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| Labour party must listen to the Jewish community on defining antisemitism | Labour party must listen to the Jewish community on defining antisemitism |
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| As British rabbis, it is with great regret that we find it necessary to write, yet antisemitism within sections of the Labour party has become so severe and widespread that we must speak out with one Jewish voice. | As British rabbis, it is with great regret that we find it necessary to write, yet antisemitism within sections of the Labour party has become so severe and widespread that we must speak out with one Jewish voice. |
| The Labour party’s leadership has chosen to ignore those who understand antisemitism the best, the Jewish community. By claiming to know what’s good for our community, the Labour party’s leadership have chosen to act in the most insulting and arrogant way. | The Labour party’s leadership has chosen to ignore those who understand antisemitism the best, the Jewish community. By claiming to know what’s good for our community, the Labour party’s leadership have chosen to act in the most insulting and arrogant way. |
| It is not the Labour party’s place to rewrite a definition of antisemitism accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service, College of Policing, the Scottish parliament, the Welsh assembly, the National Union of Students, and 124 local authorities, including scores of Labour-held councils, including Haringey and Greater Manchester – but above all else, accepted by the vast majority of Jewish people in Britain and globally. | It is not the Labour party’s place to rewrite a definition of antisemitism accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service, College of Policing, the Scottish parliament, the Welsh assembly, the National Union of Students, and 124 local authorities, including scores of Labour-held councils, including Haringey and Greater Manchester – but above all else, accepted by the vast majority of Jewish people in Britain and globally. |
| On behalf of our communities, members and congregants, we urge the Labour party to listen to the Jewish community, adopt the full and unamended International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism including its examples, and like the organisations listed above, use the IHRA definition alone as their working definition of antisemitism.Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski Senior rabbi, Golders Green Synagogue, and vice-chair, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Joseph Dweck Senior rabbi, Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi Community of the UKRabbi Laura Janner-Klausner Senior rabbi to Reform JudaismRabbi Nicky Liss Highgate Synagogue, and chair, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Avrohom Pinter Principal of the Yesodey Hatorah schoolsRabbi Danny Rich Senior rabbi and chief executive of Liberal JudaismRabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Senior Rabbi to Masorti JudaismDayan Ivan Binstock Dayan (judge) of the London Beth Din, and senior rabbi, St John’s Wood SynagogueRabbi Stuart Altshuler Belsize Square SynagogueRabbi Larry Becker Sukkat Shalom Reform SynagogueRabbi Yoni Birnbaum Hadley Wood Jewish Community, and executive, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Yehuda Black Kenton United SynagogueRabbi Janet Burden Ealing Liberal SynagogueRabbi Baruch Davis Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue and past chair, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Hadassah Davis Member of the Liberal Rabbinic ConferenceRabbi Colin Eimer Emeritus rabbi, Sha’arei Tsedek North London Reform SynagogueRabbi Daniel Epstein Cockfosters & North Southgate SynagogueRabbi Elchonon Feldman Senior rabbi, Bushey and District United SynagogueRabbi Yisroel Fine St Johns Wood SynagogueRabbi Paul Freedman Senior rabbi, Radlett Reform SynagogueRabbi Dr Moshe Freedman New West End SynagogueRabbi Ariel J FriedlanderRabbi Yoni Golker Assistant rabbi, St John’s Wood SynagogueRabbi Michael Harris Hampstead SynagogueRabbi Simon Harris Wembley SynagogueRabbi Frank Hellner Emeritus rabbi, Finchley Progressive SynagogueRabbi Jonny Hughes Radlett United SynagogueRabbi Geoffrey Hyman Rabbi, Ilford United SynagogueRabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi Birmingham Progressive SynagogueRabbi Richard Jacobi East London and Essex Liberal SynagogueCantor Zoe Jacobs Finchley Reform SynagogueRabbi Oliver Spike Joseph Elstree & Borehamwood Masorti CommunityRabbi Chaim Kanterovitz Senior Rabbi Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue & Chair Vaad Harabonim Mizrachi UKRabbi Dov Kaplan Hampstead Garden Suburb SynagogueRabbi Yuval Keren Southgate Progressive SynagogueRabbi Michael Laitner Senior rabbi of United Synagogue Jewish Living, and assistant rabbi, Finchley SynagogueRabbi Jeremy Lawrence Senior rabbi, Finchley United SynagogueRabbi Barry Lerer Barnet SynagogueRabbi Judith Levitt Rabbi Mendel Lew Stanmore & Canons Park SynagogueRabbi Shlomo Odze Associate rabbi, South Hampstead United Synagogue and vice-chair, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Alan MannRabbi Rodney Mariner Former rabbi, Belsize Square SynagogueRabbi David Mason Rabbi at Muswell Hill Synagogue and executive member, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi David Mitchell West London SynagogueRabbi Lea Mühlstein Northwood and Pinner Liberal SynagogueRabbi Rene Pfertzel Kingston Liberal SynagogueRabbi Hershel Rader Brighton and Hove Hebrew CongregationRabbi Dr Jonathan Romain Maidenhead SynagogueRabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schueler Jewish chaplain, University of Oxford and Oxford BrookesRabbi Sylvia Rothschild Past chair of the Rabbinic Assembly of Reform JudaismRabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah Brighton and Hove Progressive SynagogueRabbi Dr J Shindler Executive director, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Yitzchak Schochet Mill Hill SynagogueRabbi Irit Shillor Harlow Jewish CommunityRabbi Yitzchok Sufrin Enfield & Winchmore Hill United SynagogueRabbi Lee M Sunderland Romford & District SynagogueRabbi Dr Jackie Tabick Convener of the Beit Din, the Movement for Reform JudaismRabbi Roni Tabick New Stoke Newington SynagogueRabbi Sam Taylor Community rabbi, Western Marble Arch SynagogueRabbi Pete Tobias The Liberal Synagogue ElstreeRabbi Alexander Tsykin Jewish chaplain, Bristol and Western RegionRabbi Dr Martin van den Bergh Childwall Hebrew CongregationDayan Elimelech Vanzetta Rabbi, Ahavas YisraelRabbi Charles Wallach Bournemouth Reform SynagogueRabbi Chaim Weiner Director of Masorti Europe and European Masorti Bet DinRabbi Roderick Young Former principal rabbi, Finchley Reform SynagogueRabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue | On behalf of our communities, members and congregants, we urge the Labour party to listen to the Jewish community, adopt the full and unamended International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism including its examples, and like the organisations listed above, use the IHRA definition alone as their working definition of antisemitism.Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski Senior rabbi, Golders Green Synagogue, and vice-chair, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Joseph Dweck Senior rabbi, Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi Community of the UKRabbi Laura Janner-Klausner Senior rabbi to Reform JudaismRabbi Nicky Liss Highgate Synagogue, and chair, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Avrohom Pinter Principal of the Yesodey Hatorah schoolsRabbi Danny Rich Senior rabbi and chief executive of Liberal JudaismRabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Senior Rabbi to Masorti JudaismDayan Ivan Binstock Dayan (judge) of the London Beth Din, and senior rabbi, St John’s Wood SynagogueRabbi Stuart Altshuler Belsize Square SynagogueRabbi Larry Becker Sukkat Shalom Reform SynagogueRabbi Yoni Birnbaum Hadley Wood Jewish Community, and executive, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Yehuda Black Kenton United SynagogueRabbi Janet Burden Ealing Liberal SynagogueRabbi Baruch Davis Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue and past chair, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Hadassah Davis Member of the Liberal Rabbinic ConferenceRabbi Colin Eimer Emeritus rabbi, Sha’arei Tsedek North London Reform SynagogueRabbi Daniel Epstein Cockfosters & North Southgate SynagogueRabbi Elchonon Feldman Senior rabbi, Bushey and District United SynagogueRabbi Yisroel Fine St Johns Wood SynagogueRabbi Paul Freedman Senior rabbi, Radlett Reform SynagogueRabbi Dr Moshe Freedman New West End SynagogueRabbi Ariel J FriedlanderRabbi Yoni Golker Assistant rabbi, St John’s Wood SynagogueRabbi Michael Harris Hampstead SynagogueRabbi Simon Harris Wembley SynagogueRabbi Frank Hellner Emeritus rabbi, Finchley Progressive SynagogueRabbi Jonny Hughes Radlett United SynagogueRabbi Geoffrey Hyman Rabbi, Ilford United SynagogueRabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi Birmingham Progressive SynagogueRabbi Richard Jacobi East London and Essex Liberal SynagogueCantor Zoe Jacobs Finchley Reform SynagogueRabbi Oliver Spike Joseph Elstree & Borehamwood Masorti CommunityRabbi Chaim Kanterovitz Senior Rabbi Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue & Chair Vaad Harabonim Mizrachi UKRabbi Dov Kaplan Hampstead Garden Suburb SynagogueRabbi Yuval Keren Southgate Progressive SynagogueRabbi Michael Laitner Senior rabbi of United Synagogue Jewish Living, and assistant rabbi, Finchley SynagogueRabbi Jeremy Lawrence Senior rabbi, Finchley United SynagogueRabbi Barry Lerer Barnet SynagogueRabbi Judith Levitt Rabbi Mendel Lew Stanmore & Canons Park SynagogueRabbi Shlomo Odze Associate rabbi, South Hampstead United Synagogue and vice-chair, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Alan MannRabbi Rodney Mariner Former rabbi, Belsize Square SynagogueRabbi David Mason Rabbi at Muswell Hill Synagogue and executive member, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi David Mitchell West London SynagogueRabbi Lea Mühlstein Northwood and Pinner Liberal SynagogueRabbi Rene Pfertzel Kingston Liberal SynagogueRabbi Hershel Rader Brighton and Hove Hebrew CongregationRabbi Dr Jonathan Romain Maidenhead SynagogueRabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schueler Jewish chaplain, University of Oxford and Oxford BrookesRabbi Sylvia Rothschild Past chair of the Rabbinic Assembly of Reform JudaismRabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah Brighton and Hove Progressive SynagogueRabbi Dr J Shindler Executive director, Rabbinical Council of the United SynagogueRabbi Yitzchak Schochet Mill Hill SynagogueRabbi Irit Shillor Harlow Jewish CommunityRabbi Yitzchok Sufrin Enfield & Winchmore Hill United SynagogueRabbi Lee M Sunderland Romford & District SynagogueRabbi Dr Jackie Tabick Convener of the Beit Din, the Movement for Reform JudaismRabbi Roni Tabick New Stoke Newington SynagogueRabbi Sam Taylor Community rabbi, Western Marble Arch SynagogueRabbi Pete Tobias The Liberal Synagogue ElstreeRabbi Alexander Tsykin Jewish chaplain, Bristol and Western RegionRabbi Dr Martin van den Bergh Childwall Hebrew CongregationDayan Elimelech Vanzetta Rabbi, Ahavas YisraelRabbi Charles Wallach Bournemouth Reform SynagogueRabbi Chaim Weiner Director of Masorti Europe and European Masorti Bet DinRabbi Roderick Young Former principal rabbi, Finchley Reform SynagogueRabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue |
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