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How we celebrated ShabbatUK, from Salford to Stamford Hill!

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83rd Annual Remembrance Ceremony & Parade

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BRITAIN’S BIGGEST JEWISH NEWSPAPER 2 November 2017

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Issue No.1027

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How we celebrated ShabbatUK, from Salford to Stamford Hill!

See pages 26, 28, 29, 30 & 31

83rd Annual Remembrance Ceremony & Parade

Sunday 19th Nov 2017

The Brits who shaped Israel...

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One hundred Jews who moved from Britain to help shape the modern state of Israel are celebrated today in a unique initiative marking the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, writes Justin Cohen.

The Jewish News-Jewish Agency Aliyah 100, in association with UJIA, highlights the far-reaching impact of individuals – household names and not – who have had a powerful impact from politics to philanthropy and media to the military.

Our 70-strong list of olim who are still alive is headed by pioneering educator and social activist Alice Shalvi, followed by former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy and former Ambassador to the UK Daniel Taub. Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president who lobbied for the Balfour Declaration, and Abba Eban, considered the greatest PM Israel never had, top the 30-strong list of those who have passed away.

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Balfour centenary coverage: Pages 14–24 • Souvenir Aliyah 100 magazine: Inside

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News / Hamas debate / Farage anger / Mend meeting

Streeting to attend Mend event as fellow MPs quit over ‘extremism’ appearance, saying that Mend did not have “the best of reputations”.

Three MPs scheduled to speak, Crispin Blunt, Sir Ed Davey and Joanna Cherry said in a statement: “It has become clear there is controversy over Mend’s record and claims of links between the organisation and extremist views.

We are concerned if this event goes ahead the controversy around the

Labour MP Wes Streeting has defended his decision to participate in a Mend meeting in Parliament, despite three of his fellow MPs pulling out citing “extremist views” related to the group, writes Jenni Frazer.

Mend, or Muslim Engagement and Development, was due to hold a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday evening to mark the beginning of Islamophobia Awareness Month. Anna Soubry, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, cancelled her

organisers will distract from the principal purpose, which is to unite all the communities we represent against Islamophobia.”

But Streeting, MP for Ilford North[pictured] said he would attend the meeting with host Stephen Kinnock, adding: adding “I am committed to this event because of the huge surge in prejudice against Muslims, both verbal and physical.”

Mend’s Azad Ali, is reported to have written that the March attack on

parliament, which killed five, was “not terrorism”. Streeting added he hoped Mend would restate its oppostition to anti-Semitism.

A spokesperson for the Jewish Labour Movement said: “Wes is a proven ally of our community and is courageous in calling out hatred wherever he sees it.

We are sure he will be using this opportunity to highlight the need for Mend to apologise for, and move beyond, the problematic language and discourse their leaders appear to have adopted.”

Azad Ali, above, and Labour MP Wes Streeting, inset

Farage’s ‘Jewish lobby’ Ministers reject call to comments cause anger take Hamas off terror list

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Former UKIP leader and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has been asked to apologise for comments about the power of the “Jewish lobby” in US politics.

The politician [pictured] made the remarks on his LBC radio show, during which he discussed the power of lobby groups in Washington, D.C. in the wake of the first charges being brought against aides to President Donald Trump.

Taking a call from a listener called Ahmed, who suggested the pro-Israel lobby in the US was as dangerous as the Russian hacking scandal, Farage said: “Well the Israeli lobby, you know, that’s a reasonable point Ahmed, because there are about six million Jewish people

living in America, so as a percentage it’s quite small, but in terms of influence it’s quite big.”

When Ahmed said Israel has both the Republicans and Democrats “in their pockets”, Farage replied: “In terms of money and influence, yep, they are a very powerful lobby.”

Ending the call, Farage said Ahmed had made the point that “there are other very powerful foreign lobbies in the United States of America, and the Jewish lobby, with its links with the Israeli Government, is one of those strong voices”.

Campaign Against Antisemitism called for Farage to “immediately withdraw his deplorable comments or be sacked by LBC”.

Ministers this week resisted a call in the Lords to remove Hamas from the list of terrori groups banned under UK law.

Home Office Minister Baroness Williams said the military wing of the Palestinian organisation was a proscribed organisation and it was not government policy to provide a “running commentary” on any such group.

Under the Terrorism Act 2000, the Home Secretary could consider removing a proscribed organisation only by written application, she told peers at question time.

Independent crossbencher Lord Hylton had asked the government to consider dropping Hamas from the list of banned groups “in the light of its reconciliation agreement with Fatah”.

He acknowledged ministers

Hamas fighters at the funeral of those killed when the IDF blew up a terror tunnel

were unlikely to say yes immediately, but insisted the situation had “changed profoundly” since Hamas was first listed.

Lady Williams said it was a “challenging” issue and the UK remained a strong supporter of promoting peace.

Tory Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate said the minimum required from Hamas was they acknowledged the “basic right of Israel to exist”.

NEWS IN BRIEF FIFA PUTS AN END TO EFFORTS TO REMOVE ISRAEL

POLAND CAMPAIGN TO FIND WITNESSES OF THE HOLOCAUST

GERMAN RAILWAY IS CRITICISED FOR ANNE FRANK TRAIN

HAMAS TUNNEL FOUND UNDER UN SCHOOL AND SEALED

The governing body of world football has finally ended relentless Palestinian efforts to ban Israel, declaring the “matter closed”. FIFA had been lobbied by the Palestinian Football Association, which this week said FIFA had “received threats” from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. UK Lawyers for Israel worked cloesly with partners in both America and Israel to defeat the bid.

Holocaust-commemoration activists in Poland, together with the British government, have funded a last-ditch effort to interview witnesses who attempted to rescue Jews during the genocide. The campaign was announced in Warsaw by the From the Depths organisation at a meeting that was also attended by the UK’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, Sir Eric Pickles.

Germany’s national railway has triggered a storm on social media for naming one of its super fast trains after the famous Holocaust diarist Anne Frank.

After asking customers to weigh in with suggestions, Deutsche Bahn named several of its new trains after famous Germans, among them the teenaged Frank, whose family fled Germany for Amsterdam after the Nazis seized power in 1933.

A Hamas tunnel was discovered under a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. The tunnel was discovered on 15 October by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which runs the school, and Israeli authorities were notified, it said in a statement. The school was immediately closed and the tunnel sealed, according to the statement. The school reopened 10 days later.

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New York terror / Shop ‘hate’ / Suspension dropped / News NEWS IN BRIEF

GOLDERS GREEN MURDER TRIAL DELAY The trial of a man accused of stabbing to death his mother and sister in their home has been delayed.

Joshua Cohen, 27, is charged with killing Louise Cohen, 66, and Hannah Cohen, 33, in Golders Green.

The women were pronounced dead at the scene after emergency services arrived at about 8.50pm on 11 August. Cohen, of Barnet, was arrested in nearby Golders Hill Park the next day.

He appeared at the Old Bailey by video link for a plea and case management hearing.

‘UK REFUGEE HELP NOT AS ORGANISED’ An IT pioneer who arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport has said she does not believe the UK’s efforts to deal with the current refugee crisis are as organised as in the 1930s.

Dame Stephanie Shirley, who arrived in Britain in 1939 as one of 10,000 child refugees, said: “It’s not as well organised from a British point of view as it was in 1939 when the Christian and Jewish activists got 10,000 out, each one to be fostered in this country.”

Argentinian Jew among New York terror victims An Argentinian Jewish man was among eight victims of a terror attack on a bike path in New York on Tuesday.

Businessman Ariel Erlij was part of a group of eight friends celebrating the 30th anniversary of their high school graduation with a trip to Manhattan.

The Argentine foreign ministry identified them as Erlij, Hernan Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damian Pagnucco and Hernan Ferruchi.

A sixth member of their party, Martin Ludovico Marro, was recovering from injuries at Manhattan’s Presbyterian Hospital.

The group were celebrating the anniversary of their 1987 graduation from the Polytechnic School of Rosario, Argentina, with a US trip to New York and Boston, where Marro lives.

The Yeshiva World website reported that the Misaskim organisation, which provides religious Jewish services for

Police at the scene of a terrorist attack on a bike path at Houston Street and West Street in lower Manhattan

the dead and mourners, has contacted the NYC Medical Examiners Office to offer its services in ensuring Erlij’s remains are handled according to Jewish tradition.

Argentina’s consul in New York, Mateo Estreme, told La Capital in Rosario that the survivors in the group are in a state of shock. Only days earlier, before flying to the US, they had posed for a group photo, all of them wearing T-shirts with the word “Libre” or Free.

“Four died at the scene and another young man died when he was taken away by an ambulance,” Jose Nunez, a national deputy who was a friend of several of the men, told La Nación.

According to reports from Jewish media websites, Erlij died en route to the hospital.

The Argentine Government said it expressed its most sincere condolences and that all Argentinians were sharing a terrible moment of profound sadness.

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‘BE PATIENT, JEWS COME LAST’, SHOPKEEPER TOLD SCHOOL GIRL A Jewish schoolgirl was allegedly told by a Stamford Hill shopkeeper to “be patient, Jews come last”.

The incident was reported to the police and to the Campaign Against Antisemitism by volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol Shomrim.

The girl was dropping off items for a parcel service when the shopkeeper, in the middle of serving her, stopped to help another customer.

When the girl politely asked for her receipt so she could leave the store, the

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shopkeeper allegedly replied: “Be patient, Jews come last,” according to a statement on the Campaign Against Antisemitism’s website.

It said the victim felt “shocked and very hurt” by the incident.

Machover suspension lifted An Israeli-born anti-Zionist academic who was suspended from the Labour Party has had his suspension rescinded.

Moshé Machover, 81, a staunch left-wing critic of Israel, was readmitted to the party after clarifying that he did not support the Communist Party of Great Britain or Labour Party Marxists.

He had been accused of

penning an article seen to fall foul of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.

However, while party apparatchiks initially suggested his suspension from Labour was in part due to this, the rescinding of his suspension now appears to have been as a result of him distancing himself from other left-wing groups.

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News / Tech challenge / Mitzvah Day / Hate warning / JAMI dinner

Student ‘Interfaith Hackathon’ will boost education with tech The Jewish community’s inaugural Entrepreneurship Interfaith Hackathon has set its tech challenge to youngsters ahead of a 14-hour problem-solving extravaganza to be held next month.

Students aged 12-to-18 are being asked to design solutions to help improve education through technology, learning valuable skills in the process, while industry leaders offer help from the side-lines.

The hackathon, media sponsored by Jewish News, is being held at Work Avenue in Finchley and will start after Shabbat on Saturday, 2 December, lasting throughout the day on Sunday.

It will feature a host of chief executives and company directors, who will give presentations and mentor the teens. The young people will gain skills in communication, delegation and adaptability – all highly prized by industry.

Debbie Sheldon, the new chief executive of Work Avenue, said it would “give participants the skills they need for the workplace of the future”.

She added: “They can also network with industry professionals they wouldn’t otherwise have access to.”

Sheldon, who took over from long-time chief executive Shraga Zaltzman earlier this year, said it was about “adding elements to their CVs that will help them stand out from their contemporaries”.

The hackathon, which will feature bosses from tech giant Google, is being jointly organised by Jewish Interactive, a charity using education to improve Jewish education, and Acorn Aspirations, which “nurtures entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity in young people”.

Chana Kanzen, chief executive of Jewish Interactive, highlighted its importance, quoting Forbes in saying that 60 percent of managers thought new graduates “do not have the critical thinking and problem-solving skills”.

She said: “There are holes in the current educational system, which is leading to a skills gap costing the economy around £63 billion a year in lost income.”

Up to 50 people can take part, with their innovative solutions being judged by a panel including advertising executive Jason Goodman, venture capitalist David Bloom and educational technology consultant Nina Iles.

Eye on the future: a Jewish Interactive digital event for young people

Fellow judge Richard Ferrer, editor of Jewish News, said: “We’re thrilled to be part of this first hackathon for young entrepreneurs, which will give young adults

invaluable skills.

“I suspect it will be the techies of tomorrow who will be teaching us oldies a thing or two before the night is out.”

Members of Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre taught MPs and peers a thing or two about social action at a Westminster event ahead of Mitzvah Day 2017.

The survivors and Jewish refugees met 22 parliamentarians from all political parties at an event before the annual day of volunteering, on Sunday 19 November, when 40,000 people will participate throughout the country.

MPs included Cat Smith, Mike Freer, Sir Peter Bottomley and Stephen Pound, attending with representatives

Photo by Yakir Zur

Refugees talk social action ANTI-SEMITISM STILL

Ian Austin MP with HSC members and Laura Marks

from the Board of Deputies and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Jews.

Mitzvah Day founder Laura Marks said it was “all about people giving their time, rather than their money, to make a

difference to the community around them”, adding: “A big part of that is spending time with older people.”

Marks was joined by Mitzvah Day’s Daniela Pears and Dan Rickman, as well as Gillian Merron, chief executive of the Board of Deputies.

Merron said: “This launch celebrated the very best of Jewish, interfaith and intergenerational social action, as well as our commitment to remember the past.”

Freer said: “Mitzvah Day is a great opportunity for communities to give back to society.”

‘A MAJOR CONCERN’ Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has warned that anti-Semitism is still “an urgent issue” because Jews can still be seen as “guilty, dangerous and polluting”.

Williams, who was head of the Church of England from 2002 to 2012 [pictured], spoke on Radio 4’s Today programme, marking

500 years since Martin Luther first posted his criticisms of the Catholic Church in Germany, which split Christianity in Europe.

Luther expressed antagonism towards Jews, writing that Jewish homes and synagogues should be destroyed, their money confiscated, and liberty

curtailed, but Williams rejected the view that he was “responsible for Hitler”, saying: “That’s a glib judgement, but there are things in that strand of Christian discourse, which light the fuse.”

Asked if this remained relevant, he said: “Sadly antiSemitism is not a problem of the past.

It is a real, urgent, present issue. There’s something that still makes people think that Jews, as a body, are guilty, dangerous and polluting.”

JAMI dinner raises £500k Mental health charity JAMI chalked up an incredible £500,000 from supporters this week from its fundraising dinner.

More than 300 guests at the event, which was held at the Royal Horticultural Halls on Monday, heard how the charity provides practical and emotional support to Jews with mental health needs.

JAMI chair Doug Krikler said “the community’s mental well-being is not just our business, but the business of the whole community,” adding that the year’s theme was

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“transforming the landscape”.

Krikler said he hoped that “everywhere in our community becomes a safe and supportive space,” meaning

that people are “informed, prepared and appropriately resourced” to deal with mental health.

Guest speaker Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former media chief, spoke of his own mental health problems.

“When people tell me I’ve achieved stuff despite having a mental health problem, despite psychosis, despite depression, despite addiction, I say I think any success I had is because of it – because of what I’ve learned,” he said. “It taught me resilience.”

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Poppy hero/ Hammerson project / Rinder praise / News

Survivor still selling poppies at age 100

Ron Jones helps sell poppies in his local Tesco

A former soldier who survived a concentration camp connected to Auschwitz is selling poppies for the Royal British Legion aged 100.

Grandfather of two Ron Jones, who turned 100 on 30 April, volunteers for up to six hours a day at his local Tesco supermarket, in the Harlech Retail Park in Newport, south Wales. He has been collecting for the Poppy Appeal since 1981.

Jones was called up to fight in 1940 and served as a lance cor-

poral in 1st Battalion Welch Regiment in the Middle East. He was captured in Benghazi in 1942 and, after nine months in Italy, was sent to forced labour camp E715, part of Auschwitz. After two years, he was forced to join the “death march” of prisoners across Europe in 1945 before being freed by US troops.

He returned home to Newport and his wife Gladys in May 1945, weighing just seven stone, down from 13 stone. He said: “I go down to Tesco every year for a fortnight,

practically every day. I like to do a lot for the British Legion as we help dependants. I’ve made as much as £15,000.”

He admitted he had become “a bit of a celebrity” and customers come in each year looking for him, with one woman driving from London to Newport to buy a poppy.

“She puts £20 in my box,” he said.

Jones attended the launch for the 2017 Poppy Appeal in Newport and refused a chair, standing for the 45-minute ceremony. He said

£36M HAMMERSON PROJECT BEGINS Work has begun on Nightingale Hammerson’s £36million redevelopment of Hammerson House in north London, with charity bosses meeting project managers to check on progress.

The Jewish charity, which provides care for the elderly, was given the go-ahead by Barnet Council late last year to redevelop the Bishops Avenue site as it hopes to increase capacity to house up to 116 residents in en-suite rooms.

Designers hope to “take advantage of the site’s natural woodland setting” between Highgate and Hampstead, “embracing the

Builders at Hammerson House

proven therapeutic benefits of natural light and connections to the landscape for those in the later years of life”.

The new building will include “lounges opening up to sheltered winter gardens, sociable spaces and specialised spaces for Namaste care, a therapy specifically designed to improve the quality of life for residents living with advanced dementia”.

Nightingale Hammerson chair Melvin Lawson said: “Our vision is a modern, stimulating residential care facility where our residents will feel at home, with a warm welcome for visiting family and friends.”

the Legion had “been there” for his friends who returned home after the war and needed help.

Lynne Woodyatt, community fundraiser for the Royal British Legion, paid tribute to the poppy seller as “a legend”. “He’s one of our key volunteers and an ambassador for the appeal. He’s so generous and the Legion is quite close to his heart,” she said.

Jones features in a film called The Poppy Seller, released on 11 November.

RINDER PRAISE FOR ‘HEROIC’ LGBT+ STAND ITV’s Judge Rinder has praised Reform and Liberal Judaism as “heroic” for welcoming LGBT+ Jews. Criminal barrister Robert Rinder, who is openly gay, spoke at a service of celebration to mark 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

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Special report / Israel’s Syrian hospital

How Israel became the good gu

by Jenni Frazer @Jennifrazer

To make something happen sometimes needs a spark of imagination and a belief that anything is possible.

In June 2014, I was in Israel at a Jewish media conference. The foreign ministry, which had devised the programme, offered “away days” for delegates: time in the West Bank on a settlement, visiting an industrial zone in the north, that sort of thing.

As a former Jerusalem correspondent, I found the options dull and was debating what would be the least worst choice. But then we were summoned to hear an address from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and among the well-worn clichés, something suddenly leapt out.

Netanyahu spoke about Israel’s historic role as “a light unto the nations” and, as an example, referred to a field hospital on the northern border that was treating… Syrians.

I begged to go to see this in action, but the foreign ministry insisted the prime minister had spoken out of turn, and refused to allow journal-

ists to take the story further. Astonishingly, from 2014 to late last year, Israel, famously leaky, managed to keep a lid on the story, citing security considerations.

But it was becoming clear Israel, ever subject to a bad press, was sitting on something remarkable. Little by little, what the medics of the northern hospitals and the Israeli army were doing, and the numbers of Syrians, fighters and civilians, being treated, became an irresistible story.

One day over lunch I mentioned it to award-winning film-maker David Cohen and a lightbulb moment happened. This, he said, could make a terrific film.

This is how Cohen, cameraman Asi Avias and I ended up in a pitchdark clearing somewhere on the Golan Heights, waiting for random wounded Syrians to come over the border and be taken for treatment to hospitals in Safed or Nahariya.

It was a waiting game, but, as our army escort told us, there was no guarantee when or whether people might arrive.

To be here, we had to overcome

many difficulties, including the fact that much as we might beg, we were not going to get some of the big names we wanted to interview.

We also misunderstood how much bureaucracy was involved, but eventually the wrinkles were ironed out.

We had a politician lined up – former Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon, under whose aegis the help to Syrians had begun.

We had the hospitals and the medics good enough to spare time to talk to us, the ground-breaking surgeons, the nurses, the social workers, the musicians who played in the hospital corridors to cheer people up, the “dream doctors” — clowns to you and me, who helped to win the children’s trust — and, yes, some Syrian patients.

What we didn’t have was anyone saying treating the Syrians was a bad idea. Every person we spoke to, close to or far from the project, took pride in what Israel was doing.

On the last possible night of our filming schedule, magically, it all came together. Nothing looked promising in the dark clearing where we were

Israeli medical staff treating seriously injured Syrian children. Their identity is hidden for their own safety as those seeking Israeli help are often targeted. The indiviuals pictured do not feature in the documentary Love Your Enemies

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Israel’s Syrian hospital / Special report

uy in the Golan told to meet the IDF teams when, suddenly, one of the soldiers got a call and the signal went out to the two ambulances to head to the border. In short order, they were back with their wounded.

Drivers assumed their places. Paramedics, men and women, performed triage on the Syrians inside the ambulances. One Syrian wearily held up a hand, flashing a V for victory sign. It was about the only bit of him that hadn’t been shot at.

In under 20 minutes, the whole caravan disappeared as the ambulance trucks made their way to the most appropriate hospital to treat the injuries recorded. It was an astonishing operation, skilled and organised down to the last inch.

It’s not often you witness a modern-day miracle, but that’s how it seemed to me as we drove away. With help from the Israel-British Alliance, we have made — in my opinion — a really great film. It’s called Love Your Enemies.

Sometimes all it takes is a spark of imagination and an ambition, realised by Cohen, to tell an incredible story.  The DVD will be available priced £7.99 including p&p from Psychology News at dcpsychologynews@gmail.com.

Love Your Enemies will be screened in Westminster next week under the aegis of the Israel-British Alliance and the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel

‘I’ll keep this Syrian mother in my heart’ her one-year-old son, despite Smadar Ocampo is tough. She her fears. has had to be: as head nurse in “When they arrived, he the paediatric surgery departwas swollen like a balloon and ment at Israel’s Western couldn’t even open his eyes. As Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, I and others cared for her child, she sees heartbreaking scenes she began to trust us and relax.” daily involving children, and it In simple Arabic, Ocampo is important for her to keep it began to talk to the woman and together — for the parents and explain her son’s condition. the patients, writes Jenni Frazer.

The boy’s kidneys were failing But even Ocampo was and he was likely to need a reduced to tears in the wake transplant. of a long and unexpected Day by day, mother and son relationship with a patient, the result of Israel’s decision Lifesaver: Smadar Ocampo grew used to their surroundings, beginning to trust the to help Syrians who come to the Israeli medical staff and had personal chats, northern border asking for medical help.

Ocampo acknowledges from the start she despite Syria regarding Israel as the ultimate never expected to meet, let alone befriend, a enemy.

After the heavily-pregnant Syrian woman Syrian woman. But the two met in the paediatric ward where the woman’s son was being gave birth to her second child, Ocampo went to visit her in the maternity ward, where she treated.

“When we met, my friend was very fright- cried upon learning the Syrian woman had ened because she had been taught terrible named her baby girl Ismador, the Arab version of her own name, so there would be a permathings about Israel,” Ocampo explains.

“However, she had more recently heard that nent reminder.

“I’ll keep thoughts of her and her children Syrian children were receiving medical treatment here, so she came to try to find a cure for in my mind and heart forever,” she says.

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News / Bonkers conkers / Pie record / Charitable cards NEWS IN BRIEF

BARENBOIM CONCERT ACCLAIMED BY CRITICS An orchestra of Israeli and Palestinian musicians led by Jewish composer Daniel Barenboim has performed to critical acclaim at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed Strauss’s Don Quixote, with Kian Soltani on cello, to raise funds for MS Society, in tribute to Barenboim’s first wife Jacqueline du Pré, who died of multiple sclerosis 30 years ago.

KNIFE ‘PANIC’ AT STAMFORD HILL SHUL There was “panic and chaos” in a Stamford Hill synagogue on Wednesday evening after two men ran into the building with a knife.

Police arrested two suspects after they entered the building on Cazenove Road armed with a “‘very large’ blade” during prayers.

Neighbourhood watch group Shomrim said: “Worshippers tried to flee to a place of safety.”

Police said: “One of the men entered a synagogue to find safety after running away from an earlier altercation. We are not aware of any direct threat to the synagogue.”

How Evie conkered the record books Ecologists were left agog this week after an eight-year-old Jewish student at Wolfson Hillel Primary School in Southgate found a horse chestnut tree husk capsule containing an incredible five conkers.

Evie Evie Jacobs, who lives in Bore- Jacobs hamwood with her parents and with her Yavneh student sister Abigail, was special searching for a rare triple husk conkers containing three conkers when she stumbled across one three News of Evie’s find has even reached times the normal size.

“The most I have ever seen is three,” British Columbia in Canada, where said botanist Dr Fred Rumsey, senior noted botanist Linda Crampton, who curator in charge of historical collec- has made a study of the horse chestnut tree, said that she has never heard of tions at the Natural History Museum.

“In this family, the ovary is three- such a specimen before.

Dr Darren Evans and Dr Michael celled with only one ovule per cell, so you would expect, at the most, there Pocock, co-authors of Conker Tree to be three conkers. Usually only one Science at the Centre for Ecology and develops. So there must be develop- Conservation at Newcastle University, mental abnormality here, perhaps the have confirmed the highly unusual nature of the find. fusing of two flowers.”

Captain sets a pie standard at Kidtropolis, at the A Jewish children’s ExCeL Centre last entertainer has set Monday. a Guinness World Calamity is more Record for the number often to be found of pies flung in his with Herbert Sherface in the space of 60 bert, Willow Wood seconds.

Elf, Scorcher the Entertainer Dov Dragon and Quackers Citron, who goes by Pie face: Captain Calamity the Magic Duck, but the name of Captain Calamity, teamed up with Paul during half-term he went all-out for Megram, aka Colonel Custard, to beat Guinness glory and had 72 pieces the world record of 71 pies in a minute thrown at him.

Abi and Rachel’s charity designs To batmitzvah girls from north London are raising money for an Israeli charity helping children with disabilities.

Abi Boyden, 12, from Finchley, who had her batmitzvah last week, and her cousin, Rachel Weller, 11, from Hampstead, who will have hers in March, wanted to help charity Beit Issie Shapiro (BIS), which provides therapies and services for disabled children in Israel.

“Ahead of their batmitzvahs, they thought it was a waste when people buy mazeltov cards from supermarkets, only for them to get thrown away, so they decided to design and print their own,” Abi’s proud mum Hannah explained.

Abi, left, and Rachel with the cards

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News / Pope praise / Judo ‘thanks’ / World briefs

Charity teams up with Vatican An international Jewish educational organisation has teamed up with a Catholic organisation set up by Pope Francis along similar lines.

World ORT, whose current president is Argentinian, shook hands on an agreement with Scholas Occurrentes, set up in Argentina in 2001, when Francis was a local archbishop.

At the Vatican, the popular pontiff last week gave his blessing to the two groups’ plans to roll out a huge interfaith educational event next October, involving hundreds of children.

Both organisations have

The Pope gives his blessing to the historic collaboration

similar aims, with World ORT promoting scientifictechnological education as a means of social mobility and Scholas linking technology,

art and sports to promote social integration.

Organisers said the 2018 meeting in Buenos Aires would be an “ideal context

for engaging in a unique and multicultural and interreligious dialogue, with the aim of learning to respect the other, and committing to act for the greater good”.

World ORT board chairman Darío Werthein said: “This collaboration will allow us to reach more places and for each and every one of the children to develop their potential.”

Its CEO, Avi Ganon, said: “We see in this cooperation an important tool to promote tolerance. World ORT schools can portray an example for establishing an equal and respectful dialogue between peoples.”

Israel thanks UAE for judo ‘hospitality’ The president of the Israeli Judo Association has thanked hosts of the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam for the hospitality shown to the Israeli squad – even though they were banned from displaying their country’s name shirt or have the Hatikvah played when Tal Flicker was awarded his gold medal.

After the final day of competition, Moshe Ponte met with his UAE counterpart, Mohammad Bin Thaloub Al Derai, in what was described by the International Judo Federation (IJF) as an “historic meeting” where Ponte “thanked his UAE counterpart for the hospitality” shown to the Israeli team”.

Ponte also met IJ president Marius Vizer and UAE Judo, Wrestling and Kickboxing Federatio General Secretary Naser AlTameemi, where the group “shared greetings” and “a positive discussion” at the IPIC Arena.

Israel’s delegation won five medals at the event.

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Israel has accused the government in Warsaw of ‘discriminating against Holocaust survivors’ in a newly unveiled restitution bill that would require those seeking restitution for nationalised property to be citizens living in Poland and exclude all heirs except ‘first-line heirs’ i.e. spouses, children or grandchildren.

SPAIN

The umbrella organisation for Spanish Jews has broken with its policy of political neutrality and criticised Catalonia’s independence push. The Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain said: ‘We wholly support the Spanish Constitution’, and condemned ‘unilateral’ Catalan action.

MYANMAR

More than 300 rabbis have urged Israel to stop selling weapons to Myanmar (formerly Burma) after the army attacked the Muslim Rohingya minority, forcing 300,000 to flee their homes. They said: ‘Our commitment to ‘Never Again’ compels us to take action to protect today’s victims of ethnic cleansing.’

CROATIA The World Jewish Congress has urged Croatian leaders to open a debate on Holocaust revisionism in the country and acknowledge the crimes committed at the Second World War Jasenovac concentration camp, where the fascist Ustasa movement killed more than 83,000 people – mainly Serbs, Roma and Jews – between 1941 and 1945.

Stickers showing a doctored photo of Anne Frank wearing a German football team’s top haveappeared in Dusseldorf, Germany, a week after a similar incident in Rome.

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News / Mavis Hyman awarded / Abuse allegations

Mum of Jewish 7/7 terror victim is honoured for her charity work

By Francine Wolfisz @FWolfisz

A woman whose daughter was murdered in the 7/7 bombings has reiterated her promise to “turn things round and do whatever we can to redress the negative”.

Mavis Hyman, 87, has devoted herself since the tragedy to charitable projects set up in memory of her 31-year-old daughter, Miriam, who was killed in the Tavistock Square bus explosion in 2005.

Named as this year’s recipient of Jewish Care’s Topland Business Luncheon Award, Hyman, who established the Miriam Hyman Memorial Trust, described the honour as “very precious and deeply moving”.

Speaking about her daughter [pictured, inset] at Wednesday’s event, she said: “Miriam was the greatest gift that we had and we lost her in an act of senseless brutality.

“This was hard, so the only way we could really cope with it was to try and turn things round.”

Alongside her husband, John, daughter Esther, and Miriam’s friends, she set up the Mir-

iam Hyman Children’s Eye Care Centre in Orissa, India, close to where she herself was born. The centre helps treat children who need eye care services, including those unable to pay.

Alongside this, the charity has also developed a curriculum-based resource for secondary school students to promote tolerance and prevent extremism.

Speaking to a 700-strong audience, Hyman said: “If you want to make a man, then you really need to be able to nurture this maturity and the place to start is the family and then the school.

“We hope to find a pathway to encourage children to act rationally in the face of adversity and use Miriam’s story as a guide to how others have done it. The young people are finding this very inspirational and we are feeling encouraged.”

She added: “If we can just appreciate each other’s culture, instead of being afraid of it and putting up barriers, then we have hope of a more cohesive society.”

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Above: Mavis Hyman. Right: Laura Kuenssberg and James Harding

Hotel, in Park Lane, helped raise £250,000 for Jewish Care’s Helpline and community support services.

Following the award presentation, James Harding, director of BBC News, interviewed Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor and Newsnight presenter, about her life in the Commons, her take on Brexit and the recent slew of MP sexual harassment allegations.

Of the latter, she described Westminster as “a strange place, full of people with ambition and loyalty and people who care about the party and about their careers”.

She said: “It’s clear to me that young staff – women and men – have had to put up with harassment in all different ways.

“It’s been very difficult to get a handle on the

scale of what’s going on, because people haven’t wanted to come forward.

“I think the biggest change we are seeing is a generational thing, of what people think was once appropriate and what is appropriate now.”

Hoffman ‘sorry’ for allegedly fondling a 17-year-old intern Actor Dustin Hoffman has apologised after he became the latest Hollywood name to be accused of sexually inappropriate behaviour, in his case towards a 17-year-old girl.

Hoffman [pictured] is accused by writer Anna Graham Hunter, now 49, who says she was a teenage i n t e r n when the star “fondled” her, adding that he “grabbed my ass”

four times one day. The incident is alleged to have taken place in 1985, on the set of the TV version of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman.

“He was a predator, I was a child, and this was sexual harassment,” wrote Hunter. “As to how it fits into my own pattern, I imagine I’ll be figuring that out for years to come.”

Hoffman, whose latest film – The Meyerowitz Stories – has just been released, said: “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation.

“I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.”

He is the latest Hollywood celebrity to be accused of sexually inappropriate behaviour in the past. Earlier this week, actor Kevin Spacey was forced to apologise after he was accused of sexual harassment more than 30 years ago, an event he says he cannot remember.

The latest allegations come after many accusations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has since been sacked by his own company, as well as other actors and directors.

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Balfour centenary

Six hundred people crowded into the synagogue where 100 years ago, the architects behind the Balfour Declaration were members, writes Jenni Frazer.

In a ceremony to mark the centenary, held under the auspices of the United Synagogue on Sunday, Rabbi Moshe Freedman, minister of Bayswater’s majestic New West End Synagogue, recalled that not only was the future president of the state of Israel Chaim Weizmann, a member, but also Herbert Samuel, the first High Commissioner of Palestine, and Walter Rothschild, the second Baron Rothschild.

It was, of course, the letter to Lord Rothschild from the then Foreign Secretary,ArthurJamesBalfour,dated 2 November 1917 that paved the way for the modern state of Israel to come into being.

Baroness Ruth Deech read out the words of the Balfour Declaration: “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly

BALFOUR BRIEFS

‘DISAPPOINTMENT’ OVER CORBYN’S BALFOUR NO-SHOW Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it is “disappointing” that Jeremy Corbyn will not attend a dinner to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. He said: “You would have thought the Leader of the Opposition would at least be interested in trying to achieve a solution to this problem that has bedevilled the world for so long and would not, by his absence, so blatantly be appearing to side with one party and not the other.”

SCOTS CELEBRATE CENTENARY WITH EDINBURGH SHOW The Scottish Parliament has celebrated the centenary at an Edinburgh event where guests were treated to a performance from award winning pianist Ishay Shaer, who performed pieces from Israeli composer, Ben-Haim and Chopin.

Jackson Carlaw, a Member of the Scottish Parliament, hosted the reception which recognised that Lord Balfour was a proud Scot. “The Declaration was the contribution of one noble Scot, Lord Balfour, to the rebirth of Israel,” said Carlaw.

Photos by Adrian Korsner

Hundreds honour architects of Balfour – in their own synagogue

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Israel’s Ambassador Mark Regev at the New West End Synagogue

understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing nonJewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed

by Jews in any other country.”

And in a prophetic reply, the then Chief Rabbi, Joseph Hertz, described the Balfour letter as “an epoch in

Jewish history… a spiritual lodestar of Israel’s wanderings”.

The present Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, steered the congregation through the history of the Jews preceding the Balfour Declaration, their exiles and returns. Throughout, he said: “We never lost touch with our land.”

In impassioned remarks, the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev, paid tribute to Britain for the Balfour Declaration and the legacy it had bequeathed to Israel of freedom and democracy. The importance of Balfour, he said, “was not that Britain gave us the right to a homeland. Its importance was that it recognised that right”. Balfour was a “historic document and part of a

chain of events, a milestone on the path to Jewish independence and sovereignty”, the ambassador said.

Britain had “played a crucial role” in helping to create the Middle East’s only democracy, he declared.

Further readings were given by two young members of the synagogue, Alex Miller and Gabi Silver.

Musical accompaniment for the service came from Chazan Jonathan Ben Garcia with the New West End Synagogue’s choir, Mosaic Voice, conducted by Michael Etherton.

Bereaved parents find Aliyah List: Israel’s top Brits common ground in UK

Israelis Bassam Aramin and Robi Damelin

To mark the centenary of Britain’s stated support for a Jewish homeland, parents of Israelis and Palestinians killed in the conflict are visiting the UK this week, as part of a delegation from the Bereaved Families Forum (BFF).

The visitors, who have lost friends or relatives as a direct result of the ongoing conflict, run dual-narrative projects for non-bereaved Israelis and Palestinians, where each learns about the other’s story, history and pain. Among the groups hosting the bereaved parents is Conservative Friends of Israel, The Faith Centre and the London School of Economics (LSE). The BFF delegation will

also meet a senior adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace.

Robi Damelin, a bereaved Israeli mother and Rami Elhanan, a bereaved Israeli father, were joined by Mazen Faraj, a bereaved Palestinian son and Bassam Aramin, a bereaved Palestinian father.

Damelin said: “We are not affiliated with any political parties but at the Parents Circle we understand that historical milestones have political impact locations. We approach this by looking at each other’s narratives – historical, personal and national – from both sides with empathy. And even if we don’t agree, we try to understand.”

Continued from page 1 The publication of our 28-page Aliyah 100 magazine is the conclusion of a process that begun six months ago with nominations being invited from readers in Britain and Israel. Following input from a wide voting group in both countries, our panel of judges – chaired by Andrew Gilbert met to finalise rankings. Olim who lived in the UK for a considerable time before moving to Israel were also eligible.

Gilbert said: “The list of 100 people who have made Aliyah from the UK is a great contribution in this year of

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important anniversaries. It is one of many aspects of British Jewry’s ongoing commitment to the land of Israel.”

It is the first time any such list has been compiled for any

diaspora community. The decision to include 70 people on the list of living olim is a nod to Israel’s upcoming birthday, while the total of 100 celebrates the centenary.

Outgoing Jewish Agency UK chief Rael Goodman said: “It gives me great pleasure to end my mission by highlighting the amazing impact UK olim have had and will have on Israel.” UJIA chief executive Michael Wegier added: “It is so moving to see how wideranging the impact of British Jews has been – way out of proportion to our numbers.”

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Prayer celebrates ‘pioneers’ Senior Reform Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner has penned a special prayer for the State of Israel on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, celebrating the “pioneers” who made it possible.

In it, she says: “We are the proud inheritors of the intimate connection of our tradition and heritage with the Land of Israel,” adding that those who initiated the then foreign secretary’s undertaking of supper “opened a new chapter in this relationship that we benefit from today”.

The prayer continues: “Those

who paved the way for us hoped that establishing a home for the Jewish people in the land of Israel would bring refuge from violence and strife. May we work towards establishing peace and security for Israel and its neighbours today.”

Janner-Klausner also addressed the Declaration’s famous clause that nothing should be done to prejudice the civil and religious rights of other peoples in the land, saying: “May we promote the rights of all people living in Israel and the territories under its control, fostering mutual respect and understanding.”

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Balfour was ‘one of the great political triumphs’ In a historic reception to celebrate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, held at Speaker’s House, Boris Johnson spoke this week of “the magic, the genius and miracle of Israel”.

The foreign secretary made an unscheduled speech at the reception, held by the Board of Deputies in partnership with the All-Party Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and in association with the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel.

Board president Jonathan Arkush welcomed a packed crowd of parliamentarians and communal leaders. It was, he said, “one of a huge number of Balfour 100 events” taking place nationally.

Johnson, who had just finished giving a statement in the Commons about Balfour, told the crowd: “The Balfour Declaration, whatever its defects,

Ex-kibbutznik Boris Johnson and the Board of Deputies’ Gillian Merron with a copy of the Balfour Declaration

whatever its unfulfilled nature, paved the way for one of the greatest political triumphs of the 20th century, the creation of the state of Israel, which, after all is a democracy, a liberal society, a beacon of hope

and which shares the values in which I passionately believe.

This is an amazing achievement by humanity.” He added: “Speaking as an ex-kibbutznik, who spent most of his time doing the washing up, I recog-

nise the magic, the genius and miracle of Israel. And that is why we should mark Balfour with pride and with respect.”

Each of the three main political parties had a historic role in the making of the Balfour Declaration. Balfour himself was a Conservative, whereas the prime minister of the day, who supported the initiative, was the Liberal David Lloyd George, while the nascent Labour Party, although not in the government, had produced a document three months before Balfour, calling for a “Jewish national revival in the Holy Land”.

Their current counterparts, Theresa Villiers, for the Conservatives, Lord Monroe Palmer for the Liberal Democrats, and Labour Friends of Israel chair Joan Ryan, spoke warmly of Israel’s achievements and their pride in Britain’s role leading up to its creation.

Boris: Pledge to the Palestinians not met Boris Johnson has described how his 1917 predecessor – Lord Balfour – was “indispensable to the creation of a great nation”, but that his caveat on existing communities being safeguarded had not been heeded.

Johnson, the Foreign Secretary and former London mayor, wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that there was “no contradiction in being a friend of Israel… and also being deeply moved by the suffering of those affected and dislodged by its birth”.

A long-standing friend of Israel who once lived on a kibbutz, he praised the country for “prevailing over what has sometimes been the bitter hostility of neighbours to become a liberal democracy and a dynamic economy”.

However, he said Balfour’s “famous and crucial proviso” that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities” had not been met.

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“The vital caveat in the Balfour Declaration, intended to safeguard other communities, has not been fully realised,” he wrote this week.

“I have no doubt the only viable solution to the conflict resembles the one first set down on paper by another Briton, Lord Peel, in the report of the Royal Commission on Palestine in 1937, that is the vision of two states for two peoples.”

Johnson quoted Israeli novelist Amos Oz, who once said the tragedy of the conflict is not that it is a clash between right and wrong, but rather a “clash between right and right”, before laying out his vision of a prosperous future. He said a fair compromise would create two independent and sovereign states, with borders “based on the lines as they stood on the eve of the Six-Day War with equal land swaps to reflect the national, security, and religious interests of both sides”.

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Balfour centenary

Declaration was proudest moment in Balfour’s career ANDREW ROBERTS

HISTORIAN & FOUNDER-MEMBER, FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE

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oday, 100 years after the Balfour Declaration, it’s worth recalling the extraordinary events, high idealism and low manoeuvres, hopes and fears that brought it about, and helped to give rise to the foundation of the state of Israel 31 years later.

It was British Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour who, in the midst of a world war, gave expression to the 67 words that gave power to a Zionism he and several Cabinet colleagues felt, but which in most other situations would have lain dormant as a vague aspiration rather than expressed as the British Government’s official policy.

In later years, Balfour spoke eloquently of the central importance of idealism to the Zionist cause, yet it took far more than just that to create the Declaration.

It is true the Zionists in the Cabinet,

including Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, were able to win out over those, such as Lord Curzon and Edwin Montagu, who were opposed to the Declaration, and who urged that the arid lands of the Levant could not sustain largescale Jewish immigration.

But it took far more than just Zionist aspirations and assumptions to get the policy adopted.

By late autumn 1917, Britain was not certain of winning the First World War and Russia was in ferment, days away from the Bolshevik revolution, which opened up the scary prospect of a Russo-German peace that would throw dozens of German divisions on to the Western Front.

Against all this, the Balfour Declaration offered an appeal not only to Russian Jews – who were thought to be politically influential – but also to German and Austro-Hungarian Palestine in the Sykes–Picot Agreement map, drawn up in 1916, one year before Balfour

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Jews, a point British statesmen thought might be attractive.

A key point when considering the Balfour Declaration is not to impose modern-day political concepts on to the actions of the Lloyd George Cabinet of 1917.

The fact that the great majority of the population of Palestine in 1917 was Arab was not thought of as an insuperable objection to having a Jewish national homeland there.

This was because, then, different peoples, languages and ethnic and racial groups were expected to exist together under the protection of the Ottoman, German, British, French and Austro-Hungarian empires.

The Palestinian Arabs under the Ottomans were in that sense considered like other groups with their own ethnicity but not nationhood.

The word ‘settler’ was a positive term in 1917. It was widely recognised that among those who most benefited from the work of settlers were the native populations, in terms of shared communications, irrigation projects, employment, transport infrastructure, massively increased food production and so on.

Balfour assumed the Jews would make the desert bloom in the Holy Land, and that the Palestinians would benefit from that. The whole League of Nations Mandate system was thought of as a developmental construct.

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Balfour reminded the Arabs that nation states were about to be created for them in Jordan and Iraq, adding: “I hope they will not grudge that small notch – for it is no more geographically, whatever it may be historically – that small notch in what are now Arab territories being given to the people who have for all these hundreds of years been separated from it but surely have a title to develop on their own lines in the land of their forefathers.”

The Arabs did – and still do – begrudge ‘that small notch’, but it doesn’t detract from the Declaration’s great statesmanship that the offer was made to the Jews, and they took it up so magnificently.

The legacy of Britain’s support of the concept of a national Jewish homeland in Palestine cannot be overstated, and must not now be downgraded.

At the end of his life, Balfour told his niece, Lady Rayleigh, that the Declaration was what he was proudest of in his very long public service career.

One hundred years later, we can all agree with him.  Andrew is a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at |the New York Historical Society

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Balfour centenary

Without Britain’s support there might be no Israel LESLIE TURNBERG LABOUR PEER & AUTHOR

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ow much does the existence of today’s Israel depend on Arthur Balfour and the Declaration issued, by the British government in 1917? Might we have seen the state’s creation without it?

Certainly, there was already a Jewish population in Palestine and a modest influx of Jews from Eastern Europe.

Even after the Declaration, immigration was limited for years and despite the evolving Zionism of Theodor Herzl, it seems unlikely without the impetus in Britain a new Jewish state would have emerged within the 40 years it took.

Only in Britain did the seeds of Zionism take root. Elsewhere in Europe, Herzl and the Zionists achieved little traction. But Balfour’s Declaration was simply that: a declaration in the form of a letter of support for the idea of a national

home for the Jews in Palestine. It had no legal status.

David Lloyd George’s government would never have put its head above the parapet for the Jews in the middle of a war with Germany that was going badly without the support of its allies.

But it had already gained the written underpinning it needed from the French, and later of the Americans and Italians, largely as a result of the diplomatic and persuasive skills of Nahum Sokolow. Even the Pope offered support.

But in 1922, at the newly-formed League of Nations, the Zionists gained the international legal basis they desperately needed for the ‘reconstitution of the National Home’ in Palestine.

Lloyd George and Balfour worked their magic, while Chaim Weizmann beavered in the background, to ensure all 51 nations

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Winston Churchill, then Britain’s colonial secretary, during his visit to Jerusalem in 1921.

On his right is Sir Herbert Samuel, the British high commissioner to Palestine at the time.

Churchill expressed great sympathy with the Zionist cause

voted in favour.

It is sometimes said now that the Zionists could have managed without the Declaration.

Perhaps the recognition by the international community after the war of the horrors of the Holocaust would have been enough.

But the Palestinians are aware of where the blame lies for Israel’s existence and recently bid for the UK government to apologise for Balfour.

As early as the 1920s and 1930s, the Arabs lobbied the government hard to have the Declaration rescinded.

A vote in the Lords for reversal in 1922 was only turned back in the Commons, and when Lord Curzon, an earlier opponent of Zionism, forcibly reminded a committee examining the issue of the ignominy that would be heaped on Britain if it reneged on its obligations.

Committees examined the causes and possible solutions to Britain’s problems as Arab fought Jew. Most damaging for Jews was the notorious 1939 White Paper. Aimed at placating the Arabs, it stopped immigration at the moment the Jews needed it most.

This despised paper condemned

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ISRAEL SHOULD REMEMBER HOW MUCH IT OWES THE BRITAIN OF 1917, 1920 AND 1922

millions to the gas chambers and earned the opprobrium of Jews worldwide, none more than in Palestine.

After the war, Ernest Bevin, Labour’s Foreign Secretary, failed to lift the ban, turning back boatloads of refugees and earning him worldwide revulsion.

Jewish armed resistance and even more aggressive acts of terror followed until Britain handed its poisoned chalice to the UN in 1947.

But now, 100 years later, it needs to be emphasised that despite what later soured relations, Israel should remember how much it owes the Britain of 1917, 1920 and 1922.

Britain, too, should recall its role in the creation of a beacon of democracy in a region where it is in short supply – one that has brought forward so many advances in science, medicine, the law and the humanities to the benefit of the world.

Balfour’s recognition of the need for a Jewish homeland in Palestine has not yet been accepted by the Palestinian leadership.

But perhaps there is a glimmer of hope in the Arab Peace Initiative. Recognition

by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf states of the Jewishness of Israel is a remarkable change after many years of outright antipathy.

It remains for the Palestinians to follow and accept Balfour’s message.

But for the moment, the British prime minister’s statement that her government will mark the centenary with pride is to be welcomed.  Beyond the Balfour Declaration; The 100 Year Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace by Leslie Turnberg is published

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Balfour centenary

Zionist visionaries who gave birth to a nation PROFESSOR DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ISRAEL STUDIES, HAIFA UNIVERSITY

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reat Britain’s support for the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine in a vaguely worded letter sent by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, unofficial head of the Jewish community, sounded an alarm for Zionist visionaries who generated ambitions not simply for a state like all other nations but also for a new egalitarian and just social order. They feared British sovereignty might move the site of too much of the political action away from the land of Israel to London while a new language – English – would set the course of public life inevitably clashing with and compromising the purity of their visions.

In confronting what they perceived as the dilemmas of national identity produced by becoming part of the British Empire, Zionist visionaries essentially invented a powerful lexicon that would have us believe a Jewish nation was remade and a new collective identity formed.

A land with no natural resources claimed by a movement possessing too little capital for the tasks it undertook presumably would form a new Jewish society by a collective act of will.

Zionist leaders pushed this notion to its extreme by presenting the agricultural collectives as emblematic of the Jewish national home. Mind you, these collectives never encompassed more than a tiny percentage of Palestine’s Jewish population [under one percent in some years].

They were said to be bound together by a shared commitment to the principles of freedom, love of the land, physical labour, and revitalising the Hebrew language – all seemingly accomplished by dedication and commitment.

But while Zionist leaders wanted to remake the Jewish people and produce a new kind of social and cultural order, they knew, but would not admit, that a radical disjunction always persisted between national claims and national realities.

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BEFORE 1948, JEWS COULD EMBRACE ZIONISM AND ITS VISION OF A NATIONAL HOME AS AN ABSTRACT IDEAL

For the Zionist narrative, only agricultural communities looked like the future even as most immigrants who crossed Palestine’s threshold – artisans, skilled laborers, proprietors of small workshops – streamed into cities in search of a better life.

While they spoke Hebrew on the street, they were perfectly willing to rely on Yiddish or Arabic at home; they valued Jewish labour but they sought no social transformation.

The British Mandate’s Balfour policy did, in fact, exacerbate tensions between the Zionist movement’s utopian idealism and its capacity and need to meet the standards set by its imperial overlords.

Sometimes, Zionist leaders had to accommodate the rational setting of priorities even when they violated core values about land, labour, or the ingathering of exiles.

That meant that all Zionists had to come to terms with the fact that the promises of founding a state on the purest of visions could not be kept.

But if these visions did not control the development of the national home, they still gave Palestine’s Jews a sense of meaning as they negotiated their lives amid the turmoil engulfing the regions in the aftermath of the First World War. When they lived outside of Palestine, Jews could embrace Zionism and its vision of a national home as an abstract ideal.

In Palestine, Jewish immigrants could not help but see the national home as an unforgiving climate, an alien landscape, and an assortment of newly-formed institutions whose sometimes rigidly incomprehensible operations shaped their lives.

In Europe, Zionists could picture the future Jewish society; in Palestine, their daily activities formed it.

The differences were profound. Zionists recognised the need not only for fresh policies to accord with the postwar times, but also for new paradigms that would accommodate the radically new circumstances.

Zionist discourse suggests that when idealists recognised that the community they were creating did not match the purity of their dreams, they were not prepared to acknowledge the gaps, and certainly not to label them as failures.

For many Zionists, their nation-building narrative, possessed too much imaginative and moral energy to be cast aside simply for failing to capture reality.  The full version of this piece appears in the new Fathom eBook ‘Balfour 100 – The Fathom Essays

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Balfour centenary

Dear Lord Rothschild...

Their names are iconic. But who were Arthur Balfour and Walter Rothschild?

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ho was Lord Arthur Balfour, the man whose 67-word declaration went through five drafts as battles between positions waged within the British cabinet in 1917?

Scottish-born Balfour was, from an early age, mentored by his uncle, the three-time Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. Although young Arthur was more interested in music and philosophy, he still found himself an MP before the age of 27, a full 43 years before he would declare British support for a Jewish homeland.

This young man of family renown was soon Foreign Secretary in Benjamin Disraeli’s government. At the beginning of the 20th century, after stints as Irish Secretary, First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the Commons, Balfour briefly became Prime Minister when Lord Salisbury retired, but his cabinet was split on free trade, his government lost seats in by-elections and his relations with the king soured. His stewardship of the country ended in 1905. A staunch Conservative, he lost his own seat shortly after, in a “Liberal landslide,” but was back in Parliament by 1911, and as war broke out, he became First Lord of the

By the time of his famous Declaration, Balfour was in private identifying as a Zionist, but he was also the ultimate statesman, so it would have been with geopolitics at least half in mind that he encouraged the cabinet to support a Jewish homeland which, at a time when the Allies were struggling to persuade America to join the war, would go down predictably well among Jewish influencers across the Pond.

What was Balfour like? A journalist at the time described him as having “an attitude of convinced superiority which insists in the first place on complete detachment from the enthusiasms of the human race, and in the second place on keeping the vulgar world at arm’s length”.

Churchill, when comparing Balfour to Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, said Balfour was “wicked and moral, while Asquith is good and immoral”.

Admiralty, then Foreign Secretary.

He first met Chaim Weizmann in 1906 in

Manchester, where he had his constituency seat, and was known to have been impressed.

DID YOU KNOW? Lord Balfour was a president of the Society for Psychical Research, which studied psychic and paranormal phenomena.

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ho was Lord Walter Rothschild, the man to whom Lord Balfour addressed his 67-word declaration of British government support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine?

Walter, an English eccentric if ever there was one, sat at the head of a family which former Israeli Ambassador to the UK Daniel Taub says fulfilled two roles. “It wasn’t just a leader of Diaspora Jewry; it also played a very significant role in the early years of the establishment of the pioneer communities in Israel as well,” he said.

The Rothschilds had two seats, in England and in France, but in England, the family was divided. Some, like James de Rothschild, who had left France in disgust after witnessing the Dreyfus Case, were ardent Zionists, others less so.

Walter, an avid collector, was a supporter of Zionism, although it was not his main distraction. Standing at six foot three inches and sporting an impressive beard, the second Lord Rothschild was incredibly shy, in part owing to a speech impediment, and although an MP for 10 years until 1910, his passion was not for politics or finance, as evidenced during an unsuccessful stint in the family bank. He was a zoologist who kept kangaroos as pets, rode about Tring Park on a giant tortoise and had a carriage pulled by zebras.

All the while he amassed a massive collection of birds, butterflies, beetles and insects, many of which specimens are still exhibited at Tring Museum.

Despite his ornithological obsessions, Walter Rothschild was sufficiently engaged to help Weizmann, with whom he met together with Balfour. In later years, the declassification of British government archives has allowed scholars to piece together Rothschild’s help in drafting Balfour’s carefullyworded Declaration. The preliminary draft

from the Zionist movement’s leaders spoke of “internal autonomy to the Jewish nationality in Palestine,” “freedom of immigration for Jews” and “the establishment of a Jewish National Colonising Corporation for the resettlement and economic development of the country”. Walter, in his second draft, dated July 1917, stripped the Declaration to its essence, namely that Palestine should be reconstituted as the national home of the Jewish people.

DID YOU KNOW? Following a visit to Hungary in 1902, Walter brought six live edible dormice (called glis glis) to Tring, but some escaped and started breeding. There are now 10,000 of them across a 200 sq m area. They are considered a localised pest, but cannot be killed as they are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.

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Balfour United If it were football, the Balfour Declaration would be the nailbiting saga of how an unlikely team won the cup. So, given that many UK-based Zionists who were prime movers in the establishment of a Jewish state worked together and even lived in the same area, it seems sensible to select our Zionist United line-up...

MANAGER: Belarus-born biochemist Chaim Weizmann gave Churchill his bombs by developing a bacterial fermentation process to produce acetone for the British Navy’s war efforts. His friendship with Madame Dolly Rothschild was crucial to getting his foot in the door of the British establishment.

GOALKEEPER: C. P. Scott was a safe pair of hands. Owner of the Manchester Guardian (later the Manchester Evening News) and an establishment Liberal, Scott’ s friendship with Weizmann is legendary, and it was the trusted news man who first introduced the émigré from Belarus to Lloyd George.

RIGHT-BACK: David Eder, a doctor active in the Fabian Society and later president of the Zionist Federation, argued against dividing Palestine, saying: “There can be only one national home in Palestine, a Jewish one, and no equality in the partnership between Jews and Arabs.”

CENTRAL DEFENDER: Hebrew scholar Nahum Sokolov followed Weizmann to England in 1914, was secretary-general of the World Zionist Organisation and helped push for the Balfour Declaration. He helped to secure French agreement to support “the renaissance of the Jewish nationality”.

CENTRAL DEFENDER: Harry Sacher was a prominent lawyer whose firm had offices in Jerusalem, Haifa and London. He advised Weizmann and the World Zionist Congress, the Municipality of Tel Aviv, the Palestine Zionist Executive and more and contributed to early drafts of the Declaration.

CENTRAL MIDFIELD DUO: Israel Sieff and Simon Marks were businessmen and later peers of the realm. Marks inherited ‘penny bazaars’ and later co-founded the high street giant Marks & Spencer, which Sieff chaired. Professor Colin Schindler says they “understood their role at this juncture in Jewish history and acted accordingly”.

RIGHT-WING: Born near Kiev to Chasidic parents, Ahad Ha’am was influenced by Leon Pinsker of Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) and believed Zionism must bring Jews to Palestine gradually, while turning it into a cultural centre. A negotiator, he was part of talks leading to Balfour.

STRIKER: Herbert Samuel, later leader of the Liberal Party and the first practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister or lead a national political party. The first High Commissioner of Palestine, five years after suggesting a British Protectorate, his ideas influenced the wording of Balfour’s letter.

LEFT-BACK: Leon Simon, a leading British Zionist intellectual and civil servant, took part in drafting the Declaration. The son of Lithuanian Jews, Simon was later knighted and noted as an advocate of ‘cultural Zionism,’ helping revive the Hebrew language through translations.

LEFT-WING: Moses Gaster helped set up the first Jewish colony in Palestine then in Britain helped set up the English Zionist Federation in 1899. His home in Maida Vale was the setting for the first meetings between Zionist leaders and the Foreign Office in 1917.

STRIKER: Famed Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky founded the Jewish Self-Defence Organisation in Odessa, the Jewish Legion of the British Army and the paramilitary precursors to the IDF. In Britain during the war, he championed the British Legion as a diplomatic help to Weizmann’s cause.

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Balfour centenary The famous charge by the Fourth Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba on 31 October 1917

The battle that led to statehood

The last cavalry charge in history was a vital component of the long path to Israel’s birth

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he liberation of Beersheba on 31 October, 1917, a century ago this week, was the crowning glory of the Australian Light Horse – also known as the last cavalry charge in history.

Beersheba’s fall to the Australians and Allies opened the gates to Jerusalem, and to the final stages in the demise of the Ottoman Empire. It paved the way for the British Mandate and an important, although perilous, road to the foundation of the modern State of Israel in 1948.

The historic charge into the ancient town

by more than 800 soldiers with the Fourth Light Horse Regiment of the Desert Mounted Corps, with help from the 12th Light Horse and other regiments, enabled them to provide water for their horses from biblical-era wells, and to push northward to Jerusalem.

As Professor Roland Perry, whose 2009 history of the campaign, The Australian Light Horse, was a best-seller, said in a recent interview: “The breakthrough at Beersheba allowed the British to take Gaza after three attempts.

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Perry noted that the Balfour Declaration of the following month encouraged the Jewish population to expand significantly as the Light Horse, which was 75 percent of Allenby’s Desert Mounted Column, “not only drove the Turks out of the region; they protected the Jewish settlers from marauding Arab tribes”.

“The Turks had allowed bullying by the Arabs, but when the Turks were pushed out, the Arabs had no protectors as such,” said Perry. “Hence began a longstanding and strong relationship between the precursor to Israel, then Israel itself and Australia.”

The background to Beersheba saw the Australians involved with T E Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, in the coordination of the Arab Revolt of 1916, with battles around the strategic Hejaz Railway from Medina to Damascus.

By the time the Australian horsemen faced the Ottomans on the Sinai in 1916, they were ready and the Anzac Mounted Division was among forces that repelled the German-led Turks in signature battles such as Romani, Maghdaba and, in early 1917, Rafa.

Crossing the Sinai to reach Palestine, the Light Horse fought the first and second battles of Gaza in March and April 1917.

The resulting six-month stalemate between the Allied and Ottoman forces along the Gaza-Beersheba line was finally broken by the Light Horse’s daring sunset charge into Beersheba on 31 October.

After Beersheba, Perry in his book traces the Light Horse’s trajectory north through Palestine, with the Australians breaking the slog of war with sojourns at kibbutzes and moshavs as

guests of Jewish pioneers, who reminded them of something intrinsic back in Australia.

Perry quoted Sir Henry Gullett, a contemporary historian: “The sense of straight-planted streets, the little white houses with their red roofs … and the wide, rolling orchards and vineyards along the sandhills, were an unfeigned delight to those simple, veteran campaigners.”

Jewish military participation before and after Beersheba was an obvious factor in the conflict and took several forms.

In 1914, Jewish volunteers, including David Ben Gurion, had proposed aiding the Ottomans, but Turkey’s hostility towards Jews soon destroyed the project. The Zion Mule Corps, formed by Zionist pioneer Joseph Trumpeldor, fought alongside the British, as did the later Jewish Legion of Vladimir Jabotinsky.

In Eshkol of Israel, Irish author Terence Prittie’s 1969 biography of Levi Eshkol, the late Israeli prime minister recalled his first encounter with Australian soldiers – being detained by an Australian patrol while the rising young star of Zionist worker organisations was making his way toward Petach Tikvah in 1917.

“They took me along for questioning and let me go when some of the Jews of Rishon identified me as a fellow settler,” Eshkol recounted.

Meanwhile, the Light Horse continued its exploits. After Allenby’s capture of Jerusalem on 9 December, 1917, the column fought Turkish forces holding out in the Judean Hills.

Among their final triumphs, in October 1918, days before the Ottoman surrender of the city and weeks before the end of World War I, it was the Australian riders of the 10th Light Horse that led the invasion of Damascus.

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VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS

Birth of a nation What would our Voice of the Jewish News have been 100 years ago this week, when the British government first publicly stated its commitment to support a Jewish homeland in Palestine?

Today it seems obvious. Here was the promised fulfilment of 2,000 years of Jewish dreaming, a return ‘home.’ What, in short, was there not to like?

But history tells us that the reaction of Jews in the Diaspora in 1917 was surprisingly mixed. Like now, UK Jews were quite happy here, prospering and playing a full part in British life. Many wanted to assimilate. They didn’t want to have a Jewish home somewhere else, lest they be no longer welcome in Blighty.

Had this mindset won out, the dream may not have come true. There may still be no State of Israel; no oasis of democracy in a region of despots and dictators; no refuge for Jews the world over. Had there been no Balfour Declaration, there may still be no home.

That there is a home, a cultural and religious centre for all Jews, is integral to us. We stand side-by-side with our brothers and sisters and cousins in Israel.

We are one people. That there is an Israel is down, in no small part, to Britain, and that makes us all immensely proud.

But the work is not finished, not by a long shot. As Jews, we know the value of freedom, and the importance of having a homeland. Balfour said the dreams of others should not be compromised for the Jewish miracle. That they have is a source of regret, but also of great opportunity and hope that a new generation may one day sit down and agree how both can live side-by-side, in dignity. This will, of course, require a Palestinian leadership that finally acts as partners, not advisaries.

Just as we pray for Israel’s continued health, so we pray that Balfour’s famous last clause is one day realised, and that all can come to share a special land in peace.

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Since when is rebutting lies about Israel “extremist”?

Labour MP Wes Streeting’s reference to “yobbish” disruptions in Ms Frazer’s article was to us.

On 24 October, we attended a Labour Friends of Palestine event on the humanitarian situation in Gaza which Mr Streeting chaired [pictured]. No one else was there to defend Israel. Contrary to Mr Streeting’s accusation, we were very polite. We simply challenged the panel’s failure to attach any blame to Hamas,

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Every November since 1928, the Royal British Legion has organised a Field of Remembrance on the lawn of St Margaret’s Church next to Westminster Abbey.

There are 250 plots there and the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women is proud to have one

Your ShabbatUK taste test was geared to the tasters’ grandparents’ generation not today’s young [youtube.com/ watch?v=Y37_wGyUhQE].

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Sedra: Vayera

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and the demonisation of Israel, for the plight of Gaza. SNP MP Dr Philippa Whitford was also challenged for claiming only 45 percent of Gazan women with breast cancer are allowed into Israel for radiotherapy.

At the time of writing she had still failed to provide a precise source for this statistic.

As for Mr Streeting’s accusation that we “skewed the content of the meeting away from humanitarian concerns”, our questions were focused on Gaza, the subject of the meeting, in contrast to other questions.

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HEZBOLLAH SAGA HAS BECOME FARCE

Regarding Hezbollah, Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: “It is not the Government’s policy to comment on whether or not a group is under consideration for proscription” [Jewish News, 19 October].

But Hezbollah themselves do not differentiate between its political and military wings, so how can one be banned and not the other?

How can seeing children waving Hezbollah flags need further consideration?

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I humbly and gratefully wish to thank all of you who found it in your hearts to assist me not only financially, but in prayers from communities around the world. Please continue to have me in mind in your prayers, as I look ahead to years of a better quality of life.

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Incidents of hate crime, according to your newspaper, have increased by 29 percent in the past year [Jewish News, 18 October]. A great deal of this must be ascribed to anti-Semitism, much of which is undoubtedly inspired by envy.

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Turning off for ShabbatUK, I really enjoyed the silence NICK FERRARI

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he request from Jewish News seemed straightforward enough.

As part of ShabbatUK, would I be prepared to effectively opt out of modern day living and switch off my computer, iPad and any other piece of electronic wizardry for 24 hours, starting last Friday afternoon?

Inwardly chuckling, I responded that it would be a challenge but I was sure I could come through it [how was this newspaper to know my limited computer skills earned me the dismissive nickname of ‘Pentium’ at a previous broadcaster where I once worked?].

Then it became apparent the TV and radio would have to be silenced, and there would be no recorded music permitted. Although it was getting a little tougher, this was in no way, shape or form insurmountable.

After all, how hard is it to go without EastEnders on a Friday night?

Then a little more detail emerged. It would also mean a cessation of all phone calls,

whether on my mobile or landline, and I couldn’t touch anything powered by electricity.

Now, you know how most husbands would raise their eyes if they were asked how long their respective wives spend on the phone talking to their mother, friends or even Ocado, but they’re mere beginners compared to me.

As a product of decades in journalism, much of my life is spent on the phone and while I was already getting ready to buy some candles to get round the lack of electric lights, I really didn’t think two tin cans and a length of string would suffice for the lack of a phone.

However, the die had been cast and therefore it was game on, and electricity off, as it were.

Let’s start by suggesting that, with the exception of an Apollo moon launch, rarely has a countdown been so keenly awaited.

The importance of 5.25pm on Friday was akin to the official launch of D-Day on the first day of the Normandy landings.

While there was no need to unplug my landline [that phone only rings occasionally these days and it’s only someone offering to chase up my PPI anyway], the mobile was a

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MY SELF-IMPOSED DEPARTURE FROM THE SOMETIMES FRENETIC PACE AT WHICH SO MANY OF US LEAD OUR LIVES WAS COMPLETE

vastly different matter. That was silenced and, for safety’s sake, put on the top of the fridge to move it out of the way of a sneaky peek.

And so, my self-imposed departure from the sometimes frenetic pace at which so many of us lead our lives, was complete.

Intriguingly, the first thing I noticed was the overpowering silence. I realised that my life is continually accompanied by a noise of some kind. Whether it’s the news from the radio or TV, or a programme of a different kind, it provides the soundtrack to my life.

Fortunately, noise was to be forthcoming

from a different source, as both my sons looked in on separate occasions.

As I had warned them that if they needed me they’d have to call round [they live in postcodes adjacent to my home, so it was totally practical] they were probably checking up on how well I was doing.

And the truth was, I was doing just fine. In fact, better than that – I was actually enjoying it. Untrammelled by the need to continually check my mobile, I was able to genuinely relax.

The book I’d started on my summer holiday was finished and I found out who the killer was. A mountain of paperwork in the study was cleared and correspondence dating back to June filed.

Sleep came easily and the only hitch was in the morning. Would a power shower constitute a breach? As I couldn’t get online to check, I opted to take a hot bath instead, which just added to my growing sense of deep relaxation.

With the time up, I reached for my mobile and tuned back into my life. There was a list of outstanding texts and emails and a number showing the ‘missed’ calls. However, in truth, I’d really not missed them at all.

Undercut all the hate and do the right thing JENNI FRAZER

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here are some situations that are, effectively, an open goal, just begging to be highlighted. Such a one is, of course, the lamentable behaviour of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the International Judo Federation Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi. Despite urgings from the Federation to the UAE organisers, the Israeli participants were not permitted to wear their country of origin flag on their clothing, nor to fly it when they won medals, nor to have their national anthem played.

“Security concerns” were cited as the reason for forcing the Israelis to compete with “IJF” (International Judo Federation) on their clothes, although for one brief moment I thought they could have pretended that stood for “International Jewish Fighters”.

What I simply don’t get is the attitude of all the other countries whose teams took part in this tournament. Russia inevitably, was top of the league table, but Britain’s judokas

won a medal in each category of gold, silver and bronze, against Israel’s one gold and four bronzes.

So where was Britain in denouncing Abu Dhabi’s blanket refusal to recognise Israel’s sporting prowess? What about “being good sports”? Was this an “even playing field”?

Have we heard a word from Sports Secretary Karen Bradley and Minister Tracey Crouch? Did you even know they existed?

No, me neither. Just a deafening silence from the supposed home of fairness and democracy, while the dignified gold medallist Tal Flicker got to sing Hatikvah by himself.

Now to my second open goal of the week: the completely justified line taken by Israeli diplomats about the Balfour Declaration and the upcoming celebratory dates: 29 November 2017, the 70th anniversary of the United Nations vote to accept the Partition Plan that led to the Declaration of Independence, and next year’s 70th Yom Ha’atzmaut anniversary.

We hear repeatedly an invoking of Israel’s mission as a “light unto the nations”, and

there is every reason to accept that mission when you read about Israel’s numerous rescue delegations in disaster areas, from the Philippines to Hawaii, from earthquakes to flooded regions.

I get it, I really do. That’s one of the reasons behind Israel’s existence, to offer the hand of friendship and aid wherever possible. I’ve just finished helping to make a film about the incredible medical treatment Israel has offered to Syrians on its northern border.

What was particularly striking was that even the most cynical Israeli couldn’t denounce this project, because what matters is the help given, not the reasons behind it.

So what if there was once an ulterior

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motive, to make Israel look good? The young Syrian man whose face has been rebuilt by an Israeli surgeon doesn’t care about the motivation, only that he can once again face the world. And perhaps the bonus is that on his return to Syria, he will tell his family and friends, and they won’t hate Israel so much.

All of which is why I don’t understand why Israel doesn’t do something to offer humanitarian aid to those on its southern border, the wretched Gazans. I don’t care about the political side of this equation, the ordinary Gazans are suffering and Israel has the capacity to help them. Why not undercut the hatred and misery, and do the right thing?

Like I said, it’s an open goal.

I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY ISRAEL DOESN’T DO SOMETHING TO OFFER HUMANITARIAN AID TO THOSE ON ITS SOUTHERN BORDER, THE WRETCHED GAZANS

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Scene & Be Seen / Community

And be seen

ShabbatUK special!

Tribe, in conjunction with the Informal Jewish Education team at JFS, surprised 600 JFS students with a special challah make

Bushey beat Stanmore in a challenge as to which shul could get the most attendees to take part in Shabbat-inspired talks

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Children from Apples and Honey Nightingale and residents at Nightingale House took part in a challah bake for ShabbatUK

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The Maccabeats helped Stanmore shul celebrate by singing during Musaf, having spent time with members of the congregation

More than 220 people attended Bushey Synagoue’s first challah make

Residents from Jewish Care’s Michael Sobell Community Centre, Selig Court and Clore Manor, staff, and volunteers from accountancy firm EY, were joined by Norwood residents and staff for a challah bake

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis joined professionals for the first ShabbatUK challah make in the city, which was organised and hosted by Deloitte’s Jewish Network

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, pictured left, was the special guest at Barnet Synagogue’s Seudah Shlishit

KPMG’s Jewish Network hosted an interfaith challah bake at its Canary Wharf offices

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

1,000 women come together to make a mitzvah and challah

Photos by Blake Ezra Photography

Nearly 1,000 people took part in the mitzvah of making challah for The Great Musical Challah Make at Allianz Park. Organised

by Seed and Chazak, the former’s rebbetzin Joanne Dove took to the stage to help participants prepare the perfect batch of dough, while singer Avi Kraus and band Soulflame entertained the crowd with live music. Rabbi Yitsy David, of Chazak, said: “The energy and power in the room was palpable. We come together from two organisations that believe in the power of individuals, the family unit and, of course, the community.” Rebbetzin Dove added: “It was extraordinary to look out into the hall and to see hundreds of women of all ages and communities who had come together to create unity in our community.”

Aish hosted challah bakes all over the country, bringing together more than 200 students and young professionals, including in Essex, where they hosted a special bake in partnership with GIFT’s Social Action Hub Members of Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue attended a challah bake

Beit Halochem hosted wounded veteran Hanoch Budin, who answered questions at Mill Hill United Shul’s Friday night dinner

Members of the Mendelsohn family were among those who took part in Hendon Adath Yisroel Congregation’s challah make

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Children at Little Goldies took part in the nursery’s first challah bake

Linda Dangoor and Margalit Dweck at a special ShabbatUK cookery demo hosted by Lauderdale Road Synagogue and the S&P Sephardi Community

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Scene & Be Seen / ShabbatUK

A night you can’t Maccabeat!

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London saw out ShabbatUK with a sell-out Havdalah concert featuring global a Capella superstars, The Maccabeats and folk-rock duo The Portnoy Brothers at the Watford Colosseum. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said: “I have been so inspired to see how parts of our community, who have never previously taken part, have celebrated at events around the country. My hope is that people take the message of ShabbatUK to heart, to become more inspired, proud and committed Jews.” The event was compered by Jewish comic Ashley Blaker.

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Scene & Be Seen / Community

Ghouls come out to play for Young Boo-ish Care Time stood still as almost 400 vampish revellers made the most of the extra hour of partying on Saturday night at the YJCS (Young Jewish Care Social) Halloween party at Forge in the City.

Partygoers enjoyed spooking their friends when they visited the chilling Halloween themed photo booth to make it a night to remember, while raising more than ÂŁ7,000 for Jewish Care whose services touch the lives of 10,000 people each week.

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‘Choux buns were my worst moment’ She didn’t make it to the final, but Stacey Hart still won over GBBO fans with bright colours, glittery creations and many comedy mishaps, writes Francine Wolfisz

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rom patching up her leaky cracks to sticking her head in a Smeg freezer, using superpowers to pull off her oven door and narrowly avoiding the decapitation of her meringue flamingo, Stacey Hart was, if nothing else, one of the more entertaining contestants from this year’s Great British Bake Off. In a nail-biting final on Tuesday night, her colleague Sophie Faldo, 34, was named the winner of the popular Channel 4 show, a week after the 42-year-old former teacher from Radlett entered the marquee for the last time.

Making it to the semi-finals, Hart narrowly missed a spot to the finish line after putting her all into making 24 choux buns, a Les Miserables cake and a pink flamingo meringue centrepiece.

But despite her best efforts, her choux buns caused judge Prue Leith to go all aflutter about their “burnt bottoms’ and oversweet flavouring, while she seemed to crumble almost as much as her meringue under the increasing pressure of culinary scrutiny.

Speaking this week about her time on the show, the mum-of-three reflects: “The best moment out of the whole experience for me was to challenge myself to do something scary and out of my comfort zone, and the most important thing was that I had tried so hard to get on the show.

“It doesn’t matter what age you are or your circumstances. As long as you dedicate yourself to the practice, you have a chance of getting in.

“I still find it strange watching it back, and see that it is me in the tent; it doesn’t somehow feel real.”

As a self-confessed perfectionist, there were times in the tent when Hart’s bake didn’t turn out quite as she had planned.

“Without a shadow of a doubt, my choux buns were my worst moment,” says the former Henrietta Barnett School pupil.

“I was just setting myself up for disaster. I put decoration on the top that wasn’t really needed. I gave myself too much to do in the time allowed, so I set myself up for a fall, and wow, I went crashing down.

“I could kick myself now that I didn’t make it easier for myself, but you can’t wind the clock back.”

While the challenges stepped up a gear as each week progressed, Hart says that overall she enjoyed her time on GBBO and describes it as “the most unbelievable experience of my life”.

She adds: “I am a better baker now than I was before, and I learned that it’s good to push boundaries – and also that it’s not good to wear jeans in a hot tent!

“I also found a whole new bunch of friends. Within the first week, we were all like family, and we had such a laugh together.

We shared so many highs and lows, and all the bakers are such lovely people.”

The highlight of her nine weeks in the marquee was achieving Star Baker in week eight, as well as the coveted Hollywood Handshake, from judge Paul Hollywood.

Despite being “so close” to making it all the way through to the final three, Hart, who is married to James, a former ASOS director, admits that she was “relieved” after her exit and happy to return home.

“Going back to being a

Above: Stacey whips up a meringue inside the GBBO marquee and below, sitting with Sophie, Katie and Steven

full-time mum to three young boys was actually quite nice.

It was a relief not to be baking up against the clock, and I quickly got back to baking what I wanted to bake and when I wanted to.

“I thought at the end of my time in the tent I wouldn’t bake for a while, but I did the very next day and I haven’t stopped since.

“My sons love my glittery biscuits, marshmallow cookies, brownies, chocolate chip biscuits, my bread – they love it all.

James loves my Jamaican ginger cake.

“I had a stall at the school summer fete last year and I made loads of different confectionary: lollies, marshmallows, all my specialities, and I’m happy to say they sold out within the hour.

“I’m not sure what is happening next for me; we’ll have to wait and see. But I will definitely be baking.”  To try out Stacey’s recipes for yourself, visit thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk

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Lifestyle / Jewish News meets... Sir Erich Reich

The boy who made world his home Sir Erich Reich tells Alex Galbinski about his humble start as a boy refugee on the Kindertransport, before devoting his life to helping charities raise £90million

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ged just four, Sir Erich Reich joined the Kindertransport and waved goodbye to his parents, little knowing he would never see them again – or indeed have any lasting memories of who they were.

Sir Erich, who was born in Vienna in 1935, details his incredible life story from entrepreneur to philanthropist in The Boy In The Statue: From Wartime Vienna To Buckingham Palace.

In his autobiography, Reich, who serves as chair of The Kindertransport, a special interest group of the Association of Jewish Refugees, describes how he and his two brothers left the Austrian capital for the safety of England.

He was the youngest son of Schapse and Mina Reich, who had, 20 years earlier, separately fled violent antiSemitic pogroms in Poland for a better life in Vienna.

Following the Anschluss in 1938 and the expulsion of Polish Jews from Austria to the Polish border town of Zbaszyn, where they were stuck in no-man’s land for nearly a year, his parents made the difficult decision to hand over their three boys to strangers for safekeeping.

Jacques, aged 11, came in June 1939, while Ossie, 10, and Erich, four, travelled together two months later aboard a boat called the Warszawa, before arriving in London.

Reich’s earliest memories are of Burchett House, a refugee hostel in the commuter town of Dorking, where he was sent.

Ossie, who was of school age, was almost immediately evacuated from the Jewish Free School in London to Ely in Cambridgeshire with Jacques, who had first been sent to the south coast.

Reich, now 82 and living in Highgate, was soon fostered by Emilie and Joseph Kreibich, whom he credits with giving him a “sense of belonging”.

The Kreibichs, Christian socialists from Sudetenland, the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia, had also fled the Nazis.

“It’s very important to stress that for parents to let their children go [on the Kindertransport] was critical, and that I was very well looked after by a refugee couple who already had grandchildren,” he explains.

The father-of-five describes Emilie as the “Yiddische Mama, who wasn’t” because, he says: “She treated me as her son – she was fantastic. My foster father, a carpenter, was quite stern, although I had a very good relationship with him.”

Joseph died when Reich was 11 – a heavy blow – and there was pressure for him to now get a Jewish education. However, he often felt “in limbo, not belonging anywhere, but being part of everywhere at the same time”.

After the war, Reich moved to London and to Hasmonean School – where he lasted just three months – before making aliyah aged 13 to live with his aunt and uncle, who were settled in Israel.

The following year, he lived in a very left-wing kibbutz until he was 18.

After serving in the Israeli army, he moved back to England, later returning to the state before coming back again to England.

Through all this, Reich became a chameleon; he was no longer fearful of new adventures.

“I was born in Vienna, sent to Poland, I went to England, to Israel, I came back, so I’ve been all over the place, all within 10 to 12 years.

“I had to learn several languages, had two different religions, different ways of life, so in a way it must have had an effect on me.

“The various changes that happened to me made me think more laterally. They made me feel that I could get on with anybody,” he explains.

The young Reich is immortalised in Frank Meisler’s monument, Kindertansport – The Arrival, at Liverpool Street Station, from which the title of his book is derived.

“When Frank was designing the statue, he rang me and said would I send him a picture of me when I was about five. I did, and asked him if it was ok. He said: ‘Yes, but how do you make

a mensch out of a hooligan?!’”

He feels he coped by moving on from the experiences of his younger years. “By and large I look forwards rather than backwards. There’s no point – things have happened, you can’t change them, the only way is to get on with life however you can.”

However, he acknowledges that it must have been so much harder for older children coming on the Kindertransport.

“There are people who, because they remember their parents and their way of life, find it much more difficult than I do. I can’t remember my parents, I can’t remember anything about what happened – I’ve blocked it out and that may be because I was so young or because of my genetics generally.”

There are certainly melancholic themes in Reich’s book – it must have been unbearably difficult growing up without his parents and having to renew the bonds between his brothers after several years of living apart.

After arriving in England, Reich only saw Jacques again when he was 10.

He started afresh in Israel with his aunt and uncle, had to adapt to life on kibbutz, moved to and from England, lost his brother Ossie to cancer when he didn’t know he was seriously ill, and divorced three times, which had implications for contact with his children.

However, Reich’s book is also full of selfdepreciating humour. He jokes about choosing to support Arsenal rather than Chelsea after being sneaked into Stamford Bridge without paying, and laughs at his teenage English naivety when confronted with young women on his kibbutz showering in front of him, to mention just two instances.

After various jobs, Reich became operations director for Thomson Holidays and then with Thomas Cook, organising themed trips to places including India and Egypt.

He eventually set up his own company, Classic Tours, after being made redundant aged 52.

It was after this that Reich, who is now happily married to Glasgow-born Linda, began organising the first of many fundraising bike and other challenges in Israel, which, he says “changed his life and those of many others”.

The first, from Dan to Beersheva, was for Ravenswood and has just marked its 25th anniversary. He has also since helped more

Top: Sir Erich with his brothers and parents at Zbaszyn in May 1939. Above: Sir Erich with wife Linda after his knighthood in 2010

than 200 charities raise around £90million.

The 230 cyclists on the first ride were made up of two groups, one supporting Ravenswood in the UK and the other, Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society (EMMS), fundraising for a Christian Arab hospital in Nazareth.

Reich was knighted by Prince Charles in 2010 for services to charity and to the Kindertransport, an honour he had initially thought about refusing.

He tells me: “I did things at the time because that’s what I thought I had to do. But you know, there are a lot of people who worked with me, so I felt like it was only right I accept. I felt some pride, but life just goes on.”  The Boy in the Statue: From Wartime Vienna To Buckingham Palace by Sir Erich Reich is published by i2i Publishing, priced £9.98. Available now.

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2 Add the chick peas and stock 3 Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes until potatoes are cooked through. Season to taste.

4 Puree soup using a stick blender or liquidizer until smooth.

5 Reheat before serving 6 For the garnish, place the chick peas on a tray lined with baking parchment paper.

7 Drizzle over some extra virgin olive oil, dried coriander, sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

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Israel’s dream ticket Sharron Livingston jets off on the new El Al Dreamliner and enjoys all the luxuries of a high-tech wonder

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l Al’s Dreamliner inaugural flight LY315/316 took off in September with surprised passengers checking-in at the airline’s exclusive desk in Heathrow Terminal 4 receiving goodie bags to celebrate.

It was an emotional event and no wonder – the investment of more than $1.25 billion for 16 new Boeing B787s is likely to bring tears to anyone’s eyes.

The aircraft will replace El Al’s existing Boeing B747-400 and B767-300 fleet between now and 2020 as, in the airline’s words, they are “gradually integrated into our long-haul destinations in North America and the Far East”.

This twin-engined, wide-bodied aircraft is so packed with technology that in modern parlance it is best described as a Smart plane: windows are bigger for better Instagrammable views (19 inches tall) and, instead of plastic shades, they come with dimmers for full or partial shading.

The air is cleaner thanks to a new purification system and a unique bit of kit simulates a lower cabin altitude of 6,000 feet, which is 2,000 feet lower than a standard flight. This means there is less risk of dry eyes and you breathe more easily, as there is more oxygen available.

It’s also a quieter ride, thanks to noise-reducing chevrons on the

Above: Relaxing in El Al Business Class aboard the airline’s first Boeing B787

engine nacelles as well as technology that reduces the impact of turbulence.

Mood lighting allows for a smoother transition between time zones and the likelihood is that by the time you land, you will feel as good as, or even better than when you boarded.

Although new for El Al, Dreamliners have been in service since 2013 and several airlines already deploy them. The difference between them is

The Dreamliner receives a traditional water-arch welcome on its arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport

down to internal architecture.

The aircraft can seat up to 335 passengers; El Al has chosen to accommodate 282 across three cabins: Economy, Premium Economy and Business Class.

The airline has partnered with German seat manufacturer Recaro, which provides ergonomically designed lightweight seating that it says “supports airlines in their efforts to operate more economical flights”.

Economy Class has 222 seats in a 3x3x3 formation, which means there is always a middle seat. Of those, 207 offer an acceptable 31 inches of legroom and 15 of them offer 30 inches. All are 17 inches wide.

Aesthetically, they are slick, with appealing clean lines and high backs topped with an adjustable headrest, and give a generous five-inch recline.

However, unlike the cushioned seats on older El Al Boeings, these are thinner and firmer, akin to those in sports cars. It takes a little getting used to.

Premium Economy has 28 seats arranged in a 2x3x2 pattern. These are more roomy with 38 inches of legroom and upgraded service, including meals served on porcelain plates rather than the aluminium containers used in Economy.

The highlight is the stylish Business

Class, and this is what will give El Al the edge to compete in a crowded market.

There are just 32 seats in a 1x2x1 configuration, so everyone has direct aisle access.

The best seats are by the windows as they offer the most privacy, while passengers in the double seats can shift the divider for more seclusion.

The muted brown and champagne colour scheme is pleasing and, with the seats at 21 inches wide, there’s plenty of shuffle space and lots of easy-toreach storage.

A click of a button converts the seat into a 78 inch fully-flat bed. Service is attentive and fine-dining options are available on demand, with a regular supply of snacks throughout the flight.

The extensive touchscreen entertainment is delivered via a Panasonic AVOD entertainment system. There are 150 on-demand films, as well as hundreds of American and Israeli TV series, music and games that can be watched and played on IFE screens that increase in size with each class, reaching a whopping 16 inches in Business.

Plus there’s a handy power socket and USB device to charge various smart devices and even an inter-seat chat facility in case someone elsewhere on the aircraft catches your eye.

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Orthodox Judaism

Torah For Today

SEDRA Vayera

What the Torah says about: Organ donation

BY RABBI ALEX CHAPPER ‘God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow…’ (Bereishit 19:29). The commentators question why God remembered Abraham and saved Lot. Surely the verse should read: ‘God remembered Lot’. Why is Abraham relevant?

The Midrash explains why Lot merited being saved from Sodom. When Abraham and Sarah went to Egypt, Abraham asked his wife to tell people she was his sister, because he was afraid they might kill him. Lot could have informed the Egyptians of their relationship, meaning Abraham would be killed and Lot could marry off Sarah to make a lot of money. But he did not do that, and because of that he was saved from Sodom.

The Torah records how Lot risked his own life to be hospitable to guests in Sodom, which, on an objective scale, is a much greater deed. Lot was raised in the house of Abraham – the epitome of kindness – so to put his life on the line for strangers to bring them into his house was second nature to him.

We know Lot had a problem with money. He moved to Sodom even though the people were wicked there, because the land was fertile and he could make his fortune. Therefore he would have been very tempted to betray his uncle Abraham, but because he resisted that temptation he merited to be saved.

Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler refers to this as the principle of ‘the point of choice’. If we make the right decision, especially if it was a struggle, then we have achieved exactly what God wanted us to accomplish and we will be given great credit as a result.

 Alex Chapper is community rabbi of Borehamwood & Elstree Synagogue and the Children’s Rabbi, childrensrabbi.com

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Theresa May recently proposed the introduction of an opt-out clause for organ donation. So, what does the Torah say about this?

There are two halachic viewpoints at large in the rabbinic world. The Halachic Organ Donor Society (www.hods.org) based in the US promotes both viewpoints as valid halachic alternatives.

The more reactionary approach does not allow organ donation until the heart stops beating (bradychardia).

The opinion of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, many rabbis and chief rabbis worldwide is that brain stem death (BSD) is the point at which halachic death occurs, beyond which donations of essential organs can occur.

All viewpoints agree that live donations of organs such as one healthy

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kidney when the donor has two, are permissible.

Israel has legislated against organ tourism, searching for organs which have been unlawfully or immorally harvested from victims, such as political prisoners abroad.

Although in rabbinic Judaism one’s first duty is to their own life, this merely prepares the individual to be of service to others.

On an individual level, the Talmud teaches that saving a life is saving a universe. On the communal level, there is also a duty to society, implicit to being a part of the Israelite nation.

From the point that the Israelites crossed the River Jordan, they became fully responsible for each other’s fate.

Religious objections to organ donation after death include concerns about the body being desecrated before burial.

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The Talmud teaches that saving a life is saving the universe

However, organs can be extracted cleanly to allow for tahara – Jewish last rites.

Furthermore, saving a life is more valuable than even that concern.

Why should organs that can save others be left to rot uselessly in the ground?

How wonderful is it to know that others can live valuable years due to one selfless opt-in.

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Ariel Abel is a halachic organ donor card carrier, rabbi at Liverpool’s Princes Road Synagogue and Padre to HM forces on Merseyside

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The Bible Says What?

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‘True miracles can happen’

Why Remembrance Sunday is more important than ever

BY RABBI NEIL JANES What would we rather accept as happening in the Bible – miracles of conception and healing, or modern CPR? As progressive Jews, simply accepting the miracles as we find them leads us down a dangerous path of believing that flouting the laws of nature and simplistic theology really can happen.

On the other hand, over-reading the text to try to provide scientific explanations shoehorns 21st-century knowledge into a text that is thousands of years old.

One of the most famous tales in the Bible is that of Elisha and the Shunammite woman’s son (II Kings 4).

In this story, the Shunammite woman is rewarded by Elisha with a son, who subsequently dies. The woman brings Elisha to her house, where he manages to revive the boy.

This is Elisha, miracle worker, man of God. If it sounds like something a Jewish boy born some centuries later in Bethlehem would go on to do, it’s because these miracle-work-

er stories of Elijah and Elisha in the Jewish Bible are clearly archetypes.

The story is also often read for its apparent description of early resuscitation. We’re told that Elisha: “Put his mouth on its mouth, his eyes on its eyes, and his hands on its hands, as he bent over it. And the body of the child became warm.” (II Kings 4:34).

It sounds remarkably similar to resuscitation by CPR. But it’s a mistake to suspend our disbelief, thinking these miracles happen. There is nothing to demonstrate the ancient world was any different from our present time with regard to the laws of nature.

At the same time, it’s also a mistake to think the Bible is trying to offer a first-aid lesson.

If we can get past these simplistic readings, we get to deeper and richer perspectives on a book that has inspired us for millennia.

 Rabbi Neil Janes is executive director of the Lyons Learning Project

BY RABBI DR ANDREW GOLDSTEIN For many years, I have gone on Remembrance Sunday to stand at the war memorial in Northwood, proud to be asked to say the Hebrew priestly blessing at the end of the service.

I am gratified that the number of the public attending seems to have grown over the past decade or so.

That’s not so at the annual Shabbat service we have held at Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue for many years, as, sadly, the members of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) who fought in the Second World War get fewer year by year. Time moves on.

The same is true of survivors of the Shoah. Their personal stories and testimonies make such an impact and we should congratulate the National Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire – which is making films of the survivors for future use – for trying to make sure that the true horror of the Holocaust is not denied.

At our annual AJEX service, we

display the two books that record the names of Jews who fought and gave their lives in the British forces in the two world wars.

The volume for the First World War is hundreds of pages long.

There is a note recording why it was compiled: because after the war, antiSemites said the Jews did not play their part in fighting for Britain.

It is sad this had to be done, but the book is also a resource giving us pride in the contribution the Jewish community made keeping this country safe and free.

My grandfather was one of those

killed during that war. He died in Flanders, Belgium, on 16 August, 1917. In August this year, on the 100th anniversary of his death, I travelled for the first time to see his grave at the Tyne Cot cemetery.

The sight of the hundreds of rows of white headstones, many of them saying just “An unknown soldier”, is incredibly moving. I obviously never knew my grandfather, but standing at his grave and looking round made me realise why it is so important to remember the sacrifice so many made with their lives.

We live at a time of re-evaluation of history. We suddenly face new challenges, some to be applauded, others greeted with bemusement or despair.

But there is no need to wipe away memories of the past. Rather, we should take the memory and use it for positive effect – especially on Remembrance Sunday.  Rabbi Dr Andrew Goldstein is president of Liberal Judaism

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THE HOME CONSULTANCY Dear Shanti I love contemporary, clean-looking kitchens but I’m a busy mum with three young children, so I need to find a kitchen that is both stylish and practical. What type of kitchen would suit my requirements?

Suzie Dear Suzie Handleless kitchens are on-trend and match the style you’re looking for.

While giving off a streamlined, sleek appearance, handle-free cabinetry also offers practical benefits.

There are two types of handleless kitchens.

The first version has a handle built into the top of the door. These are regarded as handled kitchens as we design them as a normal kitchen.

The second is where a finger rail is placed behind the door to allow opening. This is true handleless.

The second option is what more people go for as they can add lighting in the finger rail to create ambience. Also, it looks really cool, when your friends come around.

They are easier to clean than kitchens with handles because the smooth lines mean there are fewer hidden places for dirt to settle. You can just give the cabinets a wipe over and the cleaning is, in effect, done.

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Many new olim have the same concern, which is why the Jewish Agency has created a unique job outreach programme to assist in job placement, as well as all other aspects of dealing with the Israeli bureaucracy in the job market, such as knowing your employment rights and insurance.

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Dear Steve As we approach the end of the year, how do you see the market changing in 2018?

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Elstree and Bushey.

The recent addition of an eruv to Bushey, I feel, will see an increase in the migration of the Jewish community to this location, although it is still one of the area’s best kept secrets.

However, once this becomes common knowledge, the Jewish community in Bushey will start to expand and thrive in the same way it has done in Elstree and Borehamwood.

Edgware’s property market continues to go from strength-to-strength and, in spite of extra tax and stamp duty increases, the buy to let market continues

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13/03/2017 Edgware’s location at the end of the Northern Line is a great proposition for tenants wanting to be able to access central London easily and continues to offer competitive rents.

This, together with the area’s ever increasing Jewish community will see house prices hold strong as we head into 2018 and beyond.

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Immanuel College is an HMC co-educational Jewish day school and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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Garfinkle hits treble in five-star display MGBSFL Redbridge A maintained its 100 percent winning start to the season by beating Lions White 5-2.

Daniel Garfinkle helped himself to a hat-trick, with Russell Goldstein and Steven Summers also on target for the Premier Division leaders. Manager Jon Jacobs said: “We were up against a very strong and youthful side, but Daniel’s three strikes were all top quality finishes.”

Reiss Migilner’s double helped Brady claim a 3-2 win over Lions Blue, Stanley Offord claimed their third. One of the results of the day saw goals from Josh Marks and Johan Jordi set up Camden Park for a 2-1 win at Raiders A. Faithfold A increased its lead at the top of the Division One table thanks to a 9-1 win over L’Equipe. Player-manager Avi Markiewicz and Louis Naughten scored two each, with Ben Shirbini, Zalmy Cohen, David Leiwy, Gav Lewis and Leor Harel also all on target.

Oakwood B claimed a second consecutive league win as goals from Daniel Seligman, James Abrams and Sam Modlin saw them beat Temple Fortune A 3-0.

Bayern Mincha spurned the chance to go clear

at the top of the Division Two table as they were held to a 2-2 draw at Real Hendon. Adam Ellis equalised twice for the joint-leaders, with Joe Metlis and Adam Hersh scoring for Hendon.

Four goals from Zach Cohen helped Mill Hill Dons to a 6-2 win over Faithfold B. Nick Phillips and Jamie Nagioff were also on target, while Raiders C and FC Team played out a 3-3 draw, player-manager Mitch Young, Richard Salmon and Jon Breger scored for the latter.

Premier Division side Oakwood A booked its place in the third round of the Cyril Anekstein Cup, Brad Wine, Dave Woolman, Kyle Bentwood and Jonathan Quinn scoring in their 4-0 win over Division One’s Redbridge B, while an all-Division One tie saw Svi Freedman, Oli Sades and Daniel Sinclair score in Los Blancos’ 3-2 win over Raiders B. • Division Two side Boca Jewniors has become the latest team to fold from the MGBSFL. The club’s chairman Sefton Monk said: “To say it’s been a struggle this season would be an understatement.”

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JUNIOR RESULTS WATFORD FRIENDLY LEAGUE: U18 – Whetstone Wanderers Panthers 2 London Lions 1 U16 – Aldenham Heroes 1 London Lions Blue 1 Blue Div – Hendon United 3 HMH United 3 U15 – London Lions White 5 St Albans City South 1, AFC Oaklands 2 London Lions White 5 White Div – Alexandra Park East 5 HMH Foxes 1 Green Div – HMH Panthers 10 Hadley Rangers 1 U14 – London Lions Blue 1 Borehamwood 2000 2, London Lions White 10 AC Finchley North 1 Green Div – Harvesters East 4 HMH Galaxy 4, HMH Fire 3 Whetstone Leopards 1, Alexandra Park South 3 HMH Dynamo 1 U13 – London Lions Blue 2 Northwood Red 1 Yellow Div – HMH Galaxy 7 Hadley Rangers West 2 U12 – Bushey Rangers 1 London Lions Green 1, Edgware Town Blue 5 London Lions Blue 3, Colney Heath Magpies 0 London Lions White 6 EXCEL LEAGUE: U14 – Hampstead 3 HMH Cobras 0 U12 – HMH Wanderers 1 Belstone 0

HAT-TRICK HEROES WATFORD FRIENDLY LEAGUE: U15 – Lucas Schreiber (London Lions White), Sayed Abduli 5, Dan Mincer (both HMH Panthers) U14 – Louis Sampson 4 (London Lions White), Josh Vandermolen (HMH Galaxy) U13 – Sammy Elbaz (HMH Galaxy) U9 – Emanuel Simons (Hendon)

Ashley is spot-on for EHRS masters MASTERS EHRS made it six wins in six as they stretched their lead at the top of the Masters Division Two table to eight points.

Dean Schulberg, James Bloom and Ashley Davidson’s (pictured) penalty earned them a 3-0 win over Temple Fortune North London Raiders made it five wins out of five to extend its lead at the top of the Division One table.

James Kaye’s double, along with Wayne Davidson’s strike saw them to a 3-1 win over HMH, for whom Simon Davidson netted the home side’s consolation.

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Keen cyclists are being encouraged to sign up to take part in next year’s Cycling Langdon Velo.

The highlight of the five-day trip will be riding the Col de Bonnette – the 2,715m mountain pass – known as the “Highest Road in Europe” which is situated in the French Alps, near the Italian border. One of five rides, which will be taking place between 10-14th June, participants will be required to raise a minimum of £1,500 for Langdon.

A spokesman said: “The French Alps are popular for riding and our custom route will impress and challenge riders of all abilities.” For more details and to secure your place, visit: http://langdonuk. org/events/langdon-velo-2018/

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More than 30 badminton enthusiasts took part in this year’s Maccabi GB Community Badminton Tournament. Players of all levels took part in Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced tournament categories. MGB event manager Talia Fennessy said: “It’s great to have an event whereby we can offer a fun and competitive atmosphere for members of the Community from the ages of 12 to 60. The Maccabi GB Community Sports Days encourage everyone to come together and play a sport they enjoy in a social, positive and Jewish setting.”

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Youngsters hit bounce bar for Kisharon PING PONG Eighty people joined Young Kisharon for a Ping Pong fundraising evening to raise money for the charity’s services. Held at Bounce bar in central London, away from the table, prizes up for grabs in a raffle included a personal training session and tickets for the Ice-Bar in London. Leanne Mitch-

ell, host of the evening, said: “This event was a great way to bring some of Kisharon’s newest and youngest supporters

together for an evening of fun and competitive ping pong, while introducing them to the work that they so generously supported.”

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