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Sir Keir Starmer’s mission to “rip out antisem itism out by its roots” to “make our party fit to serve our country” was greeted with a loud and lengthy standing ovation by delegates and MPs at the Labour Party conference,
In a speech that was wide-ranging in the topics it covered, he referred to the pledge he made as he became leader in April 2020 to tackle anti-Jewish racism in his party.
He said: “I knew we had a big task before us. We had to change our party and prepare for power all in one go.
“Not change for change’s sake. Change with a purpose, to make our party fit to serve our country. That’s why we had to rip out anti semitism by its roots.”
As Starmer delivered his speech, Mike Katz, of the Jewish Labour Movement, could be seen seated just behind him on the stage, alongside other representatives of minority communities.
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pro-Nato stance – which was “unnegotiable” –and said his wanted Labour to work side by side with business: “Country first, party second.”
Turning his attention to the Russian presi dent, Starmer told the conference: “We will never allow Putin’s threats and imperialism to succeed. We will stand alongside Ukraine’s people fighting on the frontlines. So let this entire conference say together: Slava Ukraini!”
The entire hall rose to their feet, giving him an ovation for nearly a minute.
Elsewhere in Tuesday’s speech Starmer said Labour must build a fairer, greener, and more dynamic nation. He also unveiled plans to create a publicly owned renewable energy giant.
He pitched Labour as an economically responsible party, which he said would defeat
the cost-of-living crisis and stabilise the economy for businesses
Starmer said he wanted 70 percent of the population to be homeowners – offering new mortgage guarantees and a clampdown on buyto-let landlords. He also slammed the perfor mance of the Tory government, and rounded on Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng over the minibudget last week and its impact on the economy.
Taking on his critics over Brexit, Starmer added: “The policy of my Labour government will always be to make Brexit work. It’s no secret I voted remain – as the prime minister did.”
Labour’s Wes Streeting has told of his hope that the Jewish community now has the “confidence to come back to their party”, suggesting Keir Starmer’s speech “vindicates the hard graft” of all those who fought against antisemitism.
Moments after the party leader’s speech, the shadow health secretary told Jewish News he had felt “emotional” after the entire hall rose to its feet and applauded the refer ence to the need to fight antiJewish racism to make Labour “fit to serve our country”.
“That epitomises the trans formation we’ve seen in the Labour Party,” said Streeting.
“And it vindicates the hard graft of all of those cam paigners that spoke out inside the Labour Party and outside in the community.”
Streeting added: “My mes sage to all those Jewish Labour voters whose doors I knocked and who felt heartbroken by what happened to the party would now be, ‘You’ve got your party back.’”
The Ilford North MP added: “Look at the response we’ve
seen, it’s not about leadership from Keir, it’s about leadership from the entire party.”
Streeting was unsurprised by the positive response to Starmer’s words.
“I know how committed Keir was,” he said. “It’s a vindi cation to everyone who stayed and fought, and to all of those people in the Jewish commu nity who spoke out despite the abuse they received.”
An attempt to pave the way for Corbyn to stand as a Labour candidate at the next election was soundly defeated.
Sir Keir Starmer with his wife Victoria after delivering his keynote speech on TuesdayNot a single constituency Labour Party (CLP) submitted an anti-Israel motion as its chosen topic at this year’s con ference, writes Lee Harpin.
In a clear signal of the change in direction of the party under Keir Starmer’s leadership, the anti-Israel sen timent, and Palestinian flag waving, that had dominated conferences under Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been replaced with concern for other issues for debate.
Labour national executive committee (NEC) member Luke Akehurst said: “We have gone from a period where there was deliberately pro vocative debates about Israel involving seas of Palestinian flags being waved on the con ference floor, to where not a single CLP has submitted a motion about this issue.
“This gives me hope that once day we will be able to return to having balanced and rational debate about Israel and the Palestinians at Labour conference.”
In 2018, at the height of Corbyn’s control of the party, hundreds of Palestinian flags were held aloft by delegates, who voted to debate the issue over the crisis in the NHS.
Vicious anti-Israel rhetoric dogged the debate.
Even at last year’s confer
ence, a hardline anti-Israel motion, which condemned “the on-going Nakba in Pales tine”, was backed by delegates.
Motions discussed by del egates this year related to the cost of living crisis, propor tional representation and Russia’s war on Ukraine. Every CLP in the country can submit a motion for debate, based on the wishes of local members.
In a further sign of his belief in Labour as a patriotic party, Starmer began proceedings in the arena on Sunday with a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, followed by the singing of the national anthem.
As this year’s conference clashed with Rosh Hashanah, many Jewish members were
absent. Conference dates are decided by the Home Office, and clashes with religious fes tivals cannot be prevented.
The Antisemitism Policy Trust held an event on Sunday, before Rosh Hashanah, fea turing deputy party leader Angela Rayner and London mayor Sadiq Khan discussing online safety legislation.
Labour Friends of Israel staged a reception on Tuesday, with shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking along with Israeli Knesset member Emilie Moatti.
Sources close to Starmer said there would be “no com placency” over the need to continue the fight against anti semitic members of the party.
Keir Starmer has heaped praise on Labour Friends of Israel by telling supporters at a packed conference event: “You took the chance to give me the space to judge me on what I did, not on what I said.”
In an apparent reference to his time in former leader Jeremy Corbyn’s cabinet, he told the audience: “You didn’t have to do that after the years that went before.
“All I asked for was the space to dem onstrate what I would do, and you gave me that space. We wouldn’t be here today with a changed Labour Party facing an electorate with confidence if you hadn’t done that.
“When we go into government, and we will, you’ll be inscribed on the foundation stone as part of the his story.”
Starmer also wished the best of luck to Labour’s Israeli sister party, led by Merav Michaeli, for the upcoming elections on 1 November, saying: “We’re rooting for you.”
Tuesday evening’s event was notable for the appearance of not just the Labour leader, but also shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, along with Christian Wakeford MP, who all spoke to the 300-strong capacity audience.
Reeves appeared emotional as she told the crowd: “I am so proud to be a Labour friend of Israel.”
She added: “We have been through some really difficult times as a party over the last years. Keir got a lot of standing ovations when he spoke today, but I think the one that was most special was when the hall rose in harmony together, to say we are a party that opposes all forms of racism, and opposes antisemitism.”
The night’s keynote speaker was Emilie Moatti, an Israeli Labor Knesset member who has attended the whole of Labour Conference.
She celebrated Labour’s record in govern
ment in “honouring the principles of soli darity and internationalism, fighting racism and antisemitism at home and supporting the world’s sole Jewish state overseas”.
Lammy talked about his longstanding sup port for LFI in his 22 years in Parliament, as well as welcoming Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid’s commitment to a two-state solution at the UN General Assembly last week.
Bury South MP Wakeford told of his pride to speak at an LFI event, at what was his first Labour conference. The long-time supporter of Israel and former Tory crossed the floor to Labour earlier this year.
Oren Marmorstein, Israel’s deputy ambas sador to the UK, also delivered a frank and warm speech, saying he felt he was once again amongst “friends” at a Labour Party event.
LFI chair Steve McCabe used his comments at the reception to launch a major Labour Friends of Israel publication, Steps to a Two State Solution
Banished from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool and holding a meeting in a venue a mile away, the leadership of Jewish Voice For Labour concedes its future is uncertain.
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, JVL’s co-founder and media officer, was given a sympathetic round of applause from the 100 activists who attended Monday night’s fringe event at The Yacht Club, as she revealed she had been banned from attended this year’s Labour conference.
Hitting out at the Labour leader in her speech, Wimborne-Idrissi claimed at one stage: “I think the only thing Keir Starmer seems to support unequivocally is Zionism.”
Wimborne-Idrissi was suspended by Labour last week after evidence came to light of her speaking last September at a meeting that was organised by a group now proscribed by Labour over its repeated denial of antisemitism claims. The suspension means she cannot take her place on Labour’s national executive committee. She claimed at Monday’s event that Labour’s
investigation into the latest allegations are another sign of the way the party has cracked down on left-wing Jews who support Palestine.
Later, Jo Bird, the Wirral councillor expelled from Labour over her support for the banned Labour Against The Witchhunt group, got up to speak. She claimed: “This meeting confirms again Labour is the wrong sort of party, they don’t want me or you.
“The Labour Party expels the Jews, how can you get more antisemitic than that?” She added: “It’s devastating, the hope we had is gone.”
JVL chair Jenny Manson also addressed the crowd, but admitted that support for the group is on the wain during this year’s Labour confer ence. “I used to walk around in previous years and see JVL supporters and members every where,” she said. “This year it’s been very quiet.”
Contemplating JVL’s future, Manson sug gests that the ‘Labour’ in its name could refer to workers rather than the political party.
Audience members were later asked to raise their hands if they were themselves the subject of disciplinary action from Labour over anti semitism claims. About half of those in attend ance at the event, entitled “The Wrong Sort of Party? The Future of Our Movement”, did so.
Manson, who once tried to stand as Labour’s candidate in Finchley and Golders Green under supportive Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership days, also noted that the JVL event was being held on Rosh Hashanah. She even admitted her own husband had questioned why the meeting was being held on a Jewish holiday.
After saying “anti-Zionism is not antisem itism”, she admitted her husband had pointed out that some anti-Zionists were indeed antisemitic.
But she then claimed Starmer should face an antisemitism charge, because the Labour con
ference clashed with Rosh Hashanah. Manson failed to point out the scheduling of party con ferences is not under the control of the parties themselves, but is done by the Home Office.
The meeting also featured a speech from Dr Maryam Jameela, an editor at The Canary and a researcher into Islamophobia.
At one point she claimed: “The Labour Party has embraced white supremacy by refusing to tackle Islamophobia.”
Alongside the JVL leadership, Jameela claimed that the recently published Forde Report into the Labour Party had highlighted the existence of a hierarchy of racism in which discrimination of Muslims was overlooked.
Jameela later suggested that the British political system needed to be “burned down” as it could not be reformed.
Jewish News was photographed, as we left the meeting, by a JVL official standing near the venue entrance. Asked why the photograph was taken, the male said: “We know who you are.”
Earlier, as is usual at JVL meetings, journal ists attending were asked to stand up and iden tify themselves. In contrast to another Jewish newspaper, Jewish News did not make itself known to organisers as the meeting began.
Jewish at the Labour Party A sea of Palestinian flags at the 2018 Labour conference Starmer addresses Labour Friends of Israel JVL chair Jenny Manson at Monday’s talkA pro-Israel blogger who was suing former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for libel has abruptly dropped his case, writes Lee Harpin.
Corbyn was due to give evidence in a two-week-long trial starting next month but, on Tuesday, the parties released a joint statement announcing that the case had been discontinued.
The statement said: “The libel claim brought by Richard Millett against the Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn
MP has been settled. “Mr Corbyn has paid no damages, has made no apology and has given no undertakings concerning repetition of the words complained of. No costs have been paid by either party to the other as part of this settlement, save in respect of an outstanding order of the Court of Appeal.”
Millett launched the action against Corbyn following remarks the ex-leader made during an interview on the BBC’s The Andrew
Marr Show in 2018. He was still Labour leader at this time.
Corbyn was asked if he was an antisemite and shown a recording of a speech he made in 2013 in which he referred to “Zionists” who “don’t understand English irony”, judges previously heard.
In response, Corbyn referred to two people having been “incredibly disruptive” and “very abusive” at a meeting in the Commons the same year, at which Manuel Hassassian –
then Palestinian ambassador to the UK – was speaking. Millett argued that, although he was not named, he was defamed because media coverage before the broadcast made him identifiable to viewers as one of those referred to. The Court of Appeal rejected a challenge brought by Corbyn against a High Court judge’s findings over preliminary issues in the case. The Supreme Court also refused permission to appeal.
Trade union leader Mick Whelan has spoken of a visit to Palestine which he described as the “biggest open prison in the world” at a fringe Labour conference event, writes Lee Harpin.
The Aslef general secretary told the audience at the Labour and Palestine group event, of which he is chair: “When I went to Palestine I
was struck by geographically it was the size of Wales.”
Whelen added: “Everywhere I went there was security, roadblocks, security, people struggling to feed their families, basic needs were not allowed.
“We know the problems in Palestine, we know it’s an occupation. We need to do something about it.”
Referring to the most recent conflict with Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Whelan also accused Israel of failing to give warnings ahead of airstrikes.
He added the pictures that come out of Palestine daily “shame the 21st century”.
Whelan then added: “I have been in Ukraine recently to wit-
ness what is taking pleace there. If we can stand up for self-determination in Ukraine, we can stand up for it anywhere.”
He added: “Supporting BDS is the right thing to do.”
Also speaking at the event wereLabour MPs including former shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Welsh MP Beth Winter.
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Jeremy Corbyn on The Andre Marr Show Mick Whelan (left) at the conference eventAnalysts polling thousands of British Jews about their Covid lockdown experiences say Jewish communities handled the pandemic well but online synagogue prayer services were unpopular, writes Adam Decker.
While lockdown posed challenges for everyone, the authors of a new report by the Institute of Jewish Policy Research (JPR) say it was “particularly di cult” for Britain’s Jews because “so much of Jewish life – particularly Jewish religious life – depends on social interaction and assembly”.
The restrictions on liberty quickly forced many aspects of Jewish life online, they say, including cultural events, services, charitable fundraisers and private religious occasions such as weddings and bar or bat mitzvahs.
Noting a “sudden proliferation of online Jewish content” catering for everything from prayer services to learning, the report addresses “the challenges this posed to more halachicallyobservant Jews”, who do not use electronic devices on Shabbat.
Less than one-in-10 Orthodox Jews say they live-streamed services on Shabbat, compared to half of all progressive Jewish respondents, yet up to 39 percent of Orthodox Jews say they streamed services either side of Shabbat.
The polling data, from last summer, was taken from 4,150 people who identify as Jewish in some way, and reveals that in the three months before lockdown, around 54 percent said they attended at least one Jewish religious service. The closure of UK places of worship
from March to July 2020, however, forced synagogues to “reimagine” services, with 42 percent saying they subsequently attended at least one service online.
A year later, in the first half of 2021, only 31 percent of respondents were physically back in
synagogues, despite the buildings reopening.
JPR said this showed “the overarching picture of how people were experiencing prayer services remained fundamentally changed, with a substantial proportion taking place online, and synagogues far emptier than before”. Respondents said the online activities they would most likely continue post-lockdown were educational programmes and lectures, while the least likely to be taken forward were online prayer services, which enthused less than a third of those polled.
The authors said this “highlights the fundamentally social dimension of Jewish prayer services which does not appear to translate to the online environment as easily”. Jews aged in their 60s were shown to be the most reluctant to return to face-to-face gatherings, while religious Jews were almost 50 percent more enthusiastic about in-person meetings than secular Jews.
JPR director Jonathan Boyd said the study “reveals how extraordinarily disruptive the pandemic was to Jewish life, while also pointing to the creativity, adaptability and resilience of Jewish organisations in the midst of the crisis”.
He added that while Jewish communities “managed their way through the turbulence rather well”, it was “still too early to see the lasting impact on Jewish life”.
By Justin Cohen in Israel justinacohen@yahoo.co.uk @justincohen
When King Charles described Lord Sacks as a “light unto this nation” at a dinner marking Lord Sacks’ retirement as Chief Rabbi, looking forward to his continued impact for years to come, he couldn’t have imagined the world would be deprived of his dear friend so soon.
But now, as educational projects are developed to perpetuate his words and wisdom, a new bloodmobile has been dedicated in Israel that will save countless lives in his memory.
The tribute – conceived by Jewish News after Lord Sacks’ untimely death in November 2020 – was unveiled after a fundraising drive by this newspaper and Magen David Adom UK.
Costing £135,000, the life-saving vehicle will traverse the country to collect blood from up to 80 donors a day with each unit split between three recipients, potentially saving thousands of lives each year.
An inscription on one side of the vehicle
describes Lord Sacks as a “giant of world Jewry whose impact crossed faiths and borders” and on the other side is a pertinent quote from the man himself: “At the heart of Judaism is the principle of the sanctity of life.”
Lady Elaine Sacks said at the dedication ceremony, attended by one of the couple’s sons Josh, son-in-law Elliot Goldstein and Lord Sacks’ brother Elliot: “To remember my dear husband in this life saving way, here in Eretz Yisrael – is so very special.”
Thanking Jewish News’ for coming up with the idea, she said this was the first charity project her family was asked to endorse after the sudden death of her husband.
She also thanked donors that enabled the project to come to fruition including The Bloom Family Foundation, The Dangoor Family in memory of Robert D S Dangoor, Sir Michael and Lady Heller, The Kirsh Foundation, The Livingstone Family, Henry Moser, The Roden Family and The Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation.
Aryeh Myer, of MDA’s international division, recalled the former Chief Rabbi’s partici-
He described giving blood as “real tzedakah, where the donor and recipient don’t know each other. Giving for the sake of giving. Giving for the sake of saving a life.”
pation in Bnei Akiva’s Yom Haatzmaut celebrations at Kinloss. Pride in Judaism and a love of Israel “emanated not only from the words he spoke but from his entire being,” he said. “He didn’t just teach Judaism. He lived it, loved it and spread its importance and relevance, across all corners of the world.” The bloodmobile also bears the name of neurosurgeon Dr David Shooman from Leeds, who passed away after a cycling accident in Lady Sacks at the wheel of the new bloodmobile with MDA UK chief executive Daniel Burger (left) and Jewish News editor Richard FerrerIsrael and whose family and friends wanted to contribute in his honour. Gur, the eightyear-old son he never got to meet, was also in attendance and said it was “an honour” for his dad’s name to be on the vehicle, adding: “I hope it saves many lives.”
Around 95 percent of blood donations are collected by such mobile vehicles at schools, universities and other institutions, but some of the fleet is nearing two decades old and in need of urgent replacement.
The Sacks bloodmobile will eventually be stationed at MDA’s new stateof-the-art blood bank in Ramla, which it is hoped will enable the collection of 500,000 units a year – double current capacity. The facility also includes a vault that is capable of withstanding a direct missile hit to hold blood supplies and Israel’s only human milk bank to support premature babies.
Daniel Burger and Russell Jacobs, CEO and chair of chair of MDA UK, said: “Nothing is more important in Judaism than saving a life
no matter a person’s religion or background – an ethos at the core of Magen David Adom’s work.
“As well as being a passionate voice for Israel and active supporter of MDA UK, Rabbi Sacks taught about the importance of respect for all and so it feels particularly fitting to see his name adorning a vehicle that will help save countless lives in the years to come.”
The event was also addressed by Dr Eilat Shinar, head of MDA’s blood services and Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer, who said: “King Charles described his great friend Rabbi Sacks as a light unto his nation. With the dedication of this life-saving MDA vehicle, the great man’s light shines brighter still.”
A mezuzah was presented to Lady Sacks by MDA Israel deputy director Alon Fridman.
British ambassador to israel Neil Wigan said: “Rabbi Lord Sacks had a truly global impact and was an exceptional ambassador for the Jewish people.
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Barbara Winton was the biographer for her father, who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the war in 1939, and was heralded by the Association of Jewish Refugees as a “fearless campaigner in her own right”.
Nicholas Winton was a young investment banker when, over Christmas 1938, he went to see what help he could o er in Prague, rather than go skiing as planned. Over the next nine months he organised the evacuation of 669 children, mostly Jewish, in an operation later known as the Kindertransport.
Winton found homes for the children, and arranged for their safe passage to Britain, but never spoke about his wartime exploits thereafter until they were revealed in 1988 by TV presenter Esther Rantzen in a now-famous episode of That’s Life
Barbara, who was outspoken in her disgust at the British government’s policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, described herself as “supporting today’s refugees while talking about yesterday’s”.
AJR said Barbara had continued her father’s legacy by contributing to events including launching the Sir Nicholas Winton website, an online archive chronicling his remarkable life.
Nicknamed ‘the British Schindler’, Sir Nicholas died in 2015, at the age of 106. He is due to be played by Sir Anthony Hopkins in a film biopic called One Life,
which is due to be released next year. In 2016, a year after Jewish News successfully championed a Royal Mail stamp to honour Sir Nicholas, Barbara addressed the UN Holocaust Memorial Day in New York.
One year later, at the 2017 Limmud festival, she talked to British Jews about the impact of her father’s heroic work and in 2019 took part in a panel discussion to mark the first anniversary of the opening of the Holocaust Education and Learning Centre at the University of Huddersfield.
One year after that, together with the son of fellow wartime humanitarian Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, she opened a new exhibit on the Kindertransport at the Imperial War Museum in London.
The latest cohort of the Chief Rabbi’s Ma’ayan Programme have graduated at a ceremony hosted by Ephraim Mirvis and his wife Valerie at their home. The programme provides 18 months’ training for outstanding female educators to hold leadership roles in the Jewish community, as well as advisers in the area of taharat hamishpacha (laws of family purity) and women’s health issues.
A football match involving a Jewish children’s team is at the centre of an antisemitism inquiry after an opposition player posted a message on social media saying “Hitler would be proud” of his side’s victory.
The message, which also said “4-3 win against some random Jews” was
posted online following a match played in a Hertfordshire Football Association fixture on Sunday.
The Community Security Trust confirmed that it received several immediately complaints about the Instagram post and added it would be following up with the relevant authorities.
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Langdon Member James, with his employer WarrenQatari-based television channel Al Jazeera is facing claims it has engaged in “harassment” of seven Jewish Labour activists who have been targeted by producers of a documentary looking into the party under Jeremy Corbyn.
A three-part Al Jazeera investigation, The Labour Files, included renewed attempts by hard-left activists to discredit those who called out antisemitism under the previous leader.
A tweet put out by the channel advertising the new series included a quote from Corbyn claiming antisemitism is “an evil” which “will not be tolerated in any form” under his government.
The video continued with a female voice saying: “Beneath the surface lies a darker side in British politics.”
Among those contributing to the three episodes were Momentum founder James Schneider, who previously worked for Corbyn, Jewish Voice For Labour’s Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi and the journalist Peter Oborne.
The first two episodes claimed to reveal the “disturbing truth” behind the “socalled antisemitism crisis” in Labour, with further claims that debate around Israel and Palestine had been silenced.
One episode included footage of the blogger Jonathan Ho man with the claim he had “links to the far right” and also included footage of the activist Richard Millett.
Ho man later said he was “consulting lawyers with a view to suing Al Jazeera” over the claims.
The programmes falsely claimed that the activists played leading roles in the campaign against antisemitism in Labour, and the Enough Is Enough demo outside Westminster at the height of the crisis.
Al Jazeera had sparked anger in the community in 2017 after airing a four-part series, The Lobby, which suggested that Israel was heavily influencing British politics through its embassy.
Jewish News has learned that Al Jazeera sent 26 emails and letters before the broadcasts to those featured, o ering them the right to
reply to allegitions.
Among the 26 are at least seven individuals linked to the Jewish Labour Movement who have openly raised claims of antisemitism in Labour under Corbyn.
The programme’s producers aim to discredit the allegations of antisemitism made by the seven, whom Jewish News has decided not to name. It is understood that Al Jazeera has received a stern response from JLM on behalf of all seven.
One senior Labour o cial told Jewish News the allegations being made against the seven Jewish members constituted “harassment” by the programme’s makers.
It is understood that a law firm was ready to take action on behalf of Jewish individuals if the three episodes make false claims.
The third episode of the series was taken o ine this week without explanation.
Leaders of all political groupings on Hertsmere Council are to send letters of support to two Jewish schools in the borough – Hertsmere Jewish Primary and Yavneh College after – after former Bristol University professor David Miller accused the schools of “grooming Jewish extremists”, writes Jenni Frazer.
Council leader Morris Bright, whose youngest child attends one of the schools, responded positively to a question put by Labour leader Jeremy Newmark, at a council meeting.
Newmark said Miller, who was fired by Bristol University and now appears on the
Iranian-state backed Press TV, attacked the two schools by saying they groomed “Jewish extremists” who were a “threat to national security” and “supporters of ethnic cleansing”.
Such comments, Newmark said, were “a shocking example of antisemitism that potentially puts Jewish schoolchildren in Hertsmere at risk”.
He said the council should declare Miller persona non grata in the borough.
Bright said Miller’s comments were “distressing” and “another reminder that the Jewish communities in Hertsmere and beyond have
always to be on guard from the insidious nature and behaviour of those who wish to perpetrate lies and the language of hate”.
But while he was more than happy for a letter to go out in support of the schools, he was less sure of the legal ramifications of declaring someone persona non grata within the borough.
Newmark said he would like that declaration put on record “as a matter of principle”, to show the disgraced academic was not welcome in Hertsmere.
Bright said he would be taking legal advice on what was possible.
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UK Jewish schools are finding it harder to provide student meals and cover energy prices due to the rising cost of living crisis.
At least two Jewish secondary schools in north-west London will stop providing kosher meals to students from the end of October, asking parents to send in packed lunches.
One figure responsible for providing kosher catering to almost 20 schools across north-west London and Essex described the situation as an “economic pandemic”, estimating the price of an average kosher school meal has risen by 30 percent in real terms due to food, fuel and energy inflation. He noted menus at many Jewish schools have changed, with a significant reduction in the use of meat and expensive ingredients like sunflower oil.
Meanwhile, a leading figure in Stamford Hill’s Orthodox Jewish community said teachers have started to bring in food for young students to prevent them going hungry as parents struggle to pay for a catered school meal or send in a packed lunch due to rising living costs.
Last week, Jewish News revealed a letter sent to parents and carers of students at Hasmonean High School for Boys and Hasmonean High School for Girls read: “Rising supply costs have meant that it is no longer financially viable for [our catering supplier] to continue supplying our schools.
“As a result, e ective as of 28 October 2022, there will be no food supplied to both schools for either the morning or lunch breaks.
“Despite our extensive research into locating a replacement caterer, this has been unsuccessful and unfortunately, this will mean that all students will be required to bring in a packed lunch daily going forward, and a snack for break time if they would like to. All food and drink brought into the school must of course be kosher.”
It added: “We will be sending out information regarding students who receive free school meals over the next few weeks so that they continue to receive what they are entitled to.”
Paul Robottom, founder and director of Signature Dining, confirmed that his company
would no longer supply meals to the Hasmonean secondary schools.
Mr Robottom, who supplies 18 Jewish primary and secondary schools with kosher meals, said the impact of rising prices on his industry was an “economic pandemic”.
The businessman, who has provided Jewish institutions including care homes with kosher meals for the past 20 years, said that without
more support from the government and parents, the industry would go bust.
He has raised prices by 10.5 percent this month to cope with increasing costs. His company’s average secondary school meal, which includes a main course and a dessert, is now £3.27 per child per day.
“Everyone is being squeezed,” he said. “It is hugely impacting us. It is a new pandemic, an
economic pandemic, and it will only get worse. Food inflation nationally is running at more than 12 percent, so add in the kosher element, and it is up to a 30 percent rise,” he added, noting extra costs including kosher ingredients, licensing and shomer fees.
“The cost of ingredients has risen, the cost of running a production kitchen with fuel has risen and so has the petrol we have to factor in when
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As the cost of living crisis begins to impact more and more people, the school meal industry is warning of a new ‘economic pandemic’, writes Sandy RashtyThe rising cost of ingredients, running a kitchen and fuel have led two schools to withdraw meal provision from after half-term
we deliver food to the schools. A kosher meal might now cost us an extra 30 per cent, but no one would be able to afford our school meals if we passed on the whole amount.”
Ms Freedman said: “There is unfortunately still a stigma around registering for free school meals in the Jewish community, even when the parents really need it.
“Some just don’t want people to know that they are struggling and so will rely on charitable donations for support but won’t officially reg ister their eligibility for free school meals.”
On the impact of the crisis, she added: “Jewish schools are challenged financially. On top of the national increase of things like the cost of food rising and the rising costs of delivery and sourcing of food, Jewish schools also have to factor in kashrut costs for meals. Many schools nationally struggle to cover their costs based solely on the government funding in this area and our Jewish schools even more so.”
The biggest issue facing Jewish schools was rising energy costs, she went on. “This is the biggest concern. We hope the support due to be announced later this month will be substantial enough to cover the increase in these areas.”
Spencer Lewis, executive headteacher of Yavneh College secondary school in Hertford shire, also commented on the impact of rising costs. He said: “Energy costs are a concern but we continue to keep a close eye on prices through the company who have been negoti ating our energy contracts for many years.”
Meanwhile Bill Pratt, the headmaster at the fee-paying Naima Jewish Preparatory School in Maida Vale, said he recognised the institution would need to rely on its savings in the face of rising prices.
He said: “Undoubtedly [the crisis] will hit some families – and especially staff – in travel, accommodation and other connected costs. We are fortunate to have reserves and will have to pay the bills. It is unlikely, as a private school, that we will receive any additional help.”
He confirmed school menus had been changed to mitigate the impact: “We have remanufactured them. We still provide the right choices as per legal requirements and guide lines, but we have had to limit some choice.
“For example, two days a week we don’t pro vide meat, whereas we used to offer it five days a week. We also used a lot more red meat, but now it’s only one day a week. We offer more veg etarian meals with protein like pulses and tofu or a vegetarian bake.”
Calling for more government support for faith schools and businesses, he predicted prices would rise further.
“I do not think the government has grasped the enormity of what is happening. Anyone in the business of ‘getting food on plates’ will be struggling,” he said. “The allowance from the government does not take into account the extra kashut needs of a Jewish faith school.”
The government currently provides £2.41 for all children from Reception to Year 2 as part of the “universal infant free school meals” pro gramme. Beyond this, children at state-aided schools may also qualify for free school meals.
However, Raisel Freedman, the assistant director at PaJes, which supports Jewish schools across the UK, said not all parents are applying for this extra support – even if they are eligible. PaJes has donated £280,000 in food vouchers for people who are eligible for free school meals.
Meanwhile Motty Pinter from The Interlink Foundation, the umbrella organisation for the UK’s Orthodox Jewish charitable sector, said the rising cost of living was impacting Charedi families – especially the majority who send their children to independent schools, which do not receive free school meal funding.
“Of course, it got a lot worse recently,” said Mr Pinter, who called for free school meals to be provided at independent schools. “All disad vantaged children from poor homes should be receiving a free school meal every day, regard less of the setting they attend.”
He pointed out while some independent Charedi schools ask parents to send their chil dren in with a packed lunch, others do provide hot meals for around £500 per child, per year. But with Interlink estimating that the average Charedi family is made up of 6.3 people, this is unaffordable for many.
One teacher at an Orthodox Jewish school in Stamford Hill, who wished to remain anony mous, said she had noticed an increase in the number of children who were being sent to school without any lunch.
On one occasion she contacted the mother of a child who had been sent in with only a small snack. The teacher recalled: “The mother told me she could give the child breakfast and dinner but was finding it hard to find the money to pay for lunch as well.
“I had to go out and buy the child something, and now I bring extra food to ensure these chil dren don’t go hungry. It’s heartbreaking.”
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An urgent project to preserve thousands of pairs of Jewish children’s shoes at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been launched to save the tiny footwear from disintegrating through the passage of time.
More than 8,000 shoes are stored at the site of the Nazi death camp, but the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation has now said that “without immediate conservation, these shoes are in danger of disappearing as historic documentation of life and death”.
The initiative, entitled From Soul to Sole, is a partnership between International March of the Living, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, the Auschwitz Memorial and the Neishlos Foundation, with the latter providing an initial donation.
“When we received the request to preserve the shoes of children murdered in the camp it was clear this was a moral obligation,” said International March of the Living’s chair Shmuel Rosenman and president Phyllis Greenberg Heideman.
“We see the conservation of the shoes of these innocent children as an eternal testimony to the brutality of the Nazi regime as well as a significant educational initiative. We believe that everyone who has ever participated on the March of the Living and others around the world will want to take part.” More than one million people
from across Europe were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, including more than 230,000 children. When Soviet troops liberated it in January 1945, there were only 500 children under the age of 15 still alive. All were su ering from disease and malnutrition. In so many cases, the tiny shoes left at Auschwitz are all that is left of
young Jewish children murdered by the Nazis,” said philanthropist Eitan Neishlos. “In these shoes they took their final steps as they were ripped from their mothers’ arms and led to their slaughter.
“Their shoes were stripped from them mercilessly, as were their names, their dreams, and futures. By
preserving these iconic shoes, we are preserving the memory of Jewish child victims of perhaps the Nazis’ most harrowing cruelty.
“It is our responsibility as the next generation to give them a voice from the darkness. Now is the time for our generation to do whatever we can to preserve the victims’ memory.”
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Health experts this week launched an urgent appeal to the parents in the community to make sure that young children are fully protected against the polio virus, writes Lee Harpin.
The appeal, timed to coincide with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, follows a recent case of polio discovered in New York, which has been linked to genetic analysis of virus samples discovered in Jerusalem and in London.
Last month it was confirmed that vaccine-derived poliovirus had been detected in sewage in Barnet, Brent, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest.
Children aged between one and nine across London, including those in the Jewish community, are now being invited for a booster dose of polio vaccine, or a catch-up dose if they have missed any routine doses.
Across London, childhood vaccination uptake is lower than the rest of the country. In Camden, Barnet and Haringey, 80-89 percent of children have had the vaccine by 12 months, but in the borough of Hackney uptake is considerably lower.
The London Jewish Health Partnership recently held an immunisation workshop in collaboration with NHS health o cials which included a focus on improving vaccine uptake with the Jewish community.
Dr Leonora Weil, public health consultant at UK Health Security Agency London, said: “During the Jewish holidays, we are raising awareness of how families can protect themselves from polio after poliovirus was recently detected in sewage samples in north and east London. This suggests polio is spreading between closely linked individuals with the potential to spread further.
“Polio can be life-threatening and have devastating consequences. That is why children aged one to nine years old are now being invited for a booster dose of polio vaccine, or a catch-up dose if they have missed any routine doses. This is especially important for Jewish communities as we gather together for the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, as a recent case of polio in New York has been linked by genetic analysis to the poliovirus samples discovered in London and Jerusalem.
“Families can visit nhs.uk/polio-sites to find local vaccination centres and pharmacies providing vaccination and we would advise booking an appointment as soon as possible if you are contacted by your GP.”
A Jewish man from Gateshead has been hailed as a good neighbour after arranging for the fire service to visit an older couple living next door to help prevent a blaze.
David Dombrowski, 39, who lives in the Saltwell area, alerted Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) after hearing about a campaign it had launched to help keep vulnerable people safe.
He referred Joseph and Lorraine Kane, both 78, who have been living in the area since 1966, and the gesture was appreciated, both by the couple and fire o cers.
“Mrs Kane has always been a very gracious neighbour,” said Dombrowski, who has lived in Gateshead for 15 years. “She always takes the time out of her day to say hello. I was aware of her husband Joseph’s mobility issues and I thought that a visit by the fire service might be beneficial.”
Lorraine said the safety
checks were “very important, especially when you are disabled and can’t get out of the house that quickly to escape a potential fire”, and the visit “definitely helped to ease our fears and put our minds at rest”.
Abbie Thompson, of TWFRS, said: “It was a pleasure to meet with David and Lorraine. It’s so refreshing to know that community spirit is alive and well across Tyne and Wear. A neighbourly action can go a long way to saving someone’s life.”
Children aged one to nine are being invited for a booster
David Dombrowski and Lorraine Kane
Thousands of Chasidic Jewish pilgrims ignored travel warnings to spend the Jewish new year in the central Ukrainian city of Uman, writes Michael Daventry.
The pilgrims were there at the burial site of Nachman of Breslov, the respected Chasidic rabbi who died in 1810. It came despite warnings that the war in Ukraine made the pilgrimage much more dangerous than previous years. The Israeli and US governments also cautioned their citizens not to make the trip, but thousands did.
Yitzhak Chai Golan, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, said he was not willing to be discouraged from the pilgrimage. “Sometimes we heard a lot (of air raid sirens). But we are used to (this) in Israel; all the time we have this,” he told the Associated Press. “We have God with us and the big tzaddik (righteous) is behind us.”
Another visitor was Nahum Markowitz, who had been visiting for the past 31 years. He said: “We are not afraid. If we come to Rabbi Nachman, he will protect us for the whole year.”
Israel repeatedly warned its citizens against traveling to Uman ahead of the festival. A Foreign Ministry statement before the new year advised Israelis to “completely avoid travel to Ukrainian territory, including the city of Uman and its surroundings”. It added that it would be di cult for the Israeli government to immediate rescue any Israelis caught in the middle of a firefight.
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A Dutch committee charged with assessing and acting on claims about artwork stolen from Jews before and during the Holocaust has determined that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky should be returned to the family of the Jewish woman who likely owned it prior to the Holocaust.
The family of Johanna Margarethe SternLippmann, who was murdered in 1944 at Auschwitz, should regain possession of Blick auf Murnau mit Kirche, or View of Murnau with
Church, an abstract work that the Dutch city of Eindhoven has owned since 1951 and has displayed at its art museum, according to the Dutch Restitutions Committee.
The decision reverses an earlier one, delivered back in 2018, in which the committee determined that there was not enough evidence to show that Stern-Lippmann had possessed the painting after the Nazis assumed power to prove that she had given up ownership under duress.
A Palestinian man, 21, has been arrested on suspicion of raping an Israeli teenager on a beach in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, Israel Police said on Wednesday.
Police said they will ask the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court for an extension of the suspect’s remand. The suspect, from near the West Bank city of Hebron, has a permit to be in Israel. A complaint was filed with police, who identified and located the man.
The alleged rape happened last Thursday.
Hebrew media reports said the suspect was employed in construction work.
A Palestinian man, 21, has been arrested on sus- Hebrew media reports said the suspect was
A 19-year-old girl told investigators she had come to the coastal city’s Sea Palace Beach to read a book, Channel 12 television reported.
The suspect arrived with another person and a friendly conversation developed between the three of them. At some point, the third person left, after which the suspect allegedly dragged the victim to a concealed spot, raped her and then left.”
Chasidic crowds at the burial site of Nachman of Breslov
It was ‘Shalom, Israel’ for tennis ace Novak Djokovic this week as he enjoyed his time in the Jewish state taking part in the ATP tournament in Tel Aviv.
The Serbian, who is one of the world’s great players alongside recent retiree Roger Federer, landed on Monday night, saying he was “happy and excited to be back”, despite social media users slamming his decision to play in Israel as “shameful”.
In the doubles, Djokovic was set to reunite with Israeli veteran Yoni Erlich, 45, who won the Australian Open men’s doubles back in 2008, for an emotional last tournament for the Israeli favourite before his own retirement.
The pair won the Queen’s Club Championship together in 2010. Erlich, however, had to withdraw with an injury.
Djokovic played in Israel early in his career, in 2006, when Serbia beat Israel in the Davis Cup. Since then, he has won 21 Grand Slam titles –and shows no sign of slowing down. He flew to Israel after playing in the Laver Cup in London, which turned out to be the final tournament for Federer, 41, who won 103 ATP singles titles.
Israel’s president has intervened in his country’s election campaign to condemn the rise of violence and extremism among politicians and parties, writes Michael Daventry.
Isaac Herzog said Israelis and their leaders should not let the “voices of extremism and violence lead us into an abyss of hatred”.
He added: “We must not view those who think di erently from us as enemies.”
Israelis head to the polls on 1 November for the fifth Knesset election in four years. According to opinion polls, there is little indication that the country’s political deadlock will be broken, although there are indications that parties on the far-right will do better than before.
Herzog warned there were already signs that a rise in “verbal violence” was escalating. He said: “Accusations of treason, comparisons to the Nazis, threats and curses in the public sphere and on social media. Verbal violence never remains that way. Concerningly, we see insults turning into physical violence, into curled fists, into assaults, into bloodshed.”
Israelis should take care “before your next nasty post, before your next hate-filled tweet or reply, before fighting, attacking, and hitting”, he
added. “Let us prove that there is a way to make important decisions without dismantling our home. Let us remember that we have a country to live in together, the day after the elections.”
A victory for the right-wing bloc in November’s election would pave the way for Benjamin Netanyahu’s return as prime minister.
He was pushed into opposition in the summer of 2021 after eight political parties, including one representing Israeli Arab voters, formed a coalition against him led by Naftali Bennett, that lasted for one year.
When historians look back on the events of this week, will they mark it as the moment that Israel’s stance on the war in Ukraine began to shift? Quite possibly.
This was the week when Russia announced the result of its self-styled referendums in the regions of Ukraine that it occupies. They surprised no one: the regions all decided –if that is the correct word – to leave Ukraine and become a part of Russia.
Few Jewish News readers would argue that the voting in Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia was free and
fair. The more pertinent question is how Israel, which has spent much of this war trying to keep itself out of it, would respond to a brazen attempt to divide Ukrainian territory.
The reasons for Israel’s indecision are well-documented: it has a large Russianspeaking population, it has closed military and economic ties with the United States, and the IDF needs to maintain contact with the Russian armed forces for its missions against Iranian-backed forces in Syria. All of these have made for a tricky balancing act.
But this week, there was a public shift. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said plainly that it “will not accept the results of the referendum in the eastern districts of Ukraine”. It is a position that aligns it with much of the western world.
And that follows more gradual changes over recent months. Israel has been absorbing immigrants in their thousands from Ukraine. Some of them are Jewish; many are not. Some are wounded Ukrainian troops arriving for medical treatment.
Then there is the disgruntlement caused by a legal dispute over the future of the Jewish Agency in Russia, which authorities there want to shut down. That case resumes next month. None of these examples are to suggest Israel is about to sever its relations with Russia and begin to supply Ukraine with weapons and defence systems.
But they are clear signs that Israelis are no longer sitting on the fence as much as they were.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has recommitted Israel to a twostate outcome at the United Nations, reversing the policy of his predecessors.
He was speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, ahead of November’s election in Israel, where he will face a challenge from Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejected the two-state outcome in recent years.
The speech also aligns Lapid more closely with President Joe Biden, who made a similar call in his General Assembly remarks on Tuesday.
Lapid wrapped his recommit-
ment to the policy in a speech that depicted Israel as both militarily strong and courageous in the name of peace; one of his main lines of attack on Netanyahu is a claim that the former prime minister made Israel seem like a victim on the world stage.
“Israel’s economic and military strength allows us to protect ourselves but it also allows
us something else, to strive for peace with the entire Arab world and with our closest neighbors, the Palestinians,” Lapid said. “An agreement with the Palestinians based on two states for two people is the right thing for Israel’s security, for Israel’s economy and for the future of our children. Peace is not a compromise. It is the most courageous
Arnold Schwarzenegger capped a visit to Auschwitz this week by inscribing an iconic line from his Terminator films into its guestbook: “I’ll be back”.
The 75-year-old actor was visiting the death camp as part of his work for the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Foundation, a US-based
decision we can make.”
It’s not clear in what context Lapid would be able to advance any such outcome.
The Palestinian Authority is facing unrest in the portions of the West Bank territory it controls, the terrorist group Hamas, controls the Gaza Strip and Lapid’s coalition no longer has the number of seats for a majority heading into the 1 November election.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who rejects the two-state solution and who was Lapid’s partner in setting up the current government, has openly criticised Lapid’s plans.
body that provides education about the Holocaust.
“This is a story that has to stay alive, this is a story that we have to tell over and over again,” he said afterwards.
But there was some criticism on social media that his guestbook inscription was “frivolous and
An ex-army reservist who took part in the January 2021 riot on the US Capitol and has a history of making antisemitic and white supremacist statements has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Timothy HaleCusanelli, who sported a “Hitler mustache” and was known to joke about killing and eating Jews, was captured on video breaching the Capitol and leading others inside in a right-wing mob’s e orts to prevent the Senate to certify Joe Biden’s election as president. He was convicted in May of all five charges against him. The judge said his “sexist, racist and antisemitic comments” were motivators for his actions on that fateful day.
tacky”. One Twitter user wrote: “I’m glad he visited and wrote in the book but I had to think twice about the message.
The Auschwitz Memorial said it was “meant to be a promise to return for another and more in-depth visit”, because this trip was planned to be relatively short.
Israeli PM Yair Lapid at the UN Timothy Hale-Cusanelli Arnie and his message
It’s been nearly two years since we lost Rabbi Lord Sacks; two years of missing his unique voice and wisdom on TV, in his books, on social media and, for those who were especially fortunate, in person. We can only but guess what he’d have to say during these eventful times of global and domestic upheaval.
Within days of his sudden death in 2020, Jewish News took steps to honour him beyond the pages of the newspaper with the launch of a campaign to purchase a life-saving vehicle for Israel.
We were delighted to take part in a dedication ceremony at Magen David Adom’s new cutting-edge blood centre.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to MDA UK and all the donors big or small who made this possible.
Members of the former Chief Rabbi’s family including Lady Elaine joined the event in Ramle, from where the bloodmobile will travel around the country collecting donations from up to 80 people each day.
Each of those has the potential to save three lives. It’s hard to imagine a more powerful legacy for a man who gave so much to Jews and others while he was with us.
As Rabbi Sacks said: “At the heart of Judaism is the sanctity of life.” These words are now emblazoned on the side of the bloodmobile bearing his name.
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When I was 17-years-old, I won a writing competition run by the Evening Standard. First prize was two tickets to the royal charity premiere of the film Death on the Nile in the presence of the Queen.
A very shy teenager, I plucked up the courage to ask a girl at my college to come with me. Her name was Sarah.
We arrived and were ushered into the theatre, careful not to step on the red carpet laid out for the royal party. We sat in the back, among all the other dinner jackets and evening wear and waited expectantly.
Six gold and red liveried trumpeters heralded the entrance of the Queen.
The film followed, and at the end of it the heralds came on again and gave a series of blasts on their gold trumpets. The top of the Queen’s head bobbed up once more in the distance as she made her way to the exit, followed by polite applause.
Today, 30 years later, Sarah and I are still together, very happy, have two grown-up boys. It all started with the evening I went to the cinema with the Queen.
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Each year a Buckingham Palace garden party invite is offered to organisations associated with the royal family. The Queen was patron and Prince Philip president of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. In 2004 the society celebrated its 250th anniversary and was invited to hold a garden party at Buckingham Palace for 8,000 fellows and guests. I was in charge of the afternoon.
After 18 months of meticulous planning, the day of the party was wet and windy. I had ordered 1,000 plastic raincoats to protect guests from the weather as apart from the diplomatic and royal tea tents, reserved for special guests, there is nowhere to shelter from the elements.
Despite the rain, the Queen and Prince Philip walked through the garden meeting people. I organised a number of dinners and receptions at Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace and Kensington Palace but the garden party was the highlight of my career.
Three weeks later our daughter got married, after which I had a much needed rest.
Pam Morris By emailIn 2003 it was the greatest privilege to receive from the Queen the OBE for services to the rehabilitation of offenders in HM prisons, young offender institutions, youth treatment centres and similar places.
I was director of the Koestler Trust for arts in
How times have changed. Elizabeth II – dearly loved but said to have kept her distance.
Charles I – authoritarian ruler, argumentative, precipitated the English Civil War. Executed for treason.
these establishments after being introduced to it by David Astor, former editor of The Observer, for whom I worked for many years. Meeting the Queen was an incredible moment and one I shall treasure.
Dorothy Salmon By emailCharles II - known as the “merry monarch”, not known for taking things too seriously.
Charles III – time for some middle ground?
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Ihave lost count of the number of people who sent me a link to the recent New York Times exposé on Chasidic yeshivas. It included material previously reported, including the lack of secular education and the use of corporal punishment. What was new was yeshivas in New York claiming government funds allocated for disadvantaged students but not providing the services the funds were meant to support.
I have met dozens of young men who, often in broken English, have recounted their experiences. However, I was not aware of the New York yeshiva’s ability to access public funds. In the UK, we are used to governmentfunded faith schools, but they are carefully monitored; one Ofsted “inadequate” rating puts the school into special measures with high levels of oversight. In the USA, with the
strict division of church and state, I understood all faith schools were privately funded.
The article showed virtually no yeshiva students passed the standardised tests. It has been suggested the yeshivas encouraged low achievement in the tests so the amount of money claimed could be higher still, so perhaps the attainment was not as bad as the article said. Either way, the exposé demonstrated the principle of “coerced criminality” that Nahamu has been lobbying on.
Public funds were fraudulently claimed, as the secular education was not delivered. Further money was given for the purchase of computers that the rabbis had no intention of buying (as computers are forbidden). Other money was for meals that were never delivered – a misappropriation of public funds, by
the community’s holy leaders, who had no qualms claiming the money. Theft of public funds including benefits has become socially normalised, even halachically justified, to support the expensive Chasidic lifestyle.
The exposé has elicited many critical responses, including that it’s an antisemitic trope and that yeshiva education prepares the boys for business careers; Gemara encourages critical thinking and a good work ethic. However, the New York city voucher programme that helps low-income families pay for child care now sends nearly a third of its total assistance to Chasidic households. So which is it? Is there widespread poverty as a result of poor education, and families are entitled to the vouchers, or does the yeshiva education prepare children for business
careers, in which case the vouchers are being claimed fraudulently? Even if some have successful businesses, too many, without fluent English and basic numeracy, find the only jobs around are low skilled and low paid.
Other critics argue that the wider Orthodox model in the USA is hardly one to aspire to – capitalist ethos, costs of private schooling, high levels of attrition and college debt. While I appreciate the flaws in this model, this critique doesn’t address the question of why Chasidic boys cannot be taught fluent English, numeracy and science. There is simply a lack of willingness to allow these youngsters to achieve fluency in the vernacular, alongside maths and science education.
It’s not antisemitic to ask why Chasidic boys are not entitled to literacy and numeracy. It is antisemitic or discriminatory to deny education on the basis of their gender and their faith. As to the people from outside the community who defend the yeshivas, this troubles me most of all. Why do you defend the denial of English literacy when you wouldn’t do the same to your own child?
On the Sunday of erev Rosh Hashanah the plan was for a relaxed early bike ride to the local bakery and a day reading the papers, checking a Haftorah text and chilling before joining the family for a festive meal. After all, there were two long days of shul-going ahead so relaxation was in order.
Then I received a message from a higher power: what would my late brother Daniel (z’’l), who died in January, have done. There was no question in my mind. He would have started the day – had he been hale and hearty – by going to a morning minyan. So there was only one choice for me. It was a mad dash from my home near Richmond Park to Western Marble Arch and a lengthy Selichot service, followed by an obscure confessional ritual, (it can be found in the ArtScroll siddur), to put me in the mood for the holidays.
This year the Yamim Nora’im (Days of Awe) have seemed strangely empty without the presence of my younger sibling. When Daniel, a pillar of the Hove Hebrew Congregation (HHC), was ill with heart disease in hospital early this year, we played a memory game. We
would remember the shul at its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s when it was so full on the High Holidays that benches had to be put in the space between the bimah and ark for the overflows.
The game was to recall the great characters of the day, now long gone, where they sat, what they did in life and make bets on the order of the yom tov call-ups. Among them was the Dyke Road Avenue Cohen, who lived on Brighton’s equivalent of the Bishops Avenue. And the young guy, in the white socks, who was a big contributor, was never missed. In the pulpit was the late Rabbi Wilner, who could be guaranteed to move the shul to tears with his vivid evocations of the miracle of Israel. On the bimah, Chazan Kalman Fausner with a sweet voice and emotional lilt to die for.
The habit of the younger Jews on Yom Kippur was the shul walk. It would start at HHC, then head for the beautiful old shul of Middle Street in the heart of Brighton, where my father’s sister would be in the gallery. There would be a brief call at the Reform, five minutes from Holland Road opposite the County Ground, and then, for those keen enough, a trip to West Hove on New Church Road.
It is there that the Brighton area, with the help of Brighton & Hove Albion proprietor Tony Bloom, is seeking to recreate the glory days of Brighton Jewry with a new complex.
Close to being finished it includes a modern shul, a mikve and a fancy Israeli restaurant as well as town houses and apartments.
It is a noble cause. But the community as we knew it, overflowing with great characters from bookmakers in loud suits to the former president of the Board of Deputies, the genteel Sol Te , barely exists any longer.
Brighton may be an unusual case of decline. But attendance at my own community in Richmond has thinned out. Membership is stable but numbers can be erratic and disappointing. Yet community activities, and an ulpan for local Israeli children, are thriving.
I was struck by a beautiful invite from Western Marble Arch (where I am a ‘country’ member) to bring a guest to Rosh Hashanah services. This was gracious gesture but also an indicator that, even in these Days of Awe, in parts of British-Jewry there are empty seats.
When I rang the Hove shul to wish them a sweet year, the honorary o cers were laying out books for yom tov. What was missing was Danny helping to change the Torah mantles and wisecracking. It is hard in these days, full of reverence and warm memories, not to look back.
Daniel’s presence at my side in shul and his humour is a huge gap. I wait for the knock on the door expecting to see him arriving loaded with his famous fried fish, chopped liver and kosher wine bought at a sale price at Tesco. But there is a forbidding silence.
Yizkor will be especially hard this year.
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It was a very surreal moment when my phone rang and I was asked whether I would be able to attend the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on behalf of Liberal Judaism.
It is not the sort of invitation that one has to spend much time thinking whether to accept, but honestly nothing could have prepared me for the reality of the day.
After years of leading funerals, I have to admit I was more nervous than I have been for any since being a student rabbi… and I did not even have to o ciate!
Nerves came from the weight of responsibility I felt at being at such a moment in history, not only for myself but for thousands of our Liberal congregants and perhaps even many others for whom the religious representation of today’s congregation was important.
The Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue does a wonderful job as a communal figurehead, but it’s also important that Progressive Jews and communities personally feel part of events such as this – and therefore the diverse representation which both Buckingham Palace and Lambeth Palace have become known for is an important addition.
The number of messages I have received from people who felt as if they were able to be a part of the ceremony in a di erent way because I was there has been staggering.
The funeral was, from start to finish, an incredible mix of the universal and the particular; di erent people from many di erent places sat side by side, the cross of political views and roles made sitting waiting for the funeral to start a fascinating opportunity just to listen to conversations. On the other hand, we were all so very aware that this was a moment of mourning for a muchbeloved and admired monarch.
In every Shabbat service, across all the Jewish denominations, we hear the prayer for the royal family. This Shabbat and last Shabbat
we felt that poignancy of being in the liminal state between two moments, and the weight of that history filled the room. But there were also the quiet, individual stories – the tears in the eyes of the imam next to me or the police o cer who held the gate as we left.
The service, too, was so very much a Christian one, the readings and rituals very much reflective of the Queen’s strong personal faith, but also the gathering of all faiths and none was a strong reminder of her ecumenical beliefs in providing a safe umbrella for other religions.
I entered the funeral with Baroness (Tanni) Grey-Thompson. We had met at the recent commemoration for the Munich Olympics massacre and it was a fascinating opportunity to hear her reflections on the Queen and important thoughts on inclusion.
I left with senior police and fire o cials as well as Angela Rayner MP and Rabbi Kathleen Middleton, who represented the Movement for Reform Judaism at the funeral.
We were a strange small group standing outside on an empty street, blocked as President Joe Biden’s enormous car was allowed to leave in private. But in the other direction the last members of the parade were making their way through the armed forces parade; all of us could not move – not because of the armoured car, but because of the draw to accompany the Queen on this last moment of her journey.
Here again was this profound particular and universal, the very large story of the end of the life of possibly the greatest Queen of England and the very small story of a few people caught in the poignancy of having a chance to accompany her in her final steps.
We entered the Garden of Remembrance and immedi ately saw the Dry Garden –a landscaped bed of stones, looking as though they were ready to be picked up and placed on Jewish graves. But we were not in a memorial garden for victims of the Shoah.
Instead, we were in the Nyanza Genocide Memorial Garden in Kigali, which honours more than one million people murdered in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The Dry Garden deliberately evokes Jewish rituals of death: in solidarity with the pain of the Jewish community and in recognition of the similar patterns – years of prejudice, persecution and attempted annihilation – that mark the Jews in the Holocaust and the Tutsis in Rwanda.
In the garden, we saw an artificial river, in remembrance of the Tutsis who had been thrown to drown in rivers across Rwanda; we saw a pit recalling the mass graves of thousands of Tutsis; we saw a colourful flower bed, signi fying the love for those who were murdered; we saw vibrant green cacti to honour the younger generation growing up post-genocide, Tutsis and Hutus in reconciliation. In the Kigali Genocide Museum, developed and run by our friends at sister charity, Aegis Trust, on behalf of the Rwandan government we saw cartoons: a doctor asking a patient: ‘What’s wrong with you?’, and receiving the answer: ‘The Tutsis.’
At the Nyamata Church, where Tutsis had taken refuge, only to be slaughtered en masse, we saw the pews still in situ – but piled high with the clothes taken from the victims. Coffins filled with bones, and shelves with skulls are kept as memorials and for graphic education. Our guide showed us the skull with a dent –“This individual was killed by a blunt blow to the head,” and the skull with a crack – “This person was killed by a machete.”
We were able to witness an extraordinary
initiative: a reconciliation village, Mbyo, where houses have been built by Hutu perpetrators and where perpetrators and survivors now live.
Many of the women weave brace lets, bowls and plates, created using traditional crafts and natural fibres; as they weave, they talk and build their relationships. We were proud to sit in the same place as our Patron, His Majesty the King, who visited the village when he travelled to Rwanda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in June. As Patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, he has met survivors of recent geno cides alongside Holocaust survivors and knows of our work to highlight the similar patterns of identity-based persecution that led to the Holocaust and has led to genocides since.
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust was given the honour of planting a tree in the Nyanza Memorial Garden, where 100 trees will be planted in memory of the 100 days of the genocide: a mix of trees in honour of reconcili
ation, ficus trees to symbolise families, and Rwandans coming together today to create new life, and another, acacia, to symbolise protec tion – to protect the memory of the past. Our tour began with recognised rituals of death, but it ended by planting new life, and a vow to continue our work to remember the Holocaust as well as the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. • Olivia is chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Rachel is head of research at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Rachel (left) and Olivia plant a tree in the Kigali garden
Hundreds of children from years five to 13 took part in Tribe camps around the country including Camp Zev, which hosted over 90 participants at Alton Castle. Activities included a murder mystery adventure, scavenger hunt Dragon’s Den and inspirational Shabbat and Tisha B’Av experiences. Sadie Blakely, a Madricha on Camp Zev, said: “Camp gives children the incredible opportunity to connect and celebrate Judaism in a fun way, meet new people and just have a great time.”
Rabbi Harvey Belovski visited the Kisharon Noé School to lead the pupils through a celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s life and to blow the shofar to mark the school’s new year
Mental health service Jami was invited to join Abrahamic faith leaders from England, Australia and Indonesia as part of an independent and grassroots international interfaith peace effort called 1000 Abrahamic Circles. The 1000 Abrahamic Circles project aims to bring together a Jewish, a Muslim and a Christian faith leader from a wide range of differing world views to spend a week in each of their communities, directly observing each other’s way of life and ultimately building an understanding and mutual respect between faiths across the globe. The 100 Abrahamic Circles project is headquartered in Indonesia, one of the world’s most ethnoreligious diverse but conflictprone countries.
Susannah Kraft, widow of Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue’s Rabbi Neil Kraft, helped sofer Marc Michaels complete the writing of a Torah scroll commissioned in Rabbi Kraft’s memory. The scroll had been paid for by members of EHRS, who Rabbi Kraft had served for more than 17 years before he died before covid in 2020. Laurence Stein, chair of the organising committee said: ‘’It was incredible to see so many people at our Siyyum. As a mark of respect to the memory of our late Queen, we did not parade the new scroll around the streets of Edgware as was initially planned but we were still able to celebrate within the shul premises.”
Harry Olmer and Miriam Freedman, members of Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, were joined by Jewish Care’s spiritual and cultural adviser Rabbi Junik who blew the shofar for members and residents across the charity’s care homes and community centres to mark the beginning of Rosh Hashanah.
Honey at Rosh Hashanah is a bit of a deception. All that sweetness suggests good times are coming.
But it’s straight into 10 days of repentance and forgiveness, then fasting. Also known as the Ten Days of Awe, which they aren’t, they do provide time to work on your rusty kaddish. Mumbling the mourning prayer misses the point, as Rabbi Daniel Epstein will tell you, and as kaddish consultant for The Lehman Trilogy, he should know. Recruited when the play opened at the National in 2018, he is poised to bring his influence to bear when it reopens, at the Gillian Lynne theatre, in January.
It seems that Jewish director Sam Mendes, who was raised in Primrose Hill, could not have done the play
without him, as it was Epstein who worked on the pronunciation, the context and the phrasing of the allimportant recital of kaddish .
“The hair and makeup supervisor at the National Theatre, who happens to be a member of my shul,” says the rabbi of Western Marble Arch Synagogue, “[says] she overheard the cast saying the Hebrew and realised that their Jewish knowledge was, understandably, lacking. So she asked Sam Mendes if she could bring me in to help and he immediately agreed.”
Epstein’s role soon expanded into that of history tutor, as he felt it was not enough to pronounce the words correctly; he wanted the actors to know what they meant.
Written by Stefano Massini and adapted by Ben Power, The Lehman Trilogy charts the rise and fall of three
Bavarian Jewish immigrant brothers, the Lehmans, who went from running an Alabama general store in the 1840s to opening the bank whose collapse heralded the 2008 financial crisis.
Hugely successful in London and then in New York, where it won five Tonys, the play – a three-hander – is loaded with Jewish references, and praise for it was closely shadowed by criticism of its use of antisemitic tropes: Jewish power and money.
Rabbi Epstein had no idea about these cliches when he was initially asked to improve the way the actors delivered yitgadal v’yitkadash
“But because of them, we ended up discussing for hours the uncomfortable questions the play raises about antisemitism and stereotypes. I wanted the actors to see these complicated Jewish men in a more forgiving
historical context and to make the Jewish elements of the play ring true.”
Rabbi Epstein knew that Jewish theatre-goers would appreciate accuracy if they were to enjoy 200 minutes filled with Chanukah candlelighting, saying kaddish, sitting shiva and observing shloshim, the 30-day period after the burial.“The cast [then Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley, Ben Miles] had questions about the story. Questions that in another sense would have been borderline antisemitic,” says Epstein, “They were asking, ‘Why is it that Jews and money are always so connected?’”
Rabbi Epstein became the sounding board for issues in the play that rankled outside, such as the Lehman family being overtly Jewish (closing their shop on Shabbat) while benefiting from slavery (not in the play) and then pushing the global economy towards ruin with the largest bankruptcy filing in American history.
Though he couldn’t change the facts, Rabbi Epstein felt he could change perception, so he taught the actors about feudalism, Christian Europe and Tsarist Russia.
“I told them about the creativity and determination the Jews needed to survive in European systems that prevented them from owning land or accruing wealth. In America, the Lehmans were able to apply the same ingenuity, but without having to deal with the obstacles faced by their ancestors. That they got rich doing this was a problem for other people.”
As he wasn’t 100 percent sure of all the history, the rabbi focused on the contextual. “I made the actors see that this was how it was then; how it worked. I also believe that Jews weren’t primarily involved in the physical trading of people. However, these clichés about Jews have damaged Jewish people for centuries. But
I don’t think the play is antisemitic. It’s a morality tale.”
Rabbi Epstein says the Lehmans believed their moral imperative was to be philanthropic with their wealth; it could be argued that when that philanthropy reduced as a core value, so did their wealth.
Russell Beale had already learned kaddish by the time Epstein arrived, but in modern Hebrew. “I had to tell him that nobody spoke modern Hebrew in 1840s Germany and rejigged the kaddish to give it a thick Teutonic twist —which meant instead of tushbechata v’nechemata, it was tushbechoosuh v’nechemoosuh
All three actors, as yet unannounced for the upcoming run, get to say kaddish. At the National, Adam Godley was the only Jewish actor, and had lost his father a few weeks earlier.
“I got very emotional when I heard this, then told him that when he recited the kaddish on stage, it was likely that Jewish audience members would instinctively respond ‘amen’. In a theatre of more than 1,000, a minyan was virtually guaranteed, which meant Godley would be fulfilling the mitzvah of saying kaddish for his father, several nights a week.”
Briefly Epstein wondered if he had overestimated the audience’s participation, but when he went along on the second night of previews to watch, as he predicted they responded after the actor said the prayer.
“At that point I completely lost it. It was overwhelming,” says Epstein, who was “awestruck” when he heard from Godley that this happened every night. With three more days to Yom Kippur, this is your prompt to practice. Rabbi Epstein will be listening.
Ashkenazi food Marvellous tickets Marilyn Monroe A look Lehman Trilogy opens at the Gillian Lynne Theatre on 24 January 2023 30 September 2022 Jewish News 33www.jewishnews.co.uk LIFE Inside From le : Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles on stage at the NT. Top: Sam Mendes (le ) with Rabbi Daniel EpsteinThey tried to kill us, they failed, let’s eat.” It’s a well-known Jewish saying; after all, food is the golden thread that ties our culture together, and we are about to embark on yet another festival that is all about eating – sandwiched, as it were, with 25 hours of not eating. Yet while with other ethnicities there is a celebration of the French, Spanish, Moroccan, Caribbean etc recipes that their parents or grandparents used to make, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that a British Jew of Ashkenazi origin would remember his mother or grandmother creating any of the delicacies that previous generations thrived on.
In Britain, it is now de rigueur to criticise,
slate, pan, disapprove of or even condemn this form of cuisine.
Jay Rayner, in a simplistic display of wit and vinegar, explained that “the food of the Ashkenazis has been usurped by the food of their Mediterranean brothers, the Sephardim. Theirs is a culinary tradition full of sunlight and warmth and zest and life, rather than dead things and chicken fat.”
Yotam Ottolenghi told us in his 2012 book Jerusalem that when he was a child, “sweet, grey and smeared with gelatinous gunk, gefilte fish was perceived as a typical remnant of the old Ashkenazi world that was best left behind in Europe”. It was
“plainly abhorred by almost everyone,” he added.
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In essence, they are saying that Ashkenazi food is the food of the pogroms and the Holocaust. That it is time we forgot the 300-year period of Jewish history that was ended some time between 1940 and 1945. Farewell to Sholom Aleichem, Marc Chagall, and Sigmund Freud. “Best left behind in Europe,” said the man who lives in Camden, some miles away from Tel Aviv. I suppose after Brexit, Camden is not in Europe.
Many Jewish writers tell us with pride how they turn their back on heimishe cooking, having been force-fed chopped liver as a child, or talk about the horrors of the pickled cucumber. Snobbery and assimilation thrive.
This has led to what is, in e ect, a boycott of the cuisine. JW3, a cultural centre for north London Jews, had an Israeli-style restaurant which was an Ashkenazi desert (but did have pizzas and salad niçoise), and recipes for heimishe meals are as rare as hen’s teeth even in this paper. We are excited about top Israeli restaurants, but ignore the fact that they are not kosher.
British Ashkenazi Jews in particular seem to feel an embarrassment when reminded of their eastern European past. In their aspirations to be more and more middle class, they don’t like being reminded of uncle Hymie the tailor from Stepney who died of a coronary after a lifetime of imbibing schmalz. As in Job, “it is as though we were born yesterday”.
To be fair, it is now more than a century since their grandparents failed to make it to the Goldeneh Medinah and ended up in Whitechapel or Cheetham Hill. Their children eventually moved to the suburbs; how could a second or third generation Jew be nostalgic about Bury or St John’s Wood? Secular Yiddish civilisation is dead in Britain.
So nostalgia about the food also dies and, as a result, there are many foods and recipes that have nourished our souls in the past that are now fast fading into the fog of time, allowing those who have a reason (whether it is a grudge, good
Gefilte fish is perceived as ‘old Europe’
Gefilteria’s Yoskowitz and Alpern
Smoked salmon bagels have been ‘usurped by the food of the Sephardim’
Jay Rayner
business, or just good column inches) to deny the heritage.
Of course some recipes deserve to die: the garlic-ridden calves’ foot gel called fisnogge or ptcha was at best an acquired taste, and the imported jars of so-called gefilte fish that bears no relation to anything of pescatarian origin give ammunition to the sceptics.
The kosher restaurants in Britain do not help either. Assuming you can find one, what you get is lukewarm, tasteless chicken soup with kneidlach that could have been used at Trafalgar for cannonballs, and instead of the generous portions that you get in New York, a salt beef sandwich is a thin crumbling layer of meat surrounded by a brick of bread, at New York prices.
How then do we come back from this perilous state?
I think that the time has come to stop insulting our own heritage. I would not for a moment consider being rude about the opulent and tasty recipes that abound from the Sephardi or Mizrahi kitchens (I make a mean shakshuka), but I see no reason why some Jewish food writers see an open season on Ashkenazi cuisine. They should be ashamed of themselves.
As it has been written: “A man or woman who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of salt beef and pickles, is a person of stone and without heart.” The tang of the herring, the comfort of the cholent, the experience of the chopped liver, let alone the enchantment of a beigel packed with quality smoked salmon, are part of the experience of Ashkenazi cuisine. Even vegans can delight at the crunch of the latke or the sweetness of the tzimmes.
fantasy of salt beef and pickles, way. With organisations like YIVO dren in perpetuity.” One way to
The Americans are showing the way. With organisations like YIVO and writers like Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz (The Gefilteria), and Michael Twitty (author of Koshersoul), they have shown how the recipes of the 19th century can be updated with the ingredients and cooking methods of the 21st century, while respecting those we have come to love. Twitty says: “We need to remind people of both the historical truth but also the absolute joy we take in celebrating who we are and keeping
the memories of people who brought us here alive and giving something to our children in perpetuity.” One way to do that, he believes, is through cooking: “Food is how we say we belong.” Even in Britain, organisations like the Jewish Vegetarian Society show that you can be heimishe and vegan.
The answer, in the end, lies with us, and in the home. It is in our own hands to re-create the dishes that so delighted our forefathers and foremothers. Light, flu y gefilte fish balls infused with parsley? You bet!
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Having learnt to play Chopin, speak Polish and lose 30 pounds to play Jewish composer Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, playing Jewish playwright Arthur Miller, husband of Marilyn Monroe, must have felt like a doddle for Adrien Brody. The actor allegedly leapt at the chance to play the Death of a Salesman creator in the new Netflix film Blonde – starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn –which is an adaptation of the 2000 bio-fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The book le him thinking that Marilyn and Arthur deserved a movie of their own. “I certainly had a very clear, protective sense of honouring a man who deserves his own movie,” says the actor of Miller, who wrote Monroe’s final film, The Misfits. Born into a religious New York family, Miller later identified as an atheist and considered antisemitism “a rather normal feature of everyday life”, which is an approach to faith (or lack of) that will have resonated with Brody, because he was raised “without a strong connection to either Judaism or Christianity”, as his mother was halachically Jewish but brought up a Catholic. Despite all of the males distancing themselves from their Jewish roots, Marilyn still got to have a Jewish wedding ceremony and she converted to Judaism a er she and Miller were married, as she loved Jewish family values and identified with Jews. “Everybody’s always out to get them, no matter what they do,” she said. “Like me.”
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Before Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the coaches of the modern age. Guttmann was a Holocaust survivor. On Wednesday 19 October Barnet Libraries is running a free online discussion at 7pm with authors of two football books, one about Guttmann and the other about a club in Berlin. The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory is a biography of Guttmann by David Bolchover; Scheisse! by Kit Holden is about Union Berlin – a club on the rise in a city in flux. No football club in the world has fans like Union Berlin. The underdogs from the east have stuck it to the Stasi, built their own stadium and even given blood to save their club. But now they face a new and terrifying prospect: success. Dave Rich, of the Community Security Trust, who has advised the FA on racism and antisemitism in football, will chair the conversation. Book your FREE ticket at eventbrite.co.uk (search for Barnet Libraries)
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PANTO FILM Marilyn and Arthur in the film built Jewish News36 www.jewishnews.co.uk30 September 2022 JN LIFE their own stadium and even given blood to save their club. But now they face a newMeirav Ayalon has strong memories of growing up on Kibbutz Ein Gedi in the 1960s and 70s and crossing Route 90 to go for a dip in the Dead Sea. The journey, she remembers, was not a long one.
“In those days, you could access the sea from almost everywhere,” she says..
Today, as the saltiest body of water at the lowest point on Earth shrinks to its smallest size in memory, Ein Gedi has no beach at all.
Instead, reaching the water from Ein Gedi means crossing a stretch of land roughly 2.8 miles wide, pockmarked by cavities where the ground has fallen in.
To the south, the receding water – coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic – forced the Ein Gedi Spa resort to close in March 2020.
By then, the water was a 2.5 mile shuttle bus ride away.
To deal with the sinkhole issue, the government has for years had a risk map that was meant to ensure that roads or other structures are not placed on land in danger of collapse. As for the receding waterline, ideas to prop up the level have come and gone, but no large-scale plan has ever been implemented.
The Dead Sea’s issues have been exacerbated by mineral mining operations that pump its water into massive evaporation pools to its south. The mining lease has been enshrined in law for nearly seven decades, but in the coming years the government will finally have a chance to reopen the contract, and possibly help to slow the Dead Sea’s decline.
In the meantime, the Environmental Protection Ministry called last month for the government to set a target below which the level of the Dead Sea will not be allowed to fall. This was one of a series of recommendations in a draft policy document issued for public comment. It is unclear whether such a target will win cabinet approval. But even if it does, serious questions remain about how, and if, Israel can keep the stretch of water from dwindling further.
The two reasons for the decline are well understood. One is that not enough water is coming in from streams (Israel has no gushing rivers); it is being diverted by Syria, Jordan, and Israel for human needs. The other is that water is being pumped out by factories on both the Israeli and Jordanian shores to extract valuable potash, bromine and magnesium from the salty waters in massive evaporation pools. The factories replace only about half of the water that they remove.
Neither issue is easy to grapple with, and Israel currently has no approved plans on the table to deal with refilling the Dead Sea.
For a time, hopes were pinned on the Red Sea–Dead Sea canal project. The pricey
scheme would have involved desalinating seawater near the Jordanian port city of Aqaba and then sending the drinking water to cities in the drought-stricken kingdom, while channeling the leftover salty brine — some 250 million cubic meters, or mcm, annually — to the Dead Sea, where it would help to replenish the shrinking lake.
Ruled feasible from an engineering point of view, the project — initially priced at £9billion — was dogged by bureaucratic and financial hurdles and was recently killed by Jordan after years of Israel failing to approve the required funding.
However, hope for the possible resurrection of the plan came last month in the form of the above-mentioned Environmental Protection Ministry draft policy paper that recommended returning to a version of the plan at a total cost of just over NIS 300 million, to be divided between Israel and donor countries. The first stage would bring 400 mcm of briny water to the Dead Sea.
If this mixing of briny and saline water is successful — previous studies warned that anything over 400mcm per year could lead to the development of gypsum on the lake’s surface — a second stage would see 750 mcm entering the Dead Sea.
The document suggests that an annual inflow of around 750 million cubic meters taken from various sources, including the Mediterranean and Red seas, could stabilise the dying Dead Sea.
The first sinkholes were identified in the 1980s, but the scope of the problem has only recently become fully understood.
Today, there are only three beaches left along the entire western shore of what remains of the Dead Sea, and all charge entrance fees. All three are in the West Bank, but controlled by Israel. (Only the lower third of the western shore is within Israeli territory, while the entire eastern shore is in Jordan).
Most visitors to the Dead Sea don’t actually go to the lake itself. The most popular beach area on the Israeli side is at Ein Bokek, a knot of resort hotels surrounding a large open beach along what appears to be an expanse of the lake. In actuality, Ein Bokek sits on the shore of a massive, 80-square-kilometer (30-square-mile) evaporation pond, located where the lake was once before it dried up.
lent to what the entire agricultural sector uses in a year, according to 2019 figures. That would be a tall order anywhere, let alone one of the most politically sensitive and droughtstricken spots on Earth.
“There’s no magic solution,” said Galit Cohen. “You have to understand that the Dead Sea is a very complex story and that the solutions are also very complex.”
According to Cohen, saving the sea is not something Israel can do on its own.
“There has to be a geopolitical agreement,” Cohen said. “It can’t be what Israel decides alone. It must be together with the Jordanians.”
The Dead Sea today is about half the size it was in 1976. Currently at 436 meters (1,430 feet) below sea level, it is dropping by 1.1–1.2 meters (45-48 inches) each year.
As it recedes, the sea has left behind a barren landscape atop a layer of salt rock. As freshwater from winter rains comes down the mountains and onto the previously flooded plain, it has dissolved the subterranean salt rock, opening up over 7,000 sinkholes beneath the thin crust that seem to cave in almost at random.
According to Prof. Nadav Lensky, head of the Dead Sea Observatory at the Geological Survey of Israel, the Dead Sea’s level will eventually stabilise once the salt concentration is so high that evaporation levels plummet and are balanced out by the little freshwater that still flows in from the Sea of Galilee and streams to the west and east. It will be several hundred years before that happens, even with the sea’s rapid decline.
To actually recover to its former levels, the Dead Sea would need more than a million cubic meters of water a year, roughly equiva-
After nearly two decades of trying to rouse support, Ein Gedi’s Meirav Ayalon has concluded that the Dead Sea “doesn’t interest anybody.” A sinkhole fatality is only a matter of time, she maintained.
“I think that nature is telling us that we’ve gone too far, that it’s hitting back,” she said, gazing out at the pocked landscape. “I’m not opposed to agriculture or industry or profits. There are no bad actors here; it’s about how the state divides its resources,” she said.
“But as a citizen, I say just don’t be greedy. When people are down, you don’t kick them. I say to the state, give us a little bit of water. And to the mining companies: make a profit, but use a little less. Let’s not harm nature. Let’s help it.”
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Dalia and Rebecca were two of many participants on the Masa Israel Teaching Fellows (MITF) programme last year. MITF is an opportunity to travel, gain international work experience, and expand your network. MITF is for those 21-35 with a bachelor’s degree looking for nonconventional work experience to enhance their CV and make a di erence in the lives of Israeli youth. In addition to their work in schools, fellows take weekly trips exploring the country and get nuanced and unique perspectives on Israeli society. The ten-month fellowship is an opportunity to gain personal and professional development for all career paths.
Rebecca, from London, taught in a school in Bat Yam, and Dalia, from Manchester, taught in a school in Ramla for five months and in Tel Aviv for another five months. Both Rebecca and Dalia look back on their year spent in Israel with much gratitude for their experience.
the opportunity to explore Israel and deepen their connection to Israel and their Jewish identity.
Spending their year in Israel wasn’t only about the impact they were making on Israeli society and these students’ lives but also about the impact Israel and their programme had on them. Both felt as though they were living like locals, making friendships with shopkeepers and neighbours alike.
when I said goodbye,
made it even harder to leave. Rebecca shares, “I built relationships with students and gress and growth.”
Having spent their year in di erent cities, they both share touching memories of their time teaching in their respective schools. The bonds they created with teachers and students are immeasurable. Dalia recalls her moments of saying goodbye to her students and shares, “One of my least favourite moments was also one of my favourites - saying goodbye. I could see how appreciative all my students were in both cities when I said goodbye, and it made all the di cult moments even more worth it. Having my name chanted by every single child in the school gave me goosebumps and made it even harder to leave. Rebecca shares, “I built relationships with students and became closer to them than I could have imagined. I was able to see their progress and growth.”
Dalia, smiling, reflects on the fun she and her friends had on Purim, dancing in Shuk HaCarmel, and watching the air show on Gordon Beach during Yom HaAtzmaut. Rebecca describes how much she travelled and explored Israel’s secret spots, especially the Negev, which became her favourite place.
They created lifelong bonds with their flatmates, fellow MITF participants, teachers and students, all of whom they are still in touch with. They already have plans to revisit Israel over Channukah!
Following her programme, Dalia
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began a new job with the NHS as a trainee educational, mental health practitioner.
Having seen the limited resources and funding for mental health in Israeli schools, Dalia hopes one day to return as a psychologist to help solve this crisis.
Rebecca is starting a masters in sustainable development at UCL and plans to work with women in developing countries. The experience of having worked in a di erent country with diverse cultures and di erent languages has given her valuable skills to move forward and confidence to achieve.
Dalia says: “From camping trips with friends and hikes to visiting friends in di erent cities, and exploration days on Sundays, it was a busy, non-stop year, and if I could do it again, I would do so in a heartbeat.”
fessional career, while having the time of my life after university.”
Rebecca and Dalia are now both Masa Ambassadors. They are giving their time back to Masa over the next ten months to work together and help promote Masa to the UK Jewish community and share about the impact of Masa and the incredible experiences it has to o er.
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hen serial entrepreneur Simon Leslie wrote his first book, There’s no F in Sales, in 2019, he could never have imagined that six months later his company would have no ... sales. In a twisted turn of irony that no one could have foreseen, Covid struck, the aviation industry came to a halt and Leslie’s travel media company Ink Global, which publishes magazines for airlines, watched revenues nosedive from $150m to zero.
So how has Leslie, whose clients include Virgin Atlantic and easyJet, managed to transform the business, which is on target to have its best year yet? He kept calm and carried on – the bedrock of his latest book, Equanimity
“I’d had two ‘business heart attacks’ before Covid – 9/11 and the Great Recession when Deloitte tried to shut us down in 2014
– but the pandemic was worse than everything else put together,” says Leslie, who has been at the helm of Ink Global for nearly three decades. “We just had our best year, then Covid came along and chopped our legs off.” Ink Global took no revenue for six months.
But father-of-four Leslie adjusted things, “clinging on to the little bits of the business” he could, and took the opportunity to pen his third book, Equanimity: The Diary of a CEO in Crisis. It is a story of belief against the odds and resilience in the face of failure. “I wanted to write it as a playbook to give anyone with challenges, di cult times or just growth opportunity the tools to deal with anything business throws at them,” Leslie says. “It answers the questions entrepreneurs ask themselves on a daily basis. The book is
about how to improve performance. If you are doing well, it’s about enhancing and if you are doing badly it’s got all the answers for how you can do well.”
So how exactly did Leslie, whose Ink Global is back on target, manage to build his company back better? At the time, Ink was providing inflight magazines to some of the world’s biggest airlines including United Airlines, easyJet, Malaysia Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Eurowings and Singapore Airlines.
“Initially I spent a lot of time fighting o complaints from people upset because their advert hadn’t run but I was just preoccupied keeping my sta safe and then we adjusted,” he says. “Instead of putting our magazines on the planes, we sent them straight to customers. We had little bits to cling on. We then bought a technology company that targeted customers based on their travel habits and convinced airlines to take it.”
A game changer came when Ink acquired news company CNN’s airport television channel, to become the biggest network operating in airports. Today, Ink is continuing to expand its tech business, producing airport television and digital content for major brands like Reach TV and Booking.com.
Was he ever close to throwing in the towel? “There were many times where I thought this is too much and we can’t do it, but it never got to the point where I thought we are going bust,” he says. “We were part of a big US organisation and still had a business that was operating in the States.”
“Travel is already starting to get back to where it was in 2019 in the US, and it will for the UK once they sort out all their challenges – the demand is there. There’s no way you can switch travel off.We just had to keep holding out.”
Leslie has a passion for business and is a mentor and serial investor to multiple young entrepreneurs. A big believer in giving back. Leslie donated all the profits from No F in Sales to Jewish entrepreneur Alex Stephany’s social enterprise startup Beam, the first crowdfunding platform for homeless people, and he is an investor in the app Urbaniser, founded by Israeli entrepreneur Dr Orit Gal.
He is also an expert in handwriting, hypnosis, understanding micro expressions and body language.
What’s his best piece of advice for an entrepreneur? “Focus on what you’re good at. Don’t worry about what you’re not good at. Just keep getting better at what you are good at – keep enhancing it or someone will come along and do it cheaper and better.”
Also: “Know what your costs are and make sure you’ve got cash, as businesses fail most of the time because they run out of the stuff.”
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A member of Radlett Synagogue, Leslie is a supporter of Jewish Care and UJIA. He has completed a double marathon across the Sahara, the New York and Singapore marathons and a half Ironman in Phuket, Thailand, and has climbed Kilimanjaro with members of his team.
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As I write this, we have just witnessed the sad but majestic pageantry following the death of Queen Elizabeth. As billions of people tuned into the funeral to pay their last respects to our Queen of 70 years, we looked back on a life of service; a life in which everything, up until her very last days, during which she inaugurated her 15th prime minister, centred on her duties and responsibilities towards her country.
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Second, he brings his successor on stage: Yehoshua bin Nun. The Gemara (Bava Batra 75) asks why Yehoshua was chosen to follow in Moshe’s footsteps.
A beautiful answer – and a great insight into true leadership – can be found in the midrash Raba on Bamidbar (21:15), where the midrash explains that the reason Yehoshua stood out was that he set up the benches in the study hall before Moshe came to teach Torah.
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Moshe the sun and Yehoshua the moon, as the Gemara states. Moshe gives over the crown to Yehoshua and speaks the encouraging words: “Chazak ve’ematz” (Be strong and resolute, assuring Yehoshua that
he’s got what it takes to lead the Jewish people.
In his final speech, Moshe shows a true understanding of his people. Reading it reminded me of the spark of leadership the Queen left us, up until her last moments.
With her personal requests around the funeral, she showed her deep understanding of the nation, involving NHS workers and other key pillars on whom and on which British society stands. These small decisions showed what she was really about: her people.
With the new leader being automatically appointed, our King is facing a road on which he will follow in the immeasurably large footsteps of his mother.
Yehoshua showed us, however, that a true leader is one who can be a facilitator, a middleman, there not for himself but merely in service of the people.
As we find ourselves in this period of transition, a national ‘parsha Vayelech’, may the words of Moshe resound with us: chazak ve’ematz. Be strong and resolute.
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Adam, our first ancestor, according to the Torah, is a good guide to keep in mind on Yom Kippur. If we are frightened, alone, sad, exhausted and full of longing – well, so was Adam. And it is Adam who can take us out of Yom Kippur with hope for the future.
At the end of Ne’ilah, the final service of Yom Kippur, we do Havdalah, the ceremony that separates all sacred time from ordinary time. When we do Havdalah at the close of Yom Kippur, we are drawing back from our long glance into the world to come.
At the close of Shabbat, some take a drop of the Havdalah wine and place it on their eyes or in their pockets to carry away with them the essence of Shabbat. As we go back into the mundane at Ne’ilah, how do we carry with us echoes of those feelings that have crowded our heads this Yom Kippur? If our teshuvah (repentance), is genuine, then we will indeed carry with us the essence of Yom Kippur out on to the streets.
At Havdalah, at the end of Shabbat, we make a blessing over wine, spices and fire. Some believe that on Shabbat a second soul enters us and the reason we smell the spices is to revive ourselves, as our bodies grow faint with the sudden leaving of this second soul and the loss of Shabbat.
When we make Havdalah after a festival, we make the blessing over wine and fire only, perhaps because we are now quite ready to re-enter the world of ordinary time.
As you stretch out your hands towards the Havdalah candle this Yom Kippur, remember the following midrash (rabbinic legend).
Adam was expelled from the garden of Eden in the twilight time before the first ever Shabbat. Out in a dangerous new world, he was safe as long as Shabbat lasted. But at twilight on Saturday, he feared that the snake would return to kill him. And so God sent a pillar of fire to comfort him.
Adam stretched out his hand towards the fire and blessed the One who creates the light of the fire, with the very blessing that we say at Havdalah. Then Adam fasted, as we do on Yom Kippur, and he said: “Accept my teshuvah.” And God stretched a hand towards Adam and God accepted his teshuvah
After the final prayers of Ne’ilah, as we stretch our hands to the candlelight, God is reaching back towards us and accepting our teshuvah
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It’s that time of year again, when I make more regular visits to synagogue but I am unable to understand the rabbi’s sermon or the announcements, despite wearing my hearing aids. Any advice please?
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Happy new year to you!
If you wear hearing aids, do you know that there is a Loop programme on them - also known as a ‘T’ switch?
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JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION 020 8446 0502 www.jdeaf.org.uk mail@jdeaf.org.uk
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STEPHEN MORRIS
Qualifications:
• Managing Director of Stephen Morris Shipping Ltd.
• 45 years’ experience in shipping household and personal effects.
• Chosen mover for four royal families and three UK prime ministers.
Qualifications:
• Professional choreographer qualified in dance, drama and Zumba (ZIN, ISTD & LAMDA), gaining an honours degree at Birmingham University.
020 3146 3444 trevor.gee@patienthealth.co.uk
Where service is all about helping the client, only the client and nothing but the client
Where service is all about helping the clieent, on y the client and nothing but the client
WHERE FAMILY HEALTH COMES FIRST Tel: 0203 146 3444/3446: info@patienthealth.co.uk: FCA Regulated 773729: Member of Chartered Insurance Institute
• Offering proven quality specialist advice for moving anyone across the world or round the corner.
STEPHEN MORRIS SHIPPING LTD 020 8832 2222 www.shipsms.co.uk stephen@shipsms.co.uk
• Former contestant on ITV’s Popstars, reaching bootcamp with Myleene Klass, Suzanne Shaw and Kym Marsh.
• Set up Dancing with Louise 19 years ago.
DANCING WITH LOUISE 075 0621 7833 www.dancingwithlouise.co.uk Info@dancingwithlouise.com
• A member of the APCC, specialising in financial services compliance for:
• Mortgage, protection and general insurance intermediaries;
• Lenders, credit brokers, debt counsellors and debt managers;
• Alternative Investment Fund managers;
• E-Money, payment services, PISP, AISP and grant-making charities.
RICHDALE CONSULTANTS LTD 020 7781 8019 www.richdale.co.uk jacob@richdale.co.uk
LEE SHMUEL GOLDFARB
Qualifications:
• Hands-on service, with full and personalised support for international transfers.
• Get the most out of your currency exchange with regards to pension income, when purchasing your first house in Israel or benefitting from an inheritance from aboard.
• UK leader in financial exchange and partner to brands such as St James Place and Hargreaves Lansdown with industry-beating Trustpilot score.
CURRENCIES DIRECT 0786 0595 890 / 0207 847 9400 www.currenciesdirect.com/jn lee.goldfarb@currenciesdirect.com
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
• Leon is an Israeli and UK accountant based in Ramat Gan, Israel.
• He is a Partner at Harris Horoviz Consulting & Tax Ltd.
• The firm specializes in Israeli and international tax advice, accounting and tax reporting for investors, Olim and businesses.
• Leon’s motto is: Our numbers speak your language!
HARRIS HOROVIZ CONSULTING & TAX LTD +972-3-6123153 / + 972-54-6449398 leon@h2cat.com
DOV NEWMARK
Qualifications:
• Director of UK Aliyah for Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organisation that helps facilitate aliyah from the UK.
• Conducts monthly seminars and personal aliyah meetings in London.
• An expert in working together with clients to help plan a successful aliyah.
NEFESH B’NEFESH 0800 075 7200 www.nbn.org.il dov@nbn.org.il
Qualifications:
• Qualification: 40 years experience as a matrimonial and divorce solicitor and mediator, specialising in all aspects of family matrimonial law, including:
• Divorce, pre/post-nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, domestic violence, children’s cases, grandparents’ rights to see grandchildren, pet disputes, family disputes.
• Frequent broadcaster on national and International radio and television.
LLOYD PLATT
020 8343 2998 www.divorcesolicitors.com lloydplatt@divorcesolicitors.com
• FCCA chartered certified accountant.
• Accounting, taxation and business advisory services.
• Entrepreneurial business specialist including start-up businesses.
• Specialises in charities; Personal tax returns.
• Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation Volunteer of the Year JVN award.
SOBELL RHODES LLP 020 8429 8800 www.sobellrhodes.co.uk a.shelley@sobellrhodes.co.uk
Qualifications:
• Launched Man on a Bike IT consultancy 15 years ago to provide computer support for the home and small businesses.
• Clients range from legal firms in the City to families, small business owners and synagogues.
• More than 18 years’ experience.
MAN ON A BIKE 020 8731 6171 www.manonabike.co.uk mail@manonabike.co.uk
• Professional insurance and reinsurance broker. Offering PI/D&O cover, marine and aviation, property owners, ATE insurance, home and contents, fine art, HNW.
• Specialist in insurance and reinsurance disputes, utilising Insurance backed products. (Including non insurance business disputes).
• Ensuring clients do not pay more than required.
RISK RESOLUTIONS
020 3411 4050 www.risk-resolutions.com ashley.prager@risk-resolutions.com
LISA WIMBORNE
Qualifications:
Able to draw on the charity’s 50 years of experience in enabling people with physical disabilities or impaired vision to live independently, including:
• The provision of specialist accommodation with 24/7 on site support.
• Knowledge of the innovations that empower people and the benefits available.
• Understanding of the impact of a disability diagnosis.
JEWISH BLIND & DISABLED 020 8371 6611 www.jbd.org Lisa@jbd.org
• Provides free professional one-to-one advice at Resource to help unemployed into work.
• Offers mock interviews and workshops to maximise job prospects.
• Expert in corporate management holding director level marketing, commercial and general management roles.
RESOURCE 020 8346 4000 www.resource-centre.org office@resource-centre.org
• Co-Founder and Technical Director of ADWConnect – a specialist in business telecommunications, serving customers worldwide.
• Independent consultant and supplier of Telephone & Internet services.
• Client satisfaction is at the heart of everything my team and I do, always striving to find the most cost-effective solutions.
ADWCONNECT 0208 089 1111 www.adwconnect.com hello@adwconnect.com
Touch the imagination of (7)
11 Exposes (5)
12 Reflecting road stud (4-3)
13 Medieval stringed instruments (5)
Fast, speedy (5)
Gulps of air (7)
22 European beer (5)
Sense in the mouth (5)
Stirred emotionally (7)
Looked or dug deeply (into) (6)
Downgrade (6)
DOWN
1 Man’s felt hat (6)
2 More experienced (5)
3 Publish once more (7)
5 Without tenants (5)
6 Blank page in a book (7)
7 Person who comes first in a race (6)
8 Tree that may have a copper variety (5)
14 Kitchen tool (7)
16 Admit willingly (7)
17 Waned (6)
18 ___ Wilde, Irish dramatist (5)
19 Domestic appliance (6)
21 Topic, subject (5)
23 Vigorous enthusiasm (5)
In this finished crossword, every letter of the alphabet appears as a code number. All you have to do is crack the code and fill in the grid. Replacing the decoded numbers with their letters in the grid will help you to guess the identity of other letters.
Fill the grid with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, column and 3x3 block contains the numbers 1 to 9.
Each cell in an outlined block must contain a digit: a two-cell block contains the digits 1 and 2, a three-cell block contains the digits 1, 2 and 3; and so on. The same digit must not appear in neighbouring cells, not even diagonally.
See next issue for puzzle solutions.
All puzzles © Puzzler Media Ltd - www.puzzler.com
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Antique – Reproduction – Retro Furniture (any condition)
Epstein, Archie Shine, Hille, G Plan, etc. Dining Suites, Lounges Suites, Bookcases, Desks, Cabinets, Mirrors, Lights, etc.
Single items to complete homes
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We have an open waiting list in our friendly and comfortable warden assisted sheltered housing schemes in Ealing, East Finchley and Hendon. We provide 24-hour warden support, seven days a week; a residents’ lounge and kitchen, laundry, a sunny patio and garden. For further details and application forms, please contact Westlon Housing Association on 020 8201 8484 or email: johnsilverman@btconnect.com
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Wanted all Antiques & furniture including Lounge Dining and Bedroom Suites. Chests of drawers. Display and Cocktail Cabinets. Furniture by Hille. Epstein. Archie shine. G plan etc in Walnut. Mahogany. Teak and Rosewood.
We also buy Diamonds & Jewellery. Gold. Silverware. Paintings. Glass. Porcelain. Bronzes etc.
All Antiques considered. Full house clearances organised. Very high prices paid, free home visits.
Check our website for more details www.antiquesbuyers.co.uk
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Teenagers today are facing greater challenges to their emotional well being than ever before. Di culties arising from social media, academ ic pressure, social, religious, and educational challenges are just a few examples of potential adversity with which a typical teenager needs to grapple, often all at once.
Our mission is to provide expert guidance and support, ensuring that no Jewish teenager is left to face any emotional challenge alone.
We see a near-future in which every Jewish teenager in the UK has the support available to prevent emotional di culties becoming a crisis.
We are at the heart of the Jewish Community providing services for teenagers, parents, and teachers to promote increased awareness and understanding of the issues a ecting our young people whilst at the same time providing emotional support when challenges do arise.
Our services include:
JTeen Support JTeen Therapy JTeen Educate JTeen Parent JTeen Prevent JTeen Response
We look forward to continuing to service the community in 5783, and impacting the next generation.
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