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Shocking state of the union Anger of eight former presidents of Cambridge debating society over failure to grill hateful Malaysian PM Eight former Cambridge Union presidents have accused their prestigious alma mater of a “shameful” failure to challenge the antisemitic views of the Malaysian prime minister as he spoke there on Sunday, writes Stephen Oryszczuk. Dr Mahathir Mohamed, 93, was invited to the university’s historic debating society but did not receive the grilling he warranted, said several of the union’s former presidents, writing in Jewish News this week. “It is of deep disappointment to all of us that clearly racist views went unchallenged and some audience members laughed in response to Dr Mohamad’s antisemitic remarks,” they said. “With freedom of speech comes the duty to stand up and call out bigotry. The union must learn from this shameful event.” Jewish student representatives criticised the Union for hosting the Malaysian PM, who made further
Union guest: Mahathir Mohamad
offensive comments about Jews at the event, prompting laughter from the audience. Challenged by the event’s moderator on his past comments about Jews and money, Mahathir said: “I have some Jewish friends, very good friends. They are not like the other Jews. That’s why they are my friends.” The Union of Jewish Students shared a video of the comments, adding: “Freedom of speech is not
a joke when it incites hatred against one people.” Human rights barrister Adam Wagner said the Union “should be ashamed” while David Wolfson QC said he had resigned his life membership in response. This week Cambridge Union said speakers “are challenged and held to account by both our committee and membership for their opinions,” adding that Mahathir’s record was “scrutinised” during his appearance. “Our moderator repeatedly challenged the prime minister on his antisemitic comments, bringing the conversation to the topic continuously,” the Union said. “Pointing to his own AmericanJewish heritage, he exposed the inconsistency in the prime minister’s beliefs by noting that he only blamed Jews for supporting Israel, not Americans. He also scrutinised Continued on page 5
The racist who asked a question about racism
The imam who questioned Tory leadership contenders about Islamophobia on BBC1 this week has been exposed as a virulent anti-Zionist who accused Jews of “hiding behind the Holocaust”. See p4 & p18
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#NotJewish trend after Jews blocked The hashtag #NotJewish trended on Twitter this week in a protest at an account blocking Jews. Hundreds of people on the platform took aim at a group called Labour Left Voice for targeting Jewish users. The trend was sparked when Jewish Labour Movement’s Rebecca Filer tweeted a screenshot showing she had been blocked. JLM colleague Jack Mayorcas quoted her message online, adding: “If you are Jewish and have also been blocked by @lableftvoice despite never interacting with them, please add to the thread.” Among more than 1,800 replies were non-Jewish
accounts saying they too had been blocked, despite not having interacted with LLV. Blocked accounts include those of World Jewish Relief, Barnet Synagogue, Dave Rich of the CST and Danny Stone of the Antisemitism Policy Trust. The actress Tracy AnnOberman said on Twitter: “Thank you to all those tweeting #NotJewish ... Your solidarity and tweets are hilarious and goodly. X” The comedian David Baddiel said: “It’s good to see “Not Jewish” turns out to be non-Jews voicing... against anti-Semitism. Although if you’re *really* Jewish like me, it also makes you feel a bit left out.”
Contrite MP Forbes to meet community Community leaders this week agreed to meet with Labour’s new Peterborough MP Lisa Forbes after she apologised for appearing to endorse antisemitic material online, writes Mathilde Frot Forbes, who won a by-election on 7 June, contacted the Board of Deputies, Community Security Trust, Jewish Leadership Council and Antisemitism Policy Trust to request a meeting. Her letter acknowledged “the hurt” she caused and lamented the rise of the “scourge of antisemitism” across the UK in recent years. “I am sorry that I have caused hurt in your community, to you and to those you represent,” Forbes noted in her letter. “I am aware that the kind of content I mistakenly engaged with online was deeply offensive and contained antisemitic language and tropes which harm the Jewish community “I know it is not good enough to simply say I am anti-racist. I need to demonstrate to you that I will take action to gain your trust and hope you will agree to meet with me and to allow me to attend any relevant training for me to better understand the nature and extent of antisemitism and the impact it has on the Jewish community,” Forbes continued. In their reply, published on Tuesday, Jewish leaders agreed to a “two-hour” meeting, and requested she arrange a
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Jewish leaders have applauded the Church in Wales for adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, after the Church of England did so in September. The Bishops of the Church in Wales said: “We regard antisemitism as abhorrent and recognise the Christian church has need of repentance for the ways in which it has contributed in the past to anti-Jewish sentiment.”
BERGER & HALFON HANDED JLC ROLES MPs Luciana Berger and Robert Halfon have been appointed vicepresidents at the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC). They are among five new vice-presidents, including former adviser to David Cameron Daniel Korski CBE, Baroness Ros Altmann and lawyer Julian Blake. The JLC’s vice presidents are Jewish leaders and experts who advise its trustees and main body. While they do not have a vote, they can attend meetings.
Jeremy Corbyn with the newly-elected Peterborough MP Lisa Forbes
date and time. “We will also explain about antiJewish conspiracy theories, IHRA [the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] and the nature of modern antisemitism and set out the threat that the CST has to deal with on a regular basis,” the joint letter reads. The Peterborough MP faced controversy in the week before the poll over a Facebook post that she “liked” which
said Theresa May has a “Zionist slave masters agenda”. Separately, she was also found to have signed a letter opposing the IHRA definition of antisemitism. The letter stated that critics of Israel should be able to “speak freely” about its “system of apartheid and ongoing ethnic cleansing” in the same way that “Jewish members must be able to speak freely about the Holocaust.”
‘YOUR ALLY, COME WHAT MAY’ Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will remain a friend and ally of the Jewish community, as the race to succeed her heated up. In a letter this week to the Board of Deputies, she reiterated her record of support, including increased security funding, adding: “I am sure that this friendship and my support for the community will continue in the years to come.” May’s letter said the UK government’s priorities were to “protect people from online harm, including tackling the dissemination of antisemitic tropes through our society”. She also referenced “specific forms of antisemitism directed at women”. In 2014, as home secretary, May visited Israel and in January 2015 appeared at an event in London holding a sign reading ‘Je Suis Juif ’ (I Am Jewish) in solidarity with French Jews killed at a kosher deli in Paris in the
wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack. In December 2016 she told Conservative Friends of Israel she would be adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, and in 2017 May celebrated the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. In her letter to the Board, she praised the organisation for “fostering g o o d relations between British Jews and those of
other faiths so as to improve understanding and friendship”. In a separate development, the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Committee held an evidence session for its inquiry into Islamophobia. Imam Atta, director of Islamophobia monitoring organisation Tell MAMA, told MPs: “We work with the CST to pick up on best practice and how they have been delivering security to shuls and Jewish schools to tailor them to Muslim communities.”
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Jailed Nazi youths also targeted Jews Security chiefs this week welcomed the imprisonment of two neo-Nazis teenagers from St Albans and Leeds who displayed a “violent mindset” after a court heard how their intended targets included Jews. Michal Szewczuk, 19, from Leeds, posted a picture of Prince Harry with a gun to his head, calling him a “race traitor” for marrying Meghan Markle. In his blog, he said the rape of women and children was justified in pursuit of an Aryan race.
He was sentenced to four years in a young offenders’ institution after being found guilty of encouraging terrorism and possession of terrorist material, including the White Resistance Manual and an al-Qaeda training manual. Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, from St Albans, was studying computer science at Portsmouth University when he was arrested in December. He was charged with encouraging terrorism
Sentenced: Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski and Michal Szewczuk
on the Gab social media site, which hosts many whose accounts have been blocked by Twitter. Prosecutors said DunnKoczorowski worshipped Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and “conveyed a message of threat” to anyone he “perceived to be complicit in the perpetuation of multiculturalism”. He was sentenced to an 18-month training and detention order. A spokesman for the Community Security Trust welcomed the sentencing, but said the resurgence of far-right ideologues intent on physical violence was now self-evident. “As we saw so tragically in Pittsburgh and San Diego, antisemitism from the far right is an enduring threat for Jewish communities,” he said. “This case is another example of the increased efforts of some violent neoNazis to attack Jews and other minorities.”
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Imam on BBC debate exposed as antisemite The BBC has acknowledged a research oversight led to an antisemitic imam questioning Tory leadership contenders about Islamophobia, writes Adam Decker. Presenter Nicky Campbell, who invited Abdullah Patel onto his BBC Radio 5 Live the morning after the live debate, said the imam had made “extremely disturbing” remarks on Twitter, and that he was “sorry” the BBC had not checked his background sufficiently beforehand. In tweets unearthed by the Guido Fawkes website, Patel wrote: “Every Political [sic] figure on the Zionist’s [sic] payroll is scaring the world about Corbyn. They don’t like him. He seems best suited to tackle them!” He also shared an image endorsing the relocation of Israel to the US as a way of solving the Israel/Palestine conflict. It was the identical image Labour MP Naz Shah shared in 2106, leading to her apology and suspension from the party. Patel has since taken down his Twitter account, but previous social media posts from @AbdullahPatel94 published by The Spectator include accusing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance of either “lying about wanting to protect freedom of speech, or they simply wish to undermine @jeremycorbyn”. In one message, Patel also reportedly wrote: “How long are the Zionists going to hide
Abdullah Patel appearing on the Conservative leadership debate on Tuesday. Below: His infamous tweet calling for Israel’s relocation to the United States
behind the Holocaust cry? It was a tragedy, but Gaza today is a repeat of the oppression.” The BBC’s press team tweeted the following statement in wake of the incident: “We carried out background research into the online social media profiles of all our questioners for last night’s debate. Following the debate, one individual reactivated a public twitter account he had previously deactivated, whose tweets were not visible during our research period. Had we been aware of the views he expressed there he would not have been selected.” Rob Burley, who edited the programme, said: “It was after the show that Patel reacti-
vated his account revealing his tweets. “We wouldn’t have put him on the programme if these were public before broadcast, but they were not. We also carried out a number of other routine checks, which didn’t uncover anything untoward.” Campbell tweeted: “I would like to apologise. We had the imam from the BBC Tory leadership debate on our programme this morning. “His social media comments have been extremely disturbing. We should have checked. We didn’t. I’m sorry.” Jonathan Goldstein, chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, said: “This is disappointing from the BBC. A
serious point has been lost due to the vitriol of the questioner. Racism is unacceptable.” After the revelations about Patel’s comments, the chair of Al-Madani Educational Trust announced that Patel had been suspended as deputy headteacher of Al-Ashraf Primary School in Gloucester. In a statement, he said: “Following some of the comments attributed to Patel in the media this morning, the Trust has decided to suspend him from all school duties with immediate effect until a full investigation is carried out. The school and trust do not share these views.” Jewish News has contacted Patel for comment.
CRUISE LINER SAYS SORRY FOR ‘HITLER’ RESPONSE The largest cruise line in the world has “sincerely apologised” to a Jewish man after a representative told him that if he believed waste could be converted into fuel, he probably also believed Hitler was alive and hiding in Argentina, writes Stephen Oryszczuk. The apology was issued on Monday afternoon after Paul Manning, a Jewish News reader, complained about the response he got to a suggestion that the ships convert waste into oil to fuel the company’s giant cruise liners. Manning, who chairs an organisation that combats ocean and beach waste, received a typo-laden response from Dejan Kuzman, environmental officer at Carnival Cruise Lines in Serbia and Montenegro, and posted it on his LinkedIn page.
It read: “Dear Paul, 1 ton of plastic can give you 800 liters of fuel only if you think the earth is flat and Sadam Husein [sic] really had nuclear bombs and that hitler is still alive and hidding in argentina [sic].” The Florida-based company, which said it was not aware of the message, is the world’s largest cruise company based on revenue, passenger numbers and fleet size. Carnival Corporation and its Princess subsidiary this month agreed to pay a criminal penalty of £16million for six environmental violations, including dumping plastic mixed with food waste in Bahamian waters and falsifying training records. It is the company’s second such fine, with Princess Cruise Lines having paid £32m in
2016 for further pollution violations, three years after an engineering whistleblower detailed allegations of deliberate wrongdoing. Asked for a comment about Kuzman’s message, a Carnival Cruise Line spokesman said it was “a company that prides itself on creating and maintaining a work environment where everyone feels valued and respected”. He added: “We were not aware of this particular situation, but it is obviously not a representation of our company and we sincerely apologise. We are looking further into this situation.” Manning is based in Birmingham, where he is a director of Ocean Resource Management and Owte Oil, which sells oil produced through pyrolysis from ocean and beach waste plastic.
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ACTIVISTS FINED OVER ISRAEL PROTEST Two pro-Israel activists have been given community orders and fined at Hendon Magistrates Court for “threatening” behaviour towards a female pro-Palestinian activist in October last year. Jonathan Hoffman, a former vice-president of the Zionist Federation, and Damon Lenszner pleaded guilty to offences under the Public Order Act yesterday. The incident took place on Carnaby Street last year and video footage of the pair’s behaviour has been widely shared online.
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No laughing matter: Union speakers officer Adam Davies with Mahathir Mohamad
A Labour councillor has defended her decision to block Countdown host Rachel Riley on Twitter, claiming she is “always trying to smear Jeremy Corbyn”. Cllr Rachel Abbotts, from High Peak Borough Council, is believed to be under investigation by Labour. She replied to a tweet by the account Socialist Sunday, describing Riley as “clearly mentally unstable”. Abbotts said she blocked Riley “because of her right wing views” and refuted any allegations of antisemitism.
Continued from page 1 his decision to ban Israeli swimmers from the 2019 World Paralympic Championships.” However, the eight former union presidents said Mohamad “used his platform to repeat the reprehensible antisemitic rhetoric for which he was already well-known”, adding “this went unchallenged and was greeted with
laughter from the audience”. Writing opposite, they add: “This level of febrile Jew-hatred must be confronted – and that is what the Cambridge Union has traditionally done… We are disappointed the union representative running the event did not challenge the shameful views he allowed Dr Mohamad to share.” UJS campaigns manager Daniel Kosky said he had
expected Mohamad “to be robustly challenged on his antiJewish racism and to be shown his views are not welcome”. The Board said the university was “creating a hostile environment for Jews” and “giving a platform to a person who has repeatedly denied the scope of the Shoah, spread antisemitic tropes and made straightforward racist comments”. Editorial comment, p18
On Sunday night, the notoriously antisemitic Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad addressed one of this country’s bastions of free speech, the Cambridge Union. He used his platform to repeat the antisemitic rhetoric for which he was already well-known. Responding to a question about previous comments he has made about Jewish people, he said: “I have some Jewish friends, very good friends. They are not like other Jews, that’s why they are my friends.” This went unchallenged by those present and was greeted with laughter by the audience, but the students should have intervened. As the famous quote says: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This level of febrile Jewhatred must be confronted – and that is what the Cambridge Union has traditionally done. Encouraging robust debate while not allowing minority
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Five Holocaust survivors are preparing to take part in Sunday’s Maccabi GB Community Fun Run to raise funds for March of the Living, writes Mathilde Frot. They are joining thousands of participants at Allianz Park to take part in the community’s largest sports fundraising event to raise money for charities such as Jewish Care, JLGB, the Jewish Volunteering Network and others. Survivors Mala Tribich, Eve Kugler, Alfred Garwood, Agnes Kaposi and Arek Hersh will face the 1km route. They will be joined by a group of around 35 March of the Living alumni, who have previously been on Holocaust educational trips to Poland. The delegation has collected more than £2,300
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March of the Living delegation at the gates of Auschwitz in April, with some of the survivors and participants to take part in the Maccabi GB Community Fun Run
on fundraising platform TotalGiving to pay for future trips so survivors can tell their stories, with donations ranging from £18 to £360. Hersh said: “As an Auschwitz survivor I want as many people to hear my testimony, so they can become witnesses. “I’m excited to take
part in the walk to help raise money so the trips to Poland can continue.” Meanwhile, 15 year-old Shimmy Bloch, from Edgware, who is profoundly deaf, will also be running 1km with his therapy dog, Milo, the first canine to take part in the run. Shimmy’s father Marc said: “We are running for
GIFT, a very special charity that inspires and teaches us how to be better people, shifting the focus from our self-centred focus world to a world where we focus on giving, rather than taking.” Shimmy has raised more than £300, out of his target of £1,000, via JustGiving.
‘ALT-RIGHT’ TALK BACKFIRES tent guidelines”. A pro-Israel group’s On Twitter, users critiattempt to take on the farcised IAM for inviting right in an online debate Collett, who has been picbackfired when abusive tured alongside far-right comments forced it to take activists covered in swasdown the video. tikas, accusing it of giving The Israel Advocacy him a platform. Movement (IAM) pulled Cohen said he invited its live stream featuring the right-wing speaker on ‘Alt-right’ activist Mark Collett, in which guests IAM pulled its debate because he wanted “to publicly challenge and expose discussed whether Zionists the hate, lies and antisemitism”. He should “support a white ethno-state”. Speaking to Jewish News, Joseph said he hosts controversial figures so Cohen, who runs IAM, said “the volume the audience could “hear the truth from and ferocity of anti-Jewish racism us and the explicit hate from the other expressed in the debate and by the audi- side”, adding: “It was clear for all to see ence was unlike anything we’ve experi- just how dangerous the far-right would enced in over a decade, the views were be for Jews, and indeed any minority, so extreme they violated YouTube con- should they ever assume power.”
UK must ‘assess’ Iran deal A think tank has told the UK to “narrow the policy gap with the US” after Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) published its opinion last Thursday, as tension mounted in the oil shipping lane between Iran and other Gulf states. Its briefing paper, Britain’s Iran Dilemma, follows Iran’s warning last
month that if sanctions were not lifted it may cease to comply with some of its commitments under Barack Obama’s deal, signed by the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China. BICOM said the UK should evaluate whether it can “deal with the weaknesses in the nuclear agreement and how to tackle Iran’s malign activities, including missile testing and transfer of precision missile technology”.
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Six senior Orthodox rabbis were “humbled” to share a meal with Iraqi and Syrian refugees supported by World Jewish Relief (WJR). United Synagogue Rabbis David Mason, Nicky Liss, Marc Levene, Yoni Birnbaum, Ephraim Guttentag,
everything she owned, except for a suitcase packed with clothes. “In Iraq, I had such a beautiful house, warm, full of light and emotions. I left my house just to keep my children and family safe,” she said. “I lost my husband in 2011, who went back to Iraq and never came back. [I was] fighting for my life to keep my children safe.” After nine years of limbo in Jordan, she could hardly believe the news last year that she and her children could come to the UK. “One day, the phone rang and the United Nations told us, ‘You can move to the UK on 10 September,’” she said. “I gave the phone to Hafssa because I was shocked, and I cried and cried.” Thanks to the support offered by WJR, Alyaa secured a volunteering role as a classroom assistant and aspires to teach, while her daughter Hafssa currently works at TK Maxx. “I am proud of my children,” she said. “We are now a volunteering family. Yesterday [the Council] told me they accepted my son to volunteer during the summer holiday at the central library. Thank you so much,” she said. Rabbi Taylor, of Western Marble Arch Synagogue, was among those to pay tribute to WJR and the refugees it supports, urging the Jewish community to do their bit. “If you go anxious or
and Sam Taylor visited Coventry last Thursday to meet with refugees enrolled on WJR’s employment programme STEP. The delegation later joined an English language class for refugees, who arrived in the UK in March, soon to enroll on STEP, which is part-funded by the European Union. It helps some 350 refugees each year across the country come into employment through volunteering, skills training and oneto-one mentoring, with help from local groups. Among the refugees supported by WJR is Alyaa and her children, who arrived in the UK last year, after fleeing Iraq in 2010, to Jordan, Refugees from leaving Syria, above, and Iran fled to the UK behind
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back a couple of generations to when our families came to the East End of London, Liverpool, Glasgow, wherever it was, our families were like this a few generations ago,” he said. “Just like communities helped our families a couple of generations ago, now is our opportunity to give back and help the immigrants of the 21st century. Rabbi Levene, of Belmont Synagogue, said: “Two things really struck me on a personal level, when talking to Hafssa and Alyaa, the mother and daughter. I asked her, ‘What did you take with you when you had to leave your home?’, and she said, ‘Nothing – clothes and my children.’ “She couldn’t take anything. We talk about it in theory but to speak to someone who did it nine years ago, literally taking the shirt on your back and her most precious things, which were her children.” Meanwhile, Rabbi Mason, of Muswell Hill Synagogue, the initiating force behind the trip who encouraged colleagues to join, described the “sense
of awe and humility” he felt while listening to the testimonies. “Sitting next to individuals in the [English language] class and next to Hafssa and Alyaa, I felt a tremendous amount of humility at being in the moment for these people. They have had to transition for nine years, survive refugee camps in Amman before coming over and not believe they would get another start in life. “For me, the statement in the Talmud, which is that there are three identifiers of Jewish people […] that we are compassionate, humble, and that we give love and kindness. Those are values I felt at the forefront.” Coventry’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Linda Bigham, who attended the lunch, extended a warm welcome to the city’s refugees. “You are so welcome, and if Coventry is your place of safety, then thank God.” She added: “Welcoming new people to Coventry is in our bones. We wouldn’t be Coventry if we didn’t do it.”
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We are presently reading portions of the Torah that describe the journeying of the Jewish nation in the desert. This began with their frightened exit from Egypt, running from Pharaoh and his slavemasters, and eventually ended, after 40 years, with the entrance into the land of Israel. It was not an easy journey, and there were many points of vulnerability along the way. And so journeying, movement, migration and its dramatic ups and downs has been a part of our national story ever since. So to be sitting last week with individuals who have themselves experienced this journey only recently from Iraq, Syria and Yemen was humbling and most certainly allowed for an immediate sense of solidarity.
We met a woman and her daughter who had escaped the clutches of ISIS in Iraq, only to spend years as refugees in Jordan. They were then flown to the UK as part of the United Nation’s Vulnerable Persons scheme for refugee resettlement, taking them to the open arms on Coventry. How would a family brought up in Baghdad believe that they would one day live in Coventry, a place that they had never heard about? But then think about our forebears and whether a Jewish family say brought up in Odessa would have thought that their grandchildren would be born in, say, Liverpool, or Brighton. I was also left last week with deep pride for the work in Coventry and other places in the UK undertaken by World Jewish Relief (WJR). As one of my colleagues said, the work the organisation was doing was a ‘Kiddush Hashem’ or sanctification of God’s name. Being in Coventry with rabbinic colleagues from the United Synagogue, viewing this amazing work of WJR, simply felt right.
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SCOT TAKES ROLE AT BEN-GURION UNI A Scottish-born special education expert has been appointed vice-president for public affairs and resource development at BenGurion University of the Negev. Jeff Kaye, who made aliyah in 1981, replaces Steve Rosen. Kaye spent 10 years in education before entering the philanthropy sector. He was director-general for resource development at the Jewish Agency for Israel, director-general of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and co-founded the Israel Academy of Philanthropy.
SOTHEBY’S SOLD TO ISRAELI FOR £2.95bn Sotheby’s auction house has signed an agreement to be purchased by French-Israeli media mogul Patrick Drahi for £2.95 billion. The deal will see the 275-year-old London-founded company become a private entity after 31 years trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Drahi is the founder and controlling shareholder of the French telecommunications firm Altice as well as companies in Israel, Portugal and the US.
Kosher stores lose licences for selling non-kosher meat Two kosher delicatessens in Manchester and Liverpool under the same ownership had their kashrut licences suspended this week after authorities raised concerns about selling non-kosher meat and poultry. On Sunday, Gough’s Deli in Prestwich, Manchester, announced on Facebook that its licence had been revoked by the Manchester Beth Din. Then on Monday Rabbi Natan Fagleman of the Liverpool Kashrut Commission, which incorporates the Liverpool Shechita Board, outlined how “serious breaches of kashrut have taken place at Roseman’s Delicatessen”. Gough’s said it was “disgusted, outraged and deeply” with the news, adding: “We have just been informed by the media that Manchester Beth Din has revoked our licence due to violation of kashrut. “All food provided and pro-
duced within our premises has always adhered to and will continue to be within the guidelines of Manchester Beth Din.” In Liverpool, Jewish residents were urged not to use “utensils that have ever been used to cook meat/poultry bought at Roseman’s” and “all food bought under the LKC licence should be discarded,” with the exception of chickens with a Manchester Beth Din label and pre-packed sealed meat products from other suppliers. “Arrangements are being made for shul and communal kitchens to be appropriately restored to kosher status,” said Fagleman, adding that details would follow regarding the koshering of private residences and of ovens. “From Tuesday Roseman’s is only licensed to sell pre-packed with an existing reliable hechsher (certification)… No fresh products will
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be produced at Roseman’s. We believe that in this way the community will have access to fresh meant and a retail kosher outlet which is crucial to its survival.” While the Roseman’s investigation is underway and the licence restricted, kosher meat and poultry is being sourced from Salford-based kosher butchers MH Meats, as well as Prestwich-based Vidals Kosher Meats. The deli packs and delivers the Pesach parcels to “needy individuals and families” who are clients of Merseyside Jewish Community Care, which said it had had “very complimentary feedback from clients who receive these parcels”. Merseyside Jewish Community Care’s kosher meals service provides more than 5,000 meals annually. Roseman’s in Liverpool and the Kashrut Commission letter
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Sacks kicks off new JW3 conversations A series of talks by Jewish household names is to begin this summer at London’s Jewish culture centre, JW3, amid warnings that the community is becoming “isolated”. The Global Jewish Conversations series will hear from leaders, philanthropists, politicians, journalists, business people, artists, writers and thinkers from across the Jewish world, and kicks off with former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. JW3 said there would be “a particular focus on bringing the very best of the Jewish diaspora to the British-Jewish community” as chief executive Raymond Simonson said the series was well-timed. “It often feels that the British Jewish community is quite cut off from global Jewish conversations except at the most senior leadership level,” he said, before describing a “growing sense of isolation and fragmentation in the current climate”. Simonson said the series, which is being supported by the Genesis Philanthropy Group (GPG), would put British-Jewish audiences “in direct contact with diverse voices from across the Jewish world to broaden our perspectives”. A decision was made to bankroll the series after positive feedback from a pilot ‘conversation’ at JW3 last year between GPG co-founder Mikhail Fridman and former Jewish Agency chief Natan Sharansky.
“This thought-provoking new series will ensure that leading thinkers from the wider Jewish diaspora are able to contribute to these wider conversations,” said GPG chief executive Ilia Salita. “Crucially, this interaction will not take place behind closed doors. It is an opportunity for the whole community to hear from some of the finest Jewish minds and contribute to the dialogue.” On 17 July, Sacks will be in conversation with Tal Keinan, an American-born Israeli whose book, God is in the Crowd: Twenty First Century Judaism, has sparked debate in Israel and the US between secular and religious Jews about the fate of the Jewish people.
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JAMI OPENS NEW CENTRE A leading mental health charity serving the Jewish community has opened a new centre in Stoke Newington to provide for Jewish families on their doorstep. Jami, which offers peer support and carers’ advice as well as help with benefits and employment, already has hubs in Edgware, Finchley and Redbridge. The new Hackney Hub will support the large community in or near Hackney. Health and fitness classes will be among the offerings, with activities designed to help provide structure, routine and social engagement for those with mental health issues. The new hub is located at the community centre of the Industrial Dwellings Society, a specialist London housing provider with strong links to the Jewish community. Suzanne Wolfe of Industrial Dwellings Society said: “By collaborating with Jami, we are helping kick-start an innovative and holistic approach to mental well-being for the neighbourhood, bringing together services and new opportunities for our
residents.” Laurie Rackind of Jami said: “We are excited to have a new, permanent home in Hackney. We are building strong relationships across the community and opening conversations about mental
health, increasing referrals to the hub.” He added the charity would “make connections to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in the area and create links to other mental health and social care organisations”.
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The lengths some girls will go A batmitzvah girl who attends a girls’ school near Hatfield has inspired her classmates to swim the equivalent of the English Channel to raise money for a children’s hospice, writes Adam Decker. Jaye Okin, 12, from Hadley Wood, is preparing for her batmitzvah next May and is raising money for Noah’s Ark, which supports babies and children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families in north London and Hertsmere. Together with her classmates at the independent Queenswood School, she is preparing to swim 1,500 lengths – the equivalent of the English Channel – on 26 June. She chose the charity after completing a Mitzvah Day activity at her synagogue, Edgware Reform, where she sorted clothes and toys being donated to the charity’s shops. “When she reads from the Torah to mark that religious milestone, she’ll be reading a section focused on charity and community,” a charity spokesman said. “This resonated so deeply with her that she immediately decided to undertake a major charitable activity.” It was a natural activity for Jaye, who was been swimming since she was two, but it was her head of year, Chloe Bassett, who decided to get the whole year group to join in.
This week Jaye said: “One and a half thousand lengths sounds like a lot of swimming, but when I think of all of the children we could be helping, I’ll keep going.” To date, she has raised more than £6,000, which was her initial target. This will go towards the building of The Ark, the new children’s hospice opening this year in Barnet. “I have the utmost respect for Jaye and her brilliant classmates, who are an inspiration,” said Alison Goodman, director of fundraising at Noah’s Ark. “Jaye has raised a huge amount of money to help seriously unwell children and their families and we are so grateful.” Jo Cameron, principal of Queenswood School, said: “I am so proud of Jaye and her year group. Swimming the distance of the English Channel in a single afternoon is such an impressive and inspiring initiative and I cannot think of a worthier local cause.” Jaye’s mum, Michelle Okin, said: “It’s fantastic that Jaye and the girls have set themselves such a challenging task for this special charity.” You can help Jaye raise funds at www.gofundme.com/ uz4m2-a-cause-i-care-aboutneeds-help Jaye Okin will swim 1,500 lengths, the equivalent of the English Channel
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CUSACK SORRY FOR ANTI-JEWISH TWEET Actor John Cusack tweeted an antisemitic image and slur, then apologised for what he called a “careless mistweet”. The image shows a hand in a sleeve bearing a Star of David crushing a group of people struggling beneath it. It includes the quote “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise” and incorrectly attributes it to the French philosopher Voltaire. Cusack tweeted above the image “Follow the money.” Cusack tweeted an apology of what he called a “careless mistweet”.
ISRAELI SPACE TECH FIRM OPENS IN UK An Israeli space technology firm developing satellite communications has set up shop in the UK after a government agency gave it £9 million to establish a research and development centre at Harwell. The company, called hiSky, this week launched its UK subsidiary –- hiSkySay Ltd – and wants to be the world’s first low-cost satellite network operator. It is working with the UK Space Agency to create more than 100 new jobs in London and Oxford.
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The head of the Serpentine Galleries in London resigned on Tuesday after it emerged that she co-owns an Israeli firm being sued by human rights activists over its surveillance software. Yana Peel stood down claiming she had been the victim of a “lobbying campaign” after it was revealed that owns up to half of the investment fund Novalpina Capital, which this year bought a majority stake in the NSO Group. The Israeli firm, which is valued at around £700mil-
lion, sells surveillance spyware to governments, but is being sued by activists and journalists who say the software is sold to repressive authoritarian regimes that use it to crush dissent and track critics. Peel, who has portrayed herself as a free-speech defender, co-owns Novalpina with her husband Stephen and two others. This week she said it was Stephen who runs the fund. NSO’s software is used to hack into phones and access text messages, contacts, GPS location, emails and browsing history. It can even hijack the
REFUGEE KIDS DEMO The Jewish Council for Racial Equality has thrown its weight behind Safe Passage’s campaign to allow more refugee children and young people into the UK. On Tuesday, a group from across the Jewish community joined a demonstration outside Westminster addressed by Lord Dubs, as part of Refugee Week. Speaking at the event, Rabbi Herschel Gluck said: “My parents came to this country in the late 1930s as child refugees. I have met children who have experienced
terrible suffering and want to join their families here. The government has a moral duty to honour its promise to learn from the past and allow these children to find refuge in our country.” JCORE director Dr Edie Friedman said: “Britain once showed positive leadership bringing 10,000 refugee children to the UK. We are now calling on the government to set up a properly-funded scheme to bring some of today’s young refugees here, so as to save their lives and ensure their futures.”
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EXHIBIT HONOURS MEDIEVAL JEWS The National Library of Israel this week launched an exhibition, The Pinkisim Collection, showcasing the ancient ledgers used by medieval European Jewish communities. The special handwritten ledgers were known as ‘pinkas’ and were used from the 16th to the 19th century to document a council’s records and rules and show such things as which Jewish cafes could open on Shabbat, what salaries were paid to mohelim and kosher slaughterers, when Jews began to live in Christian neighbourhoods, and even what card games Jews were allowed to play.
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FIFA ‘INVESTIGATING PALESTINIAN BOSS’ FIFA is probing the Palestinian football chief Jibril Rajoub for allegedly glorifying terror and inciting violence, it is reported. Football’s governing body opened an inquiry into the Palestinian Football Association head in January, according to Palestinian Media Watch. But FIFA declined to confirm the report, saying it could not comment on potential proceedings. Palestinian Media Watch says Rajoub is being probed in response to a complaint it lodged in 2017.
MAN CHARGED OVER FIRE AT RABBI’S HOME Fire broke out last Friday at the home of a Brooklyn rabbi in what police suspect was an arson attack by a man who has accused the rabbi of sexual misconduct. Thirteen people, including a six-week-old baby, were hurt. The fire erupted in a car outside a home in Midwood and spread to three others, including that of Rabbi Jonathan Max, the New York Daily News reported. Menachem Karelefsky of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one of arson.
Italian shul hosts first wedding in 1,500 years Europe’s second-oldest synagogue, built during the Roman Empire, has hosted its first Jewish wedding for more than 1,500 years. Bova Marina Synagogue in Calabria, in the south of Italy, was the venue for the wedding of two medics, Dr Roque Pugliese and Dr Ivana Pezzoli, both descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted during the Spanish Inquisition, who returned to Judaism after discovering their roots. The synagogue was discovered in 1983 during road construction when workers unearthed unusual ruins in a lemon orchard. Archaeologists later found remnants of a plough-damaged yet beautiful mosaic floor divided into 16 medallions adorned with symbols such as a menorah, a shofar, a lulav, an etrog and a Solomon’s Knot. They also found a walled niche where the Holy Ark, which contained Torah
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A new Dutch senator has said Jews ‘went like meek little lambs’ to the gas chambers. Right-winger Toine Beukering, from the Forum for Democracy Party, said the Holocaust was the reason he enlisted in the armed forces and his comments were not meant to offend, but added: ‘There was little resistance by Jews.’ Dr Roque Pugliese and Dr Ivana Pezzoli under the chupah
scrolls, once stood. Only the Ostia Synagogue is older Pugliese’s parents hid their Jewish heritage while he grew up in Calabria and Argentina. Although Pezzoli was raised with certain Jewish traditions, she was “never told why”. Both began an eight-year study of Judaism before conversion, and they both now live an observant Jewish life. “It was a remarkably
moving experience to watch Roque and Ivana get married under the chupah amid the ruins of Bova Marina’s ancient synagogue,” said Michael Freund, founder of Shavei Israel, which helps people return to their Jewish roots. “Their wedding symbolises the eternity of the Jewish people and we hope it will inspire other descendants of Jews in southern Italy to return to their roots.”
GERMANY
Israeli diplomats in Berlin have clashed with German Jewish groups over the Bundestag’s vote last month to brand the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS)
movement ‘antisemitic’. The Jewish Museum of Berlin shared a petition against it, signed by 240 Jewish academics, but Israeli Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff said doing so was ‘shameful’.
PHILIPPINES
Hundreds of Filipino women and children living in Israel are to be deported to the Philippines this summer. The women came to Israel legally to work, but are being forced to leave because they gave birth there. Many of the children speak only Hebrew. One placard read: “I dream in Hebrew, let me continue dreaming.”
NEIL ‘STARTS SMALL’ IN TLV Actor Neil Patrick Harris, star of US TV show How I Met Your Mother, was the official international ambassador to Tel Aviv Pride. “I am excited to be in the Pride parade; it’s my first ever Pride parade so I thought I’d start small,” he joked.
Abramovich pledge The Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich is to give the Jewish Agency for Israel $5million (£3.9m) to help in its mission around the world. The Russian-Israeli businessman (pictured) announced the commitment last Thursday and continues his recent efforts to counter antisemitism. In recent months, he has worked with other Jewish football club owners around the world to use sport to educate fans about the dangers of hatred and intolerance, most recently sending Chelsea directors on a march to Auschwitz. The Jewish Agency works with Jewish
communities around the world, especially in countries where they are particularly vulnerable, and is the largest Jewish non-profit organisation in the world. Last year, Abramovich was given an award by the Federation of Jewish Communities to commend his philanthropic contribution of over $500m (£400m) to Jewish causes around the world over the past 15 years. Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog said: “I am grateful for Roman Abramovich’s contribution to our efforts to ensure Jews are safe in their communities around the world. Unfortunately, Jews are once again unsafe on the streets of Europe.”
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ACTIVISTS PROTEST BDS VOTE A prominent activist and educator who fled Nazi Germany for Britain before making aliyah has called for German politicians not to equate the Israel boycott movement with antisemitism. Professor Alice Shalvi, who topped a 2018 Jewish News poll charting the contribution of Brits who made aliyah, is one of 240 Jewish and Israeli academics to protest against a vote in the German Bundestag last month. The motion, which passed, argued that the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement was antisemitic, but the academics say it
“ignored the explicit opposition of the BDS movement to all forms of racism, including antisemitism”. Shalvi was awarded the Israel Prize in 2017 for her work pioneering Israel’s feminist movement and this year donated her personal archive to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. She is among the best-known of the signatories. Shalvi is joined by co-petitioners from British universities including Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Warwick, Southampton, Wolverhampton, King’s College London, Birkbeck, Manchester, SOAS, Sheffield and Queen’s University in Belfast.
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Price of free speech To ban or not to ban, that is the question. That certainly was the question on Sunday evening, when Malaysia’s 93-year-old prime minister took to the stage at the University of Cambridge to speak at the invitation of the Cambridge Union – the country’s oldest debating chamber and free-speech standard bearer. Dr Mahathir Mohamed holds views of Jews that nobody denies are problematic, yet he is a head of state and speaks as he finds. Hence debating unions such as Cambridge and Oxford have given him a stage and challenged him. Our community’s gut instinct is to shout and scream at these debating unions for allowing such a racist onto such a prestigious platform, but ever mindful of free speech we accept that if such people are to be invited, they should – as a bare minimum – face robust challenges on their repugnant views. Was Dr Mohamed challenged? A 30-second video clip was widely shared on social media a few days later. It showed him saying that he had Jewish friends but they weren’t like other Jews, hence they were his friends. The audience is then heard laughing. Thus, the story became: ‘Cambridge laughs at Jews’. The Union later stated that it was Mohamed’s people that laughed. The question then became ‘who laughed at Mohamed,’ which is as laughable as it sounds. Enough already. Racists are best shot down not with bullets but words, ideas, arguments and logic. Banning Mohamed saves him from showing himself up. It would be like ripping the 13th century antisemitic stone carving known as the Judensau of Wittenberg from the church wall it adorns. Both he and it remind us that old-school antisemitism isn’t just a figment of our imagination, and isn’t going anywhere soon.
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Tom ensured our survival I was sad to read on your website about the passing of Tom Derek Bowden, a non-Jewish soldier who fought for Israel in the 1948 war. In 1998 I was fortunate to be invited with my mother to be part of the 50 year celebrations of the creation of Israel. My father had served in 1948 travelling via France in his early 20s. During our years growing up, he never told my sister and I too many stories about what he went through. Therefore we really never understood the sacrifice he was willing to make and the ultimate sacrifice that others did make. During the three days of the trip, I met many
Kosher catastrophe Sketches & kvetches A kosher food scandal came to light this week in Manchester and Liverpool that will have affected hundreds, if not thousands, of Jewish families. Roseman’s Deli, one of the main sources of kosher food on Merseyside, and Gough’s Deli in Prestwich, Manchester, have been selling non-kosher meat and poultry for an as-yet unknown period of time. Food sitting in fridges must now be binned, utensils side-lined, ovens kashered, supply lines reassembled. Seldom have entire cities been hit by a kosher issue like this. Beyond the immediate cost, disruption and psychological impact on families, there must be a serious investigation into how non-kosher food was sold in good faith as kosher. Part of the premium we pay for is the security and trust of knowing how the food was prepared. Processes must be put in place – that are clearly lacking – to prevent this from happening again.
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IGNORANTS MUST BE NAMED & SHAMED The 75th D-Day anniversary reminds how close a run thing the invasion of Europe really was (Jewish News, 6 June). Stephen Oryszczuk quotes Rabbi Neuberger on combating antisemitism as saying: “We need to be quite savvy about tactics.” Every time an antisemitic act or statement is committed or uttered, the accusation of antisemitism is because that is exactly what it is. If intelligent, educated
people repeat the lies they’ve heard about Jews and Israel without checking their veracity, sources, or evidence, what other explanation can there be? Such ignoring of the facts leads to ignorance, and the perpetrators should be named and shamed and facts explained. Antisemitism is rising. Why not try another tactic?
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people who had been part of the war of independence and every single one of them is a true hero. Even now it brings me to tears to think what they did for us at such a young age. Tom was standing in the foyer of the hotel and I overheard him talk. I spoke to him, and after hearing his story I was amazed. Tom was not Jewish but, after seeing the horrors of the Holocaust and having heard that the Nazi remnants were fighting with the Jordanian Legion, he decided to offer his services. Tom, like my father, never went into great detail, they did not want glorify it. What they did ensured our survival and that we will always have a safe place to be. Danny Conn
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SUPPORTING WINTON’S LEGACY Several of your readers have kindly been in touch, offering to help pay for repair work on the Kindertransport memorial at Prague railway station, following its recent horrific vandalism. We appreciate this gesture of solidarity and are absolutely grateful for that. However, our society, the Farewell Memorial, was dissolved once we reached our goal, which was the unveiling of the monument. Since then responsibility has lain with the company SŽDC, the Administration of
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Labour seems willing to bury antisemitism LORD FALCONER LABOUR PARTY
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ast month, I said it would be an acid test of the Labour Party’s disciplinary process whether it dealt with the Pete Willsman case within 14 days. That deadline elapsed on 14 June. Apart from suspending him, nothing meaningful has happened. A political party’s disciplinary process sends a message about the sorts of conduct it will not tolerate. The speed with which it responds shows what it prioritises. Its consistency shows whether the party is trustworthy. The National Executive Committee (NEC) and the leader determine the behaviour the party will not tolerate and the ruthlessness with which they will stamp those behaviours out. Pete Willsman is on the NEC. He boasts he is Jeremy Corbyn’s protector. On 31 May, a recording came to light in which he told a US author writing a book about the UK: “One of these things about antisemitism is that they’re using that to whip people up. They’ll use anything – any lies. It’s all total lies and they just whip it up.”
He continued: “I’ll tell you what – and this is off the record. It’s almost certain who is behind all this antisemitism against Jeremy, almost certainly it was the Israeli embassy, because they caught somebody in the Labour Party, it turns out they were an agent in the embassy.” Alleging that antisemitism complaints are lies whipped up by the Israeli embassy is profoundly antisemitic. It involves suggesting at the very minimum that antisemitic complaints or very many of them should be viewed as lies procured by the Israeli embassy. If a person in any position of authority suggested complaints of racism against the organisation by people from Africa should be treated as mainly lies procured by African embassies, there’s no doubt that this is racist. If Mr Willsman remains an NEC member, it’s impossible to see how any Jewish person could have confidence that Labour would deal properly with complaints of antisemitism when it is happy to tolerate as a member of its ruling body someone who regards most of these as lies. The complaint against Mr Willsman just requires the recording to be verified, which involves asking him if he disputes its genuineness. If he does, it would have to be examined.
Allegations of antisemitism do not attract automatic expulsion. He is entitled to an opportunity to put forward any representations he wants to the body that will decide the appropriate penalty. Expulsion is at the very least a real possibility so the matter will have to be considered by the National Constitutional Committee, which must then form a view about whether it is antisemitism and if so what the appropriate penalty is. It could have all been done within 14 days. No lengthy request for time to respond, or talk of a backlog blocking hearing this particular case is remotely convincing when the facts are so clear and the need to deal with so serious an allegation against someone who sits on the party’s ruling body is so urgent. Mr Williamson’s case has been outstanding for more than 110 days, and other MPs have
complaints of antisemitism left hanging uninvestigated and unaddressed. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has initiated a full-scale investigation into antisemitism within the party. In the meantime, the message Labour’s disciplinary process sends out is it might tolerate antisemitism, it doesn’t priorities antisemitic complaints and it is not consistent in the way it deals with those complaints. We must work as hard as we can to ensure that the message is brutal intolerance of antisemitism as a priority consistently applied. I am as keen now as when I offered in February to assist the Labour Party in every way I can to ensure those are the messages of the disciplinary process. The delay before the EHRC report makes me feel it is time to renew that offer.
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hat exactly was the Cambridge Union thinking when it invited Mahathir Mohamad to speak? Mohamad, Malaysia’s prime minister, has been one of the world’s most outspoken and notorious antisemites in recent decades. He has stereotyped Jews as “hook-nosed” people who “understand money instinctively”, questioned the scale of the Holocaust and said Jews rule the world “by proxy”. He has also tapped into a rich vein of conspiratorial antisemitism by accusing Israel of being behind all the woes of the Middle East. Indeed, he has not even hidden his prejudice, declaring that he is “glad to be labelled antisemitic”. In essence, this foul racist is imbued with a level of hatred that would have endeared him to the Nazi regime. To understand why Mohamad was invited, one need only listen to the comments made by the Union afterwards when they stated that “free speech and student welfare are equally
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THE MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER HAD AN EASY RIDE WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE TO SQUIRM important to us”. The union has long opposed the ‘no platform’ policy of the National Union of Students. It argues that students should freely listen to all those who have made a decisive impact on national politics and that is why they have invited such ‘luminaries’ as Marine Le Pen and Abu Hamza to address them. Freedom of speech is indeed a vital component of a civilised society and, with only a few exceptions, students should be able to judge for themselves who they can and cannot listen to. But free speech fundamentally requires accountability, the ability to hold people’s words and actions to serious public scrutiny.
This is especially true for those who espouse deeply controversial and irrational views that violate standards of decency. If they are simply allowed to spew yet more venom, their freedom of speech becomes a licence to hate, mock and demonise others. And that is indeed what happened. When challenged about some of the anti-Jewish comments he had made, Mohamad replied: “I have some Jewish friends, very good friends. They are not like the other Jews, that’s why they are my friends.” This spiteful reference to ‘good versus bad’ Jews invited laughter from the audience, reportedly from the Malaysian delegation that were present, while the rest were shamefully silent. Where was the Douglas Murray or Melanie Phillips or John Mann to counter such a vicious remark? Where was the fearless interlocutor to remind those watching that this man was a calculating, nasty racist? When the BBC made the decision to invite Nick Griffin on BBC Question Time in 2009, it generated understandable controversy. But at least the corporation ensured that he faced an array of political and cultural figures, people of considerable experience and calibre, to hold his past
words and actions to scrutiny. Yet there was no such heavyweight to challenge the Malaysian Prime Minister on his record of bigotry and offensiveness. He had an easy ride when he should have been made to squirm. Under those circumstances, the generous platform that Mohamad was given allowed him to incite hatred against a minority without any fear of recrimination, a clear abuse of freedom of speech. Worse, this has happened at the same time that antisemitism continues to be a problem on our campuses. Jewish student societies have been forced to use security for fear of racist attacks and some keep the locations of their events secret for the same reason. In 2018, vicious name-calling was reported at Oxford University’s Labour Club, with Jews labelled pejoratively as ‘Zios’. Earlier this year, more than 200 students tried to block the creation of a Jewish society at the University of Essex and one of the university’s academics, Dr Maaruf Ali, was dismissed for antisemitism. The Cambridge Union has contributed to this cacophony of prejudice by giving a free platform to an unrepentant Jew hater. Shame on it.
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Finding out about Anne’s sexuality was a revelation YONAH BEX GERBER JEWISH ARCHIVIST
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ike many children, I first read Anne Frank’s diary in school. And like many American children, I was unawware that I read the first, censored edition of her famous work. There is actually a complete and unabridged second edition. That edition has been out for 20 years, but English-speaking readers do not often encounter it. All of this is to say, upon finally reading the uncensored version, I really wasn’t prepared to discover Anne Frank wrote quite clearly about her attraction to boys – and girls. My first response to this discovery was anger. Anne Frank was bisexual? There was a bisexual person in a work I unwittingly read as a child? When I was just discovering I liked both girls and boys, there was an actual, real life person who could have told me those feelings were natural? That anger was quickly followed by sadness. Representation matters, and to discover I was denied that representation when I needed it most was all too painful. Once that sadness faded, my next response was anger, this time
as a Jewish convert. When I first became interested in Judaism as a teenager, I was also discovering that I was not quite cisgender or heterosexual. I did not know any other queer Jewish people. As much as I considered taking classes and converting to Judaism, it did not feel appropriate for me as a queer person. It took me many years to realise Judaism would accept me as the person I am. But what if I had known all those years ago that queer Jews exist, that they have always existed? What impact would that have had me? We never realise the impact of representation until we live it. For a person with few role models, representation is everything. I have craved representation for each facet of my identity. It is impossible to not keenly feel those lost possibilities when discovering Anne Frank’s own words: “I remember that once when I slept with a girlfriend I had a strong desire to kiss her, and that I did do so… I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. If only I had a girlfriend!” The strength of those is so absolute. Anne knew what she wanted and had no shame in writing it. That strength and certainty would
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person. Whose needs matter here? Anne was clear in her diary about wanting to become an author, but we have no idea how she would have felt to have her emotions and experiences published. Her words are hers alone, and in her death we cannot speak for her. If the publication of her diary is already problematic, how much more so are her musings on her sexuality? At times, it feels like an incredible breach of privacy to take a child’s words on her identity and use them as my inspiration. Anne was murdered for who she was. Her identity was taken from her. I have no right to take it again. Being queer means being true to oneself, and Anne was never given a chance to do that. Her words form an incomplete impression of an identity that was never allowed to grow. We should feel conflicted about that. Anne’s legacy, like all historical figures, is messy, and there are no easy answers to these conflicting emotions. Maybe that messiness is what we should truly embrace as we honoured what would have been her 90th birthday last Wednesday. She left us with inspiration, yes, but also more questions than answers. What a perfect legacy for an aspiring author, after all.
Jews in Arab lands paid for 1967 victory LYN JULIUS
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hey had everything in their hands; fire, axes, knives, swords… They were banging, trying to break the doors and they set the curtains on fire.” Doris Keren-Gill, a Jew from Libya, well remembers the dark days of June 1967, when rioters destroyed her home and nearby shul. Doris escaped with her life. Today, not a single Jew is left in Libya. While the media focus on the events leading to Israel’s lightening Six-Day War victory, the impact on the few thousand Jews remaining in Arab countries is forgotten. In 1967, all these communities were shadows of their former selves, 90 percent of their Jews having already fled: some 76,000 Jews remained out of a 1948 population of 900,000. Almost all had been deprived of civil rights, although could still quietly pursue their education, run businesses and enjoy a social life. But the vindictive Arab reaction to Israel’s victory changed all that. In Syria and Iraq, Jews were kept as
hostages; Jews poured out of Sudan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. Jews in Libya, taunted by enraged mobs, and Aden, where Jewish property was set on fire, were evacuated for their own safety. In almost all Arab countries there were demonstrations and anti-Jewish riots. Some governments actively persecuted their Jews as if they were Israelis. Already, Jews in Iraq had to carry yellow identity cards and were unable to leave. But Arab rage led to property seizures, beatings and arrests. Jews were sacked, telephones were cut off. On 27 January 1969, nine Jewish “spies” were executed and their bodies strung up in Baghdad’s Liberation Square.
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A million Iraqis came to celebrate. The arrests continued until 1972: some 50 Jews disappeared. Not permitted to leave, almost 2,000 Jews escaped Iraq with the help of Kurdish smugglers, leaving their homes and possessions behind. Jewish migration from Lebanon, which accelerated in 1964, reached epidemic levels after the 1967 war owing to fears of impending riots. The mass exodus was followed by the abduction and murder of individual Jews. Some of the fiercest riots broke out in Tunisia on 5 June 1967. The Great Synagogue in Tunis was set on fire. Panicking Jews abandoned their homes. Within five years, only about 7,000 remained. In Morocco, a massive security deployment prevented loss of life during mass demonstrations. When the propaganda of an Arab victory turned out to be false, two Jews were murdered. An economic boycott against Jewish businesses was declared. Some 10,000 Jews left, mostly to France and North America. In Syria, curfews were imposed. Jews were housebound hostages, deprived of telephones and radios. Some 2,300 Jews were smuggled
into Israel from Syria, but it would be another 25 years before the rest would be allowed to emigrate. In the pogroms in Libya, more than 100 shops were destroyed and 18 Jews were killed. The Libyan exodus left fewer than 100 Jews behind. In 1969, Colonel Gaddafi ordered all Jewish property confiscated and debts to Jews cancelled. In Egypt, the authorities arrested 400 Jewish males up to the age of 60 as ‘Israeli PoWs’ [prisoners of war]. The prisoners were interned for up to three years and were abused and fed dirty bread containing cigarette butts and nails. The Rabbi of Alexandria was tied to the prison bars and beaten senseless. The Six-Day War thus marked the irrevocable and silent demise, within a few years, of Jewish communities that had pre-dated Islam by 1,000 years. Although they played no part in Israel’s victory and despite representations by Jewish groups and foreign governments, Jews in Arab countries paid a terrible price. Pursuing revenge, Arab regimes committed serious human rights abuses. They have never been held to account.
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Beit Shvidler Primary School pupils marked 50 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, with a special session. Children’s entertainer and educator Emily Ben-Ze’ev, who runs interactive workshops in schools, said children had an “out of this world” experience trying on astronaut costumes and space goggles. “This was followed by the children letting off their own rockets 200 feet in the sky,” Ben-Ze-ev said. “Great excitement was had by everyone. The children also took part in some science challenges including an anti-gravity experiment.”
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Refugees visited Kingston Liberal Synagogue (KLS) for a Shabbat service and met with congregants. Among the special guests was Hasnaa Omar, who fled Syria in 2013 and came to the UK three years later. Her husband, an IT manager, joined her, and they had a son, George, who is 18 months old. Omar – pictured with George, Rabbi Janet Darley and Marwa Belghazi of Refugee Action Kingston, who helps refugees settle in the borough – did voluntary work on arrival, to learn English and improve her employment prospects. Belghazi said: “It was so heart-warming to be invited into a synagogue, and one that is so open to people of different cultures.”
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Nancy Reuben Primary School marked its 20th anniversary at a special dinner at The Avenue in Finchley, attended by 250 people. Vanessa Feltz, grandmother of a pupil at the school, told guests: “It is wonderful in a world that is riven with discord and disagreement to be lucky enough to watch our children grow and flourish in an ambience, which is so encouraging and nurturing. Everything about it smacks of excellence.” Pictured are Rabbi Joshua Conway, Dayan David, David Reuben, Aliza Haye, and Anthony Wolfson.
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Tory MP Michael Gove, pictured, spoke to about 750 guests at Norwood’s property lunch at the Hilton on Park Lane, raising more than £500,000 this year. There was a three-course meal, an auction led by radio and TV presenter Jonny Gould, and a raffle. Elliot Shorrick, whose 13-year-old daughter, Annie, lives with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism, told the crowd: “We wish we had made that call to Norwood earlier because they took us through all the different areas in which we needed support and lightened the burden.”
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A group of 40 parents of children living with cancer in Israel travelled to London with charity Zichron Menachem to recharge their batteries. Orit Gutman, who has a one-year-old son diagnosed with cancer, said: “This is the first time in months and months I have had a chance to breathe.” Zichron Menachem UK director Eli Seliger said members of the community volunteered to host the group, bringing in desserts and offering help. “It was heart-warming to see how welcoming the community was,” he said. Pictured at the retreat are Seliger, left, and the founders of the organisation, Miri and Chaim Ehrental, with Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev.
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A father-of-three who recently beat bowel cancer helped raise £9,000 for Chai after organising a special football match on Sunday. More than 100 people watched fitness professional Gideon Josephs, 41, from Borehamwood, and his team, Chai Kickers, played against Arsenal Legends at Queen’s School, Bushey, with the latter winning 15-2. Its line-up included The Royle Family actor Ralf Little, former EastEnders star Sam Attwater and ex-professional footballers Omer Riza and Joe Baker. The money will go towards the Chai In Schools programme, which provides therapy and counselling for children affected by cancer.
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Rabbi Councillor Alan Plancey, Mayor of Hertsmere, pictured, and Cllr Jeremy Newmark were at the launch event of Dementia Club UK joining in association with The Rotary Club of Elstree and Borehamwood. The charity runs sessions for people living with dementia and their carers and families. Founder and chair of Dementia Club UK, Cllr Lisa Rutter, said: “It was a very successful event. We provide information and advice. We have two GPs who attend most sessions, chair exercises, music entertainment and social activities.” Dementia Club UK sessions are held at the Venue Leisure Centre in Borehamwood from 1pm to 3pm on the third Monday of every month.
Prominent historian and art critic Sir Simon Schama, author of Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900, spoke to a packed room at the Jewish Museum about Dutch baroque painter and printmaker Rembrandt and his depiction of Jews. The talk was inspired by Rembrandt’s painting, Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver, which features in the museum’s current exhibition Jews, Money, Myth. Schama is pictured with museum director Abigail Morris.
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Aish UK and Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS) celebrated the completion of a Sefer Torah donated by Elaine Aarons and Clive Freedman in memory of their parents, Lionel and Freda. The manuscript will travel to campuses and on school trips. A ceremony was held in Hendon to celebrate the new manuscript and followed by a procession, pictured. Aish UK executive director, Rabbi Daniel Rowe, said: “We are very grateful to Elaine and Clive and we hope this will be used by students for many years to come.”
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Dozens of people attended an interfaith iftar at Woodford Forest United Synagogue to support members of the shul’s asylum seeker drop-in centre. The meal, eaten by Muslims to break the fast of Ramadan, was prepared by volunteers. Board of Deputies vice president, Sheila Gewolb, pictured with Chesed’s Hannah Gerson, was among the guests. Gerson said: “It was incredible to be a part of something that was so unique, yet at the same time felt commonplace, welcoming guests for a meal.”
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Employment charity Work Avenue hosted British entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Lloyd Dorfman at a business breakfast. He spoke to businesspeople and entrepreneurs on the development of his career and shared advice on growing a business. He urged guests to engage with the Jewish charitable world and wider British society. Work Avenue CEO Debbie Sheldon said: “It was insightful to hear Sir Lloyd share his experiences.”
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More than 2,000 people enjoyed a day out at Jewish Care’s Family Fun Day on Sunday, which raised £27,000 to help enhance the lives of residents at Sandringham, the charity’s new care and community hub in Stanmore. Younger children took part in a range of Father’s Day activities, from ball ponds and biscuit decorating to face paints and carousel and tea cup rides. Organiser Brian Eisenberg said: “It was fantastic to see so many people from the community enjoying themselves.”
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A group of injured British veterans were among more than 500 guests at the largest Beit Halochem UK dinner. The former soldiers, who took part in the inaugural Veteran Games at BH centres in Israel, descended on the Royal Lancaster Hotel for the event which was addressed by two Israeli heroes supported by the charity and raised £1.25m. BHUK’s Spencer Gelding said: “We are so grateful to all of our supporters who have helped us to raise much needed funds. A large proportion will go towards the building of the final stage of the Ashdod complex.” The dinner was chaired by Natalie and David Tahan.
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hat does a 60-year-old striped paper bag from Tesco, a heavy, wooden Slazenger tennis racket, Harry Potter’s scarf and – of all things – a flashing amber beacon from a zebra crossing all have in common? As it turns out, all these items are connected to British Jews, whose ideas, brands, cultural contribution or discoveries have made a lasting impact well beyond their own lifetimes. Now their fascinating stories have been revealed, thanks to the Jewish Museum’s latest exhibition, Great British Jews: A Celebration,, which runs until November. The display, which is located just beyond the entrance hall on the ground floor, is a spin-off from the museum’s extensive Jewish Lives project, which looks at the widespread contribution of Jews in the categories of science, thought, public service, commerce, arts and sport. In all, the stories of 2,000 people have been researched and are available to browse online, but here their achievements have been brought to life through physical objects. Some of the items and names with which they are associated are immediately recognisable – the vintage paper bag from Tesco a nod to John (Jack) Cohen, who used his demobilisation money of £30 after the First World War to set up a market stall, then a shop and, finally, one of
Britain’s most successful supermarket chains. Likewise, there’s a signed photograph of Jewish actor Daniel Radcliffe, positioned next to replicas of Harry Potter’s famous scarf, wand and glasses. But then there are the everyday objects that have a lesser-known Jewish connection. Thousands of flashing amber beacons help people cross roads safely every day, but I was surprised to discover the so-called Belisha Beacon was the brainchild of Leslie Hore-Belisha – and all because he was very nearly hit by a driver not far from the Jewish Museum itself. Curator Jemima Jarman explains: “While he was the minister for transport during the 1930s, he was very nearly run over in Camden High Street and was so outraged that he came up with the idea for an ambercoloured beacon on a striped pole at a crossing. Later on, the stripes were transferred to the road as well, giving rise to the zebra crossing. He also introduced the 30mph speed limit and the driving test.” Elsewhere, it’s intriguing to read the story of Marcus Samuel, a businessman who travelled to China frequently to buy shells, paint them and bring them back to sell in Britain in the 1880s. It was during one such trip to Asia that he became aware of a new product – petrol – and decided to start up an oil transportation business. Never forgetting his humble beginnings, Samuel named his new enterprise, Shell. Equally riveting is the connection between a Hungarianborn architect and James Bond’s nemesis. Ernő Goldfinger’s concrete high-rise buildings divided public opinion and was most famously taken to court by Sir Ian Fleming, who was particularly critical of Trellick Tower in Kensal Green. Such was his loathing for the design, that Fleming had no qualms in using “Goldfinger” as the name of his famous villain. The achievements of Jewish female pioneers are also showcased throughout the exhibition, from Rose Heilbron, Britain’s first female judge, to Rosalind Franklin, who discov-
ered and photographed the double helix of DNA, suffragette and women’s activist Minnie Lansbury, child maths prodigy Ruth Lawrence and racing car driver Sheila Van Damm. Elsewhere, a section hails the contribution of Joseph Malin, the first person to combine freshly cooked fish with chips, giving rise to what would become the nation’s favourite takeaway food. Jarman adds: “Seen as a healthy and nutritious working man’s meal, fish and chips became such a staple of British life that it was among the few foods not rationed by the government during the Second World War.” Great British Jews: A Celebration runs until 3 November at Jewish Museum London. Details: jewishmuseum.org.uk
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‘I couldn’t even breathe without him asking what I was doing’ As Jewish Women’s Aid launches a support line for victims of sexual violence, mum-of-four Keri* recalls the harrowing abuse she suffered during her marriage and how JWA is helping turn her life around *Name changed for anonymity
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t the beginning, my husband always made me feel very special. Shortly after we married, I fell pregnant with our first child and felt I was getting my ‘happy ever after’. We lived in a lovely house, and I was kept busy looking after our four children. I made sure my husband had a meal on the table every night when he got in from work and our children always looked immaculate. But all was not what it seemed. Right from the start of our marriage, my husband behaved in a very possessive manner in the bedroom. If I didn’t want to have sex, he would call me frigid. If we had sex he would criticise me and tell me I was not performing properly. He liked me to perform oral sex on him, but I didn’t like it. He told me if I didn’t, he would go to a prostitute, so I did it. I was very slim when I met my husband, but after having four children I’d put weight on. He would call me names such as “fatty” or “fatso” and told me that I shouldn’t be eating. Once I didn’t eat for a week just to prove to myself I could do it. Over the years, the sexual abuse got worse. He would put things over my face while I was in bed, like clothing or the bedsheets or a pillow and force himself on me. I never tried to stop him. It was easier to just let him, as then it would be over quicker. I also didn’t want to make any noise or fuss, as that could wake the children and all I cared about was they would not be affected by his behaviour towards me. During all my pregnancies, he had pinched and squeezed my stomach and I was worried the children would be born with abnormalities, but I was thankful they were all healthy and that he was a good father. Sometimes he would put porn movies on and try to
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IF I SPENT MONEY, I HAD TO KEEP ALL THE RECEIPTS AND SHOW THEM TO MY HUSBAND make me do the things on there. If it wasn’t painful, I’d usually just do it, but if it was, I’d try to reason with him. Sometimes he’d accept that, but often I suffered from injuries or soreness. One day, my husband decided to get CCTV installed into every room in our house. He would call me up while at work and tell me to turn the light off in the back room. I felt like I couldn’t breathe without him knowing what I was doing. It wasn’t just in the house; it was while I was out, too. He would make me take pictures to prove where I was. One time, I ignored his calls and had 72 missed calls from him. He accused me of having an affair with my sister’s husband. It became easier for me to just take his call and prove to him where I was. My husband would give me an allowance of money and I would have to keep the receipts and show how I had spent it. Once I lost a receipt, so I went back to the shop and begged them to write me out another one. They thought I was mad, but that was better than having to face my husband’s anger. By now I was really scared of him. Over the years, he’d given me the odd shove or thrown things at me – a toy, a book, a shoe – but he also started holding his hand over my mouth so that I couldn’t talk and threatened to drown me in the bath. Part of me thought there’s no way he’d do that, but then I never thought he’d do half the things he had.
Things came to a head last year when he hit me in the chin with a hardback book. My chin split open and my daughter saw it all. I was very upset she had to see that. Having seen the Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA) poster in my synagogue toilet, I decided to call. I didn’t know what I wanted, I just knew that I needed help. JWA put me and my children in a hotel for a few nights and brought kosher food and toys, as well as calling me every day. They put me in touch with a solicitor and I managed to get court orders for my husband to move out of our house, as well as prohibiting him from physically hurting, threatening or intimidating me. Going to court that day was the most frightening thing I ever did in my whole life, but my children and I returned home, and JWA arranged for a company to put alarms on our windows and give us a new, secure front door – all free of charge. I am currently going through a divorce. This is not something I am proud of because I thought marriage was forever, but I am proud I finally realised it’s not OK to be treated like that. I’m having counselling with JWA and this really helps me to be able to talk things through without being judged. Jewish Women’s Aid has changed everything for me. For the first time in my life, I have spoken out about my situation, without feeling I was being criticised. It feels like JWA saved my life and I wouldn’t be here without them. There’s still a long way to go, but it is made easier knowing they are only a call or email away. Details: JWA domestic abuse helpline, 0808 801 0500 and Dina Service sexual violence support line, 0808 801 0656
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Behaalotecha BY RABBI YONI BIRNBAUM ‘Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be … what you can accomplish … and what your potential is.’ — Anne Frank. We begin this week’s sedra as the Jewish people begin the triumphant final stage of their journey towards the Promised Land. Tragically, however, they suffer a crisis of faith and selfdiscipline. They fall into a series of complaints, bickering and hedonism that takes up the rest of this sedra, leading to the episode of the spies and the rebellion of Korach. But between what could have been and what was, there lies a short passage containing the words we recite to this day when removing and returning the Sefer Torah to the Ark. Uniquely, the passage is bracketed in the Torah by two inverted letter nuns. Highlighting this, the Sages refer to these two verses as a “book of the Torah” in their own right. According to Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (d1993), this passage is the first and last verses of the book of the Torah that Moshe would have written had that failure of faith not taken place: the letters symbolise that history was inverted, and that final glorious book, full of success, remained unwritten. The memory of that book remains within these two verses as the eternal book of potential. It is the Book we write when we see the Torah as a living Tree of Life that guides us through the challenges of life. And it is the book we write when we transform what could be into what is, through achieving our own true potential in life. Rabbi Yoni Birnbaum serves Hadley Wood Jewish
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BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL Mazeltov to Jewish News on today’s 1,111th issue! The nearest to 1111 in the Bible is the 1,100 pieces of silver held in trust by the mother of Michah for her son, who lived in the land of Ephraim. Michah informed his mother that he had decided to dedicate the entire sum to holy work and took 200 of this amount to start his mission. By this, he meant that he would dedicate an idol for worship and travel through the land ministering to people. Had Michah added 11 to his deposit, he might have been reminded of Joseph’s fated dream of having his 11 brothers bow down to him, and Michah would have given up his idea of setting himself up as an sponsor of idolatrous practice. Michah located a Levite to spread his
gospel and this ended in tears for all the tribes of Israel. On his journeys, the Levite travelled through the land of Benjamin, where tragedy struck when his concubine was gang raped and died from her wounds.
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1111 IS DOUBLED 11, REMINDING US OF THE TRIBES WHO FOUGHT AGAINST BENJAMIN
1111 is doubled 11, which reminds us of the tribes who waged war against Benjamin for this murderous assault and how as in Joseph’s dream, 11 tribes subjugated one out of the twelve and almost annihilated it. The twist is that it was Joseph’s youngest brother Benjamin that was so nearly exterminated. In “mispar katan”, which involves counting the lowest common denominator among numbers or eliminating the zeroes, 1111 equals four. This reminds us of the individuality of each of the four sons who attends the seder, each one with its own gifts and limitations. Hopefully the rabbis’ columns on this page will continue to bring out the best in all the sons and daughters of community by enlightening the public with words from the Torah for years to come! Rabbi Abel serves Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is padre to HM Armed Forces
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The Bible Says What? ‘A surrogate mother was cast out’ BY RABBI SHULAMIT AMBALU Our ancestors were familiar with the idea of “building families through surrogacy”. As Sarah says to Abraham: “God has kept me from bearing children, come now and consort with my maidservant, perhaps I will be built up through her” (Genesis 16:2). We call this partial surrogacy, because it provides a genetic link between father and the future child. Practices like this were not uncommon: Abraham’s grandson Jacob has children with the maidservants Bilhah and Zilpah. These non-Israelite women become part of the clan: they are family members raising their own and each other’s children. This is in contrast to Hagar, who bears a child for Abraham and is then “sent away” at Abraham and Sarah’s command (Genesis 21:14). These biblical women and their stories are incredibly helpful in understanding surrogacy today. The government is now consulting on changes to surrogacy law, so that
the “intended parents” can acquire parental rights at birth, instead of waiting for several months. The waiting period is there to safeguard the birth mother, so she has time to give her full, informed consent. Other proposed changes include the possibility of making payments to the ‘host’. Now that more children are born to women acting as surrogates, who have no genetic connection with the child they will carry, there is a real chance that the commercialisation of birth becomes ever more biblical. Who knows how many women in future will find themselves, like Hagar, cast out once their work is done? Perhaps we can learn from the story of Hagar, in contrast to Bilhah and Zilpah, and build structures that prevent the mistakes our biblical ancestors made before us.
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Progressively Speaking We have a duty to talk about domestic and sexual violence in the community BY RABBI SANDRA KVIAT “It doesn’t happen in our community,” is likely to be a common refrain when people hear about the latest shocking case of domestic violence or sexual abuse. But, as research by Jewish Women’s Aid has found, unfortunately it does. The charity’s recent report caused us to sit up and take stock when it found that Jewish women who have been victims of sexual abuse wait 11-and-a-half years on average before seeking help. Looking at the wider picture, the figures are just as startling. In Britain, domestic violence and abuse affects a quarter of all women during their lifetimes, while one in five women are victims of sexual violence. Usually, at this point, I would quote Torah to highlight the issue — but I don’t think we need Bible verses to know that this must end. But what practical steps can we
actually take, whether personally or in our Jewish communities? The major thing is to create more openness around this topic and the fact that it does happen in the Jewish community. If you ask any communal rabbi — whether Orthodox or Progressive — they will have dealt with a case or two at least, if not more. The problem is that we don’t talk about it enough, and that needs to change. We need to make it the norm to accept that domestic and sexual violence is there and that it has
to be tackled, or any woman who has to deal with this can end up thinking she is the only one and there must be something wrong with her. During the last High Holy Days, when our synagogues were at their busiest, I delivered a very difficult sermon on the topic. It was pretty extreme, but it was so useful to start a conversation. Sermons, events, themed services and taking part in the annual Shabbat organised by Jewish Women’s Aid and the Board of Deputies are all good ways to bring this topic out into the open. We need to show, encourage, and reassure those people who may be current or past victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse that they are not alone and it’s not their fault. Rabbi Sandra Kviat serves Crouch End Chavurah
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www.jewishnews.co.uk
20 June 2019
Re-live those student parties (but with better food)
Join us for the ultimate student party and celebrate UJS 100
2019 Sunday 30 June Doors open 7pm ue n ven o d n o L l a r t n e C
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• Free bar some cuisine twists on u a e uv o (n d o fo • Tasty kosher s) freshers’ favourite old UJS and dig out that , ns a Je / l a su Dress code: Ca sweatshirt!
under 30s Concession £18
100.org/event Book now at ujs
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