Law banning contact with ‘Zionists’ threatens desperate attempts to save the last synagogue in Mosul;Kent synagogue ‘appalled and deeply upset’ after burial ground attack;‘I can walk now’: Israeli hospital uses groundbreaking technology for spine surgery

 

THE DAILY EDITION Thursday, August 24, 2023

Generation pandemic celebrate outstanding GCSE results BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Despite grade boundaries returning to higher, pre-pandemic levels, Yavneh, JCoSS, King Solomon High School, Hasmonean, JFS and Immanuel College reported outstanding grades

World Jewish Relief wins Government contract to support Ukrainian refugees into work BY LEE HARPIN The organisation, which helped bring Jewish refugees to the UK 80 years ago and counts King Charles as patron, was selected to provide employment support for up to 10,000 arrivals

Kent synagogue ‘appalled and deeply upset’ after burial ground attack BY LEE HARPIN Headstones damaged and broken as Chatham Memorial Synagogue suffers its fifth attack in recent years

Stamp of approval for Paddington with release of Royal Mail collection BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Creator Michael Bond’s tales of the marmalade loving Bear from Peru were inspired by Jewish refugee children in World War II

HAIM comes to Hackney BY BRIGIT GRANT The proudly Jewish American female rock band will be in East London this bank holiday

‘I can walk now’: Israeli hospital uses groundbreaking technology for spine surgery BY JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem has performed the world’s first complex spine surgery using augmented reality combined with robotic technology.

Law banning contact with ‘Zionists’ threatens desperate attempts to save the last synagogue in Mosul BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Iraq has banned citizens from engaging with any Israeli or ‘Zionist’ on pain of death, freezing efforts to reconstruct the historic Jewish building built in 1902

Tributes as major philanthropist and unsung community hero dies aged 92 BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Clive Marks OBE was a true champion of British Jewish education and former president of the London Jewish Cultural Centre

FZY sends 22 youth volunteers to Ghana on 10-day community programme BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG

Netanyahus move in to Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem BY JN REPORTER The Netanyahu couple’s suite at the hotel is estimated to cost more than £783 (NIS 3,791) per night, which is paid for by the state.

4,300 Jewish children at London state primary schools to receive free kosher meals BY LEE HARPIN New figures released by City Hall confirm impact of Sadiq Khan’s free school meals funding at 25 Jewish primary schools in the capital