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...after graffiti daubed on shul and shops Police this week stepped up patrols in Jewish neighbourhoods after antisemitic graffiti was daubed on a synagogue and shopfronts in Hampstead and Belsize Park during Chanukah, writes Mathilde Frot.

A Star of David and the numbers “9.11” were sprayed in red paint on premises including South Hampstead Synagogue and Israeli-style restaurant Cafe Hampstead.

The graffiti, which some speculated

contained a reference to either the September 11 terrorist attacks or 1938’s Kristallnacht pogrom, coincided with a machete attack in a rabbi’s home in Monsey in the United States and left many in the community shaken.

A spokesman for the shul urged communities to “stand united and show our determination that we do not tolerate prejudice, hate and division.”

But a vigil against antisemitism in Hampstead on Monday hosted by groups

including Stand Up To Racism drew a fierce backlash, with critics accusing organisers of being motivated by the hard-left and members of the antiIsrael BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement.

The gathering, which featured no mainstream communal involvement and saw flags of the pro-Jeremy Corbyn group Jewish Voice For Labour, was addressed by children’s author Michael Rosen and Rabbi Herschel Gluck.

Writing in this week’s Jewish News, South Hampstead Synagogue rabbi and executive director Eli Levin said: “We have experienced an overwhelming outpouring of concern and support from our own members and across the Jewish community, but also from our neighbours, the police and CST, local MPs, Camden councillors, inter-faith groups, churches, diocese, the Association of British Muslims and The Sikh Council.”

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Hampstead synagogue and shops targeted with antisemitic graffiti they were “horrified” by the vandalism. The statement read: “Camden is and always will be no place for hate. We stand together with all of our Jewish residents and our whole community in saying these cowardly pedlars of hate do not represent Camden and our values. This is not an isolated incident and we must all confront the rising tide of hate crime and antisemitism in the UK. Now is the moment to find the courage to confront hatred and prejudice Having trouble wherever we see it.”

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SOUTH HAMPSTEAD SHUL

The large “9.11” painted on the beautiful stonework of our new shul forced me to reflect on the alarming rise of antisemitism.

We are not alone. Society is littered with xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny and racism.

One of the areas targeted was next to a boutique kosher restaurant which, until recently, didn’t exist. Prior to its opening, the notion of a kosher restaurant in Hampstead was but a dream. Another location targeted was opposite a second new kosher restaurant, with its large premises and tasteful décor – the first of its kind in London to be open on Shabbat under the auspices of KLBD and a hub of Jewish activity.

The third spot was our own shul, rebuilt from scratch a few months ago to cater for a thriving Jewish community. I felt a sense of pride that Jewish life in NW3 has reached a new level. It would seem others have noticed this too.

In the aftermath, we have experienced an outpouring of concern and support from our own members and across the community, but also from our neighbours, the police and CST, local MPs, Camden councillors, interfaith groups, churches, diocese, the Association of British Muslims and The Sikh Council.

Strangers called, emailed and sent cards. One person offered to travel from Nottingham to help clean the graffiti while another from Ireland phoned to find out how we were managing, having experienced hate crime himself.

As our loyal caretaker, who is not Jewish, scrubbed the paint off with us, he remarked the incident made his blood boil. Indeed, I initially felt the same way. Yet, in response to the pain, I draw on the solidarity and determination of the people around us.

To our own community, let us carry on with courage and unity. As a proud Jew walking the local streets these last few days, I have enjoyed warm conversations and smiles of encouragement. And to our neighbours in Camden – of all faiths and none – thank you for enabling us to rely on you as true friends in these difficult days.

• You can read the full version of Rabbi Levin’s column at jewishnews.co.uk

Chanukah knife attack suspect wrote of Hitler The main suspect in a machete attack on a rabbi’s home in New York City had searched online for ‘Why did Hitler hate the Jews’ and ‘German Jewish Temples near me’.

Grafton Thomas, 37, (right) was arrested in Harlem hours after five people were attacked on Saturday, during celebrations for the seventh night of Chanukah.

Officials recovered Thomas’ journals expressing antisemitic views, including references to Hitler and ‘Nazi culture,’ and drawings of a Star of David and a swastika.

Police said the five people were taken to hospital for

treatment, but the extent of their injuries was not clear.

The incident was the latest in a string of attacks targeting Jews in the region, including a shooting at a kosher grocer in New Jersey on 10 December, in which six people died.

Around New York City, police received at least six reports of attacks last week.

IN NEW YORK LAST MONTH • 65-year-old Jewish man punched and kicked by another man who shouted “f*** you, Jew”.

• Teenagers beat two Jewish boys aged six and seven.

• 25-year-old Jewish man abused with antisemitic slurs as he walked down the street and an object hurled at him.

• 56-year-old Jewish man punched in the face.

• 40-year-old Jewish man punched in the face.

• Jewish woman assaulted by another woman in front of her three-year-old child.

• Three Jewish women attacked and hit over the head by another woman.

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30 Shoah figureheads honoured The 2020 New Year Honours List marks Britain’s most far-reaching tribute yet to Holocaust survivors and educators, with almost 30 names from all over the country recognised for their contribution to preserving memories of the Shoah, writes Jenni Frazer.

Among those honoured is the chair of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Paul Phillips, whose work is rewarded with an OBE. The Trust’s chief executive, Karen Pollock MBE, said: “A member of our board for over a decade, chairman for a number of years, Paul Phillips has been instrumental in the growth and development of the Holocaust Educational Trust. An absolute joy to work with, we could not be more delighted that his efforts have rightly been recognised. Mazeltov, Paul!”

Nine people have been honoured with an MBE for their work: Ruth Barnett, William Bergman, Maria Beate Green, John Hajdu, Mindu Hornick, Lilian Levy, Eva Neuman, Gertrude Silman – who is life president of the Holocaust Survivors Friends Asso-

ciation – and Professor Leslie Brent (posthumously).

A further 19 people are made medallists of the British Empire, or BEM, and not all are Jewish Mindu — the CambodianHornick born Sokphal Din lost 60 members of his family to the Khmer Rouge and now works closely with the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

Rev John Fieldsend, who also received a BEM, is a retired Anglican vicar who converted from Judaism as a young man. He was born Hans Heinrich Feige, and escaped from Prague on the Kindertransport in 1939, aged seven, with his older brother Gert, leaving behind his mother Trude and father Curt.

Pollock addeed: “Hearing from a Holocaust survivor has a far-reaching impact.

Often referred to as the most memorable lesson of the year, our survivors

inspire thousands upon thousands.

“As the Holocaust moves from living history to just history, the determination of these survivors to relive the most difficult moments of their life in order to inform future generations has never been more important”.

The Cabinet Office, which releases the Honours List, said this year’s awards included “inspirational people who have dedicated their lives to Holocaust and genocide remembrance and education, sharing their stories with schoolchildren around the UK”.

It added: “As survivors, they have demonstrated extraordinary personal resilience and commitment, championing tolerance and diversity, and playing a vital role in ensuring future generations continue to learn from the John past”.

Hajdu Several other Jewish people feature in

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this year’s Honours List. Film and stage director Sam Mendes, whose mother was a British Jew, is knighted for his services to drama, while high-ranking civil servant Tamara Finkelstein, most recently director-general of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, or Defra, is made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

Finkelstein said: “I’m very honoured to have been awarded a CB in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. I see this very much as a recognition of the amazing, talented and committed colleagues and

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Elsewhere, Kate Tamara Finkelstein Fulton was awarded a British Empire Medal for her work supporting people with mental health issues.

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Herzog ‘fearful of Jewish split’ accepted as such by the state rabbinate.

Hiddush said the numbers showed “how urgent Israel’s need to be released from the Chief Rabbinate and religious coercion truly is”, and accused JA of having “chosen to gloss over the true reality of the Jewish people today, reflected in immigration data”. It urged the government to implement civil marriage and divorce.

Both PIBA and the Agency denied the report, with Herzog saying: “It’s total nonsense, and its only aim is to be harmful and insulting to the hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants to Israel who are living out the Zionist dream of building their future and their children’s future in Israel.”

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Isaac Herzog lights the candles on the second day of Chanukah

tion and antisemitism and anti-Israel bashing is unacceptable. But an argument is legitimate”.

Herzog spoke to Jewish News the day reports emerged in Israel that up to 86 percent of Jews who emigrated to Israel in the past 10 years was not Jewish. According to Hiddush, an organisation that advocates for greater religious plurality in Israel, data obtained under a Freedom of Information request from Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) showed that

“154,474 immigrants who have moved to Israel in the last eight years under the Law of Return are family members of Jews but are not themselves recognised as Jews by any religious definition.” It added that not all of the 25,375 who had arrived as Jews under the law were

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Isaac Herzog is fearful of a split in the Jewish world, adding that it is the main challenge facing his organisation, the Jewish Agency (JA), writes Joe Millis.

Speaking to Jewish News at the annual Limmud Festival in Birmingham, JA chair Herzog said: “This is one of my main challenges leading the Jewish Agency, the world’s biggest Jewish organisation. We are out there, trying to fill the void and build bridges. I see this as a historic challenge. I am fearful of a Jewish split.”

However, he added, there were “dark signs and also bright signs”, explaining: “There are Jews who question Israeli policies and are alienated and have turned their back on Israel and there is a huge lack of knowledge on both sides – among Israelis and the diaspora.”

Yet, on the other hand, there is “an enormous amount of love and affection and interactions.

We bring almost 100,000 young Jews to Israel through various programmes and we send out 4,000 emissaries, including in the British Jewish community, who are doing incredible work”.

Regarding the differences in attitude between Orthodox youth movements, such as Bnei Akiva, and progressive Zionist groups such as RSY, LJY and Masorti’s Noam movement, Herzog said: “We cover all those in the tent, but we are aware there are different voices, there will always be different voices. But you don’t have to fear different voices, you have to bring your own voice as well.”

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Jess Phillips gave a clear indication at Limmud that she’s considering a bid to lead the Labour Party, writes Joe Millis.

Speaking to a packed audience, the MP for Birmingham Yardley and Wes Streeting were both scathing of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party.

Phillips said she “might”

stand for the leadership, although in answer to a question by Jewish News, she urged: “Patience. Just wait and see.” However, several members of the audience confirmed to Jewish News that Phillips mouthed “probably” after her answer.

She said she had first come into contact with the Jewish

she described as being “among the best people in the world”. But her interactions with the organised Jewish community came when “Labour started going the wrong way”.

Philips was also ... And on stage with Wes Streeting involved with “the and moderator Andrew Gilbert Jewish Labour Movecommunity when she was ment and Labour Friends of growing up, because she lived Israel” in Parliament.

Ilford North MP Streeting in an area where Birmingham’s then large Jewish com- attacked those around Corbyn, saying he was “pretty sure” munity resided.

“I had loads of Jewish that unlike the vulnerable friends. Pretty much all of my people he and his people had and my brothers’ friends at let down, “they won’t suffer”.

He added: “I have learned school were Jewish. My mum was worried that when we that posh people always fail brought Jewish friends home upwards.

“But I hope that when they’d be upset when she every one of those people goes cooked bacon,” she said.

More recently, Phillips to sleep every night, remember – a strong advocate of wom- what Rachel Reeves said in en’s rights and campaigner the Parliamentary Labour against domestic violence – Party last week: ‘The Tories had come into contact with are responsible, but we Jewish Women’s Aid, which are culpable.’”

‘BACKLOG NOT CLEARED’ Two whistle-blowers who took part in the BBC Panorama exposé Is Labour Antisemitic? have recounted how the number of cases grew massively after Jeremy Corbyn took the leadership.

Speaking at Limmud, Mike Creighton said that pre-2015, “while I do not have access to databases, I cannot remember a single case of antisemitism”. He told Luke Akehurst of We Believe In Israel: “The sort of cases we dealt with were spats between two parliamentary candidates

over leafleting. And even these were relatively few in number.”

However, he noted, when Ed Miliband opened up the ranks by dropping the joining fee to £3, “people joined who did not share Labour’s values as a democratic socialist party”.

Fellow whistle-blower Dan Hogan said that “despite an increase in resources, we never cleared the backlog of complaints. And there were allegations the complainants were Mossad agents and the journalists reporting the cases were secretly Jewish.”

Ethiopian MK’s warning Not only was Pnina TamanoShata the first Ethiopian-born news presenter on Israeli TV, she is now the first woman Knesset member from there.

The Blue and White MK, who arrived in Israel aged three in 1981, told Limmud how she has taken a stand for her community, which is “facing racism and discrimination because of our skin colour”.

Tamano-Shata told Jewish News: “I convey the situation of my community and

of Israeli society, in all its complexities.”

The Ethiopian Jewish community’s “modesty and general compliance with the law is seen as a weakness by Israeli authorities,” she warned.

“Our parents are quiet, modest people with good manners. When the police came to our neighbourhoods – the poorest in Israel – it always ended in arrests. The younger generation decided it was not willing to accept this situation any longer.”

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KHAN: DISQUALIFY CANDIDATES WHO DENY LABOUR HATE Denying or refusing to tackle antisemitism in the Labour Party should disqualify candidates from becoming the party’s next leader, Sadiq Khan has warned.

Speaking to Jewish News, the London mayor said: “It is unacceptable and unbelievable that if you are Jewish you feel the Labour Party isn’t just not for you, but is anti-you.”

Highlighting the “heart-breaking” problem, which has plagued Labour since 2015, he added: “A basic requirement of any leader is to show not just that they can talk the talk, but to show they will kick out anyone who is a racist, and that what’s an antisemite is.

There are too many examples of people saying things which are antisemitic who are still members of our party. “That’s why it’s important if you want to be leader of the Labour Party, if you want to put yourself forward to be the next prime minister, you have to be tough on antisemitism.”

Asked if those who don’t take anti-Jewish racism seriously should be ruled out, Khan said it “disqualifies” them.

The mother of a British teenager found guilty of lying about being gang-raped by a group of Israelis in Cyprus has described the verdict as “absolutely astonishing”.

She said the family are “very disappointed” after the 19-year-old was convicted of public mischief on Monday.

The judge said the young woman invented claims she had been raped by up to 12 Israeli tourists in an Ayia Napa hotel room because she was “embarrassed” after finding out she was filmed having sex.

Her mother said: “It’s a bit of a nightmare. I find myself kind of unable to believe the violations of human rights she’s experienced throughout the whole affair, particularly things like having no access to lawyers whilst being interrogated for hours on end over a Saturday night. I think that’s very bizarre.

“It’s also astonishing to me that the Israelis that were originally accused of the crime had legal representation within a matter of hours, whereas my daughter wasn’t offered legal representation at all throughout the whole thing. She asked for a lawyer, didn’t get one... so, absolutely astonishing verdict, really.”

The teenager faces up to a year in jail when she is sentenced on 7 January.

She is on bail but cannot leave the island, having already been held for around a month in prison on remand.

Her mother said: “It would be an abso-

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CHARITY DELIVERS 200,000TH BOOK A charity that sends free Jewish children’s stories to families each month, has distributed its 200,000th book in the UK. Last week, four-year-old Mischa Sharp received a Chanukah title called The Parakeet Named Dreidel, to mark the charity PJ Library in the UK’s landmark.

The scheme, which is the brainchild of Jewish-American philanthropist Harold Grinspoon, was launched in 2015 and has now reached more than 7,500 young people across Britain.

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The British teenager leaves court with her mother after this week’s verdict

lute injustice if they decided to imprison her for any more days, she’s already spent four and a half weeks in prison, actually in prison with prisoners that were guilty of crimes and so on, and she has spent nearly six months in Cyprus unable to have any kind of life, any kind of social life.

“OK, so she’s not in prison but she’s still effectively in a gilded cage.”

The teenager’s lawyers have said they will appeal against the verdict in the Supreme Court in Cyprus and in the European Court of Human Rights if that fails.

Her mother said: “She is resolute to see justice, she’s absolutely resolute that she’ll fight it, she wants to appeal and I will fully support her, even if we end up in the European Court of Human Rights.”

A London-based Liberal rabbi has been awarded a prestigious international prize for her work empowering women.Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue’s Rabbi Lea Mühlstein was one of 15 progressive female leaders to be recognised during the Biennial of the Union for Reform Judaism. She said: “It is one of the great privileges of my role that I am able to elevate women’s voices and empower women. I am deeply honoured.”

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Amnesty International has an “obsession” with Israel according to a 200-page report into the humanitarian charity, writes Jack Mendel.

The in-depth investigation by researcher David Collier, commissioned by Jewish Human Rights Watch (JHRW), claimed the organisation has an institutional anti-Israel bias, and lifted the lid on more than 40 staff, volunteers and employees who have shared allegedly antisemitic content online, as well as praised Palestinian terrorists. JHRW says it will

be submitting evidence of claimed bias to Amnesty’s Global Assembly and International Board, while considering referrals to regulatory bodies in the UK, including the Charity Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Key findings of the report, entitled Spotlight on Amnesty International: From Bias to Obsession, includes at least 20 case studies of its staff around the world, as well as the organisation’s “neglect” of other human rights abusers, and other oppressed minority

groups, including Christians in the Middle East.

The report claims “there is a clear trend towards more hostile and far-reaching action” against the Jewish state within the organisation.

Amnesty International said: “David Collier is an individual with a very clear agenda. He did not approach us for comment or give us right of reply before publishing any of these allegations. The organisation is committed to uncovering human rights abuses and violations wherever they occur and will continue to do so.”

Fire rips through Essex school A huge fire ripped through a Jewish school in Canvey Island, Essex, causing “significant” damage to the building, writes Francine Wolfisz.

Emergency services were called to Luzern Yeshiva in Mepple Avenue just before 9pm on 22 December, with firefighters reporting the fire was “well-established” by the time of their arrival.

There were no people inside the building at the time of the fire, while the school’s Torah scrolls had only “minor damage”.

The yeshiva’s 100 students

were instead at the home of the school dean, Rabbi Moshe Koppelman, celebrating the first night of Chanukah.

Crews from seven brigades took two hours to bring the fire under control, both on

ground level and from above, using an aerial ladder platform.

The flames were finally extinguished by 11.15pm.

The cause of the fire may have been “a misplaced candle, left unattended”.

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ABUSE AT BUTCHER IN STAMFORD HILL A man walked into a kosher butcher’s in Stamford Hill and allegedly shouted antisemitic abuse and pointed his fingers in a gun gesture. The incident took place in Royal Meats, according to Campaign Against Antisemitism.

The man walked into the shop and demanded food, which he apparently expected to receive for free. In response to being asked what he would like to purchase, he responded by allegedly shouting “You f***ing Jews, I am German, you f***ing Jews are bad people.”

YAIR NETANYAHU’S UK DIPLOMAT JIBE Benjamin Netanyahu’s son has said he hopes British diplomats are expelled from Israel because the British government refers to the Palestinian territories as “occupied”. Yair Netanyahu, 28, was responding to London’s official communications regarding Prince Charles’ forthcoming Royal visit this month. “God willing you guys will be kicked out of Israel soon,” he tweeted. “Until then I’m thinking of visiting the occupied lands of Scotland or Wales.”

Blood brothers in Golders Green Golders Green’s Jewish and Muslim communities united on Sunday for an interfaith blood donation drive, writes Jack Mendel.

More than 100 people attended the event at the Centre for Islamic Enlightening, formerly known as the Hippodrome, in Golders Green.

Ali Madani, one of the organisers from the Islamic centre, said it arranged the blood drive because “there’s currently a shortage of blood donors from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The centre is proud to open its doors and welcome everyone.”

This blood drive shows that people can really come together during a time when there is so much division and we are honoured that so many people from across the whole community have come here today to donate.”

Rabbi Natan Levy attended and donated blood,

Rabbi Levy gives blood at Golders Green’s Islamic centre

because he wanted “to meet my neighbours and give blood at the Markaz Hippodrome because there are people right here in Golders Green who feel that this generous and open hearted community does not belong here.”

Not only do they most certainly belong, but their warmth, their charity, and their willingness to work with people of other faiths

like me is inspirational. And I, my family, and my community are each deeply enriched by sharing Golders Green with a thriving Muslim faith centre in our midst.”

In November 2017, shortly after the Islamic Centre was set up in Golders Green, members of the Muslim community turned up at Golders Green United Synagogue in order to donate blood for Mitzvah Day.

REFUGEE PLAN DROPPED Lord (Alf) Dubs has expressed his “bitter disappointment and anger” after Boris Johnson appeared to scrap his amendment supporting child refugees, writes Jack Mendel.

The Labour peer (pictured) who came to Britain on the Kindertransport told Jewish News he was “absolutely shocked” by the move, accusing the government of “turning their backs” on the most vulnerable.

This comes after British Jews criticised the decision to “tear up” a pledge to negotiate a deal allowing refugee children in Europe with UK family to come to Britain after Brexit.

The revised wording of the Brexit Bill removes a government commitment to strike a deal with the EU so child refugees can be reunited with their family in the UK, even after free movement ends.

Scottish Jewish group seeks reopening of Orthodox shul A Scottish-Jewish Liberal congregation with many homosexual members is seeking the reopening of an abandoned synagogue built in 1926 for Orthodox worshippers from Eastern Europe.

Irn-Ju, a Jewish “anarchist” collective based in Scotland, is pushing to reopen Langside Synagogue.

There is “a resurgent Jewish community in Glasgow and in Govanhill that needs a

space,” Joe Isaac, a member of the group told the BBC. The group’s members, who Isaac said now host religious ceremonies in their homes, are “dying for a permanent site” such as the synagogue, “one that is beautiful and made for a Jewish community.”

An open letter to the synagogue owners asking for it to be reopened has more than 800 signatures, the report said.

Community mourns kinder Tributes have been paid to much-loved acquired immunological tolerance. He was Kindertransport survivors Leslie Brent, 94, appointed Professor Emeritus at the Uniand Hermann Hirschberger, 93, who have versity of London in 1990.

Brent was also a stalwart member of the passed away.

Brent spoke extensively about his expe- Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), regularly speaking at events riences as a refugee and commemorations. from the Nazis – The AJR said: “Our including at Westheartfelt sympathies minster Abbey last go to his family, who year to mark the will be in our thoughts, 80th anniversary of as will Leslie, whose Kristallnacht. legacy and memory Born as Lothar will live on.”

Baruch in Köslin, German-born Her1924, his family mann Hirschberger, placed him into a Leslie Brent and Hermann Hirschberger whose parents were Jewish orphanage in Berlin to avoid persecution in 1936. With killed at Auschwitz, came to the UK as a the rise of the Nazis, he was sent to Britain on teenager, celebrating his barmitzvah in a the first Kindertransport, and attended Anna hostel before training to be an engineer and later helping to found Belmont Synagogue.

Essinger’s Bunce Court School in Kent.

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A record crowd of more than 4,500 people descended on central London for the annual Chanukah in the Square celebration, writes Justin Cohen.

The gamble of holding the event at the

weekend for the first time paid off, as families joined the throngs in Trafalgar Square in record numbers.

Revellers of all ages enjoyed music from Mathilda Marks School and the Kedma Band with Rabbi Marc Levene.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wished the crowds a ‘Chanukah sameach’ before asking where else in the world you would see a Muslim mayor kicking off the Chanukah celebrations metres from a giant Christmas tree.

Khan, who has been at the forefront of speaking out against antisemitism in the Labour Party and nationally, told the crowd: “This is your city and you’re going nowhere.”

The celebration was organised by the Jewish Leadership Council, Chabad and London Jewish Forum, and media partnered by Jewish News. It was compered by comedienne Rachel Creeger for the second consecutive year.

Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis said to huge cheers: “Were proud to be Jewish.

We’re proud to be British.

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We’re proud of our Torah tradition.”

Just weeks after his unprecedented intervention to call out Labour’s approach to anti-Jewish hate during the election campaign, Mirvis added: “We will do everything we can to eradicate the scourge of antisemitism. We will not be silenced.”

Israel’s deputy ambassador Sharon Bar-li welcomed to the stage Pnina Tamano-Shata, the first Ethiopian MK, as a modern-day “Maccabite”.

She spoke of her delight at sharing the stage with the London mayor and pledged Israel would always am stand alongside the diaspora in the fight against antisemitism.

Stands around the Square offered arts and crafts activities for children and an olive press, as well as a variety of hot food to complement the thousands of free doughnuts distributed during the two-hour celebration. The event was also supported by Genesis Philanthropy Group and put together by Barkho Productions.

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Decades after donating her family’s menorah to a Merseyside shul in memory of her late parents, Jeanette Goodman enjoyed a Chanukah miracle – thanks to a chance encounter in an Edgware shop.

The retired barrister, a resident at Rosetrees in the Betty and Asher Loftus Centre, said she was “delighted” to be reunited with the bronze candelabra formerly owned by her family.

Goodman, née Burman, and her siblings Freda and Eric donated the menorah to the Liverpool Greenbank Drive Hebrew Congregation in memory of their late parents Israel and Fanny Burman. But after the community, founded in 1937, held its last service in 2008, its location became unknown to the family.

“It was a wonderful surprise to us when we learned that it had been found (in the shop) and gifted to The Betty and Asher Loftus Centre,” said Goodman’s daughter Judith. “We are thrilled mum and the chanukiah have ended up at the same place and we think that it could not have found a better home,” she added.

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ago. A guestlist that also include London 2012 Chairm s an Lord Coe, London Jewish Forum, Mayor Boris “Without a doubt, said: many of those silence and respect for those Commissioner Johnson and the who will British Police Bernardof the Metropolitan who will speak, including those citizens who died during terror attacks Hogan-Howe will represent the also help to ensure Jewish Rogge . We can only conclude that this is the most community will make clear meant that the high-profile absolute need for the ceremony opening of the IOC to take was commemoratio the upon themse it tragic inciden not fit to remember a lves in recognising t involvin held to mark thens that have been comme and moratin anniversary.

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However, Friday night, at the same g the events of 1972, Rogge finally for many time ran out of excuse attendance, includi expressing in disappo widows of Munichng two of the IOC to intment in the failure of the said a minute silence was nots. He do so 40 years on.” of the protocol, part victims, the failure of the yet many previou The s Games minute’s silenceIOC to include a Friday’s inclusion of a section in Olympic Openin at last week’s for their husbands images curtain-raiser that included Ceremonies held a minute silence g of loved ones lost “It was claimed . ceremony – as Olympics opening in the stadium by that it was too they and tens , but was also those political, yet many thousands of suppor of ters around the interpreted as a tribute widely have been remempolitical causes Monday’s event globe to the openin bered to be attended at the Guildhall, forefrodemanded – will be at the victims of the 7/7 attacks, brough g ceremonies. Finally, during t it was not he said Jacques Rogge by the IOC chief Rogge nt of their minds when further questions about the an atmosp Britain’s threeand the leaders of Guildh gets up to speak at the motives for dismissing calls IOC’s remember such a tragic here fit to incident, yet parties, will featuremajor political organisall ceremony, which has been Munich tribute, particularlyfor a other tragic inciden candles in memor the lighting of Comm ed by National Olympic Rogge had earlier claimed it was as remembered. Rogge ts were ittee of Israel, the right atmosp y of the 11 Israeli not respect and lost coaches and athlete the here his ability to legitimaour s murdered at Committee for the London Jewish such a tragic inciden “to remember represent the the Games in Games Olympic ideal thattely and the Israeli Embass Germany 40 years Danny Ayalon, t”. are equal in the all y.

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IT WAS an act of terror that’s surely caused sleepless nights for every parent who sends their child to a Jewish school.

On a bright, spring morning in Toulouse, as children were filing into the Ozar Hatorah School, a gunman on a scooter, apparently a Frenchman of Algerian descent with al-Qaeda

community in Toulouse, said: “We are aspect to these tragic events.” left in disillusion and despair. We are and especially schools. There was initial The murderous attack sparked a still in utter shock and disbelief. We sympathies, named by French police as media speculation that the Toulouse wave of condemnation from within don’t know what happened exactly.”

Mohammed Merah, opened fire. with terrorist was a neo-Nazi, but it now Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and his appears that he is supportive of al- France and across the world, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and children – Gavriel, six, and Aryeh, three, Qaeda. The distinctions are important, Muslims joining Jewish organisations Interior Minister Claude Guéant visited (pictured above right) – died instantly. but make no fundamental difference to and Israel expressing their revulsion. the French city shortly after noon.

The head of the French Muslim Miriam Monsonego, eight, (pictured the fact that a Jewish school fell victim to “It’s a tragedy. And it’s a tragedy that Council, Mohammed Moussaoui, said: there are insane people who are above left) the daughter of the head of an antisemitic terrorist.

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Self-described atheist Miliband travelled to Kibbutz Nachshonim to spend Shabbat with his aunt Sarah Ben Zvi, 84, who he hadn’t seen for 37 years. Sarah grew up with Miliband’s mother Marion in Poland Continued on page 2

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THE HERO HEALER An injured soldier who saves children is just one of Shaare Zedek’s superheroes. Noga Tarnopolsky met him

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If people stare at Lubotsky in the hospital, it is not because they are fascinated by his crutches with torches on the handles and suction pads on the base, but because they recognise him as the something of a celebrity young doctor who has become since publishing turned into a local a memoir that bestseller.

His book, From the Wilderness and Lebanon, is about his experience of battling the Shiite militia Hezbollah Lebanon where, in in 2006 at the age of 23, he tenant in the Golani lieubrigade commanding was a lieu 30 soldiers. a platoon of Lubotzky was almost killed when a missile a direct hit on the registered spot on which he was standing in the tank. He survived with extensive wounds so badly mangled and with one leg his doctors Lubotzky’s circumstances were close to amputating it. are extraordinary standard, but at Shaare by Zedek, which in English any Gates of Justice, means they have been treating for almost 115 years the war wounded and the hospital permeates stories like his that with beggar belief.

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am the last Jew of Essaouira!” saysJosef Sebag amid his bric-a-brac shop stuffed with Nubian masks,priapic fetish objects, dog-eared vol-umes on African esoterica and exqui-site antique amulets wrought byMoroccan Jewish silversmiths.

Sebag’s not going anywhere. He loves this Moroccan seaside townwhere he was born, as were genera-tions of his family before him. Not thathe’s spent all his life here. A consummate cosmopolitan, hewas educated in Casablanca before living for 15 years in New York City. He even weirds me out by knowingBrixton, that gritty but rapidly-gentrify-ing south London suburb where I live.“Brixton. Yeah, Brixton. It’s a flour-ishing area. It’s coming back.”Speaking of areas that are rapidly gentrifying and flourishing, Essaouirais fast on its way to becoming a kind of Marrakech-on-Sea. In the 20 years since he returned here and opened his eclectic emporium, Sebag has seen Essaouira be-come “reborn. It’s a hip city. It’s a coolcity. It’s safe, it’s quiet, it’s tranquil. Writers and artists come here, they rent anapartment and they stay.”“Hip” isn’t necessarily a word I expected to come from the mouth of this mid-50s antiquarian but, come to think of it, with his crisp white shirt andchunky amber pendant, he does exude a certain enduring Beat with-it-ness.

The same could be said of Essaouira. Like Marrakech, it may be be-coming but thankfully it retains a laid-back quality that the better knownMoroccan metropolis lacks. One thing a

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keen Morocco hand no-tices immediately upon rocking up inEssaouira by bus or plane (easyJet’sbeen flying in directly from London Luton since last year; no stag or hen par-ties visible – yet) is the absence of those moustachioed, vaguely David Niven-ish salesmen of carpets and twirly-toed leather slippers who so, er, distinctlymark many a Moroccan city trip.

Essaouira seems to be blithely hold-ing on to its character: very mellow for Morocco, fishy thanks to its still-busyport and windy as hell –gale-force gusts blow in straight from the Atlantic, tempering the sometimes fierce heat.

Oh, and cheap – did I mention cheap? Apart from the odd spruced-upriad and a five-star hotel, this is still aplace where you can have yourself aspanking fresh fish supper for south of afiver. Indeed , so characterful is the city that bits of Game of Thrones were recently shot here on the striking 18th century fortifications – although, hilariously, no-one in town seems to have heard of the blood- and boob-heavy HBO hit.

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But, hang on, something’s missing from that character profile… the Jews. Essaouira didn’t used to be Essaouira.It was Jewish Mogador.

No sooner had the then-sultan builtthe young city in 1765 than, spicing-up the invitation with tax incentives, he invited Jewish merchants from far andwide to live here and make it prosper. And so it did. And so did the Jews –to the point that, for much of its history, they outnumbered the Muslim population of the thriving city. This was Timbuktu’s port, where multifarious goods arrived bycamel from that desert trading post to be shipped throughout the known world. There were 40 synagogues in town; Mogador was probably the quietest place in Moroccoon a Saturday. And then:1948.

Shepherded by an ardent Zionist movement, Morocco’sJews decamped en masse to Israel and beyond, shrinking the populationwithin the country from 350,000 to 3,000 in a couple of decades.

No wonder now, in Essaouira – as the town latterly became known – Sebag feels as if he

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ROSH HASHANAH is a time for sweetness, celebration and reflection. It is often tinged with bitterness and sorrow, too. The Hebrew year 5776 has seen many ups and downs for the Jewish community, here in the UK and across the diaspora. It began with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party leader and ended… with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party leader.

The intervening 12 months saw the dissolution of trust between the Jewish community and Her Majesty’s official Opposition. This came via a series of ill-fitting plasters applied to injuries caused by a spate of vicious comments, most made online. There followed the highly-anticipated report into Labour anti-Semitism by Shami Chakrabarti, which ignored both the fire and the smoke, and instead suggested that – drumroll please – antiSemitism is a bad thing best avoided.

Elsewhere, Jewish leaders, who maintained pressure on the Government to allow more child refugees into the country, finally met with some success, while in the world of education, the Government scrapped its 50 percent faith-based admissions cap, meaning Jews may now make up the majority in Jewish free schools.

In Israel the so-called knife intifada, sparked in part by tensions over the status of the Temple Mount and enflamed by a Palestinian social media campaign of incitement, has see the deaths of 30 Israelis and 217 Palestinians in the past 12 months. It may be too much to hope that 5777 will bring a momentous shift in relations between Israel and the Palestinians, but we will never give up our prayers for peace. Let us hope next Rosh Hashanah will see us experience hope rather than bitterness.

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In last week’s edition of Jewish News (22 September), letter writer Shmuel Halevi castigated the Progressive movements for helping to bring Muslim refugees to this country.

He wrote in his letter: “Arabs have been subjected to disgusting anti-Jewish propaganda.

They will automatically bring their Jew-hating baggage with them.”

In that case, what better to

reverse the effects of the hatefilled anti-Semitic indoctrination to which Mr Halevi refers than to show Syrian refugees how kind, generous, humane and welcoming the British Jewish community really is?

If anything is likely to promote hatred of Jews, it is the views expressed by Mr Halevi.

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Alan Cohen’s experience on an easyJet flight from Israel of unruly Orthodox children is not new (Jewish News, 8 September).

Mr Cohen might have suggested to the parents that they could go and play outside!

That often has had the desired effect – on other airlines anyway.

WITHOUT FACTS THERE ARE JUST SMEARS AND DENIAL

In Jewish News (22 September), Roslyn Pine manages to sink to a new low by invoking personal invective and character assassination while defending the standard Israeli government line.

She attacks Jewish News columnist Emily Hilton’s account of the eviction of the Palestinian villagers of Susiya on the West Bank by asserting that the Palestinians were not expelled in 1986 because the village of Susiya didn’t exist then.According to her, the Palestinians are being expelled because they have erected illegal structures - the reason given by the Israeli High Court.

But she fails to describe the underlying basis of this case.

According to Wikipedia, the village of Khirbet SusyaSusiya predates the State of Israel by about 100 years.

In 1986, this land was expropriated by the state and the inhabitants expelled.

We could ask the obvious question: how is it possible for the Jewish settlements in area C to establish and geographically expand without displacing Palestinians from their land? Perhaps that is why Pine demonises these NGOs. Without the facts, what is left but smears?

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SLAUGHTER IS BRUTAL – SHECHITA INCLUDED Referring to Alan Miller’s comments Jewish News, 15 September), killing is killing and murder is murder. There is nothing humane about it. The farming Industry is an animal holocaust that’s destroying our planet. Becoming a vegetarian and then a vegan has made a great difference to my life,

I know nothing of the beliefs and teachings of Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi other than the contents of your front page (Jewish News, 8 September) and, quite frankly, I don’t want to. However, to refer to him as a “hate preacher” dilutes the standard definition of hate preachers such as Abu Hamza and Anjem Choudary.

He may be misguided, delusional or just plain crackers to claim things such as disabled children are being punished by God, but he is not in the mould It’s a pay-tax-slow scheme. of real hate preachers. To equate the two is similar to referring to a guest house with a strict landlady where you must be in by 9.30pm otherwise you will be locked out as “being like a concentration camp”.

Please don’t fall into the trap of conflating the two.

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That is why they cry with tears, shake, urinate, defecate and sometimes try to escape, while waiting for the inevitable.

As for dairy cows, they are artificially inseminated within three months of giving birth and this goes on most of their life (if you can call it a life). Eating meat, kosher or otherwise, is not something to be proud of. It is a trait we

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Rabbi Mizrachi isn’t a hate preacher – there is no comparison here. The best I’d call him is overenthusiastic, sometimes.

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A Jerusalem bus attack later in the year injured 21 people. In the UK, the referendum on EU membership took place, with a vote for Brexit. Labour struggled throughout the year with reports of antisemitism among its members. Suspensions and expulsions involved big names including Bradford Labour MP Naz Shah and former London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Shah, who beat Respect’s George Galloway to win her seat, made a heartfelt apology in the Commons, spoke to a large synagogue audience in Leeds and was reinstated, but the Livingstone story rolled on.

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With the government Labour has diluted the We do so because of in Brexit disIHRA defini- array, the existential tion, there is a clear and present accepted in full by the threat to Jewish life in danger government that a this country that and man with a default blindness more than 130 local councils, would be posed by a Jeremy Corbyn-led to deleting the Jewish communi and amending four government. ty’s fears, a man key examples of who has a problem seeing anti-Semitism relating We do so because the that hateful to Israel. party that was, rhetoric aimed at Israel Under its adapted guideline until recently, the natural can easily step s, a Labour into anti-Sem home for our Party member is free to claim community, has seen its itism, could be our next values and integ- existence Israel’s prime minister. rity eroded by Corbynite is a racist endeavour and comcontempt for pare On 5 September, Labour Israeli policies to those Jews and Israel.

MPs vote on of Nazi Ger- an emergenc many, unless “intent” y motion, calling for The stain and shame – whatever that party the of anti-Sem- means to adopt the itism has coursed – can be proved. “Dirty through Her MajJew” is into its rulebook full IHRA definition wrong, “Zionist bitch” esty’s Opposition since . fair game?

Jeremy Corbyn Following that, it will In so doing, Labour makes became leader in 2015. face a binary a distinction choice: between racial anti-Semi implement IHRA in full From Chakrabarti or be tism targeting by all to Livingstone, Jews decent people as an institutio seen (unacceptable) and political there have been many nally alarming lows. Last anti- racist, anti-Sem Semitism targeting Israel week’s stubborn refusal itic party. (acceptable). to adopt the full After three The reason for this move?

International Holocaus Had the full our communi deeply painful years for t Remembrance IHRA definition with examples ty, September is finally relating make or break.

unpopular threeParliament against these Sedge- eek out a hung am, shopkeepers in Surely? blunt Car workers in Birmingh ers in term Tories. before the exit poll, the in Norwich, steelwork In those edgy moments the last four field, market traders , fishmonShabbat dinner tables for ers in Great Yarmouth s question asked across really care Sheffield, greengroc in Bolsover, waitresse last time: does Britain one drivers asked bus , was years gers in Falmouth about antisemitism? in Workington. off in the Bagel fear and doubt, the It certainly turned voters In the end, after all the Barnet and Belt of Hendon, Chipping wide and loud and and far rang the where message Green, Finchley and Golders to the shires, to clear, from the cities an unlikely clean Conservatives secured of our salt-ofa leading every nook and cranny sweep. Elsewhere, it played Corbyn the-earth nation: Jeremy red-letter elecwith role. But above all, this duties of is a dangerous lightweight required two democratic tion extremist An s. obscene association socialism and voters: reject extreme apathy in sheep’s clothing, whose respect Brexit. incompaterent. Had to anti-Jewish racism is It could have been so diff we hold over Brexit ible with the British values Corbyn not sat on the fence of Britain dear. So the good people Jew-hate, he and sat on his hands over their finand held their noses, crossed and have sneaked a hung Parliament in would position brace the gers, adopted he exits, head cobbled a coalition. Instead Corbyn. voted… for anyone but thank goodness, future, it The said left.

Bragg hands, stage Singing socialist Billy Between The Wars: ain’t what it used to be. a long best in his 80s anthem and Labour Party share of this nation.”

The Jewish community “Sweet moderation, heart have doubted repair that proud partto never time it’s should we Now Dear old Blighty, and storied history. of recovery are already red shoots of you. nership. Indeed, there the result would be so Movement reporting hundreds Yet who was to know with the Jewish Labour since last Thursday. lurched towards 10pm former members have returned Continued on page 18 emphatic? As the clock sweated, brows furrowed. stomachs knotted, palms ioning opposition could Surely even a semi-funct

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It is too early to write the political obituary of Israel’s wiliest operator – his career was far from over late on Wednesday evening as Jewish News went to print. But if he has lost power then he has lost control, because he needed power to give him immunity

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After 10 years of Benjamin Netanyahu, could this be the end? If so, it is quite a moment. Younger readers will not remember a time when he did not lead the State of Israel. Indeed, he wanted voters to imagine no other scenario.

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Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone finally resigned from the Labour Party, more than two years after being suspended for saying Hitler supported Zionism, in a case that came to epitomise why British Jews felt Labour had failed to tackle Jew-hatred.

Jewish News, the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish Telegraph ran the same front page warning of the dangers the Labour Party posed to the Jewish community. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the UK would not follow Donald Trump in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. Prince William set Israeli hearts racing as he visited the country. In Pittsburgh, a gunman walked into a shul and shot dead 11 worshippers.

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Israel in the realm of public opinion Predictions for 2020 from the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) emphasise that this will be a crucial year for Israel and, as a direct consequence, relations with the Jewish diaspora.

It is no secret that Jews around the world, including here in the UK, have been privately horrified by some of the recent words and deeds of Benjamin Netanyahu, and that this has led to new strains in an already strained relationship.

Benny Gantz, a former IDF chief of staff, seems no less willing to attack Israel’s enemies, meaning that he will not appeal to Jewish peace­niks, but in other important areas he appears far less likely to push a tough right-wing line.

This is good news for Israel’s democracy, including its courts, whose independence has been increasingly put under stress of late by Netanyahu allies.

If King Bibi is finally dethroned it will be the end of an era and the start of a new chapter in Israeli–diaspora relations. After all, defending Israel in the realm of public opinion is so much easier when it lives by its – and our – Jewish values.

The best of Jewish As most British citizens sat down to a festive meal of turkey and all the naughty trimmings – and the non-Jewish version of a good old family broigus – their fellow Jewish citizens proved once again why this country is the greatest place to be a Jew. For, as in the past 40 years, about 2,500 Jews gathered for the annual Limmud Festival in Birmingham, to celebrate all that is great in Great British Jewish life.

And once again, amid all the schmoozing and once-a-year reunions with friends, participants could put aside their differences (Remain/ Leave, Israel/Palestine… Y-word/no Y-word) for a good old argument for the sake of heaven.

After the rancour of the past four and a half years, and now with an inevitable post-Corbyn bust-up between the right and left wing of the mainstream community, wouldn’t it be nice if it could be Limmud every day?

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My cheerful vision for 2020 There cannot be many thoughtful, worldly members our community who did not harbour varying degrees of anxiety during the days leading up to last month’s election. The possibility of a hung parliament and a government led by Corbyn and his henchmen – an outcome not discounted by pollsters – was a grim, frightening prospect.

Yet the result was unbelievable! Who would have predicted a Conservative majority of 80, when achieving a majority at all seemed an uphill climb?

We can breathe easily again – at least for the time being – and be grateful for the malchus shel chessed (benevolent kingdom) in which we are living.

Falling in the miraculous month of Kislev, the deliverance we experienced had extra poignancy. We can celebrate, but not be smug or complacent, being mindful of the rabbinical teaching that there we

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IS BORIS EQUALLY CULPABLE? I was a Labour member for over 60 years and left because of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. I searched in vain for some semblance of balance in the Jewish News. for a report published in other newspapers of the age-old antisemitic tropes of Boris Johnson. He wrote of a Jewish character called

Sammy Katz with a proud nose, a malevolent stingy snake-like Jewish businessman who exploits immigrant workers for profit.

Johnson has displayed xenophobia, and Islamophobia along with a user of antisemitic tropes.

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will always be the potential threat of hatred by Esau for Jacob.

The election results herald tremendous opportunities for our community, especially if we achieve greater unity. Recent governments have been excellent on almost every issue relating to Jews and Israel. We have every reason to be hopeful this will continue in the environment of a less distracted parliament, whose administration could be in power for the next five years. Our community must work to strengthen its connections with government and senior politicians as strategically and proactively as possible.

Any concerns about appearing too party-political can be set aside, certainly for the period during which the decimated opposition parties remain in disarray.

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‘I warned you, Charles, when knighting a Jewish recipient you have to allow for shrugging!’

I was walking past fashion designer Stella McCartney’s Bond Street shop during the festive season and was pleased to see a bright blue menorah in the window.

What a lovely touch to be so inclusive.

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A young German refugee, Wolfgang Grajonka, saved from the Holocaust by the Kindertransport, arrived in New York in 1941 and changed his name to Bill Graham. He went on to become the world’s biggest rock music promoter, best known for managing the American leg of Live Aid in 1985, which raised $45million for the Ethiopian famine.

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Jewish Britain ticks all my boxes: it always supports the state of Israel, tick, it doesn’t support a two-state solution. tick, or the obsequious Board of Deputies. tick; it repudiates the word “Palestinian”, tick.

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All of us who met dear Sam will carry his spirit ALEX BRUMMER

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or several decades Sam Freiman sat three rows in front of me at the Richmond synagogue. A rotund man with an engaging smile and pleasant accented voice, he had time for everyone.

Members could not but be aware that Sam was something very special.

As a survivor of the Shoah, the only person in his extended family to have been spared, I always felt it was a special privilege to hear Sam at the heart of festival services.

His voice, as the senior Cohen in the community, would ring out above all others during the priestly blessings.

His prayers on behalf of the congregation always seemed to me and my family – offspring of a refugee from the Holocaust who lost most of his loved ones – to be personal repudiation of Hitler’s sordid attempt to wipe out a whole people. Sam’s funeral on 18 December took place after the general election. He lived his final days, aged 93, in Nightingale House Jewish care home in south London. Alert as ever until the end, his relief that the British people with customary good sense sent Jeremy Corbyn packing would have been palpable.

ghetto. After it fell he went on a I know from my own family’s dizzying journey which took him back story the horrors of internto Magnuszew, Kozienice ghetto, ment at Auschwitz and the Skarzysko-Kamienna slave labour wrecking ball of those events camp, Buchenwald concentranot just on those directly tion camp, Schlieben Slave labour affected but on those dearest camp and ended up in Theresiento them and, in some cases, the stadt (where my own uncle Martin disturbed generation to come. was also a prisoner). As an orphan Sam’s survival story was truly in the Warsaw ghetto he had survived remarkable. Part of the tragedy by sweetly singing songs for bread, of this self-made man was that Sam Freiman, who earning the nickname Dundala – the for all his prayer, good deeds and has died aged 93 title of a popular Yiddish folk song. charity he was pre-deceased by both his sons. There was no living relative to say Among those he met along his journey through the evils of Nazism was Ben Helfgott, a lifelong kaddish, so caring members of the community friend, whose son Michael delivered the Hesped stepped into the breach. at Bushey.

The son of Josef and Etka Freiman Sam In 1945, after the liberation of Theresienenjoyed a happy childhood in the town of Konstancin-Jeziorna near Warsaw, until his life stadt by the Russian army, Sam, along with 732 young survivors of the Shoah, was brought to was turned upside down in 1939. The next six Windermere by the Central British Fund and years were harrowing beyond words. became known as ‘The Boys.’

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By 1948 Sam was working in London for various companies, earning £6 a week. When he heard that a number of ‘Boys’ had decided to go to Palestine to fight in the war of Israeli independence he signed up. He was begged not to go: “You are the only one left of your family, of your whole town. Do not risk your life. There will be no one left to bear witness.”

He went anyway and trained in Nahariya before serving on the front in the Galilee, acting as a runner to British officer Tom Derek Bowden, known as Captain Appell.

Sam was discharged from military service after 10 months. He would reminisce later that had his father lived to see him fighting for the Jewish state “he would have gone to heaven”.

Back in Britain Sam married Sonja, herself a child refugee from Vienna. Together they built a home, a business and a small property empire in south-west London. They also owned an apartment in Israel.

In the last years of his life Sam was able to tell his own history in an educational video for Holocaust Memorial Day, filmed and edited by my son Gabriel Brummer and the Bafta-winner Lewis Bronze with the support of Richmond Council.

His seat in shul might be empty, but Sam will bear witness for future generations.

Mitzvah Day grew into a celebration of family LAURA MARKS

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ged six, my daughter Sally went going through a rebellious phase and refused to brush her hair. I’m reminded of this every time I see a family picture, taken 17 years ago, of our clan dressed to visit a Korean care home in downtown Los Angeles. It was the start of our long Mitzvah Day journey.

Reconstructing the photo last weekend at home, my husband Dan and I considered not only how big our three children have grown, but also what role Mitzvah Day has played in our family and its impact on our identity.

We have come a long way and the personal impact warrants some thought too.

Our Jewish life was transformed by our move to the USA in 2000. I did not relish leaving my home, family, friends and work, but it was necessary. So, with three small children, a container of furniture and much trepidation we arrived in California. We were able to secure places only in Jewish schools, some-

thing I had never considered until that point.

But, welcomed with open arms by Temple Israel of Hollywood, I started to forge a new life for myself and our family in this strange yet familiar environment We were struck by how different the American Jewish community felt, particularly in confidence and its willingness to face outwards. Leaving a community still rather embarrassed by its Jewishness, this was refreshing and empowering. With more than twice as many Jewish people in Los Angeles as in the whole of Britain, being Jewish was visible and comfortable.

Many shuls housed a school, and ours had a nursery and a primary school. This meant the children felt part of the whole community, integrated into the ritual, social, youth, educational and campaigning activities of the synagogue. The Mitzvah Day, an established day of social action, was run alongside the numerous other faith communities, so integrated in fact it eventually changed its name to Big Sunday and moved under the auspices of the mayor’s office. There was no need to embed it in a

Jewish name, specific Jewish values or Jewish outreach as being Jewish was entirely normal on the affluent west side of the city.

On our return in 2003, I realised how far the British Jewish community was from our American sister in terms of confidence in our identity and our willingness to engage. That was the start of Mitzvah Day as we know it.

My kids had been schlepped to Mitzvah Day from the start. With others – Dan on guitar, plus loads of enthusiasm and cake – we ran a singalong every year in a secular care home in Los Angeles. The children realised, early on, that this was the norm and that they made a real difference to the elderly residents to whom they sang. What I realised was that while the residents may (or may not) have benefited, the hard-working staff certainly did and our children, by absorbing what they were doing as a family activity, accepted hands on social action as the norm.

I have no magic wand regarding Jewish identity. Each of our children holds some aspects of their Jewishness close and dear, and rejects others. But looking back on that

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Three hundred young professionals were treated to a 360° view of London at the Jewish Learning Exchange (JLE)’s annual Chanukah party held this year on Tower Bridge. Pictured are rabbis Dov Ber Cowan and Natanel Cohen-Arazi of the JLE, with programme participants.

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Four-year-old Zev Frazer lit Chanukah candles at a children’s concert at JW3 organised by the non-profit PJ Library, which donates Jewish books to families with young children each month. Zev’s mother said her older children have “certainly appreciated that there was something really fun and Jewish they could take part in over Chanukah and celebrate in a way that isn’t ‘Christmassy’, while our little one loved jumping to the live music for an hour!” Meanwhile musician Mister G, who performed to more than 200 children and their families, said: “It was wonderful to see families singing along with the songs, which they already knew thanks to PJ Library.”

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Several refugee families from Iran, Afghanistan and Eritrea living innorth London joined members of Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue in Edgware to light Chanukah candles.

Guests, who regularly meet with the Jasmine Women’s Group in Barnet and the Kol Nefesh refugee project, were treated to lunch at the Leonard Sainer Centre, with transportation, food and entertainment provided by the community.

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Newly-elected St Albans Lib-Dem MP Daisy Cooper lit a candle at St Albans United Synagogue’s public menorah lighting in the city centre, joined by the shul’s Rabbi Daniel Sturgess. Also present at the event was St Albans Mayor, Councillor Janet Smith, together with more than 100 people, including local congregants.

“It was lovely to join this festival of lights in the heart of our #StAlbans city this eve,” Cooper tweeted on Sunday. “It was a pleasure to see so many people, light the Chanukiah candles, and eat one (or two) yummy traditional doughnuts!”

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More than 4,500 people gathered to enjoy music, doughnuts and lighting of the menorah at this year’s Chanukah In The Square in Trafalgar Square. Mayor Sadiq Khan, who was among a host of speakers, defiantly told the crowd: ‘This is your city and you’re going nowhere.’ The event was hosted by the Jewish Leadership Council and supported by Genesis Philanthropy Group, the Mark Prudkin Fund For Culture And Art and put together by Barkho Productions.

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10 Jewish shows to watch on Netflix and Amazon in 2020!

From meshuganah millennials and families at war to secret spy missions and the coming of the Messiah, here’s our pick of the best shows to watch now on the leading streaming channels 1

MARRIAGE STORY

Scarlett Johansson stars in this comedy drama about a couple going through divorce from director Noah Baumbach (The Meyerowitz Stories). Adam Driver and Johansson play Charlie and Nicole, a talented actress who moved from Los Angeles to New York and an off-Broadway director. When Charlie is offered television work in LA, her discontentment comes to the fore and their relationship begins to unravel. Based on Baumbach’s own divorce from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, the cast also stars Laura Dern, Ray Liotta and Alan Alda.

Marriage Story is available on Netflix

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French–Jewish actor Tomer Sisley plays an Israeli intelligence officer investigating a mysterious and charismatic man (Mehdi Dehbi) who gains global attention for apparently performing miracles. CIA officer Eva Geller (Michelle Monaghan) tries to unravel whether he is a divine entity or a con artist. Mad Men actress Melinda Page Hamilton stars alongside Wil Traval, Fares Landoulsi, Dermot Mulroney and Beau Bridges.

Messiah is available on Netflix

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BROAD CITY

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer star as Jewish millennials trying to figure it all out in New York. Take some neurosis and a big dose of chutzpah and the result is this fantastically fresh take on being a member of the tribe. As Ilana says in the fifth and final series: “Now I know that being Jewish is about being resilient – having the strength to survive the Holocaust, perpetual exile, as well as being able to carry a table to the parking lot of Ikea at 91 years old.”

Broad City is available to purchase from Amazon Prime Video

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THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT

Based on the real-life rescue mission, the details of which were declassified a few years ago, The Red Sea Diving Resort tells the daring story of Mossad agents and brave Ethiopians working together in the early 1980s to use a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands

of Ethiopian-Jewish refugees to Israel. Directed, written and co-produced by Homeland creator, Gideon Raff, the cast features Chris Evans as Ari Kidron, the Mossad agent who co-leads the mission into Sudan, alongside Michael Kenneth Williams, Ben Kingsley, Haley Bennett and Alessandro Nivola.

The Red Sea Diving Resort is available to watch on Netflix

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THE SPY

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a Mossad agent in The Spy, released this week. Eli Cohen worked undercover in Syria in 1961 -65 and developed close ties with the political and military hierarchy, before becoming chief adviser to the minister of defence. But his cover, under the alias Kamel Amin Thaabet, was eventually blown and he was put on trial and executed by Syria. The intelligence he gathered was credited by then-PM Levi Eshkol as a factor in Israel’s success in the Six-Day War. His story is brought to life by Homeland creator Gideon Raff, who writes and directs the six-part drama.

The Spy is available on Netflix

dino and Dan Palladino, housewife turned comic Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and her manager Susie (Alex Borstein) leave the comedy clubs of New York for the more exotic Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago and Miami. Her parents follow closely behind, having only recently discovered the truth about their dutiful daughter. This Is Us and Black Panther star Sterling K Brown joinS the cast.

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is available on Amazon Prime Video

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John Demjanjuk lived comfortably in Cleveland as a retired Ukrainian-American carworker until his past caught up with him. A group of Holocaust survivors identified him as the Treblinka death camp guard Ivan the Terrible. This riveting five-part documentary tells what happened next. In 1985, he was tried in Israel and acquitted after pleading that he was never at Treblinka, but at a different camp, which was apparently true.

He was later extradited to Germany and convicted as an accessory to the murder of 28,000 Jews.

The Devil Next Door is available on Netflix

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SCHITT’S CREEK

Real-life father and son Eugene and Dan Levy star as video store magnate Johnny Rose and his grown-up son David, alongside wife and former soap star Moira (Catherine O’Hara) and daughter Alexis (Annie Murphy). The Roses lose their fortune after being defrauded and are forced to rebuild their lives with their sole remaining asset: a small town named Schitt’s Creek that they bought as a joke birthday gift for their son.

From a rundown motel, they adjust to their new life alongside residents including mayor Roland Schitt (Chris Elliot) and wife Jocelyn (Jenn Robertson).

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THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL, SERIES 3

In the third series of the award-winning show from husband-and-wife team Amy Sherman-Palla-

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BY REBBETZIN VICKI BELOVSKI This week’s parsha contains a turning point in Joseph’s story – the famous moment when he finally reveals his identity to his brothers, saying, “I am Joseph; is my father still alive?”

The question brings into focus the significant theme in the parsha of connection, both interpersonal relationships and the connection between man and God. Having tested the strength of the relationship between his brothers, when Joseph sees Judah coming to Benjamin’s defence, he knows they have changed. He reaffirms his relationship with his family. The rabbis tell us that when Joseph asked: “Is my father still alive?” he needed emotional reassurance of Jacob’s connection with him.

Next he strengthens his connection with his brothers, assuring them he does not bear a grudge, and that God had orchestrated previous events to rescue the family from the famine.

The connection is particularly strong with Benjamin and they embrace first, weeping. The rabbis say the brothers also wept for the Temples and Tabernacle, which would be built in their respective territories and be destroyed. Jacob’s reaction on hearing the amazing news mirrors Joseph’s.

There is a connection between them, but when father and son meet, the text only describes Joseph embracing his father and weeping, with no reaction from Jacob. Here again there is a spiritual overlay: the rabbis say Jacob was reciting the Shema, renewing his connection with God in the very moment he was reunited with his son, as a way of channelling his joy.

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BY RABBI GARRY WAYLAND Twenty-twenty vision: the gift of perfect clarity, seeing details in the distance ahead. One suspects that this phrase will be the bane of many an optician over the coming year, and a tired cliché for the rest of us.

The Hebrew letter that represents 20, kaf, serves grammatically to indicate a comparison. In his final words to Pharaoh, Moses declares: “At around midnight [k’chatzot] Hashem will go forth in the midst of Egypt and every firstborn will die.”

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The new decade marks the conclusion of one in which remarkable scientific progress has been made. We see the world in more detail, greater resolution, with the gaps in our view of the universe getting ever and ever smaller.

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Yet with all the promise of what a new decade may bring, there is a sense of individual, communal and societal disenfranchisement.

Judaism has had to live in a dark world for many years: of physical and spiritual exile, of being the other, of being excluded.

We give thanks to God that, by and large, many of the worst aspects of exile have been mitigated, but the existential exile still looms.

Yet we have coped – and, in many cases, survived and thrived – by acknowledging that ‘Your Faithfulness is in the nights’ (Psalms 92).

Perhaps the world in 2020 needs some of the kaf, the Jewish 20 – the imprecision and fuzziness that arises from having a sense of faith in God who guides history, a confidence that we don’t need all the answers, and a belief that we are intrinsically important, regardless of the external quantifications of retweets and likes. ◆ Rabbi Garry Wayland is a teacher and educator for US Living and Learning

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BY RABBI DANNY RICH “If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.”

The opening verses of Parashat Tazria (Leviticus 12:1-13:59) indicate that a mother who bears a son is ritually impure for an initial seven days and is excluded for a further period.

If she has a daughter the time period is doubled, presumably on the basis that it is assumed the daughter herself will bear a child in the future.

This is typical of the ancient Israelite world where bodily functions and illness were a cultic matter, overseen by the priesthood, and the source of some fear. But how can today’s Liberal Jew, with the benefit of modernity, science and medicine, begin to treat these Torah verses?

One possibility is that out of this bizarre ritual, we can appreciate the sense of reverence for the wondrous nature of birth.

Another is to look at childbirth in today’s world. In many societies it continues to be a moment of great physical danger. And even in socalled developed nations, with modern and safe healthcare systems, it can still lead to discrimination – for example in employment.

In Torah times, ritual (but not hygienic) uncleanliness frequently led to temporary separation or exclusion from cultic arenas, if not the community as a whole.

In modern times, we need to ensure that access to maternity services should be a given and the birth of a child should be a moment of celebration for individual families and communities.

It should reinforce our commitment that these children will be raised in a society of which all can be proud and in which all can thrive.

• Rabbi Danny Rich is senior rabbi of Liberal Judaism

We are about to enter the 2020s. A hundred years ago, the 1920s were dubbed as the Roaring Twenties, a reflection of the pace at which society was changing all over the world until halted by the depression of the 1930s.

For Progressive Judaism in the UK this was a major period of development soon after the First World War ended. The Settlement Synagogue was founded in Stepney in 1919. As Jews left the East End and moved to London’s suburbs, North and South London and West Central Liberal Synagogues were founded.

Though it took until the 1930s for a number of new Reform Synagogues to be established, it was the Jews who moved in the decade previously into London’s rapidly growing suburbs that laid the foundations of these communities.

The 1920s was the time when the north-west London Jewish community began to grow into what it is today. This was also the time when

the Nazis began to grow in Germany, building a murderous ideology that nearly destroyed the European Jewry. During this decade, more than 100,000 Jews made aliyah to what was to become the land of Israel, more than doubling the Jewish population there.

Might the 2020s also bring about such great change? Jews continue to be a shifting population.

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In the 1920s, Israel was about to be born. In the 2020s Israel is an advanced and successful country, which we hope to look to as a beacon of pluralistic Jewish values. We know, however, that there is a long way to go. For Progressive Jews, the 2020s will need to be a time of building and hard work as the world changes around us.

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