Councillor suspended for saying ‘no basis for a Jewish race, nation or homeland’ BY JACK MENDEL

 

THE DAILY EDITION Sunday, November 29, 2020

Keir Starmer may allow those ‘driven out’ due to antisemitism to return BY JENNI FRAZER Leader tells JLM One Day Conference he is considering ‘making readmissions happen, because every rule must have an exception for exceptional circumstances’

Angela Rayner: If we have to suspend thousands and thousands of members, we will BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER Labour’s deputy leader makes pledge to tackle antisemitism during JLM’s One Day Conference, as Manchester mayor Andy Burnham warns it could take a decade to restore trust

Progressive Zionists warn of ‘grave challenges’ for the left in Israel BY JENNI FRAZER   Two ex-Labour politicians describe heart-wrenching decisions to quit party BY JENNI FRAZER

Councillor suspended for saying ‘no basis for a Jewish race, nation or homeland’ BY JACK MENDEL Labour Party investigating Tower Hamlets official Puru Miah over 2014 Facebook post.

Labour suspends local chair after ‘unacceptable atmosphere’ at online meeting BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER

LISTEN HERE JN Podcast: Chai’s £3m fundraiser and Israeli cancer breakthrough Guests include James Bulgin from the Imperial War Museum, Israeli professor Daniel Rosenblum and Chai’s chair Louise Hager. Richard Ferrer and Justin Cohen review the paper

Read the latest Jewish News   Appeal for bloodmobile in memory of Rabbi Sacks raises £35k in first week BY ADAM DECKER

OPINION: Why my Holocaust museum has exhibit on reaction to George Floyd death BY LISA BACHMAN Lisa Bachman, assistant director of the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida, on its decision to host a contentious exhibition on modern-day racism.

Woman threatens rabbi with a knife on street in Vienna and steals his kippah BY JTA Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said: ‘We must fight antisemitism and do everything we can to make Jewish life safe here in Austria. Europe without Jews is no longer Europe’

Report shows 22 percent of hate crimes in Europe in 2019 were against Jews BY JTA   Amsterdam’s Jewish museum wades into Dutch ‘blackface’ row BY JTA

Making a splash at 80 with ‘Irv the Swerve’! BY NAOMI PRICE

Assassins kill scientist believed to be father of Iran’s nuclear weapons program BY JTA The assassination came two years after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said about Fakhrizadeh, ‘remember his name’, as Iranian media blamed Israel’s Mossad spy agency

Sweden pleads for life of man set to be executed in Iran for ‘spying for Israel’ BY JTA

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Jewish News meets candidates for UJS president: Sorting the real from the spiel! BY JEWISH NEWS   Hendon Labour backs Corbyn solidarity motion BY JACK MENDEL   Hertsmere mayor faces calls to apologise over ‘prejudiced’ LGBT comments BY JACK MENDEL   JACKIE MASON: So, when was the last time you saw a Jew order turkey? BY JACKIE MASON   Trump pardons Michael Flynn, whose lies to FBI included one about Israel BY JTA   Tony Blinken notes Jewish roots when accepting Biden’s secretary of state role BY JTA   Emirati royal in talks on buying Jerusalem’s Beitar football club BY JTA   Former World Bank president and philanthropist, James Wolfensohn, dies at 86 BY JTA

Love in the time of corona: ‘It was supposed to be OUR year…it still was!’ BY KARI COLMANS In the first part of our new series on couples who tied the knot – Covid style – we speak to newlyweds Georgia and Ronnie!

2021 Grammy Awards: All the Jewish nominees! BY JTA