Record 30,000 people help to spread the magic of Mitzvah Day nationwide BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Mitzvah Days were also held in 40 other countries, with a further 100 organisations and 15,000 volunteers involved.

 

THE DAILY EDITION Monday, November 21, 2022

Record 30,000 people help to spread the magic of Mitzvah Day nationwide BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Mitzvah Days were also held in 40 other countries, with a further 100 organisations and 15,000 volunteers involved.

Veterans mark 101 years of Remembrance at Cenotaph BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG An estimated 3,000 people joined Jewish veterans at Sunday’s AJEX annual ceremony.

‘This isn’t Iran’ – Ultra-Orthodox demand for gender segregation condemned BY JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads anger at call by Bezalel Smotrich and his coalition-bound nationalists.

OPINION: Israel not alone in seeing far-right infect its values BY ALEX BRUMMER

OPINION: Ben-Gvir’s appeal is based on security, not bigotry BY FLEUR HASSAN-NAHOUM Deputy mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum responds to “loud, panicked headlines” in the British Jewish press about the perceived shift in Israel to the political far-right.

PM vs PM: Netanyahu wins lawsuit against Ehud Olmert BY JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL The incoming prime minister sued former prime minister Ehud Olmert for defamation after he called the Netanyahu family ‘mentally ill’.

Antisemitism now accounts for 65 percent of disciplinary cases heard by Labour’s NEC BY LEE HARPIN Slight drop in confirmed cases since May, but JLM’s Adam Langleben says there ‘remains a specific and identifiable issue of this particular racism’

Disgust over CPS decision to drop charges against all Palestine convoy suspects BY RICHARD FERRER Calls for the director of public prosecutions to explain decision or quit as infamous case that sickened the Jewish community, prime minister and home secretary is dropped.

Terror suspect plotted to topple Government, court told BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER

OPINION: With the help of our friends from the beautiful south BY ZAKI COOPER Zaki Cooper, co-founder of Integra, reflects on the contribution of South African Jews on the eve of a state visit by President Cyril Ramaphosa

Qatar reportedly backtracks on allowing kosher food and public Jewish prayer BY JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL Jerusalem Post reports that World Cup host initially allowed kosher food to be sold to religious Jews expected at the World Cup.

OPINION: Caryl Churchill’s theatre award withdrawal is delicious karma BY JENNI FRAZER Jenni Frazer on the decision to withdraw a lifetime achievement award to the author of the “antisemitic” play Seven Jewish Children.

England football fans’ group investigated over alleged ‘antisemitism’ BY LEE HARPIN Jewish fan angered after England supporter allegedly condemned UK government attempts to ban Hamas in supporters WhatsApp group as ‘PC gone mad’

Lithuanian PM proposes £32million in compensation to Holocaust victims  BY JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL 90 percent of the 220,000 Jews in Lithuania were killed by Nazis and collaborates during the war. About 5,000 Jews currently live there.

Romania passes ‘landmark law’ guaranteeing the right to kosher slaughter BY MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ - JTA