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CHIEF: SHULS MUST

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GAY
JEWS
Mirvis urges community to open its
heart in wake of Orlando massacre
THE CHIEF RABBI has called on synagogues
under his auspices to do more to open their
hearts to gay community members in the wake
the murder of 49 precious innocents in the attack on a Florida nightclub, writes Justin Cohen.
Ephraim Mirvis insisted the Torah, while taking a
clear position against homosexual acts, leaves
us in no doubt about our responsibility to provide
a welcoming environment in our synagogues and
beyond for all Jews regardless of religious levels
or sexual orientation.
In his most far-reaching statement to date on
the issue, Mirvis said: After Orlando, we must
take a step beyond condemnation and open our
hearts and our synagogues so that no Jew feels
persecuted or excluded from the warm embrace
of our communities.
It came after the worst mass shooting attack in
American history as ISIS-inspired gunman Omar

Mateen attacked the gay club in Orlando last Saturday night, leaving a further 53 people injured
before he himself was killed in a gun battle with
police. Message of anguish, condemnation and
tribute have poured in from around the globe
while vigils were held worldwide including an unprecedented show of support in Soho.
At a time of such anguish, it is difficult to adequately convey the depths of our moral revulsion for an individual who was so motivated by
hatred that it led him to mass murder, the Chief
Rabbi said.
We must also be honest enough to recognise
that there are places where the scourge of homophobia persists, even in our own communities,
and that is totally unacceptable, Where hate is
religiously motivated, he wrote, faith leaders carry
Plea: Chief
Rabbi
Ephraim
Mirvis
a particular responsibility to act.

Welcoming the statement, Jewish gay
advocacy group Keshet UK said: Many
LGBT people and their families will be
comforted to hear his position.
But saying many Jews still feel forced to
choose between their Jewish and LGBT
identity, causing untold suffering, the group
added: It's time now to go beyond these good
words and take action. The Chief Rabbi
has met with Keshet UK to discuss
how we can work together to
make our community more inclusive. Every Jewish school,
youth movement, synagogue
and community group should
now do the same.
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NEWS
Israeli to head UN
body for first time
ISRAELS AMBASSADOR to the
UN has been chosen to lead
the world body dealing with
the legal aspects of terrorism
the first time an Israeli diplomat has been elected to head
a permanent UN committee.
Western European states
were among the 109 countries
to back Israeli envoy and former
settler leader Danny Danon for
Sixth Committee presidency
after lobbying from the World
Jewish Congress and others.
Jewish leaders trumpeted
the diplomatic coup as offering
a glimmer of hope after years
of berating the United Nations
for its perceived anti-Israel bias.
WJC president Ronald
Lauder called it a significant
victory for Israel and a glimmer
of hope while WJC chief executive Robert Singer heralded
the historic achievement.

The Sixth Committee describes itself as the primary
forum for consideration of
legal questions in the General
Assembly, dealing with issues
such as terrorism, universal jurisdiction, the protection of victims of armed conflict and the
law surrounding the use of
water sources that span state
boundaries.
Danon is a controversial figure. He opposes the creation of
a Palestinian state, and was
given the UN brief only after
Brazil rejected his nomination as
Israels ambassador in Brasilia.
Israel is a world leader in international law and in fighting
terrorism, he said. We are
pleased to have the opportunity
to share our knowledge with the
countries of the world.
Muslims welcomed at
shul for Big Royal Iftar
MEMBERS OF Londons Muslim community were welcomed
to a synagogue last weekend
to break their Ramadan fast.
More than 200 people from
Islamic, Christian and Jewish
communities came together on
Saturday night for the Big Iftar
at West London Synagogue.
The annual initiative marks
the evening Iftar meal, which
Muslims hold to end their daily
fast during Ramadan.
Guests enjoyed a vegetarian
buffet and cake to celebrate
Shavuot and the Queens 90th
birthday, which coincided with
the event.
The project, now in its second year, was set up by interfaith activist Julie Siddiqi to
improve community understanding and relations.
WLS Senior Rabbi, Baroness
Julia Neuberger, praised Siddiqi, who also founded Sadaqa

Day, the Muslim communitys
equivalent of Mitzvah Day.
Neuberger said: I am proud
my community has embraced
so wholeheartedly Julies inspired idea of The Big Iftar,
combining it this year with
Shavuot and Her Majesty the
Queens 90th birthday, in celebration of the wonderful diversity of the United Kingdom.
This year, organisers renamed
the event The Big Royal Iftar in
recognition of the Jewish communitys celebration of the
Royal Shabbat for Shavuot.
Speeches were made by
Rabbi Helen Freeman and Islamic teacher and scholar Rakin
Fertuga Cisse about fostering
dialogue and breaking down
barriers between communities.
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of Tel Aviv, after life returned to normal in
the city following last weeks deadly attack
at the Sarona market, when two Palestinian
gunmen killed four Jewish Israeli diners,
writes Stephen Oryszczuk.
As Tel Aviv residents returned to work and
even rallied to support the victims of the
Orlando attack, the head of Israels military
intelligence, Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, said the
countrys response to last Wednesdays murders sent a strong message to its enemies.
Autopsies have delayed some of the
funerals of the Sarona victims, including former Special Forces soldier Ido Ben Ari,
mother-of-four Ilana Naveh, university professor Michael Feige and 32-year-old Mila
Mishayev, who was waiting for her fianc.
One of the 16 injured, a 27-year-old man
shot twice in the head during the attack,
walked out of hospital this week with one
of the bullets as a souvenir. Assaf Bar, who
is expected to make a full recovery, still has
the other bullet lodged in his skull.
The attack prompted a security crackdown, with increased raids on homes and
workshops in the West Bank, the withdrawal
of travel permits for Ramadan, and IDF
plans to demolish the homes of the two perpetrators in the town of Yatta, near Hebron.
The town is also home to the 16-year-old
who stabbed a mother-of-six to death in her
home in January. His home has also been
destroyed.
Right-wing religious nationalists, many living in Jewish settlements in the West Bank,
Clockwise from top: The four victims of the Sarona market attack Ilana Naveh, Mila Mishayev,
Michael Feige and Ido Ben Ari. Above: relatives mourn Ben Ari at his funeral in Yavne
were condemned for joining Hamas in

celebrating the Tel Aviv attacks on social
media, joyous that the countrys cosmopolitan heart had also been targeted.
Comments were posted welcoming the
death of Arab lovers and leftists, as the
secular majority in the city is seen. Zionist
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Reform Judaism, Liberal Judaism and
the Board of Deputies are among
those to have condemned the
attacks, widely described as Americas worst ever mass shooting, and
declared solidarity with the US and
the global gay community. Liberal
Judaism described the horror as an
attack on all of us.
And in an apparent reference to
the Sky News newspaper review spat
between journalists Owen Jones and
Julia Hartley-Brewer over whether
the attacks were homophobic or instead, as the latter suggested,
against all humanity, Reform Judaism urged that the attack be acknowledged as a deliberate act of
homophobic terror.
It also called for Jews to condemn
institutional prejudices and casual
acts of disdain, as well as explicit
homophobic and transphobic violence.
Earlier, Senior Rabbi to Reform Ju-
daism, Laura Janner-Klausner, spoke

on Radio 4s Thought for the Day
about her gender non-binary child.
She described the attacks as close
to my heart and to my central
parental nervous system.
Her claim that religious people,
especially clergy, were responsible
for countering homophobia and
transphobia was echoed in the form
of a re-tweet by Keshet UK.
Other Jewish individuals and
organisations offered their condolences to the families.
Jewish journalist Benjamin Cohen,
chief executive of gay newspaper
Pink News, said there was
a continuum between feelings of
hatred for LGBT people and this
weekends sickening violence.
He continued: We can only hope
that the almost unanimous condemnation of the attack will foster an
environment where LGBT people can
live and prosper in a climate without
fear.
Union Knesset Member Merav Michaeli was

one of many expressing disbelief at the
sentiments. Addressing the commentators
directly, she said: I refuse to believe that
you think that Israeli women and men
deserve to be murdered in a terror attack,
even if they are leftists.
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LIVING A LIE
FORMER SHADOW cabinet minister Chuka
Umunna angrily insisted Ken Livingstone had
become a pin-up for the kind of prejudice
Labour was created to fight, as the former
mayor stood by his claim Hitler supported Zionism under intense questioning from MPs.
Giving evidence to a parliamentary inquiry
into anti-Semitism, the former London mayor
said he stood by the comments, and blamed
embittered Blairites for forcing his suspension from the Labour Party as part of a bid to
undermine leader Jeremy Corbyn. He said
he expected the review set up under Shami
Chakrabarti to investigate allegations of antiSemitism within the party to find that it involved only a handful of recent recruits
and was not a problem inherent to Labour.
But in his scathing summing up following
questioning, Umunna told Livingstone: By
needlessly and repeatedly offending Jewish
people, you not only betray our Labour values
but you betray your legacy as mayor. Because
all youre now going to be remembered for is
becoming a pin-up for the kind of prejudice
our party was built to fight against. Thats a
huge shame and it is an embarrassment.
Earlier, the president of the Board of
Deputies, Jonathan Arkush, told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee that
Labours shift to the left under Corbyn had
emboldened anti-Semites on the far left to
voice their prejudices. The election of a
leader who is associated with the Palestine
Solidarity Campaign, with Stop the War, with

a very hostile position on Israel, and someone
who has thought it appropriate to meet here
in the democratic mother of parliaments with
terrorist organisations whose stated mission
in life is to kill as many Christians and Jews as
possible, has clearly sent the wrong sort of
message to some people, said Arkush.
He added: With the advent of a more leftwards tilt in the leadership of the Labour Party,
some people feel that a space has been
opened up for them, or they feel emboldened to say things which previously they felt
they couldnt say in polite society.
Arkush welcomed the the Chakrabarti review, but added: We are concerned that the
impression is being given by the leader of
the Labour Party of a certain reluctance to
accept these issues. The impression we have
got is that every step taken has had to be
wrung out of him by public pressure.
He said he had pressed Corbyn to accept
that his earlier meetings with Hamas and
Hezbollah had been inappropriate and
should not be repeated, and was concerned
that the Labour leader had not yet done so.
Livingstone was suspended from the
Labour Party in April amid a row over his remarks about Hitler, which led to a confrontation in front of TV cameras with furious
Labour MP John Mann, who
branded him a Nazi apologist.
The former London mayor told
the committee the allegation was a lie and

he could have sued Mann over it. He said he
had been trying to calm the Bassetlaw MP
because he seemed to be on the edge of
violence and he feared Mann would take
a swing at him.
Livingstone insisted he was right to say that
Hitler had at one point supported Zionism as
a way of getting rid of Jewish people from
Germany. He repeatedly told the cross-party
committee he had been approached in the
street by Jews agreeing he was right.
In a written statement, he said: I
detest racism and condemn antiSemitism. Indeed my political
career has totally opposed any
such views concerning any religious or ethnic group.
Challenged to offer an
apology for his comments, he
said: If I had said something
that was untrue and caused offence, I would have apologised, but what I said was
true. What caused offence
was a group of embittered
old Blairites running around
lying about what I said.
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inquiry on Tuesday
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NEWS
MPs TACKLE EU AT
BREXODUS DEBATE
referendum over whether or
not it is to remain within the
EU, Morgan affirmed Remains
view that influencing such
decisions and being at the table
was better than leaving.
Carswell, who grew up in
Uganda, drew applause from the
audience on several occasions;
once referring to Israels status as
an awkward riposte to the idea
that self-determination has had its
day; another when he recounted
his memory of Operation Entebbe
in 1976, when he was five.
On migration, he called for
limits and warned of asylum
seekers in Europe arriving in
Britain after becoming citizens in
other EU member states.
Morgan criticised Carswell for
promoting what she described
as a nasty and mean-spirited
viewon refugees.
The UKIP MP rejected such remarks, but did not deny her suggestion that even youre better
than party leader Nigel Farage on
migration the two Brexiteers
have a notoriously fractious relationship and are reported not to
be in regular dialogue.
Only last week, Boris Johnson
and Michael Gove made a major
joint speech at Formans Fish
Island, near the Olympic Stadium,

where Brexodus was held.
Carswell drew support from an
audience that appeared slightly
more pro-Brexit although he stumbled on what Britains economy
would look like outside of the EU.
Morgan said he had no answer
to what the terms of trade would
be with Britain outside the EU.
However, he claimed there was
an honourable and honest case
for remaining in the EU but that
Morgan, who generally demonstrated less command of Israeli and
Jewish affairs, had not made it.
Both contestants accused the
other side of scaremongering in
what was primarily a re-run of
Remain and Brexits key debates
ahead of the referendum. Morgan
and Carswell similarly both invoked their childrens futures in
their concluding remarks in the
debate, which was introduced by
Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer
and chaired by Alan Mendoza of
the Henry Jackson Society.
This week The Times reported
that Britain is on course for Brexit
after a YouGov survey it commissioned recorded a seven point lead.
A Guardian survey predicted a similar result by a slimmer margin.
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Picture: Marc Morris
EDUCATION SECRETARY Nicky

Morgan and UKIPs Douglas Carswell sparred over shechita and
Palestinian terrorism at the Jewish
News-J-TV Brexodus EU referendum debate on Tuesday night,
writes Gabriel Pogrund.
Frontbencher and key Cameron
ally Morgan claimed there is
absolutely a guarantee that ritual slaughter will be safeguarded if
Britain remains in the European
Union, claiming a Conservative or
any reasonable government would
always block such a move. A veto
on shechita, the MP for Loughborough said, was too important
not to have.
However, Carswell, UKIPs only
representative in Westminster,
claimed religious slaughter now
rested in the hands of faceless
bureaucrats in Brussels.
The former Conservative MP,
who stepped down to join UKIP
and won a consequent by-election
in his constituency of Clacton, also
claimed that the EU is responsible
for backing legislation against
Israel, such as the labelling of
goods from the occupied West
Bank. Labelling of such goods has
been enshrined in European law
since last year.
Nine days ahead of the UKs
Chief Rabbi praises 9m Bushey Green sorry over BHS

cemetery as a vital place of awe
THE REDEVELOPMENT of Bushey Cemetery is on track for completion and consecration by the end of 2017, religious leaders
have said, leading to thousands of new burial plots by the spring.
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and United
Synagogue president Stephen Pack visited
the site, in Little Bushey Lane, this week, with
Mirvis describing it as a place of awe.
The overall cost of the project is 9million
and incorporated in the design are two
new prayer halls, which feature walls made
of rammed earth. These use highly-compressed natural materials clad with timber
to store heat in the cold and stay cool in the
summer.
The high-profile delegation heard how
the sites environmentally-friendly approach
involved water features and a range of
plants, leading Mirvis to say it was a place
of dignity and beauty, tranquility and awe.
He added that the sites development
was a vital mitzvah, while Pack said the
multi-million pound project would be a
most dignified and attractive cemetery that
the whole community can be proud of.
Pack argued that the sites development
would help cater for the needs of the community, saying: As mainstream Orthodox
Judaism continues to thrive in our communities, we must ensure that this vital communal infrastructure is in place.
Picture: Yakir Zur
The Chief Rabbi with United Synagogue president Stephen Pack at the Bushey site
Mirvis added that the development

highlights that for us, as Jews, it is of the
utmost importance that we care for our departed loved ones.
Chairman of the US property committee,
Peter Zinkin, said; The support of both the
Chief Rabbi and the president of the US for
this project illustrates how very important this
development is to us all. The new Bushey
Cemetery will be a key feature in the Jewish

landscape for years to come one which will
provide many thousands of people with a fitting resting place for their loved ones.
Referencing the biodegradable walls, US
property services director Lali Virdee said:
This is a visionary project which makes innovative and creative use of natural materials
in a way that recognises the cycle of life.
SIR PHILIP Green has apologised to the staff of collapsed retailer BHS, adding
that he will sort the firms
dilapidated pension scheme,
which has a 571million
black hole.
The Topshop billionaire
faced MPs from the Business
and Pensions committees on
Wednesday, who are investigating the firms failure.
The Jewish businessman
said: Nothing is more sad
than how this has ended and
I hope... you will hear that
there was no intent on my
part for anything to be like
this and didnt need to be
like this.
I just want to apologise to
all the BHS people who are
involved in this and have
been involved.
BHS collapse has left a
potential 11,000 jobs at risk
and a 571m pensions black
hole, with the schemes of approximately 20,000 current
and former workers falling
into the Pension Protection
Fund (PPF). But the tycoon
vowed: We want to find a
solution for the 20,000 pensioners. We still believe that
money into the PPF does not
resolve it. The schemes are
quite complex, but from what

Ive seen I would say its resolvable, its sortable, we will
sort it, we will find a solution
and I want to give my assurances to the 20,0000 pensioners that Im here to sort this.
He told the MPs there was
now a light in the tunnel
for the scheme and added
that he had little to do with
BHS pension trustees but
took the blame for the current state of the scheme. Its
my fault, he said.
Sir Philip has also come in
for criticism for taking 400m
in dividends out of the firm
during his 15-year ownership
and selling it for 1 to former
bankrupt Dominic Chappell
in 2015.
However, he claimed that,
through his Arcadia retail
empire, he had pumped
600m into BHS after the
dividend payments.
He also defended his use
of the Monaco tax haven
to run his business, saying:
I dont accept that it is tax
avoidance. I could have been
a lot more aggressive than
I probably was. Every penny
our company has made in
the United Kingdom has paid
tax.
NEWS
UK aid incentivises Palestinian terror, MP claims

THE UKS foreign aid budget is acting as an incentive to Palestinian terrorists, a Labour MP has
claimed.
Joan Ryan said aid handed to the Palestinian
Authority (PA) is being indirectly used to pay prisoners who have committed violent attacks against
Israelis during the bitter Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
International Development Minister Desmond
Swayne denied the claims, insisting money given
to the PA funds specific civil servants, helping to
prepare for a government in the event of
a two-state solution.
But Ryan suggested the aid frees
up extra cash within the PA to pay
convicted Palestinian terrorists, including Taleb Mehamara, who targeted Israelis in a shooting attack.
Speaking during a debate on
foreign aid spending in Westminster Hall, she said aid
given to the PA was failing
the UKs scrutiny tests.
The Enfield North MP said:
Let me give one example,
the issue of the PAs payments
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomes released prisoners. Inset: Labour MP Joan Ryan
to convicted Palestinian terrorists. These are not, as
one Dfid minister claimed in 2012, social assistance
programmes to provide welfare payments, instead
by operating a perverse sliding scale where you receive more money the longer sentence you receive,
in some cases as much as five times the average

monthly wage in Ramallah, they actually incentivise
people to commit the most terrible acts of violence.
I simply dont see how that advances the cause
of a two-state solution.
She added: The payments we make enable

the Palestinian Authority to make their payments
to prisoners.
Her complaints were echoed by Labour former
minister Ian Austin, who said the aid payments
were in direct contradiction to the demands of the
international community.
Swayne insisted British taxpayers money
does not fund terrorism and defended the thoroughly scrutinised list of aid recipients.
He said: Our taxpayers money goes to build
the Palestinian Authority so it is able to morph
into the government of a Palestinian state when
that opportunity arises and we pay named civil
servants for the provision of public services.
Ryan, who accused the minister of wilfully
ignoring the matter, said the aid should be suspended pending an inquiry and aid instead directed to co-existence projects.
Former international development minister
Sir Alan Duncan complained that the debate,
in response to a petition questioning the UKs
fixed 0.7 percent on foreign aid spending,
had been hijacked by those who want to
demonise Palestinians.
UCL turns down inoperable BDS motion JLC appoints three women to vice president role
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON has quashed a boycott,
divestment and sanctions
(BDS) motion in all but name
after seeking legal advice and
conceding its contents cannot be legally implemented.
The student union said the
motion, which criticises Israels
systematic and institutionalised oppression of Pales-
tinians, will however remain

official policy.
However, the union has decided that all of its practical
resolutions including boycotting Israeli goods and ending commercial relations with
firms involved in Israels occupation of the West Bank
exceed its powers as a charitable organisation.
The student unions board

of trustees reviewed the legislation with the help of a lawyer
and confirmed such moves
would be illegal.
The volte face comes in the
wake of a Jewish society campaign that included the Israeli
Embassy and Jonathan Turner,
the chairman of UK Lawyers
for Israel.
LOUISE ELLMAN, the Labour

MP for Liverpool Riverside, is
one of five Jewish Leadership
Council vice presidents three
of them women whose appointments were announced
on Tuesday.
The other women forming
part of the JLCs drive for
greater womens representation are Karen Pollock and
board exactly equal to the

number of Lords serving as VPs.
The appointments will come
as boost to the council, which
has targeted women in leadership as a strategy priority.
Discussing the appointments,
Mick Davis, JLC chairman said
the appointments would help it
seek advice from leaders from
all walks of Jewish life.
Dame Helen Hyde, both prominent Holocaust educators.

Also joining the councils
board are Dr Moshe Kantor,
who has served as president of
the European Jewish Congress
for nine years, and David Dangoor president of the Board
of the Sephardi community.
Women still only make up
five of the JLCs 16-strong
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QUEENS BIRTHDAY HONOURS
Survivor and young leader honoured by Queen

SADIQ KHAN has hailed the long-time
chief executive of the Jewish Lads and
Girls Brigade after he become one of
the youngest recipients of the OBE in
the Queens Birthday Honours list,
writes Justin Cohen.
Neil Martin, Holocaust survivor Anita
Lasker-Wallfisch and theatre producer
Sonia Friedman can look forward to a
visit to Buckingham Palace after being included alongside celebrities, politicians
and community activists in the list, which
coincides with Her Majestys 90th birthday.
Martin, 37, chief executive of the
Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade for the
past 11 years, said he was truly humbled and still cant believe it after
being awarded an OBE for services to
young people and interfaith relations.
I keep thinking of all the people who
supported me throughout my journey
and Im so grateful to them all, especially everyone at JLGB and, of course,
my family, he added.
Martin who said joining the group
aged 14 helped develop his confidence
has revolutionised the 120-year-old
organisation, including expanding kosher
provision for the Duke of Edinburghs
Award and pioneering the charitys Interfaith National Citizen Service programme. He also chairs the Interfaith
Youth Trust and Yom HaShoah UK, playing an instrumental role in growing the
communitys annual commemoration
into an event that over the past two years
has brought thousands to Copthall Stadium to honour the six million murdered.
OBE: Alex Chesterman
MBE: Anita Lasker
OBE: Neil Martin
Khan told Jewish News: Im thrilled

that Neil Martin has been recognised
in the Queens Birthday Honours list.
His work as chief executive of the
Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade, and
Interfaith Youth Trust has made a dramatic difference to the lives of many
young people.
In my first official engagement as
Mayor of London, it was an honour to
attend Yom HaShoah, the Jewish communitys annual Holocaust commemoration event, organised by Neil. He is
someone who has made it his mission
to find innovative and proactive ways to
encourage social integration among
Londoners and it is fantastic to see him
recognised in this way.
Martin, who was number three on
Jewish News 2015 Forty Under 40 list

of those shaping the future of AngloJewry, added: I am so proud of the
achievements of the entire JLGB team
as we strive to help thousands more
young people be prepared and succeed in a global digital world by helping them to reach their individual
potential and become the best possible versions of themselves.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the
most notorious concentration camp with
the help of her musical prowess and has
spent decades passing on the lessons of
those dark years to young people in
this country as well as in Germany and
Austria. She is honoured with an MBE
for services to Holocaust education.
After meeting her as part of the Holo-
caust Memorial Day Trusts Memory

Makers initiative marking the 70th
anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz, broadcaster Stephen Fry said
he had learnt three life lessons including
that a lack of self-pity is among the
noblest of human attributes. The world
must also remain alert to the mad language that allows pitiless killing, the language that dehumanises both the victim
and perpetrator, he wrote in an essay
inspired by that meeting.
Offering her congratulations, Olivia
Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the
HMDT which has worked extensively
with Anita said she continues to work
tirelessly to counter Holocaust denial by
speaking publicly about her experiences
at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Her
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people around the world.
The Holocaust Educational Trusts
Karen Pollock, herself an MBE, added:
As a cellist in the Auschwitz camp
orchestra, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was
an eyewitness to one of the Nazis most
cynical ploys the playing of music in
a death camp. After the Holocaust, she
dedicated her time to ensuring her
story, and that of millions of others, is
never forgotten. We congratulate her
on this richly deserved honour.
Producer Sonia Friedman, whose
theatre credits include The Book of
Mormon and Hamlet, picks up an OBE
for services to theatre, while the same
honour went to LoveFilm co-founder
Saul Klein for services to business.
Seventy percent of all awards went to
people who had undertaken outstanding
work in or for their local community,
either in a voluntary or paid capacity.
Among them is Mohammed Amin,
founder and co-chair of the Muslim
Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester.
Also among those recognised was
Malcolm Livingstone for services to
the Jewish community in Glasgow and
Michael Simons, 55, senior application
support officer at the parliamentary
digital service, who picks up an MBE
for parliamentary service and service to
the Jewish community in Sutton.
In the world of business, Zoopla
founder Alex Chesterman was
awarded an OBE for services to digital
entrepreneurship.
UK NEWS
NEWS
Shipper takes lead in time capsule doc

A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR who
has spent his retirement sharing
harrowing wartime experiences
with British schoolchildren is to
feature in a time capsule
documentary designed to ensure the horrors of Auschwitz
are never forgotten.
Zigi Shipper, 86, said he has
agreed to take part in the film
so the first-hand accounts of the
atrocities, which resulted in the

genocide of millions of Jewish
men, women and children at
the hands of the Hitler regime,
remain long after he and the
dwindling number of Holocaust
survivors are around to tell
them personally.
The Polish-born former shop
worker, who lives in Bushey,
regularly tours the UK to speak
Wolfson revives campaign

LABOUR ACTIVIST Rhea Wolfson has revived her campaign
for membership of the partys
National Executive Committee.
Wolfson, the sole Jewish candidate in the running to replace
former London Mayor Ken Livingstone on Labours governing
body, will seek the nomination of
a new constituency party after
failing to win the support of
members in Eastwood, Glasgow.
The former Oxford University
Jewish Society chair missed
out on the Constituency Labour
Partys nomination after exScottish Labour leader Jim
Murphy spoke out against her
candidacy.
She alleged Murphy argued
that it would not be appropriate to nominate me due to my
endorsement by Momentum,
which he claimed has a problem with anti-Semitism.
Wolfson herself was a victim
of anti-Semitic abuse from online trolls after she announced
her candidacy.
Her lack of an endorsement
from her home CLP appeared
to have put a premature end to
her campaign but the young
left-winger now says she is
convinced of her chances of
success.
In a Facebook message posted
to her official campaign page,
Back in the running: Wolfson
she wrote: Last week, I was

unsuccessful in securing a nomination from Eastwood, the CLP
I grew up in.
Since then, I have been
overwhelmed by the support
I have received from members
up and down the UK. This has
confirmed for me the reasons
why I first wanted to stand:
to promote a positive and
credible democratic socialist
agenda, and to empower
members to fight for a more
democratic party that can
deliver change.
I have transferred my membership to my other address
and will seek nomination from
my home CLP. If successful,
I will be an officially nominated
candidate for Labours National Executive Committee.
Unseen Freud goes on display

A PREVIOUSLY unseen selfportrait by Lucian Freud has
gone on display at the National
Portrait Gallery.
The unfinished painting,
which is thought to date back
to the mid-1980s, is being exhibited alongside a selection of
drawings from Freuds unseen
sketchbooks.
They have gone on display
after the late artists estate left
them to the nation in lieu of inheritance tax.
Lucian Freud Unseen, which
runs until September 6, shows
highlights from an archive of
letters and 800 drawings
which date from the 1940s to

the 1990s.
Some studies on display are
connected to major works
byFreud, including one sketchbook containing a drawing of
Lady Caroline Blackwood which
relates to the painters 1954
masterpiece Hotel Bedroom.
Also on show are drawings
charting Freuds boyhood in
Berlin and an illustration for the
cover of his daughter EstherFreuds 1992 novel Hideous
Kinky.
Freud, who died in 2011
aged 88, was the grandson of
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
This previously hidden self-portrait has gone on display in London
to young people as part of his

work with the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).
He has joined his film-maker
grandson Darren Richman, 31,
to produce 84303 the number
he was known by a vivid testimony of his childhood in the
ghetto, the Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration camp, and the
emotional liberation that will live
with him for the rest of his days.

Shipper said: It is important
for me to speak to pupils. Who
is going to speak for the people who did not survive?
I want young people to
know what racism and prejudice can do to people and, of
course, hatred. After all, one of
them might be prime minister
one day.
Shipper was sent to

live with his grandparents
shortly before war broke
out in 1939 upon his parents divorce. He was
placed in the ghetto aged 10
and sent to Auschwitz
Birkenau in the summer of 1944.
Details:
het.org.uk
Zigi
Shipper
UK NEWS
NEWS
Call to boost school-shul links Swastikas found in Stamford Hill

AN INFLUENTIAL Essex rabbi
with responsibility for children
has added his voice to the
ongoing debate about the
impact the growing number of
Jewish schools will have on
synagogues saying an annual
shul visit should be on every
schools curriculum.
Rabbi Alex Chapper, the
Childrens Rabbi at Ilford Federation Synagogue, said the
community was missing an
opportunity to link schools
and shuls, and that rabbis
contributions in class often
felt like a mere token at
certain times of year.
He said it was
ironic that he
welcomes more non-Jewish

schoolchildren to the synagogue during the academic
year than Jewish children.
Chapper was speaking after a
special report in last weeks
Jewish News headlined Shul
Versus School.
He argued that parents are
not thinking about how their
children would maintain their
Jewish identity beyond
school.
For many parents,
sending their children to
a Jewish school is seen as
sufficiently providing for
the development of their
Jewish education
and
identity,
THREE SWASTIKAS have

been found daubed in a
Stamford Hill playground.
Neighbourhood
watch
group Shomrim posted a
message on Twitter showing
the vile symbols.
The Board of Deputies
Marie van der Zyl said: The
daubing in a place where Jewish children study and play is
an act of racism intended to
Grant gets Polish passport

Pupils should make regular school visits to shuls, says Rabbi Chapper
without considering that later in

life they may need to find this in
other communal institutions.
He added: We are missing
an opportunity by not establishing greater integration and

connection between schools
and shuls.
Holocaust garden opens 40k award for politics site

BIBLICAL PLANTS and herbs
significant to the Abrahamic
faiths were on show at the new
Holocaust Memorial Garden unveiled by Communities Minister
Baroness Williams at Edgware &
District Reform Synagogue.
Organisers said the garden
had been designed as a space
for people from across the community and from different faiths
can come together to discuss
issues of concern and work.
Williams was shown the selection of symbolic plants, trees,
flowers and shrubs including
The new memorial garden
olive trees, myrtle shrubs, salix

alba trees, laurel bushes and a
biblical herb garden.
She also met officials behind
the garden, which came about
after the community decided to
help to fund the project.
spread fear and alarm. We

hope the perpetrators will be
apprehended and made to
feel the full force of the law.
JEWISH STUDENT Benji Fisher

has secured 40,000 funding
for a website he hopes will become the Wikipedia of politics.
Birmingham University undergraduate Fisher, 20, now
hopes online magazine Just
Debate will cut through the
noise of political debate and
offer simple, impartial and
quick news digests.
The website which presents simple explanations for
both sides of contentious political issues already employs
40 volunteer student journalists on campuses across the

UK.
It has attracted the attention of Facebook, the BBC and
the US Embassy, which invited
Fisher to participate in Barack
Obamas question-and-answer
session at Westminster Town
Hall.
Recent articles have offered
fresh looks at the EU referendum and the controversy surrounding new National Union
of Students president Malia
Bouattia.
FORMER CHELSEA football

manager Avram Grant received
his Polish passport this week, following years of researching his
familys heritage in the country.
Grant accepted his official
document as a Polish citizen at
the the Polish Embassy in London on Monday.
The coach said: Feeling Polish comes naturally to me. My fa-
ther Meir was a Polish citizen. He

was born in Mlawa, near Warsaw,
like my grandfather Avraham,
great-grandfather Herschel and
the generations before them.
Grants family escaped
Poland for Russia at the start of
the Second World War, but were
deported to Siberia.
His father lost both parents
and five siblings while there.
Freud accused of child abuse

THE LATE broadcaster and MP
Sir Clement Freud has been
accused of abusing two girls
between the 1940s and 1970s.
Sylvia Woosley, who first
met Freud when she was 10
and later went to live with
him when her mothers marriage broke down, claims in
an ITV Exposure documentary
that he molested her over
several years.
A second woman, who
wants to remain anonymous,
alleged that the Liberal politician also abused her as a child
and raped her when she was
18. Freud, the grandson of
psychoanalysist
Sigmund
Freud, and brother of artist
Lucian, was born to German
Jewish parents.
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Demolish Hitler birth house Portugal are Euro faith champs

AUSTRIAS INTERIOR minister
says he can imagine having the
house where Adolf Hitler was
born demolished, calling it the
cleanest solution.
The Austrian government
wants to expropriate the house in
Braunau am Inn on the German
border, where the future Nazi
leader was born in 1889, to
ensure it does not become a
place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
The Interior Ministry has
rented the house since 1972 to
prevent its misuse, sub-letting it
to charitable organisations.
The building has stood empty
since a care centre for adults with
disabilities moved out in 2011.
Interior minister Wolfgang
Sobotka told ORF TV that the
expropriation was necessary.
Hitler was born here in 1889
He said: We have tried to

clear up all possibilities for
using it and buying it with the
owner, but with no results. For
me, a demolition would be the
cleanest solution.
Sobotkas ministry described
that view as his personal opinion
and said it would have to be
clarified whether the demolition
was legally feasible, the Austria
Press Agency reported.
PORTUGAL WOULD win the

2016 European Championships
if the competition was based
on religious freedom rather than
football.
That is the conclusion of researchers who assessed all 24
countries fighting for the Euro
2016 football championships
now being held in France.
England would not get passed
the last 16, according to data
Portugals Euro 2016 team
from the Pew Global Religious

Futures Project, but the Czech
Republic and Ireland would both
make it to the semi-finals, while
hosts France would be knocked
out at the group stages.
The study on religious freedom in predominantly-Christian
Europe, where only one-in-five
say God is an important part of
their lives, measured social hostility, government restrictions
and legal protections.
It also considered minorities,
conversions and education.
Researchers found that Russia
fared worst of the 24 competing
nations followed by Turkey, one
of only two Muslim states in the
tournament. The other, Albania,
was second, and would therefore lose to Portugal in the final.
Unprecedented initiative to save Jewish cemeteries

EUROPEAN LEADERS have
launched an unprecedented
initiative to save thousands of
sites of historical Jewish significance across the continent.
It comes after a Council of
Europe meeting last week to
plan the preservation of Jewish
cemeteries in towns and villages once home to thousands
of Jews before whole communities were decimated during
the Shoah.
Germany has been a cheer-
leader, worried by the threat

posed by the absence of Jewish communities in these areas
today, and the lack of cemetery
boundaries or protection.
The German ambassador said
it was for the common history
of Europe and that his country
had a special responsibility.
Israels former justice minister Yossi Beilin argued the sites
preservation would contribute
to education and tourism, and
enhance the cultural and reli-
gious significance of the towns

and villages concerned.
People in Israel and outside
are worrying about Jewish
cemeteries in Europe, he said.
The picture we have is of their
disappearance. We call [on] you
to contribute to our joint remembrance.
Leaders will now cost the
ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the first panEuropean effort to preserve
Jewish heritage. Dozens of
israel
Saved: Thousands of historic sites
graveyards in Ukraine, Poland,

Czech Republic, Belarus, Serbia
and Moldova have already been
maintained through the scheme.
WORLD JEWISH NEWS

Your weekly digest of stories
from the international press.
With Stephen Oryszczuk
Myanmar
United States
MYANMARS ONLY synagogue,

in the former capital of Yangon,
has been celebrated with a blue
plaque by the states historical
organisation. The country, formerly known as Burma, once
had a thriving 2,500-strong Jewish community. For years, the
building has been kept in pristine condition by one family.
ARIZONAS HINDU community

has said it thoroughly approves
of the US states Jewish centre
offering free yoga classes.
Spokesman Rajan Zed further
said that the ancient practice
was a world heritage and liberation powerhouse to be utilised
by all. He was considering offering free cookery classes in return.
Austria
Switzerland
JEWISH LEADERS in Vienna

have denied that they are normalising ties with the far-right
Freedom Party, after its candidate almost won the presidential
election in May. Reports had
suggested that community leaders were discussing ways for
party officials to disassociate
from neo-Nazis and their events.
SWISS JEWS have condemned

a recent law to fine students
4,000 for refusing to shake
hands with teachers. It comes
after two male Muslim students
refused to shake hands with
female teachers at a graduation
ceremony north of Basel. Devout
Jews can also opt not to touch
members of the opposite sex.
Brazil
South Africa
A CONTROVERSIAL rabbi has

pledged to bring 850 Brazilian
Jews to Israel by the end of
2016. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, of
the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews, made the
claim ahead of a church megatour. The Jewish Agency called
his group parasitic for luring
gullible olim with bribes.
AUTHORITIES IN Johannesburg
are facing pressure to extradite
a 78-year-old Chasidic rabbi to
Israel, after he was arrested two
months ago following four years
on the run around the world.
Four women have claimed
Rabbi Eliezer Berland assaulted
them while head of a yeshiva.
He is currently in custody.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT AND READERS LETTERS
EU referendum vote will

be a borderline decision
FOR ALL the swipes and jabs,
scaremongering, one-upmanship, duels and discussions of the
last few months, something
suddenly became apparent at
the Jewish News-J-TV Brexodus
debate between Education
Secretary Nicky Morgan and
UKIP MP Douglas Carswell on
Tuesday night.
Forget for a moment about the
financial Armageddon that Britain
will apparently hurl head first into
upon exiting the EU the likelihood of which seems to change
as much as our summer weather.
What this referendum really
boils down to is the salient issue
of immigration: its the burning
topic of 300,000 newcomers a
year that just wont go away.
For those who favour Brexit,
the ongoing immigration crisis
lies at the heart of their argument
to take back British sovereignty
and stave off the dual threat of
Islamisation and rising support
for ultra-nationalist and extremist

parties neither of which are
particularly tempting for the UK
Jewish community.
But so too is immigration at
the heart of concerns for those
who wish to remain.
Without the arrival of new
migrants and as our citizens
become wealthier and more
skilled who exactly will fill the
gaps in the workforce?
And what of the fight against
terrorism? A Brexit could spell
disaster for fighting cross-border
crime, shared intelligence and
the European Arrest Warrants.
Each of us faces a profound
decision in just seven days time.
Curiously, it seems the most
compelling issue for many voters
lies outside our own borders
rather than within.
If youre seeking further
evidence that this is the case, just
glance at the readers letters
opposite...
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HUGE UNCERTAINTY
IF WE LEAVE THE EU
I would like to comment on recent letters
about next weeks EU referendum.
Readers Martin and Anna Kaczynski are
worried about Turkey joining the EU, but
Turkeys human rights record alone will
prevent it joining for many years.
That apart, both Greece and Cyprus
would veto any application from Turkey
unless there was a settlement in Cyprus.
I therefore feel it is mischievous to make
this an issue in the campaign.
Thomas Kovacs questions whether we
in Britain will lose business in Europe if
we leave the EU.
The idea that we would is not shared
by most economists, nor by many businessmen. Both the CBI and the chambers
of commerce recognise the dangers to
the economy from Brexit.
What is clear is that Brexit would be
followed by huge uncertainty.That would
deter investment. It would also discourage inward investment in Britain from the
US and Japan.
Over the past four years Japanese
companies have invested 15bn in their
UK operations which between them
employ 140,000 people.
We should recognise that many of the
problems facing us today do not recognise national borders. This is not the
century of national solutions.
We now pool sovereignty to secure
international solutions to problems incapable of purely national solutions.
John Marshall
MP for Hendon South [1987-97]
VESTED INTERESTS
AND THE BIG VOTE
Letter writer Jonathan Hoffman delivers
a number of spurious reasons for remaining inside the EU, (Jewish News, 19
May).
How has the EU fostered integration
and 70 years of peace in Europe? It is
the European people themselves, helped
by NATO and the UN, not the EU. The
EU has stoked up notions of war by
goading Russia over the Ukraine.
Where does Mr Hoffman get the
notion that the euro is a popular
currency? Who says? It is a necessity for
commerce. The Eurozone is in a state of
meltdown, and the Greek government
has been constantly bailed-out by EU
(sorry, mostly our) billions of taxpayers
money.
We pay about 350 million a week
(gross) to keep the EU afloat!
Jewish voters have NOT been scared
into voting for Brexit due to fears of
growing Islamisation.
It is the unelected EU commissioners
(such as the Jewish Martin Schulz) who
have insidiously and relentlessly planned
to foster increased immigration from
Islamic countries to provide cheap labour
for large Jewish-owned multinational
corporations financed by Jewish-owned
banks.
That's one reason why the large
American corporations want the EU to
sign the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement
to give them more power.
The
economists
and
security
experts who say the UK is better off
and safer in the EU are matched by
another set of experts who say we
should leave. These include former

heads of the secret services and government advisers. Look what happened
when the Remain experts made forecasts previously how wrong they were!
For example, they said Brexit would
weaken the pound and the economy.
Instead, the pound has risen in the past
weeks against the euro.
To remain in the EU would be just as
much a leap in the dark because we
would still be faced by increased fundamentalism, Middle East uncertainty and
the impact of Russia and China.
By remaining in the EU, the UK is
powerless to advance market reform, as
Mr Hoffman advocates, because we have
been consistently outvoted by the other
EU members. Why would this change?
Our MEPs have no power to instigate
new laws, and we cannot control who we
let into the UK. The only people and
institutions who advocate that we remain
in the UK are those with vested interests
for staying on the EU gravy train.
This includes large corporations,
universities, senior politicians and
sadly many religious institutions. Watch
Brexit the movie on You Tube (free) and
you will be shocked!
We must think of the future interests
of our country, and set our children free
finally from the stranglehold of EU
tyranny!
Vote leave for democracy!
Dr David Gutmann
By email
LEAVERS IGNORING
THE DANGER TO JEWS
Many correspondents to your paper who
advocate leaving the EU seem blissfully
unaware of the dangers such a move
would create for Jewish communities
both in the UK and in the other 27
member states.
First, there are dozens, if not
hundreds, of EU-born Jewish spouses of
UK citizens living here, some for several
decades. If they have not already applied
for and received UK citizenship, they
Sketches & kvetches

By Paul Solomons www.daftoons.com
might no longer have an automatic right

to reside in the United Kingdom.
In effect they would be treated exactly
the same as other aliens and have to
apply for citizenship and pass the tests
such as knowledge of the constitution
and the English language.
Second, the UKs Jewish organisations
such as Shechita UK are helping to lead
the fight to retain vital religious practices
such as shechita and bris milah throughout the European Union.
The UK has the second largest and
best politically connected and influential
Jewish community. Are we to abandon
our fellow Jews in France, Belgium, and
Italy etc. to attacks on Judaism and leave
many small and powerless communities
to fend for themselves? Is this a moral
stance to take?
The UK is also a leader in the fight
against the rise of anti-Semitic far-right
parties in countries such as Hungary,
Greece and Slovakia.
Last, there is absolutely no doubt that
cost of kosher food imported from other
EU states would increase if we left.
Import tariffs would mean higher prices
for hundreds of products such as Belgian
yogurts; French pastries; Dutch cheeses;
Polish killed-meat products and Italian
wines. Steep price rises would make it
even harder for poorer families to maintain strictly kosher households.
Everyone should think very carefully
what the dangers would be for European
Jewry as a whole before casting a vote
that could see the break-up of the institution that has helped to keep the peace
in Europe since the dark days of World
War Two.
No doubt a vote to leave would also
lead to a break-up of the United
Kingdom if the Scots were to vote by a
large majority to remain.
Dr Yaakov Wise
Huddersfield University
A POEM TO PERSUADE
YOU ON VOTING DAY
If you dare to vote leave
Youll never believe
What bad things and horrors turn up
If you dont vote remain
Then never again
Will England regain the World Cup!
If you vote to stay
Then within one day
The Messiah is sure to arrive
Recession no more...
Even if theres world war
Everyone is bound to survive
Yet if leave dares to win
The sky will fall in
Britain wont need its own role
So vote Project Fear
And within one year
Youll become a Spaniard or Pole!
Elections will be
Distant memory
Cameron wont need porky pies
Frau Merkel will rule
Turkish will be cool
Remain and youll know you chose wise
Who cares if the NHS dies?
We can all enjoy our French Fries!
Its not easy being Green
Marvin J Shaw
Stanmore
OUR LAST CHANCE TO

GET OUT OF THIS MESS
Columnist Alex Brummer was absolutely right
to say that the EU was originally described
(sold) to the UK public as solely a trading
arrangement, nothing else (Jewish News, 28
April), definitely not as a security organisation, as some letter writers have stated.
In fact, the government of the day, together
with most other politicians and academics,
guaranteed at that time that there would be no
loss of sovereignty or independence.
The absurd phrase pooling our sovereignty
was even used.
I was in the midst of a career in newspapers
at that time and now keep screaming for newspaper, television, radio coverage of the day to
be shown so that the UK public can see and
hear how it was lied to, conned (theres no
other word for it) and misled, both intentionally
and unintentionally.
There must be many like me who believe we
were conned once and will not be conned
again. It is quite correct to say, as Jonathan
Hoffman (Letters, 19 May) points out, that the
EU has always fostered integration, which
means combining to form a whole, the very
thing we were guaranteed would never
happen. Most people describe independence
as something to strive for and treasure in their
lives. But not for their country?
Independence is entirely different from isolation both for an individual and a country. Just
like now, the public wanted facts at the time,
together with analysis from the so-called
experts. Forget it! All the facts, comparisons,
analysis can be interpreted different ways and
projected in different directions.
We have not fared as badly as some due to
remaining outside the Euro, which, again, we
were warned would be catastrophic for us. The
profitability record of the EU has hardly been

convincing over the past two decades and
hopelessly damaging for some countries.
I believe I made the worst political mistake
on behalf of my family, present and
future,when voting in favour of the EU.
It is old-fashioned thinking and in this technological age conglomerates are out of date.
This may be our last realistic chance for
decades to disentangle ourselves from this
mess. We must get out now.
Harry Levy
By email
WE SHOULD CONSIDER
WHATS BEST FOR UK
In response to Mr and Mrs Kaczynskis harsh
views on Turkey and the EU (Jewish News, 2
June), I offer an alternative perspective.
The argument that Turkeys Muslim majority is
a good reason to oppose it joining the EU is
inconsistent, offensive and weak. Another
Muslim state, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is also in
the process of joining, and has faced no opposition due to its religious composition. Similarly,
no-one doubts Albania or Kosovos European
character, despite their Muslim majorities.
While the security implications of a country
sharing a common border with Syria and Iraq
are a strong argument against Turkish membership of the EU, along with Mr Erdogans
assaults on liberal values and democracy, they
are not Jewish issues. Rather, members of our
community should vote on 23 June first and
foremost in the interests of Great Britain.
References to the EU representing a continuity of Hitlers policies are simply fallacious and
the result of a rather poor understanding of
modern history.
Daniel J. Levy
By email
AN UNACCEPTABLE AND
UN-JEWISH ARGUMENT
Regarding Mr and Mrs Kaczynskis letter Pack
your bags if EU vote is to stay in (Jewish
News, 2 June), I am unsure whether I am more
offended by their xenophobia, by their Nazi
comparisons or by their complete ignorance of
the constitutional structure of the EU.
As to the latter point, the UK has an absolute
veto to the accession of any new member state
(including Turkey).
As to the former points, just imagine if
anyone wrote to the Guardian expressing a
fear about being swamped by Jews.
Targeting other ethnic and religious groups
and generalising them as extremists is unacceptable and un-Jewish.
And as to their argument that the EU is a
fulfilment of Hitlers dream, I dont know which
bit of the EU the Kaczynskis think Hitler would
have liked most
Among the choices are the Charter of
Fundamental Rights, the legislation on gender
and racial equality, the democratically-elected
parliament. There are more examples.
Hitler would be spoilt for choice. What a
ridiculous comparison.
Gabriel Webber
By email
LEAVE BEFORE WE ARE

DRAGGED DOWN MORE
With younger generations in constant digital
contact with each other all over the world,
democratic Europe has become a safer place.
The EU continues to make many bad decisions, so we should choose to get out on 23
June. Many of its members contravene the EU
rules and ignore the human rights clauses. If the
EU was a company, its directors would be prosecuted and the business dissolved. Let us get
out before it drags us down still further.
Mike de Haan
By email
EU IS CRITICAL OF ISRAEL
AND ALSO HYPOCRITICAL
Government minister Theresa Viliers was quoted
in Jewish News [9 June) pointing out EU criticism
of Israel. I would say its attitude is hypocritical
rather than just critical. Take, for example, the
vote last year on a Palestinian state.
When recognition of Somaliland was
proposed, the EU deemed it beyond its competence and a case for national governments only.
Yet not so in a case involving Israel, so it
endorsed a Palestinian state.
As a signatory to the Oslo Accords, the EU
could be expected to abide by these rulings;
nevertheless, it built 17 Palestinian institutions
in Area C strictly within Israels perview.
The EU is a major contributor to Palestinian
funds; it particularly favours supporting NGOS
that strive to undermine Israels authority.
It objects to Jewish occupation of Jewish
lands in Judea and Shomron but ignores blatant
violations of international law when it comes to
Turkeys occupation and ethnic cleansing of
northern Cyprus, Moroccos occupation of western Sahara and the behaviour of China.
Finally, following in the footsteps of the previous regime in central Europe, the EU enforces
labelling of Israel produce again, where no one
else is subject to this level of scrutiny.
Because Israel is the nation-state of the Jews
and for traditional anti-Semitic reasons, the EU
is no friend of Israel.
Rabbi Menahem Lester
South London and Israel
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OPINION:
RABBIJEMMA
MIRIAM BERGER
MARK MAIER
OPINION:
WAYNE,AND
MOHAMMED
AMIN & OLIVIA WAYNE
From Tel Aviv to Orlando, lets

stop the facile finger pointing
SINCE THE awful, homophobic attack in
Orlando on Sunday, the news agenda has
moved on from Tel Aviv. But when I first heard
about the Sarona shooting last week, it was all
I could think about. I was standing outside a
radio station, getting ready to plug my new
novel, Chains Of Sand a fictional exploration
of the most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and it felt horribly salient. Sarona, the cultural
hotspot where the shootings took place,
appears in the book. It is where a romance
grows, where a British Jew and an Israeli artist
find love. Where normal, ordinary Israelis
gather to shop, and visit galleries, and eat
pizza. In real life, I have taken my daughters
there. Their cousins live nearby. It could have
been them. It could have been us.
Amid the broad-brush conversations about
peace efforts in the region, or the usual scrutiny
of Israel at the height of each conflict, this is
a part of the struggle that is often forgotten.
The part that thrusts real, deadly terror into
the lives of innocent civilians. It is the reason
for the fence. The reason for the hatred. It is
indefensible, unjustifiable terrorism, nevertheless praised and extolled by Hamas.
Yet, even before there was time for a breath
last week, things grew more complicated.
Already, within hours of the incident, permits
for 83,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip were suspended. This included
204 relatives of the attackers, while the entire
village where the gunmen were from went into
lockdown nobody allowed to enter or leave

other than for humanitarian or medical reasons.
Perhaps this seems understandable.
There is certainly some pragmatism to it. It
may well be the best chance to foil further potentially related attacks. And there have been
warnings from Hamas to Israel to expect more,
to expect worse, during the imminent holy days
of Ramadan.
But imagine for a moment it was a Birmingham shooter attacking a London caf. Would
we lock down Birmingham? Or, lets be more
specific, more to the point imagine it was an
Islamic extremist from a specific, Muslim-dominated housing estate. Would we deny movement to everybody on that estate? Would we
demolish the attackers family home?
Is that the plan in Orlando?
It is hard to imagine that kind of collective
punishment happening in Florida, or in the UK.
Because we have not yet, not quite, reached a
place at which the world consists of Us and
Them. Our political exchanges may sometimes
suggest the opposite, but I hope we still
believe that the sins of the father cannot be the
sins of the son. (In Orlando, the father of the
gunman has already been allowed his own,
separate, voice.) And the sins of a man cannot
be carried by his whole village. Yet that is the
nature of the Israeli occupation. And with every
such injustice, another terrorist is born.
There is no excuse for what occurred in Tel
Aviv last Wednesday. The murder of innocent
people is heinous and dreadful and devastating. Watching it on the news, in a place I know,
a place I love, a place I could easily have been,
is frightening and gut-wrenchingly sad. But if
there is ever to be a break in this perpetual
cycle of conflict, we must at some point resist
the facile response of finger pointing.
Instead of holding each atrocity up as proof
look, look what they did, see, this is our reason we must search for more ways for the
great mass of ordinary peace-yearning people,
on all sides, to unite against extremism. Crimes
should be punished, and criminals. Terrorism
should be fought, and terrorists. Discrimination
should be challenged, and those discriminating. Not a whole nation boycotted. Not a
whole people or faith blamed.
Bibi may, for a moment, hold some sympathy
from a world that is increasingly exposed to
and fearful of terrorist attacks in its own cities,
against its own people. A sentiment painfully
illustrated by the Orlando massacre. And it is
important that this element of the conflict is felt
and understood. It is a real and oft understated
part of the complex whole.
But if Bibi continues to fill positions of power
with right-wing yes-men, and persists with
inflammatory policies that ignore the frustrations of Palestinians, and most Israelis, that
sympathy wont last long.
Because soon well be back in Gaza, sending
more bombs, killing more people.
And round and round we go...
Jemma Wayne
Journalist and author
Bibi may hold sympathy

from a world increasingly
exposed to terrorist
attacks... but it wont last
When is being anti-Israel

evidence of anti-Semitism?
SIX YEARS ago, in a debate on Israel, I was surprised to be accused of anti-Semitism. That led
to me writing: When does anti-Zionism become anti-Semitism? which can be found on
my website, www.mohammedamin.com As several high-profile people have recently been accused of anti-Semitism due to social media or
mainstream media comments about Israel, Ive
been thinking about this question once more.
What is anti-Semitism?
There are some relatively well-established definitions. The most recent is the working definition adopted by the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on 26 May:
Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of
Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward
Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of
antiSemitism are directed toward Jewish or nonJewish individuals and/or their property, toward
Jewish institutions and religious facilities.
The text above is identical to the working definition devised around 2003 by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC).
When you read it closely, the entire definition
is contained in the first sentence. A perception
is something that happens inside your mind. So,
indeed, is hatred. Since we cannot read peoples
minds, we can only know that hatred exists
within a persons mind when it is manifested in
words and deeds, which is what the second sentence is about.
Accordingly, we are left looking for words
(most commonly) or deeds (occasionally), which
provide evidence, sometimes overwhelming evidence, that the person hates Jews. If we find
such overwhelming evidence, we can find the
person guilty of anti-Semitism. We are entitled to
disregard the individuals protestation that they
do not hate Jews, unless the individual can offer
equally strong evidence in the form of their other
words or deeds. Mere assertions of not being
anti-Semitic will not acquit the individual.
The EUMC definition has always been controversial due to it providing, alongside its definition, a list of potential markers of
anti-Semitism, including several anti-Israel behaviours. Some used the EUMC definition as if
those possible indicators of anti-Semitism were
part of the definition and constituted proof of
anti-Semitism, regardless of context. The IHRA
appears to have avoided that bear trap.
What is being anti-Israel?
There is an endless list of possibilities. As a mathematics graduate, when faced with a continuous
variable, I always find thinking about the most
extreme possibilities a worthwhile aid to analysis.
At its mildest, being anti-Israeli could comprise no more than daring to disagree with any
policy of the Israeli government. I do not believe
that anyone would attempt to contend that a
person falling in this category had provided verbal evidence of their anti-Semitism.
At its most extreme, being anti-Israeli could
involve expressing the view that Israel should
be militarily crushed with the entire Jewish
population being slaughtered. In this case, I
would expect all reasonable people to convict

the individual of having provided verbal evidence of their anti-Semitism. As one goes
from the mild extremity, steadily ratcheting up
the level of anti-Israeli views, the greater the
likelihood that the individual hates Jews.
However, it is impossible to specify a particular form of anti-Israeli words, whereby all milder
versions are not evidence of the individual being
anti-Semitic while all stronger versions are such
evidence. The reason is that one is attempting
to determine the individuals mental state
(does this person hate Jews?) and two people
may use the same words while having entirely
different mental attitudes towards Jews.
Further, for each individual one has to assess
the strength of any evidence for the defence
that would rebut an accusation of anti-Semitism.
Mohammed Amin
Co-chair,
Muslim Jewish Forum of
Greater Manchester
Im not anti-Semitic, but
Recently, after a public meeting, I was approached by someone starting with these words
who then gave me a tirade against Israel and
against the behaviour of Jews throughout history.
The only conclusion I can draw from the persons words is that this individual hates Jews. I
am also not aware of any evidence in the other
direction that would defend against a charge
of anti-Semitism.
However, I suspect this person was not consciously lying to me. Rather, they were insufficiently self-aware to realise that what they
believed about Jews constituted hatred. Sadly, I
doubt that the person is unique in this respect.
At its most extreme, being

anti-Israel could involve the
view that it should be
militarily crushed
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Zigis message is summed up

in three powerful little words
INTERVIEWING A HOLOCAUST survivor was
not something I ever thought Id do, particularly
in my main role as a sports journalist. But a strong
sense of my religion, culture and history meant
thats what I found myself doing for the documentary 84303 the filmed testimony of Zigi
Shipper screened for the first time this week.
I spend more time than the average person
in front of a camera because of my job as a
presenter on Sky Sports News. However, when
I was presented with the opportunity to interview Zigi back in 2014 by his grandson Darren
Richman and film director Vaughn Stein, I immediately saw it as a privilege. I could incorporate my professional skills with my
commitment to keeping the subject of the
Holocaust in the collective consciousness so
that future generations never forget.
The experience was uniquely inspiring. Two
things struck me during the process of making
the film and spending time with Zigi.
First, that despite the unimaginable horrors
of his youth, Zigi exudes a lust for life that many
younger people would cast envious eyes upon.
His warmth and unwavering belief in the inherent goodness of fellow humans was something
that will be permanently etched into my mind.
Zigi harbours no resentment towards the perpetrators. He believes he was lucky to survive
and lives life with a positive outlook.
I met with Zigi on several occasions in the
build-up to filming the documentary. Meeting
at his house, we would sit with cups of tea and

nosh he always prepared and chat for hours.
Often going off on a tangent to discuss football,
his experiences with the England team, his
beloved grandchildren and great-grandson.
Then he would start talking about his youth and
time at Auschwitz. Zigi was always calm and
measured as he recounted every painstaking
detail. Subsequent meetings involved me asking lots of questions, delving deeper into his
story, as we constructed the outline of the main
elements of the account we wanted to tell.
Filming took place over a weekend last
December at my old school, North London Collegiate. We sat on a stage in an empty theatre,
Zigi and I opposite each other under spotlights.
And we talked. When Zigi started speaking, the
energy in the room was palpable. Everyone was
mesmerised. You could hear a pin drop.
There was utmost respect and wonder for this
man who had lived through horrific atrocities.
His story is so harrowing, so fascinating, and
so full of emotion: from childhood to the Lodz
ghetto; from the ghetto to Auschwitz; from
Auschwitz to a death march and, finally, the liberation. Unimaginable.
Despite being the target of the most visceral
institutionalised hatred perhaps because of
it Zigi has one simple message: do not hate.
Three words that resonate all the more powerfully when spoken by somebody who went
through what he did.
Mill Hill, Friern Barnet, Swiss Cottage,

Hampstead, Muswell Hill & Golders Green
please call 0208 201 1084 or
email jlevene@littlekickers.co.uk
Islington, Hackney, Walthamstow,
Wanstead & Wapping
email amarks@littlekickers.co.uk
St. Albans, Harpenden, Berkhamsted
& Hemel Hempstead
email jlustigman@littlekickers.co.uk
The second thing that struck me was the

importance of the project we had embarked
on. Our aim for this film was to protect the testimony of survivors. Zigi and others are the
voice of history, so it was important to ensure
those who had their lives taken can still have
their stories heard. Hearing Zigi speak, and
capturing his story on camera, emphasised just
how essential this work is.
It is an overwhelmingly dark episode in
human history. While speaking to Zigi, I realised
six million is too big a number to properly mentally digest. However, if you think of the six million as one individual with the usual ups,
downs, twists and turns of life six million times
over, then it starts to look a little different.
This is what I learned talking to Zigi: the importance of people hearing about the individual
experiences of those who lived through a
uniquely traumatic episode of our past.
It is wonderful that the Holocaust Educational Trust helps survivors share their testimony with more than 100,000 students a year
through its outreach programme.
Making this film was a way for the whole
crew to do our bit to ensure that people now
and in the future can hear Zigis story and understand how important it is that we remember.
Remembrance, after all, should be active. It
requires us not just to learn but also to share what
we have learned. I learned about Zigi Shipper
and his story. I hope this film will help share it.
Olivia Wayne
Sky Sports
presenter
Despite being targeted

by the most visceral
institutionalised hate, Zigis
message is: do not hate
The British Friends of Mayanei Hayeshua

Medical Centre are delighted to share the
news of the opening of the new Mental
Health Centre which was opened on 29th
May 2016 by the Israeli Health Minister,
Rabbi Yaakov Litzman. The ceremony was
attended by many respected and influential leaders of the medical,
religious and political world, confirming the high standing in which
the Medical Centre is held, not only in Bnei Brak, but also in the
wider community.
The stigma of mental health has already been successfully
addressed by the Outpatient Clinic and Day Care Centre, where
patients in need have been treated for almost ten years in prefab
constructions behind the main Mayanei Hayeshua hospital
building. Later this year these departments will move to the new
ultra modern and state of the art Mental Health Centre. In addition,
the unit will have the facility to provide inpatient care, thus enabling
a more complete mental health service to be offered.
Mayanei Hayeshua is celebrating its Silver Jubilee and continues to
provide the highest standard of care to the community. Its first MRI
unit has recently been installed and, with the wonderful help we
receive from our Friends world-wide, improvements will continue to
make the hospital a beacon of excellence.
For further details of the work of the British Friends of the Mayanei
Hayeshua Medical Centre, or to make a donation, please do contact
us at bfomhmc@gmail.com.
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OPINION: DAVID HIRSH & ALAN JOHNSON

UK NEWS
Brexit could see the rise

of racists across Europe
BREXIT WOULD cause an immediate recession
and the poor would pay. The pound, wages, consumption and GDP would plummet; cuts in welfare, pension, health and education would follow.
In the long-term, the economy would continue to
suffer as we find ourselves locked out of the European market and global trade deals.
But this is about more than money. It would be
expensive, the Brexit argument concedes, but we
would be buying something priceless. Actually,
the freedom, peace and democracy that we already have is priceless and the Brexiteers are risking everything for a mirage.
Europeans were once seduced by totalitarianism; and we Brits remember that the willingness of
Americans to kill and die for us was decisive in the
maintenance of our freedom. As Europe emerged,
it built the EU to set in stone its renewed liberty and
peace. Southern Europe embraced human rights
and joined the European community; later, Eastern
Europe grasped democracy and the EU. As Yugoslavia emerges from genocide it, too, reaches
towards the EU. The EU is a machine for cementing
former slave peoples into democratic Europe.
With modernity, buying and selling became a
dominant way for strangers to relate to each other.
Its no accident that freedom of movement, freedom to work where you choose and freedom of
trade are linked to the rule of law and human rights.
But we know it is necessary to regulate markets to prevent monopolies and to protect the
vulnerable. EU regulation prevents Vodafone

stinging you because you cross a border; it prevents British Airways restricting air travel to the
wealthy; it stops McDonalds competing over the
length of the working week or the annual holiday.
If there is trade, there must be rules. How do we
agree rules? It is not true that unelected commissioners make decisions. Elected governments
negotiate within the Council of Ministers and
come to consensus. If we were outside the EU, we
would still have to obey the rules to trade and we
would still have to pay, but we would have no say.
Democracy is not sufficient. Democratic peoples have to deal with injustice, inequality, loneliness, homelessness, illness, meanness, addiction,
everything. But democracy is necessary.
In the USA, too, voters are itching to smash it
all up. There, too, people are thrilled by the big
mouth blaming foreigners and blaspheming
against civilised values. This bout of fury with the
Beltway, Brussels, or last year with Westminster, is
infantilising. On the British left, the childish fury is
directed against Israel, and the Jews and the
grown-ups who look on, with fear in their eyes.
Remember when some students peeled off a
demonstration and surrounded Charles and
Camillas car? One participant was so angry that
the police did not stop them. Hed experienced
himself slipping over the line between teenage
protest and something irreversible. If you run with
Trump or Brexit or boycotters, you are putting
something into motion that might become unstoppable. You are the grown-up now.
We live in a time where democratic states and
democratic culture are under threat and, ironically, this threat is often articulated using the appropriated language of democracy.
Our grandparents knew the difference between totalitarianism and democracy, as do the
people risking all to get to the free world on rafts.
But we have won battles too. Racism, sexism and
homophobia are now violations of our laws and
of our cultures. Official buildings flew the rainbow
last week. But still we have trouble valuing what
we have built, what we have won.
Imagine Trump in the White House and Islamism threatening democratic movements and
minorities across the Middle East. Now is the time
for Europe to stand strong and united in peace
and in democracy. Some, in a faux inverse nationalism underestimate the importance of Britain.
Brexit could collapse the whole European project and it could lead to the rise of the racist and
protectionist right across Europe. The walls could
come up, people designated as foreigners could
more and more be swept back and forth across
frontiers and totalitarian movements could rise
promising order in the chaos.
If you want to be naughty, have an affair, start
smoking again or buy a Harley. Dont run with
Trump, Brexit or boycotters. It may be Europes
turn to lead the free world for a time.
David Hirsh
Lecturer in sociology,
University of London
Now is the time for

Europe to stand strong
and united in peace and
in democracy
Labour must stop being

lazy over anti-Semitism
THE LABOUR Party inquiry into anti-Semitism is
due to report before the end of June. Everything depends on the inquiry team understanding what it is dealing with: almost never
old-fashioned Jew-hatred, almost always antiSemitic anti-Zionism i.e. a programme to abolish Israel, a movement to boycott Israel and a
discourse that demonises Israel.
Programme, movement, and discourse should
be considered as one, each interacting with and
reinforcing the other, creating an environment
uniquely conducive to the spread of the antiSemitic anti-Zionism in the party.
The partys crisis began among a minority on
the far-left who refused to accept that history has
forged a Hebrew-speaking Jewish nation on the
Eastern shores of the Mediterranean as David
Hirsh puts it. This minority then adopted the
reactionary programme of ending the very existence of Israel. Over the years, they justified this
programme by a means of a rigid dogma, a code
that reduced an entire people to Zios and
equated Israel with the Nazis. And now we have
the grotesque chaos of the party having to suspend its own members, its own councillors, its
own mayors and MPs and to launch an inquiry
into anti-Semitism in its ranks.
Is the party equipped to deal with the problem?
We will have to see. It is good that Jeremy Corbyns father fought at Cable Street. Mine fought at
El Alamein and Monte Cassino. Both helped
defeat fascist and Nazi forms of anti-Semitism. But
this is 2016, not the 1930s or 1940s. The inquiry
must grasp that anti-Semitism is the most protean
of hatreds and it has shape-shifted again.
Labours crisis has been caused by the spread
of a modern anti-Zionism of a particularly excessive, obsessive, and demonising kind. This

anti-Israelism has co-mingled with an older set
of classical anti-Semitic themes, prejudices, images and assumptions to create something
new: antiSemitic anti-Zionism.
In short, that which the demonological Jew
once was in older forms of anti-Semitism,
demonological Israel now is in contemporary
anti-Semitic anti-Zionism: uniquely malevolent,
full of blood lust, all-controlling, the hidden hand,
tricksy, always acting in bad faith, the obstacle to
a better, purer, more spiritual world, uniquely
deserving of punishment, and so on.
The party must stop being so intellectually lazy.
Anti-Semitisms core motif is that the Jews, in
their essence, are malign, but over the millennia
the content of this perceived malignity has
changed with the times and with the needs of the
anti-Semites themselves: God-killers, aliens,
cosmopolitans, sub-humans, and now Zionists, have all served as code words to mark the
Jew for destruction. While classic anti-Semitism
wanted to make the world Judenfrei, free of
Jews, anti-Semitic anti-Zionism wants to make
the world Judenstaatrein, free of a Jewish state.
The degree to which the party simply does not
currently get anti-Semitic anti-Zionism was shown
by the warm reception given to the Islamist antiSemite Raed Salah by Corbyn in 2012.
Corbyn organised a press conference to
defend Salahs presence in the UK and said of
him: He is far from a dangerous man. He is a
very honoured citizen, he represents his people
extremely well, and his is a voice that must
be heard. Corbyn even added this personal
message to Salah: I look forward to giving you

tea on the terrace [of the House of Commons]
because you deserve it!
In fact, Saleh as many pointed out to Corbyn
at the time opposed not the occupation but the
bacteria of all times. He did not criticise Benjamin
Netanyahu, but the demonic unique mover who
was behind 9/11. He did not call for the west to
apply diplomatic pressure on Israel, but attacked
the entire west as a slave to global Zionism.
These statements were all one click away on
the internet and the leader was pointed to
them. He ignored them all and instead issued
fulsome praise for Saleh. About Salehs blood
libel speech, the UK Appeal Court decided that
we do not find this comment [by Salah] could
be taken to be anything other than a reference
to the blood libel against Jews. It also decided
that this would offend and distress Israeli Jews
and the wider Jewish community.
If the party misses this opportunity to construct
an intellectual and cultural firewall to separate
legitimate criticism of Israeli policy from foul demonisation of Israel per se, then the partys crisis
will likely become chronic. Anti-Semitic anti-Zionism will flourish, the fundamental perception
of the party among the electorate will be that
Labour is extremist and there may well be an exodus of long-standing members; and the climate
for Jews in this country will become less welcoming and more dangerous. Much is at stake.
Professor Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom
Magazine. His 15,000-word submission to the
inquiry was entitled: Antisemitic anti-Zionism:
the root of Labours crisis.
Professor Alan
Johnson
Senior Research Fellow,
BICOM
If Labour doesnt separate

legitimate criticism of Israeli
policy from demonisation, the
crisis will become chronic
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ISRAELI CHARITYS LAUNCH GIG
The non-profit Israeli charity, Dror
For The Wounded, which supports
injured IDF soldiers, is launching its
UK branch with a classical music
concert. The event will be at the
Kingston & Surbiton Synagogue on
23 June, with a kosher reception
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SWESRS NEW RABBI

South West Essex & Settlement
Reform Synagogue has appointed
Lisa Barrett as its full-time rabbi.
Brought up in Manchesters Reform
community, Rabbi Barrett made
aliyah in 1995, teaching English to
Jewish, Muslim and Christian
students at Tabeetha School in
Jaffa. She also studied for three
years at Bostons Hebrew College,
for two years at Leo Baeck Colleage
and, after ordination in 2011, taught
Jewish Studies at JCoSS. She was
also part-time rabbi at Middlesex
New Synagogue, Glasgow Reform
and Stevenage Liberal, and spent
two years as assistant rabbi at
Hendon Reform.
Sacks Morashas big schlep

A group of Year 4 children from Sacks Morasha Jewish Primary School in Finchley took part in
the Schlep to school campaign. Run by Tzedek, they walked for around 5km to raise money
for the charitys School for life project. The class has also twinned with a school in Ghana,
learning about the pupils and sharing work with them. The campaign has so far raised 2,300.
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Author Jemma Wayne will discuss
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Jewish News features editor
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29 June, 7pm, at Spiro Ark, Finchley
Road. Jemmas debut novel, After
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PICTURES
Volunteers, including American and English
tourists, were among 100 people who helped
pick vegetables for those in need. The event
was arranged by GIFT, in conjunction with
Israeli charity Leket.
More than 30 members of the Southend

and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation
gathered together in Tel Aviv for the
dedication of the latest SWHC ambulance.
HASMO CARNIVAL TIME

Hasmonean High School is holding
a carnival in aid of Tikva UK which
supports an orphanage in Odessa.
It aims to spread the word about the
cause and to enable it to continue
its amazing work saving children in
the Ukraine. The event will take
place on the 26 June in Princes
Park, Golders Green.
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The impact of Tribes work at a local level

was discussed at a United Synagogue
event, hosted by David Brooks, Hayley
Ronson and David Lander.
Pupils at Simon Marks Jewish

Primary School in Stoke
Newington took advantage of the
summer weather with a barbecue
and afternoon of outdoor games.
Frontrunner Insurance has been

named the industrys Agent Of The
Month by insurer Commercial
Express. Staff donated their charity
cheque gift of 100 to Side By Side
school in Hackney.
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A 70th anniversary in Dublin
AJEXs gift to Nightingale
Liberal Judaism President Rabbi Dr

Andrew Goldstein, Senior Rabbi Danny
Rich, and Chairman Simon Benscher attended a sold-out gala as Dublin Jewish
Progressive Congregation celebrated its
70th anniversary.
The Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen &

Women (AJEX) has
donated new garden
furniture to Nightingale
House for the use of its
residents. The gift was
celebrated with an afternoon tea at Nightingale House, where a
plaque was unveiled
marking AJEXs generosity. Head of activities, Alastair Addison
said: We would like to
extend our deepest
gratitude to AJEX.
Alyth children are

visited by animals
Norwood team says

Cheese! for festival
Glasgow Girls raise 4k for Chai

Chais flagship centre in Hendon hosted more than 70 avid card players for
a day of bridge, which has so far raised more than 4,000. Hosted by the
Glasgow Girls in London committee Louise Kramer, Linda Reich, Linda
Goldberg, Louise Naftalin, Lynda Rapport, Barbara Kay and Frances
Bloom the money will be split equally between the Chai Glasgow service
and the Glasgow charities supported by the committee in London.
Norwood, staff and service users celebrated

Shavuot this week. On Wednesday
Ravenswood, the residential homes for
adults with learning disabilities in Berkshire,
held its annual cheesecake competition,
judged by Rabbi Stanley Coten. The competition was followed by music and dancing. At
Norwood Nursery children mixed and baked
their own their own miniature cheesecakes
while staff at head office gathered for afternoon tea, served with big helping of yet
more delicious cheesecake.
Alyth Kindergarten in Golders Green recently

had a visit from Ark Farm. A pen was built
for lambs, goats, a donkey, geese and ducks,
as the children learned about the animals,
which came from the farm based in Bedfordshire. They also spent time inside the pen to
pet the animals.
MPs interfaith
meeting at LJ
Sir Keir Starmer MP visited
Liberal Judaisms head office,
the Montagu Centre, to take
part in an interfaith meeting
on assisted dying. He met a
number of faith leaders including Rabbi Jonathan Romain of The Movement for
Reform Judaism and Liberal
Judaisms Rabbi Dr David
Goldberg (pictured).
Side by Sides cool honour for the Queen

Special needs school
Side by Side celebrated the Queens
90th birthday by
hosting an ice cream
party and BBQ in her
honour. Pupils from
the Hackney-based
school wrote letters
to Her Majesty, wishing her long life.
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Norwoods the business!

More than 150,000 was raised as former
Sainsburys CEO Justin King addressed the
Norwood Investec Private Equity dinner last week.
At the event, held at the Rosewood Hotel, King,
who is now vice chairman at Terra Firma, shared
insights on how businesses can serve the
communities they operate within, before taking
questions from the floor on issues including the
Brexit debate. In front of an audience of 330
business figures, he hailed the work of the charity,
which supports vulnerable families and children
with special educational needs. Marc Cohen,
chair of Norwoods Private Equity Committee,
said: Its wonderful to see our industry come
together like this for such a worthwhile cause.
Photos by Andy Tyler Photography
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Chancellor dines out with WJR

George Osborne was the star turn at World Jewish Reliefs
annual business dinner last Monday, helping the charity raise
215,000 to support vulnerable Jews in Ukraine and Moldova.
More than 300 people at the Millennium Hotel London Mayfair
heard the chancellor, in conversation with Lord Daniel Finkelstein,
warn that anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was a cancer that
must be dealt with. He also claimed Labour opted for "the simple
but wrong answer in electing Jeremy Corbyn as leader, and
warned it had abandoned the middle ground of British politics,
much to the dismay of their MPs. Asked by Finkelstein whether
it was a mistake to hold a referendum, Osborne said: Its never
a mistake in a democracy to ask the people what they think and
to make sure the public are engaged. The funds will help
younger generations break the cycle of poverty by getting a job
and helping lift their family from difficulty.
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Wizo makes Israel better

Opening WIZOs annual dinner, Israels Ambassador to the UK, Mark
Regev, described how the charity has made a real difference
to women's empowerment, equal rights and social equality.
Speaking at the Marriott Hotel, in Grosvenor Square, London,
where 350,000 was raised for the charitys social welfare and
educational projects, he said: "WIZO is making Israel a better and
more just place. John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw and chairman of
the All Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, urged the
guests to do more to combat any type of racism. He said: We can
choose to walk by, or we can choose not to walk by... That is why
it is all our interests, and it has always been in all our interests, to
stand up against prejudice. Colonel Richard Kemp spoke about
how Israeli technology has saved British soldiers lives and how the
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GRANDAD, I FEEL
PARTLY JEWISH
Francine Wolfisz was in
the cheering crowd on
Tuesday as footballing
icon David Beckham
made his JW3 debut
e forged a glittering international career that turned him into

a global icon, is one of the most
marketable footballers in the world and
has enjoyed personal fulfilment as a
doting dad to four children. But if you
ask David Beckham what really drives
his personal and professional success,
the answer is refreshingly simple: the
support of his family including his
Jewish grandfather.
Beckham, 41, told a 200-strong audience at JW3 on Tuesday night that he
was very lucky that, from a young age,
my parents, sisters and grandparents
supported me.
Referring to his Jewish maternal
grandfather, Joseph West, who died in
2009, the former England captain
added: My grandad would follow me
everywhere to watch me play.
Beckham, who appeared at the Finchley Road venue in conversation with
Kirsty Young as part of the Alan Howard
Foundation/JW3 Speaker Series, added
he felt partly Jewish and although he
was not brought up in the faith, recalled
that whenever [my grandfather] went to
synagogue, I was a part of that.
The oversubscribed event, for which
JW3 received 700 applications for just
200 tickets, largely focused on Beckhams
involvement as an ambassador with
UNICEF UK, since 2005. The many countries he has visited in that time include
Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Papua New
Guinea, the Phillipines and South Africa.
He also spoke about 7: The David
Beckham UNICEF Fund, which he
launched last year to focus on specific
issues involving young people around
the world.
The audience heard how he recently
returned from Swaziland, where UNICEF
is supporting some 56,000 children who
have been orphaned by AIDS. He also
Main: Sharing a joke on stage with

Kirsty Young. Above: With JW3 chief
Raymond Simonson and Kirsty
spoke about last years visit to Djibouti,

where poor health resources result in one
in 14 children dying before the age of five.
While he has been engaged with a
number of charities over the years, Beckham recalled how UNICEF made a particular impression on him, ever since he
first visited a womans centre in Thailand
with Manchester United, 15 years ago.
I knew thats what I wanted to do
when I finished playing, to be involved
with a charity that does so much for children around the world.
Even before I had children, I really
cared about children and their future. My
mum tells me I was always like that and I
say the same about my children. They are
so affectionate and have a natural gift
with kids. So when Kofi Annan contacted
me to become an ambassador, it was very
emotional and proud moment for me.
Married to former pop star and fashion
designer Victoria Beckham since 1999,
the sportsman said he takes the time to
explain his UNICEF work to their

children, Brooklyn, 17, Romeo, 13,
Cruz, 11 and Harper, four. They
know what I do and what Victoria
does [as a UN goodwill ambassador]. It's
important for the kids to see that.
Away from his charity work and success
on the pitch, Beckham spoke about the
pressure of growing up in the constant
media glare and paid tribute to his Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson.
He also described leaving Man Utd in
2003 having won six Premier League
titles, two FA Cups and one Champions
League crown during his career with it
as one of the lowest points of his time
in football.
I physically couldn't watch them play
for three years and Im the biggest
Manchester United fan, he said. When
Young asked if he was hell to live with
during those years, he prompted audience laughter by responding: You
should ask my wife, but yes, I think I was.
He also cited getting sent off for kicking
Argentinian player Diego Simeone during
the 1998 World Cup as the hardest
time, not just because of the personal
vitriol against him that followed from the
media and fans, but also because my
family were being harassed as well.
Asked what he had learnt from the situation, Beckham quipped: Not to be so
obvious about a kick! But also, it made
me stronger as a person and a player.
Alongside the lows there have been
immense highs, including being
awarded an OBE aged just 28 for services to football, in 2003. He took time
to reflect on Englands chances in Euro
2016 and said the teams first game
against Russia was a great, strong, performance. He also described Roy
Hodgsons current line-up as a group
of young, raw and talented players.
When asked if he would one day consider becoming a manager, Beckham
ruled it out for the moment.
That might change in five years
time, he continued, but at the moment, my passion is UNICEF and being
a part of this organisation. Thats what
drives me. Im passionate about the
game and always will be, but not being
a manager. For some people thats what
makes them tick, but for me its my charity work that makes me tick
Towards the end of the night, Beckham divulged light-hearted anecdotes
about his personal life, including that he
was introduced to Victoria thanks to the
matchmaking efforts of Man Utds Jewish
non-executive director Michael Edelson.

He recalled how he had met the band
member a week before in the players
lounge following a 1-1 tie against
Chelsea but she left with fellow Spice
Girl Mel C before he could get her number. I thought: Damn, Ive missed my
chance. But then a week later she turned
up at Old Trafford. Victoria is not the
biggest football fan, as everyone knows.
Then Michael walked in with her and
I thought: Ill get her number this time!
While at JW3, Beckham took a few
moments to help another cause close to
his heart the Make-a-Wish Foundation
and met a group of terminally-ill
children, before signing Man Utd and
England shirts for them.
Raymond Simonson, CEO of JW3,
said: He was a total mensch, and, after
the event, both he and Beckham publicly
thanked Alan Howard for his support of
UNICEF and being the driving force
behind the AHF-JW3 Speaker Series,
including sponsoring all the tickets on the
night to make it free to the public.
The series has now ended for the summer, but former foreign minister David
Miliband has been confirmed for November and former prime minister Tony Blair
will speak at JW3 next year.
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POLAND WAS
JEWISH FOR
800 YEARS
Francine Wolfisz talks to the director
of A Town Called Brzostek, a moving
tale of one communitys reconciliation
tanding in the middle of an

unremarkable Polish town, situated on a truck route between
Tarnow and the Ukraine, Ruth Pagirsky
recalls a time when 30 percent of the
people who lived here were Jewish.
The Jews of Brzostek and their
gentile neighbours lived in parallel and
respectfully tolerated one another. In
some ways, life was idyllic.
Whos going to bother the Jews
here? she remembers thinking all too
well. She was just 16 when Poland was
under Nazi rule and she witnessed her
grandmother being forced to cut off
her husbands payot.
She answered the Nazi officers order
by spitting in his face and swiftly paid
for her defiance with her life and then
her husbands.
Pagirskys mother ordered the young
girl to run away and so she did, falling
into a ditch before finding refuge at a
local farmhouse. The farmers wife, who
recognised Pagirsky, ushered the young
girl in, now covered in mud and
bloodstains. Hours later,
Pagirsky awoke to find,
miraculously, her mother
lying on the pillow next
to her. Shortly after
the teenagers arrival,
the farmer had
urged his son to find
Pagirskys mother
and reunite the pair.
Seventy
years
later, her story of
survival is all the
more
remarkable
given that, unlike many
others who fled Poland
following Nazi persecution, she harbours no ill feelings towards the country once
called home by three million Jews.
I believe Poles got a bad rap, says
Pagirsky, who now lives in New York.
At Yad Vashem, the greatest percentage of righteous gentiles were Poles.
She is one of a handful of Jews shown
trying to reconnect to the old country
in a critically-acclaimed documentary
which premiered in the UK this week.
A Town Called Brzostek follows

the efforts of social anthropologist
Jonathan Webber to rebuild the abandoned Jewish cemetery in the town
where his grandfather was born.
Webber, who is a professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakw, Poland, is
the first Jew many in Brzostek have ever
met, despite the town having a solid
Jewish presence for centuries prior to
the Second World War.
Through his efforts to restore the
cemetery, which he literally stumbles
upon and at first believes is just an
overgrown field, Webber secures
the support of Brzosteks mayor, the
Catholic priest and the local population.
A request for the town to search for
the missing gravestones, which were
removed after the war at a time when
building materials were in short supply,
results in some 70 stones being
returned.
Webber was then able to trace the
families of those buried in Brzostek and
found them, including Ruth
Pagirsky, living in every corner of the world.
Director Simon Target
met Webber in 2011
and was immediately
touched by the story.
The British-born
film-maker,
who
lives in Sydney,
tells me that until
recently he had
very little knowledge about Poland
or indeed its extensive Jewish history.
But when he visited the
country five years ago
while co-writing a book
with his Polish wife, Beata
Zatorska, he saw the Jewishness
of the country.
Target, 54, explains: Poland had
been the most Jewish country in the
world for 800 years and then suddenly
all the Jews were murdered by Hitler.
If you were a Pole living there, you
would have known Jews, you would
have spoken to them every day and
then suddenly no more. It must have

been such a strange experience for
them and such a loss to the country.
Literally and culturally, Poles and
Jews mixed. They spoke each others
language, they ate each others food to
an extent, and you see Jewishness
today even in the way people talk and
eat. Its a place where that Jewish history belongs. In many ways, Jews are a
missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle that
is Poland.
Webber shares a similar view and
talks about the presence of absence
when considering Poland and its Jewishness. But as Target researched more
into the subject, he discovered that not
all Jews were as forgiving as Webber
when it comes to the country.
As someone who is not Jewish,
I was not aware that there was this
residual dislike for Poland, he tells me.
Many Jews in fact have a conflicted
relationship with the country and still
hold it in deep contempt, but Jonathan
and Ruth are trying to connect and
make sense of their past in a way that
I found very interesting.
Others looking to reconnect
include Irving Wallach from Sydney,
whose mother Rivka, was hidden by
her Polish neighbour, Maria Jalowiec.
The documentary shows Wallachs emotional meeting with Jalowiecs grandson, Tadeusz, now in his seventies
and who as an eight-year-old kept his
grandmothers secret that she was hiding Jews in the barn. Wallach returned
to Brzostek to dedicate a new memorial
to her and revealed he has started the
process of trying to get her recognised
as a Righteous Gentile at Yad Vashem.
The film also features Leone Najman,
from Paris, who visits the mill once
owned by her family. She is surprised to
discover her family was quite affluent
and that her jaundiced view of
Poland is far from the reality she had
come to believe.
As much as the documentary shows
Jews having a renewed affiliation with
Poland so, too, does it highlight a
willingness by Poles to rediscover the
countrys lost Jewishness. When the
From top: Social anthropologist Jonathan Webber; Brzostek Jewish cemetery;

Holocaust survivor Ruth Pagirsky, centre, with her daughter Regina, left, and
producer Beata Zatorska, right. Inset left: British-Australian director Simon Target
cemetery was reconsecrated in 2009,

the town mayor suggested putting out
50 chairs. In fact, the entire towns
600-strong population turned out for
the ceremony.
Much of the community is still
involved in maintaining the cemetery
and schools educate the younger generation about Brzosteks Jewish past.
More recently, Webber was involved
in erecting a memorial in Podzamcze
forest where, on 12 August 1946, some
260 of the 500 Jews living in Poland
were gathered by the Nazis, shot and
killed in a mass grave.
His efforts, combined with his work as
a board member of the Auschwitz
Museum for 25 years, have earned
Webber the Gold Cross of Polands
Order of Merit for services to PolishJewish dialogue.
While he has received acclaim from

outside the Jewish community for his
efforts, praise from within still eludes
him, according to his niece, Natasha
Lehrer. My uncle wont be appreciated
by Jews, she says. They have long
memories and hold tight to their grievances.
So will Targets film ultimately help
change views on Poland? Not every
Jewish person wants to open their
heart, he concludes. Maybe thats
part of Jewish survival after persecution. At the very least, I believe my film
picks away at some of the reasons
why these conflicting feelings about
Poland exist.
A Town Called Brzostek is available to
download on demand at: https://vimeo.com/
ondemand/atowncalledbrzostek
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2 TRAVEL
Cape Expectations!
Sharon Feinstein is bowled over on C
a visit to Cape Town by the natural
setting, the hip population and the
cultured sophistication of her hotel.
Oh, and then theres the food ...
Main picture, Cape Town glories in its natural setting; centre, Sharon Feinstein on the beach, a meal
from one of the many excellent restaurants; above, the flamingo-pink Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel
ape Towns natural setting never stops

changing and making its impact on mesmerised visitors as clouds sweep down the
granite face of Table Mountain, Atlantic breakers
crash on to soft beaches and the blazing African
sun ignites towering palms and vivid hibiscus.
Cape Town has soul. Africas most passionately
creative city has become a playground for artists,
designers, chefs and entrepreneurs.
With the weak rand and low prices, the flamingopink Belmond Mount Nelson, a favourite with British
visitors, is booked well into autumn, flights are full
and everyone wants some of the stardust.
The Mount Nelson is the antithesis of the international shiny hip hotel reeking of new money and
glitz. It sits comfortably in its history and has an air
of cultured sophistication.
I feel welcomed and cherished. Were all one
here, is the overall feeling, down to Noku remembering my style of breakfast, a lounger laid out for
my morning swim, and even the two resident Egyptian geese waiting to do our laps together.
Set in grounds modelled on classic English gardens, with oak trees and glorious white-fringed
herbaceous borders, it has the air of colonial England still intact.
As a foodie, I was in awe of La Colombe, which
sits above a glorious valley of green and purple vineyards and forests against the backdrop of Table
Mountain. The dishes are astounding, each mouthful
lush and flavoursome, with a chilled Uma Mira wine
I fell in love with.
Two days after dinner we went back for lunch and
the French manageress, Jennifer, had the wine waiting at our table with a real touch of lan.
Cape Town still has that messy character of
change, a mixture of Africa and a European outpost.
Its a haphazard charm and emerging hip that is
quirky, vibrant and exciting.
Restaurants like Grand Caf & Beach, along with
Bombay Bicycle, are of that ilk, super-cool, and
bursting with imagination.
I spent my meal at Grande Caf with my toes in
the soft white sand, watching the moon rise over the
waves as I ate delicious fish. Bombay Bicycle is magical in candlelight, a kind of Aladdins cave with
swings, hanging drums and a clanging bell ringing
out at 10pm.
I loved it, but had to ask the waitress if I was the
oldest person there. She replied sheepishly, You
obviously have a very young spirit.
Theres almost a heady spirit in Cape Town today.
It offers a sense of freedom and creativity that many
European cities, past their prime and struggling in
faded glory, have lost.
Cape Towns Jewish community is strong and welcoming. It recently organised its first Jewish Literary
Festival, and there is also a thriving Holocaust Centre
that takes educational programmes to high schools
in outlying areas examining the Shoah, racism and
prejudice generally.
The Mount Nelson is round the corner from the
Jewish Museum and the hotel actually hosted the
first Jewish service in the city during the mid-19th
century. I braved the climb to the top of Lions Head

over several hours with a friends son who virtually
jogged ahead of me and refused to entertain sighing or flagging.
The views kept changing, ever more spectacular,
with a real sense of bonhomie among the climbers,
some of whom bring their dogs in backpacks or let
them scramble up.
The extraordinary thing is that this is the centre of
the city, and you can be back down and in a restaurant just minutes later.
We went to Rumbullion in Camps Bay, a real
favourite for families on a Sunday afternoon, where
guests arrive for lunch and dont stagger home until
the evening.
Cockerels strut up to your table, children are playing and theres a kind of joy in the air. The food is
fresh, casual, picnic-style in the sun.
Back at the Mount Nelson, I loved to flop into the
classic Planet Bar, and then move to fine dining at
Planet Restaurant, which reminds me of a nocturnal
scene in an old film, with its starry carpets, and
tinged blue atmosphere. It is elegant, deliciously
fresh, with seamless service. You can find yourself sitting at a table next to Idris Elba or Daniel Radcliffe,
because the city is suddenly full of British and Hollywood stars making new films here.
Round the corner is the best Japanese Cape Town
has to offer, Kyoto so peaceful and spa-like you almost expect a massage in between the light, piquant courses. I loved the delicacy of the seaweed
and mustard cabbage, and the fresh fish from the
cold Atlantic is among the best in the world.
Dont miss Manos along the Green Point Road,
where you sit outside in the warm evening breeze
on a perfect Cape Town evening n a buzzy, exuberant atmosphere and eat really well. This restaurant is
an institution packed with Capetonians, who appreciate its home-made, simple dishes, not to mention
the gorgeous waitresses.
This great city built on a bay has preserved its
historic buildings, wooden houses and Dutchgabled architecture, and shunned chain stores and
bland tourist traps.
Walk down Long Street, up Bree, wander into
old-fashioned record shops, lively coffee bars and
my favourite jewellery shop, Linde, on Shortmarket
Street, where staff really care about giving personal
service and have innovative designs.
Ive decided Im already booking my next trip
if I can get on the plane.
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2 HEALTH
Stop kids eating

sugar without
being a killjoy
I
Jewish News resident GP, Dr Ellie Cannon
WONDER WHAT Jamie Oliver or other proponents of the sugar tax would think if they
spent a week or even a year in the life of the
Jewish community? I was thinking this after
one of my children commented how much
Jewish celebrations involve not just food, but
actually sugar, writes Dr Ellie Cannon.
There are always sweets, she said. Sweets
are thrown at barmitzvahs; at Purim; lollipops
given out at shul. We love sweets dont we? Shes
not wrong. My treat cupboard recently burst at the
seams with overflow from the mishloach manot.
So what if anything should we be doing about
it? Parents are now being bombarded with
healthy eating messages telling us to avoid
sugar; given that 30 per cent of children are overweight, this is no bad thing.
But I think it is hard to strike the right balance
you dont want to be the parent giving out an
apple as a going-home present but, equally, the
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constant association of fun with sweets and treats

cant be great for our childrens health.
Food culture has changed beyond recognition
over the past two generations: while we parents
are being hit with messages about healthy eating,
our children are constantly being offered
sugary treats.
The after-school snack
now warrants a whole
aisle in the supermarket;
a trip to the cinema isnt
complete without a
mega bucket of popcorn or pick n mix. I recently booked to take
my children bowling in
the school holidays and the online booking site offered me food and slush drinks to go with our
bowling. This was especially bad as the lane was
booked for 11am.
It is hard to fight the constant marketing
of treats to children and all the societal influence
for us to be eating all the time, all day long to suit
every occasion.
Sugar means fun and fun means sugar.
And that message is certainly strong in
the Jewish community. So how can
parents combat it without being
killjoys and ruining the fun of
chagim or parties? Without taxing
our kids fun, I think there are a
few ways we can help our children
survive the sugar onslaught...
Treats are treats. Sweets for
special occasions are fine: shabbat treats, at parties, Purim and all
the good times are fine. People
have celebrated for hundreds of
years with sweet treats, and thats
exactly what they should be a
treat. School days by and large
should be sweet-free days keeping
treats in their rightful place. Desserts
during the week should take other
forms: yoghurts, fruit or home-made less
sugary desserts.
Dont let your children drink sugar. Doctors and dentists for sure agree that
sugary drinks really have no
place in a childs diet.
This is certainly why
they have been singled
out for a sugar tax.
Theyre laden with
empty
sugar-based
calories. If you were
going to be militant
about something in
your childrens diet,
this should be it.
Weaning children
on to pure drinking
water is easier than
people think, and
you can lead by
example
with
water drunk by
the whole family.
Involve the chil-
dren. Rather than simply shouting no, no, no, involving the children in dietary decisions has been
shown to be really positive in helping them grow
up to make their own good decisions.
I have a few patients who do this using the
sugar-swap apps that
are available, such as
Change 4 Life: we all
know the children love
anything to do with a
smart phone.
These apps offer
healthy alternatives to
sweet choices; if children are allowed to
choose
themselves,
theyre more likely to
go for it. Likewise, get them cooking: eating treats
youve made yourself (which can be sweetened
with fruit or healthier sweet things) is particularly
satisfying for our young ones.
Dont assume they want to eat all the time.
What happens if you get in the car for a journey
and dont pack a massive bag of food? Ill tell you,
because Ive tried it nothing.
They play games instead or listen to music and dont miss
the snacks because they
didnt need them in the
first place. If they dont
see you eating in the
car, they wont expect
to do it either. Similarly,
I dont always appear
at the school gates
with a snack. It isnt
essential.
We have been
conditioned by marketeers to assume
children need snacks.
If you look at your
own kids closely, youll
see they really dont.
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HANOKH WALKED with God for 300 years
after he fathered Methuselah: The entire
lifespan of Hanokh was 365 years. Hanokh
walked with God and he was no longer, for
God had taken him. (Genesis 5:22-24)
Hanokhs story is little-known as it is
sandwiched between the great pre-Abrahamic accounts of the Garden of Eden and
the Great Deluge.
Yet the rabbis saw in Hanokh a figure of
some complexity, whose fleeting appearance belies his legacy.
The sages considered every wrinkle in
the Biblical language. Questions such as
why Hanokhs divine perambulations are
mentioned twice and what he was no
longer means, led the sages to devise an
interpretation that weaves answers into
the text itself.
Parsing these difficulties, Midrashim are
divided over Hanokhs character. One
casts him as wicked; another as a man so
righteous he entered the hereafter without first dying; another a religious waverer.
Rashi assumes that Hanokh was primarily righteous, but in need of divine intervention to take him from the world to
prevent his spiritual decline.
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BY RABBI ALEX
CHAPPER
WHAT HAVE the Romans ever done for us?

That was the famous and extremely humorous
question posed by Monty Python and we all
know the unavoidable answer.
As we have just celebrated Shavuot, commemorating the giving of the Torah, we could
also ask a similar question. What has the Torah
ever done for us?
Id like to suggest five things one from each
of the books of the Torah.
First, it introduces us to our reality, that of
a created world, complex in its design and full of
wondrous beauty in which we are able to discover the divine.
Seek and you shall find is a truism that we can
experience in our everyday lives when we contemplate the miracle of our very existence.
Next we see proof that hope springs eternal as
even seemingly endless and abject slavery can
turn to absolute freedom in the blink of an eye.
Oppression gives way to redemption, darkness
changes to light, and mourning turns to rejoicing.
We continue to live in the knowledge that
no one is predestined to a fate that they are incapable of changing.
life; others concentrate on the unusual

nature of his death, without illness or
warning, yet others on walking with God,
emulating the divine in acts of charity and
ethical teaching.
Id like to explore the latter idea
through a late Midrashic reading, which
claims Hanokh was a cobbler by trade and
with every stitch he declared the unity of
the divine.
Resisting the temptation to understand
this peculiar source literally, Rabbi Yisrael
Salanter offers a fascinating approach.
He rejects the notion that Hanokh cobbled while in a mystical reverie in fact,
the obligation to his customers would, of
necessity, require him to dedicate himself
completely to the task at hand.
Instead, the Midrash offers a profound
insight into real spirituality. Apparently,
with every stitch, Hanokh ensured that the
shoes he was making would be strong,
comfortable and bring pleasure to their
wearer.
For Rabbi Salanter, this exemplifies true
spirituality focusing entirely on the
needs of another equates to declaring the
unity of God.
It increases holiness and altruism, augments awareness of the divine. And it represents Hanokhs contribution to posterity
a man who struggled with his spiritual
identity, yet through a robust and honest
attitude to a simple trade, bequeathed
godliness to the world.
Harvey Belovski is rabbi of Golders Green Synagogue and CEO of University Jewish Chaplaincy
The third book enables us to comprehend the

concept of holiness and how time, space and
beings can be imbued with special sanctity.
At the same time, we learn that holiness is not
an abstract, nor is it found by disengaging from
the world but by elevating the mundane and
transforming physical into spiritual. We can
bring Heaven down to earth.
Fourth on our list, the Torah shows us that
sometimes the journey can be as important as
the destination.
We can learn much from the events and deviations along the route and we can gain new
perspectives and a deeper understanding of
ourselves and others along the way.
Nevertheless, its crucial to keep the end point
in mind because, by knowing where we are heading, prevents us from becoming too distracted
from our ultimate goal by the inconsequential.
Finally, we see that if something is worth saying, its worth repeating. This is especially true
when we think about relationships or covenant,
as the Torah refers to it.
For any interaction between two parties to be
successful and to endure, it requires both sides to
remain faithful to an agreed set of principles.
So here we have it, just five examples of the
tremendous gift of wisdom that was revealed to
the world through the Torah.
In truth, we could have answered that apart
from the Ten Commandments, the life lessons
of the patriarchs and matriarchs, the laws governing all areas of human interaction, the sanctity of marriage, value of education, respect for
the elderly, honesty in business what has the
Torah ever done for us?
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Synagogue and the Childrens Rabbi. Details:
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Should employers be allowed to ban staff MAKE SURE TO

from wearing religious items of clothing? USE YOUR VOTE
BY RABBI DEBBIE
YOUNG-SOMERS
I MUST confess that Im generally
confused by legislation that tries to
define how people dress.
School uniform is one thing, but in
the UK we have no problem embracing religious clothing, even at
school. This is not the case in other
countries France for example,
where items of religious clothing
such as kippot are not allowed.
Personal expression and identity
are written on how we dress in so
many ways.
Therefore, if we cant deal with
the variety expressed by diverse
faiths and how they dress, this surely
says as much about our own selfconfidence and ability to cope with
different approaches to life as it
does about the wearer.
I can understand that workplaces
may have a dress code or uniform
for their members of staff. In
some instances this may allow for
worker safety, or appropriate
company representation.
But unless safety is compromised,
personal religious expression does
not mean coercion of others, and
should be allowed.
If there is a health and safety
issue with a kippah, a head scarf or
a wig, then surely an alternative
head covering can compensate.
If there is a question over a piece
of jewellery, then the item can surely
be tucked safely away. In other

words, people of faith should be able
to wear their faith on their sleeve if
that is their thing, and it poses no
danger to them or to others.
We all embrace our own unique
look and that doesnt necessarily
mean we dont look appropriate
within our workplace.
We could just see a headscarf (as
was ruled against by Belgian courts
and a senior adviser to the EU court
recently) simply as part of someones
personal style, their individuality.
But more than this, to deny someone the right to wear religious clothing would surely flout the right to
freedom of religious expression
enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The UK ratified this important document in 1951 and was one of the
earliest countries to do so.
As Jews, we should be standing
up for the rights of religious minorities, including their right to wear religious clothing, if we want to enjoy
the same benefits.
Whatever we may choose to wear
individually, we should also want
others to have the option to cover
their heads, or to wear tzitzit.
If we dont defend the rights of
others to do so, who do we think
will stand up and make themselves
heard when it is our traditions, laws
and personal choices that we find
are being challenged?
AS THE EU referendum approaches, media

headlines are focusing on apathy among
young people and why they are unlikely to
vote, despite having strong opinions one way
or the other on remaining in the EU.
Fortunately, apathy among the younger
generation isnt something Ive experienced.
Growing up in RSY-Netzer, I learnt the importance of engagement in politics based on informed decision-making.
Youth groups offer a space for young people to develop ideas and explore the things
they care about. I have friends who are voting
for the first time this year and they welcome
the opportunity to have their voices heard.
Its encouraging that the deadline for registering to vote had to be extended owing to
a last-minute rush of online registrations, and
I hope many of these are young people who
have been moved enough to use their voting
power and make a difference.
We must, however, engage with those
who are still unconvinced of the need to
vote. Think, for example, of the enormous
sacrifice made by suffragettes who, in their
fight to gain the vote for women, even put
their own lives on the line. We might take it
for granted, but around the world there are
still people without a voice, unable to participate in any democratic process.
The referendum campaign has been long,
at times confusing and frustrating, but now
its time to make a decision.
This will change the shape of our country
and is probably going to be the most important vote in our lifetime.
My message to other young people is this:
whichever way you decide to vote, dont
leave it to the oldest members of the community to determine your future.
I implore you to do your research and
make your voice heard next Thursday.
Debbie Young-Somers is Reform

Judaisms community educator
Meiron Avidan is a community youth

development worker for Reform Judaism
MY JEWISH
HERO
MY JEWISH heroine was, and still
is, Barbra Streisand. She is two
years older than me and burst
onto the popular music scene in
the 1960s, just as I was beginning
my own career as a working
singer with high aspirations.
At that time, there were three
general types of female artists
in the pop industry. You either
had to be an English rose like
Marianne Faithfull, a feisty
rocker such as Lulu, or a soulful
Dusty Springfield type.
I certainly did not fit into those
moulds with my big voice, fast
vibrato and very Jewish looks
and stature thrown into the bargain. You can imagine my artistic
confusion. Where did I fit in, musically and physically?

Then along came Barbra.
The lady with the huge voice,
big nose and large mouth.
This week, jazz singer and

voice coach Pepi Lemer
selects Barbra Streisand
as her Jewish heroine
Someone who looked to be
different to the rest and was
genuinely funny too.
She changed everything for
a generation of singers, myself
included. Suddenly it became
acceptable to have an appearance that perhaps wasnt
deemed to be normal, and to
sound emotional using the
voice to the extreme.
Barbra had a wonderful ability
to sing high and keep the sound
strong, which is not easy.
Her control was effortless and
to try and emulate her was a
masterclass in tuition, if you
could achieve it.
She gave the singers of that
time a wonderful goal to improve and to search for ones

own true sound.
To try and copy Barbra
meant falling by the wayside. I
had to find my own style and
voice which led me to jazz a
style of singing and improvising that allowed me to use all
that I had learnt from her, but
make it my own.
And Im proud to say that both
of us are still going strong, and
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I have some sovereigns and krugerrands to sell. Is now a
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Dear Jean
Your timing is perfect! In January this year the gold price was
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This increase is because of all the uncertainties in the world,
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I just emailed my website host to ask for an amendment,
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I supposed to do now?
Jeremy
Dear Jeremy
When you say youve rung your website host, I think you mean
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Yohanan Plesner, President, Israel Democracy Institute
Stav Shaffir, MK (Labor-Zionist Union)
Amal Elsana Alhjooj, Director of North American Relations,
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Sir Mick Davis, Chairman, Jewish Leadership Council
Hannah Weisfeld, Director, Yachad
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Daniella Peled, Managing Editor of the Institute for War and
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Tender brisket with caramelised onions

This recipe is perfect in a slow cooker
or crock pot or if you have a combi steam
oven, cook at 170C, 50 percent steam for
four hours. It is better to cook the day
before required, so the surface fat can be
removed and for the flavours to improve.
I also like to slice the meat so serving is
more straightforward.
PREPARATION TIME
15 MINS
Serves
COOKING TIME
4 HOURS & 20 MINUTES
INGREDIENTS
1 tablespoon olive oil

450g white onions - peeled and sliced
450g red onions peeled and sliced
Method
1.5 kg beef brisket
1 Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium
6 cloves garlic peeled and chopped
heat. Add the onions and cook stirring

frequently, for about 20 minutes or until
the onions have caramelized lightly.
Remove and set aside.
400ml beef stock (ie 400ml boiling water

with 6 tablespoons beef powder)
100ml red wine
2 While the onions are cooking, take the brisket
2 tablespoons whole grain mustard
out of its packaging and pat it dry. Season the

meat generously with salt and pepper.
salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 Using the same large frying pan, sear the

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side up.
6 Cover and cook in the slow cooker on 140 C
4 Sprinkle the garlic and onions around the
/ 275 F/ Gas mark 1 for 6 hours or until the

brisket is very tender.
meat.
5 Mix the stock, mustard and wine together and

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Israel to send biggest ever Olympic
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ISRAELI OLYMPIC chiefs this
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women so it is less relevant for
us, but at the same time we are
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He added: We receive regular

reports from the World Health Organisation, including [issuing] travellers advise from the Centres for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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necessary information and instructions, not just during the Olympics
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Israel will send its largest delegation to the Games. Dudi Sela
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Israeli racer Alon Day celebrates

first British victory at Brands Hatch
ISRAELI RACING driver Alon Day claimed his first
success on British soil after winning the ELITE 1
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Hatch on Sunday.
In what was the third round of the season, the
24-year-old, who drives a Chevrolet SS, started
the final race from pole and although never relinquished his lead, only pipped Frederic Gabillon by .132 seconds, just holding him off in a
spectacular last lap, as he claimed his second win
of the season, the fifth of his NASCAR career.
He said: Im really happy! This is my first win
at the historic Brand Hatch and I want to thank all
the fans for coming out this weekend, my outstanding team CAAL Racing for doing such a great
job and all my sponsors for making this possible.
"That was such a great finish! I didn't know exactly what to expect before the race, it was my
first NASCAR race with wet tires and I drove as
hard as I could, but Fred was always right there,
putting pressure on me all race long.
I'm really looking forward to the next race. I
have to think about the championship now."
Alon Day celebrates victory in the NASCAR Euro Series at Brands Hatch on Sunday
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