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Chief Rabbi condemns ‘no future for Jews’ claim

by Lee Harpin lee@jewishnews.co.uk @lmharpin

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis this week heaped further pressure on JNF UK by saying its chairman Samuel Hayek is “entirely wrong” to suggest the future of British Jewry is under threat as a result of Muslim immigration.

In a significant intervention, Rabbi Mirvis told Jewish News he believes Jews in the UK “are blessed to live in an overwhelmingly welcoming nation as one of the most vibrant, confident and contented Jewish communities in the world”. And, pointedly, he also praised the support of the Muslim community, alongside that of “countless non-Jewish partners” in the fight against the “scourge of antisemitism” which he said sadly “continues to be an appalling blight upon British society”.

The Chief Rabbi – one of JNF UK’s honorary patrons alongside other senior political figures including former Labour prime minister’s Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – is the most high-profile figure yet to condemn comments made by Hayek in an interview with Jewish News last month.

Asked to clarify a claim that “Jews have no

Samuel Hayek is facing calls to resign

future in England”, which the charity chief made to the Jerusalem Post, Hayek sparked widespread anger when he said that as a result of Muslim immigration “maybe in 10 years, maybe less” Jews would no longer be able to live in the UK. Responding to Hayek’s remarks, the Chief Rabbi told Jewish News: “It is entirely wrong to suggest the future of the British Jewish community is in question as a result of demographic change in this country.

“There is no doubt that the scourge of antisemitism continues to be an appalling blight upon British society, but recent years have demonstrated that the Jewish community can rely on the support of countless non-Jewish partners in tackling anti-Jewish hatred, including from within the Muslim community.”

He added: “It is possible to be realistic about the challenges of contemporary antisemitism in the UK while also believing that we are blessed to live in an overwhelmingly welcoming nation, as one of the most vibrant, confident and contented Jewish communities in the world.”

Rabbi Mirvis’s intervention came after more than 46 elected Board of Deputies representatives signed a letter demanding that trustees of the Jewish National Fund UK charity back calls for chairman Samuel Hayek to resign over his ‘Islamophobic’ comments.

The open letter – signed by deputies and those with under-35 observer status on the Board from across the Jewish religious spectrum, including three United Synagogue representatives – calls for the 11 trustees to take “decisive active” over the JNF UK chair’s inflammatory comments.

It states: “Samuel Hayek must resign, and his Islamophobic comments must be condemned explicitly by you as his fellow trustees.

“Until such a time that this happens, we will Continued on Page 3

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...AND ICE Amy Anzel (above left), has come up against the toughest boss of them all, Lord Sugar, in the new series of The Apprentice, which kicked off on BBC One last night. Anzel, 48, who grew up in Yonkers, New York, is founder of a beauty brand, Hollywood Browzer.

She moved to the UK with her husband Oliver in 2009 and is a member of Westminster Synagogue. Meanwhile, former S Club 7 star and runner-up in Strictly Come Dancing in 2008 Rachel Stevens (pictured with skating partner Brendyn Hatfield) is reaching for the stars. Southgate-born Stevens, 43, who’s stayed close to her Jewish roots, will compete in ITV’s Dancing on Ice. The new season begins on Sunday 16 January.

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News / BDS challenge / Councillor returns / Labour ‘safe space’ / Diplomat role

Plan to ban council pension pots from boycotting Israel 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that parts of the government’s guidance on boycotts were unlawful, and that it could not stop council pension administrators from making such decisions.

Jenrick told MPs: “We don’t want to see local councillors trying to influence foreign policy decisions which are properly the purview of the United Kingdom government.

“This isn’t about politicising public sector pensions as was implied I think by one member of the Supreme Court. It is precisely the reverse. It is ensuring that public sector pensions, which are ultimately paid for by all of us as taxpayers, are not politicised and that political judgments don’t come into the types of investments that are made by these firms.”

The Tory MP, whose wife is Israeli-born and whose children are brought up as Jews, said the new Bill was the “appropriate place” for his “modest” amendment because it was the suc-

by Lee Harpin lee@jewishnews.co.uk @lmharpin

Former communities secretary Robert Jenrick this week launched a move to change the law to allow the government ban local council pension funds from boycotting Israellinked investments.

He told the Commons a “modest” amendment to the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill would allow guidance on local council pension pots to be updated.

The proposals would prevent councils making “politicised” investment choices that interfere with UK foreign or defence policy, he added..

Jenrick made his call for a ban on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement within town hall pension pots on Wednesday despite the government losing a lengthy legal battle on the issue when he was communities secretary. In

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Jenrick stressed that the government needed to make sure the law is “clearer” than it was in 2013.

Justice minister James Cartlidge said local councils should not enact boycotts that could undermine UK foreign policy.

He added: “The government remains committed to our manifesto pledge to ban public bodies from

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The Bill aims to create a common legal framework for all public sector pensions, including police, teachers, NHS workers and the armed forces.

Last month Jenrick told a panel discussion event that he believed the BDS movement was being “beaten back” in Britain.

A Conservative councillor suspended last year over social media posts branded “abhorrent and antisemitic” by the Jewish Leadership Council has been allowed to rejoin the party.

A Peterborough Conservatives spokesperson confirmed that Ishfaq Hussain was a party member again following an investigation into his posts.

Hussain, a councillor in the city’s Dogsthorpe ward, was suspended in April 2020 after it was revealed that he had posted on Facebook claims including Jewish people living in Israel are not “true Jews” and that Israel is part of a “Zionist trilogy” alongside America and Saudi Arabia which “breed terrorists”.

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Sir Keir Starmer’s efforts to rid Labour of antisemitism have received the overwhelming support of Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) members – with nearly three-quarters of respondents to a survey agreeing that the party is “a safe space” for Jews again.

And in an revealing insight into the impact of antisemitism on Jewish members, 70 percent of respondents said the scourge had “reinforced the importance of Jewish identity” for them.

JLM sought the views of its membership on Starmer’s leadership in a poll that was sent out to supporters on the first anniversary of the publication of the damning Equality and Human Rights Commission report into antisemitism in Labour under previous leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Key findings of the survey included: • 91 percent of Jewish JLM members agree with statement: ‘I trust that Keir Starmer is genuinely trying to tackle antisemitism.’ Only

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2.8 percent agreed this was the case under Corbyn.

• 70 percent of these respondents said Labour is a safe space for Jews under Starmer’s leadership, compared with 4 percent under Corbyn.

A senior source in the Labour leader’s office said: “The progress made is welcome, but the faith of Jewish people in the Labour Party as a safe political home must be earned and we will never be complacent about it.”

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PROSOR GAINS BERLIN POST Ron Prosor, who served for four years as Israeli ambassador to London, has been picked to become his country’s next envoy to Germany.

His appointment was announced last Wednesday by foreign minister Yair Lapid.

Lapid said it symbolised “the importance of IsraelGermany

relations and the continued strengthening of cooperation with the new government in Berlin”.

Prosor, Israeli ambassador to the UK 2007– 2011 and to the United Nations until 2015 – called it a “closing of a circle” because his father Uri was born in Germany.

“As someone who represented Israel in Great Britain and the UN, I am approaching my third mission as an ambassador with a feeling of responsibility, understanding, and recognising the importance and centrality [of Germany] in Europe,” he said.

He was courted by several Israeli political parties after of the 2019 Knesset elections but eventually did not stand.

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Covid rules / Vaccine study / ‘Islamophobia’ spat / News

Brits can now fly to Israel Israel is to lift its ban on travel to Britain imminently after health officials said it was having little effect in stopping the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, writes Michael Daventry.

From midnight on Friday morning Israel abolished its ‘red list’ of countries it previously declared high risk. It means that, in addition to the UK, travel to countries including France and the US is permitted once again.

Canada, South Africa, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates are among other countries on the red list that will be

Israel has torn up Covid ‘red list’

abolished. Travellers will still need to take a PCR test before departing for Israel and must quarantine until they get the results of a second

PCR test once they land. But vaccinated passengers will only need to quarantine for a maximum of 24 hours. Unvaccinated passengers must stay in quarantine for a week.

The announcement was made

by Nachman Ash, director-general of Israel’s health ministry, who said new figures showed foreign travellers arriving in Israel were now only making a small contribution to the spread of the Omicron variant.

Officials expect the number of coronavirus infections in the country to reach 50,000 within a week – an Israeli record.

Ash added that besides Omicron, the older Delta variant is also seeing a resurgence, having caused the most serious current hospital cases.

There has been a surge in demand for testing in recent weeks, leading health minister Nitzan Horowitz to announce healthy Israelis aged under 60 who have come into contact with virus carriers can leave quarantine if they produce a negative lateral flow test.

A PCR test was previously required but the new measure is expected to help reduce demand at test sites.

Fourth jab gives fivefold antibody boost A fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine increases antibodies fivefold, findings from an Israeli study revealed this week.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced the news at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, alongside Dr Gili RegevYochay, a lead researcher on the study. The results have not been peer reviewed.

“We know that a week after administration of a fourth dose, we see a five-fold increase in the number of antibodies in the vaccinated person,” Bennett said, according to Haaretz. “This most

likely means a significant increase against infection and hospitalisation and [severe] symptoms.”

Israel began administering fourth doses of the Covid vaccine this week as a second booster shot to adults ages 60 and up, as well as medical workers who have gone at least four months since their first booster shot. Nearly 100,000 people already received or were scheduled to receive a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine as of Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported.

The World Health Organisation, Dr Anthony

Fauci and others have expressed concern about the aggressive booster programme.

Professor Galia Rahav, the head of Sheba’s infectious diseases centre, spoke to an Israeli news channel to address the criticism on Tuesday. “We’re always ahead of the rest. That’s been the case the whole way,” she said.

“We learned a lot about the third shot before the rest. And we saw its amazing effect — reducing illness in the most impressive way,” Rahav told Channel 12, according to The Times of Israel.

‘ANTI-MUSLIM’ REMARK ROW Continued from page 1 advise our synagogues and organisations to withdraw cooperation with JNF UK and the programmes it funds and supports. We will also advise members of our synagogues to ensure their children do not take part in programmes run or funded by JNF UK.” The letter, sent to JNF UK trustees on Tuesday, states: “It is chilling that Hayek echoes Great Replacement Theory – an ideology used historically against Jewish communities – that ‘the white Christian majority is shrinking… to a degree where there is a point it cannot protect itself anymore’.” The letter, signed by Masorti, Reform Judaism, Liberal Judaism and Habonim Dror, UJS and Yachad representatives, adds: “These bigoted remarks have no place in our community. If we have come to expect zerotolerance of antisemitism, we must show zerotolerance of racism and Islamophobia.”

JNF UK’s trustees include Gary Mond, an honorary officer at the Board, who chairs the communities and education division.

The signatories of the letter to the trustees say they fear Gary Mond’s failure to condemn Hayek’s comments will “cause irrevocable damage to Jewish-Muslim relations and be disreputable to the Board of Deputies itself”.

A motion tabled in advance of the Board of Deputies plenary this month, backed by 46 deputies, calls on it to remove JNF UK as a member while Hayek continues to remain chair.

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DERSHOWITZ INVITE ‘BELOW STANDARDS’ The BBC has said its interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, was “not suitable” following the conviction of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

The corporation said it was investigating after an interview with the high-profile US lawyer, who represented paedophile Epstein, was aired last Wednesday.

Dershowitz has also been accused of sexual crimes by Virginia Giuffre, who also claims she was abused by Epstein, Maxwell and the Duke of York. The 83-yearold and the Duke vehemently deny any wrongdoing and have not been charged with any crime.

The interview on the BBC News Channel, as the news of Maxwell’s conviction for trafficking teenagers broke, introduced him as “constitutional lawyer” but made no reference to his links to those involved in the case. He used the airtime to denigrate Ms Giuffre’s claims against himself and the Duke.

In a statement, the BBC said: “The interview with Alan Dershowitz after the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict did not meet the BBC’s editorial standards, as Mr Dershowitz was not a suitable person to interview as an impartial analyst, and we did not make the relevant background clear to our audience. We will look into how this happened.”

Maxwell, 60, was convicted on five out of six charges, which included luring young girls to massage rooms for the disgraced financier Epstein to molest.

Giuffre’s claims against Maxwell did not form part of the prosecution’s case but were raised during the trial.

Dershowitz said on the BBC: “The most important thing is that the government was very careful who it used as witnesses. It did not use the woman who accused Prince Andrew, who accused me, who accused many other people, because the government didn’t believe her.”

Board may refer BBC to Ofcom over bus report

by Lee Harpin lee@jewishnews.co.uk @lmharpin

The Board of Deputies is ready to refer the BBC to Ofcom if the corporation fails to apologise for its report into the antisemitic Oxford Street Chanukah bus incident.

Board President Marie van der Zyl will meet with A protest over the BBC’s coverage was held last month BBC Director General Tim Davie later this month to demand an the report by issuing an apology, with an explanation on why the corporation have admission that that the attempt to stress failed to apologise for a BBC website report anti-Muslim sentiment from a passenger last month into antisemitic slurs aimed at one the bus was a result of a misundera group of passengers aboard a bus hired to standing of words spoken in Hebrew.

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One source said: “My sincere hope is at the passengers – sparked outrage after it included claims that anti-Muslim slurs the BBC gets its act together and apologises. If they don’t apologise before or after could be heard from someone on the bus.

The Board, along with other com- the meeting with the Board then there will munal organisations, had hoped that the be no choice but to take this to Ofcom.”

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The Board commissioned a forensic analysis of an audio recording of the bus incident, which concluded that claims one of the passengers used the expression “Dirty Muslim”, as reported by the BBC, were false. It will again present this evidence at the meeting with the BBC later this month. It is not known at this stage who else from the community will be attending the talks.

Ofcom can only become involved in complaints after its has been referred to the BBC first and then been resolved in a way that is deemed to be unsatisfactory by the complainant.

The publication of a report into governance and culture at the broadcaster, published last October, has also thrown up an insight into why mistakes such as the reporting of the Chanukah bus incident continue to happen at the BBC. The Serota Review suggested senior staff at the corporation had “not always been held to account for breaching editorial standards”.

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A rabbi who has appeared on the BBC for 30 years has boycotted the broadcaster over its “utterly damning” coverage of the antisemitic bus attack, writes Jack Mendel.

New York-based YY Rubenstein announced on Facebook that he was ending his association with the broadcaster following widespread anger over its coverage of last month’s Chanukah bus attack.

A group of six males made Nazi salutes, spat and shouted anti-Jewish slurs at Jewish youngsters on board a bus on Oxford Street. The BBC’s report of the incident carried the factually unproven claim: “A slur about Muslims can also be heard from inside the bus.”

Writing a ‘resignation letter’ on social media, Rubenstein shared the “bad news” with ‘Gaby’ at the corporation, saying: “I will not be able to do the BBC Radio 2 recordings discussed in February and March 2020. This is a very sad moment for me as I have been a BBC broadcaster for some 30 years.

“I was a regular on Thought For The Day, Wake Up To Wogan and countless other BBC Radio and TV programs [sic].

I was the co-writer and presenter of BBC World Service’s Sunrise Sunset, which The Times cited as their pick of the week and which was rebroadcast twice in the same week to 300 million people. I was a regular on BBC One’s, Heaven and Earth Show. I have been with the Beeb for a very long time.”

Reflecting on recent coverage of Resigned: Rabbi YY Rubenstein

the Chanukah incident, the Glasgow-born rabbi said the “current crisis over antisemitism at the Corporationanditsattemptstoturnthevictimsof the recent antisemitic attack on Jewish children in London and claim that the victims were actually the perpetrators, was and is inexcusable.

The obfuscation, denial that followed, was and is utterly damning.”

He referenced a report by The Simon Wiesenthal Center that included the BBC in its annual global antisemitism, ‘Top Ten’. He said the report “does not in any way reflect on your own production company [for the show on BBC Radio 2] whose own record in this regard is exemplary. It also does not apply to many of the individuals I have worked with at the BBC over three decades. They were among some of the most courteous, kind and talented people I ever met or worked with. I simply don’t see how I, or in fact any Jew who has any pride in that name, can be associated with the Corporation any more.”

After the BBC refused to apologise or retract the comments, the Board of Deputies last week released two expert-led reports claiming to prove the slur was not used – and called for a formal apology. Its president, Marie van der Zyl, is due to meet this month with BBC director general Tim Davie.

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MP queries Bristol training

Sacked: Professor David Miller

The MP Christian Wakeford has raised concerns over the progress made by Bristol University in implementing training on antisemitism and inclusion in the wake of the Professor David Miller scandal, writes Lee Harpin.

Speaking in the Commons the MP for Bury South said a letter sent to university by parliamentarians last October asking for details on training programmes had been ignored.

Wakeford used Thursday’s Adjournment Debate on Antisemitism and Bristol University to call on Robin Walker, minister of state at the Department for Education, to write to the institution and “find out what training they have been doing, who provided it and what assurance has been applied.”

Miller was sacked as a sociology professor last October after a disciplinary hearing and two internal investigations following a series of complaints against him by Jewish students and organisations over a period of nearly three years.

He had infuriated students with his theories about the “transnational Zionist movement” – and had later accused Jewish students at his own university of being “pawns” that were “directed by Israel” as part of a global Israeli campaign to destroy free speech and democracy. Speaking to MPs, Wakeford said it was “profoundly troubling” that in 2022 he needed to “publicly speak about hatred being directed towards Jewish students on university campuses.” He added: “What should

also be alarming to colleagues in this House and all those in wider society, is the amount of Parliamentary time that has been dedicated to this issue over the previous two years.”

Wakeford recalled that after Miller’s dismissal last October, Professor Tansy Jessop, the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education at Bristol, had given evidence to the Education Select Committee. Jessop had, he said, “mentioned that several training programmes are being run at the university including on inclusion and antisemitism. “ But the MP said a letter sent from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antisemitism sent in October “asking for details of the training, ignored the request”.

Black a shoo-in to be JLC chair Keith Black – who helped set up leading outdoor clothing retailer Regatta – is poised to replace Jonathan Goldstein as chair of the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC).

Jewish News has learned that Black, 62, was the sole nomination for the JLC role when the deadline for nominations closed last month.

The South Manchester-raised Regatta chairman and chief executive will be confirmed as new JLC chair at the group’s council meeting on 12 January on condition that 50 percent of members back his appointment.

Goldstein revealed he was standing down from the role last November, saying he could no

longer continue while running an increasingly complex business and ensuring he has time for family.

Sources close to the umbrella body say Black is viewed as a popular and sensible choice to succeed Goldstein.

One JLC insider described Black as a “great listener” who “fully understands the Jewish communal world”.

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GRENFELL ‘SACRIFICE’ CASE HEARD A woman from Tottenham said on Facebook that Grenfell Tower victims were “burnt alive in a Jewish sacrifice”, a court has heard.

Tahra Ahmed is accused of stirring up racial hatred on social media days after the 2017 fire in west London in which 72 people died.

Prosecutor Hugh French told jurors: “The Crown’s case is Ms Ahmed published two posts that were virulently antisemitic and crossed the line as to what is acceptable in a liberal society.”

On 18 June – four days after the fire – she posted a video of it on Facebook and wrote: “Watch the footage of people trapped in the inferno with flames behind them. They were burnt alive in a Jewish sacrifice.”

The post allegedly said: “Their pain and suffering is raw and deep and their disgusting neglect by authorities continues.” It went on to link Grenfell to an antisemitic conspiracy around the 9/11 destruction of New York’s Twin Towers. An earlier post, on 26 January, allegedly also set out an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Ahmed, 51, denies two counts of inciting racial hatred. The trial continues.

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Mother loses battle to see sons A British Jewish woman has been refused contact with her 12-year-old twins as a result of a ruling by an Austrian court, writes Jenni Frazer.

Beth Alexander, now a Londonbased family law solicitor, has been fighting her former husband, Dr Michael Schlesinger, in the Vienna courts after the breakdown of their marriage and the birth of their boys, Samuel and Benjamin (pictured with Beth, right).

After numerous unsuccessful court appearances – and even a debate in the House of Commons in 2014 – Alexander decided to leave Vienna in 2016,

in despair at her ex-husband’s alleged refusal to comply with even partial access or visitation rights.

She claimed that psychological and physical abuse took place during their marriage.

Her former husband denied this, and claimed that she was mentally ill and therefore unfit to take care of their sons, and was awarded sole custody by an Austrian judge, Susanne Gottlicher.

Alexander’s appeals to the Austrian Jewish community did not succeed, either: she said that because Schlesinger was a man, and native-born, the community had “closed ranks” around

him, rather than believe her, a Britishborn woman.

Incentivised by Brexit, Alexander renewed her campaign on behalf of access to her sons through an independent body, the International Child Abduction and Contact Unit, established to enforce the Articles of the 1996 and 1980 Hague Convention.

However, the case was kicked back to the Austrian courts, and the same judge who originally ruled against her, Judge Gottlicher, has now ruled that it would “not be in the best interests” of the children for her to have any contact with them.

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Israel’s current and former envoys to the UN responded to actress Emma Watson’s Instagram post on Sunday in solidarity with Palestinians (right), with comments about the Harry Potter series in which she starred.

Gilad Erdan, Israel’s current ambassador to the UN said: “Fiction may work in Harry Potter but it does not

A King Solomon Academy graduate who was murdered in Florida may have been the victim of mistaken identity, her rabbi believes.

Sara Michelle Trost, a mother of two from Essex who moved to the United States after meeting her American husband eight years ago – was shot dead last week by a tenant who had been evicted from his

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MP ‘SORRY’ OVER CORBYN David Lammy has apologised for nominating Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in 2015 and acknowledged his party was still “on a journey” when it came to improving relations with Britain’s Jewish community.

The newly-installed shadow foreign secretary (pictured) set out his vision in the new job to an online audience of 300 at Limmud.

But on the day new research showed a high level of satisfaction about Jewish Labour Movement members for Keir Starmer’s efforts to tackle antisemitism, the Tottenham MP admitted he was “staggered” to learn individuals with deeply antisemitic views remained in the Party.

“I’ve met some of these

individuals and am frankly staggered some are still in the party. But as a lawyer I understand that people appeal and go to court. There is a process, which can feel slow and tortuous sometimes, but it must be undertaken.”

Paying tribute to Starmer, he added: “I don’t believe the overall culture is toxic anymore… but until the party is genuinely welcome for everyone we remain on a journey.”

On nominating Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader – one of only 35 MPs to do so in 2015 – he offered an unequivocal apology. “I regret nominating Jeremy Corbyn and if I knew what I do now I never would have nominated him...That was a mistake and I am sorry for that.”

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WRITER TACKLES AUTISM Comedy writer Sara Gibbs opened up about how “internalised antisemitism and misogyny” delayed her autism diagnosis.

Addressing more than 100 Limmud attendees, Gibbs, 33, whose credits include Have I Got News For You, Dead Ringers and The Mash Report, spoke candidly about autism remaining “one of the most stigmatised and misunderstood identities”.

“My Israeli grandmother was considered highly neurotic,” she explained. “Due to the internalised antisemitism and misogyny that

people have, it was assumed I was just like my grandmother – another neurotic Jewish person.

“Yet I came from a whole family of highly strung people. On top of that, autistic people are often very blunt and direct. Who else is blunt and direct? Well, I’m half Israeli!”

She added: “There’s a lot of anxiety in the Jewish collective consciousness- who can blame us! But it can mean it’s very hard to unpick what is autistic and what is just being Jewish.”

Since receiving her diagnosis aged 30, Gibbs has become a leading autism advocate.

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A groundbreaking initiative to demonstrate the diversity of the Jewish community to the British media has been unveiled, writes Jenni Frazer.

Keith Kahn-Harris, senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College, teamed up with professional news photographer Robert Stothard, to produce portraits of the Jewish community in all its diversity.

Kahn-Harris explained to Limmud attendees: “A few years ago, I started to notice something strange in the British news media.

Whenever a story appeared about Jews, it was often illustrated with a picture of a male, Charedi Jew – usually taken from the back.”

One image in particular appeared in numerous publications.

“This particular image taken of two Charedi men from behind is often used in articles that have nothing to do with that subset of the community – for example about antisemitism at Oxford University. I was also concerned that this image has an air of mystery to it. It is quite a dark picture and you can’t see their actual faces.”

Kahn-Harris managed to track down the photographer responsible, Robert Stothard,

Rabbi Yechezkel Mandelbaum and Tilla Crowne photographed by Robert Stothard

who was commissioned to take it by the leading visual media company Getty Images.

Stothard recalled an assignment in 2015 to produce images to accompany a story on greater police protection in Jewish communities. He was sent to Stamford Hill. “The reality is that when an editor sees a story about British Jews they immediately think about the Charedi community,” he said. “There was never a question about where I was going to be sent.”

After meeting Kahn-Harris, the pair initiated a project to produce a book of portraits of Jewish people from a diverse section of society.

Many of the images also include a symbol chosen by the subject, alongside a personal explanation of what it means to be a Jew. “Having now completed the photographs, I still don’t know what a Jew looks like,” explained Stothard. “I’ve learnt everything and nothing! Part of the reason behind the title is to add to people’s assumptions about what the community looks like.”

What does a Jew look like? is published in April by Five Leaves Publications.

Denazification success ‘lie’ A leading Jewish academic has criticised the perceived success of denazification in Germany as “full of lies and historic injustice”, writes Jenni Frazer.

Addressing more than 100 Limmud attendees, Zachary Gallant outlined how the denazification of Germany after the Second World War was “repeatedly used as a model for other countries that refused to own up to their own national crimes”.

Gallant noted that, contrary to common belief, Nazified families and

companies had not had assets stolen or earned during the Holocaust removed.

He cited the example of Henkel, whose consumer brands today include Persil and Schwarzkopf. “Henkel was considered a model company by the Nazi regime,” Gallant explained. “Its wealth today still has its roots in the theft of Jewish assets and companies under Aryanization.

“Henkel was not the exception, but the rule,” he explained. “Our research shows the same patterns of behaviour for dozens of

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over youth Israel engagement Concern has been expressed about a potential deficit in youth group leaders – and over gaps in Israel knowledge among the young – following groundbreaking research into the pandemic’s impact on teenagers, writes Adam Decker.

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by Dr Helena Miller, senior research fellow at London School of Jewish Studies, with Dr Alex Pomson of Rosov Consulting in Jerusalem.

The research – the results of which are set to effect policy in the community for years – revealed overwhelmingly negative feelings towards home learning and sparked concern for the future of engagement with Israel.

The survey focuses on pupils from Year 9 (13 and 14-year-olds), Year 12 (ages 16 and 17), and Year 13 (17 and 18) from eight schools: Hasmonean Boys, Hasmonean Girls, Immanuel College, JCoSS, JFS, Kantor King Solomon, Yavneh College, all of which are in London, and King David Schools in Manchester.

More than 1,350 students – 50 percent of the total cohort – responded and these findings were augmented by 17 focus groups, in which 117 students took part.

Two-thirds of students (68 percent of Year 9 and 66 percent of Year 12-13) felt remote schooling had set back their education significantly; and Miller noted that even those whose engagement depended completely on

A group on Israel tour in 2019

remote schooling were also dependent on “decent technology” – not always possible in families where everyone was using broadband.

Students complained that “there’s not much separation between school and home”.

And “a year on from the pandemic’s outbreak, respondents were pessimistic and frustrated.

When invited to answer an open-ended question about remote learning, 58 posted positive and 346 posted negative comments”.

Focus group data revealed that a central issue with home learning was “the feeling of being isolated from teachers and friends. It was harder to access academic support and it was harder to maintain the social relationships that

are such an important dimension of the school experience”.

Miller said the survey’s conclusion was that “families who have less religious capital were made [by the pandemic] less able to get on with Jewish life on their own”. Very few missed going to synagogue, with one student remarking that “I’ve replaced it [shul] with sleep”. The report – for which interviews were carried out by Dr Belinda Copitch – expresses concern about the disinclination of students to go on tour once their own cohort’s tour had been cancelled.

All the Jewish religious denominations were represented in the survey, which was conducted in April and May 2021.

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The presentation, entitled The impact of ‘Everyone’s Invited’ on the Jewish community, was an in-depth look at how to tackle sexual harassment at all levels. ‘Everyone’s Invited’ is a website launched in June 2020 that attracted even more public attention after the murder of Sarah Everard in 2021, allowing people to share testimonies of their own experiences. It now contains more than 54,000 testimonies.

Hutchinson said that “a significant number of young people” had been asking to talk about sexual harassment in schools. The initial response from the Jewish community, she said, was to ask: “Does this happen here?”

Her research suggests sexual harassment is as commonplace in Jewish schools as in the wider community, with the term standing for a wide variety of behaviours, from wolfwhistling and cat-calling, to “slut-shaming” of girls or “macho bullying” of boys who are not deemed to fit the ideal male stereotype.

Students are routinely groped, subjected to unwanted touching, abused verbally or on social media or sent unwanted images.

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News / New Year Honours

Vax hero and viral rabbi honoured by the Queen The scientist who masterminded the country’s vaccine rollout has been made a dame in an honours list that includes a top food writer, a young rabbi who went viral on social media, a magical 101-year-old and 10 individuals recognised for Holocaust education

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Some of the community’s leading lights were represented on the Queen’s latest New Year Honours List. Emily Lawson, now Dame Emily, was the senior officer responsible for the vaccine deployment programme, leading the NHS operation that has delivered tens of millions of vaccines and has helped save more than 100,000 lives and countless hospitalisations. The Honours List noted Dame Emily’s “decisive action and exceptional leadership instilled a relentless focus nationally, regionally and locally on delivering the vaccine to those most at risk

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Dame Emily is a molecular scientist by training and was a keen follower of the late Rabbi Lord Sacks’ weekly sedra email. She is on the steering committee of the 30 Per Cent Club, which aims to increase representation of women on UK plc boards and support greater diversity in the UK and global institutions.

Professor Anthony Finkelstein, former chief scientific adviser for national security and now president of City, University of London, has become a knight. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Distinguished Fellow of RUSI (the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies), Finkelstein said his knighthood was “a source of great pleasure and pride, and a recognition of services with an amazing group of people across government”. He added: “It’s important because it represents the contribution that science can make to our national security.” Alyth Synagogue member Finkelstein – the brother of Lord Finkelstein and civil servant Tamara Finkelstein – added: “Our commitment to public service is something that is the result of being a family that has refugee origins.

This is part of our collective gratitude to the UK for its role in my family’s survival.

My particular contribution was in Britain’s national security, and I think there’s something profoundly important in the ability of British Jews to contribute to that.”

Meanwhile, three wellknown Jews were awarded CBEs for contributions to literature and broadcasting.

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“I received a letter a couple of weeks ago, and was completely and pleasantly surprised,” he said. He has three books coming out this year, one of which will be a new Bond novel, the third in a series after the estate of Ian Fleming gave him permission to develop the iconic character.

Meanwhile, three communal figures were honoured for work with their local communities during Covid-19.

Rabbi Albert Chait, of Leeds’ United Hebrew Congregation (UHC), was made MBE for his work with both Leeds and the wider West Yorkshire Jewish community.

Professing himself “absolutely blown away” by the honour, Chait, whose late father Henry was rabbi in both Southport and Liverpool, said the honour was “most unexpected, but a big accolade to the whole Jewish community”.

The day after his synagogue closed its doors when the pandemic struck, Chait got the UHC online.

“We attracted thousands of people, not just in Leeds and West Yorkshire, but across the world.

We showed that Orthodoxy can embrace the hybrid product of physical and virtual shul. I’m really grateful to the shul, which trusted me to do this”.

One of his highlight moments, he said, was getting Leeds United FC to allow Chanukah lighting at Elland Road in December 2020. His work during the pandemic reached an even larger audience when it was highlighted by Facebook.

Joe Freedman, in Glasgow, and Zarah Ross, in Liverpool, were each awarded the BEM for their hands-on work with their communities in the face of Covid. Freedman, together with Jewish Care’s Ethne Woldman, created Pulling Together, which organised young people to volunteer to bring food and sanitation supplies to older people who could not leave their homes during the first lockdown.

Freedman said the award “means fabulous recognition for the Glasgow Jewish community and what we did”.

The volunteer organisation was currently “mothballed”, but could easily be revived if nec-

essary, he said.

In Liverpool, Zarah Ross got in touch with synagogues across denominations and with welfare organisations, co-ordinating volunteers throughout the city.

“The Orthodox synagogue has mainly older members, the Reform has mainly younger people, and each service offered two people to volunteer and distribute food and medicines where they were needed,” she explained.

Ross, a trained community and youth worker, is now working for Faiths4Change, aimed at helping different faith groups respond positively to climate change.

Also honoured with an MBE was Henry Lewis, aged 101 and a resident of Jewish Care’s Wolfson Assisted Living in Sandringham, Hertfordshire.

He received his award as honorary vice president of the Magic Circle, for his services to fundraising and charitable causes. Elsewhere, Natalie Shaw of Borehamwood, a member of Barnet United Synagogue, was made an MBE “for services to seafarers during the pandemic”.

Ten people received awards for their work in Holocaust education, awareness and remembrance. Frank Bright of Ipswich and Agnes Kaposi of London were made MBE; while Freddy Berdach, Liselotte Bruml, Anne Marie Lever, Ivan Shaw (all of London) received the BEM, as did Bronia Snow of Esher, Harry Kesslerof Southport and Var Ashe Houston of Guildford.

Claire Waxman, London’s Victims’ Commissioner, received an OBE. She said: “I am proud to be able to use my role to advocate for victims and champion their voices. It is a privilege to work alongside so many survivors who are committed to using their personal, often traumatic experiences, to fight for positive change for others.”

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World News / Wildlife photo / Walder suicide

‘HOLD IT THERE!’ This momentary image of a flock of birds – or murmuration – forming the shape of a spoon heaped with sugar was taken by Israeli wildlife photographer Albert Keshet on an early morning excursion to the northern Jordan Valley. ‘In the 10 years I have been travelling and taking photos, this is one of the most amazing pictures of starlings I have ever taken,’ said Keshet, who stayed for five or six hours watching the birds.

Charedim look inward like never before ANALYSIS For his victims, Chaim Walder’s apparent suicide added injustice to their existing tragedy. The allegations of sexual abuse he faced will never be heard in rabbinical or civil court, writes Michael Daventry.

But in the most socially conservative Jewish communities, where so often there is a reflexive instinct to cover things up and look the other way, awkward questions are being asked – particularly by children.

Walder, a hugely popular children’s author and self-described therapist, was barely a month into his self-declared exile from public life when his body was discovered in

a cemetery in Petah Tikva. All indications are that he took his own life with a handgun over the grave of his son.

For many in the strictly-Orthodox community, both in Israel and beyond, this had been a man with celebrity status: a popular columnist, radio show host and public speaker.

His books for children were the mainstay of countless homes and schools.

But at the end of last year an investigation by Haaretz revealed several women had accused the 52-year-old of abusing them as children. One of them was referred to Walder for therapy. She told the newspaper he initiated a sexual relationship with her when she was 13. “He is smart and manipulative. He did it very slowly so

he could – as he put it – fight the allegations. But the fact is that he was a figure in Israel’s Charedi community, which guards itself fiercely against outside scrutiny. There has been no #MeToo-style campaign.

Even at Walder’s well-attended funeral, there were attacks on the journalists who exposed the allegations – one elder accused them of murder, another said Walder was “taken from us” – while others paid tribute to his achievements Israeli author Walder was found dead Yet sections of Judaism’s most Orthodox communities are still being as not to stress me out,” she said. forced into an awkward conversation Walder always denied everything, about sexual abuse – forced by the although he did resign as a newspaper very children who read his books and columnist and halt all projects so that have now found them confiscated.

The Haaretz team that meticulously reported the original allegations against Walder is now speaking to teachers at Israeli strictlyOrthodox schools, where frequent assemblies are being held to help children talk through their feelings and understand what to do when an adult abuses his position of trust. David Lau, Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, last week issued a call for all “indecent acts or harassment” to be reported to the authorities and not to hide them.

Few community leaders are demonising Walder directly, but a conversation has begun where once it would have been unthinkable. A sign, perhaps, that attitudes are changing.

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Limmud FSU Israel event ‘builds robust dialogue’ Hundreds of Russian-speaking Jews have taken part in Limmud FSU’s Israel festival after the annual event was cancelled in 2020 owing to coronavirus restrictions.

Last year’s three-day get-together at Kibbutz Shefayim, just north of Tel Aviv, welcomed 700 participants and volunteers for a programme of more than 130 sessions for adults, plus others for children.

Topics included heroes from the Bible, love and erotica in Yiddish literature, the history of the first Hebrew-speaking school in pre-state Israel, and Russianspeaking Israelis in the country’s political dialogue. Others covered Russianlanguage media in Israel, Jewish heroism, DIY clothing alterations, “helicopter parenting”, and Israel’s water resources as a tool for influence in the region.

The sessions were all washed down with live musical performances including

by Russian-born Israeli actress, singer and pianist Ania Bukstein, and local band Gefilte Drive, performing well-loved Yiddish songs.

In a nod to the electoral importance of Israel’s Russian speakers, event organisers welcomed several Israeli ministers, including Moldova-born finance minister Avigdor Lieberman. Other senior figures

Participants in the three-day event

included housing minister Ze’ev Elkin, former Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Knesset finance committee chair Alex Kushnir – all born in Ukraine, from where tens of thousands have migrated in recent years.

World Zionist Organization chair Yaakov Hagoel explained that Jewish culture in the former Soviet states

“was once suppressed by a communist regime that persecuted Jews and Jewish education”, adding that “now… a new generation has risen” Marina Yudborovsky, chief executive of the Genesis Philanthropy Group, which supported the event, said the conference was “an excellent opportunity for fostering strong connections and building a robust dialogue between Israel and the diaspora, a critical component in today’s climate”.

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A well-known Jewish novelist and scholar whose books explore the history of Jews forced to renounce or hide their Jewish identity has been inducted into Mexico's prestigious Academy of Language.

Angelina Muñiz Huberman, 84, joins the daughter of a Yiddish poet on the 36-member board.

Diplomats and Jewish leaders have held a ceremony honouring a Chilean envoy who issued passports that saved the lives of 1,200 Jews in Bucharest in the 1940s. Samuel del Campo ignored his own government’s noninterference policy to save Jews who would otherwise have been deported to Nazi camps.

The remains of an ancient synagogue have been discovered in the city of Side, near Antalya.

Researchers found a plaque with a menorah motif and an inscription in Hebrew and Greek stating that it was donated by a father in honour of his son, who died young.

A Jewish gym owner has taken his passion for arm wrestling to the next level by adding the sport to a major combat training school in Philadelphia. Steven Rosenblum, 47, said: ‘A weaker kid can easily beat somebody a lot stronger if their tendons are stronger and they’ve been doing the sport for a while.’

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Görlitz Torah portions returned

Görlitz Synagogue in Germany

A Christian pastor in Germany has returned Torah portions believed to have been taken from a synagogue during the Kristallnacht pogroms 83 years ago.

Protestant minister Uwe Mader, 79, handed in the pages to authorities in Görlitz last week, months after the city’s synagogue was reopened after refurbishment, becoming a cultural and educational centre.

Mader’s father Willi was a 23-year-old trainee policeman on duty during the infamous ‘Night of Broken Glass’, when dozens of synaogues and Jewish businesses across Germany were destroyed by Nazi thugs in 1938. The synagogue in Görlitz was the only one in Saxony to escape destruction.

The torn-out parchments are believed to

have changed hands between local Christian clergy throughout the Nazi and Soviet eras, before being passed to Uwe while Berlin was divided between East and West.

Görlitz mayor Octavian Ursu said the four historical fragments were “a valuable historical treasure for our council archive” and that the city would “prepare its exhibition for the public in close consultation with Jewish representatives”.

Governor Michael Kretschmer called the Torah portions “a door into the history of Görlitz of the past decades, which is now opening”, while local Jewish leader Alex Jacobowitz said some of the parchments were “in relatively good shape [and] could be used in a future Sefer Torah”.

EXPO ON ‘I LOVE NY’ LOGO CREATOR A exhibition in the United States is showcasing the working processes of the late Jewish professor and graphic designer Milton Glaser, whose ‘I Love New York’ logo has become wellknown worldwide.

SVA [heart] Milton: The Legacy of Milton Glaser, at SVA Gramercy Gallery at 209 East 23rd Street, explores Glaser’s designs, which include the ‘I [heart] NY’ logo that is found glob-

ally on merchandise, souvenirs and clothing, but it was far from his only notable work.

Creating from 1960 until 2017, Glaser was the force behind album covers, posters, and magazine covers, while designing logos for DC Comics and the Celebrate Israel Parade, among many others.

“There’s some stuff that people have interacted with continually over

the course of their lives a million times, but maybe didn’t even realise it was his work,” said Beth Kleber, head of SVA’s Milton Glaser Archives, which opened in 2003.

Some of Glaser’s design ideas came from his Jewish background and culture, said the exhibition’s curators, adding that he told Hadassah Magazine in 2009 that he never felt “at home in any culture”.

The famous logo by Milton Glaser

A Jewish family in Thessaloniki photographed in 1917

An archive documenting Greece’s pre-war Jewish community has been handed back to the country by Russian president Vladimir Putin after Soviet forces took possession of it from the Nazis in 1945.

The Jewish community of Thessaloniki was one of Europe’s biggest before Nazi occupation in 1942 decimated the population.

Its archives were among the many possessions looted

by SS officers, but ever since Soviet forces seized the documents from the Nazis in 1945 they have been housed in Moscow.

Early in his premiership the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, set out to persuade the Kremlin to return the collection of books and religious artefacts from 30 synagogues, libraries and communal institutions in Thessaloniki, and this week

he was able to celebrate the project’s success.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece said Jews in the country had reacted to the news with “immense emotion” and thanked the Russian president.

Thessaloniki’s pre-war Jewish community was primarily Sephardic until early 1943, when more than 90 percent of the city’s Jews were deported to Auschwitz, where most were killed.

A spokesman for the Central Board of Jewish Communities said restitution “means justice”.

He added that it would “transmit knowledge about a part of the Greek people that contributed to the progress of the country and no longer exists, that of the 60,000 Greek Jews who were deported and killed”.

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Diplomat’s verdict?

Polish law is stupid Man appointed to improve Polish-Jewish relations talks to Michael Daventry about remembrance and restitution

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For a moment, I was genuinely lost for words. It happened three-quarters of an hour into my conversation with Jaroslaw Marek Nowak, the man appointed by Poland’s government to improve his country’s relations with Jews everywhere.

Officially speaking, he’s a diplomat: his job title has the word “plenipotentiary” in it, and he reports to the Polish foreign minister. But he is a law graduate from Lodz who spent much of his professional life in the tourism sector running hotels, which makes him more of an adviser.

That might be why he was quite prepared to use the word “stupid” to describe his own government’s policies.

There are many serious problems today with the Polish authorities’ treatment of issues that are important to Jewish people, and I arrived for the interview prepared to discuss them all.

I was not expecting anything more than a series of cagey, diplomatic answers, but it turned out that Nowak, Poland’s plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish diaspora, operates differently.

I asked him why his country thought it was a good idea to give its Institute of National Remembrance, better known by its Polish initials IPN, the power to prosecute historians for their research.

The libel case I had in mind was that of professors Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski, who were ordered by a court to apologise to the relative of a man they said had collaborated with Nazis during the Second World War. Polish nationalists say their study was an example of attempts to dishonour their country.

Nowak has a different take. “The amendments to the law of IPN, the Remembrance Institute, regarding the research of the historians, is one of the stupidest amendments that were ever done by any law.”

The correct way to challenge someone’s research, he says, is to publish a rebuttal article that presents counterarguments.

He goes on: “There is absolutely no role for judges or anybody else in this process. I mean, you cannot really effectively discuss a book publishing theories or research if you have not done your own research and you didn’t find your own opinions about it.”

It was the same with other issues dominating PolishJewish relations in recent years – such as restitution.

Unlike most other major European countries, Poland does not have a comprehensive law or organisation to assist Jewish victims of the Holocaust in claiming back the property that was taken away from them or to seek compensation.

An attempt at the turn of the century was nearly successful, but it was vetoed by the president at the time, Aleksander Kwaśniewski.

“At that point we were the closest to success. Yes, it’s definitely a regret,” Nowak says.

“The further away we are from when we gained independence [from the post-war communist regime] in 1989, the more difficult it becomes.

“Why? First of all, you have to realise the problem is we – Poles, not the government – we don’t know exactly what is right and wrong.

“From a perspective of someone who lives in the United States or Great Britain, it seems to be quite obvious: ‘I mean, just return the property’.

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A NUMBER OF IDEAS ARE BEING DISCUSSED RIGHT NOW – MAYBE IT WILL BE A VERY SYMBOLIC COMPENSATION LIKE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC OR HUNGARY, MAYBE IT WILL BE SOMETHING ELSE But “from the perspective of the average Polish citizen, it’s not so obvious”, he argues, because Poles see themselves as having emerged from half a century of decisions imposed on them by occupiers – first Nazi, then Soviet.

Yet he thinks a Polish restitution law for Jewish victims has an air of inevitability about it. “I think at some point Poland will have to really come to the conclusion that we have to do something about it,” he admits.

“There are a number of ideas being discussed in Poland right now. Maybe it will be a very symbolic compensation like it was in the Czech Republic or Hungary, maybe it will be something else.

“Definitely, this is something that is critical, let’s say, in the perception of Poland abroad. I cannot stress enough how important it is.

“But I don’t think it’s going to happen in the next two years before the next elections.”

It’s a markedly different tone from Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who flatly told Israel’s foreign minister Yair Lapid in the summer that his country “will certainly not pay for German crimes. Not a single zloty, euro or dollar.”

But Nowak’s entire visit to Britain appeared to have been constructed around presenting a less confrontational approach.

We met on a Monday in the Polish Embassy in London; the previous Friday, he spent hours with Lord Pickles, the UK government’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, in a meeting that aides described as “robust”.

After me, he was due to meet Baroness Deech, another longstanding campaigner.

He says it was on his advice that Poland this autumn adopted – with little fanfare – the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism across all government bodies, including the judiciary.

He’s also working to tackle antisemitism at football matches and elsewhere in Polish society – even those figurines of Charedi Jews clutching gold coins that are sold in souvenir stores everywhere. Most Poles say they are just a quirky tradition; to outsiders, the classic trope is clear.

Of course, there is no guarantee that he will succeed.

Poland’s political divisions run deep on a multitude of issues, including abortion and press freedom, and the right-wing government’s messages are often designed for its conservative, nationalist-minded core voters.

However, on Jewish issues at least, Nowak claims to have the ear of senior ministers – and his appointment is a sign that, after several high-profile rows with successive Israeli governments and with Jewish communities elsewhere, Poland might want to try a different approach.

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Time again for a spot of communal kvetching The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list was again replete with community members recognised for contributions inside and outside the Jewish world. Those honoured are celebrated on pages 10 and 11 of this week’s issue, but a few, whose commitment to public service has been unwavering, merit further mention.

They include Emily Lawson, for her lead role in the Covid vaccine deployment, Anthony Finkelstein, former chief scientific adviser for national security and no less than 10 individuals recognised for Holocaust education.

A hearty mazeltov to all those proudly picking up gongs in the coming months.

Honour their legacies

In addition to marvelling, we must also mourn. Last year we lost 109 survivors and refugees of the Holocaust who made Britain their home after the war. We pay tribute to some of these precious souls in today’s newspaper.

As the Holocaust Educational Trust’s chief executive Karen Pollock told us this week: “Each of them leaves an irreplaceable void. We are at a critical juncture. As our survivors dwindle in number it is even more important for us to find new and innovative ways to engage the next generation and keep the memory alive.”

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Unpalatable, not untrue I refer to the communal anger resulting from JNF UK chair Samuel Hayek’s comments about the future of British Jewry (Jewish News, 23 December 2021).

Mr Hayek’s comments are not “politically correct” but are, sadly, true. Since Islam’s establishment in the 7th century, Jews living under Islamic regimes were always second-class citizens subject to dhimmitude, often resulting in exploitation and death.

Leading up to, and following, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Muslim attitudes to Jews, often under the guise of anti-Zionism, have often been antagonistic. In many cases, this is brought about by ignorance of the legitimate Jewish claims to Eretz Yisrael and continued distortion by historic religious and Koranic attributes. This is why, regrettably, those well-meaning attempts by Jewish communal and religious leaders to forge closer relationships with the Muslim community in the UK

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Following a shortage of testing kits, Jewish scientists have discovered you can detect Covid-19 by sticking a potato pancake up your nose. They have called it the ‘latkeral flow test’

James Windsor responds to my comments of 2 December by stating I do not “reflect historical facts” (Jewish News, 16 December). In my letter, I asserted the Palestinians of the Occupied Territories have been subjected to eviction and expulsion by the Jewish settlers backed by the Israeli administration. Does he dispute this “historical fact”?

The points he makes are largely irrelevant or nonsensical. For example, according to him the Occupation isn’t really an occupation. Really? Tell that to the Palestinians, who are effectively prisoners living under the control of Israel military and civilian administration for the past 50 years. Second, Mr Windsor suggests that any complaint about human and civil rights should be addressed to the Palestinian Authority (PA) This is ludicrous.

The problems with settlers occur in Area C, where both settlers and Palestinians reside and where Israeli administration has full authority. The PA only controls Area A, hence it has nothing to do with this issue.

If Mr Windsor thinks Jewish News should stop giving a platform to people “who do not reflect historical facts”, ie those with different opinions to him, he should take it up with the editor.

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and elsewhere are bound to fail. Indeed, in the UK today most of the resurgent antisemitism has been brought about by an unholy alliance between the political left and Muslim community, reflected in the increasing discrimination suffered by Jewish university students, the unjustified vilification of Israel, and the distorted news reporting by media outlets typified by the BBC. Jeremy Corbyn’s regrettable leadership of the Labour Party gave these distorted views a veneer of respect.

This country has been a wonderful home for Jews.

But the continued rise in the Muslim population clearly means the writing is on the wall for us.

Fortunately, we have our ultimate place of refuge, Israel, which, despite its many misguided Jewish detractors, will always ensure that we have a safe haven to go to.

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THE ‘FACTS’ WERE WHY SOME JEWS JUST PROPAGANDA CELEBRATE XMAS Anglo-Jewry must seriously question why Justin Welby disingenuously confused facts in his epistle published in The Sunday Times last month.

In quoting the number of Christians in 1922 Census in the Holy Land, performed during the British Mandate in both number and percentage but only the percentage for 2019, he has performed a deliberate act of dishonesty, ignoring the increase of population from 752,048 to 9,300,000 in 2019. It was “a massive drop in just 100 years” was his statement designed to play on world Christian emotions at this particular time of the year, just like its title.

In fact, actual numbers of Christians have increased from 71,464 not his quoted 73,000, in 1922 to 180,000 (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics 2019) that is augmented by an additional estimated 45,000 in the Palestinian Authority Area.

For how long should the Jewish community put up with this deliberate distortion, just like yesteryear’s blood libels?

We all remember his recent Covid Holocaust gaff – enough is enough. This was plain propaganda against the Jewish state.

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I found it abhorrent to read, in your newspaper, of Jews adopting Christmas practices.

We recently celebrated the festival of Chanukah. It would behove us to remember that this celebration marks the victory of a small band of loyal Jews over a society of Greek-loving Hellenist Jews who sought to merge Greek practices and religion into Judaism. To Jewish Santa and Christmas tree lovers out there, I simply say this: we have a beautiful religion – be proud of it!

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It seeks to persuade and pressurise Israel to give up land so there can be two states. So does it propose forcing the Palestinians to accept this when they have stated repeatedly that they will never accept Israel’s existence?

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Shabbat is the ideal day to focus on mental health REBBETZEN CHANA HUGHES

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ver the last few years we have seen a gradual increase in people’s mental health difficulties. Some call it the silent pandemic. Is there anything that can stem the tide?

Thinking back 100 years ago, life was slower. People spent an entire day every week just doing the laundry. Today you can activate a washing machine by swiping an iPhone. Chores have become effortless automation or click and collects.

Now that we have so much less to do, why is everybody still always so busy?

One reason is our expectations have radically changed along with our pace. The world around us is hectic, competitive, loud and driven.

People race through life, leaping over hurdles and winning medals. Their energy is inspiring and admired by society. We are encouraged to find the quickest shortcut and the most convenient hack. We are constantly

reminded that so much can be accomplished if you rush towards your goals with alacrity and speed. And yet in our haste we are overlooking the one vital ingredient we need to be truly human: time. If there is any lesson to be learned from the escalating mental health crisis, it is this. We need to give ourselves permission to take more time.

Relationships need to be nurtured on their journey not rushed through the fast track lounge. Enriching conversations need pauses, rhythm and thought. To appreciate, to connect, to think and to heal.

Each of these need time. We need to process. We need time to process.

We can appreciate and admire other people’s speed. But we need to avoid measuring ourselves by their pace. It is crucial

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to make time to think, to notice, to connect and to listen. We need to pause, and to reflect. We need opportunities to laugh and to cry and to let the tears roll down without brushing them away. Time is necessary to achieve but more so to recover, to reenergise and refocus. Just because a shortcut exists it doesn’t mean we have to take it.

Although it appears otherwise, there is no prearranged deadline at which we have to bounce back or get back to normal from life events. Grief, loss, celebrations and disappointments have their own organic pattern of integrating into our lives.

Patterns that can’t be predicted, rushed or bullied away. If these patterns aren’t honoured, if we can’t work with them, they soon start to work against us.

It is appropriate that the Mental Health Awareness has been established by Jami on a Shabbat. Shabbat is a day to stop doing and to start being. It teaches us to relinquish our control on the world around us. It teaches us that you don’t have to immediately reply to an email or like someone’s status.

Life can be lived slower. Shabbat is our permission to pause and is of huge benefit to

our emotional well-being.

This Mental Health Awareness Shabbat let us come together as communities and attend to ourselves and to each other more fully. Let us give the gift of time to those who need it.

• Chana Hughes is rebbetzin of Radlett United synagogue. She works as a psychotherapist for the NHS in St Albans as well as privately.

Starmer’s contract with voters is only the start MIKE KATZ

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s objectives for government go, these should be as uncontroversial as it gets. But it was politically vital – and morally right – for Labour leader Keir Starmer to make them the centrepiece of the contract with voters unveiled this week.

That’s not simply because this Conservative government and prime minister have comprehensively failed to deliver on them. But also because, under his predecessor, Labour had surrendered any credibility with voters that it would be able to deliver either prosperity or security – and thus was not worthy of respect.

For the Jewish community, surely this last value is the most important when it comes to looking at the Labour Party. Going into the 2019 general election, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn had done everything it could do to show an utter lack of respect towards us.

I’ve already written for Jewish News

on the sea change Starmer has personally brought to bear on Labour in the year and a half of his leadership when it comes to tackling antisemitism in the party.

And just last week results of a groundbreaking survey of Jewish Labour Movement members were reported here, which showed how the attitude of our members had changed with the new Leader.

It’s worth repeating: 70 percent of our Jewish members now think Labour is a safe space for Jews under Starmer’s leadership – only four percent agreed it was under Corbyn. Nine out of 10 think Starmer is genuinely trying to tackle antisemitism and that the party had made positive changes to its rules and culture in this regard.

But this is just getting to base camp – the start of a journey back to political respectability, not the endpoint. And so this week’s speech from Starmer, which was aimed at underpinning his rising popularity and credibility ratings in a broader political context was well-timed.

As Starmer said himself, just because the Tories lose the public’s trust it doesn’t mean

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Labour simply inherits it. That trust has to be earned.

So you can expect more from him on standards: what we should expect from people in public life, and what we aren’t getting from our prime minister, or his cabinet colleagues; and a sense that Labour will play by the rules they expect us all to follow, when the Tories, having been in power for more than a decade, lazily feel they don’t have to.

But trust and respect are also bound up in how we feel about ourselves, our neighbours and our country. Which is why Starmer focused on patriotism to such a great extent in this speech.

Security and national pride always used to

be core Labour values. All those outraged farlefties on Twitter won’t have liked Starmer pointing out that Clement Attlee, their hero for creating the NHS, also established Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent.

But security on your doorstep and high street is just as important, hence Starmer’s pledge of crime prevention teams and police hubs in every community.

And security for you and your family, through a decent education, a good secure job and strong public services – these are values we can all sign up to, irrespective of class, background, or even whether you voted Leave or Remain in 2016.

These are values that can chime with many in the Jewish community. As we look ahead to crucial council elections across the country, this is how Starmer rebuilds trust with our community.

Through leadership and policies which not just underline an utter break from the dismal days of Corbyn but which offer a bright, proud future for this country and a serious alternative to Johnson.

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Children need to know we are listening to them YAAKOV BARR

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t is a story that makes anyone recoil in horror. A well-known Jewish children’s author and therapist is accused of committing serial abuse of the worst kind and then takes his own life.

There are more questions than answers.

How was this allowed to happen? What stopped the innocent victims from speaking up earlier? How do we discuss the matter with our children, and do we allow them to read his bestselling books?

I cannot profess to have all the answers, but the fact that this newspaper is printing this article and we can discuss these disturbing issues already means we are moving forward in a positive way. For too long, abuse has been denied and hushed up.

Victims have been intimidated and been too scared to speak out. The more that we, as a community, are willing to confront the issues, the more we encourage those suffering at the hands of others to find the courage and strength to reach out and ask for help.

That is why we set up Jteen, the anonymous and confidential text helpline for teenagers.

Teens can feel empowered to share whatever may be affecting them, from the serious threats to life, abuse, bullying, anxiety or problematic relationships to less life-altering issues and concerns as well. It does not matter how big or small the worries are, our children need to feel that they can speak out and that as adults we are listening loud and clear in a non-judgemental manner.

Unfortunately, children are often given the opposite message. They are told to smile and pretend, to maintain either a personal reputation or a family name, while continuing to torture themselves with pain and guilt.

As parents, we also need to feel confident that our children are safe when they interact with a therapist or counsellor. There are too many so-called “professionals” claiming to be experts who are not registered or accredited with any organisation. Every therapist should also be insured, and DBS checked. Vulnerable groups of people need to be protected and DBS checks assist in ensuring that the clinicians who are not suitable or safe are not allowed to work with these groups.

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clinic/office rather than a private home.

Our children may at best be confused or at worst disillusioned that another person, to whom they have looked up has now let them down so spectacularly.

Unfortunately, it may not be the first time children have encountered a person who they thought was genuine and real, only to be later exposed as corrupt and fake.

If our children can speak openly about it to us, then we are being parents in every sense of the word. We can demonstrate to them the importance of validating a person’s feelings.

We may not always have the answers, but we have to allow them to ask the questions, to process and to heal. We tell our children that

we are always there for them to talk about whatever is troubling them. At the same time we should help our children and ourselves by not devaluing everything that is good about our communities, our rabbonim and our communal institutions, because of those who never deserved to be members in the first place. We have to continue to trust because without trust we cannot form relationships and, without relationships, what do we have?

But as I take the books off my shelves, I think of the victims and the inevitable repercussions, the bitterness and the anger. We simply cannot allow our children to read these books – otherwise what kind of message are we giving to my children?

We may not know all the facts of this particular case, but we know that we want our children to be surrounded by role models, authenticity and truth. I also hope and pray that we can learn something from what has happened; that as a community we break stigmas and provide a voice and a safe haven for those who cannot speak for themselves.

That we stand up for those who suffer silently every day and every second. If we can do that, then perhaps we can ensure that these terrible events never have to happen again.

For every voice condemning Walder, others made excuses JENNI FRAZER

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o subvert a phrase, it is a truth not universally acknowledged that a man in a position of power may all too often abuse that power.

This is a story of voices, men’s voices and men’s voices, and no, that is not a typo.

Because there are very few women’s voices in this story and those that are heard are quickly silenced.

This is the shocking and deplorable story of a man who was at the top of the publicity tree in the strictly-Orthodox world, who came crashing down to earth when his repellent behaviour came to light. This is the story of a renowned Charedi children’s author, Chaim Walder, who exploited his success – his books were in thousands of strictlyOrthodox homes across Israel and the diaspora – by sexually abusing young women and children. He also had a regular newspaper column and a radio programme.

When it became clear that as important a figure as the Chief Rabbi of Sfat, Shmuel Eliyahu, believed that over a period of 25 years – 25 years! – Walder had indulged

himself by sexually abusing women, young boys and girls, Walder first refused to attend the Sfat Bet Din for a hearing, then threatened Chief Rabbi Eliyahu.

Finally, however, he committed suicide, shooting himself at the graveside of one of his sons who had died from cancer.

And here is where the other men’s voices come into play. For every one such as Chief Rabbi Eliyahu and other members of his Bet Din, who accepted the damning testimony of the brave women and children who came forward to say what Walder had done to them, there were just as many ready to make excuses for him.

First there were the men who arranged to have Walder buried in a cemetery alongside a whole host of perfectly innocent people, rather than an area reserved for suicides.

Then, despite all evidence to the contrary, a whole slew of rabbinical names came forward to denounce Walder’s detractors for their “public shaming” of him, adding that their actions were “worse than murder”.

Sanitised eulogies were published in Charedi newspapers and, perhaps worst of all, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel,

David Lau, attended the family’s shiva, giving the clear intimation to those who seek to parse such actions, that in his eyes, Walder was not guilty. Lau, incidentally, is almost an exact contemporary of Walder’s, aged 55 to Walder’s 53, so perhaps he felt an obligation to defend a member of his own generation.

And among all the hubbub of men’s voices, there was a single woman’s voice.

A 24-year-old woman, one of Walder’s victims, committed suicide in the days after his death. Shifra Yocheved Horovitz, sick with despair, believed she would never get justice after seeing Walder mourned so publicly.

The rabbi of a well-known girls’ school in New York advised parents thus: “We all thought he was a good guy but it appears he may not have been very good after all.

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It sounds like he hurt people. But he is gone now, it’s over, let’s move on.”

Conversations about what had happened, this rabbi opined, were partly to blame for the situation itself – one more appalling way of absolving Walder yet again.

In all the flurry of words that followed Walder’s death, I read one horrifying sentence that made me wonder on what planet are his defenders. It was from the reporter who first published the allegations against him, back in November.

He wrote: “In conversations with people from Jerusalem’s most extreme strictlyOrthodox neighbourhoods, I repeatedly heard: ‘Not one boy here hasn’t been assaulted’”. Is this the new normal?

DESPITE ALL EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY, A WHOLE SLEW OF RABBINICAL NAMES CAME FORWARD TO DENOUNCE WALDER'S DETRACTORS

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1 DILLER SHABBATON

Diller UK hosted a Shabbaton experience in Leeds for the 2021/22 delegation. The 17 teenagers came from various cities around the UK, all from differing Jewish backgrounds and denominations. The Shabbaton focused on Jewish Identity and the teens delved deeper into their own personal Jewish identity and explored the similarities and differences within the group.

And be seen!

2GIFTING TREATS

Volunteers of the Belmont Community sent beautifully packaged treats to the Kenton Ambulance Service and St Luke’s Hospice, which were very much appreciated.

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Adults and children organised by Light Up A Life came to the GIFT Hub in north-west London to volunteer for those in need of extra help in the community. The group packed hundreds of support packages containing different kinds of staples. GIFT’s Michelle Barnett said: “This time of year is often challenging with so many of our volunteers away.

Light Up A Life manages to bring in a wonderful group of volunteers willing to help.”

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More than 2,500 cards were sent to Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert as she marked her 98th birthday, including government ministers and TikTok. Highprofile figures in the world of politics and entertainment sent well wishes to the Auschwitz survivor as she celebrated the amazing landmark last week. Her great-grandson Dov Forman, 18, organised the surprise through social media.

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DORIS ROSE Place of birth: Hackney.

Where do you live? How long have you lived there and where did you live before? I live in Southend now but lived in Kingsbury for around 30 years. When I moved to Southend I heard that friends of mine went to Jewish Care’s Southend & Westcliff Community Centre and liked the sound of it so I went along and I do enjoy it. I also heard about it

from my shul at the time, Kingsbury United Synagogue. Jewish Care volunteers deliver meals on wheels for me two or three times a week and I cook for myself the rest of the time. I am very independent.

Occupation before retirement: Secretary for Municipal Unions.

Were / are you married? If so for how long and to whom?

I was married to my late husband, Harry, for 35 years. We got married in 1943, while we were both serving in the British Army when I was a radar operator. I was just 16 when we met. He sadly passed away at the age of 61. I was

with my partner after that for 25 years. He sadly passed away 17 years ago.

Celebrating our community’s centenarians. By Nicola Lewis

happiest memory was when I worked in the radar team in the army during the Second World War. I worked for the army for three years, in which Do you have chiltime my husband and I dren, grandchildren or even greatgot married and then I left grandchildren? when I had John. Some of I have one son, my best memories of this Doris when she were that I was with a very John David. He is was in the army good group of girls. Even 77 and lives nearby. though the war was on and I speak to him every we worked hard, I enjoyed the day and on Sundays I spend the experience. day with him. I have two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

What do you consider your proudest achievement?

What’s your happiest memory?

Having a wonderful son. I always say he is like the reincarnation of Although it sounds strange, my

his father, my late husband.

Who are your heroes?

I don’t have any heroes of today.

I think the whole world has gone mad and I miss the old days!

The world I lived in when I was younger was better than this one. Life was harder but there was a better spirit around. I looked up to my elders, I had respect for my elders. They were my heroes.

If you could offer advice to youngsters, what would it be?

Stop using all this blooming technology! Try to have conversations with people and stop looking at the phone in your hand.

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LI FE Redefine Meat

PLANT POWER Whether it’s a decision for life or just for January, going vegan doesn’t mean missing out, finds Angie Jacobs

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re you one of more than half a million people worldwide (according to last year’s figures) who have committed to eating only vegan food for the whole of January? Veganuary is a non-profit organisation helping people to make these changes and is heavily supported by food retailers and restaurants.

Famous vegans include Christofu Columbus, Tiny Tempeh, Quinoa Reeves Sean Bean, Tahina Turner, Nut King Cole*.

I’m joking, obviously, but in 2018, John Cleese made an irritable jibe on Twitter:

Vegan shoppers nowadays have a big choice

Question: How can you tell whether someone is vegan?

Answer: Because they tell you... again, and again, and again.

Comedian Romesh Ranganathan, himself a vegan since 2013, says the reason people have a go at vegans is “because they know it is the right choice”.

Indeed, even without people signing up in droves to Veganuary, there are reportedly more than 500,000 vegans in the UK who are having the last laugh. They are enjoying numerous health benefits, a wide and tasty range of products, fantastic restaurants and the knowledge that their efforts are helping to save the planet.

But you don’t have to go the whole hog (forgive the pun) – some people choose to do their bit by embracing flexitarianism, a mainly plantbased diet with animal products occasionally being thrown in. Whether it’s Meat Free Monday,

Veganuary or making the change for life, we can all have a go. With Burger King having launched vegan chicken nuggets this week, there really is a plant-based option to suit every palate and to work with all budgets.

A vegan diet fits in very well when observing kashrut. In fact, you’ve got to hand

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it to the Israelis that their national dish, falafel, is vegan without even trying.

My other favourite cuisine, Indian, also has plenty of vegan dishes. Is the world telling me something? I buy and cook a lot of vegan food as my husband decided he wanted to follow the regime four days a week. This has lowered his cholesterol, though he can’t resist the 10 Maltesers he has for a bedtime treat.

On vegan days, we all tuck into curries, ramen, bakes and stir fries (all made by me) – and I confess that one of our freezers (so Jewish) has two drawers full of vegan products. If the non-vegans want to throw some cheese on the vegan shepherd’s pie we can, for – as ‘Malteser man’ constantly reminds me – it’s not a religion.

The UK’s Jewish Vegetarian Society (JVS) was founded in the 1960s, opening a vegetarian restaurant and enjoying an extremely active calendar of events. More recently, it has created the world’s first Jewish vegan centre, running cookery classes, hosting seders, growing food and educating the community on the vegan way of life.

JVS director Lara Balsam says the team has been working hard to demonstrate that there is no tension between being Jewish and being vegan. Indeed, one example of its popularity is the increase in the number of vegan meals being ordered at Limmud events.

The JVS educates on how to veganise meals and Lara will probably be very jealous to learn that I was invited to dine at Tofuvegan in Islington. Chao Zhang, its executive director, asserts that his restaurant will delight vegans and carnivores alike. I was indeed delighted. The wontons, Peking ‘duck’ and twice-cooked ‘fish’ were so flavoursome that it really didn’t feel as if we were missing anything. No wonder there’s a three-week waiting list. Chao goes where the customers are and, happily, he is opening another branch in Golders Green this March.

Fake meat products have come a long way in terms of taste and texture, but an Israeli company, Redefine Meat, is going one giant step further and making 3D vegan meat. This is big business; such big business that threeMichelin-starred chef Marco Pierre White will soon put its 3D printed plant-based steaks on his restaurant menus.

How do they do it? Using cutting-edge technology to replace the need for animals, starting with natural plant-based ingredients crafted and optimised using artificial intelligence and machine learning, brought to life with advanced manufacturing and 3D printing. Redefine Meat says it is on a journey to become the world’s largest ‘meat’ company.

Israeli ingenuity doesn’t end there.

Wanting to grow and provide grocery products to supermarkets without it accumulating ‘food miles’, three Israelis came up with the idea of growing fresh produce inside supermarkets. Infarm, as the company was named, now has substantial financial backing and, by 2025, its farming fridge network is expected

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Tofuvegan in Islington

to reach more than five million square feet across the world.

As I see it, the only problem with eating at a vegan restaurant is that even those with dietary restrictions can pretty much order anything off the menu and so have too much choice. My husband struggled to decide what to have at Comptoir V, a cute Moroccan restaurant in Kensal Rise, because the choice was so great.

Owner Saeed Kazmi is “making veganism normal by providing healthy, wholesome cuisine that nourishes the body and feeds

the soul… that just happens to be vegan”.

I left my earnest flexitarian to study the menu while I quaffed the excellent cocktails.

Two hearty courses of innovative and tasty dishes later – jackfruit nuggets, dynamite ‘shrimp’, Moroccan ‘ghife’ bread and Spiced Island curry (sweet potato, coconut and spinach) – among them meant that we could only manage to share the pancakes and caramel ice cream. Vegantastic.

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New Year Peace of Mind Wellbeing is one resolution we all need to keep, writes Jonny Benjamin

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021 was an extremely difficult year for so many of us. The year before was also tough, as all our lives turned upside down in March 2020 when the Covid pandemic forced our nation into the first lockdown. I think it is fair to say that life has never been the same since.

Yet, according to social media, most people I know have been having a wonderful time, particularly within the last few weeks of last year. Many of them were pictured with their loved ones, smiling from ear to ear, looking as if everything in their world was perfect.

But, as we know, social media can often mask the truth, especially in the transition period to a new year.

As I sit here writing this on the evening of 1 January, I’ve seen countless posts from people sharing their highlight reels from 2021 or making firm resolutions for 2022. Yet a study carried out by a group of UK universities into last year’s new year’s

resolutions found that more than two-thirds of us abandon them within a month. The research also discovered that most resolutions involve either diet or exercise, and that people tend to make the same resolutions year after year after year.

Given all of the above, perhaps it is time we stop putting such pressure on ourselves, particularly around this period, and especially given the challenging couple of years we have each endured. I would even go so far as to suggest that we make 2022 the year to truly focus on, and to be frank about, our wellbeing.

Understandably, attention has been fixed on people’s physical health because of Covid. Surely, though, now more than ever, as we begin yet another year dominated by the virus, it is time to concentrate on the mental health impact of the pandemic.

At Beyond, the youth mental health charity I founded, we are deeply concerned by the increase in, as well as the severity of, psychological issues that we are seeing among the next generation.

Currently we are busily preparing for our second Mental Health Festival on 9 February, which is aimed at schools and colleges across the UK. Our first festival in Prince William presents Jonny with his MBE in 2017 2021, setup in direct response to

Jonny Benjamin at a school talk: ‘Sharing your own vulnerability is a true superpower’

the national lockdowns, reached more than 500,000 students, teachers and parents.

We’re hoping this festival will reach even further.

Of course, it is not just youngsters whose wellbeing we urgently need to address. It is all of us.

Later this week marks Jami’s annual Mental Health Shabbat. It’s wonderful to see lots of synagogues taking part and the initiative is now a key date in the Jewish community’s calendar. This year’s theme is, appropriately, Mental Health in a Changing World.

While initiatives like Mental Health Shabbat and Mental Health Festival are useful, it is important to acknowledge that for anyone affected by an ongoing mental illness, as well as their loved ones, mental health is an issue every single day, 365 days a year. We have to be doing so much more.

To me the general approach to this topic generally feels like a box-ticking exercise.

Occasionally, the government will acknowledge it and tell us to look after our minds.

I am often asked to give assemblies about my story in schools or deliver talks about it to companies. Every single time I do, I am approached by people afterwards who say something to me along the lines of: “That was great, but we really need more.”

Jami expands to help youngsters aged 11 and over Requests from young adults seeking help from Jami, the mental health charity for the Jewish community, have doubled over the past two years and demand for their Carer and Family Support services has tripled .

Jami’s consultation with the community has also shown there is an urgent need to ensure equivalent support for children, and so the charity will be launching a pilot service

for youngsters of secondary school age. With no government funding, Jami is reliant on the community’s generosity and hopes to raise a significant amount at the 36-hour fundraising campaign on 23-24 January to ensure it can continue to expand services.

This weekend Jami is running a Mental Health Awareness Shabbat.

If you need support or are supporting

someone who needs help, contact Jami on www.jamiuk.org/get-support or telephone 020 8458 2223.

If you are struggling to cope or need immediate help contact Shout via their 24/7free text service. Text Jami to 85258.

For free, safe and anonymous online counselling and support, just visit www.qwell. io/jami

My wish for 2022 (as it is every single year) is that we achieve what is known as Parity of Esteem, where mental health issues are treated equally with the same priority as physical health illnesses.

It is up to each one of us in the community to play our part to make this happen. Perhaps it might be a small change like choosing to go easy on yourself, and the people around you, if those new year’s resolutions are ultimately broken. Maybe it could even be posting something more honest and brave on social media, instead of your standard sharing.

If I’ve learnt one thing about mental health since I first started talking publicly about mental illness a decade ago, it is that sharing your own vulnerability is a true superpower. It will hopefully help both you and those around you who may be struggling too.

Never underestimate the importance of telling your story. In the words of Maya Angelou: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.”

May this be the year that you might be able to share something of your untold story and realise that not only are you are not alone, but that in releasing some of the burden you carry, brighter days are ahead for you during 2022. Wishing you a happier new year.

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Aromatic VEGAN COOKING

This scrumptious chickpea dish has had its fair share of Insta fame for a multitude of reasons, one of the first being that its simplicity makes it really quite attractive: just throw everything into a pan and pop it into the oven, leaving it to its own devices (and you to yours). A second reasoon is that slow-cooking the chickpeas in oil without added liquid makes them super-soft, allowing all the aromatics to break down into the oil. Lastly, this dish can easily be made ahead and served later. it only improves with time. Serve with rice.

Confit tandoori chickpeas (serves 4)

Ingredients

2 tins of chickpeas (800g), drained (480g) 11 garlic cloves, peeled, 10 whole & 1 crushed 30g fresh ginger, peeled and julienned 400g datterini or regular cherry tomatoes Preparation time 25 mins

3 red chillies, slit down their length 1 tbs tomato paste 2 tsp cumin seeds roughly crushed 2 tsp coriander seeds, roughly crushed ½ tsp ground turmeric ½ tsp chilli flakes 2 tsp red ashmiri chilli powder 1 tsp caster sugar

200ml olive oil 180g non-dairy Greek-style yoghurt 15g mint leaves 30g fresh coriander, roughly chopped 2–3 limes: juiced to get 1 tbs and the rest cut into wedges to serve salt

Cooking time 1 hr 20 mins

Directions 1. Preheat the oven to 150°C fan.

2. Put the chickpeas, whole garlic cloves, ginger, tomatoes, chillies, tomato paste, spices, sugar, oil and 1 teaspoon of salt into a large sauté pan, for which you have a lid, and mix everything together to combine. Cover with the lid, transfer to the oven and cook for 75 minutes, stirring halfway through, until the aromatics have softened and the tomatoes have broken down nicely.

3. Meanwhile, put the non-dairy yoghurt, mint, fresh coriander, lime juice, crushed garlic and ¼ teaspoon of salt in a food processor and blitz until the herbs are finely chopped.

4. Serve the chickpeas directly from the pan, with the yoghurt and lime wedges.

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Survivor tributes / Special Report

Treasured survivors we have lost in the past year We mourned 109 survivors and refugees in 2021, nearly eight decades after the Second World War. Jack Mendel pays tribute to a few of them Marc Schatzberger Vienna-born survivor Marc Schatzberger, who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport aged 12, died in February 2021, at the age of 94.

Born in 1926, he fled in the wake of Kristallnacht, and arrived in Britain where he was first cared for in a Jewish children’s hostel, and then by an uncle and aunt, who had gained entry as domestic servants.

While in England Marc discovered that his parents and other family members had been murdered at Auschwitz and spoke openly about the trauma when he gave testimony.

Walter Kammerling Walter was just 14 when Nazi Germany invaded Austria. His parents sent him to Britain on the Kindertransport after the pogrom against Jewish businesses in 1938.

After the Holocaust he learned his parents and sister had been murdered in AuschwitzBirkenau.

Arriving in the UK, Walter worked on a farm in Northern Ireland before joining the British Army in 1944, serving in Belgium and the Netherlands.

While on embarkation leave, he married Herta, who arrived from Vienna on the Kindertansport. The couple moved back to Austria in 1946 and had two sons, before returning to the UK in 1957.

Walter died last February, aged 97.

Herbert Haberberg Herbert, who supported survivors of Belsen in the aftermath of the Holocaust, died last March, aged 96.

Born in Germany in 1924, he arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport aged 14, with his younger brother Manfred, but the two were separated and only able to see each other every six months.

While Herbert learned English and Yiddish, Manfred, aged six in 1938, forgot how to speak German. By 1941, Herbert moved to London, joining the British Army in 1944 as

part of the Jewish Brigade, fighting the Nazis in Italy, before being moved to Brussels, and then to Hamburg. He used his Yiddish to persuade the survivors to go to southern Europe and board the illegal ships to Mandatory Palestine.

“These people were frustrated, demoralised, they felt they had no future. So going to what became the state of Israel… it was a good choice”, he said.

Herbert was advised by the Jewish Agency that he was more useful to them in Germany than Israel, and stayed there until he was demobilised in 1948. He got married and became a successful metal trader — as did his brother, Manfred, living in Cockfosters.

Leslie Kleinman Auschwitz survivor Leslie, remembered as being “deeply kind and generous”, died aged 92 in June.

One of ‘The Boys’, the group who came to the UK in 1945 after the liberation from the camps, he dedicated his life to teaching the next generation about the horrors he endured, but “exuded warmth and compassion, always with an infectious smile”.

Born in 1929 in Ambud, Romania, Leslie was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen and Flossenbürg concentration camps, and was on two death marches. When he was 14, he was selected for work at Auschwitz and was separated from his family who were all murdered in the gas chambers, except his eldest sister Gitta, who was sent to Bergen-Belsen. He learned after liberation that she had survived, but died soon after.

After the war, he married and had two children, before settling in Canada. He later returned to the UK and is survived by his wife, Miriam. He had two children, Rosalyn and Steve, and three stepchildren: Ros, Martin and Les.

Rudi Leavor Holocaust survivor Rudi Leavor died at the age of 95 in July.

He was a prominent member of the Bradford Jewish community known for his interfaith activism.

He came to England after the

Gestapo entered his house in Germany and arrested his parents when he was 10.

A leader of Bradford Synagogue, Rudi was known for his work in fostering interfaith relations. The City’s Muslim community rallied around in 2013 to help safeguard the future of the synagogue he chaired, and in return, Rudi led the way into co-opting a Muslim man to sit on Bradford Reform Synagogue’s ruling body.

Lili Pohlmann Lili, who alongside her mother, was the only survivor in her extended family of more than 300, died in September aged 91, She was born Lili Stern in 1930 in Lvov, then in Poland. Her family were confined to the Lvov Ghetto – and her life was saved thanks to the courage of two non-Jews, Irmgard Wieth and Orthodox Archbishop Andrey Count Sheptytsky.

Lili arrived in London in 1946 on a transport organised by the British rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld, and a year later was joined by her mother.

She dedicated her life to building bridges between the Polish and Jewish communities and was given one of Poland’s highest accolades, the Commander’s Cross of Polonia Restituta.

Ladislaus Löb Academic Ladislaus Löb died in October, aged 88. He was a writer, translator and scholar of the literature and drama of the German Enlightenment.

He was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 11, before being liberated and moving to the UK. Ladislaus became Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex.

Eric Sanders A Jewish refugee from Austria who arrived in the UK with his family after the Nazis invaded his home country, Eric died aged 101 in August.

He served in the British Army before

becoming a teacher and later a screenplay writer and translator.

Moving to live in London with his wife and family, Eric received an Austrian Cross of Honour for Culture and Science, and was a long-time member of the Labour Party in Norbury and Pollard Hill – having joined more than 70 years previously.

Ian Forsyth While the community lost many survivors in 2022, Ian Forsyth, a heroic British soldier who was one of the first people to enter Bergen-Belsen, died, aged 97.

Boris Johnson led tributes to Ian following his death in December, recalling a virtual meeting earlier in the year, including with survivor Renee Salt, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The prime minister told Jewish News he was “extremely saddened” by Ian’s death, recalling his “incredible testimony, one that shall remain with me always”.

Ian, of Hamilton, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, was a tank operator who fought his way through Germany following the D-Day landings. Aged just 21, he entered the camp, at which an estimated 50,000 people died, in April 1945, with the 15th/19th King’s Royal Hussars in the The Royal Armoured Corps.

Freda Wineman Freda died just days ago, on 1 January 2022, aged 98, with tributes describing her as “softly spoken” and “exuding warmth and charm”.

Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, reflected on the dwindling number of survivors, and its impact on Shoah education.

She said: “Sadly, we lost a number of our beloved survivors in the past year. Each and every one of them leaves an irreplaceable void. We know that we are at a critical juncture.” Pollock added that, as numbers decline, “it is even more important for us to find new and innovative ways to engage the next generation and keep the memory alive”.

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SEDRA Bo

Torah For Today What the Torah says about: Keeping faith in an ongoing pandemic

BY RABBI ALEX CHAPPER I was once stuck in traffic in the dark Blackwall Tunnel for what felt like hours. Eventually, as I emerged from its gloomy confines, I had to blink at the dazzling light outside.

Describing the plague of darkness, the Torah says: “People could not see each other and for three days no one could get up from where they were; but all the Children of Israel had light in their dwellings.” (Shemot 10:23) Ramban (Nachmanides, 1194-1270) explains that this darkness extinguished every light, similar to the darkness of deep caverns. This plague caused two deprivations for the Egyptians. First, since it was so dark that not even brothers could recognise each other, there was a loss of social interaction, with everyone isolated. Secondly, this sustained isolation caused a sense of paralysis meaning Egyptians were rooted in their place, unable to escape the situation.

Contrast this to the Jewish people’s experience; they were totally unaffect-

ed by the surrounding darkness and able to enjoy the benefit of light. This episode underscores how it is conceivable for different people to simultaneously experience completely opposite emotions even though they are in the same situation. How it is possible for someone to feel completely alone in a room full of people?

Jami’s Mental Health Awareness Shabbat this Saturday is an important moment to recall that the plague of darkness has a resonance with mental illness because it is often unseen, and those around are likely to be unaware of it. This can lead to feelings of isolation and despair.

It is vital to focus on and raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing. We must constantly repeat the truism that mental health is just as important as physical well-being, and there is help and support available. ◆ Alex Chapper is the Senior Rabbi of Borehamwood and Elstree United Synagogue

BY RABBI JEFF BERGER 2021 was Year of the Vaccine.

For a while we all felt safer and nearly invincible. But as infections spiked and the Omicron variant proliferated, we had to admit to not really having regained control.

Nor can we guess how soon it may be before life returns to some state of predictability.

What does the Torah say about hope and faith as we enter the third year of the pandemic?

“For Your salvation I hope, O Lord.” (Genesis 49:18) Jacob blessed his son Dan to ‘hope’ daily for our collective redemption.

Hope is to wait for something with expectation and anticipation, but without certainty it will occur. Hope is transitory and subjective; our hope these past 22 months seems to have fluctuated with the vicissitudes of the virus.

“And he had faith in the Lord, and God counted it to him for righteousness.” (Gen 15:6) Faith (emunah) stems from the word uman or craftsperson. It is a skill, honed through practise and experience. Abraham’s 10 tests of faithfulness weren’t an inconvenience but a blessing – they were a divine course in developing inner strength, increasing his ‘faith’ confidence, and expanding his reservoir of resilience.

The sages tell us: “We’re never tested in ways that

are beyond our ability to overcome.”

God is always present, always loving, always providing the energy for existence. Without God, there would be no life. It is worrying to lose control and it is wearisome not knowing when the virus will disappear. But fretting constantly is not a solution.

Admittedly, some of us are still frightened of becoming infected, although statistics prove that vaccinations mitigate the danger.

As we enter the third calendar year in which the pandemic continues to impact our movement and impinge our ability to plan forward, let us draw strength from our heritage, recognising that being tested is a blessing. The new future we’re creating requires not only hope, but genuine faith in God. ◆ Rabbi Jeff Berger serves the Wembley Sephardi Synagogue

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The Bible Says What?

‘There is a plague on all our houses’

Why Covid vaccination is a mitzvah

BY RABBI DR ANDREW GOLDSTEIN “They ate up all the grasses of the field and all the fruit of the trees.”

Of the 10 plagues in our Torah, the eighth (of locusts) is a turning point. It reminds me of a proposed poster announcing the climate conference COP26 in Glasgow, featuring a man surrounded by locusts. Incredibly, it was rejected by airport and railway authorities as too frightening. Could it be more frightening than other images of disaster brought by climate change that we see increasingly – floods, drought and typhoons? The biblical plague of locusts beset a change in reaction, at least among Pharaoh’s advisers, if not Pharaoh himself.

Why is it that the warning signs of polluted rivers, infestations of frogs and insects, hailstorms and even human disease did not have any impact, but a swarm of locusts did? Clearly it was because the Egyptians somehow recovered from the earlier plagues and life

went back to a sort of normal, but after a plague of locusts it’s not that easy. A swarm of locusts devours all growth – the buds on the plants as well as the leaves, the fruit and the grain, the stems and branches. Nothing remains – and the crop for several years following also disappears, meaning famine for years to come.

Pharaoh still plays for time. He’s all talk and no action. It needed two even more frightening plagues, crucially affecting him personally, to bring him to his senses.

It is three months since COP26.

Many promises were made to start nullifying the effects of climate change. Will our leaders take the right action? Will we, in our personal lives, change our ways?

Time will tell, but time for the future of normal life on our planet is running out.

◆ Rabbi Dr Andrew Goldstein is president of Liberal Judaism

BY RABBI SYLVIA ROTHSCHILD When my mother told my small niece not to go out of the gate when playing in the garden, she resisted, saying she had learned at her Orthodox Jewish primary school that ‘God will protect me’. When my mother explained the God of Israel was using her as the protective agent to watch over my niece’s safety, she reluctantly agreed to stay within the garden.

I think of this story whenever I come across Jews who refuse medical interventions because of ‘the will of God’ and when I hear the phrase pikuach nefesh used in response. While we are used to translating the phrase as ‘saving a life’, its root meaning is ‘watching over’ or ‘overseeing a person’. Our obligation to others is to watch out for them, ensuring they are not endangered.

My niece, disabused of the notion that God would always protect her, grew up aware of the Jewish obligation to take care of each other and that looking out for others is the

responsibility of everyone. This means taking public health seriously, rather than allowing each to make a decision for themselves that may have harmful consequences for others. It means not expecting God to intervene, but being the agent of protection ourselves – protecting ourselves and others.

History has shown us that biblical verses such as: “Whoever keeps the mitzvot will know no harm” (Ecc 8:5) cannot be read at face value, that faith in God is not the harbinger of survival, and that the kind of piety expecting divine protection as reward for uncritical devotion is at best misguided. From Talmudic times

onwards, tradition sees doctors not as people who frustrate God’s will by healing those whom God has struck with illness, but as people whose work is sacred. Thus it becomes a religious obligation to prevent danger and illness in oneself and others, and failing that, to work to heal them.

Recently, the Charedi world was in uproar when a prominent rabbi advocated vaccinating children against Covid. He received death threats, was called Amalek (whose name must be erased) and was accused of murder by his own community, purportedly in God’s name.

Progressive Judaism does not teach that illness is God’s will, nor that only the undeserving succumb. Faith does not preserve, disease is not a judgement; each of us must watch out for others. Vaccination protects us all.

It’s a mitzvah. Do it. ◆ Sylvia Rothschild has been a Reform community rabbi in south London for 30 years

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