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Armed Forces Day 2014 Hartwig Care Is a London-Based Homecare Agency Established in 1999 by Nadja Shaw THE MAGAZINE FOR THE ARMED FORCES JEWISH COMMUNITY menorahAutuMN 2014 AFGHANISTAN FOR THE FINAL TIME... THE FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY JEWISH MILITARY CONTRIBUTION ARMED FORCES DaY 2014 Hartwig Care is a London-based homecare agency established in 1999 by Nadja Shaw. Nadja’s vision We choose our staff carefully and make sure was that all clients could be able to live just like that they are continuously trained. They are here to everyone else, with independence and dignity while support and advice our clients on all aspects relating staying in control of their lives and their care. to care. Our care workers are reliable, discreet, We now manage a wide variety of clients from all friendly and committed to the wellbeing of every walks of life and with a broad range of conditions, one of our clients. All care workers are vetted before from the elderly and frail to clients coping with joining the team. We take no shortcuts when it physical conditions and mental health issues. comes to our clients. We provide homecare - from full-time, live- If you would like to discuss what ‘Care’ could look in assistance to support for clients who can like for you, your family, or friend please feel free to fundamentally manage on their own, but need a little drop by our office or let us know if you would like us support to maintain their independence. to visit you. Contact us on 020 7916 7270, by email [email protected] or simply visit our website www.hartwigcare.co.uk Hartwig Care Ltd, 5 Ella Mews, London, NW3 2NH Tel: 020 7916 7270 Email: [email protected] THE MAGAZINE FOR THE ARMED FORCES JEWISH COMMUNITY FROM THE menorah AutuMN 2014 EDitOR COL MARTIN CONTENTS NEWMAN DL FCIPR 30 From the Editor ....................04 he past few were disproportionately high, Another Amport success .....06 months have been as were deaths, casualties Lessons of history ................06 difficult and often and decorations. The same Padre’s Corner ......................07 T uncomfortable applied to WWII. Three The first world war centenary for members of the Jewish Battalions of the Royal the Jewish military Jewish communities Fusiliers (the Judeans) were contribution .........................08 throughout the world, and formed from volunteers to British Jewry in the particularly in Europe. serve in the Middle East. As great war ...............................12 Without entering into a a faith we earned our spurs. 22 1914-1918 The five Jewish discussion about the politics In the following pages VCs of WWI ..........................16 of the Middle East and the you will read of the five A subbie with style ...............19 recent hostilities, it has created Jewish VCs won valiantly Revision’s Batlskin is the a situation where many during WWI in addition to 34 future for total head and opponents of Israel feel they splendid related articles by face protection ......................20 are able to comment without Elkan Levy and Padre Reuben In Focus .................................22 differentiating between Jews Livingstone. It was the first Afghanistan for the and the Government of a time we saw Jewish chaplains final time... probably ............24 country with whom they do not in uniform on the front line. New historical Sefer Torah see eye to eye. We have even Next year sees the 100th for armed forces ..................28 seen it on the streets of the UK; anniversary of Gallipoli and Diary dates 2014 ..................28 Hitler salutes, desecration of the formation of the Zion More kosher ratpacks ..........29 Jewish Cemeteries, anti-Semitic Mule Corps, the forerunner 32 A Jewish serviceman of two posters, damage to Jewish of the Judeans and the 70th world wars remembered ......29 owned shops and businesses Anniversary of the Liberation Get cooking apple and elderly Jews attacked on of Belsen by British Troops. We cinnamon cake .....................31 the street. Comments that are in the process of arranging The liberation of would have been subdued commemorations for those Bergen-Belsen .......................32 in the past are now creeping these events including services Armed Forces Day 2014 .......34 out at fashionable cocktail in London and Hohne. Full parties. The media often fails information will be circulated to disguise poorly reported in sufficient time for our bias. We are in danger of community members to become returning to the days of Oswald involved alongside the veterans Mosley with anti-Semitism of AJEX. As our veterans grow becoming acceptable again. older the baton is being passed 08 22 We are fortunate in the to those of us who are still in Armed Forces, an organisation uniform and it is increasingly where racism is not tolerated important that we support and where people of all faiths AJEX in flying the flag. and none, occasional black Finally I must congratulate humour and banter apart, mix our chaplain, Rabbi Reuben THe mAGAZINe for THe Armed forces JeWIsH commUNITy well as an extended community. Livingstone on successfully The Menorah Team Submissions On the Cover… menorahAUTUmN 2014 AfGHANIsTAN We have proved that you can be completing his PQO course Editor: Col Martin Newman DL FCIPR Write: The Editor Remembering the Fallen for THe fINAl TIme... both a proud Brit and a proud at Sandhurst. As we Associate Editor: Rabbi R Livingstone CF Menorah Magazine Jew. One hundred years ago approach Rosh Hashana Designer: Rowena Wilson 12 Conisborough Place Sponsors the Jewish Chronicle heralded and the High Holydays the Advertising: Tammie Ridler (01536 526667) Whitefield, Manchester, M45 6EJ Menorah Magazine gratefully ‘Britain has been good to the Honorary Officers of the [email protected] Email: [email protected] thanks all the sponsors, Jews. Jews will be good for Jewish Committee for HM Publisher: Lance Publishing Ltd Tel: 07717 717981 donors and contributors THe fIrsT World WAr Britain’. The now famous Forces and the Friends of First Floor Tailby House, Bath Road, who have made this edition ceNTeNAry JeWIsH mIlITAry recruiting message was taken Jewish Servicemen and Kettering, Northants, NN16 8NL Hard copy may be sent by post. For digital submissions, of the magazine possible. coNTrIbUTIoN up by the Chief Rabbi and some Women wish you and your Print: Lance Print Ltd please use Word or plain text documents and send all images 60,000 Jews answered the call families a very happy, peaceful Unit 3, Houghton Hill Industries, Houghton Hill Farm, clearly captioned, and in as high a resolution as possible. All Armed to arms. Our numbers serving and fulfilling New Year. Houghton, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE23 2DH photographs will be edited and colour corrected by the designer. forces dAy 2014 MENORAH | 4 MENORAH | 5 followed Moses out of Egypt positive attitude to life. It seeks because they were persecuted by a plan of action; an optimistic PADRE'S Pharaoh. One thousand years alternative to the spiritual later, in Persia, Queen Esther malaise all around. People revealed her Jewish identity and cry out for a vibrant, relevant CORNER our nation was salvaged. Why? faith - for without that, life BY RAbbI REUBEN LIVINGSTONE CF Because Haman threatened becomes a void. And all that to exterminate us. On this this view says to them is, Es is n the prayers we ask a view, both Hitler and Bevin shver tzu zein a Yid. Yes, we are LESSONS question: Im kevanim- contributed – unintentionally avadim - slaves to the idea of © OF HISTORY Im ka’avadim. Are we – to the survival of our people. Jewish suffering and misery! BY DAVID BENTATA (GIBRALTAR 2014) I to be considered proud Yes, Jews do shine spiritually We must change our children of G-d, or are we merely in adversity. If you stopped any attitudes toward Judaism. Stop it!…. Enough!.... No more! servants? Are we the masters Jew a hundred years ago on the Let us cease being slaves ANOthER So much violence, so much killing of our own choices, or are we muddy, impoverished, decrepit to a defensive religion. Let In the name of any god, any faith the victims of bad choices? streets of Galicia and asked us proudly declare that our Brought to man by some demonic wraith We are accustomed to him ‘Vos macht a yid?’ –‘How’s survival is due to an exalted AMPORT With actions so graphic, so chilling highlight the antiquity of life?’ He would defy the odds Jewish ethos! We play into the the Jew. We are an ancient and respond optimistically, hands of our oppressors when SUCCESS No more news… no more Wars people, sometimes called ‘Baruch Hashem!’ ‘Thank G-d.’ we make them the centre of The annual Armed Forces Jewish No more politics of violent madness Historicissimus - the most But the problem is that Jewish thought. Even if anti- While the life of so many is ended historical of nations. No other this thinking is negative. It Semitism did not exist, the Families Weekend and reunion By those who claim to be so offended Rosh Hashana people has lived as long as asserts that the bad things we world would still desperately was again a resounding success Bringing down only death and sadness Wisdom Israel, nor contributed in the have endured - anti-Semitism, need the ideals, values, and and a complete sell-out. same way to the treasures of poverty, and the hardships standards of the Torah! We measured the world by our yardstick civilisation; nor suffered such of Jewish survival are a vital So, let us refrain from uest speakers both our guests with frames Freedoms we assume from birth Rosh Hashanah is calamities in every epoch of its element in Jewish life. They emphasising the antiquity of this year included Judeans uniform prints Won by the struggles of past generations not only the New existence! We are proud of our are the sharp prod by which Judaism.
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