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THE HERO HEALER An injured soldier who saves children is just one of Shaare Zedek’s superheroes. Noga Tarnopolsky met him

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would turn when he entered a hospital. Handsome, confident and with a ready smile, he is the sort of man who attracts attention, but it is the specially modified crutches on which he leans that would set him apart. Sadly this is not the case in Israel, where the sight of a young man with battle scars is all too commonplace and where Lubotzky, the senior resident in pediatric medicine at Jerusalem’s iconic Shaare Zedek hospital, inhabits two worlds, as that of healer and of the walking wounded. If people stare at Lubotsky in the hospital, it is not because they are fascinated by his crutches with torches on the handles and suction pads on the base, but because they recognise him as the young doctor who has become something of a celebrity since publishing a memoir that turned into a local bestseller. His book, From the Wilderness and Lebanon, is about his experience of battling the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon where, in 2006 at the age of 23, he was a lieu lieutenant in the Golani brigade commanding a platoon of 30 soldiers. Lubotzky was almost killed when a missile registered a direct hit on the spot on which he was standing in the tank. He survived with extensive wounds and with one leg so badly mangled his doctors were close to amputating it. Lubotzky’s circumstances are extraordinary by any standard, but at Shaare Zedek, which in English means Gates of Justice, they have been treating the war wounded for almost 115 years and the hospital permeates with stories like his that beggar belief.

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f Asael Lubotzky were a doctor in the UK, heads would turn when he entered a hospital. Handsome, confident and with a ready smile, he is the sort of man who attracts attention, but it is the specially modified crutches on which he leans that would set him apart. Sadly this is not the case in Israel, where the sight of a young man with battle scars is all too commonplace and where Lubotzky, the senior resident in pediatric medicine at Jerusalem’s iconic Shaare Zedek hospital, inhabits two worlds, as that of healer and of the walking wounded. If people stare at Lubotsky in the hospital, it is not because they are fascinated by his crutches with torches on the handles and suction pads on the base, but because they recognise him as the young doctor who has become something of a celebrity since publishing a memoir that turned into a local bestseller. His book, From the Wilderness and Lebanon, is about his experience of battling the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon where, in 2006 at the age of 23, he was a lieutenant in the Golani brigade commanding a platoon of 30 soldiers. Lubotzky was almost killed when a missile registered a direct hit on the spot on which he was standing in the tank. He survived with extensive wounds and with one leg so badly mangled his doctors were close to amputating it. Lubotzky’s circumstances are extraordinary by any standard, but at Shaare Zedek, which in English means Gates of Justice, they have been treating the war wounded for almost 115 years and the hospital permeates with stories like his that beggar belief.

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Israeli-based charity Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) held the UK premiere of A Heartbeat Away, a documentary by Israeli film-makers Tal Barda and Noam Pinchas. The 60 attendees also enjoyed an exclusive Q&A with Barda and Pinchas afterwards. They were joined by a number of VIPs, including Itzik Coriat, the general manager of United Bank Mizrahi UK, and Menalesh Meti from Ethiopian Satellite TV.

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A woman who has dedicated her life to ensure the Shoah will not be forgotten will receive an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Huddersfield. Survivor Iby Knill will receive the award for her services to Holocaust commemoration and education in November.

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Residents and supporters of Jewish Care’s Rosetrees home at Betty and Asher Loftus Way, in Friern Barnet, enjoyed a tea with the Mayor and Mayoress of Barnet, Councillor David Longstaff and Gillian Griffiths, and Jewish Care’s president Lord Levy.

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During a recent visit to Northern Ireland, Barnet Conservative Councillor and Jewish News columnist Brian Gordon met with the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Alderman Brian Kingston, at Belfast City Hall.

Clore Shalom reception pupils Max Bispham, Harry Curtis, Elisheva Morris, Sophia Hartstone and Kara Engel got into the Rosh Hashanah spirit by enjoying apple and honey and playing with the shofar.

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Ten-year-old Cyan Darkenwon JW3’s Rosh Hashanah card competition. She said: “I’m so happy and proud to win the competition.” The cards are for sale in the JW3 reception, with proceeds going to support the charitable work of JW3.

The girls at the GIFT Summer Camp enjoyed sharing kindness and chesed, which included flower picking for the residents of Jewish Blind and Disabled, and ended with a performance at Jewish Care’s Selig Court Care Home in Golders Green.

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Eli Minsky, 2, sounded the Shofar at Kisharon’s Tuffkid Nursery in Golders Green.

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Family announcements Harley Conway celebrated his barmitzvah at Stanmore United Synagogue.

Waitrose shoppers in Temple Fortune raised £220 for Jewish Care’s Michael Sobell Community Centre in Golders Green as part of the store’s Community Matters scheme.

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Jack Mindel was given a signed copy of an autobiography from one of his favourite singers to help celebrate his 100th birthday. After reading in Jewish News that Jack is a big fan of Sophie Tucker, reader Nathan Dony got in touch and presented him with the signed copy from her 1952 UK tour.

3 Emunah is preparing for its two-day trip to Israel, which will take in the 13th anniversary celebrations at Neve Landy youth village, plus visits to projects around the country, with two nights in a Tel Aviv hotel. For more details: deborah@emunah.org.uk

B’nai B’rith Young Professionals (BBYP) enjoyed a perfect summer’s day in Regents Park at this year’s Klezmer in the Park festival, which was organised by the Jewish Music Institute. Delluptat aditas re ex et odis acitae conecto velistrunti ulla nihiliqui doluptate conem eturibus endus si que litatquidum fugitio riatem litatquidum fugitio riatem

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Mitzvah Day, the Liberal Jewish Synagogue Drop-in for Asylum Seeker Families and Uniform4Kids teamed up to provide uniforms for children of asylum seekers starting the new school term. LJS’ Rabbi Alexandra Wright said: “The project has enabled many children to have new uniform for the year, which would otherwise be out of their reach.”

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on old flavours Good news for foodies – just in time for the new year, Ottolenghi’s classic cookbook from 2008 has been relaunched, with all 140 mouthwatering recipes revisited. Devised alongside Sami Tamimi, this culinary bible became a sensation when it was first published. Here are two delicious recipes guaranteed to spice up your High Holy Days

APPLE AND OLIVE OIL CAKE WITH MAPLE ICING Serves 4

½ pomegranate 2 medium fennel heads 1½ tsp olive oil 2 tsp sumac, plus extra to garnish Juice of 1 lemon 10g picked tarragon leaves 10g parsley, roughly chopped 70g Greek feta cheese, sliced Salt and black pepper This salad has all the little ‘bursts of flavour’ we look for in a dish. The little explosions of sweetness from the pomegranate seeds, for example, along with the tart astringency of the sumac. It’s lovely to eat as it is, or else served alongside some grilled fish or roasted meat. If you’re looking for a substitute to the pomegranate but want to keep the colour and sweetness, dried cranberries or sour cherries also work well. Start by releasing the pomegranate seeds. The best way to do it is to halve the pomegranate along its ‘belly’ (you only need half a pomegranate here), then hold the half firmly in your hand with the seeds facing your palm. Over a large bowl, start bashing the back of the fruit with a wooden spoon. Don’t hit too hard or you’ll bruise the seeds and break the skin. Magically, the seeds will just fall out. Pick out any white skin that falls in. Remove the leaves of the fennel, keeping a few to garnish later, and trim the base, making sure you leave enough of it still attached to hold the slices together. Slice very thinly lengthwise (a mandolin would come in handy here). In a bowl, mix the olive oil, sumac, lemon juice, herbs and some salt and pepper. Add the fennel and toss well. Taste for seasoning but remember, the feta will add saltiness. Layer the fennel, then the feta and then the pomegranate seeds in individual serving dishes. Garnish with fennel leaves, sprinkle over some sumac and serve immediately.

Grease a 20cm springform cake tin and line the base and sides with baking parchment. Place the sultanas and water in a medium saucepan and simmer over a low heat until all of the water has been absorbed. Leave to cool. Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C fan/Gas Mark 5. Sift the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Set aside. Put the oil and sugar in the bowl of a freestanding electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or use a whisk if you don’t have a mixer). Slit the vanilla pod lengthways in half and, using a sharp knife, scrape the seeds out into the bowl. Beat the oil, sugar and vanilla together, then gradually add the eggs. The mix should be smooth and thick at this stage. Mix in the diced apples, sultanas and lemon zest, then lightly fold in the sifted dry ingredients. Whisk the egg whites in a clean bowl, either by hand or with a mixer, until they have a soft meringue consistency. Fold them into the batter in two additions, trying to lose as little air as possible. Pour the batter into the lined tin, level it with a palette knife and place in the oven. Bake for 1½ hours, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. Once the cake is completely cold, you can assemble it. Remove from the tin and use a large serrated knife to cut it horizontally in half. You should end up with two similar discs. If the cake is very domed, you might need to shave a bit off the top half to level it. To make the icing, beat together the butter, muscovado sugar and maple syrup until light and airy. You can do this by hand, or, preferably, in a mixer, using the paddle attachment. Add the cream cheese and beat until the icing is totally smooth. Using a palette knife, spread a 1cm-thick layer of icing over the bottom half of the cake. Carefully place the top half on it. Spoon the rest of the icing on top and use the palette knife to create a pattern. Dust it with icing sugar, if you like. Extracted from Ottolenghi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi (Ebury Press, £27). Photos by Richard Learoyd

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am the last Jew of Essaouira!” saysJosef Sebag amid his bric-a-brac shop stuffed with Nubian masks,priapic fetish objects, dog-eared vol-umes on African esoterica and exqui-site antique amulets wrought byMoroccan Jewish silversmiths. Sebag’s not going anywhere. He loves this Moroccan seaside townwhere he was born, as were genera-tions of his family before him. Not thathe’s spent all his life here. A consummate cosmopolitan, hewas educated in Casablanca before living for 15 years in New York City. He even weirds me out by knowingBrixton, that gritty but rapidly-gentrify-ing south London suburb where I live.“Brixton. Yeah, Brixton. It’s a flour-ishing area. It’s coming back.”Speaking of areas that are rapidly gentrifying and flourishing, Essaouirais fast on its way to becoming a kind of Marrakech-on-Sea. In the 20 years since he returned here and opened his eclectic emporium, Sebag has seen Essaouira be-come “reborn. It’s a hip city. It’s a coolcity. It’s safe, it’s quiet, it’s tranquil. Writers and artists come here, they rent anapartment and they stay.”“Hip” isn’t necessarily a word I expected to come from the mouth of this mid-50s antiquarian but, come to think of it, with his crisp white shirt andchunky amber pendant, he does exude a certain enduring Beat with-it-ness. The same could be said of Essaouira. Like Marrakech, it may be be-coming but thankfully it retains a laid-back quality that the better knownMoroccan metropolis lacks. One thing a

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ROSH HASHANAH is a time for sweetness, celebration and reflection. It is often tinged with bitterness and sorrow, too. The Hebrew year 5776 has seen many ups and downs for the Jewish community, here in the UK and across the diaspora. It began with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party leader and ended… with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party leader. The intervening 12 months saw the dissolution of trust between the Jewish community and Her Majesty’s official Opposition. This came via a series of ill-fitting plasters applied to injuries caused by a spate of vicious comments, most made online. There followed the highly-anticipated report into Labour anti-Semitism by Shami Chakrabarti, which ignored both the fire and the smoke, and instead suggested that – drumroll please – antiSemitism is a bad thing best avoided. Elsewhere, Jewish leaders, who maintained pressure on the Government to allow more child refugees into the country, finally met with some success, while in the world of education, the Government scrapped its 50 percent faith-based admissions cap, meaning Jews may now make up the majority in Jewish free schools. In Israel the so-called knife intifada, sparked in part by tensions over the status of the Temple Mount and enflamed by a Palestinian social media campaign of incitement, has see the deaths of 30 Israelis and 217 Palestinians in the past 12 months. It may be too much to hope that 5777 will bring a momentous shift in relations between Israel and the Palestinians, but we will never give up our prayers for peace. Let us hope next Rosh Hashanah will see us experience hope rather than bitterness. Jewish News wishes its loyal readers a happy Rosh Hashanah. May we all enjoy a sweeter new year. CONTACT DETAILS Managing Director Carol Bronze carolb@thejngroup.com Editorial Director Richard Ferrer richardf@thejngroup.com Head of Sales Russell Bahar 020 7692 6970 russellb@thejngroup.com News Editor Justin Cohen 020 7692 6952 justinc@thejngroup.com Foreign Editor Stephen Oryszczuk 7stepheno@thejngroup.com Community + Sport Editor Andrew Sherwood 020 7692 6949 andrews@thejngroup.com Features Editor Francine Wolfisz 020 7692 6935 francinew@thejngroup.com Sub Editor Alex Galbinski alexg@thejngroup.com

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belongs (quite proudly,though, I’d guess) “to a private club of which I’m the only member”.But urday. And then:1948. Shepherded by an ardent Zionist movement, Morocco’sJews decamped en masse to Israel and beyond, shrinking the populationwithin the country from 350,000 to 3,000 in a couple of decades eyond, shrinking the populationwithin the country from 350,000 to 3,000 in a couple of decades ntry from.

But, hang on, something’s missing from that character profile… the Jews. Essaouira didn’t used to be Essaouira.It was Jewish Mogador. No sooner had the then-sultan builtthe young city in 1765 than, spicing-up the invitation with tax incentives, he invited Jewish merchants from far andwide to live here and make it prosper. And so it did. And so did the Jews –to the point that, for much of its history, they outnumbered the Muslim population of the thriving city. This was Timbuktu’s port, where multifarious goods arrived bycamel from that desert trading post to be shipped throughout the known world. There were 40 synagogues in town; Mogador was probably the quietest place in Moroccoon a Saturday. And then:1948. Shepherded by an ardent Zionist movement, Morocco’sJews decamped en masse to Israel and beyond, shrinking the populationwithin the country from 350,000 to 3,000 in a couple of decades. No wonder now, in Essaouira – as the town latterly became known – Sebag feels as if he

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WHERE TO STAY Francine Wolfisz travelled to Essaouira with Lawrence of Morocco (01672 500 555). The company can organise a three-night stay at historic Villa Maroc from £439pp (two sharing) including direct flights, breakfast and transfers. A half-day Jewish history tour costs £35, bookable through Lawrence of Morocco.For more about the restoration of the Slat Lkahal synagogue, see the we bsite at www.asl-mogador.net/

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Maple icing 100g unsalted butter, at room temperature 100g light muscovado sugar 85ml maple syrup 220g cream cheese, at room temperature

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WHAT BETTER WAY TO COMBAT PREJUDICE? In last week’s edition of Jewish News (22 September), letter writer Shmuel Halevi castigated the Progressive movements for helping to bring Muslim refugees to this country. He wrote in his letter: “Arabs have been subjected to disgusting anti-Jewish propaganda. They will automatically bring their Jew-hating baggage with them.” In that case, what better to

reverse the effects of the hatefilled anti-Semitic indoctrination to which Mr Halevi refers than to show Syrian refugees how kind, generous, humane and welcoming the British Jewish community really is? If anything is likely to promote hatred of Jews, it is the views expressed by Mr Halevi.

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Alan Cohen’s experience on an easyJet flight from Israel of unruly Orthodox children is not new (Jewish News, 8 September). Mr Cohen might have suggested to the parents that they could go and play outside! That often has had the desired effect – on other airlines anyway.

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WITHOUT FACTS THERE ARE JUST SMEARS AND DENIAL In Jewish News (22 September), Roslyn Pine manages to sink to a new low by invoking personal invective and character assassination while defending the standard Israeli government line. She attacks Jewish News columnist Emily Hilton’s account of the eviction of the Palestinian villagers of Susiya on the West Bank by asserting that the Palestinians were not expelled in 1986 because the village of Susiya didn’t exist then.According to her, the Palestinians are being expelled because they have erected illegal structures - the reason given by the Israeli High Court. But she fails to describe the underlying basis of this case. According to Wikipedia, the village of Khirbet SusyaSusiya predates the State of Israel by about 100 years. In 1986, this land was expropriated by the state and the inhabitants expelled. We could ask the obvious question: how is it possible for the Jewish settlements in area C to establish and geographically expand without displacing Palestinians from their land? Perhaps that is why Pine demonises these NGOs. Without the facts, what is left but smears?

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FREE SPEECH IS FOUNDATION OF OUR CIVILISATION I would like to share with Jewish News readers my poem, which sets out what I believe are the fundamental tenets of free speech:

EE Corbyn I know nothing of the beliefs and FR at JW3 Full house for teachings of Rabbi Yosef MizraJewish News Labour Q&A chi other than the contents of your front page (Jewish News, 8 Ready to make a splash in Rio! September) and, quite frankly, I don’t want to. However, to refer to him as a “hate preacher” dilutes the standard definition of hate preachers such as Abu Hamza and Anjem Choudary. He may be misguided, deluChief condemns fellow minister who says sick children are being punished for past sins sional or just plain crackers to claim things such as disabled children are being punished by God, but he is not in the mould This is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It’s a pay-tax-slow scheme. of real hate preachers. To equate the two is similar to referring to a guest house with a strict landlady where you must be in by 9.30pm otherwise you will be locked out as “being like a concentration camp”. Please don’t fall into the trap of conflating the two.

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World champion rower Moran Samuel and fourtime Paralympic swimmer Inbal Pezaro [inset] are among the favourites for gold medals at the Rio Paralympic Games, which began yesterday. The Israeli athletes hope to add to their country’s impressive tally of 380 medals since the first Paralympics in 1960. More sport on p35 & 36

RABBI OF HATE THE CHIEF Rabbi has criticised a controversial Orthodox minister who claims sick children are being punished for sins in a former life, in the week 600 people signed a petition calling for the US-based rabbi to be banned from the UK. Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, who lectured children in the UK two years ago and is understood to be planning another visit next week, was roundly condemned as a “hate preacher” by community members and representatives.

Yosef Mizrachi

Mizrachi, who has also provoked outrage by claiming that fewer than one million “halachic” Jews were killed in the Holocaust, claims Down’s syndrome and autism are punishments for previous sins and blind children are serving penance for watching pornography in a past life. A spokesman for Ephraim Mirvis said: “The Chief Rabbi has often spoken about the importance of our communities being places of warmth and inclusion. We do not expect that any of our rabbis or communities would wish to host a speaker who threatens to disrupt that precious atmosphere, with views which cause

widespread offence and upset.” An online petition, which describes Mizrachi’s views as “cultish, divisive and contemptible,” has been signed by 600 people, including leading figures in British Jewry. Jeremy Newmark, director of the Jewish Labour Movement and former chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, said: “This hate preacher should stay out of the UK.” Former Three Faiths Forum director Stephen Shashoua wrote: “Hate should be given no oxygen.” Sociologist and author Keith KahnHarris said: “Jews have hate preachers too, sadly. While this guy doesn’t

recruit directly for violent groups, there is a violence to his views.” Videos online show Mizrachi telling Jewish children that “God only wants [the disabled child] here 40 years to suffer… Why? You spoke bad about people for the previous life, now you going to feel what it is to live 40 years without be able to say a word [sic].” Mizrachi, who said this week that his UK visit would be a private affair held in someone’s house, has also suggested that Ashkenazi Jews were killed in the Holocaust because they went to college. Ephraim Mirvis

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Calm down and don’t be led by the hungry press to get things out of perspective. Rabbi Mizrachi isn’t a hate preacher – there is no comparison here. The best I’d call him is overenthusiastic, sometimes. I have enjoyed all his CDs and videos for years, and will continue to listen and be inspired, as he only speaks good.

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Can Jewish News explain by what licence it published the nasty and vicious headline ‘Rabbi of Hate’ about a respected and highly successful kiruv rabbi (Jewish News, 8 September)? Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi, with his remarkable talent, has brought countless numbers of Jewish people back to their roots. He has a worldwide listenership running into six figures, people of all faiths and denominations who have come to have a deep respect for the Jewish people and Judaism. Can it be that there is jealousy in the rabbinate? Those who are the most outspoken critics, including rabbis with fancy titles, cannot achieve a fraction of what Rabbi Mizrachi has achieved. The only ‘hate’ involved here is the hate campaign against Rabbi Mizrachi.

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Provided that what we write or say Does not in any way Deliberately seek to Disseminate Inculcate Or vindicate Pure hatred of or prejudice towards A person whose view does not accord With ours

SLAUGHTER IS BRUTAL – SHECHITA INCLUDED Referring to Alan Miller’s comments on shechita (letters, Jewish News, 15 September), killing is killing and murder is murder. There is nothing humane about it. The farming Industry is an animal holocaust that’s destroying our planet. Becoming a vegetarian and then a vegan has made a great difference to my life, health and well-being. I will never tell anyone what to buy or eat – we all have a free choice. However, I wish human beings would take time to ponder what an animal goes through before it is slaughtered, purely for our satisfaction. As a cow waits in line to be murdered, it knows it is at the end of its life. That is why they cry with tears, shake, urinate, defecate and sometimes try to escape, while waiting for the inevitable. As for dairy cows, they are artificially inseminated within three months of giving birth and this goes on most of their life (if you can call it a life). Eating meat, kosher or otherwise, is not something to be proud of. It is a trait we should shun.

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Welby: Church helped spread anti-Semitism Jewish leaders have praised the Archbishop of Canterbury for admitting that the Church of England “compounded the spread” of anti-Semitism. Writing in ‘Lessons Learned,’ a collection of essays produced by the Holocaust Educational Trust and Community Security Trust, Justin Welby said the church should be embarrassed by its historic role. “It is a shameful truth that, through its theological teachings, the church, which should have offered an antidote, compounded the spread of this virus,” he wrote. “The fact that anti-Semitism has infected the body of the Church is something of which we as Christians must be deeply repentant. We live with the consequences of our history of denial and complicity.” Board of Deputies’ president Jonathan Arkush praised Welby’s intervention as “powerful and timely,” adding: “Millennia of theological anti-Semitism against Jews including the canard that Jews killed Jesus - permeate European thought.” The joint HET-CST booklet also showcases a Tory minister blasting “dinner party anti-Semitism,” with Communities Secretary Sajid Javid taking aim at “respectable middle-class people”.

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He said “dinner party anti-Semites… would recoil in horror if you accused them of racism, but are quite happy to repeat modern takes on age-old myths about Jews. “They can’t condemn the murder of Jewish children in France without a caveat criticising the Israeli government and demand that a JewishAmerican artist declare support for Palestine if he wants to perform at a festival in Spain.” Elsewhere in the booklet, London Mayor Sadiq Khan writes: “Whenever anti-Semitism rears its ugly head, I’ll be the first to call it out, condemn it and then work to stamp it out. “I’ve been clear – we must do all we can to root out anti-Semitism wherever we find it – and, yes – that includes within the Labour Party.”

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News / Shimon Peres

Towering statesman’s death is ‘end of an era’ Prince Charles and Boris Johnson will attend Shimon Peres’ state funeral on Mount Herzl.

The heir to the throne and foreign minister will take their place alongside fellow international dignitaries and world leaders at Israel’s national cemetery on Friday. Peres’ former aide Yona Bartal said the funeral plans have been made in line with the late prime minister’s wishes. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis led British Jewry’s reaction, saying Peres “gave hope to millions” and was “the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pur-

suit of peace against all odds.” He added: “From him we learned we must never let go of that audacious commitment to peace, even when all around are ready to do so.” Former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks said Peres was “a great visionary” whose death marked “the end of an era,” in which “outstanding leaders showed as much courage in pursuit of peace as they did in war”. The Board of Deputies hailed Peres as “a towering statesman and humanitarian,” adding: “We hope that his example will inspire a new generation of peacemakers.” Sir Mick Davis, chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, said Peres was “a tireless campaigner for peace in the region and an inspiration to Jewish people across the world in his pursuit of that goal”. Ella Rose, director of the Jewish Labour Movement, called the late prime minister “a giant of a man who inspired the world to believe”. The Zionist Federation also

Shimon Peres with Boris Johnson in Jerusalem. Inset: With the Queen

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paid tribute, calling him “a symbol of the Jewish state.” Holocaust Educational Trust chief executive Karen Pollock said Peres was “a huge loss” while Senior Reform Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner

said: “I will miss a great man. His memory will be a blessing.” World Jewish Relief’s Richard Verber said: “Few politicians can go from being fiercely partisan and divisive to loved by all.”

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OBAMA, ABBAS AND THE CLINTONS PAY TRIBUTE Shimon Peres was “the essence of Israel,” said U.S. President Barack Obama, as world leaders lined up to pay tributes on news of the Israeli statesman’s death. “We are in his debt,” said Obama. “He worked with every US president since JFK, no one did more to build the alliance between our two countries.” Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the United Nations, said: “He worked tirelessly for a two-state solution… Even in the most difficult hours, he remained an optimist about the prospects for reconciliation.” Hillary and Bill Clinton called Peres “a true and treasured friend” and said Israel had lost “a genius with a big heart who used his gifts to imagine a future of reconciliation, not conflict”. The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who Peres said was a “partner for peace,” returned the compliment, calling Peres “a man of peace” and “a great loss to humanity and the region”. Israel’s opposition leader Isaac Herzog said he had lost a “a teacher and mentor,” adding that his dream of an Israeli and Palestinian state living sideby-side one another in peace “will be implemented”. From the UK, Prime Minister Theresa May said he was “a great man… a visionary and courageous statesman, who worked relentlessly for peace and never lost hope that this would one day be achievable”. Former premier Gordon Brown said he would be “mourned on every continent by men and women committed to ending war,” adding: “He understood the importance of negotiation because he understood the cost of war.” Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the role Peres played in the peace process in the 1990s “should be the spur for a renewed drive for peace and justice”.

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News / Shimon Peres PERES TIMELINE

1923 Born in Wiszniew in Poland (now Belarus)

1934 Joins his father in British Mandate Palestine

1938-44 Grows up on a kibbutz, leads youth wing of Ben-Gurion’s party

A true gentleman of Israeli politics By Stephen Oryszczuk stepheno@thejngroup.com

1947-54 Joins IDF precursor

Haganah, then serves in Defence Ministry

1954-56 Plans the Suez War with the British and French

1959 Elected to the Knesset with Mapai, serving as Deputy Defence Minister

1969-77 Heads various

ministries before succeeding Rabin as left-wing leader

1984 Beats Likud in elections,

governs in coalition, PM for two years

1992-95 Peace negotiations

leads to Oslo Accords and his Nobel Peace Prize

1996-97 Loses to Benjamin

Netanyahu in elections, replaced by Ehud Barak

2001-06 Serves with Ariel Sharon, latterly with Kadima, disengages from Gaza

2007-14 Wins presidency,

serves into his 90s, the world’s oldest premier

mong the first encounters Shimon Peres had with the British was in the Negev, under the British Mandate, aged 21. He led an ‘illicit expedition’ into a closed military zone but was collared by a British officer, thrown in jail and fined. The experience was one of many he would come to have, and several years later, he was once again talking to the British, only this time as deputy director-general in the defence ministry of his own state. He was talking about military collaboration in Egypt, and the discussions followed those he’d had in Paris with the French, who were arming Israel with weapons and jets. The three states were plotting to reclaim the Suez Canal from Egypt’s strongman Colonel Nasser, which they did, but the episode ended in acrimony, with American threats forcing Britain to withdraw both militarily and symbolically from Israel’s immediate sphere. Peres, meanwhile, withdrew to Israeli politics. In 1987, he was reacquainted with the English in London, which provided the secret setting for Peres – then foreign minister – to meet King Hussein of Jordan and agree a framework to a UN peace conference aimed at resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute. The ‘London Agreement’ excluded the Palestinians and envisaged Jordanian sovereignty over the West Bank, but the UN conference never took place, blocked by thenprime minister Yitzhak Shamir from Likud. In 1991, a similar conference was convened in Madrid, under a framework echoing that agreed to by Peres four years earlier at the home of London lawyer and peer Lord Mishcon QC. Those relations, facilitated by Mishcon, led to a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan in 1994, securing Israel’s eastern border ever since. Later, Peres engaged the Syrian government of Hafez al-Assad, with a view to resolving the long-term conflict between the two states. On a two-day visit to London, not long after Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, he spoke positively about the prospects: “It is only a matter of time before we shall have peace with Syria and Lebanon.” Peres believed Israeli voters would agree to cede the Golan Heights to Syria, to meet their neighbour’s main demand, to secure the frontier between the two countries and protect water supplies, but right-wing politicians scuppered the deal. The two countries remain ‘at war’. By then, Peres was a well-known politician, and travelled the world but, as president, he faced difficulty when he wanted to visit

Shimon Peres meeting with former British Prime Minister David Cameron in Downing Street

London for the Olympics’ opening ceremony in in 2012. He had to cancel after organisers refused his request to sleep in the athletesonly Olympic Village, to avoid travelling by car on Shabbat. An archetypal gentleman, Peres didn’t kick up a fuss. His spokeswoman said he “understands the rules and accepts them” and “does not elevate himself above others”. In May last year, he was mobbed by fans wanting selfies at a Zionist Federation event. It was his first time back in the capital since 2008. On stage, the platitudes came thick and fast. Lord Levy paid tribute to his “optimism and zest for life,” the then-ambassador Daniel Taub said he “captured the spirit of possibility,” while Baroness Ruth Deech said he was “the most up-to-date retired president there is”. She mentioned the 91-year-old’s adoption of social media, with 58,000 Twitter followers but, to many more, he was the star of a hilarious fourminute movie in which he went job-searching after his presidency. It earned 700,000 hits on YouTube. He loved the future, embraced it and planned for it, announcing last November that he was preparing for a groundbreaking London conference exploring forthcoming innovation. “It will be a comprehensive look at only one time: the future. Not the past, nor the present,” he said, at an event hosted by Boris Johnson, who Peres jokingly referred to as “the blowing wind of tomorrow”. He joked with David Cameron, too, during the prime minister’s visit to Jerusalem in 2014, saying: “The cooperation that exists between Great Britain… started with Marks & Spencer.” But while relations with certain British politicians may have been warm, Peres was

no Anglophile, and in 2010 he was forced to backtrack after saying the English establishment was “deeply pro-Arab … and anti-Israeli”. In an interview with professor Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, published in Tablet magazine, he said: “They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution… They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s… They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.” He added: “There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.” The interview came after Cameron described Gaza as “a prison camp” so, outwardly, dignitaries were sparing in their criticism, but in private, Peres’ comments caused anger and indignation. James Clappison, vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel at the time, said simply: “I don’t recognise what he is saying.” To the upper echelons, the attack stung, especially since Peres had – barely two years earlier – accepted his appointment as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, a British order of chivalry awarded to those who “render extraordinary or important non-military service in a foreign country”. In 2013, however, he sought to make up for his famous faux pas, addressing a London crowd via video-link on Israel’s 65th anniversary, saying: “We have a special relationship with the Jewish community in Great Britain. Let us never forget that Zionism was born there. The state of Israel is as a result of the Balfour Declaration. It was a great opening and, I believe, a great continuation. Together we shall continue.” We shall. But it is with sadness that we do so without him.

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A rare leader of vision and will DAVID HOROVITZ EDITOR, TIMES OF ISRAEL

When you work with a country’s founding prime minister at the very start of its statehood, and you’re still its iconic elder statesman seven decades later, you’re going to impact a lot of people’s lives. Directly and indirectly, Shimon Peres surely affected the lives of more Israelis than anybody else. And if we haven’t yet become the nation at peace that he strove for us to become, it surely wasn’t for the lack of his trying. Looking back through clips, I realise I must have interviewed Peres more than I’ve interviewed anybody else. Year after year when he was president; a few years ago onstage at the Jewish Federations General Assembly in Jerusalem; at a world Jewish media summit in 2014; at The Times of Israel’s Gala in New York last year in front of 1,200 people, and a few more times besides. And I only knew him in the latter stages of his extraordinary life. The consistent theme in his conversations, in the presidential years and beyond, was that peace is attainable. He would argue, even in the darkest of periods, that Mahmoud Abbas is “absolutely” a partner for peace. He would implicitly criticise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and others, for not doing enough to advance it. “If you’ve decided on a Palestinian state, then you have to make that decision

The Peres very few people saw YAIR ZIVAN

FORMER FOREIGN PRESS SPOKESMAN FOR SHIMON PERES

Shimon Peres was one of Israel’s founding fathers. He was a visionary and a statesman. But he was also a mentor and an inspiration. People know about Peres’ vision and his drive, about his critical role in securing Israel’s past and his tireless work to build a better future. He was the father of Israel’s defence industries and strategic deterrence and the most high-profile advocate for peace in the Middle East. He spearheaded Israel’s transformation in the high-tech superpower and ensured that the latest technological trends were on the Israeli agenda. Peres believed in the power of young people to bring about change, he believed in optimism as a driving force, he believed that women weren’t only equal to men, but that without equality for women, societies could never truly thrive. He believed in science as a force for good. But more than anything, he believed in the Jewish people and he believed in the state of Israel and he loved them both. But there were other sides to Peres, which the public rarely saw. He was a perfectionist, who would insist on going over a speech again and again until every word was perfect. But he could speak for an

happen,” he told me once, asking plaintively: “So what’s the alternative? That there be one state and the majority will determine its nature?” US President Barack Obama was quick to hail Peres, on his passing, as a man who changed the course of history, and as “the essence of Israel itself”. The trust and affection were mutual. That was another of Peres’ firm beliefs in the past few years – that Israel could and should trust Obama, to ensure Israel’s security if and when it moved ahead with the Palestinians, and to prevent Iran from attaining the bomb. Peres’ critics, many of whom became more appreciative and respectful of him as the years passed, would say he was naive about Palestinian intentions, naive about Iran. When this was put to him, he would shake his head mildly, not unduly perturbed. And he would argue, in that quiet, gentle, but relentless way of his, that the forces of technology, of aspiration, and of youth are ultimately beneficial and ultimately irresistible. Irresistible even to regimes such as the ayatollahs’. “The present government in Iran doesn’t have a future,” he told me with complete conviction, back in 2013. “The problem of Iran is timing, not verdict. It’s a government that doesn’t have a message – not only for humanity, but for their own people.” Peres was the face of the Israel that the world wants to see: warm and wise, a believer in the essential good of humanity. Indeed, he was the face of the Israel that we want to see – constantly questing for a safer, better, more tranquil future. Along with millions, I’ll greatly miss Shimon Peres. I’d like to live in that better world that he believed, to his dying day, is out there to be attained, if only we have the vision and the will.  Courtesy of timesofisrael.com hour with no notes. He was a man of science and technology and saw them as a force for good, but he loved literature and wrote poems and songs as often as he wrote about foreign policy. Looking back on his time as president, people will remember big interviews and big speeches, but I’ll remember a 90-yearold man with the energy and enthusiasm of a 20-year-old. I’ll remember the first time I walked into his office, when I understood what it meant to be in the presence of someone with real gravitas. I’ll remember watching thousands of people have that same experience over the next few years. I’ll remember the phone call when my son was born, even though there were 10 more important things on his desk. I’ll remember being admonished for not reading enough poetry. I’ll remember his patience for photographs with people, even at the end of an exhausting day. But more than anything, I’ll remember his optimism. Not naive optimism, but optimism as a motivating force and a force for good. Optimism as a willingness not just to dream, but a belief that if you work hard enough, you can make those dreams become a reality. Peres often said: “The Jewish people’s greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.” That’s his legacy. Believe that things can be better, but then wake up every morning and work to make that belief a reality.

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Jez tries harder Jeremy Corbyn’s address to Labour Friends of Israel has been described as “better received, better intended, better prepared” by the state’s deputy ambassador, a year after he failed to even mention the country in his first speech to the group, writes Justin Cohen. The Labour leader named Israel five times and gave a clear commitment to a twostate solution and tackling anti-Semitism in the party at one of the busiest fringe receptions of the party’s Liverpool conference. He also hailed Shimon Peres as an “enormous giant of Israeli politics,” saying: “His Nobel peace prize with negotiations was remarkable, a huge achievement and should surely be the basis on which we try to bring a permanent, long-term peace two-state solution in the whole region and, specifically, between Israel and Palestine.” In marked contrast to last year, he went out of his way to hail LFI’s work in “building

awareness of the different dimensions of the Middle East conflict” and specifically its chair, Joan Ryan. Corbyn – who wished the audience a ‘Shana Tova’ – added: “I’m genuinely glad to be here today to come together to campaign for a two-state solution for Israel and Palestinians.” The parliamentary motion recognising Palestine that he backed was “an important step” on the road to a solution, he suggested. Domestically, he thanked those in the community who had been in contact with his team about the “anti-Semitism that does exist within society, that had reared its violent ugly head in various places and helped to advise us on how we deal with anti-Semitism”. He added: “The Labour Party is not a home for antiSemitism in any form and I do not intend to allow it to be. We will continue to oppose it in any way it raises its head. The Labour Party must be an anti-racist party and specifically opposed to any form of anti-Semitism anywhere in our movement.” His comments came after Michal Biran MK, of Israel’s Labor Party, asked how a progressive party had allowed itself to become a home for any anti-Semite. “As long as you keep fighting anti-Semitism we stand with you. As long as

Above: Jeremy Corbyn and, right, Mark Regev. Below left: Tom Watson with a Labour Friends of Israel delegate

we keep on fighting for peace and social democracy, I expect you all to stand with us,” she told hundreds of attendees including a host of MPs and a number of Palestine activists. And she drew sustained applause for comments aimed at the leader standing metres away. “Hamas are not friends of the cause of peace and coexistence,” she said. “Please, Jeremy, don’t give Hamas legitimacy they have not earned and do not deserve. Instead, hold out the hand of friendship to Israeli progressives.” Deputy Ambassador Eitan Na’eh said Corbyn’s speech was “better received, better

This is one fight we can’t allow the momzers to win RUTH SMEETH LABOUR MP

Lord Mitchell has been a passionate advocate, a tireless activist, and an inspirational role model for my party and the Labour movement. Given the appalling anti-Semitism that is plaguing the Labour Party, his decision this week to resign from the Labour Party is one that I can understand. But it is not one that I can ever agree with. The Labour Party has been the driving force of progress for our country and our community for 116 years, and we owe it to the people it was founded to serve to stand and fight at this moment of crisis. The anti-Semitic bullying and intimidation that has infected our party in recent months is heart breaking and infuriating. I know better than most people just what damage this cancer is doing to a party I have been proud to be a member of since I was a teenager. But this is my party, however much the

anti-Semites might wish it wasn’t. This is the party that my parents and grandparents have supported through thick and thin, because they understood that the Labour Party is the best vehicle for social justice our country has ever known. And it is the party of Shinwell, Mikardo and Abse – proud Jews and proud socialists who have left an indelible mark on our nation’s history. We cannot allow our party and its proud history to be hijacked and degraded by a small band of ideological zealots. We cannot walk away and allow the forces of bigotry to fill the vacuum. We cannot, and I will not, let these momzers win. So as you watch the current crisis in our party, turn your mind to the immortal words of the Labour movement: Don’t mourn, organise. Now is not the time to walk away. It is the time to stand and fight for what we believe in. Our party, and our country, demands nothing less.

intended, better prepared with better understanding of the sensitivities” than a year ago. Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev told delegates it was Labour that first recognised the right to Jewish national self-determination, months before the Balfour Declaration. Ryan told Jewish News: “The whole party should welcome a very strong commitment to a two-state solution. He was much closer to the wider view of the Labour Party. I hope it signals a deeper understanding.”

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Pro-Israel stand faced ‘harassment’ Cases of anti-Semitic language and harassment against those manning Labour Friends of Israel’s stand at conference have been formally reported. Three incidents took place at the stall at the Liverpool Convention Centre, LFI’s chair Joan Ryan confirmed. Aaron Simons wrote on Twitter that he was approached by a man who indulged in “small talk” before adding: “Wasn’t there a Jewish plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn?” Ryan said she herself reported anti-Semitic rhetoric after one woman pressed

her for 20 minutes on the group’s work and what it was doing about the “borders”. “The woman said: ‘You could do a lot more about the borders. Groups like this... have a lot of money and power’. I told her she was anti-Semitic. She said: ‘It is the truth.’” It came on the same day leaflets carrying the name Jewish Anti-Zionist Network were handed out outside the Momentum conference, claiming the Jewish Labour Movement acted as a “representative of a foreign power” and called for it to be disaffiliated.

CALLS FOR NEW MID EAST FUND A campaign urging the government to support the establishment of an international fund to support coexistence projects between Israelis and Palestinians was unveiled at conference. Labour Friends of Israel used its annual fringe reception to back the calls for the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Conceived by the USbased Alliance for Middle East Peace, it is hoped the fund will distribute £150million annually to support coexistence and reconciliation

Why I couldn’t stay in Labour LORD PARRY MITCHELL OUTGOING LABOUR PEER

Leaving your political party is no easy matter. In many ways it feels like a divorce. The party I joined with high hopes in 1994 with the onset of New Labour is no more. Its leadership espouses politics and attitudes I am totally at odds with. With the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn, I have submitted my resignation. I am devastated. The Labour Party has been good to me. I was elevated to the House of Lords in 2000. I was a shadow business minister for two years during the Miliband era. My proudest moment was leading the campaign that resulted in payday lending being strongly regulated. Many people are no longer gripped by this vicious debt trap. I have worked hard for Labour values. Sitting on the Labour benches, you are privileged to be part of a political family, which legislated for good while in Government and has been hugely successful in holding this

initiatives in Israel-Palestine. Money will come from the US, Europe, the Arab world and private sector. LFI and CFI have repeatedly called for more of its aid funding to the Palestinians to be spent on coexistence projects. LFI chairman Joan Ryan said: “I believe that we work towards a two-state solution by standing shoulderto-shoulder with all those in Israel and Palestine who fight for peace and coexistence between both sides.”

Conservative Government to account. Today, the political thrust is far from what I believe in and stand for. I am pro-business, pro-NATO, pro-EU, pro-America and, of course, pro-Israel. Corbyn and his pals are 180 degrees opposed: they are hard-left socialist – they hate business and they loathe America and Israel. His Praetorian guard, the Momentum movement, is almost Stalinist in its desire to humiliate, vilify and harass non-believers. For middle-of-theroad MPs, deselection is their weapon of choice. It was the Chakrabarti Report on antiSemitism in the Labour Party that finally made me snap. I had high hopes that Shami’s report would be hard-hitting, but she wasn’t; it was an anaemic whitewash. Corbyn then offering her a peerage was, to me, the final indignity. I will never forget how, at the launch of her report, Corbyn stood by when a Momentum thug hurled a tirade of invective against Ruth Smeeth MP, so abusive that she left in tears. Corbyn who should have protected her, joked with a colleague and did nothing. After a gut-wrenching summer, my choice is clear. How can I, a Jew and a Zionist, remain in a party where the leadership is so hostile to Israel (even to its very existence) and which also flirts with anti-Semitism? In the end, it was an easy decision, but that makes it nonetheless painful.

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Young Israelis take conference stage It’s hard to imagine a previous British political party conference where the views of a young Israeli Labour activist would be sought by one of the biggest radio shows in the UK, writes Justin Cohen. But it’s a sign of just how much Labour’s troubled relations with Israel and the Jewish community have dominated the headlines over the past year that Stav Cohen’s appearance at LBC was hardly a surprise. The 31-year-old Knesset staffer was among an eightstrong delegation from the young arm of Israel’s Labour party in Liverpool to meet and build relations with members of their sister party and the visit to conference included meetings with MPs Louise Ellman and Wes Streeting, a private chat with Labour Friends of Palestine and dinner with Labour Students. “Building relations with sister parties is important,” explained Cohen. “Some of us are going to continue in politics and if they are going to continue too then being in touch will help both our countries.” The group – which was

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brought over by the Jewish Labour Movement – were assured a baptism of fire with a discussion on anti-Semitism at Momentum’s hub as their first engagement. It saw claims that the extent of the scourge in Labour was “exaggerated” and reduced at least one Jewish attendee to tears. However, while there were “fringe” voices with “delusional” views expressed, Or Harpaz, an assistant to the deputy mayor of Tel Aviv, said their worst fears were not realised. “Most of the people we spoke to wanted a two state solution. They want it now, not to wait”.

ACTION URGED OVER WALKER SHOAH SLUR Labour is poised to take disciplinary action against Jackie Walker over comments on the Shoah and communal security, Jewish News understands. The Momentum vice-chair has been told to “show contrition or resign” after criticising Holocaust Memorial Day for excluding victims of other genocides and questioning the need for security measures at Jewish schools. Walker, who was reinstated to Labour earlier this year after being suspended for comments on Jews and the slave trade, provoked anger after attending a training session on tackling anti-Semitism run by the Jewish Labour Movement at Labour conference. She asked: “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Holocaust day was open to all peoples who’ve experienced Holocaust?” The day, while focusing on the horrors of the Nazi era, also honours the victims of other genocides and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s website includes information on atrocities in Rwanda and Cambodia.

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Jews urged: keep faith in the party Impassioned pleas have been made for Jewish Labour supporters to remain inside the party, as political figures from all wings of the movement came together in an unprecedented show of unity against anti-Semitism, writes Justin Cohen. Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis and the Momentumbacked National Executive Committee member Rhea Wolfson, along with MPs Luciana Berger and Michael Dugher were among around 15 speakers to address a packed rally against anti-Semitism and racism on Sunday night, organised by the Jewish Labour Movement. They were joined by Naz Shah, who was suspended from the party then reinstated, and the two peers who had conducted inquiries into anti-Semitism in the party, Shami Chakrabarti and Jan Royall.

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Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell withdrew after JLM members raised concerns about his planned appearance, days after he shared a platform with previously-suspended activist Jackie Walker. Lewis, a key figure in the hard-left of the party, acknowledged it had been an “appalling year” for Labour Jews, saying the extent of the problem was

brought home to him when a former BBC boss said she wouldn’t vote for the party again until “we had sorted out our anti-Semitism problem”. Fellow MP Chris Bryant, who is gay, said he would continue to criticise Israel “as the Labour Party there does every day” but insisted those questioning its right to exist should reflect on fact there is only

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one nation in the Middle East where gays are safe. He said he was “sick and tired” of those who claim to be anti-racist but “don’t follow through on anti-Semitism”. This was echoed by Bradford West’s Shah, who said: “I’m not really anti-racist” if she does not tackle anti-Semitism. Read more at jewish news.co.uk

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THE PERCEPTION OF LABOUR AMONG JEWS MAKES ME ‘WEEP’ The Jewish Labour Movement’s vice-chair has expressed “dismay” at the decision not to debate its proposed rule change to tackle antiSemitism at the party conference. In a landmark speech on the main conference floor, Mike Katz said the perception of Labour within the community made him “weep”, although he acknowledged the “action” taken by the leadership including the recommendations of the Chakrabarti report.

STUDENT LEADERS CRITICISE NUS OVER JEWISH CONCERNS Student leaders across the country this week took unprecedented aim at the anti-Israel president of the National Union of Students, saying Jewish students had been “undermined” under her leadership. In an open letter, published yesterday, 28 student union presidents and vice-presidents joined 10 members of the NUS’ National Executive Committee, three NUS vice-presidents as well as NUS’ representatives in Scotland and Wales.

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It comes after the National Executive Committee decided last week only to “note” the proposals – which would make it easier to expel those responsible for anti-Semitism and other forms of racism – with the likelihood it will not come before conference until next year, which he described as a “let down”. He received a standing ovation as he said: “We’ll work with our members, CLPs, MPs to show Jews, like all minority community, are welcome in Labour” and told the gathering the prolonged applause meant a lot to “the community”.

They said: “Jewish students have repeatedly highlighted concerns and yet again their voices have been dismissed. Time and time again Jewish students have not felt safe participating in our national movement, because of the actions and rhetoric of leadership of NUS.” In a fiery rebuke to NUS president Malia Bouattia and her team, they added: “We stand with Jewish students in their right to feel represented, safe and welcome in participating in NUS’ democracy… We must listen to Jewish students when they say something is anti-Semitic.”

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BET TIKVAH AND WOODFORD LIBERAL SYNAGOGUES UNITE Liberal Judaism has welcomed the merger of two synagogues into a new community serving east London and west Essex. Members of Bet Tikvah and Woodford Liberal Synagogues voted in favour of forming a new single congregation led by Rabbis Richard Jacobi and David Hulbert. Liberal Judaism’s Rabbi Danny Rich said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to bring together the strengths of Bet Tikvah and Woodford Liberal Synagogues. “This new 700-member Liberal community is a statement of our confidence in, and desire to serve the Jewish community of Redbridge, Essex and beyond.” Eighty-six percent of Bet Tikvah members and 81 percent of WLS members voted in favour of uniting.

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Campaigner up for new honour A charity support worker helping Jewish victims of sexual abuse has been nominated for the first national award for independent sexual violence advisers (ISVAs). Yehudis Goldsobel, who works for the charity Migdal Emunah, and who has exposed issues of sexual abuse in the Jewish community after facing the issue herself, has been shortlisted for the LimeLight Award for Outstanding Achievement. The advisers help victims understand the criminal justice process, explain what happens when reporting an offence to the police, and stress the importance and process of forensic DNA retrieval. Cultural sensitivities are crucial, and Goldsobel is the only qualified Jewish ISVA in the UK and works across the entire religious spectrum of the Jewish community. The award recognises excellence, dedication and commitment to supporting victims of sexual violence. Goldsobel said: “I am delighted that the value of my work with Migdal Emunah is being recognised

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against Corbyn vid The Campaign Against Anti-semitism (CAA) has filed a formal complaint against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. The group has taken action over a video posted on Mr Corbyn’s official Facebook and Twitter accounts. In it, Mr Corbyn’s supporters answer questions on topics they are “tired of hearing” about, which includes whether they promote anti-Semitism. The video was subsequently deleted from social media. The CAA said this is the latest in a long of line of incidents where Mr Corbyn and his supporters have failed

to address anti-Semitism. The group has sent a complaint to deputy leader Tom Watson, to present to Labour’s national executive committee, accusing Mr Corbyn of “committing acts that are grossly detrimental to the party, namely characterising Jewish people as dissembling and dishonest in their reporting of anti-Semitism. The allegation that Jews lie to further hidden agendas is an age-old antiSemitic trope. It is manifestly deployed by Mr Corbyn in his campaign video.”  Watch the video online at jewishnews.co.uk

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in the wider community. “It is very powerful to be now supporting individuals through the trauma associated with sexual abuse and to be guiding people through the challenges and daunting nature of the legal process.” The awards were due to be announced at the National Conference for ISVAs ‘Knowledge and Network’ last night.

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AJR PLAQUE FOR SCHON A Jewish industrialist who fled to the UK from Vienna in 1939 is to be honoured with a second plaque, this time outside his former home in Whitehaven, Cumbria. Lord Frank Schon moved north during the Blitz, and set up his chemicals business in the county together with Fred Marzillier. Both men are already commemorated with a plaque each, outside each entrance of the town hall. Their company, Marchon (coined by joining their names together), made synthetic detergent raw materials, employing more than 2,000 people in an economically-deprived area. Many were ex-servicemen returning

Women told: red is wrong Strictly Orthodox women in London have been told not to wear clothes that are red or yellow as “hot colours solicit attention.” In a letter commissioned by the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations and sent to 5,000 homes in and around Stamford Hill, a rabbi advises women that their skirts or dresses must be “at least four inches” below the knees and that blouses must hide body shape so the “hips and thighs are camouflaged”. The edict, written in Yiddish, Hebrew and English by Gateshead-based Rabbi Eliyahu Falk, was published in The Heimishe Newsheet, a local newsletter, as part of Jewish law in the month of Elul, which leads up to Rosh Hashanah

from the front. In the 1960s, Schon was knighted and became chairman of the National Research Development Corporation, where he argued for greater investment in British manufacturing. He was made a life peer in 1976, saying: “The debt that I owe to the kindness and humanity of the British people cannot be discharged.” Schon’s in the latest plaque from the Association of Jewish refugees (AJR), which is honouring prominent Jewish émigrés from Nazism. Last month AJR dedicated a plaque at Glyndebourne to the impresario Sir Rudolf Bing, who joined a list of luminaries to be honoured, including biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Sir Hans Krebs, Paralympics founder Sir Ludwig Guttmann and theologian Dr Leo Baeck. and the new year. As well as addressing the appropriate length and width of women’s clothing, it also warns girls and women not to wear anything “eye-catching” or “see through”. Falk’s edict elicited an angry reaction from Orthodox women’s groups, including Dina Brawer, founder of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, who said women’s clothing was becoming an obsession among some Orthodox men. “Modesty is indeed a very important Jewish value which applies equally to both women and men,” said Brawer, speaking to The Times. “It is about a mindset that values dignity and discretion. Tasteful clothing is only one manifestation of this value. “Obsessing over women’s hemlines paradoxically undermines this value and smacks of male control.”

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Yavneh can scrap feeder schools Yavneh College can abolish feeder schools, but must change its entry criteria for next year, following a ruling by the government’s

admissions regulator, writes Francine Wolfisz. The decision by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) was this week hailed as a “vindi-

cation” by the Borehamwoodbased secondary school, but those who objected to the current criteria warned of “continuing uncertainty” for parents until Yavneh announces its revised rules for September 2017 entry. Thirty-three complaints were made to the OSA after Yavneh decided to scrap feeder status for Hertsmere Jewish Primary School and Clore Shalom. Instead, the school proposed that priority would be given to children living in the WD and AL postcodes of Hertfordshire. However, objectors argued this was unfair, because it gave Hertfordshire parents living far from the school an unrealistic expectation of gaining a place. OSA chief executive Deborah Pritchard said this aspect was “misleading”, because “[it was] clear that a Jewish child living much more than five kilometres from the school, even if in the catchment area, is unlikely to gain a place”.

In a statement, Yavneh College said it welcomed the OSA’s ruling in favour of removing feeder schools, adding that it “vindicates our long-held view that these changes to the arrangements are both reasonable and fair”. But the school also warned a knock-on effect of not using AL or WD postcodes to define the catchment area would mean a family living in Hertfordshire but far from the school, such as Radlett or Bushey, would have less of a chance of getting a place than a family living nearer to the school but in the borough of Barnet, such as Edgware. This would, in effect, go against Yavneh College’s stated objective to serve the community of Hertfordshire. The statement added: “This is a saga which has lasted many months, has forced the school to spend a very significant amount of money on legal fees and has left staff and governors facing insults, attacks on their personal and professional reputations and threats of legal

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action. We are pleased to be able to finally put it behind us.” Objectors Howard Cohen and Adam Myeroff accepted the decision to scrap feeder schools, but said Yavneh had yet to come up with “lawful and fair” entry rules that would provide for the school’s commitment to serving children in Hertfordshire. He said: “Here we are, thousands of pounds and 10 months later and the school has still not

CHIEF’S WORRY OVER SCHOOLS The Chief Rabbi has said it would be “irresponsible” for London’s Jewish community to try to open more than one new school after the government lifted a ruling limiting faithbased places to 50 percent. His intervention comes amid intense debate ahead of a deadline for free school applications, with two proposals pending, and he acknowledged that the recent ruling “had changed the landscape of appropriate options” in London. He said that opening more than one modern Orthodox school for Jewish students was unrealistic.

Malia refuses to apologise The president of the National Union of Students (NUS) has refused to say sorry for comments condemned as antiSemitic. Malia Bouattia (right) was widely criticised when she described Birmingham University as “something of a Zionist outpost” in an article she co-authored five years ago. But challenged over the remarks on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, she refused to apologise for them. She said: “I would certainly review my language and would definitely want to explain

come up with a set of lawful and fair entry criteria, meaning more uncertainty for anxious parents. How can this be described by the school as any kind of victory?” One parent looking to apply for next year said: “I just want the best for my child, but we need answers now.” Yavneh College said its revised admissions policy will be published on the school website “in due course”.

“The creation of a new school requires a great deal of financial investment both from the government and from within the Jewish community,” a spokesman wrote on his Facebook account. He added that a site of “suitable size and location”, along with “hard work” and “the problems that an oversupply of places would cause”, lead Ephraim Mirvis to believe “it would be both irresponsible and impracticable to try to open more than one new school”. However, the team behind Kavanah College, a free secondary school under the Chief Rabbi’s aegis, are set to submit their application next week, and the team behind Barkai College, with an “inclusive modern Orthodox” ethos, will also submit plans to the Department for Education next week. the political context which I was discussing. I absolutely was not saying the things that it has been interpreted as, if you will...” Bouattia also defended “safe space” and “noplatform” policies in universities amid widespread concerns they are curtailing free speech. Prime Minister Theresa May has described the policies as “quite extraordinary” and warned they could inhibit thought and development among students. Bouattia said: “The thing about safe spaces is they have existed for a very long time in many different forms. It’s a call from the grassroots, it’s an application of democratic processes in order to ensure that spaces of education – students unions and so on – are safe places in which to debate and discuss ideas.”

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A song and dance! Kosher talent spiced up Saturday night TV, with a sizzling shirtless performance from Robert Rinder on Strictly Come Dancing, while rapper Honey G left the X-Factor panel speechless, before progressing into the next round on a technicality. Rinder, a barrister who stars on ITV1’s daytime show Judge Rinder, took off his shirt during his courtroom-based cha-cha in week one of the live shows, setting hearts aflutter. His performance has been viewed 500,000 times on YouTube, suggesting it will become one of the most watched Strictly clips of all time. Rinder is one of three Jewish contestants this year, with model Daisy Lowe and comedy actress Leslie Joseph also competing. Lowe, who dedicated her waltz routine to her grandfather, who passed away on the first day of rehearsals, led the pack with a nine out of 10, but some viewers argued that the votes

were “fixed” in her favour. Meanwhile, on singing show X-Factor, Honey G was given a second chance to prove her worth after another singer was forced to pull out due to visa problems. The 35-year-old rapper was initially refused a spot in the judges’ houses after the panel were left disappointed by her rendition of Missy Elliott and Pharrell’s WTF (Where They From) despite huge protests from the audience. But Filipino singer Ivy Grace, who was put through, subsequently faced visa problems over her travel to Los Angeles, where the next part of the competition will be filmed,

meaning a space was freed up for Honey G. Judge Sharon Osbourne said: “Honey G is larger than life, she’s fun, she’s different to everyone else in this competition. I love different.” Honey G, who is assumed to be a joke entry, paid tribute to

her fellow contestant and said: “I think Ivy’s voice is incredible and she’s very talented. She definitely would have gone very far in the competition if had stayed.”  Watch Robert Rinder and Honey G perform at jewishnews.co.uk

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Sugar hunts for new hires Katie Hopkins is “Piers Morgan on steroids”, while Brexit will be as disastrous as “The Great British Bake Off moving to Channel Four,” joked Lord Sugar ahead of the 12th series of The Apprentice, which starts next week, writes Francine Wolfisz. Eighteen candidates will fight to become the entrepreneur’s latest business partner and secure a substantial £250,000 investment. The first episode, which airs next Thursday on BBC One, will show the teams – which include a sausage maker who thinks he’s James Bond and an IT director with a monobrow – tasked with sorting the treasure from the trash and making as much money as they can from antique dealers. The 69-year-old – who started his business empire selling electric goods out of a van he bought for £50 – revealed the path to success was not always smooth. “How long have you got?” he quipped. “When you’re in business you make mistakes, but you get a lot more right than you get wrong, and that’s how you come forward.” His right-hand man and Jewish businessman Claude Littner said: “The key is to make sure that if you’re on the wrong track, you recognise it and correct that mistake as quickly as possible.”

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Tory chairman eyes postBrexit trade deal with Israel Sir Patrick McLoughlin says there is ‘no question’ the government will continue to be as supportive to Jewish community and Israel

he new Conservative Party chairman has expressed his hopes for a post-Brexit trade deal with Israel as he hailed the country’s entrepreneurial spirit, writes Justin Cohen. Sir Patrick McLoughlin, who succeeded Lord Feldman in July, insisted that leaving the European Union did not mean “casting our eyes backwards in any way, shape or form” in terms of relationships with the rest of the world. In an interview with Jewish News, he said: “I’m incredibly proud of some of the things we’re doing on digital development and entrepreneurial spirit in this country. I want us to work with other entrepreneurial countries and Israel is certainly a country with a great entrepreneurial base.” Other than addressing a Conservative Friends of Israel lunch a few years ago, the MP for Derbyshire Dales acknowledges his contact with the Jewish state and the community has been limited. After illness forced him to abandon a planned visit to the Jewish state with Conservative Friends of

Israel in 2010, however, the former chief whip and transport secretary hopes his new role will enable him to visit for the first time “in the not too distant future”. There is “no question” Theresa May’s government will be as supportive of the community and Israel as that of David Cameron, he insisted, stressing that the Tories had repeatedly made clear opposition to boycotts and new Communities Secretary Sajid Javid would be “watching what local authorities are doing on this” following the announcement of measures to tackle the issue. One issue on which supporters of Israel have continued to express concern is over the way aid to the Palestinian Authority is paid, with claims that it could enable payments to terrorists by swelling general coffers. McLoughlin stressed he was “very proud” of the government’s 0.7 percent commitment to overseas aid. But he said: “I would think [former International Development Secretary] Justine Greening and carrying on now with Priti Patel would be horrified if they saw money

going into aid that was allowing other money to be attracted to sources which are destabilising to the Middle East and to the Israeli people. “That would be something that would fill me with worry and shouldn’t be allowed to happen. Where allegations are made, we need to follow it through, but we should not move away from the fact we’ve reached 0.7 percent and the good that’s doing.” On the domestic scene, he hailed the work of the Holocaust Educational Trust. “I’ve come across work of HET in my constituency with school trips going to Auschwitz. My own son’s been on a visit and it was very moving indeed. We must never forget it. You can’t forget such a horrendous crime.” Turning to the Labour party’s relationship with the Jewish community and cases of anti-Semitism in its ranks, he said: “I can’t believe they’ve got themselves into such a mess. I fail to understand how a party which, to a degree has a rich history, has allowed antiSemitism to become an issue in its party. It’s just unbelievable.

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“It needs to sort this out – it’s just not acceptable that the principle opposition party has this tag associated with it.” The former miner suggested the Tories should be a natural choice for British Jews regardless of the current woes. “Everything the Tory party has done for me is what we try to do across the whole country and that is to give people opportunity,” he said. He also took the opportunity to praise his predecessor as “a brilliant party chairman”, adding: “He’s not gone, he’s still around. I’m sure he’ll take more active role in the House of Lords now he has more time on his hands. And I’ve still got the phone number.”

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News / Trump Versus Clinton / Same-Sex Advert

US candidates meet with Bibi Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have met separately with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in sessions that could set the tone for relations between the allied countries during the next presidential administration. On Sunday, Trump met privately with Netanyahu for more than an hour at his residence in Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to Israeli and campaign officials. That evening, Clinton also met with him, on the eve of the first debate between the candidates. The Israeli leader has sought to project neutrality after perceptions he favoured Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama in 2012. Trump’s campaign said in a statement that the men, who have known each other for years, discussed “many topics important to both countries”, including “the special relationship between America and Israel and the unbreakable bond between the two countries”. They are likely to have discussed the nuclear deal with Iran, the battle against Islamic State, military assistance provided

by the US to Israel and other security issues. “Trump recognised that Israel and its citizens have suffered far too long on the front lines of Islamic terrorism,” the campaign said in a statement. “He agreed with Prime Minister Netanyahu that the Israeli people want a just and lasting peace with their neighbours, but that peace will only come when the Palestinians renounce hatred and violence and accept Israel as a Jewish state.” Trump also repeated his pledge to move the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv if he is elected to the White House, acknowledging that “Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish people for over 3,000 years”. That promise has been made in various forms since at least 1992. Congress three years later passed a law calling for the US embassy to be moved to Jerusalem by 1999, but presidents of both parties have always waived the requirement. George W Bush promised in 2000 to start the move “as soon as I take office,” but did not. The pair also discussed “at length” Israel’s use of a security fence to help secure

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its borders. Trump has proposed building a wall along the length of the southern border to keep out people and illegal drugs and often points to Israel as an example of how such barricades can be successful. He also vowed “extraordinary strategic, technological, military and intelligence cooperation between the two countries” if he is elected. Their discussions follow what was likely Netanyahu’s final meeting with Obama last week, capping what has been a sometimes rocky relationship between the leaders of the two allies. The Obama administration has opposed Israel’s push to expand settlements in the West Bank while Netanyahu has been a leading critic of the US nuclear agreement with Iran.

A car advert that uses samesex couples to promote a new family model has sparked protest among strictly-Orthodox Jews in Israel, with a religious group launching a counter campaign to show what it calls “a normal family”. Nissan’s “Put your family in the Sentra” ads launched earlier this month, featuring two men embracing surrounded by their children and two women in a similar pose. The television commercials, in English with Hebrew subtitles, features a young girl asking: “Who’s to say what a family is?” She suggests that families can have two mummies or two daddies, as long as they put the family in the centre, a play on the word Sentra. In response, The Hotam Forum, comprised of religious research institutes, posted an image of the ad with a stop sign covering it. Another image shows a family with a mother,

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HAMAS COULD BE OFF TERROR LIST Terror group Hamas would regain access to all its frozen European assets if judges in Luxembourg go ahead with recommendations to remove it from a list of proscribed organisations. Jewish leaders responded by branding the action “unconscionable,” after advice from the British advocate general at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), whose advice is often followed by judges. Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston, a senior barrister, wrote that she “considers the court should annul the measures maintaining Hamas on the EU list of terrorist organisations on procedural grounds,” in new published advice. Sharpston, who was also advising the ECJ on the banned Sri Lankan group of Tamil Tigers, said Europe had been wrong to proscribe the organisations in 2001 because this relied on American decisions and unverified information. “The Council of the European Union cannot rely on facts and evidence found in press articles and information from the internet, rather than in decisions of competent authorities, to support a decision to maintain a listing,” she wrote. Sharpston advised that the court reject an appeal by the Council of EU members against the lower General Court’s decisions in late 2014 to remove Hamas from the sanctions list. The European Jewish Congress said it was appalled by the recommendation which, if implemented, would mean Hamas’s assets would

EJC’s British advocate general has advised Hamas be removed from a terror list

be unfrozen. “It is unconscionable that European bureaucrats are playing with people’s lives due to a technicality and narrow-mindedness,” said ECJ president Moshe Kantor. “Hamas has murdered countless people and ensure millions live in misery. Their means to kill many more could be given to them on a silver platter because someone in Europe feels there is not enough evidence to define them as terrorists.” Sharpston’s opinion is delivered independently and is not binding on the court, whose judges must now begin their deliberations in this case. A spokesman said: “Judgment will be given at a later date.”

Male soldiers can refuse to serve with women Israel soldiers can now request to not serve alongside women and be excused from any military event that goes against their religious beliefs. The new directive by Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot comes after a decision not to establish any additional Nahal Charedi battalions, made up exclusively of Charedi Orthodox soldiers. Highly-religious troops can now request not to serve with women and refuse to share

living spaces. Formal events, such as Independence Day and Memorial Day ceremonies, Holocaust Remembrance Day, services for fallen soldiers and Yitzhak Rabin’s memorial day will remain compulsory occasions for soldiers of both sexes to attend. Other events, such as cultural or educational ceremonies, including occasions when female IDF soldiers traditionally sing in front of

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Survey: 14% of US Jews back Trump

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A new study, touted as the first state-by-state, county-bycounty Jewish population estimate, shows how the Jewish vote could play a crucial role in key battleground states in the upcoming US election. The study, conducted by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University in Boston, found that in parts of Pennsylvania Jewish adults make up more than

six percent of the population – three times more than the national average. Research associate Daniel Parmer said: “If it’s a tight race Jewish voters could swing the election.” The study also shows how the Jewish vote could have significant impact in Florida’s Palm Beach area, where the 209,400 Jews there make up nearly 15 percent of the adult population, according to the

study. That number is significant in a state where Barack Obama won by less than one percent of the vote in 2012. The study also looked at American Jews’ party identification, finding that 54 percent of American Jews identify as Democrats, while 14 percent identify as Republicans. But only 43 percent of American Jews call themselves liberal, a lower percentage than those who say they are Democrats. “We see a higher proportion of Jews who identify as Democrats but a lower proportion have liberal political views,” Parmer said. “Conversely, there are more Jews who identify as conservative [21 percent] than Republicans.” The results also show 36 percent of American Jews consider themselves neither liberals or conservatives and that 32 percent identify as neither Democrats nor Republicans.

Prenup plan to help stop ‘chained wives’ The Rabbinical Council of America is to mandate its member rabbis to require couples to sign a prenuptial agreement ensuring that husbands will not withhold a get, or Jewish writ of divorce, from their wives. The scheme, commonly referred to as a “halakhic prenup,” generally penalises the husband financially for refusing to give the get. Rabbi Mark Dratch, execu-

tive vice president of the RCA, a centrist Orthodox rabbis’ organisation, said the group is mandating the longstanding fix to an intractable problem now because the Orthodox American Jews are largely aware of and comfortable with its use. According to the RCA, requiring a prenup will further reduce any stigma associated with it in corners of the Orthodox community. Dratch said: “We’re an

CHIEF RABBI OF FRANCE DIES Rabbi Joseph Haim Sitruk, the Chief Rabbi of France for more than two decades, has passed away aged 71. The first non-British president of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) after the death of Lord Jakobovits, Sitruk was Chief Rabbi for 21 years from 1987 to 2008, after

moving from Tunisia, where he was born in 1944. Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, current CER president, said Sitruk “generated a spiritual renaissance” among French Jewry, which “counterbalanced assimilationist tendencies prevalent in France”. Goldschmidt added: “He

organisation with a thousand rabbis that also need to be trained and feel comfortable with this,” he said. “We’re at a place now where the membership thought this was possible.” According to halakha, a husband must give his wife a get in order for the couple to divorce.

was a young energetic and charismatic leader with integrity and faith.” When he became the spiritual figurehead for France’s half a million Jews, Sitruk led the opening of dozens of synagogues and Jewish schools, for which he was later appointed commander of the Legion d’Honor. A father-of-nine, he called Tel Aviv’s gay pride parade “an abomination” and sought advice from Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who said Shoah victims were reincarnations of the souls of sinners.

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Editorial Comment and Letters VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS

May we all enjoy a sweeter new year ROSH HASHANAH is a time for sweetness, celebration and reflection. It is often tinged with bitterness and sorrow, too. The Hebrew year 5776 has seen many ups and downs for the Jewish community, here in the UK and across the diaspora. It began with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party leader and ended… with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party leader. The intervening 12 months saw the dissolution of trust between the Jewish community and Her Majesty’s official Opposition. This came via a series of ill-fitting plasters applied to injuries caused by a spate of vicious comments, most made online. There followed the highly-anticipated report into Labour anti-Semitism by Shami Chakrabarti, which ignored both the fire and the smoke, and instead suggested that – drumroll please – anti-Semitism is a bad thing best avoided. Elsewhere, Jewish leaders, who maintained pressure on the Government to allow more child refugees into the country, finally met with some success, while in the world of education, the Government scrapped its 50 percent faith-based admissions cap, meaning Jews may now make up the majority in Jewish free schools. In Israel the so-called knife intifada, sparked in part by tensions over the status of the Temple Mount and provoked by a Palestinian social media campaign of incitement, has seen the deaths of 30 Israelis and 217 Palestinians in the past 12 months. It may be too much to hope that 5777 will bring a momentous shift in relations between Israel and the Palestinians, but we will never give up our prayers for peace – even without the influence of Israel’s legendary conciliator, Shimon Peres. Let us hope next Rosh Hashanah will see us experience hope rather than bitterness. May we all enjoy a sweeter new year. CONTACT DETAILS Managing Director Carol Bronze carolb@thejngroup.com Editorial Director Richard Ferrer richardf@thejngroup.com Head of Sales Russell Bahar 020 7692 6970 russellb@thejngroup.com News Editor Justin Cohen 020 7692 6952 justinc@thejngroup.com Foreign Editor Stephen Oryszczuk 7stepheno@thejngroup.com Community + Sport Editor Andrew Sherwood 020 7692 6949 andrews@thejngroup.com Features Editor Francine Wolfisz 020 7692 6935 francinew@thejngroup.com Sub Editor Alex Galbinski alexg@thejngroup.com

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In Jewish News (22 September), Roslyn Pine manages to sink to a new low by invoking personal invective and character assassination while defending the standard Israeli government line. She attacks Jewish News columnist Emily Hilton’s account of the eviction of the Palestinian villagers of Susiya on the West Bank by asserting that the Palestinians were not expelled in 1986 because the village of Susiya didn’t exist then. According to her, the Palestinians are being expelled because they have erected illegal structures - the reason given by the Israeli High Court. But she fails to describe the underlying basis of this case. According to Wikipedia, the village of Khirbet SusyaSusiya predates the State of Israel by about 100 years. In 1986, this land was expropriated by the state and the inhabitants expelled. We could ask the obvious question: how is it possible for the Jewish settlements in Area C to establish and geographically expand without displacing Palestinians from their land? Perhaps that is why Pine demonises these NGOs. Without the facts, what is left but smears?

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Anti-Semitism affects Jews and non-Jews NICK FERRARI

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HILLINGLY, it is in the headlines all too frequently. During the last week, the scourge that is anti-Semitism seems to have infected everything from the Labour Party to the Church of England. Troubling times indeed. Much has been written about Labour’s transparent problems in its relationship with Jewish people and, having just returned from a stormy, ill-tempered and largely unruly Labour Party conference earlier this week, there’ll be more from me on that later. However, first it is important to reflect on the fairly incendiary words of the Archbishop of Canterbury on this subject when he rather piously declared anti-Semitism is “deeply entrenched” in the culture of the nation and Christians are partly to blame. The Most Rev Justin Welby said it is “a shameful truth that, through it’s theological teachings, the Church, which should have

offered an antidote, compounded the spread of this virus” that is the worrying growth in anti-Semitism. That, for me, was as disturbing as it was puzzling. I have been uniquely honoured and privileged to have hosted a number of events and gatherings for a wide variety of Jewish causes and I fervently hope there is not a shred of anti-Semitism in my being. To be told differently by the extraordinarily bright and hugely engaging leader of my faith, a man I have been fortunate to have met and with whom I have been exceedingly blessed to celebrate mass, is at the very least unsettling. Each and every minority in the land must be aware of, and alive to the dangers of what is called “dinner party racism”. For many of you reading this, it will be as relevant to your lifestyle as it would be keeping a unicorn in your back garden. Unfortunately, across much of the country, it is the unsaid and delicately couched discrimination that is all too often allowed to pass. A sly comment, a vile characterisation or a distasteful “joke” among

those who wrongly assume some kind of superiority by dint of their colour or faith. It is as low as it gets but, in certain circles, all too prevalent. Truthfully, I’m delighted to report it must be so far back in time for me I cannot recall the last time I was subjected to the veiled disrespect of Jewish people, but this is possibly likely due to the views heard regularly on my LBC radio breakfast show, my appearances on Sky News and my weekly column in the Sunday Express. Anyone who knows the views expressed in any of those outlets should know one clear message: discrimination against anyone due to their faith, colour or class is utterly reprehensible and contrary to our

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accepted way of life. For some commentators, this has been a defining week in the fate of the Labour Party. They talk about a lasting mandate for party leader Jeremy Corbyn and a desire to build unity. In truth, this is a party as united as the totemic “Eton mess” they so despise. This is a leader who finds is difficult to condemn Palestinian terrorism and a party seemingly at odds with its views on tolerance. The only way to stamp out something as insidious as anti-Semitism is to condemn it wholly and without reservation. Only in that way will one of the longest running discriminations on the planet ever be tackled.

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Rosh Hashanah is a time to count our blessings JON BENJAMIN

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ewish families around the world come together for Rosh Hashanah, but for those in crisis the season can be an isolating and stressful time of year. Financial and social deprivation touches all Jewish communities, not just Charedi ones. Bereavement, family breakdown or a job loss can quickly lead to a seemingly stable domestic environment unravelling. With it comes shame and stress, with parents embarrassed or afraid to admit the true depth of their problems to their children, family or friends. Each week, GIFT helps feed some 2,000 people in London and Manchester for whom making ends meet and being able to afford basic staples has become a desperate challenge. At festival time, the challenge is even more acute, when the wish to maintain traditional forms of observance brings greater expense.

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Requests to GIFT for assistance spike and it’s at this time of year that we make a special effort both to help families celebrate the new year and feel a valued part of a community, so they can look forward to the next year with hope rather than despair. GIFT’s Rosh Hashanah packages include basic items such as pasta, cereal, tinned tuna and fruit and vegetables, but will also include kiddush wine, challahs and candles. As one London mother we help told us: “What you do makes me feel privileged to

belong to a community like ours.” GIFT’s ethos is to educate young people about the joy and impact of giving, to ensure future generations show compassion and active support for others in every aspect of their lives. Alongside its educational programmes, GIFT also puts these principles into action, providing practical help for those who have lost their jobs or are unable to work through age or infirmity. Some are single parents, some have suffered domestic abuse and many find it difficult to admit the extent of their personal problems to themselves, let alone anyone else. Families and individuals sometimes come directly to GIFT, while others are referred by agencies such as Norwood, Jewish Care, JWA, JAMI or Jewish Blind and Disabled, all of which do excellent work. But when the front door closes and a parent has to try to make a family meal with little or nothing in the cupboard, the help GIFT provides makes the difference. As another recipient wrote: “It brings me to tears sometimes when I am so low as

to how to feed the family properly. People have no idea what a difference it makes to those who do not have and cannot provide for their own family.” However, without our donors and volunteers, none of this could happen. At every stage, from the food deposited in GIFT’s boxes at kosher stores across London and Manchester, to the collection, packing and delivery of the food packages, the role of volunteers is key. Volunteers also help to relieve some of the burdens and stresses of families, with everything from homework and tuition to child care. It’s clear how much the volunteers also benefit from their involvement, setting an example also to their friends and family. In the words of one young volunteer: “Just as I have given to GIFT, the charity has also given back through teaching me how lucky I am.” To find out about volunteering or to receive help, email info@jgift.org in confidence. GIFT’s fundraising dinner is on 9 October – please join us to show your support.

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Labour will never come to its senses under Corbyn ALEX BRUMMER

CITY EDITOR, DAILY MAIL

here are still lifelong Labour supporters among my close friends who believe that despite the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader with an overwhelming majority, the party will come to its senses. After all, a party that elected Ed Miliband as leader and was home to such pro-Israel and Jewish friendly figures as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown could not possibly be as anti-Semitic and antiZionist as it appears to be. The reality is that the party which was once the natural home of so many Jewish voters because of its tolerance and affinity with early Zionism’s socialist ambitions is allowing policy to be driven by an extremist left-wing mob, of which their leader is part. This is someone who saw nothing wrong in accepting fees of £20,000 for his appearances on Press TV, an Iranian propaganda channel where guests and callers

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are able to spout anti-Semitic views without any fears of repudiation. Anti-Israel and anti-Zionist views have been part of the far left agenda for years. It didn’t matter that much when the International Socialists and new-leftist movements such as Momentum stood on the fringe of mainstream politics. But, alarmingly, they now provide the Labour Party narrative which has become a terrifying prospect as we

some families have so much to do at rosh hashanah

look forward to the Jewish new year. There is much for Jews and non-Jews of a liberal bent to be upset about when it comes to Israel. The settlement policies of successive Israeli governments; a lack of solid commitment to a two-state peace process; the policing methods at the checkpoints between Israel and the disputed territories. What is so puzzling about Corbyn and his Labour claque is their inability to see Israel as anything except a colonialist, bullying outpost. The reality is that Israel, to use the favourite lingo of the left, is a multi-cultural and tolerant society. Indeed, even though there is still too much anti-Arab sentiment, the Israeli government is working hard to break down the societal barriers to Israeli-Arabs. Spending over the next three years has been boosted to NIS15bn. The important things is that the new money will largely funnelled through key Israeli government departments such as education and housing with 20 percent of the budgets spent in their own communities. It goes without saying that the far greater

cause of the 400,000 killings in Syria and the ghastly five-year civil war in the country has never been a cause célèbre on Britain’s left. Indeed, the human rights abuses across the Middle East, including those in Gaza and the West Bank, are largely ignored. The Economist recently chronicled how Hamas and its associates in Gaza ignore the freedom of speech which is enshrined in Palestine’s basic law. Human Rights Watch has recently accused the Palestinian authorities of detaining and torturing journalists in Gaza who dare express critical views. Such abuses don’t seem to worry the Corbyn claque. Irrespective of the tumult around it, Israel will begin 5777 as a light among the nations. Israeli pharmaceuticals are keeping people in the UK healthy. Israeli cyber-security is keeping us safe and Israeli algorithms are powering our Sky boxes. We may soon even have Israeli gas firing our power stations. Who would have thought it? May I wish Jewish News readers Shanah Tovah Umetukah.

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We can win this battle – in our party and society WES STREETING

LABOUR MP FOR ILFORD NORTH

n 2020, the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) will have been affiliated to the Labour Party for 100 years, making it almost as old as the Labour Party itself. Throughout the past century, Jews have played a leading role in my party’s quest for social justice, from Millie Miller, one of my predecessors as the MP for Ilford North, to Lord Harold Lever, who was a pioneer in debt relief for poorer countries, to Lord Alf Dubs today with his work on helping child refugees, this tradition is something to be cherished and celebrated. Yet at the Labour Party’s conference in Liverpool this week, leaflets were circulated attacking the JLM, claiming it ‘acts as a representative of a foreign power’ and that it does not belong in the Labour Party. The idea of banning a Jewish society isn’t new. Students of the 1970s and 1980s

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will recall countless attempts to ban Jewish societies in university campuses, accusing Jews of split loyalties between Britain and Israel and seeking to hold Jews to account for the policies of Israeli governments. Even with such anti-Semitic tropes written in black and white, there are those who continue to dismiss the notion that there is a problem with anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Small wonder that some

Jewish members have cut up their membership cards this week, most notably Parry Mitchell, a member of the House of Lords who was, until recently, a leading figure in Labour’s shadow business team. In my own constituency, Ilford North, I’ve had countless conversations with Jewish Labour supporters, who question whether they will be able to vote Labour at the next election. Stalwarts of my local constituency party have considered following Mitchell and others out the door in protest at the treatment of Jewish MPs and the insufficient response of our party and its leadership. But I am urging Jewish supporters of the Labour Party to join the Jewish Labour Movement. The Labour Party was founded on the principles of equality and justice. It has a proud history of standing against racism and fascism and it will have a proud future so long as there are those of us prepared to fight for it. Stand with the JLM and stand with

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1 NEW YEAR FUN

Clore Shalom Reception pupils Max Bispham, Harry Curtis, Elisheva Morris, Sophia Hartstone and Kara Engel got into the Rosh Hashanah spirit by enjoying a week-long celebration of activites. The four and fiveyear-olds enjoyed blowing the shofar and eating apple and honey.

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University Jewish Chaplaincy’s Rabbi Mordechai Zeller sounded the shofar in the middle of Cambridge market place to announce his arrival and that of his wife Lea TaraginZeller as the new chaplaincy at Cambridge and East Anglia universities.

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Ten-year-old Cyan Darken won JW3’s Rosh Hashanah card competition. Although not Jewish, the King Alfred Primary School pupil was encouraged to enter by her Year 5 teacher, Mr Foster. She said: “I’m so happy and proud to win the competition.” The cards are on sale in the JW3 reception, with proceeds going to support its charitable work.

4 SHOFAR SO FUN

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Eli Minsky, two, sounded the shofar at Kisharon’s Tuffkid Nursery. Tuffkid, based in Golders Green, supports both mainstream and special needs children.

5 CHIEF’S VISIT

Former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks visited Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre. Lord Sacks told members: “For years, many survivors didn’t speak about what happened; they got married, had children and then 30 or 40 years later they spoke. When your world has been destroyed, first you have to build the future and then we can look back and mourn. We build for the future for the year ahead on Rosh Hashanah, then on Yom Kippur, we look back and reflect on what’s happened.”

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Jack’s birthday is full of song Jack Mindel was handed a signed copy of an autobiography from one of his favourite singers to help celebrate his 100th birthday. After reading in Jewish News that Jack is a big fan of Sophie Tucker, reader Nathan Dony got in touch and presented him with the book from her 1952 UK tour.

Residents and supporters of Jewish Care’s Rosetrees home at Betty and Asher Loftus Way in Friern Barnet enjoyed a tea with the Mayor and Mayoress of Barnet, Councillor David Longstaff and Gillian Griffiths, and Jewish Care’s president Lord Levy.

During a recent visit to Northern Ireland, Barnet Conservative Councillor and Jewish News columnist Brian Gordon met with the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Alderman Brian Kingston, at Belfast City Hall.

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3 EMUNAH IN ISRAEL

Emunah is preparing for its two-day trip to Israel, which will take in the 13th anniversary celebrations at Neve Landy youth village, plus visits to projects around the country, with two nights in a Tel Aviv hotel. For more details: deborah@emunah.org.uk

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Waitrose shoppers in Temple Fortune raised £220 for Jewish Care’s Michael Sobell Community Centre in Golders Green as part of the store’s Community Matters scheme.

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VISITS 3 EX-MP SPECIAL SCHOOL

Former special needs tsar and Ilford North MP Lee Scott made a visit to Side by Side Special School in Hackney, where he was impressed with the services offered by the school and had the honour of putting up a mezuzah on a new classroom.

Some of Britain’s brightest tech and finance minds gathered at Norwood’s YN Business, Finance, and Entrepreneurs Dinner. Andrew Fisher, executive chairman of Shazam, was the guest speaker, while the talk at the Waldorf Hilton in London, was facilitated by Sky News technology correspondent Tom Cheshire. Fisher said: “Events like this are important for tech entrepreneurs, because it’s an opportunity to learn from other people’s mistakes, but also their successes.” The evening raised £115,000 for the charity.

AT GIFT 5 GIRLS SHOW CHESED

The girls at the GIFT Summer Camp enjoyed sharing kindness and chesed, which included teddy stuffing for an orphanage in Israel, cake pop-making for families and flower picking for the residents of Jewish Blind and Disabled, and ended with a performance at Jewish Care’s Selig Court Care Home in Golders Green.

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Katie Grant celebrated her batmitzvah at Bushey United Synagogue.

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Ariella Sharpestone celebrated her batmitzvah at Cockfosters and N Southgate Synagogue.

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Debra Isbitt & Lee Hyams were married at Apollonia, Stanmore.

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Torah Action Life’s inaugural gala dinner saw more than 350 guests flock to the Lancaster London. Rabbi Joseph Dweck Senior of the S&P Sephardi community delivered the night’s powerful keynote speech. The organisation, founded by Rabbi Jonathan Tawil, connects thousands of young Jewish people across the country.

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Jewish Care’s Wonka wonga! More than 200 children and their families revelled in an afternoon of pure imagination at a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory themed Secret Cinema event in Potters Bar on Sunday, organised by The Next Generation Committee. The event raised more than £4,000 for Jewish Care.

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Thou shalt cook... sometimes Fiona Leckerman checks out Jay Rayner’s satirical one-man show, based on his recent book, The Ten (Food) Commandments

ood critic Jay Rayner certainly knows how to make an entrance. Dressed as Moses, he enters the auditorium, complete with full robes and tightly clutching two pizza boxes, like tablets marked with his very own commandments. So begins a very entertaining one-man show now touring the country from the journalist, Master Chef regular and all round Jewish food Svengali. Rayner appeared last week at JW3 as part of the Ham & High Literary Festival for his show, based on his recently-published book by the same title, The Ten (Food) Commandments. As he disrobes, the 50-year-old foodie and son of agony aunt Claire Rayner, is eager to point out that not only are there a whopping 613 commandments, but there aren’t any particularly food-related with the exception of “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s oxen”. He goes on to announce that “the Jewish God is basically a picky eater”. The show is punctuated by images of everything from Rayner lying covered in pork scratchings to David Cameron eating with a fork – and for political balance, Ed Miliband eating without a fork. The audience is also treated to musings on Nigella, ribs, his son, Eddie, and various hilarious photos of himself, in an attempt to bring together opinion, fact and humour on the food laws by which every human should live. “We need a new culinary Moses, we need someone to lead you to the promise land

and who else could there be?” Rayner asks rhetorically. Beginning with his first commandment – “Thou Shalt Eat with Thy Hands” – Rayner gets his audience on side by stating that the best food experiences are normally free from knives and forks. “When you eat with cutlery you are using sight, smell and taste, but when you eat with your hands you are bringing in another sense, the sense of touch which augments the experience to an extraordinary degree.” Commandment two is Thou Shalt Worship Leftovers, where Rayner describes how leftovers had a bad rap thanks to Fanny Cradock

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recipes, but the arrival of fridges and freezers has revolutionised how we use excess food. Blaming the cheapening of food for people simply throwing away their leftovers, Rayner

observes: “When food is cheap you don’t take it seriously, but thankfully a moral imperative has kicked in and I believe leftovers are part of a brilliant game of gastronomic tag. This is where the adventures begin and new dishes are created, from all the things you haven’t eaten the day before. “ Speaking about the one thing that drives food culture in Britain and beyond is boredom. “We need a constantly changing diet, we see new foods and we want to try them. We are meant to sneer at Instagrammers constantly photographing their dinner, but the reality is that it’s just the process of coveting accelerated – and I think it’s a bloody good thing.” His other commandments include “Thou Shalt Cook Sometimes”, explaining because it’s fun and “Thou Shalt Not Cut off the Fat”, because fat is not the enemy, but rather sugar, with Rayner adding a scientific and logical explanation to back up his conclusions. Lamenting how humans have lost many skills over the years, he nevertheless turns to food as our one saviour. “We used to make things as human beings, chairs and tables and build our own houses, now we don’t make anything - but, we can make dinner,” he quips. “The brilliant thing about cooking is that it’s a task with a finite end. You go into the kitchen to get raw ingredients and bend them to your will. Now, that is a very good hobby to have.” Rayner’s next three commandments, “Thou Shalt Not Sneer at Meat-Free Cookery”, “Thou Shalt Celebrate the Stinky” and “Thou Shalt Not Mistake Food for Pharmaceuticals” are equally witty, perceptive and stern about our food habits. Finally we arrive at the 10th and final commandment, which he admits wryly is not well placed within the confines of a Jewish community centre – “Honour Thy Pig”. For the final word, however, Rayner leaves his witticisms to that of fellow bacon-eating Jew and celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal, who concludes via video with his one and only commandment – “Thou Shalt Not Be Dictatorial Around Food” – a fitting end to a show that has plenty of food for thought.

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NEW LIGHT on old flavours Good news for foodies – just in time for the new year, Ottolenghi’s classic cookbook from 2008 has been relaunched, with all 140 mouthwatering recipes revisited. Devised alongside Sami Tamimi, this culinary bible became a sensation when it was first published. Here are two delicious recipes guaranteed to spice up your High Holy Days

APPLE AND OLIVE OIL CAKE WITH MAPLE ICING Serves 4

FENNEL AND FETA WITH POMEGRANATE SEEDS AND SUMAC Serves 4 ½ pomegranate 2 medium fennel heads 1½ tsp olive oil 2 tsp sumac, plus extra to garnish Juice of 1 lemon 10g picked tarragon leaves 10g parsley, roughly chopped 70g Greek feta cheese, sliced Salt and black pepper This salad has all the little ‘bursts of flavour’ we look for in a dish. The little explosions of sweetness from the pomegranate seeds, for example, along with the tart astringency of the sumac. It’s lovely to eat as it is, or else served alongside some grilled fish or roasted meat. If you’re looking for a substitute to the pomegranate but want to keep the colour and sweetness, dried cranberries or sour cherries also work well. Start by releasing the pomegranate seeds. The best way to do it is to halve the pomegranate along its ‘belly’ (you only need half a pomegranate here), then hold the half firmly in your hand with the seeds facing your palm. Over a large bowl, start bashing the back of the fruit with a wooden spoon. Don’t hit too hard or you’ll bruise the seeds and break the skin. Magically, the seeds will just fall out. Pick out any white skin that falls in. Remove the leaves of the fennel, keeping a few to garnish later, and trim the base, making sure you leave enough of it still attached to hold the slices together. Slice very thinly lengthwise (a mandolin would come in handy here). In a bowl, mix the olive oil, sumac, lemon juice, herbs and some salt and pepper. Add the fennel and toss well. Taste for seasoning but remember, the feta will add saltiness. Layer the fennel, then the feta and then the pomegranate seeds in individual serving dishes. Garnish with fennel leaves, sprinkle over some sumac and serve immediately.

80g sultanas 60ml water 280g plain flour ½ tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp salt ½ tsp baking powder 1¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda 120ml olive oil 160g caster sugar ½ vanilla pod 2 eggs, lightly beaten

3 Bramley apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm dice Finely grated zest of 1 lemon 2 egg whites Icing sugar, for dusting (optional)

Maple icing 100g unsalted butter, at room temperature 100g light muscovado sugar 85ml maple syrup 220g cream cheese, at room temperature

This is a huge Ottolenghi favourite – many of our customers confess they order it just for the maple icing! It can also be made in advance and kept wrapped in the fridge for up to a week, ready to be brought back to room temperature and iced on the day of serving. Grease a 20cm springform cake tin and line the base and sides with baking parchment. Place the sultanas and water in a medium saucepan and simmer over a low heat until all of the water has been absorbed. Leave to cool. Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C fan/Gas Mark 5. Sift the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Set aside. Put the oil and sugar in the bowl of a freestanding electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or use a whisk if you don’t have a mixer). Slit the vanilla pod lengthways in half and, using a sharp knife, scrape the seeds out into the bowl. Beat the oil, sugar and vanilla together, then gradually add the eggs. The mix should be smooth and thick at this stage. Mix in the diced apples, sultanas and lemon zest, then lightly fold in the sifted dry ingredients. Whisk the egg whites in a clean bowl, either by hand or with a mixer, until they have a soft meringue consistency. Fold them into the batter in two additions, trying to lose as little air as possible. Pour the batter into the lined tin, level it with a palette knife and place in the oven. Bake for 1½ hours, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. Once the cake is completely cold, you can assemble it. Remove from the tin and use a large serrated knife to cut it horizontally in half. You should end up with two similar discs. If the cake is very domed, you might need to shave a bit off the top half to level it. To make the icing, beat together the butter, muscovado sugar and maple syrup until light and airy. You can do this by hand, or, preferably, in a mixer, using the paddle attachment. Add the cream cheese and beat until the icing is totally smooth. Using a palette knife, spread a 1cm-thick layer of icing over the bottom half of the cake. Carefully place the top half on it. Spoon the rest of the icing on top and use the palette knife to create a pattern. Dust it with icing sugar, if you like. Extracted from Ottolenghi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi (Ebury Press, £27). Photos by Richard Learoyd

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A date with Tuscany Francine Wolfisz takes her family to witness the beauty of central Italy

ending our way along white gravel tracks with no discernible road names and a failing sat-nav, I began to fear we would never find our destination: a beautiful family-sized villa nestled deep in the Tuscan countryside. Fortunately for us, help was at hand (albeit communicating with very broken Italian and hand signals) from the staff at Podere Pretaccione, a charming 1,000-year-old estate in Castelnuovo Berardenga that was once the home of itinerant priests and has today been transformed into eight spacious apartments. With a guide to show us the way, we finally arrive at our hilltop destination – and the views are simply breathtaking. Hundreds of pencilthin, Italian cypress trees and vineyards sweep across the horizon as far as the eye can see and the only sounds we can make out are those of the abundant nature around us – crickets, locusts, bats, tiny lizards darting in and out across our path and little hares scampering across the fields. In the evening, we’re fortunate enough to spot a wild boar foraging in the woodland. Numerous in these parts, the Tuscan wild boar has the dubious double honour of being a local emblem and the main ingredient for Tuscany’s national dish – pappardelle cinghiale. Our home for the week, La Vecchia Stella, was a charming two-bedroom stone cottage, which boasts a fully-equipped kitchen, a comfortable lounge and outdoor area for al fresco dining. Our children, aged five and two, were especially keen on the nearby tennis courts and swimming pool – both of which were great for mingling with

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HUNDREDS OF THIN, ITALIAN CYPRESS TREES AND LOVELY VINEYARDS SWEEP THE HORIZON fellow guests at Podere Pretaccione. The estate is located right in the heart of Chianti, which recently celebrated 300 years as a wine-making region, having been designated as such by Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in 1716. Today, the area is well-known for its classic red Chianti, made from Sangiovese grapes and there is no shortage of wineries dotted along main roads offering free samples. A reliable, off-road car is a must in these rural parts, where public transport is scant, but fortunately there are numerous places of interest within an hour’s drive away. We made regular trips to Siena, a picturesque city that was historically Florence’s greatest rival and which prospered through silver mining and banking. Not coincidentally, a Jewish community, whose main source of livelihood was moneylending, became well-established here in medieval times. There are still traces today of the city’s ancient ghetto and an ornate synagogue at Via delle Scotte, built in the late 18th century, is open to the public. At the heart of Siena is the Piazza del Campo, a vast pedestrianised square constructed from light travertine stone and red brick, lined with

restaurants and gelato shops, where the delicious ice creams are so fresh they literally melt in your mouth. Twice a year, the piazza is turned into a racetrack for a thrilling horse race known locally as Il Palio. We also spent time in Arezzo, a charming ancient city used as the setting for Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful and Montepulciano, an architectural gem with well-maintained medieval brick houses and palaces, as well as wonderful sweeping views of the Tuscan hills beyond. Our final destination was Florence, the capital of Tuscany, and the region’s largest city. Some 13 million tourists flock to this UNESCO World Heritage Site every year and the day of our arrival was no exception, with visitors heaving around the narrow streets. There’s something special about Florence – from the medieval Duomo with its iconic red dome, to the Uffizi Gallery filled with Renaissance masterpieces, Michelangelo’s statue of David and the

serenity of the Ponte Vecchio. Everyone and everything oozes style in this fashion capital, including the Great Synagogue of Florence, famous for its Moorish characteristics, where my husband proposed 11 years ago. With the sun setting over Florence, now seemed a perfect time as any to sample the famous wine of this region, clink glasses and bid a final “buona notte” to our Italian adventure.

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On the side SWEET THINGS Purely in the interest of you, dear reader, I have tasted many honey cakes over the past week and can solemnly declare the best offering to be found at Yummies, in Mill Hill and Radlett. Choose between regular honey cake, honey and apple cake and the large honey deluxe. Yummiesdeli.com

HIDEAWAY ‘Hidden gem’ is a cliché, but Incontro in Finsbury Park is just that. Open for just over six months, this warm and inviting little place serves wonderful Italian food at reasonable prices and the menu includes many fish dishes. There is also a great selection of Italian regional wines. Incontrorestaurant.co.uk

MILL HILL MAGIC Whetstone hotspot Hudsons is to open in Mill Hill before the end of the year, on the site formerly occupied by the Day of the Raj. Hudsons owner Martin Ment is excited to share his popular concept with the residents of Mill Hill and hopes it will contribute to the regeneration of the Broadway. Hudsonsbrasserie.com

GRAND CAFE Ben Tish, co-founder and chef director of Salt Yard restaurants, is opening a new restaurant in St James’ Market in October. Veneta is a Veniceinspired grand café in the mould of the iconic Caffè Florian in St Mark’s Square. St James’ Market is set to be one of the most exciting developments in London restaurants this year. Just south of Piccadilly Circus, between Lower Regent Street and Haymarket, it has a large pedestrianised area. Veneta-stjames.co.uk

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HOUSEWIFE’S CHOICE… Zest (Kosher)

Occupying a large area on the lower ground ﬂoor of JW3, Zest is a light, airy restaurant serving kosher dairy food with a Mediterranean twist. It was our anniversary outing and a cocktail was in order. I went for a Churchill (Jameson, sweet Vermouth, Cointreau and lemon juice) as it seemed to contain the most alcohol. While waiting for this intoxicating concoction, we nibbled on olives and pickles, along with bread from a mixed artisan basket. Among the challah and the sourdough was the tastiest pitta bread I have ever eaten. It was toasted ‘al ha esh’ (on the ﬁre) – as the Israelis say – and had a gorgeous salty barbeque taste to it. I have to be honest, though – when I tasted it, I really craved putting a sausage inside. For starters, my husband plumped for cured salmon, but I was intrigued by the offer of miso-glazed sea bass, baby fennel, wasabi, radish and micro shiso, so decided to give it a whirl. When it arrived, I got a bit of everything on my fork like they do in the cookery programmes and tasted it in one fell swoop. It was delicious, the micro shiso

giving it that extra-special something. Our mains were fabulous, too. We both chose the yellowﬁn tuna steak, sesame, sushi rice, avocado and soy purée, lotus mizuna and wasabi citrus dressing (all one dish). Tony also ordered chips, which I didn’t think was necessary as we had eaten the equivalent of a large loaf of bread between us, plus the tuna came with rice. I ate most of them. I got a little upset when I saw that my new favourite food in the world, malabi (Israeli rose-scented milk pudding), was no longer on the menu.

I consoled myself with cheesecake and a few mouthfuls of Tony’s lemon tart and rallied. Zestastic! Angie Jacobs ZEST 341–351 Finchley Road London NW3 6ET T: 020 7433 8955 W: zestatjw3.co.uk

New Place in Town Crocker’s Folly When entrepreneur Frank Crocker heard that the new terminus of the Great Central railway was to be cited in St John’s Wood in the mid-1890s, he built the ornate and sumptuous Crown Hotel, to capitalise on the increased trafﬁc to the area. However, local residents campaigned against the terminus and won, rendering the hotel the grandest folly in London. It became a pub and changed its name to Crocker’s Folly in 1978. A few years ago, it was bought by the Maroush Group, which has restored it to its former glory and opened it as a stunning restaurant. This is one of those places that feels special enough to be in the West End, but is in a local residential area where it’s easy to park. There are four dining areas – the fabulously buzzy 1898 Bar with a terriﬁc cocktail menu, the warm and inviting Marble Room,

the magniﬁcent Lord’s Room with its ornate high ceiling and spectacular chandelier, and an outside terrace. Crocker’s Folly is so much more than a pub, but there is still the odd nod to pub-style dishes on the menu – steaks, lamb cannon, hearty chips – but more delicate options, too, including marinated tuna, burrata with roasted vegetables, pan-fried sea bass with deep-fried aubergine, butternut squash risotto and other ﬁsh and vegetarian options. We enjoyed a beautiful creamy panna cotta and a chocolate fondant for dessert. The food is beautifully and imaginatively presented with gracious service and lunch or dinner is a real treat. They also serve afternoon tea. There are good value lunch and children’s menus and the festive menus have just been released.

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sure. With the Jewish new year fast approaching, I am keen to start a new diet and exercise regime to improve my all-round health. What do you recommend to help me achieve this?

This is a great idea. Unfortunately, the Jewish new year may not be the easiest time to start a health plan, given all the sweet foods we tend to eat during Rosh Hashanah – but it’s definitely worth having a go. Exercise in any form will improve your health in particular your blood pressure control. There are so many different types of exercise that each have huge benefits, but

even simply walking for 30 minutes a day for four or five days a week will reap significant benefits. Exercise itself, no matter what your weight might be, is a protective factor against many diseases – including cancer and heart disease. It is also good for mental health, so you really can’t go wrong. Do something you enjoy so you are more likely to maintain the regime. Dieting for high blood pressure really has two main aims: to reduce salt and to reduce weight. Cutting salt from your diet is a proven way to reduce your blood pressure: you should be having less than 6g a day. That may seem hard to work out but start looking at food packaging at the sodium levels; you will quickly become familiar with what you can eat. Second, a diet following the EatWell guide, which cuts sugar and processed food down to a minimum will help you lose weight.

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Yes, absolutely. This is actually a new programme introduced this year particularly for young adults starting university or college, as well as 17-18 year olds. The Department of Health have introduced the vaccination, as in the last 5 years there has been a 400% rise in the number of cases of meningitis W – a specific strain we see in teenagers. There are a few different strains of meningitis,

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Even if your headaches are from the stress they are still very much real. Our mental and physical wellbeing are very closely connected and often people feel mental upset through physical symptoms. This happens the whole way through our lives: it’s the same phenomenon that gave you butterflies on your first day of school or stopped you eating when you were nervous before a job interview. Commonly in

and meningitis W seems to be increasingly prevalent in the UK. The vaccination is not new as it has been used for a long time as a travel vaccine because W has always been prevalent in parts of the Middle East. You are right that your son is already vaccinated against meningitis having had his childhood vaccinations, but they are only against certain strains. He will have had a meningitis C vaccination as a child as well as MMR and Hib vaccinations which protect against some types of meningitis but not all. Because of the way students socialize and live closely together in groups, infections spread easily between them which is why we sometimes see outbreaks of disease in student halls. It’s certainly a good idea for all new students. While he’s at the GP it’s also worth making sure he’s up to date with any repeat prescriptions he may need to take

practice I see physical signs in patients as a result of their mental state – typically this would be headaches, tummy pain, irritable bowels, fatigue and even irritable bladders. Whether your headache is coming from sinusitis or stress it is still genuinely there rather than being imagined as some people wrongly think. When people experience pain, they have nerves firing not only where the pain is but also in the brain – what doctors call central pain – and this is likely the mechanism of how stress-induced headaches occur, although it is not entirely understood. The fact that your headaches go after the chagim is reassuring – obviously headaches are not a symptom to ignore usually but if they are so closely connected to a specific time or event it is less of a concern. You must look at ways to reduce your stress: mindfulness, exercise and asking for help would all be valuable.

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SedrahNitzavim RABBI ALEX CHAPPER What final message would you expect the Torah to provide on what is effectively the last Shabbat of the year? What parting thought should it leave us with as we end another cycle of seasons? The opening words simply read: “All of you are standing today before the Lord your God.” This seems somewhat disappointing, if not anticlimactic. Let us attempt to understand the true depth of this statement. At the end of the year, on the precipice of a new dawn, we are asked to contemplate a simple truth – we are still here, we were spared to survive another 12 months and whatever we had to endure, many have not been afforded the privilege that is life. So don’t worry about lofty concepts – there is plenty of time to ponder them – for now just appreciate we are alive, recognise the gift of life and be thankful. At this level of consciousness we are ready for the process of Teshuvah – the return to God described later in the sedra: “When all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse… and you will return to the Lord your God.”

 Rabbi Chapper is minister of Ilford Federation Synagogue

Torah For Today What does the Torah say about… second chances? Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are not simply days of judgment, but opportunities for a second chance. Second chances permeate the history of mankind. Two such stories have direct relevance to Rosh Hashanah – the day of the creation of man. Within one generation, one quarter of the world’s reported population was dead. After Kane murdered his brother, he was reprimanded by the Creator. However, God gave Kane a chance to live out his life, albeit as a marked man, until Kane’s seventhgeneration descendent, Lemech, accidentally killed his primeval ancestor. Thus, the themes of creation and justice are united in a story of second chances.

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Another story of second chances is read from the Torah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Abraham’s first-born son, Ishmael, initially disgraced himself and he and his mother Hagar were banished by God’s diktat from Abraham’s household and almost perished in the desert. However, when boy and mother cried out due to their suffering, God heard and heeded Ishmael’s cry because, at that moment, he was truly penitent for what he had done. As formerly promised, Ishmael became the ancestor of the 12 great princedoms. He lived his life in accordance with his father’s teachings and died a righteous man. For this reason, Ishmael is a name that has been used by Jews in the priesthood, even to this day.

Towards the end of Neilah, the closing prayer of Yom Kippur, there is a phrase which describes how God holds out a helping hand to sinners to return them back onto the path of correctness. In the Hebrew language, the same expression “to give a hand to sinners” can also mean the opposite: to assist wrongdoers in their enterprise. For God, the delicate difference between the two is no effort to make. For us on earth, it is a tightrope walk to tread. May the Almighty give us the wisdom we need to know the difference, and be granted a year of blessings.

 Ariel Abel is rabbi of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation

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This week’s timeless icon is the late transgender actress and activist, Alexis Arquette

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STEPHEN LAUGHTON Forty-seven years old is too young to die. But earlier this month, surrounded by her family, actress and activist Alexis Arquette passed away. I first clocked Arquette in teeny indy comedy-drama Threesome. I loved the film, but it turned out Arquette hated it. She was outspoken from the off, but perhaps she had to be – the fourth of five children born into a Hollywood dynasty, Arquette was never going to get far by staying quiet. Life was not easy as an openly gay actor during the 1990s in Hollywood. Often perceived as a troublemaker, Arquette soon found her niche – eccentric characters in off-beat films – and the roles came pouring in: Pulp Fiction, Of Mice and Men and Frisk, to name a few. She finally crossed over into mainstream cinema with the 1998 Adam Sandler vehicle, The Wedding Singer. There was a delicacy in the playfulness and something completely tragic and nuanced in the humour.

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Arquette started transitioning in her late thirties and soon became an uncompromising and political transgender activist. Her TV show, The Surreal Life, has been widely credited with helping to increase the visibility of trans people. Towards the end of her life, it was reported she once again started living as a man, labelling herself as “gender suspicious” – indeed, her death certificate has her listed by her birth name, Robert. In a statement, her sister Patricia said: “Her career was cut short, not by her passing, but by her decision to live her truth and her life as a transgender woman. “Despite the fact that there are few parts for trans actors, she refused to play roles that were demeaning or stereotypical. She was a vanguard in the fight for understanding and acceptance for all trans people.” I hope her legacy lives on.

Stephen Laughton is a member of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue

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opposed the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, in light of the Shia state’s open calls for Israel’s destruction. It is widely accepted that Israel has nuclear warheads, but should it? I’d rather no country in the world had nuclear weapons, but that’s not the reality we live in. For as long as Israel is surrounded by governments or militias deliberately building up military capabilities with destruction in mind, it is justifiable to have a means of deterrence. I’d like to believe Iran would be deterred by Israel’s nuclear might but I hope no Israeli leader will ever have to make the decision to “push the button”. The right to self-defence is a controversial subject. With regards missiles from Gaza and stray fire from Syria, how do we judge the “correct” (and proportionate) way for Israel to defend itself? Can missiles be deterred with the same amount and calibre of missiles or is it necessary to destroy the entire source of missiles (and those launching them) to make the aggression end? If the question is simply whether Israel has the right to defend itself, I’m convinced it does. However, also important are the actions it concurrently takes to try to resolve the deep-seated issues leading to aggression. Thais Portilho is a Liberal Jew and head of communications at BICOM

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Sport / Sunday morning review, pictures & video highlights: www.jewishnews.co.uk ANTI-SEMITISM IN FOOTBALL DEBATE

Anti-Semitism in football will be discussed at a Q&A panel on Thursday evening. Organised by Action Against Discrimination (AAD), a six-man panel at JW3 will be chaired by AAD chairman Jonathan Metliss (pictured). He said: “The aim of holding this event is to put the issue of antiSemitism in football back on the map. We don’t feel enough is being done, by both the football authorities and the Jewish Community.”

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NL Raiders beat Lions A 3-1 in Division One of the Masters League, thanks to Alex Bourne’s double and Gideon Gold’s strike. Brady beat Scrabble 2-1, Ashley Davidson and Mark Wagman both on target. In Division Two, EDRS beat Brady B 6-1. Ian Sassoon scored twice, with Jon Dubiner, Martin Seifert, Tony Platman and Malcolm Joseph also on target. Lloyd Nygate scored twice in Glenthorne’s 3-2 win over Hendon Harriers, while Temple Fortune beat Marshside 4-3, thanks to Jeremy Fess’ double, David Sawyer’s strike and an own goal.

Liron’s the star as champs topple Team Champions North London Raiders A claimed their first win of the season in the Premier Division. Liron Mannie bagged a hattrick, with strikes from Matt Stock, Joe Cohen and Dave Cohen giving Dan Shafron’s side a 6-2 win over FC Team. Hendon A are top of the table as Ari Last’s double helped them to a 5-1 win at SPEC. Zac Lewis, Yoav Lebens and Josh Harris completed the scoring. Oakwood A beat Camden Park 4-1 thanks to Dave Woolman’s brace, Daniel Seligman and Jonny Quinn were also on target. Woodford Wanderers and Brady Maccabi shared the points in a 1-1 draw, Tom Alexander and Reiss Mogilner scoring respectively. Los Blancos made it two wins from their opening three games in Division One, as goals from Avi Kestenbaum and Jeff Gross helped them to a 3-1 win at Hendon B. Scrabble claimed their first win of the season as goals from Josh Bharrier and Zak McLeod saw them beat Finchley City 2-1. North London Raiders B made it three wins from three in Division Two. Jake Gilbert and Alex Goodman scored twice, with David

Esterkin, Danny Bloom and Will Ufland also on target in a 7-3 win over Faithfold B. Two goals each from Craig Edwards and Ashley Stokes saw Catford & Bromley win 7-0 at Mill Hill Dons. Player-manager Jeff Gotch, Danny Yeshua and Jamie Sinai also got on the scoresheet. A hat-trick from Max Martin helped L’Equipe claim a 5-0 win at FC Team B. Andy Smith and Mark Smith were also on target. Temple Fortune and RC UK FC drew 2-2. Zack Rich scored twice to put Fortune 2-0 ahead, but late strikes from Jonti Aremband and David Brown earned the visitors a point. Redbridge C made it two wins from two as goals from Daniel Lipman, Aaron Goldberg, Jordan Sapler and Daniel Garfinkle all scored in their 4-2 win over Faithfold B. North London Raiders C claimed their first win of the season thanks to an emphatic 9-1 win over Boca. Liam Stein and Alex Sher both scored hat-tricks, Alex Elf chipped in with two, with Rob Samuelson completing the rout.

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Israel hits new heights against GB Israel became the final team to qualify for next year’s World Baseball Classic tournament after they beat Great Britain 9-1 on Sunday. Finishing top of a four-team qualifying tournament in Brooklyn, the Israelis had earlier beaten GB 5-2 and Brazil 1-0.

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Adam Warner began the new season in stunning style – as he won gold at the British Masters Open Water Championships. Held at the Serpentine, he said: “It was not only a great result, but also an experience I’ll never forget. I couldn’t be more over the moon, especially considering I got cramp during the race, which made it challenging.” Adam’s next in action at the masters nationals in Sheffield in October.

Gershfield scores six as Lions win two cup ties in two days James Gershfield struck five times as London Lions’ first tie in the Herts Senior Cup ended in a 6-3 win over Weston FC. Putting them ahead when he volleyed home David Cohen’s through ball to deservedly put them in front, they did though find themselves going into the break 3-1 down. That didn’t last for long though as Gershfield added four more goals to his tally to put them in control. Dom Chenairt headed home their sixth to wrap up an ultimately comprehensive win. Gershfield also found the back of the net 24 hours earlier as he scored their first goal in the Saturday team’s 3-1 Aubrey Cup win over Broadfields. Their first game in the competition, Josh Kennet scored their other two goals as the

Israeli long-distance runner Elena Dolinin broke the Israeli women’s marathon record on Sunday when she finished the Berlin marathon in seventh place, in a time of 2:35:59. Her first ever competitive marathon, the 38-yearold broke Nili Avramski’s 12-year-old record by 37 seconds. She said: “I never imagined that I would achieve such a result.”

Rowley Lane side booked their place in the last 16 of the competition, as they secured their third consecutive win of the season.

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Visit: www.jewishnews.co.uk for the latest Jewish sports / Sport MACCABI GB SOUTHERN LEAGUE FOOTBALL PREMIER DIVISION Camden Park 1 Oakwood A 4 North London Raiders A 6 FC Team A 2 SPEC 1 Hendon United A 5 Woodford Wanderers 1 Brady 1 P W D L F Dif Pts Hendon United A 3 3 0 0 14 8 9 Oakwood A 3 2 0 1 9 7 6 London Lions A 2 2 0 0 4 2 6 Redbridge A 2 2 0 0 4 2 6 Brady Maccabi 2 1 1 0 7 6 4 NL Raiders A 3 1 0 2 10 2 3 Woodford 2 0 1 1 3 -1 1 Camden Park 2 0 0 2 1 -4 0 FC Team A 2 0 0 2 5 -7 0 SPEC FC 3 0 0 3 1 -15 0

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DIVISION ONE

Athletic Bilbaum 1 Los Blancos 3 Faithfold A 3 North London Raiders B 7 Oakwood B P Hendon United B P Scrabble 2 Finchley City 1 P W D L F Dif Pts NL Raiders B 3 3 0 0 12 6 9 London Lions B 2 2 0 0 8 6 6 Redbridge B 2 2 0 0 7 4 6 Los Blancos 3 2 0 1 8 2 6 Finchley City FC 2 1 0 1 5 1 3 Faithfold A 2 1 0 1 7 0 3 Scrabble 2 1 0 1 3 0 3 Oakwood B 2 0 0 2 3 -3 0 Brixton Old Boys 1 0 0 1 1 -4 0 Hendon United B 2 0 0 2 3 -4 0 Athletic Bilbaum 3 0 0 3 2 -8 0 jewishnews.co.uk/msfl-one-table/

DIVISION TWO FC Team B 0 L’Equipe 5 Mill Hill Dons 0 Catford & Bromley 7 NL Raiders C 9 Boca Jewniors 1 Redbridge C 4 Faithfold B 2 Temple Fortune 2 RC UK FC 2 P W D L F Dif Pts Catford & Bromley 3 3 0 0 16 15 9 RC UK FC 3 2 1 0 16 13 7 Temple Fortune 3 2 1 0 7 2 7 L’Equipe 2 2 0 0 8 6 6 Redbridge C 2 2 0 0 6 4 6 NL Raiders C 3 1 0 2 13 6 3 Mill Hill Dons 3 1 0 2 5 -6 3 Faithfold B 3 1 0 2 6 -7 3 Hertswood Vale 2 0 0 2 3 -5 0 Boca Jewniors 1 0 0 1 1 -8 0 Real Hendon 2 0 0 2 1 -8 0 FC Team B 3 0 0 3 2 -12 0 jewishnews.co.uk/msfl-two-table

GOAL OF THE WEEK

MGBFL GOALSCORERS

DANIEL GARFINKLE (REDBRIDGE C) Capped off a 15-minute cameo by beating three men down the left wing before slotting home

SAVE OF THE WEEK

ADAM ZAIDMAN (SCRABBLE) With the Finchley City striker bearing down on him, held his nerve to produce a matchwinning stop

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

JOSH HAMBLING(REDBRIDGE C) “With so many attacking options available today in a full 16-man squad, I had more options than a Cadbury’s factory!”

SUNDAY’S FIXTURES

Sunday 1 Oct: Cyril Anekstein Cup First Round: Boca Jewniors vs FC Team B Premier Division: Brady Maccabi vs FC Team A Hendon United A vs Camden Park NL Raiders A vs Woodford Wanderers Redbridge A vs London Lions A Division One: Brixton Old Boys vs Hendon United B Finchley City vs Athletic Bilbaum Los Blancos vs Scrabble London Lions B vs Faithfold A NL Raiders B vs Redbridge B Division Two: Catford & Bromley vs RC UK FC Faithfold B vs Mill Hill Dons L’Equipe vs Hertswood Vale Real Hendon vs NL Raiders C Temple Fortune vs Redbridge C

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS Watch Maccabi London Lions B clinch promotion from Division Two: NL Raiders C vs London Lions B

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RESULTS

Watford Friendly League U18 – London Lions White 8 Enfield Rangers 1 Blue Division – Brady Blue 5 Bushey Rangers 4 Green Division – Alexandra Park South 3 Brady Red 3 U16 – London Lions White 11 Hinton & Finchley 0 Challenge Cup First Round – Brady Red 3 Olympiacos 2 Second Round – Brady Blue 4 Aldenham Panthers 0 U15 – Kings Langley 6 London Lions White 5, Hendon United 4 Harvesters East 3 Green Division – London Lions Blues 4 Brady Black 3 White Division – Brady Blue 6 Whetstone Wanderers Lions 0 U14 – Alexandra Park North 1 London Lions White 1, Hendon United 14 Hampstead Tigers 0, HMH 6 London Lions Blue 2 League Cup First Round Preliminary – Brady Red 7 AEK Youth Gold 1, Harvesters West 11 Brady White 1 U13 – Hendon United Netanya 2 Bushey Rangers 2, London Lions White 3 AC Finchley 1 League Cup First Round – Omonia Green 1 Brady White 0, Enfield Rangers 3 HGS 1 U12 – Hadleywood & Wingate Eagles 5 NWLJ 4, Hendon United Reds 4 London Lions Yellow 3, Hendon United White 3 Alexandra Park North 0, London Lions White 5 Omonia Gold 3, London Lions Green 5 Omonia White 0 League Cup First Round– Brady Red 1 HMH Juniors 0, Hinton & Finchley 6 Brady White 1, Brady Blue 7 St Albans Rangers 2

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HAT-TRICK HEROES

MGBSFL Premier Division: Liron Mannie (NL Raiders A) Division Two – Max Martin (L’Equipe), Liam Stein, Alex Sher (both NL Raiders C) Watford Friendly League U16 – Joel Walters (London Lions White) U15 – Sam Taylor (Brady Black) U14 – Jake Greenfield (Brady Red), Yedidya Solomon 8 (Hendon United) U12 – Zane Appleson Fidler 4 (London Lions White), Yona King (London Lions Green), Joshua Brittan (Hendon United Red), Josh Woolf 5 (Brady Blue) U11 – Eyal Kjisik (Brady White)

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Aubrey Cup: Broadfields 1 London Lions 3 P W D L F Dif Pts Bovingdon 7 6 0 1 27 14 18 London Lions 6 6 0 0 20 13 18 Standon & Puck 7 5 1 1 27 13 16 Bushey Sports Club 7 5 1 1 19 9 16 Belstone 6 4 2 0 18 10 14 Sandridge Rovers 7 4 2 1 12 8 14 Wormley Rovers 7 4 2 1 16 5 14 Letchworth Garden 7 3 2 2 17 7 11 Ware Sports 7 3 1 3 16 -1 10 Chipperfield 7 2 1 4 22 4 7 Buntingford Town 7 1 1 5 12 -11 4 Evergreen 7 1 0 6 10 -16 3 Hatfield Social 6 1 0 5 8 -22 3 Knebworth 7 0 2 5 8 -7 2 Sarratt 7 0 2 5 4 -12 2 Cuffley 6 0 1 5 9 -14 1 jewishnews.co.uk/category/sport/ football/lions

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ISRAELI LIGAT HA’AL

Brady Maccabi A 2 Scrabble 1 London Lions A 1 NL Raiders 3

NL Raiders Brady Maccabi A Chigwell Scrabble London Lions A HMH

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GARSTON VETS LEAGUE London Maccabi North Greenford Abbey F.C. Colney Heath Garston Winchmore Hill Latymer Old Boys F.C.Deportivo Galicia

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P W D L F Dif Pts Maccabi Tel-Aviv 6 5 1 0 18 14 16 Mac Petach-Tikva 5 3 2 0 8 4 11 Hapoel Beer-Sheva 5 3 1 1 9 6 10 Hapoel Haifa FC 5 3 0 2 11 5 9 Maccabi Haifa FC 5 2 2 1 6 1 8 Hap Kiryat Shmona 5 1 4 0 8 1 7 Hapoel Kfar-Saba 5 2 1 2 5 -1 7 Beitar Jerusalem 5 1 3 1 9 -1 6 Hapoel Ashkelon 5 1 3 1 4 -2 6 Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv 5 1 2 2 3 -3 5 Bnei Sakhnin 6 1 2 3 4 -6 5 Hapoel Ra’anana 5 0 2 3 1 -5 2 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 5 0 2 3 3 -8 2 FC Ashdodw 5 0 1 4 2 -5 1 jewishnews.co.uk/category/sport/israeli/

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SCRABBLE Making his last appearance for the club, made several important second half saves to keep his side in the game

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HERTFORDSHIRE SENIOR LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION

LOS BLANCOS Put in a faultless performance at leftback, was key to Blancos’ second win of the season

REDBRIDGE C Strong performance at the heart of the Redbridge defence as side made it two wins from two

TENPLE FORTUNE Was excellent, played out of position but dealt with everything and looked comfortable throughout

OAKWOOD A First game in over six months, produced an outstanding display motoring up and down the right wing

CATFORD & BROMLEY Bossed the game for The Cats, was described as being ‘untouchable’ in the centre of the park

FC TEAM B Excellent both defensively and going forward, never gave up and was key to side’s comeback

NORTH LONDON RAIDERS B Has dreamt about being the Raiders’ Aaron Ramsey, is a bundle of energy and took his goals well

NORTH LONDON RAIDERS C Scored a hat-trick which contributed heavily to his side’s first win of the season L’EQUIPE A great hat-trick on his second start, beginning to form a devastating partnership with Andy Smith

11 LIRON MANNIE

NORTH LONDON RAIDERS A Scored three and claimed two assists. Gave FC Team a torrid time for the 90 minutes

PLAYER OF THE WEEK LIRON MANNIE North London Raiders A

MANAGER OF THE WEEK JOSHUA HAMBLING Redbridge C