Iraq set to ‘execute’ citizens who communicate with Israel BY STEPHEN ORYSZCZUK AND JENNI FRAZER Barbaric new legislation expected to become law, advocating death to anyone contacting Israel or Israelis, as senior Iraqi delegates arrive in London for trade talks.

 

THE DAILY EDITION Monday, May 23, 2022

NEWS Iraq set to ‘execute’ citizens who communicate with Israel BY STEPHEN ORYSZCZUK AND JENNI FRAZER Barbaric new legislation expected to become law, advocating death to anyone contacting Israel or Israelis, as senior Iraqi delegates arrive in London for trade talks.

NEWS / MPs McDonnell and Sultana addressed crowd that called for Hamas to ‘blow up’ Israeli city BY RICHARD FERRER

NEWS Deputy insists young people should visit Auschwitz rather than Westminster memorial BY LEE HARPIN Robert Festenstein is criticised by Board of Deputies President after questioning whether Memorial in Westminster ‘should be there at all’

News / Eichmann openly admits Holocaust past in film – and wishes he could have killed more BY TOBY PORTER

NEWS Pioneering Israeli company gives fans a players’-eye view of top basketball games BY TOBY PORTER Basketball fans will be able to see, hear – and try to emulate – games from the players’ point of view, thanks to safe bodycams which have been trialled over the last six months

NEWS Muswell Hill cancer campaigner hero is recognised with award from Prime Minister BY TOBY PORTER Twice-treated patient wins Points of Light Award for work helping young patients catch up on education they miss

OPINION OPINION: Why should I risk my life through pregnancy? Women die in childbirth BY DR MARGARET JACOBI Our series where progressive rabbis consider how biblical figures might act over 21st century issues. This week, Rabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue

GET LAW / Parliamentarians launch all-party group to tackle ‘get’ refusal BY JENNI FRAZER

OPINION Making sense of the Sedra when it says to stop work for the seventh year Leaders relate the week’s parsha to a gap year, in our series. This week, Jonny Roodyn, educational director of Jewish Futures and rabbi of Finchley Central Federation Synagogue

REUNION Liberal Judaism celebrates its central part in the spectrum of Jewish life BY TOBY PORTER More than 150 people attended the Day of Celebration, held at The Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood, to outline their “big dreams” for the future at the movement.

News / New Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue rabbinic couple are Luis and Jodie Herszaft BY TOBY PORTER   News / New hub in Temple Fortune offers support for families in need BY TOBY PORTER