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Mia social media evidence ‘deleted’ Detective tells pre-inquest into JFS pupil’s death of teachers’ instruction

by Brigit Grant brigit@jewishnews.co.uk

Mariano Janin with a photo of his daughter

A pre-inquest hearing into the death of JFS pupil Mia Janin has heard Snapchat accounts that may contain important evidence were deleted on the instruction of teachers just five days after the 14-year-old took her own life.

Detective Inspector Gail Steele, who heads the Metropolitan Police investigation into Mia’s death, informed yesterday’s hearing – which was observed via Zoom by the Janin family – that members of the school’s staff had told pupils to delete the accounts, in line with new regulations giving

schools authority to remove pupils’ social media content.

Appeals to social media companies Mia and her classmates used to release key data have not been heeded. The coroner, Andrew Walker, was asked to put these companies on notice for data to be retained to assist the ongoing police investigation.

It was also revealed in court that police are waiting for statements from adult witnesses and an unnamed rabbi. The hearing was adjourned until 15 September.

Mia took her life in March 2021, one day after returning to the school at the end of lockdown. Her father, Mariano, is now pleading with parents and pupils at the

Kenton school to come forward to help him to find out why.

He believes that toxic social media posts or videos may have led to the death of the Year 10 pupil, who fellow students said had been a victim of bullying.

“This whole experience has been a nightmare too horrible to explain,” Mariano told The Sunday Times. “Every day feels like I’m living in slow motion. Parents with information – please take it to the coroner. We need to know what happened for the sake of other children and also for Mia. Do not close ranks.”

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Moscow Chief Rabbi flees after refusing to back war Vogue reporter said on Twitter: “Can finally share that my inlaws, Moscow Chief Rabbi @PinchasRabbi & Rebbetzin Dara Goldschmidt, have been put under pressure by authorities to publicly support the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine – and refused.

“They flew to Hungary two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

They are now in exile from the community they loved, built & raised their children in, over 33 years – though he was re-elected today by the MEPO community.

“They first traveled [sic] to Eastern Europe, fundraising for refugees through @europerabbis, and then Jerusalem, where his father was hospitalised at the time.

“The pain & fear in our family the last few months is beyond words.

by Toby Porter toby@jewishnews.co.uk

Moscow’s Chief Rabbi was pressured by the Kremlin to publicly support the invasion of Ukraine – but refused to do so, his daughter-in-law has revealed.

And now Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (inset) has fled Russia amid fear for Jews in his homeland.

Journalist Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, the wife of Manhattan Altneu synagogue’s Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt, revealed yesterday why her father-in-law and his wife, Dara Goldschmidt, escaped to Israel.

At the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) in Munich, of which he is president, Chief Rabbi Goldschmidt this week revealed that most Jews had fled Ukraine because of the war.

But The New York Times and

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At the Munich conference, Chief Rabbi Goldschmidt had said that most Jewish Ukrainians have fled their homeland. He thus became the first Russian senior religious leader to criticise the fallout from the “special military operation”.

Last Sunday, the 58-year-old told The Times he could not go further in publicly condemning the invasion because he had a responsibility to ensure the “survival” of the 500,000strong Jewish community in Russia.

He has now been advised by friends against returning.

The invasion has devastated the Jewish community in Ukraine, after 33 years of rebuilding since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most of the estimated 40,000 to 400,000 Jews in

Russian police remove a man protesting against the invasion of Ukraine

Ukraine, before the outbreak of war, have joined the exodus to other parts of Europe, the chief rabbi said.

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“It’s a catastrophe,” Chief Rabbi Goldschmidt said at the CER meeting.

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A Haringey Labour councillor at the centre of antisemitism claims has been suspended.

Party sources confirmed on Tuesday that Labour had suspended Joy Wallace in accordance with standard investigative and membership processes.

Wallace, elected in the Fortis Green ward in last month’s local elections, had earlier been placed under investigation following tweets linked to her on the account @JoyWall79169497.

Among tweets highlighted was one alleging a rabbi was “paid and rewarded handsomely”

for criticising Jeremy Corbyn on BBC Radio 4. Another tweet said of home secretary Priti Patel: “She does not consider her parents refugees/migrants or in fact that her ENTIRE family are ethnic people… because she has straight hair and nose. Her skin might be vitiligo or a strong sunbed?!”

An administrative suspension means Wallace cannot attend any party meetings, including meetings of her own branch, constituency, annual conference or any other Labour event.

She also cannot hold office within the party.

‘Occupation biggest obstacle to peace’ Labour’s shadow minister for the Middle East has said he has “never been clearer in my mind that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is an obstacle to peace”.

Bambos Charalambous returned from his second visit to the region since March, writing on the Labour List website: “When it comes to... achieving peace in the Middle East, Labour is clear: in government, we would immediately recognise the state of Palestine.

“We want to see a two-state solution, with a sovereign and secure Palestine and Israel existing in peace alongside one another. But we must acknowledge how far away that goal is.”

Having travelled to Israel with Labour Friends of Israel in March, the Enfield Southgate MP returned two weeks ago from a trip organised by Medical Aid for Palestinians and the Council for Arab and British Understanding.

In his article for the Labour List site, he claimed that “the brutal reality of occupation” was shown by events at East Jerusalem’s Makassed hospital.

He said the delegation was taken to a high-dependency neonatal unit, in which premature babies were left without their mothers, either because their permit had run out or been delayed, or because the

Bambos at Yad Vashem

newborns were too small or not well enough to leave.

While Yachad backed his article, trade envoy to Israel, Lord (Ian) Austin, tweeted that it “shows no real understanding of the complexity of the Israel/Palestine conflict”.

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Streeting: Working under Book reveals war pope’s denial Corbyn was morally tough Wes Streeting has spoken of the “morally challenging” decision to remain in the Labour Party under previous leader Jeremy Corbyn, despite having “very serious misgivings on issues like antisemitism”, writes Lee Harpin.

The shadow health secretary stressed he would never attack the MPs who left Labour under Corbyn, including Jewish MP Luciana Berger and Ilford South’s Mike Gapes, saying: “I understand what they were going through. I had lots of the same misgivings.”

Speaking during an appearance on Matt Forde’s The Political Party podcast, in front of a packed audience at the Duchess Theatre in London’s West End, the Ilford North MP said: “I’ve never attacked the people who left because I understand what they were going through.

“I have lots of the same misgivings and very serious misgivings on things like antisemitism… some of the positions that were struck, particularly around foreign policy and the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury.

He added: “It is in itself a morally challenging question – and I stay true to my principles throughout. ”

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting

The 39-year-old also revealed he had turned down approaches under Corbyn’s leadership of offers for front bench roles.

He said he explained to the leadership at the time that he would not be able to maintain agreement on all policy decisions made under Corbyn, so it was best for all that he did not accept the offers.

Streeting heaped praise on current

leader Sir Keir Starmer, saying the latter had “put a lot of trust and faith in me” by giving him roles in the shadow cabinet, and that he wanted to “repay that trust and loyalty through hard work”.

He also dismissed “silly season speculation” about leadership challenges to Starmer.

He said: “People underestimate the extent to which we are a team. We’re Keir Starmer’s team and we are absolutely determined to make sure he walks thorough that black door at Number 10 and we are part of the first Labour government since 2010.”

Streeting said he believed Labour “is and always has been the best vehicle for social change and progressive change in our country”.

He added: “My anger with the Labour Party is that we’ve spent far too much time in opposition and not nearly enough time in government.

“We’ve got to break the cycle of extended periods of Conservative rule interspersed with brief periods of Labour government that tries to correct the damage and then we let the Tories come in and do it all over again.”

New papers have revealed the extent of denial and equivocation by the Vatican over the Holocaust and the threat of the Nazis in the Second World War. The main adviser to Pope Pius XII – dubbed “the Nazi Pope” by opponents because he tried to keep good relations with Adolf Hitler – expected Jews to stop complaining.

Monsignor Angelo Dell’Acqua feared angering the Germans by openly highlighting “the mistreatment to which the Jews are allegedly being subject”. He said Jews “should speak a little less and act with great prudence”.

The papers also reveal how Pius XII had a direct communication with Hitler through prominent Nazi Prince Philipp von Hessen, married to the King of Italy’s daughter.

The papers are revealed in a book, David Kertzer’s The Pope at War, published on Tuesday in the US, which is a follow-up

to his previous work, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.

They show Vatican documents released from 1965-81 did not fully reveal the extent of Dell’Acqua’s opposition to helping Jews, which included cancelling his predecessor Pius XI’s condemnation of Nazi antisemitism, refusal to condemn Poland’s invasion and failure to excommunicate prominent Catholic Nazis.

After the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, he repeatedly cabled to stop deportations of Jews – and they stopped that July.

But internal Vatican memos say: “The Holy See has never approved of the project of making Palestine a Jewish home…[because] Palestine is by now holier for Catholics than for Jews.”

The Vatican also condemned the Nuremberg Trials as an act of revenge.

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Dad’s plea: Help me find what led to Mia’s suicide Continued from page 1 night before her death, Mia reportedly asked her parents if she could move school.

Investigators found that she had sent a voice message to a friend, before the first day back, saying she was “mentally preparing myself to get bullied by him [an unnamed pupil] and all his friends”.

Mariano said he knows Mia logged into a social media app – either Yolo or Houseparty – just hours before her death, but does not know what she saw, sent or received.

Her phone was handed to police following her death, but remained locked until yesterday’s pre-inquest hearing.

Mariano hopes investigators will now find out what prompted Mia to end her life. He added: “I do not want any other parent to be in my shoes.”

His wife, Marisa, who found

Mia Janin died aged 14. Right: Tributes from friends left on her TikTok account

Mia, died of an aggressive form of sudden-onset cancer months after her daughter’s death.

Mia’s case closely resembles that of Molly Russell, a 14-year-old from Harrow who took her own life in 2017 after checking social media posts.

Molly’s father, Ian, is supporting the Janin family in calling for answers.

Ofsted investigated JFS after Mia’s death and downgraded it from ‘good’ to ‘unsatisfactory’, saying students had suffered harsh bullying

with little to no staff intervention.

New JFS headteacher David Moody told Jewish News: “Following on from comments made to The Sunday Times, which recently ran an article on Mia, the school is unable to comment about an ongoing police investigation.

“As the new headteacher of JFS, I am confident that all possible information has been made available to the police to support them in reaching a conclusion.

“Ofsted has recently graded JFS as a good school and were pleased with the sustained changes enacted by both governors and the new leadership team.”  If you need support or are supporting someone who needs help, visit jamiuk.org/ get-support or call 020 8458 2223.  Editorial comment, page 22

NUS INQUIRY TO BE ‘OPEN’ The barrister leading an inquiry into student antisemitism has said her report will be published by October and promises an “open and transparent” process.

Rebecca Tuck QC, who has been appointed by the National Union of Students (NUS) to lead the independent investigaRebecca Tuck QC tion into antisemitism in the union, said she will be opening a public call for evidence as of Monday.

Last month, the government said it would suspend all engagement with the NUS amid long-standing concerns about antisemitism in the organisation.

Universities minister Michelle Donelan ordered the NUS to be removed from all the Department for Education (DfE) departmental groups and replaced with alternative student representation.

Last month, the NUS said it would open itself up to an independent investigation following a wave of complaints by Jewish students.

The DfE said this must lead to “substantive action” and that the decision to disengage from the NUS would be kept under review “as the organisation demonstrates it has suitably addressed these issues”.

The NUS said it was “prepared to take any and all actions [the] investigation may recommend”.

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Community’s Jubilee honours Inspirational members of the Jewish community have been honoured by the Queen in her Jubilee Birthday Honours, marking her 70 years on the throne, writes Toby Porter.

In tribute to Her Majesty, recipients have been awarded for their outstanding contributions across all sectors, but in particular for sustained public service, the environment and sustainability and youth engagement.

Among those honoured are Ella Marks, a former president of the League of Jewish Women, who was appointed an MBE for services to the community.

Marks has undertaken numerous voluntary roles across the Jewish and lay community. Following a selfless career devoted to others as a social worker and pastoral manager, she also chaired Ealing U3A, a co-operative of older people sharing educational, creative and leisure activities and was a board member of Age UK Ealing.

Marks said: “I was amazed to be awarded the MBE and absolutely delighted. I love being part of the multicultural community in Ealing and greatly enjoy sup-

Ella Marks was appointed an MBE

Zdenka Husserl received an OBE

Bradley Fried was knighted

porting people and organisations in the borough.

“I’m particularly pleased to be awarded this honour to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum jubilee – I have enormous admiration for the Queen and was given the middle name Elizabeth after her.”

A recipient of the OBE is Zdenka Husserl, who has volunteered for many years for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT), giving talks to schools and community groups.

Born in Prague in February 1939,

Husserl was only two when her father, Pavel, was deported to the Lodz ghetto, where he was murdered.

In November 1942, she was deported with her mother, Helena, to Theresienstadt, and her earliest memories are from the camp. She remembers screaming as her head was shaved. She was separated from her mother and learned years later that she had been deported to her death in Auschwitz in 1944.

Husserl was six when she was brought to Britain in 1945. “I don’t

know what emotions I have,” she said on Holocaust Memorial Day last year, amid lockdown. “Sad. And especially on days like this, when families are together and I sit alone.”

HMDT deputy chief executive Rachel Century said: “Despite living with the weight of trauma and grief, Zdenka has dedicated her life to Holocaust education and commemoration and has contributed significantly to Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations.

“Her energy and commitment

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Whether you stood on The Mall to cheer, or sat on the sofa to watch in the warmth, one thing was clear about the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee People’s Pageant – someone very creative put it all together, writes Louisa Walters.

That someone was David Zolkwer (inset) from Manchester, who has worked as creative director of live and broadcast projects all over the world.

Zolkwer worked on the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, four Commonwealth Games and the historic 1997 handover ceremony in Hong Kong, the Falklands 25 commemorative event in 2006 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa to name but a few.

He was also creative director for the celebration sites in Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square created for William and Kate’s wedding and, 10 years ago, he directed London’s New Year’s Eve celebrations, a lighting projection and fireworks spectacular focused around the London Eye and the River Thames.

The 58-year-old grew up in Salford and went to King David Primary School in Manchester, followed by the local comprehensive. He says his mainstream education gave him exposure to the wider community and an overview of society as a whole.

He then went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, followed by Middlesex Universtity, graduating with first class honours in

have had a huge impact, with thousands of people hearing and learning from her testimony.

“It is wonderful Zdenka’s contribution to society, spreading the message of tolerance and understanding, has been recognised by Her Majesty the Queen.”

Dr Adrian Weller, a senior research fellow at Cambridge University who specialises in artificial intelligence, ethics, trust and transparency, has been appointed an OBE for his innovative work with academics, industry and government.

Bradley Fried, chair of the court of the Bank of England, has been knighted for his public service. He is the co-founder of Grovepoint Capital and before that had been chief executive of Investec Bank.

Fried, previously a non-executive board member of the Financial Conduct Authority, is a governor at the London Business School. He is married to Lauren, has two sons, and lives in St John’s Wood.

Andrew Lawrence, a history teacher at Hampton School, in west London, was appointed an MBE for his work in Holocaust and genocide education.

The Platinum Jubilee celebrations

theatre and English. “The common theme to everything I’ve done is the idea of storytelling,” he says. “That’s probably something I get from my dad and my general upbringing.”

He worked with some incredibly creative talents on the Queen’s Jubilee pageant. “It wasn’t about it being the shiniest, blingiest, slickest,” he says. “The aim was to be human and authentic, passionate and smiley. And bonkers.”

The People’s Pageant featured more than 10,000 performers, giant hot air balloons, a colossal oak tree flanked with maypole dancers, a towering dragon and much more.

Describing his role as show director, he said: “I was the creative and production lead and responsible for conceiving elements of it, but the vast part of it was about commissioning and curating contributions from people all over the country. My job was to bring cohesion.”

Brian’s mum Bertie loved being around people. That’s why she used to say that volunteering for Jewish Care was the happiest time of her later life.

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Global paedophile hotspots ‘Biggest Nazi of to be listed after Lewis case the lot’ is jailed can apply to the courts A list of paedophile sex for a civil order to block tourism hotspots across them travelling. the world where British The Home Office guidance predators target children is says: “If the offender changes to be drawn up by the UK’s their name and notifies the biggest detective network, police of this change, the after one was jailed for police could then inform the 138 years for molesting 36 relevant country, on a case-byminors, writes Toby Porter. case basis.”

The Home Office has Passport control relies asked the National Crime on each police force to notify Agency to draw up a list of them of travelling registered countries where underage sex offenders so they can be victims are at risk from flagged on the Her Majesty’s British offenders.

Passport Office (HMPO) The move follows the case systems. If a sex offender of Ben Lewis, co-founder then applies for a passport of LL Camps in Bushey, under a new name, HMPO who was sentenced to 138 and the local force can block years in Spain after being Evil: Ben Lewis molested 36 children after fleeing to Spain the application. found guilty of abusing the A Home Office spokesperson stressed trust of his employers to commit a new the way police forces watch registered it does not comment on individual cases string of crimes against children as sex offenders in the UK. On 2 March, home secretary Priti Patel but said: “The government is working young as seven.

Last month, three Spanish judges announced that the head of the review to disrupt those who travel overseas to found Lewis – who changed his name would be Mick Creedon, for 10 years abuse children and bring justice to victims to Ben Rose in Spain – guilty of eight Derbyshire’s chief constable, who will and survivors.

“Registered sex offenders are legally counts of making child pornography, report back by the end of the year on a crime of inflicting degrading treat- what needs to be done to improve required to inform the police if they change their name and of any foreign ment on another person, 32 privacy policing of paedophiles.

Registered sex offenders are cur- travel. Failure to do so is a criminal offences and one count of forgery.

Lewis had moved to Spain and rently legally required to tell police if they offence, punishable by a maximum of changed his name in 2016 to Ben David change their name. They must also notify five years’ imprisonment.

The home secretary has commisRose, four months after being let off local police of any overseas travel, so with a suspended two-year jail term for officers can assess the risk an offender may sioned an independent review into the police management of registered sex making an indecent film of a nine-year- pose abroad.

Their local force tells Interpol offenders in the community, which will old girl at the summer camp.

The new sex tourism list also follows and foreign police forces if they think deliver recommendations by the end of the start of an independent review into there is a danger of reoffending – and this year.”

A founder of banned fascist group National Action (NA) has been jailed for more than eight years.

Last month Alex Davies, described as the “biggest Nazi of the lot”, was found guilty of being a member of the organisation after it was proscribed on 16 December 2016.

The 27-year-old, from Swansea, South Wales, had set up the “continuity group” NS131, with the aim of getting Guilty: Alex Davies around the ban, which was brought in after NA posted “congratulatory” tweets following the murder of MP Jo Cox. On Tuesday, Davies was jailed at the Old Bailey for eightand-a-half years by Judge Mark Dennis QC, who ordered him to spend a further year on extended licence.

Dennis said: “I’m satisfied the defendant played an active and prominent role in concert with his trusted associates in trying to disguise the continued existence of the organisation in defiance of the ban.”

Addressing Davies, he said: “You are an intelligent and educated man, but you have held warped and shocking prejudices.”

During the trial at Winchester Crown Court, prosecutor Barnaby Jameson QC described how NA had “terrorised” towns across the country with its call for an “all-out race war”, saying it was a throwback to Hitler’s Germany and based its logo and image on the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi party’s paramilitary wing.

Davies, who formed NA while at Warwick University in 2013, told an undercover reporter at the time that he did not want to say what he would do to Jews, because it was “so extreme”.

NA was social media savvy, boasting self-taught propagandists among its ranks, although its membership never exceeded 100.

Some literature called for “White Jihad” and they created a policy document to “make way for National Socialism to enter British politics”.Other material glorified the antisemitic messaging of Hitler’s Germany or praised the work of SS death squads.

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Cricket icon Sir Andrew Strauss is to be the guest speaker at fundraising breakfast for Chai Cancer Care, writes Toby Porter.

The charity is teaming up with the Ruth Strauss Foundation for a fundraising breakfast.

Strauss, who was England captain from 2009to 2012, will be in conversation with the writer, broadcaster and cricket aficionado Giles Coren, on 13 July, the eve of the One-Day International at Lords between England and India.

The event will raise funds for both organisations, hosted by BDB Pitmans at its offices in the City.

Chai chairman Louise Hager said: “We are delighted to be partnering with the Ruth Strauss Foundation, not only by holding a joint event, but also by sharing our knowledge and expertise in the field of cancer care. When organisations like ours come together, it is cancer patients and their families that benefit the most.”

Ines Thiru, chief executive of the Ruth Strauss Foundation, said: “Chai Cancer Care is a leader in the field of community-based cancer care and support and we are thrilled we can collaborate with them to raise much-needed funds for families impacted by cancer.”

In early 2018, Ruth Strauss was diagnosed

Andrew Strauss with late wife Ruth and kids

with an incurable lung cancer that affects nonsmokers. She died that December, aged 46, leaving behind two children, then 10 and 13.

In her memory, Sir Andrew set up the Ruth Strauss Foundation to provide professional emotional support for families to prepare for the death of a parent from cancer and to campaign for the fight against non-smoking lung cancers.

Chai is the Jewish community’s dedicated national cancer support organisation that helps people manage the impact of a cancer diagnosis.

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The post-Covid Jewish world faces many challenges, according to the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt, speaking at last week’s Conference of European Rabbis (CER).

Goldschmidt, who is president of the CER, told Jewish News: “We are at the end of Corona and have to restart Jewish life. Many places are smaller, poorer, less organised – and people have to decide again to leave their homes and go to synagogue or communal events.

“But our greater issue now is the refugees from Ukraine, Jews who have left their homes and are now displaced. The rabbis have left their communities and the people are all over eastern Europe.

“Wherever they are, they have to be helped. They need housing and jobs and the children have to go to school. We are talking about a

long-term integration process”.

Apart from the refugee issue, the CER acts as an umbrella body that can often intervene in situations where the local community is smaller and more vulnerable.

Goldschmidt acknowledged serious problems in France and Belgium, where there had been antisemitic attacks, and what he called “a wave of legislation against Jewish practice”, particularly shechita and circumcision.

Too often, he said, “the local community does not have enough clout or political influence to solve these issues for themselves, and needs help from umbrella organisations”.

He added: “Sometimes you have a small community, but you have one smart rabbi or one smart lay leader who takes care of the problem. And at other times you can have a community where there are tens of thousands of Jews, but they can’t get their act together”.

Some communities had closed altogether, but it was generally a slow process, where services had declined and the community members were getting older and the younger people had left.

Goldschmidt believes the huge attendance at this year’s CER event reflected what the rabbis sought – inspiration.

“Being out in the field as the only member of the clergy, surrounded by lay people who know much less, you always have to give, to lead.

So at some point you have to reload your values and get inspired yourself. And this is what is happening here.

“We’ve brought in the biggest names in the rabbinical world, those who make decisions on how Judaism deals with modernity and the ever-changing world – and we can come up with solutions and answers. This is the place where the rabbis get inspiration, particularly after they were isolated for so long.”

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ncern world This was his positive message.

But, conversely, Chief Rabbi Goldschmidt said he “fully agreed” with philanthropist George Soros, who had described the current global situation as “World War Three” and said: “It’s not being fought by [military] weapons but by economic weapons. It is an economic battle between the West and Russia.” There was no doubt, Goldschmidt said, “that sanctions against Russian philanthropists will affect many Jewish charities, which were beneficiaries, including those who were helping Ukrainian refugees”.

He added: “Some charities will be able to find alternative funding, some will scale back their programmes, some will probably have to close. It depends a bit on how long the sanctions are in place.

Either way it probably should have been factored into the decision and we now all have a responsibility to protect core community services.”

‘Important’ to host rabbi conference at Dachau It was the first concentration camp, Hitler’s model for other such camps, and the only one that lasted throughout the 12 years of the Nazi regime. Its name, Dachau, still reverberates as a byword for oppression, torture and murder.

It was therefore fitting that the delegates to the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) made Dachau the last stage of its three-day programme. For the German officials present, it was a profoundly intense and emotional way of acknowledging the slow repair of Jewish life in Germany.

For many, it was a shock to realise Dachau is a real place, a town near the camp, where people continue their normal lives and some wondered if the local people of the 1930s and 1940s had gone about their normal lives with the concentration camp on their doorstep.

Today, Dachau is a vast empty space, with a menorah-topped memorial in one area, full of flickering candles and tributes to those who died there at Nazi hands. You approach it by walking past huge pits of graves, and through a panelled metal gate, which seems decorative until you see the chilling and

The smallest-known miniature medieval Hebrew manuscript has sold for $340,000 (£270,000) at auction in Jerusalem. The 15th century Italian manuscript was previously held by a private collector for nearly 40 years.

Constructed from a single sheet of parchment, the miniature manuscript is cut into roundels 5.5cm in diameter, in a circular shape. The pages contain a machzor, or festival prayer book, for the Jewish holidays, including Passover, Shavuot, Succot, Rosh Chodesh, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Rare look at four special Torah scrolls Joachim Hermann, minister of the interior of Bavaria, speaks during the Conference of European Rabbis during a visit to Dachau concentration camp

familiar slogan, Arbeit macht frei, the cynical line that “Work makes you free”.

In a brief ceremony, the CER rabbis were welcomed by Dr Gabriel Hammerman, the camp’s site director, and addressed by the Bavarian minister of the interior, Joachim Hermann.

In an emotional speech, Hermann recalled Dachau’s liberation by the US Army, describing it as “a place of horror that fills us with shame”, but he noted

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Charlotte Knobloch, a Holocaust survivor and the president of the Israelite Religious Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, said she found it had been “so important to have the rabbis here”. She vowed: “Our light will not be concealed, not again, never again.”

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News / Heritage support / Survivor tributes / Antisemitic sculpture

BBC presenter becomes shul patron BBC news anchor Huw Edwards has agreed to become a patron of a former synagogue in Wales that could be restored with National Lottery money, writes Toby Porter.

The journalist (pictured), a Christian who has written about his homeland’s treasured churches, is to be part of the project to transform the grade II-listed building in Merthyr Tydfil into a Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre.

He joins former Google director Sir Michael Moritz and comedian and writer David Baddiel as the latest patron of this project, developed by the Foundation for Jewish Heritage.

Edwards, 60, told Jewish News: “I feel honoured to be a patron of this exciting project to preserve and bring back into use the striking grade II-listed Victorian synagogue in Merthyr Tydfil, which is an important Welsh landmark building.”

The Gothic revival building is the oldest purpose-built synagogue still standing in Wales. It was built by a community established in 1848, when Merthyr Tydfil was the country’s largest town. Built in 1877, it replaced the former building, which dated from 20 years earlier.

The congregation in 1900 had 27 head-ofhousehold members; ten years ago it had four.

In the 1980s the synagogue was closed and was sold to became the Merthyr Christian Centre. For a time it was also used as a gym.

The Foundation for Jewish Heritage bought the building in 2019 and carried out urgent repairs the following year.

Last year, a detailed business plan became part of an application for funding to the National Lottery Heritage Fund; it was submitted in February this year. A decision is expected at the end of this month.

Oldest Shoah survivor dies at 108 coastal city of Trieste, Pahor The oldest Holocaust survivor vowed loyalty to his Slovene has died at the age of 108. identity during Mussolini’s time.

Boris Pahor endured spells Best-known for his autoat the Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, biographical novel, Necropolis, Harzungen and Bergen-Belsen which depicts the horror of concentration camps, after being captured while fighting for the Great writer: Boris Pahor what he had seen and his survivor’s guilt – Pahor was hailed by Slovene Partisans against the Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini as Nazi occupation in the Second World War. Born in what is now Italy’s north-eastern a “great writer, a giant of the 20th century”.

Michael Mail, chief executive of the foundation, expressed “delight” that someone of the prominence of the Welsh news anchor had agreed to serve as a patron of the Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue heritage centre project.

“Huw Edwards is a leading personality in Wales and indeed across the UK, and a major champion of Welsh culture and the

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cause of heritage preservation,” Mail said. “This is a major boost to our efforts to save Merthyr Synagogue to serve the local community and wider Welsh society.”

COURT TO RULE ON CHURCH JUDENSAU

A German court will rule next month on whether an antisemitic sculpture should be removed from a church where the Protestant reformer Martin Luther once preached.

Last week’s hearing was brought to the Federal Court of Justice by Michael Düllmann, who has campaigned for years to relocate the 700-year-

old sandstone relief from St Mary’s Church in Wittenberg, 56 miles south-west of Berlin.

Known as Judensau, (‘Jew pig’), it shows three Jews drinking from a sow’s teats as a rabbi lifts her tail and hind legs to look for omens. Judge Stephan Seiters said that, viewed in isolation, it was “antisemitism chiselled into stone”.

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Stamford Hill anger at yeshiva plans Nearly 2,000 male members of Stamford Hill’s strictly-Orthodox community attended a meeting to protest against government proposals to regulate yeshivas, writes Lee Harpin.

The meeting, addressed by Rabbi Elyakim Schlesinger and property developer Jeremy Stein, included a call for attendees to send a prewritten, strongly worded letter to education secretary Nadhim Zahawi.

Many in the more conservative sector of the Orthodox community are upset about measures in the Schools Bill, which forces yeshivas to teach secular lessons and allow inspections from Ofsted.

At present the yeshivas, for boys aged 13 and over, are not classed as

schools because they only teach religious works.

Other measures in the bill include allowing councils to keep a register of children receiving education outside school settings. Zahawi also has new powers to suspend independent schools judged to put children at risk.

There have already been clashes over demands to teach on about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, as equality laws stipulate.

Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove met with Charedi leaders last month and similar issues were raised with him.

A letter circulating in the community, with a call to sign and send to the education secretary, states:

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“I write to you as a member of the Charedi member of Orthodox Jews to express my deep concern and

Nazi symbol on pageant float Organisers of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant apologised after a float had a Nazi symbol on display during Sunday’s parade.

The float, built by the Northern Soul fans, featured a ‘Black Sun’ – a sun wheel with radial sig runes used in Nazi Germany and later by neo-Nazis that is similar to the SS logo.

The symbol was on the side of float alongside more traditional Northern Soul logos.

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strong objection to the Schools Bill... The Bill seems to serve a secret agenda: the assimilation of

our community to the practices of the majority.”

The letter stresses the majority of the community are “grandchildren and great-grandchildren” of Holocaust victims, who are grateful of the home given to them in the UK. It continues: “Yeshivas enable Orthodox families to raise their children in line with a high standard of morals and values.” It is suggested that “many provisions” in the bill “threaten our principles” and “impose on them a duty to teach secular subjects besides religion, fundamentally changing their role andpurpose. This undermines the parents and children’s right to practise their religion.”

DIAMOND SHINES FOR MITZVAH DAY

A former Board of Deputies director in South Africa has been appointed to head one of the UK’s biggest faith-based community projects.

Stuart Diamond will become Mitzvah Day chief executive after approaching founder Laura Marks with the idea.

A former director of the

Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and a graduate of the Schusterman Leadership Program, Diamond immigrated to the UK from South Africa with his family last July.

Before his role at SAJBD, he was the mayoral committee member for assets and facilities for the city of Cape Town.

Since arriving in the UK, he has worked for Moishe House and the United Synagogue.

Diamond said: “Service to community is my calling and tikkun olam and interfaith work are close to my heart.

“I am thrilled to be a part of the UK’s – and possibly the world’s – largest faith-led day of social action.”

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Communal heavyweight mourned

Tributes: Michael Mather died last month

A communal renaissance man who helped build a school and won honours as a football and squash coach has died aged 87, writes Toby Porter.

Michael Mather, who passed away last month at Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, was bestowed with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Care Work – equivalent to an MBE – in 2011. He also received a London Football Association Award for services to refereeing.

Only 10 years ago the former boxer, who once sparred with Henry Cooper and boxed with the Kray twins, fought off brutal thugs who attacked him outside his home in Ilford, Essex.

Mather, who was born in Hackney in 1934, helped to build Clore Tikvah primary school in Barkingside. Once the school was established in 1999, he taught as a volunteer teacher.

From the age of 18, Mather completed more than two years of national service in the Royal Air Force. He earned a master’s in law from the University of London Queen Mary College and

became a senior lecturer at East London Polytechnic and Kings College University for more than 20 years. He received a master’s in manpower studies at the Institute of Chartered Secretaries, and an advanced diploma in education.

A keen sportsman and passionate footballer, aged 18, Mather played for Tottenham Hotspur reserves. He also represented Wanstead Squash Club as a coach and player.

Once retired from semi-professional football, he became a Football Association coach and referee. He acted as a referee for decades for Ilford FC Royal Falcons. He received a London FA award for services to refereeing in 2011.

Royal Falcons secretary Gary Ransom said: “The kids used to love him – he was such a terrific man.”

Mather is survived by his daughter, Sarah, and son, James. They said: “Our dad is our hero and best friend. His great qualities and values will live on through everything we do.”

Cohen’s 40 years of service is ‘truly incredible’ A local politician has been praised as he enters his fifth decade of service to his community, writes Toby Porter.

Councillor Melvin Cohen, twice mayor of Barnet, has been honoured for his 40 years of service to the borough at the council’s annual general meeting on Tuesday.

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since the local elections, outgoing mayor, councillor Alison Cornelius, presented Cohen with a certificate marking his four decades of public service since his election for the Tories for Golders Green in 1982.

During his first term as mayor, he raised the largest sum for the charity, Shooting Star, which grants

wishes for sick children and provides palliative care.

Cornelius said Cohen’s long service was “a truly incredible and remarkable achievement” and new Barnet Council leader, Labour’s Barry Rawlings, said: “He has worked diligently for his community and continues to do so.”

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HUNGER CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED BY US Families who fall into food poverty amid the cost of living crisis will be helped by a hunger campaign launched by the United Synagogue.

For more than two years, the United Synagogue (US) has supported 150 families and individuals with weekly food parcels.

Many of these people lost some or all of their income during the pandemic and could no longer make ends meet.

The charity expects this number to rise given the rising cost of food and energy bills.

As a result, the US has launched a food collection campaign to coincide with World Hunger Day last Saturday. Each synagogue will be asked to collect specific items, such as tinned goods, store cupboard essentials and toiletries. The US will arrange for donation boxes to be available at synagogues and in other areas until 28 June.

In an appeal for donations, Michelle Minsky, head of the US Chesed department, said: “First the pandemic and now an unprecedented cost of living crisis means more people are going hungry. Families in our own communities face food and fuel poverty – many for the first time.”

Anyone needing help is asked to get in touch with their synagogue’s care co-ordinator, synagogue office, or call the Chesed department directly on 020 8343 5696 in confidence.

One US beneficiary said: ““We are a large family and the regular deliveries [of food parcels and meals] relieve significant stress, worry and financial burden. We are beyond grateful to all the generous donors.”

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Israeli study: Climate is causing storms not expected until 2080 A new Israeli study has found that climate change is already causing a “considerable intensification” of winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere to a level not anticipated until 2080.

The study, published by the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Nature Climate Change journal, is part of an effort by scientists around the world §to use 30 massive, intricate computer networks to better model and predict climate change.

It compared previous predictions of human-caused intensification of winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere with current storm observations and found that the “bleak” reality was far worse than expected.

“It became clear that storm intensification over recent decades has already reached levels projected to occur in the year 2080,” said a statement from the institute.

The study, led by Dr Rei Chemke of Weizmann’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department in collaboration with Dr Yi Ming of Princeton University and Dr Janni Yuval of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “shows that current climate models severely underestimate the intensification in midlatitude storm tracks in recent decades”, the report said.

“A winter storm is a weather phenomenon that lasts only a few days. Individually, each storm doesn’t carry much climatic weight.

“However, the long-term effect of winter storms becomes evident when assessing cumulative data collected over long periods of time,” Chemke said, explaining that the storms affect the transfer of heat, moisture and momentum within the atmosphere, which consequently affects the various climate zones on Earth.

“One example of this is the role the storms play in regulating the temperature at the Earth’s poles.

“Winter storms are responsible for the majority of the heat transport away from tropical regions toward the poles,” he said, noting that without their contribution, the average pole temperatures would be about 30°C (54°F) lower.

Chemke also noted that the current trends pose “a real and significant threat to societies in the Southern Hemisphere in the next decades”.

The study said it only examined storms in the Southern Hemisphere because the intensification there has so far been stronger than in the north.

However, Chemke said that if the trend

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The study researchers also investigated whether these sudden changes could be attributed to natural changes in climate patterns or were caused by external factors such

as human activity. They found that, over the past 20 years, storms have been intensifying faster than can be explained by internal climatic behaviour alone.

The study also examined why current models were not able to accurately predict the storm changes and found that it was due to changes in atmospheric jet streams.

However, the study found that while there were problems predicting these specific events, most current computer modelling of climate change was accurate.

“The models are doing a very good job at forecasting nearly all the parameters,” Chemke said. “We’ve discovered one parameter for which the sensitivity of the models needs to be adjusted.

“Changes in temperature, precipitation, sea ice and summer storm patterns, for example, are all being simulated accurately.”

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Two teenagers have made a £10,000 film campaign against bullying that totted up almost 4,000 views in its first four days.

Eli Hassell and Asher Arnold, pupils at Manchester Mesivta Jewish Grammar School in Bury, created the film after hearing stories from classmates about being victimised so much they went home crying.

Now the pair, who were 15 and 16 respectively when they came up with the idea, are hoping their message will go out to as many people as possible.

They wrote the film script during lockdown and consulted experts, including rabbis, teachers and psychologists.

They could not shoot when the pandemic was at its height, but filming took place over four days, with 15 actors and production staff – and was supported by 10 major donors within the Jewish community.

The film, now completed, got its first airing on 23 May. Eli, now 17, said: “In films about this sort of thing, there is usually a lot of verbal and physical bullying.

“We wanted to focus on things people say almost without knowing. I think everyone is basically a good person, but if they say something that hurts someone they may not realise it.

“Asher and I decided that focusing on one culture would most likely create the most difference. We were able to partner with people, companies and charities we know within the Jewish community to help push this further.

“Also, as we know the Jewish culture quite well and live within it, we think we understood it enough to not only create a high-quality film, but also the right-quality film.”

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The pair have been pleased with the reaction to it.

“Parents were saying the film really helped them,” said Eli, who also runs a podcast.

“Our donors were touched we were trying to do something. We want to impact the educational system directly.

“When we started making it, I was nervous people would make fun of the project, so I didn’t really talk about it.

“I was really surprised when everyone was so supportive. I’m very happy about that in a teenage school.”

The pupils advertised the part of the 10- or 11-year-old victim and received 15 responses.

“All of them wanted to play the victim, so we had to persuade somebody to be the bully.”

Meanwhile, the actor who agreed to be the teacher pulled out three weeks before shooting, so they had to find somebody else very quickly.

“Luckily we had someone within three hours.”

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Brady Isaacs Pearce, 22, is producing and starring in the one-night only performance to raise money for Beyond, a mental health charity founded by campaigner Jonny Benjamin.

She said: “This is my way of giving back to a charity that did so much for me. I’ve been in the musical theatre industry since I was 10, and I’ve grown up performing in concerts and

it is something that brings me a lot of joy. I think it brings other people joy as well.”

Isaacs Pearce will perform alongside Holby City star Chizzy Akudolu, TikTok sensation and Heathers actress Hannah Lowther, and The Voice contestant Ruth Brown.

The show will feature live conversations with Beyond Youth members Antonio, 24, and Ava, 11, who will share their experiences and challenges with mental health.

Although Isaacs Pearce has not “performed in front of such a big audience in a while”, she is sure “it will pay off ”. She adds: “Producing a show has

definitely had its challenges, but the cast has been amazing and it seems like they are genuinely invested in the cause, which is really important.”

The concert, which has been in the works since November, will take place at The Other Palace on 20 June.

Louisa Rose, of Beyond, said: “The concert is such an important and engaging way to bring people into the mental health conversation. This is a really special event. We’re so proud of Brady.”

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Israel may label two rightwing groups as terrorists Nationalist outfits Lehava and La Familia could be banned within weeks after violence on Jerusalem Day, write Carrie Keller-Lynn and Judah Ari Gross The time has come to consider designating the far-right Israeli groups La Familia and Lehava as terrorist organisations, the country’s defence minister, Benny Gantz, warned last week. He was speaking following violence and inflammatory rhetoric at a nationalist Flag March through the Old City’s Muslim Quarter.

The violence and incitement on display at the march through the capital were widely discussed and condemned by the heads of several political parties, but ignored entirely by others, notably the right-wing Likud party and far-right Religious Zionist party.

After meeting with Jerusalem police officers, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, of the right-wing Yamina party, condemned the “group of extremists” behind the violence and said they would be brought to justice Foreign minister Yair Lapid, of the centrist Yesh Atid party, said the Jerusalem Day festivities had been hijacked by groups such as La Familia and Lehava.

“Instead of a day of happiness, they tried to make it a day of hate,” the foreign minister said, adding that “these people aren’t patriots”.

Both La Familia and Lehava have been tied to cases of violence against Arabs in Israel over the years.

La Familia is nominally a fan club of Jerusalem’s Beitar football team, although the team has repeatedly distanced itself from it because of its racist rhetoric and violent antics.

Lehava is an organisation that is against intermarriage and gay people that frequently employs violence, mostly against Arab men.

Its members have also been involved in arson attacks on churches and mixed ArabJewish schools, and one member was recently indicted for sexually assaulting an underage female member of the organisation.

Gantz said: “As defence minister, I believe the time has come to consider terrorist organisation designations for groups like La Familia and Lehava.

“I know that the subject has been brought up with security organisations and I trust the heads of the organisations to make that consideration in the cleanest and best way possible.”

The head of Lehava, Bentzi Gopstein, lambasted Gantz’s remarks and said the organisation would survive him. “‘Defence’ minister Gantz hosts the Holocaust denier and terror supporter Abu Mazen in his home,” Gopstein said in a statement, using the nom de guerre of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

“And he doesn’t do anything to the Arabs, who are inciting day after day on the Temple Mount, but he does fight the Lehava organisation, which acts for the good of the people of Israel.

“We survived Pharoah, we’ll survive Gantz,” he said. The defence minister delivered his remarks during his Blue and White party’s faction meeting in the Knesset.

This meeting followed the Jerusalem Day celebrations on 29 May, during which members of both groups were seen attacking Arab residents of the Old City and screaming racist chants such as “Death to Arabs” and “Your village should burn”, among others.

“In response to those who shout ‘Your village should burn,’ we will strengthen another village and another village.

“We will provide adequate infrastructure and good education, and turn Arab cities and towns in Israel into places where it is good to live.

“This is a national requirement and it also comes from civic fairness,” Gantz said.

Bennett similarly cast the violence by

Israeli majority must take back the Flag March, and Jerusalem, and the State of Israel,” he said. “We are the majority.

They are an extremist minority.”

Despite the violence, Bennett said the march through the Muslim Quarter – rather than via a less contentious route – “strengthened sovereignty and governance” in East Jerusalem.

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salem from the Gaza Strip, sparking a nearly two-week war.

In his remarks, Lapid also stressed Israel’s dedication to the status quo on the Temple Mount, specifically saying Muslims can visit and pray on the esplanade while Jews may only visit.

“The status quo on the Te m p l e Mount

Violence flares as Israeli groups march through parts of the Muslim Quarter during Jerusalem Day celebrations on 29 May

Jewish Israelis as coming from a small minority that he said was not reflective of the whole.

“Other than the group of extremists, whom we will bring to justice, everyone celebrated in a special, uplifting way,” the premier said.

Lapid was somewhat more downbeat, describing the two groups as having hijacked the Flag March and Jerusalem Day. “We cannot accept that these are the images left at the end of Jerusalem Day. The

through the normal route, we would effectively never be able to go back to it. It could have been a withdrawal of sovereignty,” he said.

“We proved that the state of Israel acts based on what’s right and not based on threats.”

Those words by Bennett were a reference to threats made by Hamas and other terrorist groups against the march through the Muslim Quarter.

Similar threats were made last year before Hamas launched a number of rockets at Jeru-

won’t change on our watch,” Lapid said, while acknowledging that “maybe there are people who violate it”.

During the heated Jerusalem Day events, videos circulated of Jews praying and prostrating themselves on the Temple Mount.

Israeli police removed several of them, though recent court cases have cast doubt on the ability of the police to legally prevent prayer on the site.  Jenni Frazer, page 24

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Kpow! Zelensky the comic hero Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has joined the ranks of superheroes in implausibly tight underwear and unfeasibly large capes – he has become a comic strip hero, writes Toby Porter.

Zelensky’s journey from comedian to heroic war-time leader has been given the graphic novel treatment in TidalWave Comics’ latest biography, Political Power: Volodymyr Zelensky.

The 22-page glossy tells the story of how Zelensky, who once played a fictional president on a Ukrainian TV show, swept to power in 2019 with no political experience, promising to end a war with Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

The graphic novel’s writer,

Michael Frizell, said: “Who is he?

What makes him tick? Why is he the right leader for Ukraine at this moment? Those are the things I was curious about when I started the research.”

Publisher Darren G. Davis, based in Portland, Oregon, USA, said: “Both sets of my grandparents immigrated from Ukraine.

“I wanted to use this medium to not only tell a story but to donate to the cause at the same time.”

The graphic novel – with drawings by Pablo Martinena– tells the story of the Ukrainian leader until 24 February, the date when Russia’s offensive in Ukraine began.

The book shows Zelensky, in army uniform, kneeling in front of

a grave of one of his family members. “This is a story about a family of four brothers,’’ he is quoted as saying.

“Three of them, their parents and their families became victims of the Holocaust. All of them were shot by German occupiers who invaded Ukraine. The fourth brother survived... Two years after the war, he had a son and in 31 years, he had a grandson,” fictional Zelensky tells readers.

One scene shows him wearing a kippah and tallit, aged 13, while others include him meeting former Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu.

A portion of sale proceeds from the book will be donated to the International Red Cross.

Cartoon hero Volodymyr Zelensky

Kindertransport refugee who became a judge dies aged 91

Tributes: Inge Goldrein

A woman who came to Britain as a Kindertransport refugee and became a judge has died aged 91.

Ingeborg “Inge” Goldrein (née Schwarze) arrived in London, aged eight, without any spare clothes after being put on a train by her father in Vienna. She never saw him again.

She was taken in by a family who

encouraged her to study, despite the then lack of women professionals – and went to the top in a legal career.

Inge was taken in by Sarah and Eli Bernstein in Toxteth. In 2013, she said: “It was a horrible journey [to England]. I remember mostly being on my knees in the lavatory, being sick.”

From 1952 until 1991, Inge worked for Atlantic Chambers. She became a recorder in 1978, head of the chambers in 1988 and a circuit judge in 1991. She retired in 2001.

She married war hero and barrister Major Eric Goldrein and is survived by two children and a grandchild.

STUMBLING STONE IN SOHO FOR ADA An art conservationist has become the first person to be commemorated with a “stumbling stone” in the UK. The Stolperstein was installed in a pavement London’s Golden Square, Soho, to remember Ada van Dantzig. She had worked, as one of three apprentices, with Helmut Ruhemann, a consultant restorer at the National Gallery, at his studio in Golden Square in the 1930s before the Second World War. Van Dantzig left the safety of London to help her parents escape to Switzerland, but was captured in France by the Nazis and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, aged 24.

The stone had been due to be laid in 2020 after exceeding its crowdfunding target, but was delayed by lockdown.

The campaign to raise money for it was led by historian Morwenna Blewett, from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.

She said: “Because we were not occupied, the removal of people from their houses or their places of work didn’t generally happen in the UK. But the Stolperstein concept is based on people having to leave their last address of choice, whether it be work or housing, directly induced by Nazism.”

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Willed on by fellow veterans from Britain and Israel, Rob Budgen strains every sinew to pull himself up on the gym rings above him, his face the epitome of determination that is as much his hallmark now as when he served in the Royal Air Force. Hours earlier, the 37-year-old’s exploits were the centre of attention as he danced to the rhythm of Habibi Tel Aviv at an impromptu after-dinner party.

So far so unremarkable, you might think, save for the fact the former Royal Air Force instructor has been confined to a wheelchair since he plunged 1,000ft to the ground and broke several vertebrae in his neck in a horrific parachuting accident six years ago.

Budgen’s participation captured the spirit of the Veteran Games – a cocktail of fun, cultural immersion and sporting competition based on the principle that it really is the taking part that matters – that brought 65 British veterans, their spouses and children to Israel last week.

Devised by Beit Halochem UK and funded by British Jewish philanthropists, during the Games injured former servicemen and women competed against their Israeli counterparts in swimming, shooting and CrossFit, while spending quality time with loved ones touring the country away from the stresses of everyday life.

“Sport has been my life since the age of five,” he enthused as the five-day trip drew to an end. “This has been so good for my confidence and was also the first time I’d flown since the accident. Anyone who has a chance

to do it should go for it – the only reason I want to go back is to see my dog. I know I’ll be back.”

Several of those taking part had lost limbs while serving Queen and country. For others it was the hidden mental wounds of war that continue to afflict.

For mother-of-one Amanda Small – who has battled posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since being injured in a mortar attack in Iraq in 2007 and whose soldier husband Chris took his own life in 2016 – the idea of competing left her searching for excuses not to travel after being invited by SSAFA – The Armed Forces Charity.

Back home in Suffolk, a

Former veterans from Britain compete at the Games organised by Beit Halochem UK

routine trip to the supermarket was a struggle and a fear of large crowds meant trips to the football with her 12-year-old son, Jamie, had to be kept to once a season.

“It makes you feel as a failure as a parent,” she reflected.

But cheered on by Jamie, she ended up taking home one gold and one silver medal from the pool – and so much more.

“I feel like a new woman,” she told Jewish News. “I hope I can take it forward. I’m going to put myself out there more and hope to take Jamie to more Ipswich matches.

I also want to do more public speaking.”

Small could never have imagined that within three days of arriving in Israel she’d be dancing with dozens

of other veterans she had met just a few days earlier but, fuelled by a simcha playlist from the event’s self-styled ‘ambassador of fun’ Marc Samuels, that’s exactly what happened.

“When I arrived I was a shell of the person I am now,” she said. “It’s because of the support we’ve received from everyone and being part of a community again, like we had when serving.

I’ve fallen in love with this beautiful country.”

Also life and soul of the party was Ben Roberts, 41, who, despite his enthusiastic efforts on the dancefloor, said he had not felt so calm in years after fulfilling a lifetime dream to tour Jerusalem, where he put a note in the Kotel for his father.

The spirit of camaraderie wasn’t hard to find on or off the sporting field: whether Israeli and British veterans enthusiastically clapping each other on throughout the week or former Royal Marine Christopher Hayes, attending his second Games as an ambassador, gifting his

green beret to the father of a seriously ill woman he met to wish her well in her own battle. Everywhere you looked, participants were conquering their own personal Everests, big and small.

For inspirational Clive Jones, who was blinded while serving his country 21 years ago, it was not only the first trip out of the UK with wife Stephanie – “a sort of unofficial honeymoon” – but also the first time he had plucked up the courage to get into a swimming pool in a decade and the first time for ages he had joined his family at the beach. Such are his fears resulting from his injury about allowing himself to relax.

“Even now my head is going two to the dozen,” confided the Welshman as his son Ieuan, fresh from football training with top Israeli coaches, enjoyed surfing metres away.

“I know it’s not easy on Steph and Ieuan. I’ve been asked to do so many of these events but always said no. I apologised to my son on the first day for not doing this before.”

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Leo Docherty, UK veterans minister, with British and Israeli ex-servicemen

‘Each of you represents the very best of our respective societies,’ Israeli President Isaac Herzog told the veterans at the start of the competition

Saying the Games had given him a “kick in the b******s”, Jones said: “The inspirations here are not only the other veterans but the organisers and volunteers. However many times I say ‘thank you’ I would never be able to show how grateful I am.”

The Veteran Games were funded

by Pears Foundation, Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation, Exilarch’s Foundation, Charles Wolfson Charitable trust, Rachel Charitable Trust and Patron Charitable Initiatives. On the sidelines, British and Israelis experts, scientists and mental health experts gathered for a conference on veteran mental health and the posi-

tive impact of sport led by former head of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Sir Simon Wessely.

Praising the donors and the work of Beit Halochem at the opening ceremony was UK veterans minister Leo Docherty, who hailed the project as an expression of the “amazingly close” bilateral relations between the two countries in defence.

The MP said: “In our effort to provide to a global gold standard there are definitely insights to be gained from the first-class provision available to veterans in Israel.”

Of Beit Halochem’s facilities, which extend to five centres nationwide, he

The Games were the result of ‘amazingly close’ bilateral relations between the countries

added: “It feels like a community – that’s really important. The veterans here are embraced with their families. The experiences of families is equally important if not more so; often the challenge for veterans is the breakdown of families.”

The focus on families was encapsulated by the children of the veterans being invited on stage at the closing ceremony, many of them now firm friends.

Reflecting on the trip hours later at Ben Gurion with his daughters Tilly and Ellen, Pete Lauder – who served in Afghanistan and Iraq – described the experience as “absolutely magical” and said the Games had finally “put to bed” doubts about his ability to compete. He added: “I now hope to be selected for the Rugby League wheelchair World Cup this year and plan to push on with the adaptive sport club I’ve been working on for veterans and disabled kids.

I’ve made some connections here who are going to try to help get the word out.”

Beit Halochem chair Andrew Wolfson – who conceived the Games with CEO Spencer Gelding – said the organisers had asked several UK charities to identify attendees they felt would most benefit. A highlight, he said, was meeting “families who were previously in a very bad place and seeing people change in front of our eyes in real time”. Explaining the charity was now exploring how to assist veterans once they are back in the UK through support networks and reunions, he said: “This was never supposed to be a five day one-off trip. We want to help the participants to thrive long-term. Otherwise we’ve failed.”

Ahead of the charity’s 10th anniversary dinner this month, he revealed plans to invite a third country to join the Games in Israel as soon as May next year.

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EX-MARINE POPS THE QUESTION IN TEL AVIV There were mazeltovs all round as news spread that one of the British former soldiers taking part in the Games had got engaged to his girlfriend, writes Justin Cohen.

Former Royal Marine Jamie Goss, who was attending his second Veteran Games, popped the question to long-time partner Sara Nyala at a Tel Aviv restaurant after his plan to propose at the beach during sunset was thwarted.

He had originally planned to propose in the UK after she returned from a prolonged period of work in Africa, but changed his mind after realising that he would soon be visiting “one of the most beautiful” countries in the world.

“Being out here [in Israel] is something I’ll cherish for the rest of my life,” said Goss.

“I’ve spent an awesome time with Sara. She is the most amazing person and to get engaged in this city was incredible.”

While sending congratulations to Goss and Nyala, one wellwisher joked: “At the last Games you popped a hip. This time you popped the question.”

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The most heartbreaking song in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s celebrated musical Hamilton is It’s Quiet Uptown.

The piteous lament delivered by the mourning protagonist after his son dies, contains the ineffaceable line – “living with the unimaginable”. Mariano Janin is living with the unimaginable.

In March 2021, his 14-year-old daughter, Mia, a Year 10 pupil at JFS, took her own life because she was being bullied. “Brutally bullied for a long time”, according to another pupil in Mia’s year, who started a petition calling on JFS to “prioritise mental health”. This petition has been signed by more than 6,000 people.

But this caring initiative and the Ofsted emergency inspection of the school came tragically too late for Mia and two other JFS pupils who took their own lives in the past five years.

In a Sunday Times interview ahead of another inquest into Mia’s death this week, Mariano urged JFS parents with information to take it straight to the coroner. “We need to know what happened for the sake of other children as well as for Mia. Do not close ranks.”

Close ranks? Can this possibly be true? That Jewish parents would think to consciously group together to protect their own while robbing a grieving father of the truth behind his little girl’s death?

Unable to unlock Mia’s phone until now, new evidence at the inquest might provide answers and identify Mia’s tormentors. That the bullies knew their words of hate would result in such tragedy is highly unlikely. Impossible, we’d like to think.

For they, like their victims, are social media pawns on the unpoliced internet, where abuse carries no penalty.

But parents have the right to police their own children, check their online behaviour and deprive them, when needed, of the freedom to roam virtually.

Unbelievably, Mariano is also mourning the loss of his wife Marisa, who died from sudden-onset cancer, triggered, he believes, by the stress of losing Mia and searching for answers about her death.

Some JFS parents may have those answers and should provide them. If they don’t, they, too, could some day find themselves living with the unimaginable.

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3) This category is so all-pervading that without it you would not have publication at all. Absolute paranoic obsession with antisemitism. Totally assimilated Jewish people and organisations are shocked again and again when they are shunned by the nonJewish world.

There is a simple formula backed up by thousands of years. Assimilation leads to antisemitism.

Jewish News claims to represent mainstream Judaism. Mercifully this is not the case. AngloJewry is split between the seriously committed and those who have left the fold altogether.

Mostly young, Charedi communities are blossoming, while most of the rest are no longer on the radar, with a small remnant left in the middle. Suzy Bennett, Edgware

The majority of Jewish News articles fall into three categories, all linked in an ironic way: 1) Supporting assimilation. The publication always prints articles that praise Jewish people who have become famous personalities in one field or another. The person involved has always turned his or her back on their heritage, and there is nothing really Jewish about them.

2) Digging up the dirt on Charedim. Every unsavoury story that happens in the Orthodox community is plastered over as much space as possible. Unfortunately, improprieties happen – some very serious and sordid – but nowhere near in the numbers that occur in the secular Jewish and non-Jewish world.

The 19 May issue was a case in point. You managed to dredge up a nasty story from 2015 to fill your front page (the early release from prison of convicted paedophile Todros Grynhaus). There was recently a very dirty story that made it into national press. You accorded

LABOUR MEETINGS NOT TOXIC TRAGEDY FOR FARM I read the article headlined ‘Labour acts over antisemitism and racism claims in Brighton and Hove’ with anger and incredulity. I can assure readers that I and my colleagues have not been informed, as the article claims, that “election candidate contests” cannot take place. Indeed, the process of selecting our candidates for 2023 has already begun, with events across the city, specifically designed to ensure our party’s public representatives truly reflect our diverse city.

The suggestion that these, or any other meetings, are “toxic” is offensive. Labour meetings in Brighton Kemptown are always friendly and welcoming.

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Jewish Youth Fund (JYF) trustees of the threatened Sadeh Farm say it “did not meet JYF objectives”, but need to explain these objectives. According to its website, “JYF is the only national independent fund to which all Jewish youth organisations can apply for support”. It wants to remove its support from a project that successfully serves Jewish youth across London and the south-east.

Generations have benefited from visits to Sadeh Farm and Skeet House. It would be a tragedy if the project is destroyed.

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Zaki Cooper notes the Queen has “visited more than 100 countries”. What a disgrace Israel, UK’s great ally, isn’t one.

The Foreign Office pulls the strings but, constitutionally, she and her advisers have the final say. Prince Charles must – must – announce a visit in his first few days as King.

Jonathan Hoffman, By email

I was dismayed to read about the law the Iraqi parliament has ratified, making it a crime potentially punishable by death to normalise relations with Israel. This is a shocking and backwards move.

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n Britain and Israel in the past several weeks it has been anniversary time, from the Queen’s ‘Platty Joobs’ as I learn we must call Her Majesty’s 70-year-long reign, to Israel’s Independence Day and then Jerusalem Day. Jerusalem Day, of course, was created in order to mark the reunification of the city after the 1967 Six-Day War. But it has always seemed to me to be a kind of fake festivity, since anyone who truly believes that the capital is a united city has clearly never visited there.

Despite many goodwill intentions from some on the city council, Jerusalem remains a place of division, where Jews live in the western neighbourhoods, primarily, and Arab Israelis live in the east. Please let nobody fool themselves that people of different faiths are living in integrated harmony – because they aren’t.

This is not to say the communities don’t mix at all. They do, mainly in the workplace, from restaurants to hospitals, and

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there are some genuine, classy relationships across the divide.

But Jerusalem Day, as it is currently celebrated, has become a deeply uncomfortable event, hijacked in its earliest years by the Likud and now, as we saw in some terrifying scenes just over a week ago, the province of the extremist right-wing Israelis.

Many people will have seen videos of hundreds of young men, mostly wearing kippot and tzitzit, marching through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, chanting

disgusting slogans such as “Death to Arabs” and “A good Arab is a dead Arab”.

If this is what the religious right is calling for these days, Israel’s supporters in the diaspora should have no part in it. More than that, I expect our communal organisations to condemn such behaviour, but there seems to be radio silence on that front, so far.

The jingoism that seems to go hand-inhand with the waving – or indeed the wearing – of the national flag, is deeply worrying.

Time was when the flapping of the Union Jack sent out a scary signal to British Jews, about fascism from the National Front and their fellow travellers. But it has taken the Queen’s Jubilee to reclaim the Union Jack, so that millions of proud British citizens can fill our streets, and enjoy the fruits of genuine patriotism and what this country has to offer.

Conversely, however, the Israeli flag seems to have gone in the other direction.

Now, those who wave it appear to do so with a kind of righteous venom, and I’m only talking about those who do so in Israel.

It’s a really sad conclusion that the fragile Israeli coalition is so nervous of upsetting the powerful right-wing that it didn’t ban the

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Just space to allude to the repellent Chris Williamson, the former Labour MP for Derby, who sent out a message on social media I couldn’t believe even he had written.

He said: “Members of Iraq’s parliament have passed legislation that prohibits the normalisation of relations with the apartheid state of Israel. I look forward to the day that the British parliament follows Iraq’s fine example.”

That fine example, of course, being that the “crime” incurs the death penalty, something Williamson apparently imagines Britain will impose on citizens who associate with Israel. Now, where did I put that flag?

Jews should not feel conflict between religion and politics SHABINA ASAD QAYYUM LABOUR COUNCILLOR, PETERBOROUGH

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was honoured to have had the opportunity to write a piece for Jewish News a few months ago, but did not use the opportunity to clear my name after being reinstated to the party following allegations of antisemitism against me.

Holding elected office as a Labour councillor is a privilege and comes with significant responsibilities. It must involve demonstrating what active steps have been taken to rectify past mistakes. I believe strongly in the Macpherson principle when it comes to racism. Only Jews can arbitrate on whether I’ve shown sufficient remorse and a willingness to educate myself.

The Labour Party under Keir Starmer has been very clear on its stance dealing with antisemitism. As a councillor, I want to play my part in ridding our political movement of its stain. As a Muslim woman, I want to do whatever I can to help foster improved

interfaith and community relations, and end the divisive and sectarian politics that has seemed all too common since my political activism began in 2017.

After my own experience, I have a greater responsibility to help to ensure Labour is as friendly and cohesive an environment as it can be for our Jewish friends and comrades.

Never again should anyone in the Jewish community feel their political identity directly conflicts with their religious identity.

The Labour Party can never profess to be a moral crusade if it isn’t a natural political home for the most discriminated against ethnic minority in the history of mankind.

As a BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] woman, I have had to navigate the patriarchal world of politics and the difficulties this can entail.

I feel I can particularly empathise with my Jewish friends and comrades who found the Labour Party a hostile environment before 2020 as detailed in the Equality and Human Rights Commission report, and it is imperative I take proactive steps to bring people together, as opposed to the divisive factionalism we have seen too often in politics in recent years.

I wish to set out some of the steps I have taken in recent months to become as strong an ally as possible to the British Jewish community.

Late last year I became a trustee of the charity, Friends of Roots, which does wonderful work in the area of interfaith relations. I was introduced to it by Leon, a Jewish friend in north London, who contacted me after reading my previous Jewish News blog.

I have also been privileged to speak with the chairs of Nisa-Nashim, the Jewish Muslim sisterhood organisation in the UK and explore increased collaborative workings between Muslim and Jewish public representatives.

We intend to set up a country-wide consortium and sub-group of Muslim and Jewish councillors, working together to eradicate religious discrimination from the left and right of British politics.

I feel fortunate to have made a great friend and political mentor in Rabbi David Mason, whom I was pleased to support in the recent local elections campaign in Haringey.

It is incumbent on everyone in the Labour Party to reflect on recent years’ events and the deterioration in relations with the Jewish

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I am indebted to the Jewish Labour Movement’s Mike Katz and Rebecca Filer for the antisemitism training I received at the Eastern Region Labour Party Conference.

I am grateful to everyone who has played a part in my educational journey. I hope I have also been able to play a part in helping to make the Labour Party a safe and welcoming place for Jewish friends and comrades again.

For me and like-minded friends in the party, this is just the beginning.

Being a public representative is about everyone we represent and beyond, to place their faith and trust in their politicians again.

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Some Labour councillors still think Corbyn is leader MICHAEL MCCANN MP

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or those who think the UK Labour Party has turned the corner on its proclivity for antisemitism, I have bad news. It hasn’t.

Not only are the party’s latest published statistics awful and the ratio of expulsions pathetic, but there is also a slew, or should that be sewer, of new evidence found by Campaign Against Antisemitism that Labour councillors still think Corbyn is in charge.

Keir Starmer will, no doubt, argue he is making progress, but he is in denial if he fails to understand that the roots of the problem he must contend with are much deeper than the behaviour the CAAS has exposed. Far too many Labour MPs don’t understand that their visceral hatred of Israel is a serious problem and provides succour and camouflage for those with more sinister motivations.

Worse still, there are far too many sensible Labour MPs, many in senior positions in the

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Israel’s security forces to be in Jenin; namely, to find those who planned to harm and kill civilians. He ignored the video evidence of reckless Palestinian gunfire, he ignored a hastily- performed autopsy, he ignored ballistics evidence being spirited away and affirmed that the Labour Party, not himself, condemned the violence by Israeli forces.

That was the green light for the parliamentary pile on. In came Imran Hussain and John McDonnell, explaining how Israel, which probably has the most voluble journalists on the planet, treats journalists so badly.

They were followed by Andy Slaughter, Afzal Khan and then Grahame Morris, who previously tweeted a picture of Guatemalan troops abusing Guatemalan civilians claiming they were Israeli troops abusing Palestinians.

Then Naz Shah, who was suspended from Labour in 2016 for retweeting a tweet suggesting Israel be relocated to the USA,

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offered a series of non sequiturs before demanding Israel hand over the bullet that killed the journalist. Did no one tell her it is the Palestinians who are withholding it?

Other MPs were equally awful. But it isn’t just their casual incompetence that grates, their collective lack of knowledge of the works and authority of the International Criminal Court or even their failure to mention the routine abuse of journalism by Hamas and Fatah. It’s not even the fact the UK Parliament spends a wholly disproportionate amount of time on this one subject.

No, it’s this: where were the urgent questions in our Parliament this year when Israel was struck by a series of terror attacks in Be’ersheva, Hadera, Bnei Brak, and Tel Aviv?

Palestinian terrorists have killed 19 Israelis in 2022. No urgent questions, no adjournment debates, no Westminster Hall debates.

You can’t help but conclude that they simply don’t care.

It’s time for our Parliament to ask itself why an Israeli life is worth less than a Palestinian’s. And it’s time for Keir Starmer to explain why the Labour Party mobilises the machinery of Parliament for one side and not the other.

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parliamentary Labour party, who commit the most egregious sin of all; they remain stubbornly silent.

Bambos Charalambous’ recent urgent question on the death of Shireen Abu Aqla on 16 May illustrates the point.

An urgent question is a parliamentary procedure used by MPs if they believe an immediate answer from a government minister is required. However, Bambos is Labour’s shadow minister for the Middle East, meaning this intervention was officially endorsed by the party, i.e. Keir Starmer.

When you assess his urgent question, all sober thought, chronology and known facts and logic were ignored. This despite him having just returned from a trip to Israel funded by Labour Friends of Israel, where he would have learned first-hand of theccountry’s security challenges.

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he Sand Curtain between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has come down – and there is no better proof than the free trade agreement the two nations signed last week, the first of its kind between Israel and an Arab country.

Never has a free trade deal been concluded so quickly. Negotiations were wrapped up in less than half a year, a fraction of the norm.

Such pacts are also usually reserved for allies of long standing. So its swift completion, less than two years after the sides normalised ties by signing the Abraham Accords is testament to both nations’ commitment to building on that momentum.

One thing is clear: this free trade agreement will not only influence the economies of two Middle Eastern countries. It has implica-

tions for the entire region, if not the entire world. Over time, other countries will join the Abraham Accords, which have also been signed by Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.

Other countries will also enter into free trade agreements with Israel. Once you’ve brought down the Sand Curtain, it doesn’t go back up.

This year, bilateral trade between Israel and the UAE is expected to reach $4 billion (£3.2bn) – with the first quarter already booked with $1 billion. These are incredible sums for two markets that until recently had been largely closed to each other.

The UAE’s minister of economy, Abdulla bin Touq, has said he aspires to $1 trillion in bilateral trade within the decade.

That’s far, far more than either of us ever imagined when the normalisation pacts were signed in September 2020.

Yet the amount of activity that’s going on is measured not only in dollars, but also in the kinds of deals that are taking shape.

What’s happening increasingly is that Israel and the UAE are developing products together, and not just investing in each other’s markets.

Cybersecurity, medical technology, food technology and energy are just some

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of the sectors where co-operation can yield fantastic results.

Our challenge is to work together to jointly build businesses that can be leaders on the global stage, and not just regionally. We will hit our full potential when we have companies that have both Israeli and Emirati shareholders.

Right now, Israeli businesses are working to tap the UAE’s vaunted planning and logistical expertise to scale up their own storied entrepreneurship, taking advantage of the Gulf nation’s position as a trade hub to penetrate the wider region and south-east Asia more quickly.

Within a six-hour flight from the UAE, businesses can reach four billion people.

Close to a dozen Israeli companies in our

portfolio alone are already studying prospects for expanding operations in the UAE to access other markets.

In recent days, there have been indications that normalisation efforts are widening, with media reports about Israeli businesspeople exploring potential opportunities in Saudi Arabia. That is completely natural and to be expected. It’s a force of nature. Business ties between the Emirates and Saudi Arabia are close, and we can expect Saudi businesspeople will watch, learn and try to position themselves for if and when relations with Israel open up.

At times, Israel and the UAE may find themselves at odds on various political issues, but that won’t change the trajectory. Something as big as the Abraham Accords was years in the making.

It was also stress-tested last year by the conflict between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

But we need a long-term perspective when talking about historic changes in our region.

The policy shift was deeply thought out, and we believe we will see a lot of resilience.

This free trade agreement – a step toward creating the right infrastructure between the two markets – has created a momentum that’s inexorable. There’s no going back.

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Games showed our country’s champions dignity and respect CHRIS HAYES

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’m a veteran who resides in the phenomena know as ‘civilian life’ in the poppy-filled countryside of Norwich. I still uphold the standards and bearing of a marine.

I was medically discharged in 2017 with a myriad of mental health issues – mind-bending psychosis, extreme anxiety, a deep, dark depression and, at the time, undiagnosed posttraumatic stress disorder and compounded trauma. During my turbulent recovery after a poorly-thought out suicide attempt, I was invited to attend the Veteran Games in 2019.

After my own life-changing experiences and performance (winning concurrent gold medals in the CrossFit event), I had the honour of being asked to be an ambassador and mentor in the 2022 Games. Knowing this would be a humbling insight and a show of humanity’s intrinsic strength, I accepted immediately.

For the uninitiated, the Veteran Games is funded entirely by British/Israeli philanthro-

pists with a passion to support our veterans, but also their individual families.

The love they give their partners is unending. They are the adoring glue holding together the individual family units while injured veterans rebuild their bodies, minds and spirits. They do this unseen and almost with a whisper quiet paired with a devotion I have never seen matched.

During this whirlwind week of emotions in the wondrous and progressive city of Tel Aviv, I witnessed a moment so human it will stay in my heart and soul forever.

During a break in the swimming heats, two competitors turned to each other and shook hands smiling warmly, then leant against the poolside for a chinwag. The man to the right?

An English Royal Marine Commando. To the left? An Israel Defense Forces veteran. The British marine explained through simple hand gestures to the Israeli (who spoke little to no English) about his own internal struggle and personal injuries. Post-traumatic stress disorder. The invisible wound.

The Israeli nodded slowly, profoundly and very simply, gently tapped his own head with

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his forefinger... he understood completely, empathised. With wet eyes and a lump in my throat I slipped away to the next moment of breathtaking humanity.

The Games themselves are a breeding ground for personal growth but, in between these barrier-breaking moments, they provide cultural insight and spiritual balm. British warriors visited the famous Western wall, paying reverence and respect to the Old City of Jerusalem. We ate and drank merrily with unconquered spirits in the finest restaurants and with cultural tours and food tastings.

I felt a deep connection to Tel Aviv, this sun-kissed city in a country that has not only welcomed my fraternal brothers and sisters but venerated them overtly. We live in a world that, at times, does not celebrate its serving soldiers and veterans, but the people of Israel have treated these champions of Britain as they deserve, with respect and dignity.

During the flight home, I tried to pull apart the individual moments of the week that had blurred into a tapestry of profundity and British fighting spirit. Prouder than ever of my service and that of my brothers and sisters, I exchanged

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heartfelt hugs and firm handshakes as I left Heathrow, blissful in the knowledge that our wounded servicemen were indomitable, unbroken and shining examples of British resolve.

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

1 FLYING THE FLAG

Pupils and staff at the Independent Jewish Day School helped to form a Union Jack in the Hendon school’s playground. A Queen’s tea was held afterwards, where everyone dressed as royalty and danced through the decades eating scones or trifle.

2 ROYAL CELEBRATION

And be seen!

Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary School celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in style. Music played and the sun shone as ‘the Queen’, waving from the balcony with her corgis alongside her, welcomed families into school.

All year groups sang a song from one of the decades of the Queen’s reign, as well as the national anthem. They then tucked into a special picnic that included red, white and blue cupcakes.

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3 CHIEF’S VISIT

Jewish Care warmly welcomed the Chief Rabbi during a visit to its Holocaust Survivors’ Centre at its new home at Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre in Golders Green.

Sarah-Jane Burstein welcomed Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis before he addressed members, answered questions and joined their pre-Shavuot cheesecake tea. He then attended a royal garden party ahead of the Jubilee at Buckingham Palace.

4 NORWOOD TREK

Laurence Smith completed an eight-day, 175-mile walk along Scotland’s West Highland Way and Great Glen Way. During the event, he camped outdoors, and carried all his own equipment, which weighed about 13kg. His trek was to raise funds for Norwood. He chose the charity after being inspired by the care his son Jeremy receives in Norwood’s adult residential services.

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Philip Hertz, Russell Tenzer, Charles Barnett and Leon Angel formed Team Chai and took on this year’s Ride London, the worldfamous event from Victoria Embankment to Tower Bridge. The four cyclists raised more than £15,000 – and counting – for the charity.

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Dignitaries including the Mayor of Islington and ministers from Union Chapel and Wesley’s Chapel joined members of the New Stoke Newington Shul community including the film producer Michael Kuhn for the inauguration of its new Sefer Torah.

The scroll, previously owned by the Eastbourne community, is thought to be about 100 years old.

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IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM

Ed Grossman

Carole Grant

Born 25 June 1948, died peacefully at home on 30 May 2022.

Husband to Penny, father to Beth and grandfather to Samuel.

Much loved by us all and by his many friends and family.

1953-2021

Missed isn’t a big enough word.

Adored by Brigit, Harriett, Neil, Mondo, Dylan, Gia and Madison.

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A look

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slices. Mrs Elswood also pickles beetroots and onions. Alas, though, there is no actual Mrs Elswood. The name is a combination of the two areas where the founders grew up – Elstree and St John’s Wood.

There are now some strong contenders to the brand in this country. Nick Vadasz, founder and owner of the Vadasz pickle empire, told me that, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, the Vadasz family fled their native country, eventually making their home in Kent, where Nick was born. The story goes that all they took was the family silver and a jar of pickles to sustain them on their journey to Austria.

Nick started off with a pickle stall at Brockley Market, growing his business to now supply Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Co-op. here’s always at least one jar of I had a tasting session with my 21-year-old son, cucumbers on the go in my fridge – often more than one of the same type, Ethan. We put veggie sausages in pita and filled the rest of the pouch with raw kimchi, superwhich is so annoying. Why do Gen beet kimchi, garlic and dill pickles, sauerkraut Z-ers do that? But it’s not just pickles now. and red onion pickles. We munched and When I make a tuna or egg roll – which are crunched with my previously kimchi-loving an art form, by the way – for my packed son choosing the sauerkraut as his favourite. lunch, I deem it incomplete without I told Nick he’d done the impossible by making added capers, sliced olives and jalapeños. sauerkraut sexy and said he could use that I love the saltiness, the spiciness and the line. We loved them all – but our breath wasn’t contrast they give to the main filling. On great afterwards. a Friday night, there’s always a jar of Mrs Nick had talked about the importance of Elswood on the table, one of its many qualifood – in this case pickles – to a family’s culture. ties being that it counts as one of your five My New York pickle correspondent, Seth a day. (I do occasionally buy a can of Beit Kamil, co-founder of Big Onion Walking Tours, Hashita, but my son and I are the only ones reiterated this theory, saying the Lower East who eat them and they don’t come in a jar, Side is the heart of the historic Jewish pickle so I invariably scoff too many, resulting in neighbourhood. The Pickle Guys is the last a sorry repercussion of their remaining pickle store on Essex Street, which unfortunate name.) used to be home to loads of them. Here, they If you were asked to sell pickles the old-fashioned way – in barrels name the nation’s most (plastic as they are more sanifamous pickle, you would tary than wood) – and be correct in saying it’s you purchase them by Mrs Elswood. They are the container (different stocked in all UK supersizes). The place is markets, with six jars a veritable haven of being sold every minute. pickle delight.

They are – and have I’ve been looking for a always been – KLBD certified and are sold new hobby for a while and have struggled to find whole, in spears or in sandwich Mrs Elswood’s cucumbers and Vadasz sauerkraut something I’m genu-

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inely interested in that doesn’t result in weight gain or a headache the next morning. Pickling seemed as good an idea as any, and I turned to food writer and shadchan Denise Phillips for advice.

She promptly sent me an easy recipe and asked if I knew anyone single aged 30 to 40 who would like to join her Date on a Plate that Sunday evening. I didn’t, but had instant FOMO (for the food, obviously). Denise says Sephardis like their pickles salty and sharp, while Ashkenazis prefer them sweeter and crunchy. But, as is often the case with Jews, there are so many opinions – some like them sweet and sour, or with dill, or new green... then

there’s garlic, sweet, slices, whole pickles, spears, chunks, crunchy, soft, hot or mild. The best thing about them, says Denise, is that they go with everything from salt beef and schnitzel to cream cheese and roast chicken.

Denise’s recipe was really easy to follow – no big ‘dill’. (Be thankful I didn’t do the full spiel about how we’ve been gherkin from home during the pandemic.) For want of something to put them in, once boiled, I deposited my slices of pickled cucumber along with the rest of the ingredients into a Mrs Elswood jar and put it on the table on Friday night.

“Ooh, these ones are crunchy,” said my daughter, which is as near as one gets to a compliment in this house.

Quick Pickled Cucumbers

By Denise Phillips Ingredients 1 large 30cm/12 inch unpeeled cucumber, or 2 smaller ones 340ml cider or white wine vinegar 2 teaspoons salt 120ml cold water 3 tablespoons sugar 10 whole black peppercorns 2 cloves garlic – peeled and sliced 5 bay leaves – fresh or dry

sugar and peppercorns and simmer for two minutes or until the sugar has dissolved.

4) Allow the liquid to cool. Add the sliced garlic and bay leaves.

5) Pour the cooled liquid over the cucumbers and place in a two-litre/eight- cup sterilised jar.

6) Leave in the refrigerator for two days before using. Serve at room temperature.

Variation: Pickle sliced baby carrots, Method 1) Wipe the sides of the cucumbers with a damp cloth.

2) Cut into ½cm / ¼ inch slices.

3) Boil together the vinegar, salt, water,

radishes, and sliced fennel.

Add one tablespoon of capers to the pickling liquid and garnish with sprigs of coriander.

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BOYCOTTS In the fight against Israel sanctions, Lana Melman is Boadicea. Nicole Lampert hears more about her manifesto to call out the critics and stop the lies

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hen Scarlett Johansson was surprised to find herself at the centre of a controversy in 2013, Lana Melman was there to hold her hand.

The American actress had just been launched as the face of SodaStream and its multimillion-pound advert had gone out during the Super League break. The problem was that SodaStream was an Israeli company; the reaction was almost instantaneous.

“Scarlett’s representatives found themselves flooded with emails and calls accusing her of crimes against humanity,” says Lana.

“Her seven-year relationship with Oxfam,

which is not meant to be a political organisation, came into question as it criticised her.

There were memes circulating with an A for apartheid carved into her forehead.”

For the Jewish actress, who was determined to stand her ground as she believed in the eco credentials of the SodaStream product, it was a baptism of fire. For Lana, a former lawyer and film executive, it was another day in the life of fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, work that she chronicles in her new book, Artists Under Fire: The BDS War Against Celebrities, Jews and Israel.

Lana says her Zionism was forged when she learned not only about the Holocaust, but also

about racism in America. “My father would tell me about growing up in Los Angeles, where there were signs saying ‘No Negroes, no Jews, no dogs allowed’,” she says.

“Learning about these things meant that it was almost as if my DNA had changed. I knew that our fate was all tied together as Jews.

However much we disagree with each other, we have a common fate.”

In 2011, she started working with the organisation Community for Peace, helping people see the arts as a bridge to peace, but she realised she needed something more aggressive to work against the tactics of the new BDS movement, which had become ever more powerful, and she set up the organisation Liberate Art. “I saw that artists were being scared off from going to Israel,” she says. “People like Dustin Hoffman and Meg Ryan cancelled trips there and BDS claimed it as a victory – that gave them bragging rights. I was at a place in my life where I was ready for transition, and members of the entertainment community reached out and asked me to do something.”

Since then, while she can’t name all the people she has guided through the implications of travelling to Israel, she has helped the likes of Alicia Keys and Cyndi Lauper plan trips to the country and deal with the impending fallout. She has also engaged stars including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kelsey Grammer and Sarah Silverman to publicly support Israel’s right to defend itself.

As hard as she is working, Lana worries that things are only getting worse, likening the lies of the BDS movement to the Chronicles of the Protocols of Zion.

“The BDS co-founder, Omar Barghouti, is open about his intention and it begins with getting rid of the Jews,” she says. “He says, ‘No rational Palestinian will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.’ But the movement acts as if it is a force for good. They use bullying tactics to get their way, frightening artists, and it doesn’t matter whether they succeed or fail, because they use the fame of the celebrity to get their message across.

“There is a huge correlation between the lies they tell and the classic antisemitic trope.

When they say Israelis are murdering Palestinian children, this is the classic blood libel.

When they talk about Jews stealing land, this is the age-old idea of the greedy, thieving Jew. “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion used the tropes everyone knew and turned them into a powerful book, which influenced Hitler.

“With this BDS movement, by directing this material at celebrities, and having celebrities spread these lies, their propaganda is just as powerful.

“The world is hearing them. It is very dangerous and it is time to call it out.”

Lana experienced the threat of the BDS movement first-hand when she was visiting London and went to see a performance of the Jerusalem Quartet.

“I found it very intimidating to walk past this gauntlet of protesters who were screaming: ‘Shame on you, shame on you’,” she recalls.

“Even during the concert, you could hear them screaming ‘5, 6, 7, 8 Israel is a terrorist state.’

The next day there was a review in the Evening Standard with the music critic spending a third of the review talking about his ‘pangs of liberal guilt’ simply for being there.”

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“There is a group of BDS zealots and most of them are English,” says Lana. “I think it is there in the theatre world at the Royal Court and, of course, the BDS movement has co-opted the language of the left.

“It talks about freedom and justice and that becomes a bonding experience. I think some of its popularity in England might come out of a guilt of colonising – it feels like that’s being deflected onto Israel.”

Sometimes the celebrities are shamed by

the zealots, sometimes they are threatened with violence – Paul McCartney was once warned he should not perform ‘if he values his life’ and often they are warned it will have a massively detrimental impact on their careers.

Lana groups these BDS types – there are shades of grey. There are the leaders, such as Roger Waters and Brian Eno, there are the letter-writers like Ken Loach and Mark Ruffalo and then there are the intimidated acts, who feel forced into tortured statements of contrition for daring to plan to go to Israel.

Lana isn’t feeling positive about the fightback, but her book is a manifesto for how each of us can play a part in it; and it starts with

attacking Jews everywhere. Calling them out engaging with the celebrities on social also makes them think about what they media, just as the BDS activists do.

“Sometimes they have are saying.

“If you are arguing with your high been forced to delete lies AR TI ST S they have told about Israel school friend on Twitter, no one is going UN DE R FInstRE to see it – but make your point to a celebby people on social media,” The BDS War Agai Israe l rity and it will be read. she says.

Cele briti es, Jews , and “We are living in a dangerous time “That is why it is imporand I urge people to call this out where tant to call it out when they they can.” say things that are wrong; and if you tag the celebrity, • Lana Melman’s book, Artists millions of people will see it.

Under Fire: The BDS War Against “They aren’t just Celebrities, Jews and Israel attacking Israel but, by N LANA MELMA is out now telling these lies, they are account “A full, fair, and necessary trend.” of an alarming, growing

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The anti-BDS celebrities – artists who have appeared in Israel despite pressure not to or who have signed anti-BDS letters The Rolling Stones, JK Rowling, Paul McCartney, Morgan Freeman, Ziggy Marley, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Robbie Williams, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Maroon 5, Bryan Ferry, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna, Martha Wainwright, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys

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The BDS gang – artists who actively campaign for BDS or have signed letters in favour of it

Reluctant supporters – artists who pulled out of Israel tours because of BDS pressure

Roger Waters, Russell Brand, Dua Lipa, Caryl Churchill, Mia Farrow, Ken Loach, Alice Walker, Julie Christie, Mark Rylance, Rosanna Arquette, Mark Ruffalo

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SCHLEPPING STAR NACHES The Platinum Jubilee concert and pageant made us all feel proud, warm and fuzzy, but imagine what it did for the parents of Jewish performers Adam Lambert and Maz Murray.

Adam opened the concert as the frontman for Queen and Maz closed the pageant in front of the palace as Mamma Mia!’s leading lady. Both their families posted with pride on social media, but sadly there was nothing from The Browns about Paddington (pictured below). Bless that little bear.

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There was only one way it could end. After three seasons of being stacked with more Jewish ingredients than a Rubens sandwich, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is heading to Israel for the final series. Well, almost heading – the Holy Land will be recreated in the Big Apple for purposes unknown, but a casting callout for ‘Jewish-type agrarian workers’ suggests sassy Upper West Side stand-up Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) is going to be a kibbutznik. Set in 1960, which was the year American Jews started volunteering before college, Midge will no doubt spend season five wearing chi-chi shorts and a matching headscarf for her orange-picking spree.

Renowned for her brisket, Midge may even settle down with a noshy Israeli, which would please her armchair socialist father Abe Weissman, who could be tempted to make aliyah.

If her edgy barbs appeal, a moshav may be the promised land for Mrs Maisel and if the production team can make Long Island look like Kibbutz Kfar HaNassi – gesundheit!

All seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel are available on Amazon Prime

This week Terence Davies’ film, Benediction, opens and the biopic about British anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden) entirely ignores his Jewish heritage. But his family fortune (which he was embarrassed by) was built on trading in opium, oil, gold and silver, which led to the Sassoons being known (mostly to antisemites) as ‘the Rothschilds of the Bradley Cooper and Carrie Mull igan in Maestro and, East’ but he later converted to Catholicism. And inset, Cooper as Bernstein although it was but a few weeks ago that Dame Mo Lipman and others were appalled by the casting of Dame Helen Mirren as Golda Meir, not a peep about like-for-like casting when Sir Anthony Hopkins was picked to play Sir Nicholas Winton. Granted, Winton was baptised, but he was Jewish when it mattered while saving hundreds of BOOK children from the Nazis. At that point in the film Winton Tuchus Tale will be played by Johnny Flynn, who also isn’t Jewish, Funny fiction author which doesn’t matter, but we’ve been told it does. At Sam Copeland, least for other minorities. Like-for-like casting is the new who wrote Charlie black, but actor Bradley Cooper didn’t get the memo as Changes into a he stars as composer Leonard Bernstein in the Netflix Chicken and went film Maestro, which he is also directing and stars Carrie to King David Junior School in Mulligan as Bernstein’s Jewish Chilean wife. New Yorkers Manchester, has teamed up with Jenny can cope with the absence of Jesps (Jewish thesps) but Pearson (The Super Miraculous Journey ied Jack Lowden as Siegfr Cooper donning a large prosthetic nose, not so much. of Freddie Yates) to create a hilarious tale

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After a glorious weekend of Platinum jubilations, no one wants reminding of the Sex Pistols’ version of God Save the Queen released during the 1977 Silver Jubilee. But the anarchist’s anthem, which was banned by the BBC and commercial radio was re-released last month and Pistol, Danny Boyle’s drama about the band, is on Disney+.

Many despised the Pistols for their aggressive songs, but they changed popular culture due to the efforts of the grandson of a Jewish diamond dealer. Raised by his wealthy bubbe, Rose Corré Isaacs, the late Malcolm McLaren (Thomas BrodieSangster) built the Sex Pistols’ success around his anti-establishment beliefs and created a movement held together by safety pins and the desire for political turmoil.

Rose told little Malcolm: “To be bad is good, because to be good is simply boring.”

about a Jewish detective called Lenny Tuchus. The first in a super new mystery series from this great author partnership, Tuchus & Topps Investigate The Underpants of Chaos, is suitable for children aged eight and up and is brilliantly illustrated throughout. Detective duo Agatha and Lenny unwillingly team up to investigate the strange happenings unfolding across their town. Copeland, who is a literary agent as well as a children’s author, likes to represent the Jewish community in his writing.

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This Month in Jewish History

By Jewish News historian Derek Taylor

The Magna Carta was signed on 15 June 1215.

It had 62 clauses and those affecting Jews were considered so important that they were clauses 10 and 11. Clause 10 ruled that if a father died, his debt to the Jews should not carry interest by his heir as long as the boy was underage. Clause 11 ruled that the wife didn’t have to pay interest out of her dowry. It was also ruled that any residual debt had to be paid in cash, not by land. The king had been taking the land the barons had used to pay off the debt. The Jews were protected by the king, but they were described as his chattels. The total subservience of the Jews to the crown was spelt out by John’s son, Henry III: “No Jew remain in England unless he do the king’s service, and that from the hour of birth every Jew, whether male or female, serve Us in some way”.

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including turmericinfused cauliflower with tahini, hummus and pomegranate seeds; baba ganoush with cashew nuts; beef carpaccio with truffle oil and fresh truffle; poke salmon and tuna; pulled beef arancini, a salt beef carvery and dairy-free desserts including tiramisu, Eton mess and crème brulée. Sushi will also be available.

Cooloo alcoholic ice-pops will be taking a stand, the perfect refresher for this KFWE – the first time the event has been held over the summer months – and there’s a cocktail bar with delicious concoctions created by top mixologists using Walders and Bicerin liqueurs.

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POWER LIST WINNER WHO CHAMPIONS FLEXI WORKING Senior people should not be penalised for wanting to work part-time. It's often recruiters who get in the way, the founder of a styling business tells Candice Krieger

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scientist Dr Jane Edwards, who played a key he recruitment industry part in efforts to develop a vaccine to combat is blocking the way for Covid-19, and a pair of GCHQ job-sharing flexible working at senior deputy directors involved in counterterrorism, levels, says marketing executive Jodie Gillary, one both mothers to young children, each working 28 hours per week, and a doctor who returned of the winners of this year’s to the front line during Covid-19, following six Timewise Power List, which showcases years out of work raising five children. the nation’s most dynamic and successful Previous winners include Nicola part-time and flexible workers.

Mendelsohn, now vice president at Meta.

Gillary works three days a week as head This year was the 10th list collated by of client impact for leading data, insight and antiques trade Timewise, the flexible working consultancy consulting company Kantar. that was co-founded by Karen Mattison in She says: “We have come a long way, with a THE A RT M AR KE T W EEKLY 2012. And what a difference a decade makes. lot of companies much more open to flexible Ten years ago, three-quarters of people working at senior levels, but it’s the recruiters Dan believed File Name: Roseberys 2545 that senior part-time jobs weren’t possible. who are the blockers. They want an easy sale Today, someSERVICE 750,000 people working in and think it’s muchUS easier sell someone full- THE TO ASSIST INtoDELIVERING BEST TOare YOU time.

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working, the missing link is the lack of flexibly advertised, senior level, part-time jobs, with supply a long way behind demand. So much so that around half of adults in the UK still think having a senior part-time job would be impossible, says Timewise.

This was certainly the case for Gillary in 2017 when she was made redundant from her position as head of insight for Premier Foods, where she built brands for some of the nation’s biggest names, including Mr Kipling, Sharwood’s and Bisto.

“I was working four days a week when I left Premier Foods – I’d negotiated that as part of my return from maternity leave – and I wanted to continue working four days, but faced challenges from recruiters and the fact jobs weren’t advertised as flexible, only ‘full-

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time’. I found it tough and recruiters said I wouldn’t be able to get a senior role four days a week.” Later that year she joined Kantar as group director on a four-day contract.

After the death of her father two years ago, Gillary was inspired to pursue her dream of qualifying as a personal stylist. She has since set up her own business, The Styling Works, and runs a community of 7,000 women on social media. This success prompted Gillary to reduce her hours to three days a week to work across all her interests while raising her daughter.

How important is dressing ‘right’ when it comes to work? “I’m a big believer that you bring your whole self to work. When you are not authentic, it comes across.

“Lots of people adapt their clothing choices to the people they’re with or the environment they’re in so, suddenly, when faced with more flexibility or choice (like we have now), it can be really hard as you’ve worn a self-imposed uniform without realising it.”

When it comes to post-pandemic dress codes, Gillary says: “The world of work is changing and lockdown accelerated that.

Casual is more acceptable. People have smart office attire and realise they don’t need to wear that any more, but also don’t have their own sense of style to flex it or casualise things. Emotionally this can create so much anxiety for people.”

She adds: “Working from home has made us realise you don’t have to wear a shirt and tie to do a good job. And the Zoom culture has changed things, putting more of an emphasis on our top halves.

I change my glasses all the time!

We should consider things like big collars, layering, structured shoulders, cool glasses – where all the drama is on your top half.”

Chingford-based Gillary is also, as she puts it, “on an ADHD journey” and says being featured on the Power List was great validation that “you can still be senior and parttime and it’s a massive ‘in your face’ to all those recruiters who said it would hold me back”.  www.thestylingworks.co.uk Instagram: @thestylingworks

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Orthodox Judaism

MAKING SENSE OF THE SEDRA

In our thought-provoking series, rabbis, rebbetzins and educators relate the week’s parsha to the way we live today

BY RIVKA ZEIDMAN

PARTICIPANT ON THE CHIEF RABBI’S MA’AYAN PROGRAMME

The Three Little Pigs Once upon a time there were three little pigs. Their names were Guinea, Pig and Piggy. Guinea lived in a mud hut, helped the sick and infirm all day, meditated all night and claimed that all forms of materialism were a sin.

Pig lived in a luxurious mansion, spent his life racing, partying and spending money and maintained that life was for pleasure. Piggy lived in a medium-sized house, ate healthy food and had ice cream for treats. She engaged in meditation and yoga and attended her local Temple. Her mantra was ‘everything in moderation’.

Which little pig are you? Which

one does God want us to emulate?

The priestly blessing in this week’s sedra, Naso, holds the answer.

The first line reads: “May God bless you and guard you.” The blessing is that of material wealth and the guarding of it is to avoid us losing that prosperity. Pig seems to fit here.

The second line reads: “May God shine His face on you and be gracious to you.” A shining face represents a flow of spirituality. Hmmm, sounds like Guinea.

The third line says: “May God turn His face towards you and give you shalom.” The word shalom is rooted in shalem/shlemut, meaning completion, harmony, integration.

Is this Piggy?

Piggy seems to have found a balance of materialism and spirituality in her life. However, she is

missing something. She engages in each activity separately and accesses spirituality only during the period in which she is engaging in that activity.

The priestly blessing is implying shlemut (integration) is possible.

What might integration of material and spiritual blessings look like?

Some examples are a normal day where you treat other people as souls, being awed by the beauty and flavour of a strawberry, a successful business deal infused with gratitude to God, celebrating Shabbat with Torah study and great food.

The priests bless our nation so we can achieve harmony in our lives, enjoying the knowledge that every physical activity in which we engage can be infused with meaning as well as pleasure.

Interestingly, in this week’s sedra

Integration of material and spiritual blessings includes simple pleasures

we also meet the nazir. This is a person who eschews eating meat, drinking wine and cutting his hair – certain physical pleasures – in order to concentrate more intently on living a spiritually-focused life. If or when the nazir ends this voluntary abstention, they offer a korban chatat – a sin offering. Why, what did they do wrong? Some say the nazir was wrong

to undertake this physical denial – he or she has not created a cohesion of physicality with spirituality.

This is a defining point of Judaism.

Ours is not a religion of asceticism, nor one of seeking pleasure for its own sake. Rather, we seek to imbue the mundane with holiness, the physical with spirituality and our lives with meaning.

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LEAP OF FAITH

A stimulating series where our progressive rabbis consider how biblical figures might act when faced with 21st century issues

BY RABBI DANNY RICH

VICE PRESIDENT OF LIBERAL JUDAISM

What would Ehud say about obesity?

As a community rabbi and hospital chaplain, I know only too well the tragic consequences of the coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns. I have had to support those with deteriorating mental health; seek to bring a human face of comfort to the frightened and seriously ill while dressed in mask, shield, gloves and apron; and officiate at funerals with only the coffin present.

Nevertheless, these past two years, with all their challenges, have enabled some people to review their work/life balance and their priorities. In my own case, in order to strengthen myself for the duties described above, I began walking five miles a day in green spaces and indulging my hobby of bird watching. I am pleased to say my GP has told me that, with a BMI [body mass index] of now under 30, I have moved from obese to overweight.

Body shape and size are influenced by a number of factors including genetics, the availability of food and cultural appreciation of certain body forms. The Book of Judges recalls the rise of the Israelite Judge Ehud and his assassination of Eglon, the wicked and oppressive King of Moab.

King Eglon is described as ‘very stout’ and in a graphic detail

(Judges 3: 20-22) we learn: “Reaching with his left hand, Ehud drew the knife from his right side and drove it into Eglon’s belly. The fat closed over the blade and the hilt went in after the blade – for he did not pull the knife out of his belly – and the filth came out.”

Although Ehud took advantage of Eglon’s fatness to kill him, judges including Ehud were responsible for the leadership and wellbeing in all its manifestations of the Israelite nation after the death of Joshua, and before the anointing of Saul as Israel’s first king.

Their primary concern was, of course, spiritual – to persuade the Israelites to worship Adonai and to not be tempted by the idolatry of their neighbours. Their very title of ‘judge’ indicates a further concern for the morality and justice of Israelite society.

Above all, Ehud was a military leader with a responsibility to muster an effective army to face one of a number of surrounding warring tribes: Ammonites, Amalekites, Moabites and Philistines.

In addition to having moral courage, soldiers needed to be physically fit for the operations they would undertake.

Last weekend we marked the festival of Shavuot, the season of the giving of the Torah, which has become the feast of cheesecakes.

As the countries of the developed world, including the UK and Israel, face an explosion of medical problems related to overeating, what would Ehud say? He’d advise us to be enthusiastic in our study of Torah and modest in our consumption of cheesecake! If you weren’t, then perhaps you can make up for it with a little restraint this week.

Eglon, the King of Moab, is described as ‘very stout’ and as having an excess of fat

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• Entrepreneurial business specialist including start-up businesses.

• Specialises in charities; Personal tax returns.

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

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