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FREE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 28 July 2022
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29 Tamuz 5782
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Issue No.1273
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Power struggle Annual cost of heating Jewish Care homes up £1m and rising
through our outreach befriending, meals on wheels and supportive communities programme. They have never needed us more.” EXCLUSIVE Norwood’s Shari Ryness said the charity was “under increased presCare charities across the sure in the fundraising domain, both community this week warned due to the increased need for our vital they are increasingly conservices and due to the rising cost of cerned by the expected living, which impacts on our supporter impact of huge energy price base as well as our service provision”. rises this autumn. She said Norwood had previously A Jewish Care fundraising negotiated long-term electricity dinner audience was told this month that energy costs had Charities are worried about the autumn and gas contracts across many of its services, which run until 2023. already risen by £1m, to provide 24/7 heating and lighting for its 11 homes in London and “We estimate that we will potentially save £500,000 per Brighton, while The Fed, the Manchester charity which annum as a result once the energy cap lifts,” she said. But Norwood, like many other charities, “has had to runs Heathlands retirement village and provides services to 6,500 local community members, calculates that look at our plans for the organisation to ensure we are its energy costs will shoot up from £16,000 a month to able to respond to increased costs”, so its service provision could continue “in a responsible and sustainable way”. £64,000 a month. Kisharon, the charity which supports children and Raphi Bloom, The Fed’s director of marketing and fundraising, said: “What gets me out of bed in the morning is the adults with complex and profound learning disabilities, is also examining projected energy rises. A spokesman told thought of what will happen if we don’t raise the money.” Daniel Carmel-Brown, Jewish Care’s chief executive, Jewish News that the cost of living situation was having said: “Jewish Care’s energy bills alone have gone up by “a massive impact” on frontline staff, some of whom have said they are considering second jobs to make ends meet. almost £1m this year. “We are doing all we can to make efficiencies in our Kisharon pays staff the London Living Wage but accepts energy usage and continue to rely on the generosity of our that the cost of living crisis affects everyone. Like Norwood, Kisharon had negotiated a fixed, five-year donors, so that we can deliver high quality of care and support to vulnerable, older people in our care homes, retire- term in utility costs, which will come to an end next year. ment living apartments, community centres and centres Chief executive Richard Franklin said that while there has Continued on page 9 for people living with dementia and for people at home by Jenni Frazer @Jennifrazer
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Team GB Under-18 footballer Romeo Mimouni celebrates after his side won bronze at the Maccabiah Games in Israel. British athletes won 57 medals, including six golds. See pages 6-7
CPS ADMITS ERRORS IN DEALING WITH ANTISEMITISM EXCLUSIVE
West Ham fans abuse a passenger
The lead prosecutor for hate crime in England and Wales has admitted his officials have sometimes made the wrong call when deciding how to take suspected antisemites to court, writes Michael Daventry. Lionel Idan, a chief crown prosecutor in London, told Jewish News
that the Crown Prosecution Service wanted to learn from its errors and correct them as quickly as possible. His remarks came after the CPS was criticised by Jewish groups for dropping charges against two football fans suspected of chanting an antisemitic song at a passenger on a Ryanair flight last year. The Campaign Against Antisemitism said that decision had been “beyond belief”.
In this week’s newspaper, Idan writes: “In the recent case of two West Ham fans who were filmed racially abusing passengers on a flight… it was not possible to prove to the court that their behaviour occurred while the plane was in UK airspace where we have jurisdiction. I would like to reassure you that the decision in this case was not made lightly.”
Idan said there were “many other cases” in which convictions were secured, including an eight-year sentence for someone who posted antisemitic material through letterboxes. He added that the CPS was planning a question-and-answer session with Jewish communities and particularly in strictly Orthodox areas, where crime was under-reported. Opinion, page 19