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IN CONTACT Dear Members, Who Would Have Thought You Would Be Reading This Whilst Isolated at Home in Lockdown, United in the World Wide Fight Against Coronavirus S PRING 2020 IN CONTACT Dear Members, Who would have thought you would be reading this whilst isolated at home in lockdown, united in the world wide fight against Coronavirus. These are strange, daunting times but if we do what the League is best at, keep in contact and try to support one another, we will get through this. The League Office is very much up and running and our dedicated office staff, Jackie and Tania are concentrating on contacting our members and making sure they are OK. If you hear of someone who might need help please could you let us know? We are sending out weekly newsletters via email. We have also set up a number of League phone circles to help support one another. CEO of Board of Deputies Gillian Merron & President Yvonne Josse It gives me great satisfaction to be able to send you the 2020 issue of In Contact reporting another eventful year. Following the Open Forum and the sending out of the League’s questionnaire, 95% of members who returned the form said the League of Jewish Women does have a purpose in today’s modern society and this is born out during this current crisis. In November, members joined the AJEX March to the Cenotaph proudly remembering the bravery of our relatives in the World Wars. Once again we were one of the largest contingents, numbering over 35. Knitting and sewing has proved successful with groups rallying to the calls from hospitals for red premature baby hats, knitted cannula tube covers, bags for chemotherapy patients and of course the blankets and numerous Twiddlemuffs, cushions and other Bart Van Es, the author of The Cut Out Girl, with President Yvonne Josse products. to the left and Past President Ella Marks to the right. LeagueArtz, under the Chairmanship of Linda Weber, has Since November and due to personal organised some very successful events with theatre trips to circumstances, I have had to take a back seat from Leopoldstadt, the 50th anniversary of Joseph & the my Presidential responsibilities. I would like to Technicolor Dream Coat, lunch time concerts at St John’s thank Yvonne Brent for taking over and, along with Smith Square and Oklahoma at the Chichester Theatre. Sadly our Executive, Jackie and Tania, ensuring our the very popular Kings Cross Walk was one of the events that wonderful organization continues to offer the help had to be cancelled because of the virus. The LeagueArtz and support we have done for the last 77 years, literary event featuring Bart Van Es, talking about his book particularly bearing in mind the current situation. I The Cut Out Girl was the League’s most popular event of the take this opportunity of wishing you, your family year with over 100 people attending. Health Matters, under and friends a Happy & Healthy Pesach during these the chairmanship of Ella Marks, organised visits to the very uncertain times. Stay home, stay safe and Wellcome Centre to see their Smoke and Mirrors Exhibition remember this too shall pass, hopefully in the not and invited members to a seminar on Diabetes. Sandra too distant future and League friends will once Harris continues to head the Social Issues committee and again be able to meet, volunteer, support friends organised a very successful International Women’s Day event and others, showing we are there and we care. on Climate Change. Yvonne Brent, as UK Vice President for ICJW organised the Human Rights Day Meeting featuring Yvonne xx Olivia Marks-Woldman, the CEO of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Yvonne Josse (President) Page 2 Social Issues International Women’s CLIMATE CHANGE-SOME LIKE IT HOT Dr. Michal Nachmany, from the Grantham Research Institute on Kate Metcalf, Co-Director of Climate Change and the Women’s Environmental Environment, painted a very serious Network (WEN), said only 4% of picture when she spoke to members the world energy Chairs are held in March 2019. She listed Iran, by women. The women’s Australia and Africa as some of the perspective was completely most vulnerable places in the world. overlooked when people Climate change will mean extreme Dr. Michal Nachmany Kate Metcalf considered climate change and weather events such as heatwaves, drought and floods. the environment. WEN’s stated premise is that, Water resources will become scarce and that will “our vision is an environmentally sustainable increase the number of climate refugees and increased world with gender equality”. At the moment it migration will impact on Europe. The motivation must is about power, personal and/or political”. She be to do something, as it will cost more not to deal with talked about shortages and how these were climate change. We need the political will to do impacting on girls’ education. Hurricane Katrina something—we need concrete policies and it is impacted to far greater extent on African important that the policy makers talk to each other. We American women as they were poorer than need to bring policy makers, environmental experts men and had the responsibility of childcare. In and political leaders together round the table and make Bangladesh in 1991, 90% of victims were girls them understand what they can do. All parties must and women as females were not taught how to sign up to The Paris Agreement 2015 and commit to swim and they were waiting for the men to help what they said they would do. We must look at how them. Women care for children and the elderly much we consume and we should bang on the and this work should be valued by society but is politicians’ doors. She said that at the Brexit debate not counted in the GDP totals. Figures show there was a full house but, at the climate debate in girls’ literacy levels are lower than boys in Parliament, there were only 34 people in the audience. developing countries so this can effect women We have no time and it is important we make sure we and girls in different ways. She spoke about know more, get involved, always vote locally and organic local food projects bringing people from nationally and be aware of the following; what we different cultures together in Tower Hamlet. should eat, our choice of transportation, kerbing our ‘Soils Sisters’ was another WEN project which consumption and our addiction to acquiring supports recovery and transformation for possessions. We should also be more selective in whom vulnerable women living in five London refuge we choose as an energy provider and question where settings. It aims to improve wellbeing, raise our pension fund providers place their investments. aspirations and build confidence through Each and everyone of us has the power to make gardening projects. change. Louise Hoyes, Communications, Education and Outreach Team Leader at Veolia, told the League how we can increase recycling and the best way people can use Veolia services. She talked about meeting the needs of today without compromising future generations. Louise spoke about the importance of sustainability and how we can protect and conserve our planet’s future. The big question people should keep asking themselves is,“Can we re-use it?” She spoke about re-do, re-use, recycle and recover. Nothing should be classified Louise Hoyes with Sandra Harris as waste. We need to cultivate a behaviour of change, move away from waste and encourage people to turn waste into something new. She said that in Camden, 30% of all rubbish is recycled. Veolia aims to achieve a 40% recycling rate by 2020 and increase the quantity and quality of recycling. There are talks taking place with the Government about deposits for bottle returns, better labelling, taxing products which have unrecyclable packaging, ditch single use plastics and ensure all glass and metal is recycled. She told League members, “each one of you can make a difference. You need to talk to one another, and we must all refuse to buy plastic that cannot be recycled”. ICJW Human Rights Day Page 3 A FAMILIAR STORY Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) is not just about remembering the past, but showing hope for the future and bringing people of different cultures and backgrounds together. Speaking to members at the League’s Human Rights Day Seminar, Olivia Marks-Woldman, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, said the theme for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January 2020 was ‘Standing Together.’ She said that the Trust was established by Tony Blair after the Intergovernmental Conference of 2000 and HMD has taken Olivia Marks-Woldman, Yvonne Brent and Safet Vukalic place in the UK every year since 2001. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust charity was created in 2005 and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is the Patron. In its first year, HMDT organised 300 activities and in 2019 there were 10,000 activities held in prisons, schools and Local Authorities. Around the country many events were organised by non- Jewish people for non-Jewish people. She said the day should remember not just the 6 million Jews and millions of other people murdered by the Nazis, but also the genocides which Olivia showing one of the many powerful visuals created for HMD. followed with the rape and killing fields of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Olivia said we should also remember the one million Muslims being detained at the moment in China. She spoke about Social Media as a force for good and a negative force pushing fake news. Today Holocaust denial was actively manipulative with less outright denial but with more distortion of historical facts and events to create something false.
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