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London gives £300k grant to Auschwitz London is to donate £300,000 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to help preserve the remains of the infamous camp and its accompanying exhibits, writes Mathilde Frot.

Mayor Sadiq Khan (pictured, inset) signed off on the City Hall grant which will help preserve the ruins of the site’s gas chambers and crematoria, barracks, collections and exhibits.

The decision was announced yesterday ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January, which will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

More than one million people – the overwhelming majority of them Jewish – were killed at the concentration and extermination camp, now visited by some 300,000 people from the UK each year.

“As the years pass, and as we have fewer survivors to pass on their stories, it is vital that we work even harder to preserve the site and ensure younger generations learn the lessons from history,” Khan said on Wednesday.

“These lessons are all the more significant as we see antisemitism and hate crime on the rise,” he added. “By joining others from around the world in giving a grant to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, we will be able to preserve this hugely important site and educate people about the Holocaust and the history of many Jewish Londoners for decades to come.”

Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said the decision was a “clear signal of the central place the Holocaust in our collective memory”.

She added: “With the Holocaust still in living memory, there are those who would seek to deny or distort the truth. The best antidote we have is evidence – hearing the testimony of the eyewitnesses or seeing for yourself the very places where the

Holocaust took place.”

Echoing Pollock, Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl said the grant will give a “great boost” to Holocaust education.

“It is vitally important that we all come together to preserve the memory of those who were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust and educate to ensure it never happens again,” she said.

London now joins the city of Paris, as well as Germany, the United States and France in donating money to the foundation, which manages the conservation of the camp.

Survivor Lily Ebert, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau at 14, said the site must be preserved for the world to remember the Shoah.

“People died during that horrific journey [to Auschwitz-Birkenau]. When the cattle trucks finally stopped we arrived at Auschwitz and it was here that I was separated from my family, never to see them again,” she said, adding: “I promised myself that if by some miracle I survived, I would tell others my story. Today, I tell my story to young people across the country, but I won’t be here to do that forever.

“When I am not here, I want my story and my family’s story to be remembered. When young people visit Auschwitz, when they see the barracks that I lived in, and the gas chamber where a million people were murdered, my family among them, they start to understand. It has to be preserved so the world will remember.”

Khan said he was “deeply honoured” to join more than 200 survivors at the official ceremony of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau later this month.

The mayor will light a candle at the Birkenau memorial during a special service, where he will be joined by world leaders and dignitaries.

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Mayor’s Holocaust Memorial Day pledge

YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE Two Jewish footballers murdered at Auschwitz are among those featured in a giant mural unveiled at Chelsea Football Club last night. BritishIsraeli artist Solomon Souza spray-painted the artwork at Stamford Bridge as part of the club’s ‘Say No To Antisemitism’ campaign to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January. Full story on page 10

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Phillips suspends key MP’S ACTIVIST CONCERN aide over Israel tweets tion adopted in full by Labour’s ruling body in 2018.

Phillips, who threw her hat into the ring to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader, told in a statement on Twitter on Sunday of her sadness at having to act against Hamid.

It read: “It is easy to call out and challenge our adversaries, it is far harder to do this when it is our friends and close colleagues. I am really sad that I’ve had to take this action against a hardworking and valued member of staff.

“But we can’t have one rule for those we don’t like and another for those we do.

I pledge to always take action quickly and effectively, without fear or favour.

“This is the right thing to do and the only way to start building a bridge again with the Jewish community.”

Phillips joined other candidates in backing 10 pledges to stamp out antisemitism and

Labour leadership contender Jess Phillips has suspended one of her aides over alleged antisemitic tweets.

Phillips suspended her office manager, Salma Hamid, over material she posted on Twitter between 2014 and 2016 before she joined the MP’s team, the Mail on Sunday reported at the weekend.

Among the social media posts unearthed by the newspaper was a tweet apparently accusing Israel of “inflicting Holocaust conditions on Palestinians” and another message branding the Jewish state a “murderer”.

One tweet appeared to compare Israel to the Islamic State terrorist group, according to the report.

The act of likening Israeli policy to those of the Nazi regime is among the examples of antisemitism listed in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance defini-

Labour leadership contender Jess Phillips has accused an activist running a popular Twitter account of “antisemitism” in a tweet made about the Board of Deputies.

Phillips called for the immediate suspension from the party of Rachael Cousins, whose account @Rachael_Swindon has 76,900 followers, but Jewish News understands that she is not a Labour member.

According to screenshots circulated on social media, a tweet, which appears to have been deleted, read: “Dear Conservative-backing @BoardofDeputies Before interfering

Salma Hamid (left) and Labour leadership hopeful Jess Phillips

restore trust with the community drawn up by the Board of Deputies. The pledges include efforts to make Labour’s “disciplinary process independent” and “ensure transparency” in its disciplinary process for tackling antisemitism.

Phillips also revealed that she felt “quite tempted” to quit the party over its handling of allegations of antisemitism.

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MP said she “wobbled the most” when she saw a BBC Panorama investigation that claimed senior figures in the party had interfered in antisemitism investigations.

On Monday, the St Paul’s Community Development Trust in Balsall Heath also announced its decision to suspend Hamid, who became a trustee and chair of its board last October.

in our election process we require you to sign up to these 10 points and unequivocally endorse them in full.”

Phillips wrote: “This is antisemitism, holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of Israel. It has no place in Labour. Rachael Cousins should be suspended immediately.”

The tweet is said to have urged the Board to “dissociate itself from the Conservative Party”, “condemn all atrocities by the Israeli millitary [sic] in the West Bank” and lobby to prevent “Israeli interference in UK politics”.

Boris quizzed on ‘red lines’ The Labour Party has told Boris Johnson to spell out his own “red lines” on any White House Middle East peace plan or reprise Britain’s role as “honest broker” between Israel and the Palestinians.

Shadow Foreign Secretary and Labour leadership contender Emily Thornberry made the comments on Monday in a House of Commons debate on Britain’s place

in the world. “What on earth has happened to the Trump Administration’s so-called Middle East plan?” she asked.

She continued: “Now he is in a place of greater influence, perhaps the Prime Minister will press ahead with the international summit he promised to convene so we, and our allies with an interest in the Middle East, can spell out our red lines on the American plan.”

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The Board of Deputies said its series of pledges signed by the majority of Labour leader and deputy leadership contenders could help to mend relations with the community.

The list published on Sunday included commitments to make the party’s “disciplinary process independent” and ensure no platform for those facing allegations of antisemitism.

The Board of Deputies said its recommendations were backed by all Labour leader and deputy leadership candidates, with the exception of Richard Burgon, Dawn Butler, and Clive Lewis, who pulled out of the leadership race on Monday.

Jewish News understands other major communal organisations were not consulted over the pledges, provoking anger compounded by a belief that the candidates had been sent the pledges in advance of their publication.

There was also disquiet that the pledges made no direct mention of the key Equality and Human Rights Commission investigation and a belief among some they offered

a “free pass” to candidates who had not done enough on antisemitism before but wanted to present themselves as having a kosher stamp.

Sir Keir Starmer, who is the shadow Brexit secretary, joined his rivals, including Rebecca Long Bailey (pictured), in backing the pledges and described Labour’s handling of allegations as “unacceptable”.

But the Board of Deputies’ intervention drew criticism from Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), with a news story about a scathing open letter to signatories by the pro-Corbyn group leading on the Morning Star yesterday.

The front-page article, reporting on JVL’s incendiary attack and headlined ‘BoD pledges slammed by Labour left’, described the Board of Deputies as “right wing”.

The Board of Deputies does not “represent many thousands in the fast-growing Charedi community, most of whom do not believe that the Labour Party is riddled with antisemitism”, claimed the letter written by JVL’s co-chairs Leah Levane and Jenny Manson.

An offi cial statement from JVL on Tuesday accused the Board of Deputies of seeking to “suppress free thought” and suggested that signatories “may have signed from fear of the vitriol” or from a “commitment to silence just criticism of Israel”. � Rebecca Long Bailey, page 21

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Jewish News to publish on a Monday for memorial day Jewish

In 11 days’ time the world will mark the 75th anniversary of humankind’s greatest crime. This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), on Monday 27 January, will be a landmark moment as we reflect on its legacy as the last remaining survivors leave us.

To mark this moment, Jewish News will be issuing a dedicated 80-page HMD edition on the day itself. It will be the first time Jewish News has published on a Monday.

This unique edition is being created by a special panel of second and third generation guest editors and, crucially, non-Jewish Holocaust educators. They are: Holocaust Educational Trust regional ambassadors Jaya

vors, Sir Ben Helfgott and Hannah Lewis and jewishnews.co.uk the late Gena Turgel and Harry Spiro. In it SOUVENIR they wrote the following – calling on future EDITION 70th ann iver sary of generations to safeguard their legacy. These liberation of Auschwthe itz words will inspire next week’s Jewish News: “We are the children, brothers and sisters of victims, and when we are gone, we want someone to remember them, too. Sometimes we ask what will happen in the years to come.

We rely on you, our readers today, to help to HAN NAH LEW IS ensure that our memories thrive.

We have to hope that the young we speak HAR RY BIBR ING to today become leaders of tomorrow.

BEN HELFGOTT, MBE That by hearing our stories they will feel passionate about the Holocaust and the GENA TURGEL, MBE importance of our legacy.

Our hope is that these seeds we plant SPECIAL ISSUE EDITE will bring plants, which will grow into D BY OUR PANEL OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVO W bushes, which will grow into trees and RS forests, which will thrive.”

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Hugo Rifkind is among our writers

Pathak and Jack Nicholls; the Association for Jewish Refugees’ Debra Barnes; Natasha Isaac, nominated by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust; Shannon Johnson, nominated by the Anne Frank Trust; Jude Williams, an educator on March of the Living and nominated by the National Holocaust Centre; BBC filmmaker Hannah Gelbart, nominated by the ‘45 Aid Society and TV presenter Rob Rinder.

This remarkable group was brought together, over a period of many months, by the newspaper’s news editor Justin Cohen.

During an insightful and often moving editorial meeting last month, each set out their personal vision for this unique project.

Next week’s edition will consider the rise in digital hate and unpick the anatomy of online denial; investigate second generation trauma and take a fascinating look at remembrance innovation and the har-

nessing of virtual reality to tell survivors’ stories for centuries to come. It will show how Jewish life thrived before the Nazis, speak to a prisoner and liberator of Bergen Belsen and contemplate the power of personal artefacts – a pen, a comb, a candlestick – handed down from generation to generation. It will tell the poignant story of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, from the last sunrise under tyranny to the arrival of Russian soldiers.

It will celebrate the Righteous Gentiles and show how are they selected, where they live, what they did and what they risked.

It will examine the plight of non-Jewish untermenschen. It will feature a fascinating report on how Muslim children learn about the Shoah and examine how Israel cares for survi-

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vors who rebuilt their lives in the Jewish state.

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News / Leadership hustings / Lord Mann’s vow / Speaker concern

MANN ‘NO BYSTANDER’ Former Labour MP John Mann has warned that he will be no bystander in “driving out the stench of intolerance” in the party.

Lord Mann, who was appointed by former Prime Minister Theresa May to head a government inquiry on tackling antisemitism, praised the “innate decency” of voters in the recent election.

In his maiden Lords speech this week, the peer said voters had rejected the “extremism of antisemitism” and praised May for standing by him and his family when they were targeted over his stance.

He said that on election day in

north London, an elderly Jewish couple who had voted Labour all their lives had wept as they went into and left the polling station.

Vowing to work cross-party in his role on antisemitism, Mann said: “I will be no bystander in driving out the stench of intolerance from the party that in 1906 my family helped to create in the city of Leeds.”

The non-affiliated peer’s comments came in the second reading debate on the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill.

JVL rep at HMD talk to fight racism today”.

Jewish Voice for Other guest speakers Labour’s national secwill include Mary Brodbin, retary Glyn Secker is from Unite Against Fasset to speak at an event cism, and Nadia Sayed, to mark Holocaust from Stand Up to Racism, Memorial Day hosted according to the Facebook in Shadwell by Stand listing.

Up To Racism.

Glyn Secker Secker, who was briefly The event, entitled Never Again: The lessons of the suspended from the Labour Party in Holocaust, is billed as an opportu- 2018, has drawn criticism in recent nity to “remember the victims of the years over comments related to the Holocaust and to commit ourselves Jewish community and Israel.

Contenders, from left: Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips, Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry and Rebecca Long Bailey

Candidates head to JW3

Candidates vying to become the next Labour leader will be grilled by an audience of Jewish voters next month, writes Justin Cohen.

Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips have already signed up for the communal hustings event at JW3 on 13 February, with Rebecca Long Bailey and Emily Thornberry still to confirm.

The 90-minute event, chaired

by ITV’s political editor Robert Peston, is being organised by Jewish News, the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) and JW3.

The event will be the only opportunity for the community to press candidates face-to-face on their response to the antisemitism crisis that has engulfed the party for four years, and their proposals for mending relations.

Questions on faith schools, Israel,

Europe and the economy are also likely.

Ties reached such a low that JLM, for a century the Labour Party’s only Jewish affiliate, refused to campaign for any candidates other than a few at the general election, and the Chief Rabbi issued an unprecedented warning about Jeremy Corbyn’s party.

Just six percent of Jewish voters suggested that they would back Labour last December and 40 percent indicated they would consider leaving the UK if Corbyn reached No 10.

JLM chair Mike Katz said: “Our membership has swelled by nearly a thousand because people want to have a say in the future of the Labour Party and push it to truly tackle antisemitism.

“Our hustings will give JLM members the chance to grill leadership candidates on how they would approach the mammoth task of rebuilding

trust between Labour and the Jewish community.”

Jennifer Gerber, LFI director, said: “Antisemitic anti-Zionism rests at the heart of the Labour antisemitism crisis.

“We welcome the opportunity for Labour leadership candidates to address how they will tackle this issue and ensure a balanced approach towards Israel and Middle East policy.”

Peston said: “It is vital for our democracy that all religious and ethnic groups have confidence in our main political parties.

“So it is a privilege to chair a hustings in which Labour’s leadership candidates will explain how they would decisively and forever eliminate the scourge of antisemitism from their party.”

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‘Identity politics separates us,’ warns Tory mayoral hopeful Tory hopeful Shaun Bailey has hit out against “identity politics”, claiming it divides communities, writes Mathilde Frot.

The mayoral candidate met Jewish leaders at the kosher cafe Mr Baker, in Hendon, on Monday, after visiting the offices of the Community Security Trust (CST).

He was joined at the cafe by Board of Deputies vice president Edwin Shuker, and Russell Langer and Adam Langleben, from the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC).

“We think that’s cohesion by saying to people, ‘here’s your difference and we’ll work on it’. But what we should be talking about is where we’re all similar and taking the best from each community,” he said.

Speaking at the meeting organised by the JLC, Bailey hailed barmitzvahs as a ritual that could offer lessons to young men affected by crime.

“Just in case you haven’t noticed, I happen to be a black man, but I like the idea of a barmitzvah and I’m not just saying that because it’s a nice

Shaun Bailey, right, with Board of Deputies vice president Edwin Shuker, centre, and the Jewish Leadership Council’s Russell Langer

thing to be saying,” he said.

“If you look at what’s happening with crime among young men, a lot of it is a distorted version of what it is to be a man. A barmitzvah actually puts a stake in the ground and

says, ‘We’re going to treat you like an adult, but of course you will have to behave like an adult,’” he added.

When asked to describe his first encounter with the Jewish community, he referred to a childhood

friend called Jamie. “He was sort of how I saw the Jewish community,” he recalled.

Bailey affectionately described the similarities he observed between black and Jewish communities while growing up in London.

“I grew up for years just thinking the Jewish community was like the black community in that, you know, it was that village mentality. Everybody knew your business and was talking about it,” he revealed.

“It’s only later on when I got older and quite involved in public life that antisemitism, and that aspect of the Jewish community and the pressures that the Jewish community are under, that’s when that became more apparent.”

On the subject of community security, Bailey vowed to keep “constant contact” with the CST and maintain funding for it.

He also reiterated a pledge to ban the annual Al Quds Day march, a controversial demonstration run by the Islamic Human Rights Commission.

NEWS IN BRIEF

PEER CRITICISED FOR NAZI COMPARISON A peer has faced criticism for going “a step too far” in comparing Brexit Britain to Nazi Germany.

Liberal Democrat Lord Greaves also claimed people were crying themselves to sleep at night over the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, as he warned against “triumphalistic behaviour”. He made his comments as peers at Westminster started their line-by-line scrutiny of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which will enable the UK to leave on 31 January.

BORIS: ANTISEMITISM RISE IS A DISGRACE Boris Johnson has said it is a “disgrace” antisemitism is “rising again in this country” after being asked

by Andrew Percy MP in Parliament yesterday during Prime Minister’s Questions, ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January, about his commitment to act to combat antisemitism in the UK. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Johnson said: “We want to do everything we can to stamp out the resurgence of antisemitism.

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Historic shul ceiling collapses

Leon Silver, president of Whitechapel’s East London Synagogue, examines the damage to the historic site

ware of the devastation and were unable to hold their service because the building was deemed unsafe.

Tower Hamlets Interfaith Forum has rallied behind the community and is hoping to mark Holocaust Day with a makeshift gathering.

The forum’s chairman, Rector Alan Green, from St John’s parish church at Bethnal Green, said: “There is wide support for the Jewish community and their East End heritage.

“We can’t replicate the annual

Holocaust memorial, but can come together to express solidarity. We won’t allow the Holocaust memorial to pass without showing our solidarity.” Green has contacted the town hall about a memorial service.

Messages of support have been given to the synagogue by other communities.

Rushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, said: “The synagogue is one of the East End’s most treasured buildings, steeped in a deep history.”

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A Faith Building Fund was set up in 2012 by Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman, who was thought to have offered £300,000 from town hall coffers towards restorations, similar to Sandys Row Synagogue in Spitalfields, which underwent total renovation. At Sandys Row, the roof, which had been damaged in the Blitz, was found to be precariously balanced.

But the Faith Building Fund was later frozen by government audit inspectors after Rahman was banned from office by the High Court in 2015, leaving all faith centres including churches and synagogues in limbo.

Jewish News reported in February 2015 that a group of young Jews were fundraising to help to save the shul, the East End’s oldest purpose-built synagogue. Its roof was collapsing and its original features were “in need of major repair”.

The Jewdas group had begun a campaign to raise at least £5,000.

According to its Save the Shul fundraising page on Indiegogo, the promised Tower Hamlets grant “has been frozen, and is likely to be much lower in value if it is still given”.

The campaign was also aimed at attracting new Jews to the community with religious, cultural and political events. The campaign closed having raised £566.

An organiser said at the time: “We worry this incredible building will just be turned into more apartments, as has happened to other East London synagogues such as Temple Court. Such actions are diminishing the East End’s rich Jewish history.”

‘Avoid empty gestures on memorial day,’ MPs told The Holocaust Educational Trust has urged MPs to avoid “tokenism and empty gesture” on Holocaust Memorial Day as it warned of the “expanding poison of antisemitism” in the UK. Karen Pollock, the trust’s chief executive, wrote in an email to MPs on Monday: “We cannot ignore the difficult year we leave behind us, where we faced adversity and sometimes felt abandoned by some we thought we could count on.

“We are not interested in tokenism and empty gestures but in sincerity and truth.”

MPs have been invited to sign the trust’s Book

of Commitment, pledging to preserve the memory of the Holocaust. The book, which will be in parliament for three days this month, received hundreds of signatures last year.

“We invite you to sign the book this year, but as we reflect on the past year, which was not without its challenges, we would like to remind you that antisemitism is on the rise again.

Online, on our streets, on our football terraces and sadly in our politics,” Pollock wrote.

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Their open letter is published on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website.

Signatories include 13 survivors of the Holocaust and genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur, who warned politicians that “what starts as name-calling becomes licence to maim and murder”.

The group criticised what they saw as “extreme and polarising” language used by politicians worldwide for “point-scoring”. They added: “We are living witnesses to what can happen if this vitriolic public discourse is not recognised, challenged and halted.”

The letter is signed by six Holocaust survivors including Steven Frank, one of 93 children to survive Theresienstadt, Ivor Perl, who

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A Holocaust memorial service with the Mayor of Tower Hamlets has been cancelled after the ceiling of East London Central Synagogue collapsed.

Plaster came crashing down in the building in Nelson Street, Whitechapel, on Friday, leaving it potentially dangerous.

“We have had to cancel the Holocaust service,” a shocked synagogue president Leon Silver said. “My first priority is the emergency we’re having to cope with.”

Surveyors were due this week to examine the structure with its leaking roof after property managers from the Federation of Synagogues, which owns the 97-year-old building, inspected the damage on Monday.

“I was shocked when I arrived to find the aisle strewn with broken wood and plaster where cornices came crashing down,” Silver added.

“But thank goodness no one was inside the building when the ceiling fell down.”

The synagogue was due to open on Saturday for the weekly Shabbat service. Worshippers turned up una-

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was 12 when taken to Auschwitz; and Hannah Lewis, who witnessed her mother being killed.

HMDT chief executive Olivia MarksWoldman said: “As these remarkable individuals know from tragic personal experience, words have power.”

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Prison threat makes husband grant get Laws against “controlling and coercive behaviour” have been used to force a Jewish man to grant his wife a religious divorce in the first UK legal case of its kind, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

The man’s trial at Harrow Crown Court was set to begin this week, after the woman initiated a private prosecution, but it was averted at the last minute after he gave his wife a get when told he faced up to five years in jail.

At the end of 2015 it became a criminal offence to exert controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate family relationship, and this week’s case is the first example of it being used to press a Jewish man into granting a get.

The pair married in 2012 and problems arose early in their marriage, with police called to reports of a domestic incident in the first few months. Within a year, civil proceedings had begun and, in 2015, the family court got involved and a non-molestation order issued.

However, the man still refused to grant the woman either a civil or religious divorce.

In 2018, after three years of legal efforts, she finally won a decree absolute, meaning she was now legally divorced.

Yet he still refused to grant her a get, despite the efforts of the London Beth Din to persuade him to do so, prompting the woman to instruct solicitors to begin a private prosecution. By denying his wife a get, the man was alleged to

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Prosecuting solicitor Gary Lesin-Davis said: “The get refusal was clearly behaviour designed to control and undermine [the woman], keeping her in an intimate relationship against her will and preventing her from remarrying.” The new law provided a “powerful remedy to protect vulnerable women whose treatment by recalcitrant husbands strays into criminal offending”, he added.

Naomi Dickson, chief executive of Jewish Women’s Aid, said: “We are very pleased that the law has been used to support this woman, and hope that this acts as a deterrent to further would-be get refusers.”

David Frei, registrar of the London Beth Din, said: “We were delighted to help resolve this case. This is not a solution which can be deployed in all circumstances, however it is is a new and powerful weapon the Beth Din can add to its armoury.”

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47% of Jews are donors A survey of more than 1,100 British Jews has shown that they are far more like to carry an organ donation card than the national average, despite being confused as to when donation is permitted under Jewish law, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

The research, conducted by a new London-based group called Jewish Organ Donation Association UK (JODA), showed that 47 percent of Jews have opted to donate, compared to the national average of 37 percent.

However, it also showed “widespread confusion” among British Jews over the ethics of organ donation with regards to Jewish law, which was described by Jewish clinicians as “worrying”.

The survey showed that 53 percent thought organ donation was allowed by Jewish law only under certain circumstances, whereas 10 percent said it was always allowed, 17 percent said it was never allowed, and 20 percent did not know.

The findings come just months before the UK switches to an optout system, under which anyone

who dies and who did not opt out of organ donation will be assumed to have consented. The current system requires donors to opt in.

JODA was set up this month by two senior clinicians at the Royal Free Hospital, as well as a former journalist turned marketing executive. All three are members of Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue.

They include consultant anaesthetist Dr Marc Wittenberg, Richard Shoub, a consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia at Barnet Hospital, and Eddie Hammerman, who once worked for the BBC and TalkRADIO .

Schoub has been the clinical lead for organ donation at the hospital for 10 years and has lectured extensively on the topic to both medical and lay audiences.

The Royal Free survey on Judaism and organ donation, which is ongoing, is already the largest of its kind to have taken place in the UK, and the results will be presented at the British Transplantation Society’s annual congress in March.

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said they defined “death” as when somebody’s heart stops beating, despite the medical definition of death being “brain death”. Almost one in five respondents said they did not know when death was defined.

JODA said the poll also showed the prevalence of “myth” around donation – nine percent thought the body had to be “buried whole for admission into the next world”, 11 percent thought it was “prohibited to desecrate a dead body” and 13 percent thought taking organs after brain death amounted to murder.

Despite the confusion, 76 per-

cent said they would agree to donate a family member’s organs if they were on the NHS Organ Donor Register, and 52 percent said they would agree to do so even if their family member was not registered. Only 10 percent said they planned to opt out under the new system.

“The response to the survey has been phenomenal and incredibly moving,” said Hammerman. “It has highlighted the huge interest in this issue and we can see significant confusion related to organ donation.

“We hope that by garnering UK Jewish views for the first time and

understanding where gaps are, we can inform the debate with clear guidance.”

A spokesman for the Chief Rabbi said: “Over the past 18 months, we have been working extremely closely with NHS Blood and Transplant as well as the Human Tissue Authority, to seek a suitable accommodation for those in the Jewish community concerned about the changes to the organ donation system in England.

“We hope to be able to make a positive announcement in the coming weeks.”

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In up to nine percent of pregnancies, the mother can develop high blood sugar levels despite not having diabetes, adding increased risks for both mother and baby.

Typically, gestational diabetes is diagnosed between the 24th and 28th weeks of pregnancy with a glucose tolerance test, in which the woman drinks a glucose solution then has a blood test to see how quickly it has cleared from her blood.

However a new computer algorithm developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science can predict gestational diabetes in the early stages of pregnancy, or even before

pregnancy occurs, allowing earlier nutritional and lifestyle changes.

“Our ultimate goal has been to help the health system take measures to prevent diabetes from occurring in pregnancy,” said Professor Eran Segal, whose team led the study published in Nature Medicine this week.

To build the algorithm, they analysed data from 600,000 pregnancies available from a large Israeli health organisation before applying machine learning on pregnancy data from 20102017. The data included hundreds of “parameters” such as blood test results, family medical history, body mass index and age.

The scientists then worked through these to determine which parameters were influential

in predicting when a woman may be at a high risk of developing gestational diabetes, then produced a short questionnaire to help clinicians assess risk to the mother.

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LONDON PREMIERE FOR RESCUE FILM London is to host the European premiere of a film chronicling the unlikely wartime rescue of 1,000 Jews from Nazi-occupied lands to the Philippines.

Quezon’s Game is named after the enigmatic Philippines president Manuel Quezon, who hatched the rescue plan with five Jewish-American brothers from Cincinnati, as well as US diplomats and soldiers, including the future president Dwight Eisenhower.

The film will premiere at the Troxy in east London on 28 January as part of Holocaust Memorial Day, and will feature a performance from Shulem Lemmer, the first Chasidic singer signed by Universal Records, who recorded the film’s soundtrack.

The story of the rescue is set against a backdrop of cigar smoke and poker games and was directed

by Matthew Rosen, who grew up at Kenton United Synagogue.

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Wear uniform inside out for mental health suffering. It’s also a way of getting children to be kinder and think of others, because no one really knows how someone else is feeling.”

Since the launch this month, Jo, a mum of four, said she has received “the most unbelievable response” with more than 30 schools across the UK signing up to support the campaign.

The idea is one that Jo felt would be a fitting tribute to her sister, whose death came “as a shock to everybody”.

She recalled: “Jenny had suffered with bipolar disorder since her 20s.

There were times when she was was suffering with her illness and times when she was fine. Just before her 40th birthday she was feeling a bit low, but no one knew how she was suffering. We all thought she was doing fine.”

In the months following the tragedy, Jo was put in contact with If U Care Share Foundation, which supports families affected by suicide.

“They had an Inside Out For Suicide Day a few years ago and while the con-

Jewish schoolchildren are being encouraged to wear their uniforms inside out in support of a mental health campaign launched by a woman whose sister took her own life nearly four years ago, writes Francine Wolfisz.

Jenny Jackson, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, had just turned 40 when she died in 2016.

Now Jo Novick, from north London, together with her other sisters, Julie Borlant and Janie Jackson-Spillman, are urging schools and mental health organisations to support Inside Out Day on Thursday 6 February, with the message that how a person looks might not reflect how they are feeling.

Speaking about the initiative, which coincides with Children’s Mental Health Week, Jo, 48, said: “It’s a simple way of making us all stop and think about how someone may be looking OK on the outside, but on the inside they may be feeling sad or worried.

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Chelsea mural honours Auschwitz victims Two Jewish footballers murdered at Auschwitz are among those honoured in a giant mural unveiled at Chelsea Football Club this week.

Owner Roman Abramovich commissioned the work by British-Israeli artist Solomon Souza as part of the club’s

‘Say No To Antisemitism’ campaign to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The mural portrays Julius Hirsch, who won seven caps for Germany, and Hungary winger Arpad Weisz. Both died at Auschwitz.

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Painting began earlier in January with the process live streamed on the club’s website.

Chelsea star Christian Pulisic lent a hand to finish it on Monday, saying: “The work the club are doing is amazing.

“We have an owner who is very passionate about it and it is great we can make a statement like this with the mural and show the world what it means and that we want it to change. “It was awesome to be part of the mural and something I will never forget. It was cool to see the artwork up close and obviously it is really

good with a bigger meaning behind it.”

Souza said Pulisic had “never tried spray-painting before, and it was an amazing experience for myself obviously. He helped me fill up a whole corner and it will be there in the final piece, so he’s technically painted a corner of this piece.”

Works by the mural’s creator have become a feature in Jerusalem, and works by his grandfather, FN Souza, are in London’s British Museum and Tate Modern.

The artist, whose grandmother Liselotte Kohn fled Prague for England in 1939,

said he took great pride in linking up with Chelsea on this project.

“Unfortunately I never met my grandmother, but I hope she would be proud of me and this project. I grew up in London and was on the receiving end of a lot of antisemitism, so it’s worrying that it’s rearing its ugly head again.

Blues’ Chairman Bruce Buck said the images of the three players was aimed at inspiring future generations to “fight against antisemitism, discrimination and racism, wherever they find it”.

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Hours later, Robert Kaye hanged himself.

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Roseman’s was also stripped of its licences and rabbis of the Manchester Rabbinical Court made Kaye paint over the sign identifying the store as kosher.

His partner, Kathryn Davies, told a hearing on Monday at Rochdale coroner’s that Kaye had been left “completely

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Accusations were made against Kaye, who also suffered from multiple sclerosis and depression, after a member of the Gough staff refused to accept a delivery of liver that did not appear to be kosher.

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The publisher has replaced the GCSE history textbook with one offering more ‘balance’

Publisher updates GCSE textbook after bias claim Publishing giant Pearson has denied that a GCSE textbook on the Middle East conflict showed an anti-Israel bias despite updating it to give it more “balance”.

Schools are being contacted and offered the latest edition free of charge after organisations such as the Zionist Federation (ZF), UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and the Board of Deputies expressed concerns.

Last year Pearson Education, which publishes textbooks, revision guides and workbooks, withdrew an Edexcel International GCSE title called The Middle East: Conflict, Crisis and Change, 1917-2012 after blogger David Collier published a report alleging that it “indoctrinates children”.

Collier, whose report was commissioned by the ZF, said the author was “clearly driven by a post-colonial mindset” in discussing, among other things, the massacre in the village of Deir Yassin, and UKLFI concurred that the book was “full of anti-Israel bias”.

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Reacting to news of the update, UKLFI director Caroline Turner said: “We are pleased Pearson withdrew, reviewed then revised the problematic textbooks. We hope the new versions will be more balanced in their approach.”

However, a Pearson spokeswoman this week denied there had been anti-Israel bias.

“An independent review of the texts by an educational charity found no overall evidence of anti-Israel bias,” she said.

“It identified some areas where the balance of sources could be improved and we are updating the texts and offering existing customers the option of replacing them for free.”

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Three neo-impressionist works by Camille Pissarro and Paul Signac were returned to the heirs of Jewish businessman and art collector Gaston Lévy, who was forced to flee Paris for Tunisia as the Nazis occupied France.

Two artworks later made their way back to France and were displayed in the Musée d’Orsay in the French capital, while the third, which was stolen from Lévy’s country home in the Loire Valley, turned up in the collection of Nazi German art historian Hildebrand Gurlitt, who traded in “degenerative art”.

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The author Howard Jacobson entertained hundreds of supporters of Jewish care home charity Nightingale Hammerson at London’s Guildhall on Monday, telling how the invitation to speak came as a shock, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

“I misread the phrase ‘we’d love you to come to speak with us’ as ‘we’d love you to come to sleep with us’. Sleep – was that a euphemism?

Was I being offered free residential care for the rest of my natural life?

[My wife] didn’t hesitate – ‘take it’, she said... And my son was over the moon, saying: ‘That’s a relief.’”

Broadcaster Suzy Klein, who has a relative at Nightingale House, introduced the evening. Nightingale chair Melvin Lawson launched the Care Home Education Centre, a City & Guilds centre approved to develop qualifications in 11 health and social care subjects.

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Think tank will ‘challenge extremism’ in community A new think tank aimed at challenging extremism in the strictly Orthodox Jewish community, is launched this month, writes Jenni Frazer.

Nahamu will monitor where the law is being broken and people’s rights are being infringed in five basic fields: women’s rights, education and its potential denial, marriage coercion, the cover-up of child sex abuse and its enabling, and enforced criminality.

The last category relates to people who get married very young, have not enough education for proper work, and end up both working “cash-inhand” while claiming welfare benefits.

Nahamu chairman Daniel Jonas said: “We do not want to stop Charedim being Charedi or to encourage people to leave their communities. The Charedi way of life is valuable to many who live in such communities and it would be a tragedy were it precipitously to cease to exist.

“Rather, Nahamu was set up to ensure that harms caused by inwardfacing extremism are recognised and addressed, rather than swept under the carpet.”

Nahamu wants to ensure that people who behave badly are held to account

Nahamu’s founder, Yehudis Fletcher, said the organisation has undertaken “an enormous risk assessment” in the community. “Everyone has the right to live their religious life as they see fit,” she said. “But we’re also saying that it’s wrong to exert harm on people, whether individuals or across society in the name of religion.”

The risk assessment looks at issues in what Fletcher calls “the more mod-

erate part of the community” as well as the Charedi community, because she says some things have “seeped” into mainstream Anglo-Jewry.

Nahamu’s board is wide-ranging: besides Jonas and Fletcher, it includes Eve Sacks, co-chair of trustees of JOFA UK, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, and who helps to run the Hendon Partnership Minyan; forensic accountant Ben Crowne, a former

chair of Limmud; and academic David Toube, a trained barrister, director of policy for Quilliam International, the counter-extremism think tank.

Also on the list is Rashad Ali, a former member of the revolutionary Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, and now a respected counter-terrorism adviser who works with government agencies.

According to Fletcher, Nahamu “says things other people are not comfortable with”. She says many of the problems that Nahamu has identified are not specific to the Jewish community – “fundamentalism and extremism are common problems”.

What Nahamu can do, she said, is “put out an alternative narrative – and we can also make sure that people who behave badly are held to account”.

It will not act as a service provider, she added, but will “support those who wish to live a full and sustaining life of religious observance in the community that they have chosen, as well as those who wish to make changes to their lifestyle or move to a different part of the community.”

Police want to question man after boy, 13, sexually assaulted Police have released CCTV images unacceptable and has left of a man they wish to speak to in a young boy feeling violated in what connection with the alleged sexual should have been a safe environment,” assault of a 13-year-old boy at an ice said Police Constable Neil Murphy. rink near Manchester.

“I appreciate this incident took Greater Manchester Police place a while ago, but I would like to received reports of an assault in the stress that we have been following public toilets of Planet Ice in Altrinevery line of enquiry available to us cham at around 6pm on 23 April 2019. and trawling through several CCTV The boy left a cubicle to wash his opportunities. As a result, we have hands and was confronted by a man Police want to been able to release these images who allegedly sexually assaulted him speak to this man in the hope of talking to the man picby the wash basins, police said. tured.”

The CCTV images show a bearded man with Anyone with information is asked to conglasses wearing what appears to be a kippah, tact police urgently on 101 referring to incident a suit jacket and a white shirt. number 2080 of 23/04/2019 or alternatively, call “An assault of this nature is completely Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

SCHOOL GOVERNOR’S ‘HATE’ POEM A secondary school in east London faces calls to remove an author from its board of governors over a poem described this week by the Board of Deputies as “inflammatory” and “antisemitic”.

Dante Micheaux was appointed chair of governors at the council-run Eastlea Community School in Canning Town in 2016.

He has written two poetry collections entitled Circus and Amorous Shepherd: Poems and has won several literary

accolades. But a 2010 poem, Siding with the Israelis, has drawn fierce criticism from the Board, the Jewish Chronicle reported on Tuesday.

A spokesperson told the newspaper: “No one who writes this inflammatory, antisemitic material is fit to be a school governor.

“Our children should be protected from people like Micheaux. The school should remove him from his position immediately.” Newham Council, which runs the

school, is looking into the controversy, the report says.

The poem reads: “I will become a conqueror of refugees exiled in their own home/ an exploder of babies in bassinets/ a barbed-wire fence dissecting families/ so we can lie in the dust & watch snails race up Golgotha.”

In another line, the narrator promises to “piss on the pilgrims that have come to pray” at the Dome of the Rock.

Eastlea Community School was approached for comment.

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Setback for Bibi in immunity bid

ISRAEL ‘HELPED’ IN SOLEIMANI MISSION

favour of forming the House Israeli legislators this week Committee, which is to rule on approved the formation of a the immunity request. committee to consider BenCourt proceedings in jamin Netanyahu’s request for Netanyahu’s corruption legal immunity, a major setcases cannot begin until the back for the prime minister Knesset, Israel’s parliament, who is seeking to fend off corsettles the prime minister’s ruption charges. immunity request. If the comHe was charged in mittee rejects his request, he November with fraud, breach would be forced to seek reof trust and accepting bribes in election with the cloud of a three cases involving trading trial looming over him. political and regulatory favours Israeli cabinet members for positive news coverage, and must resign if indicted, but the accepting gifts from billionaire Netanyahu is seeking to fend off corruption charges prime minister is not explicfriends.

His opponents make up a majority in this month he formally asked parlia- itly required to do so.

Netanyahu, who has led the govthe current caretaker parliament, and ment for immunity from prosecution.

His Likud party has tried to delay the ernment for 11 years, has served as his request for immunity is expected to be rejected. Netanyahu has tried to immunity proceedings through a series caretaker prime minister for the past delay the vote on immunity until after of legal challenges and personal attacks year after twice failing to form a coalition 2 March elections, when he hopes more on legal officials, but on Sunday the par- following elections in April and Sepliament’s legal adviser ruled that there tember. sympathetic legislators will be chosen.

Israel is heading into an unprecIsrael’s longest-serving PM has were no grounds for preventing the fordenied any wrongdoing. He called the mation of the committee that deals with edented third election in under a year.

The March vote is widely seen as a refercharges against him an “attempted immunity requests.

On Monday, legislators voted in endum on Netanyahu’s ability to serve. coup” by law enforcement, but earlier

Kosher kitchen feeds firefighters A kosher kitchen established to prepare food for the needy is at the forefront of providing meals to firefighters battling bush fires in Australia.

David Eley, the Jewish chef supervising the Jewish community initiative known as Our Big Kitchen in Sydney, was aged three when his father, Greg, a volunteer firefighter, lost his life battling similar bush fires in 1968.

The kitchen has been hosting more than 200 volunteers per day in two shifts as Australia battles the worst bush fires in its history. The

fires have destroyed nearly 2,000 homes, killed at least 24 people and killed or displaced almost half a billion animals.

In the state of Victoria, volunteers from Melbourne have joined the Jewish organisations Aliya Youth Space, Chaverim, and Chabad of RARA (Rural and Regional Australia) to deliver meals to evacuation centres.

With donations of the Melbourne Jewish community, the volunteers prepared and delivered food packages to evacuation shelters where

Israeli intelligence helped the United States to assassinate top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani (pictured), reports claimed this week.

“Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details,” NBC News reported on Friday.

In an article entitled Airport informants, overhead drones: How the U.S. killed Soleimani, NBC News tr aces t h e operation to kill

Jerusalem man arrested for ‘cult’ Police in Jerusalem arrested a man in his 60s who is accused of running a cult in which dozens of women lived in slave-like conditions.

The man was arrested on Monday, according to the Israel Police, which also detained eight women

At least 24 people have died

those who lost their homes are being housed temporarily.

Chabad of RARA reported that a fundraising drive has distributed $10,000 to

people who lost their homes and businesses or needed help evacuating.

Chabad Rabbi Dovid Slavin and his wife, Laya, founded Our Big Kitchen in 2005.

Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Quds Force, which operates a number of regional militias and is allied with terrorist groups targeting Israel, including Hezbollah and Hamas.

The Israeli intelligence was said to have helped the US confirm a tip from informants at the airport in the Syrian capital of Damascus, which told the CIA exactly when a jet carrying Soleimani took off for Baghdad, according to the report.

US drone airstrikes early on 2 January hit a vehicle in which Soleimani was a passenger near Baghdad International Airport, killing him.

Iran retaliated with missile strikes on two US bases last Monday, with no reported American casualties.

The suspect is led into court

accused of helping the man to run the cult.

The group lived in a building in Jerusalem’s Bukharim Quarter identified as a woman’s seminary.

Some 50 women, many with children, lived in the building in overcrowded conditions.

The man, who has not been named, isolated them from their families, controlled their lives and punished them for transgressions, according to the police.

Women who held jobs transferred their wages directly to the man, according to a police report.

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Israel sets lasers for defence An ingenious new Israeli defence system aims to knock out rockets up to 30 miles away, says Stephen Oryszczuk For decades, missile defence has meant intercepting one projectile with another, so when the Israeli Defence Ministry said last week that it was planning to use light instead, heads turned.

Mention lasers to most people and they think of eye surgery or charging round darkened halls in teams wearing jetpacks and carrying guns.

Mention it to an Israeli in the defence industry, however, and they think of next-generation missile defence systems, a kind of Iron Dome Mark II, only this time with the ability to be used by individual Israeli aircraft.

Planes firing lasers at missiles may once have been the stuff of childhood fiction, but it is soon to become reality, with similar progress being made in the United States.

How does it work? It includes a beamtracking system to illuminate the target and a high-powered laser to intercept it. Essentially, the incoming missile is blown out of the sky by a blast of thermal energy.

As with all cutting-edge military technology most details remain classified, but Israel’s

Computer-generated images of a laser-based air defence system being developed by the Israeli Defense Ministry

defence industry certainly feels it has achieved a “technological breakthrough” in the use of lasers to intercept rockets and will be testing it in field trials this year.

The new system, which is being developed

by Rafael and Elbit Systems, could be operational in 18 months, and is being designed to knock out rockets up to 30 miles away, as well as short-range mortars, anti-tank missiles and small aircraft.

Elbit, which already produces laser countermeasures, range-finders and pointers, is believed

to be developing the airborne technology demonstrator for manned and unmanned aircraft under a Defence Ministry contract.

The concept of laser-based missile defence systems mounted on planes is not new – a Boeing design made its first flight in 2002 and shot its first lasers at an aerial target in 2007.

But the problems are complex. Not least: how to generate the huge amount of power onboard the aircraft needed to fire a laser beam and then

rapidly cool the whole system down. Do you use vents? What do you do with the waste energy?

How do you protect the aircraft? What material do you use to house the pod from which the beam is fired?

These are questions to which the Israeli teams clearly feel they have found answers, and with tensions in the Middle East rising, lasers cannot be added to the armoury fast enough.

There is an established blueprint: Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system has consistently shown how top technology can be effectively employed, and deserves every accolade for saving countless Israeli lives.

So, what to call Israel’s new laser system? Rafael went for ‘Iron Beam’ when it first presented the concept at the Singapore Airshow in 2014, but initial names may not be the last.

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PARIS SUPERMARKET ATTACK RECALLED Hundreds of people attended a ceremony commemorating the fifth anniversary of the murder of four Jews at a Paris kosher supermarket (pictured) by a jihadist.

At the event, outside HyperCacher in the Porte de Vincennes area in eastern Paris, candles were lit for each victim of the 2015 attack, and the crowd sang the French national anthem. It was attended by Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.

Francis Kalifat, the president of CRIF, the umbrella

group of French Jewish communities, said the memory of the victims will “forever be treasured” by French Jewry.

He criticised the case of Sarah Halimi, who was thrown to her death by her Muslim neighbour.

The suspect was found unfit to stand trial because he was high on marijuana.

OLYMPIAN TURNS 99 The oldest living Olympic champion, Agnes Keleti, has turned 99. The Shoah survivor won 10 medals as a gymnast in 1952 and 1956.

Auschwitz sees record visitors

German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the camp last year

A record 2.32 million people visited the sites of former Nazi camps Auschwitz and Birkenau last year.

The total is about 170,000 more than in 2018, which also had broken previous records, the Auschwitz memorial.

Eighty-one percent of the visitors availed themselves of one of 340 guides who conduct educational tours in 21 languages.

According to the memorial’s online reservation system, some 396,000 visitors were from Poland, 300,000 from Britain,

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120,000 from the United States, 104,000 from Italy, 73,000 from Germany, 70,000 from Spain, 67,000 from France, 59,000 from Israel, 42,000 from Ireland and 40,000 from Sweden.

In addition, over 900,000 follow the Auschwitz Museum’s Twitter account, more than 300,000 use its Facebook page, and 80,000 follow it on Instagram.

The infamous death camp will take centre stage later this month when the world marks the 75th anniversary of its liberation.

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An Orthodox woman alleged to have committed 74 acts of child sexual assault while headmistress at a Jewish girls’ school in Sydney has been told she is fit to stand trial there.

Malka Leifer fled to Israel before she could be arrested.

Ever since, she has claimed mental incapacity, but a pyschiatric panel has now ruled she lied about her condition.

Four Orthodox Jews have been injured in a mass brawl with up to 30 non-Jewish locals, some of them reportedly holding clubs, in the central Ukrainian city of Uman. Police were called to the scene, but it is unclear whether they had made any arrests. Tens of thousands of Chasidic Jews travel there every year to visit the resting place of Rabbi Nachman, the founder of the Breslov movement, but tension with locals has been increasing.

Organisers of a Jewish summer camp in Brazil have welcomed their oldest ever participant: a 79-year-old man who converted to Judaism in 2016. Benedito Araujo de Souza, also known as Seu Baruch, drove 800 miles with his partner to attend the sixth annual Yeshiva Camp. His ancestors were Portuguese Jews forced to convert.

Parliamentarians in Lithuania advanced a bill declaring that neither the state nor its leaders collaborated with its Nazi occupiers in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. But Jewish groups, including The Simon Wiesenthal Center, say the bill aims to whitewash the country’s wartime record and hopes the legislation will be dropped. More than 95 percent of about 250,000 Jews in the country were murdered after the Nazis invaded in 1941.

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It’s a matter of life and death

A huge new survey of British Jews’ views on organ donation this week showed we are far more ready to donate organs than the average Brit – a quite staggering finding.

On any other day, that would be the big news from this survey, but what shone out loud and clear as the priority was the utter confusion among Jews of all stripes and types when it came to what Jewish law said in this area.

On the question of death, some thought this was defined as brain death, some heart death, some hadn’t a clue.

On the question of myths, some thought Jews need to be buried whole in order to be allowed in to the afterlife, or to be buried in a Jewish cemetery, whereas others thought bodies simply could never be desecrated.

On the question of Halacha, some thought organ donation was always allowed, some thought it was never allowed and some thought it sometimes allowed – although they differed as to when this was.

In short it’s a bit of a mess, but with every cloud a silver lining: now is the perfect time to educate the community, because the UK is soon to move from an opt-in system to an opt-out system, whereby one’s willingness to donate organs will be assumed unless they have opted out.

That more of us want our organs to help someone else live after we die is great news. That we are so unsure as regards Jewish ethics in this area is not. Surely, that is an eminently solvable problem.

Let’s make it a 2020 priority.

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Chief disinvite so wrong I write as a Charedi student at a prominent yeshiva. Following your article regarding the decision of Agudas Yisroel to disinvite the Chief Rabbi from the Siyum HaShas, I would like to explain why I believe this decision to be egregious and asinine (Jewish News, 9 January).

First, one of the primary reasons that Rabbi Meir Shapiro instituted Daf Yomi was to allow all Jews, irrespective of where they were geographically and specific sentiments they may maintain, to find common ground and unite through the learning of the Daf Yomi. How ironic that what should have been a celebration of that solidarity resulted in inane quarrelling that is fragmenting our community in London.

At a time when antisemitism is ubiquitously prevalent in the US and England, it is pivotal Jews themselves remain in firm cohesion and the Siyum should have been a time to highlight that unity.

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‘What do you mean you don’t want to be a Jewish princess any more?’

The Talmud (Shabbos 31a) relates the story of a non-Jew who wanted to convert to Judaism. He approached Jewish sage Hillel and challenged him to teach him the whole Torah while standing on one foot. Hillel replied: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. That is the whole Torah, the rest is the explanation of this – go and study it!”

The Torah’s most fundamental tenet is to act with respect and reverence to every person, and yet a few individuals have disregarded this in an incredibly public manner thanks to their own dogmas.

This decision was made by a few individuals who are part of a fringe group and does not represent my own or my community’s perspective, as well as that of the large majority of British Jewry, whatever their personal opinions may be on the Chief Rabbi.

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WHY CHIEF MERITED EXCLUSION There were cogent reasons why United Synagogue Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was ‘no-platformed’ at the recent celebratory Siyyum held to celebrate the completion of the Daf Yomi cycle of Talmudic study.

Last year, Rabbi Mirvis saw fit to publish a pamphlet outlining the approach of his office to persons following so-called ‘alternative lifestyles’ – meaning practising homosexuals, lesbians, bi- and transsexuals.

We can all agree with Rabbi Mirvis that the bullying, harassment and discrimination suffered by such people is out of order.

But in publishing his pamphlet, Rabbi Mirvis chose to partner with an organisation

that specifically promotes such lifestyle choices. This is quite contrary to Orthodox Jewish law, as Rabbi Mirvis must have known.

This year, the government will enforce in all English primary and secondary schools the teaching of mandated forms of relationships and sex education that are contrary to halachic norms.

Rabbi Mirvis could have condemned these proposals.

He has not done so.

Those of us who follow an Orthodox lifestyle are entitled to expect the support of the Chief Rabbi (so called). That this support has not been forthcoming is indeed tragic.

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TOO QUICK ON THE DRAW I found the Paul Solomons cartoon in last week’s issue unfunny and offensive. It deliberately stereotypes many people’s idea of what a Jew is – and for this to be published in a Jewish newspaper is beyond belief.

This is the type of antisemitic rubbish published by the type of magazines that love to portray all Jewish people as devious, sly, grasping and only interested in money, money, money.

Is it just me, or do other readers feel the same?

Helen Dryer By email

I was less than amused by the cartoon of 9 January depicting a Jewish gentleman boasting he had daubed his own premises so that he could have them redecorated by his local authorities This is deeply offensive.

It is abhorrent to have antisemitic daubings on any building, but to make a joke of redecorating at the public’s expense is simply not funny. ‘Jokes’ like this are simply fodder for anti-Jewish ‘Actually Sam, I just daubed feeling, of which there is no a few antisemitic messages paucity. on the walls myself and the council have repainted my Anna Wiseman By email whole shop front!’

Would Board do the same?

The Board of Deputies has issued 10 pledges to Labour Party leadership candidates, which include ensuring transparency, and engaging only with the community’s representative bodies.

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Chief Rabbi’s critics are often takers, not givers have a habit of boiling over in British-Jewry.

After a period when the community has CITY EDITOR. DAILY MAIL been more or less at one speaking out against antisemitism in the Labour Party, the breakout of antagonism among traditional communities or the last three months I have over Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s work on the been learning Mishna on a daily LGBT cause is a sharp remainder of what dispubasis. Along with an expanding tatious people we can be. Actually, when I think group of 25 people, I receive a back to some of the bitesize Mishna we have daily five-minute or so ‘Bitesize’ text and been studying, and the robust debate among broadcast on WhatsApp from Richmond the rabbis about how things should be done, it Rabbi Meir Shindler. The postings are might all seem perfectly natural. a brilliant way to escape the bustle of That wasn’t quite the vibe at the HGS event the day and understand better why 21st in the presence of the Chief Rabbi Ephraim century Jews say blessings and recite the Mirvis, the emeritus head of the Beth Din Shema in particular ways. It has evoked Dayan Ehrentreu and current Beth Din chief fascinating debate.

Dayan Gelley. The events earlier in the week It was part curiosity and part admiration clearly has stung the US rabbinical and lay that, when invited to join a United Synagogue leadership. Many US rabbis, including my own, dinner event Siyum Hashas at Hampstead had been greatly looking forward to marking Garden Suburb (HGS) shul to mark the end the completion of the Day Yomi Talmud study of the seven-and-a-half year Torah learning programme event organised by the Stamford society, I and a few friends accepted with Hill based Agudat Yisroel at Wembley Arena. alacrity. What none of us perhaps realised (how As Jewish News reported prominently, could we?) was that we would be walking into JGTofAdvert 165x260mm v4.qxp_JN advert 165x260mm 16:59 Page 1 had been Mirvis and14/01/2020 other US representatives one those Final inter-community cauldrons that

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offered places on the platform. Shortly before the scheduled celebration it was made known to Mirvis that he was not welcome.

A minority of those present resented Mirvis’s heroic stand on LBGT education and its inclusion in the school curriculum.

This act of cultural vandalism from the right was particularly disturbing at a time when Mirvis’s nationwide profile has never been greater. His charge during the election that Labour antisemitism was a challenge to the ‘soul of the nation’ stirred Jews and non-Jews.

The depth of the hurt as a result of Agudath’s affront to Mirvis was evident throughout the proceedings at HGS. As Gelley signalled the start of the next Torah cycle he and others

referred to how it had been a difficult week for Mirvis. Ehrentreu, not known in the past for his moderation, was solid in support.

When Mirvis finally came to give his address there was a minute’s standing ovation, recognition of the esteem in which he is held. The applause was a direct riposte to his opponents.

What is truly upsetting about these events is that something as exciting and significant as celebrations of Torah learning should have become politicalised. It is a sharp reminder that there are deep problems in the community.

More than any other groups the ultraOrthodox wants to see their values defended against enemies demanding, for instance, changes in Kashrut, Brit Milah and other Jewish practice. It is happy to let the broader community campaign on their behalf of these issues and on housing and support for state funding for religious education.

Too often the Mirvis critics are takers and not givers when it comes to broader community interests. Disrespecting the Chief Rabbi will not improve the chances of getting a hearing for causes dear to their hearts.

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n Salford, where I live and represent, I know how hurt and angry Jewish residents are at Labour’s failure to combat antisemitism and it is right to apologise. Greater Manchester has a proud history of Jewish Labour MPs, councillors and trade union activists and it is tragic that the support given by the Jewish community to the Labour Party for over a century has come to this.

That is why I supported my local council in adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. It’s why I regularly meet with Jewish communal representatives. It’s why I am proud that the Jewish Labour Movement has been affiliated to the Labour Party for 100 years, and as Leader I would want to ensure that it remains affiliated for the next hundred years and beyond.

My advice to Labour Party members is that it is never OK to respond to allegations of racism by being defensive.

No-one is immune from racism as long as it exists in society, whatever their past credentials in opposing racism.

The only acceptable response to any accusation of racist prejudice is self-scrutiny, self-criticism and self-improvement.

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much smaller number of ideological antisemites, just as it does in the general population.

Unfortunately, some people who regard themselves as anti-racist may nevertheless, when talking about the legacy of colonialism or the distribution of power within our capitalist society, use some of the negative stereotypical ideas or images that have become embedded within our culture over time.

We need an education programme that challenges the conspiracy theories and explains the tropes.

Labour members who do feel strongly about Palestinian rights must also understand why Jewish people in Britain today, for whom the Holocaust is a recent memory, see the existence of a Jewish state as a source of hope and security.

They must learn to recognise the racism that permeates even a party that sees itself as anti-racist.

As leader of the Labour Party, I want to rid our country of racism. I know that to do so I must first ensure that we get our own house in order.

the country and the TV studios denying and diminishing the problem of antisemitism.

Sadly however, we didn’t act quickly or robustly enough on antisemitism and although I believe that Labour’s national executive has improved our disciplinary process significantly, it is harrowing that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are investigating our processes.

We now have a duty to respond to any recommendations they make by enacting them swiftly and in full.

I will also enact all of the Board of Deputies’ recommendations, and I believe that our processes must be transparent, fully independent and with proper independent scrutiny. When elected as Leader, I will work with the Jewish Labour Movement to reform them further. But reforming the disciplinary procedures is only half the battle. We can and must expel antisemites, but we cannot overcome antisemitism without education.

The problem of antisemitism in the Labour Party – people holding negative and stereotypical ideas about Jews – extends beyond the

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The act of giving is still our greatest gift GADY GRONICH

CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN RABBIS

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recent survey by Barclays of 400 multi-millionaires across nine countries found 46 percent think financing good causes is the state’s jobs while 29 percent say family and business interests should be prioritised over philanthropy. In the Jewish world, philanthropy undeniably informs our education and values in a way that cannot be overestimated.

The concept of tikkun olam, acts of kindness with the aim of healing the world, is something for which the Jewish community is well-regarded the world over as it showcases the value of philanthropy beyond the act of giving. Jewish philanthropy is often a means of connecting disparate Diaspora communities and imbuing them with a sense of a community, fellowship and family. For

global Jewry, far from detracting from the greater priority of family commitments, charity serves to heighten our sense of family values in line with the Jewish values of community, openness and tolerance.

It is no coincidence that the closest translation of the word ‘philanthropy’ in Hebrew is tzedakah. While this is most commonly used generically to mean charity, it more accurately describes the act of social justice the giver conceives of for those in need of it, which can only be actioned effectively in collaboration.

Social responsibility trumps mere acts of charity because is something that can only be actioned in collaboration with other like-minded individuals, it isn’t a nameless faceless that act that can be aimed at someone in isolation.

There are many examples within our community that illustrate how essential collaboration between like-minded organisations and individuals from across the worlds of business, media, politics, and beyond, is in the interests of working towards achieving our common objectives.

One such example is Russian businessman and philanthropist Boris Mints, whose charitable work, under the umbrella of The Mints Family Charitable Foundation, is driven by family values. The foundation is especially committed to supporting non-profit organisations and community projects in the fields of the arts and culture, science, medicine and education, and the development of Jewish communities.

The common thread between all these philanthropic interests is the idea of uniting people in working towards finding solutions for contemporary global problems facing society, based on the principles of charity, philanthropy, mutual support, tolerance and traditional family values.

Mints prioritises education as the most profound philanthropic act and the most powerful tool in the fight against antisemitism and hatred and in support of furthering positive change in the world for the benefit of society.

This ethos was behind the establishment of the Boris Mints Institute (BMI) to encourage research, planning and innova-

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Opinion

By adopting victimhood we betray our self-image EDIE FRIEDMAN

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t is impossible to predict how long it will take for the dust to settle after last month’s general election. Deep anger and mistrust affected not only relations in our own community (including within families and between friends), but also, alarmingly, with other communities as well.

How do we begin to get back to a better place? We can start by recognising that diversity of thought in our community is a strength, not a weakness, and one that has always been central to Jewish life.

If we forget this, we risk ‘othering’ and alienating Jews who have different views from our own – even, sometimes very different views – and we undermine our own ability to participate fully in making this a better society for all (including asylum seekers and refugees, as well as members of other minority communities).

Then, we need to see our fight against anti-

semitism as part of a commitment to fighting all forms of racism, within all political parties and, more broadly, society generally, not solely confined to the racism that affects us.

And we have to take on board that, if we really hope to achieve this, then we need to make alliances with other minorities and work alongside and hand-in-hand with them.

Doing none of these things may result in two consequences: we risk isolating ourselves from the rest of British society by what can be seen as our indifference to the injustices facing others; and there is always a risk that other minorities feel that the racism that affects them doesn’t get the same attention as antisemitism, even when our concerns are similar.

We need to reactivate the Jewish voice on the broad issues of social justice in the UK. This requires us to stand shoulder to shoulder with those Muslims who, since the election, have said they fear for their safety and for the future of their children.

And we need to make our voice more prominent in the campaigns aimed at seeking justice for the Windrush generation, for

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WE NEED TO REACTIVATE THE JEWISH VOICE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE allowing asylum seekers the right to work and for reuniting refugee families.

We need to make sure we are consistent in insisting that all political parties, not just one, have proper procedures to deal with all forms of racism, and then hold them to account.

These would be signs that we are a community that not only protects itself, which it must do, but also protects and looks out for others, which it also must do. As Rabbi Hillel taught, if we are only for ourselves, what are we?

But working to combat racism is only half the story. We have to avoid adopting victimhood as a dominant expression of our Jewishness. This is a betrayal of Jewish experience,

and damaging both to our self-image and to the identity we project to the outside world.

A positive engagement with the wider society must be a better legacy for our children, and could be central to our post-election healing.

So I would like our community to come together by strengthening our work on social justice. Tackling child poverty would be a good place to start as it disproportionately affects minority communities, not excluding our own.

I know that many of us already give generously to food banks, but donating is not all we need to do. Jewish teaching requires us to practise not just charity but tzedakah (justice, righteousness, and fairness).

This means that we also have to look at how to decrease the number of children in Britain living in poverty (4.1 million, expected to rise to 5.2 million by 2022).

This should be a priority across all our communal institutions. Because, in addition to the good that may come out of such work, it also provides a tangible opportunity to come together, to heal our rifts and to put into action the values we all share.

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No matter the threat, be proud to be Jewish ❝

RABBI LORD SACKS

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he last two festivals to be added to the Jewish calendar prior to modern times — Purim and Chanukah — are both about antisemitism. There is one obvious difference between them: Haman, of the Purim story, wanted to kill Jews.

Antiochus, of the Chanukah story, wanted to kill Judaism. It was the difference between Nazi Germany and Soviet communism.

But there is another difference that has renewed salience after the horrifying knife attack in New York state. What saved Jews on Purim was behind-the-scenes influence: Esther’s influence in the royal court.

But the danger of antisemitism remained.

What if hatred returned and this time there was no Esther around to save the Jews? That is one reason, according to the Talmud, why we do not say Hallel on Purim.

On Chanukah, by contrast, Jews fought back and won. The Maccabees became a symbol of Jewish activism, of refusing to live in fear. As a symbol of this, the original custom was to light Chanukah lights outside the front door of the house, or at least in a window facing the street, to publicise the miracle. Today, we see the lighting of giant menorahs in the most prominent public face of cities throughout the world.

Chanukah tells us not to curse the darkness, but instead to bring light to the world. It tells us to fight back and not to be afraid.

The shocking events in Monsey, together with those in Jersey City, Poway, Pittsburgh and elsewhere, are proof that the darkness has returned. It has returned likewise to virtually every country in Europe. That this should have happened within living memory of the Holocaust, after the most systematic attempt ever made by a civilisation to find a cure for the virus of the world’s longest hate — more than half a century of Holocaust education and anti-racist legislation — is almost unbelievable. It is particularly traumatic that this has happened in the United States, the country where Jews felt more at home than anywhere else in the Diaspora. Why is it happening now?

First, because of everything associated with the internet, smartphones, viral videos and above all, social media. These have what is called a “disinhibition effect.” People are far more hateful when communicating electronically than when speaking face-to-face.

Cyberspace has proved to be the most effective incubator of resentment, rancour and conspiracy theories ever invented. Antisemitism thrives on conspiracy theories, versions of the Blood Libel and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, updated for the 21st century.

Second, because of the way people encounter these phenomena: often alone, in the privacy of their own home. This allows them to be radicalised without anyone realising it is happening.

LONE WOLVES TEND TO SEEK SOFT TARGETS – THE JEWISH COMMUNITY MUST ENSURE, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, THAT THERE ARE NONE

Monsey suspect Grafton Thomas

Time and again, we read of people carrying out horrific attacks, while those who knew them recall not having seen any warning signs that they were intent on committing evil attacks.

The most dangerous phenomenon of our time is the “lone wolf” attack, because it is so hard to predict. The internet is particularly dangerous for loners, people in whom the normal process of socialisation — learning to live with others who are not like us — has broken down.

Historically though, the most important factor in the rise of antisemitism is the sense among a group that the world as it is now is not the way it used to be, or ought to be.

The far left has not recovered from the global collapse of communism and socialism as ideologies. Hence the assault on Jews as capitalists and libertarians.

The far right feels threatened by the changing composition of Western societies, because of immigration on an unprecedented scale and low birth rates among the native population. Hence white supremacists.

Many radical Islamists are troubled by dysfunctions in the Muslim world. Hence the emergence of anti-Zionism as the new antisemitism. These concerns do not, in and of themselves, lead to antisemitism. One other factor must be added.

When bad things happen, good people ask, “What did I do wrong?” They put their house in order. But bad people ask, “Who did this to me?” They cast themselves as victims and search for scapegoats to blame.

The scapegoat of choice has long been the Jews. They were the archetypal outsiders.

For a thousand years, they were the most prominent non-Christian minority in Europe.

Today, the state of Israel is the most significant non-Muslim presence in the Middle East.

It is easy to blame Jews because they are conspicuous, because they are a minority and because they are there.

Antisemitism has little to do with Jews — they are its object, not its cause — and everything to do with dysfunction in the communities that harbour it.

Antisemitism, or any hate, becomes dangerous in any society when three things happen: when it moves from the fringes of politics to a mainstream party and its leadership; when the party sees that its popularity

with the general public is not harmed thereby; and when those who stand up and protest are vilified and abused for doing so. All three factors exist in Britain now. The same must not be allowed to happen in America.

What, then, must we do? The first priority must be to strengthen security in Jewish venues, to intensify police patrols and to develop habits of vigilance.

The UK Jewish community has a fine example in the Community Security Trust which, with the support of government grants, monitors risks, enlists thousands of volunteers to stand security duty and works closely with the government and local police forces.

“Lone wolves” tend to seek soft targets, and

the Jewish community must ensure as far as possible that there are none.

Next, we must recognise that while we have enemies, we also have friends. They are many and strong and made us feel we were not alone.

Last, we must never forget the message of Chanukah: Fight back. Never be afraid. Whatever the threats, be proud to be Jewish and share this pride with others.

At times our history has been written in tears, yet we have outlived every empire and every civilisation that sought to destroy us. Our spirit, symbolised by the Chanukah candles, is indomitable.

Where others spread darkness, let us bring light.

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1SURPRISING ARTWORK

Pupils at Keser Girls’ School in Gateshead got in touch with their creative side during a surprise visit from Emily Ben E’ev, who runs the interactive children’s workshops Emily’s Adventures in Wonderland. The children produced pastel pictures inspired by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh’s iconic sunflowers, while younger pupils produced charcoal drawings as an introduction to the English artist Laurence Stephen Lowry. Ben E’ev hailed the “phenomenal” artwork produced as she taught the children about the artists’ lives and “how important it is to never give up”.

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2 CARING SIMCHAH

Chigwell batmitzvah girl Rebecca Preston celebrated her special day by inviting friends to donate unused toiletries to the charity GIFT. Joined by her parents Rashelle and Andy and other families several days later, she packed up donations in decorative cellophane to distribute to families in need. Her parents said: “This was a very simple request and everyone was very pleased to help.

We also had a GIFT stand during the reception, and the children made Shabbat sets and packs for the homeless. We cannot recommend GIFT highly enough if you want to add something special and worthwhile to your simcha.”

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3 SHELTER INSPIRATION

A night shelter coordinator visited Kingston Liberal Synagogue to discuss her work and call for new volunteers during a special service.

Sophie Mayor, who works at The Haven, a night shelter for the homeless, is pictured with Rabbi René Pfertzel and publicity officer Rebecca Singerman-Knight. “It was really inspiring to listen to Sophie speak about the work of the night shelter, in particular about its success in helping people into sustainable accommodation,” said Pfertzel. “It was also really uplifting to hear about the huge number of volunteers from the community – both individuals and businesses – who contribute to the successful running of the shelter. Some of our members already help out with the shelter, but I’m sure many more will be inspired to do so after hearing Sophie speak.”

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Tenants at Jewish Blind and Disabled’s Cecil Rosen Court took part in a bring-and-buy sale to kick off the year, raising £160 for their social fund, which finances events throughout the year. “Lots of fun was had as tenants and their guests hunted for a bargain,” organisers said.

Pictured are tenants with items brought to the event, including designer handbags and a decorative egg.

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Young JBD, a new outreach committee aimed at people in their twenties (pictured) formed to raise money for Jewish Blind and Disabled, has met for the first time. It will organise events and parties to support the charity’s vital work in the community.

To get involved or find out more about events, email the committee on abi@jbd.org.

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Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the dayanim of the London Beth Din joined 200 guests at Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue to celebrate the end of a seven-anda-half year cycle studying the entire Talmud. The event was organised by the Rabbinic Council of the United Synagogue (RCUS) and United Synagogue (US). Keynote speaker Mirvis said: “Our Torah learning is our most important achievement.” RCUS chair Rabbi Nicky Liss said: “It is a tremendous Kiddush Hashem that the first event of the US’ 150th anniversary year of 2020 was an evening dedicated to a celebration of Torah learning.”

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More than 100 Reform and Liberal cheder teachers gathered at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood for a training event. They discussed how to preserve memories of the Holocaust in a post-survivor world, with three sessions led by a leading Yad Vashem educator. There were also talks on mental health led by charity Jami and Reform Judaism, Hebrew-language lessons and

sessions on special educational needs and working intergenerationally. Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers, who organised the event with Rabbi Sandra Kviat, said: “Teachers give up chunks of their weekends to invest in the next generation, and it’s rewarding to be able to give something back to them.”

8FOOD INSPIRATION Around 150 people packed food, made toiletry packs for the homeless and decorated mugs for nurses and carers at an event in Hendon with charity GIFT managed by a group of six JFS students, pictured with volunteers. GIFT educator Shira Joseph said: “I have been running informal education sessions with this group for a while and it is amazing to see how they want to give back and are inspiring others.” The charity seeks to encourage giving among young Jews and support those in need.

9FUTURE CONCEPT

Close to 200 rabbis and rebbetzens and educators gathered at South Hampstead Synagogue for the Aleinu conference organised by Jewish Futures, Aish, Seed, the Jewish Learning Exchange and the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue. Participants attended a gala dinner featuring live music and a kumzitz. Jewish Futures CEO Rabbi Naftali Schiff hailed the event as a “truly remarkable concept” bringing together the community. Pictured are Rabbis Nicky Liss, Shlomo Odze, Schiff, YY Jacobson, Benjy Morgan, Joey Grunfeld and Daniel Rowe Aish.

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The loves and loaves of RINKOFFS Alex Galbinski discovers how four generations have earned their crust managing the last Jewish family-run bakery in the East End

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inkoffs is one of those great Jewish migrant success stories. A family-run bakery, its very name conjures up mouth-watering memories of handmade Danish pastries, rye and challah bread, platzels, cheesecake and more.

With the fourth generation now on board, the business continues to thrive more than 100 years after its founding.

The store’s fascinating history begins with 18-year-old Hyman Rinkoff, who fled pogroms in his native Odessa and was smuggled into Germany before embarking on a long trek in freezing conditions, finally arriving in London’s East End in 1906.

But life was not exactly easy once he arrived on England’s shores.

Having trained as a baker, Hyman became a journeyman, or jobbing baker, working up to 18 hours a day, in unsanitary conditions with no ventilation.

One historian describes the East End at that time as a place of “barbarism, poverty and vice”.

In her new book, Pam Fox, author of History in the Baking: The Rinkoff Story, also details how the continued arrival of Jews was seen by some as a social crisis during the early 20th century.

For Hyman, hard work and punishing hours paid off. By the age of 25, he had scraped enough money together to establish his own bakery in Old Montague Street, Whitechapel, with the doors opening in 1911.

Two years earlier, he had married Fanny Cohen and the couple had seven children. Traditional Yiddish-speaking Jews, they became prominent members of the Princelet Street synagogue.

After Hyman and Fanny’s death, the business passed to their children and in 1955 Max and his brother-in-law Jack Kaye entered into a partnership, buying out the other siblings.

The business expanded and, alongside the speci-

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Rinkoffs on Old Montague Street, Whitechapel, in the 1970s

ality breads for which it became known, Max and his wife Sylvie began selling cakes and pastries.

Bakery life was “unremitting hard work”, explains Fox, with the family all living above the shop and working in it. But the East End’s Jewish community was tightly-knit, and the shop would have been a sanctuary to immigrants yearning for home and as a place of social contact.

It has remained so ever since, says Esther Rinkoff, 63, wife of Max and Sylvie’s youngest son, Ray, and the current master baker who began working for the family in 1969.

“Going into the bakery is like a therapy session,” laughs Esther, who used to help out in the shop and now gives guided walks focusing on the bakery’s history.

“People would come in on a Sunday and stand there for hours and chat. You would know what was going on in the community – if people didn’t come in, you knew something was wrong.”

She jokes that Ray, now 66, is an unofficial social worker, delivering goods to customers too frail to pop in, and taking home others who can’t manage the journey.

While the job has become easier over the years thanks to technical advances, it is still tough, with long days and very early starts, but Ray’s passion for what he does is visceral.

“I love that the Rinkoffs have served the community for 108 years,” he says. His brothers Harvey and Derek have since joined the firm, which occupies two sites in Vallance Road

and Jubilee Street. “I have always enjoyed coming to work, and still do after more than 50 years.”

Pam, a social historian, was intrigued as to why the bakery endured. She conducted genealogical research to find out more about the Rinkoffs and read widely on the East End, but the majority of the book’s material was derived from speaking to family members, former and current bakery staff and, of course, the loyal legion of customers.

“Esther’s enthusiasm was infectious, and after I visited the bakery I was smitten,” she says.

Esther explains: “We are so passionate about the business; it’s been our livelihood and we serve the community.”

In many ways, Rinkoffs is part of the social fabric of the East End. It features prominently in Steven Berkoff ’s play Sit and Shiver, while a scene in Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz, was shot in the Vallance Road shop.

Although the area has gentrified, pockets of poverty remain. Since most of the bakery’s Jewish clientele moved to greener pastures, friends have suggested the Rinkoffs move north. But Esther says firmly: “The East End is where we belong.”

Over the last century, changing trends mean that rye, platzels and baigels now jostle for shelf space alongside Linzer biscuits, cupcakes and crodoughs (a croissant-doughnut combo), while the shop now retains the skills of the family’s fourth generation.

They include Ray and Esther’s daughters, Jennifer and Debs, as well as Derek’s son, Lloyd, all of whom have made their mark.

“I hope our children and their children will continue in the tradition and keep the Rinkoff name going for at least another 100 years,” says Ray. Hyman would no doubt agree.  History in the Baking: The Rinkoff Story by Pam Fox is available to buy at the Rinkoff shops, on Amazon and eBay, priced £12, www.rinkoffbakery. co.uk. Details about Esther’s guided walks are at @walktalkbake on Instagram and Facebook

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FILM Can You Ever Forgive Me? (15) Celebrity biographer Lee Israel was a bestselling writer who made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead and Esteé Lauder. But when she found herself falling out of step with the marketplace and unable to get published, she turned her art into deception, abetted by her loyal friend, Jack Hock. Together they forged hundreds of letters by deceased writers and actors and sold them to unwitting buyers until the FBI caught up with her.

Melissa McCarthy earned her second Academy Award nomination as Israel, while Richard E Grant stars as Hock in director Marielle Heller’s affecting and darkly witty character study of the veteran fraudster. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (15) is available on Sky Cinema Premiere and NowTV from Sunday, 19 January

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Hunters Al Pacino has described his latest role as a leading Nazi hunter in 1970s New York, as a “wonderful experience”.

The revered actor, who on Monday earned the ninth Oscar nomination of his glittering career, will star as Meyer Offerman in Amazon Prime video’s thrilling drama series Hunters.

Pacino plays the leader of a group of Nazi hunters who uncover a plot to overthrow the US government, leading them on a bloody quest to thwart the plans.

The drama, created by David Weil and inspired by real events, also stars Logan Lerman, Jerrika Hinton and Josh Radnor.

Pacino appeared at a panel in Pasadena, California, on Tuesday to promote the series and said: “It was a wonderful experience and I can’t say that about all the things I’ve done. I mean, I’m hearing myself say it and wondering, “am I doing a sale job here?’”

He added: “There’s kind of an originality in this show, it’s a little eccentric and all of a sudden you will see from certain angles. It isn’t just a dry thing.”

The 79-year-old star of films including The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and Scent Of A Woman, also reflected on his long career. He said: “When you do this a long time, things change. And you never know what you’re going to come across.”

Hunters arrives on Amazon Prime Video on 21 February.

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Netflix has renewed the critically-acclaimed drama series You for a third series, just weeks after the release of the muchanticipated second series.

Writer and creator Sera Gamble and co-creator Greg Berlanti will return as executive producers, with Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti reprising their roles.

The first series, based on the books You and Hidden Bodies

by Caroline Kepnes, revolves around Joe Goldberg (Badgley), who becomes smitten with aspiring writer Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) when she strides into the East Village bookstore where he works. The pair quickly fall for one another, but there is more to Goldberg than Beck realises and more to discover beneath Beck’s perfect façade.

In the second series, Goldberg adopts a new identity and moves across the country, but when he meets another woman, will it be a case of history repeating itself?

You is currently streaming on Netflix, with series 3 set to premiere in 2021.

THEATRE The Dark Outside Jewish playwright Bernard Kops presents a reading of his new play, The Dark Outside, at the National Portrait Gallery, on Friday.

His latest work, directed by Pamela Howard, deals with the conflicts and struggles of a family trying to keep together, while the world outside is ever increasingly chaotic and desperate.

Kops, who was born in the East End of London in 1926, has written more than 30 plays, nine novels, two autobiographies and won numerous awards for his work, with this latest play appearing as a rehearsed reading ahead of an eventual stage production.

The Dark Outside reading takes place on Friday, 6.30pm, at the National Portrait Gallery, www.npg.org.uk

Separated from his parents, a Jewish nameless boy wanders through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, looking for a glimmer of hope in a world of extreme brutality. As he makes his way through the desecrated countryside, the boy encounters villagers and soldiers, whose own lives have been brutally altered, and who are intent on revisiting this brutality on the boy. When the war ends, his outlook on life has been changed, forever.

Based on the 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński, director Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird is shot in crisp 35mm monochrome and provides an unflinching examination of the very worst of humanity.

Petr Kotlár stars in the central role alongside a star-studded international ensemble including Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Barry Pepper.

The UK Jewish Film Festival is hosting a preview screening of The Painted Bird (18) on Sunday, 2 February, 7.30pm, at Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley. It will be released in cinemas nationwide from 27 March, www.ukjewishfilm.org

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Barry Borman is left enchanted by the breathtaking beauty of this Canadian ski resort

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hen it’s not winter, many European skiing destinations try to re-brand themselves as summer resorts, but head to Canada’s west coast to Whistler and you’ll find a place that doesn’t have to make any effort whatReached by a spectacularly mountainous 75-mile drive north of Vancouver along the Sea to Sky Highway, the resort boasts the twin peaks of Whistler and Blackcomb, the lifts of the latter riding to almost 7,500 feet.

Famed for its variety of winter ski-runs, the area hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics. In summer, with an average August high of 24°C, most of the gondolas and chairlifts remain open.

As a taster for the “main event”, we boarded the Whistler Village Gondola, with fine views of valley and mountain (and, luckily for us, black bears) on the way up to the Roundhouse at 6,000 feet.

If the queue in the village is too long, a 10-minute stroll brings you to the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, perfect for a posh afternoon tea later, and right next to the Blackcomb Gondola, which opened in December 2018.

It deposits you next to the Rendezvous Lodge and Helicopter Pad, from which all manner of delightful hiking paths radiate around and towards Blackcomb Mountain and its glaciers.

Next on the agenda was the Guinness World Record-breaking Peak 2 Peak Gondola, spanning the gap between Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains.

This structure is the first lift to join two side-by-side mountains, the world’s longest unsupported span between two cable car towers, the world’s highest lift above the valley floor and the world’s longest continuous lift system. From either terminus, this glorious 20-minute trip dips down into the valley between the two peaks and up again to the other side.

We waited for the glass-bottomed gondola and were treated to an eagle’s view of British Columbia’s conifers and snaking emerald river below. The trick is to buy an unlimited pass, which gives you access to both village gondolas and the Peak 2 Peak for a more reasonable rate compared with the cost of a single journey.

Whistler Village itself is a revelation. Pedestrianised, beautifully landscaped and flower-bedecked, its cafes and restaurants are always buzzing.

As for shopping, naturally there are the usual outlets for hiking, skiwear and cycling (Whistler’s a world centre for this), but you’ll

Suspension bridge: Cloudraker Skybridge spans 130 metres from Whistler Peak to the West Ridge

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also find many high-end fashion and jewellery boutiques.

Not forgetting several historic, in both senses of the word, chocolate and ice cream emporiums. And within an hour’s woodland stroll (or 10 minutes by car) there’s a profusion of beautiful lakes, dotted with attractive beaches and coolly reflecting Whistler and Blackcomb’s snow-capped peaks.

It was refreshing to note that the whole village, as well as both mountains, were signposted as being “smoke-free”.

We stayed at the Westin Resort and Spa, conveniently located next to the Whistler Village Gondola. In celebration of our 40th wedding anniversary, we were upgraded to a spacious balcony suite, its huge picture windows framing magnificent views across the golf course to the mountains beyond.

Much camera time was spent each evening capturing the myriad dramatic effects of wispy twilight cloud against an azure sky.

Kosher food under is available in Whistler all year round in the apartments of the Four Seasons Residence. At Pesach, you can push the boat out and experience a gourmet stay at this luxurious ski lodge. Before transferring to Whistler, we had spent several days in Vancouver, where we discovered the Maple Grill, easily accessible in a central location underneath the Ohel Ya’akov Community Centre.

This is a beautifully-appointed restaurant, offering a huge selection of starters and, among numerous main course delicacies, juicy ribeye steak and slow-braised brisket.

There’s even a synagogue to visit. The Schara Tzedeck, opened in 1948 and replacies the earlier 1921 construction. It features colourful stained-glass windows and still retains the original, custom-made oak bimah and ark.

Back up to Whistler and a surprise was in store for us. On previous days, we had gazed longingly from the gondola station up to Whistler Peak itself and the Cloudraker Skybridge, a suspended construction perched above apparent nothingness between Whistler Peak and its West Ridge.

As we saw it, this was simply not a feasible option, firstly because the bridge is accessed by chairlift and my wife has, shall we say, an aversion to getting on and off a moving object and, secondly, because it’s known that the bridge sways as you progress across its length, worrying for us up at 7,000 feet.

Instead, we embarked on a walk along a gravel path which, while starting unpromisingly, soon opened out to a layered vista of rock-strewn foreground and majestic snow-flecked peaks, with galleon clouds sailing between havens of blue sky.

Then, as we climbed, the path meandered beside a three-foot high glacier and we got out the camera – this was midsummer, after all, and we were touching the snow.

We hadn’t intended to go this high, but, after some two hours and a 1,000 foot ascent, we rounded a bend and spied

Whistler Peak summit, together with the Skybridge.

The summit itself isn’t your archetypal vision of a mountain top, but rather a huge area with pretty little paths branching off in different directions, each offering a better mountain prospect than the previous. There’s also an Inuksuk, an enormous man-made stone monument traditionally built by the indigenous peoples – the perfect backdrop for everyone’s snapshot.

And what of the Skybridge itself? Well, we felt quite secure within its five-foot high sides, although, yes, you could see through the floor grating to the glaciated Whistler Bowl some distance below.

Westin Resort and Spa Whistler

Having scaled the Sydney Harbour Bridge, I’m tempted to call this a doddle, although it was certainly a wonderful experience, finishing at the Raven’s Eye viewing platform with 360-degree views of the mountains, lakes and Whistler Village itself.

The perfect day was rounded off by a chairlift descent, the kindly operators halting the whole system at both top and bottom to accommodate my wife.

The wonder of it all is that Whistler retains its ski resort atmosphere throughout the year, irrespective of the presence of the white stuff.

BARRY’S TRAVEL TIPS Barry stayed at the Westin Resort and Spa Whistler (www. marriott.com) where rooms start at £158 per night. The Peak 2 Peak Gondola ticket can be booked two days in advance for unlimited summer access at www.whistlerblackcomb.com

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SEDRA Shemot

BY REBBETZEN TANYA GARBER “She (Pharaoh’s daughter) called his name Moshe, as she said: for I drew him from water” (Shemot 2:10) The Midrash for this week’s sedra, Shemot, tells us that Moses had many names.

His father called him Chaver (friend); his mother named him Yekutiel (hope in God); his sister Miriam called him Yered (to go down) as she went down to the Nile to watch him; and his grandfather called him Avigdor (the father of boundaries) because Moses would be the one to facilitate the giving of the law to the Jewish people.

In the Torah, however, he is referred to only as Moses (meaning “drawn from the water”), the name given to him by Pharaoh’s daughter.

One might wonder why it

is that the names given by his immediate family, who all had prophecy, were superseded by the name given by Pharaoh’s daughter?

Pharaoh’s daughter knew about her father’s decree and, by saving the child’s life, she was putting herself at great risk.

It is perhaps because of this that the name Moses stuck.

The power of putting oneself out for others was a character trait that Pharaoh’s daughter demonstrated and it was this specific attribute that would become the defining feature of Moses’ leadership of the Jewish people.

uTanya Garber is rebbetzin of Shenley United Jewish Community

Torah For Today What does the Torah say about: Harry and Meghan

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have announced that they are stepping down from their roles as senior royals. So, what might the Torah tell us about backing out of national duties?

Curiously, the first “royal” to back out of his duties in the Bible was Onan, the son of Judah. He refused to consummate his relationship with Tamar.

The reason given was that, “Onan knew that it was not unto him that the seed would be given.”

Since he was second in line in the household of Judah, Onan knew he

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would not inherit the House of Judah and chose to avoid taking his dead brother’s wife in marriage.

God was displeased with this, as what really mattered was doing the right thing, rather than measuring this in terms of personal benefit.

In fact, Onan could have become the ancestor of the Jewish royal line, but instead became the byword for masturbation – onanism.

In this case, their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, do not wish to shirk their duties to the Royal Family merely to wound

them, but rather to focus on their own new family.

Should we judge them for doing this?

Jonathan, son of King Saul, was the heir apparent and saw himself as David’s loyal subject, even during his father’s lifetime.

His father was very angry with him for this, as it appeared that Jonathan was giving up his royal status to David, and Saul even tried to kill his son over the issue.

However, since Samuel had anointed David, Jonathan’s choice was not deemed contrary to God’s word.

Therefore, where a prince is not immediately in line to the throne, or even second in line, it does not appear contrary to God’s law of kings to give up his royal seniority of status for personal reasons. uRabbi Ariel Abel CF serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to Merseyside Army Cadet Force

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The Bible Says What?

How does Judaism view Blue Monday, the year’s most depressing day?

‘Reuben slept with his father’s concubine’

BY RABBI ELANA DELLAL “While Israel (Jacob) stayed in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine; and Israel (Jacob) found out.” (Genesis 35:22) These are the only details shared in the Torah that Reuben, son of Jacob and Leah, lays with the handmaiden of Rachel, his father’s other wife.

However, Bilhah is more than simply Rachel’s handmaiden, she is also the mother of Jacob’s sons, Dan and Naftali. In some parts of our text, she is referred to as his wife, in others his concubine. This is a troubling narrative, so much so that in the Mishnah we learn this is one of a handful of Torah texts that should be recited, but not translated into the vernacular, in order for it not to be understood.

The Torah does not immediately share with us the implications of Reuben’s actions, but we get clues later in the text. As Jacob prepares for his own death, he offers to each of his children a blessing. Reuben’s is

more of a curse: “Unstable as water, you shall excel no longer. For when you mounted your father’s bed, you brought disgrace!” Reuben also loses his birthright as firstborn.

There is a mahloket (disagreement) in the Talmud. Some argue that Reuben did in fact lay with Bilhah and was deserving of his punishment, others that he was free from sin and spared at the last moment from being intimate with Bilhah. We can’t know what really happened but it is interesting, though unsurprising, that we never hear Bilhah’s account of the incident.

Nor do we hear her perspective or voice when she lends her womb to Rachel to support her and Jacob’s relationship when they are struggling with infertility. The silence of Bilhah, like so many other Torah narratives of women, speaks volumes about the marginalisation of women in our sacred literature.

Rabbi Elana Dellal serves The Liberal Jewish Synagogue

BY RABBI SYLVIA ROTHSCHILD The third Monday in January was designated “Blue Monday” by a holiday company in 2005 and has since caught the attention of the public for being the most depressing day of the year. Not only was this nonsensical pseudoscience, it was supposed to encourage people to book their holiday early to have something to look forward to.

Behind the fake news and the spin is a serious issue. Depression is recorded since Biblical times. The Psalmist asks: “Why are you cast down my soul, and why do you moan within me?”

Despair and a sense of isolation permeates our narrative, and no one is immune. Moses, David, Elijah – they are all weighed down and despondent at times.

Talmud engages with the problem, initially deciding that suffering is also a sign of God’s love, allowing us a different relationship with the divine, but immediately subverting this idea with stories of great rabbis.

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Later, when Yohanan fell ill and his student, Rabbi Hanina, visited, he asked the same question and received the same reply given by Hiyya. Hanina asked for Yonahan’s hand and helped him to rise.

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But our tradition teaches that we need other people to help us out of our despair, and for this help we have to share how we feel. The stigma of mental ill health exists in our communities as it does in the wider world, something many are trying to alleviate.

But maybe the idea of a Blue Monday, reminding us of everyone’s need for hope in dark times, will enable us to proffer a hand to our anguished fellows, even if we don’t book the holiday its originators hoped for.  Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild has been a community rabbi in south London for 30 years

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• Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Member of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners RCS England. GDC registered 212542.

ELI ROSENBERG Qualifications: • All aspects of Israeli law. Specialising in property law, property tax, inheritance law and dispute management.

• Third generation lawyer from Israeli firm established in Israel in 1975.

• Authorised and regulated by the Israeli Bar Association and Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel, with teams in Tel Aviv and London.

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

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

ROSENBERG & ASSOCIATES 0203 994 2278 www.israeli-lawyer.co.uk eli@israeli-lawyer.co.uk

TELECOMS SPECIALIST

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

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

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.

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

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

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

JEWELLER

TRAVEL AGENT

CRIMINAL DEFENCE SOLICITOR

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

DIRECTOR OF LEGACIES

REMOVALS MANAGING DIRECTOR

PRINCIPAL, PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL

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

IT SPECIALIST

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

ISRAELI ACCOUNTANT LEON HARRIS Qualifications: • Leon is an Israeli and UK accountant based in Ramat Gan, Israel.

• He is a Partner at Harris Horoviz Consulting & Tax Ltd. • The firm specializes in Israeli and international tax advice, accounting and tax reporting for investors, Olim and businesses.

PHOTOGRAPHER 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.

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

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

• Leon’s motto is: Our numbers speak your language!

HARRIS HOROVIZ CONSULTING & TAX LTD +972-3-6123153 / + 972-54-6449398 leon@h2cat.com

ALIYAH ADVISER

CAREER ADVISER

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.

CLAIRE STRAUS Qualifications: • Free professional one-to-one advice at Resource to help unemployed into work.

• Practical support, workshops and networking opportunities to maximise prospects.

• Career coach with MSc in career management and coaching with a background in human resources and general management and experience of private, public and voluntary sectors.

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

RESOURCE 020 8346 4000 www.resource-centre.org office@resource-centre.org

DIVORCE & FAMILY SOLICITOR

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

PALLIATIVE CARE MANAGER

VANESSA LLOYD PLATT Qualifications: • Qualification: 40 years experience as a matrimonial and divorce solicitor and mediator, specialising in all aspects of family matrimonial law, including: • Divorce, Pre/post-nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, domestic violence, children’s cases, grandparents’ rights to see grandchildren, adoption, family disputes.

• Frequent broadcaster on national and International radio and television.

POLLY LANDSBERG Qualifications: • Polly has worked in health and social care for over 35 years.

• Has a degree in nursing and a diploma in health visiting.

• Polly is responsible for the day-to-day management of the palliative and end of life care service.

LLOYD PLATT & COMPANY SOLICITORS 020 8343 2998 www.divorcesolicitors.com lloydplatt@divorcesolicitors.com

SWEETTREE HOME CARE SERVICES 020 7644 9500 www.sweettree.co.uk polly.landsberg@sweettree.co.uk

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Join Altermans Solicitors as a Consultant Over the last three years, six of us have joined Altermans as consultants – to work in property, company commercial, litigation, private client and family law. All of us have been partners elsewhere, and know the pain of running a team, hitting chargeable targets and driving revenue.

However, each of us knew deep down that what we wanted to do was find somewhere where we could work for our clients in a friendly and supportive environment.

We found it at Altermans in Finchley, North London.

The firm is run by Gabriel Alterman, who is growing a business where lawyers can work on their own or build a small team that meets their needs. The firm is not a “virtual network”. We work together, talk together and respect each other’s expertise.

We share fees, reward each other for referrals, and have regular gatherings – both social and work – to make sure we’re on track.

If this sounds like a firm where you could find a niche and be at home, get in touch to arrange a chat and come and meet us.

There’s no management-speak; just lawyers working together.

You can contact Gabriel directly at gabriel@altermans.co.uk or by phone on 07794 085 617. Our website is at www.altermans.co.uk for more details of the firm.

Programme Manager at The S&P Sephardi Community Competitive Salary (commensurate with experience) We are looking to recruit a new Programme Manager who will reach out to engage existing audiences and develop new audiences with a drive to increasing membership of the community. The person will be responsible to develop and implement an engaging year-round programme of activities for the membership of The S&P and wider audiences and ultimately to encourage wider audiences to become members of The S&P. To work closely with the Fundraising Manager, creating programmes that can help increase our annual revenue. This role is based in Hendon, NW4 and we are open to flexible working.

Please send your CV with a cover letter to info@sephardi.org.uk

To discuss the post in more detail, please call Oshrit on 020 7481 7831 The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 27th January 2020

The S&P Sephardi Community 119-121 Brent Street, London NW4 2DX T 010 7289 2573 F 020 7289 2709 sephardi.org.uk

The home of the Sephardi community since 1656 S&P Sephardi Community is the working name of charities in connection with the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Synagogue Registered charity number 212517

NORWOOD’S NEW COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM NEEDS YOU! Norwood – the UK’s leading Jewish charity for families in crisis and adults with learning challenges and autism – is creating an exciting new Community Engagement team.

We are now recruiting for: Head of Community Engagement Do you have what it takes to lead a team, while developing and implementing a volunteer and community fundraising strategy? If you think you can grow our community fundraising income while supporting and developing our volunteer programme, we’d love to hear from you.

Community Fundraiser A key role within the team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing fundraising strategies and maximising income from community fundraising initiatives and events.

Closing date for both roles is 14 February If you’d like to know more, call Pippa on 020 8420 6871.

For more information and/or to apply, visit norwood.org.uk/jobs

Patron Her Majesty The Queen Registered Charity No. 1059050

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