Jonathan Arkush

The Sound of Silence open.substack.com/pub/everydayha… Excellent and incisive analysis, as ever, from @daverich1 It should be of the deepest concern to all those who consider themselves to be fighters against racism. Sadly, to many of them, it won't be because to them, Jews don't count

#HolocaustMemorialDay #LightTheDarkness #WeRemember

Each year people from across the UK take part in our Light the Darkness national moment for Holocaust Memorial Day. hmd.org.uk/lightthedarkne…

Lessons of Bondi Beach: Terrorism, Hatred and the Law youtube.com/live/s1XvD0NyP… via @YouTube This powerful speech by Jonathan Hall KC, the government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, should be acted upon by prosecutors. The law is not being enforced as it should be.

Board of Deputies Vice President Jeremy Michelson @JeremyMichBoD was honoured to lead a delegation of Deputies at a moving ceremony at the @Nat_Mem_Arb today to commemorate and honour the contributions of Jewish personnel in our armed forces. Thank you to @AJEX_UK for organising.

@JoelyBearAppeal is having a blood donation day today. Come on down to @BorehamwoodShul and give. There’s nothing to it. Giveblood# and help save lives !

#HolocaustMemorialDay #LightTheDarkness

Our statement on the announcement of a deal to bring home the hostages taken captive by Hamas on October 7th #BringThemHomeNow

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Chanukah begins this evening. Ordinarily, this is a joyous holiday. But this year, as we did last year, we will light the Chanukah candles while hoping and praying for the return of the hostages taken on October 7th 2023. As we publicise the miracle of Chanukah, we must also publicise the plight of those who remain in captivity. #BringThemHome #BeTheirLightUK

Thank you all for a great evening. In @PhilR_R Britain's Jewish community has a talented and energetic leader. At 38 years of age he is the youngest ever President of @BoardofDeputies, sending a clear signal that our community is full of vitality and forward-looking.

Tomorrow morning, as on every Shabbat morning, Jews around the world will go to synagogue to pray, chat, eat and feel part of their community - except at Melbourne's Adass Yisroel Synagogue, which was gutted by fire overnight in a shocking arson attack. I say shocking, but it shouldn't shock anyone. Anti-Jewish hatred has swept around the world since the October 7 attack, as quickly and destructively as that fire swept through the synagogue building last night. There have been other fire bombings, plus shootings and stabbings in many countries, and less visibly, a daily drumbeat of anti-Jewish harassment and abuse, snide comments and silent exclusions. We don't yet know who did the arson in Melbourne, or why they did it, other than that it was a deliberate and determined attempt to do as much damage as possible, and it is luck that nobody was killed or seriously injured. But we can be forgiven for assuming that it is likely to be just the latest attempt to, as the slogan goes, "globalise the Intifada". Jews around the world are fed up of being told that support for "intifada" and "resistance" are just calls for liberation, or that smashing up banks and factories and offices linked to Israel counts as "non-violent direct action". We are fed up of having to put up with so much hatred, all the old myths and lies being reworked to fit with the latest political fashions. We know antisemitism when we see it, and we smell it all around us today. Some people say this is all about Israel, and there is no doubt there is much to protest against there. But if your answer to the enormous suffering in Gaza is to attack Jews in your own country, or to demand that Jews in the diaspora to cut all ties, however non-political they are, with the Jewish homeland, the world's only majority Jewish country where the world's largest Jewish community resides - you aren't a campaigner for justice. You are an anti-Jewish racist. To my friends in Melbourne and Australia as a whole: we are with you. You are not alone. To everyone else, Jewish and not: it's time to act against this hatred. Antisemitism poisons society for all. Synagogues can be rebuilt, and the Melbourne Jewish community, as strong and resilient as I have met anywhere, will recover. But what will society become, if this is allowed to stand? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Alex calls it exactly. Violence, hate and racism has consequences, whether in Australia or here in the UK

The sight of a burned out synagogue in Melbourne should be a wake up call to democratic societies everywhere to stand up to and defeat the violence, hate and anti-Jewish racism we witness regularly on our streets, including in London and elsewhere in our country

Remembering Rabbi Sacks zt"l on the fourth anniversary of his passing. May his memory be a blessing.

“On behalf of the Honorary Officers, staff, Deputies, and the 200 member communities and organisations of the Board of Deputies, we wish His Majesty The King a very happy birthday, and a year of health, happiness, and success. Mazal Tov!” – ⁠Phil Rosenberg (@PhilR_R), President

I remember the brave women and men of HM Armed Forces who gave their today for our tomorrow, and Capt David Arkush z'l who survived the horrors of a Japanese PoW camp and came home to establish a family. "At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them"

youtube.com/watch?v=dV3i1H… A deeply moving prayer for the hostages sung at the ceremony for October 7th. The prayer was composed 2,000 years ago. We have experienced many difficult times ever since. But we are still here.