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Shortly after her death was announced last Thursday, Chief Rabbi Mirvis said: “The Queen embodied the most noble values of British“Throughoutsociety. her extraordinary reign, she conducted herself with grace, dignity and humility, and was a global role model for distinguished leadership and selfless devotion to society.
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and a champion of countless causes within it. All our lives have been shaped by her reign and we are forever grateful for her service.”
Dan Fox, national chairman of Ajex, the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women, said the organisation was particularly grateful “for her support for servicemen and women and veterans, including her annual message marking our own annual parade”.
She continued: “She was a great friend to the Jewish community, tireless in her charity work and a strong female leader... At Liberal Judaism, we will continue to follow her example. “
Rabbi Charley Baginsky of Liberal Judaism said the late monarch was “a shining example to us all”.
“In life, she was rightly admired and loved the world over; in death, may her memory and legacy be for an everlasting blessing.”
Queen’s respect is repaid by our whole community
It added: “We are deeply saddened and mourn the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Her loss will be felt across the UK Charedi community, the nation and the entire world. Her life of dedicated and selfless service will continue to inspire generations.”
“Her Majesty was a figure of continuity, a reassuring presence since her accession in February 1952, and she brought inspiration and stability to the lives of our community.”Onthepointof the Queen’s con-
tinued presence, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of Masorti Judaism observed: “Perhaps we hadn’t realised how precious such qualities“There’sare.less in the world now of that decency and order that we had hoped we could take for granted. We feel, many of us, a heartache and anxiety, which takes us by surprise.“She combined regal bearing with the ability to touch the heart.”
It added: “Coming just a year and five months after the heartfelt loss of her beloved husband Prince Philip, these are sad times indeed.
The Board of Deputies said: “No words can fully describe the extent of our nation’s loss. Her Majesty’s wisdom, benevolence and dedication to duty served as an inspiration to generations. May her memory be for a blessing.”
The Jewish Leadership Council said the Queen “provided gracious, dignified and practical, moral leadership for the nation and Commonwealth and will be missed greatly”.
At Leo Baeck College, the rabbinical seminary in Finchley, dean Rabbi Charles Middleburgh said: “We record our abiding gratitude for her long life of service, and the stability that her reign has o ered to so“Wemany.send our sincere condolences to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who are mourning the loss of a beloved matriarch. We stand with them in their grief at her death.”
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It added: “Her Majesty was always a friend and steadfast supporter of the Jewish community
The Queen’s four children stand behind her coffin, draped in the Royal Standard and with a Balmoral wreath and the Crown of Scotland on top, in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
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The Chief Rabbi led tributes for Queen Elizabeth II as communities across Britain expressed grief and sorrow at her death last week, agedEphraim96. Mirvis said the late monarch’s a ection for the Jewish people “ran deep and her respect for our values was palpable” throughout her 70-year reign.
resenting strictly-Orthodox populations across Britain, o ered a quotation from Samuel II: “How the mighty have fallen.”
He added: “Many Jewish veterans were honoured to meet her during her 70-year reign.”
Tributes flowed from across the spectrum of Jewish communities in the country, with congregations from Liberal to the strictly Orthodox o ering words of condolence. The refrain common to all tributes were the words: “May her memory be a blessing.”
The Spanish & Portuguese Sephardi Community said the Queen’s reign “embodied the ideals of service and dedication to the people of this country of whom we have long been proud to be a part”.
The movement for Reform Judaism observed that the late Queen was, “for most of our community, the only monarch we have ever known”.
“In an ever-changing world, she was a rock of stability and a champion of timeless values.
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Above all, we o er our heartfelt thanks for her selfless, unfailing sense of duty, and the exemplary and inspirational service she gave. The Queen taught the world that true leadership is service and true service is leadership.Intheblessing that we make upon seeing a monarch, we declare: “Blessed are You Hashem… who has given of His honour to flesh and blood.” The King of Kings certainly gave of His honour to Her Majesty the Queen and she, in turn, related
Many Jewish organisations and charities recall with fondness the Queen’s genuine friendship towards Jews and Judaism. She reached out to our community with interest and warmth, amplifying our shared ideals and Throughvalues.her patronage of the Council of Christians and Jews, the Queen recognised the crucial importance of dialogue and reconciliation. Her patronage of Norwood was a powerful reflection of her appreciation of Jewish charitable endeavours, while her patronage of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust highlighted her commitment to Holocaust memorial.
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King Charles – then Prince of Wales – with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
At this exceptionally sad time for Britain, the Commonwealth and the world, our community is filled with a profound sadness following the passing of Her Majesty The Queen. We pray that Almighty God will give comfort and solace to His Majesty King Charles and to the entire royal family.
to every single person with honour, warmth and dignity. As we mourn her loss, her legacy to the world is more evident than it has ever been –that there can be no greater honour on earth than the service of others.
As the torch of that honour is now passed to His Majesty King Charles III, the Jewish communities of Great
An extraordinary role model, the Queen gave us hope during challenging times and set a wonderful example of service, duty, selflessness and of respecting all people with sensitivity and dignity.
Britain and the Commonwealth can be confident that the King will not only inherit his mother’s throne, but also her commitment to timeless traditional values and her passion for the service of others.
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We are filled with gratitude to Her late Majesty, who, for 70 remarkable years, was an exemplary figurehead for our country and champion of the finest values of our society.
May the memory of Her Majesty the Queen be for an eternal blessing for us all. God save the King.
BY CHIEF RABBI EPHRAIM MIRVIS
We will always remember the joy and leadership that Her Majesty brought to so many people. Her affection for the Jewish people ran deep and we celebrate her remarkable life and reign.
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We express our gratitude for the extraordinary manner in which the Queen touched our hearts.
I was privileged to witness firsthand her concern for the Jewish people and her empathy for our past when, in 2015, I accompanied her on a visit she and Prince Philip paid to
and era that are sadly being lost through the passage of time. There were two of us from the company attending but the Palace had ordered 16 trays of kosher “finger food” for us! I remember Prince Michael of Kent pointed at one of the trays and asked me: “What are those things?” I said they’re fried fish balls. “Oh, how interesting, may I try one please?”!
I feel very lucky to have worked for the royal family and I feel the Queen has been part of my life all of my life and we all shall miss her smile her wit and her dedication to others .
Jewish News readers fortunate enough to meet the late
In 2001 I was made an OBE. I called Buckingham Palace and asked when the Queen would be ‘doing the honours’. We can’t guarantee her presence was the response but... 14 February might be a good date. So we booked our flights. Then, on 9 February, Princess Margaret died. I assumed the Queen would be ‘sitting shiva’. We turned up not knowing whether Her Majesty would be there. In the pre-briefing we were told that she would, and we were to make no reference to her loss. She wanted us to know that this was our special day. The AndmeitwithmyproceededceremonyandIhadprivatemomentherandindeedwasveryspecialforandmyfamily.stillis.
Ivor Levene
I met the Queen in 1962 when my late husband sponsored a horse race at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in aid of the Olympic Games Equestrian Fund. A er lunch we watched the racing in the Royal Enclosure. She was very friendly and animated. As it had been raining that morning and was muddy she turned to me and said, “Oh dear, I should have worn my galoshes.” This is my lasting memory of how natural she was.
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In 1977, as a part of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, two children from each school were invited to an event at the Ulster University at Coleraine, County Londonderry. I was lucky enough, as a nine-yearold, to be chosen to represent my school, Cavehill Primary School, Belfast. A er the event, many of the children who had attended became ill with food poisoning from the ham sandwiches – thank goodness I only ate kosher! This photo was in the Belfast Telegraph. I am the girl with the big hair just over the right-hand side of the Queen’s shoulder.
I worked in the royal household for a number of years in the dining areas .
I clearly remember King George’s funeral and then photos of Elizabeth’s return as the new Queen. I didn’t appreciate how young she was as I was a child at the time. I remember standing with my mother waiting for her car to pass and briefly catching a glimpse of her. She was my Queen. I felt safe in that knowledge. I for one will deeply miss her.
Mo Pradier
My wife, son and daughter and I were lucky to be invited to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in July 1993. It was probably the hottest day of the year. Most senior royals were there, along with 5,000 or so of us guests. What impressed me most was how the Queen walked between two lines of eager invitees and, periodically, a couple were plucked out to meet and talk to her for maybe a minute. She made the people selected feel totally important for that brief period.
I loved my job and met quite a few royal family members. My small daughter was allowed to visit Buckingham Palace, which thrilled her as she was only 10 at the time.
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Our father, a Holocaust survivor, had the honour of meeting Her Majesty back in 2005. She had never seen or touched a Nazi-era yellow star, so my father o ered her the opportunity.
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Our company had the honour of receiving the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation in 2010. As CEO, I was invited to –fiedsoHermeetandsuchPalace.BuckinghamItwasanhonourprivilegetotheQueen.Majestywasgraceful,digni-andcharmingqualitiesofageneration
Susie Joseph was the first baby born at Northwick Park Hospital. The Queen visited her and is pictured with new mum Sandra when they were invited to return to the hospital for this visit. Sandra’s husband, John Joseph, MBE, president, Jewish Blind & Disabled, commented: “We were requested to return to be introduced to the Queen a week later, at the o icial opening of the hospital. The Queen immediately put us at ease, chatting and concern.”empathyshowingand
This photograph from my personal collection is of Princess Margaret Rose (le ) and Princess Elizabeth with the Rt Hon Frederick Claud Sturrock (South African minister of transport) on the footplate of the Royal Train engine at Bu eljagsrivier, near Swellendam, Cape Province, on 22 February 1947, during the Royal tour of South Africa. The future Queen is sounding the whistle of the Beyer-Garratt locomotive.
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I met the Queen on 15 June 2017, when she attended the 100th anniversary memorial service
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I attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in recognition of my 50 years’ service as a scout leader in Southgate. I remember the whole royal family standing shoulder to shoulder as the band played the National Anthem – and the cucumber sandwiches and cupcakes with the royal seal on top!
I was privileged to be presented with the MBE in 2004, having been involved in the organisation of Jewish Women’s Aid from the beginning of the 1990s. I was particularly pleased to meet the Queen herself as I remembered her from the time when she was 14 and broadcast words of encouragement to all of us children at the beginning of WW2.She seemed to know – without having to be reminded all about JWA – and understand what all of us had done to create a new organisation and listened to what I told her about the great e orts and generous work and time which so many had given, most of us already involved in full time work The certificate presented to me hangs in the o ice of JWA.
late monarch share precious memories of the experience
I had recently started at City of London School for Girls and as part of the Queen’s Silver Wedding celebrations the Queen laid the foundation stone for the Barbican Centre opposite our school on 20 November 1972. All schools in Britain had the day o – except us. We had to put our uniform on and come to school for the a ernoon but we did get to meet Her Majesty.
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In April 2012, the Queen and Prince Philip visited Valentines Park and Mansion in Gants Hill, Essex. She opened a new garden and the royal couple looked at art in a marquee. I received an invitation as chair of the Cranbrook Residents Association. I bought an outfit for the day. I remember the Queen walking past me with a smile only a couple of feet away. A lovely memory never to be forgotten.
I helped arrange to mark the bombing of Upper North Street School on 13 June 1917 during the Great War. This was covered at the time by Jewish News. I introduced Her Majesty to several members of the children’s descendants and had the pleasure of introducing her to my son. This was also the last o icial ceremony that Prince Philip took part in before he retired. God save the King.
My wife and I met the Queen twice. The second occasion was at the centenary of the Anglo Norse Society at the In and Out Club in St James. By a fortunate coincidence we were placed directly by the door that the Queen entered. She stopped to greet us and we exchanged pleasantries.
Prayers and tributes in Jewish communities across the globe
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It is the unseen goodness that is more important. As a patron of World Jewish Relief, which has done untold good work in Ukraine, Charles has been unstinting. Among his gestures have been dinners with its generous supporters, allowing large sums to be raised.
s a small boy I travelled to London from the south coast with my parents and deeply patriotic grandmother in 1953, for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. I can still remember the thrill of that first ride on the underground and a visit to the J Lyons Corner House at Marble Arch for tea and chocolate-filled meringues (always a point of call because of family lineage).
Anyone who has heard the former Prince of Wales, wearing his blue embroidered velvet kippah, speak at Jewish community events could not but be convinced of his unshakeable belief in the Jews of Britain. He has given full accounts of the community’s contribution to the nation’s spiritual, temporal, commercial and City life. As he said at Buckingham Palace in 2019: “The connection between the Crown and our Jewish community is something special.”
A special Hebrew version of the national anthem was recited in Gibraltar, and a national holiday was declared in Canada to allow people to mourn.
And from the southern Australian state of Victoria there was gratitude that the community’s prayers for the royal family had been answered.
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there was a conviction among some Zionist Jews that the royals would not travel to Israel because of the terrible events at the King David Hotel in 1946 when British army o cers were blown up. Charles, as heir to the throne, put that right with visits to Jerusalem for the funerals of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres and a subsequent o cial visit in 2020.
Charles understands our connection to the Crown
What we can be certain of is that, now that
The managing board of the Jewish community in Gibraltar said the Hebrew tune was sung in synagogues on the last night of the festivals of Succot and Pesach, among other occasions.
It added: “It is a great loss for the Commonwealth of Nations, but also a personal one for the royal family. May they derive comfort from the unique contribution she has made and may her memory be for a blessing.”TheWorld Jewish Congress praised the Queen’s impact, saying: “During her 70-year reign, Jewish communities in Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and across the Commonwealth have flourished and grown in peace and security.”
The new King has never treated such occasions as an obligation; he has found time to speak to every guest about their lives in society and the community. And afterwards, his response has been: “What more can I do?”
Indeed, as history was made in synagogues up and down the land last Shabbat, with King Charles III, a new Prince of Wales and a memorial prayer for the late Queen unostentatiously slipped into the liturgy, one could but not think of a similarity with Jewish death and grieving. The Queen’s interment may take some time. But the swift transfer of monarchy – from Queen to King – was lightning. It reminded me how my late father had died shortly before midnight on a Thursday and was buried hours later on erev Shabbat.
IF THE PAST IS ANY GUIDE TO THE FUTURE THEN BRITISH JEWRY IS IN SAFE HANDS
That memory, and another, more jarring one, came flooding back in these slate grey days of national mourning. The other was the visit, with my mother driving our Vauxhall estate, to a local garage. Without any provocation, the petrol attendant took our money and disobligingly yelped: “It’s our Queen, our country.”
At the time, I had little notion what this strange phrase meant. When I asked, it was explained to me that it was favoured by antisemites somehow convinced that Jews were taking over the country.
Charles has publicly declared that he would want to be a defender of all faiths, even though protocol, at the ceremony of Accession, saw only the Protestant faith of the Church of Scotland a rmed, and later Church of England archbishops received at the Palace.
Queen Elizabeth’s death has resonated around the world and led to an outpouring of grief among Jewish communities, particularly in Commonwealth countries with a strong connection to the monarchy.
Its president, Jillian Segal, said: “Her calm and dignified manner, and impressive grasp of British and international a airs, made her an influential, albeit unobtrusive, force for stability and humanity. She was a friend to the Jewish people and enjoyed the respect and a ection of Australians of all backgrounds and all political a liations.”
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria in southern Australia added: “Jewish congregations in Victoria pray each Shabbat for the safety and welfare of the head of state and all the royal family.
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But there is more than that. For decades,
If the past is any guide to the future, British Jewry is in safe hands.
Floral and other tributes to the Queen in Sydney, Australia
“With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, and the ascension of King Charles III, the original composition using the masculine is once again appropriate. It will continue to be sung in our synagogues in His Majesty’s honour.”
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry said the Queen’s death was “sad news for millions of people in Britain, Australia and throughout the Commonwealth, and beyond”.
In Canada, where the Queen was head of state and a national holiday was declared to mourn her, the main Canadian Jewish advocacy group, CIJA, said its members were reflecting on “the strength she demonstrated throughout her reign, the grace and dignity with which she approached all challenges and her determination to champion enduring values for which she stood”.
The reality is that Elizabeth II has been very much our Queen. The Windsors may have German ancestry, but they have provided a wonderful and tolerant safe haven for British Jews, which I, as the son of a refugee from Nazism, can never forget.
King Charles has very big shoes to fill. But his long apprenticeship has given him time both to immerse himself in favourite causes, such as climate change and conservation, and to get to know his subjects better.
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the feminine and we have been faithfully singing that version for the past 70 years.
Gibraltar’s small Jewish community sustained a century-old tradition by reciting a version of God Save The King – albeit with lyrics in Hebrew. The words were written by Raphael HM Benaim, the territory’s former Chief Rabbi, to mark the 1911 coronation of King George V.
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“These prayers were answered, with Her Majesty living a full life that was tirelessly dedicated to service.”
Wishes of long life to the royal family were extended from the New Zealand Jewish Council, which said Elizabeth II’s long reign “was an example to all by showing steadfast dedication to duty, to values and behaviour, which are admired and aimed for by Jews, and with her sympathy for people su ering and in need”.
“When Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne in 1952, the words were adapted in order to refer to the sovereign using
the batten has been passed to Charles III, the British Jewish community has no better friend.
ALEX BRUMMER
Her words were both comforting and poignant saying “we should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again”. Doubtlessly, these words will o er much comfort to those of us grieving the loss of an extraordinary woman.
The would-be assassin was a washerwoman, Margaret Nicholson, who attacked the King with an ivory handled dessert knife. She was apprehended and spent the remaining years of her life in a lunatic asylum.
Fortunately, subsequent coronations have proceeded smoothly, including that of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953, which was commemorated in many synagogues with a special service.
As Anglo-Jewry actively participates in the national mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, it is worth reflecting on the long history of our community commemorating royal events with special prayers and services, writes David Latchman
Unfortunately she did not make it to her Platinum Jubilee; memorial services mourning her death were held in many synagogues in 1901.
The oldest example in my collection is a service commemorating the preservation of King George III from an assassination attempt in 1786.
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Perhaps one of the most remarkable things about her role of head of state was the demand that her opinions remain unknown. We often, however, caught glimpses of her personality: her kindness when she visited the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire; her passion when she watched her horses racing; her humour when she charmed us all by joining Paddington Bear for tea to kick o her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
We are thankful that we were able to come together to celebrate the Queen’s service to our country during the jubilee earlier this year, that she was able to witness this outpouring of a ection from the country she so diligently served was, as many have remarked, a happy goodbye.
Having survived this incident, George III lived for another 34 Whenyears.
May her memory be a blessing. Long live the King.
Latchman with a coronation Order of Service
How we’ve mourned –and how we celebrate
As memorial services for the life of the late Queen are held in multiple synagogues, we can look forward, as she would have wished, to services celebrating the coronation of Charles III.
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In war or in peacetime, sickness or health, times of stability or turmoil, she displayed duty, resilience and commitment. In an ever-changing world her constancy o ered reassurance and comfort. Her passing represents an end of an era.
The death of Queen Elizabeth II has filled many across this nation and the globe with great sadness. Her 70-year reign saw 15 prime ministers, war, economic upheaval and a global pandemic.
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We talk about the sacrifice of the Queen but in truth, nobody can know how much she sacrificed during her time on the throne because above all, she was unfailingly disciplined and stoic. When the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband and confidant died at a time when the country was enduring the very harshest of Covid measures, the rules did not bend for her. The image of her sitting alone in Westminster Abbey during his funeral is one of the many images we will recall when we think of her leadership.
Unfortunately, the coronation of Queen Victoria’s son King Edward VII was postponed due to the King having contracted appendicitis. The synagogue service printed for the occasion had to be hastily replaced with a prayer for the King’s recovery.
Following these early examples, celebratory services were held for royal coronations and other milestones. For example, services were held commemorating the Golden and Diamond Jubilees of Queen Victoria.
Indeed, during a very dark hour, when many of us faced unprecedented challenges and upheaval, she took to the airwaves to o er solace.
he passed away in 1820, Professor Hyman Hurwitz composed a Hebrew dirge in his honour which was translated into English by the famous poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with the title Tears of a Grateful People
As always, the passing of a monarch is followed by the coronation of a successor.
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IN AN EVER-CHANGING WORLD
• Professor David Latchman is an academic and collector of Judaica
An important aspect of the Queen’s leadership for the Jewish community was her faith, and her respect for all faiths. She was a defender of the Jewish community and made us feel welcome under her sovereignty. She was a patron for many charities, but her role as patron for Norwood illustrates her dedication to some of the most vulnerable people in our community.
Still it floored me. She has been the constant in our existence , the mother yeast in the daily bread of our lives, and I sobbed in my dressing room at the tiny Hope Mill theatre in Manchester as I prepared to entertain an audience with a mesmerising Martin Sherman play set at a shiva.
Surely, I thought, all theatres would be closed on this night which is so di erent from all other nights?
As the patron of Norwood, she was a devoted supporter and constant source of encouragement to its work.
In a recent message sent for one of our annual dinners, she made a particular point to stress the length of the royal household’s connection. She wrote: “My family’s association with Norwood began over two hundred years ago when Prince Augustus Frederick, the then Duke of Sussex, became patron of the charity.”
“Four years ago.”
“Erm – let’s say I carry a lot of liver in my vestSheMa’am.”stayed a couple of hours, and as she walked through the brick arches to the Coronation Street theme, the hardest Republican hearts were softened and we soared with pride.
otherwise. The show, albeit with anthem and a minute’s silence, must it seems go on. I thought it disrespectful to her memory. I thought she deserved a hiatus in the calendar to sit quietly and remember. I could have made a fuss. I had a Jewish charity and a Q&A afterwards so, on went the show and our tears that night were of universal grief as well as specific to the play.
An example of a woman who worked at the same job, tirelessly, for 70 years, rarely taking a day o , must be impossible to find. I make no bones about it, I feel as though I have lost my oldest friend. God rest her dear soul.
he death of the Queen was accompanied by the most moving tributes and profound expressions of grief, a ection and reverence. In a lifetime of noble and remarkable service, the Commonwealth and its Jewish communities have much to be appreciative for.
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It was only in July that Her Majesty had arrived at Coronation Street and hopped out of her Daimler to walk the cobbles. She was absolutely herself: intelligent, curious, wellinformed and up for a laugh: “How long has the dog been in the show?” she asked of my character Evelyn’s Saluki greyhound cross, Cerberus.“Er,he came with me, Ma’am,” I replied.
She would regularly send messages to its events and, less well known, would keep an interest in its work and be briefed by her private secretaries. Even as she was reducing her commitments, she was always keen to help. When the pandemic hit, she was interested in
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Charles with all the love and strength in our hearts. And to wish him and her extended family long life.
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It was my late husband Jack Rosenthal’s birthday yesterday. I do hope he was there to meet her, with a nice hot cuppa.
ews of the death of Queen Elizabeth came as a news flash on my phone. I had been expecting it. Something in her face on that meeting with Liz Truss told me she was near the end. I’ve seen that look too many times now not to recognise it.
I cried in my dressing room – then went back on stage
interesting to say, and the skill and the timing she exhibited on the Bond spoof and the Paddington sketch made hundreds of us write to Bafta asking for a special acting award for her.I think she understood life through her understanding of horses. She was tender and firm, loving and knowledgeable.
Whether it has been through the Commonwealth or with her family’s connection to our community, we have much to mourn with her loss, an overwhelming sense of gratitude for what she has done for us.
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A one woman play, Rose – dissecting the Jewish experience in the 20th century – cuts me to the bone at every performance.
We already appreciate the connection our new King has had with our community and the Commonwealth Jewish communities. We wish His Majesty and the whole royal family our most heartfelt condolences. SENSE OF SHE HAS DONE
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how we were responding and coping. She made Buckingham Palace’s social media available for us to have a campaign day.
In the late 1990s on a visit to India she went to see the ancient synagogue in Cochin and returned with an even more profound sense of the journey of the Jews across the globe.
Among her expressions of thanks to the charity and its beneficiaries, sta and supporters this point is always to my mind the most moving and poignant. As our most beloved rock that has helped our nation through tough times, brought stability, and as our beloved monarch always shown kindness, dignity and the importance of service. All of this has been done with a great connection to the past and a firm view about the future.
The Queen meeting residents during a 2008 visit to Ravenswood Village in Berkshire
We were always grateful for her involvement and encouragement with the Commonwealth Jewish Council and for the honour in being hosted by her. She was profoundly interested in the breadth of the Jewish presence and contribution to the Commonwealth.
“And is he a good actor?” she asked.
The best way we can honour her memory and thank her posthumously for representing our country so beautifully is to welcome King
Our patron was devoted to Norwood’s prosperity
Her loss is massive for the country and the Commonwealth. As a familiar and reassuring presence, she was the mother and grandmother of the nation. In seven decades, she carried out more than 21,000 public engagements.
In central London for the ubilee weekend, I felt the enormous goodwill and a ection for the Queen from the crowds gathered at various events. But there was also a realisation that the reign was drawing towards its close. We are all Elizabethans and it’s been our immense good fortune to have her as our monarch. up close was a true privilege
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But there is a cautionary note that the monarch must not have too many horses, too many wives or too much money. It is a classic warning about the excesses of monarchy, and the importance of curbs on the sovereign’s
power. Queen Elizabeth understood the parameters of her role, though ironically if she had one indulgence, it was for horses.
Working at the Palace on the strategic communications of the Diamond Jubilee from 2009 allowed me to observe her closely. There were no big surprises. She was in person as she appears on camera. Over seven decades, the British and wider public came to appreciate her for her wisdom, her calm and her durability.
To pick out a few examples, these included a visit to the Wimbledon tennis championships, opening a new High Court building with judges and a visit to the Tiptree jam factory in Essex. In my spell at the Palace, it was immediately
The Queen has of course carried out events with the Jewish community from the centenary of the United Synagogue in 1970 to the 350th anniversary of British Jewry in 2006. She has enjoyed a particularly special relationship with Norwood, as its patron, as well as with the Council of Christians and Jews. This was part of the tapestry of work she carried out, at one point having an association with 700 charities.
It was an education to watch her in action on a royal walkabout, at an investiture or hosting a foreign leader on a state visit. She always had respect for the occasion she was attending and for the people she was meeting. In turn, the respect and admiration people had for her snowballed. In an age where many countries are led by narcissists and tyrants, her ‘servant leadership’ was authentic and inspiring.
THE QUEEN PROVIDED THE DECORUM AND PHILIP LIGHTENED THE MOOD WITH A JOKE OR A TEASING QUIP ❝ Watching our ‘servant leader’
Anyone who has met her will remember it for the rest of their lives. For instance, over the past few years, I have got to know a fantastic older woman who worked in New York in the 1970s at the British consulate and proudly showed me photos of her meeting the Queen on board Britannia. As for many others, meeting the Queen was a lifelong highlight.
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The other thing about that Shabbat, the final one of the Queen’s life, was that the Torah portion, Shoftim, contained a crucial passage about monarchy. In one of his closing addresses, Moses tells the people to appoint a King when they are wandering in the wilderness.
hen a friend messaged me 10 days ago and asked me to recite the prayer for the royal family at his son’s barmitzvah, I accepted swiftly but did not dwell on it for long. Little did I know it would be the final time we would recite the prayer for “our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth”. Those words, so familiar, after reciting them 3,670 times on Shabbats during her 70-year reign, shall not be said again in that form.
My spell of royal service provided me with many privileged experiences and memories. We travelled the country and carried out a lot of fascinating engagements.
clear how reliant she was on Prince Philip and how they operated as a team. She provided the decorum and dignity, and he lightened the mood with a joke or a teasing quip. His death last year was obviously a terrible blow, but she soldiered on, reaching her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June.
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Charles knows how to read a room and put people at ease
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him a long life and hope to be able to photograph him again as King Charles III.
ited many qualities of his much-admired and mournedDiscretionmother.isunderrated in today’s world, so many of my experiences will remain per sonal. But I will tell about how, most recently, on a visit to World Jewish Relief to receive a briefing about the situation in Ukraine, almost before the briefing had begun Charles, as Prince of Wales, asked about the likelihood of rescuing innocent civilians from Mariupol by road and how difficult this must be with the military blockades and logistical challenges. I was, once again, taken aback by his knowledge.
Blake Ezra and, below and right, some of his stunning royal photography
my surprise walked over and chatted to them all, with a laugh and a joke and the right words to say. They didn’t expect it. Neither did I.
In my career I’ve been honoured to have photographed King Charles III and spend time in his company on many occasions.
As he left the building and walked towards his car, he noticed that a crowd had amassed a little further up the road. He waved and then to
Context is important for a photographer: to be able to read a room, understand a situa tion and anticipate the next move. I’ve always found our new monarch to be ahead of the game, impressively knowledgeable about so many topics and unparalleled at putting others at ease.Heis genuinely humorous and, at times, has that slightly mischievous glint in his eye that his mother often had. I was privileged to pho tograph our late Queen many times and was introduced to her at a reception at St James’ Palace. It is clear that our King has inher
As Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest child assumes his position as sovereign, I can’t help but feel as though protocol denies him the opportunity to grieve the passing of his mother.
Photographer Blake Ezra on the new King’s understanding and humour
Despite the many challenges he has faced during his 73 years in the public eye, and the many vociferous critics he has faced over that time, Charles too is unquestionably dedicated to public service, and was dedicated to environ mental issues long before it was fashionable to be
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In recent years he has also been joined on the communal scene by Camilla, the new Queen Consort, whose dancing hand in hand with Lord Levy to hava nagila at Jewish Care won’t be forgotten in a hurry.
From lighting Chanukah candles with youngsters to becoming the first monarch to attend the installation of a chief rabbi and from supporting Holocaust survivors to a visit to Yavneh school, where he fashioned a crown out of balloons, Charles III has been at the forefront of the Firm’s close ties with Anglo-Jewry.
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years – and the enthusiasm with which he has thrown himself into causes close to our hearts.
making a personal donation to “talking about it all the time and holding events” and even flying to Poland to help fix a mezuzah at the opening. “The opportunity to engage in Jewish renewal in a town where communal life was obliterated was fantastic,” Layton said at the time. “We’ve now got thousands of members. It wouldn’t have happened without Charles, who asks for regular updates.”
Along with the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the Jewish Museum and the Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade, WJR has enjoyed his patronage. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the same community centre mobilised to support refugees, and the heir to the throne dropped in on the charity’s north London o ce to learn more from its sta and from those who had fled.
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Charles put his “heart and soul” into the project, according to Nigel Layton, the charity’s former chair: from
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It was in 2008, with Charles’ role in Krakow’s Jewish community centre, that his association with Shoah survivors began. He was so moved by the plight of the city’s older residents, who faced poverty after living through the Holocaust, that he returned to the UK with the idea of creating an old age home for them. World Jewish Relief was approached for help and recommended to the then Prince of Wales that his vision would best be met with a new community hub where survivors could meet in comfort while mingling with younger people.
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Perhaps it was the fact that for years he has proudly worn the most famous kippah in Britain – velvet, and emblazoned with the Prince of Wales crest – that gave the story even a shred of credibility. More likely, though, it was the number of engagements the new King has undertaken in the community over the
new lives in the UK, including my grandma Marion.Charles
At a Buckingham Palace reception shortly before the pandemic, the King said his support for communal causes was the least “I can do to repay” the “blessings” brought to Britain by its Jews and said he was touched to have grown up knowing synagogues include a prayer for his family every week. That prayer may have now changed to reflect his accession – but the relationship between British Jews and the new King is likely to remain one of mutual appreciation.
The Queen Consort with a portrait of a survivor Charles with our reporter’s grandma
With JLGB members at Buckingham Palace
As with the Krakow project, it was Charles’ idea to commission leading artists to produce paintings of seven camp survivors for the royal collection. Recognising that the number of survivors is dwindling fast, he and the new Queen Consort invited the subjects and their families to the Queen’s Gallery in January and spoke of his hope the artworks would serve as “a guiding
once told a WJR dinner that his family’s links with the community – including his grandmother’s saving of Jews during the Shoah and attending a school in the 1960s where he learnt from Jewish immigrants – helped to inspire his e orts to reach across communities.
If a man can be judged by his friends, then it would be instructive that one friend was Lord Sacks. The King first got to know the chief rabbi on the flight back from Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral in 1995 and would later attend a gala marking his retirement. They became so close that Charles sent him a six-page handwritten note following his father’s death and, when Sacks died in 2020, led tributes to “an inspired teacher” who he would “miss more than words can say”.
appeared to blame “an influx of foreign Jews” for Middle East unrest and urged the US to “take on the Jewish lobby”. Clarence House quickly clarified that he was reflecting the views of some he had met in the region, rather than his own.
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light for society” – a light many will be hoping he continues to perpetuate now he is king.
was close friend of Lord Sacks
Not that there haven’t been challenging moments. In 2018, Charles faced questions after a private letter emerged from 1986 in which he
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freedom in Britain, now guaranteed by the 1998 Human Rights Act. And an established church has proved perfectly compatible with respect and support for other religions. Speaking at Lambeth Palace in February 2016, the Queen declared that: “The concept of our established Church is occasionally misunderstood – its role is not to defend Anglicanism to the exclusion of other religions. Instead, the Church has a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country.” The Prince of Wales declared in 1994
“In every walk of life, in every field of endeavour,” he said in 2019, “our nation could have had no more generous citizens, and no more faithful friends” than its JewishAdmittedlycitizens.Queen Elizabeth, although she visited about 120 countries, never went to Israel. That, however, would have been the result of government advice, and in particular Foreign O ce advice, fearful of o ending 22 Arab states. But Arab hostility to Israel has now greatly diminished following the Abraham Accords and de facto peace with most other Arab states. And both the new King and the new Prince of Wales made o cial visits to Israel in 2020 and 2018 respectively.
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In October 2016, while working at the Council of Christians and Jews, I was invited to an informal lunch with the late Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, together with the late Prince Philip and eight other guests.
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erhaps constitutional monarchy –a system in which the king reigns but does not rule – is a Jewish invention. In biblical times, after being defeated by the Philistines, the ancient Jewish tribes asked to be “like other nations” and to be given a king. But the king’s powers were limited by the Mosaic laws; and, according to 2 Kings, monarchs who infringed these laws, such as Queen Jezebel or Queen Athaliah of Judah, were to be overthrown.
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concerns of the Jewish community at that time: so when the Queen turned to me and started talking about her meeting that morning with Henry (she was of course talking about Henry Kissinger…) and how both Henry and she were concerned about their respective grandchildren’s exposure to hate speech online, I seized the moment to turn the conversation towards the rise of online antisemitism and in the political arena and CCJ’s ‘Still an Issue’ campaign as a response to rising antisemitism.
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The British monarchy, however, is associated with Christianity. In England and in Scotland, although not in Wales or Northern Ireland, there are established churches - in England, the Church of England, of which the King is the Supreme Governor.
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But of course there is also complete religious
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CCJ was founded in 1942, at the height of the Second World War and the Holocaust. In 1952 it became one of the first UK charities to receive the Queen’s patronage and there is no doubt that, in the wake of the Shoah with many Jewish immigrants arriving in the UK, this sent an important message to British society. It raised the issue of Chris-
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At a 70th anniversary reception in 2011
I also spoke with her about CCJ’s concern for persecuted Christians in Syria and Iraq and how, in 2015, CCJ had led a month of prayer and reflection in synagogues around the UK, to raise awareness to this, through CCJ’s ‘If Not Now When’ initiative. As the first Jewish director at CCJ, I felt it was important to share with her the
tian–Jewish relations at a national level, and today CCJ remains the largest and most prestigious interfaith charity in the UK.
in Stalin’s Gulag, used to say – As long as the Queen is safe in Buckingham Palace, I’m safe in Hendon Central.
between communities. In her own words: “It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more di cult.’’ Thank you, ma’am.
The late Queen and the new King as Prince of Wales always showed great interest in the Jewish community, and in particular in Holocaust survivors. The King’s grandmother is buried at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and commemorated as one of the righteous among the nations for protecting a Jewish family in Greece during the war; and, earlier this year, Charles commissioned portraits of seven Holocaust survivors to be displayed in the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace.
that, when he becomes king, he would prefer to be thought of not as “defender of the faith” but as “defender of faiths”.
head of state is the product of an election and so represents just a section of the nation. We all say God save the King. Not all Americans say God save President Biden! Our politicians symbolise the divisions in our society. The monarch, by contrast, symbolises our underlying unity and so contributes to that stability which Jews so value. The Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein declares that his grandmother, who had been
Without a moment’s hesitation she acknowledged her shock at this rising phenomenon and her heartfelt and unequivocal support of the Jewish community.
So the Jewish community, together with other minority communities, can look forward with confidence to the reign of Charles III.
Constitutional monarchy –was it a Jewish invention?
Over the past week we have been reminded of the advantage of constitutional monarchy: that it makes the transition from one head of state to another seamless. Charles III succeeded Elizabeth II immediately upon her death and there could be no dispute about the succession. The King can, therefore, represent the whole nation, rather than just a section of it.
Faithful friends: King Charles III pictured with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
As head of the Church of England, the late Queen put the issue of Christian–Jewish relations at the forefront of her work to build bridges
In the weeks prior to the lunch, I thought long and hard about the key messages to convey at this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It was important for Her Majesty to hear that CCJ was still a thriving organisation, and she was delighted when I told her that CCJ had taken part in her Diamond Jubilee tea party on the Mall in 2015.
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seven decades of her reign, through the eyes of survivors, many of whom told me the Queen was a physical embodiment of the welcome they found in the UK and the opportunities they found to rebuild their lives here.
Karen with the late Gena Turgel, who was brought to tears by the Queen’s visit to Belsen
I remember Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel – a huge admirer of Her Majesty –being presented to the Queen at her Garden Party in 2015. The Queen remembered Gena’s story, having met her years earlier, and made sure Gena felt respected and appreciated for her tireless e orts in sharing that story.
Her Majesty consistently showed her deep commitment to Holocaust education. She sought out opportunities to demonstrate this commitment, knowing that to do so would add incalculable symbolic weight to the work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and
tary and figurehead. But I also mourn the humanity we have lost. The mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. The young girl whose pictures Anne Frank collected. The young woman who joined the army. The friend to Holocaust survivors. May her memory be a blessing.
For Holocaust survivors, the Queen was more than a monarch. More than a head of state. More than a figurehead. She was a reminder of how far they had come – a quiet cheerleader for successful integration into UK society. A leader in ensuring their stories were known about and remembered.
Holocaust survivor Susan Pollack recalled the Queen telling her to “keep going”. So she did. Mala Tribich shared that she had always identified with the Queen – because whatever happened, she never gave in. I remember seeing that humanity in action.
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er Majesty was renowned for steadfastness, stoicism, grace, humour and of course her devotion to the Nation. I want to pay tribute to just one of her boundless qualities – her humanity.
ho would have thought my journey would take me from Auschwitz to tea with the Queen on the lawn at Buckingham Palace? Those are the words of survivior Lily Ebert.
another special connection between Her Majesty and the Holocaust. Anne Frank’s childhood friend spoke about how a young Anne collected photos of the young Elizabeth. They were a similar age. The poignance of that anecdote did not fail to strike us all.
At a tea party to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, survivors of the Holocaust and genocide shared their experiences against the backdrop of Her Majesty’s remarkable reign. It was a wonderful opportunity to journey through
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She was a vital symbol of hope for survivors
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As survivor Joan Salter MBE said: “I came to the UK as a child survivor and recall the excitement surrounding the coronation. For someone who came from so much trauma, the Queen has been an important symbol.”
The Queen visits Bergen Belsen in 2015
She attended the very first Holocaust Memorial Day UK Ceremony in 2001 and took up the role of Patron of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust at our establishment in 2005, so that from the very beginning, the Day would be, and be seen to be, a day of collective, national commemoration for everyone – regardless of background.
dignified regal presence. But she also voluntarily joined the armed forces, and for all of her life she showed kindness and respect to war veterans and the survivors they liberated. She helped make them feel welcome, safe, and heard. So, today, I mourn Her Majesty the leader, global icon, unparalleled digni-
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many others in this field. As we face the challenges of Holocaust distortion and denial, the Queen knew her active support strengthened our message, as well as providing immense honour to Holocaust and genocide survivors.
It is indeed extraordinary that Lily survived a deportation by cattle truck to Auschwitz, and four horrific months in the concentration camp. But Lily is not the only Holocaust survivor to be issued with an invitation to a Royal Garden Party, nor the only one to have been awarded an Honour.
She has taught us all that education is not only what we find in the classroom; it is learning from watching her steadfast commitment to doing the right thing, listening to those who have su ered the ultimate degradations and persecution, simply for who they are – and inviting them round for tea.
She knew that a day of commemoration would necessarily go beyond the simple acts of remembrance and would include opportunities for learning, being challenged and inspired to help build better communities.
Of course the Queen met international dignitaries, presided over the Government, and was forever impressing us all with her
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In 2005 I was honoured to stand among Holocaust survivors at a special reception held by Her Majesty at St James Palace. She greeted each and every survivor, listened to their stories, shook their hands, and showed them such kindness, humanity and a ection. It was at this reception we were told about
When the Queen visited Belsen in 2015, Gena said that it brought a tear to her eyes.
On the final day of a state visit to Germany in 2015, she visited a concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen both to see for herself the site of some of the worst of humanity’s atrocities but also to add her weight to the public recognition of them at a time when Holocaust denial was growing. She has worked with
many charities to meet Holocaust survivors and refugees, taking time to chat to them and hear some of their experiences.
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The late Queen Elizabeth never visited Israel. But Charles grew up in a distinctly philosemitic household. He has also vis ited Israel on several occasions. In the great scheme of things, does any of this matter? After all, British policy is made by the government, not the monarch. I believe it does matter. King Charles’ links with the Jewish world are many, and pub licly known. We have an unashamed friend at the royal court, at the head of that court. This must surely be good for the Jews.
It’s worth noting, incidentally, that
My best guess now is that Charles’ circum cision was carried out purely on health [‘hygiene’] grounds, as were many nonreligious circumcisions at that time.
King Charles in his late mother’s arms
why this circumcision took place. When an undergraduate at Oxford I was privi leged to have been taught by Dr Cecil Roth, Bearsted reader in post-biblical Jewish studies. Roth believed that there had been a tradition, dating from Hano verian times in the 18th century, that Eng lish royal princes were circumcised. But there is no documentary evidence of this, and Roth was never able to provide any.
Cassel, one of King Edward VII’s closest friends, had married out of the faith, and subsequently, at the behest of his wife, converted to Roman Catholicism. His granddaughter Edwina married Lord Louis Mountbatten, the uncle of Prince Philip, husband of Elizabeth II. As is well known, Philip’s mother, the Greek prin cess Alice, rescued Jews during the Holo caust; she is buried in Jerusalem. Edward VII himself liked the company of accom modating women and rich men, many of whom were Jewish. Edward VII actually liked Jews, and reportedly referred to Hermann Adler, ecclesiastical head of the United Synagogue, as “my chief rabbi”.
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King Charles III and I have several attributes in common. We were both born in royal palaces. On 14 Novem ber 1948 Charles – first grandchild of then monarch George VI – was born in Buckingham Palace. On 10 February 1944 I had been born somewhere in the grounds of Hampton Court.
So I was born at Hampton Court in February 1944. Later that month I was cir cumcised, by Dr Jacob Snowman, a leading mohel and the author of several works on Jewish and general circumcision. Four years later, Snowman accepted an invita tion from then Princess Elizabeth to cir cumcise her son Charles (20 December 1948), five days after his christening.
How did this come about? When my mother (halachically married, in 1942) became pregnant the following year, she had registered herself with the Bearsted Jewish Maternity Hospital, Stoke New ington, in the heart of Jewish Hackney).
There has been much argument about
As a wartime safety precaution (and reput edly on the initiative of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten, a granddaughter of the German-Jewish banker Sir Ernest Cassel), the Bearsted Hospital had been moved, in part, to a makeshift wooden building in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. I was informed many years later that this building counted as part of the Palace itself. So my claim to have been born in a royal palace seems well grounded.
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The decades-long refusal of the royal family to undertake an o cial visit to Israel – while having no such hesitations over trips to authoritarian monarchies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar – irked many Israeli politicians and British JonathanJews.Arkush, former head of the Board of Deputies, said in 2016 that local Jewry had been pushing hard for an o cial royal visit to Israel since it was, “not about time. It’s past time for a royal visit.”
During the decades in which the royal family refused to travel to Israel, she hosted Ephraim Katzir, then president of Israel, in 1976. She knighted President Peres upon the invitation of the British government in 2008. And the second-ever Israeli envoy to the UK, Eliahu Eilat, was granted a sit-down dinner and overnight visit with the Queen at Windsor Castle in 1959.
Marking her platinum jubilee in June, Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, wrote that the Queen has “been a rock for the nation” and has cultivated “a long history of involvement with the Jewish community”.
When she turned 90 in 2016, Lord Sacks, the former chief rabbi, lionised the Queen as someone “whose
greatness speaks across ethnic and religious divides… Her contribution to British society is immeasurable and the respect she has shown for all religions has enriched our lives.” Indeed, British Jews largely expressed fealty and gratitude to the Queen, expressing any displeasure or criticism behind closed doors.
In fact, no member of the royal family visited Israel in an o cial capacity until 2018, when Prince William arrived in the Jewish state on an unprecedented o cial visit, lifting the uno cial boycott.
In May 1952, just months after the death of her father, King George VI, she met with the British chief rabbi and leaders of the Jewish community. A month later, Jewish o cials – as well as the Israeli envoy – attended her coronation at Westminster Abbey.
frustrated that she
While the royal family was shaken after a British tabloid released video footage of a seven-year-old Elizabeth giving a Nazi salute in 1933 or 1934, British Jews largely defended her. “I don’t think any criticism of a sevenyear-old child would be remotely appropriate,” Arkush said when the footage was revealed in 2015.
In 1996, during a visit to Poland, Queen Elizabeth was criticised for not scheduling a stop at the Aus-
This did not stop the Queen enjoying close ties to and loyalty from British Jews. She also met with many visiting Israeli dignitaries during her decades on the throne.
Queen Elizabeth II enjoyed a long and warm relationship with the British Jewish community, from the start of her reign in 1952 through her final years.
chwitz concentration camp. In a lastminute addition to her itinerary, she instead visited and laid a wreath at a Jewish memorial at Umschlagplatz in Warsaw, where Jews were rounded up and transported to the Treblinka extermination camp.
On her last o cial foreign trip, Queen Elizabeth travelled to Germany in 2015, visiting Berlin, Frankfurt and Celle. She made her first visit to a concentration camp, laying a wreath at Bergen-Belsen and meeting Holocaust survivors at the site. After listening to their stories she responded: “It must have been horrific.”
of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. Those were not, however, o cial visits.
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An anonymous British government o cial told the Daily Telegraph in 2015 that: “Until there is a settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the royal family can’t really go there.” The o cial claimed that “in Israel so much politics is caught up in the land itself that it’s best to avoid those complications altogether by not going there”.
On the same occasion, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis praised the Queen’s “70 glorious years of leadership” and “her humility, her sense of duty, the service that she gives to the nation”.
as the patron of the UK Holocaust Memorial Day Trust from its establishment in 2005 until she passed it on to Prince Charles in 2015.
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Throughout her decades as head of state, Queen Elizabeth cultivated amicable ties with Jewish communal figures as well as cordial relations with Israeli leaders. But though she paid o cial visits to dozens of countries throughout her tenure, she never visited the State of Israel.
Prince Philip had made a personal visit to Israel in 1994 to honour his mother, Princess Alice of Greece, who is buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. And Charles visited in 1995 and 2016 to attend the funerals
In 2000, the Queen inaugurated Britain’s first permanent memorial to the Holocaust, although a year later she skipped attending the nation’s first o cial Holocaust Memorial Day due to scheduling restraints, sending Prince Charles instead. She served
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The Queen inspired enormous loyalty among UK Jews hosted Jewish and Israeli leaders, deeply never visited Israel, writes Amy Spiro
He considers her pose with her head down to be one of humility and reflection. “That Prince Philip’s head is also dipped dutifully in his painting unites them in their roles and as husband and wife. As a public, we’re more demanding of seeing the emotional side of the royal family, but we want them to have a certain distance and to be elevated,” suggests Heimans. “The Queen managed to navigate that balance so well; it was remarkable.”
Much like the Queen’s portrait, that of Charles now marks a period in history, as in his address last Thursday, the new King mentioned the way his commitments to causes will change in his new role.
This was never in doubt, but his standing as a royal portraitist was fortified at the Accession Council ceremony at St James’s Palace on Saturday as his portrait of Prince Philip provided the backdrop. “It was there behind all the privy councillors lining up to sign the proclamation for King Charles III. It was amazing, There was a rush to try to see it on TV but, as I was in Australia, there was a bit of a catch-up. Then images came through from people who photographed their TV screens.”
Heimans was served cucumber sandwiches on his visit and the Queen did not join him. This did not, however, diminish the honour of spending 60 minutes with her in the Yellow Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace, where he studied and sketched her to enable him to produce her image and set it in the abbey, despite the two of them not being there together.
An hour with the Queen in the Yellow Drawing Room will always remind one Jewish artist of his time at the palace
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Heimans with his monumental portrait of Elizabeth II, showing her alone, with her head down, in Westminster Abbey
“And the painting is large – 9ft by 11ft – because I wanted it to be immersive, so the viewers actually feel like they are in the pres-
Ralph Heimans’ portraits of the late Prince Philip, left, and of Prince Charles, now King Charles III
Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022
After her death, Heimans’ painting recreates an emotional experience that can never happen again. “It’s the sort of painting that will accumulate di erent meanings as time passes, which is a remarkable thing. I do feel, in some way, part of history,” he says.
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“I’ve had this sort of heavy, sad feeling since I heard. I feel very removed from the situation emotionally, which is di cult. But we’re all grieving collectively, aren’t we?”
technique impressed Prince Philip as Heimans watched him react to the vividness of the portrait. “It was incredible. He sort of gasped. We ended up chatting for about an hour about the painting, which was really nice. It was lovely.”
alph Heimans went to bed last Wednesday night worrying about the Queen. He had seen news bulletins about the royal family heading to Balmoral and knew this was a bad sign. “She’d had these sort of spells before and recovered,” he says. “Her mother lived to the age of 101, so I just thought she would go on for longer. It was a shock to wake up to the news.”
The Australian royal portraitist is in Sydney, in what is his first visit to see family since Covid restrictions were lifted, but he desperately wishes he had been in England when Elizabeth II passed.
At an audience with Charles when the painting was completed, Heimans recalls:
ence of the Queen. People will look at it di erently now, as she is standing in the abbey where the funeral will take place and she will have her final resting place.”
“I sort of got an insight into his genuine passion. And during the sitting, we talked about the arts throughout the city. As Prince of Wales, he was freer to discuss issues he believes in. This was not the case for the Queen, who could not give opinions. Conversation with her was much more polite as you would expect.”
In his portrait, the Queen is wearing ceremonial robes and standing alone in the abbey. “I wanted that feeling of her being all alone in a vast space because she led a singular life,” Heimans explains. “I wanted to express the burden of o ce she faced so well, and she is standing on the spot where I imagined she made her oath and where she was crowned.
Heimans is right about that, but for him the loss is slightly more personal than for many of her subjects because she was his subject when he painted her o cial portrait for the Diamond Jubilee. The painting hangs permanently in the galleries in Westminster Abbey, a fact that has always been thrilling for the artist but, on 8 September, it took on deeper significance.
“Painting him at that time really did highlight his genuine work ethic,” says Heimans. “I could see from all the people I spoke to just how devoted he was to those causes. He was working around the clock. It was a real passion. And he might miss that. It will be a period of readjustment.”
“I showed him some of the working drawings and gifted them to the collection. But then he really opened up. He had just come back from a conference where he’d seen some new technology that could help break down plastic in the ocean. He was so excited about it.
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Heimans has taken his children, Ellie Rose, 12, and Hannah, 11, to see his portrait of the late Queen, and they can still remember their father creating it, even though they were very young at the time. “I think it left an impression on them,” says Heimans. Much like the woman in the painting, who is framed in his memory.
He has painted many European royals and adopting the old masters’ style and
Based on his track record, there is a likelihood of Heimans being asked to paint Charles as king, having already been commissioned to capture the then Prince of Wales on his 70th birthday. That painting is at the HQ of the Prince’s Trust in Dumfries House, Ayrshire. Unlike the portraits of his mother and father, Charles is presented in civilian dress and the focus of the art is on his life and the causes he cares about.
For the royal portraitist, a time to reflect
Heimans, who lives between London and Australia, says of his background: “We’re just a regular, Jewish, middle-class family. I don’t even have a particular connection to the UK beyond the Queen being our head of state and part of our lives for so long. But, as a painter, royal portraiture by the old masters has been one of my great loves.”
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The judge said that when the rabbis confronted him, Grynhaus “merely asked, in an unemotional and businesslike way, what they wanted you to do”.
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“He’s entitled to his liberty. This isn’t about vengeance. It’s about whether children in the Jewish community of Greater Manchester and elsewhere are safe. I don’t believe they are.”
Released abuser
Grynhaus, 57, from Salford, was caught by his wife abusing girls aged 13-16. The son of a prominent rabbi, he fled to Israel on a false passport but Israeli border o cers snagged him and turned him around to face trial in the UK. He finally came before a judge in 2015.
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Grynhaus had “relied on a prevailing attitude of insularity”, said the judge, adding that this had made police involvement unlikely. “You hoped that, at worst, you would have to pay a form of financial penalty as directed by the Beth Din… You almost got away with Yehudisit.”Goldsobel, who provided support to the victims, said the rabbis did not report Grynhaus because they considered that he was sorry. “It only came to light because the victims spoke to the police,” she added.The judge said one of the victims had “received messages to the e ect that if she gave evidence for the prosecution, she could have no hope of ever marrying”.
Yehudis Fletcher, who heads anti-extremism charity Nahamu, was one of three children abused by Todros Grynhaus for several years from 2002. She voiced particular concern about the safety of children in Manchester.
keep him out of these exclusion zones in the meantime?” asked Fletcher. “Nobody’s going to report him. This is someone who, in his recent parole assessments, was found not to have expressed any regret about what he did.”
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He was freed in May, after serving just over half his 13-year term, and remains under licence until the end of 2023, when a five-year extended licence kicks in.
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In his summation, the trial judge, Mr Justice Holroyde, said the girls had been “additionally vulnerable because they had been brought up in the Charedi community and had therefore been insulated against any form of sex education or exposure to sexualGrynhausimages”.admitted his conduct to Rabbis Zimmerman and Miller in 2011, after his wife found him in his underpants in one of the girls’ bedrooms late at night.
Last year, justice secretary Dominic Raab sought to have Grynhaus’s jail time extended, but the request was refused, leaving Fletcher “worried about whether I’ll bump into him” in the street.
biggest strictly Orthodox communities of north London and north Manchester. It is understood that he is also banned from entering Gateshead.
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allegations were reported to the police, many in your community were taken in by your lying protestations of innocence,” saying the victims had “been portrayed as the ones who have done wrong”.
The victim of a convicted Charedi paedophile has said he continues to pose a risk to Jewish children in strictly Orthodox communities in the UK, despite being released from prison under strict conditions, writes Adam Decker.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse considered the 2015 sentencing of Todros Grynhaus, who was convicted of several counts of serious sexual assault against two girls in Manchester, aged 13 and 15, for whom he was in a position of care.
“He was only supposed to be there for about two weeks –it was on him to provide an address he would move on to, but he kept providing inappropriate addresses, such as one near a kids’ holiday park,” she said. “A holiday park. Can you imagine?”Victims are typically includeno-goForaresexwheremapsexclusiongivenshowingchildoendersbanned.Grynhaus,zonesthe
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She told Jewish News her attacker had been in a halfway house since May but has now left this temporary accommodation, adding that his current whereabouts were unknown.
Fletcher has “not heard a crumb” from rabbis or community leaders in recent months. “No one has called to say, ‘How can we support you?’ There’s been nothing.”
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Na’amod initially said it looked into claims and found not evidence it had responded by sending a “master doc for venues” to Gregson, an expelled former GMB shop steward who accused Israel of “exaggerating” the Nazis’ murder of six million Jews.
the BDS campaign, ignoring legal guidance and the democratic structures of the SU.
The commission said it had made no findings at this time, and the charity is not the subject of a statutory inquiry.
The Charity Commission has opened an “ongoing case” into City University Student Union, relating to an attempt to drop the IHRA definition of antisemitism and launch a BDS campaign when Shaima Dallali – now the suspended NUS leader – was the president, writes Lee Harpin.
City University said it would not be commenting. City SU did not respond to our request for comment. Dallali has been contacted for comment.
Rebecca Tuck QC has been conducting an inquiry into antisemitism claims against both Dallali and the NUS as an institution. It is thought to be the first time in the 100-year history of NUS that its president has been suspended.
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The decision not to proceed with the anti-Israel boycott was backed at the City SU annual general meeting. But Dallali, suspended two weeks ago from her NUS president’s role amid an independent QC-led probe into antisemitism claims, is alleged to have decided to go ahead with
Jewish News revealed earlier this year that she had posted inflammatory comments on Twitter in 2014, for which she has apologised. But it is understood that the new evidence was deemed strong enough to suspend her as president.
to an email sent by Gregson on 7 July asking for help finding venues for a speaking tour featuring individuals deeply hostile to Israel such as Dr Azam Tamimi and the leader of Neturei Karta. Gregson wrote: “Would you be able to give me some support? …ideally organising suitable venues. We would like to visit evert city where there is a sizable Muslim population…. would Na’amod be able to help in any way?”
Collier’s investigation suggested their response, sent the following day, read: “Hi Pete. That all sounds really good. We actually have a master doc for venues that we use when organising events I’ve attached to this email.”
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A further complaint was made over City SU’s decision in December to proceed with a campaign to boycott Israeli companies.
Probe into student union led by Dallali
City SU operates as an independent charitable body separate from the acclaimed City University.
A spokesperson for the Charity Commission confirmed to Jewish News: “We are aware of these concerns and have an ongoing case into City, University of London Students’ Union. We are engaging with the trustees.”
It is understood that a meeting of the City SU board is to take place this week to discuss the investigation into the charity.
An NUS disciplinary board will make a final recommendation on action to be taken following the inquiry by Tuck. This is expected in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, Jewish News has learned that Dallali’s suspension followed yet further evidence of alleged antisemitism. Sources confirmed that this evidence did not involve historic social media posts.
Na’amod apology for helping denier
British Jewish organisation Na’amod has admitted a “member of our team” was responsible for an email sent to disgraced antisemite Pete Gregson o ering to help him find venues for a lecture
Jewish News understands that a complaint has been made to the commission after City SU’s board of trustees, chaired at the time by Dallali, announced a referendum in March 2021 into whether the university should drop its adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.
But in a new statement Na’amod now admits: “We have completed a investigation and have concluded that the email was sent by a member of our team, who is no longer in their position. We o er our unreserved and sincere apologies that this happened.”
Na’amod protest against Israel’s envoy
Lady (Elaine) Sacks said her husband would have loved to have been at the event.
admitting the settlement “comes at considerable financial cost”.
Isaac Herzog has predicted Lord Sacks’ teachings will con tinue to transform dialogue in the Jewish world as his legacy “grows from generation to generation”, writes Justin Cohen in Jerusalem.
The size of the payment sug gests JVL has had to pay both costs and damages.
Ware began the claim after JVL’s response to broadcast of the Panorama programme that investigated antisemitism in Labour under Corbyn.
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The Jewish Voice For Labour group, its co-founder Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi and website editor Richard Kuper have set tled and apologised in a libel case brought by journalist John Ware, writes Lee Harpin.
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However, JVL has issued an appeal on the Crowd Justice website for £200,000 after
life and bringing the reality of Israel to Jews abroad. “There are millions of Jews who still don’t understand what Israel is all about,” he said, leaving them open to being turned off by misinformation.Thegathering enjoyed a moving performance from musician Ehud Banai and was addressed by Prof David Latchman, chair of the Wohl Legacy, who said it was fitting to be honouring a great British Jewish leader in the week the country mourns the Queen.
Ware confirmed to Jewish News the case had been settled, adding: “There will be a full apology made to me in open court next month.”
The group added: “The legal costs we had to incur in order to bring about a successful settle ment cannot be disclosed but are considerable and have to be paid in a very short space of time.”
Israel’s president fol lowed Tony Blair in taking part in the latest in a series of public events known as The Sacks Conversation, aimed at exploring his impact on the community as beyond.
The event at the president’s residence in Jerusalem was organised by the Rabbi Sacks Legacy and sponsored by the WohlYairLegacy.Lapid, Natan Sharansky, former Chief Rabbi Israel Lau and Naftali Ben nett all took part in a tribute video. Bennett described Lorod Sacks as a “proud Jew who made others proud to be Jewish. He always had the courage to stand up for Israel even when it wasn’t so popular. He was always there for us.”
The president, who enjoyed a close relationship with Lord Sacks over many years, stressed that there was a job to be done in educating Israelis about the reality of Diaspora
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JVL argued that Wimborne-Idrissi’s words were merely honest opinion. However, a judge ruled she had asserted them as if they were fact.
Asked if he had been awarded damages, the BBC Panorama reporter said the terms of the settlement did not allow him to disclose details.
JVL declined to give a break down of the payment.
Herzog was interviewed in front of an audience of 200 by Dr Erica Brown, director of the Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University.
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encouraged “debate” -–but stressed that that shouldn’t come at the expense of unity.
The day after transmission, WimborneIdrissi, JVL’s media officer, told Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show Ware had “ a terrible record of Islamophobia, far right politics, he’s been dis ciplined... BBC has had to apologise”. She also wrote on Facebook that Ware was a journalist with a “record of right-wing, racist work”.
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A statement tweeted by the pro-Jeremy Corbyn group read: “Mediation in the case brought by John Ware against Jewish Voice for Labour and two of its officers has now occurred and we can announce that terms of settlement have been agreed, including an apology from Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi and JVL for defamatory statements made on The Jeremy Vine Show and included in a Facebook post which we reproduced on our website on 15 July 2019.”
“We should keep knowing the other. We are all human beings and members of one great nation.” He urged Israel’s supporters – as Lord Sacks did – to get out the message of the country’s contribution from bringing water to parts of the world that desperately need it to innovation in medicine.
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PM’s human rights
Mond, who as reported by Jewish News quit his Board of Deputies role earlier this year ahead of an investigation into historic posts about Islam, was joined by former Brexit Party MEP Lance Forman, who also donated £10,000 to the new prime minister’s campaign, using the name ‘Smoked Salmon’.
Fitriani Hay, wife of horse-racing figure James Hay, gave £100,000, the biggest indi vidualFormerdonation.Jewish Leadership Council chief Sir Mick Davis is revealed to have donated £25,000
“All these aspects have a resonance for the Jewish com munity, particularly through the lived experience and his tory of past persecution and genocide. We urge MPs to vote against this regressive Bill.”
Both communal figures were among the list of names donating a total of £424,349. Shore Capital investment banker Howard Shore, a long-time Conservative Party donor, is also revealed to have given £50,000.
René Cassin executive director Mia Hasenson-Gross said the organisation’s con cerns “reflect our Jewish beliefs, values and history” and urged the government instead to maintain the Human Rights Act, introduced under prime minister Tony Blair in 1998.
to rival Rishi Sunak’s unsuccessful campaign, which raised £449,570.
Kosher baker Jonnie Grodzinski is retiring after 53 years, having sold the two remaining stores he operated in London.TheGrodzinski family have served the community since 1888 and at one stage had shops across north-west London, Stamford Hill and in the centre of the Grodzinski,capital.73,is understood to have sold his last stores in Edgware and Golders Green to Yossi Mozes of Yossi Bakers Edgware, who took over the Carmelli store in Golders Green in 2019. One of the Grodzinski stores recently returned to Golders Green after being renamed Grodz.
reading in parliament next week, but multiple news out lets reported on Wednesday it had been scrapped.
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A Bill was due for a second
Mond, who set up the National Jewish Assembly after quitting the Board in April, has posted a photo of himself with the new PM taken at a Conservative Friends of Israel leader ship event last month.
Considered the premier kosher bakers in London, and the oldest, Grodzinski and his wife Rozi are widely recog nised as an institution among London’s Jews. Confirming his retirement online, he said messages had been sent from all over the world to congratulate him and his family for their work in the community. He was also praised for
Grodzinski is to call it a dough U-turn
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She the bill “results in mar ginalisation, threatens the right to freedom of religion and prevents human rights
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It would also make it harder for people to challenge deci sions made by public authori ties, the charity added.
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The Liz Truss leadership campaign was given a £10,000 donation by communal figure Gary Mond, the newly-published MPs register of interests has confirmed.
The proposed Bill of Rights, a Conservative manifesto commitment, would have given the Supreme Court legal supremacy over the Euro pean Court of Human Rights, allowing British courts to dis regard the ECHR’s rulings.
Liz Truss has shelved plans to reform UK human rights law, hours after a leading Jewish charity joined calls for the government to abandon the proposals.Thecharity René Cassin said the Bill of Rights, a flag ship policy under former jus tice secretary Dominic Raab, would reduce people’s rights rather than strengthen them.
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“I’m delighted to be the first deputy leader of a major UK political party who is Jewish,” Polanski told Jewish News. “I ran, and will continue to lead, on a platform of environmental and social justice. This is also completely aligned with Jewish values which encompass both community and protecting the planet.”
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While the Board did not confirm Bennett was responsible for the tweets, it ruled he had “allowed” them to be sent.
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account had “waged a campaign of anonymous abuse and harassment against me and others involved in the Labour antisemitism issues.” The account repeatedly posted tweets in defence of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
“I was proud to co-propose with fellow Jewish Green members last year comprehensive antisemitism guidance. This guidance passed overwhelmingly at conference and further underlines our party is an inclusive, progressive space for all.”
Bennett had previously apologised for any o ence caused by the account and claimed he did not support or endorse any attacks on Wagner and others.
The Board concluded Bennett’s association with the account was likely to diminish the trust and confidence in him and the profession. Bennett worked at
Polanski secured 42 percent of the first-preference votes, and emerged victorious after two more rounds of counting with 51 percent of the poll after other contenders were eliminated.
In a decision taken on 5 September, the Board reprimanded Bennett and fined him £500 over his conduct. He was given 21 days to appeal the decision.
Another said: “Every day platformed jews from the self-appointed ‘mainstream’ direct hatred at leftist Jews. Every day they misrepresented facts. Every day they pretend that leftist jews are antisemitic.”
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In one tweet, the account accused Wagner of being a “lying propagandist who brings shame on our entire community” and suggested his claims on antiJewish racism were “fraudulent”.
A further tweet claimed Wagner “is an absolute danger and a hater of leftist jews. Would not go near him with a barge pole”.
Wagner said in 2019 the @arrytuttle
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After the election result was confirmed, Polanski was revealed to have beaten o the challenge of three rivals in the election to replace outgoing deputy leader Amelia Womack.
The account, which targeted activists campaigning against antisemitism in the Labour Party, including Countdown TV presenter Rachel Riley and actress TracyAnn Oberman, was later deleted.
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Human rights lawyer Adam Wagner
Wagner tweeted: “This has all been incredibly stressful ... I’m not going to say anything more about it for now.”
Doughty Street Chambers at the same time as Wagner but left in 2019 over his account links and is now self-employed.
Members of the Green Party of England and Wales have elected Jewish London Assembly member Zack Polanski as the party’s deputy leader.
In July 2020, it emerged that the High Court had told him to hand over deleted tweets and reveal whether anyone else had access to the account. It was also reported that Bennett “admits responsibility” for the @arrytuttle account and “legal liability” for it, according to statements given to the court, but refused to say whether he wrote all the allegedly defamatory tweets.
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Responding to concerns that the Greens had become a party of choice for some of those expelled from Labour over allegations including antisemitism, he told Jewish News: “The Green Party has a clear and well publicised code of conduct for all members and there’s no place for antisemitism in our party.
The Bar Standards Board confirmed Daniel Bennett, himself Jewish, had been sanctioned over “inappropriate and o ensive” tweets sent between September 2018 and June 2019 from the @arrytuttle account to barrister Wagner.
A barrister has been reprimanded and fined over social media posts accusing leading Jewish human rights lawyer Adam Wagner of fabricating claims about antisemitism, writes Lee Harpin.
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L’Chaim paintings include medieval Lincoln, a wedding, Jews by the seaside, and Jewish hotels and guesthouses in Bournemouth. Beyond the Ashes includes images of Poland, Moldova and Romania.
The L’Chaim paintings, which will go on display in the NHCM co ee shop after the mourning period for the Queen, feature colourful depictions of British synagogues, many no longer in use. The works show the artist’s visions of congregations in London, Brighton, Liverpool, Blackpool, Leeds, Plymouth, Sunderland, and Glasgow, plus depictions of the old East End of London and old Jewish Lincoln.
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A unique ceremony is due to take place in Berlin’s Jewish Museum to mark the 70th anniversary of the Luxembourg Agreements, the groundbreaking treaty on compensation payments from the then Federal Republic of Germany to Holocaust survivors and reparations to the state of Israel, writes Jenni Frazer.
money will be spent in Israel, while €70m will be spent in other countries worldwide.Theanniversary will be hosted by German Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner and Chancellor Olaf Scholz with leaders of the Claims Conference and Israel’s Minister for Social Equality Meirav Cohen.
An NHCM spokesman said the aim “is to show that Jews have long been part of British
Beyond the Ashes and L’Chaim showcase the work of London Jewish artist BeverleyJane Stewart, renowned for fantastically detailed paintings of a central image with tiny “stories” placed around the main picture.
Gideon Taylor, the Claims Conference president, said: “This historic event, the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Luxembourg Agreements, is cause for commemoration and“Thereflection.extermination of European Jews by the Nazis left an horrific chasm not only in global Jewry, but in
global humanity. These agreements laid the groundwork for compensation and restitution for those survivors who had lost everything.
Two worlds — one lost, the other fading — will be on show in a ground-breaking exhibition pairing at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum in Nottinghamshire to mark Rosh Hashanah, writes Jenni Frazer.
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“They also continue to serve as the foundation for the ongoing negotiations on behalf of the estimated 280,00 Holocaust survivors living around the world.”
society. These paintings are not new. But they will be of real news value to our typical Nottinghamshire visitors who often think of Jewish people as some unknown and exotic ‘other’ and will be amazed there are Jewish communities in some of the places” on display.
The second collection, Beyond The Ashes, in the Centre’s Memorial Hall features works Stewart created during the Covid lockdown, using an entirely di erent process of etching on zinc plates. The works, showing remnants of eastern European synagogues after the Holocaust, will be displayed publicly in the UK for the first time. They have previously been shown only in Rishon l’Zion, in Israel.
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Stewart said: “Covid started me thinking about how you couldn’t connect, couldn’t go to places, but people were spiritually connecting — and that during the Holocaust, people were unable to practice their religion in freedom but among the ruins, their spirit survived.”
Payments boost due at Luxembourg Agreements ceremony
There was a connection, she added, between the way she created the work — the corrosion of metal plates — and the ruined buildings of the Holocaust, and she was particularly interested in showing Jews were not only victims, but had a vibrant life before and after theNHCMwar.. director Marc Cave said: “Beverley-Jane Stewart’s art addresses the great dualities of Jewish history and here at the Museum our mission is to place the Holocaust in this context. The Holocaust is a defining chapter in an ongoing story, both good and bad.”
New agreements will be announced at the event, including emergency humanitarian payments of €12m to 8,500 Ukrainian Holocaust survivors, and — from next January — an increase of €130m in home care for those survivors who depend on in-home services to manage their day-to-day life. Almost half the
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Israel in talks with Qatar over status of World Cup fans
Israel has advanced a plan to build 700 new flats in a suburb of Jerusalem opponents say encroaches on a Palestinian village straddling the country’s pre-1967 lines.
country, but Doha reportedly rebu ed the proposal. Qatar hosted an Israeli trade o ce from 1995 to 2000, but is seen as being unlikely to join other Gulf states in establishing full ties with Israel because of its own relationship to Iran.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino (left) with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog
The statement does not mention ‘war’ or ‘invasion’, terms which can carry legal risk in Russia, nor does it name Ukraine, but can be construed as disapproval of the conflict.
Israeli media reports in April indicated that the National Security Council was considering warning citizens against attending the World Cup amid fears they could be targets for Iran or its proxies.
Other clergy have backed the war, including the Russian Orthodox Church patriarch, who justified it on spiritual and ideological grounds, blessed Russian soldiers going into battle and dismissed Ukrainian national identity.
A planning and building committee approved plans for a new neighbourhood, called Givat Shaked, to include high-rise buildings up to the edge of Beit Safafa — a village that was
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More than 75 Chabad-a liated rabbis from across Russia have issued a politically fraught plea for an end to the bloodshed in Ukraine.
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Direct contact is under way between Israel and Qatar so Israeli fans attending the football World Cup in November can receive consular assistance.
The report said talks on coordination for the tournament were ongoing, despite the two nations having no formal diplomaticAccordingrelations.to Kan, Qatar has asked Israel that Palestinians also be allowed to travel to the tournament, with the Gulf nation hoping to use its high
In a statement, they said: “We pray that no more blood be spilled, and call upon people of good conscience everywhere to help aid those in need, including refugees, and end the su ering.”
Israel announced earlier this year it had reached an agreement with world body FIFA whereby Israeli fans would be able to travel to Qatar for the tournament.SeniorIsraeli o cials have now visited Qatar for talks to coordinate plans ahead of the event, according to public broadcaster Kan.
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It is surely no coincidence that her 70-year long reign coincided with an unprecedented period of stability for UK Jewry.
You state that the Cold War is not likely to be within the living memory of those under 40. It would also be appropriate to make refer ence to a highly relevant group that might not be remembered by those under the age of 55, namely the London-based Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry, which was known as The 35s and which was the Brit ish backbone behind the campaigns in support of the Soviet refuseniks.
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I am not convinced that the proposed toastrack sculpture will have a similar meaning, or that placing it outside parliament will help the Jewish community to combat antisemitism,
Like Brummer, I am also a descendant of refu gees and Holocaust survivors and have “intimate Shoah experience”. I am a committed Jew and Israel supporter. Yet I am staunchly opposed to this memorial. By all means let’s have a reasoned debate about this, but please don’t resort to emo tional blackmail to support your argument.
Now, with the accession of Charles III to the throne, we should be grateful to live a country with a monarchy that offers both hope and stability to the Jews who reside here. God save the King.
especially as it has already provoked an outcry from those who wish to preserve the small, Grade II-listed green space. I agree that London needs a permanent memorial but I reserve the right to express the view – without being de nounced – that it should be sited elsewhere.
Kay Bagon, Radlett
I take exception to such remarks. As a sup porter of Israel and an active member of my synagogue, I am still uncomfortable with the proposed enormous sculpture outside parliament. Many survivors are also unhappy about it. While the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, with its 2,711 concrete slabs, was also very controversial, I found wandering between the huge slabs a powerful experience.
In her dealings with our community, whether it was meeting with leaders, with Holocaust survivors, or with those who simply wanted to wish her well, the late Queen always appeared interested, compassionate and supportive.
Mr Windsor attacks Harpin’s article as a “propaganda piece”. After a talmudic search of Harpin’s piece, I couldn’t find anything which explains Mr Windsor’s vitriolic assault.
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On her passing, and as the new Prayer for the Royal Family was recited in synagogues across the UK last Shabbat, we reflected on the life of a monarch who was an ever-present inspiration for the vast majority of us.
It would be helpful if he could provide some evidence to substantiate his position.
I was shocked to find myself described by your columnist Alex Brummer as “join[ing] the UN anti semites and Israel haters who oppose the National Holocaust Memorial”.
Fraser SouthgateMichaelson,
Minor concerns, such as the Queen’s failure to visit Israel during her reign, seemed of little importance when we reflected on the bigger picture, espe cially when we consider that the new King has visited several times, most recently in 2020, when he attended the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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I was gobsmacked to read the report in last week’s issue about a Jewish family who left Ukraine to move to a West Bank settlement. You’d think they’d had enough upheaval for one lifetime. One could argue that the father’s reasoning for the move, that “the state of Israel will develop its borders to those defined by the Bible”, has just a little ideologically in common with the reasoning behind President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Letter writer James Windsor attacked Lee Harpin’s recent report in Jewish News on the subject of life in Hebron and the group Breaking the Silence, in which former members of the IDF relate their experiences of working in the occupied territories.
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Well done on an excellent editorial in the 1 September edition (Bringing Russia in from the cold), regarding Mikhail Gorbachev.
As Defender of the Faith, as supreme governor of the Church of England as she is officially titled, and as a devout Christian, the Queen also offered the impression that she considered the responsibility to defend those of other faiths as one of her most important duties.
Your columnist Alex Brummer writes that his father’s generation were refugees or survivors of the Shoah with horrific stories of captivity and violence. He, therefore, finds it incomprehensible that some Jews should think it ac ceptable to join the “UN antisemites and Israel haters”, who oppose the National Holocaust Memorial at Victoria Palace Gardens.
For Britain’s Jews, and indeed all who live in this country, from which ever religious background – if any – they come, Queen Elizabeth II was a truly great monarch.
It definitely had an impact, and meant that many in my genera tion learned a great deal about the plight of Soviet Jewry.
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She was 13 when the Second World War broke out, and knew first-hand the threat Hitler posed to the whole of Europe – particularly to Jews. Although she and her sister were evacuated during the nightly bombing raids over London, when Princess Elizabeth turned 18, in 1944, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, taking a personal role in the country’s defence.
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traditionally asks says Yitzi. occurred
in turn would ask lots more people to donate.”
Walters meets a fundraiser who had an extra-clever idea
At first, CharityExtra was steadily doing three or four campaigns a month and then the pandemic hit, cancelling out all in-person events. Yitzi’s platform then became a lifeline for charities and has raised just over £300 million in three years. It has achieved some remarkable seven-figure
At first, CharityExtra worked only with Jewish charities (“you need the community behind you”), but now many non-Jewish charities use it too, including food banks and animal charities. The business employs 20 people in the UK and a further 18 people in the US, Israel Australia, Belgium, Canada and Switzerland. Among them are expert fundraisers, who work with the charities for two or three months on their prelaunch campaign. The money goes straight to the charity’s account and no data is held by CharityExtra. “We take care of absolutely everything, but it is a partnership,”
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Yitzi had taken on a team of developers to build technology for the furniture business. He explains: “I was involved with some online fundraising, which didn’t work that well, and it dawned on me I could ask this team to work with me to create something better.”
furniture manufacturing business, Yitzi became a regular attendee at charity gala dinners. He was aware of how dependent the charities were on key donors to be table hosts and get people through the door. But he felt that drawing on the same pool of people all the time was not the best way.
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t Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Jews across the world stand together in their communities and commit to improve themselves and help others. This is a highly significant time for charities and, for many, it is when a large chunk of annual income is raised.
“A table traditionallyhostasks 10 people to a dinner,” says Yitzi. “It occurred to me that if the fundraising moved out of hotel ballrooms and onto an online platform, lots of people could become ‘virtual’ table hosts and they
But charity doesn’t just happen at Kol Nidre. It’s a year-round thing – and whether it’s a simple email request from a friend running the marathon or a glossy invitation to a gala dinner, the chances are you’ll be asked to give money to charity several times a Yitziyear.Bude, 36, (inset), grew up in a north London home where charity was a buzzword. His lawyer father, Mendy, was a trustee for many charities and did a lot of pro bono work. Yitzi learned how important charity was to the community. As he established a successful
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their own individual fundraising page and no one has to give up an evening or sit through a dinner or speeches.
Many campaigns are matched, meaning that the charity approaches its major donors, who agree to double the donations. “It’s very e ective when people give an amount and immediately see it doubled,” says Yitzi. “The average donation is 30 percent higher.”
CharityExtra was launched in October 2019. Working then only with his development team, Yitzi reached out to a large number of charities and found that many were interested. One of the first to use the platform was Menorah High School for Girls in north-west London. It had been planning a gala dinner and a had a target of £250,000. It pivoted to a CharityExtra online campaign and raised £400,000. Each parent was asked to be a ‘team leader’. They in turn asked friends and family for support and all donations were made online.
sums for organisations such as Community Security Trust and Chai Cancer Care, but it’s not just for large organisations. “It’s great for smaller charities, which don’t have the back-up or infrastructure to do any fundraising, especially as there is no upfront cost.”
Yitzi believes online fundraising is the way forward.
“Face-to-face gatherings are still important, but only for key donors. Camp Simcha used to hold a gala dinner for 1,000 people – now it can reach 24,000 donors in 24 hours. “It’s all about the ask. There is no better way of fundraising than through connections, because people like to give to people.”
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Tony’s method of production is rather primitive and something one might expect to find Ray Mears setting up on one of his adventures. Unlike Mears, Tony does not catch the prey himself; no, I get it from Kosher Deli, but he manages his craft without any help from mod cons.
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Tony’s food only manages to serve the Jacobs family and various friends to whom I sneak a bit out in an envelope, but there is a kosher smoker doing his thing on a much larger scale here in London.Andrew Krausz, who some might know as an aviation lawyer, is an epicure and a professional smoker. Marketed only on Facebook, Instagram and by word of mouth, his Hendon-based glatt kosher passion project, Blue Smoke, supplies large quantities of smoked meat and fish to London’s carnivores on a weekly basis. If you want to order some, get in there quick as he sells out every single week. In fact, so sought after are his wares that he once had them lovingly chau eured in a climate-controlled box by private jet to a superyacht just six hours after they left his smoker. (Yes, I did try to get out of him who it was, but his lips were sealed.)
Krausz has had no formal chef training, but has always loved food – cooking it and eating it. In fact, it is not just about the meat as he has cooked for and hosted fine dining-themed evenings for world-renowned kosher winemakers and restaurateurs. Food is his passion and he is firmly intent on “making kosher better”.
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He proudly tells me: “My product is totally unique in that it is completely random. Borrowing from biltong, jerky and any other styles of smoking or drying that you can think of, I never get quite the same result twice. I use three sticks tied together in a tripod, wrapped with a piece of repurposed material to keep the smoke in with whatever wood comes to hand in a recycled colander.”
In North America, smoked meat is generally Montrealstyle – a bit of a cross between what the Americans call pastrami and corned beef (salt beef to we Brits). Andrew first tried smoked meat at Chicago kosher smokehouse Milt’s and the rest is history.Andrew told us about Izzy’s in New York, owned by Izzy Edelman, which, when I looked at the menu, came up as too far for UberEats to deliver to Stanmore.
Ari White of Wandering Que is another American smoker. Starting in Texas, he now has
Andrew told us about
A er her husband Tony caught the smoking bug – smoking meat, that is – Angie Jacobs investigated the movers and shakers in the industry and discovered some surprising facts
y husband has a hobby from which we all benefit. He smokes… meat. Not only does it keep him quiet and amused for whole days at a time, but he produces extremely delicious strips of chewy (in a good way) steak that go down really rather well with a smooth glass of wine (or any other alcoholic drink really). He brings out cheeky morsels of this savoury treat at barbecues and family occasions to whoops of delight and cries of: “What? You really made this yourself, Tony?”
Meat from Andrew Krausz, an aviation solicitor, epicure and professional smoker based in Hendon
Tony Jacobs does it his way
Seth has recently acquired barrel that aged Bourbon for a decade years ageing breaking down drying the staves for lacón,
Blue Smoke produce is marketed only on Facebook, Instagram and by word of mouth
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Seth Kami, president and founder of Big Onion Walking Tours in New York, is a hobby smoker. He explained that the smoking of meat dates back thousands of years and is a form of preservation. It is also a way to make less flavoursome cuts/pieces taste better and cheap cuts softer and easier to eat. Americans take their meat smoking very seriously and, according to Seth, there are two basic rules: “low and slow”.
sweet flavour. That is some serious smoking.Me,I’macarnivore and not a fussy eater. I’m happy with a hot dog on a stick at a barmitzvah. However, we have ordered one of Blue Smoke’s grazing boards for our anniversary this month and I have to admit I am more than a little bit excited.
He uses a combination of well-dried wood and quality lump charcoal made from natural wood – hickory or cherry for beef and applewood for chicken.
cuts/pieces better and cheap cuts softer and easier made from natural wood and applewood for chicken.
A far cry laissez-faire attitude towards wood, Andrew showed me his stop at meat, producing such fishy treats as Loch Andrew Krausz and one of his grazing boards
Andrew also offers smoked fish, including gravadlax
Seth has recently acquired a used American oak barrel that aged Bourbon for a decade and then spent 12 years in the Caribbean ageing rum. Apparently after breaking down the barrel and drying the staves for six months, it imparts a uniquely
bers. If you join the Blue Smoke group, you will be able to access the menus and be taken into a world of dino ribs, lacón, duck breast and crispy burnt ends. He doesn’t stop at meat, producing such fishy treats as Loch Duart salmon gravadlax and Scottish steelhead trout pastrami. You want to get saucy? There’s a range of homemade condiments to pair with the main event. You won’t find Andrew’s goodies stocked in north-west London delis, but if you do happen to be in Holland Park, pop into Supermarket of Dreams and you may be lucky.
headquarters in New Jersey and serves communities across the United States. With catering events and food trucks part of his empire, I can definitely feel a Stateside trip coming on for our 30th anniversary – “it’s research for your hobby, Tony!”Afarcry from Tony and his attitude towards wood, Andrew showed me his wood ‘library’ at the bottom of his garden next to the smoke house. He gets his cherry, seasoned oak, plum, apple, pecan, whisky barrel oak and mesquite wood from an organic and sustainable forest supplier. A capable carpenter, too, he cuts and manufactures his own grazing boards. A little more sophisticated than Tony with his 2,500moregroupFacebookthathepermakeshowdiddemand.thercommonthedimethodsinthatcialhashighestmeasuredmarinades,ever-he-can-grab-from-the-fridgewhat-Andrewusesstrictlyrecipeswithonlythequalityingredients.Heimportedacommer-smokerfromtheUSisthesizeofawalk-freezer;noboyscoutforhim.Theirmethodsmayersomewhat,butwhattwosmokershaveinisthatnei-canmeettheirAndrewnotdisclosemuchheandsellsweek,butsharedhishasthanmem-
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here has always been something incredibly special about descending the steps towards the Western Wall, the view of goldenhued Jerusalem stone illuminated by the setting sun and the mood amplified by the melodies of worshippers transitioning from Mincha to Ma’ariv.
for lunch and dinner, and had our trip to Jerusalem been any longer, it would have been top of my list for a meal.
Top: The Roo op at Mamilla Hotel. Above: The lobby’s historic and contemporary architecture
The Mirror Bar, with its cigar lounge, is undergoing a refurb, but The Winery is open every evening, with a sommelier to help guests choose between the large number of local wines on o er. Happy Fish Mediterranean restaurant is the hotel’s dairy dining option; on a veranda overlooking the mall, it is home to the hotel’s succah every year. Both hotels are great for families and The David Citadel has ‘Funland’, which is an amazing children’s play centre. Mamilla guests can use this too, along with the outdoor pool (which is heated even in the winter), with a children’s pool alongside it. Nonetheless, the Mamilla’s indoor pool is the perfect spot for adults and children alike, and the sun deck invites guests to relax on a sun lounger overlooking the enchanting stage of the Ja a Gate and the Old City.
The pool area at the David Citadel
A stone’s throw away from the sanctuary of the Kotel lies the haven that is The David Citadel Hotel, where not only is every balcony set around a U-shape, providing charming views of the Old City, but the pool and open-air terrace boast the same beautiful spectacle. It’s a wonderful thing to be set back from the Old City but still be able to feel its ambience and energy. Come Succot, guests have the option to have a private succah erected on their balcony. I cannot think of a more special setting, directly facing theTheKotel.385-room hotel
not only adheres to the municipal law to use Jerusalem stone on the exterior, but carries it through the interior too, which complements the biblical imagery, mosaics and gold and silver motifs of the Old City that populate it. This carries through to the spacious, comfortable bedrooms with brilliantly well-equipped marble bathrooms with luxury toiletries (usually Bulgari).
By night, the same terrace transforms into Veranda: the newly-opened kosher in-house meat-concept restaurant. Executive chef Kfir Mysnikov has curated dishes so innovative and appetising that it was hard to whittle down our preferences. Cue the
Rooms at David Citadel start at £530 B&B. £420
enjoy a lazy breakfast under a shady awning and huge fans – for which we were incredibly grateful in the August heat. The breakfast comprises a copious selection of sweet and savoury treats, a fresh egg stand and a barista stand providing the perfect ca eine fix, elevated by the most beautiful co ee art by our fabulous waiter Samer, who even drew a portrait of me on my cappuccino foam!
The website describes its location as ‘literally at the crossroads of the city’s celebrated past and future’ and I couldn’t have put it better myself. The hotel decor echoes this, blending the historic (Jerusalem stone encompassing the lobby and rooms) and the modern (contemporary furniture and vibrant pops of colour). With four restaurants (in addition to bars and a lounge), we weren’t short on choice for a refreshment but, as if we hadn’t seen enough views of the Old City already, we decided a rooftop panorama wouldn’t hurt.
Once seated at a table sandwiched between a stylish well-stocked bar and an enchanting twilight landscape, we did what you’d expect of any millennial couple in our situation: ordered cocktails and took selfies against the backdrop. Aptly named Rooftop, it o ers a varied menu
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for 48 hours before being smoked in apple-tree charcoal for another 12 hours and then brought to your table complete with steamed buns, spicy lemon aioli, sauerkraut and a host of other accompaniments. The wine list features only Israeli wines, our choice being the Yatir Winery Mount Amasa red. Chocolate and caramel mousse was the perfect way to conclude such an outstanding meal. The poolside restaurant – Grill Bar – o ers the perfect balance of light snacks and more hearty lunches and the Lobby Lounge is the hotel’s main dairy restaurant. Seasons o ers an indoor destination for breakfast as well as weekly Shabbat dinners and Saturday lunches.TheDavidCitadel is located in the heart of the Mamilla neighbourhood. Alrov Mamilla Avenue, lined with boutiques, is a convenient link between the hotel and the Old City. It was at the end of a half-hour evening stroll along here that we ended up at Mamilla Hotel.
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By morning, the terrace invites guests to
Georgia Walters eats, drinks and sleeps the views of the Old City
Veranda restaurant with a view of the Old City
Veranda restaurant, where breakfast is also served
delightful, informative restaurant sta to take you through the quality cuts along with the fish and vegetarian options. Their guidance led us to ease ourselves in with the Pogacha – a pillowy olive focaccia accompanied by an array of sauces, our favourite being the aubergine tahini – and the refreshing and perfectly light red tuna tartare, served in lettuce cups on a platter of crushed ice. Then came the croissant Asado, which, despite our best e orts to savour, we quite simply devoured. The smoked asado beef served in a salty croissant with a smoked pepper aioli, pickled onion, curled lettuce, chimichurri and crispy leek was quite simply sensational. The sta thought I was joking when I declared that I wanted to repeat it for main and dessert. However, if there is one dish I implore you to save space for it is the Seoul smoked lamb, which feeds at least four people. The 1kg lamb shoulder is soaked in a citrus brine
With both hotels featuring wellness centres o ering spa treatments and gyms, Jerusalem provides an idyllic getaway whatever the season.
Dishes on o er at Veranda restaurant
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The husband-and-wife duo behind the renowned Honey & Co foodie brand have put together various delectable hampers. This deluxe version contains white and red kosher wine, a pomegranate tea towel and notebook, baharat-roasted cashew and pistachio nuts, honey cake, pomegranate-shaped sumac and vanilla biscuits, honey and a honey dipper. (NK). £150 https://shop.honeyandco.co.uk/collections/rosh-hashanah
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750ml hot vegetable stock
400ml vegetable stock – two tablespoons vegetable powder to 400ml water
320g ready-rolled pu pastry
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Uncomplicated and delicious dishes for the celebrations leave the hosts with plenty of time to enjoy themselves with their guests
1 tin chickpeas – drained
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3. Add the oil to the pan and, once it is hot, stir in the carrots, apples and celery. Fry for about five minutes, and then add the lentils, stock and coconut milk.
8. Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden. Top with the parsley and walnuts.
3. Add the onions and cook for three minutes or until so .
Prep time: 10 mins | Cooking time: 25mins
3. Line a baking tray with baking parchment.
Colourful, attractive and ideal for the forthcoming holidays. Enjoy hot, cold or warm as a starter or main course. Use non-dairy cream cheese to make it parev and vegan too!
1. Heat oven to 200°C/400°F/GM 6. Place the carrots in a pan of boiling water and cook for about 10-12 minutes or until tender. Spread them out in one layer on a baking tray. Carefully toss with olive oil, seasoning and maple syrup. Bake for 20 minutes, turning once.
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon chilli flakes
1 tablespoon rapeseed/vegetable oil
Prep time: 20 mins | Cooking time: 45mins
2 red onions – peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
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30g dried apricots
4. Put the pastry rectangles on the baking tray and score a border into the pastry about 2cm from the edge. Glaze the pastry with the beaten egg or olive oil.
4 large chicken thighs
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
2 Bramley apples (approx 450g), peeled, cored and roughly
4. Bring to a simmer and cook
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1choppedcelerystick, finely sliced
Salt and pepper
125g split red lentils
6. To serve, spoon into bowls, scatter with the reserved spices, and add a few coriander leaves.
This is a parev carrot soup with a di erence; slightly piquant with a hint of coconut milk to mellow the spice. Easy to make, just what any host/hostess wants when preparing for the Rosh Hashanah meals.
1 large white onion – peeled and chopped
1. Heat the vegetable oil in a large and deep saucepan.
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
400ml coconut milk
4. Stir in the lemon, chickpeas, quinoa, apricots and stock. Add the saucepan lid and simmer for 40 minutes.
120g three-colour-blend quinoa
1 egg for glazing – use extra virgin olive oil for vegan option
Tip: This keeps really well, so store any uneaten soup in the fridge for up to three days, or freeze in individual portions for up to three months.
10 carrots, peeled and cut in half lengthways, or about 20 baby carrots cut in half
Aromatic Quinoa Chicken & Chickpea Tagine
To serve: Garnish with the toasted almonds and sprigs of parsley.
2 tablespoons maple syrup
3 tablespoon low-fat cream cheese/ nondairy cream cheese
Method
2. Combine the spices and coat the chicken pieces. Pan fry until golden on both sides.
2. Cut the ready-rolled pastry in half. Cut each half into three rectangles.
Prep time: 30 mins | 45 minutes
2 teaspoons cumin seeds
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Ingredients
450g carrots, peeled and chopped
2. Dry fry for a minute or so until they release their aroma and pop around in the pan. Remove half of the seeds and set aside.
This is a one-pot delicious warming main course ideal for the forthcoming Yom Tovim. I like to use the three-coloured-blend of quinoa – red, white and black – available from Ocado and Waitrose. If you can’t get it, just use regular quinoa. This recipe is gluten free.
Garnish: 30g toasted split almonds, small bunch flat leaf parsley
1. Heat a large saucepan and then add the chilli flakes and cumin seeds.
Ingredients
140g dried chestnuts – roughly chopped
Garnish: Sprigs of parsley and chopped walnuts
Method
5. Heat the oil in a small frying pan and sauté the onion and garlic for three minutes or until so . Set aside.
6. Mix the chestnuts, walnuts, cream cheese and onion mixture together. Place in the centre of the pastry, keeping within the border.
2 cloves garlic – peeled and finely chopped
1 lemon – finely sliced
7. Top with the cooked carrots, placing them in neat rows within the border of the pastry.
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
3 tablespoons walnuts, plus a little extra to garnish – roughly chopped
To serve: Small handful of coriander leaves
for about 15 minutes covered with a lid, until the carrots and lentils are tender.
5. Blend the soup until smooth, and season with salt and pepper.
Ingredients
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3. Remove, cover with cling film and leave to rest in the fridge.
8. Now make the filling. Place the butter into a saucepan and heat gently. Add the cream and sugar. Cook over a low heat, stirring occasionally until the cream is hot but not bubbling.
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pistachio nuts, 1 tablespoons dried rose petals (optional)
ForIngredientsthepastry: 50g cocoa powder
150g unsalted butter/non-dairy margarine
250g plain flour
30 mins, plus 30
2. Whizz together to form a dough. If it looks too dry, add a teaspoon or two of water.
50g golden caster sugar
120g halva
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For the filling: 50g butter/non-dairy margarine
10. Break up the halva into chunky small pieces and arrange over the base of the cooked pie. Pour over the ganache and smooth out with a spoon so it is evenly distributed. Chill for two hours to set.
300g dark chocolate (70%) – broken up into small pieces
6. Place some baking beans inside some foil and scrunch it up inside the pastry. Bake for 20 minutes on 200°C.
4. Roll out the pastry between two sheets of cling film into a large enough circle to fit into a 23cm fluted loose-based pie tin, making sure you have enough for the sides.
Method
450ml double cream/non-dairy cream
Halva is a Middle Eastern confectionery made from tahini and sugar. It is best stored in the fridge and will last four to six months, but you should never freeze it. This pie is perfect for Rosh Hashanah as it needs to be made in advance, will store well and has sweetness for a sweet New Year!
1 50gegggolden caster sugar
Garnish: 3 tablespoons halva – crumbled, 2 tablespoons
9. Remove and leave to cool for about five minutes and add the chocolate. Stir as it becomes a beautiful glossy ganache.
1-2 tablespoons cold water
Pinch sea salt flakes
1. To make the pastry, sieve the cocoa powder and flour. Add to the food processor together with the butter, egg, sugar, water and sea salt flakes.
7. Remove the baking beans and foil and leave to cool. Carefully li the pie out of the tin and transfer to a large plate.
Prep time: mins pastry to rest Cooking time: mins, 2 hours chilling time
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5. Use your rolling pin to drape the dough over the tin, pressing it down into the base and pushing the pastry into the sides. Trim any excess pastry.
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Chocolate Chunky Halva Pie
11. Decorate the top with crumbled halva, chopped pistachio nuts and dried rose petals.
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Which person – famous or not – inspires you and how?
Genius Jake says: I am so excited about this month’s JN Junior. Soon it is Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) and we are launching our writing competition – see page opposite – and the chance for you to win an iPad for both yourself and your school! Jewish News has teamed up with WIZO and PJ Library for our third annual Young Writers’ Competition. It’s all about being inspired. New Year is the perfect time to reflect on the past 12 months and on those who have inspired us. With its campaign, Women Leading the Way to a Better Future, WIZO has been reflecting on women who have made a real difference. I’ve been really inspired by the Queen, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, who reigned for 70 years and who died last week aged 96. She was such a special figurehead for our country. I have also been inspired by the Lionesses’ historic win over Germany in this summer’s Women’s European Football Championship; and by Dame Deborah James, 40, who died in June from bowel cancer and had worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the disease. Other inspiring people include President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has shown great resilience as he leads Ukraine through the war with Russia. People don’t need to be famous or well-known to be inspiring. We’d like to know who inspires you and how?
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Nepal has now doubled its wild tiger population! A 2022 survey revealed there are now 355 individuals in the country, a nearly 200 percent increase since 2009. The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) reports that it is an incredible achievement and testament to the conservation efforts of the government, partners and local communities over the past 12 years.
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Q. What are the major trends within crypto?
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Q. In layman’s terms, what is cryptocurrency and how is it used?
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Q. How is cryptocurrency used?
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Q. Who are some of the major Israel players in the area?
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Therefore, Israeli start-ups are responsible for more than 5 percent of the general investments made in the space. Recently, both Starkware and Fireblocks raised funds with a valuation of $8bn.
Q. What makes Israel a leader in this area?
Cryptocurrencies are a type of digital currency decentralised and not controlled by any government. Formerly known as cybercurrencies, the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 catapulted cryptocurrencies into the limelight. There are more than 200 mifllion cryptocurrency users worldwide, and more than 10,000 businesses. The market is now estimated to have a $1.2 trillion (£1tr) market cap. And Israel is a key global player in whatthe market.doestheir
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Stablecoins – pegged / backed by an asset (such as USDT, which is backed by the US Dollar), a group of assets or an algorithm (such as DAI, which is backed by a token that is locked in a smart contract). They serve as a
future hold? Few are more qualified to explain than Ben Samocha, a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency entrepreneur and ‘evangelist’. Samocha is the founder of cryptojungle.co.il, the leading Israeli digital platform for news, guides, analysis, and educational courses.
Blockchain currencies – these are used to pay the transaction fees of the blockchain and are created from mining, such as bitcoin (for the Bitcoin blockchain) and ether (for the Ethereum blockchain).
Q. How is cryptocurrency used?
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The founder of an Israeli digital platform tells Candice Krieger what cryptocurrencies are used for and why Israel is a leader in this field of decentralised digital currency
As a start-up and innovation hub, Israeli entrepreneurs have been among the first to comprehend how much of a revolution cryptocurrencies bring
A. The current major trends are NFTs. They are supposed to (but do not always) represent digital scarcity. The major use case being presented to the public is digital art and collectibles; however, NFTs are gaining more traction in other fields as well, such as finance and relationships with content creators.
Q. How has the industry grown over the past few years?
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A. A cryptocurrency is a general term for a new type of money that lives on the internet and is using cryptography, a field of mathematics, for its security.
A. Usually, geography determines the usage of the di erent cryptocurrencies. In ‘third world’ countries, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, such as stablecoins, are adopted for everyday payments and as a store of value given the inflation and economic uncertainty the population is su ering from. However, in the West, it is mainly adopted as either an investment vehicle or a store of value, like an alternative to gold’s historical role.
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is locked in a smart contract). They serve as a stable alternative, the price of which is pretty much constant and doesn’t fluctuate.
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Gaming and Play2Earn is another trend that’s gaining traction. Andreessen Horowitz, one of the largest venture capital (VC) firms in the world, just raised $450m to invest in cryptogaming projects. Generally, Play2Earn allows users to monetise their in-game winnings, while blockchain and cryptoassets as a whole are expected to provide a marketplace for moving assets’ values between di erent games.
o you know your Bitcoin from your Ethereum? Be it blockchain, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), stablecoins and more, cryptocurrencies have hit the mainstream over the past couple of years.
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Tokens – these are used for dApps (decentralised apps) to stimulate and engage the economy and community, which are in the thousands and were created primarily via token sales (ICO, or initial coin o erings, of di erent sorts).
Security tokens – these could be explained as justholdenableritiessharesdigitisedorsecu-andonetoownershiplikea share-holder.
A. As a start-up and innovation hub, Israeli entrepreneurs have been among a revolution cryptocurrencies bring with them.Therefore, responsible for more than 5 percent of
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I believe cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets are going to ‘take over the world’ – whether it’s the centralised part of it (ie stocks and bonds on a public transparent record) or the decentralised part of it (allowing people to choose their own money).
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• Government spending and central bank ‘money printing’ led to significant mon etary inflation, which has led people to understand they need an alternative that doesn’t punish them for using the money;
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Then something happened that made him finally understand. He once went for a walk in the middle of the night, when it was pitch black outside, and he saw a man coming towards him. As he approached, he realised that the man was blind, and yet he was carrying a lantern.
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He could not contain himself, and he asked the man: “It is clear to me that you’re blind. What is the point in carrying a lantern if you can’t see anyway?” The man explained: “The lantern isn’t to help me to see, it’s to help you to see me.”
If we follow her example and focus on sharing our light whenever we can, we will ensure that nobody needs to feel alone in the dark. and educators relate the week’s parsha to the way we live today
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Finally, Rabbi Yosei understood the meaning of the passage above. It is only a curse if the blind person is left to grope in the dark, with no
what di erence it would make to a blind man if it is dark? He can’t see, regardless of whether it’s dark or light.
Have you ever felt completely lost? Sometimes, you could just be having a bad day but at other times that feeling continues for longer. Life feels overwhelming, as if you’re walking through a fog and can’t see a solution to your situation. Contained within the list of curses in this week’s parsha, Ki Tavo, is an incredible insight that can help: “You shall grope at noon as the blind grope in the dark (Deut 28:29).”
The message of this passage is twofold. First, if you’re the ‘blind’ person, switch on the light so that others know you’re struggling and can help you. Second, if you were once
one to see him struggling, because if nobody sees him, then nobody can help him. The solution, of course, is to switch on the light.
Throughout our lives we will have periods of darkness and light, often concurrently; the key to navigating them is to share our light, so that we all receive the support we need and provide the support we can.
It is incredible to think that the light that just one person can bring to the world can touch so many lives; the news that Her Majesty the Queen had died impacted on countless people all around the world.
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We all have areas in which we are ‘blind’, even when it is ‘noon’ around us; it can feel as if everyone else can see but we are left groping for the answers. Likewise, we all have areas in which we have perfect vision, yet others find Everybodychallenging.willstruggle at some point in their life and feel blinded, as if they can’t see their way. Once one has emerged from that struggle, however, suddenly one has clarity to see what helped them through.
‘blind’ and have now regained your vision, use that painful experience to help someone who is currently going through something similar.
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In Megilla 24b, Rabbi Yosei admits that he had struggled to understand this passage his whole life. He asks
Given the nature of both my job and my identity, it might be natural that I am biased about the genius of Judaism. However, I am continually reminded of how those sages who came before us really understood so much about the human psyche and the essential nature of marking the passing of time and life. This is particularly true when it comes to mourning – not only individual mourning, but communal mourning and mourning of ideas and changes in history.
On Tisha B’Av, a day of communal mourning , the surrounding readings and rituals re-enact the grief for a dead member of one’s immediate family, while at the same time recognising the di erence between the anguish felt when someone close to us dies and when we are grieving a historical tragedy.
As we watch the television, travel to London and attend memorial services, many are mourning for the Queen, but it is also an opportunity for us to grieve for all the things that we feel we have lost; a national expression of sorrow. Life, as we know, can rush by so fast that often we do not take the proper time to grieve for people who have died, and for memories that have vanished and dreams that have been vanquished.
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As we communally mourn the death of the Queen, we are also communally marking a loss of the past and all those who passed with it. However, as the mourning passes, we also will turn to the future. I hope that, as a community, we will live up to the responsibility to live lives worthy of it. rabbis
Judaism is a religion of sacred time, as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said: “Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time, to be attached to sacred events, to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.”
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It seems appropriate to reflect that at this time of the Queen’s death, the Torah has us standing on the edge of the land – a land that Moses has waited his whole life to arrive at. Moses spends his time telling the people everything he wants them to know, to hold onto, to remember. Although the death of the Queen has come as a shock, many believing she would live forever, she has also spent her life preparing us for this moment, attempting to instil in us those values that she held so dear.
But in both instances there is a recognition of the shock, even if one knows the outcome at the outset; a recognition of the reality and a journey into a focus on the importance of living, of renewing our commitment to life.
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I’d advise her to have a strong LinkedIn presence and profile. Most hiring includes a LinkedIn search, and networking is important for reaching employers. As parents you can help enormously with networking, for example by talking to
We are planning to make Aliyah and the current situation in the UK is very worrying. As a result we want to speed up our plans. Our concern is that we are between a rock and a hard place: this winter may well be a horrible recession and cost a fortune. Regarding the pound, my understanding is that it is very weak currently. What can I do?
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it is unsurprising that the war in Ukraine and disruptions in the gas markets are leading to more volatility. In August this year the shekel reached a historic high against the pound. Since 10 August the pound continues to trade below 4 shekels. We have rebounded from the lows of 3.8 and are climbing up towards 3.9 but have yet to break the 4 shekels level. This is a historic moment in this currency pair and unfortunately works against new Olim. This, coupled with a booming market in Israel over the last year, means you really benefit from thorough planning and having a currency broker in your Aliyah journey. To put these fluctuations into practice, for £1m on 28 July you would have received around 4.156m ILS but a full month later that amount would only buy you 3.827 ILS.
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If she would like help with any aspect of her job search she should give our friendly team at Resource a call. We are highly experienced in helping new graduates, and will arrange for her to see an adviser for the 1:1 support she needs. All our services are free.
family, friends, people at your synagogue and your own colleagues about Chloe’s aspirations. Also websites such as Indeed, Glassdoor, NextStepSupport and LinkedIn regularly post jobs and advice for recent graduates.
Lastly, I wish the royal family condolences. Elizabeth II has been a blessing to the Jewish community and a firm ally. Long live the King.
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Only a limited company can benefit from the superdeduction, and it can only be claimed on new, rather than second-hand, plant and machinery. Computers, o ce furniture, vans, lorries and electric vehicle charge points are examples of qualifying plant and machinery. One notable exception is cars.
The annual investment allowance is another capital allowance tax relief which allows you to gain first-year relief on plant and machinery purposes in full. The AIA rate of relief is 100 percent and is also an option for sole traders or partnerships. It is wise to seek the advice of an accountant to ensure your tax position is optimised.
It is a di cult time for anyone seeking employment, and particularly for graduates. The good news is there are plenty of jobs out there, but
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Chloe should try to get some temporary or voluntary work to keep her active; this will look good on her CV. She could also use the time to learn a new language or improve her IT skills, which will help her stand out to employers.
Some of our customers could use a forward contract, where we buy currency for clients ahead of their purchase date and can therefore lock in the rate. If you plan to buy Israeli property, in particular, I urge you to take a hard look at your risk appetite. We could do it over a call. If the UK declares a recession, we could expect the pound to weaken further, or to remain at the current depressed levels. Historically speaking, the rate is poor. However, it may be the case that cutting your losses today, to ensure you can fix the rate going into next year, may save you over the long term.
This starts with a clear view on the kind of roles your daughter wants to pursue. Chloe needs to consider her skills, strengths, achievements and personal traits. The next step is to prepare a twopage CV that demonstrates to a prospective employer these aspects. An interesting covering letter that will engage the reader and want them to read the CV is next.
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In areas such as education, small business start-ups and access to finance there must be an attempt to open new avenues of opportunity which are clearly
ELNET UK is proud to be working with the UK Abraham Accords Group to mark the second anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords, a genuinely historic set of agreements. The signatories’ commitment to “maintaining and strengthening peace in the Middle East and around the world based on mutual understanding and coexistence, as well as respect for human dignity and freedom, including religious freedom” has led in practice to the normalisation of relationships at an economic, diplomatic, and cultural level with some of the most influential countries in the region.
associated with the Accords, particularly for the next generation who will ultimately determine whether or not they remain a permanent political fixture. Every joint business venture, every diplomatic initiative and every security collaboration should consider how the benefits can be sold to young Arabs and Israelis so that they feel they have a genuine stake in the process.
There is no doubt that the Abraham Accords has been a great political and diplomatic success. At an economic level, too, there is increased trade and investment activity between the member states.
The benefits are already very clear, just two years on from the signing of the first agreement. There has been concrete progress in securing new economic opportunities, new airline routes, and geopolitical influence – not to mention the
The hope that any advantages will be self-evident is naïve at best and highly risky at worst. There needs to be a conscious effort to sell every advance to “the street” in a way that connects with the hopes of the young and aspirational.
Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, Chairman, UK Abraham Accords Group
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As we look back on the last two years of the Accords, and forward to the future, we have gathered unique insights from the Foreign Secretaries of Bahrain, Israel, Morocco, the UAE, UK, and from Dr Liam Fox, Chair of the UK Abraham Accords Group. Shakara, a partnership of young leaders in Israel and the Gulf discuss their experiences and hopes. These perspectives on the workings of the Accords and the potential paths ahead are vital in helping us all understand the direction of travel around the Abraham Accords. We hope you find their contributions illuminating.
crucial issue of national security. And it is the hope of many advocates of the Accords that they will set the template for further diplomatic agreements and normalisation with other major nations in the Middle East.
The Abraham Accords needs to offer a better future that would not exist in their absence. It is both a communication and a policy challenge to which all involved need to respond quickly and effectively.
It is essential, however, for the long-term success of the project that the benefits go beyond wealthy Israelis being able to holiday in Dubai or Emirati and Bahraini companies collaborating with the Israeli tech sector.
In particular, it is essential that tangible benefits are felt on “the Arab street,” creating economic and social opportunities for those who may otherwise feel left behind.
Sir Keir Starmer MP, Leader of the Labour Party, UK
The UK government is committed to working with Israel, the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco to realise the opportunities presented by the Accords to advance regional stability and prosperity. Together,
In the two years since the signing of the Abraham Accords we have seen remarkable progress and the deepening of diplomatic relationships between countries where collaboration and cooperation were once unthinkable.
Crucially, they have provided a platform for peace and a framework to tackle challenges that demand cross-border cooperation. From easing regional tension, combating terrorism and extremism to mitigating the impact of the climate crisis.
shared threats to regional stability. Catalysed by the Accords, Israel’s normalisation agreement with Morocco has facilitated increased security cooperation.
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Rt Hon Liz Truss MP, Prime Minister, UK
The UK is proud to be a steadfast supporter of the historic Abraham Accords, one of the greatest success stories in the Middle East for a generation.
In this digital age, the prosperity of our economies are dependent on a modern and resilient cyber security framework. With increasing threats to cyberspace, the UK and Abraham Accords members are united in the importance of maintaining high technological standards and protecting our shared cyberspace.
But while it is right that we celebrate this achievement and mark this important anniversary, we must not be complacent. The Abraham Accords are not the end of the process but the first steps towards wider peace and stability in the region, culminating in the longstanding goal of advancing a negotiated peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
key foundational element underpinning the Accords. The recent security Memorandum of Understanding agreed between Israel and Bahrain, as well as the burgeoning Negev Forum, highlight ongoing efforts to counter
Over the past two years they have provided new economic opportunities, new investment and have encouraged innovation and collaboration where previously there was none. They have provided opportunities for cultural exchange and allowed industries and companies to work closely together to develop new medicines, research, and new technology.
Looking forward, we must ensure that the Accords continue to highlight the benefits of economic and security cooperation to those countries yet to normalise relations with Israel.
The Accords have proved transformational. Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have grasped the economic promise of the Accords through new trade, investments and energy agreements, all of which are already providing tangible benefits. The introduction of direct flights has led to people-to-people links, ensuring the Accords mature into deep and abiding friendships between different societies and cultures. And the Accords have also facilitated increased cooperation on sustainability to address mutual climate Securitychallenges.remainsa
The Accords mark a diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East and are undoubtably a victory for diplomacy over conflict and an example for the rest of the world to follow.
Idan DeputyRoll,Foreign Minister, Israel
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To this end, Bahrain and Israel recently signed a pioneering Joint Warm Peace Strategy, streamlining our cooperation in education, healthcare, trade, and many other fields so as to directly improve the lives of our citizens. Meanwhile, the two countries have also joined the Negev Forum; a regional network bringing together like-minded countries and delivering joint projects to benefit our peoples and the entire region.
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For the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Abraham Accords represent a beacon of hope for the entire region; an opportunity for a more peaceful and stable Middle East in which all its peoples thrive and prosper together. They embody the longstanding vision of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa for a better future for the Middle East, and underscores Bahrain’s deep-rooted culture of coexistence, tolerance and dialogue.
This is exactly how our message of peace, prosperity and optimism will resonate across the Middle East, winning hearts and minds, spreading cooperation, and providing the best possible incentive for others to join us.
The signing of the Accords on 15th September 2020 unleashed a wave of optimism at this new chapter for our region, and the benefits it can bring. To harness this enthusiasm, and to channel it in ways that make a positive difference to the Middle East, we must continue to showcase the success of these relations, and their clear, tangible benefits to our peoples’ everyday lives.
The inauguration of the permanent Negev Forum has further cemented a new regional architecture based on progress, technology, religious tolerance, and a strong commitment to peace, prosperity, and fighting extremism. The agreements also opened opportunities for deepening the relations with Israel’s existing partners, Egypt and Jordan.
HE Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bahrain
And in doing so, we will always value the support of our friends in the United Kingdom.
Israel’s Minister
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The signing of the normalization agreements with the UAE and Bahrain and then the establishment of full diplomatic relations with Morocco marked a watershed moment for the Middle East that ultimately came to represent the beginning of a new chapter for the region. In a matter of months, mutual diplomatic missions were opened, and dozens of new agreements covering a wide range of issues were signed.
However, it is not enough for us –government officials – to meet. Our next challenge is to weave relations between our peoples. We need to get to know one another and learn about each other’s traditions and history. It is our responsibility as governments to facilitate meaningful interactions between our people and allow them to find common grounds and mutual interests, so they can build long-lasting relationships.
Individuals throughout the region should be able to see the positive impact of peace, whether it is access to better education, culture, and quality of life. At this two-year mark, we encourage our partners beyond the region, such as the US, Europe, and elsewhere, to support projects that promote these values and bring people together. Strong people-to-people ties will enable us to truly achieve the prosperous and interconnected region we all strive for.
The 2020 Trilateral Declaration in which Morocco re-established its diplomatic relations with Israel marked a significant landmark in our shared history. Through a mutual commitment for peace and prosperity, the unique ties between our countries continue to grow as we explore new fields of cooperation, all the while shedding light on our shared history and legacy. As His Majesty King Mohammed VI described it, the Trilateral Declaration was not a decision of opportunity, but truly, a decision based on conviction.
With the signing of a historic Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement in February, the UAE and Israel will work to enhance market access for exporters, attract new investment, and create opportunities in key industries, including energy, environment, and digital trade.
The region’s peoples have already begun to reap the political and economic advantages of the Accords. At the start of 2022, trade between our nations had grown by 500% compared to Q1 2021, with non-oil bilateral trade amounting to more than two billion pounds from September 2020-March 2022.
Nassur Bourita, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Morocco
Such high-level cooperation between our nations reflects our countries’ commitment to deepening relations that will serve our people, economies, and societies for generations to come.
The Accords have also been central to regional efforts to unlock the potential of Arab youth and strengthen a shared pursuit of prosperity and development.
The resumption of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel also contributes to strengthening Morocco’s commitment towards a durable peace in the region. The agreement to reopen the Al Karama or Allenby Bridge crossing between the West Bank and Jordan is one of the recent roles that His Majesty King Mohammed VI has played in promoting peace in the region. Morocco will pursue its endeavor in supporting a just, lasting and equitable peace based on the two-state solution: the State of Israel, and an independent Palestinian state within the borders of June 4, 1967, both living side by side in peace and security.
On this 2nd anniversary of the Abraham Accords, Morocco looks forward to further opportunities that will streng then our commitments and continue our journey together toward greater understanding and closer friendship for the benefit of all.
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Agreements between Morocco and Israel are set to yield dividends on multiple strategic levels. In less than two years, our two countries have signed landmark agreements in various fields and critical sectors including research and development, water management, defence and security, tourism and food security. These mutual commitments are cementing our relationship for decades ahead.
Youth have enormous capabilities to bring peace to the Arab world, and we aim to ensure the greatest benefit to the Middle East and beyond.
HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, United Arab Emirates
The signing of the Abraham Accords in September 2020 marked a courageous and important step towards achieving peace in the Middle East and enhancing stability and security for the region’s peoples. It has also stimulated trade and economic cooperation between the UAE and Israel, with benefits derived across all major sectors, from the energy and resources sector to healthcare, advanced technology, agriculture, and space exploration.
Designers in the Middle is a non-political platform that encourages the language of collaboration within a geography. Since 2015, founders Rona Meyuchas Koblenz and Suzanne Trocmé have invited creatives from the Middle East, Levant and Magreb to speak about threads that pull through con temporary design.
Sculptor Arik Levy commissioned to create a unique sculpture in recognition of the 2nd anniversary of the Abraham Accords
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Levy has penned many books about his communication through art and design, and remains committed to public sculpture, as well as industrial design: “Life is a system of signs and symbols,” he says, “where nothing is quite as it seems.”
to bring them together. Sharaka organises events celebrating each other’s holidays and VIP delegations to visit each other’s countries. We also led a delegation of Arab-world media and social media figures to learn about the Holocaust, and more.
While the advancement of the Abraham Accords has been impressive, public opinion remains largely negative across the region. Only a quarter of Emiratis and a 5th of Bahrainis support normalization, although more support non-governmental cooperation with Israelis. To ensure the continuation and success of the Accords, public opinion must be engaged.
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This can be achieved through people to people (P2P) engagement, which our organization, Sharaka (meaning “Partnership”), seeks to facilitate. Sharaka works to bring people together from numerous fields and backgrounds to establish enduring ties. Such efforts should be encouraged by regional and international governments looking to bolster the Accords.
But negative sentiment, ignorance and misunderstandings mean that many in the Arab world are hesitant to engage with Israelis, making the P2P approach crucial. It is unlikely for Arab and Israeli citizens to meet organically without concerted efforts
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Arik Levy’s multi-disciplinary work can be seen in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide. Renowned for his product design, Levy nevertheless feels “The world is about people, not objects.”
signatory countries at a special diplomatic event later this year.
Having moved to Europe from his birthplace Israel in 1988, the award-winning artist is now based in Southern France. Following a spell in Japan, Levy returned to Europe to design sets for contemporary dance and opera.
Dan Feferman and Dr. Ahmed Khuzaie are the Directors of Global Affairs and US Affairs, respectively, at Sharaka, a joint Arab-Israeli NGO that promotes P2P peace.
One area already developing relates to Israel as the “Start-up Nation”. Israel is imparting its technologies and innovation culture on its new friends. Such engagement can provide real benefits to people across the region.
2 Years of the Abraham Accords: People to People Peace as a top Priority
Dan Feferman and Dr. Ahmed Khuzaie
ELNET and the UK Abraham Accords Group, together with the UK Board of Deputies, are delighted to have commissioned artist and sculptor Arik Levy (through Designers in the Middle) to create a unique sculpture in recognition of the 2nd anniversary of the Abraham Accords. The sculpture will be awarded to each of the
Public talks programmes have been delivered in Jerusalem, Dubai, New York, and in London. 2021 marked the first physical exhibition of a body of work at for the London Design Biennale with collaborators hailing from the UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, as well as Qatar, curated and documented by the founders in film and audio as a “digital casbah” for participants who are unable to travel, for whatever reason.
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Building strong ties in the cultural, educational, scientific, and commercial fields will guarantee that the Accords reach beyond diplomatic engagement, giving people the opportunity to develop deep roots of their own to ensure the continuing success of these new relationships.
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We work collaboratively with our partners and seek to engage, educate, and build relationships with parliamentarians, policy makers and other opinion formers from across the political spectrum, and encourage them to consider Israel as the vibrant, innovative and multi-dimensional democracy that it is.
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We seek to develop trade, governmental and cultural cooperation, and promote peace and economic prosperity in the region, and strive to cut across old divides, in parliament, government and the media, reflecting the changing nature of the Middle East.
HE Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Bahrain Idan Roll, Deputy Foreign Minister, Israel Nassur Bourita, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Morocco
With thanks to:
Rt Hon Liz Truss, Prime Minister, UK
HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, United Arab Emirates
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