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NHS offers more genetic tests for Jewish patients BRCA screenings to be expanded to speed up early cancer diagnosis NHS England is launching a major programme of genetic testing for cancer-causing mutations that people with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage are 10 times more likely to carry, writes Stephen Oryszczuk. Up to one in 40 Jews are thought to carry the BRCA1, BRCA2, or BRCA3 (also known as PALB2) genetic mutation, which can lead to breast, ovarian or prostate cancers, compared with around one in 400 in the general population. It affects both men and women. Until now, testing has been available for free to British Jews only if they or a close family member have had cancer, or been shown to carry the mutation, in what has been known as the family-based testing model. Under the new plans, however, it is likely that any adult with a Jewish grand-
Gemma Isaacs with husband Daryl and baby Jack in 2020. Gemma is one of the ‘BRCA sisters’, a group who support research into the diagnosis
parent will be able to get a free genetic test, with no upper age limit, moving to what is known as a population-based model. It marks an enormous shift in scale, with hundreds of thousands of people sud-
denly due to be eligible. Those tested will be offered a counselling session before the test and one after for those who find out that they carry the mutation. “They have been missing a lot of people,” said a communal figure closely connected to the issue. “People should and could have been getting tests, but haven’t because the list has been so restrictive. Many only find out [that they are carriers] too late.” Jewish health groups welcomed this week’s announcement of a three-year pilot programme scheduled to start as early as September, saying they hoped the move from family-based testing to populationbased testing would save lives. Clinicians said finer details were still being worked out, such as the method of testing. Jnetics, a charity focused on the Continued on page 4
THE LAST LIBERATOR A sketch of Bernard Levy, believed to have been the last surviving British-Jewish soldier to have taken part in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps at the end of the Second World War, who died last month. The artwork is by one of the survivors Levy helped to free. See pages 10 & 11
PROTEST AGAINST YESHIVA REGULATION
The Parliament Square protest
About 300 members of the strictlyOrthodox community took part in a central London protest against the government’s Schools Bill yesterday, claiming the legislation is “discriminatory” against the traditional way of educating boys over the age of 13, writes Lee Harpin. The all-male gathering, who took part in the demonstration in Parliament Square, held banners that called the Bill, now going through the Lords, “anti-religion”. One banner read:
“Let Us Continue Our 3,000 Years Old Torah Education... which proved successful until today!” Among those to address the crowd was Rabbi Herschel Gluck, the Union of Hebrew Congregation’s Rabbi Friedman and Rabbi Asher Gratt, part of the Stamford Hill-based rabbinical committee who arranged the protest. Rabbi Weiss, from Manchester, told the crowd: “We gather here today in front of the House of Lords on a matter of personal concern for our com-
munity.” The Bill, he said, is a “direct attack” on the Charedi community. Friedman was among those to wish the Queen mazeltov on her recent Platinum Jubilee, adding that Her Majesty had also been a protector of “religious freedom” in this country. He said: “The Queen at all times has been a pillar of democracy, tolerance, freedom of religion. This is the reason we are here today, to voice our concern to Her Majesty for freedom of religion.”
The rabbi said the growth of yeshivas in the UK had allowed boys to “immerse themselves” in religious learning. But he then referred to the Holocaust, and how the families of those who died moved to the UK to begin new lives, with yeshivas being set up as the “core of the Jewish religion”. He said a new generation had “emerged from the ashes of the Shoah” after the war and “any attempt to Continued on page 4
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News / GMB motion / Unite event / Biden visit / Israel advice
Union votes to crush Jew hate One of Britain’s biggest trade unions has unanimously passed a motion calling for antisemites, including those found guilty amongst its own membership, to “face the full force of the law”, writes Lee Harpin. In a move backed by the GMB’s general secretary Gary Smith, the union, which has 600,000 members across nearly all industrial sectors, committed itself to a zerotolerance policy on anti-Jewish racism. Motion 213 was backed by the union’s leadership across the country during GMB Congress in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on Monday. It stated: “This congress strongly challenges the disturbing rise in antisemitism across the UK. “This unacceptable behaviour and the perpetrators should be subjected to the full force of the law. “Where such behaviour may be present from any member of GMB Union, including social media posts, our union should take immediate action to investigate and apply appropriate measures to address this within rule.” GMB leader Smith, who has been deeply critical of Jeremy Corbyn’s failure on antisemitism, and made a point of reaching out to Jewish Labour activists, said after the motion was passed: “Antisemitism is a scourge in our society, and the GMB is clear that we won’t tolerate it. “We stand firm against antisemitism in this union. There is no room for hatred in our union. Those who commit it should face the full force of the law.” In a column for Jewish News this week, he detailed the proud history of Jewish involvement with the union.
GMB chief Gary Smith says his union ‘won’t tolerate’ antisemitism
But he also wrote: “We have to recognise antisemitism within our own ranks, and not be afraid to call it what it is. It flies in the face of our historic ties to the Jewish community, and in the face of what is right.” Speakers in favour of the motion were applauded by delegates, including GMB Redbridge’s Stephen Jones, who warned that on occasion “anti-Zionist motivations” could stray into anti-Jewish racism. Another speaker Unmesh Desai, a London Assembly member, warned that what started with hatred of Jewish people had historically turned into wider racist hate. Speaker for the union’s executive committee Margaret Gregg spoke of the horror of seeing Jewish members afraid in the Labour Party under its previous leadership. The motion on antisemitism, which was submitted by the GMB’s
Redbridge branch, called for a review of current GMB policies for the handling of hate crimes and all forms of discrimination to ensure they are fit for purpose. A motion calling for similar focus on rising Islamophobia was also passed by delegates on Monday. On Tuesday the Jewish Labour Movement was due to run training for unions to understand the issues around rising anti-Jewish hatred. Both Mike Katz, JLM’s national chair, and Rebecca Filer, its national organiser, were expected to attended the conference to conduct the training session, which is the first time the organisation has been invited into a trade union conference. Katz told Jewish News: “Under Gary Smith the GMB has been a strong ally of JLM and Jewish Labour members in our fight against antisemitism in the party.” Opinion, page 20
Unite scraps event led by Ken Loach A Unite trade union Jewish Labour and event in Durham at union activists. which film-maker Ken Loach had been a Loach was due to be the supporter of Jeremy headline speaker has Corbyn’s leadership been postponed, Jewish of Labour. He drew News has learned. anger in 2017 at a Sources at the union fringe event at Labour said they had received conference, after a confirmation that next speaker reportedly month’s National Politquestioned whether ical School had been the Holocaust could cancelled, with cost facbe discussed, and tors cited. when asked if it was The two-day event Loach was headline speaker acceptable, he said: “I is traditionally held in think history is for us July, before the Durham Miners’ Gala, all to discuss, wouldn’t you?” as a major educational event for the At the same event he added: “The union’s most promising recruits. founding of the state of Israel... based Adverts for this year’s event prom- on ethnic cleansing, is there for us all to ised “two days of political education, discuss, so don’t try and subvert that by workshops and discussion”; attendees false stories of antisemitism.” were told that “all accommodation and In the 1980s Loach had been food costs will be covered by Unite”. director of the inflammatory play PerJewish News revealed last month dition – which centred on claims of that Loach had been given top billing Zionist collaboration in the Holocaust. despite being expelled from the Labour An email circulated by Unite has sugParty last year over his membership of gested the Political School could take a proscribed group that downplayed place at a later date. Unite told Jewish antisemitism. The move infuriated News it would not be commenting.
BIDEN TO VISIT MIDEAST Joe Biden will visit Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia next month in a visit aimed at rebuilding US ties with the Palestinians. On Tuesday the Biden administration o posted the dates for his Middle East tour, 13-16 July, after weeks of reporting that such a trip would take place this summer.
In Saudi Arabia he will attend a summit of the GCC+3, a body that brings together Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan with the Gulf Cooperation Council, a body of Gulf Arab states. Biden’s office said his visit will “reinforce the United States’ iron-clad commitment to Israel’s security and prosperity”. Editorial comment, page 18
‘DON’T GO TO ISTANBUL’ Israel has urged its citizens not to travel to Istanbul, saying Israeli and Turkish authorities have recently thwarted Iranian-backed terrorist attacks. “If you’ve planned a flight to Istanbul — cancel it,” foreign minister
Yair Lapid said on Monday. “No vacation is worth your lives and the lives of your loved ones. Listen to the directives we are putting out, we are updating them all the time and in accordance with our status assessment.”
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Board ‘suspends’ activities with EJC over abuse claim The Board of Deputies has “suspended all activities” with one of Europe’s main Jewish organisations over “concerns” it failed to respond to shocking abuse allegations made against a senior member, writes Lee Harpin. In a statement, the UK communal organisation confirmed it had “suspended all activities with the European Jewish Congress (EJC) due to concerns about how the Congress is handling misconduct complaints.” While the statement did not elaborate on the “misconduct complaints”, multiple sources confirmed to Jewish News that they centre around sexual abuse allegations relating to a senior figure within the EJC, widely reported to be the Congress’ treasurer, Yaakov Dov Bleich, a Chief Rabbi of Ukraine. Bleich strongly denies any wrongdoing.
Rabbi Bleich and Board president Marie van der Zyl. The Board has halted links with the EJC over its investigation
Another highly-regarded European Jewish organisation confirmed in a statement to Jewish News it had conducted an investigation into the claims. It had also spoken to a number of people who claimed to have been victims of the accused. The statement, which named the individual at the centre of the claims, said he had subsequently “resigned”
from the organisation, which claimed to have then taken “appropriate action working with relevant authorities and the local community”. The investigation into the claims was conducted in 2019, but it is understood other people have since come forward to make further claims. Concerns about the individual’s conduct were then passed on to other Jewish
organisations, including the EJC, where the person at the centre of the claims continued to hold a senior role. The Jerusalem Post also reported this month that a source “familiar with the EJC” said: “There is a failure of EJC to take action, such as instigating an investigation or to seek to put safeguards around this leader’s activities in relation to ongoing humanitarian work, such as exposure to vulnerable women, etc.” In a statement, the EJC said it “deeply regrets the decision of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to end its activities as an affiliate and completely rejects claims it has mishandled alleged complaints.” It added: “The EJC views very seriously any breaches of ethical conduct and will always act immediately to maintain the highest standards of any of its associates.”
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LBC IS RAPPED BY REGULATOR Ofcom has found that LBC Radio “broke our rules on due accuracy in news and offence” after repeatedly describing the Israeli Embassy in London as the “Jewish Embassy” in reports aired last May during protests over airstrikes in Gaza, writes Lee Harpin. The broadcast watchdog’s investigation detailed how, during coverage of protests in London organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, an LBC reporter “inaccurately” used the term “Jewish Embassy” nine times across three news items “potentially causing offence”. Ofcom confirmed it had acted after receiving two complaints about the broadcasts, which it was alleged could contribute to antisemitic hate speech and attacks in the UK. Announcing its findings on Monday, an Ofcom spokesperson said: “Our investigation found LBC News broke our rules on due accuracy in news and offence, by repeatedly
describing the Israeli Embassy as the ‘Jewish Embassy’ during three reports. “Given these reports aired at a time of increasing antisemitic attacks against Jewish communities in London, we considered it was particularly important these reports were accurate. We also recognised the clear offence this conflation was likely to cause to listeners.” The 15 May 2021 broadcasts came from a reporter positioned outside the Israeli Embassy in west London and included interviews with Ben Jamal of the PSC. LBC Radio said the reporter had “tripped over his words in error during the heat of the moment while recording this segment of the programme from what was a stressful and tense situation”. It added that “there was absolutely no intention to cause any harm or offence during the recording or broadcast of this report”.
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NHS to expand tests for BRCA diagnosis Continued from page 1 prevention, management and diagnosis of Jewish genetic disorders, currently uses a saliva test, and it is believed the NHS will follow suit. Jnetics this week called the news “an exciting development”, while the London Jewish Health Partnership said it would come as “a relief” to Britain’s Jews. Rabbi Oliver Joseph, of New North London Synagogue, who in 2020 shared his story of being a BRCA carrier, said: “This is fantastic news for the Jewish community and for BRCA carriers in the UK.” The “impact of this screening will be felt across the community and is a significant moment for campaigners and those affected by genetic cancer”, he added.
Health secretary Sajid Javid views an MRI machine at Barking Community Hospital
The UK’s changing approach mirrors a recent Israeli policy shift. British health bosses say Covid spurred improvements in testing and prevention. NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard told a Liverpool conference yes-
terday that clinicians “will not rest in our efforts to catch cancer early”. Chai Cancer Care welcomed the decision, saying: “We understand the impact of carrying BRCA mutation on the lives of many.” Andrew Gilbert, co-chair of the London Jewish Health Partnership, said the community was “so pleased and relieved”. He paid tribute to a team at University College London, while Jnetics’ chief executive Nicole Gordon said studies by professor Ranjit Manchanda had helped prompt this week’s NHS announcement. An NHS spokeswoman said the health service “wanted to reach as many people as possible” with the testing, which it hoped would begin later this year.
How a Jewish mother’s death led her daughter to test Stefanie Daniels, 42, a member of the Jewish community who lives in Bushey, has first-hand experience of the BRCA mutation and its effects. Shortly before her mother died of ovarian cancer in 2015, she told Stefanie that she had the faulty gene and urged her daughter to get tested. Two months later, Stefanie gave birth to her second child, then got tested. It was positive. She soon had a double mastectomy and also had her ovaries removed, which triggered surgical menopause. Stefanie described this as “horrific”. She later gave up her job in media and retrained as a coach for women going through the menopause. On this week’s announcement, she said: “The stats show the Jewish population has more cases of BRCA, but it’s still a personal choice as to whether to get the test. “It’s great we’re being offered the genetic testing choice. Knowledge is power but, equally, if you’d rather not know something like that, I respect that life decision.”
Westminster protest against ‘intimidating ’ Schools Bill Continued from page 1 secularise” the yeshiva was an attack on Jews. Friedman specified specific parts of the Bill that in his view needed amending. Gratt stressed that the best judges of whether the Charedi schools
provided good education for the community were the parents of the children themselves. One of the rabbi’s sons, Shmili, said the Bill “represented a devastation for the Jewish community.” He said it “should not go through
because regulation was not needed for us and our schools”, adding: “We don’t want it because it will affect the curriculum.” At one stage, the organisers played the national anthem through their sound system.
Other rabbis also led the protesters through renditions of tehillim on the boiling hot afternoon. At one stage Rabbi Elayakim Schlesinger, aged 100, was introduced to the crowd. The Bill will close a loophole that
allows yeshivas to teach a narrow religious curriculum because they do not count as schools. As a result, they are currently exempt from registration with the Department of Education and are not subject to Ofsted visits.
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Israel to compete in Harry’s Invictus Israel will compete in next year’s Invictus Games, the sporting event for wounded and sick soldiers that was founded by Prince Harry eight years ago, writes Adam Decker. The announcement means active and veteran service personnel from the Israel Defence Forces will compete at the 2023 games, which will be held in September in the German city of Dusseldorf. On Tuesday, Colombia and Nigeria were also confirmed to have joined the wider Invictus Community of Nations, bringing to 23 the total number of countries due to take part. “Israel has a long-standing respect for the power of sport in recovery, and I’m pleased they are joining our wider community this year, said Dominic Reid, chief
executive of the foundation that organises the games. “As next year’s Invictus Games hosts are building ‘a Home for Respect’ in Germany, I am also looking forward to Israel and Colombia joining us in Dusseldorf next September.” The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was “pleased and proud” to take part. Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, remains a patron of the organisation. This week’s decision comes amid a reorganisation of the Invictus Games that will allow service personnel to be able to take part in a wider programme of activities all year round. London hosted the first games in 2014 and subsequent events have been held in the US, Canada
and Australia. The most recent Invictus Games were held in the Netherlands in April. Edan Kleiman, chairman of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organisation, said: “Wounded Israeli servicemen and women, who are shining examples of perseverance in rehabilitation and excellence in sports, will continue to honourably represent Israel at the Invictus Games. “We witness daily the important role that sport plays in strengthening not only the body but the spirit, enabling people to regain their lives.” Kleiman added: “No less important is the wonderful opportunity to bring together wounded war veterans from other countries to form life long bonds of camaraderie.”
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WHAT THE #$@%*! GIVING Scots football chief drives SPEECH A SPRING CLEAN to Ukraine to help Jews While some people’s swear jars are capable of financing an ambitious space programme, a campaign for clean speech is taking off, writes Toby Porter. One project involving two charities has been backed by the speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle – who has heard a few profanities in his time – as well as Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, spoon-bending Israeli illusionist Uri Geller and British Asian cricketer and antiracism activist Azeem Rafiq. Jewish education charity Seed and community project group Give It Forward Today (GIFT) have run the first UKwide Clean Speech Project.
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It is aimed at encouraging constructive, positive speech. The project was inspired by a similar initiative in Colorado in the USA, where the monthlong programme was adopted by the state. A group of 27 primary
schools, eight secondary schools, 17 synagogues and 14 community organisations got involved with Seed and GIFT’s Clean Speech Project from 22 to 27 May. GIFT’s Rabbi Avrohom Zeidman said: “While people can be givers in various forms, giving positive speech is an easy yet impactful way to make the world a better place.” Seed co-founder Rabbi Daniel Fine said: “The Clean Speech Project aims to encourage awareness, inspire and educate about the gift of speech and empower people to use speech constructively.” Find out more at www.cleanspeech.co.uk
A Scottish football chief who has made four trips to help families flee war-torn Ukraine is supporting Jewish communities there, writes Toby Porter. Ricardo Cerdan, business director of Dundee United Football Club, first travelled to the Poland-Ukraine border in March. The 45-year-old Jew, originally from Barcelona, has been ferrying fuel and medicines to Kharkiv and Donetsk synagogues as well as finding blankets and clothes and trying to source generators. Kharkiv synagogue members have told him he is the only person bringing aid.
During each visit, the first of which was on his birthday weekend, he has travelled further into Ukraine, eventually arriving in the capital Kyiv, and helping women and children and older residents flee, paying for their accommodation until they were given a ticket to their final destination by an Israeli agency. He said of his first visit: “At the time, there was only a handful of people at the border offering assistance, among them, like always, several Jewish organisations. “There was no sight of the UN, Red Cross, Oxfam, Save the Children or any other large
organisation one would expect to see at a crisis location. I just wanted to do some good.” Cerdan supplied Kharkiv synagogue with two pallets of food and water using a 20-tonne lorry he drove from Scotland. On another trip, he transported 300 litres of diesel. He will shortly venture into the dangerous Donbas area to offer direct assistance to Jewish families there. His colleagues have been helping to support his efforts with a fundraising campaign, which has a target of £100,000. To give, visit https:// bit.ly/3xMHLoI
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Jewish social workers have admitted to being left “scared” and “uncomfortable” by the response of their colleagues to their attempts to combat antisemitism. A motion tabled for debate at this week’s British Association of Social Workers (BASW) conference, backed by the Social Workers Union (SWU), calls for the body to “suspend the decision to endorse the IHRA definition of antisemitism”. Meanwhile, a podcast in which two Jewish social workers discussed their experiences of antisemitism, produced in conjunction with the Community Security Trust, was taken down by BASW officials, in response to a complaint from a Palestinian campaigner suggesting that the recording “seeks to confuse criticism of apartheid Israel with antisemitism”. In a response to last October’s podcast dispute, the newly-formed Social Worker Jewish Group, set up for Jewish social workers, said: “Sadly, we expected these
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types of complaints because the podcast was the first to talk about antisemitism and social work, with two Jewish people talking about their experiences. “We expected attempts to censor, silence, intimidate and cancel Jewish voices and opinions.” The podcast was eventually aired again, but a section in which Jewish voices explained how the chant ‘Free Palestine’ could leave them concerned was cut. Dr Paul Shuttleworth, a lecturer and tutor for Sussex University and an independent social work practitioner, tweeted on Wednesday: “It’s uncomfortable being a Jewish social worker at the moment. “We are not being listened to and nonJews are deciding whether we are allowed to define antisemitism. Yes this is real.” Shuttleworth also referred to the conference motion calling for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition to be dropped. He wrote: “It puts Jewish experience up for debate by non-Jews,” before adding that, “when two Jews talk on a social work podcast, it is removed and edited/censored”.
Another social worker, who asked not to be named, told Jewish News: “The climate for those of us identifying as Jewish in the industry has never been worse. “It started with the idea that because many Jews were not people of colour, they could not understand what racism was. From here it has just got worse.” Jewish News understands that the motion calling for the dropping of the IHRA definition is expected to be debated at the BASW AGM today (Thursday). It has been tabled by a social worker named Abyd Quinn-Aziz, based in Cardiff, Wales. The motion also calls for discussion on “whether BASW needs to adopt a particular definition of antisemitism”. In its own statement in support of the motion, the SWU says that while it accepts IHRA can be helpful, “the examples added to guide this definition have been regularly used to conflate criticisms of Israel with antisemitism and to frame defending Palestinian rights as antisemitic”. Jewish News has asked the SWU for comment on its statement and CST for comment.
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News / Student remembered / Free speech / Chelsea sale Antisemitic statue can stay on church Germany’s top court has ruled that an antisemitic sculpture can stay on a church where the theologian Martin Luther once preached. The 13th century sandstone relief depicts three Jews drinking from a sow’s teats while a rabbi lifts her tail and hind legs to inspect for omens. The federal court said on Tuesday that while it “derides and denigrates Judaism as a whole”, the church, in the eastern town of Wittenberg, had remedied the situation by adding a memorial explaining its historical background.
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Tributes to ‘special’ Zohar A Jewish student from London hailed as “a witty, free-spirited, and warm person” has died in an accident during a holiday in Albania, writes Adam Decker. Zohar Dean Collins, 22, from Rotherhithe, “always had a smile on his face”, say tributes in an online memorial. The University of Leeds physics student was on holiday with friends to Dhërmi, on the Albanian Riviera, after finishing his third year of university. A fundraiser set up to support his parents and three siblings will contribute to the costs of bringing his body back to the UK and his funeral. Any funds on top of that will go to the family to use as needed. The fundraiser has already raised just over £24,000 of its £25,000 target, from 800-plus donors. It says: “We are all unbelievably heartbroken from the tragic news of the death of Zohar. We are all remembering Zohar as the witty, free-spirited, and warm person he was. “He was truly special and touched many hearts along his journey and he leaves behind a massive family, including three beautiful siblings, two parents, two grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles and a community of close friends. “We will keep the memory of our beautiful friend alive by keeping all these precious moments close to our hearts.” In one of many tributes to Zohar, former schoolmate Tal said: “He got along with everyone like he had been there since day one. He was the life of the party and his energy was a joke. I am only now realising how many things I learnt from him.”
Zohar Dean Collins was described as a ‘free spirit’
Another friend, Ryan, said: “He was always doing the things he loved whilst being a free spirit, which is one of the things people loved about him. “Zohar was the happiest, most positive and full of energy and life person I’ve ever met and I had the pleasure of calling him one of my best friends. “From the moment we met, at the start of sixth form, we became friends and started to create memories together and within our friendship group. “From travelling round Europe on trains for three and a half weeks, countless trips to the pub,
music festivals and concerts and out for dinner with friends, Zohar was always smiling, making jokes, laughing and was genuinely the life and soul of every situation. He was always up for anything as he loved a challenge or an adventure. “He never wasted time and was always doing the things he loved whilst being a free spirit which is one of the things that people loved about him. “As a fellow Chelsea supporter, I was lucky enough to go to a match with Zohar this year, which was something we had not done together in the past, so this match will forever be special in my eyes. “I will forever cherish the memories we shared together and the friendship we created and I am going to miss him so much.” Also on the online memorial page, his former teacher, Miss Feaver, said: “You were an incredible young man. I loved teaching you. “I loved your passion, determination, brilliant intelligence and wit, to name a few of your wonderful qualities.” In a statement, Leeds University Physics Society recalled a “dear friend” and “incredibly valued member”. It said: “The loss of Zohar leaves a huge hole in our lives and the committee will not be the same without him.” The Union of Jewish Students said: “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Zohar and all those who are impacted by this tragic news. “If any Jewish students need support, visit www.ujs.org.uk/mental_health or reach out to any of our team.”
Rabbi steps into row over film that sparked a Muslim protest The right to free speech in society “far outweighs” the right “not to be religiously offended”, a leading rabbi has argued. Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain made the intervention after some Muslim campaigners took part in protests that led to Cineworld cinemas pulling screenings of The Lady of Heaven – a film about the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed. The film and its creators have been accused of blasphemy for depicting the prophet and his daughter Fatima. In a letter to The Times, Romain writes: “Christians have endured The Life Of Brian, while Jews suffered The Passion of the Christ. “If some Muslims object to The Lady Of Heaven, the answer is to avoid the film or to peacefully hand out corrective letters to those attending – but not to threaten the cinema or prevent others from seeing it.” The Maidenhead Synagogue rabbi added:
Protesters campaign against the film
“There is no right not to be religiously offended. It may be regrettable, but it is part of living in a society that allows free speech. Value of the latter far outweighs the downside of the former.” Romain cited the response of Mormons after the musical The Book Of Mormon enjoyed packed theatre audiences. Mormons took out an advert in the musical programme, inviting attendees to attend a service.
‘War led to buying Chelsea’ The former chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council has acknowledged the “horrific” war in Ukraine had inadvertently led to an opportunity for him and his business partners to buy Chelsea Football Club. As keynote speaker at a Norwood Property lunch, Jonathan Goldstein told a near 600strong audience: “You can’t talk about Chelsea without referencing the war in Ukraine, and that the opportunity arose [to buy the club] came out of the war and the brutality shown by the Russians towards the Ukrainian people.”
The war had triggered sanctions by the West against many Russian oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich, who was forced to put the club up for sale. Goldstein is a passionate Tottenham Hotspur supporter but, to laughter, he said he had no problem with remaining a Spurs fan while becoming part-owner of Chelsea. He said: “There are opportunities that you get in life to become involved in the sport you love, with a world-leading brand, in the greatest city in the world.”
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Jews’ own words will be read on Royal Court stage experiences, a lot of which they’ve felt they London’s Royal Court Theatre is to stage a have been silenced on, or told they were new production based around accounts from making up.” leading members of the community on being The artistic director added: “It will be Jewish that were given to journalist and hard-hitting and satirical – a serious piece of author Jonathan Freedland, writes Lee event-theatre.” Harpin. It is hoped the play will give a “complex, The show, titled Jews. In Their Own detailed understanding of where antisemWords, includes interviews with former MP itism sits in our culture, in a way that we choose Luciana Berger, author Howard Jacobson, not to see if we’re not Jewish”, Featherstone the Community Security Trust’s Dave Rich told the newspaper. and Labour’s Dame Margaret Hodge and the Last November, the Royal Court was at the historian Sir Simon Schama among others, on centre of an antisemitism row, after a lead their experiences in the UK. character in the play Rare Earth Mettle was The production is co-directed by Vicky Feathersone, the Royal Court’s Non-Jewish character Hershel Fink in a Royal Court production given the name of Hershel Fink. The character was a Silicon Valley billionartistic director, who was at the centre of criticism over claims of antisemitism in owing to concerns over issues around antisemitism aire, who was not Jewish in the script. The Royal Court issued an apology after the proat the theatre. The theatre added that Freedland a recent production staged at the famous theatre. Announcing the production, which is based had created a “searing and incisive play looking at duction prompted angry complaints about Jewish around an idea from Jewish actress Tracy-Ann the roots and the damning legacy of antisemitism stereotyping. The theatre accepted that there had been “unconscious bias”. Oberman, the Royal Court said on Monday: “Jews in Britain”. It was the latest in a string of controversies to In an interview with The Guardian on Monday, have been talked about a lot in recent years. Featherstone said: “We agreed that the verbatim involve the Sloane Square theatre. Now they get to speak for themselves.” Jewish News revealed at the time that EastIt will run from 19 September until 22 October, form was the right one and that it would be, as Jonathan has said, Jews speaking in their own Enders actress Oberman had met with Featherwith a post-show talk scheduled for 11 October. Featherstone said the idea was “fast-tracked” words – people being able to talk about their own stone to discuss the fallout from the row.
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Students hit £2,000 target for Ukraine Jewish students at the University of Surrey have raised thousands of pounds for community projects in Ukraine. The students and staff collected almost £2,000 to sponsor an interfaith retreat in the war-torn country with young Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Muslim and Protestant people. Students sold baked goods at the university and encouraged private sponsors to get involved. They split the money raised between the Libertas Centre in Lviv and the Tikva Orphanage.
Israel signs deal to export gas to EU Israel will export its natural gas to the European Union for the first time to help reduce dependence on supply from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. Last year, the EU imported about 40 percent of its gas from Russia. It has faced energy difficulties since imposing sanctions on Moscow. Israel will send gas via Egypt, which has facilities to liquefy it for export via sea. Israeli energy minister Karine Elharrar said the deal had cemented the country’s role on the global energy stage.
CST to be given NUS say The charity charged with protecting Britain’s Jews from harm is to be given a say as to when – and if – the government should re-engage with the National Union of Students after it was hit with yet more antisemitism allegations. News of the role of the Community Security Trust (CST) emerged last week from universities minister Michelle Donelan in a written answer to a question from Labour MP Matt Western. The universities minister said she was “deeply concerned to hear the allegations of antisemitism” linked to the NUS. She added that “strong action is needed, especially as NUS has been the subject of similar allegations on at least another two occasions in recent years”. Donelan said: “Jewish students need to have confidence the NUS is a body that represents them, as well as other students. The government will re-engage once we and the Union of Jewish Students [UJS] and Community Security Trust
Incoming NUS president Shaima Dallali
(in relation to the broader Jewish community) are satisfied it does so.” Last month, Donelan announced the Department for Education would be temporarily “disengaging” from the NUS, after past comments from the incoming president of the student organisation, Shaima Dallali, came to light.
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Holder has developed links to the A Jewish reporter whose coverage of strictly-Orthodox community around anti-Jewish racism in London was Stamford Hill and said the rise in credited with helping to show antisemitism “has been my really the scourge of antisemitism has big focus over the past year”. been shortlisted for a prestigThis has included incidents of ious journalism award, writes shocking violence, such as when a Adam Decker. Charedi grandfather was punched to Sam Holder, 32, who grew up in the floor on a street in broad daylight. Whetstone and attended Woodside “I’m keen to make sure [the rise of Park Synagogue, will find out next week Journalist whether he has beaten four BBC produc- Sam Holder antisemitism] is not normalised. Some of these attacks are incredibly violent, tions and an Al Jazeera entry to win the 2022 Sandford St Martin Award for his work cov- random and affect people of all ages. It doesn’t fit ering attacks against Jews for ITV News London. with multicultural, modern Britain.”
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Special Report / Bernard Levy: 1926-2022
The last liberator
Bernard Levy was a teenage corporal when he entered Bergen Belsen in April 1945. It wasn’t until 70 years later that he opened up about the experience, writes Sarah Miller
Bernard Levy, wearing his medals, meets the Queen at Bergen Belsen in 2015
Tributes have been paid to a “humble and compassionate” British-Jewish soldier who assisted in the liberation of Bergen Belsen following his death aged 96. Bernard Maurice Levy was just 19 when he was tasked with “sorting the living from the dead” at the Nazi concentration camp in northern Germany at the end of the Second World War in April 1945. On the day the young corporal crossed through the gates, at least 50,000 men, women and children had already been murdered by the Nazis. About 60,000 were found still clinging to the last remnants of life. So horrific were the scenes that he saw that Bernard found himself unable to convey the experience in words. His family have revealed that he suffered with insomnia for nearly 70 years until he finally spoke for the first time. Speaking this week to Jewish News, his daughter, Judith, recalls how her Hull-born father – who died on 29 May – “went off to war a very naïve young boy and came back much more worldly-wise”. Bernard signed up for The Green Howards, an infantry unit based in Yorkshire, on 6 April 1944, about a year before he arrived at Belsen, but as his daughter reveals her father was “not of a soldier physique at all”. At just seven stone and 5ft 3½, severely asthmatic and with “only one good eye”, Bernard enrolled in secretarial training and joined the Royal Army Service Corp as a clerk. In usual circumstances, he may not have been able to join military service at all, but as Judith smiles, “at that point in 1944 it was ‘all hands on deck’ and they would take anyone.” His role would soon, however, migrate from desk work to much more active service. In the aftermath of D-Day in June 1944, Bernard crossed the Channel, and made his way towards the continent on a landing craft. Judith’s husband, Howard Parker, said: “He remembers sitting on the deck sunbathing, because nothing seemed to be happening. “But while the Germans had been pushed back in certain areas, they were still present along the coast and suddenly Bernard saw all these shells came flying overhead. He was certainly more active than I had understood.”
Bernard finally landed at Arromanchesles-Bains in Normandy, which had seen some of the heaviest of fighting on D-Day and as the war was ending, made his way to Celle, near Belsen, deep into German territory. He was now tasked with helping to bring organisation back to Germany amid the chaos – starting with sending him over to Belsen. Judith says: “At Celle he bunked up with another soldier who was sent over to Belsen. When he returned that day, the soldier didn’t say anything, but he was physically sick. The next day they sent Bernard.” She remembers her father unable to articulate what he had seen and as a child she was reminded regularly by her mother, Doreen, never to mention the Holocaust. “If there was a picture, a book, or something in the newspaper about concentration camps we had to hide it. My mum would say, ‘He can’t take it.’ As soon as something came on the telly, it was, ‘Quick, turn it off.’ He got upset if he saw something like that, so my mum protected him.” Coupled with the humanitarian rescue operation at Belsen, Bernard was a scribe at the British military tribunal in Lüneburg in September 1945, where 45 high-ranking Nazi officials were charged with war crimes. The testimonies he heard were “terribly distressing” and his daughter believes may have in some ways traumatised him more than the initial weeks he spent at Belsen. For most of his life after the war, he never had a good night’s sleep. She said: “He used to sleep with the radio on and get up three times during the night and he never really slept. I used to think he would be better if he talked about it and would encourage him to. I trained as a psychothera-
Above and inset: Bernard as a corporal during the war
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Bernard Levy: 1926-2022 / Special Report pist and knew that hidden trauma was not a good thing.” But it was only at the age of 85 that he finally opened up, first to Judith’s son and then to a local historian, which led to an extended interview with ITV. He was subsequently invited to return to Bergen Belsen, accompanied by the broadcaster Natasha Kaplinsky. Bernard said at the time: “[There was] barbed wire everywhere, chaos, bodies. Skeletons…Invariably they all looked like skeletons. “You can’t help thinking about the people who were dying in there with no help, no food, no succour, no hospital treatment. It just feels terribly sad.” In his interview, he added: “I wish I could have done more, at least show more humanity. We were moving bodies, we were moving living bodies, we were moving people. Disinfecting them, moving them. “I was a boy doing a job and that’s what I did.” The veteran returned in June 2015 for the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, where he was introduced to the Queen during her first visit to a Second World War concentration camp. He was also passionate about educating young people and worked closely with the Holocaust Educational Trust. Returning to Belsen was “a huge thing” for Bernard, but alongside the mass death he witnessed, he also saw a rebirth. Having experienced unimaginable tragedy, many survivors at the camp began to forge new relationships and marriages skyrocketed. In 1946, 1,070 weddings took place at
Bernard is interviewed on his return to the site where, aged 19, he had helped to ‘sort’ the 60,000 survivors in April 1945
Belsen alone – and in one week there were as many as 50. His daughter says: “He talked about people coming back from the dead, that people looked like skeletons, but he saw them gradually come back to life. “As he was a Jewish soldier, he was invited to all the weddings, all the bris ceremonies. That was a big memory for him.” After the war, Bernard returned home to his parents and two brothers in Hull before, at the age of 24, marrying 18-year-old Doreen
in 1950. The couple had two daughters, Judith and Ruth. Bernard joined his father at his menswear shop, where according to family folklore, an erroneous delivery of men’s suits arrived one day in extra-large sizes. Rather than return them, he placed an advert in the Daily Express for ‘outsized’ men’s clothing and swiftly sold out, giving rise to the idea of selling more. Within years, he had established the high street chain High and Mighty, which went on
to have more than 40 stores across five countries. He eventually retired in the 1990s. For all his success, Bernard – who had six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren – remained humble to the end. Judith adds: “In his eyes, he was just a very lowly soldier and very self-deprecating about his role. He even went to Hitler’s bunker, but never saw the enormity of it all. He was a great dad, a lovely man and had so much humanity. Without a doubt, being at Belsen gave him that compassion.”
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Refugee groups unite to ‘STOP’ NOTICE FOR HENDON SCHOOL enhance Jewish response Two British and American Jewish charities focused on supporting refugees and asylum seekers are to join together, citing the millions who were this year made homeless by the war in Ukraine, writes Adam Decker. The Jewish Council for Racial Equality in the UK is joining forces with HIAS, originally the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, connecting two Jewish agencies with long histories of helping those seeking safety in foreign lands. The two groups decided to pool resources during the worst refugee crisis in Europe since the 1940s, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompting millions to flee. They said the link-up would “enable both to better respond to meet the needs of those affected” and “significantly enhance the UK Jewish response to issues of asylum, refugees and racial equality”. Last year, JCORE was controversially denied membership of the Board of Deputies. It said it was “dismayed” and “saddened that the Board didn’t see fit to welcome the community’s voice on race and asylum into its membership”. HIAS was founded in 1881 in New York, which was then the immigrant gateway to
JCORE and HIAS are joining forces
the United States, to support Jews fleeing persecution and poverty in Eastern Europe. In a joint statement issued on Monday, JCORE and HIAS said the UK focus would include “the education of young Jews on racial equality” and introducing the HIAS Welcome Campaign to synagogues. Beyond the Jewish community, they said the united organisation “will have greater capacity to support programmes such as JCORE’s befriending project for
unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people (JUMP) and Refugee Doctors mentoring”. JCORE director and founder Dr Edie Friedman, originally from the United States, will become the group’s honorary president, while a new chief executive will be announced in the coming months. There will be a launch event this autumn. “It has been a privilege to have developed JCORE’s work in my adopted country,” said Friedman. “I am proud that, over the past 45 years, we have consistently encouraged the Jewish community to take action on race and asylum in the UK. “I am also proud that we have helped to make the Jewish voice on these issues part of the national conversation, respected by politicians, other communities and refugee and anti-racism organisations.” HIAS chief executive Mark Hetfield said his organisation “used to help refugees because they were Jewish, but today we help refugees in over 20 countries because we are Jewish”. He added: “The global refugee crisis demands an international response as no one community can do it alone.” Lord Harrington interview, p14
Barnet Council has issued a rare ‘stop’ notice against a Jewish school in Hendon which often hires out its hall for external events, including fundraisers, weddings and bar and bat mitzvah celebrations, writes Jenni Frazer. The council’s move comes after months of complaints from residents in the small street which is also home to the Talmud Torah Tiferes Shlomo School, formerly Hendon Reform Synagogue. Residents say that with about two or more events every week, there has been noise, disrupted sleep, extra traffic and pollution. Last year people in Danescroft Avenue told Jewish News about “massive disturbances” on the nights that the hall has been used, with catering lorries, and volumes of traffic unsuitable for a quiet road, as well as noise from music and guests standing outside until the early hours. The council’s environmental health department has
been assessing the complaints and responding to the school, and limiting the way in which events could take place in the school’s hall. In May Barnet issued an enforcement notice against the school, preventing it from holding events, and giving it until the end of June to appeal. The process allows for events to continue while any appeal is under way —and an appeal can take up to two years. Mindful of this, the council has issued the ‘stop’ notice, which forbids any events from taking place. The ‘stop’ restriction is much more draconian and adds ‘bite’ to the enforcement notice, a local told Jewish News. It is understood that the ‘stop’ notice will come into effect in mid-July, after which the school, which is expected to appeal against the enforcement notice, will not be allowed to hold any external events in its hall. Breaching a stop notice could result in fines “north of £20k”.
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Pope ‘put church first’ as Jews were killed Hotly anticipated opening of the Vatican’s wartime archive fails to absolve Pius XII over failure to act, writes Michael Daventry
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he moment had been dec- efforts were mostly to save Jews who ades in the making, so David had converted to Catholicism or who Kertzer made sure he was up had at least one Catholic parent. On 16 October 1943, as Jews across early. It was the day that the Vatican was finally to release papers Italy faced mass deportation to Nazi that had been kept secret since the death camps, a group of 1,260 was held by the SS at a military college Second World War. These were documents that would building just outside the Vatican City. The papers show that Pius wranhelp us better understand Pius XII, the pope who was in office as geno- gled over whether he should at least cide raged across Europe and has long issue a diplomatic protest and pubbeen criticised for failing to do more licly complain to the German ambassador. Ultimately, he did not. to prevent it. What the Vatican did do was to Yet for Kertzer, things were about comb the records of those 1,260 to go very wrong. The historian and Pulitzer-win- people to see if any had been baptised, ning author has spent much of career or at least were married to confirmed researching politics, religion and the Christians and had promised to raise papacy, so he was there at the Vatican their children that way. The exercise meant that by the at 8.30am on the date Pope Francis had announced that the archives time the group was taken to their would open. But it was 6 March 2020, deaths in a concentration camp, they numbered closer to 1,000. just as a certain pandemic was taking Some have attempted to hold in Europe. argue that episodes like “I worked there these showed the ponfuriously for the tiff to be a victim of first week when that Friday they circumstance, powerless to change announced, the course of hiswhile I’m there, tory, and that he that they’re did what little he about to close could to confront a them until further notice due Nazi war machine. But no, says Kertto Covid. Italy zer; Pius does bear a was at the time the lot of responsibility for epicentre of Covid in the Church’s wartime Europe and then there failures: “Who was it was a lockdown.” Historian David Kertzer who was carrying out He had no choice but to return the United States. It would the Holocaust? They were people who be another three months before he thought they were Christian. I mean, could resume work through a Rome- they didn’t think they were pagans. And of those about half, roughly, were based colleague, Roberto Benedetti. Their findings, which Kertzer Roman Catholics, and one can only draws out in his new book, The Pope At imagine that in justifying how they War, describe a pontiff who was often were murdering little Jewish babies indecisive and turned frequently to they were thinking in part of what the his senior aides — aides who advised parish priest had told them about the him to stay out of the Holocaust, even dangers of Jews seeking world domiwhile Jews were being rounded up on nation.” Given these perceptions it is perhis doorstep. The Vatican has long contended haps not surprising, he says, that that Pius worked behind the scenes antisemitism permeated the church to save lives during the Holocaust, in Rome during the war, although it but the archives indicate that those is disappointing that the Vatican has
Pope Pius — was he failed since then to come an antisemite? to terms with what hap“Pius XII was part pened. of an environment But he adds that in which antisemsome national Catholic itism was common churches have begun and he partook in to admit to this part of that,” Kertzer says. their history. And it is “He didn’t have parbecause of the current ticularly great expepontiff, Francis, that rience dealing with scholars have been able Jews, [although] he to go through Pius’s papers at all. met some. I don’t Last week Dani believe it was antiDayan, the chairman of semitism per se that’s Israel’s Holocaust memorial, His book on Pius XII the main explanation Yad Vashem, recounted how for his silence. But he was he met the pope and “thanked him for part of an environment in which there opening the archives of the Vatican of were many negative views about Jews.” the relevant period of the Holocaust Pope meets head of Yad Vashem, p16 for our researchers. He said very clearly that to open the archives is to Listen to the full interview in make justice.” this week’s Jewish News Podcast So what is the historian’s verdict on
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Jewish News meets... Lord Harrington
‘Refugees bring out the best in us – and the worst’ Lord Harrington tells Lee Harpin of his determination to improve the UK’s response to the Ukraine refugee crisis - and how David Cameron once assured him the role was ‘a good job for a Jewish person to have’
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he Minister for Ukrainian Refugees, Lord Richard Harrington, has spoken of his belief that it is “our destiny” as Jewish people to strive to help those fleeing persecution and war. The Leeds-born politician and businessman told of his overwhelming determination to succeed in his role improving the UK government’s initially slow response to the refugee crisis created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Harrington paid tribute to David Cameron, recalling how the former prime minister had first made him Minister for Syrian Refugees in 2015. Cameron told him: “It’s a good job for a Jewish person,” stressing his operational experience in business was also vital. “I just thought that, as a Jewish person – three of my grandparents are refugees and if it wasn’t for this country, you wouldn’t be here now, and neither would I, most probably,” he says of the praise he received from the then-outgoing PM. It was this March when the son of a market trader received a call from levelling up secretary Michael Gove offering him the critical Ukraine job, which, despite being unpaid, handily came with a seat in the House of Lords. Gove had probably recalled the fine job Harrington had done during the Syrian crisis, and with himself and Boris Johnson under immense pressure to improve the UK’s response to the displacement of millions of Ukrainians, he hoped he could repeat the feat. Besides offering him a route back into political life, he had stood down as the MP for Watford prior to the last general election, the Ukraine job again represented a more personal challenge for Harrington. “I believe, for all of us Jewish people, it is like our destiny,” he says. “We were once there.” Three months after starting the Ukraine refugee role, Harrington last week told the Lords that, as of 29 May 65,700 people have successfully come to the UK from Ukraine. There are still complaints, concerns and criticisms about the government’s wider policy towards refugees, particularly over Priti Patel’s Rwanda asylum plan, but this is outside of Harrington’s remit. There is little doubt he and his team at the Home Office have made a difference to the response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. And it is easy to find political opponents willing to give him credit for his efforts to improve the government’s response. Harrington was influenced in his
Above: People show their solidarity with Ukrainian refugees at a rally. Left: Minister for Ukrainian refugees Lord (Richard) Harrington
determination to succeed by the experience and advice of his father, who ran a market stall. What registered with Harrington, especially from watching his father at work was, he now says, a “thing of wanting to be self-employed and responsible for your own destiny.” He went on to work on a market stall himself, along with a stint as a minicab driver, having set up with two friends a business from which he was unable to draw a salary for a time. But at Oxford University’s Keble College, Harrington’s interest in politics also flourished. He was signed up by Damian Green, the MP and former minister, at the freshers’ fair, to become involved with the National Union of Students at executive level and the Federation of Conservative Students. After graduating, Harrington was offered a job at Conservative Party headquarters. But his father intervened, telling him it was time he “got a proper job.” After starting on a John Lewis graduate scheme, in 1983, he founded property development company Harvington Properties, with two friends from university and, by 1990, he became a shareholder and managing director of LSI Leisure Syndicates International, which dealt with the development, sales and management of holiday resorts in the UK and Europe. The company was sold to a listed American company at the end of the decade and is now owned by Hilton Hotels. Other notable work in property development included the restoration
of one of Glasgow’s most famous hotels. But the interest in politics remained, and by 1997, with Tony Blair’s Labour government in power, Harrington, and his good friend Stuart Polak, now also a Lord, set about building Conservative Friends of Israel as an organisation, with the former as chairman and the latter as director.
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IF IT WASN’T FOR THIS COUNTRY, YOU WOULDN’T BE HERE NOW AND NEITHER WOULD I He took Cameron to Israel in 2005 and, during a visit to Yad Vashem, was deeply impressed by the leader’s response. “I could see the emotion on his face,” he says. “He’s a good friend of Israel and the Jewish people. And Boris Johnson is as well. Tony Blair was excellent and so was Gordon Brown.” In 2008, Cameron asked Harrington to be Tory Party treasurer and, two years later, the opportunity arose for him to stand as a Conservative candidate in Watford ahead of the 2010 election. He won and enjoyed a nine-year stint as the MP and later became the minister
for business and then pensions. Describing his political leanings as “centrish” by nature, there was also a series of now infamous clashes with Boris Johnson ahead of Harrington’s decision to stand down as an MP. Harrington voiced his opposition to the prospect of a no-deal Brexit, and Johnson eventually removed the parliamentary whip from him, only to return it again to him a few weeks later. He stood down in 2019, remaining loyal to the Tories, even though he seemed out of step with the party’s more recent direction of travel. On ringing Harrington to discuss the details of his current Ukraine role, Johnson’s first words to him were: “Welcome back.” He says he learned from the Syria crisis that refugees can “bring out the best in people, and also the worst”, adding: “The worst of people are the pimps, the people traffickers and criminals. I released we needed to keep the visas. It’s got to be done electronically.” Harrington is “proud” of the cross-governmental response to the Ukraine crisis although accepts there remain difficult cases and delays. He speaks enthusiastically about Word Jewish Relief, the charity that has led the community’s response to the Ukraine crisis. “They are amazing people; they are here, there and everywhere,” and also name checks West London Synagogue and the Jewish Council For Racial Equality. I work with Labour MPs, Lib Dems, anyone who wants to help refugees.” Read the full interview online
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Farmers abuzz as Israel unveils new insect radar Israeli researchers have unveiled a firstof-its-kind radar that can accurately detect the size and direction of insect swarms to help forewarn farmers and save crops, writes Stephen Oryszczuk. Understanding swarm behaviour has been a field of study for decades but estimating the number of individuals within a swarm has been difficult, with some locust swarms estimated to hold up to a billion members. The insect radar, created at the University of Haifa, has been installed near the Agamon Hula nature reserve in Israel’s far north, near the Golan Heights. “This is the only radar capable of providing comprehensive information about the movement of insects in the air,” said the university’s professor Nir Sapir. “We will be able to measure the flow of insects that migrate in huge numbers for much of the year.” He added that researchers would also be able to “identify pollinating insects that are of great importance for wild plants and agriculture, as well as other insects that cause damage to agriculture, such as various species of moths”. One such moth is the Fall Armyworm, an invasive species originally from South
Yeshiva told: accept LGBT Pride group The New York County Supreme Court has ruled Yeshiva University (YU) must recognise an LGBTQ pride group. Judge Lynn Kotler directed the Modern Orthodox university to provide the YU Pride Alliance “full equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges afforded to all other student groups” at YU. Tuesday’s decision caps a dispute that dates back at least
to 2020, when seven lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender student activists and allies filed a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights charging the university with discrimination. Administrators had overruled a student government decision to recognise the gay pride group. The Manhattan university intends to appeal the decision.
SHUL IN ABORTION LAW CHALLENGE Researchers have found a way to measure the flow of insects that migrate
America. It arrived in Israel recently and is one of the world’s most harmful, able to damage more than 350 species of plants. The crop worst affected by the Fall Armyworm larvae is maize, said Sapir. Together with international peers, they have begun using the radar “to understand the movement of these moths, as a first step toward controlling their spread”. The device will allow researchers to
estimate the density, direction and speed of migration, elevation, and body size of the insects and to assess factors influencing the insects that fly in this area. With data on size, flight speed, wing movement pattern and body shape, the team plans to apply a classification tool based on teaching the machine to identify groups of insects – and later specific species – with the help of the radar.
A Florida synagogue has filed a lawsuit to challenge the state over a new law prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks. Under current law, Florida allows abortions up to 24 weeks. Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor of Boynton Beach claims the new law, which has been signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and is set to take effect on 1 July, violates religious freedom rights of Jews.
The lawsuit claims that the act “prohibits Jewish women from practicing their faith free of government intrusion and this violates their privacy rights and religious freedom.” It also argues that religious minorities in Florida will be harmed and that the law will threaten Jews “by imposing the laws of other religions upon Jews.”
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Pontiff meets Yad Vashem amid ‘Nazi’ Pope outrage The head of Yad Vashem has met the Pope for the first time amid controversies concerning the Vatican’s Holocaust-era record, writes Cnaan Liphshiz. Dani Dayan met with the pontiff in the Vatican. During their 30-minute talk, they spoke about ways to “bolster collaborative activities” in areas of “Holocaust remembrance, education and documentation, and to discuss efforts to fight antisemitism and racism worldwide”, Dayan’s office wrote in a statement. Dayan thanked the bishop of Rome for his 2020 decision to open the Vatican’s archives related to the wartime Pope Pius XII, whose critics say did too little to intervene on behalf of the six million Jews the Nazis murdered. But they did not discuss the Holocaustrelated controversies that for years have been straining Jewish-Catholic relations, Dayan told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). Instead, Dayan focused on areas of consensus and on strengthening ties with the Vatican, he said. One of these controversies is the ongoing beatification of Pius XII (inset). Another concerns archives Holocaust researchers say are still inaccessible to them. And another is centred on the debate about whether the Vatican should acknowledge and provide more details about Pius XII’s actions during the Holocaust. When asked whether he brought up any of these issues during the meeting, Dayan, a former consul-general of the state of Israel in New York who became the head of Yad Vashem last year, said: “You don’t sit with the pope on specific files. You sit with the pope on the big issues, on the principles, on the headlines.” Asked whether he had made any requests, Dayan replied: “No need to make requests – for sure, not demands – when all our requests are answered diligently. “We are completely satisfied with the
ISRAELI RED CARD LIFTED FOR FINALS Israelis will be able to attend the football World Cup in Qatar later this year, after the Israeli government reached agreements with the sport’s governing body, FIFA. According to a joint statement by foreign minister Yair Lapid, defence minister Benny Gantz and culture and sports minister Chili Tropper, FIFA has confirmed that Israelis will be able to enter Qatar – which has no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state – and attend matches during the tournament in November and December. After purchasing match tickets, Israelis are required to apply online for a Fan ID card, approval of which grants its holder entry to Qatar and enables them to order accommodation. Efforts are being made to facilitate flights for Israelis travelling to the World Cup. The Israeli national team did not qualify for the finals.
Above: Dani Dayan and Pope Francis spoke about ways to ‘bolster collaborative activities’
attitudes of the pope personally and the Catholic Church, the Vatican.” Not all Holocaust historians share Dayan’s satisfaction. David Kerzer, a professor of Italian Studies at Brown University, last week published a book titled The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler based on Vatican archives opened in 2020. He told JTA last week he hopes the pope will consider “changing the course of the Vatican with respect to the continual denial of the role of the church in the demonisation of the Jews that helped to make the Holocaust possible”.
He added: “And also to perhaps reconsider whether they really want to make a saint of Pius VII.” A 1998 commission set up by the Vatican concluded that the centuries during which the Catholic Church espoused anti-Jewish sentiments as official policy did not lead to the antisemitism that fuelled the Holocaust, something Kerzer and other critics dispute. Last Thursday, Kerzer said there were “limitations” on accessing other archives, including the Vatican’s Secretary of State archives and others connected to the Inquisition.
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ISRAELI LITERARY GREAT ‘THREAT’ TO GERMAN JEWS AB YEHOSHUA MOURNED A B Yehoshua, a fiery humanist, towering the page. The sentences were long and comauthor and staunch advocate of Zionism as the plex, nested with meaning, and the heart sole answer for the Jewish condition, died on of the stories could often be found in diaTuesday, aged 85. logue. He spoke frequently and adoringly of A writer, essayist and playwright, William Faulkner as an example of an author Yehoshua was the 1995 recipient of he admired. Israel’s top cultural award, the Israel Several of his greatest works arguPrize, along with dozens of other ably came to define the era in which awards, including the Bialik Prize they were published. and the Jewish National Book Facing the Forests, released in Award, and his work was trans1968, at the apex of the post-Sixlated into 28 languages. Day War euphoria, is still widely His work was structurally seen as the most arresting exploinnovative and narratively tradiration of the Palestinian Nakba tional. There were no chapterin Hebrew literature, signallong sentences in his novels and AB Yehoshua ling an awakening among his no preposterous quests sapped generation. of all plot. His first novel, The Lover, published in 1977, Instead, one was likely to receive a raw managed to herald the seismic shift in Israeli exploration of a flawed but likeable protago- society with the rise of the Likud Party to nist, a patient, humour-laden style, and a power and decline of the Labourite and largely dark storyline that deftly held the reader to Ashkenazi left.
Jewish life in Germany is “under massive threat” amid a rising tide of white nationalism and antisemitic hate crimes, a European Jewish leader has warned. Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, issued the warning after a government report into extremism revealed antisemitic crime in the country has rocketed by almost a third. Anti-Jewish criminality has risen by nearly 29 percent in 2021 compared to the previous year, it reveals.
“The report shows Jewish life in Germany continues to be massively threatened,” Schuster said, citing the “right-wing extremist scene”. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution published the findings using statistics reported in May by the Federal Criminal Police Office. In all, 3,027 antisemitic incidents were registered in 2021, up from 2,351 in 2020. The majority were related to right-wing extremism, but Islamic extremist antisemitism is also rising.
VIRTUAL TALK Doug Emhoff, husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris (second left) speaks to an interactive artificial intelligence video of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter at the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation.
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Russia’s war in Ukraine has ‘transformed’ Jewish Poland by Jenni Frazer @JenniFrazer
Poland’s charismatic Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, says Russia’s war in Ukraine – and the subsequent flood of refugees into Poland – has unexpectedly transformed his community. Speaking to reporters at the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) in Munich, together with the Chief Rabbi of Odesa, Rabbi Shlomo Bakst, Schudrich said: “I am very proud of my community. Polish Jews have switched from being a community of receiving to being a community of giving.” Praising the work done in Ukraine by Bakst and other Jewish leaders, Schudrich said: “Rabbi Bakst has saved people’s lives, he has saved them from death. “But the challenge now is to give them life again, now starts the real work. It’s about finding jobs, apartments, schools for the kids, providing health care.
A mother and child flee Ukraine for Poland. Right: Rabbi Michael Schudrich
“In the last three months, we did succeed in doing a lot. On the second day of the war, we created in Poland a crisis management centre. “I reflected that, for hundreds of years, we Polish Jews were the crisis. Three months ago we became the management.” Bakst – who, among other things managed to get 1,000 orphans out of
Odesa — spoke about texting his wife, who was in Israel at the outbreak of the war. She had said that such times determined whether someone became “a great person or a small person”. For him, many people had “passed the test with flying colours, people had worked and helped at another level”. The hope, said Bakst, was that
eventually he and his community might be able to return to Ukraine and resume their lives there, although the challenge was what was to be done if that could not happen. Schudrich said: “[This] is the first time [my community has] had the chance to give, rather than simply receive. And that can be pivotal in the maturing process of the community. “We are there to support all the Ukrainian refugees, and have them stay as long as they want.” The Polish chief rabbi added that he had started planning help for
Ukrainian refugees before the war. He said: “Putin had 100,000 troops on the border for weeks before [the invasion]. I was hoping nothing would happen, but I started looking for places [where] we could house refugees a week before the war. “I spoke to a friend, a religious leader from another faith, who said: ‘Rabbi, you’re getting ahead of yourself.’ But I said: ‘Once it starts, it’s too late.’ As soon as it started we were able to house hundreds of refugees immediately.” He had co-ordinated with rabbinical colleagues in Ukraine but made it clear that “anyone who needs help is receiving it” – meaning non-Jews too. Schudrich said: “Knowing there are other diaspora communities who are thinking about us, that in itself is tremendous. But mostly what we need at this point is material help, which means cash. ”
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Who will be the Israeli prime minister who greets Joe Biden on the tarmac when the US president touches down at Ben Gurion Airport one month from now? There’s every chance it will still be Naftali Bennett, even though his wheezing coalition barely stumbled across the calendar pages this week to mark its first birthday. It has been an anniversary many predicted we would not see. A year ago, a record eight parties — including, for the first time, one representing Israeli Arabs — came together to form a government with a single aim in mind: keeping Benjamin Netanyahu out. That remains pretty much the only thing they can all agree on. And yet they have succeeded. Israel’s longest-serving prime minister is no closer to returning to the job that slipped out of his hands 12 months ago. The allure of keeping Bibi out remains a powerful draw. The inevitable second question follows: what’s next? The coalition’s perennial optimists are already looking forward to the next anniversary and particularly to August 2023, when Yair Lapid is supposed to take over from Bennett as prime minister. Most realists say the multiple obstacles in the way — this is a coalition without a Knesset majority and a spat with the opposition means it could be on the verge of disenfranchising West Bank settlers — make that highly unlikely. But remember that Netanyahu’s camp has no majority either, so there is no clear route for him to form a government. The slightly more probable outcome is another early election, Israel’s fifth in three years. No one is sure where that would lead. Sure, opinion polls suggest Netanyahu’s Likud might take an extra few seats at the expense of other right-wing parties in the coalition, including Bennett’s Yamina, but there’s no certainty and so few party leaders are eager to take the plunge. There’s also always the risk of weary Israeli voters punishing which party they deem responsible. So might that mean this coalition could mark a second birthday? It still feels unlikely – but then again, that’s what we all said about the first.
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Whitewashing wartime poet upbringing, we cannot judge him on one diary remark, though one would if he had been totally non-Jewish. We should bear in mind that the graphic artist and later war artist Barnett Freedman commissioned to illustrate his book, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, as well as his post-1945 American publishers Simon and Schuster were Jewish – as was his close friend and patron Leo ‘Frankie’ Schuster. His first UK publisher, Heinemann, was also Jewish. Sassoon simply denied that he was “a typical Jew” and did not want to be associated with the richer Jews of that later Victorian period who were flamboyant and ostentatious. He was complex and contradictory; a product of his times but still half ours, and probably more so than he would admit to his upper-class, intellectual non-Jewish circle. Martin Sugarman, London
If it is true that Benediction, the film by Terence Davies about the poet Siegfried Sassoon, entirely ignores his deep Jewish heritage, it is a disgraceful piece of lowlevel prejudice. The recent Mincemeat film about the great deception plan of the Second World War, now commemorated by us on a large plaque at Hackney churchyard, makes a very distinct and early mention of the Jewish family of the main planner, Commander Ewen Montagu, RNVR. After a visit to Sassoon’s grave in the churchyard at Mells in Somerset, where my wife and I placed a Star of David Jewish war veteran’s peg, a colleague reminded me that in his diaries, Sassoon made disparaging and even antisemitic remarks about Jews. While it is true that Sassoon preferred the non-Jewish Thornycrofts (his mother’s side) to the Jewish Sassoons (his father separated from her) and made offensive remarks about Jews that were typical of his English, public school, classist
SADEH FARM: PRICELESS COMMUNITY ASSET I have attended retreats and celebrated Jewish festivals in nature at Sadeh and Skeet House. While being mostly for young people, it is extremely diverse and open to all sections of the Jewish community. My younger friends have made a positive ecological contribution at Sadeh in the face of the climate change threat as well as benefited personally in various ways. If the Jewish Youth Fund (JYF) plans go ahead, Sadeh would not only be evicted, but the book on 80 years of Jewish history in the UK as ‘Skeet’ would close. A resolution needs to be reached so that Sadeh can stay until the end of its lease in 2028 to give it time to seek to buy the property. This will allow both the JYF and Sadeh to achieve their objectives.
I have just enjoyed a weekend retreat at Sadeh farm and am sad that the Jewish Youth Fund has plans to sell it. On the walls there are photos from 1994 showing the amazing history of this place as a resource for British Jews. I’ve also seen all the work going around farming, environment and sustainability, which is important for our community looking forward. Let’s keep this priceless community asset, which provides important educational experiences, safe for future generations.
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ISRAEL IS IN GOOD COMPANY JUBILEE DELIGHT Some people are complaining that, in Her Majesty’s 70 year-reign, she hasn’t visited Israel. Another of the 60-plus states and territories she hasn’t visited, a ‘great ally’ because it is a fellow Nato member, is Greece, the birthplace of her beloved late husband of 73 years, Prince Philip. Joe Millis, By email
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At least refugees from Ukraine are able to flee ALEX BRUMMER
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ver the past three decades, World Jewish Relief (WJR) and other UK charities have done a brilliant job in supporting Ukraine’s fragile Jews – remnants of a flourishing community and culture that avoided Nazi evisceration. In the 1930s and 1940s, and even in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, there was a great reluctance among Western democracies to take in Jewish refugees. Even though most of my own family, including my late father Michael, whose Yahrzeit was commemorated this month, found shelter, kindness and tolerance in Britain, this was not the case for all family members. My father’s younger brother, Martin, and his wife, Rose, both survivors of the death camps, were sent back by British border officials at Dover in 1946 to a displaced persons camp in Germany after my aunt was discovered to be
pregnant. They were able to eventually leave for Israel. Russia’s current war on Ukraine has been marked by generosity for Ukrainians fleeing the war. The evacuation of tens of thousands of Ukraine’s Jews, many of them elderly and vulnerable to Israel, has reaffirmed its centrality to Jewish survival and renaissance. The geopolitics and sensitivities of the war in the region for Jews are complex. The Russian Jewish leadership has had to tread a delicate line. The decision by Moscow’s Chief Rabbi, Pinchas Goldschmidt, to speak out against what he describes as a ‘catastrophic’ war, could be seen as both courageous and foolish. Brave in that the silence has been somewhat deafening. Foolish because of what it may portend for Russia’s 500,000-strong thriving Jewish population. Vladimir Putin’s generally pro-Jewish behaviour in the past makes him a difficult enemy for Jews. The rise of ‘klepto-capitalism’ in Moscow was allegedly facilitated by the Jewish oligarchs, several of whom, including campaigner against antisemitism Roman Abramovich, are believed to have found refuge in Israel. The diplomatic
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silences from Israel are necessitated by the need to co-operate with Russian forces over the skies of Southern Lebanon and Syria, where the Hezbollah threat is so grave. It is appalling that so much of the community apparatus built in Ukraine by WJR through co-operation with 29 partners has been threatened by Russia. Jewish centres have been reduced to ruins by Russian bombardment. The synagogue in Mariupol, which survived the Holocaust, was destroyed and the Kharkiv Choral Synagogue damaged. Buildings may have been hurt, but large numbers of Ukrainian Jews have become survivors. Rescue came too late for at least two survivors of the Shoah.
What is remarkable is the resilience and strength of character of many of the Ukrainian refugees now living in the Western democracies and Israel. Many have left husbands, fathers, brothers and others behind to fight for a Ukrainian future. Stories of the ways in which people are supporting the refugees in the UK are uplifting and show Western society has moved a long way since the dark days of the last world war. The destruction of Jewish memorials, most notably at Babyn Yar, is disturbing. But while sacred buildings can be rebuilt, lives cannot. While so many business people involved at the highest level in the Russian economy are Jewish, this is no reason to ostracise Russia’s 500,000 Jews, some of whom are being airlifted to Israel. For many of these highly skilled people it may just be a stepping stone to Europe or the US. But, for the moment, the doors are open, unlike for much of the Soviet era. The war on Ukraine may be barbarous and alleged war crimes horrendous. But at least in this conflict, unlike during the Second World War, there are exit routes.
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religious freedoms. Although his Jewish Tailors’ Union lasted for only a few weeks, it blazed like a comet through London’s dark underworld of sweatshops, gangmasters and exploitative landlords, bringing hope where none had been before, in the form of agitation for higher wages, a limit on the working day and dignity at work. Its mantle was taken up, and amplified, by the creation of the United Garment Workers’ Union, in 1915, as the result of the merger of six different trade unions. For the first time, Jewish and non-Jewish workers were united within a single organisation that represented women as well as men, and which recruited among all grades and specialisms. Unsurprisingly, the union – and the National Union of Tailor and Garment Workers that followed it – inherited a radical and diverse political culture. One where meetings were regularly held and silk banners painted in Yiddish, and where Orthodox Judaism and socialism rubbed shoulders on the cutting room floor. Activists such as Jacob Fine and Mick Mindel were among those who challenged and triumphed over Moseley’s home-
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grown fascists on the streets of London and Leeds. This legacy of organising among new immigrant communities, and in small scale, sweated, workshops carries a heightened resonance in the present, as does our enduring legacy of standing up to be counted in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism. Then, as now, an injury to one is an injury to us all. That is why this year’s GMB Congress is seeking to reaffirm our commitment to the progressive cause and to recognising, and tackling, the disturbing rise in antisemitism across society. It means taking measures – beginning
with backing motions from the floor – to ensure that there will be no safe spaces for antisemites, whether inside or outside the ranks of our union. A major part of this involves recognising the tremendous contribution made by Jewish radicals and thinkers to the British, and international, labour movements. We have to recognise antisemitism within our own ranks and not be afraid to call it what it is. It flies in the face of our historic ties to the Jewish community – and in the face of what is right. If we allow ourselves to forget trailblazers such as Lewis Smith, and our own members – such as Jacob Fine and Mick Mindel – we cheapen ourselves and our own potent working class culture, and in doing so help create the conditions through which a division born from antisemitism can grow, just like a worm upon the vine. Conversely, by choosing to celebrate the richness and variety of our shared heritage, we can begin to retie the knot of history and forge a better world for us all, regardless of race, creed or borders. For GMB, the work continues this week at our congress, where our deeds will match our ideals.
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Civilised world should stop trading with Iraq EDWIN SHUKER BOARD OF DEPUTIES VICE-PRESIDENT
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law, known as the ‘Criminalising normalisation with the Zionist entity’, was passed in the Iraqi parliament on Thursday 26 May, with every one of the 275 MPs who were present voting it through, with no dissension and no abstention. For the law to be formally adopted, it still requires to be signed off by the president of Iraq, Barham Salih. The law has been submitted by the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who heads the party that won the biggest share in last October’s election – but to date he has failed to form a government. The law, which has been rushed through parliament with three readings in a week, is badly written, barbaric and regressive. It is a copy-and-paste job from an earlier law, enacted in 1969 by the murderous Ba’ath
regime. I was 14 at the time and part of the dwindling Jewish community, terrorised by a brutal regime and orchestrated by Saddam Hussein. It saw fit as part of its antisemitic strategy to hang 10 innocent Jews on 27 January 1969, displaying their bodies in the public squares of Baghdad and Basra. Much has happened in the region since then. The United Arab Emirates became a state in 1971 and proceeded through a vision of creating a prosperous state with unmatched quality of life for its citizens and through welcoming millions and millions of people from all over the world. The regime did this without reference to those people’s religion, sect, colour or gender to join the building of an oasis of peace and prosperity in the desert to enrich and be enriched by hard work, creativity and a hunger to succeed in a secure and safe environment devoid from violence, xenophobia and corruption. With the Abrahamic cause, the doors were open for Israelis and Jews from all over the world, attracted by the warm welcome and
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the freedom of religion to establish a new, budding diverse community in a Muslim Arab country for the first time in centuries. In contrast, Iraq, after 2003, and in spite of a dictated constitution and superficial democratisation, sank into a cesspool of extreme corruption, ugly sectarianism and the politicisation of religion. Bereft of basic human rights and services for its citizens, and empowered by the poisonous influence of Iran, Iraq has embarked on a similar path to those of other failed states. It has tolerated 50 armed militia groups who kidnap, assassinate and kill those who dare to oppose the country’s path of destruction. Iraq was, in the past, the cradle of civilisation and could potentially become one of the richest countries on the planet. The ancient Jewish Babylonian community that traces its sojourn 2,600 years ago to this part of the world has been reduced to ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, confiscation of assets, public hangings, torture and disappearance to less than a handful of individuals.
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THIS LAW IS A COPY OF ONE ENACTED BY THE BA’ATH REGIME, WHICH HANGED INNOCENT JEWS This law seals the end of that community and forbids any communication with the country. To quote article 7, “A sentence of death by execution or lifetime imprisonment will be applied to any person who seeks to normalise, contact or promote the ‘entity’ or any ideas, principles, ideologies, or Zionist or Masonic nature, in any form, whether public or secret, including conferences, gatherings, publications, social media networks, or by any other means.” The international community and the civilised world should refrain from trading or dealing with Iraq until such licensed brutality against its own citizens is removed from the statute books.
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1 PARK PARTY
Barnet Council celebrated the Platinum Jubilee at Golders Hill Park. Thousands of people from around the borough attended. One of the booths at the event was run by Chabad of Golders Green. The group offered balloons for all, kosher slush, popcorn, candy floss and crafts, with crown-making to mark the celebration and in honour of Shavuot. Many men used the opportunity to lay tefillin, some for the first time. In the evening, a beacon was lit, one of the first in the country, followed by a fireworks display.
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BROWNIE TROOP
Brownies may be used to promising to do their best and to serve the Queen and community, but not many get to be part of an official parade for Her Majesty. A lucky group of six girls from 4th Borehamwood Brownies were selected from a national ballot to be part of a youth enclosure during the Trooping the Colour ceremony as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
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3 DIPLOMATIC JUBILEE
The Israeli Chamber Orchestra would normally be associated with chart hits. But its quartet played songs by Ed Sheeran and Adele – and special royal dishes were served to guests – as the British Embassy in Israel marked the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. There was also some Queen – naturally! – as well as Coldplay and tunes from James Bond films.
4 SCOUT ATTENDANCE
Some scouts did not need to rub sticks together, learn knots or even be prepared to attend the Trooping the Colour. The 20th Finchley Scout Group were privileged to be asked to attend the ceremony to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. A group of 25 members and leaders arrived early to a quiet and empty Mall and were given a police escort to Horse Guards Parade, where they watched the historic equestrian and marching displays.
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A total of 29 members from Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue spent a ‘Community Weekend Away’ in Exeter. They were given a guided walking tour of the historic city and also visited Exeter Synagogue.
6 RICHMOND BBQ
Richmond Synagogue embraced a return to normality with a barbecue for 120 members and possible joiners. It also hosted Bushcraft, a workshop for children provided by PJ Library. Music was played by a Ukrainian refugee in the first big event since the Covid lockdown, and was attended by a large number of new families. Malcolm Levi, chair of Richmond Synagogue, said: “We attracted so many potential members, Cheder children and friends and everyone had a lovely time. It reflected very well on Richmond and is a positive sign for the future.”
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y grandmother could often be overheard saying that a sunny day in Bournemouth was just as good as any spent on the Med – and she wasn’t far wrong. When the barometer climbs, sunseekers can be seen flocking in their thousands to these famous golden sands. But for Bournemouth’s Jewish visitors, it’s not just the enviable beach that has kept haimishe generations returning to a place once seen as the British answer to the Catskills. This coastal jewel has served up far more than sun, sea and sandcastles, as Pam Fox reveals in her fascinating book, Jews by the Seaside: The Jewish Hotels and Guest Houses of Bournemouth. The social historian’s latest title, which follows The History of the Jewish Community of Golders Green and History in the Baking: The Rinkoff Story, was the subject of lively debate when she and I appeared ‘in conversation’ at the recent inaugural Barnet Literary Festival. Fox, who wrote the book mostly during the national lockdown in 2020, brings together a wealth of personal stories and historical detail copiously mined from The Jewish Chronicle archives in her engaging narrative, which charts how, over the course of just a few decades, a quaint coastal settlement exploded into one of the premier holiday spots of the 21st century. “Bournemouth started out very humble
indeed,” she explains. “Other resorts had developed from existing communities, harbours or ports, but there was absolutely nothing in Bournemouth – it was just this great big open space between Christchurch and Poole. “Its first incarnation was mainly as a spa town for pulmonary diseases, although there were other reasons to visit. While looking through the archives, I came across this wonderful quote from a Jewish man who announced he was going there to recover from the ‘effects of exasperation’!” From small beginnings, boarding houses gradually began to spring up around the town for Jewish visitors. But it was the boom time of the interwar years that experienced a real proliferation of hotels, each one bigger and better than the one before it, erupting all along the East Cliff – a stretch that affectionately came to be known as ‘the Jewish mile’ – in a bid to attract a growing number of upwardly mobile Jews. “When they were advertising themselves, they never ran out of superlatives,” laughs Fox. “They were the ‘biggest’, the ‘best’, the ‘most luxurious’, the ‘only Jewish hotel in Europe’ and so on. The hotels were constantly closing to be extended and have new facilities added, such as very swish ballrooms, lifts to all floors and heated accommodation for guests’ chauffeurs.” For Jewish holidaymakers who could afford
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th’s Jewish hotels rise and decline of Bournemou This book describes the h history, the growth the context of AngloJewis and guest houses within evolution of its Jewish premier resort and the of Bournemouth as a
community. small Jewish boarding appearance of the first Commencing with the became larger and century, which gradually of evermore houses in the late nineteenth houses, it charts the emergence more comfortable guest dexterity, the book interwar years. With great luxurious hotels during the of the ‘Big Eight’ hotels atmosphere and glamour nts when captures both the heady ts of the smaller establishme and the more intimate environmen the Second World War. following heyday their they were in Bournemouth’s Jewish and changing nature of It explores the decline of hotel and guest house aspects different holiday trade before examining and entertainment. It concludes with a activities of the legacies life – the food, religious many historical significance and detailed analysis of the achievements and sorrows illuminating the hopes, kosher establishments, to balance the goal of Jews as they attempted of generations of British for a world of their own. assimilation with the desire staffed and stayed focus is on those who ran, mainly the of Throughout the book, the dynamics nts, shedding light on the in the kosher establishme text is replete with largely on interviews, the familyrun businesses. Based enliven the text. memories and stories that humorous and poignant
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indulged themselves in hefty, the rates, especially around cholesterol-filled meals that festival times, there was a lasted from sunrise to sunset. glittering array of hotels As Geoffrey Alderman known as ‘The Big aptly comments: “It was a Eight’, comprising East mind-exploding, waistlineCliff Court, East Cliff expanding experience, Manor, The Ambasalmost a practically nonsador, The Green Park, stop eatathon.” The Normandie, Why was there this The Langham, The obsession among BourneMajestic and, finally, mouth’s Jewish visitors The Cumberland, which with showing off one’s furs and opened in 1949. diamonds and eating to excess? “They were quite a phenom“It was much to do with the fact Pam Fox and enon together,” Fox tells me. “They Francine Wolfisz they could live like this,” says Fox. were the nexus of Jewish holiday“They were wealthy, the food was there making for the next three decades and in abundance and they wanted to show that whenever Jews gathered, they talked about they had ‘arrived’.” The Big Eight.” But boom times seldom last forever, Opulence was key to all the hotels, not just even for the Jewish hotels of Bournemouth. in the glittering ballrooms, dazzling entertainIncreased kashrut costs, religious polarisation ment acts and luxurious ensuite bathrooms, in the Jewish community and “an upsurge but also for the patrons who frequented them. in loyalty towards Israel” following the SixOne of the book’s contributors, Sheila Day War all contributed to fewer Jewish Samuel, recalls her parents telling her how holidaymakers packing their suitcases for the they witnessed vans arriving at The CumberDorset coast. land from which they “decanted wardrobes of “The biggest factor was that the hotels had clothes” and “rails and rails of dresses, enough served their purpose,” explains Fox. “They for at least three changes of outfit per day”, had helped Jews forge this new identity after while another tells the story of one visitor who the war, they had helped Jews assimilate into insisted her husband drive her to London and society and they had done this so successback “so she could have her hair done propfully that they no longer needed this separate erly” for Friday night dinner. Jewish environment.” In another amusing anecdote, Fox writes: While The Big Eight as we once knew it is no “There is a story often told about a husband more, their impact on the Jewish community and wife who were overheard through a lives on. bedroom wall at the Green Park. ‘Wife: Morris, Fox adds: “The hotels did much for Jewish should I put on my Dior or Balmain dress? Husband: The Dior. Wife: Morris, shall I put on continuity, not just as places where younger people socialised and learned to daven, but my blonde or red wig? Husband: Your blonde also where many singles met and eventually wig. Wife: Morris, should I wear my diamonds married. They were more than just hotels – or my rubies? Husband: Your rubies – but they helped to sustain the hurry up or we’ll be community and create many, late for breakfast!’” Jews by the Seaside The Jewish Hotels and th many Jewish families.” Fashion was Guest Houses of Bournemou one way of showing Jews by the Seaside: The grandeur; food was Jewish Hotels and Guest another. For many Houses of Bournemouth by Jewish holidaymakers, Pam Fox is published by Bournemouth became Vallentine Mitchell & Co, synonymous with priced £19.95 (paperback). eating – or rather Pam Fox Available now overeating – as guests Britain was greatly anticipated in Bournemouth in postwar event. Pam Fox’s incisive A visit to a Jewish hotel a regular family and communal of this episode in Anglo for many, it was both the underlying meaning investigation has reclaimed Colin Shindler Jewish history.
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In publishing a book about his family’s path through the Holocaust, former MP Peter Bradley hopes to make his grandparents’ lives more significant
Fred Bradley (formerly Fritz Brandes) fled Germany for the UK in the 1930s
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ong ago, in January 2005, I wrote an article for a local newspaper – a monthly column to which MPs attach surpassing significance but no one else reads. Except this piece was not the routine account of a momentous week in Westminster and heroic endeavours in the constituency. This one was written to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and it was deeply personal. And fully 17 years later, those 750 words have become a book of 100,000. My father, Fred (previously Fritz), had died some six months earlier, on 10 May 2004, the 65th anniversary of his flight from Nazi Germany after five terrible months in Buchenwald. He had rarely spoken of those times and barely touched on them in the brief family history he wrote towards the end of his life. But to it, he had appended a copy of the letter he had sent his parents shortly after his arrival in London. It was that letter, written on a park bench on Hampstead Heath, that inspired my article. In stilted schoolboy English, he recounts “of what kind my deepest impressions were in the first few days I spent in this country”. He extols the courtesy and honesty of the English and the helpful geniality of their police; he marvels that women smoke in public and wear bathing suits in the parks, and that men push prams, carry bags and fly kites; and, of course, everyone talks about the weather. He reassures his parents, a little naively, that it’s so easy to strike up conversation with fellow passengers on the bus that, “when you come here, you will soon learn this language”. But, in his heart, he knew they would not come. He had said his last goodbye as he boarded the train for the Channel coast at Frankfurt South station in May 1939. The train
his parents took in November 1941 carried them to the camps in Latvia. And it was that image, of the two trains – one heading west to freedom, the other east to destruction – that haunted me for the best part of a decade, and, in the end, drove me to spend seven years researching and writing my book. Initially, I had a very limited plan – to follow the route of the transport that bore 1,000 Bavarian Jews from Nuremberg to Riga, a fate only 52 survived. I can’t explain why I felt the need to make that journey. It simply insinuated itself, at first subtly, but then with growing insistence. Finally, I felt I had no choice. Had I been able to identify the precise path of Sonderzug Da 35, I may have made my symbolic pilgrimage and left it at that. But no reliable record could be found and, in any event, the rail tracks have long been uprooted from large spans of eastern Poland, Lithuania and Latvia through which the ‘special train’ will have passed. That was not the end of it, though, for my failed attempt to find the answer to a single, discrete question prompted a multitude more about the fate of my grandparents. I wanted to know what had happened to them during the Nazi years. Above all, I needed to understand why it happened, how their fellow citizens – their neighbours, their business acquaintances, the customers at their draper’s shop, the people they knew – had come to put them on that train. My quest led me from family papers to archives and libraries, from scholarly works to the testimony of survivors. It led me to the beautiful city of Bamberg in which my father had grown up and which, despite everything, he loved so well for the rest of his life; it led me to Buchenwald and to Riga. At the heart of the narrative I came to write is the story of my family as it threads emblematically through a broader and longer history – from its confinement in the Frankfurt ghetto in the late 1400s to the sporadic successes and the regular reversals of the next 300 years, to my great-grandfathers’ new-found freedoms and prosperity in the 19th century, to the obliteration of their hopes and of their children and grandchildren in the 20th. And, perhaps inevitably, as I wrote, the scope of my book widened. I began the first draft against what was, for me as for others,
Bertha and Sally Brandes outside their first shop on Bamberg’s Dominikanerstraße in 1913
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political refugees and the committed Nazis and German POWs with whom they were imprisoned. Then, at last, my father was released and recruited. As others have argued in different contexts, it is important that we re-examine our assumptions about our history and our character. We need to understand our failings as well as our virtues, because the choices we make about our future depend to a significant extent on what we think we know about our past. -oIn the course of my research, I came across another, little-known history, of how the Danes, though under Nazi occupation from 1940, saved almost all their Jewish fellow citizens from deportation and death by spiriting them across the Öresund to neutral Sweden. They made a choice, different to that of the Germans who supported or succumbed to Nazism, different to that of the collaborators who abetted their destruction of European Jewry. The Danes made their choice, acted on it and were prepared to face the consequences, because, collectively, they decided that it was the right thing to do. My book is not simply about the past, nor
Peter’s father Fred, with his parents, Bertha and Sally Brandes, shortly before he escaped Germany in May 1939
Above: Fred Brandes, with his aunts Meta and Paula Brandes at their shop in Rengsdorf. Above right: The Herzstein and Brandes families at Fred’s barmitzvah in 1928
500,000 who, in the gravest danger, applied for entry visas, only 70,000 were admitted. Though we take justifiable pride in the Kindertransport, which saved some 10,000 Jewish children, we should also acknowledge that we kept their parents out. Very few lived to see their sons and daughters again. Like my grandparents, they were held in a trap from which no one would free them. This was not the first time this country had turned its face against the desperate victims of persecution and conflict; it has not been the last. And my father had not exactly been welcomed here. His visa was temporary and, barred from working, he subsisted on handouts from Jewish charities. When war broke out, his attempts to enlist were rejected because of his ‘suspect background’ and, when the Nazis invaded the Low Countries in May 1940, he was arrested as an ‘enemy alien’ and shipped across the Atlantic to a Canadian internment camp. It took two long years before the authorities learned to distinguish between the Jewish and
solely about Jews and Gentiles. For there is one more question: in a letter to a cousin shortly after the war, my father asked: “If Hitler had persecuted only gypsies, how many of us would have stuck our necks out to show kindness to them?” If we’re honest, that question is unanswerable. But it’s also inescapable. As my book concludes, the past shapes but does not determine the future: “In the events of our own times, we are all perpetrators, or bystanders, or victims or resisters, or perhaps more than one at once. The question is: which of those roles do we choose for ourselves?” -oMy book fulfilled another, more personal purpose. It’s not by chance that in recent years a new literary genre has developed. Many of my generation, the sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors, brought up in safe havens and largely ignorant of the trauma their parents endured, have felt the need to ask the questions they could not put to them when they were
Peter’s parents, Fred and Trudie Bradley, newly-wed in 1944
living. It is as if there is an absence that must be acknowledged, an emptiness that must be filled. In telling my grandparents’ story, I wanted somehow to make their abbreviated lives more significant, to reclaim for them their individuality
and the humanity that had been stolen from them. I wanted them, through me, to have the last word. The Last Train – A Family History of the Final Solution is published by HarperNorth (£20 RRP). This piece was originally published in Order! Order! on 26 March
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THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Annelies Marie Frank’s journal, which she was given 80 years ago this month, has become a classic. Jenni Frazer looks at the translations and film adaptations of her tragically short life
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is discovered living in a Jewish man’s xactly 80 years ago attic. “She’s a bitter old woman this month, a Jewish who swears, eats dead birds and teenager received, as a defecates down air vents.” 13th birthday present, Novelist Nathan Englander had an autograph book bound in a go at a short story featuring a red-and-white-checked Anne, too. What We Talk About cover and featuring a tiny When We Talk About Anne outside lock. Frank features two former Less than one month later, childhood friends who meet the birthday girl and her up in middle age and play family moved into a secret the ‘Anne Frank Game’, in annexe in Amsterdam, where which they speculate who among it was hoped that they would their non-Jewish friends would survive the war years. The girl, of course, was Anne save them in the event of a second Holocaust. Frank, and her book – which And if the fiction sounds she had decided to make into a tasteless, that charge falls diary, writing entries to ‘Dear away spectacularly when it Kitty’ – was to become one of comes to comparison the famous books in the world. with comedian Ricky Anne Frank’s Diary and her Gervais’ notorious roulife story have had a global impact. tine, in which he creates The diary itself has been transa world in which Anne’s lated into more than 70 languages family went into hiding from and there have been, so far, 25 films the Nazis because they did made since its publication, plus not want to pay rent. numerous stage plays, radio plays, Gervais has vigorously an opera and even a musical comdefended this routine in which position about the teenager. There have also been spin-off books about Anne Frank doll his ‘comedy Nazis’ fail to ‘look the people who helped the hidden from Amsterdam upstairs’ in search of the Frank family, despite the sound of Jews, as well as documentaries and typing coming from above. newly-discovered archive film. There’s even been an animated carThere have also been, more controvertoon film, Where is Anne Frank?,, featuring sially, novels and short stories about Anne Britain’s very own Tracy-Ann Oberman Frank, most notably Shalom Auslander’s black comedy Hope: A Tragedy, in which Anne Frank and directed by Israeli film-maker Ari Anne Frank's Diary, which she started writing aged 13, has been translated into more than 70 languages
WHERE IS ANNE FRANK? ISRAELI FILM-MAKER ARI FOLMAN AND ANIMATION DIRECTOR YONI GOODMAN collaborated on a movie that is a fresh and captivating take on the famous diary.
One stormy night a year from now, Kitty, the imaginary friend from Anne Frank’s Diary, magically emerges from the pages. Unaware of Anne’s fate, she embarks on a journey across time and space to find the young author whose curious and bright mind gave her life. With the help of her new friends – a resourceful young man and a refugee girl who has fled her war-torn homeland – Kitty soon realises her true mission: to make Anne’s words change our current reality of struggle and conflict. Where is Anne Frank? is showing this Sunday 19 June at 5.30pm at Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley. www.phoenixcinema.co.uk
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It is generally agreed Folman, in which the Kitty to whom that Otto was astonished at the diary is addressed comes to life what Miep had retrieved. and tries to find her creator, as well He did not know that Anne as engaging with refugees and asylum was even writing a diary, seekers in present-day Europe. much less that she had the The truth about Anne Frank is, of sharpest of eyes and ears course, much bleaker and infinitely for describing life in hiding. more poignant than any of the The red-and-whitepresent-day spoofs and comic checked book’s pages were routines. But perhaps it is filled with endless notes Anne’s very ordinariness, and and annotations, made her dreams of becoming a wellall the more confusing by known writer, that lend themthe fact that in the crucial selves to an almost constant teenage years between retelling – even if sometimes 13 and 15, Anne changed that is a parody. Anne Frank puppet for a great deal and had begun The diary itself was first Ari Folman's film re-editing and rewriting published 75 years ago and was some of the diary entries. returned to Anne’s father, Otto, by Miep Gies, Once Otto understood that his wife and the family friend who helped hide the Franks family had perished at the hands of the Nazis, between 1942 and 1944. Otto was the sole surhe focused on Anne’s diary to the point of vivor of those who hid in the annexe; as well obsession – the last sliver of the life of his as his wife, Edith, Anne and her sister Margot, daughter. Through the diary, it seems, he those hiding included the van Pels family — sought to bring Anne back to the living world Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter — – though not without judicious editing of the and subsequently the dentist Fritz Pfeffer. In August 1944, someone – and it is still not diary entries that he found embarrassing. Despite considerable opposition, Otto definitively proven who – betrayed the group managed to publish the first edition of the to the Nazis, who had occupied the Netherdiary in 1947. But it wasn’t until the mid-1950s lands. The group was herded out and arrested, that it became a publishing phenomenon, taken to the Westerbork transit camp and offering a message to young people all over the eventually moved to Auschwitz. world. Over the years, hitherto unpublished Anne and Margot spent time in Auschwitz pages have emerged, adding new underand – just as the war was coming to an end – standing to this singular undertaking. were sent to Bergen-Belsen. On unspecified Among the most poignant of the diary days in March 1945, the sisters died, probably entries must be this, written by Anne in April of typhus, in that last murderous Nazi strong1944: “I want to be useful or bring enjoyment hold. Anne was just 15 years old. to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want By the time he was liberated from Austo go on living even after my death! And that’s chwitz, however, Otto had no idea what had why I’m so grateful to God for having given me become of his family. this gift, which I can use to develop myself and His mother had spent the war years safely to express all that’s inside me! in Switzerland, and in February 1945 he wrote “When I write I can shake off all my cares. to her: “Dearest Mother, I hope that these My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! lines get to you and all the ones I love – the But, and it’s a big question, will I ever be able news that I have been saved by the Russians, to write something great, will I ever become that I am well and full of good spirit, and being a journalist or a writer?” looked after well in every respect. Where Anne Frank would have been 93 today Edith and the children are, I do not know. We had she survived the Holocaust. The Franks have been apart since 5 September 1944. I were not religiously observant – although merely heard that they had been transported to Germany. One has to be hopeful to see them ironically they took part in more Jewish practice when in hiding – and Otto Frank back well and healthy”. maintained until his death that the appeal of Miep Gies had stolen back to the abanAnne Frank’s Diary was its very universality, doned annexe after the Franks and van Pels underlined by its subtitle: The Diary of a families had been arrested. She found the Young Girl. scattered pages of Anne’s diary, scooped them Anne’s ambition, to “go on living even after up and returned them to Otto when he arrived my death”, has been triumphantly realised. back in Amsterdam.
Twenty-five films have been made since the posthumous publication of Anne's diary in 1947. Anne died aged 15 in March 1945, having been discovered with her family in the attic in Amsterdam and sent to Auschwitz
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New menus, new openings and a new event ensure a very happy Louisa Walters
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Summer was slow in coming, but it has most definitely arrived at Cacao Bean Cafe in Borehamwood with the launch of the sunny summer tapas menu. It’s finally warm enough to have the front bifold doors open and as the sun went down rays of pure joy emanated from a succession of exquisite dishes on my visit. Some of those from the first menu are still there, including the fantastic (and very well-priced at £11.50) blackened cod and the prettiest-ever tuna tataki. We all loved the spicy salmon tacos with smashed avocado and tomato salsa. The miso aubergine was possibly the finest incarnation I’ve had of this dish, not least because it’s done differently so it’s crispy as well as soft and gooey. If you ever needed proof that chef Kushan knows how to pair flavours, try the za’atarspiced cauliflower with date compote, which almost renders my least-favourite vegetable into something akin to dessert. But for me, the most exciting thing was to see Kushan bring his Sri Lankan heritage to the menu in the form of crispy lamb rolls. Coincidentally I had these at Hoppers just a few days before and, on every level, Kushan’s are better. Better texture, better flavour, better filling-to-casing ratio. A sharp creamy yuzu posset was the perfect light touch to finish this feast.
Crispy lamb rolls, za’atar-spiced cauliflower with date compote and spicy salmon tacos at Cacao Bean Cafe
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I’m very excited about the opening of Zak’s in Mill Hill – a Moroccan café promising meze, shakshuka, tagines and an authentic Moroccan breakfast with pancakes, fried eggs, olives, Moroccan beans (loubia) and cheese with a side of olive oil and honey for dipping.
Loubia (Moroccan beans) at Zak’s
Beetroot carpaccio at Michael’s
I’ll definitely be heading there for my favourite Moroccan dish, chicken bastilla – a light, crispy pastry shell filled with saffron chicken, omelette stuffing, and a crunch topping of fried almonds sweetened with orange-flavoured water garnished with powdered sugar and cinnamon. To be able to get that on my doorstep is a very good reason to avoid airport chaos this summer. The café is named after the owners’ son and brother, who sadly died when he was a little boy. Morocco was one of his favourite places and he loved sitting around the dinner table with his family. Today, they hope to transport us to the valleys of the Atlas Mountains with their home-grown recipes and spices imported directly from Morocco along with their organic honey and olive oil produced at Zak’s family farm.
If you’ve been through Mill Hill Broadway recently, you might have noticed a new sign that has popped up above the door at Numa. Michael Levi of Michael’s Brasserie in Woodside Park has taken over at the popular Israeli restaurant, keeping things pretty much the same but with ‘added twists’, he tells me. He’s not giving too much away but, later in the summer, the lunch offering will evolve to be something similar to what we’ve come to expect at his original café. Hopefully my favourite beetroot carpaccio with walnuts, goats cheese and rocket will feature on the menu. Michael is known locally as the ‘king of the shakshuka’ but he is Cordon Bleu-trained and has also worked at Michelinstarred restaurants, so I suspect some exciting and innovative dishes are on their way. Watch this space.
KOSHER FOOD AND WINE EXPERIENCE
The date 21 June is heavily ringed in my diary for the post-pandemic return of the annual Kosher Food and Wine Experience at the Sheraton Grand Park Lane. We are being promised hundreds of kosher wines from all over the world, including fine wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux and more than a dozen Israeli wineries present. There will also be Arieh Wagner’s super-sumptuous all-you-can-eat buffet, which, if past years are anything to go by, is unmissable. So, in essence, you can sample hundreds of stunning wines, whiskies and champagnes, pile your plates high from the groaning buffet, which also includes sushi, and chat to wine producers, all of whom have a story. Last time, I learned that the Five Stones winery in the Judean Hills is located where David famously slayed Goliath with a sling containing five stones. Truly a great night out.
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complained: “We remember the fish we ate for free in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the leeks and the melons. Now our souls are empty, it is only to the manna that we look.” Rashi understands that their rosy memories of the past were manufactured. If Pharaoh would not even give them straw for bricks, why on earth would he give them food? Rather, says Rashi, they were looking for an excuse to complain about their treatment by the Almighty. If you were to ask an Israelite in the wilderness whether he was lying, I am sure he would deny it vociferously. They must have truly believed this was how they were fed – with fish, leeks and watermelons. Perhaps this shows the strength of having rosetinted glasses. When we are dissatisfied with our present we are so sure
The cost of petrol keeps rising, with a full tank now costing at least £100 for the average car. As this fuel crisis deepens, many are looking back with nostalgia to the days when a tank cost less than half of what we are currently paying. What is the Torah’s view on looking back with nostalgia to the ‘good old days’? In this week’s Torah portion, Beha’alotecha, we are told about the rabble who complained about the constant diet of manna they were receiving in the desert. These people looked back on their existence as slaves in Egypt and preferred it to their current status. They
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things were better in our past that our mind creates scenarios that prove how much better things used to be, even if they never happened. This occurrence is a psychological phenomenon called rosy retrospection, a cognitive bias when looking at the way we think about our lives now. Some scientists suggest that because the past is seen as being better than the present, the present and future must be much worse, leading to a mindset that while things were wonderful in the past, things are now going from bad to worse. If we look in the verse in this week’s Torah portion this is what happens. They no longer have their imagined food, now, they have the manna, which may have been the beginning of the end. Nachmanides says this complaint wasn’t even that
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Leadership Qualities As the Movement for Reform Judaism looks for a new chief executive, we would do well to remember Jephthah. In the Book of Judges, the great general Jephthah vows that if God helps him to defeat the enemy, then he will sacrifice whatever first comes out of his house. His victory is stunning and he returns in triumph only to be greeted by his happy daughter, who has a musical instrument in her hand. A leader should not make rash promises. After many long years leading the people through the desert, when they are yet again moaning, Moses strikes a rock in anger to miraculously provide them with water. For this moment of fury, God denies him the right to enter the land of Israel. Even the greatest leaders must know how to keep their emotions in check before those whom they lead. Very little is known of Moses’ wife Zipporah and their two sons. They simply fade from the narrative. Were they the sacrifice that leadership sometimes makes of a leader’s family? At the funeral of a great cantor, one after another his congregants rose and told stories of his kindness, generosity and loving care. Then the cantor’s son stood up and said: “We, his family, didn’t know this man whom you describe.
He gave everything to you and when he came home to us, he had nothing left to give.” Leaders must know how to balance the stressful demands of work with the loving needs of their private lives. At the start of the story of his life, Abraham is promised a future of blessing and greatness by God. But almost at once he seems to forget God’s promise. He travels to Egypt and there he begs his beautiful wife Sarah to pretend to be his sister, so that Pharaoh won’t kill him. Leaders should protect those under their care and not use them as pawns in a power game. Our Bible is splendidly honest in showing us how the heroic figures who shaped Judaism were fallible humans. This year, when the 80-year-old Movement for Reform Judaism is searching for a chief executive to lead it into the new decade, it is good to be reminded that perfect leaders do not exist. But great leaders, such as Moses, Abraham and Jephthah do. Perhaps what successful leaders needs most is the ability to recognise their own flaws, to learn humility from their mistakes and empathy from any hardship they endure. To be a Joseph and say: “I am Joseph.” Moses, right, is considered a great leader but not a perfect one
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SUGURU Each cell in an outlined block must contain a digit: a two-cell block contains the digits 1 and 2, a three-cell block contains the digits 1, 2 and 3; and so on. The same digit must not appear in neighbouring cells, not even diagonally.
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The listed sandwich fillings can all be found in the grid. Words may run either forwards or backwards, in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction, but always in a straight, unbroken line.
In this finished crossword, every letter of the alphabet appears as a code number. All you have to do is crack the code and fill in the grid. Replacing the decoded numbers with their letters in the grid will help you to guess the identity of other letters.
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