oted views. They are emboldened and port, defence and celebration of the encouraged by Boris Johnson’s own Jewish community and is implacably comments, which incited a 375 percent opposed to antisemitism in any form.” increase in hate crime in our country.”

Arcuri ‘on Israel trip’

Labour MPs targeted

Boris Johnson requested that American businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri join a foreign trade mission to Tel Aviv when he was London Mayor, a report claims.

An ex-City Hall worker, who wished to remain anonymous, told Sky News they were “surprised” to see Arcuri in Tel Aviv.

“I turned to the person organising the trip and asked: ‘What’s she doing here?’ Apparently the mayor asked for her to be involved,” the former adviser told the broadcaster.

“I thought it was very unusual for her to be on this trip because it was so focused on educational technology and that wasn’t her business,” the source told the broadcaster.

Johnson has been referred to the police complaints body to assess whether he should face a criminal investigation over his links with the 34-year-old American. Arcuri has accused media of an “orchestrated attack”.

Continued from page 1 wishes of our CLP and our constituency or that she will follow Labour Party policy. This branch therefore calls on Louise Ellman to resign.”

Board president Marie van der Zyl said Ellman had “fought against antisemitism in her own party… She should be applauded, not vilified”.

Van der Zyl also condemned the timing of the vote on Kol Nidre, saying: “That a Jewish MP should be threatened with a vote of no confidence tabled for Yom Kippur, when she has no opportunity even to respond, ought to be a source of deep shame.”

JLM tweeted that “this isn’t the first time that Liverpool Riverside has sought to silence, side-line or sack Dame Louise for speaking truth to power and calling out racism,” adding that Labour’s General-Secretary Jennie Formby “must step in now and put this rotten CLP into special measures”.

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Jeremy Corbyn wished the community a sweet new year by appearing in a video with Rob Abrams, who took part in a Kaddish for 62 dead Gazans, 50 of them from Hamas, killed by Israel last year. His Rosh Hashanah video, in an Islington greengrocers, also features Momentum founder Jon Lansman (right) and Islington councillor Sue Lukes.

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MP sorry for ‘Israel disgraces Jews’ like Labour’s MP for Kensington has apologised for liking a Facebook comment claiming Israel “disgraces all of us Jews worldwide” in error, writes Mathilde Frot.

Emma Dent Coad, who was elected in 2017, ‘unliked’ the comment within hours of Jewish News reaching out.

A spokesperson for the MP said: “Emma liked this in error and apologises.”

A comment posted by online user Earl Okin on Monday evening read: “I’ve always been a Bevanite – my ultimate political hero….and as a Jew, the current Israeli apartheid regime disgraces all of us Jews worldwide.”

It was reported to Jewish News by the anti-racism Twitter account GnasherJew. The comment was a response to another post by online user Bob Pandy critical of “Blairite” MPs and “members of the Netanyahu fan club”. It stated: “One should always be in the position of per-

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“It appears that any who question the actions of BLAIRITE nominated MP’S [sic] and members of the NETANYAHU FAN CLUB are ‘Hard Left’ (according to Tom Watson, and Margaret Hodge) “I am, most certainly, OF the Left, with an admiration of, (among others) Aneurin Bevan, whose seminal work ‘In Place of Fear’ still inspires,” it continued.

This comes after it was reported Labour Party members in Liverpool are to hold a vote of no-confidence in Dame Louise Ellman on the evening of Yom Kippur.

Ellman MP, who became the chair of Labour Friends of Israel in August, has been

a prominent critic of Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of the antisemitism crisis.

Fiona Sharpe, spokesman for anti-racism group Labour Against Antisemitism, said: “The IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of antisemitism, as adopted by the Labour Party, is quite clear that ‘Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel’ is an antisemitic act.”

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Fraudster may lose home Fraudster Freddy David is facing the possible loss of his family home as prosecutors asked this week for valuation at preliminary assets hearing, writes Jenni Frazer.

David, formerly of Hartfield Avenue, Elstree, is currently serving six years in prison after

admitting last year to charges of obtaining a money transfer by deception and fraud by abuse of position. A preliminary hearing into the David family’s assets at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, attended by David’s wife, Hannah, but not by himself, focused on three properties.

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A compulsive gambler, David defrauded 55 people – mostly Jewish and some of whom were members of his own Borehamwood community – out of a total of £14.5million.

He used the money to fund his gambling habit, and, between 2005 and 2017, paid for his children’s school fees and family holidays abroad.

As his fraudulent actions – carried out in parallel with legitimate business of his financial services company, HBFS – came closer to discovery, David set up a so-called “Ponzi scheme” in which he paid older creditors with the investment funds of newer victims.

Many of those he defrauded were said to be elderly and vulnerable, and some had invested their life savings with David.

In May, City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority banned David for life from

the financial sector, deeming him “not a fit and proper person”.

HBFS is in liquidation, and on Thursday Her Honour Justice Taylor, QC, received initial representations in a hearing to decide what assets remain to David.

Once that is agreed, a subsequent court hearing will consider what of those assets might be apportioned to his victims. It is understood that few of them will receive anything close to their original investment.

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Here’s looking at you, Ben! A bronze statue of Holocaust survivor and Olympian Sir Ben Helfgott has been dedicated in its new permanent home at the National Portrait Gallery, writes Justin Cohen.

The artwork by royal sculptor Frances Segelman was gifted to the prestigious gallery by Yad Vashem UK Foundation after the 89-year-old sat for her in a public session last year.

The bust will form part of the gallery’s Inspiring People project and be housed in a new section focusing on the 20th century to today, which will be part of a £35 million refurbishment, chief curator Alison Smith told a celebratory reception attended by Sir Ben and his wife Arza, along with their sons and grandchildren.

She said the sculpture “embodies his spirit. It’s a wonderful addition to the gallery as it tells the story of survival against the odds, and achievement. The trustees are incredibly grateful for this gift”.

Sir Ben, who captained the British weightlifting team at the Olympics a decade after being liberated from the camps, established the ’45 Aid Society to support fellow survivors after arriving in the UK and has been at the forefront of Shoah education

Sir Ben Helfgott with the sculpture of him by Frances Segelman at the National Portrait Gallery

Rabbi asks community to help stem shortfall it would not come to that. “If we don’t meet our budgets, we will have to make a decision about some element of cuts. What that cut will be, we’re not 100 percent sure,” he said.

He called on congregants to attend shul at least once a month and volunteer to help with Shabbat Kiddush, security, children’s services and lavadores, the ritual bathing of the dead. “I am asking you to invest your time, your moral support, your person, your money, because this is important in our lives,” he said.

Describing “rapid” changes across society, he added: “There’s uncertainty. There’s doubt. There’s anxiety. It seeps into our beds, to our minds, to our tables, to our living rooms, to our hearts.

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Senior Rabbi Joseph Dweck has called on members of the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi community to help him tackle a funding shortfall and “plateauing” membership.

The senior rabbi, who revealed annual membership fees cover just 30 percent of total costs, spoke of the S&P Sephardi Community’s “lean staff” at an event in central London, attended by congregants and board members, and said Lauderdale Road Synagogue’s membership had “hit a plateau.”

“Funding can’t come out of thin air and it means we have to raise the funds, and it may mean we have to look again at our entire system and if it’s only covering 30 percent of the costs, we may have to look at changing that as well,” he said.

Taking a question on the likelihood of synagogues closing, Dweck said he believed

ever since. He said he hoped the bust would be “made use of to tell my story and as a memorial to those who were murdered in the Holocaust”.

Expressing his pride, Sir Ben’s son, Maurice, said: “Surrounded by portraits of Mandela, Thatcher and The Rolling Stones, it’s extraordinarily moving dad is included as a community leader, sportsman and someone we all love.”

Simon Bentley, chair of the Yad Vashem UK Foundation, dedicated considerable time along with his daughter Tanya, an assistant curator at the National Portrait Gallery, to generating interest from the institution.

“Even when they came to visit it in my office, it was on the basis it was unlikely they would accept it as a gift,” he said. But Bentley said he was “absolutely thrilled” the bust has found such a prestigious home, describing it as a “big deal”. He added: “Ben is going to be 90 in November, so to be able to dedicate with his family is fantastic.”

Segelman, who counts the Queen among her artistic subjects, said: “I’m very proud and moved. Sir Ben’s such an amazing and strong man.” In January, she will sculpt fellow survivor Freddie Knoller in another live event.

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News / Singles survey

6% positive on intermarriage More than half of Jewish singles polled by dating app JSwipe said their families would disapprove if they married non-Jews, writes Mathilde Frot.

JSwipe yesterday published

a new study based on a poll of 4,000 Jewish singles across denominations, including in the US, Israel and the UK, conducted earlier this year.

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said their families would “react negatively” if they married non-Jews. Another 40 percent said their loved-ones would have a “neutral” reaction.

Only six percent anticipated a positive reaction.

While most respondents said they would marry someone who had converted for them, only 47 percent would ask their partner to take that step if things got serious.

One person said: “I would not dictate someone’s religious beliefs. It’s a big and personal decision and no one should impose it to others.”

But another said: “It’s important for me to marry Jewish and have someone who understands me and can build a family with me. I want my partner to be familiar with Jewish traditions and customs and find some level of meaning from them.”

An overwhelming majority want a Jewish wedding (81 percent), with 77 percent saying it is important to them that a rabbi officiate their wedding.

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romance is not dead, with 80 percent of Jewish singles polled saying they “believe in true love”.

Just over 80 percent said chivalry was not dead, and another 58 percent said they consider themselves “romantics” as opposed to “realists”.

The belief was spread evenly across both genders, with 59 percent of men describing themselves as “romantics” compared with 56 percent

of women. Kindness, a sense of humour and intelligence remain the most attractive traits in the community, with rudeness, smoking and drinking, and a lack of attraction the top deal-breakers.

David Yarus, founder of JSwipe, said: “The world is a different place than it was just 10 or 20 years ago. Our sense of connection to each other and the world around us, how we go about finding love, and the role of organised religion in our lives all look very different than our parents and grandparents generations.”

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Riley honoured for hate fight Past honourees and participants at the ceremony include Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, MP Michael Gove, US President Donald Trump, and French-Jewish writer Bernard-Henri Lévy.

Riley recently helped launch the ‘Don’t Feed The Trolls’ campaign to tackle online abuse, as well the ‘Stop Funding Fake News’ initiative, targeting media that denies or downplays antisemitism.

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Rachel Riley has received a prestigious Amercian award for combatting the scourge of antisemitism.

The Countdown presenter and campaigner received the illustrious ‘Warrior for Truth’ prize, at a ceremony hosted by New York Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner.

She addressed the ‘J100’ event last Thursday, picking up the gong alongside British actor Sir Ben Kingsley.

Highlights of Rachel’s moving speech at the awards dinner

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It’s probably the biggest honour of my life to be here with you today.

I am here because of something that started for me, a year ago. Back then, I was just a maths geek, a Manchester United fan and daytime TV gameshow host.

A secular, atheist Jew. Social media was a great way to connect with people. It helped me promote the things I cared about: education, getting more girls into STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] subjects, and frequently, my favourite football team. But watching the news one day, I saw something really peculiar.

British Jews protesting in Parliament Square against the growing rise in antisemitism. At first I thought this can’t be real.

Antisemitism wasn’t a “thing” anymore, was it?

Just a relic of the past?

If the horrors of the Holocaust taught us anything, it’s where Jew-hate can lead.

I’ve become used to being called everything from a white supremacist to a child abuser, and the irony of being told I’m a liar, making up claims of antisemitism in the Labour Party, by its very supporters who simultaneously accuse me of being a

terrorist-sympathising-Zionist-shill intent on murdering children, is not lost on me.

Their approach backfired. The armies of hate-filled bigots trying to silence and intimidate me, only proved to strengthen my resolve to stand up and be counted.

I have a voice and I am going to use it.

But I also have a brain. I’m going to use everything I have.

We must speak out. If we’re quiet, the conversation is by default dominated by extremists. We have to speak with intelligence.

And not in ways that compound the evil, give it new life and amplify it, or lend it credibility. To engage directly with them, to enter into Twitter back and forths, I’ve learned, at times to my cost, simply amplifies and legitimises their voices.

I will not give them a megaphone.

Instead, I’ll seek to inoculate, the many, against the few liars and extremists who seek to define Jews as underhand political operators, working covertly against all that is good and just in the world.

I will align myself with the good guys – standing with those who stand up against the pernicious misuse of modernity to reenergise the oldest of hatreds.

I’ll not cower in the face of hate. I’ll continue to fight it, from this day, until my last.

Rachel with The Algemeiner’s Simon Jacobson and Dovid Efune and Dr Sonat Birnecker Hart

HUMPHRYS CRITICISM Former Today programme host John Humphrys has criticised the show’s “pointless” and “discriminatory” Thought For The Day. The slot on the Radio 4 programme provides “reflections from a faith perspective” on topics making the news.

It has regularly featured Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Senior Reform Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner.

Humphrys, 76, who presented Today for 32 years before quitting last month, said that

the item was “rather pointless”.

“It’s not sold to us as religious Thought For The Day,” he told Good Morning Britain.

Complaining that secular voices were excluded, he said: “I could not do it… It’s discriminatory… I feel quite strongly about certain things and I would love to express my opinion about certain things but I’m not allowed to,” he told the ITV show.

Last year, the non-religion charity Humanists UK penned an open letter to the BBC calling for non-religious voices to be included.

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Homeless help / Tackling isolation / News

Shul members shluf to raise funds for homeless The idea of sleeping at synagogue took on a whole new meaning when Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue (EHRS) opened its doors to host the Big Barnet Sleep Out, writes Brigit Grant.

The event, organised by Homeless Action in Barnet (HAB) and Together in Barnet (TiB) was part of an ongoing campaign to raise awareness and help the homeless and vulnerably housed in the borough.

Among the 30 ‘sleep-outers’ were staff members and Rabbi Emily Jurman, who snuggled down for the night in the synagogue car park and succah after many months of raising muchneeded funds that will support both HAB and TiB over the coming 12 months.

The target was £25,000 and following the event, they were just short of the figure, but intend to keep pushing for the next few weeks.

“We know that our sleepout in no way matches the sense of danger, hunger and despair which rough sleepers face every day,” said HAB chairman John Bier.

“However, it was a powerful way to raise money for the charities and to raise awareness of homelessness in all its forms.”

The campaign, which started last July, has

engaged six new companies, and support even came from rugby player Maro Itoje of Saracens and England.

EHRS will continue with hosting the homeless after the High Holy Days. The shelter will run from March until June, but the hope is that it will continue all year if the funds can be raised.

Audrey Zarach, one of the co-ordinators of the TiB Night Shelter at EHRS, said: “The response from members has been amazing, from the nursery, who bake cookies, and teens who help set up the night shelter before the guests come in for the night, to the members who cook the evening meals and those who sleep over with the homeless guests, we have been overwhelmed with the generosity of EHRS members.”

Participants at the Big Barnet Sleep Out at Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue

Grant given to scheme tackling loneliness

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A scheme matching elderly and isolated homeowners with young professionals has been awarded a £25,000 grant to tackle loneliness and rising rents in one fell swoop.

Two Generations, which was presented at Limmud last year, was one of 10 finalists awarded the cash prize by Nesta Challenges and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, it was revealed on Tuesday.

Submissions were judged against various criteria, such as impact on social isolation, whether the idea is innovative, and its scalability and feasibility.

The Jewish team behind Two Generations uses a matching tool to pair isolated older people with younger flatmates who help out with chores and provide companionship in return for reduced rent.

The group performs DBS checks on homeowners and flatmates while also comparing

their dietary requirements, locations and lifestyle. A prototype of the tool will be shown at an event next year for a chance to win another cash prize.

“We are delighted to have received this Nesta grant, which will enable us to design more sophisticated matching technology to ensure the quality of the match is the best it can be, and to increase the efficiency of the matching process, thus ensuring even more matches can be made,” said Sam Brandman, the social enterprise’s cofounder and CEO. The award was part of the “Tech to Connect Challenge” scheme, which supports projects using technology to combat loneliness, which affects more than one in five people across the UK. Civil Society Minister Baroness Barran said: “Loneliness and social isolation is one of the biggest public health challenges we face today.

Nobody should feel they don’t have anyone to turn to. Yet this is a reality for far too many people.

“Harnessing the power of technology is an important way to tackle this issue, and I am excited by the potential of these innovations to make a real difference to people’s lives.”

Nesta Challenges executive director Tris Dyson said: “Tech can offer powerful ways to bring people together, and we are excited to start working with these innovators to develop their concepts. By supporting and scaling these ideas, we can ultimately work together A housing scheme matches elderly and young people to help reduce social isolation.”

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News / Picture shame / Cycle licence / Faiths unite

STUDENT SUSPENDED OVER ‘ANTISEMITIC’ TINDER POST Nottingham Trent University has suspended a first-year student over a photo posted on Tinder of a Charedi man with a sticker of a Palestinian flag covering his mouth who appeared to be asleep on the London Underground.

Screenshots of the dating profile picture, which shows an unidentified man posing next to the victim, emerged on social media, sparking concern from online users.

The fresher, named only as Jonathan, told the Nottingham Tab student news website “that [it] was indeed a terrible picture, absolutely insensitive and should not have been taken in the first place.”

He added: “I should also mention the fact that I am in no way antisemitic or have any kind of prejudice towards Jews.”

Joshua Caplan, president of the Nottingham Trent Jewish Society, told the Tab that “antisemitism is unacceptable and we welcome the University’s swift launch of an investigation. We will be working with the Union of Jewish Students and NTU to make sure there is no place for antisemitism at our university.”

Daniel Kosky, UJS campaigns organiser of the Union of Jewish Students said: “We are disgusted by what appears to be an antisemitic photo circulating online.”

A Nottingham Trent University spokesperson said: “We are dealing with this matter urgently, and an investigatory officer has already held an interview… [who] has been suspended and a university disciplinary panel will

Israelis to cycle Tour de France Israeli cyclists will take part in born ICA co-owner Sylvan the Tour de France for the first Adams, who brought the Giro time next year, after a deal to d’Italia to Israel in 2018. “I am ride in the World Tour under excited it is happening right the name of an existing licenceaway for next year’s season.” holder.

The World Tour includes The Israel Cycling Academy all of the sport’s biggest races, (ICA), which was established including the Tour de France. only five years ago, agreed to ICA co-owner Ron Baron take control of the Katusha said: “I am sure this will enhance team, subject to approval from our core vision to develop Israeli world cycling authorities, after cycling on the world stage. To it renewed its licence for three Israeli rider Krists Neilands see an Israeli rider in the Tour de years.

France will be very satisfying.”

“I’ve said for some time that ICA would be in ICA was founded in December 2014 in Jeruthe World Tour sooner or later,” said Canadian- salem as Israel’s first professional cycling team.

Chief: Menschkeit needed on Brexit

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now decide on appropriate action.

“We are proud of our diverse and inclusive community and do not tolerate any form of hate crime, including antisemitism.”

Siwan Hayward, Transport for London’s director of compliance and policing, said: “Hate crime is illegal and we do not tolerate it on our network.”

Tinder has been contacted for comment.

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Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has called for more menschedik behaviour in wake of the “toxic” Brexit deadlock.

During his Thought For The Day on BBC Radio 4 last Friday, he said “our challenged world needs to understand and internalise what it means to be a mensch”.

This comes after House of Commons Speaker John Bercow pleaded with parliamentarians on all sides to tackle the “toxic” political culture, amid the row over Brexit and the proroguing of parliament, deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court. Bercow said the House “did itself no credit” in the angry exchanges that followed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s statement.

As MPs returned to the Commons last

Thursday, Bercow said: “On both sides passions were inflamed, angry words uttered, the culture was toxic.”

Mirvis said: “Reflecting on how passions were inflamed on both sides, the Speaker stated that the atmosphere had been worse than any he has known and he urged MPs to ‘disagree agreeably’.

“When it comes to our politics today, civility is often left at the door and people define so much of their identity by what and whom they are standing against, as opposed to what they stand for. An aversion to complexity and the demise of nuance has made compromise harder than ever to achieve and, most worryingly, when tribalism inspires hate speech, hate crime is only one step away.”

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‘Jews helping Muslims, A new London base for the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association (SBWA) has been officially opened in the presence of local Jews who supported the community since an arson attack on its former centre six years ago, writes Justin Cohen.

Rabbis from across the religious spectrum were among the first to offer support to their neighbours in the wake of the 2013 assault, with Finchley Reform Synagogue (FRS) hosting Ramadan prayers and annual iftar celebrations following an idea from Citizens UK. Community members also provided free legal support and were at the forefront of a campaign for the new centre.

New Faith Minister Lord Younger cut the ribbon to formally open the

facility in East Finchley, telling guests: “What sends the greatest message that hate won’t win are events like today.”

The minister – standing in for Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, who was unable to attend owing to Brexit business in the House – said the entire country still finds the attack “profoundly shocking” and insisted that no stone go unturned to find the perpetrators, who are yet to be brought to justice.

But he said the “selfless” support of local faith communities and others in the efforts to rebuild were a shining example to the country.

Saying he had been “moved” by a video produced by Jewish News telling the story of the past six years, he added: “This government will stand shoulder to shoulder in facing down hatred and

The ribbon is cut for the new Somali-Bravanese community centre

in interfaith cooperation.”

FRS’ Rabbi Miriam Berger praised the Somali Bravanese community’s

“resilience” time and again, recalling how it had also previously faced persecution in Somalia.

“Mazeltov means well done and good luck, and what better word to say to you tonight,” she told the 150-strong gathering that included a number of councillors who had supported the community. “It was one idiot that creates this situation, but a whole community who said we can create a new chapter from here.”

Former Barnet police commander Adrian Asher recalled how the attack in the days after the murder of Lee Rigby could have been the “spark” for widespread troubles in the capital.

The fact it was not had nothing to do with the police, he said, but rather was down to the fact local communities refused to be torn apart. “It was an extraordinary few days,” he added.

Guests were entertained by children of the Somali Bravanese commu-

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Pupils have been invited to submit project ideas to implement in their schools to pitch in a contest inspired by BBC Two series Dragons’ Den held at the Jewish School Awards 2020.

Teams of up to four students from primary and secondary schools can submit their best ideas to Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), a division of the Jewish Leadership Council.

PaJeS will be rewarding the best ideas with a share of £25,000, with support from the grant-making institution the Genesis Philanthropy Group.

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Rabbi David Meyer, executive director of PaJeS, said: “This is an exciting opportunity to make a special project at your school a reality and you can be the ones to make this happen.

“Come up with a good idea, plan it well, pitch it to our panel and get the results you want.”

The Jewish Schools Awards, organised by PaJeS in association with Jewish News, will be held for the fifth year running in a bid to recognise exceptional educators in the community.  Information packs containing further details will be sent out to schools. For more details, contact pitch@pajes.org.uk

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Community unity / School awards / STEM scheme / News

Muslims helping Jews’ nity and FRS singing ‘Saalam, shalom’.

Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl said: “Despite so many similarities between our faiths, so often there is a divide between our communities. It’s so important to bridge that divide.

“What a fantastic example of cohesion this centre offers. Talking is not enough. Acts of solidarity are what we need if we’re going to create a more cohesive society.”

Former Barnet Council leader, Councillor Richard Cornelius, who was thanked for helping to bring about the new centre, joked that he had “never been bounced into spending £1 million so easily” following a campaign for funding for the new centre.

He said the building was a symbol that something “even better” can

Children of Somali Bravanese welfare association and FRS perform

come out of tragedy.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said: “I’ve been to the synagogue, which

opened its doors during Ramadan and allowed the congregation to pray their prayers. The rabbi is amazing. The

power of that is important because it meant those Muslims, who may have pre-judged for unfair reasons their Jewish neighbours, got to see the openness friendliness and the fraternity of the Jewish community.”

He added: “I saw, and I’ve been there a few times, the friendship that’s developed between north London Muslims and the Jewish community in north London, and that friendship is now stronger and it will go forward, and I think another example of London being a beacon to the rest of the world.

“I remember going to iftars in the synagogue where the local rabbi, Laura, opened her doors to Muslims and others and we made the point that where else in the world would you have an example of the Jewish community working so closely with

the Muslim community? I wish other cities around the world would learn some of the lessons from our city.”

He added it was a good example of the interfaith work that takes place in London, a “good example of the power of solidarity and fraternity when not just Abrahamic faiths come together, but those of all different backgrounds.

It’s a badge of pride for those of us Londoners that at the time of the awful fire the Jewish community stepped up, put out a hand of friendship and demonstrated not just the best of Judaism but also in my view the best of London.”

The event was compered by SBWA director Asmaa Ali, and also addressed by its chair, Abubakar Ali. Watch the video at jewishnews.co.uk

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SCHOOL AWARDS NOMINATIONS Nominations are flooding in for Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS) Jewish Schools Awards, in association with Jewish News.

Three new categories have been announced for the fifth annual awards, taking place in 2020, including a Curriculum Collaboration Award, Volunteering Award and innovation honour called Beyond the Classroom.

The latter recognises a teacher or group of teachers who have initiated a programme to take students out of the

Jewish Schools Awards 2019 winners

classroom to offer them a broader range of learning experiences.

This could include engagement with the wider community and initiatives that have contributed to a deeper understanding of British values. The Curriculum Collaboration Award refers to collaboration between Jewish Studies and secular studies. It recognises a team of Jewish or Hebrew studies and secular studies teachers who have implemented a joint initiative to enrich teaching and learning across both Jewish and secular curriculum areas.

The Volunteer Award honours schoolbased volunteering, recognising an individual or group of volunteers, governors, parents or others, who are not employed by the school, but who have significantly contributed and improved aspects of school life.  Nominate online at www.jewishnews.co.uk

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Bid to inspire young boffins Moriah Jewish Day School has rolled out a new science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programme in a bid to inspire the “next generation of inventors.”

The scheme, run with Empiribox Science, a UK-based educational company, aims to expose pupils to STEM subjects in at least two lessons a week.

Sarah Simmons, head of school, said STEM education has “never been more necessary and empowering our children to think critically and analyse will both broaden their horizons and benefit society enormously.”

“Children are innately curious, craving exploration and discovery. By harnessing that inquisitiveness, who knows, we may even discover some leading scientists and technicians of the future,” she added.

Moriah Jewish Day School has rolled out a new STEM programme

The school, home to a nursery since last month, also revealed a new bus serving pupils in Borehamwood, Stanmore, Bushey and Hatch End will hit the road in September 2020.

“Moriah has a proud heritage of attracting families from as far as Borehamwood as well as Bushey, Stanmore and Watford,” Simmons said.

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News / HMD ‘error’ / Board mentors / Dangoor award

Union sorry after Shoah Memorial Day message fails to mention Jews An academics’ trade union has apologised for “drafting errors” after its memo about Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) failed to mention Jews.

It comes after commemoration groups said the initial omission from University and College Union (UCU) was “completely unacceptable”.

In its first memo, UCU said HMD remembers Nazi victims including Roma, Sinti, beggars, alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, pacifists, black people, disabled people, Freemasons, LGBT+ people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, non-Jewish Poles, and Slavic prisoners, but not Jews.

The union said: “We are deeply sorry that an incomplete version of a circular detailing plans for HMD was sent out by mistake, and for the offence this caused.

“It was human error. We amended the copy once the error was identified. HMD is an important part of the union’s work in tackling antisemitism and we thank those members and nonmembers who contacted us over this.”

A later memo sent to members from the union acknowledged that “the systematic murder of six million Jews across Europe begun by the sepa-

see that UCU amended the information on their website. They are planning a number of activities for HMD, and we trust that the Jewish victims of the Holocaust will hold a central place within them.”

Holocaust memorial in Westminster Abbey

rating and dehumanising of the Jewish people”.

The chief executive of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust had earlier said: “We were pleased to

• Britain’s national Holocaust centre in Nottinghamshire this week warned politicians to tone down the rhetoric or risk stoking racism.

The caution was issued by the centre’s president James Smith, amid warnings of rising antisemitism and white nationalism in the UK. Noting the UK’s “somewhat divided society,” Smith said: “The growth of ideas that contributed to the Holocaust, such as white nationalism and antisemitism, are alive and well today.

A quarter of a century ago we were creating this centre as a warning from history. If we’d known then that these ideas would be on the rise in the UK in 2019 we would have been aghast.”

Board pilots mentor plan

DANGOOR RECEIVES INTERFAITH AWARD

The Board of Deputies is piloting a scheme for trained “mentors” to educate the wider community about Judaism.

An initial group of 16 mentors passed through an application, screening and training programme, and received certificates from Board leaders on Sunday. The mentors are all volunteers who will be doing outreach work in their spare time.

“This is a wonderful programme which will increase understanding of our Jewish way of life in the wider community,” said the Board’s vice president Edwin Shuker. “We are truly

British businessman and philanthropist David Dangoor has been awarded a prestigious interfaith honour whose previous recipients include monarchs and popes, writes Adam Decker.

Dangoor this week said he was “honoured” to receive the Sternberg Interfaith Gold Medallion, which has been bestowed on The Queen, Pope John Paul II, King Hassan II of Morocco, and former Israeli president Shimon Peres.

It is awarded to those who have made “an exceptional contribution to the improvement of understanding between the faiths in

Board leaders with the new mentors

grateful to those who have given their time to do this valuable work in their spare time and to the skilled trainers and staff at the Board of Deputies who have enabled this process.”

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“As an Iraqi Jew who grew up in Baghdad where many religions intermingled peacefully and cordially, it is important for me that we are able to use our different religious backgrounds as a point of unity rather than a source of division,” he said.

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‘RAPE CASE’ TEEN SUFFERS FROM PTSD A British teenager accused of falsely claiming she was raped by 12 Israelis has appeared in a Cyprus court as her lawyers revealed she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The 19-year-old, who cannot be named, faces trial after pleading not guilty to a public mischief charge over her claim that she was gangraped at an Ayia Napa hotel in July.

She arrived at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni on Wednesday morning ahead of a hearing in which her lawyers plan to challenge the admissibility of a statement she made to police retracting the allegations.

Jew bites Muslim’s ear in religious row A Jewish inmate bit a Muslim prisoner’s ear off in an argument over religion, a court has heard, writes Charlie Moloney.

Lawyers for Paul Jones, 43, who was sentenced to 18 months for grievous bodily harm, said he felt isolated and threatened before lashing out, but acknowledged that their client had taken matters “a step too far”.

During the 2017 incident,

Jones grabbed fellow inmate Azhar Hussain and bit off the outer rim of his ear before spitting it onto the floor and choke-slamming his victim into a table, the court heard.

“A certain cohort of prisoners was effectively in charge of certain wings,” said Jones’s lawyer Christopher Johnston, explaining the context.

“He [Jones] entered as a Jewish man. Predominately

BRITISH AUTHOR SET FOR REUNION British author and ceramicist Edmund de Waal has said his family is planning a reunion in Austria 80 years after they were forced to flee.The author of the 2010 bestselling family memoir ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’ said it “will mean the world” to his 90-year-old father, who fled to the UK aged 10, with his family. It follows an announcement from Austria that it is to allow descendants of Nazi victims to reclaim their citizenship.

Paul Jones attacked a fellow inmate at Woodhill prison

people in his block were of a different faith. He was asked to move cells to make room for people of their own faith. He says he was subject to intimidation prior to the incident.

He feared attack from the men and he took a step too far.”

Jones, who admitted the charges, apologised to Aylesbury Crown Court for appearing in a track suit, saying he was unable to find a suit. The judge later called him “very courteous”.

The judge heard that Jones has a string of convictions from 1994 for burglaries, thefts and violence. He had just been jailed in August 2017 before he committed the offence in Woodhill prison, Milton Keynes, in September 2017.

Prosecutor Charles Digby said: “He bit him so hard he bit off the pinna, the outer rim of the ear.

“He also grabbed hold of him by the neck and slammed him onto a table.”

COMMUNITY PRAISED FOR HOSPICE HELP

The opening of Noah’s Ark hospice’s new building in Barnet

London Mayor Sadiq Khan praised community support for a new children’s hospice building in Barnet that will serve hundreds of families affected by serious childhood illness, writes Mathilde Frot.

Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice opened its new £8.5 million building, The Ark, in Barnet last Thursday to serve families in north and central London and Hertsmere.

The facilities, built in the shape of a butterfly in a 7.5-acre nature reserve, offer family and children’s activities in sensory, music and art rooms, 24-hour end-of-life-care and bereavement counselling.

“I am so inspired in relation to the generosity of Jewish Londoners,” Khan told Jewish News. “I’ve met children of

Islamic faith. I’ve met children who are African-Caribbean.

I’ve met children who may not be of the Jewish faith. They’re benefiting because of the generosity of Jewish people.”

Also attending the opening of the new building, which received support from Tottenham Hotspurs FC, were team captains Hugo Lloris and Jenna Schillaci.

Among those lending community support were Sue and Leo Noé of the Rachel Charitable Trust, the Dorfman Foundation, philanthropist Alan Howard, Sir Mick Davis and Lady Barbara, Sharon and Jonathan Goldstein, while the Maurice Wohl Foundation sponsored a room that will prioritise families supported by Jewish charity Camp Simcha.

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Special Report/ Football united

Wonderful equaliser Richard Ferrer joins the Chelsea women’s football team in Israel for a unique scheme uniting Jewish and Palestinian children through sport

Unlike so much about Israel and the Palestinians, at least football is not a matter of life and death. Rather, it’s a cause for hope.

Chelsea women’s football team returned last month from a pre-season trip to Israel, taking centre stage in a unique scheme that’s united more than 25,000 Arab and Jewish youngsters on the football pitch since 2002.

The children play in mixed teams and decide the rules and settle differences as a group. They learn each other’s language and culture, break down emotional barriers and – for the first time in their young lives – see each other as people not opponents.

The Twinned Peace Sport Schools initiative, backed by FIFA and the Israeli Football Association, is run by the Peres Centre For Peace, whose chairman Chemi Peres, son of the late Israeli president Shimon Peres, says 80 percent of participants develop a more positive perception of the ‘other’. He says: “Life here is full of dangers and difficulties, but It is possible to play together, live together and build a better future. We never lose hope.”

The greatest obstacles are scepticism that sport can offer any solutions and suspicion – most Israelis view Palestinians with deep mistrust and most Palestinians view contact with Israelis as “gadr” [treason].

But keep your cynicism at bay until you’ve heard what it means to the eight to 12-year-olds taking part. Youngsters like Bayan Jalayta, a bright-eyed 11-year-old Palestinian girl, who’s travelled 30 miles from the West Bank town of Jericho to the Shefayim national football centre near Tel Aviv for Chelsea’s training session. “I used to be afraid of them [Jews],” she tells me through an interpreter.

“Then I met them and they were just like me, only with different clothing and language. I’ve learned about them and they’ve learned about me.

We talk about how we feel and how we live. When we play the rest of the world doesn’t matter, at least for a while.”

Bayan’s friend Ramas Hege, also 11 and from Jericho, her long jet black hair in tight plaits, is eagerly eavesdropping and asks the translator to tell me: “This is something new and exciting in our lives. Being here feels important. I don’t like the anger between Israelis and Palestinians, but I do like this. It makes me feel we have things in common.”

I’m suddenly surrounded by a crowd of yellow-bibbed pre-teens, keen to share their story. Among them is Ramas’ teammate Yael Bouchis, a Jewish girl from the nearby town of Bet Shemesh: “This is my favourite place to be,” she smiles. “I’ve made friends with children I would never meet anywhere else.

People who change the way I look at life.”

The kids only go so far. When I ask (perhaps unfairly), ’What were you taught about Jews/Arabs growing up?’ and ‘Why has the Palestinian Authority boycotted the scheme?’ they all pass the ball. One child does boldly answer, then has second thoughts and asks not to be named or quoted. Fair enough. Who knows the repercussions she feared.

Palestinian girls like Ramas and Bayan are from a generation with few opportunities to mix. Their only knowledge of ‘the other’ is soldiers and settlers. Equally, for Israelis like Yael, their sole experience of Palestinians is rocket attacks and terror tunnels. Both sides arrive with deep psychological baggage. That’s the project’s precarious starting point.

Yet watching the kids interact with the Chelsea players it’s hard to know which is Arab and Jew. Star striker Ramona Bachmann is teaching keepie uppies, defender Deanna Cooper leads running drills, centre back Anita Asante poses for selfies while Chelsea women’s charismatic manager Emma Hayes provides the piggy backs. The kids are in raptures.

As the cones and mini-goals are tidied away, Emma reflects on Chelsea star Deanna Cooper puts the kids through their paces

Chelsea defender Anita Asante [centre] coaches the children

the session. “This was just about kids running around without any worries. We should let children be children and let them play without labels. We used to separately label the men’s and women’s teams at Chelsea – now they are both called ‘first teams’. It’s the same here. There are no Israeli or Palestinian sides, just a team. I hope we see the impact this is having the next time we come here.”

Anwan Zeidan, the project’s Palestinian coordinator since 2005, has brought his teenage daughter Zeina along. She’s witnessed first hand the positive impact her father’s had on her generation. “The change is slow but it is happening,” Zeina proudly tells me in perfect English.

“People who don’t live here have the wrong idea about Palestinian women. They think we are uneducated, marry young and have lots of children. The girls my father coaches learn about empowerment. That way they can grow up to be whatever they want to be.”

Later, at the Peres Centre in Jaffa, Tamar Hay-Sagiv from the peace education department sets out the scale of the challenge: “In theory this is about football, but it goes way beyond that. Jewish kids go to Jewish schools, Arab kids go to Arab schools. They never meet.

We offer that chance. But there are so many misconceptions, stereotypes and religious, cul-

Jewish and Palestinian children aged eight to 12 with the Chelsea squad at the Shefayim national football centre near Tel Aviv

tural and language barriers and deep mistrust to overcome. That where we come in.”

Tamar says nothing is possible without the mums and dads. “We arrange parent get-togethers once or twice a year. But I’ll be honest and say the motivation for meeting is generally higher among Palestinian parents who have a strong desire to get out of their community and general curiosity about the Israeli side. Ultimately, Palestinian and Israeli parents need to trust in the scheme.

Sadly, in the current climate it takes courage and bravery to send your child to a scheme that has the word ‘peace’ in the title.”

She concludes: “There is no doubt that the everyday political reality challenges us and the participants. The educational process can see us move two steps forward and three steps back. So it’s crucial these are long-term projects rather than one-off sessions. We must convey optimism and hope to the children and parents because, in the end, this generation needs to understand it’s their responsibility to change and influence the future.”

My thoughts return to the training pitch an hour earlier, watching 11-year-old Ramas from Jericho score a goal to tie the match and seeing her Jewish teammates hug and high-five her. It was, in many ways, a wonderful equaliser.

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BIBI PRE-INDICTMENT HEARING BEGINS Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-awaited pre-indictment hearing started this week. His lawyers arrived on Wednesday at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem to argue that pending corruption charges against him should be dropped. Israel’s attorney general has recommended charging Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases. Netanyahu has denied wrongdoing, calling them part of a media-orchestrated witch-hunt.

He has long promised he will clear his name in the hearing.

SWEDISH PARTY BIDS TO BAN BRIT MILAH Jewish groups around the world have criticised a political party in Sweden for its efforts to ban non-medical circumcision in infant boys. The policy proposal was put forward by the membership of the Center Party, which served in government as recently as 2014, but which currently commands less than 10 percent of seats. Sweden’s Jewish Central Council (JCC) reacted furiously, as did the World Jewish Congress (WJC), which is based in New York.

Rabin’s peace plan map goes up for sale Sheraton Jerusalem Plaza Hotel, measures 5.5 x 9 inches and is the only known such drawing by the assassinated prime minister, Nate D Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles said.

In addition to roughly marking out Israel’s pre-1967 borders, the map includes numbers marked at various locations, but no place names, and Rabin’s signature scrawled in English letters at the bottom.

An accompanying piece of paper, “likely in another hand”, explains that the numbers are population figures, according to the lot’s description on the auction house website.

On the reverse side of the map page is a first draft of the map, which is scribbled over.

Bidding started at $25,000 (£20,351) when the map went under the hammer last week, but failed to sell at auction.

“The context for this Rabin’s roughly sketched map map is as important as A hand-drawn map by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, sketched in the year the Oslo Accords were signed between Israel and the Palestinians, has failed to reach its reserve price at an auction.

The 1993 map, drawn on paper from the

the sketch itself,” auction house owner Sanders said in the statement. “Rabin, [Shimon] Peres and [Yasser] Arafat received the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, an award that continues to be discussed today. Rabin’s handdrawn map is of tremendous historical, political and cultural importance.”

The map comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from University Archives, a recognised authority on rare manuscripts.

It is not clear exactly when the map was drawn or under what circumstances.

It will be sold with a photo of Rabin drawing the map, and is stamped on the back by photographer Robert A Cumins, who was present at the 13 September 1993 Oslo Accords signing ceremony on the lawn of the White House in Washington.

Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by Yigal Amir, an Orthodox Jewish ultra-nationalist opposed to his peace moves.

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The actress playing the matchmaker in a Yiddishlanguage Off-Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof this month said she had ‘nothing to do with it’ after the actress playing Hodl announced her engagement to the actor playing Perchik. Cast members said it was ‘a case of life imitating art’.

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More than 1,000 young people joined the ‘March of the Living’ last month, after a series of educational seminars highlighted rising antisemitism in Europe. The March took place on Lithuania’s Holocaust Memorial Day. Participants walked through Ponary Forest, where 70,000 Jews were killed in the Shoah.

SURVIVORS REUNITED 75 YEARS ON Romanian-born Holocaust survivors Morris Sana, 87, and his cousin Simon Mairowitz, 85, separated as children during the war, were reunited in Israel after 75 years. Each was convinced the other had been killed by the Nazis.

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We must remember

A world class memorial to the Shoah, in the heart of our capital city, is not only a great blessing but also a crucial expression of what it is to be British in these troubled times. It is nothing less than a sacred mission, proposed by the British Government, with cross-party support, to ensure that the lessons of the Shoah are never forgotten. This important institution will educate future generations about the events of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides, providing an invaluable resource for the nation.

The Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre has been sensitively designed by world-famous architects David Adjaye and Ron Arad. It will require only 7.5 percent of Victoria Tower Gardens and incorporates a range of new features for the benefit of all.

• Location – it will stand in the shadow of the seat of our country’s democracy, as an eternal reminder to our political leaders that the fight against hatred is a fundamental part of the responsibility we have conferred upon them.

• Education – it looks to enhance and support existing Holocaust institutions and the content of the learning centre will be set within the British narrative: historically, politically and culturally.

• Improvement – improved views of the Thames, new seating and an accessible boardwalk along the river, improved drainage and tree health. And enhanced playground with a new café-kiosk.

• Security – no Jewish event or building is withdrawn because of security concerns. We look at these threats, we mitigate as best as we can and then we lead our lives as we have every right to do. The Police, the Government and everyone else take exactly the same approach.

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We should be emphatic in our support for this initiative, for the sake of the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust, for the sake of our country, and, ultimately, for the sake of the generations to come.

The planning application will shortly be determined, so now is the time to make your voice heard.

To comment on the plans, go to: idoxpa.westminster.gov.uk search for the reference number 19/00114/FULL register an account, go to the ‘Comments’ tab and leave your comment.

Or Email yourvoice@big-ideas.org to receive a simple form to submit your opinion. Your comments will then be uploaded to the Westminster planning portal on your behalf.

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Spanish citizenship / Photo exhibit / Philanthropic podcast / Diaspora News

Sephardim apply for Spanish nationality An incredible 127,000 applications for Spanish nationality have been lodged from Jews and their descendants around the world, after a deadline expired.

The tidal wave of requests was triggered in 2015 after Spain passed a naturalisation law to atone for the 15th century expulsion or forced conversion of Sephardi Jews by Spain’s Catholic monarchs, victorious after defeating the Muslim Moors.

Until then, there were thriving Jewish communities in places such as Toledo, a major cultural centre in the Middle Ages, and in the Moorish kingdom of Al-Andalus. Jewish merchants helped the country establish trade routes and Jewish scholars made a significant impact, so the religion was tolerated in the devoutly Catholic country.

However, the Catholic conquest of Granada in 1492 led to the expulsion order, forcing thousands of Sephardi

Jews abroad, subsequently settling in places such as North Africa, the Balkans, Turkey and Latin America.

Since 2015 applicants, many of whom currently live in Central and South America, have had to prove a family connection to medieval Spain and get their Sephardi origins certified by a solicitor in Spain.

Portugal recently initiated a similar scheme.

Before 2015, Sephardi Jews needed to show two years’ residence in Spain before requesting Spanish nationality, or get a special government dispensation, and often had to give up their existing nationality to become Spanish.

“The majority [of applicants] who want to benefit from a Spanish passport are young people, between 25 and 35 years old, almost all professionals,” said Colombian genealogist Rocío Sánchez, speaking to AFP. Applicant Ángel Calderón, an

A total of 127,000 applications for Spanish nationality have been submitted from around the world

Argentinian Sephardi Jew living in the Colombian capital of Bogotá, praised the Spanish king for reaching out to the descendants of

Jews forced to leave more than half a millennium ago.

“The fact King Felipe of Spain tells us face to face how much they

wronged us, and that we are welcome home – this is something that heals, or seeks to repair the harm caused by a historical injustice,” he said.

Snapper Moses Napplebaum’s JEWS CELEBRATE photos on display in Belarus TOLKIEN WEEK

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The National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus is exhibiting portraits from famous Jewish photographer Moses Nappelbaum for the first time.

Until 15 October, visitors to the Belarussian capital, Minsk, can learn more about Nappelbaum, one of the most significant names in the history of photography, and see how he captured the Soviet elite.

Born 150 years ago in 1869, his talent was such that in 1918, when the Bolsheviks needed to portray the head

of Soviet Russia to the world, they turned to Nappelbaum for the first portrait of Lenin.

Nappelbaum was dubbed “a master of artistic and psychological profile” and is considered a founder of the photo portrait, creating his own technique and performing revolutionary experiments with lighting.

Alongside Lenin, his sitting subjects included Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Blok, Sergey Yesenin, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Maxim Gorky, Alexei Tolstoy, Dmitri Shostakovich, Boris Pas-

ternak, Semyon Budyonny, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Galina Ulanova, Lev Landau and Otto Schmidt.

The exhibition, which has been organised by the Belarusian–Jewish Cultural Heritage Center, features more than 100 Nappelbaum portraits, personal documents and early works from Minsk, as well as the camera he used to photograph Lenin.

The exhibition includes lectures from leading art historians of Belarus as well as educational excursions along the Jewish streets of Minsk.

Jewish fans of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien marked Tolkien Week by observing ‘Hobbit Day’.

Inaugurated in 1978 by the American Tolkien Society, the annual festive period is observed informally and ritualistically, including film marathons, in which members share the works of Tolkien with new readers or viewers. Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic who defended and revered Jews and famously called Adolf Hitler a “ruddy little ignoramus”.

In 1938, as a German publishing house prepared to release The Hobbit, Tolkien was asked if he was Ayran. “If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin,” he replied, “I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.”

PODCAST EXPLORES JEWISH LIFE Chernowitz A new podcast series fea- Rabbi David Wolpe discusses stories, getting to know exhibition turing prominent figures Jewish identity and unity. the people in our field, and in Jewish philanthropy has launched.

The series, called What Gives?, was launched last month by the Jewish Funders Network (JFN), with three podcasts already produced.

In the shows, Lisa Eisen, president of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, discusses making Jewish life “relevant, inclusive and compelling”, Ilia Salita, president and chief executive of the Genesis Philanthropy Group, discusses Russianspeaking Jewry and its role in ensuring a Jewish future and

Future episodes will include Gali Cooks of Leading Edge, which focuses on leadership talent in the Jewish community, as well as Yossi Prager of the AVI CHAI Foundation and Naomi Adler ofJewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

JFN chief executive Andrés Spokoiny said What Gives? is “a space for exploring and debating the ideas that matter in philanthropy and the Jewish community”.

He added: “Along the way, we’ll build a deeper sense of community by sharing

spreading ideas that can help all Jews and all givers change the world.”

Throughout the series, Spokoiny asks contributors questions such as whether philanthropy is just about money, and how is polarisation affecting the Jewish community.

Spokoiny added: “If we’re going to navigate these complex issues we are going to have to know each other better, including funders, non-profit professionals, rabbis, scholars and everyone who is interested in philanthropic and Jewish issues.”

Iconic Jewish Israeli writers Aharon Appelfeld and Nava Semel were honoured in an exhibition in a city in western Ukraine last week.

Both authors grew up around – and wrote extensively about – Chernivtsi, also known as Czernowitz, which was once described as “the Jerusalem of Ukraine”.

Appelfeld was nine when, in 1941, troops stormed his village. His mother was killed and he was deported, along with his father, to a forced labour camp, where he spent three years before being made to fight in the Soviet army.

Aharon Appelfeld and Nava Semel, pictured, were honoured

He emigrated to Palestine in 1946, later winning the Israel Prize in 1983.

Semel, who died in 2017, authored 20 works of fiction, plays, scripts and opera libretti, including Kova Zekhukhit (Hat of Glass), the first and most famous literary effort focusing on the children of Holocaust survivors.

Now, an exhibition on the icons, called My Chernitvtsi: two authors, two generations, is running at the local university, organised by the Russianlanguage Limmud FSU, ahead of this year’s festival in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.

The exhibition was initiated by Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler.

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Special Report / Community rebuilds

Pittsburgh marks the first High Holy Days since attack Toby Tabachnick on how the Tree of Life shul in Pittsburgh is coping during the first Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur since last year’s murderous terrorist attack Pittsburgh’s Jewish community spent last weekend refelcting on the impact of the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue – as the first anniversary of the attack that left 11 dead and six injured approaches.

Andrea Wedner, who was seriously injured in the attack and whose mother, Rose Mallinger was killed, and Michele Rosenthal, whose brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal were murdered, spoke about their ordeal.

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rity. These are significant and long reaching effects.”

It is essential, she explained, that the community remains focused, with “a traumainformed lens”, to the needs of all those who remain traumatised by the massacre.

The Center for Victims, she added, will continue to offer support through the High Holy Days and at all public and private commemoration events.

Even those who have made strides in their healing journeys are susceptible to being re-traumatised, and events such as the date A funeral of one of the victims of the massare at the Tree of Life Synagogue itself, or holidays, can be triggering, according “September 29 marked the beginning of first time they are attending synagogue ser- to Golin.

“Trauma can be reignited around lots the Jewish High Holidays,” noted Jordan vices since the shooting, and many are feeling of things that remind the person about the Golin, president and chief executive of Jewish increased anxiety.

“For others, attending High Holiday ser- experience that they went through,” Golin Family and Community Services (JFCS). “For some, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is the vices without their loved ones may be over- explained. Over the next couple months, he whelming. We have therapists present at said, “we are paying special attention to proseveral congregations who will be available to viding whatever kind of support we can for something we expect will be difficult for a lot step in as needed.”

Golin explained that JFCS has been of people”.

A panel of leaders from the three congregainvolved with providing counseling and therapy for those affected by the massacre of tions housed in the Tree of Life building discussed how their members have been coping and responding in the aftermath of the attack.

“This healing requires us to be an example to the Jewish community, an example to Squirrel Hill and Pittsburgh, and to all who have suffered gun violence,” said Donna Coufal, president of Dor Hadash, noting her congregation’s commitment to social justice in response to the attack.

Rabbi Doris Dyen was outside the Tree of Life building, preparing to enter to co-lead Above: Tributes. Top right: Survivors services with Dan Leger – who was shot and seriously injured – when the attack began.

“Since the shooting, it has been a long, slow 29 October. JFCS has been placing therapists on site during High Holiday services for Tree journey of physical, emotional and spiritual of Life, and is able to provide them to other recovery in which I have found myself taking care of others,” she said. congregations on request.

Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light The Center for Victims also has been providing victim support since the day of described in detail the trauma he has underthe shooting, said Cindy Snyder, its clinical gone since the day of the event.

“I have discovered that trauma has many director.

“It is important to note the faces and has many highs and shooting did not just target lows and that it is something that will remain with me the Tree of Life congregation,” the rest of my life,” he said.

Snyder said.

“It is a wound. It’s not like “All people of the Jewish grief that you can recover faith were targeted. As such, from and make peace with. the impacts of the action were Trauma is something that and are both specific and faris ready to attack you at any reaching. moment of the day. Hearing “People were gathered in a gunshots, TV, hearing a loud space of safety, a building where boom in the street. It has each of the three congregations deeply affected me,” he conpracticed their faith,” she cons and analysis tinued “Trauma is worse tinued.

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VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS

On a secure footing Football has a proud history of scoring where politics fails. Notable examples include France’s multi-cultural World Cup winning team of 1998, which did much to ease racial tensions in the country, and the Ivory Coast’s qualification for the 2006 World Cup finals, which was credited with helping to end the country’s civil war. Football also counters Islamophobia here in Britain, with Liverpool fans paying Muslim star striker Mohamed Salah (who kneels in prayer when he scores) the ultimate compliment of his own chant: “If he scores another few, then I’ll be Muslim too”.

Our report on page 16 this week about Israel’s Twinned Peace Sport Schools initiative, which brings together Jewish and Palestinian children through football, is another potentially life-changing example.

The youngsters who today play together, finding common interests and common cause, will be the adults capable of finally tackling decades of ignornace, animosity and conflict. There’s no more beautiful aim for the beautiful game.

Together as one

We already have a fair idea about what lies in store in 5780, much of it all-to-predictably focused on attacks on Israel, be they from Gazan rockets or Labour politicians. As a community, we have proved in the past what can be achieved when come together to work in unison, in times of adversity and joy.

As we unite for Yom Kippur, so may we remain united against every challenge in the year ahead. Wishing you well over the fast. Shana tova.

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A letter to Margaret Hodge I’ve not always seen eye to eye with you politically. I am a Liberal Democrat and I guess I was jealous of New Labour in the 1990s.

I’ve always respected you though, especially after you took on the BNP without fear and beat them so completely.

I thought we were beyond antisemitism as a country. I only recently realised how prevalent it still is, from online extremists through to national newspaper cartoonists. From the left demonising the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends of Israel, through to the right accusing George Soros of anything and everything and online conspiracies that appear every time something happens on the world’s stage.

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you and the British Jewish community at large have far more allies after this horrific period of British politics.

We see what is happening when they belittle your experiences and question the obvious racism to which you’re subjected.

I hope this madness from the left and right ends soon. I’m so hopeful you will win and get to look back at the bigots with a smile and sense of satisfaction once more.

I never thought the Labour leadership and its online mob would become the new threat. I’m thankful that, once again, it’s you spearheading the fight. I know you can beat them.

Matt Hurcomb Hereford

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Luciana Berger has miscalculated if she thinks unseating Mike Freer as MP in Finchley and Golders Green will be straightforward – or indeed in the interests of the Jewish community. I have voted for Mr Freer since 2010 and would do so in

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I have nothing but respect for all that Ms Berger has tolerated in recent years, but ending the Westminster career of one of our great friends is not the answer.

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Why party conferences are one enormous con JENNI FRAZER

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y the time most people read this, we will be getting ourselves in gear for Yom Kippur and a whole lot of contemplation.

I freely admit to being if not the worst Jew in the world– there are plenty of candidates for that title — not as good a Jew as I could be. Yet I like to use the opportunity of the chagim to think about what has happened in the past year, how I could have done better, or behaved better, possibly even written better.

Reeling fresh from Labour’s Party conference in Brighton as I write this, I’m moved to wonder about the whole structure of party conferences and how they operate.

And I have come to the depressing conclusion that – apart from the plenary debates, which are supposedly there for the express purpose of making or changing policy – conferences are a giant con.

The fringe meetings seem to be held to reinforce already existing prejudices.

Anyone who might venture to voice

a dissenting opinion, or challenge a narrative is met with a fusillade of verbal, and occasionally physical, abuse.

So convinced are the organisers of these events of their own moral rectitude that they go to enormous lengths to prevent anyone who disagrees with them from even attending their meetings.

Thus, in Brighton, there was the ludicrous spectacle of the Labour Against the Witch-hunt

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crew making prospective attendees gather outside Ben and Jerry’s ice cream parlour, so that the audience could be escorted by the Witch-hunters to a previously secret location.

I have to advise that on this occasion the audience did not include me, since the Witchhunters had already told me that I was not welcome at their meeting — they told me I was “hostile”.

Gosh, guys, ya think? With a line-up including Asa Winstanley of the Electronic Intifada, Ken Livingstone who needs no introduction, Jackie “Jews ran the slave trade” Walker and the egregious Tony Greenstein?

Well, perhaps it is true that I would have been hostile. But it might also be true that I would have been curious.

I would really like to know why some of these people, to use the unimprovable words of a late editor of mine, seem to hate Jews more than is strictly necessary – although nobody, of course, would accept that antisemitism is involved in their attitude to Israel.

During my stay in Brighton, I went to a number of what might be termed “anti”

meetings. With the honourable exception of Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, not one speaker acknowledged that there might be another side to the narrative, that Israelis might be terrified when there are rocket attacks, that Israeli children run screaming to air raid shelters, that Israeli families have been murdered in their beds.

Not for a moment will I say that everything Israel does vis-a-vis the Palestinians is right. There are clearly many stupid, unjustifiable examples of behaviour, and they are compounded by sometimes appalling political pronouncements that make some of us in the diaspora shudder.

But. The ability to hear and see what the other person is saying is paramount.

I learned a lot in Brighton and some of it made me cringe.

So my Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur resolution is to listen – and I would hope that might be reciprocated by the other side.

To accept that truth is a many-sided conceit and we, on our part, do not have all the answers.

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Primo Levi’s complex love affair with Israel ALVIN ROSENFELD

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very age has its volatility, but ours is beset by a resurgence of hostility against Jews and the Jewish state.

This year marks the centenary of Primo Levi’s birth, so it is fitting to recall his complicated relationship with Israel.

He visited the country once, in 1968, with 40 former Italian partisans. He maintained contact with Italian Jewish friends who lived in Israel and kept himself updated about events there. His responses to two crises reveal a strong attachment to Israel on a personal level, but also some sharp differences with its policies, especially when Menachem Begin was prime minister.

His criticisms were political and aligned with the Italian left. They came to a head in 1982, during Israel’s Lebanon war. Originally a response to Palestine Liberation Organisation threats against northern Israel, the war widened as Israeli forces reached Beirut. Public opinion in western countries, including Italy, turned

against Israel, especially following the Christian Phalange militia’s massacre of Palestinians in Sabra and Shatila. Levi joined his voice to the protests urging Israel’s withdrawal and Begin’s resignation. He was criticised by Italian Jewish community leaders, who called for solidarity.

Levi became uneasy after these disputes, which put his existential attachments to Israel at odds with his criticism of some of its policies.

“I retain a close sentimental tie with Israel,” he said, “but not with this Israel”. In the end, he had enough of partisan bickering over the Jewish state and backed off from further comments.

US academic Judith Butler and others have used Levi’s remarks against the Lebanon war to enlist his voice against Zionism. But in waging her polemical campaign against the Jewish state, Butler quotes Levi selectively. It is worth recalling what he said during an earlier and more critical moment in Israel’s history.

In June 1967, President Nasser of Egypt said the Arab national aim in the coming war was Israel’s annihilation. The goal, was to ‘drive the Jews into the sea,’ an end endorsed by his military allies and sanctioned by Muslim leaders.

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POLICY DIFFERENCES COULD BE DISCUSSED, BUT ISRAEL MUST LIVE, HE SAID Anxiety ran high among Jews throughout the world and on 31 May 1967 Levi gave a speech in the main shul of Turin, his native city. The following words set the tone of the speech and expressed what mattered most to Levi: “Lately words have been [expressed] that we thought were extinct: ‘With the help of God, we will win and we will exterminate our enemy.’ I can’t imagine a worse blasphemy. This is worse than taking [God’s] name in vain – it is calling for his help in a massacre. Are there still people in this world who believe in holy war and equate it with total war?” Levi reminded everyone Israel, “originating in persecution and massacre” is

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meant to be a guarantee that “there will be no more persecutions, no more massacres”. No other country is asked “to cease to exist”. Arab armies were preparing for the country’s liquidation. Levi’s response was Israel “must survive”.

Why? Because, like every other country, “it has the right to live”, but, beyond this, “Everyone should remember the generation that created Israel consists almost entirely of people who escaped the massacre of Judaism in Europe…

The pioneers of Zionism are the survivors of the tsarist pogroms, of the ghettos, of the mass graves, of Hitler’s lagers. Israel is not like other countries; it is a country to which the whole world is indebted, it is a country of witnesses and martyrs, of the insurgents of Warsaw, of Sobibór, and of Treblinka. The goal of inflicting dispersion and massacre on the survivors of dispersion and massacre is doubly criminal.”

“Israel must live,” he twice reiterated. Policy differences could be discussed and disputed, but there could be no denying the Jewish state’s right to continued existence. uAlvin’s essay about Primo Levi and Israel can be read at fathomjournal.org

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Yet it is necessary to at the UK, too. And the briefest glance at least touch on those issues ealth Secretary Matt Hancock many vaccine inserts will show everysaid this week that he is “looking of safety, because while thing from seizures to sudden infant anybody question-ing it is very seriously” at making vacdeath syndrome listed as possible side effects. This is not to imply now labelled as a peddler of cinations compulsory for all UK misinformation (or a relischool pupils. In the furore of measles infection such outcomes are common, or that for d me bla g erin Scaremong rage vaccines are uniformly dangerous, gious nutter), we have seen ‘outbreaks’, it is a common cry, and in numbers 72% above ave or without benefit. countless cases of medical both Israel and the diaspora, Jewish In developing countries espeauthorities getting their communities have been blamed. While cially, they have been vital in the ‘facts’ wrong.

Facebook, Amazon and the like have fight against deadly disease. It is also As just one example, a begun censoring ‘anti-vax’ content, important to note that even when a recent BBC story detailed religious motivations to decline vaccinaBITE ME, MALAYSIA! vaccine contains potentially harmful the terrible dangers of tion have been treated as backward and ingredients, while some children will be predisacne drug Roaccutane, a dangerous, and across all media, anybody posed to react badly, many will be OK. But we are medicine that has been widely prescribed on the wary of immunisation is treated now as led to believe there is no risk, that the science is NHS for decades. Was this sole drug prescribed a pariah, or a loon. settled. This is not the case. with a unique carelessness? Need we mention But it is all a distraction, because questioning So should vaccines be mandatory? Both the Thalidomide? I ask this not to mistrust the good vaccine safety is not even the point. With so UK and Israel have seen a rise in measles cases, intentions of good doctors, only to illustrate that much blame, we barely seem to have noticed and the understandable goal of authorities is they are not gods. Sometimes, their informathat compelling parents to inject any foreign to increase vaccination rates to achieve ‘herd tion is flawed. And over four billion dollars of US substances (safe or otherwise) into their healthy government money distributed in vaccine injury immunity’. The issue has, therefore, been effecchild is a fundamental challenge not only to tively framed as a battle between the selfish few, and the good many.

In some places, unvaccinated children have already been excluded from public spaces, as was experienced by Chasidic communities in New York. They have been denied access to education, and their parents are on the cusp of being compelled to act against their beliefs.

Again, compulsion is the point. But we should perhaps point out here another red herring. That is, that a genuine attempt at herd immunity would not stop at children. It would require the (assumedly mandatory) immunisation of all adults too. A detail often forgotten in the infamous case of the Israeli flight attendant who died from measles, is that she had had her childhood vaccinations.

But a new study has suggested that unlike the lifelong immunity gained from wild measles, vaccine-acquired immunity decreases so much with age that we would all need a booster every 100 days for there to be even a chance of lasting protection. So the ‘facts’ about unvaccinated children being the ones to put society at risk, are less fact and more faith.

It may be beneficial to pause for just a moment to ask when else we have targeted people on such a basis of faith? When else we have excluded them, or censored their ideas, or forced them to submit their bodies.

Never again, and all that.

Yet we are told that now, this time, it is necessary – to protect the herd from the dangerous few. So long as we identify ourselves within ‘the herd’, there is an instinctual appeal to this.

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Of course, even back in 1962, the year before the first UK measles vaccine was introduced, only 0.00007 percent of the population died from the disease. You were, and are, far more likely to be killed by alcohol, or, if you live in the US, by a child with a gun. But alcohol remains legal, and we all know about US gun control. We have not, in any of these cases, placed the good of the whole above the freedom of the individual.

So that clever philosophical argument about the self versus society, turns out, after all, not to hold up. Why then, are we so willing to throw away not only our religious freedoms, but our personal right to choose?

Some might argue that by demanding the right to decline vaccination, we are removing the equal right of others to be protected from disease. To those who are happy to vaccinate, we must ask – don’t your own vaccinations protect you? To those immunocompromised or too young who wish to, but cannot, vaccinate, we must ask – are your children’s lives more important than those predisposed to lethal vaccine reaction? Even if, somehow, the answer is yes, this is not like asking somebody not to smoke near you.

What we are asking is for healthy individuals to alter the natural state of their human body in an irreversible and potentially harmful way.

Do we really want that to be mandatory?

Needless to say, there are mountains of scientific evidence that question not only vaccine safety, but also the very concept of vaccine-acquired herd immunity, and even suggest that those carrying a live, shedding virus, via vaccination, can themselves be a danger.

Regarding measles, questions have also been posed about how the vaccine itself has shifted the goalposts. Pre-vaccine, we had achieved an almost symbiotic relationship with the disease whereby those under one were largely protected by their mother’s naturally-acquired immunity, and most people caught the disease in childhood, the safest time.

While there was a high incidence of measles, there was an increasingly low incidence of mortality. It is only now that we have eroded natural immunity, and through the vaccine shifted it out of childhood, that we are seeing it again in babies and adults, when it is far more dangerous.

There needs to be some frank discussion about this, about all vaccine science, because more transparency and safer vaccines would be far the best way to increase uptake.

There needs, too, to be a removal of the astounding US liability exemption afforded to vaccine manufacturers.

And some scrutiny of political funding. But see, we are distracted again, because for now, this is not even the point.

The point is choice. Religious and personal.

The point is ownership of the most fundamental thing that any of us possess – our bodies.

So let us not allow whipped-up fear to cloud this. Let us not stay silent as that bandwagon rolls by. Because we all know what it is, and we all know how it ends.

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1 FUN FOR ALL

Young pirates and princesses celebrated Rosh Hashanah with Jewish Care at its Betty and Asher Loftus Centre alongside more than 80 guests. The celebrations included arts and crafts, cake decorating, slime making and entertainment. Alyssa, five, said: “I love the dancing and I loved making slime.” Mother-of- two Katie Williams said: “The Tots parties are fabulous: the kids love it and it’s lovely to see the residents having so much fun.”

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Instagram celebrity Orel Nissan, pictured, who grew up at the Emunah Afula children’s centre in Israel, told her story to a 260-strong crowd at British Emunah’s Gala Dinner on Tuesday. There were presentations by therapy clowns and guest speaker Jason Pearlman.

The event will benefit at-risk children supported by Emunah welfare projects in Israel. “It was a fantastic evening for a fabulous cause,” said dinner chair Michelle Plainer.

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More than 100 guests attended the launch of Chazak Ladies Academy, a weekly programme for Sephardi women in the UK. Rabbi Ari Bensoussan flew in from Los Angeles to attend the lunch and Ilana Epstein, founder of the non-profit Ta’am, gave a cookery demonstration ahead of the High Holy Days. Rabbi Moshe Levy said “women will be able to examine life from a different perspective and through teachings, insights, and exchanges of ideas among extraordinary members of the community, they will grow, learn and ultimately become as empowered as every woman deserves to be.”

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Employment support service Resource held a seminar at the JW3, with career coaches and other experts who took the audience through every aspect of flexible working. Careers adviser Eric Salamon discussed ways to focus a CV on skills, achievements and qualifications to counter-balance gaps, while coach and HR professional Melanie Pearl demonstrated techniques to nail a job interview.

Resource CEO Victoria Sterman, pictured, said the response to the seminar showed there was interest in flexible working and a desire for guidance on how to achieve it. “We invite anyone considering working flexibly to meet us at our Finchley centre. We’d be happy to provide information and practical help, at no cost, just as we do for all members of the community seeking work,” she said.

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More than 50 young professionals packed and delivered packages to over 250 households ahead of Rosh Hashanah with charity GIFT. Volunteer Mia Buckman said: “Every parcel was being delivered to a family really in need.” GIFT’s managing director Rabbi Sandor Milun said: “The essential work we do would not be possible without the generosity of the community.”

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Members of Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue baked more than 200 honey cakes to deliver to older members of the community with personal Rosh Hashanah greetings. Organiser Sara Greenfield said delivering cakes to older members “makes the activity so worthwhile as it delivered a bit of sweetness to them, in readiness for Rosh Hashanah”. The shul’s Knit and Chat Group knitted clothes and blankets to donate to Tikva UK for its Ukrainian orphanages.

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A nonagenarian was among four volunteers to receive long service awards for visiting sick people. The volunteers were awarded at the annual conference of Jewish Visiting, a free service coordinated by the United Synagogue, which provides Jewish chaplains and visitors to sick people in hospitals across the Greater London area. Pictured, from left, are Rosalie Hyman, Sadie Langsman, Robin Woolf, Jewish Visiting Chaplain Rabbi Stanley Coten and Richard Dreifuss.

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Two Israeli and Palestinian peace activists discussed their hopes for reconciliation at an event co-hosted with St Mary’s Church in Long Ditton, attended by Elmbridge Mayor, Councillor Mary Sheldon, at Kingston Liberal Synagogue. Board of Deputies vice president Edwin Shuker said: “This is about helping to export peace, rather than importing conflict.” Pictured are Reverend Bob Fyffe, Stuart MacDonald, Sharon Booth, Ruba Huleihel, Michal Katoshevsky, Sheldon, Revd Dr Kuhan Satkunanayagam and Rabbi René Pfertzel.

9 AFRICAN TRIP

University students returned from a two-week trip to South Africa with Aish on Campus, during which they met members of Johannesburg’s Jewish community, learnt about the economic challenges plaguing Soweto residents and enjoyed a threeday safari at Kruger National Park. Student Amy Oberlander said: “It was awe-inspiring to be able to learn from the environment around us, as well as having the opportunity to see the difference in culture between South Africa and the UK.”

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Authors Howard Jacobson, Linda Grant, Emma Barnett and Daisy Goodwin, pictured, delighted a 200-strong audience with their musings on fiction at the Women’s International Zionist Organization’s annual literary lunch (WIZO) in aid of the charity’s Vocational High School in Jerusalem.

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‘ My wife gave up her career so I could work’ The Apprentice star Claude Littner speaks to Francine Wolfisz about his wife Thelma, putting career before family and why this year’s candidates are ‘the most irritating yet’

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orget the early starts, the pitches that go painfully wrong or the cringeworthy negotiations. When it comes to pushing The Apprentice candidates to their limits, there’s only one thing worse than facing the wrath of Lord Sugar in the boardroom – and that’s coming face-to-face with his right-hand man Claude Littner for the most intense interview of their lives.

In the last 15 years, rarely has the Golders Green synagogue member held back on what he really thinks about Lord Sugar’s prospective business partners.

“You’re not a big fish, you’re not even a fish,” he sputtered at one. “Frankly, you’re a parasite,” he told another, while a third was informed his business plan was, simply put, “a bloody disgrace.”

So it was with some trepidation that I had an interview situation of my own with the legendary Littner, ahead of the new series of The Apprentice,, which began on Wednesday night.

Fortunately I was the one throwing the questions at him – and as it turns out, Tottenham Hotspur’s former chief executive is surprisingly quite an amiable chap.

“I’m not that harsh, I’m really not,” smiles Littner, who has chaired a number of Lord Sugar’s companies over the past 30 years, including Amstrad International and Viglen. “I’ve got this terrible reputation and actually I’m quite nice. I don’t put the fear of God into the contestants on purpose, but when you come with a reputation, it’s just inevitable.”

For all his warm and fuzzy protestations, Littner does concede that this year’s 16 contestants – who include a self-confessed “pocket rocket” artisan baker, a “cut-throat” librarian and a chartered engineer who “loves business more than sharks love blood”

Claude Littner (main and right) with Baroness Karren Brady and Lord Alan Sugar

– have annoyed him so much that he “couldn’t wait for them to go.”

He explains: “From my point of view, I’m normally completely dispassionate. I watch the candidates, day in day out and I don’t really care. However, this year I found them incredibly irritating – and as you go through, you’ll be irritated too. I guarantee it!”

Having marked his 70th birthday in May – for which he spent the day filming an episode of the reality show – Littner concludes he now has “a lower threshold of accepting nonsense” and jokes that when it came to firing contestants on a weekly basis, “it was a shame we could only get rid of one.”

In the first episode of the new series, the hopefuls were whisked off to Cape Town, South Africa, where they were tasked with organising bespoke safari and vineyard tours for unwitting tourists.

Other tests set up for the candidates in the weeks ahead include a corporate away day on a steam train, designing a theme park ride, travelling to Finland for an advertising campaign and the ever-popular shopping task, where they must hit the streets of Oxford and Cambridge to purchase nine items.

“The job is that you don’t say anything and you don’t influence, as that would be unfair for the other team if you gave advice,” says Littner of his “physically exhausting” role as one of Lord Sugar’s advisers, alongside Karren Brady.

“Even though Alan is remote, he wants to know everything that’s going on, on an hour by hour basis, so Karren and I have to email him every hour to tell him who did what, who said what, who decided to do that.

We are busy all the time.”

Hard work and 3am starts are of course something that Littner is neither afraid of nor unaccustomed to.

He has almost 50 years’ experience under

his belt and five years ago the University of West London Business School, where he is a visiting professor, was renamed The Claude Littner Business School in recognition of his stellar career.

Looking back, he’s very much proud of what he’s achieved – but he recognises too that he couldn’t have done it without the support of Thelma, his wife of 43 years.

“If I look back at me, I was a nutcase. I just wanted to work,” says Littner candidly.

“I didn’t want to take a holiday, because I was worried someone else might get ahead of me. I was obsessed with doing the job.

“I didn’t think I was making any sacrifices. The problem was my wife took the brunt of looking after the children. I took my path and was lucky enough to have a wife who would do that.

“She gave up her career and was wonderful looking after our two children and the house and doing all those things. I was lucky to have her.”

The grandfather-of-five adds: “I don’t think you can have it all. You have to decide on a path and I’m happy with the path I chose.

“The fact I couldn’t watch my children as much as I would have liked or that I was working abroad for many years is unfortunate and maybe selfish on my part – but I was the breadwinner, I wanted to provide for my family and for me the only way to do that was to work as hard as I possibly could.”

While Littner still leads a hectic pace today, he recognises having personally mellowed over the years, as has his relationship with Lord Sugar, who he now considers one of his closest friends.

“He was very much the boss and I was the chair or chief executive,” says Littner. “But over the years, our relationship changed, our families started getting together and now it’s completely different.”

As Littner beams while talking, I begin to realise that Claude is not really the intimidating behemoth he’s been made out to be all these years. In fact, he’s more pussycat than roaring lion.

“Shh, don’t tell anyone,” he smiles and whispers.

“My reputation will be ruined.”  The Apprentice airs on Wednesdays, 9pm, on BBC One

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THOSE WE HAVE LOST IN 5779 The close of every year brings bittersweet reminders of the incredible figures we lost over the last 12 months. This year, the task of remembering the departed is especially fraught as it includes the victims of anti-Jewish, white supremacist violence in US synagogues, following shootings in Pittsburgh and California. Alongside them are artists, activists and Holocaust survivors who inspired the world...

PITTSBURGH VICTIMS AND LORI GILBERT-KAYE

On 27 October 2018, a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and opened fire while shouting antisemitic slogans. Eleven worshippers were killed in what would become the deadliest act of terrorism against American Jews in the country’s history. Just months later in April, a gunman burst into the Chabad of Poway synagogue, killing Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, who reportedly leapt in front of the rabbi to shield him from the bullets.

Main: The Pittsburgh victims Right: Lori GilbertKaye

JUDITH KERR

Children’s author and illustrator Judith Kerr fled Nazi Germany with her family as a young child and later helped generations of children understand the Holocaust in the 1971 book When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. She taught herself to draw and illustrated her books, which included the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came to Tea, which was originally written for her own children in the 1960s. It has since sold more than one million copies.

More evocatively, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit became a set text in German schools and until just weeks before her death, Kerr was still helping to educate youngsters about the Holocaust, for which she was awarded an OBE in 2012.

In 2004, she told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs: “I think of the business of the Holocaust, and the 1.5 million children who didn’t get out as I got out, in the nick of time. I think about them almost every day now, because I’ve had such a happy and fulfilled life and they’d have given anything to have had just a few days of it.”

DENIS NORDEN

Denis Norden was best known for ITV bloopers show It’ll Be Alright On The Night, which he hosted for 29 years until his retirement in 2006.

Born in Hackney, East London, in February 1922, Norden served in the RAF in the Second World War with other future famous names, such as Eric Sykes and Bill Fraser, and wrote shows to entertain the troops – as well as get off guard duty.

Norden met his writing partner Frank Muir in 1947 and together they created hit radio show, Take It From Here, as well as the television sketch show, Here’s Television, starring Sidney James and Ian Carmichael.

He died last September, aged 96.

HERMAN WOUK

When Time Magazine put Herman Wouk on its cover in 1955, it found the Orthodox novelist’s blend of literary achievement and religious practice to be paradoxical.

But over the course of his nearly seven-decade career, Wouk would help usher Judaism into the US mainstream through more than two dozen novels and works of nonfiction, several of which were adapted for the screen. He died on May 17 at the age of 103.

AMOS OZ

Amos Oz won virtually every literary prize short of the Nobel and was perhaps Israel’s most widely translated author.

He was also among its most vocal peace activists,

calling Israel’s withdrawal from the Palestinian territories a “moral imperative” and helping to found Peace Now in 1978. In novels such as My Michael, Black Box, Where the Jackals Howl and his 2002 autobiographical A Tale of Love and Darkness, Oz chronicled the emotional development of his young country. He died of cancer in December at the age of 79.

EVA MOZES KOR

Eva Mozes Kor was born in Romania and, along with her twin sister, sent to Auschwitz in 1944. They underwent medical experiments at the hands of infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. But Kor was not the type to hold grudges, and she publicly forgave Mengele.

STAN LEE

Few had as significant and enduring an impact on the comic book industry as Stan Lee (né Lieber), the genius behind Marvel comics. Among the characters he co-created are Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Thor. He died in November at 95.

SIMCHA ROTEM

Few historical events more dramatically signify Jewish defiance in the face of persecution than the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – and Simcha Rotem, who died in Jerusalem in December at 94, was its last known surviving fighter. Born Kazik Ratajzer in Warsaw in 1924, Rotem lost six members of his family when the Germans bombed his home in 1939. After the uprising, Rotem led surviving fighters from the ghetto through the city sewers, saving their lives.

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SEDRA Vayelech

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Vayelech has the fewest verses of any weekly reading. It coincides – “beyn kesseh le’assor” – between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and so contains the theme of repentance.

In 30 verses flat, only nine more than the minimum to call up seven of the congregation, Joshua is briefed on his mission to conquer Canaan – the people are commanded to congregate each seventh festival of Tabernacles for a mass public reading to inspire all pilgrims to stay loyal to the Torah.

Moses is asked to prepare to die and issue an ethical will to his successor. He informs the Levites they must store a copy of the Torah right next to the Holy Ark inside the Sanctuary. His last act will be to assemble all the nations’ leaders and repeat his ethical exhortation to them. Once Moses sensed his leadership was at an end, he felt it wrong to spend any more time at the helm. The best thing he achieved at that late hour was to instruct them to keep a copy of the Torah next to the Holy Ark. Nowadays we are blessed with the internet, a technology that strips away all boundaries that could prevent the message of Torah from reaching the remotest locations.

Therefore, ex-congregational rabbis have a great life’s task to look forward to after their retirement, namely, to take their teachings, the lessons they have taught and developed during their lifetime, and spread them to every corner of the earth.

The Haftorah is the section from the prophet Hoshea, which exhorts us to “take words” of reprimand and correct our ways.

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!

uRabbi Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to Merseyside Army Cadet Force

Torah For Today What does the Torah say about: Justin Trudeau and the blackface scandal

BY RABBI ZVI SOLOMONS Photographs emerged of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – a champion of diversity and equality – dressing up in blackface. So, what does the Torah say about this?

One question to ask is can a leopard change its spots or the Ethiopian his skin?

The Tanach is by and large neutral about race. A person cannot be better or worse than any other by dint of their immediate ancestors, as they were born as they are – and we are all ultimately descended from the same stock, from Adam and Eve. Yet as time goes on, we see hints of prejudice entering our hearts. The story of Noah getting drunk, used as justification

by Southern slave states for their iniquitous practices, fathers the slavery of black people on Canaan, cursed to be a slave of

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translation. This is not how we see it, but rather dark and beautiful. The Queen of Sheba is black, reported with considerable approval in the Book of Kings.

Similarly, Miriam is punished for lashon hara (slander) on the matter of Tzipporah, who was Moses’ black wife.

When today we see the “woke” prime minister of Canada using blackface, we remember it was not so long ago there was a mainstream television feature – The Black and White Minstrel Show – that has now been confined to the dustbin of historical embarrassment.

Our rabbis tell us not to embarrass people. Perhaps that should extend to embarrassing ourselves by using race inappropriately.

Blackface is rightly unacceptable, in the same way that we object to people using Jewish heritage as “Jewface” cover for unacceptable political beliefs. uRabbi Zvi Solomons of the Jewish Community of Berkshire (JCoB.org) will speak about race at Limmud Festival

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The Bible Says What?

Ishmael and Isaac buried their father together

BY RABBI MARK GOLDSMITH On face value, the relationship between Patriarch Abraham and his sons Ishmael and Isaac was pretty terrible.

The last Ishmael saw of his father was when he and his mother Hagar were thrown out of the family camp to find their own way through the wilderness, as described in the episode we read on first day Rosh Hashanah, in Genesis Chapter 21.

The Torah does not record another word spoken between Ishmael and Abraham, who took his other son, Isaac, up Mount Moriah, ready to sacrifice him to God, in Genesis chapter 22, the episode we read on second day Rosh Hashanah.

We hear that God told him not to go through with it. Who knows how Isaac felt about his father after this.

What we do know is that again the Torah does not record another word spoken between Isaac and Abraham.

We also have no record in the Torah of stepbrothers Isaac and Ishmael

making contact with each other, independent of their father, during his lifetime. Yet there is a time when they do come together. It is at Abraham’s funeral, recorded in Genesis chapter 25 Verse 9.

We hear that Isaac has found he has inherited all of his father’s property on his death, maybe adding insult to Ishmael’s injury.

Yet the two bury their father as brothers. They give an example to all of us as we approach Yom Kippur.

This day cannot atone for sins between person and person unless we work to gain each other’s forgiveness (Mishnah Yoma 8:9).

To be able to be together at the end of Abraham’s life we can paint a picture of two stepbrothers, both hurt in a different way, deciding it was down to them as the next generation to find, forgive and support each other.

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Progressively Speaking Why fast on Yom Kippur?

BY RABBI DANNY RICH The purpose of Yom Kippur is to give each of us the ability to honestly and openly self-reflect and examine our past, present and future conduct.

Leviticus (16:29 and 30) tells us we are to use the day ‘to afflict our souls’ in order that ‘… atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you of all your sins before the Eternal One’.

Jewish tradition has come to understand that ‘afflicting the soul’ involved depriving oneself of pleasures: leather shoes, sexual intercourse, anointing the body with oil, bathing and, above all, the consumption of food and drink.

But is it really necessary to fast?

That choice should be made by the individual, reflecting on the very purposes of Yom Kippur itself.

Yom Kippur is the culmination

of a process of teshuva (returning or atonement) which begins at the outset of the month of Ellul and intensifies over Rosh Hashanah.

It marks a period in which each and every Jew is called upon to acknowledge that they are not all

they might have been.

In this time of self-reflection and introspection, we are encouraged to approach and apologise to those we may have wronged, forgive those who might have wronged us and to vow to do better in the coming year.

If being in a synagogue all day and fasting helps achieve this, then it is important.

If being in synagogue all day and fasting does not, then one should investigate other means.

When we greet someone on Yom Kippur we often wish them a ‘meaningful fast’.

For me a truly meaningful fast is one where food, or the lack thereof, doesn’t distract from the true purpose of the day. uDanny Rich is Senior Rabbi of Liberal Judaism

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‘THE UK HAS TO BE SINGAPORE ON STEROIDS’ The UK faces one of its greatest periods of prolonged economic uncertainty at is prepares to leave the EU in just 27 days. Business editor Candice Krieger asks some of the nation’s most influential industry experts what a deal –or no-deal – Brexit means for British businesses SIR MARTIN SORRELL

This is me going out on a limb as you never know what will happen, but my sense is that some form of deal will be agreed before 31 October, or maybe even before but with some delay – with a commitment for a deal.

As to what the UK does (post-Brexit), I think Britain needs to look to what Singapore is doing, although on different scale – five million people versus 60 million – but I think it’s ‘Singapore on steroids’ if you like. We have to be

open for business like we have never been open to business before. That means we have to be tax-light and regulation-light. The UK should be a potential home for the 10 companies; Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tencent, Alibaba, Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, Apple and Microsoft.

We should encourage them to locate here and not to go elsewhere. That is critically important. We have to pivot from a trade point of view more to the US, more to Asia-Pacific and more to Latin America. China and

India become more important, even Russia becomes more important, the Middle East becomes more important; Latin America, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico become more important. Colombia becomes more important, and the US obviously becomes more important than Germany, Italy, France and Spain, which is where our historic trade pattern has been, so we have to get off our backsides and sell more, which the Germans do very effectively with high-value manufacturing as well, which is something we have the ability to do. It will be a big challenge, and it will take five-to-10 years to get right and apart from all the logistics of renegotiating trade agreements with individual countries, it will go beyond that to give or take a lapsed period of time to pivot.

It’s going to be difficult. However the country is resourceful and we have very good people and it’s got a lot of assets. We will have to invest more in all the areas to be fair that Boris talks about; education, infrastructure, both hardwear and software too, 5G and everything else. And I think that his suggestion on his tax-free zones might be one of the ways that we encourage a fairer distribution of investment in the country. It’s going to be a tough road, but not impossible. It’s going to demand a lot of effort.

Sir Martin Sorrell is founder and executive chairman of S4 Capital

DANNY SEAL

I voted to leave the EU, but the way MPs on both sides of the House have acted in the past couple of years is worse than a pantomime performance. Theresa May called an unnecessary election and as a result, the Government has no majority which has made negotiating with the EU almost impossible. Boris is trying very hard to get a deal which will enable us to leave by the 31 October and hopefully move on from this constant state of uncertainty.

Looking at the start-up/innovation ecosystem, like all industries, the sector needs certainty, and the current situation is just installing more fear and lack of clarity. We need clarity, we need to leave the EU and we need to move forward. After leaving the EU, there will a few turbulent months but it will settle down. I look at Brexit as seeing oppor-

tunity, opportunity for the UK to be a centre of excellence for innovation, a place where start-ups can come from around the world and use the UK as a gateway to Europe and beyond. Let’s hope that in the coming weeks we will have the clarity we require.

Danny Seal is founder and CEO of Unbound

ZAKI COOPER

Leaving without a deal would be a massive gamble for the UK economy. It’s true that it has held up very well since the referendum in 2016, but there are some worrying signs, and you hear lots of stories about property and other commercial deals being put on hold. A no-deal Brexit is likely to cause a short-term shock and the longer-term consequences could be quite drastic.

Most people are fed up with the Brexit saga, but that doesn’t mean we should leave in a rush just like that. Whichever way we leave, the EU will remain an important market for the UK. At present, around half our business is with the rest of the EU, and 75 per cent of UK businesses which trade goods internationally do so with the EU. Clearly, we need to ramp up our trade with other established partners such as the US and Japan and fast-growing economies, including China and India. The coming months may well be bumpy but the business community must play its role in steering a new course for the UK economy, even if much of is uncomfortable with the government’s high-risk tack.

Zaki Cooper is founder of ZC Consulting and director of a pro-EU business organisation, 2006-09

SIR LLOYD DORFMAN

The bottom line for me is that I want a resolution to the Brexit logjam. We’ve taken far too long to sort things out. It’s well over three years since the referendum. I was a staunch

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remainer during the campaign of 2016. But we can’t go on forever with the uncertainty.

The uncertainty and political turmoil are doing more damage than anything else. Of course, I want the UK to reach a deal and have a managed exit. If we can’t do this, however, I would be prepared to have a no-deal exit as a last resort. No more procrastination.

Also, in my experience big change can create big opportunity. We have to get on with it.

Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE, founder of Travelex and chairman of Doddle

ELISSA BAYER

It is quite impossible to know whether we will leave the EU on 31 October and recent week’s events make it even more difficult to predict.

A Labour Party offering different options, another Referendum and a party clearly divided; a Liberal Party with a new leader and a definite decision not to leave, and a Conservative Party led by a man who was determined to be prime minister – and to leave on 31 October –but who again divides the electorate, and is not offering many ideas as to how he will achieve his aims.

The scenario for business is not attractive and retail continues to suffer. High street names are falling and it is not only because of Brexit, but consumers are holding back and it is understandable. Property prices have weakened and markets are jittery, but the one real item to watch is the exchange rate. The night of the Brexit referendum, it was 1.50 to the dollar. Look at it now!

Elissa Bayer is a senior investment director, Investec Wealth & Investment

MICHAEL RAIBIN

When considering the central London commercial office market, the simple microeconomics at present are offering very little supply of space, together with a pretty consistent demand, which is still driving rents upwards. The low level of interest rates, however, are not pressuring most owners to sell, which just adds to the squeeze of available assets to purchase. This also continues to sharpen yields and therefore capital values. And if interest rates remain low, then debt is still affordable, which basically compounds the issue. Lots of cash is available, but not many places to park it. Sterling has not moved much recently, where we think most of the risk is priced in. A hard Brexit means a fall in sterling and may prompt investment in businesses and buying property assets from overseas investors. A deal will

mean that sterling will revert to long-term equilibrium levels rapidly. What is lost in exchange rate arbitrage for foreign investors will be gained in a new foundation of economic stability. Central London business and its real estate market still feels good at the moment… just so long as we don’t have an unscheduled change in government that could potentially upset the dynamic.

Michael Raibin is a director at Colliers International UK

STEVE NOWOTTNY

Right now, with political gridlock and huge uncertainty, it’s hard to make many predictions about Brexit – when it will happen, how it will happen or even if it will happen.

Yet we do have some idea about how consumers could be affected if and when the UK leaves the EU. Whether we leave with a negotiated deal with the EU is likely to be crucial.

If we do, then there’s likely to be a transition period, which will mean no major changes to consumer rules until at least the end of 2020. If we don’t – in other words, if there’s a no-deal Brexit – the impact will be much more immediate.

Consumer rights Your basic consumer rights and protections are unlikely to change after Brexit, because some of the most important consumer rights laws in the UK, such as the Consumer Rights Act, are British laws in their own right – even though some of their content is based on EU directives.

However, it’s worth being aware that if you’re buying from a trader based in the EU post-Brexit, things may get a bit trickier.

Currently, EU laws ensure consumers across member states can buy goods and services from other bloc countries, knowing that the protections and safety standards are the same or similar in every member state. So for example, if a UK consumer buys an item from an EU-based trader and the item does not arrive or there is a problem, the consumer can use British law and courts for redress, and be safe in the knowledge that the judgment will be recognised by the EU member state in question.

If we leave with a deal, that won’t change immediately. But if we leave with no deal, you won’t then necessarily be able to use UK courts to settle an issue with an EU trader – you would have to go to a court in an EU member state instead.

Economy Right now it’s impossible to say for certain what the effect of leaving the EU will have on the UK economy – sadly, we don’t have a crystal ball. Clearly, Brexit is likely to have a major impact on what happens to interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and economic growth – and that in turn may affect house prices, the jobs market, mortgages and savings rates. Yet we simply don’t know which way things will move.

What you can do in the short-term is focus on getting your own personal finances in order. Mortgage rates, for example, are still pretty close to historic lows, so if you want certainty and can get a cheap fix, then now may be a good time to sort it. If you do a full money makeover of your own budget, it’ll help you to feel confident about the future whatever the impact of Brexit.

Steve Nowottny is news and features editor at MoneySavingExpert.com

ROS ALTMANN

A no-deal Brexit would hit the country and economy hard, with many businesses unable to operate. Some businesses will fail, which would reduce revenues for pension firms as auto-enrolment pension contributions fall. There could also be problems with money and data transfers between the UK and EU if there is no agreement.

No deal would probably be accompanied by additional quantitative easing, aiming

to lower long-term interest rates. Pension firms and funds would face increased costs of providing pensions, while financial market turmoil would probably result from the no-deal business disruption.

If there is a Brexit deal, I expect markets to rally, as investors heave a sigh of relief, which could boost pension firms too. Insurance company valuations are relatively low.

With a transition period, little will change immediately, and Brexit’s impact will be much less noticeable. During that period, the Government has to work out a new relationship with the EU, which may be difficult to agree. However, the near-term effect of leaving with a deal should be positive for financial markets, pensions and the economy.

Baroness Altmann is a pension and investment expert and former UK Pensions Minister

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ADAM SHELLEY ACCOUNTANT

SOBELL RHODES

Dear Adam I’m a director of a limited company in the recruitment industry and we are currently outsourcing our payroll. We recently received an Employer Compliance Check Questionnaire. Can you guide me on this as the form is extremely detailed?

Molly Dear Molly In the increasingly complex payroll and autoenrolment world, it is important that companies appoint a firm with payroll expertise to take control of this vital business function.

NAOMI FELTHAM INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS SPECIALIST

CURRENCIES DIRECT Dear Naomi We’ve decided to make Aliyah in the next year.

Before leaving, we will be looking to sell our London property and either renting or buying a property in Israel. Is there an alternative to using our bank, and if so, what is the process?

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to Israel, currency transfer providers such as Currencies Direct can help. As well as being able to offer you much better exchange rates than a bank, we can move your money fee-free, ensuring you make serious savings. We also provide an unrivalled level of personal support, with every customer assigned their own dedicated account manager.

To get started with Currencies Direct you simply need to open an account, which can be done in minutes online or over the phone.

As soon as you’ve done that, you’ll be able to talk through your requirements with your account manager and find out what service is right for you.

For example, as you aren’t making Aliyah for another 12 months you might want to consider using a forward

We are aware that HMRC has sent this questionnaire to companies and perhaps not sent a copy to their accountants.

The detail of the questionnaire includes information on the directors, the payroll, the workers that are paid off payroll, expenses of employees and directors, entertaining, company credit cards, home to work travel, cars, mileage claims, vans and directors loan accounts.

This difficult form should be completed with the help of an accountant, so they can discuss and review the potential answers with you prior to its completion. This could help to minimise the risk of a follow up visit or further communication. If any areas of risk are identified, these can be brought to HMRC’s attention as a voluntary disclosure which should minimise the penalties that maybe charged for any errors.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for further advice. contract to lock-in the current exchange rate until you’re ready to make the transfer.

By fixing the rate in this way, you’ll be able to protect your funds from any negative shifts in the currency market. Or you could target a specific exchange rate by setting a ‘rate alert’.

With this service all you need to do is pick the exchange rate you’d like to achieve and your account manager will let you know immediately if the market moves to that level.

Whatever service you choose, with the support of Currencies Direct and your personal account manager you’ll be able to maximise your savings as you start your new life in Israel.

Thanks again and if you need any further information please let me know.

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RISK RESOLUTIONS Dear Ashley My Edwardian-era home was damaged in a fire. The insurance cover provided for reinstatement on the basis of ‘new for old’. However, the insurers are prepared only to pay for the building to be put into a condition in which it can be occupied.

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Dear Crispin Where a property is old and incorporates original features that the owner wants to be reproduced, sometimes using redundant methods and materials, insurers may be entitled to say that the obligation to reinstate ‘new for old’ is qualified by the element of reasonableness.

This allows the insurer to reinstate by equivalent modern standards, having regard to the relation between the cost of reinstatement and the market value of the property.

Therefore it is important to ensure that insurance cover is purchased for the required level and quality of reinstatement and that the policy limit does not underestimate the cost of doing so.

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Dear Ashley My property was damaged by flooding. Insurers declined to pay the claim as they say I’m in breach of a warranty in that I was conducting a business from the property. Can you help?

Florence Dear Florence Provided a term is not one that defines the risk as a whole, the test for whether insurers can exclude liability is whether non-compliance could have increased the risk of the loss that occurred, in the circumstances in which it occurred.

Therefore, if the flooding would have occurred regardless of whether or not you were conducting a business from home, the insurers should not be able to rely on the warranty.

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Our Experts Got a question for a member of our team?

Email: editorial@thejngroup.com PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SPECIALIST

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

DENTIST DR ADAM NEWMAN Qualifications: • Dentist at the Gingerbread House, a BUPA Platinum practice in Shenley, Radlett.

• Providing NHS and private dentistry including whitening, cosmetic and restorative dentistry. Extensive treatments including implants provided along with in-house specialist team.

• BDS, Member of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners RCS England.

GINGERBREAD HEALTH 01923 852 852 www.gingerbreadhealth.co.uk Adam.newman@gingerbreadhealth.co.uk

WEALTH MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

TREVOR GEE Qualifications: •Managing director, consultants in affordable family and corporate health insurance.

• Specialise in maximising cover, lowering premiums and pre-existing conditions.

• Excellent knowledge of health insurers, cover levels and hospital lists.

• Board member UK International Health Management Ass • LLB, solicitor finals, FCA Regulated 773729.

DR BEV JACOBSON Qualifications: • Able to draw on the expertise of Norwood’s professional staff team, including social workers, educational psychologists, behavioural specialists, speech and language and occupational therapists, teachers, psychologists, benefit advisors and psychotherapists.

• Expertise in services available for children and their families and young people with special educational needs and adults with learning disabilities and autism.

WAYNE GROSSMAN DIPPFS Qualifications: • Experienced in providing comprehensive wealth planning services to individuals, couples, families, trustees and businesses • Retirement planning and pension review • Family wealth preservation • Financial risk identification and mitigation

PATIENT HEALTH 020 3146 3444/5/6 www.patienthealth.co.uk trevor.gee@patienthealth.co.uk

NORWOOD 020 8809 8809 www.norwood.org.uk bev.jacobson@norwood.org.uk

KINETIC WEALTH MANAGEMENT 07799 645 494 www.kineticwealthmanagement.co.uk wayne.grossman@sjpp.co.uk

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MAXI ROSE Qualifications: • MD at RCUK since 1999. Grown the business into three substantial UK branches serving clients worldwide – USA, Europe & Middle East.

• Telecoms specialist in business & consumer mobile solutions, landline and broadband services and Ofcom Telecoms registered reseller.

• Successfully established the RCUK International Travel

TANYA MANN RENNICK Qualifications: • Expert speaker on Mindset and Emotional Resilience at the House of Lords and European Parliament. Author and contributor to Amazon bestseller Extraordinary Women.

• Helping men and women facing professional and personal challenges including relationship breakdown, poor life balance, career crossroads, post divorce/bereavement.

• Practical applicable solutions for instantaneous results.

SUE CIPIN Qualifications: • 18 years’ hands-on experience, leading JDA in significant growth and development.

• Deep understanding of the impact of deafness on people at all stages of life, and their families.

• Practical and emotional support for families of deaf children.

• Extensive services for people affected by hearing loss/tinnitus.

RCUK 020 8815 4115 www.rcuk.com Maxi@RCUK.com

TANYA MANN RENNICK 07545431822 www.tanyamannrennick.com tanya@tanyamannrennick.com

JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION 020 8446 0502 mail@jdeaf.org.uk www.jdeaf.org.uk

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JONATHAN WILLIAMS Qualifications: • Jewellery manufacturer since 1980s.

• Expert in the manufacture and supply of diamond jewellery, wedding rings and general jewellery.

• Specialist in supply of diamonds to the public at trade prices.

DAVID SEGEL Qualifications: • Managing director of West End Travel, established in 1972.

• Leading UK El Al agent with branches in Swiss Cottage and Edgware.

• Specialist in Israel travel, cruises and kosher holidays.

• Leading business travel company, ranked in top 50 UK agents.

• Frequent travel broadcaster on radio and TV.

CARL WOOLF Qualifications: • 20+ years experience as a criminal defence solicitor and higher court advocate.

• Specialising in all aspects of criminal law including murder, drug offences, fraud and money laundering, offences of violence, sexual offences and all aspects of road traffic law.

• Visiting associate professor at Brunel University.

JEWELLERY CAVE LTD 020 8446 8538 www.jewellerycave.co.uk jonathan@jewellerycave.co.uk

WEST END TRAVEL 020 7644 1500 www.westendtravel.co.uk David.Segel@westendtravel.co.uk

NOBLE SOLICITORS 01582 544 370 carl.woolf@noblesolicitors.co.uk

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CAROLYN ADDLEMAN Qualifications: Lawyer with more than 15 years’ experience in will drafting and trust and estate administration, eight years at KKL Executor and Trustee Company.

Keeps in close contact with clients to ensure all legal and pastoral needs are cared for.

Member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

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STEPHEN MORRIS Qualifications: • Managing Director of Stephen Morris Shipping Ltd. • 45 years’ experience in shipping household and personal effects.

• Chosen mover for four royal families and three UK prime ministers.

• Offering proven quality specialist advice for moving anyone across the world or round the corner.

LOUISE LEACH Qualifications: • Professional choreographer qualified in dance, drama and Zumba (ZIN, ISTD & LAMDA), gaining an honours degree at Birmingham University.

• Former contestant on ITV’s Popstars, reaching bootcamp with Myleene Klass, Suzanne Shaw and Kym Marsh.

• Set up Dancing with Louise 10 years ago.

KKL EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE COMPANY 0800 358 3587 www.kkl.org.uk wills@kkl.org.uk

STEPHEN MORRIS SHIPPING LTD 020 8832 2222 www.shipsms.co.uk stephen@shipsms.co.uk

DANCING WITH LOUISE 020 8203 5242 www.dancingwithlouise.co.uk louise@dancingwithlouise.co.uk

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ACCOUNTANT ADAM SHELLEY Qualifications: • FCCA chartered certified accountant.

• Accounting, taxation and business advisory services.

• Entrepreneurial business specialist including start-up businesses.

• Specialises in charities; Personal tax returns.

• Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation Volunteer of the Year JVN award

SOBELL RHODES 020 8429 8800 www.sobellrhodes.co.uk a.shelley@sobellrhodes.co.uk

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HEALTH & FITNESS ANNA SCHUCHMAN & CHARLOTTE WIKLER Qualifications: • Founders of aceLIFESTYLE, offering practical solutions for becoming and remaining fit, strong and healthy.

• Creators of the aceTRANSFORMATION 12-week weight-loss program.

• Level 3 Personal Trainers and Nutritional Consultants.

• Qualified to help ante and postnatal clients, teenagers and those of all abilities and ages.

MAN ON A BIKE 020 8731 6171 www.manonabike.co.uk mail@manonabike.co.uk

ACELIFESTYLE 07968 484501 www.ace-lifestyle.com info@ace-lifestyle.com

INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS SPECIALIST

IAN GREEN Qualifications: • Launched Man on a Bike IT consultancy 15 years ago to provide computer support for the home and small businesses.

• Clients range from legal firms in the City to families, small business owners and synagogues.

• More than 18 years’ experience.

SOCIAL WORKER

INSURANCE CONSULTANCY

NAOMI FELTHAM Qualifications: • Leading currency transfer provider since 1996 with over 500 expert employees.

• Excellent exchange rates on your transfers to/from Israel.

• Offices worldwide, with local support in Israel, the UK, mainland Europe and the USA. • Free expert guidance from your dedicated Account. Manager

CAROLYN COHEN Qualifications: • Supports couples dealing with infertility and reproductive health.

• Strictly confidential helpline.

• Specialist medical support and information.

• Counselling for individuals and couples and educational events.

• Expert medical advisory panel.

ASHLEY PRAGER Qualifications: • Professional insurance and reinsurance broker. Offering PI/D&O cover, marine and aviation, property owners, ATE insurance, home and contents, fine art, HNW. • Specialist in insurance and reinsurance disputes, utilising Insurance backed products. (Including non insurance business disputes).

• Ensuring clients do not pay more than required.

CURRENCIES DIRECT 07922 131 152 / 020 7847 9447 www.currenciesdirect.com/jn Naomi.feltham@currenciesdirect.com

CHANA 020 8203 8455 Helpline: 020 8201 5774 / 020 8800 0018 www.chana.org.uk info@chana.org.uk

RISK RESOLUTIONS 020 3411 4050 www.risk-resolutions.com ashley.prager@risk-resolutions.com

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ANAR LAKHA Qualifications: • Postgraduate medical ultrasound diploma.

• Qualified to perform diagnostic ultrasound scans in obstetrics, gynaecology, general abdominal, aortic surveillance screening, renal, paediatrics and other.

• Private Hendon practice.

HARRISON GALGUT Qualifications: • Experienced wedding and event photographer.

• Specialism in portraits and light management.

• BSc(Hons), BTEC music tech, specialising in film, and member of Royal Photographic Society.

LISA WIMBORNE Qualifications: Able to draw on the charity’s 50 years of experience in enabling people with physical disabilities or impaired vision to live independently, including: • The provision of specialist accommodation with 24/7 on site support.

• Knowledge of the innovations that empower people and the benefits available.

• Understanding of the impact of a disability diagnosis.

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EDIT6 07962599154 www.edit6.co.uk harrison@edit6.co.uk

JEWISH BLIND & DISABLED 020 8371 6611 www.jbd.org Lisa@jbd.org

ALIYAH ADVISER

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DOV NEWMARK Qualifications: • Director of UK Aliyah for Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organisation that helps facilitate aliyah from the UK. • Conducts monthly seminars and personal aliyah meetings in London.

• An expert in working together with clients to help plan a successful aliyah.

ERIC SALAMON Qualifications: • Provides free professional one-to-one advice at Resource to help unemployed into work.

• Offers mock interviews and workshops to maximise job prospects.

• Expert in corporate management holding director level marketing, commercial and general management roles.

NEFESH B’NEFESH 0800 075 7200 www.nbn.org.il dov@nbn.org.il

RESOURCE THE JEWISH EMPLOYMENT ADVICE CENTRE 020 8346 4000 www.resource-centre.org office@resource-centre.org

ISRAEL PROPERTY EXPERT

SPECIALIST DEMENTIA NURSE CONSULTANT

DARREN RICH Qualifications: Broker based in Israel who escorts clients throughout the process.

All real estate solutions under one roof.

Specialist in sales and rentals all over Israel.

In house legal and financial experts.

Best after-sales service in Israel.

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RIKKI LORENTI Qualifications: • Specialist dementia nurse consultant with more than 30 years’ experience in mental health care. Worked extensively with both elderly and early-onset dementia clients.

• Focusing on the needs of family carers, providing psychological support, home and lifestyle advice and connection to additional services, helping families to cope with challenges that arise along the dementia journey.

HOME IN ISRAEL REAL ESTATE GROUP 020 8089 1446 www.homeinisrael.com darren@homeinisrael.net

SWEETTREE HOME CARE SERVICES 020 7644 9500 www.sweettree.co.uk rikki.lorenti@sweettree.co.uk

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