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He added: “Iran is a major threat. It’s not just about their missile programme, we have got to put snap sanctions on the table. We have to recognise the threat they pose in supporting terrorism and its something I said at the weekend given what happened with Salman Rushdie … where is this from, it’s from a fatwa that is there.On” the possible signing of a nuclear deal with Iran, he believed the prospects were “low.” The former cabinet minister, one of the first to leave Boris Johnson’s top team, said: “It’s not just about Joe Biden, it’s about Congress as well, and the Republicans have a very clear point of view on this.” In a wide-ranging conversation, Sunak said he’d like to pass legislation opposing BDS “as quickly as possible”, saying “it shouldn’t be controversial”.Inwholeheartedly backing the new proposed Holocaust memorial in Westminster, he stressed the importance of education in tackling antisemitism.Hethenadded: “I was pleased as chancellor to ensure that the funding in perpetuity will be for people to be able to visit it free. The people that are still here who we can still hear from are not going to be with us forever. That’s why the next generation and the generation beyond, my two girls, need to understand what happened. embassy table

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Rishi Sunak has insisted there is a “very strong case” for Britain to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and he is “very open to looking at that” – a move that would pave the way for the UK to follow America in moving its embassy. The former chancellor’s remarks at a Conservative Friends of Israel leadership event come less than two weeks after his rival Liz Truss committed to “review” the embassy’s current location in Tel Aviv. He was asked by Lord Pickles, the parliamentary chair of CFI, about what he saw as the “basic obstacles” to Britain recognising Jerusalem as the country’s capital. While describing Jerusalem as “indisputably the historic capital” in his view, he added: “Having not been foreign secretary, there must be some sensitivities involved because if it was that easy, it would have been done by now. I’d like to get in there and [understand] the reasons why its proved so di cult, but prima facie it seems to me that there is a very strong case to it, to recognise what is a historic and practical step.” He added that any such a move would be in concert with allies in the region. Asked about Iran, and an earlier pledge to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, especially after the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, Sunak said: “It seems an entirely reasonable position, that if we proscribe Hezbollah and Hamas then the parent organisation is also…, there’s an argument for proscribing it.”

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The favourite to replace Boris Johnson turned her attention to the Human Rights Council. She said that on the body there “are too many countries who tried to do Israel down, who try and use the Human Rights Council as a way of levelling, unwarranted criticism at Israel. What I’ve done is I’ve stood up against those countries.“I’veoccasionally stood up against advice from my own departments, and various claims of Britain would be isolated, and in fact, other countries followed us in what we did.”

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SILVER Liz Truss has set out her plan to “protect British Jewry” but provoked anger after claiming “woke culture” in the civil service “strays into antisemitism”.TheTory leadership frontrunner also published a statement on Friday announcing she would review whether schools are doing enough to educate about antisemitism, rid university campuses of antisemitism and work to secure a free trade agreement between the UK and Israel. In her statement, Truss said: “So many Jewish values are Conservative values and British values too, for example seeing the importance of family and always taking steps to protect the family unit; and the value of hard work and self-starting and setting up your own business.” The wording of her praise was roundly condemned by the Jewish Council for Racial Equality for evoking stereotypes of Jews and for failing to convey the diversity of the community. But it was her comments about the civil service - delivered from Manchester’s Hale Synagogue - that the “woke civil service culture that strays into antisemitism” that attracted more widespread criticism. In a press release, released after her civil service comments, Truss said: “Every organisation has its culture, but it’s not fixed, it can be changed.“That’s what ministerial leadership is about: it’s about making sure that the policies we represent, the values we stand for, are reflected in what we do. I’ve been very clear with our o cials about the positions we take on Israel, and that will continue if I become prime minister.” But she was challenged too by the FDA union, which represents civil servants, to present evidence of antisemitism to the relevant authorities.Dame Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP, tweeted: “Using antisemitism to peddle the right’s ‘anti-woke agenda’ is below the belt. The oldest form of racism is not a tool to use in the divisive culture war nonsense.”Also taking to Twitter, journalist Hugo Ri ind said the attack on “woke” culture and antisemitism in the same sentence was “ba ing” and “grim”. He added: “Equating Jews with rightwing reactionary politics is what leftwing antisemites do. Am pretty colossally unkeen on Tories doing it, too.”

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A JCORE statement criticised the “silence” of major Jewish bodies on the issue and other remarks from both candidates. “Attempts to conflate so-called ‘woke culture’ with antisemitism are thoroughly disturbing. Seeking to draw this issue into broader culture wars at best cheapens serious e orts to tackle antisemitism, and at worst is dangerous Also aiming at Sunak, it added: “If both candidates for prime minister are serious about representing ‘Jewish values’, we would compel them to reconsider their approach towards refugees and asylum seekers. This would reflect the command to ‘welcome the stranger’, so frequently made in the Torah.”

Truss said she believed the UK’s security relationship with Israel needs to be deeper, adding: “We need to do more and I very much pushed that at the Foreign O ce. That is what the strategic partnership I signed with Yair Lapid was all about, and this is about following through. I see Israel as an absolutely key ally of the United Kingdom, in both defence and security but also science and technology.”

In further comments, Truss promised to retain the government’s £14m annual spending commitment to the Community Security Trust, for protection of Jewish schools and synagogues.She added: “It’s extremely sad that this funding is needed, that people are under threat, but I would certainly make sure we continue the funding and do all we can to stamp out antisemitism here in Britain. “You know, we know the history of the Labour Party and the appalling things that went on, particularly under Jeremy Corbyn, and regrettably, those elements are still there in British society, and we have seen these incidents taking place.”

Meanwhile, Liz Truss, in a similar meeting with CFI supporters last week, claimed she has succeeded in “changing the mindset” of o cials at the Foreign O ce over Israel and with dealings with the UN Human Rights Council. She said: “I think I’ve demonstrated at the Foreign O ce I am prepared to take on the orthodoxy .. that sometimes o cials are not always giving advice that is necessarily in line with what we believe.”

which represents civil itism to the relevant authorities.Dame Margaret broader cheapens serious e orts to tackle antisemitism, and at worst is dangerous andAlsodivisive.”aiming Sunak, both candidates for serious about Dame Margaret Hodge Liz Truss spoke of ‘woke culture’ in the civil service and antisemitism

Asked by CFI honorary president Lord Polak if she would proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps if she became PM, she said: “We cannot allow Iran to succeed in their nuclear ambitions and I’m willing to do what it takes to stop that happening.”

Abbas in Berlin: Israel guilty of ‘50 Holocausts’

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Jacob Daniel Benzaquén, president of Spain’s network of Jewish communities, said civil authorities sometimes support these com memorations.Hetoldthe Guardian: “It’s very sad that these events continue to this day and are cel ebrated with such enthusiasm and a shame that the ecclesiastical authorities haven’t put an end to them, despite our requests.” N2 0BE Mahmoud Abbas and Olaf Scholz in Berlin Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitchko criticises Israel’s stance

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The mayor of Ukrainian cap ital Kyiv and former heavy weight boxing champion Vitali Klitchko has claimed Israel is making a mistake by trying to maintain a neutral stance in the war with Russia. Klitchko, whose family on his grandmother’s side were Jewish, insists Israel has a moral obligation to impose sanctions on Russia because Vladimir Putin continues to “break all international rules”. In an interview with The Times of Israel, Klitchko said: “It’s the biggest mistake, right now, to take a neutral position if Israel promotes democratic values and sees Ukraine as a peaceful country. “It always was a peaceful country where peaceful people live. We never, ever were aggressive to anyone.” Israel has sought to main tain open channels with Russia and Ukraine since the invasion on 24 February. It has not joined sanctions against Moscow. Neither has it pro vided weapons to Ukraine’s military, though it has sent aid. But the former boxer said: ”Right now, what Russia did is break all international rules. “It can touch the interest of Israel also. And my message is: Stop the trade relationship with Russia because every cent, every dollar you send to Russia, it’s bloody money. “It’s the biggest mistake to see the war as something far away. Everyone has to be proactive. We are fighting and defending not just our homes and our homeland. We [are] actually defending values and defending Europe. Believe me. “I know the mentality and the Russians go as far as we allow [them] to go. And that’s why we’re fighting right now for everyone in Europe. ”

Ha’aretz reported that parishes in Toledo, Zaragoza and elsewhere still perpetuate the myth, with rituals supported by both the church and local authorities. Every September, villagers in Santo Niño de La Guardia in Toledo in central Spain commemorate the alleged abduction and murder of a Christian child by Jews, even though no child was ever reported missing. The child is venerated as a saint. In the basilica of Zaragoza, there is a small chapel dedicated to a child who was allegedly abducted and tortured by Jews, with a remem brance service held every year in October.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sparked global outrage this week after accusing Israel of com mitting “50 Holocausts” during a visit to Germany - before appearing to backtrack.ThePalestinian leader made the remark at a press conference with the German chancellor Olaf Scholz after he was asked if he planned to apologise for the deaths of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics in Munich.ThePalestinian group Black September, which was linked to Abbas’s Fatah party at the time of the attack, took the eleven athletes and coaches hostage before killing them.Abbas expressed no regret for the attack responding in Arabic: “If we want to go over the past, go ahead”.Hethen said that Israel had committed 50 massacres in 50 Palestinian locations since 1947, adding: “50 massacres, 50 Holo causts.”Scholz was seen to grimace as the Palestinian leader used the word “Holocausts”. A later statement published by Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, said Abbas had “not intended to deny the singularity of the Holo caust” and the president reaf firmed it as the “most heinous crime in modern human history”. Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid said it was “not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie” for Abbas to have made the remark while standing on German soil. Lapid continued: “Six million Jews were murdered in the Holo caust, including one and a half mil lion Jewish children. “History will never forgive him.” Deborah Lipstadt, the US anti semitism envoy, also criticised the Palestinian president, saying: “Holocaust distortion can have dangerous consequences and fuels antisemitism.”TheIsraeli website Ynet reported Abbas’s retraction came following “heavy pressure” from Defence Minister Benny Gantz, who has met the Palestinian leader several times over the past year. Scholz said Abbas’s remark was “unacceptable”.Earlier,theGerman chancellor had rejected Abbas’s use of the term “apartheid” to describe Isra el’s treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories. “We also have a different assess ment with regard to Israeli poli tics,” Scholz said during the press conference.“Iwant to say explicitly here that I do not adopt the word apartheid as my own and that I do not think that is the right way to describe the situation.”

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Spain’s Catholic Church is investigating claims in an Israeli newspaper that some towns and villages still commemorate the ‘blood libel’ that Jews used the blood of Christian children in religious rituals. The libel dates to the Middle Ages and was used to justify the expulsion or forced conver sion of Jews in the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

Ukraine’s past history, in terms of pogroms, and collab oration with the Nazis, is not spoken about by the ex-fighter in the interview, preferring to mention its more accommo dating approach to Jewish citi zens in more recent decades. He claimed that if the international community had reacted more forcefully in 2014, this war could have been prevented. Klitchko added: “The reason of this senseless war is very clear. Our wish to be a part of the European Union. And Putin [doesn’t] want to give a chance to Ukraine to be part of [the] European family.”

Israel angry at UN worker’s relocation Israel reacted with anger after a UN aid worker was relocated from her Jerusalem-based post for using her Twitter account to condemn rocket fire from Gaza. Sarah Muscroft was removed after coming under criticism from some activists who suggested she was blaming Palestinians for the cross-border violence this month. She tweeted: “Relieved to see a ceasefire agreed... The safety of all civilians is paramount — the ceasefire must be upheld.”

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Brandon Lewis Brandon Lewis has accused the European Union of “trying to block the Jewish community of Northern Ireland from getting access to kosher products”. In an interview on Kay Bur ley’s Sky News show, the former Northern Ireland Secretary was asked about the Tory leadership contender’s comments about alleged antisemitism in the civil service.Lewis said: “Liz outlined that she came against challenges in the Foreign Office about having to deal with some of these issues. She broke through that.” He then added that within his own role he said: “Where I saw anything against the Jewish community it was coming from the EU who were trying to block the Jewish community of Northern Ireland from get ting access to kosher products. That’s what dealing with the Northern Ireland protocol was all about.”Paterson pressed Lewis saying “plenty” of politicians and “every” civil servant he had spoken to had disputed Truss’s claims of antisemitism. The Lib Dem Baroness Sarah Ludford criticised the remarks saying Lews “cannot substantiate Liz Truss charge of antisemitism so falls back on ever Brexiter’s reflex – falsely accuse the EU.”

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Gateshead homes with succahs A development proposal for 20 affordable homes with a built-in sukkah has been unveiled for the strictly Orthodox community of Gateshead. The houses would be big enough to accommodate extended families. The public/private partnership project is being led by Agudas Israel Housing Association, which owns over 900 homes for struggling Orthodox Jewish families.

The country’s biggest Reform synagogue has adopted a policy allowing the child of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother to be recognised as Jewish without having to go through conversion. Edgware and Hendon (EHRS) announced the generational change this week, making it the latest – and by far the biggest – progressive congregation to sign up to the ‘inherited status’ policy first intro duced by the Reform Movement seven years ago. Under the policy approved by Reform’s Beth Din, to have inherited status, children must have been raised as Jewish. Orthodox Jewish synagogues, as well as some Reform synagogues, maintain that to be considered Jewish without conversion, a child’s mother must be Jewish.Theshul’s decision could have a wide-ranging impact. About 20 percent of children at EHRS have one Jewish parent and “a high proportion” of EHRS children at Jewish day schools have a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. Since its introduction, each Reform shul has been free to choose whether to incorporate it. Fol lowing a period of advocacy from Rabbi Mark Gold smith and Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers, however, the EHRS council has now approved it. The synagogue said it would give “a route to Jewish status which is not considered to be conver sion as that is not the emotional reality for those children” who have been brought up as Jewish. “It is truly a delight to help a young person claim their Jewish status where they have always lived as a Jew,” said Goldsmith. “To call it ‘conversion’ can be insulting to the commitment their parents and they have made to their Jewish upbringing. Inher ited status enables who they truly are to be recog nised and celebrated.” A Jewish upbringing is required for the policy

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He is the boy from Golders Green whose reputation soared as a result of his masterful handling of a Jeremy Corbyn interview at Cambridge University’s debating society. But 14 months later, Joel Rosen, the newly installed president of the Union Jewish Students, (UJS) has set himself another target. He is determined to go on and become a leader who is able to represent student voices from every spectrum of communal life.

Asked for his aspirations for his time as UJS president, Rosen is clear in his response. “I want to advance diversity across our community,” he says. “I am a firm believer that JSocs should be a home for all Jews, be they Orthodox, Progressive, somewhere in between, or non-aligned. I am a big believer that we need to represent the full diversity of Jewish students, politically and religiously.”

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“I feel like I am very hard to put in a box,” Rosen tells Jewish News, when asked why he believes he has been able succeed in student politics, having been elected to the UJS leadership role by a landslide in last December’s election. I think people saw me as someone they uniquely might not be able to categorise. “Someone who was very much born and bred in Golders Green in the Orthodox community, but who was a member of Labour, who was active in combating antisemitism, but also quite active in campaigns around LGBT rights in schools. “I wouldn’t fit into any neat box in terms of the community, which I think means I have lot in common with people from very different points. I hope that gives me an insight into di erent ways of thinking.”

Rosen, a former Menorah Primary School and Hasmonaean pupil, went on to City of London School’s sixth-form to complete his A-Levels. Before reading history at Cambridge, he spent a year in Israel, working mostly as a volunteer with Magon David Adom. “It exposed me to all areas of Israeli society, it was an incredibly informative experience,” says Rosen. I learnt how to cope with very stressful situations. I performed CPR on a 27-year-old who didn’t make it, which was very di cult to deal with emotionally.”Rosen made national newspaper headlines in June 2021, with his sit-down interview with Corbyn, in which he the former Labour leader denied point-blank any suggestion that Luciana Berger was “hounded out” of the party. He was contacted afterwards by several MPs who commended him for “venting the feelings” that so many felt during the Cambridge Union showdown. He says his campaign for the UJS role was “not a party-political partisan” one, and he “got to know people from di erent political backgrounds who I respect tremendously and get on Onewith”.ofRosen’s first actions on taking up the role, was to oversee the submissions sent to an independent QC ahead of her investigation into allegations of antisemitism that have dogged the National Union of Students (NUS) over a lengthy period. The UJS have, says Rosen, been “very robust and proactive in responding to the issues of antisemitism.” He adds: “I think it is very clear that successive generations of Jewish students have been failed by NUS, and our response will be guided by Jewish students.”

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Another of Rosen’s first acts at UJS was to tweet a response, to Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss’s statement to the Jewish community, which included controversial comments about the “woke” civil service. He wrote: “Jewish students have found her remarks to be ill-judged and o ensive. We hope she reflects on her words, withdraws these remarks and reaches out to our community.” He is equally forthright on the debate currently going on, particularly among younger sections of the UK Jewish community, related to Israel and settlement policy in the West

Tributes have been paid to an Israeli woman scientist, Noga Sella, and her retired mathematician father, Yoram Hirshfeld, who were killed last week when a car struck a crowd of pedestrians at a bus stop in Ramsgate. Mrs Sella’s husband, Omer, and the couple’s eight-year-old son su ered minor injuries in the crash, while their six-yearold daughter received more severe injuries and is being treated in a London hospital. Reports suggest that the family were on holiday in Ramsgate and had taken Mr Hirshfeld, 78, visiting them from Rosh Pina, in northern Israel, on their trip. Nitesh Bissandary, 30, who also received hospital treatment, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving. Noga Sella, 40, was a physicist who worked at the Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP), a post she had held since June 2021. The family came to Cambridge from Israel in 2018 and settled in the village of Milton. Mrs Sella, despite being dyslexic, had achieved a BSc in physics from Tel Aviv University and an MSc in high-energy astrophysics from the Hebrew University. Her mathematician husband, Omer is studying for a PhD in computing at Cambridge University. Uri Baruch, a colleague of Mrs Sella’s at CDP, and who headhunted her to work with the company, told Jewish News that she had been “very creative, highly intelligent. Perhaps because of her dyslexia she looked at things in di erent ways. She was fun to be around, fun to work with, always smiling, enthusiastic and energetic. We don’t solve easy problems, we solve the hard problems, and Noga was in the thick of it, always working with a passion. It was a joy to work with her.”

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TAU Trust chief executive Cara Case said: “Professor Yoram Hirshfeld had been a well respected member of the TAU faculty. We send our sincerest condolences to the family”. A page from a bible crafted 800 years ago by the monks of Glastonbury Abbey telling the history of Israel and Judah is on public display at its former home for the first time. The double-sided sheet is made from vellum, and is taken from the beginning of the Book of Chronicles in the OldTheTestament.first word, Adam, is marked by an ornate “A” filled with a serpent entwined with foliage. The Latin text is thought to have been written around the 13th century.

Local Girl Guides leaders also praised her on social media, for her work with Guides and Rangers.Both Mrs Sella and her father were widely admired. One of Yoram Hirshfeld’s former students at Tel Aviv University (TAU), Amnon Eden, told the Press Association: “His teaching was legendary. He knew how to explain complex maths at the highest order in a way that even I, not a mathematician, and dyslexic to boot, could understand.”

Glastonbury Abbey was famous for its library, but many works were lost when Henry VIII ordered its dissolution in 1539. Abbot Richard Whiting and two senior monks were executed on Glastonbury Tor on allegations of treason. The Glastonbury Bible disappeared, but turned up at Sotheby’s auction house in London in the 1980s, where it was bought by a manuscript dealer from Ohio who dismantled it with this particular page being bought by the University of Bristol in 2020 at auction.

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Richard Leyland, CDP’s chief marketing o cer, said that the company was now considering an appropriate way to mark Noga Sella’s memory. Mrs Sella was also active in the local Cambridgeshire society, becoming an active Girl Guide leader and a keen member of a cycling club. Gabriel Bienzobas, the leader of Milton Cycling Campaign and Camcycle trustee, said: “Noga was funny and full of energy, she also always wanted to help, she cycled everywhere in Cambridge, and we had a few conversations about many topics in the short time I knew her. There is no fairness in life.”

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Chelsea supporters were reminded that the club o cially adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism in January 2020, “becoming the first sports team in the world to do so”. The chants during Sunday’s game continued to provide the same narrative as outside the ground. When Harry Kane headed home an equaliser deep into injury time in the second half, an Israeli flag was held aloft in the Spurs end. Plenty of chants about “hating Tottenham” from the Chelsea lot, but few if any of the old outright antisemitism that had become a feature of a minority of the club’s following. I explained to Chelsea fan Anthony the dilemma of being a Spurs fan, caught up in the rivalry with Chelsea since I was a boy but admiring the success of the club’s work around combating antisemitism, much of it the result of previous Russian owner Roman Abramovich. Anthony, who admits he would once have not shirked about jokingly singing some of the songs that have now largely stopped, told me: “There’s been a lot of hard work. The work around antisemitism has also made me think about singing racist songs in general. Rivalries with teams like Spurs and whoever can be just as intense, but without the racist rubbish that used to go with it.”

Chelsea were taken over from Abramovich in May by a consortium led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital. The new group includes the involvement of property developer and former chair of the Jewish Leadership Council Jonathan Goldstein, now a director of the club along with Times journalist and Jewish commentator Daniel Finkelstein. Goldstein is sure to encourage Chelsea to continue with the antisemitism campaign, having previously been one of those pushing Spurs to be more active in clamping down on the Y-word. Spurs issued a statement on their website in February telling fans the club now believed it was “time to move on” from using the Y-word, but the campaign in north London does not appear to have had the same impact as at Chelsea. An annual poll conducted by the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust, published this month, showed that half of Spurs fans who identified themselves as being Jewish disagree with attempts by the club to stop supporters using the word Y*d, while nearly a third of Jewish supporters said they “always” use the ‘Y’ word at the club’s stadium. The previous weekend, at the first Spurs home game of the season, strains of Y*d Army could be heard as fans joined the upward escalator at Seven Sisters tube station. A small group of men, perhaps in their mid-40s, led the chant, but were quickly joined by several young boys, one who looked no older than 12. As a Jewish Spurs fan for nearly five decades, the Y-word debate at the club often played on my mind. At certain times, I’d agreed with those who argued the word was being reclaimed from the National Front and British Movement fascists I’d seen outside grounds in my youth, selling newspapers urging the white population of the UK to “get rid of the Blacks and the Yids”. But more recently, the use of the Y-word by Spurs fans had become increasingly problematic. Most of those using the chant were not themselves Jewish, so how could they be reclaiming the word? And some, but not all, of the Jewish fans who argued in favour of using the Y-word, well, they were also the same fans who were not adverse to using racist slurs of a di erent nature against rival fans – hardly a progressive advert for continuing with Y-word chants. And yet despite all of the negative connotations of the Y-word, I still could not bring myself to truly hate most of those Spurs fans chanting, not in the way I would despise someone using racial slurs against another ethnic minority. Walking down Seven Sisters Road with me ahead of that first game of the season was Pavel Brunssen, a German born PhD student and an MA from the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität in Berlin. The Y-word chants are both “highly problematic and highly contested”, Brunssen said, but at the same time “you can also tell they are part of the club culture. My sense is Tottenham fans are happy to be part of the debate, and they want to be vocal on it, but they want to see fans of other clubs being educated on the debate.” of the Bridge’ shows Y-word debate far from

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The rivalries were intense as ever as Spurs travelled to Stamford Bridge for Sunday’s west London derby. A bust-up between the two managers – Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte – made media headlines after a fiery 2-2 draw. But there was another untold story that unfolded before and throughout the match, involving the fans. Put simply, many of the 3,000 Spurs supporters at the game engaged in songs and chants that made reference to the word “Y*ds”. At the same time, it was clear the sort of antisemitic abuse once spat out by some Chelsea fans whenever they played their north London rivals had, to my own ears, stopped. Before kick-o , a group of Spurs fans with a large police escort as they walked to the ground, could be heard launching into a united chant of “Y*ds!, Y*ds!, Y*ds!” as they approached two pubs containing Chelsea supporters. Police o cers, some on horses, prevented clashes that would have been inevitable otherwise. But where, only a few years ago, a minority of Chelsea fans would have taunted their rivals with songs about Auschwitz or perhaps gas noises it wasn’t there this time. A message in the match programme acknowledged this, praising Chelsea fans for “much improvement in recent seasons.” But it was accepted that still “a small minority of Chelsea supporters have in the past tarnished this derby by using antisemitic chanting, noises and gestures, including the Y-word, o ering the justification of opposition fans using those terms as a form of identity”. In reference to continued use of the Y-word by Spurs fans, the message added: “Our stance on this remains clear – there is no place for such behaviour at Chelsea Football Club, regardless of its use by fans of other clubs or its inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary. Indeed, the dictionary’s own definition describes the Y-word as ‘derogatory and o ensive’.”

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Anne Frank’s stepsister Eva Schloss and actress Dame Maureen Lipman have spoken lovingly at the funeral this week of Marina Smith, cofounder of the National Holocaust Memorial Centre. A Christian, she donated the land for the centre and museum following visits to Israel with her sons Stephen and James. James, whose brother recently stepped down as director of the Steven Spielberg-backed USC Shoah Foundation Institute, said: “We needed a place to build a Holocaust centre and mother had already planned a new building for the site of a meeting hall. She leapt at the chance to donate the site.” He added: “The a nity she felt for the survivors of the Holocaust was clear from the way she embraced their stories, treated them as people, not as artefacts of history.” Marina spoke at her own funeral in a video played to mourners recorded earlier this year when Stephen asked her what she would want said. Her reply: “I’m so pleased that I met so many good people.”

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Jewish News is joined this year as a media partner for the event by Church Times, Eastern Eye/Asian Media Group, the Sikh Channel and Voice of Islam Radio. The inaugural event last summer saw over 500 attendees, 250 runners and thousands of pounds generated for 35 charities.

Rossano and Hyman land Limmud roles Limmud has named a senior leader at Moishe House as its new executive director alongside its first director of innovation. Adam Rossano and Joe Hyman will start their roles this autumn ahead of the organisation’s first in-person winter conference for threeRossanoyears. is currently associate vice-president for global development of Moishe House, having risen through the ranks. He is also set to take up a place on the prestigious Schusterman Fellowship for exceptional Jewish leaders. Hyman will leave his role at JW3 to become Limmud’s first director of innovation and engagement. He will support new programming approaches and work to extend Limmud’s outreach to marginalised groups and to regions outside London. He is chair of Ohel Mo’ed Community and founder of Davar – The Jewish Art, and is well known for his passionate activism on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the community. He said: “My own Jewish identity and volunteering has been profoundly formed by the opportunities afforded by Limmud.”

FINAL FAREWELL TO MARINA SMITH Hundreds of people from a range of faith communities are set to take part in the second interfaith run following an initiative by a leading Jewish philanthropist.Participants will take on a 10k, 5k or 1k course at the StoneX Stadium in Barnet while raising thousands of pounds for 50 good causes from local and national charities to faith groups.

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Souraka Djabouri, 19, admitted hitting Rabbi Rafi Goodwin over the head with a brick, in an assault after the rabbi stopped suddenly while driving, in order to avoid hitting a pedestrian who had walked out into the road from behind a parked van.

A challenge by lawyers representing former Labour sta er Laura Murray against a judgement that she libelled Countdown host Rachel Riley (pictured, inset) has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal, writes Lee Harpin. A verdict confirmed three judges had upheld the original ruling and rejected Murray’s appeal on the grounds of public interest, as well as truth and honest opinion. Last December Riley had been awarded £10,000 in damages by a High Court judge after suing Corbyn’s former stakeholder manager for libel. A judge had granted Murray permission to appeal against the decision in May. But in a blow to the daughter of Andrew Murray, Corbyn’s one-time key adviser, the appeal judges concluded it was “not substantially true to report only one possible meaning” of a tweet in which Riley had written the words “Good Advice.” Three judges found Murray’s Tweet “misrepresented” Riley’s post as an “unequivocal public statement that Jeremy Corbyn deserved to be violently attacked, when in truth was ambiguous.” Sources told Jewish News that costs, after Murray’s appeal was dismissed, could exceed £1m. Riley tweeted: “Big thanks to my legal team William, Godwin and Mark Lewis. Happy to draw a line under this now.” Lewis, of Patron Law, told Jewish News: “It was a shame Rachel had to win this way. I’m sure all parties are exhausted and realise sometimes it’s cheaper and much better to settle.” Riley had sued Murray over a tweet she posted in 2019, shortly after Corbyn had been egged during a visit to a north London mosque. In her tweet, Murray referred to another tweet of Riley’s containing a screenshot of a post from Guardian columnist Owen Jones, in which Jones commented on an earlier 2009 egging of former BNP leader Nick Gri n. Jones wrote: “Sound life advice is, if you don’t want eggs thrown at you, don’t be a Nazi.” In response Riley tweeted: “GoodMurrayadvice.”subsequently tweeted: “Rachel Riley tweets that Corbyn deserves to be violently attacked because he is a Nazi. This woman is as dangerous as she is stupid. Nobody should engage with her. Ever.” Murray deleted her tweet after it was widely condemned on social media.

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Djabouri, of Tudor Crescent, Ilford, first verbally abused the rabbi, invoking the fact that he was Jewish. Rabbi Goodwin drove o , but when he stopped at a junction, he found that Djabouri had followed him and had begun kicking at his car, damaging the wing mirror and the door. The rabbi got out of the car to take pictures of Djabouri and another man who he believed were responsible for the damage. But he was assaulted with a brick and his phone was stolen. He needed urgent medical care as the assault necessitated stitches and resulted in serious swelling to his face and eye. Djabouri and another man, 26-year-old Abderrahman Brahimi, were arrested by Essex Police, who treated the case as a hate crime. But prosecutors o ered no evidence against Brahimi and all charges were dropped. Djabouri pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm, theft and criminal damage on 6 July. The United Synagogue’s chief executive Steven Wilson said: “We know this has been an exceptionally hard time for Rabbi Rafi and hope today will bring some measure of closure. He has been so well supported by the synagogue and the community more widely.”

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The United Jewish Israel Appeal,(UJIA), has confirmed it is investigating how participants on a Birthright tour and Federation of Zionist Youth (FZY) trip were booked into overnight accommodation in a West Bank settlement. Jewish News revealed how two participants in a Birthright tour quit last month after being told they were expected to stay for three nights at a settlement without prior knowledge.It has now emerged other teenagers on a FZY trip also objected after being put up for several nights last month in Almog, a West Bank settlement near the Dead Sea. A letter circulated expressing anger at the arrangements was signed by dozens of youth movement leaders, who said the decision to put groups in settlements “not only upends our nuanced education about Israel and the conflict but forces us to be complicit in a system we fundamentally disagree with.” In a statement sent to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a UJIA spokesman said: “We understand that this is a sensitive and divisive issue and are taking it very seriously.” daily running of the accounts department. Credit control, bank reconciliations, payments, VAT returns, etc 2 . Financial Controller – Part Time (5-6 days per month – flexible) Review and streamline the accounts processes and systems, preparing y/e accounts incl provision of agreed trial balance and schedules,monthly management accounts etc Competitive salary package offered depending on experience and Emailexpertise.forfulljob description and further details – incl your CV.

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After 80 years, a survivor recites Kaddish for his family at Treblinka

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I pray that this encounter filled him with confidence that his story, and those of other Survivors like him, will be preserved and that the next generation will become the guardians of the truth.

Raphi Bloom joins Ike Alterman as he travels to the death camp where his mother, sister and brother were murdered by the Nazis

Jewish News10 www.jewishnews.co.uk18 August 2022 Special Report / Shoah journey Itzick, known as ‘Ike’, Alterman was born in his mother’s hometown of Ozarow and later went to live in Ostrowiec where his father was born and raised and much of the family still were. Ike is 94, a survivor of four death camps – Blizyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt – as well as a death march. His father died in the Bhuna work camp; his mother Chawa, 14-year-old sister Faiga and nine-year-old brother Pyniek were transported to Treblinka in October 1942 and murdered by the Nazis on Treblinkaarrival. was one of three killing centres linked to Operation Reinhard, the SS plan to annihilate almost two million Jews living in the German-administered territory of occupiedIkePoland.isaclose family friend. I have spent hours talking to him about his life in Poland before the war and his horrific experiences under the Nazis. I am in awe of his resilience in surviving the Holocaust and in rebuilding his life in Manchester from nothing following hisIliberation.amstruck by the raw emotion each time he recounts the selection in the square, when he last saw his mother, sister, and brother. There has never been closure for him, he said, but would hopefully come by going to Treblinka and reciting Kaddish for his family. I was privileged to arrange for him to do exactly that on 4 August when along with his family, my wife and another close friend, I accompanied Ike to Poland. We were accompanied on the day by Caroline Sturdy Colls, Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Genocide Investigation at Sta ordshire University, specialising in Holocaust Studies, who completed the first archaeological surveys of Treblinka. A permanent exhibition called ‘Findng Treblinka’ based on her research was installed there at the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom in August 2015. We arrived and walked along what used to be the camp access road beside the railway tracks which brought thousands of Jews to their deaths every day. I tried to imagine the site in full operation but Itzick did not need to imagine. While he had not been in Treblinka, he remembered Birkenau only too well – the sights, sounds and smells of a death camp. Walking down the road, he broke into the anguished song of Jewish prisoners who would sing in Yiddish about the fathers, mothers and children who never left Treblinka once they arrived there. The fate of his own mother, sister and brother was clearly on his mind and he was visibly in pain. As we made our way along the train tracks and platform inside Treblinka, Colls described the depravity and brutality of the camp, about the zoo the SS guards built for their enjoyment; the choice of wallpaper the camp commandant demanded for his quarters and the dozens of fragments of champagne bottles she had excavated from the site of the SS barracks. Ike recalled seeing the Nazis burying Jews in mass graves in Birkenau before covering their bodies in lime. The unspeakable horrors he had witnessed and which he testified to that day shocked us. To stand on the site of a Nazi death camp and hear the testimony of one who had seen the atrocities with his own eyes left us reeling in shock. Ike is a living, breathing giant of Jewish history. At the field of memorial stones – over 17,000, each representing a village, town or city from where Jews were sent to their deaths – we came to one inscribed “Ostrowiec”, from where Ike’s mother, sister and brother were taken to Treblinka and murdered where we stood. He was overwhelmed with emotion, reciting a loud, heart-rending Kaddish as tears streamed down his cheeks. Across the camp where the gas chambers and mass graves were located and the ashes of the dead had been buried, we came to the memorial stone for Ozarow, Ike’s mother’s hometown and the place where he had been happiest as a child. Here he listed the names in Hebrew of his zeidi (grandfather) aunts, uncles, cousins, and extended family and recited Kaddish once again. I asked him if being on the very ground where his family’s remains are located made him feel closer to them. His answer was a resounding yes. The most exceptional moment of all, however, came at the car park as a bus filled with Israeli and American Jewish teenagers pulled up. We introduced ourselves and asked if Ike could say one final Kaddish for his family with a minyan, following the belief that a prayer said with a minyan has far greater power. Our two parties stood as one and Ike recited the ancient Jewish memorial prayer for his family one further time – on this occasion with a group of young Jews. I hope he knows the Jewish teenagers he spoke to will never forget the Survivor they met on their visit to Treblinka, nor why he too had made the journey that day.

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The impact of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party led to further tensions, with rabbis resigning from the Unite union in protest at former general secretary Len McCluskey’s comments around antisemitism. The initiative was founded by Muswell Hill Synagogue’s Rabbi David Mason and Rabbi Richard Jacobi, of East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue, in collaboration with the Jewish Labour Movement. In a sign of how much the branch launch meant to the GMB’s leadership, its general secretary Gary Smith, London regional secretary Warren Kenny and regional organiser Steve Garelick –who is himself Jewish – all spoke at the meeting. Rabbi Mason said at the launch: “It’s a big moment for the GMB, it’s a big moment for the Jewish community, and for relationships with the Labour movement. This is incredible from all perspectives.”Headded:“Iwould like to thank the GMB for building this new branch. There is a long history of the Jewish community being part of the trade union story. This branch will allow that story to continue and give rabbinic sta across the community an important voice on their workplace conditions. It has been a pleasure to have been part of bringing this to fruition.” Mason noted that a rabbi’s house is often owned by the shul and so a rabbi may feel tied to the employer even if the relationship is poor. Due to their role, rabbis can be vulnerable to misconduct allegations and given a heavy workload. Rabbi Jacobi highlighted how the current cost of living crisis was impacting all communities, including the Jewish one. “We know we have a heck of a lot to do together to make life a ordable again,” he said.

“That is going to be a challenge for us as Jewish faith workers, and we can’t do it alone, because we are a small community. We need to do it in tandem, in partnership with other people.”

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The speeches were delivered in front of a banner of the London Trouser Makers’ Union from 1936, written in both Yiddish and English, which had been preserved in a glass cabinet at GMB’s regional o ce. Gary Smith said: “Today marks a remarkable day and a new chapter in both GMB’s and the wider labour movement’s history.”

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Tuesday’s launch event also held added significance as an attempt to restore relations between the community and the trade union movement, which had broken down in most cases in more recent decades.

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Five Americans were among eight Jewish worshippers shot and wounded by a 26-year-old Palestinian gunman on a packed bus near the Western Wall early on Sunday. Two of the victims, including a pregnant woman and a man who su ered head and neck wounds, were said to be in serious condition in hospital on Sunday evening. Hamas praised the attack. The woman’s baby was delivered by emergency caesarean section after she su ered abdominal wounds.TheAmerican victims included an Orthodox family from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Local reports said they had arrived in Israel on Wednesday. Yeshiva World News reported that the father of the Williamsburg family was badly injured. The incident took place as the bus waited in a car park near David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, just outside the Old City walls. The attacker opened fire on the vehicle then fled, heading for the district of Silwan. Within hours, after a large manhunt involving helicopters and police road closures, he handed himself in. The bus driver, Daniel Kanievsky, told journalists that “everyone panicked” when the shooting started. Emergency service Magen David Adom said all victims were “fully conscious” and that most of the victims had been men.

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid said the attacker was from East Jerusalem, had been acting alone, and was known to security services. “Jerusalem is our capital city and a tourist centre for all religions,” he said. “There is one conclusion from this event, as from previous events: whoever harms the citizens of Israel will have nowhere to run. We will hunt them down.”

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Israeli scientists are developing an oral immunotherapy for cancer and expect it to be the first such drug available for use. While some allergies can be treated with oral immunotherapy, cancers cannot. Instead, treatment is most commonly given intravenously. This means cancer patients need to visit hospital to get immunotherapy. The main barrier to oral doses, which could be taken at home, is that the antibodies which form immunotherapy drugs don’t survive in the gut. Researchers at Tel Aviv University, together with colleagues at the University of Lisbon, have developed a synthetic molecule they say does the job of antibody-based immunotherapies. Theirs is one of several attempts under way at providing oral cancer immunotherapy.TheIsraeli-Portuguese team published a peer-reviewed study on their breakthrough in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer The article revealed that the team successfully tested their molecule in vitro as well as on a human tumour in a special lab model. A potential drug is years away, however, as further development is needed followed by human testing, but one of the researchers, Prof Ronit Sacthi-Fainaro, head of Tel Aviv University’s Center for Cancer Biology Research, told The Times of Israel that the theoretical research is significant. “This is important, as the new molecules have many advantages. They can be given orally, are cheaper to produce than antibodies, and penetrate more areas of the tumour than antibodies can reach,” she said. Immunologists who aren’t involved in the research say it is promising. “This is an exciting study by pioneering groups, in line with some others, showing the promises of oral immunotherapy against cancer,” said Prof Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunology lab at Bar Ilan University. “I look forward to seeing its implementation in clinical trials that will compare the e cacy in cancer patients of these new drugs to current antibodies. If successful, I have no doubt that it will fast forward another revolution in cancer care.” Immunotherapy works by telling the immune system what doctors want it to do in order to fight cancer. All too often, proteins in the body instruct immune cells — called T-cells — not to attack Immunotherapycancer.is the delivery of drugs designed to reprogramme the immune system. One popular immunotherapy stops two particular proteins — PD-1 and PD-L1 — from suppressing the immune system. The molecules created by SatchiFainaro and colleagues do the same, encountering the proteins which would ordinarily suppress an anticancer immune response and reprogramming them so that the desired immune response takes place. Her team released a computer generated image of the molecules encountering the proteins in Satchi-Fainaroquestion.believes that synthetic molecules could make immunotherapy more accessible. Synthetic molecules, once in large-scale production, will be cheaper to make than antibody-based ones and could make immunotherapy available at “a fraction of the cost”, she said. treatments in form

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Jewish News16 www.jewishnews.co.uk LETTERS TO THE EDITORVOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS 18 August 2022 Send us your comments PO Box 815, Edgware, HA8 4SX | letters@jewishnews.co.uk Editorial comment and letters ISSUENO. 1276 Every nation has the right to choose the location of its own capital city, and Israel is no exception. The problem is that the Palestinians want the same capital. Such is the vexed issue of Jerusalem’s final status. It is a city living in a strange form of a limbo. For day-to-day purposes it oper ates as if part of Israel, but most countries around the world do not officially accept that position. Under international law, Jerusalem’s status remains unresolved pending a comprehensive deal between Israelis and Palestinians. Given that has not happened for so long, it is welcome that the two contenders for our next prime minister have promised to look at things Recognisingdifferently.Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, which Britain currently does not do, or committing to relocate the British Embassy to that city would be momentous steps forward. Much of British Jewry would be delighted. Yet these are only ideals. Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will struggle to turn them into policy proposals. Britain after all favours a two-state solution — as do many Jews who live in this country — and a move that appears to favour Israelis over Palestinians will do little to advance that cause. This does not mean the candidates’ views are without merit. This decades-old conflict desperately needs new thinking to shake both sides out of their entrenched positions. But Jewish members of the Conservative Party should reconcile themselves to the fact that Britain’s embassy will likely retain its Tel Aviv shorefront location for some time to come.

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SIR NICKY FILM If, as now seems inevitable, Liz Truss is to be our new prime minister, it will be fascinating to see if she is true to her word and “reviews” moving the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. You quote her as saying after “many” conversations with her “good friend” Yair Lapid on the issue she would “review a move to ensure we are operating on the strongest footing with Israel.” What a huge impact such a move would have.

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We are members of the Britain’s Zionist Jews Facebook group, appalled by the wording in the letter sent by Israel tour leaders oppos ing overnight stays in Judea and Samaria. These leaders do not speak for us or our children, many of whom were on tours with these groups. Many of these organisations took us on tour in our youth. Attempting to brainwash our children with left-wing propa ganda is not acceptable on an Israel tour. The homes and areas of Judea Samaria including Hebron and other cities are some of the most important holy places in Jewish his tory. The area is, without doubt, Jewish land built on by brave Jews who are surrounded by enemies who want us all dead. At the very least it is disputed and not occupied. We are disgusted Jews who are supposed to be tour leaders are boycotting Jewish are as. We ask for the replacement of these ‘lead ers’. For any Jew to use the word occupation is totally unacceptable and shameful. It fuels the Jew haters and is turning Jew against Jew. If you look at the profiles on Twitter of many of these people they are clearly from the Labour camp and some have Palestinian flags and use the word occupation. Why do we allow these people to lead children?

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The completion of the latest IDF campaign in Gaza against Islamic Jihad and previous campaigns against Hamas in 2014 and 2021 were undertaken to ensure rock ets and missiles fired from Gaza would cease. Yet in the space of 15 months, terrorists were able to acquire piping for the rocket and missile cases, explosives and projectiles such as ball bearings, restocking their depleted resources to enable them to fire over 950 rockets at Israeli towns and vil lages. There must be an independ ent inquiry into how such materials were acquired, given there is a blockade of such materials. The only apparent source is the 600 daily trucks purported to be car rying humanitarian aid sent from Israel. Dr Colin L Leci, Jerusalem Lee Harpin’s report on his recent tour of Hebron with Breaking the Silence (3 August) was a disgraceful propaganda piece masquer ading as journalism. The author should have consid ered the facts before sharing the lies spread by Breaking the Silence, or taken the trouble to look at the parts of Hebron his anti-Israel hosts chose not to show him: The massive, high-end malls of Hebron, the bustling shops and luxurious villas in which Arabs live, work, shop, conduct business - and all of which are off-limits to Jews. Some 97 percent of Hebron is off-limits to Jews. Naomi Kahn, Israel

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Rishi Sunak has pledged to do that. He has promised to increase government funding to combat antisemitism in Britain, including increased support for groups like the Community Security Trust. He is rightly appalled that security guards are required outside faith schools and that there are children who face abuse when they walk to and from school. He will prioritise keeping Jewish communities safe. Rishi is proud that the UK was the first country in the world to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. As a local government minister, he pushed for councils to back the definition as well. While progress has been made - in part thanks to those e orts by Rishi - there is more to be done, and I believe that he will take this issue very seriously as primeRishiminister.wantsto capitalise on our historic relationships with Gulf states to widen the Abraham Accords. Last week I attended an event in Finchley with Rishi where he explained that he is very worried about the situation in Iran. He spoke about his concern that the UK Government has not taken the threat posed by Iran seriously enough. A nuclear-armed Iran would pose an existential threat to Israel and embolden Iran’s web of terrorist groups throughout the region. He said that any deal with Iran must be a tougher one that extends the sunset clauses, lengthens the breakout period and curtails Iran’s ballistic missile programme. The credible threat of snapback sanctions, which has so far been missing from the negotiations, should be deployed to force Iran to take the process seriously.Ashesaid, if we can’t get results in the negotiations, then we have to start asking whether the JCPoA is a dead end. Iran remains the largest state sponsor of terrorism and it continues to direct its terror apparatus against Israel. Rishi is clear that the option of proscribing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp is very much on the table. In the last few weeks, Rishi has travelled the length and breadth of the country, meeting people from all walks of life. He knows how important it is to engage with di erent communities. I am confident that if he becomes prime minister, he will make sure that the voices of Jewish communities are both heard and listened to. That is one of the reasons why I believe that he is the best candidate to take our country forward.

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T he battle for the leadership of the Conservative Party and next leader of our country is in its final phase as ballot papers are being delivered. The final two are both highly capable but o er a di erent outlook on how to steer the UK economy through the turbulence that is impacting countries across the globe, as we all battle the costs of the pandemic and the economic shockwaves caused by the war in Ukraine. Much is made of the choice between ‘sound money’ or ‘going for growth’. Sound money is exceptionally important, as any Conservative believes, but households and businesses know that the books can be balanced only by growing income or reducing expenditure. This time, no one is arguing for austerity or spending cuts. In fact, people want more spent on the NHS (to clear the Covidcaused backlogs and fix social care), more on defence and more to help families with energy bills. So if we won’t reduce spending and we worry about taxing growth out of the system, then we need to be bold. Putting money in people’s pockets, by cancelling tax rises, can help to drive economic growth. Cutting taxes paid by companies can drive investment and create jobs. Liz Truss is prepared to be bold. Pump priming the economy is being done by our competitors. Liz knows that supply-side reform can boost growth and, as a former trade secretary, she knows that overseas trade can boost the sales line of UK plc too. Going for growth, to boost national income, is a sensible strategy and preferable to steady stagnation. It isn’t just on ‘going for growth’ that Liz is right. On domestic issues I know that Liz cherishes our long history of religious freedoms. These freedoms include the ability to send children to faith schools, to observe whatever faith we follow. Having attended a comprehensive school in Leeds, she understands the value of education on social mobility and in providing the skills our economy needs. She knows that education is the ladder to success, faith-based schools tend to outperform, as well as maintaining the ethos of the community’s faith. That mixed economy of good state schools, faith and non-faith is a fundamental part of our education o ering. She knows from her time at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural A airs how vigilant we must be to protect shechita. Outright attempts to ban arise from time to time but luckily are repeatedly rejected by previous prime ministers. Liz would be no di erent. Working with her as foreign secretary I know the enormous value she places on our relationship with Israel. Only those at the highest levels of government will know the true depth of the security relationship between our two countries. As someone committed to the defence of the UK and to facing down aggressors, she cherishes the UK/Israeli relationship. Liz’s dealings with the Iranian regime over the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcli e will have made her more aware than most, of the true nature of the Iranian regime and the threat to stability in the Middle East the regime poses. The UK will be a critical friend to Israel, but Liz’s understanding and experience of the depth and complexities of the relationship will ensure we will be at Israel’s side. Finally, as a junior minister, I worked with Liz. Robust debate and clear decisionmaking were her hallmarks, backed by clear deliveryThat’sexpectations.whatweneed in a prime minister.

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W e live in a great country. While turbulence in the global economy means that we face difficult times ahead, I am optimistic for our future. And I believe that Rishi Sunak is the person who has the right plan to get us through the turmoil and on towards a better future. Our new prime minister will need to get a grip of inflation as a first priority. Rishi Sunak has the determination to do that. We are all worried about the rising cost of living. As chancellor, Rishi put in place a package of measures to help those who are struggling. He has been clear that he would deliver further direct support if he becomes Prime Minister. As MP for Chipping Barnet, I represent a constituency which is home to a substantial Jewish community. I have campaigned against antisemitism for over two decades, raising this matter in Parliament and with the police. I will always speak up in support of the state of Israel and it is very important to me that our next prime minister does the same.

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T here’s no doubt about it. Our planet is under siege due to the climate crisis. As temperatures soar, the UK begins to experience its a ects first-hand through intensifying drought and devastating wildfires. But our su ering seems small when compared with that of countries facing the brunt of climate breakdown, enduring years of drought, relentless flash flooding, and climate-related disasters. We often describe global warming as, just that, a global issue. But in reality, those paying the greatest price are minorities, vulnerable communities and lower-income countries who are least responsible for the damaging emissions of greenhouse gases, and less able to adapt to the changes. When we think of humanitarian work we picture conflict, such as the war in Ukraine, natural hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis, and political upheaval. What we must remember, however, is that our climate crisis is also a humanitarian issue, a ecting millions of people across the globe. At World Jewish Relief, we are inspired by the Jewish values that compel us to take climate action. We recently commissioned Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair, an expert on the intersections of climate justice, science and Judaism, to write a report on the Jewish and humanitarian imperative to support those worst a ected by our climate crisis. In his report, Rabbi Yedidya highlights that pikuach nefesh, or saving life, is one of the central imperatives in Judaism. The climate crisis already claims 100,000 lives a year, according to the latest statistics by the World Health Organisation. We are also taught to care for the most vulnerable members of our society; as Rabbi Lords Sacks said, “What renders a culture invulnerable is the compassion it shows to the vulnerable.” We must provide assistance to the millions of at-risk members of our global society. But how have we responded as an organisation?Our Jewish and humanitarian values have led us to respond to climate breakdown in Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar so far. We have focused on delivering climate-resilience programmes, through local partner organisations on the ground, helping communities adapt to a rapidly changing environment. We believe that tailoring programmes to meet the specific needs of a community is paramount to successful interventions, as the e ects of global warming vary greatly between regions.Simple, right? Unfortunately, humanitarian work is never straightforward. Through the delivery of these climate resilience programmes, we have learnt invaluable lessons.Wehave heard from our local partners that when international charities become involved with a community, o ering higher wages, they can e ectively ‘poach’ highly trained sta from local charities. Although the international development sector has been incredibly important in delivering support to vulnerable people, it is far from a perfect model. We are committed to reforming the sector by prioritising support for local charities, who deeply understand the needs and culture of their community. The role of men and women, boys and girls, vary di erently between and within communities. If we look to change farming practices, livelihoods or levels of income we are responsible for understanding how this will a ect men and women di erently. We must ensure that we do not introduce new gender tensions, by conducting full gender reviews of the communities we work with. I would encourage anyone who is interested to learn more about the intersection of Judaism and climate justice to read Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair’s report on World Jewish Relief’s website.

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Two batmitzvah girls both called Evie stayed awake all night to raise over £2,400 for a Camp Simcha respite project named in memory of another Evie. Evie Mindel and Evie Gee chose Camp Simcha’s Evie’s Night Owls project, which funds the charity’s overnight respite service for some of its families, with seriously ill children needing round the clock care. The project was set up by Sam and Lee Bladon and named for their daughter Evie, who was supported by Camp Simcha after she was deprived of oxygen during birth. Evie Gee, who goes to JFS, said: “We really hope that the money we have raised makes a difference to the families Camp Simcha supports, and also to Evie’s family who set up the charity.”

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More than 620 young Jews from the UK, France, Malta, Germany and Israel took part in the biggest JLGB summer camp in over 40 years. The camp includes sessions teaching graffiti art, Brazilian martial arts and beatboxing as well as the opportunity for participants to try their hands at archery and even an aqua park inflatable assault course. “In preparation for our 125th anniversary, we’ve been planning a major upgrade to Summer Camp for some time” said Neil Martin OBE, JLGB Chief Executive, “but considering everything we’ve all been through these past few years, and knowing just how much children, young people and their parents needed a spectacular summer, it just makes us all the more proud of the phenomenal success of our summer camp, our volunteers, and the future of JLGB.” lily, 14, from Barnet added: “It was the best week of my life!”

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An impressive £25,000 was raised for Jami’s carer and family support service thanks to Hartsbourne Ladies Golf Charity Day. A total of 85 women took part in the event and the winning team of Jo Fogel, Mel Rom, Alex Reid and Janine Berg finished with 93 stableford points. Caroline Arnold, co-chair of the Hartsbourne Ladies Golf Charity Day Committee, said: “We chose to support Jami this year because unfortunately the number of people with mental health problems is rising, particularly since the pandemic. So we wanted to help Jami increase its support for people caring for someone with mental illness and be able to reach out to more people in need of this vital service.”

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Bennett Arron should have been at the Edinburgh Festival until 29 August. He had the venue booked, somewhere to stay and a stand-up show befitting his Welsh-Jewish heritage, enticingly titled Mazel Taff But Bennett isn’t in Scotland. After 15 minutes into a preview of the show, the audience were laughing, but it didn’t feel right to him. “It has to be 100 percent the best I can do and I’ve got to look forward to doing the shows,” says the comedian, who is serious about a craft he’s been honing for 25 years. “Thank God past shows have gone really well.” ‘Really well’ for a comedian translates as big audiences and the opportunity to do other things, which is true in his case as he has written and starred in BBC radio series, been nominated for awards and presented two documentaries – The Kosher Comedian, in which he traced his family’s roots from Lithuania to Port Talbot, and the even more dramatic How Not To Lose Your Identity on Channel 4, which detailed his alarming firsthand experience of identity fraud. Bennett also penned a very honest and jocular novel about the nightmare, which he sent to me after our chat. A chat that, to my embarrassment, revealed how paltry my research had been before speaking to this very funny and forgiving fellow. Until we spoke, I knew Bennett only by reputation as a hot warm-up man (that’s comedy), who only last week was putting crowds, celebs and stuntmen at ease at the first London Action Festival. I also see from his smart, sympathetic and occasionally explosive Facebook posts that he is one of those energising funny folk of the faith who doesn’t hide in the shadows, hence Mazel Ta , which will appear next year. Fortunately, you won’t have to wait that long to hear Bennett, as he is one of the star voices in Moray Hunter’s Radio 4 comedy Alone, about five single, middle-aged neighbours, including his character, the nerdish and needy Morris. Now in its fourth series, which began on Tuesday, the show is recorded in front of a live audience and, thanks to Bennett promoting this fact on Facebook, I got to see his nebbish Cymry portrayal in person alongside fellow cast members Angus Deayton and Abigail Cruttenden. Deliciously British and old-fashioned in the best way, Bennett enjoys performing Alone as much as the audience enjoys listening to it. “What was interesting to me at the live recordings was the number of people with their eyes closed,” he says. “Initially, I thought they were sleeping, but that’s how they listen to it on the radio, so they really didn’t want to see us performing with scripts.”Bennett was 12 and at school when he wrote his first scripts and was told by his drama teacher that he was a good actor. This stuck with him and paved his way to the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in south London for a three-year drama course, but he was kicked out after 18 months. “It’s a long story,” he says, and one he’d prefer you read in his book, as it was followed by the comedy sketches he wrote and pitched to TV in the days when unsolicited material was accepted. “I wrote for Hale & Pace and Freddie Starr, and one of the sketches I wrote for The Real McCoy was recently voted the best of all time or something like that. They did contact me to ask if they could give me money to show it on TV, so that was great.” Not all Bennett’s comedy hit the sweet spot, but when a producer threw a sketch back at him deeming it unfunny, he was so convinced the material was strong he decided to try it out of doing it filled me with dread because I’m naturally phenomenally shy. Invite me to a party and I’ll start shaking weeks beforehand, but I needed to prove to myself I wasn’t mad and that the material was funny.” With his ‘gem’ woven into five minutes of stand-up, Bennett made his debut at The King’s Head in Crouch End in March 1997, fully intending to do no more than three gigs. But at gig number three, fate delivered a rep from BBC’s New Comedy Awards, who took Bennett forward to the heats, which he won, and eventually the Edinburgh Festival, where he was runner-up to Peter Kay at the awards. This was not just impressive – for Bennett, it was like being shot out of a rocket. “But it was misrepresentation because I thought, ‘This is it now, I’ll get my own TV series.’ It’s only been 25 years, so any day now…” That he has made a living making people laugh is undeniable, however, as he proved to his now 19-year-old-son some years ago. “He had glibly said to me, ‘You’re not very funny’, so I pointed to his PlayStation and clothes and said, ‘If I wasn’t funny, you wouldn’t have any of these things.’ But I made an impression on both my kids because my daughter, who is 23, has done a degree in film production and my son is doing English and acting at university.” As he said, Bennett intends to launch Mazel Ta in 2023. We will embrace it, while he braces himself for those with views about Jews. “Over the past few years, it’s been really weird because friends I’ve known on the circuit for a long time who are meant to be non-racist and open-minded have expressed borderline opinions. 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The frenzy for wall demolition sometimes goes further, and chimney breasts and cornices are ripped out as well. Serving hatches are created between the kitchen and what was the dining room, and sometimes the entire wall between these two also goes. In fact, any feature taking up space, blocking one room from another, or interrupting an otherwise straight line of sight, is a candidate for removal. From the French doors at the back to the bay windows at the front, an uninterrupted view can now be guaranteed in nearly every one of these homes. It is an architectural feature found in the majority of homes in Gants Hill and significant parts of Southgate and Edgware. But why would anyone actually want to reduce the number of rooms in their home? Perhaps there is a psychological explanation, something rooted in the anxiety of the wandering Jew; a manifestation of subconscious expression of perpetual looming doom.

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I was sitting in the unique architectural heritage of my people: the Jewish throughlounge. Specifically, the Gants Hill Jewish through-lounge. I wondered why this uniquely Jewish through-lounge had been so successful and so pervasive among our tribe.

There are two facets to the Jewish throughlounge: The Container and The Contents. The Container itself is universal to all Jewish through-lounges, because it requires more or less the same amount of demolition to create. However, The Contents, although conforming to a basic template, vary considerably from home to home. The Contents also vary considerably from one Jewish area to another, with significant di erences between the Jewish suburbs of north-east London and north-west London, not to mention the isolated Jewish outpost in Southgate.

A look T he 1970s was a transitional decade for British Jewry, whose second generation started their upwardly mobile trajectory from London’s East End to the suburbs, where many settled down in semi-detached houses. This extract, adapted from Martin’s book, considers how and why the through-lounge became a status symbol.

The role of The Contents in the Jewish through-lounge is to be the signifier of many things, reflecting the beliefs, politics, interests, concerns, social status and wealth of the householders. In this respect, the inspiration for The Contents can be measured on a sliding scale. From intellect, artistic bent, intelligence and broad-mindedness at one end, to ostentation, little taste, no original thought and the display of great wealth at the other end. Concerning The Container: almost all Gants Hill parents have now knocked their front and back downstairs rooms into one, thus making the pervasive phenomenon of the Jewish through-lounge possible. They performed this demolition soon after leaving the East End and buying their new semi-detached homes in this outer suburb with the generally available mortgages, introduced by the Greater London Council to help build the post-war economy and generate social mobility. Nobody knows the reason why they felt the urge to knock down walls the moment they had purchased their new homes. Maybe they had always yearned after a very large ‘showpiece’ room, and only now owned a house where they could fulfil these ambitions. Or only now owned any kind of accommodation.

After all, in a Jewish through-lounge, one can detect any approaching Cossacks, Nazis, or Fascists. Its unique architectural style means that from any position, one can see who’s coming down the front path and about to bang on your door, or in the garden and about to smash in your French windows. A vantage point is possible from every part of your downstairs, whether watching telly, having a family Friday night dinner, or just sitting and reading a book. Or maybe it’s the result of a guilt complex caused by the dramatic changes achieved in just one or two generations. From when the first nomadic Jews lived in tents to when an entire extended family lived in a hovel in an eastern European shtetl, to when they inhabited one room in an East End tenement, to today’s semidetached suburban luxury, the Jewish throughlounge may be a subconscious recreation of that primordial tent and single shtetl room. Or perhaps this single large space helps to maintain a balance between the paternal and maternal forces of the Jewish family. Both sides have to co-exist. On the other hand, it could be that the desire to create the Jewish through-lounge is nothing so psychologically deep and profound. It could be all about the demand generated by The Contents for more room to hold and display the increasing number of possessions In this excerpt from his novel Budgie Wore My Jacket, Martin Silverstone leads us on a humorous tour of Seventies suburban London

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tables. An over-large and ornate crystal chandelier, placed above the Regency dining table; several reproduction Canalettos of Venice, hanging on brocade wallpaper, each in a heavy frame and lit by a little brass light fitting, the whole thing done out in an oppressive colour scheme of royal blue, gold and burgundy and gilt, gilt and more gilt. (Or is that guilt, guilt and more guilt?) The central heating is always on the maximum setting. Throughout the whole year. With radiators that burn when touched. The Contents could just be an expression of new-found a uence. These over-decorated and gilded Regency rooms would have looked fine in the Palace of Versailles. But when crammed into a Gants Hill semi’s Jewish through-lounge, it is tasteless and unashamedly materialistic.

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LIFE and items. The Container addresses the need to hold recently acquired luxury goods, signifiers of intellectual pursuits and of material success. Therefore, The Container and The Contents exist in a symbiotic relationship: The Contents require an appropriate space to display social, intellectual and financial progress, and The Container provides this. The Contents are, at base and face value, a burgeoning panoply of domestic essentials for the glass-fronted display cabinets, co ee tables, Regency cabinets, Regency dining tables and. of course, those specifically Jewish contents: the Judaica. Now representing a new growth industry: gifts from Israel. These can rapidly fill any Jewish through-lounge: menorahs, Pesach plates, Shabbat candlesticks, kiddush wine cups, things that say ‘Shalom’, depictions of the Wailing Wall, those artistic-looking silky glass jugs with six matching glasses sets, ashtrays made from the same silky glass, and those cute little statuettes of various klezmer musicians and fiddlers on the roof. The decor and interiors of all Jewish

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