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That’s the ‘true number’ of Jews in the UK if ethnicity option is added to next census EXCLUSIVE Being Jewish could soon be a tickbox option under ‘Ethnicity’ in the next national census, in a move that would see the official number of Jews in England and Wales increase dramatically, writes Adam Decker. The Office of National Statistics this week confirmed a decision on whether to recommend this addition in 2021 will be taken in the next two months, now a consultation has finished, but Jewish leaders have expressed concerns over the move. If the recommendation is adopted by the government, 2021 would mark the first time Jews can register themselves as ‘Jewish’ outside the census question on ‘Religion.’ For non-religious Jews who have previously avoided answering ‘Jewish’ under that question, this could be the first time they feel able to register as ‘Jewish’ in the census, which may mean that the overall number of Jews in England and Wales increases. There are separate census questions for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The 2011 data showed that there were 269,000 Jews in the UK, but Canadian research that has shown that 27.6 percent more people think of themselves as ‘ethnically Jewish’ than ‘religiously Jewish,’ and research in Scotland has shown that the number may rise by as much as 64 percent. If that was applied across England and Wales, the addition of the ‘Jewish’

ethnicity option could mean the next census shows more than 400,000 Jews in the UK. A spokeswoman for the Cabinet Office said: “We are pleased that the Office of National Statistics (ONS) is evaluating the effect of including a Jewish ‘tick box’ within the ethnic group question for Census 2021.” The addition of a ‘Jewish’ option under ‘Ethnicity’ was debated back in 2006, before the 2011 census, when it was considered for addition alongside others such as Asian, African, Sikh, Kashmiri and Cornish. However, while Jewish communal figures are keen to know whether the additional option increases the overall number of Jews in the UK, they are reluctant to change the census formula because of the negative effect on data comparability. The subject has been discussed at length in recent weeks between senior officers at the Board of Deputies and Jewish sociologists and analysts at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), who now favour maintaining the status quo. While Jewish leaders north of the border have argued for ‘Jewish’ to be included in Ethnicity, in order to capture thousands of “missing Jews,” Londonbased JPR was the only Jewish organisation consulted by ONS. “There is certainly an argument for including Judaism under both the ‘religion’ and ‘ethnicity’ questions, as different Jews affiliate differently,” said a Board spokesman. “However, having

had two censuses which only asked about Jewish affiliation by religion, we would be concerned that changing the question now might lead to a wild swing in numbers with people answering the census in very different ways to previously, making it very difficult to compare this with earlier results. “Being unable to compare the data would be a major setback to communal planning, so we have recommended against Judaism being included in the ethnicity question in the 2021 census. This is a matter which we will keep under review.” The preference for ‘Jewish’ not to be included as an ethnicity option represents a U-turn from the Board. In 2007, the organisation told the ONS: “The categories strongly suggest that ethnicity is only a matter of race and nationality, but for Jews, normative ethnicity is related to ancestry and peoplehood. Continued on page 5

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Corbyn didn’t declare meeting with Hamas Jeremy Corbyn faced new questions this week over a visit to Jerusalem in 2010 with Hamas members, which he failed to declare in the parliamentary register of interests. The Labour leader visited Israel in November 2010 with fellow Labour MP Andy Slaughter and then Guardian columnist Seumas Milne as part of a delegation organised by website Middle East Monitor (MEMO). Milne is now Corbyn’s communications director. According to reports in Israeli outlet i24NEWS, a write-up of the trip was deleted from the MEMO website but retrieved and published this week by journalist Eylon Levy, alongside suggestions that Corbyn should have declared the trip in Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial

Jeremy Corbyn in Jerusalem alongside Labour MP Andy Slaughter (left) and Hamas officials Ahmad Attoun, Khaled Abu-Arafah and Muhammad Totah. Picture: i24News

Interests, as Slaughter did. Rules at the time required Members of Parliament to declare gifts above £660. Among the Hamas members Corbyn met on the visit were three Palestinian

Legislative Council (PLC) members who they met in the Red Cross compound in Jerusalem, after the men had been handed deportation notices. The group met Mahmoud al Ramahi, Muna Saleem

Mansour, Naser Abdel Jawad, Omar Abdel Razeq, and Aziz Dweik in Ramallah, and had dinner with Dr Mustafa Barghouti, a prime mover behind the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.

MP ‘PRIVILEGED’ TO HEAR ISRAEL CRITIC A Labour MP has spoken of the ‘privilege’ of meeting and listening to a journalist who has previously claimed “Zionists rule France’ and that Israel is committing a “Holocaust”. Chris Williamson (pictured) has been criticised after posting on Twitter that he heard controversial writer Vanessa Beeley speak at a festival this week. Beeley launched her blog site The Wall Will Fall, in reference to Israel’s separation barrier, after visiting Gaza, and has since been working in Syria, where she supports the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The Derby member of parliament said it was “great to meet Vanessa Beeley today and a privilege to hear her speak at the #BeautifulDays2018 festival about her experiences of reporting from Syria”. Also speaking at the festival was former Momentum vice-chair Jackie Walker, suspended

by Labour, who was speaking about ‘Corbyn, Palestine and Labour’. On social media, she has continuously referred to Israel committing a “Holocaust in Gaza”. In late June she tweeted that: “Nobody can deny the holocaust that has been committed by Zionists in Palestine beginning 3 yrs after the one you are referring to and continuing today”. In 2012, she wrote: “The Israelis are behaving like Nazis.” More recently, Beeley, who is associate editor of conspiracy theorist site 21st Century Wire, has become known for vocally opposing the ‘White Helmets’, a group of Syrian rescue workers who save lives following regime attacks. She accuses them of having links to terror and labelled them the “alQaeda Civil Defence”, while also appearing in videos including one titled “Israeli Hand in ISIS Atrocities.”

Corbyn filmed calling for BDS to be adopted Footage has emerged showing Jeremy Corbyn endorsing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as “part and parcel of a legal process that has to be adopted”. The film, from 2015, just months before Corbyn assumed the Labour Party leadership, was taken during a conference in Belfast. Corbyn has maintained that he opposes a blanket boycott of Israel, supporting instead only boycotting produce from Israeli settlements. “Jeremy is not in favour of a comprehensive or blanket

boycott,” a Corbyn spokesperson told The Guardian in December. “He doesn’t support BDS. He does support targeted action aimed at illegal settlements and occupied territories.” In the footage filmed in Belfast, he is asked: “Can the panel give hope to the people of Palestine by supporting the movement for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions against Israel?” He replies: “I think the boycott campaign, divestment campaign, is part and parcel of a legal process that has to be adopted.” He later adds: “I

believe that sanctions against Israel, because of its breach of the trade agreement, are the appropriate way of promoting [the] peace process.” The footage was published in 2015 by Irish republican political party Sinn Féin, which hosted Corbyn in Belfast. In 2009, Corbyn hosted a visit to parliament by Hamas and Hezbollah politicians, and referred to them as his “friends”. He was then an outlier in Labour for his radical politics and was widely seen as having slim chances of leading the party.

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Dame Margaret Hodge is facing an online backlash over her latest comments in Labour’s anti-Semitism row. The former Labour minister likened a Labour Party disciplinary investigation into her conduct to the persecution faced by Jews in Nazi Germany, saying: “It felt almost as if they were coming for me.” Her comments provoked a furious backlash online, with some Labour members denouncing the veteran MP for her “over-reaction”, under a #hodgecomparisons hashtag on Twitter.

Jeremy Corbyn’s personal secretary told proPalestinian supporters to read Jewish newspaper websites to work out which MPs not to vote for in 2010, it has emerged. The story, which appeared in The Sun this week, related to a pamphlet in which Nicolette Peterson, 61, contributed for Palestinian News, part of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Discussing MPs who were “friends of Israel”, she wrote: “Read... (Jewish) websites that will show you who not to vote for.”

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Labour anti-Semitism / News

JLM quits training over CORBYN ‘DECLARED WAR’ claims of ‘censorship’ The Jewish Labour Movement has pulled out of an anti-Semitism training session planned for the national conference, accusing the party of trying to “censor” material. The group criticised left-wing factions of Labour, who had allegedly tried to alter the contents of a presentation it had planned for a session in September. Amid charges that the party condones antiSemitism, the group planned on presenting a training session making reference to two Labour members accused of anti-Semitism. Ivor Caplin, chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said the group had withdrawn from the planned training session because its “content was censored”. A Labour Party source said: “JLM were invited to deliver training at conference, but they declined.” Caplin accused party officials of acting “in a manner to deliberately undermine” their efforts and “add to further tension,” The Independent reported. At issue was Labour’s decision last month to adopt parts of Concern: JLM chair Ivor Caplin

the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism, but to exclude portions that specifically related to the ways anti-Israel activism can be seen as anti-Semitic. The JLM had planned to discuss ways in which party members had crossed the line between anti-Israel rhetoric and anti-Semitism. Corbyn has come under increasing scrutiny over allegations about his own conduct and behaviour and his failure to take action against anti-Semitic behaviour by members of his party. On Friday, it was reported he had been filmed endorsing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Last week it emerged he had met with the leader-in-exile of Palestinian terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in 2014, weeks before its members carried out an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which six people were killed. The meeting took place in Tunis in 2014, where he was photographed laying a wreath near the graves of terrorists involved in the 1972 massacre of 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympics. An old clip that surfaced several days earlier showed Corbyn saying in a 2011 interview with the Iranian Press TV station that the BBC has “a bias towards saying that Israel is a democracy in the Middle East, Israel has a right to exist, Israel has its security concerns”.

The head of the Board of Deputies this week accused Jeremy Corbyn of “declaring war on the Jews”. Marie van der Zyl told i24News that if the Labour leader became prime minister it would represent “a threat to world security”, as there “probably aren’t going to be any” UK-Israel relations. She added: “Every day you think it cannot get worse, but every day it does. We’re learning he’s spent more and more time with terrorists.” She said her community was “feeling anxious”, adding: “It’s like Jeremy Corbyn has declared war on the Jews at home. We’ve never been in this situation, it’s unprecedented.”

Marie van der Zyl on Israeli TV

Describing his “cult” status among supporters, she said “his hatred of Israel and Zionism runs so deep he cannot separate that from anti-Semitism”.

Five rabbis quit Unite Five progressive rabbis have resigned their Unite membership after the union’s boss Len McCluskey issued what they call “a threat” to the Jewish community. West London Synagogue’s Rabbi David Mitchell and Leo Baeck College’s Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris were among those to issue an angry open letter to Unite’s chief of staff saying McCluskey no longer represented them. The five rabbis said McCluskey had shown a “slow recognition” of the problem of antiSemitism within the Labour Party and “has usually done so in the context of a counterattack against critics of Jeremy Corbyn”. Writing in HuffPost last week, the union boss accused the Jewish community of “not

taking ‘yes’ for an answer”, and derided the “truculent hostility” of Jewish representatives in response to Labour’s efforts. But the signatories, including Birmingham’s Rabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi, Bristol’s Rabbi Monique Mayer and Rabbi Richard Jacobi of East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue, said McCluskey’s view showed the union had “lost control of its leadership” and he was trying “to rewrite the story of the last six months and plays down the genuine concerns of the overwhelming majority of the community”. McCluskey had called for Jewish community leaders to engage “before the political estrangement between them and the Labour party becomes entrenched.

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Israel will have to assume an end to diplomatic relations with the UK if Labour wins the next general election, writes Robert Philpot In the court of Jeremy Corbyn, few wield more power and evoke stronger reactions than Seumas Milne. The Labour Party leader’s director of communications and strategy, Milne is a hardline and uncompromising left-winger, and a fierce opponent of Israel. If Corbyn makes it to Downing Street, his most senior aide is likely to act as an outrider, reinforcing and encouraging an anti-Zionist agenda that will be unprecedented in a western European state. “Israel would have to assume diplomatic relations were unofficially null and void,” says one Labour insider who, like others interviewed for this report, commented on condition of anonymity to speak more freely. But Milne’s hostility to Israel and his hardleft politics are not a matter of mere speculation. Unlike many spin doctors and political strategists whose professional life has been largely lived behind the scenes, Milne has spent decades center stage. Before joining Corbyn’s team in 2015, Milne was a longstanding senior journalist and columnist at The Guardian. From that perch, he left a trail of writings that have landed him at the center of the continuing controversy over the Labour’s refusal to adopt in full the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism. Milne’s establishment credentials are impeccable. The son of a former director general of the BBC, he was educated at Winchester, one of Britain’s leading public schools, and then went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. At boarding school, he stood as a Maoist in a mock election, while a gap year spent in Lebanon sowed an enduring sympathy for the Palestinians. “He spent his entire time at Balliol wearing a Mao jacket and talking with a fake Palestinian accent,” one of Milne’s fellow students told former New Statesman editor Peter Wilby. “It was like performance art, the sort of thing Gilbert and George would do. He launched a string of motions in the junior common room attacking Israel.” But, unlike his contemporaries – though like his boss – Milne appears never to have outgrown his youthful support for the far left or antipathy toward the west. After a spell working for Straight Left, a political monthly that pushed a doggedly proSoviet agenda, and an incongruous stint at the free-market Economist magazine, Milne found a berth at The Guardian. He rose through the ranks, becoming the paper’s comment editor, a weekly columnist and associate editor. “I never regarded him as a journalist, but as a propagandist,” says a former Guardian colleague. “The basics of reporting both sides of an argument were anathema to him.”

A mere two days after 9/11, Milne filed a column that appeared under the headline, “They can’t see why they are hated.” “Shock, rage and grief there has been aplenty,” he wrote. “But any glimmer of recognition of why people might have been driven to carry out such atrocities, sacrificing their own lives in the process – or why the United States is hated with such bitterness, not only in Arab and Muslim countries, but across the developing world – seems almost entirely absent.” Americans, he suggested, were “once again reaping a dragons’ teeth harvest they themselves sowed.” Prominent among the many American crimes Milne noted was the manner in which the US had “recklessly thrown its weight behind Israel’s 34-year illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as the Palestinian intifada rages.” Milne adopted a similar stance when London came under attack on 7 July 2005, blaming “the bloodbath unleashed by Bush and Blair in Iraq” for the suicide bombers’ deadly massacre on the Underground. By sharp contrast, Milne frequently struck a rather more understanding note when it came to discussing Russia’s foreign policy. After Vladimir Putin occupied the Crimea in 2014, he argued that “Western aggression and lawless killing is on another scale entirely from anything Russia appears to have contemplated, let alone carried out – removing any credible basis for the US and its allies to rail against Russian transgressions.” The Kremlin’s actions, he subsequently wrote, were “clearly defensive.” It is not just modern-day Russia’s rulers for whom Milne appears to show a surprising indulgence. “For all its brutalities and failures, communism in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and elsewhere delivered rapid industrialisation, mass education, job security and huge advances in social and gender equality,” Milne responded after the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly voted to condemn the “crimes of totalitarian communist regimes.” While Russia’s fears and insecurities are acknowledged and sympathised with by Milne, those of Israel most certainly are not. Never was that more evident than when the Jewish state came under a barrage of Hamas rocket attacks in the summer of 2014. He told an anti-Israel rally in 2014 that “Israel has no right to defend itself from territory it illegally occupies.” He continued that Palestinians in Gaza have the right to “defend themselves,” and claimed, “It’s not terrorism to fight back. The terrorism is the killing of civilians by Israel on an industrial scale.” “The idea that Israel is defending itself against unprovoked attacks from outside its

Shoulder to shoulder: Corbyn and Milne in Liverpool before the party’s 2016 conference

borders is an absurdity,” Milne wrote in The Guardian. “The Palestinians of Gaza are an occupied people, like those in the West Bank, who have the right to resist, by force if they choose — though not deliberately to target civilians.” His conclusion was equally unwavering: “The brutal reality is that there will be no end to Israel’s occupation until Palestinians and their supporters are able to raise its price to the occupier, in one way or another — and change the balance of power on the ground.” Milne had offered near-identical arguments four years previously during the November 2012 Gaza war, which he coupled with warm words for Hamas. “Emboldened by the wave of change and growing support across the region, Hamas has also regained credibility as a resistance force,” he argued. “The deployment of longer-range rockets that have now been shown to reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is also beginning to shift what has been an overwhelmingly onesided balance of deterrence.” Nor was this a one-off. “Hamas is not broken and will not be broken because of the spirit of resistance of the Palestinian people,” Milne told a rally in 2009. “Seumas Milne’s politics are guided by the far-left principle that anybody who stands in the way of American power is worth supporting,” says Dave Rich, author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism. “This might involve excusing

Russian aggression, indulging Palestinian terrorism or ignoring Assadist war crimes,” Rich says. “He combines the 1960 New Left’s radical chic with a staggering degree of Stalinist cynicism, and has done so consistently.” These strands share a common thread. Noting that Milne has previously defended communist-run East Germany, the British journalist Nick Cohen noted in Die Welt last week: “The racism on the British left, in its content and tone, dates back to Stalin’s almost forgotten ‘anti-Zionist campaigns’ at the time of the Slansky trial and Doctors’ Plot.” As his former Guardian colleague suggests, on Milne’s watch the paper’s comment section became “incredibly controversial, mainly due to his attitude to Israel.” “It was surprising how it was tolerated, but he had more knowledge about the Middle East than most, and a relentlessness that no one else matched,” the colleague says. Even Milne’s harshest critics do not doubt his encylopedic knowledge of the region. “He knows a lot of history and could probably walk you through all the prime ministers of Israel since 1948 without missing a beat. The knowledge is almost scholarly,” another Guardian colleague confided to Wilby. But, of course, Milne is not an academic – he is the most influential adviser to the man who may well become Britain’s next prime minister.  First published by Times Of Israel

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Israel tech set to make CENSUS CHANGE PLANS British cities ‘smarter’ Continued from page 1 “It is likely that a majority of these people would consider themselves ethnically but not religiously Jewish – a label that in the eyes of many Jews relates to religious practice and not belonging.” Ethnic group data has been collected in the census since 1991, with data used for resource allocation by central and local government, and to inform policy development. Jewish representatives in Scotland have been more open to including ‘Jewish’

Israeli technology is set to help make UK cities “smarter” in areas like traffic and energy consumption with a project of the British Embassy in Tel Aviv looking to link Israeli start-ups with British companies. Ahead of a major conference in London in November, the UK Israel Tech Hub said 15 small Israeli technology firms would be coming to the UK to offer futuristic solutions for cities and infrastructure.

British firms such as Marks and Spencer, BT, Tesco and Aviva will be listening to advances in areas such as ride services, smart homes, cyber security, fleet management and distributed networks, while city planners will learn how Israeli firms are catering for tomorrow’s technology in areas such as “connected cars”. The fifth annual threeday ‘TeXchange’ programme comes at a time when several

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UK government agencies are pushing an unprecedented national effort to upgrade urban services, and when UKIsrael trade is at record levels. Ayelet Mavor, director of the UK Israel Tech Hub, said: “This is a unique opportunity for Israeli companies to meet key decision makers in the UK’s largest corporates.”

as an ethnicity option, and said the wording of the religion question in the Scottish census “may also have discouraged some people from ticking ‘Jewish’.” In Scotland, people are asked ‘What religion, religious denomination or body do you belong to?’ whereas in England and Wales they are asked: ‘What is your religion?’ The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC) said: “Our concern is that in most of Scotland there simply is no local Jewish community

to ‘belong to.’ So even committed Jews would have to say they don’t ‘belong to’ any ‘religious body’.” SCoJeC president Ephraim Borowski said: “The question of these potentially ‘missing’ people is not just theoretical. Current census figures exclude those who, for whatever reason, did not respond that they are Jewish, thus provide only a reliable minimum estimate of the true number.” The ONS’s new census plans will be published by the government later this year.

Nightingale House named one of UK’s top care homes Staff at a care home looking after 180 elderly Jewish residents in London celebrated a huge boost this week after the Care Quality Commission raised its rating from ‘Good’ to ‘Outstanding’ after an unannounced inspection. Nightingale House in Wandsworth, which is run by the charity Nightingale Hammerson, is now the Jewish community’s first older people’s care home to be given the coveted rating,

meaning it is now in the top one percent of care homes nationwide. The home has six wings, three of which provide nursing care, and the majority of residents have dementia. Among the aspects to impress inspectors was the home’s on site nursery, a first in the UK, which means children, their parents and older people now mix together every day.

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TRIBUTES PAID TO PEACE ACTIVIST British Jewish groups have paid tribute to Uri Avnery, an Israeli journalist and peace activist and one of the first to openly advocate for a Palestinian state, who has died aged 94. Avnery, who founded the Gush Shalom peace movement, was a symbol of the Israeli peace camp for decades. Left-wing pro-Israel group New Israel Fund UK paid tribute to him as “one of the sharpest, most courageous people who lived among us”. Avnery died on Monday at a Tel Aviv hospital after suffering a stroke.

FOOD STORY UP FOR ‘CATERING OSCARS’ A kosher caterer from London was left open-mouthed this week after being shortlisted for the “Oscars of the catering world”. Food Story, which catered for Jewish News’ Night of Heroes Awards earlier this year, was named on a short-list of three for ‘Event Caterer of the Year’ at the Foodservice Cateys. “This is considered to be the Oscars of the hospitality sector,” said Food Story managing director Matt Rickard. “To be shortlisted is a phenomenal accolade for any caterer.” The winners will be announced in October.

Jews and Sikhs team up for asylum seekers Jewish and Sikh volunteers teamed up to provide asylumseekers with hot meals, clothing and food vouchers on Sunday, in an example of the two faith communities jointly engaging in social action. The drop-in centre at West London Synagogue provided the backdrop to the shared activity, following a meeting between the Sikh Council UK and the Board of Deputies earlier in 2018, when the two organisations committed to working closer together. Volunteers were also onhand to provide companionship and advice for parents and children who have fled life-threatening violence or persecution in their countries of origin. The Reform shul has been a leading light on social action, and in March it teamed up with Al Manaar Mosque to provide emergency beds and food to rough sleepers across the capital during the

Answering the call: volunteers helped asylum seekers

cold snap. Anthony Silkoff of the Board of Deputies said: “What better way for Sikh and Jewish communities to get to know each other, than by working together to help those in need?” He added: “The Sikh and Jewish communities have much in common, and that is a strong basis on which to build a partnership. “Dialogue between faiths is crucial, but nothing is more

important than putting your beliefs into action together.” Satnam Singh Chana of the Sikh Council UK said: “It was a real privilege to take part in this important project supporting asylum seekers with our Jewish brothers and sisters. “We are now looking forward to the next round of joint activism together, when our Jewish friends will come to help us to feed the homeless among us.”

REPORT EXPLORES BRIT ‘LINK’ TO SIDS The head of Milah UK has reacted with caution after an Israeli-born researcher working at a British university published a scientific paper about the links between brit milah and cot death. Dr Eran Elhaik, an IsraeliAmerican geneticist and biologist working at the University of Sheffield, published his report in bioRxiv, noting strong links between male neonatal circumcision (MNC) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Boys are more likely to die from SIDS than girls, and Elhaik said sudden death was “significantly and positively correlated with MNC and prematurity rates,” adding: “Our results suggest MNC contributes to the high mortality and gender bias.” The scientist looked at “stressors” and said MNC “reduces the heart rate and together with the loss of blood there is a danger of reducing the blood volume, blood pressure, and the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues”.

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He added that reduced blood pressure has been associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a potentiallyfatal condition where the walls of the throat relax and narrow during sleep, interrupting normal breathing, with SIDS victims showing “more frequent episodes of OSA”. But Milah UK co-chair Dr Simon Hochhauser said: “We look forward to having the opportunity to consult with UK experts on SIDS once the paper has appeared in a reputable journal. In the interim, we note no increased incidence of SIDS has previously been reported in Jewish boys compared with other boys in the UK.”

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SINN FEIN PROTEST AT ISRAEL MATCH Israel’s friendly international football match against Northern Ireland will go ahead next month – despite renewed calls for it to be called off by Sinn Fein. The game, is scheduled to take place on 11 September at Windsor Park in Belfast, though the left-wing Irish republican political party has once again called for it to be cancelled. The Northern Ireland Friends of Israel Group said: “It is sad to see a party here seek to impose an extremely divisive political policy on a sporting association.”

POMEGRANATE LINK TO HEALTHY BABIES Israeli researchers have found that drinking pomegranate juice can reduce the risk of brain damage in embryos while in the mother’s womb. Publishing their findings in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, scientists at Rambam Health Care Campus and Technion have shown that the fruit can help reduce inflammation in the foetus. Pomegranates are rich in polyphenols, a compound known to have anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.

Educators face Shoah denial silence One of Britain’s leading Holocaust educators has expressed his “disappointment” after Facebook failed to respond directly to a letter from Jewish organisations urging the social media giant to clamp down on denial. Barrister Henry Grunwald, a former president of the Board of Deputies who now chairs the National Holocaust Centre and Museum, was speaking after receiving no response from the tech giant. Grunwald was among the 24 signatories to a 7 August letter chastising

Holocaust hate on Facebook

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allowing “complete and utter

MENTAL HEALTH PLEA Labour former minister Ivan Lewis has opened up about his battle with depression in a bid to encourage others to talk about their mental health problems. Lewis revealed how the condition had sometimes prevented him getting out of bed and because of his public role he felt unable to talk about it. The Bury South MP said he hoped his story would encourage others in the Jewish community to speak out.

In an interview with the Jewish Telegraph, Lewis said: “At crisis points in my life I have withdrawn from all human contact, been unable to get out of bed, obsessed over past incidents in a futile quest to change them... “Mental health is a hidden secret in our Jewish communities, it is a big issue. There is also a great deal of pressure on us to be successful and some people perceive mental health issues as weakness.”

falsehoods” about the Holocaust to go “systematically unchecked”. The signatories, including heads of Holocaust organisations in the UK, US, Germany and Poland, said they offered “tangible, rapidly executable steps” to help Facebook become “part of the solution,” but have since said they were met with silence. Grunwald said: “I’m disappointed that Facebook has not been in touch, as we made a genuine offer to assist them in dealing with their problem over Holocaust denial.” Facebook founder Zuckerberg

recently gave an interview in which he suggested his company did not ban Holocaust denial because it was “wrong,” adding that those behind it were sometimes not “intentionally” wrong. Grunwald said: “If you deny the Holocaust, you don’t do it because you may innocently get a few things wrong.Facebook claims that it is no friend to ‘fake news.’ If it continues to provide a platform for Holocaust deniers, that is exactly what it is. We will be trying to reach Mark Zuckerberg again about this.”

Airline hoaxer is jailed A Stamford Hill librarian has been jailed for making a hoax bomb threat because he was late for his flight. Jacob Meir Abdellak was running late for the Norwegian flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles, and contacted police to report an explosive device on board the aircraft. At Lewes Crown Court, he was given a 10-month sentence and ordered to pay a £140 victim surcharge. Abdellak’s anonymous call was made just eight minutes before the flight was due to depart, causing it to be delayed by 90 minutes.

Gatwick Airport investigated and found Abdellak was significantly late and was denied boarding by airline staff. He then became abusive. Later his phone number was linked to the hoax call and his booking. The 47-year-old, of Amhurst Park, Hackney, was arrested when he returned to Gatwick to board another US-bound flight. After previously denying the charge, he admitted communicating false information regarding a noxious substance likely to create serious risk to human health.

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Twins reveal a rite of passage

Artist Grayson Perry with Sara and Kobby Gamzo-Letova and their new twins

Jewish twins born through surrogacy are set to appear in a compelling new Channel 4 documentary airing this week. The baby girls, Liron and Maayan, will feature with parents Sara and Kobby GamzoLetova, who turned to a surrogate after a 10-year struggle to have children. In the moving documentary, called Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage, the couple meet their surrogate, Laura. The show also features the family’s baby blessing ceremony, conducted by Rabbi Oliver Spike Joseph and the Leeds Masorti Community last month. He said the surrogacy journey of the twins and the Gamzo-Letova family was “miracu-

lous”, adding: “It was a joy to travel to Yorkshire to represent the Leeds community and take part in this auspicious ceremony.” The couple met Laura through Surrogacy UK and, after a series of meetings to get to know one another, the trio decided they would go ahead. While not all plain-sailing, the journey was well worth it, said the parents. “The blessing for our twin daughters was a double celebration for us,” they said. “Not only was it an opportunity to welcome them into the Jewish faith, it was the culmination of a long journey for us to have a family.” They paid tribute to Rabbi Joseph for “helping restore our faith in what it means to be

part of a Jewish community”, a point picked up on by presenter Perry. “What impresses is that you are willing to adapt,” Perry tells the rabbi. “The backbone of any religion is tradition, but there emerges an ambiguity when communities must respond to innovation in the modern world. “The reed that bends in the wind will survive; if you are too rigid you will snap. Communities that do not show flexibility will ultimately fall.” • The documentary series Rites of Passage starts on 23 August at 10pm on Channel 4. The episode featuring the Gamzo-Letovas and Rabbi Joseph will be broadcast on 6 September

SACKS EXPLORES MORALITY FOR RADIO Synagogue auction Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (pictured) is to present a new week-long Radio 4 series on morality. Sacks, a prolific author and ethicist, will present Morality in the 21st Century between 9am and 9.45am from 3 to 7 September, exploring issues such as moral responsibility, social media and artificial intelligence.

Interviewing a group of young people and experts including economists, psychologists, scientists and philanthropists, Sacks will also discuss the impact of individualism and multiculturalism on communities and try to understand who young people see as their moral role models. Christine Morgan, the

BBC’s head of radio, religion and ethics, said the series would “broaden the impact

and reach of our programming on religion and ethics”, adding: “I can think of no better person than Rabbi Sacks to ... give audiences a greater insight into the big issues of our time.” Sacks said: “It has been a privilege and honour to be joined on this journey by so many of the world’s leading thinkers.”

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Blackpool’s 100-year old former Byzantine synagogue is to go under the hammer at auction with a guide price of £125,000. The historic Grade II listed Blackpool United Hebrew Synagogue on Leamington Road was deconsecrated and closed six years ago, after numbers fell below a viable congregation. Despite council objections, planning consent was subse-

quently granted to turn the building into a series of twobedroom apartments with car parking, and auctioneers said the development could still be done while respecting the building’s origins. “This is a historic building in a well-known commercial district of Blackpool,” said auctioneer Paul Thompson of Pugh auction house.

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Students on another level! Jewish schools rose to the challenge of this year’s new and more demanding A-level exams by surpassing expectations, even bettering last year’s success, writes Adam Decker. Almost a quarter of all A-level grades at Immanuel College were marked as A* in a bar-raising set of results from Jewish schools. More than half of all Immanuel students achieved the coveted top mark in one of their exams and a quarter registered A or A* in all their exams in a set of grades that left the private college’s new leadership team swooning. It was a dream beginning for headmaster Gary Griffin and deputy head Barnaby Nemko, both of whom have been at the college for less than a year. Griffin said he was “delighted” that the results were “even better than last year, despite the exams having been made more rigorous and demanding as a consequence of government reforms”. Four Immanuel students are off to American universities and two – Alex Root and Jeremy Schiff – will go on to study natural sciences at the prestigious University of Cambridge. Griffin added: “Congratulations to students and teachers who have worked so hard to achieve these magnificent grades, which are thoroughly deserved.” Results at JCoSS also “comfortably surpassed” last year’s, with 38 percent of grades at A or A* level. Three students – Aviv Silver, Jack Margolis and Adam Gould – landed a quadruple set of A* grades, while those scoring at least two A* grades included Josh Cowan, Zach Levenson, Noa Marson, Max Simmonds, Lucas Samuel, Talia Friend, Joe Rogove and Aliyah Kossoff. Noa Marson is o ff to Cambridge to study natural sciences, and six other JCoSS students are going to Oxbridge or to study medicine. Root and Schiff of Immanuel are also heading to Cambridge. “We are delighted by another set of excellent results, the second whole cohort in our collection,” said JCoSS headteacher Patrick Moriarty. “Both academic and vocational outcomes are testament to the exceptional hard work and dedication of staff and students alike, tackling new and demanding specifications in many subjects.” Moriarty said it wasn’t just about the grades, however. “We are proud not only of the academic accomplishments of our students but of the qualities that have grown in them at JCoSS. “They leave as accomplished mensches, embodying the values of the school and the wider community, and ready to act as ambassadors for both on the next phase of their journey.” At JFS, Europe’s biggest Jewish secondary school, almost half of all grades were A* or A, with

Mark of quality: JCoSS achieved top results

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astronomy wizz Segev Gonen Cohen registering a remarkable six A*s and Zev Shirazi three A* and three As. Other JFS students shining bright were Jack Kelly, Savanna Leboff, Hannah Masters, Reef Ronel, Uri Shine, Jonathan Bush, Georgia Cooper, Zak Hassell, Yasmin Lermer, Sasha Meir, Ava Sharpe and Tamar Toorgeman. “In the first year of the new, more challenging A-levels, our students have demonstrated their ability and tenacity to meet the higher standard now demanded of sixth formers across the country,” said JFS head Rachel Fink and SixthForm head Anthony Flack in a joint statement. Eight JFS students have Oxbridge offers, with

Mazeltov: JFS students, pictured with headteacher Rachel Fink, were top achievers

two set to train as doctors and one enrolling on a marathon veterinary sciences course. At Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Elstree, which has many Jewish students, personal successes included school captain Max Goldstone, school vice-captain Jonathan Steltzer and Ricky Thake and Josh Baumring-Gledhill, who led RSY-Netzer camp over the summer. Thake said he was “delighted and relieved at the same time” while Baumring-Gledhill, a senior prefect, said he was “over the moon”. At nearby Yavneh College, headteacher Spencer Lewis paid tribute to an “incredible achievement” when news filtered through of 54 percent of grades at A or A* level, with 30 percent of pupils gaining no less than A in all exams. Leading the charge was Erin Waks with four A* grades, while at least two top-marks went to Joseph Alfon, Noah Galibov, Zach Garcia, Nina Freedman, George Gross and Matti Brooks. “We are delighted,” said Lewis. “I am particularly pleased they match and in some ways even improve on last year’s fantastic results, as A-level exams have become even harder.” At Hasmonean, a Modern Orthodox school in Barnet, 44 percent of students hit A* or A grade, with a sparkling Maths cohort in which 72 percent scored top marks. Many will now go to yeshiva or seminary before taking up places at top universities. Would-be lawyer Natan Maurer, who got four A* results, is set for Cambridge, as is fellow student Yonina Jaffe, who plans to be a vet.

Leaping to new levels: Yavneh students celebrate A-level exams success

Hasmonean head Andrew McClusky paid tribute to students who “have coped so well with the challenging A-level specifications this year,” while Hasmo Boys’ head Debbie Lebrett was “especially delighted by the progress students have made both academically and personally”. Over at Kantor King Solomon, new head Hannele Reece beamed with pride as students

excelled in several subjects, in particular Maths, Further Maths and Religious Studies. Oxfordbound biochemist Jack Palmer scooped three A* grades, together with Boris Bozhkov, budding psychologists Rachel Freedman and Hannah Doust, future engineer Zachary Igielman and Sarah Lewis, who is heading for UCL.  Editorial comment, page 16

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News / Den deal / School status / Landmark simcha SHUKER ‘SOLIDARITY’ WITH YAZIDI IN IRAQ

A senior officer at the Board of Deputies has said he was pleased to show “solidarity” with the Yazidi community at an event in Iraq this week. Board vice-president Edwin Shuker, an Iraqi Jew who was driven out of Baghdad as a child, addressed the Rudaw International Conference on the Yazidi Genocide in the city of Erbil. The city is in the Kurdistan region of the shattered country. Shuker said: “Indigenous minorities in the Middle East are under existential danger of disappearing. A Jewish voice of solidarity was very much appreciated.”

NATIONAL TRUST SITE EVENT COMPLAINTS

The National Trust has criticised one of its own properties for holding an event where attendees wore Nazi uniforms and showcased Nazi memorabilia.The charity’s bosses came down hard on managers at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire after an outcry from those who attended, with complainants saying they saw a yellow Star of David patch. The “living history” event was organised by the West Wiltshire Military Vehicle Trust. The National Trust said the event was “unacceptable,” adding: “We have contacted the organisers for an urgent explanation.”

Israelis scoop £125k Dragon investment

Two Israeli inventors inspired by pollution on Finchley Road to innovate have walked away from the BBC’s Dragon’s Den television programme with a £125,000 investment after pitching their device that protects babies in prams. Yosi Romano and Ziv Leinwand got through a tense encounter with the TV investors during the latest episode of the BBC programme, in which entrepreneurs seek financial backing for new products and services. The product’s vents sit either side of the baby’s head. and sucks ambient air from one side, filters it, and blows “clean air” through the other, into a child’s breathing space. The duo said they still need to test the batteries, improve the airflow and redesign the filter to give it a more commercial look. They were seeking £100,000 for five percent of the company, and left with £125,000 from Touker Suleyman, a multimillionaire businessman, who

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paid for a 25 percent stake, reducing to 20 percent when the money was paid off. “It’s been a learning curve, about what makes for good TV entertainment, with its ups and downs,” Romano told Jewish News. “We stood in front of them for almost two hours, but all you see is five or 10 minutes. There were a lot more questions and debate.” He said the programme makers approached him. “They mentioned more than once

Israeli innovation. It was flattering, good for me to hear.” Romano, who lives near Swiss Cottage, is the father of Alma, four, and Livya, eight months, and said: “While I was walking Alma down Finchley Road, I realised the pram puts babies in the line of exhaust fumes,” he said. “My brother is a biochemist and helped me understand what they were breathing. Idling traffic creates hotspots of pollution.”

Kisharon site given free school status Communal charity Kisharon celebrated its special needs school being granted free school status by the Secretary of State for Education. The charity received the news last week and said work on its Parson Street premises was now underway, with the new building expected to cost £12.5million and be completed by 2020. It will increase capacity from 40 pupils to 70, with

HAROLD, 96, SET FOR HIS SECOND COMING OF AGE A former war photographer during will celebrate his barmitzvah at Kingston and Surbiton District Synagogue on his 96th birthday. Harold Shattock, who celebrates his birthday on Saturday 1 September, is sponsoring a reception after the Uxbridge Road ceremony, 83 years after his first barmitzvah in Surbiton. In attendance will be up to 40 people, including

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a wider range of facilities. Finchley and Golders Green MP Mike Freer welcomed the decision, saying: “I know Kisharon Free School will offer young people new opportunities.” The charity’s leaders, who also support Jewish adults with learning difficulties, said Kisharon School would be run with a Jewish ethos for pupils aged four to 19 with special needs.

his 56-year-old son and niece, who is herself a great-grandmother, with widower Harold saying he wanted to share the day with a community he loves. “I’ve survived this long and I’m grateful,” he said. “I want the community to share the day.” Harold was posted in the Middle East in the 1940s, where he trained pilots to photograph from the air, for dropping depth charges on submarines.

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News / Titanic auction / Tech for girls / Charity new home NEWS IN BRIEF

CHARITY SEEK STORYTELLER TO SHOWCASE ITS WORK

A major UK Jewish charity is breaking new ground this week by recruiting for “a professional storyteller” to broadcast the stories of the people it supports. World Jewish Relief said the move would help shine a light on the lives of those it helps, including some of the world’s poorest Jews in Eastern Europe, as well as Syrian refugees the charity is assisting. “Storytelling is built into the Jewish DNA,” said a spokeswoman. “From Moses to Woody Allen, Jews have passed down stories from generation to generation. We are a community that learns and loves through stories.” WJR acknowledged the community needed “to see the difference our work makes” adding: “The best way to see that is through individuals’ stories.”

JLIVING COMPLETES INITAL PHASE OF £6M DEVELOPMENT The Jewish charity behind a sheltered housing block in south London has welcomed the completion of its initial refurbishment with a celebratory cup of tea. JLiving, which owns the three-storey South Lodge in Streatham, said Phase One of its £6million investment programme is now finished, as Jewish couples and singles made the most of new bathrooms and kitchens. There are 25 apartments in the purpose-built block, and residents include South London United Synagogue Rabbi Reverend Stewart Myers and his wife, who invited the charity’s vice-chair Benjamin Conway and board member Leon Smith to their refurbished kitchen for a cup of tea. “The refurbishments look fantastic,” said jLiving’s June Morton.

Hebrew Titanic watch could fetch £15k A silver pocket watch with Hebrew numerals recovered from a Russian-Jewish victim of the Titanic disaster is expected to fetch more than £15,700 when it goes under the hammer on Saturday. Furrier Sinai Kantor, 34, from Vitebsk, Russia, was hoping to start a new life in America when his life was tragically cut short after the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on 12 April 1912. Sinai was travelling with his wife, Miriam, 24, and intended to sell trunks of furs to fund their goal to study dentistry and medicine when they arrived in the Bronx, New York. They paid £26 for ticket No 244367 and were among 285 second class passengers, having boarded the ship in Southampton. After the collision, Miriam was ushered on to lifeboat 12, one in which men were prohibited from entering because of the “women and children first” protocol for loading lifeboats. Roughly 30 passengers were in the lifeboat when it was lowered off the port side, but survivors made room for about 30 more. It was the last boat to reach the rescue ship RMS Carpathia after 8am. A cable repair ship named the CS Mackay-Bennett arrived eight days later to

recover as many victims as possible. Sinai’s body was pulled from the icy water during the gruelling, seven-day operation. He was labelled “Body No 283” and embalmed on the ship. He is buried at Mount Zion Cemetery, Queens, New York. After extensive legal effort, Miriam received the rest of her husband’s effects, including clothing, his passport, a notebook, money, wallets and a “silver watch”. The Swiss-made, open-face silveron-brass watch, with its original movement and a diameter of three inches, includes Hebrew letters as numerals. An embossed design on the back shows Moses holding the Ten Commandments. Its movement is rusted as a result of immersion in salt water, the hands are nearly all deteriorated and the dial is stained. The watch will be auctioned at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas. The company’s historical consignment director, Don Ackerman, said: “The family passed the watch down through generations for 106 years. A piece that was aboard the [Titanic] and a documented history from the family makes this a bittersweet and rare opportunity for collectors.”

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of Global Agency at Google, Tamar Roth, product development engineer for SODA and Francine Wolfisz, features editor at Jewish News. Jewish Interactive came up with the event after noticing last year’s hackathon day attracted a very small percentage of girls. Jewish Interactive’s

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CHARITY HAPPY AT HOME A new Jewish start-up charity sending goods to those living below the poverty line in Israel and elsewhere was thrilled to move into its new home in Borehamwood, after being “practically homeless” itself. Goods for Good said it was settling into the new facility in Delta Court, Manor Way, after sending 30 new hospital beds to the Rosen Jewish Old Age and Hospice in Bucharest, Romania. “They had opened a new wing and had no funding for beds,” said charity founder, Rosalind

Bluestone. “We also sent them clothing, mobility equipment and vitamins. We have volumes of amazing goods ready to send but are underfunded and need help for their dispatch.” Bluestone said the charity’s new space – a large office and ex-sewing machine showroom – would allow for a “pop-up sorting and packing operation” of donated humanitarian aid, collected from the Jewish community. It has already sent £14million overstocked goods donated by UK businesses and individuals to vulnerable communities around the world.

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World News / Germany’s ‘obligation’ / Kofi tributes / Frank auction

Nazi guard deported Germany’s foreign minister has said the country has a “moral obligation” to seek justice for victims of the Holocaust, after 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, Jakiw Palij was deported from the US. Heiko Maas said “there is no line under historical responsibility”, adding in a comment to German newspaper Bild that doing justice to the memory of Nazi atrocities “means standing by our moral obligation to the victims and the subsequent generations”.

Palij landed in the western German city of Dusseldorf on Tuesday. The local government in Warendorf county, near Munster, indicated that Palij would be taken to a care facility in the town of Ahlen. German prosecutors have previously said it does not appear that there is enough evidence to charge Palij with wartime crimes. Now that he is in Germany, Efraim Zuroff, the head Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, said he hoped prosecutors

Deported: Jakiw Palij’s file

would revisit the case. Palij lived quietly in the US for years, as a draughtsman and then as a pensioner, until nearly three decades ago, when investigators found his name on an old Nazi roster and a fellow former guard

spilled the secret that he was “living somewhere in America”. Palij told Justice Department investigators who showed up at his door in 1993: “I would never have received my visa if I told the truth. Everyone lied.” A US judge stripped Palij of his citizenship in 2003 for “participation in acts against Jewish civilians” while an armed guard at the Trawniki camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and was ordered to be deported a year later.

Israel praise for Kofi Annan Israel this week paid its tribute to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, saying he was man who fought against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Benjamin Netanyahu joined other world leaders in paying respects after Annan passed away in Switzerland, aged 80 after

Tributes: Annan

a short, unspecified illness. Netanyahu said: “We will remember him as having been very active in the inter-

national arena and as someone who fought anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. We send our condolences to his family.” A firm supporter of a two-state solution, Annan was involved in peace negotiations between the sides throughout his tenure between 1997 and 2006.

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A three-year investigation into New York’s yeshivas found 15 had refused access to inspectors and many are failing to teach secular studies, despite it being a legal requirement. Naftuli Moster, the founder of the Jewish pressure group that lodged the original complaint, said the yeshivas ‘believe they are above the law’.

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Police have arrested a 37-yearold man in connection with an incident in which the former home of late Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was daubed with antiSemitic graffiti. The perpetrator wrote ‘public toilet’, ‘Nazi Jew lying in hell with Hitler’ and ‘Paedophile’ on Wiesel’s house in Sighet in eastern Romania.

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A new Jewish maternity centre catering for Uganda’s 2,000-strong Jewish community has delivered its second baby, just days after opening. The Shifra and Puah Centre, which serves the Abayudaya community of early 20th-century converts, includes an incubator and was set up with the help of an Israeli midwife.

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After 500 years, the Central American states of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have their own permanent rabbi. Chilean Rabbi Elisha Salas will now extend his working with the several thousand-strong Bnei Anousim community. Israeli gymnast Linoy Ashram wrote her name into the history books by producing a recordbreaking performance on her way to winning gold at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Minsk.

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Making headlines / World News

News that you can make up... An ingenious make-up artist from Israel has certainly put a whole new spin on the day’s “headlines”, writes Francine Wolfisz. Michal Henig (pictured) and her publicist, Lubika Karchova, collaborated together to create a new way of delivering the news through intricate, thought-proving images of world events painted onto a model’s face. The 42-year-old artist said she was compelled to do something to address the “fake news and misinformation” spread about Israel, after a recent visit to New Zealand left her feeling “people don’t know anything about what is going on here”. She added: “The world’s news only shows the Palestinian side of the story and denies the Israeli side. It was really important to us that we raise awareness worldwide about the

AFTER: The shocking impact on the country of the Hamas arson attacks near the Gaza border

truth of what is happening.” Together, Henig and Karchova set up Lubika News and came up with the concept of providing stories not with words, but with powerful images created in make-up. “Since a picture equals a thousand words, we felt people might relate to it more than the regular news.” For her inaugural news story, Henig has literally painted a sombre comparison of Israel before the Hamas arson kite attacks and their devastating effect on the country afterwards, using her daughter, Lihi, as the model. She explained: “While I was thinking of my first idea for a story, the land in southern Israel was torched by thousands of Hamas arson kites over three months. “The crops destroyed could have fed thousands of people and the damage has been devastating to the farmers and residents of southern Israel. The fires also killed wild animals in their natural habitats and destroyed nature reserves.”

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LET’S HELP FREDDY DAVID’S VICTIMS Your edition of 2 August gave have lost all their savings to Mr Daprominent coverage to the Freddy vid’s schemes. David story. The following ShabIn a way, they caused their own bat was, for me, more painful than downfall by going blindly for interest Tisha Ba Av, hearing details of this rates of eight percent, which is a near fraud committed by an obserimpossibility. vant Jew against his fellow Jews, Nevertheless, the United Synamembers of the community and gogue has indicated it will help if aphis shul. What can be worse than proached. The S&P and the wealthy this? To call it a Chillul Hashem in the community could also join in does not come close to the truth. what should be made clear would be Unknown to the general public, a one-off, not to be repeated. Mr David comes from a frum Jailed: Fraudster Freddy David As for Mr David, he should be background. What he has done is made a herem (excluded) in the beyond belief. community, especially in his shul. In my humble opinion, reading your article, I May Hashem help to heal the suffering of those found an answer and solution to this problem. I think who lost everything. I hope the above will find favour the whole community, especially the rich among in the eyes of those who read it. us, should get together and perform the greatest S I Solomon Kiddush Hashem and raise money to help those who Hendon

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A FAST TRACK TO ANTI-SEMITISM The never-ending antiSemitism saga pervading the Labour Party started at the top and has been allowed to filter down to all strata of the organisation. Jeremy Corbyn’s negative stance on Israel has morphed into this “old-new anti-Semitism” by the back door. Also his vehement distaste for Zionism is another fast track to anti-Semitism that no doubt has always simmered in the UK. Although historically attributed mainly to rightwing ideology, the Israel connection has elevated the left as its most prominent flag waver, cheered on by the likes of the unions and others misguidedly

championing no matter what their Palestinian refugee brothers and rocketlaunching Hamas terrorists. So there we have it – a leader with an ingrained disdain for Israel/Zionism going back many years veiling less than lightly a form of anti-Semitism which he has been at the very least slow to repudiate and even slower to eradicate from the party itself. It is clearly a very dangerous situation, more so if you think there is the likelihood of a government/ party change at the next general election with the distinct possibility of Corbyn at the helm. Stephen Vishnick Tel Aviv

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A threat to humanity

PLEASE MRS MAY, JUST DO YOUR JOB

As Phil Rosenberg of the Board of Deputies pointed out (Jewish News, 26 July), the subject of climate change has been sadly low on our community’s priority list. World Jewry has yielded an extraordinary number of Nobel Prize winners. Given that background, it should be foresighted and outspoken over this particular danger, which threatens all humanity. In particular, the Jewish media could be as forthright over this subject as they have been over antiSemitism in politics. Mr Rosenberg mentions incentives for renewable energy in schools. Sadly, the government is scrapping Feed-In Tariffs for new

Here’s a poem I would like to share with Jewish News readers on a sadly serious subject:

solar power installations as of next April. This same government has also massively increased business rates for solar power as of last year, and applied these to our state schools but not the private ones. Over-subsidising renewables has been a concern, but why should they be taxed? Where was your editorial about this? A graphic you printed last year showing the 2015 voting shares in Finchley and Golders Green omitted the Green Party vote entirely. Please, at least, do not understate indicators of popular concern for the environment.

James Levy Golders Green

SEEKING JACK GUDAK I’m trying to find any surviving family (nephews/nieces?) of Isaac Jack Good, aka Jack Gudak, who was a famous Jewish colleague and codebreaker at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. Jack never married, so there are

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Mrs May, please will you and your beleaguered government Get your act together Otherwise, it’s likely that we’ll have to endure the imminent Arrival at Number 10 Of Jeremy Corbyn As our next Prime Minister So, Mrs May, for worried people in the UK, please strive To do your job properly, and ensure that we never see that day actually arrive. I am a proud British Jew, who like so many others in the Jewish community Am very fearful of An anti-Semitic and extreme left-wing Jeremy Corbyn getting the opportunity To take your job Please Mrs May, time is short The ball is still in your court J D Milaric By email

LABOUR HAS LEFT US Joseph Finlay’s impassioned plea for erstwhile Labour voters in the community to return to the fold assumes goodwill and cosy dialogue could cure the disease. It cannot. Given the stranglehold on the party by those on the radical left, even a possible successor to Jeremy Corbyn would most likely share his decades-long warped views on Israel and Jews. Barely a week goes by without a further revelation of anti-Semitism,

such is the extent of the sickness. No amount of tea and honey cake can remedy this. Right-minded people in the community (and beyond) should shun the current Labour Party and instead support those who wish to see a moderate, left-of-centre alternative party emerge. After all, they haven’t left Labour; Labour has left them. Dr Franklyn Gellnick New Barnet

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Opinion

Are we at war or is it just events, dear boy? JENNI FRAZER

’m not keen on over-dramatising situations, but sometimes it’s useful to look at words attributed to former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, when asked what was most likely to blow a government off course: “Events, dear boy, events.” Let’s consider some of the most recent events. Dame Margaret Hodge MP gave an interview on Sky News in which she spoke about her treatment at the hands of Labour’s hierarchy, and then recalled her father telling her always to keep a packed suitcase in the hall. Jews always needed to be ready to run, was the subtext. But this painful recollection led to two responses: one, the deeply unpleasant social media hashtag #Hodgecomparisons, in which a variety of think-themselves-witty contributors produced the most banal thing they could come up with and contrasted it sarcastically with Dame Margaret’s comment.

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Sample: “Ran out of milk earlier & it had the same emotional impact on me as being in Gaza with no access to safe, clean water”. Fabulously incisive, I think you will agree. As it happens, the advice of Dame Margaret’s father has a depressing application today. I remember interviewing Swiss Jews at the height of the scandal in which Swiss banks were said to have held on, illicitly, to wartime Jewish bank accounts, and then refused access to the account-holders’

heirs. Without exception, every Swiss Jew in the room told me that not only did they know where their passport was – some even brandished them – but that they had a suitcase under their bed, packed and ready to go. An over-reaction? Perhaps, perhaps not. Let’s look at the second result of Dame Margaret’s comment: the “revelation”, rolled out by some of Corbyn’s most ardent supporters, that her daughter, Lizzi Watson, was a BBC deputy news editor. Wow. Conspiracy central. The clear implication was that pro-Corbynites – and, for that matter, Corbyn himself – couldn’t get a fair hearing while the Jewish daughter of a Jewish MP held such a powerful media position. Hot on the heels of this nastiness came yet another. A person called Keith Cooper put out a series of tweets demanding as follows: “Time is ripe for Jewish MPs to openly declare where they stand on illegal settlements in Israel/Palistine and the treatment of GAZA residents. Get it on record.” The fact that Cooper can’t spell Pales-

tine is beside the point. What he is demanding – against the seemingly never-ending series of stories about what Corbyn was doing with various Hamas operatives, and when – is that Jews “prove” their loyalty. How’s the bad taste in your mouth coming along, Labour leaders? With so much to choose from, I can’t leave out the latest “event” – the astonishing response to a Unite trade unionist, who had decided to resign his decade-long membership. David Levene said he refused “to be represented at work by an anti-Semite and a racist”, by which he meant Len McCluskey, Unite’s general secretary, he of the “antiSemitism is mood music” infamy. McCluskey has since threatened legal action. To which the union’s chief of staff, Andrew Murray, replied: “Your email to Len McCluskey has been noted, as has been your insulting and libellous remarks. Under these circumstances your resignation, as much as we regret losing any member, may be understandable.” So, are we at war yet? Or is it just “events”?

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My days as a J-list celebrity in Indonesia PHIL ROSENBERG DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, BOARD OF DEPUTIES

hen the World Jewish Congress asked me to attend the Seventh World Peace Forum in Jakarta, Indonesia, on behalf of its Jewish Diplomatic Corps, I felt excitement and apprehension. Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslimmajority country with more than 261 million people. Estimates are that Indonesia’s Jewish community numbers in the hundreds. My attendance, alongside Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee, represented a significant increase in Indonesia’s Jewish presence. Indonesia is constitutionally secular, but its law requires every citizen to carry an identity card that identifies them with one of six religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism or Confucianism. Judaism is not an option. The country’s Jews must either align themselves with another faith or leave the section blank. Blasphemy is against the law, and Chris-

ancestral Jewish roots and converted back to Judaism. Chabad maintains a discreet presence in Bali and in Jakarta private services are arranged for the main festivals. Wearing a kippah in public can result in overt hostility. The fact that Phil Rosenberg with Muslim guests at the World Peace Forum the conference invited Jews was an encouraging sign. The tians and Ahmadiyya Muslims in sometimes conference’s theme of the ‘Middle Path’ of fall foul of it, in what are sometimes seen moderate Islamic thinking, combined with as politically-motivated charges. A recent Indonesia’s national philosophy of Pancasila attempt to challenge the law through the (‘five principles’) which includes unity and courts was unsuccessful. social justice, and the fact that Indonesia is Identifying as Jewish is fraught with the world’s third largest democracy seemed further problems. The 1948-built synagogue to offer hope for what lay ahead. in Surabaya, Java, was frequently the scene In the end, it would be fair to say that the of anti-Israel protests and was forced to close overall experience was mixed. On the one in 2009 by Islamist hardliners. In 2013, it was hand, the cause of Palestine was referenced demolished. Nobody claimed responsibility. on almost every panel with a default impresNow, the only purpose-built synagogue in the sion that Israel was always in the wrong and country is the Shaar HaShamayim in Tondano the Palestinians had no culpability in the City, North Sulawesi, constructed in 2003. It conflict. Iranian and Palestinian delegates caters to 20 people, many of whom discovered

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Corbyn and Hamas – not friends but still brothers PROF JOHN STRAWSON

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eremy Corbyn’s press office keeps telling us that he meets leading figures from Hamas because of his “principled solidarity with the Palestinian people and engaging with actors to support peace and justice in the Middle East”. We now know that he met Hamas officials in Israel and Palestine in 2010, chaired a panel at an event in Qatar with the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, in April 2012 and then invited leading Hamas members and supporters to a meeting in the House of Commons in March 2015. In between he had time to visit Tunisia for the wreath laying ceremony, for among others, Black September terrorists who planned the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes and, of course, welcomed Islamist and hate-speech specialist Raed Salah to Parliament as an “honored citizen”.

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Corbyn wrote about these events in his Morning Star column and often talked about them to the Iranian Press TV. During his November 2010 visit to Israel and Palestine, he made no attempt to meet Israeli Jews. Nor did he contact any of the NGOs who work tirelessly for peace and reconciliation such as One Voice or the Parents Circle Family Forum. Corbyn was accompanied by Seamus Milne (now his top aide) who a year before declared that “Hamas is not broken and will not be broken”. This trip doesn’t look like a “search for peace’ but rather as a solidarity mission with Hamas. In Doha, Corbyn, attended an ostensibly

academic event co-organised by the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies and the Londonbased Palestine Return Centre (PRC). It was styled “Seminar on Palestinian Refugees in the Arab World.” Corbyn chaired a panel, whose “scholars” included Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, Husam Badran, responsible for the deaths of over 50 Israelis in the Dolphinarium discotheque and Park Hotel attacks in 2001 and 2002 and Abdul Aziz Umar, planner of the 2003 Café Hillel bombing in Jerusalem that killed seven. Corbyn described the participants as “brothers” on Press TV. Although Corbyn now regrets calling Hamas “friends” it is evident that his brotherly relations with them run deep. Yet Hamas is a nasty anti-Semitic authoritarian organisation, styled as a “resistance” movement. It rejects substantive negotiations with Israel. Despite winning the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006 it rejected its mandate and decamped to Gaza in June 2007 which was promptly turned into a military base to attack Israeli civilians. When Israel disengaged from Gaza in

2005 there was an opportunity to develop the strip economically and socially. Instead Hamas set out to destroy any semblance of democracy and condemned the population to atrocious conditions. The idea that Hamas is a liberation movement is grotesque. Yet Corbyn has spent years trying to normalise Hamas and to convince a generation of activists that solidarity with the Palestinians means solidarity with Hamas. Instead of supporting those forces in Palestinian and Israeli society that promote peace and reconciliation, Corbyn has helped legitimise a violent, racist and terrorist organisation which has divided and weakened the Palestinians. Corbyn’s protestations that he is a peacemaker are fake. He has studiously avoided working with the many brave Israelis and Palestinians who have put their reputations – and often their lives – on the line to foster cooperation and peace between both peoples. Corbyn has chosen another path; to side with his ‘brothers’ who are committed to violence and terrorism.

It’s what’s beneath a burka that matters INTERNATIONAL LAWYER

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he burka is under attack. Its assailants also. With whom should we side? Is it really offensive to compare it to a letter-box on legs? Or to joke of it being an aid to the bank-robber or the terrorist? Or is it offensive only when its critic is thought to be pandering to the far right? In Israel, an anti-burka bill was presented to the Knesset in 2010, but has not become law. It followed a spate of Charedi women, taking to the burka out of tzniut (modesty) and some Breslav Hassidic men covering their faces with cloth at Ben Gurion Airport to prevent themselves seeing “forbidden fruit”. But the anti-burka legislator was not aiming her legislation primarily at Jews. Ehud Barak once wore a burka in Lebanon, when heading a commando operation. It would not have been as effective if burkas had not been available. The burka has already been banned in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France,

Italy and Latvia. The French ban was endorsed by the European Court of Human Rights in 2014. Angela Merkel herself, the doyenne of Mitteleuropa matriarchy, has called for its banning in the Vaterland, if legally possible. What many have failed to realise with the burka is there is a lot more going on beneath the surface than meets the eye. From a traditional Jewish perspective, the burka is blessed. Clothes were given to Man by the Lord to hide our shame after our sin of eating the original “forbidden fruit”. What hides better than the burka and its mini-version the veil? The Good Book mentions veils and headcoverings at least 54 times. They prove the burka is both blessed and bountiful.

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FUTURE PM EHUD BARAK ONCE WORE ONE IN LEBANON, BUT HE WAS HEADING A COMMANDO OPERATION AT THE TIME

Because of the veil, our forefather Jacob was blessed with four consorts, and a whole people as his offspring. Laban, Jacob’s future father-in-law, fooled Jacob into marrying Leah by veiling Leah at the chuppah, and pretending she was Jacob’s beloved Rachel. Jacob later married Rachel too. And the Lord gave Jacob his two brides’ maidservants, Bilhah and Zilpah, as concubine bonuses. Jacob got busy with all four, and thus were born the 12 tribes of Israel. It’s all in Genesis and it’s all down to the veil. Because of the veil, our own ancestors were born. One of the 12 tribes’ progenitors, Judah, eponymous father of the Jews, needed some consolation after his wife died. He asked for it from a woman, who he believed to be a courtesan. Why did he think her a courtesan? The Good Book tells us: “Because she veiled her face.” We have been slow to acknowledge the burka’s other virtues. It provides freedom of movement, unparalleled before the European Union Treaties, because you don’t have to wear anything underneath. It also allows the ugly, like me, to hide our ugliness, and timid pulchritudinous nubility,

to look the same as everybody else. Having dwelt upon the positive aspects of the burka, we should nonetheless be sensitive to the differing beliefs of our non-European brothers and sisters. In all fairness, we should note burkas have been banned in Chad, Morocco, Tajikistan and Turkey too. That seems to have been ignored in the opprobrium heaped on burka detractors. But then who cares about the facts today? It’s so much easier for people to be ignorant, to climb on to bandwagons and baloney campaign buses. You’ve now read a balanced, multi-cultural, well-researched article on the burka from a lawyer’s perspective, which doesn’t insult (or even mention) other religions, or their followers. Being balanced, I hope you will be persuaded by my own opinion. It is this. It is those in public life, those who are quick to condemn others without checking the facts, who themselves need to wear burkas to hide their ignorance. That also applies to the political correctness police. Truth is often more complex and deep than what we see on the surface. What really matters is what’s going on underneath, unseen.

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

1 CAMP WITH HEART

More than 100 children enjoyed taking part in three GIFT summer camps. Held in London, Manchester and Jerusalem, Shira Joseph, who ran the GIFT London Camp, which included visits to Norwood, Jewish Blind and Disabled and Camp Simcha – along with the popular GIFT supermarket challenge activity – said: “GIFT-giving camp isn’t like any other one. Every activity is geared toward making a difference and helping others.”

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2 THE WOW FACTOR

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Emily’s Adventures in Wonderland spent two days at Lubavitch Day Camp, entertaining children aged three to 11, who took part in activities creating explosions and eruptions. Emily Ben-Ze’ev, who organises the workshop, said: “The highlight for me was watching the excitement and enthusiasm on the children’s faces as the elephant toothpaste grew. For science to be a success it has to have the wow factor. This camp certainly provided it.”

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3 TODA FOR ULPANIM

More than 200 Hebrew students and their teachers from Ulpanim (Hebrew schools) in London and other cities attended a party to mark both the end of the Ulpan year and Tu B’Av (the Jewish festival of Love) at JW3. It was organised by the UK branch of the World Zionist Organisation (WZO), and featured Israeli music, performances, singalong, folk dance and food. Izchak Sonnenschein, head of WZO delegation in the UK, said: “We are very proud of our Ulpanim and that, together with our partners the Jewish Agency and Ofek, we’ve more than doubled the number of people attending Hebrew classes in just one year. This party was our opportunity to mark the success of this initiative and thank the teachers in a fun, summery and Israeli style.”

Young children and their parents joined residents of the Betty and Asher Loftus Centre for a fun afternoon at Jewish Care’s JC Tots Intergenerational Summer Party. Entertainment included music and disco provided by entertainer Ilana Banana, arts and crafts, glitter tattoos and cake for all. Jenna Kay, JC Tots committee chair, said: “The children had so much fun and I loved seeing the residents’ eyes light up as they interacted with them. It’s through events like these that we help to bridge the gap between the generations and see special bonds develop between the young and old.”

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4 BONDING FUN

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Scene & Be Seen / Community

5 FOOD FOR GOOD

Leket Israel hosted more than 120 UK volunteers at its third Bridge the Food Gap event. The charity welcomed British Ambassador David Quarrey, military attaché Colonel Ronnie Westerman and 20 British Embassy staff.

6 CHABAD DINES IN

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Woolston Manor Golf & Country club played host for the annual fundraising dinner of Chabad North East London & Essex. The 150 guests raised £45,000 via a raffle, auction and appeal, and heard from representatives from its three centres, Gants Hill, Buckhurst Hill and Epping. Lord Daniel Finkelstein, Conservative peer and journalist, was the guest speaker, while Buckhurst Hill Centre’s director Rabbi Odom Brandman, and executive director Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin MBE, also addressed the audience.

THE SPIRIT, THE COMING TOGETHER OF 90 PUPILS AND THE FUN DOMINATED MY TIME

9 KISHARON PRAISE

Kisharon marked the opening of two new supported living services in Golders Green with a mezuzah-fixing ceremony. Sponsors Gillian and Irving Carter said their “breath was taken away by the scheme”, which was a sign of “how far Kisharon had come as a charity” in its 40-year history. Launching the new accommodation, chairman Philip Goldberg thanked outgoing chief executive Beverley Jacobson, who contributed to the scheme through the proceeds of her Jerusalem and Antarctic marathons. Also in attendance were Kisharon staff and people, as well as Keir Lynch, CEO of care company Essex Cares Ltd.

7 HEAD’S GREAT TRIP 10 POETRY FESTIVAL Immanuel College headteacher Gary Griffin visited Year 9 pupils during their trip to Israel. He said: “I have had an action-packed three days, taking in trips to the British Ambassador’s residence, the Belz Synagogue, Shabbat in the Old City and Yad Vashem. The community spirit, the coming together of 90 pupils, singing, praying, eating, and the fun dominated my time. It’s been a pleasure and privilege to be with the party.”

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their home to host a coffee morning for the older generation of the community, who enjoyed food, drink and a chance to chat.

8 COFFEE MORNING

Rabbi Marc and Lisa Levene of Belmont Shul opened

Nancy Reuben Primary School held its inaugural Early Years poetry festival, when classes enjoyed a range of poems with their teachers. The children were also invited to learn a poem by heart to recite to their friends, and the highlight of the festival was a visit from Poet and National Poetry Day Ambassador, Joshua Seigal, who led interactive poetry workshops with kindergarten, pre-kindergarten and Reception classes. Seigal regaled the children with his own poems and encouraged them to join in and create their own poems with him.

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‘If mum really cared, why did she give me up?’ Francine Wolfisz reviews Marc Wolfe’s emotional journey to trace what happened to his birth mother, Esther, in ITV’s Long Lost Family

e was the much-loved, adopted child of a close-knit Jewish family and now has children and grandchildren of his own. But rarely did a day pass that Marc Wolfe didn’t think about the circumstances that led him to being handed over as a new-born baby to a new family. “Deep down I always wondered why I was given up,” he confesses. “Was it because my mother didn’t want me? I’ve had that doubt every day of my life. I have to find out why she gave me up.” Marc’s emotional journey to trace his birth mother is documented in ITV’s Long Lost Family, hosted by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, which aired on Tuesday and is available on ITV Hub. The 49-year-old from Surrey begins by visiting the home in which he grew up with adoptive parents Ruth and Terry, and older sister Benita. He recalls his childhood with fondness, that the family “used to go to synagogue together every Saturday” and that “being Jewish gave me a sense of belonging, which is important to someone who is adopted”. But aged 16, Marc suffered emotional trauma after his adoptive mother died of leukaemia. “Losing mum was very, very difficult for me,” he says. “She was a very big part of my life and having her gone, I felt totally lost. In my grief, I did feel that I had lost two mothers.” He began questioning where he had come from and for the first time wanted to find out more about his birth mother. Having ordered his birth certificate,

Main: Marc Wolfe with his birth mother, Esther, and sister Deborah. Left: Marc with his adoptive family and, inset, with his adoptive sister, Benita

Marc discovered her name was Esther Joan Howard and was only 19 at the time. His father was unnamed, so Marc concluded they were unmarried. His adoptive parents also told him she had gone to “great efforts” in finding a Jewish family to place him with. “That means the world to me, it really does,” reflects Marc. “But if she did care, why did she give me up? I need to know.” Researching through records, the team discover Esther married in Oxford, in 1972. Further searches under her married name draw a blank, but a copy of her father’s will reveals she migrated to New Zealand in 1972. Host Nicky meets her at her home in the city’s North Shore, where she lives with her husband and two grown-up children.

Giving a heart-breaking account of events, Esther reveals she had never wanted to give up her son but, without the support of her family, felt she had no other options. She had told her husband about Marc before they married, but Esther had only recently told her children about their half-brother. She says: “I definitely thought about it, but I didn’t know where to start. It’s so difficult giving a child up. To get on with your life, you just have to block it out. “I was brought up in a very strict, sheltered Jewish family. They were German refugees from the Holocaust. My mother came out of the children’s transport and my grandfather had been put in concentration camps, so they had all that background between them. “Marc’s father wasn’t Jewish. We were secretly engaged, but I used to take off my ring when I went home. My parents didn’t like the fact he was not Jewish. When I fell pregnant, my parents were horrified. They said it would kill my grandmother, so I wasn’t allowed home

while I was pregnant. I was on my own, no job, no nothing. I didn’t think I could look after him, so there was no option.” Following his birth, Esther nursed him for nine days. “That was very, very hard, because you do bond. It was awful giving him up. I hoped and prayed he’d land with a wonderful family. I wanted him to go to a Jewish family, because that’s what I thought was best. There was no way he was rejected. If I had the support of my family, I’d have kept him.” After nearly 50 years apart, Marc finally meets Esther, in a heart-breaking reunion between the pair in Hammersmith, close to where he was born. “When I gave Marc up, I never thought I would see him again, so this is very special,” smiles Esther. For Marc, finding Esther has ended a lifetime of doubts and introduced him to an extended family. “Having my mother in my life again after this many years has made me feel complete.”  Long Lost Family airs on Tuesdays, 9pm, ITV and is available on ITV Hub

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Hosted by B’nai B’rith UK, and media sponsored once again by Jewish News, this year’s European Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage theme is Storytelling

Exhibition: Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Sat, 23 June to Fri, 23 Nov This Grade I listed building is holding a new exhibition to examine the role played by Disraeli’s ‘otherness’. Details: nationaltrust.org.uk, or call 01494 755573. Free entry for National Trust members.

shops and craft activities focusing on Jewish folklore and legends. A curator-led talk, Stories from the Museum Stores, takes place on Wed, 10 Oct, 3pm to 4pm. Details: jewishmuseum.org.uk or call 020 7284 7384. Free with museum entry.

Workshop: JW3, Finchley Road, London

Sunday, 16 Sept Mickey Yudkin presents Storytelling and Feelings at 1.30pm, a look at Little Snow White, from The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Yentle the Yeshiva Boy, a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, to help inspire our own stories. Details: 020 7433 8988 or jw3.org.uk. Tickets £22.

Family Day and Talk: Jewish Museum, Camden, London

Sun, 2 Sept, and Wed, 10 Oct Jewish Museum is hosting a family day for all ages on Sun, 2 Sept, 1pm to 4pm, with storytelling, puppet work-

Talk: Monk’s House, Lewes, East Sussex

Retreat: Nymans

Wed, 12 Sept Visit the home of Virginia Woolf and listen to readings from the work of her husband, Leonard, from 2pm

Explore the life of Disraeli at Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Display: Nymans, Handcross, West Sussex

Sat, 8 Sept, to Sun, 16 Sept One of the National Trust’s premier gardens, Nymans was a creative retreat for the artistic Messel family with views across the Weald. There will be a special storytelling display from 11am to 4pm each day (last entry: 3.30pm). Details: 01444 405254 or visit nationaltrust.org. uk/nymans. Free to NT members.

Talk and Tour: The Salomons Museum, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Thurs, 6 Sept, and Sun, 9 Sept, 1pm to 5pm The Salomons Estate was the 32-acre country home of the Salomons family, built in 1850. David was the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London, and David Lionel was a pioneer of electricity and motor transport. Details: 01892 522025 or visit salomons-estate.com. Free but booking is required.

Talk and Tour: Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham

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Bearsted, Walter Samuel, philanthropist and chairman of Shell Oil. Hear about little-known stories reflecting the family’s Jewish heritage. Details: 01295 671111/3, or visit nationaltrust. org.uk/upton-house-and-gardens. Free to NT members. Booking required.

to 2.15pm and 3.30pm to 3.45pm, in the garden. Details: 01273 474760 or nationaltrust.org.uk/ monkshouse. Normal admission applies.

Sun, 16 Sept Built in 1749, the villa was owned during the 19th century by Lady Frances Waldegrave (Braham), an influential Victorian political hostess for the Liberal Party, and the Stern family. There will be two talks focusing on Lady Waldegrave and Geraldine Stern’s philanthropic activity during the Second World War. Check website for times. Details: strawberryhillhouse.org.uk. Entry: £12.

Open day and classic car show: The Gregg School, Southampton.

Sun, 16 Sept, 2pm to 5pm Gregg School dates from 1790 and was redesigned by architect Leonard Rome Guthrie in an Italian style in 1911, having been purchased by Samuel Montagu for his son, Louis, the second Baron Swathling. Details: 02380 472133 or visit thegreggschool.org. Free entry.

Talk: Upton House, Banbury, Oxfordshire

Sun, 2 Sept, and Sun, 7, to Sun, 14 Oct In 1927, Grade II listed Upton House became the country home of the second Viscount

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Talks and Tours: Myth, history and Jewish folktale with Adele Moss,Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire

Sun, 14 Oct, 12pm, 1.30pm and 3pm Join Adele Moss for an immersive storytelling experience on the origins of the Rothschilds.

The Rothschilds and Waddesdon: A Jewish heritage Sun, 30 Sept, 7 Oct and 14 Oct, 10.45am Join us for a 45-minute introductory tour to explore the Jewish heritage of the Rothschilds.

Rothschildshire: Building like a Rothschild

Sun, 30 Sept, 7 Oct and 14 Oct, 1pm and 2pm Baron Ferdinand was not the first in the family to build in the Vale of Aylesbury. His English family already had properties in Buckinghamshire, which was nicknamed ‘Rothschildshire’. Details: 01296 820414 or waddesdon.org.uk. All events free, but visitors need timed tickets costing £22 to enter house and grounds.  Details: bnaibrithuk.org

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Mark Silver travels along the Canal du Nivernais in Burgundy and hears the incredible story of a French-Jewish master forger in the resistance

was beginning to think I’d drunk one glass too many as I stood in a magnificent French castle and hung on to our tour guide’s every word. Andy was telling us the story of Sebastien Vauban, 17th century owner of the Château de Bazoches, who was adored by the king and rose to the highest rank in the French army. But then Marshal Vauban ended up doing jail time, because he wanted to pay more tax! Hard to believe, but I had heard correctly. He wanted the French nobility, including his good self, to cough up more because they were paying the same as the peasants. He was so miffed about the unfairness of the system he wrote a book about it. The tome went down as well as frogs’ legs at a vegetarian dinner party and Vauban, a military genius who skilfully made French towns virtually attack-proof, found himself under heavy attack from the aristocracy and eventually locked up. This fascinating chateau visit was just one of many highlights during a memorable six-night barge trip along the Canal du Nivernais in Burgundy, a journey where just three other passengers and I were pampered to perfection.

It was among the most relaxing holidays I have ever embarked on. The pace of life is slow and serene, the sights are magnificent and the food is worthy of a Michelin star. At lunch and dinner, we were talked through the local cheeses and fine wines but, in between feasting, I would occasionally consider my waistline and ride one of the bicycles on board. The idea is you cycle into a village, enjoy the scenery, and then wait for the barge to catch up. If you prefer a pleasant stroll in between the locks, you will be at a similar pace to the vessel. The average speed of the barge, L’Art de Vivre (The Art of Living), was about three miles an hour and the third option of just staying on board is equally appealing. European Waterways boasts a fleet of 17 of these vessels that will float your boat across some of the most picturesque regions in Europe, including canals in Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Italy and France. Alongside our captain Andy, there was Alex, who piloted L’Art, and Claire, who served dinner and explained the cheeses and wines in expert detail – in between ensuring our rooms were spotless. Last, but certainly not least, was Jim, our enthusiastic chef, who took great delight in making sure we each put on about half a stone! Skipper Andy also acted as tour guide and, as a local, knew the area well. Our first stop was splendid Auxerre, where the beautiful cathedral and abbey were of interest, but I was more fascinated by the story of French resistance fighter Michel Bernstein. I came across his heroic tale by chance when walking Mark Silver next to European Waterways’ luxury barge

Spectacular: The imposing exterior of the Château de Bazoches

down a street and spotting a plaque in his honour. This brave Jewish man, who was born in 1906 and lived to be nearly 100, was a bookseller but ended up receiving the highest French military honours for his amazing skills at forging documents for the Resistance during the Second World War. Because we were a small group of passengers, we got on like a house on fire and found ourselves tending to stick together even when given free time during the tours. My companions were all well-travelled, charming and very friendly. In the pretty town of Chablis, we learned about the wine production and then, despite an abundance of quality whites and reds on board, fellow holiday-maker Bill, from Arizona, splashed out on a bottle of premier cru 2013 for us to enjoy before dinner. And this was only our second day together. Every evening at dinner the captain would approach and reveal the next day’s plans. On shore, he drove us around in a comfortable Mercedes; he was a former driving instructor in the UK, so we felt quite safe in his hands.

The most beautiful town was Noyers-surSerein, where the medieval houses and shops and cobbled lanes were a joy to walk around, as was the small but pleasant market. Chef does get a night off and the replacement dining experience was none too shabby, as we were welcomed at the five-star Vaultde-Lugny, a chateau dating from the 13th century with a spectacular castle entrance. It’s certainly worth a stay if you are in the region, but we were happy to return to the unassuming luxury of our barge. The pleasant folk who man the locks are typical of most of the French nation in that they will not be rushed and meal times are to be adhered to. They shut up shop between noon and 1pm for lunch and, on one occasion, we remained in a lock for nearly an hour as the lockkeeper munched on her baguette about 10 paces away – not raising the water until the clock struck exactly 1pm. She would not be moved. I only wish I also could have refused to budge when the time came to return home!

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Torah For Today

SEDRA Ki Tetzei

BY RABBI ALEX CHAPPER How can anyone claim the Torah is no longer relevant? Just look at three seemingly unconnected strands in this portion: the rules governing female captives of war, the laws of inheritance and the rebellious child enigma. Our sages say these diverse topics are interwoven as one message to those who let their inclinations govern their actions. In war, life is cheap, values low. The elated war hero takes his captive – he is lonely, weak, and only human – so the Torah is sympathetic and consents. But it warns your children will inherit that which you possess, and there will be consequences. Just as you will bequeath your material possessions to your progeny, so too will your spiritual legacy live on within them. Your children are heirs as much to your wealth as to your morals, values and ideals. If you value education, respect authority and are decent, charitable, hospitable and embrace your heritage, so will they. Conversely, if you are shallow, irreverent and meanspirited, so your future generations will tend to be. Paradoxically, the Gemara states there never was nor will there ever be a truly ‘rebellious child’ according to its strict parameters, so why teach it? Study it and receive the reward is the answer. We are enjoined to ensure we not only inculcate the highest principles, but live by them too.  Alex Chapper is rabbi of Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue and the Children’s Rabbi www.childrensrabbi.com

What does the Torah say about... Refusing a divorce? BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Tini Owens has fought through the courts for a divorce from her husband, Hugh, but five Supreme Court judges have refused it. The Lords Justice could not find sufficient grounds to justify them granting a divorce and the couple will have to wait out an extended period of separation. So, what does the Torah say about this? The Torah sanctions divorce where there is an act of infidelity. Boredom is not grounds for divorce in Judaism. The Talmud suggests a remedy for a bored housewife – getting a job or occupation. However, a more nuanced approach is applied where there is more than dislike between the couple. Maimonides warns against men

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marrying at an advanced age and leaving fathering children until they are over the age of 60. Or, as he puts it: “Until your hair and teeth are falling out and you have bad breath.” This implies that a woman has the right to expect a husband she fancies

MAIMONIDES IMPLIES A WOMAN HAS THE RIGHT TO A MAN SHE FANCIES, AND NOT ONE WHOSE YOUTH IS SPENT

and not a man whose youth is spent. The claim “mais alay”, or “he disgusts me”, is entertained by the early medieval deciders of Jewish law as a claim a woman is allowed to make if she cannot bear his behaviour. This must be something intolerable, more than trifling. Some couples find that they cannot bear each other’s body odour. It would be inflicting cruelty to force a couple who can no longer bear the sight or scent of each other to have to live together. If they both wish to find a way forward to remedy or mitigate the situation, that is preferred. A court should not obligate a couple to conjugal privacy. The Supreme Court justices are undoubtedly correct on the point of divorce law, but appear to have obviated the need for consent in the event of a dead marriage.  Rabbi Ariel Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to HM Armed Forces

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Progressively Speaking Why British Jews should be concerned about Israel’s new Nation State Law

‘If your husband dies, his brother has to marry you’ BY RABBI MARK GOLDSMITH The final chapters of Deuteronomy contain much that is easy to understand as benefitting society – leaving part of your harvest for the poor and needy, keeping accurate weights and measures so you don’t cheat in trade. In between, in Deuteronomy Chapter 25, is the tradition that a widow is entitled to marry her late husband’s brother, to have a child with him and for that child to inherit her new husband’s estate. In Hebrew, this right is called yibum. Should her brother-in-law refuse to marry her, the passage contains the ritual of release for them both. Using a shoe, they perform chalitzah, which symbolically shames her brother-in-law for refusing to perform his duty by his late brother. Although in theory the duty of a brother-in-law to marry his late brother’s wife still exists in Jewish law, the rabbis made chalitzah standard so the duty never needed to be exercised and the widow is free

to marry whoever she wishes. It is illustrated in the final chapter of the Book of Ruth, where it is the nearest relative to Ruth’s late husband who performs the ritual. Yibum, or levirate marriage, is still practiced in some patriarchal tribal societies. Its purpose is to ensure a widow is not left destitute by her husband’s death and it also preserves the ‘name’ of her late husband. Judaism has long since abandoned the practice, but there is a principle which we can still hold on to from its placement in the passages of building a good society. When a person dies, his or her family does not lose all responsibility for their partner. They should still look out for his or her welfare and be empathetic to the situation and the loss.  Mark Goldsmith is a rabbinic partner at North Western Reform Synagogue (Alyth)

BY RABBI DANNY RICH As the summer took hold in Israel, the temperature in the Knesset rose dramatically as ‘Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People’ (INSJP) became part of Israel’s effective constitution by 62 votes to 55. It appears uncontroversial and changing little on the surface. INSJP affirms what many Jews worldwide recognise: that Israel is a state for Jews reflected in its flag, national anthem and first official language. The details also appear pedestrian on first reading. While the individual rights of all citizens will be respected, the State of Israel will be the national entity of the Jewish people with its capital in Jerusalem and the Hebrew calendar as the official one. Hebrew will be the sole official language and Arabic will have a special standing. This symbolic ‘demotion’ of Arabic gets to the heart of the issue – the State of Israel is now seeking to make a distinction between citizenship and nationality

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in a crude and probably ultimately undemocratic manner. INSJP supporters say it respects the individual rights of all citizens, but merely gives the exclusive right of ‘self-determination’ to the majority Jewish population. Representatives of Israel’s 1.8 million Arab citizens (some 20 percent of the population) have reacted angrily, labelling INSJP a triumph of nationalism over equality. Critics from all sides also see it as contradicting Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which guaranteed the development of the country for

the benefit of all its inhabitants and said this would be based on “precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets”. It also said it would uphold “the full social and political equality of all its citizens without distinction of race, creed or sex” and would guarantee “full freedom of conscience, worship, education and culture….” Few observers doubt Israel’s Arab population suffers discrimination with the provision of inferior services and unfair fiscal allocations in, for example, education and housing. The passage of INSJP will add to the perception at least among Israel’s Arab citizens and perhaps in the world at large that the State of Israel is moving closer to theocracy and further from democracy – which is why I believe INSJP is a dangerous and unnecessary political gesture.  Danny Rich is the senior rabbi of Liberal Judaism

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NORWOOD Dear Elaine I’m worried my nine-year-old is using social media too much. What can I do? Rachel Dear Rachel Many parents see their children using social media and wonder how much is too much. As well as the fun they can have, playing online games and keeping in touch with friends, you may wonder if it could be doing them harm. Could it keep them away from family or friends in the ‘real’ world? Might it give them unhealthy beliefs, for example poor body image? Or could they be bullied online?

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Such worries are understandable, especially if you are unsure about the many new apps and websites they can access. It can all make you feel unconfident to advise your child. But the most important thing to remember is to make sure you keep the lines of communication open. Show them you support their interests, including their online activities, and have an open attitude that doesn’t criticise or judge what they are doing. If you make time for your child and listen to what they think about social media, they will be happy to come to you if anything is worrying them or they need your help. Children often learn about safe social networking at school, and some schools even offer courses for parents. You can also find help and advice at net-aware. org.uk or thinkuknow.co.uk If you think your child may be at risk of harm from using too much social media and would benefit from Norwood’s services, call us on 020 8809 8809, as we have experts who can help.

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St John’s Wood teenager Aaron Breslauer raised £2,000 for Jewish youth organisation, Chazak, after taking part in a series of mountain climbs in the Alps. The 14-year-old scaled several classic famous routes in both the French and Swiss Alps, his most epic being Frison-Roche, on the face of the Brévent cliff, Mont Blanc, overlooking the Chamonix Valley. Following in the footsteps of his father, Keith Breslauer, the former chairman ofSt John’s Wood Synagogue, Aaron said: “While the climbs were very challenging it was exciting to conquer my first major summit, while the thought that people benefited from my efforts really added to my sense of achievement.” He funded the trip using money from his barmitzvah.

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Young have a head for heights Members of Liberal Jewish youth movement LJYNetzer hiked to one of the highest points in Israel to raise money for orphans and neglected children in the country. Climbing Mount Tzfachot to raise funds for the Carmiel Youth Village – a cause championed by UJIA – the 39 participants, along with four leaders, took on the 4km trek, and raised more than their initial target of £430. LJY-

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Netzer movement worker Ellie Lawson said: “Tikkun Olam is part of our Liberal Jewish values alongside Reform Zionism and we believe this cause is one that matters to us because of these values.”

Seven members of Jewish Care staff raised nearly £2,000 for the charity when they took part in a Tough Mudder challenge in Hemel Hempstead. Navigating five miles and 13 obstacles, one of the seven, press and PR executive Naomi Creeger said: “With the temperature at 30 degrees, the team stuck together all the way. This challenge was a great way for us to get fit and we’d like to thank everyone who donated to help us raise money for Jewish Care.”

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