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News / Battle of Cable Street
Cable Street is our ‘roadmap’
Richard Benson, Doug Krikler, Michael Wegier and Jonathan Arkush
than walls. Some of the people we met today were there and we should recognise the huge contribution to London as we know it now.” The gathering at Shoreditch Town Hall, close to the scene of the famous battle, was organised by the London Jewish Forum and Jewish Leadership Council and media partnered by Jewish News. Guests included MPs John Mann and Stephen Timms, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady, local councillors and Sir Trevor Chinn, the inspiration behind the ceremony. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis hailed the “bravery and heroism” of those who took to the streets. “It was here we learnt the lesson of the power of unity. So many individuals, groups and families gained added strength from the numbers of people who poured on to the streets,” he said. “There should be no place for such sentiment or such actions – we need to have zero-tolerance for racism, for xenophobia, for anti-Semitism.” MP Ruth Smeeth spoke of her grandmother collecting rotten fruit to use as missiles during the battle, while Reform Movement Senior Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner referred to her grandfather’s service to the area as MP for Whitechapel. She said: “Today’s not a commemoration.
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Sadiq Khan has said the way communities came together to repel fascism at Cable Street offers a “roadmap” for defeating extremists, as Jewish leaders and politicians came together to mark the battle’s 80th anniversary. The community’s gathering was part of a series of events eight decades after a planned march through a Jewish area of the East End by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was thwarted. Police had planned to allow the march to proceed on 4 October 1936, but it was later cancelled after 20,000 Jews, socialists and trade unionists took to the streets to set up barricades – a landmark moment in the fight against racism. The London mayor said British Jews should be “proud” of the events of that day, whose message he said is as relevant today as it was then. “It’s so important to recognise that history tells us there are people who would divide our communities – and history tells us the roadmap to defeat them,” he told Jewish News. “Solidarity, people coming together, building bridges rather
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Marie Van der Zyl and her daughter with mayor Sadiq Khan
Today’s a call to action. It’s a shofar blast. The Battle of Cable Street is not over. It’s now our turn to show a fraction of the courage shown by these veterans with us today. They showed hateful extremism wouldn’t be tolerated then. We must show that it never will be. This is our inheritance.” MP Rushanara Ali spoke of her pride at representing an area “that is what it is because of the struggle particularly of the British Jewish community against fascism and anti-Semitism,” while LJF chair Adrian Cohen recalled the battle led to the Public Order Act requiring a police license to march and the banning of paramilitary uniforms in political demonstrations. He said: “Racist, misogynistic, homophobic or anti-Semitic prejudices are not confined to fascists, although fascists tend to be more deliberate in their articulation of them. We must all work together to resist our body politic across the spectrum... becoming infected by ideologies of extremism and intolerant ways of behaving.” Guests signed a pledge to tackle all forms of racism including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Meanwhile, thousands marched through the East End past the famous Cable Street mural, as
part of an event organised by an assortment of organisations including the Unite union. Among them was a group from the Jewish Labour Movement, who sung the Hatikvah and Adon Olam. Jeremy Corbyn, who learnt about the battle from his mother Naomi, who was there at the time, spoke of the “deep personal significance” of the historic event. “The principles that brought those people on to the streets runs through my DNA. I will never turn my back on those values. I will fight against those who today aim to drive a wedge between us and our communities.”
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This fight was a family affair RUTH SMEETH
LABOUR MP STOKE-ON-TRENT NORTH
The story of Cable Street is the story
of real lives, of the old East End and the souls who inhabited it. It’s a story of rough-and-ready Irish dockers and scrappy young Jews, of rabbis breaking bread with Commies and bookies breaking skulls with Blackshirts. It’s the story of my own family, and countless others. And the tales of that fateful day in 1936, and the lessons that they hold, should never be forgotten. Despite its place in history, the Battle of Cable Street might never have taken place. When it did, it was the result of necessity and desperation rather than design. When Mosley’s plan to march through the East End was announced, a deputation of the five East London mayors visited the home secretary directly to ask that the march be banned. When this request was refused, the community itself campaigned to put a halt to the march, gathering a petition of more than 100,000 signatures calling for a halt to the event. Despite the obvious threat to local residents, and the fierce opposition of the local community, the authorities sided with
Mosley’s fascists. In the face of this indifference, it was left to the community to defend itself. And so it did. My great uncle Hymie was a boxer, a betting man and an alleged member of Jack Spot’s Aldgate Mob. Later, like most East End bookies, he would go on to become an acquaintance of Ronnie and Reggie Kray. As it turns out, Hymie was resourceful too when his family, friends and community needed him to be. When he heard a fight was on the cards, he and his friends leapt into action. They organised a tour of the snooker halls and coffee shops of the East End. They “borrowed” the snooker cues and broom handles for future use, and took the table legs too for good measure. They also collected money, to grease the palms of the local constabulary in an attempt to evade arrest while defending the community. The actions of the police that day showed the gesture made little difference to an establishment that shamefully sided with the fascists at every turn. The struggle against the Blackshirts was truly a family affair. My nana, just 23 at the time, spent the days before the march gathering fruit and vegetables at her home in Commercial Street to hurl at the fascists. Family folklore suggests that fruit wasn’t the only thing she was preparing as weapons against the fascists. I’m proud of what my family did and, as the former director of HOPE not hate, I’m proud to follow in their footsteps. In our collective fight against the politics of hate, the greatest weapon I ever found was the tolerance, respect and common bonds that hold our communities together. That, and occasionally a table leg.
Red Flag meets Adon Olam SARAH SACKMAN
VICE CHAIR JEWISH LABOUR MOVEMENT
On Sunday a noisy, colourful march of more than one thousand people, started at Aldgate and wended its way through the East End, culminating in St George’s Gardens, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. The diverse marchers were made up of trade unionists, local Labour parties – from Golders Green to Tower Hamlets - BAME groups, Irish associations, Far Left groups and even a Yiddish marching band! I was proud to march alongside fellow members of the Jewish Labour Movement under quite easily the largest banner at the event, emblazoned with JLM’s white Magen David logo on a red background. We gathered to recognise the contribution of our predecessors - parents, grandparents and great-grandparents - who stood up to the fascists and to learn Cable Street’s lessons for today. At the rally I spoke as JLM vice-chair alongside Max Levitas, Cable Street veteran, Jeremy Corbyn, and writer, Michael Rosen and others, next to one of London’s most striking pieces of street art, a giant mural commemorating 4 October 1936.
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That day Jews, Irish dockers, Labourites and Socialists put racial and political differences aside and came together to prevent Mosley’s British Union of Fascists from marching through the Jewish neighbourhood. I spoke about Cable Street’s special place in British Jewish history. Mosley’s decision to march in the East End was deliberate. The BUF’s anti-semitism echoed European fascism. When they needed someone to blame for society’s problems, they chose the Jews. That is why it was so important for the JLM, the inheritors of Cable Street’s legacy, to participate in the anniversary parade. JLM, formerly known as Poale Zion, was established to organise a political movement of Jewish people within the Labour Party. In 1936 it was part of the Jewish Labour Council which brought together Jewish trade unionists, socialists and labor Zionists, to take a more active approach to opposing fascism. More than 50 Jewish Labour activists and many more allies from across the Party marched with pride and purpose. There was singing led by ex-youth movementniks, of Ose Shalom, Hatikvah and even a rendition of Adon Olam to the tune of the Red Flag! Today, memory is giving way to history. The social and political way of life of the Jewish East End has all but disappeared. Yet, the idea of the East End continues to inspire people, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, committed to a universal understanding of social justice. It serves as a powerful reminder that ordinary people can and must stand up against racism, hate and antisemitism wherever we find it, including within our own ranks.
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News / MPs criticised / Indian Mitzvah Day
Blunt talk over cleric The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee has hit back after being criticised for sharing a stage with Ismail Patel, who has been accused of supporting a Palestinian sheikh found guilty of blood libel. Crispin Blunt, who is also the MP for Reigate, attended a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference organised by Friends of Al-Aqsa (FoA), based in Leicester. He spoke alongside Hannah Stoddart, director of advocacy and communications at War Child, and Ismail Patel, chair of FoA, who has caused concern with his support for Sheikh Raed Salah, who runs the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. However, the MP told Jewish News: “While I was unaware of this controversy before the meeting – and a basic Google search didn’t reveal it at the time – chairing a meeting does not amount to endorsing the panellists’ views, not least when they are set to present different viewpoints in a debate. “Additionally, I prefer an approach that engages with controversial speakers and provides an opportunity for accountability. There would have to be very serious reasons to disen-
Jewish groups have reacted with caution after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced his new shadow justice minister will be an MP who seemed to compare the plight of Palestinians in Gaza with those of Jews in the Holocaust. The MP for Bolton South East, Yasmin Qureshi, promoted to Corbyn’s shadow cabinet this week, is remembered by many for her remarks on Israelis and Palestinians in February 2014, in which she appeared to draw parallels with the Shoah. On the Holocaust, she said: “Of course, many millions perished. It is quite
strange that some of the people who are running the state of Israel seem to be quite complacent and happy to allow the same to happen in Gaza.” She later apologised. Board of DepuApology: Yasmin Qureshi ties’ vice president Marie van der Zyl said: “Yasmin Qureshi was offensive and she was right to apologise. Naturally we hope she will be more judicious in her new role.”
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Above: Crispin Blunt. Inset: Raed Salah
gage from dialogue and guilt by association at one remove with a ridiculous and discredited thesis does not cut it.” Salah is a veteran campaigner for Palestinian rights and, in a 2007 speech, was accused of stoking violence by means of racist incitement, and for invoking a blood libel against European Jews. He was at first acquitted by a Jerusalem judge. This was overturned on appeal and he was subsequently imprisoned. Mark Gardner, communications director at Community Security Trust, said: “This meeting is somewhat ironic and surprising, given Ismail Patel’s support for the infamous Raed Salah.” Jewish Lib Dem peer Lord Monroe Palmer also criticised Blunt for attending.
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News / Antiques Roadshow / Refugee plea NEWS IN BRIEF
ODDS AGAINST ODZE BEING UKIP MAYOR Greater Manchester could have its first Orthodox Jewish mayor next year – if the city votes UKIP. Shneur Odze, 35, from Salford, is due to be unveiled as the antiimmigration party’s candidate, pending final confirmation, and said this week that his campaign would focus on “everyday issues, like health, housing and policing”. He is up against overwhelming favourite Andy Burnham, the Labour candidate who left his shadow cabinet position to concentrate on his mayoral campaign.
WATERS PRO-BDS SPEECH AT CONCERT Former Pink Floyd star Roger Waters made his feelings about Donald Trump and Israel clear during a politically-charged performance in California. The British 73-year-old blasted the Republican presidential candidate before endorsing the Boycotts of Israel. Waters waited until near the end of his performance to voice support for the Palestinianled BDS movement. He said: “I’m standing up for the brothers and sisters in Palestine.”
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The BBC’s iconic flagship programme, Antiques Roadshow, is teaming up for the first time with the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation (UKHMF) to mark Holocaust Memorial Day next January. In a special edition of the programme, to be filmed next month, the Roadshow team will look at artefacts from the Holocaust with the aim of exploring the stories behind them. Newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, a board member of the UKHMF, has already conducted a number of interviews with British Holocaust survivors and camp liberators, many of whom were speaking for the first time. Some of these interviews will be included in the January programme. Now the Roadshow hopes to uncover many more stories from survivors and their families. In a rare break with the traditions of the programme, the BBC has decided that items will not be valued.
UK rabbis have joined leaders of other faiths in urging Theresa May to allow almost 400 refugee children as young as eight years old into the UK. The 397 youngsters live in the notorious camp in Calais, nicknamed ‘the Jungle’ because of its dire conditions, but the makeshift town of 9,000 people is slated for demolition before the winter by French authorities. Senior Reform Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner joined several bishops and the general-secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Rashid Khan, in calling for urgent government action. They said the children “have fled conflict and persecution, are now stuck in northern France, deeply traumatised, and are at great risk,” noting that the anti-slavery commission May herself appointed had recently concluded likewise. “We are now just days away from the start of demolition,” they said, adding that the camp was “a stain on the conscience of France and Britain… but in haste to clear it, the need to protect children is even more paramount.” During the last demolition, charities said 129 children went missing, and children are turning to smuggling gangs amid frustration with official routes for claiming asylum. The group of 200 Christian, Muslim and Jewish clerics urged May to “unblock” rules preventing refugee families being reunited in the UK, but the Home Office said: “French authorities have primary responsibility for unaccompanied children.” Read more at jewishnews.co.uk
Journalist Jenni Frazer was inspired by an initiative at Yad Vashem, Gathering the Fragments, to suggest the idea to the UKHMF, which brought the BBC on board. She said: “I believe there are many families who have inherited diaries and papers of all kinds from their parents or grandparents, and, perhaps because they do not speak the languages, have no idea where such items fit in the jigsaw of the Holocaust. “I’m really hoping that people come forward with material from labour camps or ghettoes, or perhaps keepsakes that those fleeing the Nazis brought with them to Britain.” Previous editions of the Roadshow have featured stories and objects owned by Jewish families during World War Two. They have included jewels buried by families fleeing the Nazis and even a ring a Holocaust survivor kept hidden through several concentration camps.
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Report reveals ‘shocking’ abuse in Stamford Hill A new study this week shone a light on the “shocking daily racist abuse” suffered by Orthodox Jews in areas such as Stamford Hill. Following a month-long investigation, Shomrim reported 32 incidents which it claims were anti-Semitic, including an eight-year boy beaten up on his way home from school and another forced to remove his kippah under threat. In the review, it also recorded a woman who was “jeered” and a “group of Jewish women chased through the streets by a gang of teenage girls shouting racist abuse”. Most incidents took place in Hackney and Haringey, and security volunteer group Shomrim said the results were “the tip of the iceberg,” with widespread acknowledgement that there is underreporting of abuse. In the Government’s most recent Hate Crime Action Plan, published in July, the Home Office noted that “Jewish people from the Charedi community are less likely than other sections of the Jewish community to report
Swastikas were found daubed in a playground in Stamford Hill during the summer
hate crimes to the authorities”. Rabbi Herschel Gluck, president of Stamford Hill Shomrim, said: “It has long been said that anti-Semitism is under-reported in the Charedi community, which is the most visible segment of the Jewish community, but these figures are nevertheless shocking, even more so since this is only the tip of the iceberg.” The Community Security Trust
(CST) recorded 379 anti-Semitic incidents in Greater London in the first six months of this year, but of these, only 40 were in Hackney. Mark Gardner, CST communications director, said: “Last year we recorded over 160 examples of visibly Jewish members of the public suffering antiSemitic incidents, so there is no doubt that this problem needs addressing.”
Bouattia offers to talk with UJS The National Union of Students president has offered to meet with Jewish representatives. Malia Bouattia [pictured], who has been accused of “failing Jewish students”, sent a request to the Union of Jewish Students asking to arrange talks. The NUS told Jewish News: “Malia sent UJS a letter on 30 September, asking to meet with the union and offering several dates when she would be available. UJS confirmed the letter was received, but a meeting has yet to be arranged.” UJS said the meeting will be used to address “concerns of Jewish students regarding anti-Semitism in the movement.” The news comes after a turbulent period for Jewish students, following Bouattia’s election earlier this year. She caused upset after refusing to apologise for describing Birmingham University as “something of a
Zionist outpost” in an article she co-authored. Last week, student leaders across the country took aim at Bouattia, saying Jewish students had been “undermined” under her leadership. In an open letter, 28 union presidents and vice-presidents joined 10 members of the NUS’ National Executive Committee, three NUS vicepresidents as well as NUS’ representatives in Scotland and Wales, in a fiery open letter of complaint.
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Community leaders have condemned an “outrageous” discussion that was due to take place today at a London university, in which students are told about “decoupling Judaism and Zionism”. Activists at the SOAS Palestine Society plan to examine “the borderline between Judaism and Zionism in the debate over Israel-Palestine,” which Jewish community leaders claim is an “attempt to redefine antiSemitism”. Students will be told about “the role of Jewish allies in the struggle for justice for Palestinians, whether anti-Zionism is indeed anti-Semitic, the link between Zionism and anti-Semitism, and where to draw the line between combating the weap-
onisation of anti-Semitism and identifying real instances of anti-Semitism”. Board of Deputies Vice President Marie van der Zyl said: “It is outrageous that any outside group would take it upon themselves to redefine anti-Semitism for hostile political ends. For the vast majority of British Jews, political, cultural and religious affiliation with the state of Israel is a fundamental part of their Jewish identity.” She added: “In suggesting that this is somehow a politicised or contrived relationship is outrageous. We utterly condemn this event and give our full support to SOAS Jewish Society and the Union of Jewish Students in standing up for the rights of Jewish students.”
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FILM FESTIVAL EVENT HELD ON KOL NIDRE
A pro-Palestine student event scheduled for Kol Nidre was been postponed by a leading university. Entitled ‘How Can Palestine be Free?’, the talk was set to be held at Manchester University Students Union, before the institution delayed it citing concerns over a perceived lack of balance. Hosted by the Socialist Worker Student Society, it was scheduled to begin half-an-hour before Yom Kippur, excluding Jewish students. A university spokesperson told Jewish News the event was pulled as it “had the potential to breach the code of practice on freedom of speech. All parties involved should have the chance to express their views, which Jewish students would not have been able to do on account of the scheduling.” A new date is yet to be set.
An event to promote the opening night movie at this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival was held on Kol Nidre. Journalists were invited to attend the preview screening of Indignation, UKJF’s choice for its opening night gala, for 6.30pm on Tuesday night. The film, directed by James Schamus, is based on Philip Roth’s 2008 novel of the same name and tells the story of Marcus (Logan Lerman), the gifted son of a kosher butcher from Newark, who is swept off his feet by blonde bombshell Olivia (Sarah Gaddon). Vertigo Releasing, the PR firm representing UKJF, said: “We haven’t arranged this screening and it is not the official festival screening. This is a screening organised by the UK distributor of the film for select press.”
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Community Hero /News briefs/ News
We’re holding out for a hero! Do you know a hero in our midst? Someone who has performed an extraordinary act of kindness over the past 12 months or worked tirelessly over many years to help those in need? Jewish News’ annual Community Hero, in partnership with Mitzvah Day, is looking to shine a light on such heroes. We’ll be honouring someone who has performed an extraordinary act of kindness over the past 12 months or worked tirelessly to help those in need. The winner will follow in the footsteps of last year’s inspiring recipient, Rachel Morgan. She posthumously won the prize for raising thousands of pounds for charity through a series of physical feats, including 13 skydives – despite suffering from Hypermobility Syndrome, which severely affects the body’s joints
and pain pathways to the brain. Our finalists will be revealed next month before the winner is announced at the conclusion of Mitzvah Day on 27 November – when thousands of people give their time to support good causes across the country. If you think you know such a person, email us 200 words outlining their work, to editorial@the jngroup.com. Nominations must be received by 7 November. A shortlist will be drawn up and a winner picked by judges including Mitzvah Day founder Laura Marks, Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer, Hendon MP Matthew Offord and Helen Simmons, chief executive of Nightingale Hammerson. Entires for the Mitzvah Day Awards are also open – with gongs for Best Mitzvah Day, Top School Project, Interfaith Partnership and an All Year Round Award.
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Rachel’s parents John and Judith Morgan receive last year’s Community Hero award in their daughter’s honour
Blind shopper’s anger at butcher A blind man said he suffered discrimination in kosher butchers in Radlett, after being told he could not enter the shop with his guide dog. Kelvin Sheridan, who relies on his dog Mia, tried to enter the branch of Ivor Silverman on Sunday, but said he was left angry and upset after repeatedly being asked to leave. “The member of staff behind the counter said to me you will have to take the dog out,”
said Sheridan. “I said she is a guide dog. He still said that I had to leave. I told him it is against the law to discriminate.” Ivor Silverman owner Steven Grossman said: “We don’t allow dogs because there is open exposed meat, but you can’t discriminate on the basis on disability, so there is a balance. We always offer to help people who need assistance, and I have personally stood outside before with owners’ dogs.” Grossman said Sheridan already had assistance, because he entered the shop “arm-in-arm with a woman who was helping him”. Because of this, he said he did not believe the shop acted inappropriately.
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The government has said Jewish convicts may be given temporary release from prison next Passover to be at home with their family. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice Sam Gyimah revealed the new in response to a question from Tory MP Phillip Davies. Gyimah confirmed Passover was one of the festivals considered for prisoners’ temporary release, alongside Diwali and Eid.
A man carrying an axe made anti-Semitic threats to a group of Jews in a town near Manchester, on Rosh Hashanah. The man reportedly was inside a vehicle close to a synagogue in Prestwich, when he made the threats on 3 October. Police were called to the scene and arrested a 45-year-old man suspected of possessing a weapon and committing a racially motivated public order crime.
Police are investigating after a man shouted anti-Semitic abuse at Charedi Jews in Stamford Hill. A black male allegedly yelled ‘shocking and disgusting abuse’ at group of strictly-Orthodox Jews at a courtyard of a girls school courtyard last Thursday. He exclaimed: “Jews, dirty Jews, I’m Hitler, I’ll kill the Jews”, according to Stamford Hill neighbourhood watch group Shomrim.
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News / The Honey G phenomenon
Honey G’s so sweet X Factor success As the fans debate about X Factor hopeful Honey G, Francine Wolfisz attempts to separate fact from fiction
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ove over Kim Kardashian – X Factor hopeful Honey G officially took over the internet this week, as fans continue to debate whether she is a true pop culture phenomenon or just a clever hoax.
The Jewish rapper, also known as Anna Gilford, a middleclass, former competitive tennis player from Harrow, stormed her way through to the next round of the popular ITV talent show on Saturday night with her rendition of California Love by Tupac. Since then, the 35-year-old – who is being mentored by Sharon Osbourne – has been the talk of the town on social media. Honey G has been spotted rapping alongside former X Factor contestant Stacey Solomon, who is also Jewish, while previous winner Sam Bailey paid her own homage to the budding star. Donning sunglasses, a baseball cap and a tracksuit, Bailey posted a video on Twitter and exclaimed: “I’ll give Honey a run for her money!” Meanwhile Honey G, who away from the stage runs her own recruitment company, penned an original rap for Piers Morgan, which for once left the normally outspoken television personality lost for words.
A “I’m here with Piers Morgan, he’s not lame/ ’Cos every day he breathes my name /’Cos I’m on my way to ultimate fame,” she sang. Elsewhere on the internet, the nation’s mums, grandmas and toddlers are taking selfies of themselves dressed like Honey G, while other fans have noticed the rapper’s striking resemblance to a string of well-known names. Karren Brady, Poochie from The Simpsons, Mike Myers in character from Wayne’s World and Roy Hodgson have all come under scrutiny, but most comments were reserved to the incredible likeness between Honey G and former Prime Minister David Cameron. @beaubeau80 writes: “David Cameron retires, Honey G appears. Coincidence? I think not #XFactor” Social media is equally awash with conspiracy theories about Honey G, with people divided over whether she is genuine, given her eccentric dress and questionable vocal talents. Some even believe she might be a clever hoax act planted by X Factor producers. Whatever the truth, the bookies believe she may even go on to win the show, having slashed her odds to 12-1 from 50-1. It could well be a sweet new year for Honey G after all.
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Look-alikes: Poochie from The Simpsons, Mike Myers as the eponymous Wayne in Wayne’s World
The X Factor judges react to Honey G’s audition. Separated at birth? Ms G and David Cameron
More ‘G’ doppelgangers: Former England football manager Roy Hodgson and Karen Brady
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Jerusalem attack/ Haiti appeal/ News
Two murdered by Jerusalem gunman The Foreign Office has “utterly condemned” a terrorist attack in Jerusalem that left two people dead. The a 39-year-old killer sped towards a busy stop on the city’s light rail service and opened fire on Sunday, seriously wounding a 60-year-old female passenger. He then continued driving and shot another woman sitting in her car, before speeding off towards an Arab neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. Police officers on motorcycles chased the assailant, who eventually stepped out of his vehicle and opened fire at them. Yosef Kirma, a 30-year-old police officer, was critically wounded in the shoot-out. A separate police force ultimately shot and killed the attacker, a man from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan. Israeli media reported that the man had previously served
FOUL PLAY IN BNEI BRAK A strictly-Orthodox woman swings a chicken over her head during the Kaparot ritual in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak. Observers believe the ritual transfers one’s sins from the past year into the chicken.
Charity appeal after hurricane Israeli police officers carry the coffin of Yosef Kirma, inset, at his funeral
multiple sentences for violent acts and was due to report to prison on Sunday for another sentence over assaulting a police officer. Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service said it treated seven people for various gunshot injuries, two of whom later died of their
wounds. Police cordoned off the area of the shooting and briefly shut down traffic on the light rail system. The attack was an unusual one in the year-long spate of Palestinian assaults, since most have been stabbings. Sunday’s was the deadliest attack on Israelis since June, when two Palestinians opened fire and killed four people at a
popular Tel Aviv food market. Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood said: “I utterly condemn the attacks in Jerusalem. My thoughts are with victims and their families.” Israel had warned that the potential for violence could rise during the High Holy Days, so has beefed up its security presence.
An emergency appeal on behalf of the Jewish community has been launched following the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. Hundreds have died and whole towns have been swept away, with tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes. The risk of a surge in cholera cases increases daily. Dona-
tions to World Jewish Relief’s appeal will provide emergency relief items such as food and water, shelter and hygiene kits. Chief Rabbi Mirvis encouraged the community to support its emergency appeal and said: “The pictures of the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew are truly harrowing.” Donate at world jewishrelief.org/haiti
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UK freeze on £23m Palestinian payment Continued from page 1 Conservative Friends of Israel called the move “an important step towards peace”. In a joint statement from its chairman Sir Eric Pickles and president Lord Polak, the group said: “This suspension, while investigations are ongoing, is an important and welcome step towards peace. It sends a wake-up call to the Palestinian Authority. As the new Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, has acted quickly to challenge a longstanding abuse of well-intentioned international aid money.” Labour Friends of Israel’s Ian Austin MP said the news ends “months of procrastination and denials” about the end recipients of aid money, adding: “The Department for International Development appears finally to have accepted that aid to the PA cannot continue for so long as it engages in anti-Semitic incitement and remains the ultimate paymaster of salaries to convicted terrorists.” Board of Deputies senior vice-president Richard Verber said: “We have long been concerned by DfID’s assertion that British tax money does not fund terrorism and incitement.” JLC chief executive Simon Johnson said the decision “reflects the worst fears of many within the Jewish community,” adding: “It is vital that the government is robust in ensuring funds are used to help those in need and not to support destruction and disruption within an already tense political climate.” We Believe in Israel director Luke Akehurst said he was “delighted,” adding: “After years of grassroots campaigning, the government is finally taking action. This is welcome but long overdue. It is appalling that aid money from British taxpayers has been abused to reward terrorists.”
Your weekly digest of stories from the international press UNITED STATES
A Los Angeles court ordered an injunction against kapparot, a pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which a chicken is swung around by its feet before being killed [see picture caption above]. The lawsuit was initiated by U.S. campaign group United Poultry Concerns. UK cash has been frozen pending an investigation
ZF chairman Paul Charney said the community’s campaigns had faced “endless obfustications, denials, and plain falsehoods,” and appeared to liken the “victory” to the great civil rights successes of the past. “Martin Luther King said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice, and we’ve seen that today,” he said. “The thousands of grassroots activists made all the difference. This is a huge victory.” British aid to the PA is governed by a Memorandum of Understanding, in which Palestinian leaders promise to uphold the principles of non-violence and respect for human rights. Until recently, DfID had concluded that the PA was not in breach. The sudden U-turn, signalled by Patel last week, led Austin to call for a “full, independent inquiry into how British aid can best support the realisation of a two-state solution,” saying: “DfID simply does not have the credibility to conduct its own review behind closed doors.”
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UKRAINE
A Chabad rabbi was airlifted to Israel for treatment after being badly beaten in a mugging in western Ukraine. The attack on Rabbi Mendel Deitsch took place in the city of Zhitomir. Chabad-Lubavitch stressed that it was a criminal, rather than anti-Semitic attack, after drunken youths decided to rob him.
POLAND
Senior politicians are to have Shabbat dinner with Polish Jews in an innovative example of communal outreach. A total of 12 cabinet ministers will
be hosted on a Friday night in Warsaw by members of Jewish cultural group TSKZ. Organisers said it would be a new experience for most of the parliamentarians.
SWEDEN
A Swedish nationalist lawmaker has been disowned by her own party after suggesting that Jews control the country’s media. Anna Hagwall of Sweden Democrats, referring to a Jewish family, said: ‘Let the Bonnier papers go under. No family, ethnic group or company should be allowed to control more than five percent.’
ETHIOPIA
An Ethiopian Jewish man has reportedly been killed in a temporary camp while waiting to immigrate to Israel. Weta Chekla died after riots broke out in his home city of Gondar.
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From taxpayers to the terrorists It feels strange to celebrate the government’s decision to freeze funding to the Palestinian Authority, because – like so many things – it is not black and white. It is obviously bad that British taxpayers’ money pays convicted Palestinian terrorists (if it does), so it is obviously good that this has now stopped, pending an investigation. The decision to do so seems a little late in coming, but we welcome the new International Development Secretary’s choice to bite the bullet and launch an immediate inquiry. The idea that welfare payments to Palestinian convicts actually rise if that convict has killed Israelis is odious, to say the least. But it is equally obvious that it is never good when millions of pounds in aid money suddenly stops flowing into one of the world’s poorest regions. Nobody doubts that the vast majority of Palestinian recipients need it, nor that they did anything harmful to be denied it. The British Jewish community’s quarrel is not with them. It is with the PLO’s apparent system of encouraging and rewarding acts of terror with higher payments made up of aid money. Before the cash flows again, there are grey areas to consider. For instance, while the money should never go to the terrorist, could it go to the terrorist’s young family, if that family did nothing wrong? Is it right to punish the convict’s children to punish the convict? It is morally uncomfortable, just as it is to demolish the houses of terrorists’ families. There are arguments on both sides. The British government must quickly find the answers to these questions, before communicating them to the PLO, building in better checks in the West Bank and Gaza, and concluding the process as soon as possible, so innocent Palestinians do not suffer too much as a result. Terrorists have already caused more than enough suffering to go around.
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NO APPEASEMENT WITH LABOUR PARTY Contrary to Luke Akehurst’s blog on jewishnews.co.uk [6 October], the Labour Party is no longer a home for the Jewish community. As a staunch supporter in the past and a member who remains in contact with several MPs, I regret that the party conference cannot be summarised as “good and bad”. The idea that “zerotolerance” can be replaced by “50 percent tolerance” is just a modern version of appeasement.
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Sadly, the endeavours of the Labour Friends of Israel and Jewish Labour Movement are not just fruitless but counterproductive. Those who stay have morphed into what Stalin termed “useless idiots”. We are left in a position where we are even having a debate as to whether there is anti-Semitism. It hurts that the party with a leading record on anti-racism with a leader who prides himself
‘You’re fried!’
on anti-racism, is now the mainstream party of anti-Semitism. We have to stop being apologists who excuse Jeremy Corbyn as a nice man who has failed to stop anti-Semitism. There is no longer a place for a Jew in the Labour Party.
Mark Lewis By email
SIMILAR TROPES AGAINST IMMIGRANTS THAT WERE ONCE USED AGAINST US JEWS “A society that works for everyone.” This was the main message pushed by the Conservative conference and a slogan reiterated by Home Secretary Amber Rudd (pictured) in her address. However, her speech targeted immigrant and British minority communities. It is undeniable, according to her assertions, that the Brexit vote was a response to immigrants. Explicitly and implicitly, abuse, crime, housing and even higher education were filtered through the lens of immigration. The sentiment that most illustrated her frustra-
tions was the assertion that we must cut down on rough sleeping “illegal migrants” – but we must punish landlords who house them. We don’t want them here. Rudd has become involved with numerous initiatives relating to the Jewish community, including the Jewish News Israel conference. She rails against anti-Semitism, yet repeats the same narratives that were so often used to marginalise us from our neighbours and bar us from integrating upwards. You cannot stand by us while shoving our neighbours aside.
David Koehne By email
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Peace would be fine tribute to great man
I’M VERY WARY OF FRASER’S SOURCES
Your comprehensive coverage of the life and times of Shimon Peres was heartwarming and richly deserved. It is a sad truism that the good that people do is too often unrecognised during their lifetimes; only when heroes such as Peres pass away do we have time to reflect on their achievements. What is interesting in Peres’ case is that he had already come to be recognised as a giant among men and his death served simply to emphasise it. Perhaps no other leader of the time could have done what he did in attempting to bring together the opposing factions, only to have the ultimate prize elude him. The sign of his greatness is that even then he refused to give up, with the result that we saw at his funeral – as you so rightly put it, a peacemaker even in death. Talk at times of loss inevitably turns to the legacy of the deceased. In the words of opposition leader Isaac Herzog, Peres’ dream of an Israeli and Palestinian state living side by side with one another in peace “will be implemented”. Let us hope it will be soon. There could be no greater tribute to Peres.
Fraser Nicholson attacks me for “demonising” Yachad’s Emily Hilton, using “smears rather than facts”, preferring accounts of the origins of the fake Arab village of Susiya based on his ‘facts’ derived from Wikipedia, rather than my “smears” based on Israel’s Supreme Court’s research and judgement. ‘Harvard’s Guide to using Sources’ says: “You should be extremely cautious about using Wikipedia. As its disclaimer states, information is posted by anyone who wishes to post material, and the expertise of the poster is not taken into consideration. Users may be reading material by posters who.....wish to provide misinformation.” He reminds me of a politician who said: “I used to have opinions until I learned the facts”. Unfortunately, he has yet to learn the facts.
Alan Goldring Essex
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I FEEL AWFUL ABOUT MURDER OF ANIMALS
With reference to Pamela Cohen’s letter, ‘Slaughter is brutal – shechita included’, I was and still am horrified (Jewish News, 29 September 2016). I am a hypocrite. I adore and love animals. I could not do anything to hurt an animal ... yet I eat meat. When eating meat, I don’t think that it was an animal. Reading the description of cows waiting to be murdered has filled me with horror, which I cannot ignore. I had thought animals were killed humanely but, according to Pamela Cohen, this would not appear to be the case. I’d be grateful if someone could tell me anything different to ease my mind.
Barbara Rothberg By email
THANKS FOR SHARING! WE PLUNGE INTO THE CESSPOOL OF ONLINE ANTI-ZIONISM & ANTISEMITISM.. Alison Chabloz @AJCTmusic: Once you realise the measure by which Jew-Zionists are prepared to dissimulate the truth everything falls into place. https://www.oswaldmosley. com/top-10-lies-about-oswaldmosley/
Henry Makow @HenryMakow: Organized Jewry represses free speech under the pretext of hate, when their agenda actually is based on hatred and destruction of goyim. Jo @JOYOURPAPARAZZI: A poll MUST be set up to ascertain how UK people feel about Jews after they’ve been bullied & harassed by Zionist trolls claiming to be Jews.
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Let the day of rest work its unique magic on you EPHRAIM MIRVIS CHIEF RABBI
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t’s one of those moments in life that you can never truly appreciate until you have experienced it for yourself. Like every other day in the week, you are juggling countless demands on your time. You have a hectic family life and a multitude of professional responsibilities. The phone seems to be ringing constantly and important emails from colleagues are relentless. The noise and the pace of your day-today routine are no longer a surprise – that’s just the way modern life is. But then, in a matter of moments, it all changes. A match is struck, two small flames are lit and a unique serenity descends. With a long, deep breath, the blessing is recited and then you begin to feel it – the beauty of Shabbat. That pressing concern which has been troubling you all week at work can no longer bother you and family members are no longer distracted by the television or their mobile devices. You are surrounded by the people you care about most. It is true to say there is no
experience quite like it. ShabbatUK is back. And this year, our aim is to add another very special element to the experience of welcoming in Shabbat – the knowledge that for one week, more people than ever before will be taking that deep breath and lighting those candles. As well as the inspiring Challah Makes, energising Havdalah events and other countless incredible ways in which we have celebrated ShabbatUK in the past – this year we are making a pledge. Let no Jew, regardless of their circumstances feel that he or she cannot experience that unique moment of peace when Shabbat begins. If you are a doctor on shift in a hospital on a Friday night, we’d like to share Shabbat with you. If you are struggling with ill health or other challenging personal circumstances, we’d like to share Shabbat with you. If you live in a community where there are few or no other Jews, we’d like to share Shabbat with you. If you are more used to spending Friday evenings in the office than at home, we’d like to share Shabbat with you. Regardless of your religious affiliation or level of observance, I’d like to invite you to
share the most special weekend of the year with us. If Shabbat is something that you have never tried, take this opportunity to experience it. And if Shabbat is already second nature to you, please find a way to make this a particularly special one and make an effort to share it with someone who might be less familiar with it. Together with the hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world who are taking part in the International Shabbos Project, Le Projet Shabbat or ShabbatUK, this is truly an event that brings the Jewish world together like no other. For me, one of the most exciting features about the run-up to ShabbatUK is the unprecedented creativity and endeavour that volunteers all around the country put into inspiring and enthusing their fellow congregants. This year the bar is higher than it has
ever been. From the remarkable ‘Whitefield 500’ programme, which will reach 500 Whitefield Hebrew Congregation members in north Manchester, with special learning events in their homes, to the beautiful ‘Sharing Shabbat Art Gallery’ at Hendon United Synagogue in north London, which will feature artwork by Liora Rosenberg, a talented young artist who tragically passed away earlier this year – there is so much happening, and each event seems more exciting and innovative than the last. Similarly, the Great Challah Makes captured our community’s imagination once again. Last year we had an incredible 27 events nationwide. This year, there are already plans for twice that number and there is the potential for many more to come! Wherever you are, and whatever you’re planning, we look forward to sharing this very special ShabbatUK with you.
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A MATCH IS STRUCK, TWO SMALL FLAMES ARE LIT – AND A UNIQUE SERENITY DESCENDS ON THE NOISE AND PACE OF OUR EVERYDAY LIVES
Rising to the challenge of an affliction we all face MELVIN LAWSON
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rowing ‘old’ can sometimes seem a little daunting. As the average age of residents at Nightingale Hammerson increases to 90 years, so too does one’s susceptibility to dementia. It is no exaggeration to say that we may all face this affliction in some form or other as we grow older. Dementia can cause older people to feel isolated and frustrated. It is the challenge of a care-home charity such as Nightingale Hammerson to re-ignite memories and create a culture that enables a positive outlook for residents and their families. As our residents come to us much older, more focus and preparation towards caring for those with dementia has to be at the heart of everything we do. The way we care for our residents is always ‘person-centred’ – led by their abilities, needs, interests and passions. Research shows that the wellbeing of
people with dementia is strongly linked to the environment in which they live. This informs our redevelopment of Hammerson House, which will allow us to broaden and deepen the level of care we offer dementia patients and provide even more residents with a home for life in truly world-class facilities. Although we never imagine that our memories will fade or be taken away, this is the cruel reality for many of our residents with dementia. We are doing everything we can to keep those memories alive, including offering a wide variety of therapies such as Namaste, pet, music, reading, art, drama and pottery. Research shows therapies such as these can alleviate the symptoms of dementia and reduce anxiety and agitation significantly , thereby reducing the need for medication and improving the resident’s mood and awareness. There are more than 850,000 people with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to more than one million by 2025. It is therefore not surprising that caring for those
with dementia has become a hot topic for discussion over the past few months. What is the best way to care for a family member with dementia? How am I going to cope? Many of our residents have led wonderfully creative lives and it is heartening to know dementia need not be a stumbling block. For example, we are currently celebrating the work of one of our residents, Rosalind Fleck. Her work charts the journey of her creative talent from childhood, to adulthood and now to later life – living with dementia. She is one example of how memories can be re-ignited and moments recreated through art. Many despair at the thought of putting a family member into a care home. The very
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concept conjures a variety of thoughts, not all positive. The reality is Nightingale Hammerson “care homes” are anything but. We provide properties that enable older people to have a better quality of life while ensuring they are part of a warm community where they can receive first-class care and emotional support. This Jewish new year, we should let our communities’ older people be our inspiration. They are the very foundations of our society, the roots planted in the ground. We have a lot of lessons to learn and inspirations to take from the older generation and I hope that these lessons can act as a springboard for us all.
RESEARCH SHOWS THAT THE WELLBEING OF PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA IS STRONGLY LINKED TO THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY LIVE
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Israel a beacon of economic stability and prosperity ALEX BRUMMER CITY EDITOR, DAILY MAIL
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he big theme at the 2016 annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington was ‘inclusiveness’. The combination of Brexit, Donald Trump’s assault on the American presidency and the rise of extremist parties across the European Union has stimulated a great deal of self-reflection. Globalisation and open markets are perceived as having benefited the elites. And at the bottom of the economic scale, there has been considerable progress in lifting the very poorest out of poverty. It is the squeezed middle, the traditional working classes or blue-collar workers, who have been left behind. This group fired up the 52 percent of Britons who voted to leave the EU and gave succour even to Bernie Sanders and Trump (sexual peccadilloes notwithstanding) in the US elections of this year. Israel, too, has its social cohesion problems. Much of the wealth is concentrated in a few hands. The top 10 percent in the society are
responsible for 27 percent of national output and own 51 percent of the wealth. The top one percent are responsible for 22.5 percent of income. Indeed, Israel and the United States are the two advanced nations with the greatest income disparities. At the bottom end of Israeli society, poverty is endemic among the Charedi, the Bedouin in the Negev and Arab populations in northern Israel. It is one of the great ironies that Israel’s poorest town, Jisr Azarqua, sits cheek-byjowl with its richest, Caesarea – where Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has a home. Among the key reasons why the Israeli government this year adopted a 25 percent budget increase for Arab communities is because it has been urged to tackle inequality by both the IMF and the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Its membership in both organisations is seen as vital as the country seeks to curb global boycott activity. Nevertheless, amid the geopolitical turmoil, the conflict and terror which is blowing apart states all around it, Israel remains a beacon of economic stability and prosperity. The latest IMF World Economic Outlook report forecasts an Israeli growth rise from 2.5
percent in 2015 to 2.8 percent in 2016 and to three percent in 2017. Inflation will be negligible. Israel’s current account, the combination of its trade in goods and services with the rest of the world, together with its foreign income on investments, will be in surplus in 2016 and next at 3.1 percent and 2.9 percent of gross domestic product respectively. That ought to keep the shekel strong and make it easier for Israel to borrow, if necessary, on global capital markets. Israel’s stability and strength contrasts with that of other countries in its neighbourhood. A strengthening of the oil price is starting to assist some of the economies of the region. President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, which saw some sanctions lifted, has seen production rise to two million barrels per day, close to the pre-sanction levels. Not very helpful given
Iran’s funding of global terrorist groups such as Hezbollah currently fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria. But although the economies of oil-exporting states are gradually improving, along with the oil price, the region as a whole is economically devastated. ‘Geopolitical tensions, domestic armed strife, and terrorism are taking a heavy toll on several economies,’ the IMF observes. It also notes that the Gulf countries have lost hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues and are having to adopt austerity policies as a result of low oil prices over the last two years. The weakness is unhelpful to regional stability in that it encourages extremist movements. Slow growth and social exclusion are combining across the globe to produce deeply disturbing political outcomes.
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THIS WEEK: TAKING CRIME OUT OF CANNABIS
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annabis is bad news, and about as kosher as a bacon butty. Jews should get high only on their achievements and aspirations. Forget the bongs and reefers. Jews are instructed to be “of good health in body and mind,” and to eschew “indulgences”. Granted, more and more places around the world may be decriminalising Mary Jane smoked for pleasure, but this does not mean that we should accept the weed and its apathetic effects. That should be the case no matter how many giddy Israeli rabbis bless as “kosher for Passover” the green leaves before them, as an esteemed 88-year-old did recently. Medical marijuana? Fine. It’s arguably a mitzvah. But pot as a pastime? Please! It’s neither recreational nor spiritual. In the words of Yoseph Needelman, author of Cannabis Chassidis: “Pot alienates you from your responsibilities and needs.” And, latching on to the inevitable analogy, he adds:“It’s not like alcohol, which makes
you feel warm.” Jews should consider it forbidden fruit for good reason. Let’s keep our High Holy Days more Holy than High. If you want a stimulant, chocolate’s good. Give the bong the boot, and stick to L’Chaim, not L’Higher.
BUT... Others say that’s yesterday’s view. The world’s a-changin’. In years to come, we’ll realise we lived through one of history’s most senseless prohibitions. If a rabbi reacts with disgust to your ganja confessional, remember that the advice is context-dependent, i.e. it’s currently illegal here. But context is everything. In the past, rabbis were far more enthusiastic. It comes down to place and time. Do you think the 19th or early 20th century Jews of Baghdad, or Yemen or Morocco thought twice about smoking a bit of top-drawer hashish? Medical marijuana will force it full circle.
Israel already has eight approved cannabisgrowing companies, which will soon benefit
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from exports worth hundreds of millions of shekels, and next March, CannaTech, the hugely successful International Summit for Accelerating Cannabis Innovation, will be held in Israel, a country dubbed “ground zero for cannabis research”. In contrast to the UK, where government ministers plug their ears to the deafening swell of sense, an Israeli committee of experts is expected to recommend decriminalisation in the next two months. No one expects social disintegration there as a result. Let’s take a leaf (ahem) out of the Israeli book. Long known for it high-tech, it will soon be known for its “high” tech. L’Chaim!
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DO YOU THINK THE 19TH CENTURY JEWS OF BAGHDAD, YEMEN OR MOROCCO THOUGHT TWICE ABOUT SMOKING SOME TOP-DRAWER HASHISH?
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The rebbetzin of Norris Lea Synagogue took to the skies over Bury St. Edmonds on Sunday, to complete a skydive as part of a fundraising initiative to raise £100,000 for a ‘bucket list’ ambulance. Freda Kaplan, together with London-based GP Judith Tobin, are looking to raise this large total for the special vehicle, which has been especially designed to take those who are stretcher-bound to social events.
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Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev paid a visit to Redbridge Jewish Community Centre, where he spoke to more than 200 members of the Centre’s local community. Discussing Israel’s current image, situation in the world and the relationship between Israel and the UK Jewish Community, his talk was followed by a question and answer session chaired by Jewish Care Trustee, Andrew Klein.
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Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation held a stone setting for the late Hilda Marks, a well-known and much admired personality in Bournemouth at Throop Cemetery. The ceremony was officiated by Rabbi Adrian Jesner, and included the re-dedication of her husband, Sam’s headstone. The synagogue then hosted the dedication of a Sefer Torah in memory of Hilda and Sam, which was presented by their children Rochelle and David.
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MEN’S 4 JEWISH BINGO EVENING
Around 150 people played bingo for charity at an event organised by the Jewish Men’s organisation, the Hebrew Order of David, which raised more than £30,000. Proceeds from the evening, will go towards toward six organisations including Zichron Menachem, Beit Issie Shapiro and Beit Halochem in Israel, Dance for All in South Africa, and the London Jewish Family Centre.
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Simon Rosenblatt and Gary Behar were two of 15 runners who took part at Sunday’s Royal Parks Foundation half marathon. The charity are hoping to raise £15,000
DRINK 3 CHABAD TO SUCCESS 6 MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH The Chabad Events Team, which supports the social services of Chabad across Essex, held another of its Whisky Tasting Evenings at the Chabad Buckhurst Hill branch. Dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Moshe
Woodford Forest United Synagogue in South Woodford, London organised a ground-breaking Inaugural Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics entitled: “Who Cares for the Carer?”
Your simcha announcements Saul Edward celebrated his barmitzvah at Kingston District Synagogue.
Sari Addleman & Danny Younger were married at The Forum.
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Oscar Simmons celebrated his barmitzvah at Chabad Buckhurst Hill.
Claire and David Frank were married at Micklefield Hall, Rickmansworth.
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Marina and Jack Greenberg celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. They were married at Egerton Rd shul.
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Action Against Discrimination held its first event, “Anti-Semitism in Football – How serious is it now?” at JW3. The talk, sponsored by Jewish News, saw a top panel of football experts along with Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush discuss topics including the ‘Y’ word and what clubs and the FA can do to help combat all forms of racism in the modern game.
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One of the country’s top judges was guest speaker at the annual dinner for the Movement of Reform Judaism at the Montcalm Hotel. Sir Terence Etherton will soon become Master of the Rolls, the head of civil justice in England and Wales. New MRJ president Sir Trevor Chinn and new MRJ chairman Geoffrey Marx were also introduced. Chinn said “The future of Reform Judaism will define the future of the British Jewish community.”
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Frankly, it’s all about art Art collector Frank Cohen, dubbed the “Saatchi of the North” speaks to Rebecca Wallersteiner about lending 60 of his favourite works to Fortnum & Mason’s
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ortnum and Mason’s has can lay claim to a number of “firsts”. The famous upmarket department store in Duke Street, founded in 1707, invented the world’s first (and-not-sokosher) Scotch Egg and was one of the first stores to dispatch beef tea overseas to British troops in the Crimea. For the last month, the store can now also mark up another first: a free pop-up show of 60 paintings lent by a Jewish art collector who has been dubbed the “Saatchi of the North”. Walking past Fortnum’s front-windows facing the Royal Academy, you can see ravishing paintings by Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, part of an extraordinary collection garnered by Frank Cohen and his wife, Cherryl over half a century. “I am delighted to be collaborating with Fortnum’s on this exciting project and thrilled that new audiences will have the opportunity to see my collection in such a wonderful setting,” says the flamboyant Cohen, who looks amazingly young for his 72 years. One of the UK’s most important private art collectors, Cohen raised £30,000 for Manchester’s Jewish Museum and has lent his pictures to the Ben Uri Gallery, the Jewish Museum in London and Chatsworth House. So how did Cohen, who made his fortune by founding a chain of DIY stores, start his vast collection? As a child, the Manchesterborn art enthusiast tells me he loved to collect cigarette cards, swapping them with the other
Fortnum & Mason CEO Ewan Venters and Frank Cohen with Howard Hodgkin’s Going To America, 1999; Inset, Frank Auerbach’s Primrose Hill, Summer, 1968
boys at school, and later coins. His sense of entrepreneurism was fired around the age of 15 when he left formal education. “I started working the markets with Howard Jacobson’s father, Maxie, before setting up my own business selling wallpaper from the back of an old ambulance,” he recalls with a smile. Later he opened Glyn Webb, a chain of highly successful DIY stores across northern England, where he met his wife, Cherryl, who came to work for him. Her father was an art dealer and she had grown up surrounded by art. “It was my father-in-law, who was chairman of the Fine Art Trade Guild and a successful glass manufacturer and cabinet maker, who gave me an education in art,” explains Cohen. In 1970, the couple acquired their first painting, a charming, small Lowry, titled Our Family, for which they paid £1,100. This purchase sparked Cohen’s passion for collecting and from then on there was no stopping him. From the start the couple chose and bought art together. Although many of their
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artists are now world-acclaimed, this wasn’t always the case. Cohen has often been ahead of the art world – he was buying Edward Burra in the 1970s, when he was little-known and before his prices shot up. “I prefer to rely on my own judgement and buy what I want to see on my walls. When I discover an artist I like, I set out to buy every piece I can find,” says Cohen, who opened a non-profit visual arts centre in Bloomsbury, called The Dairy Centre. This has included several leading Jewish artists, including David Bomberg and his former students Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff - and you can see some of their best works in the show.
Don’t miss seeing the beautiful Bomberg displayed on the fourth floor staircase of the store and a couple of Leon Kossoffs behind the main cash desk on the ground floor. Interestingly, much of the art Cohen collects was created during his lifetime, reflecting his own experience of the world he grew up in. He is particularly drawn to the 1950s Geometry of Fear group of painters, including Bomberg, Auerbach and Eduardo Paolozzi. These artists were predominantly working-class and influenced by the atmosphere of uncertainty of the Cold War world. What do Cohen’s parents think about his art collecting? “They probably wouldn’t even know what art was!” answers Cohen with a broad grin, referring to his father, who worked in a factory. In keeping with Cohen’s democratic spirit, Fortnum’s installation places the artworks in such a way that it encourages passers-by, from all backgrounds, including street-cleaners and people on the bus, to stop and take a look. But it is inside the store that the true beauty of his collection shines through. “Next year they will have to change their name to Fortnum and Mason and Cohen,” he chuckles. • Fortum’s X Frank runs until October 15 at Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly, W1. For more details visit fortnumandmason. com/fxf
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Lifestyle / Israel’s medical cannabis
Israel’s going to pot Dubbed “ground zero for cannabis research,” Israel now attracts the world’s top marijuana researchers, suppliers and businesses. Stephen Oryszczuk looks at how the £8billion industry is transforming medicine and, indeed, recreation
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annabis’… The name sends shivers down the spine of Daily Mail readers. While not every Brit foams at the mouth at its very mention, most avoid the ‘c’ word in polite conversation. Not so in Israel. There, cannabis is a wonderful thing. To Israelis, it means a market, industry, innovation, opportunity. They know this plant could transform medicine and recreation in the 21st century, once governments get over themselves and legalise it. And they’re proud to be leading the revolution. Lawmakers have helped, giving permits and licences. Eight companies can grow cannabis (compared to one in Britain) and restrictions on others doing so have just been lifted. More than 20 start-ups are working on its medical applications, conducting governmentapproved trials, after universities hand over their work. When something is shown to work, doctors prescribe it, and centres and pharmacies distribute it. Israel has more than 26,000 patients using cannabis-related drugs (compared to Britain’s six) and this number is expected to be 150,000 in three years (second only to the United States). All the while, Israeli regulators have built a framework (nicknamed ‘the Green Book’) that is the envy of the world. Dr Tamir Gedo, chief executive at BOL Pharma and an
industry pioneer, describes it as “20 years ahead of anywhere else”. Israel’s cannabis ecosystem brings together regulators, patients, doctors, investors, scientists, entrepreneurs, growers, chemists and activists, and the start-up nation – with all its accelerators and incubators – knows how to get safe products quickly to market. There are even specialist recruiters for the industry. Headhunter Jackie Brown says one of the first questions they ask is: “Do you really care about cannabis and its myriad marvellous applications and potential, or do you just think it’s cool to work with weed?” Dubbed “ground zero for cannabis research,” the land of milk and Mary Jane, Israel now attracts the world’s top marijuana researchers, suppliers and businesses at two annual summits (Cannatech, in March, and Cann10, in September) where talk moves from agriculture to genetics to medicine to commerce. Exporting Israeli know-how is already well underway. “Israelis [in the cannabis industry] operate everywhere, from Peru to South Africa to Zimbabwe to Macedonia,” says Clifton Flack, co-founder of iCAN: Israel-Cannabis, an investor. “Every country is a link in the chain. Over the next 10 years, a significant percentage of cannabis regulation will be based on Israel’s rules, Israel’s ideology, because it’s so welldeveloped already. All over the world will be
Israeli fingerprints.” In an estimated £8billion industry, where no-one expects cannabis to remain illegal for recreational use (four US states already allow it, and 10 more are due to do so next year), the projected figures are jaw-dropping. But it is the plant’s possibilities for medical use – where far
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Eight companies are legally allowed to grow cannabis in Israel, where more than 26,000 patients use cannabis-related drugs
more countries approve of its use – that seem almost endless. Doron Ben Ami of Therapix Biosciences says: “Medical cannabis is just starting to flourish. Everyone’s realised it is a valued therapy, including the public. But it’s at an early stage.” Work actually began more than 50 years ago, when Israeli scientists such as professor Raphael Mechoulam, began isolating and synthesising the psychoactive (THC) and pain-relieving components in cannabis. “The Ministry of Health checked I was trustworthy then gave me 5kg of hashish,” Mechoulam later recalled. “I carried it back [to the lab] on the bus, where everyone could smell it!” Work since has shown that cannabis can work wonders neurologically too, so it is now known to help treat inflammation, sleep disorders, indigestion, nausea and stress, to name but a few, with trials showing promising results for colitis, Crohn’s, dementia, Parkinson’s, tinnitus, dystonia and spasticity in children with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. This month, Israeli scientists at BOL began their first cannabis trial on autism, and every day there seems to be a new breakthrough. At Therapix, trials on patients with Tourette’s and those with early-stage Alzheimer’s are set to begin later this year. In another area, Gedo says one of its treatments (using 300mg of cannabinoids) was recently
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used in a leukaemia trial of 90 people. “It reduced the rate of rejection in bone marrow transplants from between 30-70 percent down to five. Most people whose bodies reject the transplant die, so this could save many lives. It’s an amazing result. We hope to have the drug in two years.” All this focuses on Israel’s tiny domestic market, but the real prize is the huge markets outside Israel, in America and Europe, for example. Ministerial reluctance, together with onerous international rules around production and shipping, has previously meant that Israel’s cannabis has stayed in Israel, but when BOL
completes building work next year on (what will be) the world’s largest production facility dedicated to cannabis, that will all change. With cannabis-related products set to shake up other industries like food supplements, cosmetics and medical devices, experts say the potential is huge. “It is remarkable how a plant is sending shock waves and investment tremors through established industries and ecosystems,” says Flack. “The opportunities it offers local economies, together with the clear therapeutic and social benefits, are as exciting as they are wide and varied. Cannabis is the next big reason for innovation.”
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opping across the Pond to Canada, we thought what better way to explore the grand city of Montreal than by climbing the 233-metre Mont-Royal, for which the place is named? A protuberance at the end of the street and the city’s winter playground, Mont-Royal hovers over the city much like Arthur’s Seat towers over Edinburgh. Montreal’s wintry scene is imbued with a pronounced Gallic flavour. As a prelude to the main event, a ramble around the charmingly atmospheric Vieux-Montreal, the Old Town, is just the ticket. The cobbled paving will tone your muscles and the proliferation of pretty French eateries both tempt the visitor and enhance the Parisian ambience, transformed by a gentle snow blanket into an impressionistic Monet canvas. You can roam the winding lanes, drinking in the atmosphere and then, to escape the chill, a pit stop is suggested at the boutique Nelligan Hotel. Here you can sip a latte or herb tea in front of the welcoming fire. Alternatively, the lunch menu in its plush restaurant overlooking the main street bustle is exceptional value While the Parc du Mont-Royal is a yearround walker’s paradise, it is most alluring in winter garb and a day or two should be set aside for the various rambling and associated activities within its 494 acres. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted of
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WHILE THE PARC DU MONT-ROYAL IS A YEAR-ROUND TREAT, IT IS MOST ALLURING IN WINTER GARB New York Central Park fame and inaugurated in 1876, it’s visible and easily accessible from much of downtown. Following an overnight deposit of the white stuff, our approach took us past some handsome period stone houses before reaching Chemin Olmsted, which offered a serpentine gradual ascent and delivered us to the best summit viewpoint, the Chalet du Mont-Royal. More a greystone villa than a wooden chalet in the Swiss sense, this is fronted by a huge piazza (imagine a smaller-scale Vatican Square coated lethally in a layer of ice) with a semi-circular balustrade, the Kondiaronk Belvedere, at the far end. And what a view! All Montreal laid out before us – the Olympic Stadium with its leaning tower, the St Lawrence Seaway flowing towards Quebec City and the skyscrapers (yes, Montreal has these too, although not as tall as, say, New York’s). We lounge in the lee of the chalet, feeling the
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warmth of the sun on our faces and suspending our belief in the thermometer’s cold truth, then follow a gorgeous snow path, the sun peeking through the encircling tracery of hoar-frosted branches. Here and throughout the summit expanse, walkers cheerfully share the paths with cross-country skiers and snowshoers. Further on, there’s tubing, a toboggan run and even a short ski slope – the snowfall has spawned a hive of activity. If, at this juncture, your limbs are aching and your body requires defrosting, then you’ve timed it to perfection. Maison Smith, built for a Boston merchant in 1858, is an attractive location to break your walk and its snug Café des Amis offers comforting home-made soups and inventively fresh sandwiches. The path continues around Lac des Castors, frozen and glinting, to the lively skating rink at Le Pavillon, atmospherically attired in its seasonal best. On a snowfall “white-out” day, we visit the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum, an overview of the rise and implementation of Nazism, where exhibits include “J”-stamped identity cards, yellow clothing stars and inmates’ suitcases, often linked directly to personal histories and survivor testimonies. The museum’s ethos, to “reflect on the destruction caused by prejudice, racism and anti-Semitism”, is something the world sorely needs. You can also spend a full day at the Olympic complex, ascending the world’s tallest inclined tower and visiting the Biodome indoor zoo, planetarium and botanical gardens. Montreal has plenty of local pasta joints, but kosher eating is more problematical. As in Chicago, you need to travel. Le Grill, at the
kosher Quality Hotel Midtown, has a varied selection of menus à la Golders Green but, while the food was delicious, the décor was dated and the ambience non-existent. Our boutique Hotel Le Crystal, however, more than compensated, with concierge Mylene embracing us as if long-lost friends. After an active day walking and sightseeing, it was wonderful to retreat to the cosy ambience of our luxury suite. The hotel also has its own restaurant, offering an ethnic culinary experience with local artisan-sourced produce. Finally, an evening dip under the stars in the rooftop hot tub, with gently cascading snow crystals caressing your eyelids and with far-reaching views towards the Mont-Royal, supplies the perfect ending to the holiday.
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On the side WINNER TAKES ALL Jason Atherton can’t put a foot wrong. The Waitrose Good Food Guide ranked Pollen Street Social number four in the UK, and also named it ‘Best Front of House’. At the AA Awards, his newest opening, Sosharu, garnered ‘London Restaurant of the Year’, while Pollen Street Social was awarded five AA Rosettes. Meanwhile, Pollen Street Social, City Social and Social Eating House have all retained their Michelin stars this year. jasonatherton.co.uk
NEW OPENING The much-loved Chez Bob of Belsize Park has just opened a second branch in Whetstone, which is now positively bursting with restaurant choices. Diners who have already been to the modern bistro report favourably on the wide menu, friendly and efficient staff, comfy seating and the tasty food. chezbob.biz
FOOTBALL FOOD Pecking Order in Stanmore has signed a deal with Barnet Football Club to take over the food and beverage offering and will be setting up a restaurant there by the end of the year. I have also had a sneak peek at their festive menu – it’s great value with a main, a side and a dessert for £16.95. This will be available from late November. peckingorder.co.uk
PASTRY HEAVEN Dominique Ansell is the New York baker who invented the much-lauded ‘Cronut’ – a hybrid of the croissant and the donut. Now he has brought his famous bakery to London, opening in Belgravia last month. The bakery and pastry kitchens are open for all to see and there are high top tables, banquettes and a courtyard!
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Joe Allen Where to go pre-theatre often poses a problem, but last week I went back – probably 20 years since my last visit – to Joe Allen. Everything was familiar yet different. My theatrical outing started with a plush, red, drawn back curtain opening on to a warmly lit room. It is softened with a golden glow yet now it has been ‘zhuzhed’ and everything looks sharper and smarter. Before the menu even arrived, I was overcome with a longing for a hamburger. I read over the menu – it
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on the menu and has to be requested. I could already hear my dear old Dad’s words the next day, “This? This you call a secret? A hamboyger? Feh! Keep your great restaurant secret shmecret.” The food was so good. Not just averagely good, but up there with all the other great hamburgers of my life good. In a brioche bun. Accompanied by crunchy and fluffy frites. Other favourite dishes included beautifully cooked calves’ liver and creamy mashed potatoes, perfectly spiced chilli con carne with guacamole, mac and cheese. For dessert, my companion had baked plums, faintly spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon, while I had one of the best pecan pies of my life. Little-known fact – apparently Graham Norton was once a waiter at Joe Allen. Debra Lewis Henry JOE ALLEN 13 Exeter Street, London WC2E 7DT t: 020 7836 0651 w: joeallen.co.uk
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cocktail list, with prices starting at a relatively modest (considering the location) £10, while the menu is divided into snacks, small plates, pasta/vegetarian, fish, meat and grill. We started with crispy duck salad and BBQ quail with guacamole and steak tartare, followed by charred Cornish mackerel with borlotti beans (me) and tender daube of beef (him). Desserts are good value at £6 and include spiced apple crumble or hot molten chocolate with a crunchy pecan topping and milk ice cream. **Re-opening offer: 20 percent off total bill at lunch until the end of October.
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Ask Dr Ellie Our resident GP Ellie Cannon answers your questions...
Q We lived in Israel for
years, where it was never a problem to get antibiotics for a sore throat or infection straight away. Here, we are just left to suffer. Why does our GP here not treat us?
Your GP here is doing exactly the right thing. The truth is you don’t actually need antibiotics for a sore throat: most sore throats are caused by viruses, and antibiotics only help infections caused by bacteria. The common winter infections that people suffer with like coughs, colds, sore throats and tummy bugs do not require antibiotics and rushing to take them causes
huge problems. Giving you an antibiotic you don’t need means you will then be resistant to that antibiotic for a while: that could be very dangerous if you have a very serious infection and need them. We now have a massive global problem of antibiotic resistance and it is predicted that the time will come soon when we won’t be able to use antibiotics for infections we treat now, because they will no longer work. The situation is made even more serious by the fact very few new antibiotics are being developed as they are not a good money-spinner for drug companies. GPs in the UK have cut back vastly on antibiotic prescribing in the past few years and we are hoping other countries will follow suit. For a sore throat, treat yourself instead with paracetamol, anaesthetic throat sprays and plenty of rest. It can take a week to ten days to clear up.
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months pregnant and I was surprised to hear her midwife wants her to have a flu jab. Surely vaccinations aren’t safe in pregnancy?
Flu is not simply a bad cold: it is actually a very serious illness that in certain groups such as the under-fives and pregnant women can lead to hospitalisation. Flu is particularly dangerous in pregnancy: in fact, a woman who is pregnant is seven times more likely to die from flu than if she wasn’t pregnant. Vaccinating protects against the current circulating strains of flu to protect her and
her unborn baby. It also means she is less likely to pass on flu to her baby after birth and in the first few months of the baby’s life. So all in all it’s a good idea. As far as having a vaccination when pregnant: the safety record is proven to be good. The flu vaccine is not a “live” vaccine: that means she is not being injected with active virus but rather parts of the virus to trick her immune system into making protective antibodies. So if she comes into contact with flu, her body will be prepared to fight it before she becomes ill. Vaccination in pregnancy is not just limited to flu: she will also have been offered a whooping cough vaccination while pregnant. This is hugely important to protect her newborn from the current rise we are seeing in this infection: I would totally recommend she has that one too!
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There is certainly a growing trend in gluten-free, dairy-free, this intolerance and that intolerance. Many people opt into this fad because they genuinely feel better by avoiding these products. It is likely these people have an intolerance: what this means is that eating a certain amount of that specific food causes symptoms whether it be abdominal pain, skin rashes, bloating or nausea. Often these are not medically diagnosed but it is still perfectly valid for people
to want to avoid these symptoms: they have likely discovered this intolerance through an exclusion diet, realising they feel better without that food. If they did eat the wrong food, they would have symptoms but no serious problems. Other people simply opt into the gluten-free or dairy-free lifestyle because they believe it to be healthier: an idea not backed by medical science unless you have genuine allergies. With a genuine food allergy – such as a nut allergy – the body actually has an immediate allergic reaction with hives, throat swelling and life-threatening breathing difficulties. This can be fatal and is very fast. This really is a serious medical issue and people with genuine food allergies cannot even tolerate their food being slightly contaminated with the offending food. The safest thing to do is to check whether it is an allergy and how careful you have to be.
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Spotlight / Royal Free London Private Patients
Putting patients at the heart of care Dr Joseph Davar, consultant cardiologist at the Royal Free Hospital, talks to Deborah Cicurel about his rewarding career
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s a challenging and prestigious career, being a cardiologist no doubt has its trials – but as one leading doctor has shown, the job has its many rewards too. Dr Joseph Davar, a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Free Hospital, and an honorary senior lecturer at UCL, has worked as a cardiologist for more than 30 years, travelling everywhere from Georgia to Russia as part of his studies and publishing papers, chairing committees and supervising research projects in the process. But Dr Davar had not always dreamed of being a cardiologist: it was in his third year of medical school that he knew what he wanted to. “The cardiovascular unit of a student research facility was one of the first to be opened and I started to participate in experiments,” he explains. “In the fifth year, I became the head of
a student research team studying the effects of different types of surgery on the heart. “But my ‘eureka’ moment came when I saw the living, beating heart of a patient on the screen of an ultrasound machine. “I was fascinated by the ability to look into the heart and assess what was wrong without causing any harm to the patient. It was at this time that my lifelong affair with cardiology and imaging started.” Dr Davar has seen a great range of heart problems, but the advice he gives to young people to help them prevent future issues has been consistent. “Cultivate healthy habits, as habits tend to persevere throughout life. Enjoy regular physical activity and enjoy the taste of water rather than sugary drinks,” he says. “Realise that a diet full of vegetables and fruit – but more vegetables – is healthier, and far more nutritious
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CULTIVATE HEALTHY HABITS, AS HABITS TEND TO PERSEVERE THROUGHOUT LIFE than high fat and sugary snacks. Avoid smoking and watch your alcohol consumption. Try to reduce the time spent at the computer, tablet and in front of the television – it’s much more interesting to live than to watch how others do it.” I ask Dr Davar whether heart problems are predetermined – are they preventable or mostly genetic? The answer is both. “Many health problems, including cardiological ones, are due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors,” he says. “Controlling or modifying certain environmental factors, especially from a young age, by diet and physical activity could definitely contribute to avoid or lessen the impact of the genetic database we are born with.” And what of the stresses of modern life? Surely our fast-paced lifestyles, crazed schedules and inability to switch off are factors in causing heart problems? “There are many factors contributing to the high prevalence of hypertension and stress is one of them,” Dr Davar says. “The perception of a hectic lifestyle, or an almost constant lack of time, leads to certain traits such as sleep deprivation, unhealthy diets high in salt, sugar and processed food and low levels of physical activity. Subsequently, there’s a higher prevalence of people with a raised body mass index, especially those with a high waist circumference, diabetes and so on, all contributing to the development of hypertension.”
It’s not all bad news. We can prevent development or reverse some of the effects of high blood pressure and heart problems if we modify our lifestyles, according to the doctor. “The main issue to highlight is that it is possible to change aspects of one’s life to try to prevent the development of hypertension.” “What is important is to realise that by walking a reasonable amount every day, paying attention to our weight, salt, sugar and overall calorie intake, we can reduce significantly the chance of developing many cardiac problems.” So is the Jewish community at any greater risk of developing heart issues than the rest of the population? “There are certain types of genetically-determined conditions somewhat more prevalent in selected groups of the Jewish population and could involve the heart,” Dr Davar says. “Plus, traditional Jewish cuisine can be quite fatty, sugary and salty. My grandmother cooked a delicious chicken soup, but also used chicken fat to roast and fry potatoes.” However, despite what our Shabbat dinner tables may look like, Dr Davar believes the community is healthier than ever. “Overall, the Jewish population has become well aware of the benefits of a healthy and balanced diet,” he says. While Dr Davar faces daily challenges in his work, it has its rewards – especially when he knows how medicine has helped to transform lives. “To see a patient who had a serious and complicated course of illness walking along the street and smiling is most rewarding,” he adds. Contact Dr Davar, MD PHD, FRCP, FACC, via the Royal Free London Private Patients Unit, 020 7317 7751, rf.privateenquiries@nhs.net, or visit royalfreeprivatepatients.com
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Torah For Today
SEDRA - Ha’azinu
What does the Torah say about… Succot in the Calais Jungle?
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A recent election and a referendum for Britain to remain in the European Union were decided, in part, on the back of refugees entering this country via an illegal tent town in Calais. That town is dubbed the Calais jungle for its impoverished condition. Last month, French President Francois Hollande vowed to remove the 9,000-strong population of migrant refugees to reception centres. So what would the Torah say about the “Calais Jungle” and how does this relate to the upcoming festival of Succot? When the Israelites left Egypt, they set up a settlement just over the border. This massive population of refugees set up a tent city called Succot. According to one opinion, the very reason for the festival of Succot, Tabernacles,
In the days leading up to the declaration of independence of the State of Israel in May 1948, there was much debate surrounding the wording of the text. One major issue was over the inclusion of God in the last section of the document, with the draft using the phrase “and placing our trust in the Almighty”. In the end, the phrase “Rock of Israel” was used, which could be interpreted as referring to God or Israel. Indeed, it is in this week’s sedra that God is referred to as a Rock, in a verse that will be familiar to many from the funeral service. “The Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are justice …” (Devarim 32:4). However the Hebrew world, tzur has a number of other connotations as well. When used as a verb, it can mean to besiege a city or to put it in straits, through exercising power through defining and confining the area. It also carries the additional meaning of “to shape” or to “form” and in modern Hebrew, an artist is a tzayar. When used as a noun it has yet another meaning, “unchanging stability” and “hardness” that overcomes all other material. Israel knows God is its ever-lasting support. It is similarly God’s will that the nation commit themselves to the Torah.
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RABBI ARIEL ABEL is to celebrate the ad-hoc settlement made of temporary materials. This fragile and run-down town is, to this day, the symbol of freedom from oppression and independence of the enslaved. Like the refugees in Calais, our ancestors were not all happy and healthy for living in Succot. Their fragile condition boosted by hope for better days meant that sometimes they ran amok, or attempted to make a break for it and storm or sneak into the Promised Land in manners unlawful to them. Meanwhile, Moses cared for them and God provided them with food, medicine, love and support. Many of my friends have travelled over to clothe, feed and support the desperate of Calais. Here in Lancashire and Liverpool we operate interdenominationally to look after people separated from their loved ones in Sudan, Eritrea, Syria and Iraq. For 2,000 years Jews have had to flee from country to country. My great-grandfather left the pogrom-infested Pale of Settlement in the 1890s. My mother fled the aftermath of the Arab Revolution in Tunisia in the 1960s. My wife is from Crypto-Jewish families who struggled for five centuries to keep their faith in the shadow of the Inquisition. Despite settlement of many centuries in Europe, Africa and the
Americas, they were treated as strangers and outcasts, just for being Jewish. Succot, the symbol of temporariness on earth, celebrates the struggle of the migrant and the refugee by constructing a weak roof and enough walling to keep out the draughty winds. The prophet Zachariah describes how the nations of the world will be judged and punished severely if they do not ascend to Jerusalem to celebrate Succot. At first glance, a punishment for the nonobservance of Succot by non-Jews seems odd. However, Succot is a universal recognition of taking care for the Jew, and the non-Jew, on the run from terror and oppression – a task which obligates all of humanity.
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Progressive Judaism / Jewish Hero and My Two Shekels
Jewish Hero
My Two Shekels
Simon Rothstein on the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner, Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel – Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Prize winner – was a hero in every sense of the word. Described as “the world’s moral compass,” he helped educate mankind about the horrors of the Holocaust and committed his life to ensuring it never happened again. The 15-year-old Wiesel and his family were among 440,000 Romanian and Hungarian Jews deported to concentration camps in 1944. First AuschwitzBirkenau – where his mother and younger sister were killed – then Buchenwald, where his father died a few weeks before its liberation. Wiesel and two older sisters survived. In 1955, he published Night, written from the viewpoint of a 15-year-old witnessing such evil. It, and his later works,
In light of the Sam Allardyce England football scandal, how important is it to run an ethical business? BY MALCOLM FRIED
touched the world. Importantly, he set out to make sure the world would never again be indifferent. He was integral in the creation of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and was critical of the international response to South African apartheid and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and the Balkans. He said: “If I survived, it must be for some reason. I must do something with my life.” He achieved that aim.
Sam Allardyce has been exposed and forced out of his job by a secret recording in the latest scandal over ethics. Whenever there is such an incident, we ask questions. Why? Was it worth it? There’s an account of a decorated Dutch trader who docked his ship at the Cape of Good Hope in 1700 or so. A customs agent asked what he planned to bring ashore. The trader said nothing attracting a tariff. The agent asked to do an inventory. The trader said thanks, but it wouldn’t be necessary – he had decided to sail immediately for Mauritius. Was there something in the cargo he didn’t want inspected? Almost certainly. Was his conduct surprising? No. Ours is a cynical world, jaded by the gap
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between what some say and what they do. Stories of dishonesty among officers of ancient Rome speckle history. Business agents in the port of Ostia solicited bribes from merchants vying to land leather, wine and silks. The 18th century French philosopher Montesquieu, living in the Age of Enlightenment, wrote in his travel notes: “The heart of the inhabitants of countries that live by commerce is easily corrupted.” Tales of unethical behaviour among influential people are pedestrian. Less so are accounts of powerful people who are ethical – even in testing circumstances. We don’t know exactly who these people are, but we get a sense of things they might do. They would behave as George Cadbury did in 1893, when he bought 120 acres of land near his Bournville chocolate
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factory and created, at his own expense, a village for his workers that would, in his words, “alleviate the evils of modern, more cramped living conditions”. Ethical individuals and organisations act decently, unprompted and always, because their natures permit nothing else. In Shattering the Glass Slipper, Charles Marshall writes: “Integrity is doing the right thing when you don’t have to, when no one else is looking or will ever know, when there will be no congratulations or recognition for having done so.” It’s suggested in the Talmud that the first question one gets asked on arriving at the Heavenly Tribunal is this: “Did you conduct your business honourably?” The ethical don’t suffer public embarrassment. We often don’t know who they are because they don’t crave adulation. For those who see standards as flexible, and, like Allardyce, relish attention, the risk of humiliation on a grand scale is perennial. Malcolm Fried works for the Investec Group and was a speaker at Reform Judaism’s annual dinner
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Dear Anton Can a blog help drive traffic to a website? Susan Dear Susan Very much so. Search engines love them. Every blog in the series represents a change of web content, which automatically moves you up the rankings – a huge factor in the driving of traffic. It’s also easy to see how they strengthen your relationship with your customers. Your blog gives you an opportunity to tell a sales story at some length, actively engaging and involving the reader on a deeper level, and asserting style and authority, perhaps even market leadership. These effects are cumulative, so the longer
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enjoyed exercising (the gym doesn’t do it for me) and can’t find any motivation to do anything. I’m starting to feel really low about it all. I like dance and have been tempted to try an adult ballet class as some of my friends go, but I cannot pluck the courage up to get to a class. Help! Denise
Dear Louise With all the craziness of the Jewish festivals this time of year, I’m overeating, already feeling exhausted and need to do some exercise. I’m in my late 40s, never really
Dear Denise The secret to keeping up with any fitness regime is finding a form of exercise you really enjoy. That enjoyment and buzz you feel after every class will motivate you.
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your blog series extends, the greater the impact on your image. Before long, many readers will come back for more, unprompted, and take in your messages without any sales resistance. Your blog can also link through to relevant pages, taking readers straight to an area of interest where they can make an instant purchase. And of course you can keep the whole series up onsite indefinitely, where they build up into a useful encyclopedic reference. Before you launch your blog, you have to decide whether to go it alone, or use outside web consultants. One issue is the quality of your writing (or, strictly, copywriting, which is not the same thing), and whether it will not only hold the attention, but sell with conviction. A bigger factor is how far you understand the blogging environment you would definitely benefit from the expertise of a good professional web developer.
You should absolutely try a ballet class and ignore that little voice in your head trying to stop you from going. A good general level class should be easy to follow and exercising with friends has always helped keep people committed. I find that friends often come to our adult classes together. Taking that first step is always the hardest but, if you enjoy dancing, you will most likely get hooked and finally put an end to those depressing, sluggish days. Just do it – you won’t look back! Good luck and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
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Dear Eddie As the weather turns colder, I’m worried about what I can do to protect my home. Last year was very wet and my garage flooded. Having finally carried out repairs, which were very expensive, I want to do all I can to prevent more damage to my property this year. I have heard forecasters are predicting a colder winter for 2016. What
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Dear Esther I am very sorry to hear you were flooded last year. Flooding, falling trees, boiler breakdown and burst pipes are just some of the potential perils property owners can suffer during the unpredictable winter months. You are right to take action now so that you are prepared for winter, whatever the weather. This will help reduce the chance of a small issue developing into a bigger and more expensive one. Firstly, it is crucial that you have the right insurance; landlords need specialist insurance, while homeowners need both buildings and contents insurance. Of course, insurance is not a substitute for carrying out repairs – before winter hits, make good any
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Sport / Sunday morning review, pictures & video highlights: www.jewishnews.co.uk LIONS CLEAR AT TOP OF TABLE
Four goals from James Gershfield (pictured) helped London Lions record their most emphatic win of the season as they moved five points clear at the top of the Herts Senior County League Premier Division. Hosting Standon and Puckerdige, who went into the game second in the table, Gershfield’s quadruple inspired them as they maintained their 100 percent league start to the season. Jake Furman’s double and strikes from Austin Lipman, Charlie Kasler and Josh Kennet, wrapped up what was their eighth consecutive win.
GRANT CONFIDENT OF GHANA SUCCESS
Avram Grant is confident he can lead Ghana to a fourth straight World Cup - despite seeing them held to a goalless draw at home by Uganda. The Israeli saw his side suffer a frustrating 90 minutes in their third qualifying round opener, though said: “We’ve five games to go and have the quality to make it. Our group is a tough one so there won’t be easy games. They have got a point here, we can go there and beat them, that’s football.” Ghana’s next game is in Cairo where take on Egypt next month, with only the winner of the four-team group qualifying for Russia.
Sandford stuns the Wanderers in cup One of the upsets of Sunday’s Cyril Anekstein Cup action saw Division One side Redbridge B win 2-1 at Premier Division side Woodford Wanderers, thanks to strikes from Adam Goldman and Craig Sandford. Last year’s runners-up Oakwood A suffered a penalty shoot-out defeat to Camden Park, while Faithfold A are also out, as they were beaten by fellow Division One side Finchley City 4-2, thanks in no small part to Oli Sade’s hat-trick, together with Josh Aziz’s strike. Brady won an all-Premier Division clash as Reiss Mogilner’s double helped them to a 6-1 win at SPEC. Nathan Harrod, Ben Kohler, Marc Rister and Jordan Nathan also all scored. Other Premier Division sides into the next round are Raiders A, who beat L’Equipe 9-0, thanks to doubles from David Cohen, David Dinkin and Matt Stock, together with strikes from Liron Mannie, Liam Stein and Ben Ellis. Goals from Josh Harris, Zac Lewis and Avi Korman saw Hendon A beat Real Hendon 3-0, while strikes from Alex Bowman, Alex Taylor, David Cohen, Sam Arghebant, Ben Goldberg, Dom Cheniart and Sam Lewis saw London Lions A beat Redbridge C 7-1.
There were four other all-Division One ties. Los Blancos won 6-1 at Hendon B thanks to Adam Hersh’s double, together with strikes from Darern Russell, Jospeh Davis, Jeff Gross and Joel Kutner. Elsewhere, Jacob Richler Kleiman’s hat-trick, together with efforts from James Abrams and Rafi Bloom saw Oakwood B win 5-1 at Mill Hill Dons. Scrabble fought back from 2-0 down to beat Raiders B 3-2, thanks to strikes from Adam Waters, Dan Green and Josh Bharier, while Josh Bloom’s hat-trick, coupled with goals from Benji Weinberger and Ed Brafman saw London Lions B beat Catford 5-1. In an all-Division Two tie, Richard Fogelman’s hat-trick helped Faithfold B to a 5-3 win over Temple Fortune, Raphael Meyers and Dan Abrams scored their other goals. Division Two side RC UK FC were emphatic 6-0 winners over Brixton, Jonti Aremband and Aaron Luftig scored two each, with Avi Mocton and Dudi Edryei also on target.
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Craig Sandford netted in Redbridge’s win over Woodford
Raiders hit Brady for six Tennis star secures in top-two Masters clash investment funding North London Raiders came out on top in the clash of the top two in Division One of the Masters League. Beating Brady A 6-1. Tony Plaskow helped himself to a hat-trick, while Wayne Davidson, James Cartmell and Dan Levy were also all on target. Raiders manager Elan Ovits said: “We played well against a strong Brady team, but it’s still very early days and just another three points. ” Elsewhere, Michael Abraham’s penalty saw Lions A beat HMH 1-0.
St John’s Wood Tigers moved three points clear at the top of the Division Two table as they beat Temple Fortune 4-0. Perry Somer scored twice, with Adam Soller and Johnny Mansoor also on target. EDRS and Marshside drew 3-3. Martin Seifert’s brace and Tony Platman’s penalty had given EDRS a 3-0 lead , but two goals from Marc Morris either side of the break, plus Justin Woolf’s strike earned Marshside their first point of the season.
Israeli tennis star Amir Weintraub’s hopes of breaking back into the world’s top-200 rankings have been boosted after it was announced he is set to be sponsored by an international Real Estate investment fund. BlueRock Real Estate Investment Fund managing partner Ronny Pifko said: “We have set ourselves a goal of supporting Israeli sport alongside our commercial activity. We are proud to award this sponsorship to Amir Weintraub as we believe that supporting Israeli sport
is a noble cause, and a good way to thank our many clients in Israel for the trust they have placed in us.” Weintraub (pictured) said: “I want to thank BlueRock for their interest and support.
FIFA chief places Israel-Palestine issue as priority
Pole positions for Israeli racer NASCAR next driver Alon Day may have missed out on winning the Elite 1 race at the Whelen Euro Series Finals in Belgium, but he did lay his hands on a watch – which he won by securing the most pole positions over the course of the season
The head of FIFA has said fixing football issues between Israeli and Palestinian football is a priority for the sport’s governing body. Having seen the Palestinian FA threaten to put forward a motion to expel Israel from FIFA at their annual congress last year – only to withdraw it at the last minute, the Palestinian Authority have more recently said they want Israel’s Football League to drop six of its teams that are located in West Bank settlements. Planning to bring the issue up at FIFA’s Executive Board in Switzerland later this week, they claim their presence is illegal under FIFA rules. The head of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, said: “The time is overdue for FIFA to make a decision based on their own statutes and Code of Ethics, practice and values”.
RISHON REACH CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Israel will have two representatives in the group stage of this season’s FIBA Champions League after Maccabi Rishon Lezion beat Belarussian side Tsmoki-Minsk to qualify for the inaugural edition of the competition. Drawn in Group A, where they will face opposition from Germany, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Turkey, Denmark and France, coach Eric Alfasi said: “We made history and will be facing teams that have played in the Euroleague and Eurocup.” Maccabi Tel Aviv will feature in Group B, with the Israeli sides two of 48 teams from 31 countries who will be competing in the tournament.
BOXERS ANNOUNCE NEXT TWO FIGHTS
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino said: “The issue should be football, but it has become a political issue, for which the world has not yet found a satisfactory solution.” “I am always confident that with dialogue, with discussion and by talking only of sport and by leaving out the politics, we can find a solution. This is one of my priorities and our priority. I have not yet gone into the area simply because the situation is such that at the moment the conditions are not there yet, but we’re working on it.”
The UK’s two Jewish boxers have announced their next fights. Light middleweight Tony Milch will be taking part in his 12th professional fight – on the back of winning his first title in August – and will once again be fighting at York Hall on 5 November. Josh Burnham will be fighting at the same venue a week later. The 23-year-old will be taking part in his third professional fight, in what will also be a six-round contest. Both opponents are still to be confirmed.
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Visit jewishnews.co.uk for the latest Jewish sport / Sport MACCABI GB SOUTHERN LEAGUE FOOTBALL
2016/2017 SEASON MGB(S)F • MASTERS WINGATE • LONDON LIONS
CYRIL ANEKSTEIN
GOAL OF THE WEEK
MGBFL GOALSCORERS
Faithfold B 5 Temple Fortune 3, FC Team B 2 Hertswood Vale 1, Finchley City 4 Faithfold A 2, Hendon A 3 Real Hendon 0, Hendon B 1 Los Blancos 6, London Lions A 7 Redbridge C 1, London Lions B 5 Catford & Brom 1, Mill Hill Dons 1 Oakwood B 5, Raiders A 9 L’Equipe 0, Oakwood A 0 Camden Park 0 – Camden won 5-4 on pens, RC UK FC 6 Brixton 0, Scrabble 3 Raiders B 2, SPEC 1 Brady 6 Woodford Wanderers 1 Redbridge B 2
DAN GREEN (SCRABBLE) Picked the ball up out wide, evaded two or three tackles before hitting a screamer into the roof of the net from 35 yards out
PREMIER DIVISION
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
P Hendon United A 3 Oakwood A 3 London Lions A 2 Redbridge A 2 Brady Maccabi 2 NL Raiders A 3 Woodford 2 Camden Park 2 FC Team A 2 SPEC FC 3
W 3 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0
D 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
L 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 2 3
F Dif Pts 14 8 9 9 7 6 4 2 6 4 2 6 7 6 4 10 2 3 3 -1 1 1 -4 0 5 -7 0 1 -15 0
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DIVISION ONE
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
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
13 Goals: Richard Fogelman (Faithfold B) 9 Goals: Reiss Mogilner (Brady Maccabi) Jonti Aremband (RC UK FC)
SAVE OF THE WEEK
SAM SINGER (MILL HILL DONS A shot from point-blank range saw Singer somehow manage to acrobatically scoop the ball away from the goal – to the applause of the Oakwood players
8 Goals: Liron Mannie (Raiders A)
JONATHAN NESBITT (HENDON B) “After all the pre-match talk about dishing out some revenge it looks like I have a large piece of humble pie to finish before the fast on Tuesday.”
SUNDAY’S FIXTURES
Sunday 16 Oct:
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Premier Division: FC Team A vs Woodford Wanderers Oakwood A vs Brady Maccabi Redbridge A vs Camden Park Division One: Brixton Old Boys vs Scrabble Finchley City vs London Lions B Hendon United B vs Athletic Bilbaum Los Blancos vs Redbridge B North London Raiders B vs Faithfold Division Two: Boca Jewniors vs Redbridge C Faithfold B vs Catford & Bromley Hertswood Vake vs NL Raiders C L’Equipe vs Mill Hill Dons Temple Fortune vs FC Team B
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS Watch the best of the Cyril Anekstein Second Round clash between: London Lions A & Redbridge C
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Watford Friendly League U18 Blue Division – Brady Blue 2 Northwood 1 Green Division – Aldenham Harriers 1 Brady Red 1 U16 – London Lions White 4 Stevenage Borough Juniors 2 White Division – Alexandra Park South 2 Brady Blue 1 Green Division – Oakhill Tigers Knights 5 Brady Red 1 U15 – London Lions 2 HMH 4, Harvesters East 0 London Lions White 8 Green Division – St Albans Rangers Red 4 Brady Black 2 White Division – Harpenden Colts Black 3 Brady Blue 1 U14 – London Lions Blue 5 AEK Black 0 Green Division – HMH Panthers 6 Brady Red 2, Brady White 5 St Albans Rangers Zelos 1 U13 – Harvesters North 5 London Lions White 2, London Lions Blue 2 Harvesters 1 Green Division – Brady White 3 St Albans City North 1 Yellow Division – St Albans Rangers White 4 Brady HGS 0 U12 – Edgware Town Red 0 London Lions White 5, Whetstone Wanderers 4 London Lions Blue 3, London Lions Green 6 Borehamwood Youth 3, London Lions Yellow 4 AC Finchley South 1 Yellow Division – Borehamwood Youth Templars 4 Brady Red 0, Brady White 5 Hadley Rangers West 1 Green Division – Brady Blue 6 London Colney Youth
Wingate & Finchley 0 Needham Market 1 P W D L F Dif Pts Leiston 12 9 3 0 38 20 30 Havant & Water 11 8 2 1 26 13 26 Tonbridge Angels 11 7 2 2 17 6 23 Needham Market 12 6 4 2 20 3 22 Bognor Regis Town11 6 3 2 21 10 21 Billericay Town 11 5 2 4 16 3 17 Dulwich Hamlet 13 4 5 4 26 2 17 Kingstonian 12 5 2 5 19 1 17 Lowestoft Town 12 4 4 4 19 4 16 Staines Town 11 4 3 4 19 1 15 Burgess Hill Town 11 3 6 2 18 1 15 AFC Sudbury 12 4 3 5 19 0 15 Enfield Town 12 3 5 4 18 4 14 Wingate & Finchley11 4 2 5 12 -4 14 Harlow Town 13 4 2 7 22 -5 14 Worthing 11 4 2 5 17 -6 14 Merstham 11 3 4 4 23 6 13 Canvey Island 10 3 3 4 17 -1 12 Folkestone Invicta 11 3 3 5 14 -3 12 Harrow Borough 11 3 3 5 9 -6 12 Leatherhead 13 2 5 6 18 -7 11 Hendon 11 2 5 4 15 -10 11 Grays Athletic 13 2 4 7 14 -17 10 Metropolitan Police12 1 3 8 9 -15 6 jewishnews.co.uk/category/sport/ football/wingate/
HAT-TRICK HEROES
Herts Senior League Premier Division – James Gershfield 4 (London Lions) Cyril Anekstein Cup Second Round – Richard Fogelman (Faithfold B), Oli Sade (Finchley City), Josh Bloom (Maccabi London Lions B), Jacob Richler Kleiman (Oakwood B) Masters League Division One – Tony Plaskow (North London Raiders) Watford Friendly League – U14 – Lucas Schreiber 4 (Maccabi London Lions White) U12 – Zac Gold (Maccabi London Lions Green), Josh Woolf (Brady Maccabi Blue)
HERTFORDSHIRE SENIOR LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION London Lions 9 Standon & Puckeridge 0 P W D L F Dif Pts London Lions 8 8 0 0 37 26 24 Bushey Sports Club 8 6 1 1 25 14 19 Standon & Puck 9 6 1 2 29 5 19 Bovingdon 8 6 0 2 29 13 18 Belstone 7 5 2 0 21 11 17 Letchworth Garden 9 4 2 3 22 9 14 Sandridge Rovers 8 4 2 2 13 7 14 Ware Sports 9 4 2 3 23 1 14 Wormley Rovers 8 4 2 2 16 1 14 Chipperfield 8 2 1 5 23 -1 7 Buntingford Town 9 2 1 6 15 -12 7 Evergreen 8 2 0 6 11 -15 6 Knebworth 8 1 2 5 11 -6 5 Hatfield Social 7 1 1 5 12 -22 4 Sarratt 9 0 2 7 7 -16 2 Cuffley 7 0 1 6 9 -15 1 jewishnews.co.uk/category/sport/ football/lions
GARSTON VETS LEAGUE London Maccabi North Greenford Abbey F.C. Colney Heath Garston Winchmore Hill Latymer Old Boys F.C.Deportivo Galicia
P 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1
WDL 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Dif Pts 8 3 5 3 -4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0 -5 0
MMFL DOUBLE O SEVEN MANAGEMENT DIV 1 Maccabi London Lions A 1 HMH 0 Raiders 6 Brady Maccabi A 1
NL Raiders Brady Maccabi A Scrabble London Lions A Chigwell HMH
P 3 4 3 3 1 4
WD 3 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
L Dif Pts 0 8 9 2 -4 6 1 1 4 1 -1 4 0 1 3 4 -5 0
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MMFL DOUBLE O SEVEN MANAGEMENT DIV 2 EDRS Stonegrove 3 Marshside 3 Temple Fortune 0 St John’s Wood 4 P W D L Dif Pts St John’s Wood 4 3 0 1 11 9 Glenthorne 3 2 0 1 2 6 London Lions B 2 2 0 0 2 6 Temple Fortune 3 2 0 1 0 6 EDRS Stonegrove 3 1 1 1 3 4 Marshside 3 0 1 2 -6 1 Hendon Harriers 2 0 0 2 -4 0 Brady Maccabi B 2 0 0 2 8 0 jewishnews.co.uk/category/sport/ football/masters/
ISRAELI LIGAT HA’AL P W D L F Dif Pts Maccabi Tel-Aviv 6 5 1 0 18 4 16 Mac Petach-Tikva 5 3 2 0 8 4 11 Hapoel Beer-Sheva 5 3 1 1 9 6 10 Hapoel Haifa 6 3 0 3 11 3 9 Maccabi Haifa 6 2 3 1 6 1 9 Beitar Jerusalem 6 2 3 1 10 0 9 Hap Kiryat Shmona 6 1 5 0 8 1 8 Hapoel Kfar-Saba 6 2 1 3 5 -2 7 BneiYehuda Tel-Aviv 6 1 3 2 5 -3 6 Hapoel Ashkelon 6 1 3 2 4 -4 6 Hapoel Ra’anana 6 1 2 3 3 -3 5 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 6 1 2 3 5 -6 5 Bnei Sakhnin 6 1 2 3 4 -6 5 FC Ashdod 6 0 2 4 4 -5 2 jewishnews.co.uk/category/sport/israeli/
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1 NATHAN MEHLMAN
5 JOSH KANTER
9 MATT ZARTZ
2 RICHIE CAPLIN
6 DOM FELDMAN
10 RICHARD FOGELMAN
3 JOEL BARNETT
7 AVI MOCTON
4 ILAN SCORAH
8 DAN GREEN
REDBRIDGE C 16-year-old was excellent on what was his debut as he pulled off some wonderful saves
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5 Goals: Joel Lassman (Catford & Bromley)
RESULTS
TEAM OF THE WEEK 2
6 Goals: Zac Lewis (Hendon United A) Adam Ellis (Hendon United B) Avi Markiewicz (RC UK FC)
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REDBRIDGE B Came on and made a difference as he got his side flowing as they claimed a famous cup scalp
LOS BLANCOS Was described by his manager as giving an all-round defensive master class
OAKWOOD B Is enjoying a real renaissance,has been one of The O’s brightest sparks this season and put in another good shift
FINCHLEY CITY Gave a composed display, was technically superb and defensively disciplined
MACCABI LONDON LIONS B An outstanding performance, linked play from the midfield to the attack, and caused havoc to Catford’s defence
RC UK FC Hard in the tackle, sprayed the ball around, bossedthe midfield and drove through the middle
SCRABBLE Second half substitute added steel to midfield, wore Raiders down and scored a fantastic long-range goal.
REDBRIDGE C Put in some brilliant challenges and 100 percent effort, in his role as a right wing-back FAITHFOLD B Claimed his third hat-trick of the season as he took his tally to 13 goals for the season
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NORTH LONDON RAIDERS A Caused the L’Equipe defence a torrid time. Scored twice and was involved in several others
PLAYER OF THE WEEK RICHIE CAPLIN Redbridge B
PLAYER-MANAGER OF THE WEEK SAM RANK Redbridge B
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Sport / World Cup qualifiers / Anti-Semitism in football
They downed Macedonia and licked Liechtenstein ... but Israel still booed by their own supporters By Andrew Sherwood andrews@thejngroup.com @JewishNewsUK
Israel kept alive their hopes of reaching the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but poor performances in 2-1 victories against Macedonia and Liechtenstein saw them booed off the pitch by their own fans. The two wins, in Macedonia and against minnows Liecchtenstein in Jerusalem, saw them move to within a point of top spot in their qualifying group. But manager Elisha Levy admitted there’s plenty of room for improvement from his side. Urging supporters to have patience with his team, he said: “The important thing is that we picked up the points. I know we need to improve, but this is just our third match of the campaign and I think you need to be patient with this team.”
Brighton & Hove Albion striker Tomer Hemed scored two headers in Sunday’s win, which followed their victory over Macedonia three days earlier, though only after the hosts missed an injury time penalty. Admitting the performances weren’t the best, Levy said: “I expected better from my team but football is not mathematics. We need to learn that we can’t sit back after conceding a goal. “I’m sure that with time we will improve and it is always better to work on your mistakes after a win. We need to improve with every match and we will do everything to make sure that will happen.”–– Captain Eran Zahavi came in for criticism before the two games over his poor international goalscoring record, but said: “I don’t have a monkey on my back. That is something that the media has created. I had a very good first half without scoring. I think the criticism leveled at me hurts the
Tomer Hemed celebrates scoring the first of his two goals against Liechtenstein on Sunday
team even though it doesn’t hurt me. I don’t owe the media anything. It is easier to criticise me because I play in China now so all the rats are coming out. It doesn’t matter if we won 2-1 or 8-1. I would be happy to play like this in Albania and win again.” Israel currently sit in joint-second place alongside Albania, on six points, with Spain and Italy a further point ahead. Israel’s next game in the group sees them travel to Albania on 12 November.
Football anti-Semitism ‘will get worse’ The Director of Kick It Out has said she fears anti-Semitic abuse in football is only going to get worse – and cited the role social media plays in allowing the abuse to take place. Rosin Wood voiced her concerns during last week’s Action Against Discrimination (AAD) event, which discussed the subject of: “Anti-Semitism in football – How serious is it now?” The evening, which was media partnered by Jewish News, featured a panel including football journalists Henry Winter and Anthony Clavane, Jewish footballer Joe Jacobson, Brighton & Hove Albion chairman Tony Bloom and President of the
Board of Deputies, Jonathan Arkush. Admitting there is a serious problem with anti-Semitism in football, Wood (pictured) said: “For us [Kick It Out] there is still a problem. As an organisation, we recognise that football’s come a long way in the past 20 years, but we still have a long way to go. “One of the biggest problems we have in dealing with anti-Semitism – and discrimination of all sorts – is social media. The anonymity that exists from behind a keyboard means it’s becoming an ever-increasing problem and it’s an issue we all have to grasp. There’s no easy solution, and I certainly don’t have the answer, but we have to get the likes of Facebook and Twitter to take this seriously
and do something about it. “We all have to work together on this, fans, players, clubs, bodies and government. But I think we’re going to see more of it – and would be surprised if we didn’t.” The evening was chaired by AAD’s Jonathan Metliss, who said: “The event was a great success. The principal purpose was to put the issue of anti- Semitism in football back on the radar and community map, and we succeeded. “Both the panel and audience acknowledged there was still a serious problem and that much more should, and could, be done by the relevant authorities to confront it. We’re here to act as a catalyst and a force for change in combating anti-Semitism in football and will be holding more events of this nature in the foreseeable future.”
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