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Good riddance.

David Miller has been fired by the University of Bristol, one month after CAA commenced a lawsuit against the University.

The case was brought on behalf of brave Jewish students amid pressure from a Jewish community disgusted

by Miller’s antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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DAVID MILLER FIRED BY UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL ONE MONTH AFTER CAA COMMENCES LAWSUIT

David Miller: You’re fired.

A professor obsessed with antiJewish conspiracy theories has been fired by the University of Bristol one month after Campaign Against Antisemitism commenced a lawsuit on behalf of current students.

Bristol had come under increasing pressure from the Jewish community, which was united in its disgust at Miller’s comments and the University’s drawn-out investigation with no apparent end in sight.

we brought a claim against the University for creating a hostile environment for Jews through its continuing failure to hold Miller accountable, and for itself breaching the diversity and inclusion terms of its contract with students.

Following the launch of our proceedings, the University of Bristol knew that, whatever its internal investigation might find, the facts would be placed before a court. Just a month later, Miller was fired.

The case is the latest step by Campaign Against Antisemitism to defend the rights of individual Jewish students.

We believe that universities and students’ unions must be robustly held to account when they fail to defend Jewish students or allow their staff to discriminate against and harass Jews.

Campaign Against Antisemitism has long-pioneered innovative legal solutions, and on behalf of students

LABOUR PARTY MAKES RULE CHANGES MANDATED BY EHRC AFTER CAA-INSTIGATED INVESTIGATION

Labour: It’s too soon to celebrate.

Keir Starmer believes that he has “closed the door” on Labour antisemitism, but his selfcongratulation is premature.

Far from being the end of the matter, now comes the real challenge of purging racists and their enablers and delivering justice for the Jewish community by applying the new disciplinary process, investigating our complaints against Jeremy Corbyn, Angela Rayner and others, and encouraging a major culture change in a Party that — as Labour’s annual conference last week showed once again — remains obsessed with Jews and the Jewish state.

Waging a public relations campaign and actually fighting antisemitism are two different things.

Labour has now approved a semiindependent disciplinary process, as mandated by the EHRC following its investigation in which Campaign Against Antisemitism was the complainant.

Sir Keir spent Labour conference showcasing his ability to do the former, but it is a year since the EHRC published its report and only now have the rules been changed.

Campaign Against Antisemitism will continue to hold his Party — and all political parties — to account.

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PLANS UNDERWAY FOR UK-ISRAEL GREEN CORRIDOR EXCLUSIVE

BY EDITOR YOSSI SAUNDERS Israel’s Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely this week told The Jewish Weekly that intense efforts are underway to establish a green corridor between Israel and the UK for anyone who is double vaccinated.

In an exclusive interview at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Israel’s Emissary appeared confident that an official announcement can take place soon.

“Israel is currently limiting entrance for non-Israeli citizens in the UK, except in certain circumstances. Exceptions include mainly groups of VIPs and ministers on special delegations. All groups must currently apply through the Embassy and be doubly vaccinated. This is hard on the general public, as many individuals have family in the Holy Land, people have flats, and general tourists

Sajid Javid at the CFI meeting this week

Left to right: HE Tzipi Hotovely, Lord Eric Pickles, Rabbi Cllr Arnie Saunders, Yossi Saunders, Embassy Spokesperson Ohad Zemet

who used to come frequently for holidays from the UK have been largely unable to do so.

“Regular businesspeople must apply through the Economy and

Trade department and traveling to Israel is not as much fun as it was. As there are such strong ties between our two countries, the Foreign Ministry are working hard

to make serious headway to allow life to return to near normality as soon as possible.”

Hotovely spoke later at the CFI reception, which was the best attended fringe event of the conference. A glittering array of cabinet ministers and MPs underlined their deep support for Israel, and their utter disdain for the BDS movement.

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Mother and three children killed in road tragedy

BY SIMCHA ABIR Four members of a family from Maalot in northern Israel died in a tragic head-on road accident on Route 89 last week.

Five people were reported to have been killed with 57 injured when multiple vehicles collided.

A bus carrying children returning from a Bnai Akiva camping trip for Succot turned over in the fatal crash. Most of the injured were travelling in the bus, 17 were from the northern town of Mevo Dotan.

Reuven Ben Eli was driving his taxi with his wife, Moran, 35, and three children Dekel, 15, Liam, 11 and Anael, 5. Only Reuven survived but was seriously injured and transported to Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.

The bus driver Asher Basson 76, from Kiryat Yam died from his injuries.

A number of the injured suffered serious injuries and are being treated in different hospitals including Ziv Hospital in Safed and the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.

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Qureshi to stand trial in 2022 for Stamford Hill attacks After the tragic crash

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Israel Police said the road was blocked for hours in both directions for traffic.

Since the incident it has been reported that Basson was convicted in 2017 for driving through a red light. He also had seven convictions for speeding in his 55-year driving career.

It has also emerged in preliminary investigations that the accident occurred in stages.

According to reports, Basson is believed to have swerved off his lane and collided with a van, hit another vehicle then the Ben Elis’ cab prior to overturning up to three times before resting on its side. Video footage on social media shows the bus after the incident.

The taxi passengers were trapped until freed by Fire and Rescue Services teams.

Magen David Adom paramedics declared the four family members dead at the scene.

Bus passengers were able to climb out the bus safely with moderate injuries.

Investigators are attempting to establish why Basson veered off his lane.

According the National Road Safety Authority, 270 Israelis have died in car accidents in 2021. In the same period last year there were 233 fatalities.

Abdullah Qureshi is to stand trial on January 18th 2022 at Stamford Magistrates’ Court for a number of alleged assaults in Stamford Hill during the summer.

Qureshi, from Dewsbury, was charged last month at Thames Magistrates’ Court with one count of racially or religiously aggravated wounding or grievous bodily harm, four counts of racially or religiously aggravated common assault and one count of racially or religious aggravated criminal damage.

The charges relate to five incidents on August 18th investigated by Metropolitan Police’s Central East Command Unit.

It has been reported that Qureshi, in lieu of remand, is banned from travelling into the M25.

A Campaign Against Antisemitism spokesman said, “These attacks were not ‘random’ in the usual sense: these victims were chosen because they are Jews. We applaud the police for their swift investigation and expect the authorities to ensure that justice is done for the victims of these violent hate crimes.”

Groups including CAA and Stamford Hill Shomrim, called for witness appeals after three of the five alleged incidents were caught on video footage.

An Orthodox Jewish man was struck in the face with what appeared a bottle in one incident, a child was hit on the back of the head in another and shortly after a 64-yearold victim was struck and left unconscious on the ground, suffering facial injuries and a broken ankle.

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Stamford Hill antisemitic incidents Police are investigating new shocking antisemitic incidents in Stamford Hill.

A man reportedly rode his bicycle into a group of Jewish children aged three to 14 before punching one in the face.

The attack took place on 3rd October at Woodbury Grove near Finsbury Park and was reported by Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol, Stamford Hill Shomrim. (Reference number: CAD 4729 03/10/21)

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Auschwitz barracks vandalised with Nazi graffiti

BY DAVID SAFFER Police are investigating all avenues to track down the perpetrators behind antisemitic graffiti daubed on nine buildings at Auschwitz 11-Birkenau death camp.

Condemnation of the horrific vandalism discovered on Tuesday has been swift by staff at the Auschwitz memorial and museum which is visited by Jews from all over the world annually.

The barracks were spray-painted with antisemitic slogans denying the Holocaust, according to staff.

An appeal has been made for witnesses in the vicinity of the death camp on Tuesday morning, especially anyone with photographs taken around the Gate of Death, at the entrance to Birkenau, and the section of the men’s quarantine Blla, where the wooden barracks are located.

The memorial centre described the desecration as “an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the great tragedies in human history and an extremely painful blow to the memory of all the victims of the German Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp”.

When police have collated relevant documentation, conservators of the Auschwitz memorial will begin removing traces of vandalism from historical buildings.

A statement explained that the security

system at the 170-hectare site was “constantly being expanded” but the process was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The security system is financed from the Museum budget. Securing the Birkenau site by fully enclosing it will not be possible until after the transfer to the Museum of the land between the newly-built ring road and the historic camp fence, which was to be done as part of the last stage of the Oswiecim Strategic Government Programme.

Whilst vandalism at the historic site is rare, in 2010 a former new-Nazi leader, Andres Hoegstroem was jailed for two years and eight months for plotting the theft of the infamous but iconic “Arbeit macht frei” Auschwitz entrance sign. The sign was recovered in three pieces.

Hoegstroem admitted theft under a plea bargain and serves his sentence in Sweden.

The judge in Krakow also jailed two Poles for up to two-and-a-half years for the offence.

Earlier this year the wall of a Jewish cemetery near the camp was defaced with Nazi swastikas.

Over one million people were murdered at Auschwitz during World War 2, almost one million were Jews.

Most died in the gas chambers at Birkenau.

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Jewish leaders blast Belgium’s Constitutional Court

BY DAVID SAFFER Jewish leaders have lambasted the Constitutional Court of Belgium’s review on the European Court of Justice’s 2020 verdict on the legality of bans on Shechita in the Wallonia and Flanders regions of the country.

Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, Conference of European Rabbis president noted his disappointment and impact on Belgium Jews in a statement on the judgement.

“We are certainly not surprised as it upholds the status quo in Belgium. This ruling confirms the ban on religious slaughter and brings Belgium into line with those few other countries whose bans on Shechita date from the Nazi era.”

He added, “Removing the Jewish community’s ability to be self-sufficient sends a clear message about how Jews are regarded within Belgium and how the authorities see their future. The impact is immense and the effect detrimental to Belgian Jews. Now that the legal process has concluded, we hope that parliamentarians will meaningfully engage with religious communities and it is our hope that Shechita can be restored throughout

Belgian soon.”

Shimon Cohen, Campaign Director, Shechita UK, said the ruling was a “missed opportunity” to right a wrong and sent a disturbing signal to Belgian Jews.

“We will redouble our efforts to ensure that no other country follows suit,” he commented. “The legal process may have run its course but there is no doubt politicians could properly engage with the Jewish community to protect religious communities.”

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder added in a statement.

“Today’s ruling is a continued manoeuvre to discriminate against Belgium’s Jewish and Muslim citizens. By prohibiting religious slaughter without stunning, the Belgium Constitutional Court has placed a potentially terminal obstacle to continued Jewish communal life in Europe. This is not a matter of animal welfare, but the suppression of religious freedom and liberty that is guaranteed in Article 10(1) of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.”

Lauder added, “As antisemitism continues to surge in Europe and around the world, we cannot let instances of religious persecution

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like this go unchallenged. The European Union must reverse this ill-advised decision so that Jews, and other minority religions, can practice their beliefs without restrictions.”

WJC, meantime, welcomed 38 nations boycotting the 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism in Durban last month. The US, UK and Israel led the action against Durban IV regarding antisemitism and anti-Israel bias concerns.

Lauder commended global diplomats for refusing to participate in a “virulently antisemitic event”.

“We will continue to support and stand together with the leaders of all countries who fight against racism and antisemitism,” he noted.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, told CNN the original 2001 conference was intended to fight racism but encouraged hate and antisemitism.

Counties to boycott also included Durban IV Albania, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic,

Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and Uruguay. The European Union also did not participate or speak at the commemoration.

Erdan welcomed the non-participation response.

“This proves that there is a growing recognition of the fact that the Durban Conference was plagued with bigotry and that the Durban Declaration does nothing to promote the fight against racism,” he noted. “I hope this will be the last UN event commemorating that shameful conference.”

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the UN, said in a statement that the US remained opposed to the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic underpinnings of the Durban process.

The UK added there were “historic concerns regarding antisemitism” in a brief statement.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry thanked countries for their support.

“The original Durban Conference, an UN-hosted event, became the worst international manifestation of antisemitism since WWII,” a statement said.

Belgium, China, Egypt, Iran, Ireland, Holy See, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, Portugal, Russia, and Syria attended the conference.

Iran, Syria and the Palestinian Authority criticised Israel during proceedings.

Fourteen countries boycotted the 2011 conference. Israel and the US boycotted the 2001 conference.

WJC noted the original conference “degenerated into a hallmark of antisemitism and anti-Zionism”.

Accredited groups distributed copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and cartoons of hook-nosed Jews. Thousands protested against Israel, signs linked the Star of David to a swastika, praised Hitler and called Israel an apartheid state.

Israel and Lebanon set for direct talks Israel and Lebanon are to hold direct talks for the first time in 30 years accords to reports.

US State Department Senior Advisor for Energy Security Amos Hochstein will lead mediate maritime border talks between the neighboring countries.

John Desrocher has held the role since the US-sponsored talks began in October 2020 and is set to become charge d’affaires at the US embassy in Qatar.

Talks failed last May but the appointment of Hochstein is being seen as a step forward.

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“He looks to build upon the strong work done by Ambassador John Desrocher over the last year,” a State Department spokesperson reportedly told Axios.

An Israeli official confirmed Hochstein would visit Israel and Lebanon this month.

The maritime dispute involves natural gas exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean.

Hochstein was born in Israel to American parents is a modern Orthodox Jew. During the Obama administration, Hochstein advised then-vice president Biden on global energy issues.

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Gilboa escape prisoners indicted

BY ADAM MOSES Six Palestinians who broke out of Gilboa prison in northern Israel have been indicted of escaping from lawful custody.

The offense carries a maximum penalty of up to seven years in prison.

Israeli state prosecutors filed indictments against Zakaria Zubeidi, Mahmoud al-Arida, Munadil Nafiyat, Muhammed al-Arida, Yaquob Qadiri and Iham Kamamji at Nazareth Magistrate’s Court last Sunday.

There was speculation the indictment would detail terrorism charges.

A further five prisoners have been indicted for allegedly aiding the fugitives in planning and carrying out the escape. Prosecutors view the prisoners as a danger to public safety.

The fugitives split into two groups. Four were captured in the Arab village of Shibli-Umm al-Ghanam near Nazareth after a largescale manhunt within five days.

The latter two were caught a week later on the eve of Yom Kippur in Jenin.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett praised security services after all the fugitives were captured.

“I would like to thank the security forces who worked tirelessly to bring about an end to the affair,” he said.

Zubeidi, a powerful figure among Palestinians in the Second Intifada, joined the group

shortly before the jailbreak. It was thought his connections could aid capture by Israel forces.

“The prisoners dug a tunnel under their cell shower,” the Justice Ministry said in a statement. “They took turns to avoid being detected.

They removed a marble slab under the sink each day as they dug their tunnel, using improvised tools and returned it to its place in order to mask their actions.”

Police interrogations revealed (Mahmoud) al-Arida was mastermind of the escape. An Islamic Jihad terrorist, al-Arida is serving a life-plus-15-years sentence for murdering Israeli soldiers in the (L-R) Zakaria Zubeidi, Mahmoud Ardah, Yaqoub Qadri, Mohamed 1990s.

Qassem Ardah, Munadil Yaqoub Nfeiat, Ayham Nayef Kmanji According to reports, al-Arida and PIJ cellmates Qadiri, Kamamji, and NafiIsraeli security forces were on high alert yat began the digging operation in December in the West Bank and Gaza after the prison 2020. Three months later, al-Arida asked his break. cousin Mohammed to join the group.

Riots by Palestinian prisoners and a numThe prisoners accessed the sewage sys- ber of fires broke out in some prisons as Gaza tem then tunnelled beyond the prison walls. militants called for a wave of violence should Zubeidi joined the escapees and within 24 harm come to the fugitives. hours the escape took place, the group splitHamas vowed to include the prisoners in a ting into three pairs. future prisoner swap deal with Israel.

Requests for food and transportation aid Gaza militants fired rockets as alert sirens from Arab citizens whilst on the run was blared in Israeli border communities. turned down.

Defence Minister Benny Gantz vowed to

find the fugitives with “all forces and means available” whilst Israeli troops bolstered the border. Egyptian officials and Gantz warned Hamas leaders of an IDF operation if nightly rocket attacks and terror incidents did not cease.

“We are deployed on all fronts,” noted Gantz. “If terror organisations try to use the current situation to work against local Palestinians who only want stability and economic development, they (the terrorists) will be the first to pay the price.”

Public Security Minister PHOTO: FACEBOOK Omer Barlev vowed to capture the prisoners. Police said security forces worked “around the clock” to catch the fugitives.

Bar-Lev appointed a committee to investigate the prison break.

The escape was the biggest for decades. It stunned and embarrassed Israeli authorities.

Bennett described the escape as a “succession of failures and mistake” and confirmed a commission of inquiry as a “wake-up call” for national systems.

“We must set national goals, put proper plans and workflows into action,” he noted.

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AAD’s Jonathan Metliss at Brentford’s Sukkah event

Brentford FC’s Sukkah-In-The-Stadium event held at the Brentford Community Stadium has drawn praise from anti-racism charity Action Against Discrimination.

The Premier League club’s initiative brought together a number of anti-racism groups and included representatives of Chelsea FC and the Metropolitan Police.

In attendance was Rabbi Jonathan Hughes of Radlett United Synagogue, of which Brentford chairman Cliff Crown is a member.

AAD chairman Jonathan Metliss applauded the initiative from Brentford who have come out strongly against all forms of racism, including antisemitism, which will not be tolerated by the club.

“I look forward to other clubs following this most worthwhile effort to improve community relations and address the continuing racism in football,” said Metliss.

Crown welcomed visitors prior to prayers with Rabbi Alex Goldberg followed by a group discussion.

Israel commemorates Peres anniversary Israel commemorated the fifth anniversary of the death of Prime Minister Shimon Peres last Sunday.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and President Issac Herzog attended a memorial service at Mount Herzel National Shimon Peres z”l Cemetery.

Israel’s longest standing Knesset member founded the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, which is dedicated to advancing tolerance in the Middle East.

The center published the final speech delivered by Peres to mark the occasion.

In the video, Peres addresses entrepreneurs on investment in Israel.

In the poignant footage Peres says that he wishes that he could have achieved more, recommends to dream big, don’t be hesitant and leave the past for historians.

Peres served in Israel’s parliament from 1959 to 2007. He jointly was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in 1994 for the Oslo Accords peace talks.

Campaign Against Antisemitism have congratulated the new leaders of the Green Party and hope Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay will be able to bolster the fight again antisemitism in the Party.

Denyer, a Bristol councillor, and Adrian Ramsay, a former Deputy Leader of the Party, won the battle to take over from Sian Berry and Jonathan Bartley.

Both back the adoption of the International Definition of Antisemitism in the Party’s constitution.

The Green Party are the sole major UK Party not to have done so, in addition to the Party’s branch in Scotland, the Scottish Greens.

CAA have welcomed the Denyer-Ramsay IHRA stance but have stated they face an “uphill battle” as members have to date “been reluctant” to do so.

Joe Glasman, Head of CAA Political Investigations, voiced caution following the election results.

“We look forward to working with them on tackling the increasingly worrying issue of antisemitism in their Party,” he said.

“However, our recent experiences with the Party’s disciplinary processes give us ample reason for concern, and its new leadership has an uphill battle ahead. For our part, we will continue to support any officials and members in the Party who wish to fight antisemitism, and hope that the new leaders will join us.”

Denyer backed a ‘consistent line’ and

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‘antisemitism guidance’ in the Party’s constitution at recent hustings with candidates Tamsin Osmond, Martin Hemingway, Shahrar Ali and Ashley Gunstock.

Gunstock called for education and Osmond vowed to reach out to communities.

Hemingway argued that antisemitism was not a major issue in the Party, illustrating the task facing Denyer and Ramsey.

At the summer hustings, Denyer acknowledged antisemitism within the Party

would not be fixed overnight but called for the Party to be “more welcoming and inclusive”, with training workshops for members and a better resourced disciplinary committee to review antisemitism complaints.

Regarding antisemitism, Denyer and Ramsay, in a response to a questionnaire from the Jewish Greens, backed the inclusion of the Guidance on Antisemitism in the Framework for Ethics and Conduct to be debated at the Party’s conference this month.

They also pledged to attend antisemitism training and support its role out across the Party.

“We have a particular priority in our first 100 days to support the Party’s liberation and policy groups to facilitate workshops and training (this includes the Jewish Greens’ antisemitism training roadshow).

A CAA spokesman noted, “Although we welcome these commitments and look forward to working with the Green Party’s new leadership, the structures of the Party are such that the flexibility of the leaders to introduce new policies on antisemitism and overhaul the Party’s deficient disciplinary processes is limited.”

CAA has revealed alleged antisemitism among officers of the Party and how certain policies of the Scottish Greens are cause for concern to the Jewish community, including opposition to the IHRA. Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is under pressure over the SNPs recent deal with the Greens.

Board launches landmark awareness campaign The Board of Deputies is launching its first ever awareness and fundraising campaign. #WeStandForEveryBODy aims to improve the Jewish community’s understanding of its work and increase the proportion of synagogue members who pay the annual communal contribution, its main source of income.

The campaign will run from October to December 2021 on social media and via email.

The BoD has commissioned two short videos to demonstrate its work in the core areas of advocacy, democracy and community. The first video explains the BoD’s role and highlights some of its achievements, while the second features some of the people, including several well-known faces, who have benefited from the BoD’s support.

“For too long, the BoD has been one of the Jewish community’s best-kept secrets, working behind the scenes on a wide range of important issues that affect us all at some stage of our lives,” said Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl. “We need the community’s support to continue our work so it’s time to come out of the shadows and

show everyone what we’ve been doing for the last 260 years and how they can ensure that work continues.”

The BoD has achieved notable successes including getting 92 Holocaust denial products removed from Amazon last year.

They have fought Labour party antisemitism, worked with the Union of Jewish Students to support students facing antisemitism on campus, and partnered with the

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The Board has also ensured Coroners allow prompt burials in line with Jewish law, campaigned against forced cremations during the pandemic and translated Covid-19 resources into Yiddish for the Charedi community.

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Interview with Nicole Gordon, CEO of Jnetics Why have Jnetics expanded the number of conditions they test for now?

Jnetics now tests for 47 genetic conditions across the Jewish community. Previously our test screened for carriers of 9 Jewish genetic conditions affecting the Ashkenazi population. The opportunity to expand our test came about in March 2020, when we changed laboratory partners. Our new partner is able to provide a test covering an increased number of disorders, at no extra cost. The new lab partnership has therefore enabled us to do something we have wanted to for some years; to include disorders relevant to the Sephardi and Mizrahi population too – making our test more inclusive of the whole UK Jewish community.

How did you choose which disorders to include?

With expert input from our Science and Medical Advisory Board, as well as clinical and laboratory partners (NPH & Fulgent), and in consultation with our Trustees, we selected the disorders for the new panel based on a variety of important and interconnected factors/criteria: estimated carrier frequency within a Jewish population, inheritance pattern, severity, treatability and acceptability to the NHS. How severe are the conditions tested for?

The additional 38 conditions are similar in nature to the 9 disorders on our old ‘test’

of these disorders, meaning they are at increased risk of having an affected child.

The carrier frequencies for each individual disorder in the Jewish population is shown in the link above. Our hope is that through screening we will, as far as possible, be able to prevent the occurrence of these conditions in the community going forwards.

– severely debilitating, incurable, life threatening and life shortening. Many of these conditions are fatal in childhood. Since they are all inherited recessively, they are also preventable via carrier screening. These conditions were chosen with expert input from our science and medical advisory board, as well as our clinical and laboratory partners.

How affected are people by them in the UK? Currently, we do not have any statistics on how many babies are born a year with these disorders, thankfully they are rare.

However, we do know that being a carrier for these disorders is not rare. 1 in 5 people with Jewish origin will be a carrier for one

What is the benefit of testing?

Testing identifies carriers - those at risk of having a child in the future who is affected by one of these severe disorders. Around 1 in 5 individuals of Jewish origin is a carrier for one or more severe recessive Jewish genetic disorder.

Carriers are at risk of having an affected child if their partner is a carrier for the same disorder too. For so-called ‘carrier couples’, being aware of their status is the first crucial step in accessing the reproductive options available for them to manage their risk of passing on the disorder to their future children.

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Do you envisage expanding the test beyond the 47 conditions you have just included? If so, when?

With the continual advancements in genomic medicine and Jewish genetic disorder research, we cannot rule this out. However, the timing and nature of a future expansion cannot be predicted.

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To book a test simply visit https://www.jnetics.org/screening/ What is the testing process?

The whole process can be explained in five simple steps: 1. Book a test online 2. A screening pack will be sent to your home 3. During an appointment with the genetic counsellor the spit test is carried out 4. The pack is sent back to the Jnetics office 5. 6-8 weeks later you will receive your results Any words of wisdom from Nicole Gordon the CEO? Currently, so many health issues are beyond our control. Screening for Jewish Genetic Disorders and managing the risk of having a child with one of the severe life threatening and/or life-shortening genetic disorders that we screen for is not.

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Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan has marked the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre with a first official visit to Europe.

Dayan attended an academic discussion with the presidents of Israel, Ukraine, Germany and Albania.

The event was organised by the Ukrainian government alongside the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center that is building a museum.

“I will represent the memory of those who were murdered there and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust,” he noted. “There is a Jewish, human and moral imperative to remember those who were murdered in the ravine of death and to make sure that their names never disappear into oblivion.”

Dayan added, “We must ensure that wherever the Holocaust is memorialised, especially in a place that some wanted to erase from history, historical truths live on forever and remain protected. Yad Vashem will not allow the memory of the Holocaust to fall by the wayside. It is committed to preserving this memory and instilling it today and for posterity, both among Jews and among humanity as a whole.”

Dayan’s father was six months old when

his grandparents smuggled him out of Ukraine as they fled the pogroms of 1921 to Poland, considered a relatively safe haven.

Dayan became chairman of Yad Vashem on the 100th anniversary of their escape.

“During the Holocaust, the world descended into the darkest abyss it has ever known, as two-thirds of the Jews of North Africa were murdered systematically,” he noted. “I consider myself one of the lucky Jews who were born because their family managed to escape before these tragic events. The Holocaust is part of our collective Jewish experience, and even though Yad Vashem belongs to the Jewish people, it bears great significance to all of humankind.”

The Babi Yar massacre of almost 34,000 Jewish men, women and children took place on the outskirts of Kiev in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine on September 29-30, 1941.

The German army took Kiev, SS squads carries out Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s orders to exterminate all Jews and Soviet officials found there. The massacre ended on September 30.

Between 1941 and 1943, thousands more Jews, Soviet officials and Russian prisoners of war were executed at Babi Yar. As German armies retreated, the Nazis efforts to hide evidence failed.

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Lapid and King of Bahrain historic meeting

BY DAVID SAFFER Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has hailed a historic meeting with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain.

Discussions last Thursday took place on cooperation between the two countries and the Iranian threat to the region.

This was the first time the King had publicly met an Israeli minister.

Lapid, for his part, was the first Israeli minister to visit the kingdom and welcomed the King’s leadership in outlining a “path forward” in a relationship between the nations.

Lapid also met on a one-day visit with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed five memorandums of understanding will be signed, including cooperation agreements between hospitals, water and power companies.

“The main areas in which Bahrain is looking for cooperation have to do with the economy and technology, and a few of the MOU’s that will be signed will be about that,” a statement noted.

Twelve memorandums of understanding have now been signed between the two countries since normalising relations. Deals cover transportation, agriculture, communication and finance.

Lapid, who flew to Bahrain’s international airport on an Israir flight, told Al Zayani he backs a two-state solution, a view not universally ratified by Israeli ministers.

“The global struggle today is not between right and left, nor between Judaism and Islam or Christianity,” added Lapid in a joint press conference with Al Zayani, who met Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in New York earlier last week. “The global struggle is between moderate and extreme. Between a culture of life, versus a culture of destruction and death. Today, together with all our friends in the Gulf, we are leading a brave coalition of moderates who are looking ahead to create a prosperous future of stability and tolerance. We live in a global reality in which those who are reclusive will disappear. Those who cooperate will lead both the world and the Middle East.”

“Israelis pursue peace,” added Lapid, “We do not want conflict with anyone. We are committed to peace.”

“We see Bahrain as an important partner,

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on the bilateral level but also as a bridge for cooperation with other countries in the region,” added a Foreign Ministry spokesperson.

Lapid went on to visit the headquarters of the US navy’s Fifth Fleet and inaugurate the Israeli embassy in Manama, accompanied by members of the local Jewish community.

“Today was historic for both Bahrain and Israel and an important moment for our

Jewish community,” commented Ebrahim D Nonoo, president of the Jewish community. “We had the opportunity to speak with the Foreign Minister and hear from him about the significance of the Bahrain-Israel relationship and we shared some of the recent milestones and developments in our community.”

Hamas criticised Bahrain for hosting the Israeli minister.

Meantime, the first direct commercial flight between Bahrain and Israel has landed in Tel Aviv.

A Gulf Air Airbus A320 touched down at Ben Gurion Airport.

Bahrain’s national carrier departed from Manama an hour after Lapid arrived in the Gulf state.

The three-hour flight crossing Saudi Arabian airspace will operate twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.

The route was announced last April and originally scheduled to start June but was postponed.

“We are delighted to announce the launch of our Bahrain-Tel Aviv route as part of the historic Bahraini-Israeli relations,” Gulf Air Acting CEO Capt. Waleed Al-Alawi said. “As the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, we take great pride in supporting our leadership and the Kingdom in their role of preserving peace and prosperity in the region. We hope this is merely the beginning of developing further opportunities.”

Direct flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates began last November.

Direct flights were launched to Morocco last July.

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Bristol fire anti-Jewish conspiracy theorist Miller

BY DAVID SAFFER Jewish organisations have welcomed the University of Bristol bowing to pressure and terminating the contact of controversial academic Professor David Miller.

Campaign Against Antisemitism commenced a lawsuit on behalf of current students against the institution regarding Miller last month.

CAA’s legal case concerned alleged unlawful harassment on the basis of Jewish ethnicity and Judaism, amounting to breaches of the Equality Act 2010, as well as breaches of contract.

“We launched pre-action proceedings in late August and the University swiftly realised that it was putting itself in legal jeopardy by sustaining Prof. Miller’s employment at the institution,” noted a spokesman. “A number of brave students at the University stepped forward to act as complainants in the litigation.”

Having failed to act over Miller regarding comments earlier this year, Bristol in a

statement said that following a full investigation, Miller was “no longer employed by the University of Bristol”.

Gideon Falter, CAA Chief Executive paid tribute to Bristol for standing up against antisemitism and to its legal counsel for helping secure victory in the fight against anti-Jewish racism on campus.

“Following the launch of our lawsuit, it was clear to the University that it would be held to account in court and had to act to protect Jewish students in accordance with the law,” he said. “Universities across the country should be warned that we will do whatever it takes to defend Jewish students from racists on campus by upholding their rights in court where necessary.”

Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl commented, “The University of Bristol has made the correct, albeit long overdue decision . This announcement sends a clear message to any academics who use their positions at respectable institutions in order to spread conspiracy theories and make Jewish students feel unsafe. Free

speech should not include hate speech; we commend the efforts of UJS and Bristol JSoc in standing up for Jewish students.”

CAA’s lawsuit reportedly related to Miller’s speech on a Zoom webinar in February this year in which he said that the “Zionist Movement” is “the enemy” that must be engaged, that it is “the enemy of world peace,” and that those associated with Zionism, including Jewish students on Bristol campus, “must be directly targeted”.

Miller, CAA added, said that interfaith work between Jewish and Muslim groups is “a trojan horse for normalising Zionism in the Muslim community”. And he claimed Jewish students, by virtue of being Zionist, “encourage Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism”.

Prof. Miller has a record of inflammatory statements about the Jewish community.

The Jewish community has lambasted Miller’s comments and slow university investigation.

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action have been the subject of attention from the Jewish community and hundreds of academics and Parliament.

CAA thanked the community, MPs and academics for pressure applied to the University of Bristol in recent months.

The case was the latest step by CAA to defend the rights of individual Jewish students.

Corbyn’s “chutzpah” at rally Euro Commission

presents strategy to combat antisemitism

BY SIMCHA ABIR Campaign Against Antisemitism has slammed former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn for sharing a stage at a rally to mark the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street with a suspended Labour member accused of bullying former Labour MP Luciana Berger.

Hazuan Hashim stood next to Corbyn during his speech. Hashim is among four members of the executive of the Constituency Labour Party in Wavertree reportedly suspended from the Party last year.

The group criticised their local MP for expressing regret that her predecessor, Ms Berger, felt she had to leave the Party.

A CAA spokesperson said, “It is the height of chutzpah for the antisemite Jeremy Corbyn to appropriate the site and memory of a famous battle against racists who held the same prejudices against Jews as he does.

That he shared the platform with someone suspended from the Labour Party for allegedly harbouring similar views is par for the course for the former Labour leader. On this occasion, it appears to be Mr Corbyn who has shown that he does not understand English irony.”

CAA noted that a Liverpool Labour activist was outraged at the appearance of Corbyn and Hashim at the rally.

The activist was livid Corbyn gave a speech at an event to show solidarity with British Jews and Hashim had actively tried to harm relations with the local Jewish community in Liverpool.

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commented.

Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Gegum, who has previously been investigated for alleged antisemitism, was among speakers.

Members from Jewish Voice for Labour, an antisemitism-denial group, also spoke.

CAA has outstanding complaints against Corbyn lodged that have yet to be acknowledged by the Party.

“They must be investigated by an independent disciplinary process that the EHRC has demanded and Sir Keir has promised but has yet to introduce,” a spokesman said.

The European Commission has presented the first EU Strategy on combatting antisemitism and fostering Jewish Life.

Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis welcomed the initiative especially elements relating to security of communities.

And he paid tribute to Katharina von Schnurbein for getting the issue to this point.

“These vital commitments regarding the security of Jewish communities across Europe and the prevention of antisemitism should not be underestimated,” he said. “Jewish communities can only thrive if they are able to practise the traditions and customs of our faith. We are saddened that the Commission seems to absolve itself of responsibility for matters relating to Jewish practice by devolving them to Member States. That is deeply unhelpful.

This strategy allows Member States to enact laws which fly in the face of the EU Treaty’s protection of religious freedoms, without recourse. The EC is uniquely placed to protect our communities and we urge them to do more, and quickly, to protect religious traditions, customs and practices.”

With antisemitism on the rise, in Europe and beyond, the strategy sets out a series

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of measures to prevent all forms of antisemitism, to protect and foster Jewish life and to promote research, education and Holocaust remembrance.

The Strategy proposes measures to step up cooperation with online companies to curb antisemitism online, better protect public spaces and places of worship, set up a European research hub on contemporary antisemitism and create a network of sites where the Holocaust happened.

Measures will be reinforced by the EU’s international efforts to lead the global fight against antisemitism.

Ms von der Leyen said, “We want to see Jewish life thriving again in the heart of our communities. This is how it should be. The Strategy we are presenting today is a step change in how we respond to antisemitism.

Europe can only prosper when its Jewish communities feel safe and prosper.”

Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, added, “Antisemitism is incompatible with EU values and with our European way of life.

This strategy, the first of its kind, is our commitment to combat it in all its forms and to ensure a future for Jewish life in Europe and beyond. We owe it to those who perished in the Holocaust, we owe it to the survivors and we owe it to future generations.”

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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss underlines support for Israel This week, as many as 500 Conservative activists attended CFI’s packed Conservative Party Conference Reception to hear the Foreign Secretary, Rt. Hon. Liz Truss MP, address the event, alongside 10 Cabinet members and Government Ministers.

The Foreign Secretary hailed CFI’s reception as “the best attended event in the whole Conservative Party conference” and welcomed the “massive support in the Conservative Party for the nation of Israel”.

“We are behind you, we are supporting you, and together we will become stronger and more successful”, she concluded.

In her speech, the Foreign Secretary described Israel as Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP with Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely a “freedom-loving democracy which we completely want to work with and to stop that from happening”.

Health Secretary Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid MP, stand by and develop a deeper relationship”.

After visiting the country earlier this year as Transport Secretary Rt. Hon. Grant Shapps International Trade Secretary, Ms Truss said MP, Northern Ireland Secretary Rt. Hon. she was “looking forward to visiting Israel Brandon Lewis MP and Conservative Party again soon”.

Chairman Rt. Hon. Oliver Dowden MP also The Foreign Secretary underlined three addressed guests, and Justice Minister Lord key areas in which the UK seeks to develop Wolfson of Tredegar QC and Paymaster ties with Israel: trade, technology and secu- General Rt. Hon. Michael Ellis QC MP made rity. She said that her successor at the De- additional remarks. partment for International Trade, Rt. Hon. Israeli Ambassador H.E. Tzipi Hotovely Anne-Marie Trevelyan, is “determined to and Board of Deputies President Marie van pursue” a wide-ranging free trade deal with der Zyl spoke at the event, addressing guests Israel, revealing that this would be a “full including dozens of parliamentarians and fat deal”. councillors. UAE Ambassador H.E. Mansoor Israel is a “huge technological innovator”, Abulhoul and Fahad Al Binali from the BahMs Truss added, emphasising that the UK raini Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also in seeks to “work with like-minded allies like attendance.

Israel” to further deepen technological ties.

Speakers at CFI’s reception included The Foreign Secretary stated the UK’s former London Mayoral candidate Shaun commitment to stopping Iran from becom- Bailey AM and CFI Vice-Chairman Rt. Hon. ing a nuclear power, working “night and day Theresa Villiers MP. with our friends and allies across the world The event was chaired by CFI’s

Parliamentary Chairman in the House of Lords, Rt. Hon. The Lord Pickles, who was presented with a cake in celebration of this year’s Conference being the 50th he had attended.

CFI’s Parliamentary Chairman in the House of Commons, Rt. Hon. Stephen Crabb MP, thanked attendees for supporting CFI’s work “year in year out”.

“You give us the confidence to be able to campaign in the House of Commons and the House of Lords on issues like BDS and antisemitism. It gives us the confidence to campaign on the proscription of Hezbollah, which we achieved under Sajid Javid…

It gives us the confidence now to campaign for the full proscription of the evil Hamas organisation”, he told the packed room.

Mr Crabb welcomed Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, stating that “when she talks about friendship between the UK and Israel, she absolutely means it, and when she’s determined to take action to further that friendship and relationship, she absolutely does follow through”.

In her remarks, the Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom, H.E. Tzipi Hotovely described the Foreign Secretary and Health Secretary as “great friends” of Israel.

She thanked CFI and said that together, “we are going hopefully to write a whole new chapter in the bilateral relations of Israel and the UK”.

Attending Conservative Party Conference for the first time, the Ambassador said she was “delighted” to meet Cabinet Ministers and hailed the “deep friendship” between the two countries.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid underlined his staunch support for Israel in his comments, telling those gathered that he was

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“already planning his first trip as Health Secretary to Israel”. “When it comes to this pandemic, two countries had the most outstanding response when it came to vaccines, the United Kingdom and the State of Israel”, he said.

The UK-Israel relationship is a “pact of steel, it’s an unbreakable bond, it will never break”, the Health Secretary added.

The Chairman of the Conservative Party, Rt. Hon. Oliver Dowden MP, said in his remarks: “There is no deeper bond for me than the Conservative Friends of Israel, and I say that with great pride”.

“We are your friends in good times, and we’re your friends in bad times”, the Conservative MP for Hertsmere underlined.

The event comes at the end of another successful Conservative Party Conference for CFI, as we have signed up as many as 150 new members at our exhibition stand. The CFI exhibition stand has been extremely busy with many MPs and hundreds of Conservative delegates from across the Party visiting to sample Israeli wine, speak to the CFI Team and read CFI literature – including the new edition of Informed Magazine, which features a letter from Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Conference report of a Tory councillor and Rabbi

BY COUNCILLOR RABBI ARNIE SAUNDERS For the first time in many years, I was able to attend every day of the Conservative Party Conference which took place this week in Manchester from Sunday to Wednesday lunchtime. The reason for this was twofold.

The Conference is invariably held during the first week in October. Most years that clashes with one of the Holy Days of Yom Tov, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succot or Shemini Atzeret/ Simchat Torah - depending on the Luach that year. However this year, Yom Tov was over before the end of September! Secondly, the event was taking place 4. 1 miles from my front door (copyright Google Maps).

This enabled me to commute between home and Conference. On Tuesday I even officiated

at a chupa in Salford in between sessions at Conference.

I attended a range of events such as the Conservative Friends of Israel receptionthe most popular fringe event - to the Conservative Muslim Forum reception at which I was an invited guest.

The highlight for me was when I bumped in to the Prime Minister, accompanied by an entourage of about 50 people, some his officials, some “groupies”. (That’s the PM who had the entouragenot me!). He actually stopped in his tracks to greet me! He

Jacob Rees-Mogg MP with Cllr Rabbi Arnie Saunders

doesn’t actually remember my name but refers to me “my friend the rabbi!” We posed for a photograph taken by his official photographer.

Besides the CFI event and symposiums on Antisemitism and the Holocaust, items of interest to the Jewish community included Michael Gove referencing the Labour Conference resolution on Israel/ Palestine and assurances (including a personal one to me from the PM) that the Kosher meat situation in Northern Ireland was being sorted.

Among the plethora of

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ministers who spoke at, the CFI reception, newly appointed Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss reiterated the Government’s commitment to ensure Iran does not develop nuclear capabilities. She did not however comment on the controversial treaty that President Trump withdrew from but which the UK is still a signatory to.

Having a conversation with the Indefatigable Ambassador of Israel together with an envoy from Bahrain was truly inspiring.

The Conference closed with the keynote speech by Boris Johnson. Although neither the Jewish community nor Israel were mentioned directly, he referred to the diverse membership of the Tory Party and referenced the new Trade deals, which of course includes the one with Israel.

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HGVs are critical to a healthy society OPINION PIECE

BY JACQUELINE CURZON It’s 4pm on a summer Friday and you’re driving hard up the M1, heading for Manchester or maybe a Shabbat visit with family. Three lanes of four are occupied by large trucks and HGVs playing hide-and-seek with each other, seemingly blissfully unaware of any other road users. Okay, we are justifiably annoyed, bad driving manners are truly irritating, but spare a thought for the drivers, who may have been on the road for many mind-numbing hours and just want to get their day over. At the end of the day, they are providing an essential service, for empty shelves are a customer’s worst nightmare.

For anyone who thinks driving an HGV looks pretty easy, I would beg to disagree.

After my student days and in a gap between posts, I remember applying to the post office who had some vacancies for delivery drivers. Being young and naive may have played a part in my nervousness when I arrived, but let’s face it, sitting in a vehicle with no rear view mirror is pretty unnerving and I rapidly withdrew from the process.

I can only imagine trying to navigate a 40 ton truck across roundabouts, at night and in awful weather conditions. I’m sure it’s enormously difficult, not forgetting that we also rely on them to drive safely and not fall asleep at the wheel, or text message their friends. Accidents involving HGV lorries, as an example, caused 284 fatalities in 2016 [no ONS data for 2020] They have now hit the national news, alerting us about driver shortages, poor conditions and low pay. Previously, wages for HGV drivers were around £500 a week, but since we’ve had these appalling shortages some companies have upped their wages offer to ensure that they actually have stock shelves refilled. As an example, Waitrose is now offering its drivers £1500 a week, which would put them on a salary of approximately £78,000, roughly the same basic salary as the prime minister, and 2 to 3 times the average wage in the country.

Other essential services, healthcare and education are also sliding faster than before, owing largely to unhappiness over salaries.

Teachers and Nurses can’t thrive, but merely survive, on low salaries.

According to media reports we have a shortfall of around 80 to 100,000 drivers.

Boris Johnson is willing to offer up to 5000 visas, in an effort to ease the threat of fuel and food shortages, simultaneously relaxing immigration rules for European lorry drivers, however visas will only be valid for six months. Who would choose to uproot themselves, pay for a visa, find accommodation and accept lower wages, only to be demobbed six months later?

Sir Kier Starmer, labour leader, has said he would back the approval of 100,000 visas

for overseas HGV drivers. Unfortunately this would likely open the floodgates from across the channel, and provide a safe haven for illegal immigrants, all of whom of course would show their gratitude at the next round of elections. 100,000 is not realistic. Michael Lynch, general secretary of the RMT, said the government was “going backwards by importing labour from Europe,” and suggested that people living in inner-city communities across the UK should be recruited instead but on decent pay and conditions.

Downing Street has further reassured us that we have ample fuel stocks in the country and there are NO shortages, although the panic brigade, {ME @ pump 2} look like they’re running to the pumps every time they go past. Personally I can’t see any merit in queuing for an hour to put in £15 worth of fuel, because if you have a half full tank [rather than half empty!], you’re not likely to run out. I’m not advocating the marshals standing by the queues visually check your fuel tank gauge and only allow those who are in the ‘last quarter’ to fill up.

My, wouldn’t that be fun, given the daily road rage we are witnessing merely over queuing.

incentives to get people behind the wheel: Walmart is offering a $8000 signing-on bonus for commercial truck drivers, and a $1500 referral payment for people who recommend a successful applicant. Australia has shortages in its mining sector, now so bad that some companies are pressing retired soldiers and furloughed airline staff into service; they’re also offering gourmet meals and building Olympic size pools to attract more workers. What, then, are we doing in the United Kingdom!?

In addition to the aforementioned visas, similar to those available for seasonal European farm workers, the DFE will also launch a series of skills ‘boot camps’ which Whitehall sources intend to provide training for new drivers. The shortage of drivers has been further hampered by the backlog of 40,000 drivers still waiting to take the tests because of backlog waiting times of up to 17 weeks.

Luxury lorry parks are also being considered by the government as a way of attracting drivers, as present working conditions are frequently sub standard, which means drivers are often forced to sleep in motorway lay-bys without access to hot water, showers or toilets. The haulage industry warned that

Personally I can’t see any merit in queuing for an hour to put in £15 worth of fuel, because if you have a half full tank [rather than half empty!], you’re not likely to run out.

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) cautioned that if this crisis is not resolved promptly there will be a significant disruption come December. Andrew Opie, the BRC‘s director of food, said “currently the UK faces a shortfall of around 90,000 HGV drivers and it’s the consumers who will ultimately suffer the consequences.”

Covid and Lockdown have already spoiled our holidays and family time since 2020, now we’re heading into 2022 with trouble already creeping over the horizon .

So, how are other countries dealing with similar problems? A quarter of driving jobs across Europe remain unfilled, according to the international transport union, although some countries are trying innovative solutions to solve the problem. In Holland, several transport companies are recruiting and training asylum seekers, including schemes such as language classes and helping them get a driving license. In Germany they are doing the same, but also making it possible to pass a driving test in other languages, such as Arabic (from 2016). In Spain they have lowered the minimum age for driving commercial heavy goods vehicles to 18, to target the high number of unemployed youths in the country, currently standing at around 40%. In the United States some companies are relying on financial

the lack of lorry parks with decent facilities in the UK was a major obstacle to attracting new drivers. Duncan Buchanan, policy director at RHA, said the life of a lorry driver could be very hard but we’re asking drivers to sleep in lay-bys without food or hot water, and this is a real put off for the industry. A 2018 survey by the Department for Transport identified a shortfall of around 3700 parking spaces for lorries.

Adam Eastwood (31) from Warrington says that when he was made redundant in his sales job, he thought it would be a good fallback to become an HGV driver. This cost him £3,500, for which he had to borrow from family. When he then started driving in 2012, aged 21, he was on £18 per hour, but that kept falling to the point where by 2019 jobs were advertised at £9 an hour. He feels that employers regard their drivers as replaceable, however if HGV drivers didn’t do their job, the country - as we see now would grind to a halt in a day. HGV drivers, he says, are amongst the most qualified on the road, yet it’s a thankless job with lots of pressure on you, and sometimes you might have to stop a few miles from your destination if the tachometer insists your driving hours are over. He also corroborates the poor facilities for HGV drivers, adding the government could do more, including

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secure park-up areas as are now being discussed.

In the October edition of Truck and Driver, retired HGV driver Alex Saville makes the point that the law which enshrines the right to peaceful protest is the very loophole which activists are using to block the highway and frustrate us. On ‘Ask the Police’ website, endorsed by Police Scotland, it states: ‘an offence is committed when there is an obstruction of the highway, the slowing down or stopping of vehicles, and that obstruction is wilful, not accidental.’ The only exception for doing this would include having express permission from police, or in situations where the obstruction is temporary or fleeting. However the police are interpreting this to mean all drivers on the roads agree to being stopped, to facilitate {their} protest which, of course, is nonsense and an infringement of the drivers’ human rights. Following Saville’s complaint to the Professional Standards Office in Glasgow, an Inspector Sutherland replied… ‘a police commander may choose to tolerate an unlawful protest where it is assessed to support human rights principles, to maximise public safety and minimise disruption.’

Disruption for whom? I ask.

He also says when lorries from across the UK were driving around Westminster back in January 2021 to protest over the EU disruption on UK fishing rights, the Metropolitan Police sprang into action, fining the drivers. Where was this firm hand of the law when we needed them recently at the port of Ramsgate? The police stand back allowing peaceful protests, which impact and impinge on people’s right to do their jobs. Is a lack of intervention acceptable if deliveries are held up, food produce is potentially spoiled and fuel is delayed causing total havoc? Activists are claiming ‘prearranged permission’ from police to interfere with the safe passage of lorries, in order for protesters to sit down and wave banners. However in many cases the police have indicated that there was no such agreement. In many other countries the National Guard would come out and remove these troublemakers, arrest them or drive their vehicles into the crowd to forcibly disperse them (just don’t try this in Red Square!). If we, for example, wanted to complain about our children’s right to have a school locker, would we get away with a peaceful protest at the school gates, or lying down in front of coaches? I can just see the headlines, as we get yanked unceremoniously away to permit passenger service to continue without disruption. One rule for one, and a dispensation for others, it seems. Saville takes a zero tolerance view on protesters, and feels it is incumbent on the public to show its contempt for antisocial behaviour. If you really want to change things, you organise a petition with 400,000 signatures and deliver it to Boris. The pen is mightier than the sword. You might not get his autograph, but you will certainly get his attention.

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BY ROBERT FESTENSTEIN Whatever a person’s line of work after a period of time they often develop an instinct for the job based on experience. Even though my father-in-law retired as a tailor over 20 years ago he’s still pretty good it estimating waist and chest sizes. Similarly I have known doctors diagnose a patient’s ailment within a minute of meeting them. My experience as a lawyer is that whenever an argument or position is presented to me the first thing I do is look at the evidence.

Since Keir Starmer took over the helm at the Labour Party the attitude of the Labour leadership towards Israel and the Jewish community has changed significantly.

This and the recent re-joining of the party

by Dame Louise Ellman has caused many to say that the bad old days are now well and truly behind us. There is no doubt that significant progress has been made by the leadership and that should clearly be applauded. The difficulty though remains is it there is still a significant number of Labour

Party members for whom Israel is their only target.

The motion easily passed at the Labour Party conference almost two weeks ago calling for sanctions to be imposed upon Israel is evidence that there is a significant divide between the leadership and a substantial number of Labour Party members.

The rhetoric used during the debate sadly reveals an obsessive hysterical hatred of the only democracy in the Middle East, yet despite this there are some in the Jewish community who believe that we are near the end of the problems that Labour has had with the Jews and we are now able to look forward to a bright cooperative future.

The evidence does not support this. There will always be a proportion of people in this country who do not like Jews, that is a fact of life. Judging by the statements made by some union leaders and various labour MPs it seems that the number of people in the Labour Party who dislike Jews and hate Israel remains disproportionately high. In

the four and a half years that Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour Party it was transformed into an entity that to all intents and purposes was institutionally anti-Semitic. So bad was this appalling development that significant numbers of British Jews looked to emigrate in the event that Labour was voted into power.

The people who promoted the antisemitism and fermented the obsessive Israel hatred have not all gone away. There are still far too many of them in the Labour Party wielding influence and promoting the disgraceful motion condemning Israel which was passed last week. For some in the Jewish community the fact that the Labour leadership has changed is enough. The difficulty remains is that the attitude towards Israel and Jews by very many people in the Labour Party is one which would never be tolerated if expressed against any other minority group; and there lies the problem.

For too long Jews have just been treated on the basis of religion alone. Those

For too long Jews have just been treated on the basis of religion alone.

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screaming for sanctions last week would I am sure at the very same time say that they detest antisemitism and would describe themselves as determined anti racists. Yet when it comes to us defining ourselves as the people with an entitlement to self-determination through Zionism suddenly we become the enemy because we step outside the narrow and patronising definition of what is a Jew by those who claim to know all about racism.

In 1942 Winston Churchill famously said now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. So with the Labour Party. What this recent conference has shown us is that whilst progress has clearly and thankfully been made there is still a very long way to go before we can say that the Labour Party no longer has a problem with the Jews.

Robert Festenstein is a practising solicitor and has been the principal of his Salford based firm for over 20 years. He has fought BDS motions to the Court of Appeal and is President of the Zionist Central Council in Manchester which serves to protect and defend the democratic State of Israel.

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AJEX remembers fallen soldiers

AJEX National Chairman Mike Bluestone with The Mayor of Brent, Cllr Lia Colacicco together with Standard Bearers at Willesden Jewish Cemetery

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AJEX held a poignant commemoration service at The Jewish War Memorial at Willesden Jewish Cemetery last Sunday.

The service was in memory of the Jewish fallen of HM Forces in World Wars particularly those with no known graves.

Attendees included The Mayor of Brent Cllr Lia Colacicco and Brent Councillors, Cllr Long and Cllr Hirani, youth, serving

personnel, AJEX members and veterans.

AJEX National Chairman, Mike Bluestone thanked attendees for remembering over 120,000 Jewish servicemen and women who served in World War One and Two. Bluestone re-enforced how so many from both wars have no marked resting place and that AJEX stand together and will always remember.

He also shared his connection with the importance of having the memorial.

Lance Corporal Jacob Albert, 2nd Battalion London Regiment, Service number 420773 died on Thursday 14 June 1917.

“My Great uncle has no known grave,” he said. “He was 30 years of age. His name is mentioned at the Arras Memorial in France, but he has no known grave. We owe our fallen brothers and sisters the honour, the respect, the Kavod, of being here today.”

Rabbi Reuben Livingstone led the service including a one-minute silence.

Standards were flown. During the ceremony wreaths were laid by Bluestone, Arthur Lawson MBE recited the Exhortation After the ceremony Ron Shelley MBE, Vice President of AJEX JMA led a poetry reading and AJEX Education and Outreach Officer Paula Kitching spoke at the Commonwealth War Graves Plot on the importance of Remembering.

Attendees were given the opportunity to place Magan Dovid Markers at the plot.

The AJEX Annual Remembrance Parade and Ceremony will be held at the Cenotaph on November 21st (2pm). To book: www.ajex.org.uk

Noah on Trial A world-ending courtroom drama

Residents enjoy festivities at Bayis Sheli Bayis Sheli, a residential and respite Home for disabled children and young adults in Stamford Hill provided a packed schedule of activities throughout Tishrei.

To kick off the month, Bayis Sheli participated in a local Hachnosas Sefer Torah, filled with music, dancing and shared joy.

By Rosh Hashanah, the Home was decorated with themed art designed by residents who heard the Shofar during Rosh Hashanah and attended Tashlich in Clissold Park.

In preparation for Yom Kippur, the Bayis Sheli family conducted Kaparos, and residents that were able fasted a few hours.

Throughout Succot, residents shook the Arba Minim during Davening sessions with Pearl and Mrs Gluck, and were energised by dancing to Yom Tov songs. Residents also enjoyed outings on Chol HaMoed, including Pinter’s rides. Among the many highlights of Succot, going to Shul on Simchas Torah was a real experience.

Micki Herzog, Director of Care of Bayis Sheli’s Children’s Unit, said “It has indeed been a wonderful Tishrei. Yom Tov at Bayis Sheli truly felt like ‘a home away from home’ for our residents and we are so grateful that they enjoyed a very meaningful month of festivities.”

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UK’s oldest synagogue saved for now

BY ADAM MOSES City of London Corporation’s planning committee has refused permission for the first of two skyrise office blocks next to the world-famous Bevis Marks Synagogue.

Councilmen acknowledged the proposed 48-storey development in Bury Street would have a “major adverse impact” on the 320-year-old Grade 1 listed building.

The development, if built, would have blocked out vital daylight needed for religious services.

But a decision on a second planning application for a 21-storey office tower at Creechurch Lane is expected before the end of the year. This development would likewise have a more negative impact on light.

In September, the City of London commissioned an independent report, carried out by lighting consultants BRE. The report stated Bevis Marks would face “significant reductions in sunlight”, making daily services almost impossible.

One development has been approved blocking sunlight over the synagogue.

Rabbi Shalom Morris of Bevis Marks has welcomed the latest decision though concerned about the next one. He described the possibility of all three developments passing as “catastrophic”.

“We are clearly delighted that the planning committee has seen sense and acknowledged

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the very real concerns of not just the Jewish community but thousands of supporters of British heritage,” he said. “Their own commissioned report found that multiple developments would cause harm to our sacred house of worship that has served generations of Jews since 1701.”

He added, “The cumulative impact of continuing to allow developers to build right up against our synagogue will block out any daylight. We already find it difficult at times

to read prayers and carry out a normal service due to poor light conditions. The threat is not over yet though as we continue to fight against another nearby planned skyrise development.”

Sir Michael Bear, former Lord Mayor of the City of London Corporation, commented, “This was a sensible and responsible decision.

The City has listened and taken on board the genuine concerns of an important community in safeguarding Bevis Marks for future

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generations. The only reasonable next step is to turn that application down too.”

Over 2,800 objections have been submitted against both Bury Street and Creechurch Lane developments.

Historic England has criticised the City of London planning department about the local authority’s policies and proposals for future land use in the area.

Bevis Marks is the home of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community and the only non-Christian house of worship in the City of London.

The most significant feature of the synagogue, known worldwide, is that it is lit by up to 240 candles. These were supplemented in 1928 by limited electric lighting, which now cannot be enhanced due to restrictions enforced on Grade 1 listed buildings.

Known as the “cathedral synagogue” of British Jewry, Bevis Marks was built when Jews were allowed into England in 1656. It is the oldest synagogue in Europe in continuous use.

Initially for local residents, today it is a centre of worship for people from all over the world.

Built in 1701 in the Ward of Aldgate after the Jews banished from England by Edward 1 in 1290 were allowed back by Oliver Cromwell, the synagogue has survived the Blitz in World War Two and two IRA bomb attacks in the 1990s.

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Whitefield Shul collection for Afghan refugees

Community Director Mychiel Balshine in the loaded lorry filled with donations

In September, the weekend between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Whitefield community came en masse to the car park of the synagogue to donate vitally needed clothing for the many Afghan refugees who have recently been relocated to Manchester. Members of all ages arrived with various donations ranging from coats, to trousers, to brand-new handbags, all as directed by the various charities that support the refugees.

In total over 60 full large bin bags of clothing were collected and with the help of various volunteers from within the community, were distributed to charities that work with

both homeless people and the refugees.

One member in particular donated the use of his staff & lorry which was loaded up and sent straight to the charities clearing the Shuell of all the collected items just in time for Yom Kippur! This is not the first time the community has come together in support of those in need. Last year on Mitzvah Day thousands of food items were donated to local food banks and on Yom Haatzmaut many walked 73 minutes in support of Israeli charities Tamark Israel 73rd birthday. The community is looking forward to coming together at future occasions to help those that may be in need.

Chief leads COP26 communal events Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Israeli Minister Tamar Zandberg headline a series of Jewish community events in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26.

EcoSynagogue, a partnership project with the Board of Deputies, hosts ‘Carbon Zero, If not now, when?’ at The Jewish Museum on Sunday (7.30pm).

Chief Rabbi Mirvis and Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl will speak about why the community should engage with the climate emergency. This will be followed by an expert panel that includes Dr Michal Nachman, an authority on global climate legislation, Jonathan Waxman, a renewable energy expert and Charles Ogilvie, COP26 Director of Strategy at the Cabinet Office.

The Board hosts a discussion with Minister Zandberg to talk about the steps Israel is taking to tackle climate change on October 24.

EcoSynagogue promote an EcoShabbat on November 5-6.

COP26 in Glasgow runs from October 31st to November 12. EcoSynagogue and Board of Deputies will have a stand in the Green Zone.

In the week following the start of the conference on November 8, an Eco Synagogue and Board of Deputies interfaith webinar takes place.

Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl said, “The world is facing a grave climate emergency and it is up to all of us to do all we possibly can to make a contribution. I am delighted that the Board and EcoSynagogue are leading community efforts to engage on this vital issue.”

The COP26 summit brings parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The UK is committed to working with all countries and joining forces with civil society, companies and people on the frontline of climate change to inspire climate action ahead of COP26.

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Jewish charities benefit from London Marathon

Flora Frank did her 42nd marathon in Israel for Norwood

Mathew Jenkins ran on behalf of Camp Simcha

BY DAVID SAFFER Jewish charities will benefit to the tune of thousands of pounds following the efforts of first time and veteran runners at the 2021 London Marathon last Sunday.

Norwood, Jewish Care, Emunah, Kisharon, Camp Simcha and Chai Cancer Care are among many organisations that will be able to bolster a plethora of services.

Heather O’Connell travelled from the US to run for Norwood. A keen marathon runner, Heather suffers from learning disabilities. Running has massively improved her quality of life.

Regarding the charity, Heather commented, “Norwood doesn’t just consider the individual’s needs but the impact that a disability can have on the whole family, emotionally, socially and financially. Its holistic services means that Norwood plays a crucial role in ensuring that the support it provides, across all its services, means the whole family unit can continue to live life with greater ease and success.”

Sisters Georgia and Sandra Norwood (their real name) supported the charity as they make an invaluable difference to people’s lives.

Vic Lennard Aboudara completes the 2021 London Marathon raising money for Kisharon

Steven Salamon chose to run to support teenage suicide prevention initiatives in the UK. He was motivated following the suicide of Oli Leigh, who took his own life in 2018 aged 16.

Steven ran the marathon for Norwood as they supported Oli and his family during difficult times.

Oli’s grandmother was also a Norwood orphan in her childhood and the charity he jointly set up in Oli’s memory, the Oli Leigh Trust, raises funds to reduce teenage suicide rates in the UK. Tristan Nagler ran to bring greater awareness of the charity’s work. He said, “Norwood provides the very best childcare services I know of in the third sector and I’ve been fortunate to experience first hand how wonderful their integrated day nursery is at The Kennedy Leigh Centre.”

Tristan completed the marathon and reached his fundraising target for the charity.

Five runners completed the marathon for Jewish Care.

Alan Giesenow commented, “It’s good to know that Jewish Care is there for us all in the community if we ever need their support. It’s a real honour to run for the charity, especially after the pandemic.”

Fellow runner, Jake Norton, noted, “Everything about the organisation brings happiness and light to our community. They have managed to help so many not only survive but thrive even when up against the most difficult of challenges.”

Jonathan Wiesbart on his marathon debut said, “I’m not ashamed to ask people to do their bit in helping Jewish Care plug some of the funding gap from the pandemic.”

Leslie Walters ran his first marathon.

Jewish Care supported his uncle, Sidney Walters, at the end of his life. He also raced in memory of Jack Mogan, 22, who passed away at North London Hospice.

Ben Pollock supported Jewish Care and Behind Every Kick.

Adam Overlander-Kaye of Jewish Care said, “After waiting for 18 months for the marathon to take place it was so fantastic to support the Jewish Care team on the route.”

Flora Frank walked on behalf of Norwood and Emunah in what was her 42nd marathon.

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grandchildren.

Flora first completed the course in 1997.

She has also walked the course in Jerusalem, Tiberius and New York. Twice she completed three marathons in a year.

“I don’t have time to train so walk it,” she said. “I have an app from the organisers so they can track my route. I like raising money for charity and love the hype of the London and Jerusalem marathons.”

Flora, who featured on Israel’s popular This Morning programme for her efforts, is set to take on the Jerusalem half marathon later this month.

Sarah Tarzi and Claire Gothelf were also amongst those who raced for Emunah.

“When my mum passed away last year, she wished to leave a legacy for charity, I decided to honour her memory and raise funds for Emunah by running the marathon again,” said Sarah. “It’s an absolute privilege to take part and incredibly exciting, and amazing to be able to contribute to Emunah in the process. British Emunah relies solely on donations to support its projects in Israel, where it offers residential and day centres to families and children who are struggling, vulnerable and deemed ‘at risk’.

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I have raised nearly £11,000 which shows you can do anything as long as you put your mind to it.”

Emma Benjamin vowed to run the London Marathon when she turned 40.

“I felt very proud to wear my Chai Cancer Care vest and to raise over £5,000 for the most incredible charity who make such a difference to so many people,” she said.

Jack Schapira noted, “Chai was the natural choice for me after the life changing support it provided my family in the past and the incredible continuous support it provides to our community. Many obstacles got in the way over the last two years but my persistence to complete this event with Chai remained, and now, well, mission accomplished!”

Debra Peters commented, “Both my uncle and a very close friend as well as their families are currently using Chai to support them through their current cancer diagnosis. My mum volunteers by transporting people for treatment.

Cancer, unfortunately is a diagnosis we all will face ourselves or through loved ones, and all funds raised provide these families with the support they need.”

Michal Chody said, “Chai guide and navigate hundreds of people and their families throughout their personal ‘marathon’ of a cancer diagnosis.”

Louise Hager, Chai’s Chairman thanked ‘Team Chai’ for their awe-inspiring efforts.

“Chai can continue to be there for all those who turn to us,” she said. “The community continue to ‘run by our side”.

explained Stephen. “I wanted to help and it made this run even more special to David was delighted to support Kisharon raise funds so they can be here for every and described crossing the finish line as an family with seriously ill children that needs honour my mum in this way.”

Claire commented, “Running the mar- electric atmosphere. them.” athon gave me great pleasure and satisCamp Simcha’s six marathon runners saw Jonny said: “It was such an amazing and faction, not just completing the race but Matthew Jenkinson, Mike Kingsley, Ben powerful moment at the start line, together knowing that all the money raised would Posen, Richard Samir run the marathon with runners from all over the world, you go to British Emunah and all the wonderful for the first time. Jonny Phillips was raising could just feel the excitement. It was such a work they do for children in Israel.” treat to see the Camp Simcha team on route funds for the charity for an eighth time.

Kisharon had seven runners competing Stephen Shapiro chose Camp Simcha shouting from the sides in the sunshine.” at this years event. because his family were supported by the Lucy Ross took part for Chai with her faShlomi Rokach, Simon Lazarus, Gavri- charity when his twins were born prema- ther, Robin Silvester. el Debson, David Wajsman, Yanky Vogel, turely seven years ago.

Prior to the marathon Lucy spoke movingLevi Degroen and Vic Aboudara raised vital “We spent months in hospital and during ly how Chai were supported when her mothfunds to keep Kisharon services going. this time we received support in many ways er was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2018.

“Running the London Marathon has been from Camp Simcha, including a ‘Big Sister’ Following the event, Lucy added, “Chai have on my bucket list and having known about volunteer for our older son and hospital helped me so much to supthe work that Kisharon does it seemed like transports, which for us was of great help,” port my emotions and be the a great opportunity to raise money for a fantastic cause,” said Simon.

“Kisharon do fantastic work within the community, noted Gavriel. “Following a very difficult 18 months for everyone I couldn’t think of a better charity to support”.

Shlomi added, “What a great day running for a fantastic organisation! Thank you Kisharon for organising this, and for all the great work you do!”

Yanky noted, “I can think of no greater location than my hometown to run a marathon and accomplish a personal ambition. I have always admired Kisharon’s work. It was an incredible experience that I will never forget.”

Vic was delighted to raise funds for the charity and get a personal best time.

Levi is a volunteer medic with a local ambulance service. He has seen first hand how the pandemic impacted children and family’s.

“Kisharon worked tirelessly to support them, thank you for giving me the opportunity to take part Michal Chody running for Chai Cancer Care in fundraising for this incredible Tristan Nagler crossing line for Norwood Jake Norton with his parents Louise and Michael after organisation,” he said. running the Marathon for Jewish Care

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Landmark new online history archive created by grandchildren of ‘The Boys’, Holocaust survivors A group of the grandchildren of the Holocaust survivors ‘The Boys’, have created a landmark new online archive, documenting details of their grandparents’ experiences after liberation, their journeys to the UK, the hostels that received them and the people who cared for them.

This initiative, led by historical advisor Rosie Whitehouse and ’45 Aid Society Vice Chairman, Philip Burton, is the outcome of an in-depth research project by Holocaust charity, the ’45 Aid Society. They set out to create an extensive history archive of the Boys, with details of all 700+ orphans that were brought to the UK in 5 separate groups between 1945 and 1948.

‘The Boys’ are a group of orphaned Holocaust survivors who lost their families in concentration the camps and who came to the UK after liberation. They are known as ‘The Boys’, even though there were over 200 girls in the group.

Many of them settled in the UK, established successful businesses, married and had families of their own. Some emigrated to Israel, USA, Canada and elsewhere.

Until now, detailed information on many of the 700+ Boys was limited to that contained in Sir Martin Gilbert’s 1996 book,

‘The Boys: Triumph over Adversity’ and to the autobiographies by some of The Boys themselves. Little detail was known about what happened to them after they were liberated.

This comprehensive new resource contains photos, a map of the Boys’ birthplaces where they grew up, what happened to them on arrival in the UK and afterwards as well as profiles of all 700+ boys and girls.

The ‘45 Aid Society team, led by Philip Burton, gathered a team of researchers made up of 3rd generation – grandchildren of The Boys – who were managed by Rosie and Philip, to undertake extensive research using archives from The original list of the 4th group, London Met Archives around the world, including the Arolsen Archives in Germany, the BritThousands of hours were spent by the ish Library, the UK Imperial War Museum, team building the research, painstakingly the United States Holocaust Memorial Mu- checking and re-checking facts and statisseum, the USC Shoah Foundation and Yad tics, creating interactive maps and making Vashem in Israel, among many others. sure photos were captioned.

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The archive, which has now been launched online, is by far the largest single source of information about the Boys. The ’45 Aid Society launched the archive over the weekend, with a film called ‘Introducing the Archive of The Boys’ about the creation of the archive, to introduce it to the Boys and their families and showcase what it contains. The film explains the kind of information to be found on the birthplaces of the Boys, their journeys to the UK, where they lived on arrival and the people who cared for them.

The ’45 Aid Society hopes that the online archive will be useful to many, including families of the Boys, educators, historians and academics and anyone who has an interest in learning about the remarkable stories of the Boys.

The history archive can be viewed at https://45aid.org/history/

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Mike Freer MP meets residents at Jewish Care’s Otto Schiff care home

Mike Freer MP meeting Alice Frank, 101 at Jewish Care’s Otto Schiff care home

Residents enjoyed chatting to Mike Freer MP over tea when he visited Jewish Care’s Otto Schiff care home last week. Mr Freer met a number of residents including 101-year-old, Alice Frank, who worked as a secretary for Otto Schiff MBE in 1936, and later came to live at the care home named after her once employer. Alice came to London at the age of 16, aided by the

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Jewish Refugee Committee set up by Otto Schiff. She spoke German, Italian and some French. Otto Schiff had come to the UK in 1896 from Germany and aided refugees for many years. He persuaded the British Government to allow thousands more refugees than they had planned to escape Nazi Germany and settle in the UK, arranging for the community to sponsor them.

A Sefer Torah to honour their mother

Hachnasat Sefer Torah in Israel

In honour of the first yahrzeit of their mother Marian Lopian OH the Lopian children dedicated a Sefer Torah in her honour and that of their late father Jack Lopian.

There was a private ceremony for all the family followed on Sunday by a procession through the streets of Neve Yaakov in Jerusalem with over 1,000 people in attendance.

It had been Mrs Lopian’s wish that after her passing she wanted a Sefer Torah to be dedicated in her name.

It has been donated to a new Shul in Neve Yaakov where her grandson Yankel Lopian is a member. It was a fitting tribute to parents who devoted their lives to Torah,community and family.

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Belgium joins Jteen In an exciting new development, Jteen, the charity created to support the emotional health of teens, has now added Antwerp to its flagship service, “Jteen Support” - its anonymous text support helpline.

Jteen Support has already had a hugely positive impact on hundreds of teens who have reached out and received the support and expertise of Jteen’s trained counsellors and therapists. Teens know that they can text in about their concerns and challenges with the full confidence that their number cannot be seen and that they don’t need to reveal their names. In seven months Jteen has already been contacted over 800 times with over 30, 000 texts shared between teens and Jteen volunteer counsellors.

Manager of Jteen - Riki Greenberg Due to the success of the service, there has been extremely strong demand range of issues and the specific needs facing both within and outside the UK to take ad- our youth today. We are excited to be able vantage of Jteen’s resources and services. to now offer our teens an additional option To deliver the service, Jteen has partnered to receive help using a the Jteen confidential with the well-known youth counselling text service.” Riki Greenberg, Jteen manager centre in Antwerp- Keshet. Belgian teens and trustee, welcomed Jteen now extending can now text in to the UK using a local Bel- into Belgium by remarking, “In its short time since Jteen began, we have seen phenomegian number.

Judy Parnas, who runs Keshet explained, nal results in the number of teens we have “Through our work, we are conscious of the supported. So many teenagers just want

someone they can reach out to confidentially for support without being judged. We are delighted the Antwerp community has come on board”.

Jteen volunteer counsellors in Antwerp who are fluent in Flemish and Yiddish have also received extensive training alongside their UK counterparts under the direction of clinical director and founder Yaakov Barr, as well as John Cameron OBE, previous head of Childline/NSPCC. Rav Meir Rappaport, Rov of Kehillas Imrei Shefer and one of the Jteen Rabbinic advisors expressed his wish “that this new partnership will continue to be able to help teens cope with the ever evolving modern day challenges.”

Jteen is also committed to improving adolescent mental health awareness in schools, as well as offering guidance and advice to parents, and plans are already afoot to be introduced in the next few months.

Jteen is open for anyone from the age of 11 to 20. The service is fully confidential.

Phone numbers can’t be seen and names will not be asked for. The number to text in the UK is 07860 058 823 and in Belgium it is +32460 213 913.

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Northwood United Synagogue Community has successfully connected online with members since the COVID-19 lockdown.

To date organisers have hosted over 100 speakers and recently welcomed Dan Fox, Deputy National Chairman of AJEX. Fox took viewers through a fascinating presentation detailing how the Jewish community has served the British Armed Forces since 1745.

Historical recruitment posters illustrated how British Jews were encouraged to join the army.

Fox showed historical photographs of ex Servicemen and Women who fought bravely for Britain.

He shared how he joined the army and remains a reservist. Fox also shared examples of how antisemitism is not tolerated in the army.

AJEX’s chair told the audience that young Jewish people still join the Armed Forces in steady numbers out of War times. There is a new Cadet Force unit at JFS, supported by AJEX and the Armed Forces Jewish Community.

The history of the Jewish Military Chaplaincy was detailed including how it was established and Fox showed how the emblem of WW1‘s Jewish Legion is incorporated into the Armed Forces Jewish Community badge today.

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Dan Fox, Deputy National Chairman of AJEX

The event concluded with attendees and Fox talking about the forthcoming AJEX annual Parade. Northwood United Synagogue Council Member, Kim Cohen, who chaired the event, shared how at past Parades it had been special to see different generations march together.

AJEX is encouraging families’ of veterans, as well as veterans themselves, to participate in this year’s march on Sunday 21st November.

Details: www.ajex.org.uk

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Joey Newcombe Havdallah concert at Holy Law Shul, with Camp Simcha and the Chief Rabbi’s Office.

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Supporters drive Norwood to success at annual Golf Day The sun made an appearance at Dyrham Park Country Club on Monday, as Norwood supporters gathered at The C J O’Shea and Galliard Homes annual Golf Day, in aid of the charity supporting people with learning disabilities and autism and children and their families facing challenges. Some 75 participants teed off at the popular event, which featured a prize-giving ceremony and exclusive raffle, raising £52,000 for Norwood.

The event was sponsored by C J O’Shea, Galliard Homes and associate sponsor Howard Kennedy. Prizes were awarded to the highest ranked participating companies, with Penlaw coming in third place with 126 points, Kone in second place with 127 points and UKS Group leading . Among the raffle prizes bid for on the day were a Cobra Ultra Dry Pro Golf Bag, a Shot Scope Pro L1 Rangefinder and a Sony 43” Smart 1080p Full HD TV. Introducing the event, Golf Day Committee Chair David Galman offered “a heartfelt thank you to everyone here today for supporting this event and helping to make Norwood’s essential work possible”. “Norwood is all about taking on life together and it is together that we can make a huge difference to thousands of lives,” he added.

Meanwhile Norwood Chief Executive Dr Beverley Jacobson heralded the return of the “calendar fixture” following its cancellation last year as a result of the pandemic, as she thanked participants for their part

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in facilitating Norwood’s work in “making (our) communities as inclusive as possible”, which she said was integral to “enabling and empowering the people we support to live meaningful lives”.

This year’s event was postponed from its normal slot in July in order to allow it to take place in person following the easing of social distancing restrictions. Other annual events in Norwood’s fundraising calendar include the Property Lunch and Norwood Night. The

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The Association for Heritage Interpretation’s 2021 Engaging People Awards celebrates the best heritage, nature, culture and science experiences in Britain and Ireland.

The cemetery’s House of Life heritage experience is in the ‘Untold Stories’ category and up against well-known names including the British Museum and the Museum of London. The category is for projects telling the story of groups, communities or events overlooked or excluded in the past.

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Jewish Care’s Pro Am Golfers tee off again

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From left to right: Rob Hunter (Lockton, Sponsor), Jeremy Curtis, Charles Curtis, Whitney Hillier (Pro), Kelvan Schewitz

Jewish Care’s supporters teed off for the first in-person golf tournament since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, raising more than £35,000 which will go directly to Jewish Care’s Rela Goldhill at Otto Schiff home, a specialist home providing care for adults with physical disabilities and sensory impairments. The 69 golfers and 23 professionals were keen to get back on the driving range at Brocket Hall Golf Course on Monday 27 September at the 43rd Pro Am Golf Tournament, which was organised by the Pro Am Golf Committee and sponsored by Lockton Companies Inc. To date, the tournament has raised over £1 million for Jewish Care.

This year saw two winning teams, one with a female professional golfer and one with a male professional golfer. Jeremy Curtis’ team were the winning team of the day with female professional golfer, Whitney Hillier, scoring 86 points and London

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& Central Securities were the winning team of the day with 96 points, joined by professional male golfer, Daniel Brooks.

After a morning on the course, golfers enjoyed a lunch at Brocket Hall where Jewish Care’s Director of Fundraising and Community Engagement, Adam Overlander-Kaye, said: “I’d like to thank the Committee for their hard work, Lockton, our sponsors and all of the participants in the tournament for your support in raising funds for our work at Jewish Care’s Rela Goldhill at Otto Schiff home.

“Your support really does change people’s lives. After a difficult 18 months, our highly trained staff at the home have supported the residents through the Covid-19 pandemic and kept them safe. The staff continue to care for the residents as well as to enable them to enjoy as full and active lifestyle as possible, as part of the community in a warm Jewish atmosphere.”

Covid champion Leonie Lewis MBE with Minister for Communities Lord Stephen Greenhalgh and Maurice Ostro OBE receiving her new book at a recent event in Kilburn.

The COVID champions project was set up to ensure that individuals from faith-based communities have access to reliable information around the vaccine.

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Tomorrow’s Testimony: the next generation of witnesses

Generations coming together

In September, March of the Living UK hosted ‘Tomorrow’s Testimony’, an event connecting children under six with a Holocaust Survivor. The idea behind the event is to create an experience that the children will treasure as they grow up, enabling them to become a ‘witness for life’.

As summarised by Scott Saunders MBE – Chair and Founder of March of the Living UK: “We are not teaching the history of the Holocaust to 3&4 year olds, we are ensuring that in the years and decades to come, when the survivors are not with us, their memory, their stories and the importance of learning about the Holocaust will live on through these young people.”

The first event of the series was a sellout. Five Survivors: Zigi Shipper, Agnes Kaposi, Mala Tribich, Harry Olmer, and Eve Kugler met over 80 children. They spent time together reading stories and enjoying interactive activities, including colouring a butterfly, to symbolise the poem ‘The Butterfly’, written by a young poet in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

There was an opportunity for each child and their family to take a photograph with a Survivor. The photographs will be sent in a keepsake pack together with the Survivor’s testimony, to be opened when the children are a suitable age.

All parents were invited to hear a Survivor speak about their experiences the

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following evening.

The event series will be rolled out across the country over the next year. The next event will take place in London on 21st November, book through the MOTL website here, and there will be an event in Manchester later this year.

Speaking after the event, Holocaust Survivor Agnes Kaposi said: “Next month I will be 89 years old. All survivors participating in this brilliant project are of similar age.

Historians, friends, family tell us that our stories are precious: we are primary sources of Holocaust history… Anyone who drinks from the primary source of our experience can be a second generation source whether genetically related to us or not. If I am a good enough story teller and you are a good enough listener, you can be a second generation member of my Holocaust family. Those who listen to you might be my third-generation Holocaust descendants even if they had never met me. So it might go on and on, the Holocaust becoming part of the culture, future generations learning to behave better towards each other than our generation had done. And then perhaps the bones of us survivors will rest more softly.”

For more information or If you would like to bring this event to your community, please contact cassie@marchoftheliving.org.uk

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Sidney Lipman, 100 years old, who was Chatan Torah with Alan Burke, a youngster at 90 years who was Chatan Bereshit this year. They celebrated this Simchat Torah and shared the honour of being Chatanim at Jewish Care’s Hyman Fine House in Brighton. They celebrated with residents, staff and volunteers.

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Sidney Lipman and Alan Burke Chatan Torah and Chatan Bereshit at Jewish Care’s Hyman Fine House

A trio of Cambridge Psychologists from Hasmonean This October, three alumni of Hasmonean Girls will be embarking on their next academic adventure. Hannah (Kings), Hannah (Jesus) and Aurelia (Lucy Cavendish) will all be taking their places at Cambridge to read Psychology.

Hannah studied Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and Psychology at A-level, following her academic success with a year at MMY. She wrote of her time in Sem: ‘It just made me appreciate the diversity within our nation and the connection we all have to each other – there’s a reason why almost everyone has an “only in Israel” story. My favourite part outside of the learning was visiting ancient places and walking where our ancestors did.’ While in Cambridge, Hannah is excited to ‘start the journey of learning how I can positively affect the future of healthcare, mental health and psychology.’ Ultimately, she would like to work with schools helping to improve approaches to neuro-divergent children.

Aurelia had two gap years after completing A-levels in Maths, Economics and Psychology (as well as an EPQ). For her first gap year, she attended TVA, a Bnei Akiva Sem. The programme included learning, working on Kibbutz, teaching English and touring the Land. Her second year was spent working as a special needs (SEN) teaching assistant in a primary school. At Lucy Cavendish, Aurelia will be studying

PBS (psychological and behavioural sciences) with the option of adding sociology and philosophy modules. Her dream is to be a clinical psychologist but as she loves working with children the path of educational psychology is also an option.

Hannah studied Psychology, Maths and Chemistry at A-level followed by a year at Michlalah. She particularly appreciates the support given by Hasmonean in creating her Personal Statement and giving her the confidence to apply for Jesus. Her year in Jerusalem was an amazing experience where she was able to be completely immersed in Torah studies, whilst also discovering more about our connection to Eretz Yisrael through the many Tiyulim organised

by Michlalah. Hannah is really looking forward to the next three years at Cambridge. Her time in Israel has affirmed her desire to make Aliyah and train as a clinical psychologist once she has completed her degree.

All three young women are wonderful examples of what can be achieved through sheer hard work and the support of school, family and friends. It is not easy for a young, religious woman to go up to Cambridge- by going together, they can support each other and contribute to the rich Jewish student life around Thompsons Lane, as well to the wider student community.

GIFT celebrated its first Givefest event last Sunday - a festival of giving interspersed with carnival rides, inflatables, laser tag, assault course, a climbing wall, waffles, slushes and salads and live music to enhance the day.

The USP of this family fun day were the ‘giving stations and workshops’ where participants had the opportunity to give back to the community. There was an ADOT & GIFT partnership stall where participants were invited to make homeless packs; tissue paper poppies for care homes, GIFT’s Giving Kitchen initiative making vacuum-packed soup packets for families supported by GIFT and Give.help.share, who ran a stall packing healthy snacks for disadvantaged school children.

Hourly giving shows/skill workshops run

by GIFT’s dynamic R. Avrohom Zeidman included learning basic CPR, learning balloon modelling, drum jamming sessions and storybook reading. The day was an incredible success with over 500 attendees and tickets selling out before the start of the event.

Mother of 6 Suzie Rinkoff told us ‘I can’t even begin to tell you how fantastic Givefest

was. Loved by the whole family.’ Vanessa Aaron said ‘ There’s nowhere else I would rather be, supporting such an incredible cause. My husband and boys have volunteered with GIFT for years. It’s amazing to have an event where you can give back and teach your children to be so grateful for what they have. We all had an amazing time, there were lots of thrilling fast- paced outdoor action-packed activities like bungee jumping, rock climbing and laser quest, not forgetting all the indoor stalls imparting good values of sharing and caring from a young age for those in our community.’

Sandor Milun, GIFT’s managing director told us ‘Givefest was a resounding success, so many amazing volunteers stepped up and got involved. The feedback was so positive and we were delighted with the result. We want to thanks Dental Wellness Trust for donating dental products for the homeless packs, all the incredible volunteers who ran the stalls and did hair braiding and face painting, Oliviana Events for the superb photobooth and Yoni & Danny Shine for providing incredible live music. Looking forward to an even bigger and better event next year. ‘

Encyclopaedia of British Cantors – Book Launch In an exceptional compilation, ten years in the making, British Jewish Historian, Michael Jolles has produced material, never assembled in one place before, including much that is not available in any other publication. In its over 800 pages, it contains 2000 alphabetical biographies of cantors, ministers, choirmasters, composers or accompanists who have served British congregations musically over the centuries from 1656 to the present day. There is also an extensive historical introduction on the variety of roles of the chazan and their operating environment in the synagogue.

Guest speakers from around the world at the launch event on Wednesday 6 October, include Professor Mark Kligman of UCLA,

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Dr Alexander Knapp former Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London; Michael Goldstein President of the United Synagogue, London; Dr Amalia Kedem, The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem; Cantor Robert Kieval, Cantors Assembly USA; David Prager of London, a member of the editorial team; as well as Dr Michael Jolles himself. (You will be able to listen to this event again at www.cantors.eu.)

“The Jolles Encyclopaedia is an astounding accomplishment and one I will be referring to for decades, I expect. I’ve barely cracked the book and am already floored by the beautiful devotion of your research endeavour”. Dr Jeremiah Lockwood, New York.

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From the front line…

Take care everyone, for none of us know what tomorrow will bring!

It is with immense sadness that I report to my readers that once again as a family we are in a state of flux, for on erev Rosh Hashana my dear mother-in-law, Lily Curzon (93), was niftar.

Lily had a jolly personality, and was quite distinctive at her height of 4' 11. Whatever she may have lacked in stature, she more than made up Lily and for with her convivial personGraham ality and hearty laugh. Her Curzon early life was not easy, for her father Max Matties, of Russian on the role of chauffeur. extraction, had died before she was born.

Lily trained as a secretary and used her Her mother married secondly - Solomon skills for the benefit of the community; Levy, a widower, whereupon she and her Wizo, Barnet Shul Ladies Guild, she was daughter took his surname. Unsurprisingly, given her father's untimely demise, Lily also the booking secretary for a kosher was an only child, and when her stepfather counselling provider, and she additionally and mother died from cardiac issues a few created Sweet Charity with several friends years later, she was still only a teenager - an organisation which raised funds for and was then brought up in the care of her projects in Israel. She kept herself busy maternal grandmother in the East end of and active, going each week to swimming and keep fit. Graham predeceased London. All of this we only found out after her back in 2017, after which point she her passing as, for whatever reason, she continued to live at home, with family and would not be drawn on the subject. In the friends close at hand. final few years she had advancing dementia, which hampered any ability to share Covid and lockdown presented their details with family, even if she had wanted own hurdles; she had a fall in 2020 which to. As a young lady, she travelled across landed her in hospital with a fractured hip, Europe in the 1940s and 50s, with groups and it was a long, long road to recovery, of friends, visiting Switzerland, with intensive physio, thoughtfully coordinated by her daughter-in-law, Nicky.

France and Spain. Back in London she Irrespective of all these difficulties, was introduced to Graham Curzon {born grandma Lily was soon back to her old self.

Gert Katzenstein}, from Eschwege Germany, who had arrived in London in 1939 She then contracted Covid which, amazingly, she recovered from quite quickly, under the aegis of the Kindertransport; no small feat given she hadn't yet been they got along well and were married in called for her vaccinations. In March this 1954. They began their married life in Cricklewood, where they had their first son year she had another fall, but this time it was a head wound and the other hip, - Julian {my husband}, and after moving and so it was fortuitous that her eldest to the relative outpost of New Barnet, with granddaughter Yehudit was temporarily its brand new Jewish community, they staying with her, as she was able to mop had another son Adrian, who completed up, administer first-aid and keep her calm the family. Thus began a 'motorbike love story' for the Curzon men at least. Lily had until the ambulance showed up several hours later. By this point Lily was becomapparently travelled pillion on a bike previously with Graham, and on one occasion ing too frail to cope with life at home, and after surgery and hospital care she moved the bike wheels got stuck in a tram track, into a care home, where she was extremely causing the motorbike to stop violently, and Lily to have an unexpected and some- well looked after. what undignified dismount. No serious Thanks to my occasional - if flawed harm resulted although Graham got a attempts at family balancing (don't even serious rollicking. Both their boys had ask), Lily was blessed to have many grandmotorbikes at various points, and grandpa children, ranging from age 7 (Juliette) to age 24 (Joshua). She loved them all equally could be found tinkering with them, or - as do I - and would relish the chance to under the bonnet of the various cars they hold them as babies, later sitting them on graduated onto. It was truly a hands-on her lap and reading them a story. They sat education. Although Lily learned to drive, transfixed, and we would all watch in silent she was not happy behind the wheel of a admiration at her patience. car, instead happily leaving others to take

We thought ourselves quite clever by keeping the impending arrival of our twins in 2010 a state 'secret,' from the grandparents, relatives and our work colleagues. When I was then in recovery from an emergency c-section, Julian rang his parents to break the news, anticipating a sharp intake of breath from them, and a big cheer in the background.

The response was quite different: his father picked the phone up, and remarked crossly, "why did you not tell us Jacqueline was having twins?" To which my perplexed husband could only rustle up a confused reply. He had emailed his office before the start of the working day, and one of his colleagues - whose parents happened to be best friends with my in-laws - had already told HIS parents, who of course had rung the twins' grandparents to congratulate them.

Aarrgghh! The Jewish Grapevine is far reaching. It mattered not that it was not even 8 o'clock in the morning. Our moment of gleeful surprise was lost. It was a perfect example of 'Man Plans & G-d Laughs.'

Despite her advancing years Lily would always look smart, in neat dark shoes, and either a twinset or a skirt and cardigan.

She would combine this impeccable tidy appearance with a distinctive wavy hairdo and it was one of the very few complaints she had near the end of her life, that she couldn't get her hair done. She truly hated to look untidy.

The Grandparents had nachas by the bucket, spending time with the children, going on outings, baking gingerbread men and women, and doing puzzles. Lily came to both my cancer fundraisers, where she dressed up for the evening, enjoying the music and singing along with everyone.

She would always greet us at the door of her home with a cheery, "...'ello, 'ello everything awright?" in her broad Cockney accent.

In her spare time she would read thrillers and novels, which she would frequently then recommend to us, but she was additionally an avid reader of not only the Telegraph, but also this column in the JW, where she occasionally spotted her name in dispatches, at which point she would guffaw with laughter when she spotted it.

She kept reading until the last few weeks of her life. For such a little lady she showed both inner strength and fierce determination. There was nothing she couldn't put her mind to, be it cooking, baking or fixing.

When food was scarce in the early years,

she learned to improvise with offcuts and bones from the butcher or fishmonger, whereupon she would make meatballs, fishcakes and salmon cutlets, all of which were simply outstanding!!! When times were less tough, she would get Julian to drive to Billingsgate Fish Market for a 5am kick-off, and peruse the aisles of fabulous offerings. Having grown up between the world wars, she was pragmatic, down-toearth and wasted nothing. One story which has survived for decades is that when they got engaged, Graham - ever the practical and hands-on individual - made her a special gift. Now you ladies are wondering, I can tell, what he made? 1.Cake? 2.Breadboard? 3.Apron? 4.A diamond ring? I think very few of you will guess correctly. What would a young kallah most like to receive as a useful gift for the new home? Give up?

Answers at the bottom of the page.

Lily and Graham generally spent seder with our family, and on occasion she moved in with us for Pesach, where she would sit at the kitchen table, reminding me how to best make her macaroons and coconut pyramids. The result wasn't perfect but we had such fun trying! She would shake her head in amazement at the noise and total balagan of a houseful of children, and a somewhat harassed mum. Lily commented, 'I'm glad I only had two.' When I asked if she hadn't wanted to try again for a girl, she laughed and said, "it might have been another boy." Enough said.

The following summer, just before my awful diagnosis, she was also game enough to come on holiday with us to Buxton, where she enjoyed pottering around, playing with the kids, walking round the Pavilion Gardens and even climbing Solomon's Temple [a walk/ climb that I - almost 40 years her junior - was reluctant to undertake]. In true Lily style, she never complained, was undemanding and I don't think I ever heard her shout. I have included a photo of Lily and Graham, taken in their younger years. For any who might still remember them, I think you'd agree that neither of them had changed one bit in their 63 years of marriage. Lily's passing signals the end of an era. She was an Aishes Chayil who was a positive example to everyone she met, and she set the bar high. Thanks to those who came to offer condolences during the shiva.

Lily, we will miss you enormously. G-d bless.

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Amaretto Tiramisu This is still the all time favourite Italian dessert and everywhere you go it tastes different with varying amounts of cream, chocolate and mascarpone cheese. I have added some Amaretto to the mixture for a delicious kick.

Making this the day before and storing it in the fridge ensures that it will be firmed up and easy to serve.

The dessert does contain raw eggs so it may not be suitable for the young, pregnant women and the elderly.

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Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: None!

Serves: 6-8 people Must be made in advance Ingredients 3 egg yolks 1 egg white 50g caster sugar 225g mascarpone cheese ( or curd cheese and 3 tablespoons of icing sugar) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 200ml strong black coffee 6 tablespoons Amaretto liqueur about 28 sponge fingers 50g plain chocolate – grated Garnish: Grated chocolate

5) Dip the sponge fingers briefly into the coffee mixture and place horizontally along the loaf tin. Spread half of the mascarpone mixture on top of the sponge biscuits inside the loaf tin. Add half of the grated Method - For the Base chocolate and continue layering with more sponge biscuits, mascar1) Line a 900g loaf tin with baking parchment paper and to make it pone cheese and the remaining chocolate. easier to lift out, ensure that the paper comes over the sides.

6) Complete with the sponge biscuits. Cover with cling film and refriger2) Whisk the egg yolks with the caster sugar until light and fluffy. Add the ate over night. mascarpone cheese and cinnamon.

3) In a separate bowl with a clean beater, whisk the egg white until stiff. 7) Use a palette knife to slide the tiramisu out. Place on a long narrow serving plate.

Stir into the egg yolk mixture.

To serve the stylish way: Slice into thick wedges and dust with grated 4) Mix the strong coffee with the Amaretto. chocolate.

Cooking With Alcohol

BY DENISE PHILIPS Using alcohol in cooking is a tasty way to enhance almost any recipe adding to the taste, smell and flavour depth.

A small shot of wine, spirit or beer is great to add to sauces, batters, stews, risotto, desserts, glazes and many more dishes.

Alcohol dissolves and carries the flavours of other ingredients, and its acids help tenderize meat and poultry. Alcohol’s boiling point is lower than that of water, and many cooks assume that little or none of its potency remains after cooking. However cooked food can retain from 5 to 85 percent of the original alcohol. As someone who no longer drinks alcohol much, I still love the slight kick it adds to a dish.

The four main types of alcohol that work well with food include wine, vodka/ gin, liqueurs, and whisky.

WINE

Firstly I would like to add that ‘cooking wine’ is not a good option! Good wine provides good flavour and good food. You may like to use wine in cooking when it has been open for a few days but ‘cooking wine’ has salt and artificial preservatives and is not the best choice.

Wine varies enormously according to sweetness, colour and flavour. White wine is best with

fish, white meat like turkey and chicken, risotto, and light sauces. Choose Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc for good results.

Red wine is best for red meat like lamb and beef. I love to add nearly half a bottle to my shin of beef stews! Merlot, Shiraz, Rioja, Pinot Noir make good pairings.

GIN/ VODKA

The varieties of flavours of gin and vodka are quite staggering as they are so popular. Unusual kosher flavours of gin include – rhubarb and rose, saffron, strawberry and lime, blood orange.

They work well in pasta sauces with cream, pastries and adding a splash will prevent any gluten free pastry dough from splitting and breaking!

LIQUEURS

Amaretto, Cointreau, Baileys, Kahlua, chocolate liqueur are a few of my favourites. Delicious in custards, sweet sauces, creams, mousses, biscuits, zabaglione, brownies, syllabub, cheesecake, cake frosting etc Fruit liqueurs are great in fruit salads and baked fruits like plums, peaches and apples.

WHISKY

For many using whisky in cooking is sacrilege but my recipe for honey whisky cake is just divine! Bourbon and whisky have rich and deep flavours that can balance out ingredients that are acidic like lemons, fruits or grains.

The secret to using alcohol in cooking – less is more, cook on a low heat, do not add into a pan over an open flame – this can start a fire -and pair with suitable ingredients.

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Dear Rabbi Some years ago you used a wonderful analogy of babies in their mother’s womb to explain the existence of G-d. I remember being wowed by it at the time, it is a gem, but I cannot seem to find it anywhere online and I was hoping you could reprint it for the benefit of many readers. We’re reading the story of creation in the Torah once again and many conversations and questions arise. Thank you in anticipation.

Gideon Dear Gideon In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”

The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.” “Nonsense,” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?” The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”

The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.” The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”

The first replied, “Nonsense.

And moreover, if there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery, there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.” “Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”

The first replied “Mother?

You actually believe in Mother?

That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?” The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her.

We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her, this world would not and could not exist.”

Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.” To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”

Maybe this was one of the best explanations of the concept of G-d.

G-D WILLING – THANK G-D

Dear Rabbi I have a very religious friend who is always using terms like “please G-d,” “Thank G-d,” “G-d willing,” etc. You get the gist. I think it’s a little fanatical and actually told him so. He insists it is the right way for a Jew to speak. Is this common practise between religious Jewish people? Is there any sense to it?

Calvin Dear Calvin In the Hagadah on Seder night

we reference the four sons. The wise son asks, “What are all these laws which G-d commanded ‘you’?” The rebellious son asks, “What is the meaning of all ‘your’ ritual?” We condemn the rebellious son because he said, ‘your’ ritual and excluded himself. He is considered as having denied G-d’s existence.

The question for consideration is that the wise son used a similar expression, “commanded ‘you.’” He also seems to exclude himself. Why condemn only the wicked son? The answer is because the wise son still kept reference to G-d in the equation.

The wicked son ignores any such mention.

The Torah tells us that Joseph’s taskmaster “saw that G-d was with him.” The commentaries explain this means that G-d’s name was always on Joseph’s lips. In other words, by virtue of always mentioning G-d’s name, he was attributing his success to G-d and not his own prowess.

The Mishna relates how there was a time that people regularly greeted each other using the Divine name. It is said that the Bal Shem Tov always used expressions like “G-d willing,” etc. in his conversations which drew people in, and allowed for a meaningful impact.

Personally, whenever I am asked how I am, my reply is invariably, “Thank G-d.” And then I’ll add, “thank you.” That really is the Jewish way.

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Ann Dear Ann There is nothing holier than my column. Before reading it you ought to wash your hands and after reading it you ought

to say three chapters of Psalms then warp me up in plastic and bury me with some holy books.

Alternatively, you can just chuck me in the recycling bin. The general rule is that newspapers and magazines which contain Torah articles which are generally intended to be read and kept temporarily, could be wrapped in something like plastic and recycled. However, if they contain actual Biblical verses or Holy names, then those bits should be cut out and indeed sent for “genizah” (special burial).

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Noach’s Birds

BY RABBI MOSHE TARAGIN Planet Earth is covered with boundless water and no dry land is visible. No terrestrial creatures can inhabit this watery chaos. Birds circle overhead. Finally, the waters retreat, and life can commence.

This scene depicts the original creation of our planet. Everything was covered by a watery void until Hashem retracted the watery abyss. But this scene also portrays the conclusion of the flood. Life for Noach and his family could only be restarted once the waters receded and the land dried. Noach’s exit from the ark parallels the initial creation of Bereishit. The world is being reborn anew- hopefully with better results.

Though the two stories are similar, there is one major difference: On the third day of creation, Hashem ordered the waters to contract into specifically designed ocean regions. Powerfully, the sprawling waters rushed across sweeping continents headlong for their ocean beds.

This sudden and violent rush of waters sculpted the earth: river-beds carved out canyons, while ferocious torrents of water chiseled cliffs and mountains from solid rock. Rapidly and relentlessly, the waters coarsed across landmasses obeying divine command.

By contrast, the waters of the flood withdrew slowly and gradually. After 190 days, the anxious waters quieted, but only 17 days later did Noach’s ship finally settle upon a mountain peak. About a month and half later, most tall mountain summits peeked through the water. All this was unbeknown to Noach who was still too frightened to even open a small latch to inspect the scene. A full forty days later Noach finally opened a window, launching his birds to gather intel about his swamped planet. This peculiar tale of two birds is showcased by the Torah to highlight the difference between the rapid retreat of the waters in Bereishit and the gradual and staged ebbing of the waters of Noach. This strange “ballet of birds” symbolizes Noach’s struggle to predict the future of a volatile world.

Noach had experienced an apocalyptic nightmare, witnessing both the devastation of an entire planet as well as the annihilation of the entire human and animal population. For months, traumatized and cloistered within his dark and damp lifeboat, he dared not open a window to the surrounding madness.

Finally, summoning the courage to open a window, he sought a small degree of certainty. Perhaps by dispatching bird

messengers, he could assess the rate of water recession and plan his date of disembarkation. Perhaps the birds could help him calculate the trajectory of the flood, assisting him in planning the end of his unbearable quarantine. Noach, frightened by the mayhem and chaos of the planetary upheaval, desperately wants a schedule or an itinerary. Perhaps his birds could provide a general timeline for the future. Unfortunately, his great hopes would be dashed.

Sadly, his project met with mixed results. The raven- his first agent- provided absolutely no relevant information. It is unclear whether this shadowy messenger was even willing to accept the frightening mission of flying away from the safety of the ark. It hovered near the ark, swooping toward and soaring away, worried by the watery uncertainty. Switching to a dove. Noach assumed that its “homing instincts” would enable it to travel greater distances buoyed by the confidence that it could trace its way back home. The first “dove mission” ended in complete failure as the bird returned empty-beaked.

Even the second “dove mission” wasn’t a rousing success. The olive twig informed Noach of something which had already transpired three months earlier. Only at this stage in mid- Elul, does Noach ascertain that the waters had “eased”. The Torah already informed us that the waters had soothed in in early Sivan! Noach is behind the curve discovering events months after they occurred.

The third and final mission of the dove also provides vague information. The dove doesn’t return: Did the dove discover a nest or did it drown from the weariness of a third straight flight? We may know the answer to this question, but did Noach? Even if the dove had found a stable nesting area, how long would it take for the waters completely disappear?

Additionally, how long would it take for the earth to dry and for the land to once again be inhabitable. After four different attempts to predict the date of his exit from the ark, Noach is still clueless!! His birds have supplied scant information.

What little information has been provided is outdated!

With great irony, the Torah announces the complete vanishing of the waterson Rosh Hashanah, the very day of the inconclusive third mission of the dove.

Noach received no prior information of this long-awaited event. Despite his great efforts he was unable to gather any info about the rate of water recession nor about the drying out period. Finally, close

With great irony, the Torah announces the complete vanishing of the waterson Rosh Hashanah, the very day of the inconclusive third mission of the dove. to two months later the ground completely dries and he exits the ark. All of Noach’s efforts to predict the conclusion of the flood are futile. Even though the flood waters ebbed gradually the pace couldn’t be accurately gauged. Even Noach’s birds, who can hover above the muddy waterscan’t help him gaze beyond the horizon.

Human beings crave certainty in life.

Living in a haphazard world can be terrifying. Ancient Man lived in a completely random and unpredictable world, at the complete mercy of undetectable and puzzling phenomena. Over the centuries, science equipped us with knowledge and tools to organize our world and stabilize our condition by predicting Nature. We successfully converted a world of fluke and serendipity into an organized “cosmos” driven by rational and predictable systems. Science doesn’t just enable analysis and investigation. By understanding our world, we can exploit its potential and improve the human condition.

Statistics has taken predictability one step further: not only can inanimate Nature, be predicted but also human-behavior which appears to be personal and random- can be charted. Predictive algorithms about human behavior helps us “conduct” our world, by engineering

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financial markets, city planning, public health administration and numerous other arenas of human experience.

However, human experience at its core, remains delicate and unpredictable. The past two years have exposed this unchanging reality- all expectations and predictions failed to foretell this pandemic and its repercussions. Society mobilized to conquer this virus but even our best predictions were debunked by mutations, variants, anti-vaxxers and multiple other unforeseen factors. We have all been re-conditioned to live our lives with a higher degree of uncertainty.

Religious-minded people aren’t terrified by uncertainty. Our one abiding certainty is our faith in G-d and our confidence in his care for humanity.

If anything, uncertainty about human predictive models and human conventions spotlights the only actual certainty of life- our faith and our relationship with Hashem.

The writer is a rabbi at Yeshivat Har Etzion/Gush, a hesder yeshiva. He has smicha and a BA in computer science from Yeshiva University as well as a masters degree in English literature from the City University of New York.

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The Window Perspective

BY RABBI HANOCH TELLER Did you ever stop to imagine what life was like inside Noach’s ark?

There were three floors. The middle floor was filled with a collection of the world’s animals: wild, domestic, and otherwise, birds and critters of all shapes and sizes, vermin and an endless potpourri of creepy crawlers.

Then there was a floor of refuse. There was no recycling center and no sewage system that I am aware of. The humans had the top floor. Cramped in an inescapable living space was Noach, his three sons, their wives and one mother-in-law. Surely, it wasn’t The Ritz!

What intrigues (me, at least), are the ark’s detailed architectural instructions. Why? Are there lessons to be learned from the design of the ark? After all, Hashem promised that there will be no more (global) floods and if there will be no more floods, then there need not be any more arks. So what difference does it make how it was built? Obviously,

there are inherent lessons we can learn from the design of the ark. Let’s consider one.

Noach is told to build a window. It seems practical enough; after all, sitting in such a small space for an entire year can get awfully stuffy. But does Noach really need a command to add something as obvious as a window? Do we need to know that this was part of the Heavenly plan?

Sometimes when we are locked in our little boxes, we, too, need a window, i.e. a perspective. For example, a crying baby that denies sleep is infinitely better than no baby or a baby that cannot cry. When we think our world is crumbling and that we are doomed to a fate that is too difficult to bear, the L-rd instructs us to make a window. Sometimes, especially when we are frustrated, we should peek outside. Despite our difficulties and hardships, others are undergoing a more difficult lot. And when we realize that they can endure, then we become cognizant that life inside our particular ark is manageable, after all.

Noach

Author’s note: The idea I have expressed is based on something I saw once, somewhere, and I cannot remember where. I regret not affording credit. / Was Noach a tzaddik or not and what difference does it make? After years, indeed decades, of being troubled by Rashi’s interpretation, I was privileged to gain an insight that resolves my issue.

In the very beginning of the parasha, Rashi interprets the verse: “These are the children of Noach, Noach was a perfect tzaddik in his generations.” There is a polemic regarding “in his generations.” Some of the sages interpret it favorably, that if Noach was righteous in his corrupt generation, how much more so would he have been righteous in a generation of righteous individuals.

Others interpret this critically; he was only righteous in his generation and had he lived in Avraham Avinu’s generation he would have been insignificant.

What always troubled me, from the time

3RD ALIYA (SHLISHI) – 7:17-8:14

Noach is introduced as a righteous man who “walked with God”. He had three sons, Shem, Cham and Yefet. The people have become thieving and corrupt. Noach is told by God that He will destroy the world with a flood and commands Noach to build a wooden Ark with specific dimensions. Noach and his family are to enter the Ark, as well as a male and female of every non-kosher species of animal and bird.

2ND ALIYA (LEVI) – 7:1-16

In addition, seven males and females from each species of kosher animal and bird are to enter the Ark. Noach is 600 years old when the Flood starts. The rain falls gently for the first seven days, then heavily for 40 days and nights.

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1ST ALIYA (KOHEN) – BEREISHIT 6:9-22

I was a little boy, is why interpret critically if there is equal reason to interpret positively?

Finally last year I read Rashi a little more carefully (always a wise policy) and discovered what I had been missing all these years.

Rashi’s precise words are: “Some of our sages interpret positively…” and the contrary opinion is presented as: “Others interpret it negatively…”

It was the sages, our Rabbis, who aligned themselves with the positive approach; and it was the “others” who preferred to interpret negatively. So here is a signpost for life. Whenever you have a choice whether to interpret positively or negatively – and there is no compelling factor in either direction – remember that the Rabbis would favor the positive approach.

7TH ALIYA (SHEVI’I) – 11:1-11:32

The rising Flood waters cover the highest mountains and wipe out every living creature.

The rains strengthen for a further 150 days, after which they stop and the waters start to recede. Ten months after the start of the Flood, the mountain tops become visible again. 40 days later, Noach sends out a raven and then a dove, to see if the Flood waters have receded.

4TH ALIYA (REVI’I) – 8:15-9:7

Upon God’s command, Noach, his family and the animals leave the Ark. Noach builds an altar and brings one of every kosher animal and bird as an offering. This pleases God, Who pledges never again to destroy life on Earth.

5TH ALIYA (CHAMISHI) – 9:8-9:17

God establishes His covenant never to destroy the world with another flood, with the rainbow as its sign. Whenever a rainbow appears, it is a ‘reminder to God’ to keep this promise.

6TH ALIYA (SHISHI) – 9:18-10:32

Noach plants a vineyard, eventually drinking its wine and becoming drunk.

Cham enters Noach’s tent and disgraces his father; Shem and Yefet then protect Noach’s dignity. After Noach wakes up, he realises what has happened and curses Cham and his descendants, but blesses Shem and Yefet. Noach dies at the age of 950. Cham and Yefet’s descendants are listed, including Nimrod, a mighty warrior and conqueror.

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All people share a common language and live in Babylonia. They decide to build a city with a tower that can reach the heavens – the Tower of Babel. The Midrash says that, led by Nimrod, they wanted to wage war against God. However, God thwarts their plans, dispersing them around the world and introducing different languages so that they can no longer understand one another. Shem’s descendants are listed, up to the generation of Avram (later Avraham) and his nephew Lot. Avram marries his niece Sarai (later Sarah), who is not blessed with children. Point to Consider: Why does the Torah give no details of Avraham’s youth or upbringing?

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Chapter 54 of Yeshaya (Isaiah) refers to the Flood, labelling it “the waters of Noach”.

The Midrash explains that Noach was partly to blame for the deluge, as he could have prayed more fervently for his generation to be spared.

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Noach: The Journey of Generations

BY GAVRIEL COHN What is the purpose of these early chapters of Sefer Bereishit? Why is this shocking, early account of humanity relevant?

The chapters tell of mankind’s descent into idolatry, its sordid immorality, and interpersonal strife. A great, destructive flood then struck them. After that divine catastrophe, an ancient Mesopotamian building project, haughty in its design, led to the dispersion and disunity of the world’s population. Why did the Torah, a guidebook for Jews, need to include these troubling tales of bygone eras?

Some have suggested that these ancient records of humanity’s sins serve to teach us how not to behave (Rambam). These episodes also clearly demonstrate how civilisations are responsible for their own destinies. That a society’s actions have inevitable consequences: G-d will certainly punish or displace those that descend into decadence or barbarity (Ramban).

However, if one were to read Sefer Bereshit as a whole, from Creation to the Jewish People’s immigration to Egypt, one perhaps begins to see a far more fundamental reason for the Bible’s inclusion of

this early history of mankind: it tells the history and purpose of how the Jewish People and their Torah came to be.

The first chapters of Sefer Bereshit chart mankind’s failure to recognise G-d and “call out in His name.” Particularism – confining G-d’s mission and laws to a specific ethnic group – gradually became an inevitable necessity in order for Monotheism to survive. As Bereshit tells, mankind, created in the image of G-d, descended into idolatry and became absorbed with gratifying themselves. Monotheism and morality was all but neglected: A might flood purged mankind but then, still not having learnt their lesson, they were dispersed whilst constructing the Tower of Babel. Its builders had intended on and “making a name for themselves” instead of for G-d.

Humanity had totally abandoned G-d and His message of living for others. It was only when Avraham became aware of his Creator at age forty, did this tragic situation begin to turn around. Avraham travelled the known world spreading Monotheism and practicing kindness, proclaiming that “there is only one G-d; it is proper to serve

Him.” This great man and his wife gathered thousands of followers. Yet, gradually, the faithful drifted away; Avraham was left to pass on the truths he had discovered to his sons, forming a distinct ethnic group to carry on his message. At least “there was to be a particular nation within the world which knew G-d.” However, after this family resettled in Egypt, they too fell sway to idolatry, becoming influenced by the depraved surrounding culture. “Within a short time, the fundamental principle of Monotheism that Avraham had planted would have been uprooted.” In order to ensure that Monotheism would be preserved in the world, this clan and ethnic group, Avraham’s descendants, had to be “crowned with Torah and mitzvot;” bound by a divine legislative system given to them by Moshe (see Kaplan on Rambam, Hilchot Avodat Kochavim).

Thus, precisely due to humanity’s downward spiralling in the early years of its history – rejecting their Creator, as charted in the early chapters of Bereshit – was there a need for Avraham to arise and then for the Jewish People and it’s Torah

This small nation became the only way to keep alive the truth of the Creator after it became forgotten in the generations after Adam.

to emerge. This small nation became the only way to keep alive the truth of the Creator after it became forgotten in the generations after Adam. They were to “call out in G-d’s name” for all of humanity because no one else would. In the future, however, G-d’s message will finally be heard by all of mankind, correcting the evil conduct of the generations of the Flood and the Tower of Babel. In the Messianic Era, the Jewish People and their positive influence will grow: “’G-d will transform the peoples into a purer language and they all will call upon the name of G-d and serve Him with one purpose’”… as Isaiah states: ‘The world will be filled with the knowledge of G-d as the waters cover the ocean floor’” (Rambam). These opening portions of Sefer Bereshit tell the start of this journey of human history and how the Jewish People came to be.

[This is Rambam’s view of Jewish history and destiny. There is also another, entirely different school of thought – advanced by scholars from Rashi, R’ Yehuda haLevi, and the Kabblists, until the Hasidic thinkers of today – see Kellner].

Gavriel Cohn is an informal educator at Immanuel College, Bushey. He has written a number of Torah articles for various publications. If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch! gavcohn@ gmail.com.

Chovat Halevavot Halacha A further cause for one to lose their confidence in G-d, is best understood with a comparison to a king who wishes to reprimand one of his servants. The king does not carry out the orders himself; he issues instructions to his “second-in-command” who in turn instructs an officer, who orders the appointed official, who then tells the police officers what is to be carried out.

It is understandable that the lower down in the chain one is, the less power they have to alter the commands of the king. In life, one has to train themselves to look above all the links in the chain that seem to bring to their benefit, which leads a person to believe that each link is so crucial. Instead, one must look towards the Ultimate cause and the most powerful One – Hashem.

A baby from the start completely depends on the source of its milk. When it recognises more in life, it depends on its mother as a person. When the child grows

older, they see how their mother depends on their father and they thereby turn to their father for assistance too. Then the child matures and understands that they too can earn a few pounds and they look to earn it themselves.

(One pious person had a neighbour who was a scribe, who would earn his income from his writing. One day, the pious person asked his neighbour – How are you? The neighbour answered – I am okay so long as my hand is! On the same day, a tragedy occurred, and the scribe’s hand was permanently injured. This, says the author, was seen as a retributory act due to the man’s misplaced confidence in his hand.)

Eventually, a person should mature to the extent that they realise that the people who they see as their source of income are likewise mere mortals and therefore not depend on people in place of G-d.

From Musaf of Shemini Atzeret until the first day of Pesach we recite the following formula in Shemoneh Esrei: Mashiv Horuach U’Morid HaGeshem.

(Hashem makes the wind blow and the rain fall) Some say “Mashiv Horuach U’Morid Ha”Goshem” and see Rabbi Y Spitz’s “Insights into Halacha” courtesy of Ohr.Edu for a wide ranging discussion on this). If, out of habit one forgot to say this OR if in the 30 days from Shemini Atzeret, one is in true doubt whether or not they said it or not, then they must repeat Shemoneh Esrei.

The idea behind the 30 days is that one thereby can consider themselves to be in the habit of saying the correct prayer and therefore if in doubt, will not need to repeat Shemoneh Esrei. For this reason some say that one can create this habit quicker - recite the part of Shemoneh Esrei

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from the beginning of the second half of the first sentence and add “Mashiv Horuach u’Morid HaGeshem” 90 times thereby creating this new habit and be reassured thereby that they said the correct words.

If one is still in the Brachah of Mechayeh Hametim, but before the word, “Ven’eaman (atah)” and realises that they have omitted saying “Mashiv Haruach U’morid HaGeshem”, then they should return to say it and continue from there.

If one has started saying “Ven’eman” then they should return to the part of “Mashiv Haruach U’morid HaGeshem and continue from “Vene’man”. If they have said the closing words “Baruch Atah Hashem” then they should say “Mechayeh Hametim” and say “Mashiv Haruach Umorid HaGeshem” then continue with the third Brachah of “Atah Kadosh.”

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The Simple Formula for Greatness: 5 Short Steps

BY RABBI SHMUEL REICHMAN I’d like to start off our new column with a simple question: Why is the world obsessed with greatness? Why do we idolize superheroes? The reason is actually quite simple. We’re drawn towards greatness because we know that we’re destined for greatness. We identify with the hero of the story because we know that we are capable, and destined, to become the hero of our own story.

And yet, how many people do you know who are truly great? Most of us are convinced that we’re simply “okay.”

We may have role models we look up to, who we consider to be truly great. But when we look in the mirror, do we see greatness? Do we expect greatness from ourselves? If we are all truly capable of achieving greatness, why do so few strive for it, and even fewer achieve it?

When I was younger, I became obsessed with this question. I was fascinated by what drives and motivates people to do what they do. In addition to formally studying the subject, I began asking every successful person I met to explain how they became who they became. Is there is a secret? What do great people do that is so different from everyone else? In addition to research and experience, I spent my life interviewing the greatest minds of our generation. At Shaalvim and Yeshiva University, I sat down with the rebbeim and tried to understand their journey towards becoming a true talmid chacham. While studying at Harvard and UChicago, I would interview my professors and colleagues to find out what drove them and what helped them succeed.

More recently, when I was preparing to launch my first company and write my first book, I sat down with the very best in the industry to find out what worked and what didn’t. Surprisingly enough, the formula for greatness is actually quite simple.

THE 5-STEP FORMULA FOR GREATNESS

1- The Initial Idea Every great journey begins with a great idea. This idea begins as a spark, a flash of inspiration. At this point, the idea remains ethereal, undefined, and still somewhat elusive. While you may know that you have accessed a life-changing idea, you still can’t fully grasp what it is; it’s there, but you can’t put your finger on it. Only after this initial stage of inspiration does the idea begin to develop into a more concrete and expressed construct within your mind: the flash turns into a vision, a dream. At this stage, while the idea is tangible, it is still general and not fully defined.

Next, you need to take the general idea, this amazing dream, and create a

practical, detailed, and realistic plan to bring it to fruition; you need to turn the dream into a reality. The general idea is therefore broken down, analysed, and processed. Now, you can actually picture the idea in your head, as the abstract dream becomes expressed in detail. The simple idea increases in sophistication and complexity, general thought begins weaving and intertwining in unique and creative detailed pathways. You begin to realize that it’s going to take a lot more work than you thought; you’re going to need a lot more resources than you could have ever imagined. But still, it’s worth it.

2- Taking Action: Concreting the Plan into Something Real The vision and plan are the easy part.

Now, you need to actually do it. This is where we get to begin living our dream, where the concrete plan within our mind become expressed outwards into the world. But to do this, we need to find the energy and willpower to take the dream that resides within us and make it a reality. Sometimes, the hardest part is simply getting started (kol hatchalos kashos).

We want to wait until that “perfect time” when everything will be just right. But we also know that it will never be the “perfect time” to do a great thing. We need to decide to make it the perfect time, harness our willpower, and get started.

3- Inspiration: Working Through the Initial Stages of Growth The initial stages of growth are tremendously exciting and easy, and for good reason. Going from nothing to something is inspiring. Imagine you start learning an instrument: after a few sessions, you can go from “not being able to play at all” to “I can actually play something.” It might not sound great, or even good, but these initial stages of growth propel us forward and inspire us to commit to our initial dream, to keep hold of our vision.

The same is true when we take on a new learning goal, begin a new relationship, create a company, or start any new stage of life. It may be difficult, but the joy of progress usually overcomes the pain of the struggle. We embrace the sacrifice that our dream will cost.

4- Hitting a Wall: Losing Our Inspiration But just as we were beginning to enjoy the growth process, we find ourselves hitting a brick wall and losing that initial inspiration. This is partially because the initial stage of growth was filled with exponential progress; you went from zero to sixty in no time at all! But once you start to steady out and begin a slower and more gradual ascent, it’s significantly harder to see the growth. You continue putting in the same amount of effort, but you’re not

seeing the same results. At this point, you want nothing more than to give up and call it quits.

5- Pushing Through: Earning Your Greatness Once the inspiration fades, we need to find the internal strength and willpower to continue pushing forward. The inspiration might not be there, but we need to remember our original dream, we need to remember why we started this in the first place. As the saying goes, “he who has a ‘why’ can overcome any ‘how.’”

The deeper meaning behind this process is elucidated by the Arizal, Ramchal, Vilna Gaon, and many other Jewish thinkers. The first stage of inspiration is

Every goal is only temporary, for whenever we accomplish it, we will almost immediately create a new one. a gift, a spiritual high. It’s there to help you experience the goal, the destination.

It’s a taste of what you can and hopefully will ultimately accomplish; but it’s not real, it’s given as a gift, and is therefore an illusion. It serves only as a guiding force; it cannot compare to the genuine accomplishment of building something yourself. It is therefore taken away to allow for the second and more important stage: building it yourself, undergoing the work required to attain this growth in actuality, to work for the perfection that you were shown. A gift isn’t real, something chosen and earned is. We’re in this world to choose, to assert our free will, and to create ourselves. Now that we have tasted the first stage, we know what we’re meant to choose, what we’re meant to build. The third stage is the recreation of the first stage. While it appears to be the same, it’s fundamentally different. It’s real, it’s earned, it’s yours.

The first stage was a gift, an illusion; the third is the product born of the effort and time you invested.

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REVISE YOUR GOALS AND BEGIN AGAIN

At this point, we begin a life of cycling through these five stages again and again.

As we continue striving for our greatness, we reassess our original goals and we question our original definition of greatness. We then adjust, develop, or upgrade our vision, goals, destination, plan, tools, etc. We then go through another stage of inspiration, albeit usually quicker, because we aren’t starting from scratch this time. We’ll then hit that same wall and lose our inspiration and have to search deep within ourselves for the willpower to keep pushing forward.

You might ask: if the original goal will ultimately be revised or replaced, what then is the point of it? In essence, while the initial goal is necessary, its importance lies only in how it allows you to journey towards your greatness. Every goal is only temporary, for whenever we accomplish it, we will almost immediately create a new one. There are even times when we realise that our goal was not even possible or appropriate to begin with, but it still helped us progress in the right direction. The greatest joy does not come from arriving at our goals, but from the journey itself, the striving itself, the process of progress and the continued elevation of our existential self.

The Ramban quotes the claims of the fools who challenge the worth of pursuing truth. After all, if we will never reach absolute truth, as it transcends our limited minds, what then is the point in pursuing wisdom? Better not to journey at all. The Ramban responds with a profound insight.

The goal is not to reach absolute truth, as this is impossible. The goal is to endlessly strive along the winding path towards truth, getting ever closer, even if the ultimate endpoint remains elusive. Every single step we take is progress, and this is the goal of life. An endless journey, but one in which we enjoy every single stage of growth and evolution. The journey itself is infinitely important.

IT’S NOT MAGIC

This is the process of growth, the process of achieving greatness. It’s really as simple as this. The principles are clear and will always stay the same. When you see people are great, this is the path they have taken, and the path they are currently on. It’s not magic. It’s simply the process of listening to the dreams that Hashem gives us, acting on the inspiration, and the willpower, desire, and inner drive to push past all the obstacles along the way (and grow from them).

And the best part? Anyone can do it.

Not everyone can become the greatest spiritual giant or world-class athlete, but we can maximize our unique potential and become the greatest version of ourselves, becoming all that we were created to be.

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Parshat Noach is all about the famous flood which G-d brought to the world as a punishment for a generation which was rampant in sin. For 120 years, Noach faithfully constructed an ark in which he, his wife and family were to be housed for the best part of a year. Two of each nonKosher species were brought in as were seven of each kosher species. The rain fell and the entire generation were wiped out.

Eventually Noach sought out life so he sent out a raven followed by a dove following the return of which he understood the flood to have finished. He left the ark and planted a vineyard, which he used its products of to get drunk. When he was found in a compromised position his son Cham mocked him so Noach

missed a curse upon the descendants of Cham to be slaves. Shem and Yafes on the other hand were blessed. We also learn of the rainbow and it’s significance as well as the Tower of Bavel which the nations used to imagine waging war with Heaven (as it were). From that point on, different languages developed and nations spread apart (as, some say) did the continents themselves. We have ten generations between Noach and the next hero, our dear ancestor Avram.

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haim was feeling glum. He walked slowly with his head down, trying to concentrate on the pebble he was kicking in front of him.

It was so unfair. He had really tried this year. He had spent time in shul on Yom Kippur davening to Hashem to forgive him for not remembering to say all his brachos and for rushing through davening.

How could it be that two weeks later he was already messing up.

Take yesterday for example. He was at school eating his lunch and having a wonderful daydream about flying an aeroplane.

Suddenly he realised that everyone had already started benching and that now he would have to rush benching or he would be late for class.

The day before yesterday was even worse. It was a Sunday, packed with going to shul, learning with Abba and then a family trip to Holland Park. When he and Abba had got home to have breakfast before the outing, the house was in chaos. Everyone was running around looking for their backpacks and water bottles and making their lunches. He felt so rushed that he started eating breakfast without saying a bracha.

Then he was so mad at himself that he was in a grumpy mood all day and couldn’t even enjoy the park.

He just couldn’t understand. Why couldn’t he get things right? He’d meant what he said on Yom Kippur so how could he still

Another Chance make the same mistakes that he had promised not to?

Chaim was still in a bad mood at the start of the last lesson of the day.

“This week’s sedra is parsha Noach. We have two famous stories of Noach and his teivah (ark) and the Tower of Bavel. There are so many interesting lessons to learn

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this week, but given that we have just had Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, I’d like to pick up on something we can learn from the building of the teivah.” Rabbi Friedman smiled and continued.

“It took Noach 120 years to build the teivah! Why was this? Was he just bad at DIY like me?” All the boys laughed.

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“No,” he continued, “Hashem wanted to give everyone a chance to do Teshuva, so Noach built the teivah very slowly to give them as much chance as possible. Noach wanted everyone to know that it wasn’t too late to ask for forgiveness and to start behaving better. Unfortunately, the people of Noach’s time didn’t pay attention and the flood still happened and they weren’t saved. But there is a lesson for us here, that there was still a chance for them to be saved! If only they had taken it.”

“So what can we learn from this? We have spent so much time davening to Hashem to forgive us for what we have done wrong.

We promise Him that we will do better in the next year. Then what happens? Life returns to normal. We are human and we make mistakes, sometimes even the same ones we promised we would do better on.

But Noach’s slow building of the teivah can teach us, there is always another chance!

Even when we make a mistake, we can decide, do we let the yetzer hora bring us down and persuade us to give up or do we pick ourselves up and take the opportunity to try again.”

Chaim thought about what his Rabbi said as he made his way through the playground at the end of the school day. He wouldn’t let the yetzer hora get the better of him, he would keep trying to be better as hard as he could. Even if he made a mistake, there was always another chance.

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In a nutshell Parshat Noach details the story of the major flood that was suffered by the entire world population as a result of their sins. One man remained with his family and that was Noach. The only righteous man in his generation, with some of his family following his good ways, Noach first heard about the flood 120 years before it was brought on. Hashem instructed him to build a Teiva – an ark, with three tiers. The lowest level was for the waste, the middle for the animals and the top floor for Noach, his wife and family.

Each of the animals and birds destined to be Kosher were brought in groups of seven, whereas those not Kosher came in groups of two. For a year, Noach devotedly fed and nourished the animals.

The first 40 days of the flood involved heavy rain.

Then for 150 days the waters churned and raised to mountain top heights. In order to detect whether or not it was time to leave the ark, Noach sent out a

raven. Eventually he also sent out a number of doves and, when one returned with a leaf, he understood the flood is over. The ark landed on Mount Ararat.

After the flood was finished, Noach is shown a rainbow in the sky and Hashem reveals to him that this would be used as a sort of testimony that Hashem will never bring a worldwide flood again against mankind. Noach is now allowed to eat meat – which was not previously allowed – and warned that flesh or blood of a living animal is not allowed to be eaten. These, among seven Mitzvot of the “sons of Noach” apply to all of mankind, as everyone is a descendant of Noach.

Noach had walked out of the Teiva into a new world and started again by offering sacrifices to Hashem and by planting a vineyard. Consuming the produce of the vineyard turned Noach drunk, and he was left in a uncomplimentary state. His son, Cham did not respond correctly to this and was therefore cursed

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by Noach to be the father of a nation of slaves.

Shem and Yafes, the other two boys, respectfully covered up their father, protecting his honour, and were blessed by Noach.

The sidra continues with the story of the Tower of Bavel. Some nations thought it wise to build a tower and, as it were, go up to the top to take on G-d Himself! Hashem dispersed them by revealing new languages, which confused the project workers, and the idea was then abandoned.

At the end of the Sidra, we are introduced to our beloved ancestor Avram. Born into a family of idolworshippers, he was the only one to stand up for what was right, to recognise that it was Hashem who created the world and that there is no true power besides Hashem. He was thrown into the fire of Kasdim by Nimrod, but, guess what? He emerged completely unharmed as if he had just walked around a pleasant garden.

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Q: Where do cows go for entertainment?

A: To the moo-vies!

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A: In the river bank!

Q: What is the difference between elephants and grapes?

A: Grapes are purple.

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1. I am six letters.

When you take one away I am twelve.

What am I?

2. What word looks the same backwards and upside down?

3) The letter ‘R’!

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1. Double vision 2. Love is in the air 3. Blood is thicker than water

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3. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter.

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Q: What is orange and sounds like a parrot?

A: A carrot!

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Manchester United and Everton drew 1-1 at Old Trafford.

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David Moyes told Sky Sports, “It’s a missed opportunity, let’s hope we can take opportunities in the days to come.”

Tottenham Hotspur ended a three game losing spell with a 2-1 home victory against Aston Villa.

After a calamitous derby display at Arsenal this result was needed after their last league clash. Son Heung-min set up Pierre Emile-Hojbjerg before forcing Matt Targett into an own goal shortly after Oli Watkins for Villa in the second half.

Tottenham boss Nuno Espirito Santo told Sky Sports, “All the players did well, we have talented players and when they are confident, they are unstoppable.”

Aston Villa’s Dean Smith told BBC MOTD, “It feels like it got away from us. It is a disappointment. I didn’t think there was too much between the teams.”

Crystal Palace showed tremendous fighting spirit to come from 2-0 behind to draw against Leicester City in an exciting clash at Selhurst Park.

The Foxes struck against the run of play when Kelechi Iheanacho pounced on a mistake to fire home just past the half hour.

And when Jamie Vardy clinically finished before the break the game appeared over.

But the Eagles have steel about them under new boss Patrick Viera and roared back with strikes from teenage substitute Michael Olise and Jeffrey Schlupp for a just point.

Vieira told BBC MOTD, “I am disappointed because thinkdelighted we created Fortune enough circumstances, ” Isaid chances to win the game.” boss Simon Linden.

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Leeds United picked up a first league victory thanks to a smart finish from defender Diego Llorente who was back in the side after injury against Watford at Elland Road.

The hosts should have wrapped up the game long before Illan Meslier’s fumbled the ball into his own net but his blushes were spared by the referee who spotted an infringement in the penalty box.

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