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crime’, ‘defending the right to a Jewish way of life’and ‘supporting efforts to remember and understandthe Holocaust’. They also include points onsupporting the provision of religiously sensitivesocial care services, supporting efforts to create amore just and sustainable future and resistingboycotts that divide communities.The full list of candidates who have publiclyexpressed support for the Ten Commitments can befound on the Board of Deputies website here;candidates who would like to be included areencouraged to tweet a picture of themselves holdingup a printed version of the Ten Commitments, alongwith the #TenCommitments hashtag and includingthe @BoardofDeputies Twitter handle.Commenting on support for the Ten Commitments,Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl said:‘In an increasingly bitter political climate, it isencouraging to see that politicians of all parties cancome together to support British Jews.Jewish populations. We will continue to promote theJewish Manifesto in the last week of the election andbeyond.‘The Ten Commitments encapsulate points ofconcern to our Jewish community – not just onmatters specific to Jews, but on policies whichaffect the UK as a whole.’You can read the Jewish Manifesto here.Around 2,000 people have so far attended hustingsorganised by the Jewish community across thecountry. The national hustings which took place atthe JW3 Community Centre in partnership with theJLC, the London Jewish Forum and the JewishNews, featured Robert Jenrick for the Conservatives,Naz Shah for Labour and Chuka Umunna for theLiberal Democrats. Hustings have also been heldaround London and Hertfordshire, as well as inManchester, Liverpool, Southport, Glasgow,Birmingham and Hove. Click here for details ofupcoming hustingsBoard of Deputies honoured in JVN Celebration ofVolunteering AwardsThe Board of Deputies won a Volunteer Team of the Year award at the JVN Celebration of VolunteeringAwards held in London last night. The award honoured the Accreditation Development Mentor Team which,according to the citation, "has given over two years of their valuable time, expertise and commitment".Also honoured for her work for the Board of Deputies was Dorothy Sadlik, who was given a LifetimeAchievement Award for her many years of voluntary work for the organisation.
Board of Deputies Education Development Manager Sara Perlmutter (left) and Chief Executive Gillian Merronwith the JVN awardMarie van der Zyl reacts to Jeremy Corbyn interview onITVBoard of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl has reacted to Jeremy Corbyn’s commentsmade to Philip Schofield on ITV this week.Marie said: “In an appearance on ITV, after again being asked five times for an apology on his party’sinability to deal with the antisemitism in its ranks, Mr Corbyn finally said he was ‘very sorry for everythingthat has happened’, but immediately added ‘I am dealing with it. I have dealt with it. Other parties are alsoaffected by antisemitism.’“Thousands of complaints have been made to Labour about cases of antisemitism from members; the 130open cases often cited ignores many cases in which members were let off with a slap on the wrist for themost egregious antisemitism.“Mr Corbyn has not dealt with it in the past few years; whether he will deal with it now remains to be seen.While we can and do criticise cases of antisemitism from other parties when these arise, we would resistany attempt to deflect from Labour’s antisemitism problem by claiming that any serious rival party has thesame issue with Jew-hate. When it comes to antisemitism, no other mainstream party in British society hasanything close to Labour’s current problem.”
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