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Community leaders have unanimously backed a parliamentary report on anti-Semitism that strongly condemns Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Twitter and the leader of the National Union of Students – praising it for offering a “template” for tackling hate in the UK. The hard-hitting report, following a probe into anti-Semitism in the UK by the Home Affairs Select Committee, also proposes a
Twitter: ‘An inert host for vast swathes of anti-Semitism’ revised definition of anti-Semitism to be adopted by law enforcement agencies and all political parties. The Chief Rabbi, Community Security Trust and the leaders of the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats were among those to give oral evidence. MPs from across the House – who stressed they were united in their findings – said they believed Corbyn’s “lack of consistent leadership on this issue, and his reluctance to separate anti-Semitism from other forms of racism, has created what some have referred to as a ‘safe space’ for those with vile atti-
NUS President: ‘Does not listen to concerns of Jewish students’ tudes towards Jewish people”. While Corbyn has a “proud record” of fighting racism, “we are not persauded that he fully appreciates the distinct nature of postSecond World War anti-Semitism”. The case of ex-Momentum vice-chair Jackie Walker, who was recently suspended for a second time, illustrates the party’s “demonstrable incompetence” in dealing with accused members, they argued. The MPs welcomed the leader’s decision to commission an inquiry by Shami Chakrabarti but Continued on page 4
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ributes have been paid to one of the world’s leading pioneers of interfaith relations, Sir Sigmund Sternberg, after he passed away at the age of 95. Sir Sigmund, who was born in Hungary, co-founded the Three Faiths Forum (3FF) in 1997, well before the explosion in activity to bring faiths together in this country, and was also considered one of the fathers of Anglo-Jewry – partly as a result of his “transformational” work with Reform Judaism. But it is probably his work in improving strained relations between the Jewish community and the Catholic Church that he will be most remembered. He played a central role in efforts to remove a Carmelite convent at1 Auschwitz and in the 14-047-AW Jewish Helpline General Flyer_Layout 1 copy 2 established 04/02/2014 10:39 Page
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very first visit by a Pope (John Paul II) to a synagogue, which has become a regular feature of subsequent papacies. Sir Sigmund – who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to the UK in 1939 – made his money in the metals industry before focusing on interfaith work, including with the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ), and other charitable work in later life. He was also instrumental in setting up the Sternberg Centre for Judaism. Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism, said: “The entire Reform Jewish community of the UK mourns the sad news of the death of Sir Sigmund Sternberg. His contribution to Reform Judaism was transformational. “He dedicated a great part of his life to serving the Jewish community and the vital cause of dialogue and interfaith relations around the world. We are grateful for his enormous generosity and inspirational leadership. May his memory be a blessing.” CCJ chair Bishop Michael Ipgrave paid tribute to Sir Sigmund as “an incomparable champion of interfaith relations. His work was a shining light in bringing people together, and his legacy is the profound impact it had on people, from school students to presidents. As we mourn his loss, we give thanks for his memory and commit ourselves to continuing the work that was dear to him.” Tributes also came from the Jewish Leadership Council and Board of Deputies, with Board president Jonathan Arkush saying: “Sir Sigmund Sternberg was one of our community’s most tireless workers and generous benefactors. His association with the Board went back many years and his support has been invaluable. His energy, enthusiasm, talent for organisation and massive charitable efforts will be sorely missed.” He was awarded a knighthood by the Queen in 1976 and became a papal knight nine years later – the first to receive the accolade and one of around half a dozen in total. He was also a recipient of the Templeton Prize. Fellow papal knight Rabbi David Rosen, the former chief rabbi of Ireland, told Jewish News Sternberg “personified some of the greatest transformations that have taken place
Sir Sigmund Sternberg, left, with the Queen and Rabbi Sacks
in and for the Jewish world in our times”. Describing him as a “true mensch,” he added: “There has never been an era in the history of humankind where there has been so much interfaith collaboration and cooperation. For the Jewish community, it was Sir Sigmund and his colleagues of the generation after World War Two and the Shoah who trailblazed that path that many, like myself, are privileged to follow along today in a new era in interfaith understanding and cooperation.” 3FF director Phil Champain spoke of the sadness of his team at the news of Sternberg’s death. He said: “Sir Sigmund was a true giant of the interfaith movement, who spent most of his life building better relations between people of different faiths and beliefs.” The founding of the 3FF, he said, was only one of his many achievements, “as he worked tirelessly to resolve conflicts within and between religions both in the UK and internationally”. This speaks not just of a great statesman, he continued, but of a “profound, sensitive, caring and outstanding human being. 3FF is an important part of his legacy, and we will continue to strive for the vision he believed in, of a world where people live together in mutual respect and understanding, regardless of their faith.” Sir Sigmund wrote about his pride in 3FF’s work four years ago. While the CCJ was already in operation, he and his 3FF cofounders, Rev Marcus Braybrooke and Dr Zaki Badawi, identified a need to involve Muslims in dialogue. He particularly hailed the charity’s work with youngsters in schools and universities. He stated at the time: “I’m very pleased to see the work we started 15 years ago carried on by a new generation of bridgebuilders and peacemakers as 3FF brings dialogue and cooperation to new audiences and regions.”
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Sir Sigmund Sternberg personified some of the greatest transformations that have taken place in and for the Jewish world in our times. Not least of these was and is the revolution in Christian and particularly Catholic attitudes and teaching towards Jews and Judaism. Many Jews have little or no appreciation of the enormity of this transformation both historically and contemporaneously. He lamented this and often said that, had the Vatican document Nostra Aetate been issued 25 years earlier, Jewish history might have been so radically different. He saw it as a Jewish moral obligation to engage the Church in combatting anti-Semi-
tism and saw Pope John Paul II’s statement that anti-Semitism is a sin against man and God as almost a personal victory. He met with Cardinal Glemp, the primate of Poland, and succeeded in transforming his view of the Jewish protest as interfering foreign meddling, into an appreciation of Jewish pain and distress. Eventually , with the support of Pope John Paul II , the Polish church arranged for the convent to be relocated and established a reconciliation centre nearby. Nowhere was out of bounds for Siggy’s irrepressible determination and he was given the honour of being the first Jewish Papal knight and he strove to be a true mensch. He and his colleagues trailblazed a path that many like myself are privileged to follow along in a new era in interfaith understanding and cooperation.
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Farron: Tonge intolerable Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has said both Jenny Tonge and David Ward should face a disciplinary process over “intolerable” comments reacting to the release of a parliamentary report into anti-Semitism, writes Justin Cohen. Tonge, who in 2012 resigned the Lib Dem whip but remains a party member, sought to offer a “reason” for rising anti-Semitism in the UK. In a letter to The Guardian, which has yet to be printed, she welcomed the report by the Home Affairs Select Committee, but insisted “it would have been more useful if it had investigated the causes of anti-Semitism too. It is difficult to believe that a 75 percent increase in anti-Semitism it reports has been committed by people who simply hate Jewish people for no reason. “...These incidents are reflecting the disgust amongst the general public of the way the government of Israel treats Palestinians and manipulates the USA and ourselves to take no action against the country’s blatent disregard of international law and the Geneva Conventions.” She continued: “Added to this is Israel’s adoption of the title of ‘Jewish state of Israel’. This conflates Israel with the Jewish people here, whether or not they support the Zionist state and many do not.” The report levelled specific criticism at the Lib Dems, saying the party “should pay heed to the need to act swiftly and decisively” to address anti-Semitism in its ranks. It also took aim at leader Farron for referring to disciplinary pro-
cesses when pressed on the case of David Ward, who he said had served his time when, as an MP, he was briefly suspended by the party. Ward wrote on Twitter after the report’s release: “Anti-Semitism row becoming daft – for a voice of sanity see the PSC evidence to the Chakrabarti inquiry (and HASC),” while another message said: “The Zionists are winning despite the appalling racism of the state of Israel and its supporters – don’t give up – good will triumph bad.” Speaking to LBC, Farron said comments from both were “intolerable” and believed they should be referred to the party’s internal disciplinary proceedings. After initially saying action was being taken, he refused to confirm the offensive remarks had already been referred when pressed. Gary Spedding, who undertakes cross-party work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has complained to Farron. He said: “It is deplorable for anyone to suggest that Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the UK. Israel-Palestine related anti-Semitism is the result of a toxic mixture of ignorance, hatred, victim blaming, denial and an unhealthy obsession with Jewish people.” The Community Security Trust’s Mark Gardner said: “Nobody was holding their breath that these two serial offenders would change their behaviour, but the timings of their latest sneers can only harm the image of the party.” A party spokesperson said: “Jenny Tonge does not take the party whip in the House of Lords and does not speak for the Liberal Democrats .”
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Corbyn accused of being ‘in denial’ Continued from page 1 condemned her and Corbyn over the timing of her elevation to the Lords. They also claimed her report was “compromised by its failure to deliver a comprehensive set of recommendations or to provide a definition of anti-Semitism. The failure of the Labour Party to deal consistently and effectively with anti-Semitic incidents risks lending force to allegations that elements of the Labour movement are institutionally anti-Semitic”. The report stresses other parties are not immune to accusations of anti-Semitism and urges all major parties to consider “whether recommended reforms could be applied to their own processes for training and disciplining members”. In a strongly-worded response, Corbyn accused the MPs of failing to look in detail at combating anti-Semitism in other parties, schools or civic institutions and defended Chakrabarti against “unfair” criticism. While endorsing some of the recommendations and suggesting the report “echoed” parts of Chakrabarti’s findings, the Labour leader added: “The report’s political framing and disproportionate emphasis on Labour risks undermining [its] positive and welcome recommendations.” He insisted Labour had done more to
tackle anti-Semitism under his leadership than any other party and would implement the measures Chakrabarti recommended. Jennifer Gerber, director of Labour Friends of Israel, said: “Sadly, the reaction of the Labour leader to the Home Affairs Select Committee report simply underlines how far he, and some others in the party, still need to go to grasp and tackle this very real problem.” While Labour has “specific challenges to address”, Jewish Labour Movement chair Jeremy Newmark insisted anti-Semitism is not the “sole preserve of the left or right” and said the fate of Ken Livingstone would be a “litmus tet” for the party. In the report, the MPs urge government, political parties and law enforcement agencies to adopt a slightly altered version of The Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism. That definition takes into account modern forms of anti-Semitism such as comparing Israeli policy to the Nazis. The report calls for the addition of two clauses to make it clear it is not anti-Semitic to criticise Israeli policy or take a particular interest in Israel without further evidence of anti-Semitic intent. It praises the CST’s “impressive and professional work” and insists government
funding for security measures should continue as a matter of course. CST’s Mark Gardner, who gave evidence, thanked the Committee for its “serious investigation of anti-Semitism and we hope its conclusions will be acted on”. Sir Mick Davis of the Jewish Leadership Council said: “We welcome the fact that this independent, cross-party group of MPs has produced a unanimous report, which sets out a roadmap for concrete action to address anti-Semitism in all its forms.” Board of Deputies president Jonathan Arkush said he was “greatly heartened the committee has taken care to listen to the range of concerns expressed in the evidence given to the committee from across the community and beyond”. BICOM’s James Sorene said the report “brings much-needed clarity where previously there had been denial, obfuscation and abdication of responsibility”, while the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Karen Pollock said: “This inquiry has issued the strong clarion call we have so desperately needed in the fight to tackle anti-Semitism in all its guises.” The Campaign Against Antisemitism praised the “uncompromising” findings, but lamented the low number of police prosecutions.
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NUS president must ‘apologise or resign’ Dozens of student union leaders have demanded National Union of Students president Malia Bouattia issues “a full and formal apology” or resigns following heavy criticism by MPs. The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee said Bouattia’s past comments describing Birmingham University as a “Zionist outpost” smack of “outright racism”. The report said: “The president of the NUS does not appear to take sufficiently
seriously the issue of antiSemitism on campus, and has responded to Jewish students’ concerns about her previous language with defensiveness.” “[Her language]...suggests a worrying disregard for her duty to represent all sections of the student population...” The MPs also questioned whether the NUS was effectively addressing anti-Semitism, and called on it and the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) to “work to mend their broken relationship”. In reply, Bouattia described
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increasing anti-Semitism as “deeply worrying” and tackling it as a priority for NUS. She insisted she would “continue” to listen to Jewish students’ concerns, adding: “If the language I have used in the past has been interpreted any other way then let me make this clear – it was never my intention and I have revised my language. “Our movement has students, both Jewish and otherwise, who hold a variety of deeply held beliefs on IsraelPalestine but it is a political argument, not one of faith.
There is no place for antiSemitism in the student movement, and in society.” But dozens of student union presidents and officers and several members of the NUS national executive committee said her response did “not go far enough in acknowledging or apologising for the significant damage her actions and language have done to NUS and the student movement... “If Malia fails to acknowledge the need for an immediate and full apology, as well as to provide details of how she
will personally address these issues going forward, then we believe that she must resign”. UJS campaigns director Josh Nagli said: “This report must act as a wake-up call for the NUS president, because the culture created on UK campuses is one that accepts and fails to challenge anti-Semitism; a culture that is being manifested on her watch.” An NUS spokesperson said: “It is disappointing that the report is partial and inaccurate in relation to NUS work in tackling anti-Semitism.”
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Shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti was not “bought” with a peerage to write a “soft” report on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, Diane Abbott has insisted. The shadow home secretary defended Chakrabarti against accusations from some Jewish groups that the probe she produced shortly before becoming a Labour peer was a “whitewash”. Abbott told Good Morning Britain that the ex-Liberty head was the victim of a smear campaign. “If she could be bought for a peerage she would have been bought years ago.”
A Palestinian woman was shot and killed in the West Bank as she allegedly attempted to stab Israeli security forces. There were reportedly no injuries to Israeli security forces or civilians in the attack at the Tapuach Junction south of Nablus, in the West Bank. “Attempted stabbing at Tapuach Junction,” Israeli police tweeted. “A short while ago a female suspect approached border police officers at the scene holding a knife. When she failed to heed their calls to halt, they shot and neutralsed her.”
Online streaming of Bob Dylan’s music has increased by more than 500 percent since the announcement of his 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Spotify digital music platform said streams of Dylan songs increased by 512 percent. The most listened to song was Like a Rolling Stone, the Associated Press reported. Dylan, 75, was recognised for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” said the Swedish Academy, which is responsible for choosing the Nobel laureates in literature. [JTA]
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Home Affairs Select Committee report/ News
‘Inert’ Twitter blamed Twitter has been strongly criticised by MPs for hosting “vast swathes” of antiSemitic speech and abuse. The Commons Home Affairs Committee said it was “disgraceful” that Jewish people using the social media site were being subjected to “appalling” levels of online abuse. It said the company – which enjoys global revenues of 2.2billion dollars (£1.8bn) – had to do more to tackle a problem which appeared to be growing “exponentially”. In a hard-hitting report, the committee said it had been “shocked” at the “viscerally anti-Semitic nature and volume” of tweets directed specifically at MPs. It highlighted the case of Luciana Berger, the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, who was targeted by a US-based neo-Nazi website [see below]. In the space of just three days in 2014, she was reported to have received 2,500 abusive tweets, all with the same virulently anti-Semitic hashtag. Two years on, the committee said that, “alarmingly,”
Anti-Semitic hate on Twitter
some of the messages were still available online. “This experience is no doubt common to many Jewish people outside Parliament, too,” the report said. “It is disgraceful that any individual should have to tolerate such appalling levels of anti-Semitic abuse in order to use Twitter – a social media platform now regarded as a requirement for any public figure. “In the context of global revenue of 2.2billion dollars, it is deplorable that Twitter continues to act as an inert host for vast swathes of anti-Semitic hate speech and abuse.
“The company has the necessary resources and technical capability, and must do more to address this pernicious problem, which appears to be growing exponentially.” The committee said Twitter needed to act in a “proactive manner” to identify abusive users and that more resources were needed for enforcement. A Twitter spokesman said: “Hateful conduct has no place on Twitter and we will continue to tackle this issue headon alongside our partners in industry and civil society. “People must feel safe to speak freely and there is a clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate. “In tandem with actioning hateful conduct that breaches Twitter’s rules, we also leverage the platform’s incredible capabilities to empower positive voices, to challenge prejudice and to tackle the deeper root causes of intolerance. “We look forward to further constructive dialogue between government, our partners in civil society and our peers in the technology sector on this issue.”
BERGER: ‘ABUSE HARD ON FAMILY’ Luciana Berger has revealed for the first time the impact on her family of threats and anti-Semitic slurs made against her. The Jewish Labour politician, who rarely speaks about her private life, made the statements in a filmed interview with the Liverpool Echo ahead of National Hate Crime Awareness Week. “More often than not, you experience it alone, and that can be hard. And then when your family find out about it, it’s difficult for them as well because they are concerned about your safety and well-being, and they shoulder that pain and upset as well,” she said. Earlier this year, John Nimmo pleaded guilty to sending Berger a death threat. He was investigated after Berger called police following anti-Semitic threats, including one that said: “You are going to get it like Jo Cox did.” The threats to Berger, which were sent online along with a photograph of a large kitchen knife, made reference to her religion. Berger added: “When my partner and other family members found out about the abuse, it was difficult for them because they are concerned for my safety and well-being. “It is really important people know what hate crime is and the different forms it can take. It can be face-to-face from someone on the street or a neighbour. It can be verbal or online. “It’s so important that people have the confidence to know that if they come forward, someone is going to support you and some-
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thing will be done. I know from my own experience. My message to any victim is that I know what it feels like, I have been at the receiving end of many instances of hate crime and have been supported by the police. People have been convicted for these offences.” While serving as home secretary, Theresa May mentioned Berger in a speech she delivered to the Board of Deputies . The impact of online hatred, May said, “was clearly demonstrated over the summer when Luciana Berger, the Labour MP, was subjected to a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse on Twitter. And I am pleased that case was reported to the police and resulted in a successful prosecution and custodial sentence.” [JTA]
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Shul bomb hoaxer jailed A woman who made a hoax bomb threat to a synagogue and carried out a harassment campaign against a mother at her daughter’s school has been jailed for three years. Claire Mann’s behaviour was part of a “concerted and sustained” effort that caused “significant alarm and distress to a number of people” in north London’s Jewish community, prosecutor Ross Cohen told Wood Green Crown Court. Mann, 43 of Mill Hill, north-west London, had pleaded guilty in June to two counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice between 1 and 21 July 2013. This relates to three incidents, including her texting Elisheva Mason – the wife of Muswell Hill Synagogue’s Rabbi David Mason – on 19 July 2013 and claiming “there is a bomb threat at Kinloss (Finchley United Synagogue) area hotels where there are many Israelis staying, please arrange evacuation”. Her aim was to blame Roz Page, whose daughter attended the same school as her own child, as they had been involved in a row about their children.
Claire Mann, inset, made a hoax bomb threat targeting Kinloss Synagogue, above
Cohen said the police treated it as a “real threat” and carried out a search of the scene. They left patrols in the area to try to calm community fears. A day later, as police were searching her home, Mann showed officers abusive text messages she had received, which were from the same number that made the bomb threat – and all the messages were sent by her. The first abusive text, falsely claiming to be from Page, was
reported by Mann to police on 2 July 2013. In reality, Mann had been “masquerading” as Page and sent them herself, Cohen said. Mann had become “agitated” during the police search, Cohen said. “Mrs Mann became terrified and repeated: ‘I did it, I did it, it was a prank that has gone wrong.’” She told officers she had thrown the telephone away but they found its box in the bedroom, the court heard.
The other count of attempting to pervert the course of justice stems from Mann falsely representing herself to be a clinical psychologist in a document that was put before a family court hearing. Her partner David Bright, 48, of the same Mill Hill address as Mann, runs an organisation called Parents Voice, which helps people who are involved in family court hearings. He put the
document, complete with Mann’s fake qualifications under the name of Silverstone, before the family court. He was found guilty of perverting the course of justice by a jury at Harrow Crown Court in July. The father, who was involved in the family court case has “suffered significantly” as a result of what happened, Cohen told the court. Detailing Mann’s actions, Cohen said: “There is a concerted and sustained course of conduct in this case and as a result Ms Page, a lady of good character, got into trouble herself with the police. “Thankfully she was not arrested and did not receive anything more than a harassment warning. She (Ms Page) seems to have been under suspicion for a long time as a result.” He told the court Mann “started to blame others” for what had gone on and this caused “anguish”, only accepting responsibility later, meaning “that a cloud of suspicion hung on others in the community”.
ANTI-RACIST ACTIVISTS REVEAL KKK Warning on porn GROUP PROMOTING ANTI-SEMITISM Undercover investigators from a British anti-racist group have revealed how anti-Semitism features prominently in a new drive to incite racial hatred by white supremacists in the US. London-based Hope Not Hate, which seeks to tackle extremism, said several activists infiltrated one of the Ku Klux Klan’s most notorious groups, the Loyal White Knights, led by Holocaust denier Chris Barker, whose members are expelled for sleeping with “Jew whores”. Detailing their encounters, investigators said that when they were admitted to the group’s private online areas, they were sent deeply anti-Semitic material. This included one image of a hooded figure in front of the confederate flag, with the words: “Help save our race; everything we cherish is under assault by ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government]”. Barker wrote: “They [Jews] said there [sic] goal was to destroy the white race. Here they are doing just that – by brainwashing our people through the media.”
Model Pamela Anderson lined up alongside a British-born rabbi and author of Kosher Lust at Oxford University this week, to talk about porn. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach said: “It can be intimidating to talk about pornography and eroticism alongside an international sex symbol, but I think Pamela has handled it extremely well.” The unlikely pair lectured students after a month of campaigning, in which they warned against the ease of accessing online porn as “a public hazard of unprecedented seriousness,”
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WJR’S HAITI APPEAL RAISES £100,000 World Jewish Relief’s emergency appeal following the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti has raised more than £100,000. Donations are still urgently needed to support more than 1.4 million people in urgent need of food, water and shelter. The charity’s first programme will support families on the island of La Gonave to buy food for three weeks. Prices of many basic goods have increased as a result of the disaster.
The programme will also provide money to repair their homes with a new roof. Half of all homes were destroyed by the hurricane. WJR’s assessment team chose La Gonave as it is being overlooked by the majority of NGOs who are focusing on Haiti’s mainland. Humanitarian programmes manager Mireille Flores, who has just returned from Haiti, said: “I met an elderly couple whose house is now just rubble. They showed me what was left of their home.
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which impacts on families and careers. Anderson, who posed nude on the cover of Playboy earlier this year, has been a vocal supporter of Israel, through which she met Boteach. To many, she is known for the sex tape she made with her husband at the time, which made waves in 1995. In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece, the unlikely pair wrote that pornography is “a boring wasteful and dead-end outlet for people too lazy to reap the ample rewards of healthy sexuality”.
Hitler home plans The building where Adolf Hitler was born and raised may be spared demolition but will emerge heavily disguised, Austria’s interior minister has said. On Monday, Wolfgang Sobotka told the daily Die Presse that “the Hitler house will be torn down”. On Tuesday, he told reporters that the term “torn down” is debatable but the building, in the western town of Braunau, will be so thoroughly
redesigned that it “will not be recognisable”. The house, a three-storey Renaissance-era structure, contains the apartment where Hitler was born. Several members of a government-appointed commission on the future of the infamous house said destroying it to end its attraction for admirers of the Nazi dictator would give an impression of trying to erase part of Austria’s history.
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Friday night dinner for all A London doctor was so concerned about her student daughter having nowhere regular to eat on Friday nights that she raised money to make it happen, writes Jenni Frazer. That was two years ago when Dina Hochhauser was a fresher and wanted to live in hall. Today her mother, Dr Jo Hochhauser (pictured), presides over an impressive organisation known as FND, or Friday Night Dinners — and the student-led events, which run at Western Marble Arch and Central Synagogues, attract anything between 60 and 100 people every week. Dr Hochhauser said: “When I was a student we had Hillel
House, but I realised that today there was nowhere for students to go and have a relaxed place where they could socialise — essential at the end of what can be tough weeks during term. “We think there are about 2,000 Jewish students in London, and although many do live at home, there are also large numbers of international students, particularly from the US and France, and they need somewhere to go.” In September, last year Dr Hochhauser approached UJS and University Jewish Chaplaincy, both of which agreed to support her initiative. But the main funding comes from Dr Hochhauser’s persuasive
wooing of private donors, and in the past year alone she has raised £35,000 to cover the costs of her ambitious project. Students who sign up via the FND website or on Facebook are charged £5 for a three-
course buffet with wine. They are welcomed and encouraged to make FND an enjoyable social event. In the past few weeks, FND has begun staging Shabbat lunches. She said: “This is the only
weekly cross-communal event and it has become a huge success. We have students from all levels of religious observance and none — we even have a group who walk every week from north-west London.”
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Personal stories for Pinner’s 75th Personal family history was uncovered and the past was remembered as more than 250 people, young and old, visited Pinner Synagogue’s 75th anniversary exhibition, writes Caron Kemp. Curated to commemorate and celebrate the community, its people, events and milestones, the pop-up exhibition featured stories, photographs, recordings, memorabilia and more; taking visitors on a journey from 1941 – when founders and brothers Harry and Myer Lipman moved to the area – through to today. An opening ceremony included speeches from two members of the community whose year of birth mirrors that of the Cecil Park Synagogue, while congregants past and present, local dignitaries and former and current rabbinical leaders paid tribute to the milestone anniversary. Curator Rosalyn Sober said: “We have had an overwhelming and amazing response from our community and beyond.”
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Schoolchildren view part of Pinner Synagogue’s exhibition
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PORTMAN: MY KIDS BRING ‘GOOD LUCK’
LE PEN BAN VOW ON RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
Actress Natalie Portman said her babies are “good luck charms,” when asked about early Oscar speculation for her latest movie. “They’re good luck charms in life,” Portman, 35, told Entertainment Tonight. “They’re the best things.” The Israeli-born actress, pregnant with her second child, is promoting the biopic Jackie, in which she plays former First Lady Jackie Kennedy. It is due to be released next month. [JTA]
The leader of France’s far-right National Front Party, vowed that if elected French president, she will ban all public displays of religious symbols and clothing, including kippot. Marine Le Pen made the statement during an interview on Sunday with France’s BFM-TV. She is seeking to broaden the headscarf ban that does not allow conspicuous displays of religious symbols in public areas. [JTA]
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News / Jewish schools, Museum anger, Community Hero
School places ‘solution’
Anger over ‘criminal Israel’ poster exhibit
Jewish education chiefs have advised parents unable to get their children into a Jewish secondary in Barnet to consider sending them to Whitefield School in Cricklewood instead. The recommendation has been made by Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), a division of the Jewish Leadership Council, after the headteacher of Whitefield School agreed to offer a Jewish studies course. Pajes said it is aiming to offer a special Jewish studies programme delivered under the auspices of the United Synagogue. It is also exploring the possibility of the kosher food provision. Ahead of any new Jewish school opening in September 2018, education chiefs have sought a series of stop-gap measures, including several “bulge and with the provision of Jewish studies.” classes” created in existing schools, in The umbrella body said it was the wake of growing concern over a lack advising parents that they should of places. include Whitefield as one of the This week, a spokesman for PaJeS options on the School Application praised Whitefield School as having “a Form (CAF) applications form, which strong ethos,” adding: “While this may must be submitted by 31 October, with not be the first preference for parents, Whitefield welcoming prospective it offers the opportunity for a child not parents and students to visit the school. gaining a place at a Jewish school to be The latest initiative comes as tense educated in a supportive and sympathetic negotiations continue between parents environment, with the possibility of backing two separate bids to open a new socialising other Jewish students, Jewish free school in 1north London. Fright Night with JN 165x128mm.qxp_Layout 1 10/10/2016 11:21 Page
A London museum has removed posters protesting against ‘criminal Israel’ from an exhibit on ‘typical’ British teenage bedrooms. The Geffrye Museum in Dalston took down two posters from its display, which read ‘criminal Israel’ and ‘Gaza – End the Siege Now.’ Following a number of complaints, the museum said it removed the items “because we don’t want to offend visitors”. The exhibition, which explores the significance of 26 contemporary teenage bedrooms, used a range of artefacts to reflect “cultural and emotional lives beyond the home”. “Emma C”, who asked not to be identified, visited the exhibition last weekend with her children. She told Jewish News she was “appalled,” adding: “We were all shocked to see the exhibit in the museum, which is a public place, especially in light of current political climate. “We live in a country that encourages racial and reli-
Applications were submitted to the Department for Education from Kavanah College, which is backed by the United Synagogue, and Barkai College, which describes itself as Modern Orthodox. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has said that two new Jewish secondary schools would be “irresponsible and impractical,” and that only one new school should open, but after a difficult meeting this month, arbitrators at PaJeS said “a meeting of minds isn’t easy”.
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gious tolerance rather than in one that promotes racism of any form and against any race or religion. We are glad the museum understood our concerns and removed the image.” Fellow visitor “Naomi N”, said she felt “absolutely incensed and very uncomfortable”. She added: “I could not believe that the museum would condone using the picture in their display. I am relieved it has decided to take it down.”
Sephardis ‘naturalised’ Nearly 5,000 people have become citizens of Spain or Portugal, following the passing of laws in both countries on the naturalisation of descendants of Sephardic Jews. In Portugal, where a procedure for naturalisation under the law went into effect last year, 292 applicants for naturalisation have been approved, Catarina Madeira, a spokeswoman for the Portuguese Justice Ministry, said on Wednesday. Spain has naturalised 4,538 applicants for citizenship by Sephardim since the law went into effect last year. However,
only three applicants were granted citizenship based on the actual law. Others were naturalised by a royal decree and not through the nondiscretionary procedure devised for the law. According to ABC, the Spanish government in effect blocked the non-discretionary procedure to avoid mass immigration by an estimated 30 million non-Jewish descendants of Sephardim eligible under the law. In both countries, the passing of the laws of return for Sephardim was described as an attempt
to atone for the state and church-led mass expulsion, dispossession, torture and forced conversion into Christianity of Jews during the Inquisition — a period that began in the 15th century and ended with the disappearance and dispersion of what used to be one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. In both Portugal and Spain, each application is vetted by the institutions of those countries’ Jewish communities, which make recommendations to the government. [JTA]
COMMUNITY HERO AWARD 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? There is still time to nominate someone deserving for Jewish News’ annual Community Hero, in partnership with Mitzvah Day. Our finalists will be revealed next month before the winner is announced at the end of Mitzvah Day on 27 November – when thousands of people give their time to support good causes across the country.
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 physical feats, including 13 skydives – despite suffering from hypermobility syndrome, which severely affects the body’s joints and pain pathways to the brain. If you know such a person, email us 200 words outlining their work, to editorial@thejngroup.com by 7 November.
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Anger over Jerusalem vote
Jewish Unesco envoy is fired
Unesco’s executive board this week approved a resolution that Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem and angered the country’s government and Jews around the world. The board adopted the measure by consensus in its a session at the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). A draft form of the resolution had already been approved by a commission last week. The resolution is not expected to have a direct impact on Jerusalem itself, but it deepened tensions within Unesco, which is also facing a diplomatic dispute between Japan and China that threatens funding. The resolution, entitled Occupied Palestine, is the latest of several measures at Unesco over decades that Israelis see as evidence of ingrained anti-Israel bias within the UN, where Israel and its allies are far outnumbered by Arab countries and their supporters. Israel’s concern has mounted since Unesco states admitted Pal-
Mexico has dumped its ambassador to UNESCO, Andrés Roemer [pictured], who is Jewish, for protesting against his country’s decision to vote for the resolution denying Jewish ties to Jerusalem. “For not having informed diligently and with meticulousness of the context in which the voting process occurred, for reporting to representatives of countries other than Mexico about the sense of his vote, and for making public documents and official correspondence subject to secrecy,” read an official statement. However, the Latin American country announced it will now change its vote from “in favour” to abstain on the proposal concerning the preservation of cultural heritage and religion in eastern Jerusalem. “Changing the vote reiterates the recognition that the government of Mexico gives to the undeniable link of the Jewish people to cultural heritage located in East Jerusalem. It also reflects the deep appreciation that this government has for the Jewish community and their significant contributions to the welfare and social and cultural development of Mexico,” the statement also said.
Foreign Minister Boris Johnson at the Dome of the Rock during a visit to Jerusalem last year
estine as a member in 2011. Israel last week suspended its ties with Unesco over the draft resolution, which uses only the Islamic name for a hilltop compound sacred to both Jews and Muslims. The site includes the Western Wall, a remnant of the biblical temple and the holiest site where Jews can pray. Jews refer to the hilltop compound in Jerusalem’s Old City as the Temple Mount. Muslims refer
to it as al-Haram al-Sharif, Arabic for the Noble Sanctuary, and it includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the golden Dome of the Rock. It is the holiest site in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. Israel had already suspended its funding to Unesco when Palestinian membership was approved, along with the United States, which used to provide 22 percent of the agency’s budget.
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The longstanding dispute is also linked to Israel’s refusal to grant visas to Unesco experts to go into the country and assess the level of preservation of the holy sites in Jerusalem. And now Japan, Unesco’s second-biggest funder, is threatening to halt funding. Japan announced last week it has withheld its annual Unesco dues, saying it wants to make sure the UN body properly functions to foster trust among member nations.
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Teacher denied Calais entry A Jewish special needs teacher has been prevented from delivering aid collected by Jewish donors to migrants in Calais. Holly Kal-Weiss was turned away by border officials on Friday, with authorities claiming she is “a danger to public order or internal security”. She told Jewish News she “was refused entry both at the Eurotunnel and at Dover and told by the British police that I was most likely banned for the weekend so suggested I did not try again”. Kal-Weiss, 51, said the “only explanation given was that there was a ‘demonstration today,’” which prevented her from making her way across the channel to deliver aid including tents, sleeping bags and food. The aid, she told the paper, was collected by her synagogue, Finchley Reform, Jewish primary schools Eden and Alma, and non-community groups such as the Jamie Oliver Foundation.
Holly Kal-Weiss pictured outside her car, which was filled with aid for refugees
Holly said she had been to Calais at least a dozen times in the past year without problem. “I have never broken the law and have never been banned or refused entry from any country. I am hardly a danger
to anyone.” Calling the refusal of her aid delivery “disgraceful”, the mother-of-two, who teaches dyslexic children, added: “I’m trying my best to help innocent people who have fled war.”
JEWELLER MAY BE CHARGED OVER ‘JUNGLE’ DEATH An Orthodox jeweller from Stamford Hill may face involuntary manslaughter charges after he killed an Eritrean migrant who had stepped out into the road in Calais. Abraham Reichman, 35, was heading towards the Channel Tunnel last Sunday evening, after concluding a business trip
when the tragedy happened. The migrant is thought to have stepped out into the busy A16 with his wife, who suffered broken limbs. Reichman, who was travelling with his father Naftali, told police that although they pulled over onto the hard shoulder, they were forced to set off again, as other migrants
approached. “My son is traumatised, and so am I,” said Naftali. “It happened in a split second. It was dark and suddenly someone jumped on to our car.” Reichman drove to a police station, where he was interviewed twice in 24 hours before being allowed to return to the UK.
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‘Why I’m seeking a
German passport’ British Jewish author Thomas Harding on applying for post-Brexit dual citizenship
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homas Harding is doing what other descendants of Holocaust victims would find unimaginable – applying for a German passport. When Britain voted to leave the European Union in June, the 48-year-old author had to make a decision that was never necessary in a borderless Europe – should he request the restoration of German citizenship stripped from his family by the Third Reich? He needed only a few hours to make up his mind. “This is more than the practical. This is also about something for us, or for me. It’s about something spiritual, it’s about reconciliation,” he said. “It’s about acknowledging the truth of the horrors of the past but also about trying to build a better future together, and, as a European, that’s what I hope to do.” One of the complicated realities of the UK’s pending divorce from the 28-nation EU is that many Britons whose ancestors came from other parts of Europe are claiming citizenship in other member states so they can retain ties
to the continent. Inquiries about passports are up at the German, Austrian and Polish embassies in London. Some people want to retain their ability to travel easily from country to country or maintain business ties. Others just want to be part of Europe. But for Jews whose families fled Germany to escape Adolf Hitler, the decision means re-examining long-held beliefs about the country that once persecuted them. The children and grandchildren of Jewish refugees are taking advantage of a law which allows the descendants of people persecuted by the Nazis to regain the citizenship that was removed from them in the 1930s and 1940s. More than 400 Britons have sought information about the law since the referendum and German authorities have received at least 100 formal applications, compared with about 20 annually in recent years. Harding has long been coming to terms with his German past, a journey documented in his book, The House By The Lake.
Thomas Harding with the swastika-stamped passports of Germany descendants
The Nazis killed six of his relatives, revoked his family’s citizenship and forced them to leave behind property, including the idyllic summer cottage built by his great-grandfather Alfred Alexander, a doctor whose patients included Albert Einstein and Marlene Dietrich. Those who survived fled to Britain. Harding grew up in a family that toasted the Queen, refused to buy German washing machines and went on holiday everywhere in Europe, except Germany. When his grandmother, Elsie, finally decided to show Harding and six cousins the city of her upbringing, she handed over a brown envelope. “Inside was the swastika-stamped passport for her husband and father-in-law, along
with a black piece of cloth on which had been sewn a yellow J,” he wrote in the Guardian newspaper. “Elsie’s message was clear – this is my history and this is your history. Do not forget.” Now it is logical, Harding says, for Jews to cling to the EU, which was created to build ties that would make another European war impossible. “You could well argue that the flight of the German Jews, the persecution of the German Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, was the symbol of the breaking up of Europe, and the European Union was set up specifically to create a political, social context of peace,” he said. “That’s part of it, isn’t it?”
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News / Journalist targeted, World briefs NEWS IN BRIEF
FAST BIRTH IN SHUL FOR YOM KIPPUR Two anti-terrorism military police helped a woman give birth to a baby girl on the street outside the synagogue in Rome where they were stationed. Rome news reports say the birth occurred at around 10.30pm on Tuesday, on Yom Kippur eve, on the street outside the so-called “Synagogue of Youth,” a small synagogue that is located within the complex of the Ospedale Israelitico Jewish hospital on Tiber Island, near Rome’s main synagogue. Both are reported to be doing well. [JTA]
AIRLINE SEAT ADVERT IS REJECTED A billboard informing women on flights to Israel that they do not have to switch seats to accommodate Charedi passengers has been rejected. Sponsored by the Israel Religious Action Center, it reads: “Ladies, please take your seat… and keep it.” It explains that requiring a person to switch seats because of gender is illegal and that flight attendants are not allowed to ask a passenger to switch seats to enable segregation by gender. [JTA]
Jewish writer abused by Trump supporter A Jewish female reporter for a leading news website has been targeted with anti-Semitic messages from an Twitter account supporting Donald Trump. A photoshopped image of Hadas Gold, the editor of Politico’s “On The Media” blog, was posted this week on the site, including a bloody bullet hole in her forehead and a yellow star worn by Jews in Nazi Germany pinned to her chest. She also received emails with threatening and anti-Semitic messages. “Don’t mess with our boy Trump or you will be first in line for the camp,” read a message accompanying the photo. “Aliyah or line up by the wall, your choice.” The Twitter account that sent the message has been suspended, according to Buzzfeed, which published a screenshot of the image. “Politico notified Twitter of the threatening and vile tweets, and Twitter acted promptly to suspend the account. “There were many more tweets and emails, some even more vile if that is imaginable. A police report is in the process of being filed,” said the site in a statement. Politico writer Julie Ioffe was previously targeted with anti-Semitic attacks on social media, following a critical profile written in May about Trump’s wife, Melania. Ioffe retweeted the attack on Gold and
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The Jewish Week of New York has endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in its history, backing Hillary Clinton over flash NYC mogul Donald Trump. In its editorial, the influential newspaper said Trump posed a ‘danger to the country’ and had run a campaign ‘based on instilling fear in Americans’.
GEORGIA
Two Israeli children have been killed in a tragic accident while on holiday in Georgia. Nevo and Achinoam Greenfield, aged five and 10, were killed when the jeep
in which the family was travelling fell into a ravine from a Caucasus mountain road in the north-east of the country. The parents, Noa and Hanoch, were injured but survived.
AUSTRALIA
The yeshiva at the centre of a major child sex abuse inquiry in Australia has opened up its membership to other Jewish organisations in the hope of it being ‘reborn.’ The Victoria centre has paid compensation to several abuse victims, and counselling has been provided. The trustees have now all resigned.
in response a Trump supporter tweeted an image of the reporter’s face inside an oven, a reference to the Nazi death camps. Several Jewish reporters covering the 2016 campaign have been on the receiving end of anti-Semitic abuse on social media including CNN’s Jake Tapper, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Jonathan Weisman of The New York Times. [JTA]
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Had she solely been seeking solutions to the nastiness of anti-Semitism, then she may have been worth listening to. Unfortunately, Baroness Jenny Tonge’s obsession is not with the safety of Jewish people but with the vilification of Israel –hence her latest rant about “the causes of anti-Semitism”. These causes, she said, include Israel’s “manipulation” of Western governments. Thanks for your concern, Jenny. We suspect that, far from the causes of anti-Semitism, you’ve just offered a definition of it. Of course there is a link between Israel and anti-Semitism: when Israel engages in military activity, anti-Semitic incidents in the UK and elsewhere spike. But to blame Israel for anti-Semitism is to conveniently forget that people hated, attacked and killed Jews for thousands of years long before 1948. That Tonge is wrong is self-evident. That she is still to be cast aside by the Liberal Democrats is not. The party of lofty ideals such as ‘reason’ and ‘liberty’ has been slow to place ethnic, racial and/or religious tolerance on the same plain. And yet, notwithstanding arguments of fairness, you’d have thought the Lib Dems would by now have recognised a final straw when they saw one. And you’d have thought their blindness to the offence Tonge routinely causes thousands of Jews would be challenged by the realisation that many of those Jews are now disenfranchised by Labour, and looking for a new political home. The signs are that Tim Farron might now finally be prepared to wake up and bid goodbye to a baroness verging on bigotry.
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Remember a pioneer It’s 70 years since the BBC first broadcast from Alexandra Palace. Sir Isaac Shoenberg, a Russian Jew who moved to Britain in 1914, led the team at EMI-Marconi that developed the electronic equipment the BBC chose over John Logie Baird’s equipment
and yet his name has been largely forgotten and is mostly unknown in the Jewish community. Numerous celebrations of the anniversary of the first broadcast of the BBC are being planned. Lesley Urbach By email
A FARCICAL DECLARATION UNESCO has declared the Western Wall and the Temple Mount to be Islamic holy places – and only six countries objected. It has also declared the moon to be a Jewish holy place on the basis that we say Kiddush Levana each lunar month and voted for Vatican City to be a
Hindu holy place and Canterbury Cathedral is now officially the Confucian world headquarters. Mecca is now the capital of the Roman Catholic Church and Moscow capital of the EU. Joseph Feld By email
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IDIOTS POSSIBLY, BUT NOT USELESS I hope letter writer Mark Lewis will forgive my pedantry, but Stalin did not describe British communists as “useless idiots” (Jewish News, 12 October). Far worse and much more cynically, he described them as “useful idiots”.
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DISHONOURABLE POLICY Joe Millis chastises me for criticising Yachad’s policymakers for “not upping sticks and moving to Israel” while I remain in the UK (Jewish News, 13 October). He slyly omits the pivotal point, namely that I don’t undermine the democratic will of the Israeli electorate and its institutions, which Yachad does from foreign soil as a matter of policy to impose its own ‘solution’. Yachad’s behaviour is utterly dishonourable. The honourable action would be for Yachad leaders to move to Israel and vote in its elections if they dissent from its government’s policy. But they treat Israel’s democracy with contempt when they dislike the outcome.
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The new template for the fight against anti-Semitism DAVE RICH
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he Home Affairs Select Committee report into anti-Semitism, published this week, is a serious body of work that should set the template for action against anti-Semitism in this country for the next few years. Ten years ago, a previous all-party Parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism, set up by John Mann MP and chaired by Denis MacShane, concluded that anti-Semitism was on the rise and had taken on new forms. Islamist extremists and obsessive antiZionists had joined the old-style neo-Nazis in posing new threats to Britain’s Jews. Now a different cross-party group of MPs has once again taken the pulse of our nation and found that, while there has been progress in tackling anti-Semitism since that first report, there is much work still to be done and, in some respects, things are getting worse. This resonates with our experience at CST. While Jewish life continues to flourish in this country, the terrorist threat we face from jihadists is unlikely to recede, while social media
conspiracy theorists and the mainstreaming of some anti-Semitic attitudes continue to grow. First the good news. The UK, according to the report, “remains one of the least antiSemitic countries in Europe”. It is hard to disagree with this, particularly when you see our fellow Jews leaving France and other European countries. The report recognises that there are effective structures in place for communal organisations such as the Community Security Trust (CST), the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council to express our concerns directly to government, while the police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have improved their recording of anti-Semitic hate crime and made progress in prosecuting it. Most gratifyingly for CST, the report relied heavily on our evidence and praised our “impressive and professional work”. Importantly, the report recommended that government funding for security guards at Jewish buildings should be extended on an annual basis. However, it would be a grave error to be complacent, and the report points out exactly why. Some police forces still do not appear to record anti-Semitic hate crime properly. The
amount of hate and abuse on social media is enormous and nobody – not the social media companies themselves, nor the police or CPS – has yet found a solution to it. The National Union of Students comes in for particular criticism, and rightly so: Jewish students need to be allowed to lead the campaign against anti-Semitism on campus, rather than being preached to about what is, and isn’t, anti-Semitic. The harshest words in the report, though, are reserved for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. I’m sure I don’t need to remind readers about their utter failure to deal with the problem of anti-Semitism within their ranks. According to the report: “The failure of the Labour Party to deal consistently and effectively with anti-Semitic incidents in recent years risks lending force to allegations that elements of the Labour movement are institutionally anti-Semitic.”
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The fact that the two Labour MPs on the committee signed off on this verdict speaks volumes. In total, this report made 30 recommendations covering hate crime, policing, mainstream politics, campus and Jewish security that provide a practical framework for collective efforts to tackle anti-Semitism. It also recommended a usable definition of anti-Semitism, based on one that the UK government has already signed up to. The final recommendation made clear why this work is so important: To “oppose racism and religious hate in all its forms, and promote an atmosphere of tolerance, inclusion and understanding, as befits the UK’s status as a multicultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious society”. • Dave Rich is associate research fellow at Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. His new book, The Left’s Jewish Problem, is published by Biteback (£12.99).
WHILE JEWISH LIFE FLOURISHES, MAINSTREAMING OF ANTI-SEMITIC ATTITUDES CONTINUES TO GROW
We must continue to push for peace at grassroots level IAN AUSTIN, MP
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rite comparisons between Northern Ireland and the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, which ignore the very different actors, histories and complexities of the two situations, are commonplace. However, there is one lesson from the experience of peace-making in Northern Ireland that is worth considering. While the Good Friday Agreement is rightly seen as a turning point in ending the violence and killing which afflicted Northern Ireland, the seeds for peace were sown long before. The International Fund for Ireland, grounded in the 1985 AngloIrish Agreement, scattered many of them. Over the past 30 years, it has invested some £700 million in more than 5,800 coexistence projects which aim to ‘promote economic and social advance and to encourage contact, dialogue and reconciliation between nationalists and unionists throughout Ireland’.
This work helped provide the popular support underpinning the agreements politicians hammered out in negotiations. Since the signing of the Oslo Accords, an extensive and growing network of nongovernmental organisations has worked in Israel and Palestine at a grassroots level to foster the values of coexistence, peace and reconciliation, which will be required if any future settlement there is to be sustainable. I have visited several of them, including Middle East Education Through Technology, in Jerusalem, whose work bringing together young Israelis and Palestinians is truly inspiring. But while the international community has invested vast sums in the peace process, comparatively little has been spent on coexistence work. Britain’s spending in Israel/Palestine is a case in point. People-to-people projects are funded through the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund, a joint Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office and Department for International Development fund. According to our calculations, less than 13 percent of its £1.14m spend in Israel-Palestine
supports coexistence work. Without sufficient funding – either from governments or private philanthropy – coexistence projects can only have a limited impact. Properly funded, they could, however, help to build powerful constituencies for peace in Israel and Palestine, forcing leaders in both countries to return to meaningful negotiations. That is why Labour Friends of Israel is next week launching a campaign entitled ‘For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace’. Its central aim is to persuade the government to back the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. The brainchild of the US-based Alliance for Middle East Peace, it is inspired by the International Fund for Ireland and aims to leverage and increase public and private contributions worldwide,
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funding joint economic development and civil society projects that promote coexistence, peace and reconciliation. Bills have already been introduced in Congress in support of the fund – which aims to invest $200bn, split roughly equally between the US, Europe, other international partners including the Arab world, and the private sector. We want our government to show its commitment to the fund by increasing the UK’s investment in coexistence work in IsraelPalestine from a pitiful £150,000 to £1.35m – a rough approximation of Britain’s share of the $50m Europe would be expected to contribute. The lack of progress in the peace process is dispiriting and dangerous, but it should not be used as an excuse for inaction. We have the chance now to sow the seeds for future success.
PROPERLY FUNDED, COEXISTENCE PROJECTS CAN HELP BUILD POWERFUL CONSTITUENCIES FOR PEACE
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Jewsplaining: a term for what Jews should think JENNI FRAZER
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eaders may be familiar with the term “mansplaining”, wherein men seek to explain to women just what it is about the world they don’t understand — pretty much anything that emanates from Donald Trump appears to be mansplaining. I wonder if we can agree on the expression “Jewsplaining”, in which non-Jews prescriptively tell Jews what they should think, learn, or feel about themselves and their community. I was forcibly reminded of Jewsplaining this week in two instances: the now notorious UNESCO vote (which apparently wasn’t a UNESCO vote at all, but a vote by governments) about the non-link between Judaism and the holy places in Jerusalem; and some of the responses to the Home Affairs Select
Committee’s inquiry on anti-Semitism. Let’s examine the UNESCO farrago first, in which just six countries voted against, including the UK, and a shocking 26 abstained, allowing the 24 countries voting in favour to carry the day. The resolution disregards Judaism’s historic connection to Temple Mount and casts doubt on the link between Judaism and the Western Wall. Abstention, I was taught in debate classes, is a solution when it has proved impossible to make up one’s mind one way or the other. But this was about as factual a situation as it gets: is there, or is there not, a direct link, stretching back centuries, embodied in Jewish literature, between Jews and the Temple Mount? Those who abstained are as much signed up to a lie as those who voted in favour. But now we are witnessing a flurry of Jewsplaining as those who “didn’t mean to offend” are desperately back-pedalling. Too late: you called it wrong. The highlight, for me, of the Commons’
Select Committee’s inquiry on anti-Semitism was the conclusion that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn simply does not get all the furore about anti-Semitism. I have been saying this for months, that Corbyn, viscerally, thinks all the fuss about anti-Semitism is just that, a fuss; so it was a delight to read the Select Committee’s belief that “despite his proud record on fighting racism, the committee is not persuaded that Mr Corbyn fully appreciates the distinct nature of contemporary anti-Semitism, and the fact that it is perfectly possible for an ‘anti-racist campaigner’ to express anti-Semitic views”.
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In response, Corbyn perfectly illustrated this conclusion by issuing a long, whining and selfjustifying Jewsplanation. He spoke at the 80th anniversary of Cable Street, you know. Oh, you didn’t know? How could you have missed it? He then brought out the response du jour on anti-Semitism. “Politicising anti-Semitism – or using it as a weapon in controversies between and within political parties – does the struggle against it a disservice.” Ah, the source of “weaponising,” another fave anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic word. How foolish of we Jews not to understand that Corbyn’s Jewsplanation knows better.
I RECALLED JEWSPLAINING IN THE UNESCO VOTE ABOUT THE NON-LINK BETWEEN JUDAISM AND JERUSALEM’S HOLY PLACES
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When will Twitter take anti-Semitism seriously? RICHARD FERRER EDITOR, JEWISH NEWS
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ach week Jewish News shines a light on social media’s darkest corners, publishing the latest anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Tweets in a section called ‘Thanks For Sharing’. Recent charm school graduates to feature include @MisGrace [“Israeli Jews harvest Palestinian kids’ organs”] and @AJCTmusic [“The Holocaust is a massive lie, indoctrinated by foreign parasites”]. We provide this public service because mass platforms like Twitter and Facebook don’t seem to give a flying fig about wining and dining this sewage. Rather than be a gallant little Dutch boy, holding back the tide with finger in dam, these multi-billion dollar businesses choose to accommodate hashtags #Holohoax, #filthyjewbitch and #Hitlerwasright. It’s long been open season on Jewish Parliamentarians, with Labour MPs Luciana Berger [2,500 hate tweets in
three days] and Ruth Smeeth [25,000 since June] among the abused. You don’t even have to be a public figure to be a target. My own fan mail includes ‘You look like any Jew you c***’ and ‘I’ll put you in a f****** ash tray’. Meanwhile, over on Facebook, random kooks from intolerant Islamists and neo-Nazi fascists to right-on lefties – with nothing in common aside from their fear of Jewish plans for world domination (ah, those) – whip each other up into a frenzy. See ‘Zionist Israel A Threat To Mankind’, 36,206 members and ‘Israeli Plots Against Islam’, 6,512. It’s enough to make you hanker for the good old days when Jew haters looked like Jew haters, swam like Jew haters and quacked like Jew haters, without the obfuscation and hidden agendas. [Don’t kid yourself that the slur ‘Zio’ has anything to do with Israel – it’s shorthand for ‘Jew’]. You knew where you stood with a good-old sieg heil and swastika. Simpler times. No doubt inspired by ‘Thanks For
Sharing’, this week a Home Affairs Select Committee report on antiSemitism pulled no punches in branding Twitter “deplorable” for allowing itself to become an “inert host for vast swathes of anti-Semitic hate speech and abuse” despite having “necessary resources and technical capability” to address the problem. The cross-party group said it was “disgraceful” that Jews using social media were targeted by “appalling” levels of abuse and called on internet bosses to act “proactively” to identify abusive users on their platforms, rather than simply rely on victims to report it to them. It also called for investment in enforcement and more resources to identify abusive users [Twitter currently employs one moderator for every 130,000 tweets].
Wise words indeed. These recommendations should not be seen as censorship. Free speech, after all, is priceless. Mess with it at your peril. Criminalise idiots? Where does that end? Any fool should be free to say fish ride bikes and Donald Trump should lead the free world. Others react accordingly. We should all question, confront, and, yes, offend. But even the greatest democratic privilege has limits and free speech ends where race hate, threats and incitement begin. Just ask Luciana Berger, Ruth Smeeth or any proud Jew, for whom endless intimidation and personal abuse is simply the price they pay for logging on.
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YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO BE FAMOUS TO BE A TARGET. MY OWN FAN MAIL INCLUDES ‘I’LL PUT YOU IN A F****** ASHTRAY’
Why Momentum changed its mind on Jackie Walker ARIEH KOVLER
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abour activist Jackie Walker was first noticed by the Jewish community and the national media when she was suspended from the party in May for claiming Jews were “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade” – something that had resulted in “the African holocaust”. Her Facebook comments came to light during the peak of the Labour antiSemitism revelations, when it seemed a Labour member or councillor was being suspended almost every day. This seemed straightforward: antiSemitic remarks about Jewish money being behind slavery are common among both white nationalists and groups like Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam. The remarks could not be “justified” by claiming Walker was talking about Israel. Her expulsion from Jeremy Corbyn’s
Labour Party seemed inevitable. But unlike many of the other people suspended by Labour, Jackie Walker was vice-chair of Momentum. Left-wing journalists like Owen Jones defended her, claiming she wasn’t racist. In what seemed to be a fix, her case was never referred to Labour HQ and was instead dismissed by a regional officer within only a few days, effectively clearing her. Two weeks ago, at the Labour Party conference, Jackie Walker was filmed at an anti-Semitism training event where she questioned the need for security outside Jewish schools and said that Holocaust Memorial Day should also focus on “other holocausts” (Holocaust Memorial Day does already remember other genocides). These comments, while offensive, weren’t as bad as claiming that Jews were behind the slave trade. But this time, the Momentum leadership attacked her. Former allies dumped her, and she was suspended
from the Labour party and removed from her position within the Momentum group. As a result, some parts of the far-left and allies of Walker then accused Momentum itself of being run by a Jewish/ Zionist conspiracy! What changed between May and what happened this time? Momentum is a coalition united only around one thing: Its members want Jeremy Corbyn to be the leader of the Labour Party. But simple loyalty to Jeremy Corbyn isn’t enough for a political organisation, and so Momentum has its own factions and internal politics. Some are devoted lifetime far-left
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political activists, while still others are the sort of people who voted for Nigel Farage’s UKIP in 2015 because they want to challenge “the system”. This time, the leadership of Momentum decided they’d had enough of Walker, who went to the anti-Semitism event in order to be controversial. They decided she wasn’t worth the trouble. Momentum is believed very likely to outlive Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party. Its internal tensions, factions and struggles over tackling anti-Semitism will help to determine what sort of an organisation it becomes.
IN AN IRONIC TWIST, MOMENTUM’S LEADERS WERE THEN TARGETED BECAUSE THEY ARE JEWISH AND ACCUSED OF BEING ‘BOUGHT OFF’
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We are delighted to bring you the 20th edition of the UK International Jewish Film Festival. In case you were having trouble choosing what to see, here are a few we’ve selected for you:
Election Night Special On the eve of the US Presidential Election, we bring you a selection of carefully curated films that encapsulate the incredible highs and lows of being – or running for – the post of the leader of the free world (or in the case of Weiner, Mayor of New York, but you get the idea).Films include Primary Colours with John Travolta and Emma Thompson, All the President’s Men with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman and Weiner - a documentary on politician Anthony Weiner.
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In this mouthwatering film, chef Michael Solomonov travels the length and breadth of Israel, surveying numerous types of foods and trying to find out whether there is such a thing as Israeli cuisine, and if so, what makes it so. Followed by dinner exploring the diverse and fresh flavours of Israel, as seen in the film.
For the Love of Spock As TV and film icons go, it would be near impossible to find one bigger than Mr Spock, the science officer aboard the starship Enterprise in Star Trek. Nimoy, is the subject of this intimate and moving documentary, directed by his son, Adam. SCREENING Courthouse Hotel Wed 16 Nov, 7.30pm
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Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? follows the inspirational and intensely personal journey of Saar, an Israeli man rejected by his religious family and community after defying the rules of the kibbutz. SCREENING JW3 Hall Sat 12 Nov, 8pm + Q&A with Alexander Bodin-Saphir + Saar Maoz
Wedding Doll 24 year old Hagit dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Though suffering from learning disabilities, she is determined not to let that stand in her way of achieving the independence and success she so desires. SCREENINGS JW3 Cinema Sun 6 Nov, 8pm JW3 Cinema Sat 12 Nov, 9.10pm JW3 Cinema Sun 20 Nov, 7pm
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An eclectic, appetising and touching film about hummus, the delicious super food sweeping across Europe and America. Secret recipes, a Guinness World Record and the power of hummus to bring Muslims, Christians and Jews together – in the Middle East, America and around the world. SCREENINGS
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Everything is Copy The ultimate tribute to the beloved writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle), who died in 2012, directed by her son, Jacob, this exceptional documentary sheds new light on her life and work. SCREENING Phoenix Sun 20 Nov, 4pm
The Pickle Recipe Natasha Joey partners up with his shady uncle Morty to steal his grandmother’s highly guarded pickle recipe and sell it for a small fortune. As expected, the plan goes horribly wrong! SCREENINGS Odeon Swiss Cottage Sun 13 Nov, 5pm Reel Borehamwood Tue 15 Nov, 8.30pm JW3 Hall Sun 20 Nov, 7pm
Based on celebrated director/writer David Bezmozgis’ short story this is a heartfelt coming-ofage drama, which explores first love as well as the conflicted Jewish immigrant experience. SCREENING Everyman Hampstead Thu 17 Nov, 6.30pm
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Ollie Mincer, Meytal Peretz, Alysia Lewis, Alice Shotts, Daisy Nunn and Kiera Hyman from years two and six at Clore Shalom school in Shenley celebrated Succot by shaking a lulav and etrog.
2 YORK’S SUCCAH More than 60 children and adults from York Liberal Jewish Community have built the city’s first succah. Describing the traditions of the festival, student Rabbi Deborah Blausten, who led an informal Succot service, said: “It’s appropriate that this community, which is growing so fast, is observing a festival that celebrates growth and harvest.”
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3 RACHELLI LEARNS Two-year-old Rachelli Sorotzkin learned about Succot ahead of the start of the festival at Kisharon’s Tuffkid Nursery in Golders Green.
4 KIND GESTURE
The Broadwalk Centre in Edgware, together with the Lubavitch of Edgware, is once again hosting a succah for shoppers and local residents to use. Rabbi Sudak, director of Lubavitch of Edgware, said: “We’re most grateful for this gesture.”
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The Sanctuary at Woodford Liberal Synagogue was full with members, friends and members of their merging community, Bet Tikva, as they celebrated the start of Succot. Rabbis David Hulbert and Richard Jacobi performed the blessings and explained the meaning behind the lulav and etrog.
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Enfield United Synagogue held its latest Tashlich Cruise on the Thames. More than 90 people, mainly from Enfield, Cockfosters, Southgate and Barnet, boarded at Temple Pier for a fun-filled cruise. Organised by Rebbetzin Zipporah Sufrin, the event was facilitated by a subsidy of the Centre for Rabbinical Excellence – an innovation of the Chief Rabbi.
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Business and employment specialists Work Avenue organised a networking evening for more than 100 professionals at its inaugural Property Network Event. Work Avenue’s chief executive Shraga Zaltzman, said: “Work Avenue is proud to work with anybody at any stage of their life, offering advice, training and mentoring to ensure they are able to work and flourish in a career they love.”
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Two ladies’ golf teams from Dyrham Park and Hartsbourne played four golf courses in one day in memory of Mandy Fisher. Organised by Diana Rubin, £40,000 was raised in aid of the North London Hospice, Alzheimer’s ‘Singing For The Brain’ run by Jewish Care and The Sarah Blagdon Research Fund into Ovarian Cancer.
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A unique ceremony took place at Braxted Park when bridegroom, Jason Rosehill, the Ba’al Tokea, at the Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation, blew the shofar under the chuppah with his bride, Natasha Kahn.
Staff and people supported by Norwood celebrating Succot in a cheerful succah they decorated themselves.
RAISE 6 RUNNERS NEARLY £12K
Runners for two charities raised nearly £12,000 after they took part in the Royal Parks Foundation half marathon. Learning disabilities charity Kisharon’s team of 11 runners raised £7,000. Fundraising director Richard Franklin said: “With so many good causes to choose from, we really do appreciate the efforts of our runners and the generosity of those people who have sponsored them.” Camp Simcha runners raised nearly £5,000.
Your simcha announcements Dan Soryano celebrated his barmitzvah at Ruislip United Synagogue.
Jeremy Peters celebrated his barmitzvah at Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue. Photo by Gary Perlmutter Photography
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Ballie Newton celebrated her batmitzvah at Hendon Reform Synagogue.
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Chloe Marks celebrated her batmitzvah at Hylands House.
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Danielle Everitt & Jonathan Kingsley were married at Kinloss (Finchley United Synagogue).
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Munich: the new evidence A new film reveals never-before-seen evidence about the torture of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games, says Francine Wolfisz
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ore than 40 years on, the pain for Ilana Romano, widow of one of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Olympic Games, is still so very raw. There is little comfort in discovering that her husband was brutally tortured by Palestinian terrorists in Munich, but she and others are perhaps one step closer to discovering exactly what happened and who was responsible for such a heinous act following the release of 900 photographs and more than 4,000 documents by the German government. The never-before-seen evidence, which includes grisly photographs of the murder scene, features in a new documentary, Munich ’72 and Beyond, which has its UK premiere at JW3, next Thursday. For Ilana and Ankie Spitzer, widow of fencing coach Andrei Spitzer, there were mixed emotions over whether to include a distressing photo showing Yossef Romano, a champion weightlifter, who was castrated by his kidnappers and left to bleed to death in front of his teammates. “Ankie and I sat in front of each other. I said: ‘Ankie, I cannot show these photos to the families, I’m just unable.’ These were very, very
Ankie Spitzer surveys one of the rooms where the 11 Israeli athletes were held and killed
difficult photos to see,” she recalls in the film. The emotional impact was also hard for Mika, sister of wrestler Mark Slavin, who recalls her tearful father begging she would never ask to see the photos, which also reveal the hostages endured beatings and broken bones and were tied by their hands and legs to the bedposts. But Spitzer took a different approach, believing theywould help show the terrorists did not just want to take hostages, but intended to carry out cold-blooded murder. As she explains in the film: “Justice has to be done for these people, because they didn’t come with guns, they were not on the battlefield. They came to take part in the peaceful, joyful, brotherhood that is the Olympic Games. “But this is not what happened to them. They spent their last hours in fear, being humiliated, being tortured, being castrated.” Producer Steven Ungerleider says the discovery of the evidence, which the German police denied even existed for decades after the event, left everyone feeling “shocked and pained,” but the families agreed to include the material in the documentary. “They said: ‘We’ve never released this, but we think the world needs to know this was not just a terrorist attack played out to millions of people around the world on television. This was torture, intentional killing and murder at the highest level, with the intent to do harm. We
want these photos shown.’” Alongside interviews with relatives, historians and former athletes, Ungerleider and director Steven Crisman also secured the participation of Palestinian journalists Raed Othman and Ziad Zayyad to comment on the events of 5 September 1972. Both argue the Palestinian terrorist group Black September was tasked with taking the Israeli hostages in a bid to demand the release of 234 prisoners and “to present the Palestinian case to the world”. Othman adds that using violence or killing the hostages was only to be used as a last resort. But as the documentary presents evidence from German police files, it becomes clear the terrorists had deadly intentions. Ungerleider, who works as a sports psychologist with the US Olympic committee, explains: “Those interviews were very hard to get, but
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clearly that was a smokescreen. The intent was to get the Israelis and trade them for the prisoners and they were not given any restrictions. The weapons they carried in were enough for a military operation and included hand grenades, bombs and automatic weapons. “This was not just a hostage-taking, their intent was to murder them. We respect and appreciate what [Othman and Zayyad] said, but it did not square with the truth.” The film also highlights the bungled security organised by the Germans at the 1972 Olympic Games, a factor that heavily contributed to the massacre taking place. The budget set for security was just £80,000, while that at the most recent games in Rio was just under £1billion. “It was a really bungled, poor security situation and the Germans fell short. They were warned ahead of time and they were liable.” Equally contentious is the fact the Games were allowed to continue just hours after the horrific 20 hour-long incident came to its end, with a botched rescue at a nearby airport. In the wake of the murders, Ungerleider reveals there was anxiety surrounding security and many participants wanted to return home. President Nixon arranged for a private plane to bring home champion swimmer Mark Spitz and other Jewish athletes, “because they didn’t know how this would unfold”. Was it right for the Olympics to continue? “People were so traumatised that how could they go on when 11 bodies in coffins had to buried?” asks Ungerleider. “It doesn’t seem appropriate. But the flipside – today’s theory since 11 September – is that we are not going to let the terrorists win.” As the film shows, the pain of 1972 continues for those left behind, but Ungerleider believes “the healing has begun,” helped by the memorial ceremony at the Rio Olympics and plans for an official memorial in Munich. “This is a critical turning point,” adds Ungerleider, who is a special consultant to the International Olympic Committee. “For 44 years, relatives and survivors have been clamouring for an acknowledgement and reconciliation. The memorial will be a pivotal moment in the history of the Olympic movement.” • Munich ’72 and Beyond is at JW3 on Thursday, 27 October at 8pm. Details: www.Jw3.org.uk
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Lifestyle / Special bar and batmitzvahs
Orphans come of age It is incredibly hard to face life’s milestones after the death of a parent in service. One Israeli organisation is helping children and their families to cope with the loss , writes Lisa Sanders
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have come to Bayit VeGan, a strictly Orthodox Jerusalem suburb. Lastminute preparations for the Succot holiday are underway; men in dark trousers and white shirts bustle past carrying lulavs. The sound of hammering succahs competes with traffic noise. Toddlers blink against the bright sun, bounced along in rickety buggies by mothers in a hurry. But in the low-ceilinged conference room, girls in colourful miniskirts and boys in skinny jeans and spiky haircuts are dancing together in an impromptu hug circle as music blares. These children are wearing pristine white T-shirts emblazoned with huge blue numbers on the back – ‘12’ for the girls, ‘13’ for the boys. Their mothers, grandmothers and siblings look on and smile; a few quickly swipe away tears with the back of a hand. This is the bar and batmitzvah celebration for the IDF Widows and Orphans Organisation, a non-profit that looks after the welfare of some 5,000 Israeli widows whose husbands were killed while serving in the military or the police. Currently around 3,000 children are growing up in Israel as IDF orphans. “One of the things we do is to be present at important junctions in their lives,” says Shlomi Nahumson, the organisation’s youth director, “for example the start of kitah aleph [first grade in school].” A genial bear-like man, his bearded face splits into a huge grin as soon as he talks to the children.
Above: Succot fun; Andrew Voelke with an IDF chaplain. Below: Shira Cohen and Asoul Nasreluden
“All these milestones on the journey to adulthood,” he continues. “At this point, the key person in their lives is missing. I think of my barmitzvah, I remember my father’s hand on my shoulder and that’s an important thing. We can’t bring their father back. But we can tell them that they’re not growing up by themselves. They’re with the presence of the tribe.” I can sense Nahumson’s impatience even while he’s politely answering my questions. When I release him, he rushes off and, before long, he is picking up the children and hoisting them up in the air. He and the volunteer youth workers, most of them IDF orphans
A gathering of children from the IDF Widows and Orphans Organisation
themselves, have a solid rapport with the kids. Four times a year they hold special activities – day camps, outings – and in the bar/batmitzvah year, a three-and-a-half week trip to the US and Canada, where they visit different cities and communities, stay with families and, by the sound of it, have a thoroughly good time. “The trip was magniv,” Shira Cohen, 12, tells me, using the ubiquitous Hebrew word for all things cool. Shira is Jewish, from Binyamina, near Zichron Ya’akov, and her friend, Asoul Nasreluden, is from the Druze community of Dalyat El-Carmel. It is clear these two are best friends. And it’s a stark reminder that
among the IDF’s fallen soldiers are those from the Druze and other communities within Israel. “They have these friendships for life,” Nahumson says. “People who know exactly how they feel without having to explain. They can process grief in many ways and it’s legitimate.” Joining the Israeli children is Andrew Voelke, a Jewish boy from Springfield, Virginia, whose father served in the US armed forces and was killed in Afghanistan. Andrew met the Israeli children in the summer and was invited to be part of the celebrations in Israel. Andrew, like all the barmitzvah celebrants, is presented with a set of tefillin. The girls get Jewish books and Shabbat candlesticks. The non-Jewish children are presented with books that relate to their religion. This is a well-organised outfit, and it’s clear that pains have been taken to ensure everything goes off smoothly. Standing beside me is Iris Segev, from Ramat Gan. “That’s him, in the front, that’s Omer,” she points out her son proudly. “He’s so much like his dad. He has his father’s two dimples, his great sense of humour. His father was gorgeous.” Nimrod, her husband, was killed in the Second Lebanon War, when Omer was only two. “The ninth of August 2006. He was only 28.” Then she tells me that the trip to the States was the best thing ever, as far as Omer is concerned. “He came back all grown up.” I ask her if they’re also celebrating Omer’s barmitzvah privately. “Oh yes,” she says. “We’re having a call-up this Shabbat, in our shul.” Multicoloured toffees are thrown, giant
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shofars are blown, drums crash and we form a procession into a tiny adjoining synagogue. Here, the boys will put on their tefillin for the first time. There is much laughing around the bimah. A clarinet blares out Shalom Aleichem. Beside me, Ros Ohayon, from Nazareth Illit, is chatting with other mothers. “Mazeltov”, I wish her. She thanks me and tells me about her husband Hanan, who was killed in December 2010 while serving in the intelligence corps, caught in the deadly Carmel Forest fire disaster that claimed 44 lives. Their son, Segev, was six.
“His dad was a hero. He went to rescue people.” I ask if Segev takes after his father and she says: “Absolutely. Even in the way he jumps out of bed in the morning with so much energy. He always tells everyone: ‘Mum’s so strong. She always chooses life.’ And life is the most precious thing. I tell the kids that. I’m always positive in front of them,” she says. “Is that a struggle?” I ask, because it seems the only thing to ask. She nods. “It’s a huge struggle. Every day, it’s a struggle.” • idfwo.org/eng
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Luxury in the Palma your hand Mark Silver enjoys a relaxing break at Castell Son Claret on the island of Majorca
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he last time I went overseas for a few days, I arrived safely but my case didn’t. Two days later it turned up. Of course, that’s no good when you’re on a short break, so I was plutzing as my wife and I reached Palma airport. Boy, was I relieved as our luggage appeared nice and early. It left me beaming as we exited customs and prepared to meet our pre-arranged transfer to the hotel. But my smile disappeared faster than the Boeing 737 which had brought us to Majorca, when our driver was nowhere to be seen. I began cursing my luck. It turned out to be a mix-up (on the part of the transfer) and after 20 minutes of marching up and down the airport, we found our man and were finally embarking on the 25-minute drive to our hotel. My mood improved on the journey as I thought about the luxury awaiting us for our two-night stay at Castell Son Claret – a restored castle dating back to 1450, surrounded by gorgeous countryside and mountains. It’s a place for complete relaxation where visitors can enjoy the highest level of service and various treats. An escape and some pampering had never seemed more welcome and we had definitely come to the right place. Our chosen destination did not come cheap, but then the best things in life never do.
The hotel has two restaurants – the superb Olivera, serving typical Majorcan dishes and a fine selection of international cuisine and, if you really want to push the boat out, Zaranda, possessed of two Michelin stars. You can dine al fresco at both, and there is nothing better than combining mouthwatering fare with the atmosphere of a balmy Mediterranean evening. What I liked most about the hotel’s food is that a wide range of products are grown or produced on the premises. For example, the figs and olives from the nearby trees are delicious and the welcoming drink of lemonade pressed from their own lemons was wonderfully refreshing. The on-site bakery serves up the tastiest of bread, cakes and, my weakness, chocolate croissants, although I discovered my new
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Achilles heel with the lemon tart, made from those same lemons from the grounds and the finest I had ever tasted. Fortunately, there were opportunities aplenty to burn off those additional calories. We swam in the lovely outdoor pool, where attentive staff would bring you a cold towel and perhaps a small healthy snack such as cherries. The tennis court also saw us in action but I soon discovered that my Russian wife, Liudmila, was no Sharapova! It’s been a few years (35 to be precise) since I was last on a bicycle, but this area is the perfect place to rediscover the joys of pedal power, so we borrowed a couple of bikes from the hotel and were on our way. You can cycle up into the mountains – although, alas, my second helping of lemon tart put paid to that – but our hotel, in the southwest part of the island, was just under three miles from the village of Calvia. That was enough of a distance for me. The sea and Majorca’s many fine beaches are a bit of a schlep by bike (for us, anyway), but by car can be reached in about 15 to 20 minutes. If you fancy a round of golf, you can be teeing up a similar distance away. We felt healthier after our bit of exercise, breathing in the fresh air, and I enjoyed reading
about how in the Middle Ages the island’s health system consisted mainly of physicians of Jewish origins. They were descendants of Mallorcan Jews who had converted to Christianity – though the conversion was not that straightforward as either they had been forced into it or were in fact secretly still following Judaism. A few hours after the bicycles were put away, my bones started to react (badly) to this unfamiliar outing. No problem – the hotel’s impressive spa sorted that out as I indulged in a body treatment comprising a poppy-seed and raspberry scrub, lavender wrap and 60-minute massage. It is a signature treatment that leaves the skin nourished and rehydrated. I’ve had a few spa treatments in my time, and this was the best massage I have experienced. In fact, the service at this world-class property surpassed even the high expectations I’d had when booking. Castell opened as a hotel only in 2013, but I felt like it had been operating 100 years. At night, the castle’s turrets light up and, combined with the picturesque grounds, it is all rather heavenly. In terms of being able to unwind, I doubt you will find a more relaxing place. Even the bedding is so comfortable that I experienced my best night’s kip in ages. On the way back to the airport, we stopped at the fairly-new San Juan Gastronomic market in Palma, a former slaughterhouse converted into a charming food hall. Watching the locals enjoying some tapas and a glass of red is rather relaxing in itself. Our batteries were well and truly recharged and, after thinking my luck was out after that little airport drama on arrival, I flew home knowing I’d hit the jackpot!
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The stunning coastline near Castell Son Claret in Majorca
Mark stayed at Castell Son Claret, Majorca, where prices start from £267 per room per night in an estate double room on a bed and breakfast basis (www.castellsonclaret.com). To find out more about the San Juan Gastronomic market, visit www.mercadosanjuanpalma.es or for tourist information on Palma, visit www.visitpalma.com/en
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Date and sunflower seed yoghurt cake
2 Grease and line a 20 x 30 cm baking tin with parchment paper. 3 Using a food processor, make the topping by combining the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and flour in a small bowl. Set aside.
10 Transfer the batter to the prepared baking pan and spread out evenly. 11 Spoon the blackberry jam on top and swirl it through the mix with a knife.
For the cake: 300g white gluten free flour 1/2 teaspoon gluten free baking powder 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda 170g soft butter 150g softened dates 1 large egg plus an egg yolk 400ml Stapeltons Date and Sunflower Seed Yoghurt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 100g blackberry jam
12 Sprinkle the topping mixture over the surface. 13 Bake for about 1 hour, checking at the 45-minute mark for doneness. 14 The cake should be springy to the touch when gently pushed in the middle. To serve, cut into squares..
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4 Sift together the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl. 5 Using a mixer, whisk the butter and dates until well combined. 6 Add the eggs and mix on med-high, scraping down the bowl at least once.. 7 Add half of the yogurt and half of the flour mixture to the batter. 8 Mix well and scrape down bowl. 9 Add the remaining flour mixture, vanilla and yogurt and mix through
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Sedra: Succot, Torah For Today / Orthodox Judaism
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SEDRA - Succot
What does the Torah say about: Ostentatious celebrities?
RABBI BORUCH M BOUDILOVSKY Unlike other festivals, Succot does not highlight a unique idea. Pesach encourages liberty, Shavuot celebrates Torah, Rosh Hashanah highlights accountability, and Yom Kippur facilitates harmony between ourselves and God. Rather than contributing an idea to the final Judaic product, Succot is the final product. Earning liberty, accepting the Torah, living a life of accountability, reconciliation and harmony, all add up to Succot! There are two cycles of biblical Jewish festivals. One is the cycle of the three festivals – Pesach, Shavuot and Succot. The second consists of the festivals belonging to the seventh month of the Jewish year; Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Succot. Indeed, both cycles lead to and culminate with Succot. As the final product of the festival journey, Succot invites us to live in the idealistic instead of the realistic, enabling joy. It is the festival of happiness, Chag Simchateynu. As such, Succot evenings are celebrated with music, singing, and dancing. During the day, we joyfully praise and appreciate God by reciting Hallel with the four species (which represent our livelihood). During the week, we happily live and socialise in a succah, which represents a simple home – all we really need. Jewish festivals introduce and contribute ideas that inspire a life of profound joy, genuine appreciation, trust in the future, love of our Torah, elegant simplicity and celebration. Succot embodies all these to create a beautiful celebration of life.
RABBI ARIEL ABEL Reality star Kim Kardashian recently hit the headlines when she was attacked in her Paris holiday apartment by masked men who robbed her of millions of pounds’ worth of jewellery. Are celebrities like her partly to blame for flaunting their wealth and what is the Torah view on this? The Torah is explicit about flaunting material wealth. If Israel decides to appoint a king, the regent must not be the wealthiest person in the land. He may not own too many horses, nor marry too many women. The sense of invincibility that moneyed celebrities have runs contrary to the Torah principle of not becoming too haughty. Kim’s husband has hired an ex-Mossad
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KARDASHIAN HAS TAKEN TIME OUT TO RETHINK HER REALATIONSHIP WITH MONEY
agent to coordinate a security team to protect her. Apparently, the area in Paris in which Kim was robbed is famous for extravagant wealth and also for robberies. While nothing justifies robbery, one question is whether exhibiting wealth is in some way putting temptation in the way of their assailants. When Adam partook of the forbidden fruit, he claimed, in mitigation, that the fruit was too beautiful and satiating for the eyes. Its very appearance was too much to withstand taking. Is his excuse in any way valid? Adam is the ancestor of us all, the progenitor of human nature. Yet, if we are to excuse him for what he did, he should not have been banished from Paradise. The tenth commandment strictly forbids coveting the possessions of another, or even desiring them. What remains to solve is what the Bible thinks about boasting wealth. The prayer of Hannah remarks that God enriches and impoverishes. Sensitivity to others who have less is demonstrated by not being publicly
too showy about one’s buying power. For this reason, German Jewish communities instituted “takanot”, limiting the amount of jewellery women wore, so as not to put to shame those who could not afford the same. Similarly, in the last two millennia poor and rich alike have been buried in the same simple garments. Halachic decisions must protect the poor and leniency is to be found by rabbis to make keeping kosher and other practices such as women’s attire affordable for all. Therefore, women should not wear wigs costing hundreds or thousands of pounds. From the hat parades in shul to the bouncing wigs of the Charedi boulevard, little is left to state in the name of modesty. According to a British newspaper, Kardashian has taken time out to rethink her relationship with wealth. Perhaps as Jews, rethinking materialism should feature as the central pillar to our Divine service.
Ariel Abel is rabbi of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation
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Progressive Judaism / Jewish Hero and My Two Shekels
Jewish Hero
My Two Shekels
Political theorist and Holocaust historian Hannah Arendt
This year’s triple reminder of the seventh day
BY ROBYN ASHWORTH-STEEN It is not without some trepidation that I offer Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) as my Jewish hero. Her work on the Shoah has been condemned, particularly as she criticised the actions of some of the Jewish leaders during this period in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. While some scholars explain that her work has been misunderstood, I cannot put forward Arendt as my hero without acknowledging the controversial nature of some of her writings. I do, however, find aspects of Arendt’s teachings profoundly inspirational. Arendt was a German-born American political theorist. She believed strongly that Jews had a political responsibility in all that they did. She understood Jews to be naturally on the margins of society and umheimlich (a feeling of “not at home”). Arendt’s philosophy demands that Jews use their pariah status and rootlessness to act as critics and rebels in terms of the Jew-
ish and wider society, and thus become “Conscious Pariahs”. Instead of using the pariah’s “worldlessness” as an excuse for withdrawal and retreat, it should be used towards a political engagement in the world. Arendt’s work is liberating as she reminds us of the inherent political nature of Jewish history and identity. She wanted Jews to act as Jews – to be proud of their identity and work for justice at all times. Arendt taught that in every moment there is the possibility to act, to begin anew – she termed this a theology of natality, that every moment is pregnant with possibility and the potential for creativity. Certainly, Arendt’s teachings are challenging on several levels. In some ways, she has become the pariah she demanded us to be. What I take from her work is the need to engage assertively with the world around us, as Jews, and that the time is here and now.
Robyn Ashworth-Steen is a rabbinic student at Leo Baeck College
BY RABBI DR ANDREW GOLDSTEIN Preparing for this year’s Tishri sermons, I looked at the new year expressed in numbers – 5777 – and the triple seven stood out. Yes, we Liberal Jews believe the world was not created 5,777 years ago, nor created in six days, but we have always held dear to the importance of the seventh day, Shabbat, being vital to our identity. In 1992, the late Rabbi John Rayner authored the Affirmations of Liberal Judaism and number 18 (of 42) declared: “We affirm the importance of Shabbat, the sanctification of the seventh day as a day of rest and joy, study and worship, which
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may be observed by cessation of work and positive acts of celebration.” The importance placed on Shabbat goes right back to the founders of Liberal Judaism, one of whom, Claude Montefiore, wrote in 1923: “I am profoundly convinced of the necessity of the observance of the Sabbath. Any Liberal Jew who on Friday evening goes to a concert, or visits the theatre, or has a dinner party in his house, any Jew who rides to hounds, or works without compulsion, incurs, in my deliberate opinion, a grave religious responsibility. He is wounding Judaism.” We have many challenges as we try to define what are the parameters of our Shabbat observance. We long ago decided “it’s fine to drive to synagogue on Shabbat rather than park nearby” and to switch on lights or boil the kettle. But is it right to do the weekly shop at the supermarket, to send emails? Should our children go out on Friday nights? Worth thinking about in our personal and congregational lives in a year with a triple reminder of the seventh day.
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265 vacant and investment properties to include LOTS INCLUDE Lot 92 Guide Price £650,000 - £700,000
Lot 23 Guide Price £400,000+
Lot 99 Guide Price £1.2M+
Lot 27 Guide Price £3M+
76 Clarendon Court, Sidmouth Road, Willesden Green, NW2 5HD
25 Belmont Avenue, Tottenham, London N17 6AX
Millers Farm House, Grove Lane, Chigwell, Essex IG7 6JQ
Leasehold (share of Freehold) 3/4 bed 3F Flat. GIA extending to approx 114.3 sq m (1,231 sq ft). Fully vacant.
Freehold mid terrace 4 bed House with rear garden. Fully vacant.
Freehold detached 5 bed Farmhouse with surrounding gardens and detached rear garage. Occupying site area of approx 0.151h (0.373 a). Potential to develop rear plot. Fully vacant.
‘Levens’, 9 Broad Walk, Winchmore Hill, London N21 3DA
Lot 32 Guide Price £1.8M+
Lot 37 Guide Price £1.2M-£1.3M
Lot 41 Guide Price £2.25M+
Lots 44-46 Guide Price £350,000+ each
Lansdowne Court, 1 Lansdowne Crescent, 42 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth BH1 1RU
116 Holden Road, Woodside Park, London N12 7EA
424-428 Cranbrook Road, IG2 6HW and Flats 1-12, 85 Frinton Mews, Ilford IG2 6JB
Flats 2, 4 & 6, 1 Graham Road, Hendon, London NW4 3DH
Freehold end of terrace Building arranged as 3 x Shops, 12 x Flats and one House. Producing £151,720 p.a.
Freehold detached 3 storey Building. Planning for erection of block of 6 flats with parking. Fully vacant.
3 Freehold interconnecting Buildings arranged as 3 x Retail units and 12 x Flats. Producing £152,560 p.a.
3 Leasehold Flats subject to ASTs to be offered individually as 3 separate lots. Producing £57,358 p.a. (equivalent).
Lot 159 Guide Price £675,000+
Lot 96 Guide Price £450,000 - £500,000
Lot 61 Guide Price £2.5M+
Lots 70-73 Guide Price £2.45m+
Flat 1, 32 Finchley Road, St John’s Wood, London NW8 6ES
215 Cricklewood Broadway, Cricklewood, NW2 3HS
3 Malden Road, Chalk Farm, London NW5 3HS
79 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, London NW5 1JD
Long Leasehold GF one bed Flat with separate Studio Flat. Rear patio garden and driveway parking. GIA approx 82 sq m (883 sq ft). Fully vacant.
Freehold mid terrace Building. GF Retail with 2 residential floors above. Fully vacant.
Freehold cleared site. Planning for 9 residential units (one x one bed Fat, 7 x 2 bed Flats and one x 3 bed Flats). Fully vacant.
Freehold detached Building arranged as 4 Flats to be offered collectively or individually. Fully vacant.
16 Halliwick Court, Woodhouse Road, North Finchley, London N12 0ND
560 Romford Road, Manor Park, London E12 5AF
24 Brett Close, Stoke Newington, London N16 0BN
Lot 50: Leasehold FF 2 bed Flat. GIA area approx 58 sq m (624 sq ft). Fully vacant.
Lot 90: Freehold mid terrace Building arranged as GF Shop and Studio Flat. Let Producing £20,500 p.a.
Guide Price £275,000+
Ground Floor Flat, 34 Bondey Road, Hackney, London E8 1AY By order of Receivers Lot 51: Leasehold GF 2 bed Flat with patio garden. Fully vacant.
Guide Price refer ZB
Britten Close/Chandos Way, Hampstead, London NW11 7HW Lot 26: Well located Leasehold ground rent investment secured upon 9 Blocks comprising 219 Flats and roof space. Producing £29,676 p.a.
Guide Price £550,000+
Lots 113: Leasehold FF 3 bed Maisonette with section of rear garden. Fully vacant.
Guide Price £240,000-£250,000
Guide Price £420,000+
Flat A, 184 Brook Road, Clapton, London E5 8AP
26 Brett Close, Stoke Newington, London N16 0BN
By order of a Housing Association Lot 135: Leasehold GF one bed garden Flat. Fully vacant.
Guide Price £425,000+
3 Park View Road, Tottenham, London N17 9EY Lot 91A: Freehold mid terrace HMO building. Producing £46,800 p.a. (equivalent)
By order of Mortgagees Freehold 7 bed Mansion House with landscaped gardens, indoor swimming pool, sauna & games room. Fully vacant.
Land adjoining 4 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London E17 5HZ Lot 91: Freehold site extending to approx 0.012h (0.03a). Possible development potential.
Guide Price £90,000+
Site to the front of 106 Sterling Way, Edmonton, London N18 1QU
Lot 114: Leasehold GF one bed Flat. Fully vacant.
Guide Price £225,000+
Flat 4, 34A Geldeston Road, Clapton, London E5 8SB
On the instructions of NHS Property Services Limited Lot 173: Freehold site extending to approx 0.003 h (0.008 a). Fully vacant.
Lot 120A: Leasehld FF studio Flat subject to an AST. Producing £13,364.04 p.a.
Guide Price £125,000+
Guide Price £8,000+
6A Camrose Avenue, Edgware, London HA8 6EG
3 & 4 Gloucester Mews, Leyton London, E10 7DZ
64 Fairbanks Road, Tottenham, London N17 9JL
Lot 156: Freehold single storey Building occupying site extending to approx 0.017h (0.042 a). Fully vacant.
Lot 39: Freehold Mews building arranged as 4 studio flats. Fully vacant.
Lot 104: Freehold mid terrace 4 bed Town House with rear yard. Fully vacant.
Guide Price £120,000 - £130,000
Guide Price £250,000 - £275,000
Guide Price £325,000+
Guide Price £425,000+
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Four goals from Liron Mannie (pictured) helped NL Raiders A get their Sunday Challenge Cup campaign off to a winning start. Further strikes from David Dinkin and Jordan Marks saw the MGBSFL Premier Division champions to a 6-2 win over Anorthosis.
CHIGWELL LEAVE SCRABBLE PUZZLED Chigwell beat Scrabble 4-0 in Division One of the Masters League. Adam Stollerman hit a hat-trick with Adam Barton also on target. St John’s Wood beat Brady B 4-1 in Division Two, Gary Brace scored twice, with Richard Weisfeld and Ashley Marks strikes also on target. Marc Morris hit a hattrick in Lions’ 9-0 win over Hendon, Gary Adams and Paul Van Gelder scored in Glenthorne’s 3-1 victory.
Avram Grant has been called ‘lazy’ and ‘useless’ by the former chairman of the Ghana Football Association. In a scaything attack on the Israeli (pictured) who took charge of the Ghanian national football team in December 2014, Dr Nyaho Tamakloe said: “I’ve been saying [this] for more than a year. If you look
carefully at his demeanour, he’s a very lazy person. He has nothing to offer us. Our performance under him has been abysmal. He’s a useless coach”. The vice-chairman of the Ghana FA this week denied reports that Grant was set to be sacked, following recent disappointing results.
Lions tamed by Lebens treble Hendon United A remain three points clear at the top of the Premier Division table after Yoav Kestenbaum’s hat-trick helped them to an impressive 4-1 win over Lions A. Yoav Lebens was also on target, with manager David Garbacz saying: “Yoav was at his brilliant best today, scoring a fantastic hat-trick and showed why, when on song, he’s one of the best in the League. “We’re playing with lots of confidence at the moment and it will take an extremely good team to stop us this year.” Two goals from Sam Cantor saw Oakwood A beat Brady Maccabi 2-0, while FC Team A claimed their first League win of the season as they beat Woodford Wanderers 6-3. Lorian Madanes and Richard Salmon scored two each, with two own goals sealing their win. London Lions B are one of three teams at the top of the Division One table, after they made it four wins from four thanks to a 6-1 win over Finchley City. Michael Kenley scored twice, with Ben Winters, Joshua Bloom, Dom Feldman and Benji Weinberger wrapping up the win. North London Raiders B sit alongside them thanks to an emphatic 8-1 win over Faithfold A.
Nicky Woolf helped himself to a hattrick, Simon Buchler scored twice, with Jake Gilbert, Elad Hertshten and Will Ufland completing the scoring. Hendon United B claimed a much-needed win as Adam Ellis, Gid Barth and Saul Cohen all scored in a 3-0 win over Athletic Bilbaum. The lead at the top of the Division Two table is also shared by three sides. L’Equipe moved joint-top thanks to an 8-2 win over Mill Hill Dons. James Mandell helped himself to a hat-trick, with Matt Gilbry, Max Martin, Andy Smith, James Bell and an own goal completing the rout. Catford & Bromley failed to maintain their three-point lead after they were beaten 2-1 by Faithfold B, Josh Barnett and Chaim Bordon scoring for the Greens. Temple Fortune are up into the top four after goals from Brett Stead, Adam Lenz and Jordan Sharifia saw them to a 3-1 win over FC Team B. Nick Haringman’s double, together with Rob Samuelson’s strike saw North London Raiders C win 3-0 at Hertswood Vale.
Yoav Lebens hit a hat-trick for Hendon
WWE legend Goldberg set for return to the ring
Teddy takes over as captain Teddy Vandermolen has been named as the new junior captain of Hartsbourne Golf Club. Also crowned Junior Player of the Year at the club’s AGM, he said: “I feel honoured and am also delighted Sam Buckwald is the new junior vice-captain. Hopefully we lead Hartsbourne to many trophies.”
Former World Wrestling Entertainment champion Bill Goldberg is planning a return to the ring following more than a decade in retirement. Goldberg, a fan favourite who’s known in the wrestling world by his last name, is set to have a rematch with his old nemesis Brock Lesnar next month. Challenged by Lesnar’s promoter on WWE’s flagship programme Monday Night Raw, to take on the fight, Goldberg replied on twitter: “Booking my flight to answer that big mouth.” Speaking previously about a comeback, he said: “The biggest thing about being a wrestler — and being Goldberg gave me — was the ability to be a superhero for kids. I want the ability to be that guy again, but there’s a compromise here. To be that guy at 49-yearsold, do you risk losing your legacy? Is it some-
Israeli tennis player Amir Weintraub pulled out of a tournament last week after organisers refused to reschedule his match which clashed with Yom Kippur. He then criticised the ATP and International Tennis Federation, saying they’re not doing enough to help players outside the top-100 to earn a living. He said: “Players are talking all the time and feel they’re being exploited. The bottom line is that if you want to play tennis you either better come from a rich family or have a sponsor - otherwise you will likely go broke.”
KENNET DOUBLE SEALS HERTS WIN
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WEINTRAUB HITS OUT AT TENNIS BOSSES
London Lions extended their lead at the top of the Herts County Premier Division to five points as Josh Kennet’s double saw them win 2-1 at Letchworth. Kennet claimed his first after latching onto Charlie Kasler’s raking 40-yard pass, before firing home, and Kasler played provider for the second. Letchworth pulled one back from the penalty spot in the second half, but Andy Landesberg’s side held on.
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Bill Goldberg is set for a return to the ring
thing that I am going to regret?” The grandson of Romanian and Russian immigrants, he originally wanted to go by the name Mossad , believing his last name didn’t sound imposing enough. Playing in the NFL between 1990-1995, he became one of the WWE’s biggest superstars, winning multiple heavyweight championship belts.
Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Euroleague campaign began with a dramatic defeat as they lost 99-97 to Olimpia Milano after Sylven Landesberg missed a contested layup at the buzzer that would have sent the game to overtime. Coach Erez Edelstein said: “I think it was a very fun game for fans, but I can’t be happy. If you score more than 85 points on the road, you should win the game. I hope that we will improve our defense in the future, it is the main goal that we have right now.”
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BRADLEY SEGAL (FINCHLEY CITY) Superbly tipped over the bar a venemous strike from Michael Kenley
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ROBERT SHOOMAN (FAITHFOLD A) “They played well, they can only play what’s in front of them. Unfortunately today, their opposition was c*** – and we paid the price!”
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Boca Jewniors 1 Redbridge C 4 Faithfold B 2 Catford & Bromley 1 Hertswood Vale 0 NL Raiders C 3 L’Equipe 8 Mill Hill Dons 2 Temple Fortune 3 FC Team B 1
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Enfield Town 0 Wingate & Finchley 1 London County Cup First Round: Wingate & Finchley 8 Tower Hamlets 1
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Peter Morrison Trophy First Round: Catford & Bromley VS NL Raiders C Faithfold A VS L’Equipe Faithfold B VS Boca Jewniors Finchley City VS Hertswood Vale Hendon United B VS RC UK FC Mill Hill Dons vs Athletic Bilbaum Scrabble VS London Lions U21
7 Goals: Adam Ellis (Hendon United B) 6 Goals: Zac Lewis (Hendon United A) Nicky Woolf (NL Raiders B) Avi Markiewicz (RC UK FC) 5 Goals: Joel Lassman (Catford & Bromley) Yoav Kestenbaum (Hendon United A) James Mandell (L’Equipe) Max Martin (L’Equipe) Joshua Bloom (London Lions B) Jordan Sharifia (Temple Fortune) • Full chart: jewishnews.co.ukmgbsflleague-goalscoring-chart-week-six/
Premier Division: FC Team A vs Oakwood A Redbridge A vs Brady Maccabi SPEC FC vs Camden Park
HAT-TRICK HEROES
Sunday Challenge Cup First Round – Liron Mannie 4 (NL Raiders A) MGBSFL Premier Division – Yoav Kestenbaum (Hendon A) Division One – Nicky Woolf (NL Raiders B) Division Two – Aaron Goldberg (Redbridge C), James Mandell (L’Equipe) Masters League Division Two – Marc Morris (London Lions) Watford Friendly League U16 – Jonah Weiniger 6, Meri Hodges (both Hendon) U13 – Saul Norton 5 (HMH Fire) Ben Barnett (Maccabi London Lions White) U12 – Zane Appleson-Fidler 4, Josh Nathan 4, Amiit Weiss 4 (all Maccabi London Lions White), Ben Masson (HMH Juniors) , Tani Pfeffer 4, Avi Green (both Hendon White) U10 – Ezra Newell-Johanssen (HMH Real)
Division One: London Lions B VS Los Blancos Oakwood B vs Brixton Old Boys Division Two: Redbridge C VS FC Team B
RESULTS
P W D L F Dif Pts Catford & Bromley 5 4 0 1 21 17 12 L’Equipe 4 4 0 0 19 15 12 Redbridge C 4 4 0 0 15 10 12 Temple Fortune 5 3 1 1 12 1 10 Faithfold B 5 3 0 2 16 2 9 RC UK FC 4 2 1 1 17 10 7 NL Raiders C 5 2 0 3 16 6 6 Real Hendon 3 1 0 2 4 -5 3 Mill Hill Dons 5 1 0 4 7 -20 3 Hertswood Vale 4 0 0 4 3 -11 0 Boca Jewniors 2 0 0 2 2 -11 0 FC Team B 4 0 0 4 3 -14 0 jewishnews.co.uk/msfl-two-table
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Rangers 0, Maccabi London Lions Blue 3 Northwood Red 0 Challenge Cup First Round – HMH Netanya 2 West Herts Stags 1, Oakhill Tigers Predators 5 HMH Cosmos 1, HMH Fire 13 Alexandra Park South 4 U12 – Hendon White 12 Alexandra Park 3, Letchworth City 0 Maccabi London Lions White 20, Omonia Gold 9 Maccabi London Lions Blue 2, Northwood Red 7 Maccabi London Lions Green 3 Blue Division – Alexandra Park North 5 HMH Dynamo 0 Yellow Division – HMH Juniors 12 HMH Galaxy 0
Letchworth Garden City 1 London Lions 2
P W D L F Dif Pts London Lions 9 9 0 0 35 27 27 Bushey Sports Club 9 7 1 1 32 21 22 Standon & Puck 10 6 1 3 29 4 19 Bovingdon 9 6 0 3 29 6 18 Belstone 7 5 2 0 21 11 17 Sandridge Rovers 9 5 2 2 15 8 17 Ware Sports 10 5 2 3 22 2 17 Letchworth Garden 10 4 2 4 23 8 14 Wormley Rovers 8 4 2 2 16 1 14 Knebworth 9 2 2 5 15 -5 8 Chipperfield 9 2 1 6 26 -2 7 Buntingford Town 10 2 1 7 16 -13 7 Evergreen 9 2 1 6 14 -15 7 Hatfield Social 8 1 2 5 15 -22 5 Cuffley 8 1 1 6 16 -9 4 Sarratt 10 0 2 8 8 -22 2 jewishnews.co.uk/category/sport/ football/lions
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MMFL DOUBLE O SEVEN MANAGEMENT DIV 1
GARSTON VETS LEAGUE
Chigwell 4 Scrabble 0 P WD NL Raiders 3 3 0 Chigwell 2 2 0 Brady Maccabi A 4 2 0 London Lions A 3 1 1 Scrabble 4 1 1 HMH 4 0 0
L Dif Pts 0 8 9 0 5 6 2 -4 6 1 -1 4 2 -3 4 4 -5 0
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Garston 0 London Lions 5 P WDL London Maccabi 2 2 0 0 North Greenford 1 1 0 0 Abbey F.C. 2 1 0 1 Colney Heath 0 0 0 0 Winchmore Hill 0 0 0 0 Latymer Old Boys 1 0 0 1 Garston 1 0 0 1
Dif Pts 13 6 5 3 -4 3 0 0 0 0 -4 0 -5 0
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MMFL DOUBLE O SEVEN MANAGEMENT DIV 2
St John’s Wood Tigers 4 Brady B 1 Hendon Harriers 0 London Lions B 9 Temple Fortune 1 Glenthorne 3 P W D L Dif Pts St John’s Wood 5 4 0 1 14 12 London Lions B 3 3 0 0 11 9 Glenthorne 4 3 0 1 4 9 Temple Fortune 4 2 0 2 -2 6 EDRS Stonegrove 3 1 1 1 3 4 Marshside 3 0 1 2 -6 1 Brady Maccabi B 3 0 0 3 -11 0 Hendon Harriers 3 0 0 3 -13 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 Hapoel Beer-Sheva 6 4 1 1 14 11 13 Mac Petach-Tikva 6 3 2 1 8 -1 11 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 BRADLEY SEGAL
5 MAX CLYNES
9 GID BARTH
2 JOE COHEN
6 RUSSELL GOLDSTEIN
10 YOAV KESTENBAUM
3 TOMER WEIDER
7 ADAM LIPMAN
4 JAMES KORN
8 SAM RANK
FINCHLEY CITY May have been on the receiving end of a heavy defeat – but would have been even heavier but for a string of fine saves
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Sunday Challenge Cup First Round: North London Raiders A 6 Anorthosis 2 Watford Friendly League: U18 Green Division – HMH 5 Alexandra Park South 1 U16 – Maccabi London Lions White 4, Abbots Youth 2 Hendon 12 Oakhill Tigers 4 U15 – BSC 5 Maccabi London Lions White 1, St Albans Red 10 Maccabi London Lions Blue 1 U14 – Maccabi London Lions White 6 Croxley Green 1, Maccabi London Lions Blue 0 Harvesters East 3 White Division – HMH 2 Hadley Wood & Wingate Foxes 1 U13 – Maccabi London Lions White 4 Edmonton
MGB(S)F/MASTERS WINGATE/LONDON LIONS
HERTFORDSHIRE SENIOR LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION
RYMAN LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION
8 Goals: Liron Mannie (NL Raiders A)
DIVISION ONE
Brixton Old Boys P Scrabble P Finchley City 1 London Lions B 6 Hendon United B 3 Athletic Bilbaum 0 Los Blancos 1 Redbridge B 2 North London Raiders B 8 Faithfold A 1
MGBFL GOALSCORERS
2016/2017 SEASON
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NORTH LONDON RAIDERS A Showed great energy up and down the left hand side, was defensively excellent and provided great support for the forwards
FAITHFOLD B 17-year-old was played out of position as he covered for absentees, but proved to be outstanding
FC TEAM A First game of the season and showed side what they have been missing – commanding as ever in centre-back role
OAKWOOD A Came into the O’s defence and put in an outstanding performance, to help deny the normally prolific Brady strikers
REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE A Caused havoc going up and down the flank and produced a fantastic overlap and cross for the opening goal
MACCABI LONDON LIONS B Produced an awesome performance. Won everything in the middle of the park and single-handedly dominated the midfield
REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE B Changed the game, got the Redbridge boys playing and claimed an assist for team’s first goal
HENDON UNITED B Looked to have the beating of his fullback throughout, grabbed a goal after some great close control in the box HENDON UNITED A Helped himself to a match-winning hat-trick, as he showed when he’s on song, he’s one of the best in the league
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NORTH LONDON RAIDERS B Brilliant performance up front, helped himself to a hat-trick as he tormented Faithfold’s defence
PLAYER OF THE WEEK YOAK KESTENBAUM Hendon United A
MANAGER OF THE WEEK DAVID GARBACZ Hendon United A
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Jewish News 20 October 2016
Sport / Red alert / FIFA delay
Red hot! All three Redbridge sides maintain 100% records By Andrew Sherwood andrews@thejngroup.com @JewishNewsUK
Photo by Amy Leigh
Redbridge Jewish Care’s three sides all kept up their unbeaten league start to the season, recording their fourth consecutive wins on Sunday. Last weekend’s fixtures saw the As beat Camden Park 3-0, the Bs win 2-1 at Los Blancos, while the Cs came away from Boca Jewniors with a 4-1 victory. Between them, the three sides have now racked up 12 wins in 12 games, netting 40 goals while conceding just 12. Managers Jon Jacobs, Sam Rank and Josh Hambling are putting down their sides’ impressive starts to the talent at their disposal, work ethic and team spirit. Jacobs, who’s the club chairman as well as in charge of the A team, said: “I’m thrilled how we are doing. It shows that we have some great talent, young and old in east London. “It’s a long season but we aim to be challenging in all three divisions and hope our depth is strong enough to maintain the fine start.” B team player-manager Rank said: “The start the club has made this season has been brilliant and I can’t describe how happy and proud I am to be a part of it. “There are a number of reasons why the club is doing so well. The platforms Redbridge A celebrate one of the club’s 12 league wins this season
FIFA delay decision on Israel ban Football’s world governing body has delayed on making a decision as to whether they will ban six Israeli football teams from playing in West Bank settlements. Under growing pressure from the Palestinian Football Association and Human Rights Watch, who accuse the Israeli FA of violating FIFA rules by ‘holding games without permission on the territory of another member group’, FIFA was expected to make a ruling on the clubs, who are based in Ma’aleh Adumim, Ariel,
Kiryat Arba, Givat Ze’ev, the Jordan Valley and Oranit, last week. Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestinian Football Association had said he’d petition the Court of Arbitration for Sport for a ruling if FIFA didn’t suspend the Israeli teams. “Israel receives quite a few benefits from FIFA, and some of those benefits also reach the settlements teams, which is unacceptable”, he said. “Our message to FIFA is clear. The time has come to decide this issue and bring an end to Palestinian suffering, and thereby grant freedom of action to Palestinian sport and football, on one hand, and stop giving legitimacy to clubs active in the settlements, on the other.” Tokyo Sexwale (pictured), chairman of the FIFA Monitoring Committee Israel-
Palestine, said he was unable to deliver a final report to the council because his committee “was not able to meet”, but urged all parties to attend next month’s meeting of the Monitoring Committee, with a ‘constructive spirit in order to find solutions.’ He said: “We’re dealing with a highly sensitive situation in that part of the world, yet at the same time what is uppermost is to ensure the game of football is not entwined in political conflict. At the end we want to ensure that both Israelis and Palestinians can enjoy the game in accordance with the FIFA Statutes.” The Israeli FA has accused the Palestinians of dragging sport “from the football field into a political one,” saying it wants to develop the game as a “bridge connecting people and not as a wall that divides them.”
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we have in place are worthy of any top club. We have three great managers in charge of the three teams, all of whom are supported by a top club secretary Richard Bronzite, and this goes hand in hand by the support Jewish Care gives us. “We have one of the top facilities to train on, which all teams use during the week to ensure they are ready for the Sunday games. “The club had a brilliant pre-season, which got the fitness levels up to high standards, and I believe with all these formulas in place, we can bring home a lot of silverware this season.” C team manager Hambling praised the mindset of the players, saying: “I think it comes down to the attitude and work ethic of all the players and management involved in the club. We have a good crop of players at the moment who just love to play football and have a great desire to win. Right now my team feel like they can win any league game. We’re a mixed group of youth and experience and I’d like to think we can continue our good run of form. The club is heading in the right direction. The only thing that might prove difficult are promotions due to the two clubs in one division rule, but it’s a nice dilemma to address come next May.”
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