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Aliyah agony as Israel doubts UK Jews’ status Appeal to ambassador as one infuriated couple is told Beth Din endorsement is ‘insufficient proof’ of religion

by Jenni Frazer @Jennifrazer

Alexander Menashe and Miriam Rosenberg

British Jews eager to make aliyah are “tearing their hair out” after being made to wait more than 18 months for their application to be processed, with one couple told there was “insufficient proof ” of Jewish identity despite an endorsement from the London Beth Din. Alexander Menashe, whose wife’s application was rejected after being told there was “not sufficient proof” of her heritage, despite the Beth Din confirming her status, told Jewish News: “Literally everyone I know who is trying to make aliyah at the moment is on the verge of giving up. They are tearing their hair out.”

Other examples include a woman whose husband is Israeli and was previously issued with a temporary residence visa, who was asked to provide proof of her Jewishness despite her parents and one of her children having already made aliyah from the UK. Another Orthodox woman, with adult children serving in the IDF, has been waiting more than 18 months to have her application approved while another family who grew up in London’s Chasidic community has been waiting almost a year after their initial file was opened.

Yet another applicant – long divorced from her husband – says she was asked to provide her ex-husband’s grandmother’s birth certificate in a document bundle for the Jewish Agency.

Miriam Rosenberg, Alexander’s wife (Alex-

ander already has Israeli citizenship), told Jewish News she expected some delay in her application because she was born in Poland, and grew up not knowing she was Jewish until she was a teenager.

She came to Britain 15 years ago and says she has been fully religiously observant for six years.

“When I wanted to get married, I went to the London Beth Din and provided them with four generations of documentation about my family.”

The Beth Din approved the material and gave her a letter confirming her Jewish status. She and Alexander subsequently married under the auspices of the Federation of Synagogues in 2018.

She said: “The Jewish Agency wanted to see the documents I had shown the London Beth

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News / Biden visit / ‘Palestine’ convoy / ‘De-Nazification’ rebuttal

Israel revels in Biden visit, but it takes more to charm Abbas ANALYSIS

by Michael Daventry, Jewish News Foreign Editor

Despite all those who suggest that the United States is a declining world power, there are few countries where passions would not be stirred by arrival of Air Force One for a visit.

So too in Israel, where Joe Biden landed this week for a two-day visit to include Yad Vashem and the opening of the 2022 Maccabiah Games.

Israel and the United States are close allies, of course, but they do differ markedly over how to confront Iran’s growing influence in the region.

Biden has tried, despite Israeli opposition, to reverse his predecessor Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of a nuclear treaty with the Iranians.

The negotiations to reinstate that deal are not going well and the intelligence assessment is that Iran has moved much closer to developing a nuclear weapon.

The differences were not, however, about to unsettle the spectacle of Biden’s visit. Even before Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion, Israel and the United States had announced that a strengthened partnership that would lead to scientists and experts from both countries meeting to work on projects including new AI technologies and research into quantum and climate change.

A vast red carpet stretched out yesterday afternoon across the tarmac from the aircraft carrying the president, with a parade of military service personnel and dignitaries flanking the path into the terminal. At the very front of the line was President Isaac Herzog, prime minister Yair Lapid and his immediate predecessor Naftali Bennett.

And as the presidential convoy swept into Jerusalem it passed nearly a thousand American flags raised on the streets for the occasion.

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well in November’s Knesset elections, the Biden visit could help bolster his credentials as a world leader — but it’s unlikely to sway vast numbers of voters in a contest that is still three months away. Biden delighted his hosts by uttering the phrase “you do not need to be Jewish to be a Zionist” within minutes of his arrival.

However, the president will also be looking further ahead: he has a difficult task rebuilding ties with the Palestinians that were almost destroyed by his predecessor. On Friday, he has a meeting planned with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Before that, he is due to break protocol by visiting the Palestinian hospital Augusta Victoria, a complex on the northern side of Mount of Olives.

That will be the first visit by a US president to East Jerusalem, territory that both Israel and Palestine claim as their own.

Whether the gesture will resonate with Abbas is another question altogether.

TWO CHARGED AND TWO CLEARED OVER CONVOY The Crown Prosecution Service will proceed with charges against two men accused of inciting racial hatred during May 2021’s infamous ‘Convoy For Palestine’.

Mohammed Iftikhar Hanif, 28, from Pringle Street in Blackburn, and Jawaad Hussain, 25, from Revidge Road in Blackburn, will face charges of “using threatening, abusive or insulting words, or behaviour, with intent, likely to stir up racial hatred”.

Charges against two other men, Asif Ali, 25,and The ‘Convoy For Palestine’ last year

Adil Mota, 26, also from Blackburn, have been dropped.

During the convoy antisemitic abuse and rape threats directed at Jewish women were allegedly shouted from vehicles travelling through St John’s Wood.

Six cars, with large Palestinian flags on their bonnets and back windows, were filmed stopping at traffic lights before driving on in the direction of Golders Green and the North Circular. They were later filmed near Brent Cross.

White House ‘de-Nazification’ file The White House is poised to accuse Russia of antisemitism and exploiting Jewish suffering through its claims that its war against Ukraine is a “de-Nazification” operation.

The State Department says in a dossier scheduled to appear on its website: “To serve its predatory ends, the Kremlin is exploiting the suffering and sacrifice of all those who lived through World War II and survived the Holocaust.

In the process, the Kremlin is detracting from critically important global efforts to combat antisemitism and is instead propagating one of antisemitism’s most insidious forms, Holocaust distortion.”

The dossier will appear on Monday on a page devoted to exposing Russian disinformation in its war against Ukraine.

It is timed ahead of an informal session later that day of the UN Security Council

that Russia called to bolster its ‘de-Nazification’ claim.

The three-page State Department dossier quotes historians and Holocaust remembrance institutions.

It emphasises that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish and lost family to the Holocaust. It includes a photo of Zelensky in a kippah, surrounded by Orthodox Jews, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a 2020 visit.

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‘Britain failed French Jews when we needed her most’ mission was enacted, was in direct contrast to their response to the children of Polish ancestry trapped in France,” she said.

“Anglo-Jewish leaders’ historic stance towards Polish Jews – regarded as the destabilising cause of antisemitism and Zionism – was ongoing and shared by the British political establishment. This predisposed them to an unenthusiastic response to the offer made by the Vichy government to enable the rescue of the children.”

In February 1943, in the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was asked about the 2,000 Jewish children in France “who were refused visas for this country and were, in consequence, deported to Germany”. Not true, he said.

“I have no knowledge of any Jewish children in France having been refused visas for this country and having in consequence been deported to Germany. It is, in my opinion, much to be deplored that any story to this effect should be in circulation.”

He said “the Vichy authorities had declined to allow any Jewish children to leave France” but later admitted that visa applications had been made. In fact, as papers later showed, he was present on 28 September 1942, when the War Cabinet discussed the question of rescuing the French children.

According to Salter, documents found in the Public Records Office also showed that “the government were well aware of the plight of the children at a time that something could have been done”.

In fact, British diplomats were on record as having said that refuge would be offered only “in some rare and exceptional cases”, if it could be shown that “the admission of the refugees will be directly advantageous to our war effort”. Ultimately, she says, “it came down to prejudice, even among Jews… The divisions between different ethnic groups within the Jewish community at the time played out.”

She added: “The Anglo-Jewish elite were integrated, powerful and very anti-Zionist.

They saw themselves as Englishmen of Jewish heritage, and of course one place the children might have gone was Palestine.”  Editorial comment, page 18

Jews at the Vel d’Hiv. They were taken to internment camps before being sent to Auschwitz

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A British Holocaust refugee who was in Paris when more than 13,000 Jews were rounded up and deported from the city in 1942 has criticised the British government’s response to events in France 80 years ago this week, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

Joan Salter, who educates children in the UK through the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, was speaking to Jewish News about the infamous mass arrest and internment of foreign Jews at the Vel d’Hiv, a winter sports stadium close to the Eiffel Tower, from 16 to 7 July 1942.

Although France was occupied during the war, the collaborationist Vichy government offered safe passage to thousands of Jewish children – most of them Polish – who had been rounded up. Salter, who was a young Jewish child in Paris at the time, recalled her narrow escape.

“About a week before [Vel d’Hiv], my mother took us to register [as foreign Jews]. I was two-and-a-half. Typical of two young children, we started having a row in the place and the policeman kicked us out, which was lucky.

“When we went back two days later, a nicer policeman warned my mother that we were going to be picked up that week. Had he not done, we’d have gone to Drancy and I wouldn’t have survived.”

While the United States sent a ship for the refugees, the UK made excuses, even though – almost two years earlier – 10,000 Jewish children from countries like Austria and Czechoslovakia were brought to the UK by train and given refuge in the Kindertransport.

That same willingness to help Jewish children, who were this time caught up in Paris, was sadly lacking in 1942, said Salter. “With Holocaust education, I feel you need historic facts, and the idea that Britain always accepted refugees is a load of rubbish.”

She explained that this reluctance stemmed in part from the unfavourable views held by British Jews of Polish Jews at that time.

“The pressure put on the [British] political establishment by the luminaries of the AngloJewish establishment to rescue the Kinder, as well as the speed with which this rescue

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News / Aliyah upset / Antisemitism concern / MP ‘triggered’

Aliyah frustration for British Jews Continued from page 1

Din. They asked many questions about my family, asking for pictures of graves and details of my grandmother’s and mother’s involvement in the Jewish community in Poland.”

Such information was not available, Ms Rosenberg said, because during communist rule after the war, members of her family had married out and concealed their Jewish identity. Her mother and grandmother still live in Poland but, she said, “have no real awareness of being Jewish — although they know they are”.

She said she had found the whole process “so long and ridiculous, so

frustrating. I know many people have given up. People are being driven crazy by the paperwork. One woman told me that she had been asked to supply all the details of her previous travel to Israel dating back more than 30 years.”

Ms Rosenberg said Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, had been made aware of the complaints.

After being turned down by the Eligibility Department of the Jewish Agency, Ms Rosenberg has now learned that her application is being reconsidered.

Her husband said the couple are at a loss to understand why her Jewish

650 people made aliyah from the UK last year, a rise of 22 percent on 2020

status was good enough for the Beth Din but not the Jewish Agency.

In a statement, a spokeswoman

for the Jewish Agency told Jewish News: “We operate according to the Israeli Law of Return and the regu-

lations of the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority, which is the sole authority when it comes to aliyah.

“Each aliyah applicant is required to prove their connection to Judaism through documentation, in accordance with the Law of Return. The Law of Return is not similar to Jewish law and, in some cases, a letter from a rabbi or a Beth Din will not be sufficient.

“The Jewish Agency works together with the applicant and the ministry in order to ensure the applicant receives the full aliyah benefits to which they are entitled.”

SCHOOLS REFORM BACKED Corbyn loyalist in reselection fight The shadow education secretary this week told Jewish News she is “deeply concerned about antisemitism in schools and on campus” and backed the government in pushing forward with schools reforms despite protests from the Charedi community.

Accompanied by shadow schools minister Stephen Morgan, Bridget Phillipson was speaking after making her first visit to a Jewish school – Akiva in Finchley – since her appointment to the education portfolio last year.

Akiva School, a primary which is housed in the Sternberg Centre for Reform Judaism

A Labour MP who accused some in the party of exploiting antisemitism claims to attack Jeremy Corbyn is fighting to remain a candidate at the next general election after being “triggered” by local members.

Sam Tarry, who ran Corbyn’s leadership campaign in 2016, failed to win any of the 10 local branch votes in his Ilford South constituency.

In a statement he said he

campus on East End Road, is the only progressive Jewish school in Britain.

The Labour MPs toured the school before joining an education round table with representatives from PaJes, Hasmonean School, the Union of Jewish Students, Jewish Community Day School advisory board, Community Security Trust and the Jewish Leadership Council.

“Faith schools can play an important part in our education system,” Phillipson told Jewish News. “I think it’s really vital that every child has a high quality education that allows them to achieve and thrive.”

had submitted evidence of rule breaking and “concrete evidence of voter fraud” in the ballot to trigger him.

Under Labour rules, MPs must win the support of a majority of local members to stand for election as an MP. Tarry, a shadow transport minister, learned his fate last week as the final ballot took place. Affiliate members of the party were then consulted

over whether to reselect him as the local candidate or leave him to face an open selection contest.

Results from Ilford South showed 66 percent of the 594 local members who voted had backed staging a full selection contest.

A further three affiliated groups also voted to ‘trigger’ Tarry after consulting their members.

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Listeria link to smoked salmon

Bond theme creator Norman dies at 94

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and Food Standards Agency have identified an outbreak of listeria in London, which both bodies say appears to be linked to consumption of smoked fish, writes Jenni Frazer.

An investigation has begun into the outbreak, which is said particularly to affect pregnant women or vulnerable people, who are often older, with existing health problems or who are taking medication which could weaken their immune systems.

Academic and communal activist Professor Geoffrey Alderman was admitted recently to the Royal Free in Hampstead, where he was interviewed by health security officials about consumption of smoked salmon.

He said his wife, Marion, had spent six weeks in hospital earlier this year and it appeared that she had contracted listeriosis, the infectious disease arising from the listeria bacterium.

UKHSA told Jewish News: “Most people won’t have symptoms or will experience only mild symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea, which usually pass within a few days without the need for treatment.” But the agency said all smoked fish — trout, haddock, mackerel and salmon — should be “thoroughly cooked” before eating.

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The ubiquitous smoked salmon bagel and, inset, Professor Alderman

According to the UKHSA: “Wholegenome sequencing analysis has identified an outbreak of 12 linked cases of listeriosis since 2020, with six of these since January 2022. Cases have been identified in England and Scotland. The majority of these individuals reported eating smoked fish.”

Smoked fish is now designated “a high-risk product which should be thoroughly cooked before being eaten by anyone in a high risk group”.

Tina Potter, head of incidents at the FSA, said: “Members of the public do not need to avoid these products, but should ensure risks are reduced as far as possible.

“You can do this by keeping chilled ready-to-eat smoked fish cold (50C or below), always using products by their use-by date, following the storage and usage instructions on the label, and cooking or reheating smoked fish until it is piping hot right through.”

The agency’s head of animal feed and foodborne control Narriman Looch added: “Listeria infections in people who have a normal immune response are rare, and the risk to the general public is low. But our advice to vulnerable groups is to only eat smoked fish that has been thoroughly pre-cooked, or to make sure that smoked fish is cooked at home until steaming all the way through.”

Lance Forman of smoked salmon specialist H Forman and Son said: “Listeria exists in fish and will grow in warm conditions. Smoking and curing will slow down this process, as will refrigeration. Fish should be eaten, in any case, as close as possible to the time of catch, and our salmon is only Scottish so we can start the smoking and curing process within two days of the catch.”

Composer Monty Norman, who wrote the theme for the James Bond films, has died at the age of 94. He was born Monty Noserovitch in Stepney, east London, to Jewish parents and was evacuated from London during the early days of the Blitz. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he sang for big bands including those led by Ted Heath and Nat Temple, and appeared on variety show lineups alongside Tony Hancock and Spike Milligan. He wrote the James Bond theme for the film Dr No in 1962.

Jewish leaders worldwide have paid tribute to Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated last week.

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He was speaking at a rally in Nara when he was shot multiple times from behind. Increased diplomacy with Israel was a prime example of Japan’s policy shift during Abe’s second tenure in the premier’s office.

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Special Report / After Johnson

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

Boris Johnson returns to No 10 after announcing he will step down

Bob Blackman, the newly-elected vice-chair of the Conservative Party’s powerful backbench 1922 Committee, has said: “All the leadership candidates on the ballot paper are big supporters of the state of Israel and the Jewish community.”

Speaking to Jewish News in Westminster, moments after committee chair Sir Graham Brady announced the eight candidates to make it on to the first ballot paper, Blackman added: “All of the Jewish community here, and indeed in Israel, should have no fears about any of those candidates becoming leader, and of course the next prime minister.”

Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat all survived the first ballot in the Conservative leadership race on Wednesday afternoon to make it through to the next stage of the race to succeed Boris Johnson. Sunak came first with 88 votes, Mordaunt second on 67 and Truss third on 50 votes.

1922 Committee executive member Blackman, who is Jewish, later said: “Clearly we are in the serious business of picking the leader of the Conservative Party, who is going to start the job literally the moment they are elected.”

He said the “high hurdle” of allowing those candidates who had received the support of at least 20 MPs to progress was needed to reduce the list down from the ini-

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tial 11 candidates.

In a surprise move, former health secretary Sajid Javid withdrew from the contest five minutes before it begun.

Blackman said: “His representative was booked to proceed with the nomination, but we got a phone call to say he wasn’t coming.”

Javid later tweeted: “I have withdrawn from the Conservative leadership race.

“We now have an opportunity to renew and reunite as a party. In the last few days we have already seen an abundance of talent and ideas.

“I look forward to working together and delivering for our great country.”

Grant Shapps and Rehman Chishti had also pulled out of the race earlier on Tuesday.

He explained that in the next stage of the selection process on Thursday, canidates will need to get 30 votes or more.

With 351 MPs in the Tory parlia-

mentary party that means a candidate would need to atttract the support of one in twelve of them.

“We will eliminate the canididate with the least votes, even if they get above the first votes, so they need to get a minimum of 30 votes,” explained Blackman.

Anyone below that would be eliminated ahead of a succession of further ballots next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, before the list is whittled down to just two challengers.

In response to criticism from Labour over the quality of the candidates, Blackman said: “They’ve been saying the prime minister should be out of Number 10 Downing Street immediately and a replacement put in.

“Well we’ve got a wide field of great talent all of whom are itching to become PM and take Labour on and defeat them once again.”

Zahawi (who exited the contest on Wednesday) tweeted to say he

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Looking to be prime minister: (clockwise from top left) Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Suella Braverman, Rishi Sunak and Tom Tugendhat

was looking forward to the next stage, while Braverman said she was “honoured.”

Hunt (who also exited yesterday) later denied speculation that Rishi Sunak’s campaign engineered MPs’ votes to help him clear the first

hurdle of the Tory leadership contest.

Sunak later pledged he would run the country like Margaret Thatcher.

Trade Minister Mordaunt, tipped by some as a surprise winner, launched her campaign in person on Wednesday.

Badenoch, the equalities minster, who has been backed by former cabinet minitser Michael Gove, had been seen by Jewish News only moments before the first round results were announced nervously awaiting confirmation she had made it on to the ballot paper.

ANTISEMITISM FIGHT ‘NOT OVER’, LABOUR PARTY IS WARNED A packed meeting in Westminster of the pro-Keir Starmer Labour To Win group has been told by a succession of speakers that the fight against antisemitism in the party is not over.

In a “rally” aimed at boosting the chances of five candidates from the internal Labour organisation being elected onto the party’s powerful national executive committee at elections later this month, Starmer was praised for putting Labour back in with a chance of gaining power again at the next general election.

But activists at the meeting on Tuesday evening were warned that the moderate wing needed to retain a tight grip on the party machine to ensure there was no return for the hard-left activists who organise around former leader Jeremy Corbyn.

At the meeting, Gurinder Singh Josan, chair of the NEC disputes panel that handles antisemitism complaints, praised the “strong line” taken on the issue by Starmer.

But he admitted he had found more than 7,000 antisemitism complaints “sitting around” having not been looked into by the previous leadership.

Josan said they had managed to clear the backlog, successfully punishing many members, but there were still a low number of complaints to deal with. He admitted the fight against antisemitism is Labour is “not yet over” but highlighted the party had introduced new codes of conduct on all forms of racism.

“We achieved independent oversight on the matters of complaints,” added Josan. “We will take a strong line on any sort of behaviour that don’t align to the Labour Party’s values.”

Later NEC member and candidate Luke Akehurst also returned to the continued fight against antisemitism.

He told the meeting: “We are still seeing antisemitism, we are still seeing all types of discrimination and abuse on the basis of race. We are seeing anti-black racism.

“No one with those attitudes should be joining Labour, and our work will continue in achieving that through the NEC.” Akehurst said that while the battle against anti-Jewish racism was being fought in the party, it would not be won until there was not a single complaint from the community.

He attacked the Corbyn -supporting wing of the party, saying its idea of success was defeat in the 2017 general election, rather than gaining power as earlier Labour leaders had.

Akehurst also joked that some of the hard left saw himself, Starmer and Labour general secretary David Evans as bigger enemies than the Conservatives.

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Employment charity Resource celebrated its 30th anniversary with a high-profile panel discussion at JW3 on diversity in the workforce.

Tony Danker, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry and former Labour MP Luciana Berger joined entrepreneur Alex Stephany and Alex Goat, who heads a business supporting the younger generation, called Liverty.

Berger said: “We have people in their 50s and 60s coming out of the workforce, but we need more people throughout the generations in the Luciana Berger speaks at the panel discussion at JW3 workplace, particularly when we have fewer people coming into it as a result crisis and people looking for a career change of Brexit.” with the impact of Brexit and the pandemic, the Danker said: “The most diverse workforces work carried out by Resource has never been that have been the most successful that I have more important.” seen, there has been genuine exchange and celeResource supports around 1,000 people a bration of diversity, and genuine interest among year in the UK, and demand for the charity’s employers of people from all kinds of diversity. services has risen, with an increasing need for “What is very clear is flexible work is good employment support for people looking to leave for helping people work as well as balancing work in the public sector, including teachers other responsibilities. It is particularly good for and social workers, as well as women aged over women and carers.”

50 seeing new work opportunities. It has supResource chief executive, Victoria Sterman ported people affected by pandemic employtold guests the charity planned to expand its ment disruption and those facing financial outreach work. She said: “With the cost of living stress as a result of the cost of living crisis.

FOOTBALL BOSS TAKES LEAD AT TRUSTEES EVENT The chair of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club discussed his philanthropic journey and offered advice for fellow leaders at the 10th annual Jewish Community Trustees’ Conference, writes Joy Faulk.

Tony Bloom addressed nearly 80 people from 36 organisations at the first in-person event for three years, organised by the Jewish Leadership Council’s Lead division in partnership with the Jewish Volunteering Network and supported by Bloom Foundation.

Participants took part in a range of breakout sessions on issues from diversity to sustainability. They heard from senior figures from the Charities Aid Foundation who discussed their UK Giving Landscape research on the cost of

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living crisis, and from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research’s Jon Boyd who discussed geographical shifts and denominational changes in British Jewry.

A panel session featuring Keshet UK trustee Robin Moss and Jewish Museum trustee Damien Egan, the mayor of Lewisham, explored how to attract younger talent.

Michelle Janes, executive director of Lead and Co-CEO of the JLC, said: “It was hugely interesting and motivating to learn together with fellow leaders and such experienced speakers. I’m delighted that the JLC, through this event, can support people already in these vital positions of leadership and those thinking of making a step into these roles.”

Jweb turns to social media A major initiative aimed at supporting people with learning difficulties and their families is moving its website resources onto Instagram.

Jweb, which pools information from organisations, parents, carers, teachers and therapists with first-hand experience of learning disabilities, will move its operations to social media from August.

The existing website address will be relaunched to allow individuals with learning disabilities and the broader community to access infor-

mation and resources for two versions of Jweb’s innovative accessible siddur – in the Progressive and Orthodox traditions.

The accessible and inclusive siddurim are the result of extensive research and consultation conducted by Deborah Gundle and Anna Perceval of Jweb in partnership with the United Synagogue, Finchley Reform Synagogue and Gesher School and in collaboration with learning disability charities and professionals, rabbis, parents, carers and people

with learning disabilities.

Jweb’s Anna Perceval said: “We are thrilled Jweb’s prayer books are leading the way in building inclusive communities.”

Jweb has been jointly administered by community learning disability charities Norwood, Kisharon and Langdon since it was founded.

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Jewish News meets... Mona Khoury-Kassabri

Mona is building Arab-Israeli harmony from the ground up

by Michael Daventry michael@jewishnews.co.uk @MichaelDaventry

Gone are the days when one of two camps, Jewish or Arab, was considered enough to determine what kind of an Israeli citizen you are.

These days the phrase “cultural kaleidoscope”, although a bit of a cliché, is more appropriate to explain how this is a country that is home to a mix of ethnicities and cultures.

Fitting, then, that the first Arab woman appointed to a senior role at one of Israel’s largest universities is responsible for making sure the most overlooked sections of society are better represented.

Mona Khoury-Kassabri, vice president of strategy and diversity at Hebrew University, specialises in social welfare issues — areas such as school violence and bullying both in person and online These studies have taken her from her home town of Haifa, in the north of Israel, to the major cities and culture of Toronto and Chicago.

She told Jewish News that her role is about more than simply getting as many students from minority

Israeli Arab students at Hebrew University. Inset: Mona

backgrounds through the university’s doors, saying: “There is a saying: ‘diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being invited to dance in the party’.

“We have a lot of under-represented groups, such as the Arabs, ultra-Orthodox, Ethiopian students; plus students who are the first generation in higher education and students with disabilities.

“So we have a challenge in opening

our doors to all these groups but when they come it is not enough. You can’t just bring these groups and say, ‘now you’re equal’.

“In this case, equality isn’t the solution because we know they’re different and we know that they have more challenges than others, so bringing them in an equal basis is actually making the situation worse.”

The solution, Khoury-Kassabri

‘COMMITMENT’ TO MEMORIAL DESPITE LEGAL SETBACK The government remains “fully committed” to building the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to Parliament, the Board of Deputies has been told.

Speaking to Deputies on Sunday, Sally Sealey, head of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, admitted

backers of the £109 million project had been “disappointed” when a High Court judge upheld a legal challenge to the site of the monument in the heart of Westminster. Sealey, who works closely with co-chairs Lord Pickles and Ed Balls at the foundation, told Deputies there was currently a challenge planned in court over the

shock ruling.

She also confirmed the government did not have an alternative site where the memorial and learning centre could be built.

Sealey, who works for the Department of Levelling Up, also attempted to stem criticism over the mounting cost of the project, including by the

said, is supporting students to make sure they spend time studying and socialising together once they are admitted to the campus.

“We know that this is the first time different groups in Israeli society meet. Before this [in secondary schools], Arab students study separately, ultra-Orthodox study separately, even Jewish students … mostly study in separate schools.”

That is why there are interfaith groups where Jews, Muslims and Christians meet and events where students come together to talk about things other than religion.

There are also spaces where Arabs help Jewish students with their Arabic assignments, and Jews reciprocate by helping their new friends to brush up their Hebrew.

The objective, Khoury-Kassabri added, is to change perceptions and demonstrate that other institutions, whole cities even, can find ways of living more harmoniously along-

side each other. In this context, she appeared to exude optimism about the younger generation in the region and said she draws heart from the fact that some studies suggest more and more Israeli Arabs are now preferring to call themselves “Palestinians in Israel”.

“I think in many cases, students and families were not feeling secure to say that and now it’s more acceptable,” she said. “People understand that saying ‘we belong to the Palestinian nation but we are Israeli, we live in Israel, we have Israeli citizenship’, it doesn’t mean that we hate the country, we want to leave the country, we want to destroy the country.”

“No,” she said, shaking her head during our conversation our Zoom.

What Arab Israelis and other marginalised groups in the country want is equality, she says.

“We are fortunate to be in a university to give the opportunity to give students the feeling that they belong and try to expand the ways they can feel equal and not discriminated.

“What we are trying to do, at least at our university, all our efforts are so that these groups feel that the university belongs to all of us.”

National Audit Office in a report published last week.

She said: “If you can all cast your minds back to when David Cameron first announced, way back in 2014, and an announcement in 2015, that the government would give £50 million to kickstart a fund-raising effort, it was never suggested that the memorial would cost £50 million. It was just to kickstart it.”

Sealey said that following a design competition the government gave another £25 million, to be matched by donations from outside givers.

She also criticised suggestions put forward by critics of the project that the money to be spent on the memorial would be better spent on Holocaust education.

Sealey said: “This money is capital. If we don’t use it for the Holocaust Memorial, it will go back to the Treasury, not for Holocaust education.”

She also justified the decision to build the centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, stressing that the site was actually owned by the government, and that only 7.5 percent of the royal

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Synagogue revival / Summer mitzvahs / News

£400k lifeline for historic shul A Jewish heritage organisation is to receive almost £400,000 to open a Jewish cultural centre at a disused but architecturally significant 145-year-old synagogue in the Welsh valleys, writes Adam Decker.

The Foundation for Jewish Heritage is a British group that researches, advocates and restores Jewish heritage sites across Europe.

It has announced it will receive the funds from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) and the Welsh government’s Transforming Towns programme to begin a development phase.

The foundation bought the Merthyr Tydfil synagogue building in 2019 with plans to create the first museum devoted to the history of Jews in Wales.

The synagogue was opened in 1877 when an influx of central and Eastern European Jewish immigrants to South Wales necessitated a second shul in the area.

However, as the local industrial economy declined toward the latter part of the 20th century, so did the local Jewish population.

With no one to fill it, the synagogue was officially sold in 1983.

It had various purposes over the

years, but was classified as so deteriorated in 2006 that it has been out of use ever since.

Dame Helen Hyde, chair of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage, said the new centre will “tell the remarkable story of the Welsh Jewish community while also tackling important issues within our society of today”.

The 2011 national census, the last official estimate of the Jewish population of Wales, reported 2,064 people. Today the number is believed to be in the hundreds.

The closest active synagogue to Merthyr Tydfil is in Cardiff.

Prince Charles inspects plans for the iconic Welsh synagogue’s revival

MUSWELL HILL’S BIG WELCOME Mitzvah Day summer faith project the synagogue and church were contacted last August by Haringey Council, alerting them to the presence of the asylum seekers.

With the active support of Rabbi David Mason and Reverend Matt Lunn, the two faith communities immediately came together to find a way to welcome the guests, with the project later expanding to support the Ukrainian arrivals in the area.

Annette Kurer, one of the organisers, said: “This was another fantastic collaboration and provided a fabulous start to the many activities that took place during Refugee Week.”

Members of Leicester’s Orthodox and Progressive Jewish communities took advantage of the sunshine to collect food and toiletries for Women’s Aid Leicestershire in a special summer interfaith Mitzvah Day project.

They were joined by Christian, Muslim and Sikh volunteers from the St Philip’s Centre and the Federation of Muslim Organisations, as well

as the Mayor of Oadby and Wigston, Councillor Rosemarie Adams. It also gave new Mitzvah Day CEO Stuart Diamond the chance to attend his first project since taking office.

The event was organised by the League of Jewish Women along with the St Philip’s Centre, which promotes positive community relations in Britain’s most ethnically diverse city.

Volunteers spent the day outside the local Asda, asking shoppers to buy an extra item to donate to women and children who have fled domestic abuse.

Ruth Neuberg from the League of Jewish Women said: “With many different ethnic backgrounds and creeds here, it is important our Jewish community is visible and active doing something kind.”

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Muswell Hill United Synagogue and the neighbourhood’s Methodist Church co-hosted a lunch event for asylum seekers as part of their “Muswell Hill Welcomes’” project, attended by more than 50 people from different countries.

The new arrivals played football, tennis and hide and seek together, while volunteers from the Wightman Road Mosque and others across the area joined in offering cooking classes and help with speaking English.

Muswell Hill Welcomes also promoted the event to Ukrainian refugees and their host families in Haringey in a project that arose after

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Jewish News meets... Layla Moran MP

‘A daughter of Palestine, a friend of Israel’ Advocating for Israel and Palestinian statehood are not mutually exclusive, Layla Moran tells Lee Harpin

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iberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran has said she can “understand” the anger around claims Israel is practising apartheid against the Palestinians.

But the MP’s recommendation to those left livid by the recently published reports that have made the ugly equation, particularly in relation to Israeli government actions in the West Bank, is uncompromising.

Days before she and Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey were due to meet Israel ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely, she told Jewish News how she felt about use of a word always associated with the racist South African regime: “I can understand why they get angry… it’s a horrible thing to admit, if it’s happening.

“My answer to those who are getting angry about the word apartheid, my challenge to them… well, what are you doing to improve the human rights of Palestinians on the ground in Jerusalem, and other places?

“Because if you aren’t improving human rights on the ground, then it’s just going to keep getting worse.

We need those people getting angry about apartheid to be allies to the cause.”

Moran is careful not to align herself directly alongside organisations such as Amnesty International, which provoked outrage among many in the community

with a report published in February that concluded Israel was practising apartheid against the Palestinians.

The former teacher, whose mother Randa is a Christian Palestinian and whose family come from Jerusalem, does not refer to the Amnesty report as we speak in the House of Commons terrace cafe.

Instead, she mentions the work of B’Tselem, an organisation which has said that “Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations”.

“We need to all appreciate the word apartheid in these reports is referring to international law,” she argues, before stressing that she defines Liberal foreign policy to be “the application of international law and human rights without fear or favour no matter where they are”.

Moran then adds: “It is not for me to say whether or not the definition of apartheid is being met on the ground in Palestine. What I will say is I do recognise the picture they are painting.”

The word apartheid is “immediately difficult for people to hear”, she says. “They start to see parallels with what is happening there and what is happening in South Africa. We need not to shy away from the difficult conversations about the plight of the people on the ground.

“I don’t think it’s helpful to pretend it’s not happening. If not calling

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Moran stresses that she is a “daughter of Palestine” but also sees herself as “a friend of Israel”.

She continues: “The idea that in any way the existence of Israel is in question, is not a question.

“Israel is a recognised state. What I try to push on is recognition of the state of Palestine, my homeland.”

She says she “cannot give up hope” of this eventual two-state solution.

The day before we speak, Moran held a meeting with Palestinian ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, which she said resulted in a frank exchange of views.

Moran says she raised the issue of “Hamas questioning Israel’s right to exist and the atrocities they have committed to anyone they come in contract with”.

Moran and Davey’s meeting with Hotovely was no doubt a tense one as a result of her impassioned stance on the issue. “She is in her role,” says Moran, and anger will not be personal when she meets Hotovely.

“It’s fair to say the ambassador has not endeared herself with the large parts of the Jewish community that I speak to,” she adds.

“I think she represents a more extreme wing than those I have in my community. I will certainly be raising the issues of settlements, she was the settlement minister.”

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Special Report / The Maccabiah Games

Faster, stronger, together!

Gymasts at the 2nd Maccabiah Games, in Tel Aviv, 1935.

Photos from JNF Photo Archive

Chanukah isn’t the only time Jews around the world celebrate the legacy of Hasmonean hero Judah Maccabee. Every four years, 10,000 or so athletes — mostly Jews, plus Israelis of any religion – descend on Israel for the Maccabiah Games, the world’s largest Jewish athletic competition dubbed the Jewish Olympics.

Run by the World Maccabi Union, the competition began in 1932 and includes athletes from more than 80 countries.

In 1938, the third iteration of the competition was postponed until 1950 due to the Second World War and Israel’s War of Independence.

The competition then took place every four years from 1953 through to 2017. The 21st Maccabiah Games, scheduled for the summer of 2021, was pushed back due to the pandemic.

The Games are split into four divisions based on age and ability – open, juniors, masters, and paralympics – and feature dozens of sports.

Jewish sports legends like Mark Spitz, Agnes Keleti, Kerri Strug, Isaac Berger and others have participated over the years.

Top: Athletes line up at the 3rd Maccabiah Games in Ramat Gan, Israel, 1950, The 21st Maccabiah Games opened Above left: The 3rd Maccabiah Games was the first at the stadium in Ramat on Wednesday and end on Monday.

Gan, Israel, Above right: The torch is lit at the 3rd Maccabiah Games in 1950

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Pigeons are released from a tower built in honor of the 2nd Maccabiah Games, 1935

If the good luck messages are anything to go by, Britain’s Team GB is already on a roll as the Maccabiah Games opened in Israel this week. Cricketer Joe More than Root filmed 500 British ath- a good luck letes are fiercely message to the competing for British team medals in the “Jewish Olympics”, and this year will be spurred on by a raft of celebrities sending warm wishes for their success. Leading the pack was the American actor Tom Cruise, who told the competitors in a mini-video: “I just wanted to wish the entire Great Britain team, especially the football and futsal teams, all the very best of luck at the upcoming games. I know you’ll make your family and friends proud, and I hope you bring back some medals and have an extraordinary time. Go get ‘em!”

Cruise’s message was echoed by a host of good wishes from people in the sports and arts world, including from boxer Tyson Fury, cricketer Joe Root and England manager Gareth Southgate.

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Wall for all? / Special Report

Wall of bitterness Abuse of progressive Jews at a Western Wall barmitzvah has renewed the acrimonious struggle over prayer spaces in Israel, writes Andrew Lapin

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he video taken at the mixedgender prayer space at the Western Wall was brief, but the incident it captured has left a lasting impact.

A group of Jews are celebrating a barmitzvah at the Kotel’s egalitarian prayer space.

Dozens of Charedi Orthodox men and teenage boys enter the scene and aggressively harass and intimidate the participants: shouting down the prayers, calling the gathered Jews “Nazis”, “animals” and “Christians,” and ripping up their prayer books.

As one of the boys celebrating his barmitzvah continues with his service, a Charedi boy blows his nose with pages from the prayer books.

The incident that took place this month was only the latest in an ongoing series of harassment of non-Orthodox Jews by Charedi men opposed to egalitarian prayer at the Wall and Israel’s other holy sites.

Just prior to the barmitzvah disruption, the activist group Women of the Wall had been blocked from bringing a Torah into the women’s plaza, as it seeks to do monthly.

Yet two things set the latest incident apart: its location, at the tiny, peripheral plaza that has been carved out as a safe haven for non-Orthodox Jews who want to pray in a mixed-gender setting at Judaism’s holiest site, and the crudeness captured on camera.

Those details have prompted especially strong and lasting reactions — a denunciation from Israel’s prime minister and a fierce debate over whether the US State Department should treat harassment of Jews by other Jews as antisemitism.

“Israel is the only Western country in which Jews don’t have freedom of worship,” new Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in response to the incident.

Deborah Lipstadt, the Holocaust scholar and newly appointed State Department antisemitism monitor, suggested that what took place at the Western Wall was indeed antisemitism.

“Let us make no mistake, had such a hateful incident — such incitement — happened in any other country, there’d be little hesitation in labelling it antisemitism,” Lipstadt wrote in the State Department antisemitism office’s official Twitter account.

Lipstadt’s role carries no authority to penalise or otherwise act in response to antisemitism abroad. But her voice carries weight in public discussions of antisemitism, allowing others to cite a top US government official in making their own cases.

While Lipstadt hedged on actually labelling the Kotel incident itself antisemitic, a person familiar with her thinking told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the encounter fit the

Religious youngsters protest the progressive barmitzvah at the Kotel

Confrontation: A torn prayerbook and the simcha sabotaged

International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s widely adopted definition of antisemitism, which could help to determine how the international community responds to it.

“It’s classic antisemitism under the IHRA definition, there’s dehumanising, there’s Holocaust distortion — calling Jews Nazis falls under the scope of denial, denying the mechanisms and intentionality of the Holocaust,” said the person, who asked to remain anonymous to speak frankly. “Tearing pages of a siddur and blowing your nose in it is classic. The only thing that confuses people is that Jews are doing it. The IHRA definition doesn’t say it applies only to non-Jews.”

The IHRA definition of antisemitism has been controversial because of its inclusion of some forms of anti-Israel rhetoric and activity. Its invocation in fights among Jews could open another front for debate.

Jews on both right and left said Lipstadt should not wade into the Kotel dispute from her official position as antisemitism monitor.

David Friedman, former US ambassador to Israel under President Donald Trump, said Lipstadt should focus instead on threats posed by non-Jews. “The Jewish people need to fix this internally, it’s our collective problem — you should focus instead on external threats,” Friedman tweeted, adding that he found the harassment at the Kotel “deeply disturbing”.

The Orthodox publication Ami Magazine also tweeted that Lipstadt’s office had “undermined the gravitas and significance” of the concept of antisemitism by using it to refer to “Jewish infighting”.

On the left, Abe Silberstein, a progressive commentator on Israel issues, said dealing with the incident as antisemitism, not “Jewish extremism”, ignored a “difficult truth”.

Since demonstrations against nonOrthodox Jews are routinely encouraged

by Charedi politicians and media who are opposed to egalitarianism, they require different tactics from dealing with outsiders who hate Jews, he said. “By invoking antisemitism, I am afraid we bolster the illusion that this is something that can be disowned without confronting it,” he said. “Calling the actions

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AS THE BARMITZVAH CONTINUED, A CHAREDI BOY BLEW HIS NOSE WITH PAGES FROM THE PRAYERBOOK of these boys antisemitic is misidentifying the symptom while failing to diagnose the problem.”

But others believe that treating Charedi harassment of non-Orthodox Jews as a form of antisemitism is appropriate and important.

“Is it antisemitic to attack Jews engaging in Jewish ritual at a Jewish holy site? When you phrase it that way, the answer is clearly yes,” David Schraub, a law professor at Lewis & Clark University who writes frequently on Jewish issues, said. “The only reason it wouldn’t be is if you think it gets some sort of exception because of who the attackers are.”

Tensions surrounding prayer at the

Wall have long drawn attention from nonOrthodox Jews, including from outside Israel.

Arie Hasit, an influential Israeli Masorti rabbi who was working with the American barmitzvah celebrant, posted on Facebook that he was “broken” over the Charedi youths’ treatment of the barmitzvah group. “Some people are willing to hurt me because my Judaism is different from theirs,” Hasit wrote.

Lapid, a longtime proponent of egalitarian prayer in Israel, condemned the harassment.

“I am against all violence at the Western Wall against people who want to pray as their faith allows them,” he said. “This cannot continue.”

Lapid’s statement followed pressure from American Jewish groups, religious and not, to act against Charedi influence in Israeli prayer spaces. Two separate letters, one from the heads of the Reform and Conservative movements and another from the heads of some of the United States’ most prominent pro-Israel Jewish groups, called for the prime minister to respond to harassment. Union for Reform Judaism head Rabbi Rick Jacobs and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism head Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal wrote: “We represent millions of Jews who are tired of being treated as second-class citizens at the Wall.”

Jacobs and Blumenthal called on Lapid to implement the so-called “Western Wall compromise”, a plan that would expand and make permanent the Kotel’s egalitarian prayer section, known as Ezrat Yisrael. The agreement has languished in the Knesset for years, because it is staunchly opposed by the country’s religious right.

The organisations’ letter did not make specific policy demands. It stressed that the latest incident was “not about the Kotel agreement,” and did not call on Lapid to advance the plan — only to enforce more strongly a prohibition on violence at the space. Israeli police are seen in the video holding the parties back from each other but otherwise not acting.

But it did suggest the stakes of preventing another episode like the one that interrupted the American boy’s barmitzvah are high. “No effort to unite or strengthen the ties between Israel and the Jews of the Diaspora,” the letter said, “can be remotely successful while such behaviour is allowed to continue.”

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Chickpea shortage / Uman warning / World News

News feed: dip in hummus supplies

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Lovers of hummus and falafel beware: new data shows global supplies of chickpeas, the main ingredient for both dishes, is poised to fall up to 20 percent this year.

A combination of Russia’s war in Ukraine, poor weather and transport issues is leading to the shortage, which is predicted to increase prices and make cheap hummus harder to come by.

Farmers in the United States, the fourth-largest chickpea exporter, planted less of the protein-packed legume this year owing to less than ideal weather conditions in the spring.

Russia is also a top chickpea producer. Global sanctions have interrupted

the country’s global chickpea exports, while the ongoing war has decreased the amount of chickpeas normally grown in Ukraine by about 50 tonnes, the head of a global chickpea trader and broker firm told Reuters.

Many communities around the world have depended on chickpeas, which are a staple of many Israeli dishes, as cheap sources of protein and fibre.

Demand for hummus has skyrocketed in the United States over the past two decades.

According to NielsenIQ data, chickpea prices are already 17 percent higher than they were before the pandemic began.

‘Stay away from Uman’ for Rosh Hashanah More than four months into its devastating war against Russia, Ukraine is sending a clear message to the world’s Jews: don’t come here for Rosh Hashanah.

Each new year tens of thousands of Jews usually make the pilgrimage to Uman, a central city that is home to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a 18th-century luminary.

Even in the first year of the pandemic, when global travel ground to a halt and the gathering was officially banned, Jewish pilgrims sought to make their way to Uman.

This year, their security cannot be guaranteed, Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, said in a statement that was posted online last week.

Korniychuk wrote on the embassy’s Facebook page: “Due to concerns for the lives and wellbeing of the visitors to Ukraine and in light of the blatant Russian war in our country, despite all efforts, we can not guarantee the security of pilgrims and do not currently allow tourists and visitors to enter Ukraine.”

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“I believe all Jews around the world should feel a connection to the State of Israel as our ancestral homeland, as a nation state not just for Israelis but for the Jewish people globally,” Mark Wilf told The Times of Israel in his first interview following his election.

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Sex assault rabbi gets Israeli visa An American rabbi who served nearly three years in prison for sexually assaulting students at a Jewish school in the USA has been granted a temporary residency visa that will allow him to remain in Israel.

Advocates for abuse victims were aghast at the news about Baruch Lanner and his second wife. Lanner appeared in a video for the law firm that is handling the case, which alerted activists to his immigration status. The video has now been taken down.

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the people it sends into Charedi shools is such that they are not open to anything other than the spread of dishonest, inaccurate propaganda.

Tolerance and acceptance that others are different and may have different preferences – but we religious Jews don’t behave in those ways.

This is really not difficult to teach.

But if the goal of the propaganda is trying to insist that the various preference alternatives, and trying to change one’s sex, are normal healthy alternatives, and nothing short of that is acceptable, then Charedi schools are perfectly justified in continuing to oppose such propaganda.

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WHY OFSTED IS ESSENTIAL If ever a community needed to be under Ofsted’s watchful eye it is the strictly-Orthodox who think Government’s enforcement of basic educational standards in our schools is equivalent to the plight of the Jews under the muderous Nazis. The picture of these cretins wearing yellow stars during their latest demonstration against education reforms will have turned the stomach of anyone with rudimentary knowledge of history. Adam Secker, By email

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nce upon a time, o best beloved, there was a brand-new state of Israel. There was a brand-new army, and a whole raft of brandnew politicians. And all these shiny new people set out to create a brand-new government for the brand-new state.

Except, of course, that no state in the world is founded without existing institutions and support structures, and the same was the case for Israel. The brand-new army grew out of the Palmach, the better-thanit-should-been defence operation whose delegates fought heroically to secure the birth of the state of Israel.

As far as I know, there was no suggestion at the time or thereafter that the Palmach should continue in parallel to the nascent Israel Defence Forces. That would have been an utterly laughable idea, to continue a redundant pre-state outfit after 1948. Quite properly, the Palmach was subsumed into the

IDF. So why, did the support organisations such as the land purchasing JNF, the World Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency continue, up to this day, to play a role?

It’s hard to know at a distance of almost 75 years why Israel’s founding fathers thought it necessary to hold on to these organisations. Perhaps their motives were pure at the time; but over the years each grouping has become a bloated, corrupt, a job-for-the-boys outfit.

Indeed, not just jobs for the boys — few women have risen to prominence at the head of these bodies — but jobs for failed politicians and ex-generals, something with which to reward those who had retired from the army with nothing to look forward to, except, perhaps, the warm hand of political favour.

And so to this week’s “crowning” of Doron Almog as the new head of the Jewish Agency, almost exactly a year to the day since Isaac Herzog vacated the post to become Israel’s president.

If you think Almog’s name is familiar, you are right: in 2005, he famously (notoriously?) was advised by the Israeli embassy in London to stay on the El Al flight on which he had arrived in the UK. A warrant had been issued for his arrest on suspicion of violating the Geneva Convention in connection with home destructions in Gaza when he was a majorgeneral in the IDF. No matter that Almog’s London visit had no connection with his army role: he was actually due to speak at a fundraising dinner for Aleh, a handicapped services village

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which he had helped to found. Almog and his wife stayed on the plane and returned to Israel. Other Israeli politicians and ex-army people were warned not to travel to the UK at the same time, for fear of the same fate.

Almog has had a tragic personal life: of his three children, his daughter died of a severe heart condition when just a month old while his son Eran, named for Almog’s brother who died in the Yom Kippur war, was born with brain damage and suffered from severe autism and mental handicap tobefore his death aged 23 in 2007.

Five more members of the Almog extended family were killed in a Haifa suicide bombing in 2003, with the 10-year-old survivor being severely wounded and blinded.

Almog was awarded the Israel Prize in 2016 for the lifetime achievement of his work with the handicapped. In sum, then, he seems to be a decent guy who deserves respect.

The question remains, though, as to what he has become chairman of and again, what is the Jewish Agency for in 2022?

How Ben & Jerry’s has divided our US cousins ALEX BRUMMER

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f all Britain’s top FTSE100 companies, the Marmite-toDove group Unilever lays claim to being the most attentive to the environment, social and governance (ESG) agenda. So it is astonishing that a company with such a woke approach should find itself caught in a year-long war with one of its best known offshoots, luxury ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s.

The dispute, over the manufacture, distribution and sale of Ben & Jerry’s on the West Bank and to settler communities in particular, touches a number of raw nerves. The Vermont-based founders of the ice cream maker, Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, say they do not support boycotts.

Yet the intensifying battle with Unilever, economic owners of the brand, is something very close to a boycott. It also exposes the rifts emerging in America’s Jewish community, which is vast but increasingly less connected to Israel.

The views of Bennett and Jerry might be considered outliers. Vermont is the most radical state in the union. It is the home of left-wing presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders, a sometime critic of Israel. In living memory, state capital Burlington was the only community in the US to boast an openly communist mayor.

And when Unilever bought Ben & Jerry’s in 2000, making its founders very rich people, it signed up to a governance structure which Bennett and Jerry describe as ‘the magic’ of its success.

I would venture to suggest it is not the woke agenda which makes the product so popular but the brilliant range of choice ingredients and flavours.

Rising temperatures have made ice cream a great growth category – along with the rabbinical hechsher on every Ben & Jerry’s tub.

When Unilever announced last month it had sold Ben & Jerry’s business in Israel to local franchisee Avi Zinger of American Quality Products, which would sell the product in the West Bank under its Hebrew and Arabic names, it looked to have found a way of circumventing the Vermont board.

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Unlike some large UK corporations in such areas as cyber warfare, Unilever is unapologetic about its long association.

Its history in Israel dates from the premandate era, it employs more than 2,000 people there from all backgrounds and over the past decade has poured €250m into investment.

None of this has satisfied Ben & Jerry’s

sanctimonious board. Instead, it has gone to court in Manhattan seeking to block the sale to the Israel franchisee on the grounds it is protecting the ‘social integrity’ of the brand.

The case is being seen as setting a legal precedent which could influence the behaviour of other consumer brands doing business on the West Bank.

Given Unilever’s robust response, one might expect America’s Jewish community to fall in behind its Solomon-like decision. Not so. T’ruach, an organisation describing itself as ‘the rabbinical call for human rights’, has aligned itself with Ben & Jerry’s.

Claiming to represent 2,000 rabbis and cantors across North America, it says although it doesn’t support BDS, Israel’s occupation ‘thwarts’ a two-state solution.

The vehemence of the statement shows how fractured informed Jewish opinion in North America has become on Israel and the disputed territories.

Even in the midst of a heatwave, critics are willing to go to the mat for a tub.

Magnum, Wall’s, Popsicle, Carte d’Or and Breyers, all Unilever brands, could be next.

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’ve just returned from Kyiv, having taken an overnight train from Lviv. I was amazed that, despite three months of war, the train still arrived three minutes early. Kyiv was nervous when I got there after a barrage of missile strikes the previous day and security was tight.

Aid raid sirens rang out day and night, but few people took notice – there are very few shelters anyway. It is a sound I would find hard to get used to.

I walked across the Polish border into Ukraine as our train was cancelled. This gave me the chance to see the 19 miles of lorries and cars trying to enter Ukraine as goods and families return. But another 12 miles of traffic was queuing to get back into Poland. These vehicles are the supply saviour of Ukraine.

Lviv has lost its tourists but none of its charm. I spent a couple of days there before going to Kyiv, visiting World Jewish Relief

programmes delivering support to residents and the thousands of internally displaced people who have fled westwards to the city.

Everyone has a story to tell.

Indeed, there is an almost desperate urge to recount the horrors of evacuation and what people have been through, as if telling someone else will make it more believable.

Throughout my trip, I was struck not just by the professional expertise and scale of our partners in Kyiv and Lviv, but by their personal commitment. Some are hosting displaced people at home. Many have not had a day off in months. All of them are exhausted, but their determination pushes me hard to do even more.

Talking to them, it was clear that missile strikes on Kyiv and Lviv in recent days have created more uncertainty about even the short-term future. Trying to think and plan beyond three months is hard when news of their neighbourhoods being hit is so raw. Against this backdrop of uncertainty they are doing an amazing job.

Seeing our emergency operations firsthand I realised just how immense the scale of our response is. One of our key partners, J2U,

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I couldn’t even get into its offices because food, medical, hygiene and even pet supplies packed the front yard. There is such indignity in queuing for humanitarian assistance, yet those displaced said the queue is a good place to connect to others, share suggestions and stories and support one another.

But my visits to Irpin and Bucha, large towns near Kyiv that saw early devastation and major battles, were a reminder of why our support is still so desperately needed. Streets of houses flattened, and so many flats ruined. Perhaps they can be rebuilt; perhaps not. Many have begun to return to these liberated towns to recoup what they can from the wreckage. But with no insurance pay-outs, no government

compensation yet being discussed and the odd missile flying overhead, rebuilding is still some way down the road. In Kyiv proper we will start repairing some windows to ensure older Jewish clients have their one warm room ready for winter and we will consider our options on the rebuilding of more damaged apartments.

Meanwhile, our existing support to older Jewish people continues. I was blown away by two older clients of the Jewish Hesed programme who were so touched that despite everything going on, they were receiving more support than previously, which was helping them cope with the stress of war.

Despite being teetotal, I bent my rules to knock back a 10am Jagermeister toast for Ukraine with 86-year-old Lyudmila – but didn’t oblige the 10:10am and 10:20am toasts!

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The first in-person ORT JUMP Programme graduation was attended by more than 300 students, mentors, teachers and parents at JW3. They heard from AEG Global Partnerships Executive Vice President Paul Samuels, who discussed his career and the importance of mentoring, before offering invaluable careers advice.

Students submitted a creative piece and the winners were Chananya Goldmeier, Bibe Mangal, Noor Ahmad and Adam Fait.

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More than 350 people attended a farewell concert at Chigwell & Hainault United Synagogue for Rabbi Baruch and Rebbetzen Nechama Davis ahead of their move to Israel.

The concert featured tribute videos from the Chief Rabbi among others.

Synagogue chairman Lindsay Shure said: “It was a very special tribute to our wonderful Rabbinic couple. It felt more like a family simcha than a formal concert.”

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Eleven communities took part in Tribe’s inter-shul football tournament Tribe-a-Side. The event, organised by the young people’s division of the United Synagogue, saw three hotly-contested events including the first all-girls’ competition with a final between Bloomsbury FC and Famous Five FC. Toras Chaim FC were the Boys Year 7 & 8 champions, while Famous Five FC triumphed in the Girls Year 7 & 8.

Surrey FC won the Boys Years 9-11 tournament.

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Jewish Renaissance celebrated its 20th anniversary with a garden party featuring music, afternoon tea and a screening of the Wimbledon final. The Goodenough College event saw Dame Maureen Lipman with daughter Amy Rosenthal and entertainment with former children’s laureate Michael Rosen.

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Hall School Year 8 students helped transform two of the gardens in Norwood’s homes for adults with learning disabilities and autism. The community-minded pupils raised over £2,200 through a range of activities to purchase everything they needed for the gardens, which proved especially popular with Norwood’s Jeremy.

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Writer and broadcaster Giles Coren took to the stage with England cricket legend Sir Andrew Strauss this week to raise funds for Chai Cancer Care and the Ruth Strauss Foundation. The Cricket for Cancer Care breakfast was attended by more than 100 people who heard the two men discuss leadership, the future of women’s cricket and what drove Sir Andrew to set up a foundation in his wife’s memory.

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It’s been a wonderful marriage – a true partnership.”

They met during the war when she was just 15 and he was 16. Anne’s sister was hosting what we might call an evening-in at the family’s home in Whitechapel and Sidney came along as one of the crowd.

They married on 14 October 1945, a month before Anne (née Emden) turned 18.

Her mother had died in 1941 when the last V2 bomb dropped on their flat. She left behind four children, two of whom had been evacuated to safety but Anne, her sister and her father were in the flat; happily, all survived.

The wedding was at Great Garden Street Synagogue in Stamford Hill followed by a hall reception. Sidney was away fighting for the early years of their marriage, only returning home for a couple of weeks. After the war they rented a few rooms in a house in Stamford Hill, had two children and Anne did part-time work as a shorthand typist and

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father to Woodside Park until he passed away aged 95.

Ruth and Ronald have three daughters, eight grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren!

Theirs was a traditional marriage with Ruth doing the domestic chores, especially as Ronald, who worked in fashion, Ruth Clements and Ronald Lee used to travel to Hong Kong for weeks at Ruth and Ronald both grew up in Stamford a time. Ruth wasn’t a slave to the kitchen Hill but, despite being just a year apart in age, though – at just 5ft 2in she was a model for never met. Fast forward to 1943 when Ruth, petite clothing ranges. In later life as her then 16, lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb health has declined Ronald has taken over and Ronald , 17, lived in Hendon. They met at and now cooks all the meals. the Jewish Hendon Club and married three What’s the secret to such a long and years later, on 27 June 1946. The chuppah happy marriage? “Oh, that’s simple,” was at Kinloss, then a party at says Ronald. ”We are both still Bayswater’s Porchester Hall for totally in love with each other.” which they had to obtain a Daughter Gay corroborates special licence as wartime this. “Mum has Alzheimer’s rationing was still in force. and is confused, but The young couple lived she never forgets to tell with Ruth’s parents for Dad she loves him and the first six years and is always asking for then bought a house in a kiss and cuddle.

Finchley with them iand My parents are all lived there together.

Model gran Ruth Lee (right) and daughter absolutely devoted When Ruth’ s mother Gay Rhodes to each other.” died, they moved with her bookkeeper to save for a deposit to buy their own home. Sidney became a sewing machine mechanic and they eventually moved to Tottenham, then Gants Hill where they still live. The couple have four grandchildren, three great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren,

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Wally and Hazel Gallick Wally, 98, was conscripted to the RAF during the war and stationed in Sunderland. He met Hazel (née Mersky) now 96, at the Maccabi centre They married on 17 June 1947 and live together in a flat in Pinner. When they were younger they were very involved in the shul community and still attend events when they can.

Their wedding was at Sunderland’s Beis Hamidrash followed by a party at a hotel in Seaburn, the Sunderland seafront. As it was summer, people walked by the sea before enjoying the first chicken simcha dinner in the northeast after the war due to rationing.

When they first got married they lived above Wally’s family’s Fulham furniture shop.

They had two children, and now have five grandchildren, who live in London, Israel and New York; they also have one great-grandchild, Nadav, with another on the way.

Wally was an accountant and Hazel worked for 27 years as a model at Harrods. What is the secret to their long and happy marriage? “Give and take,” says Hazel. “And being tolerant of one another,” adds Wally. They celebrated their milestone anniversary with a BBQ for their extended family.

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Clockwise from top left: Alan Howard and Caroline Byron marry and (inset) the Lake Como villa with a Gagaserenade; Mamma Mia! matrimony that set the trend; Paige and Richard’s wedding in Italy; Chloe and Danny’s in Fiesole, Italy; hairdresser Kim Mullem sorts styling for Atlanta Beck Anti-clockwise, from left: Brooklyn Beckham and Nicole Peltz show off their simcha spend in Vogue; Claudia and James get married on Mykonos; Mr and Mrs Platt’s Ibiza wedding; The Function Band do what they do best; and Italian inspiration

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The groom wore a traditional black suit. The bride wore a flowing white gown with a cathedral-style veil. The couple exchanged vows under a chuppah by Lake Como. The wedding cost in the region of £1m.

When the nuptials of hedge fund manager Alan Howard to gluten-free chef Caroline Byron appeared in the papers last month and a kippah was spotted in the photos, the joy of realising it was a Jewish ‘do’ was tainted by what can only be described as that ‘sinking simcha feeling’. And as more details emerged – Lady Gaga’s performance (£1.2m), one month’s exclusive hire of the lakeside mansion Villa Olmo (£1.2m), flowers (£500,000) – the more that feeling grew.

For all the wrong reasons an extravagant wedding with a giant price tag doesn’t bother us; until someone Jewish picks up the tab.

“What will ‘they’ think?is what we think self-consciously, albeit inwardly cheering our people’s good fortune. But we’d barely recovered from the £3m spend at the Beckham/ Peltz simcha in Palm Beach before the ker-ching of the cash register sounded again for another Jewish couple. For couples who said “I do” at Dunstan Road in the Fifties or partied at the Doric Ballroom in Soho, this kind

Gina and Stanley Altman in 1956

of extravagance is a mystery. But as some of them have been married for 60 years plus, they know the cost of their ‘big day’ had no bearing on the happy years that followed.

“It was the wedding your parents could afford,” reflects Gina Altman who married her late husband, Stanley in 1956. “It was still a lovely wedding.”

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Wedding March

With no gatherings or travel during the pandemic , many about to embark on a life together had few choices. Marry in a mask?

Unite in the garden? Or just put the whole caboodle on hold and wait for the green light.

Ready. Set. Go. Weddings have returned and they’re bigger than ever, it seems. The planners are pushed to the limit, rabbis are being shuttled across the Med to officiate and popular wedding bands have more tour dates than the Rolling Stones.

Take The Function Band. Award-winning and sought after, its managing director Dan Rosen, a sublime lead singer, was recently spotted with his musicians at Faro airport. After a birthday gig in the Algarve, the crew barely had time to kiss their families before hot-footing it to a wedding in the Balearics and then on to another in Marbella. Given that in 2019, the band travelled 500,000 miles, delivered 14,600 hours of songs and entertained 150,000 people, bookings for 2022 will see those numbers rise, long before they take their exhausted bows.

A lovely Jewish wedding these days has a very different complexion. Governed by the wishes of the couple, parents have been reduced to bank tellers allowed few opinions on even the guest list, and only after the first round of invites go out and some are declined. Invites to destination weddings are regularly declined by those without air miles or the desire to spend their summer hols in an over-priced paradise picked by someone else. The absence of the financially-stretched however is not a reason for excited couples to relocate.

Who cares if their only connection to Greece is that they enjoyed the film Mamma Mia! You don’t need the middle name Zorba to get married on Mykonos. And if there isn’t a Vito Corleone in the family, you can still smash the glass in Sicily. Speaking of smashing the glass, the popular RSVP? Jewish wedding website is awash Bowing out of a destination wedding is with destination weddings, which have tricky, and if the invite is from Brooklyn Karen been the new black (or should that be Cinnamon and Nicole or Alan Howard, unlikely to be white?) for the longest time. The site turned down. Why say no to an invitation founder Karen Cinnamon has done an that includes flights and accommodaextraordinary job gathering the most stylish tion, but what do you give as a gift? Going simchas for inspiration and recommends the also means outfits befitting the occasion and companies who provide the pizazz. climate, but see how quickly temperatures “There are only three things that make a rise if you don’t attend. “They didn’t speak great wedding, and how much you’re spending to us again,” said a guest invited to a Riviera isn’t one of them,” says Karen. “The first is wedding, who prefers not to be named. “It was authenticity, the second, creating an experiour third invitation and all of them were out ence, and, finally, making your guests feel the country. It was going to cost a fortune, so comfortable and included.” As many of the we said no to all of them.” ‘theme’ weddings on smashingtheglass.com If you fear becoming a simcha pariah, accept look like a Merchant Ivory movie costumed them all, but RSVP with caution. If the foreign

by Givenchy, replicating them in real money weddings are back to back, attending one in depends on your needlework skills. But there Israel then another in Ibiza the next day, it are some on the site who have worked wonders helps to charter your own plane and keep your with baskets and bunting that look beautiful, luggage with you . Star simcha hairdresser and as Karen says: “Always remember: your Kim Mullem knows what it’s like to be at the wedding is not meant to be a perfect day, but mercy of baggage handlers and prays her hair rather a day that truly celebrates you and tools arrive when she does. “I bought Apple your partner, the journey you’ve been on air tags so I could trace them,” says Kim. “But

it’s been really busy this year because Covid postponed weddings, so they are all happening at once. So I’ve done lots in the UK and already been to Mykonos, Crete and Ibiza. I also have my niece’s wedding in the South of France in September.”

Kim does wedding hair trials before the function, regardless of where it’s being held, but encourages an updo for hot locations.

“If a bride wants her hair down we do lots of trials with products to make sure it stays. But I’m a perfectionist, so I make sure I’m organised. I do also love every minute of it.”

Kim was on locks duty at the recent spectacular wedding of Atlanta Beck to Joshua Platt in Ibiza and for the bride it was “the endless love and having family and friends under-one-roof for the entire trip that made the wedding a truly magical unforgettable experience.” It is having all their relatives and friends with them on extended holidays that the couples enjoy most about the charrabang and why Michelle Jacobs of elegantebymichellej.com is so busy sorting destinations.

Without a planner or a Posh Beckham entourage to escort, keeping on top of it all is difficult for parents who have to worry about the ferrying of guests, the carrying of babies and aunts with sticks who can’t manage hills. Small wonder our cousins looked frazzled before hosting an August wedding in Italy on a rocky volcanic island; FYI no eruptions are scheduled. Challenging as it can be, Jewish parents tend to go along with what their children want if they can afford it and if that’s a chuppah in Chang Mai, so be it. Once upon a time the biggest wedding worry was finding a parking space near the Grosvenor Rooms, but since the Cotswolds and Cancun replaced Willesden, the Waze app on your phone and a valid passport are what you need. Israel is 58 hours away (3,432 miles) via the A3, and is a popular and spiritual alternative to marrying here. We do still play our part in the UK wedding industry, which is worth £10bn annually.

The average spend, however, is £27,000, so Lady Gaga won’t be at many, and without a platinum-selling artist or a drama, those weddings won’t make the papers. The lavish simchas of names we know always do. Of course we love seeing the pics of our friends’ kids on Insta on the proudest day of their lives. But there are some weddings we’d enjoy more if the budget was kept under a bushel instead of lit by fireworks over a chuppah by Lake Como.

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If you loved Schitt’s Creek as much as we did, you will want to know that its star, American Pie legend Eugene Levy, has become a grandpa, and the series creator, Dan Levy, a first-time uncle. Schitt’s is truly a family affair as father Eugene and son Dan mirror these roles in the award-winning comedy and daughter/sister Sarah Levy plays waitress Twyla Sands. As the series ended in 2020 and every character got to say goodbye, there will be no opportunity for Sarah’s baby James Eugene Outerbridge to make his small-screen debut yet. The iconic episode with Moira Rose (Catherine O’Hara) as bubbe has to be a reason for one more.

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Veteran performer Frank Langella has fallen victim to the cancel culture craze and been sacked from Netflix’s Fall of the House of Usher for telling an inappropriate joke with no right of reply. With so many entertainers facing the same dubious future, make the most of them while you can and catch Langella playing Glenn Close’s husband in the romantic comedy 5-7, which Frank Langella and Glenn Close also stars the late Jewish actor Anton Yelchin as a struggling writer embarking on an illicit affair. As it’s available to rent on www.ukjewishfilm.org, you’ll be sending a message to Netflix too.

THERAPY

Managing the past With the conflict in Ukraine evoking comparisons with the Second World War and bringing up the trauma for the parent survivors of the second generation, senior psychotherapist

Wendy Davis has set up a group offering a series of 12 weekly therapeutic support meetings in north-west London. “It’s a second-generation group for people to come together to better understand, explore and deal with this and in doing so, discover we are not alone,” says Wendy, a second generation survivor who has worked in this field since 1995.

“Many second generation have become carers looking after and trying to make up for the losses of their traumatised parents while never talking about feelings of their own. This has been described as living with ghosts . Now that the first generation are ageing or may no longer be with us, the second generation are left holding the candle and having to find their own relationship to this legacy.”

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So long, Sonny

James Caan (right) dons a kippah to play a Jewish doctor in Holy Lands

OBITUARY

Raise a glass of grappa or some Palwins to James Caan, who died last week at the age of 82. The son of a German Jewish kosher butcher, he was forever thought to be Italian after playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather. But any lingering doubts about his heritage were dealt with when he made Holy Lands and played a Jewish doctor who moves from New York to Israel to start a pig farm.

“I don’t hang around with antisemites if that’s what you mean, I don’t know any,” he said when questioned about his support of Israel. “If I did, I’d punch them in the face.” Maybe he was more mafioso than he realised.

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By Jewish News historian Derek Taylor

Jewish financiers had been very helpful in supporting the pound during the troubles with Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. So in 1753 the Whig government passed the Jews Naturalisation Act as a way of saying thank you and it was made law on 7 July.

The Act made it possible to obtain naturalisation without taking the Christian oath, though it would be an expensive business. The reaction throughout the country, however, was one of outrage.

Demonstrations and publications against the Bill were so universal that the government repealed the legislation after only four months. It didn’t stop the Jews coming to live in Britain, but becoming naturalised was still in the future. Horace Walpole, a contemporary observer, said the Act removed “such absurd distinctions stigmatised and shackled a body of the most loyal, commercial and wealthy subjects of the kingdom”. He went on to say: “The affair demonstrated that the ‘enlightened age’ was still enslaved to the grossest and most vulgar prejudices.”

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International master Eric Rosen

As World Chess Day advances, Beatrice Sayers enjoys encounters with players of all levels

Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) checkmates DL Townes (Jewish actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) in The Queen’s Gambit

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he people of the book have an undoubted affinity with the royal game: of the first 13 undisputed world champions, from Wilhelm Steinitz in 1886 to Garry Kasparov in 1985, more than half were Jewish. And it’s likely The Queen’s Gambit influenced us no less than it did the rest of the UK, where chess clubs reported a surge in attendance as the country emerged from the pandemic, some of them new players taking inspiration from the 2020 Netflix mini-series.

With 20 July established by the International Chess Federation and by the United Nations as World Chess Day, it’s time to celebrate and explore this connection.

Chess was popular among Jews as long ago as the 12th century, according to Israel Abrahams’ book Jewish Life in the Middle Ages.

The game could certainly be played on Shabbat: Maimonides specifically allowed it, on the proviso that no money changed hands.

Five centuries later, there were Jewish objections to playing the game on the basis that it was a waste of time, and that “study of the law would be a more efficient mental tonic”.

However, the leading player of the 19th century, the American lawyer Paul Morphy (not Jewish), proved these pursuits aren’t mutually exclusive.

Alongside Morphy’s name in The Queen’s Gambit are references to many Jewish grandmasters of the 20th century, including Miguel Najdorf, Mikhail Botvinnik and Reuben Fine.

One Jewish player who wasn’t mentioned was Bobby Fischer. The American, who became a recluse for 20 years after winning the world championship in 1972, uttered over many years a series of shockingly antisemitic comments, idolising Hitler and denying the Holocaust.

Fischer also dismissed female players’ abilities. The Queen’s Gambit appears to have turned the tables on him: many see him as the inspiration for the protagonist, Beth Harmon – though this is something Walter Tevis, author of the book on which the film is based, has denied.

Top-level female Jewish players include the three Polgár sisters from Hungary: Susan is the first woman to have earned the grandmaster title, and her younger sister, Judit, is considered the strongest female player in history.

Eric Rosen, the 28-year-old international master from Illinois – “barmitzvahed” , as he

The FourCorner chess community in Clerkenwell

puts it – rejects the idea that Jews in general seem to be good at chess.

He says: “I think part of the reason a significant percentage of the greatest chess players in recent history have Jewish backgrounds may be that Jewish culture values hard work and education. These qualities are particularly important to attain success in chess.”

Back at amateur level, the growth in online chess during Covid lockdowns led later to a rise in outdoor ‘over the board’ communities. But what sort of Jews are keen on the game played with two bishops, and with a king whose head is topped by a Christian cross? “Although it’s often seen as a remote activity for introverts, I’ve made many friends and acquaintances through the game,” says Josh Avigdor, a 20-year-old student at Durham University. “I prefer playing over the board than online as it’s more social.”

Josh first got into chess in the sixth form.

“I learnt mostly through friends showing me tactics and openings and I also watched a lot of lessons on YouTube.”

Lihu, 16, born in the UK to Israeli parents, has been playing for 18 months and finds it addictive. “I would play a few hours a day

during online schooling,” he confesses. More recently he has begun playing at FourCorner, an over-the-board community in London that meets twice a week.

Daniel Adani, a 35-year-old Tel Aviv lawyer, has been a chess enthusiast since he was 14 and an uncle taught him the rules. “I play mostly socially with people or online. Every time we go camping with friends we bring a board.”

What do these enthusiasts enjoy about chess? “That every game is a different world,” says Daniel. “It’s never the same.”

“I really enjoy the complexities of it,” says Lihu. “I also like how there are no age boundaries. A six-year-old could be at the same level as a 50-year-old… it makes it a comfortable environment for all.”

The challenge is what attracts Josh: “I like having something difficult to really concentrate on and chess is exactly that.”

In the early 1900s in Russia there was a revealing joke in circulation: one Jew is a banker, two Jews are a chess match and three Jews are an orchestra. However we feel about that particular saying, Jews are still enjoying the game as much as ever.

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Genius Jenna says: Good news, kids! 18 July is Global Hug Your Kids Day, so we are officially entitled to more hugs than usual!

Every year on the third Monday in July parents across the world are encouraged to hug their children. It’s also a day to remember that it’s important to show love for others. Hugs are a wonderful action that can communicate and mean many things. You can show someone you care about them, cheer them up when they are sad or lonely, wish someone good luck or show them that you’re sorry, all without using words. I remember when I was struggling with some work at school, my classmate saw I was getting upset and gave me a big hug, which really made me feel better. And the best thing about hugs is that they’re completely free! In fact, lots of the best things in life are free: laughter, memories, a smile, the sound of crashing waves on the beach and the smell of popcorn popping in the microwave – they are all free!

What are some of the best things in your life that are totally free?

Sophie Burke, aged eight, Whetstone, north London “The best things in life that are free are playing with friends and family and doing things you enjoy. I think it’s really important to make new friends – I love making new friends! Also, one of the best things is being kind to others and they’ll be kind back. My favourite thing to do is play outside and have fun – that’s also free!”

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A species of giant tortoise species thought to be extinct has been found living on the Galapagos island of Fernandina.

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What’s on This Summer 3 1 Biscuiteers Icing Classes

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Budding bakers can head to Notting Hill or Belgravia for icing classes. Children decorate summer-themed biscuits, receive a tutorial from an in-store icer, a small tub of Jude’s ice cream and a gift box. Wednesdays from 20 July. www.biscuiteers.com

Big Time Academy presents Roald Dahl’s Matilda Jr in Radlett. With music by Tim Minchin, this is one not to miss. Two showings on 24 July. www.radlettcentre.co.uk

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101 Dalmations Based on the classic story and set in Regent’s Park, this musical adaptation, packed with puppetry, is perfect for a summer’s day. Runs 12 July–28 August www.openairtheatre.com/whats-on

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When Flowers Dream at Kew Gardens Sugar, sweets and modelling clay have been used to create dazzling landscapes at Kew Gardens. The exhibition, When Flowers Dream, is the work of Tanya Schultz (aka Pip & Pop). Runs until 23 March 2023.

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of a talking donkey. This lack of selfawareness makes an ass of those who would be the donkey’s interlocutor.

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seduction of the Jewish people, and the collapse of that endeavour.

In today’s world we see many who, like Bil’am, seek self-aggrandisement.

They push their own stories, however implausible. The lust for power leads them to ignore the obvious, rather as Bil’am appears unfazed by the miracle

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The three attempts at a curse, changed by God into a blessing, anger the King, but Bil’am explains he can’t alter the prophecy. A prophet must speak truth to power.

This is an example of a prophet (unwillingly) speaking contrary words to a monarch. God turns his arrogance into a means of warning – of the ultimate disaster awaiting both prophet and king – and rebuke.

The ultimate failure and inversion of Bil’am’s mission lead to the desperation of the Midianites’ attempted

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The magician Bil’am is hired by Balak, the King of Moab, to curse the Israelites as they travel towards the land of Canaan. The Almighty tells him he cannot go, but on being pressed

by Balak’s second set of messengers he is allowed. Rav Nachman (Sanhedrin 105a) tells us that chutzpah sometimes yields results. He then blesses Israel three times, the third being the words mah tovu, which we use today when entering the synagogue.

Peculiar to Bil’am is the way he seeks prophecy. Other prophets in

the Bible try to resist the call from God. Bil’am courts it as a method of self-aggrandisement.

He boasts of his communications, and mentions himself when speaking the words God puts in his mouth.

This is in contrast to the manner of Moses’ prophecy: Moses removes his ego from the proceedings and speaks clearly, citing God without mentioning himself. The modern commentator Nehama Leibowitz cites many prophets who repeatedly conclude their prophecy with “says the Lord”, whereas Bil’am repeatedly says: “The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened.”

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What would Micah say about keeping kosher?

On a bnei mitzvah parents’ Facebook group recently a mother complained her daughter attended a simcha where it was not clear whether the meat was kosher and provision made for those who observe kashrut.

This is an issue of derech eret – having respect for each other’s level of Jewish observance. Progressive Jews observe a wide spectrum of kashrut. Many choose to observe the same kashrut as Orthodox observant Jews, seeking kosher labels on all packaged foods, separating milk and meat, and buying only kosher meat and fish. Others make different choices.

Kashrut is a matter of degree, and it starts from the principle that there are

some foods which it is not right to eat, even though they are edible, because it is not fitting for a person who lives by Jewish values to consume them or to encourage their production.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi writes: “In every age Jews exist to ask the question, ‘What is kosher?’ Kashrut is a continual effort to find what is clean, pure and good for the natural processes of the universe.” As Progressive Jews, we acknowledge that the ways in which animals are raised and slaughtered can range from those with no respect for the animal’s wellbeing (only its productivity), to those who recognise that we should use every means possible to avoid tza’ar ba’lei chayyim–causing another living being pain.

Many Progressive Jews will therefore buy only free-range eggs and meat as an aspect of their kashrut today. They will include conditions of the workers who produce our food to be part of kashrut by seeking out fair trade in production.

Many will feel that we need to include the mitzvah to steward the world in a way that does not wreck the environment in our understanding of kashrut, and thus seek out sustainable fisheries, or foods that have not been air-freighted. Some choose to be vegetarian or vegan. Indeed, our youth movements RSY-Netzer and LJYNetzer cater vegan on their day camps and residential camps wherever possible.

In the Torah itself, the reason given for kashrut is that it helps us to approach God’s holiness. This means that kashrut cannot be something static.

Instead, it is one of the dynamic ways in which we interact with creation to try to bring the world a little closer to God. The prophet Micah says what God truly requires of us is to behave justly, treasure compassionate lovingkindness, and to walk humbly with our God. (Micah 6:8).

It is a wonderful aspect of Judaism that we can do this through every mouthful we eat to fuel our bodies.

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LOUISE LEACH Qualifications: • Professional choreographer qualified in dance, drama and Zumba (ZIN, ISTD & LAMDA), gaining an honours degree at Birmingham University.

• Former contestant on ITV’s Popstars, reaching bootcamp with Myleene Klass, Suzanne Shaw and Kym Marsh.

• Set up Dancing with Louise 19 years ago.

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FINANCIAL SERVICES (FCA) COMPLIANCE

ACCOUNTANT

CHARITY EXECUTIVE

JACOB BERNSTEIN Qualifications: • A member of the APCC, specialising in financial services compliance for: • Mortgage, protection and general insurance intermediaries; • Lenders, credit brokers, debt counsellors and debt managers; • Alternative Investment Fund managers; • E-Money, payment services, PISP, AISP and grant-making charities.

ADAM SHELLEY Qualifications: • FCCA chartered certified accountant.

• Accounting, taxation and business advisory services.

• Entrepreneurial business specialist including start-up businesses.

• Specialises in charities; Personal tax returns.

• Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation Volunteer of the Year JVN award.

LISA WIMBORNE Qualifications: Able to draw on the charity’s 50 years of experience in enabling people with physical disabilities or impaired vision to live independently, including: • The provision of specialist accommodation with 24/7 on site support.

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

• Understanding of the impact of a disability diagnosis.

RICHDALE CONSULTANTS LTD 020 7781 8019 www.richdale.co.uk jacob@richdale.co.uk

SOBELL RHODES LLP 020 8429 8800 www.sobellrhodes.co.uk a.shelley@sobellrhodes.co.uk

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

INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS SPECIALIST

IT SPECIALIST

LEE SHMUEL GOLDFARB Qualifications: • Hands-on service, with full and personalised support for international transfers.

• Get the most out of your currency exchange with regards to pension income, when purchasing your first house in Israel or benefitting from an inheritance from aboard.

• UK leader in financial exchange and partner to brands such as St James Place and Hargreaves Lansdown with industry-beating Trustpilot score.

IAN GREEN Qualifications: • Launched Man on a Bike IT consultancy 15 years ago to provide computer support for the home and small businesses.

• Clients range from legal firms in the City to families, small business owners and synagogues.

• More than 18 years’ experience.

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MAN ON A BIKE 020 8731 6171 www.manonabike.co.uk mail@manonabike.co.uk

ISRAELI ACCOUNTANT

INSURANCE CONSULTANCY

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

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

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

ASHLEY PRAGER Qualifications: • Professional insurance and reinsurance broker. Offering PI/D&O cover, marine and aviation, property owners, ATE insurance, home and contents, fine art, HNW. • Specialist in insurance and reinsurance disputes, utilising Insurance backed products. (Including non insurance business disputes).

• Ensuring clients do not pay more than required.

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ALIYAH ADVISER

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DOV NEWMARK Qualifications: • Director of UK Aliyah for Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organisation that helps facilitate aliyah from the UK. • Conducts monthly seminars and personal aliyah meetings in London.

• An expert in working together with clients to help plan a successful aliyah.

LESLEY TRENNER Qualifications: • Provides free professional one-to-one advice at Resource to help unemployed into work.

• Offers mock interviews and workshops to maximise job prospects.

• Expert in corporate management holding director level marketing,

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• Frequent broadcaster on national and International radio and television.

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• Independent consultant and supplier of Telephone & Internet services.

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Yad Vashem: the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education, remembrance, documentation, and research. As the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations.

In addition to the Holocaust History Museum, the Yad Vashem campus has other memorials you can visit. The Yad Vashem Museum, complex and grounds are open and free to all visitors. Private guided tours and special ageappropriate tours for families with children are available on request. Scan the QR code above to book online.

Yad Vashem UK promotes Holocaust education and awareness in the UK through:

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Travelling Exhibitions – designed to promote dialogue about the Holocaust, imparting its universal lessons relevant to daily life in the 21st century.

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Bar & Bat Mitzvah Twinning – young people, on their special day, can share it with a named child Holocaust victim who was denied a future.

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Guardian of the Memory – guarding the memory of a named victim of the Holocaust. ‘Yizkor, Never Forget’.

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Holocaust Education Seminars – held each year for teachers and Youth leaders at the Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies.

Charity No. 1099659

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www.yadvashem.org.uk

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020 8187 9881

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Business Services Directory HOUSE CLEARANCE

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