Ceremony marks 50 years since murder of 11 Israelis at 1972 Olympic Games BY JENNI FRAZER IN MUNICH A small group of rabbis from the Conference of European Rabbis held a memorial event at the site of the Olympic park.

 

THE DAILY EDITION Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Ceremony marks 50 years since murder of 11 Israelis at 1972 Olympic Games BY JENNI FRAZER IN MUNICH A small group of rabbis from the Conference of European Rabbis held a memorial event at the site of the Olympic park.

NEWS Swastika-daubed Merseyside synagogue in distressing state, says son of late cantor Greenbank Drive Synagogue, Sefton, was closed 14 years ago and has been given permission to turn into flats – but treasured plaques and memorabilia are still gathering dust in its store rooms, 22 years after former London JFS pupil was rabbi there

News / Historic fragile Torah scrolls on display – but only for moments – before Shavuot BY TOBY PORTER   Smallest medievel Hebrew manuscript sells for $340,000 at auction in Jersualem BY TOBY PORTER

Chief Rabbi and Board President to attend the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee service BY LEE HARPIN Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the Board’s Marie van der Zyl will both be at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday for a Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the Queen’s 70-year reign.

NEWS Kpow! President Zelensky’s life story gets comic caper treatment. Take that Putin! BY TOBY PORTER President Volodymyr Zelensky’s journey from comedian to heroic war-time leader has been given the graphic novel treatment in TidalWave Comics’ latest biography, “Political Power: Volodymyr Zelensky.”

NEWS Thousands attend Schools Bill protest meeting in Stamford Hill BY LEE HARPIN Attendees urged to send letter to the Education Secretary claiming Bill ‘seems to serve a secret agenda: the assimilation of our community to the practices of the majority’

NEWS Huw Edwards joins Merthyr Tydfil historic synagogue’s Jewish heritage project BY TOBY PORTER BBC presenter tells Jewish News: “I am honoured to be a patron of this exciting project to preserve and bring back into use the striking grade II listed Victorian synagogue.”

News / First ‘stumbling stone’ memorial in UK installed where art conservationist worked BY TOBY PORTER   German court to decide if ‘Jew pig’ church sculpture should be removed BY MICHAEL DAVENTRY

NEWS Streeting: Why I didn’t quit Labour despite ‘misgivings’ over antisemitism BY LEE HARPIN Wes Streeting spoke of the ‘morally challenging’ decision to remain in Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership during an appearance on Matt Forde’s The Political Party podcast show

SPORT UK veterans minister: ‘Let’s learn from Israel’s support for its wounded soldiers’ BY JUSTIN COHEN AT THE VETERAN GAMES IN ISRAEL Leo Docherty met British and Israeli ex-servicemen and women at the Veteran Games, after addressing Sunday’s opening ceremony near Tel Aviv.

VETERANS / ‘At the last Veteran Games you popped a hip, this time you popped the question!’ BY JUSTIN COHEN AT THE VETERAN GAMES IN ISRAEL

NEWS Warwick Uni say they will investigate any complaints after professor’s Zionism claim BY LEE HARPIN Virinder S Kalra told the audience at Institute for Palestinian Studies event of ‘the links between the fascists and Nazis and the relationship with Zionists’

NEWS / NUS appoints discrimination specialist to probe antisemitism BY LEE HARPIN

NEWS Oldest Holocaust survivor, author Boris Pahor, dies aged 108 BY TOBY PORTER Pahor lived through spells at the Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen and Bergen-Belsen death camps, after being captured while fighting for the Slovene Partisans against the Nazi occupation in World War II.

News / Kindertransport refugee who became a judge dies aged 91 BY TOBY PORTER   News / Main negotiator of Oslo Accords with PLO dies aged just 69 BY TOBY PORTER

NEWS USA to scrap support for Sudan and wants Israel to condemn Khartoum coup BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER Cash going to Arab country has been halted because of the lack of progress back to a civilian government after the military coup last autumn

NEWS Former Immanuel College pupil staging concert to highlight youth mental health crisis BY SABRINA MILLER Brady Isaacs Pearce, 22, is producing and starring in the one-night-only performance to raise money for Beyond, a mental health charity founded by mental health campaigner Jonny Benjamin MBE

JNR JN Junior: If you met the Queen, what would you ask her?! BY COMPILED BY CANDICE KRIEGER This week’s JN Junior, in association with PJ Library, is dedicated to the Queen’s historic, never-before-seen Platinum Jubilee!

NEWS / PAWS HERE: Meet the royal dogs and their owners BY BRIGIT GRANT

NEWS Bahrain becomes first Gulf council country to host Israeli Independence Day BY TOBY PORTER Ties with Israel come two weeks after inter-faith conference including Jews in Saudi Arabia – and the day after Iraq banned contacts with Israelis, on pain of death

MEMORIES A history of Jewish life in Britain, one extraordinary artifact at a time BY JENNI FRAZER David Latchman began his incomparable collection charting the history of UK Jewry aged just 18, with a book bought for a pound.

Kate reunited with Holocaust survivor at royal garden party BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER

On your marks: 65 injured British vets get set for Veteran Games in Israel BY JENNI FRAZER After a three-year gap, wounded former military men and women to compete against Israeli counterparts and tour the Jewish state as part of event initiated by Beit Halochem UK

NEWS For Queen and country: Holocaust survivors gather to celebrate the Jubilee BY TOBY PORTER Queen is honoured in week of jubliee by survivors and their children, including actress Louisa Clein and the UK’s only Jewish Lord Lieutenant

News / Website of Holocaust survivor photos by Duchess of Cambridge goes live BY JUSTIN COHEN

FEATURE Which Jewish companies have a Royal Warrant? BY DEBBIE COLLINS A mark of recognition that says it’s good enough for the queen

A brush with royalty BY BRIGIT GRANT   Party at the palace BY LOUISA WALTERS   How to dress your child like a royal BY SANDY RASHTY

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