David Rose
The Jewish Chronicle, Aug. 11, 2022
“He was the best boss I ever had and a very big influence on me. I remember that at work it was great during the winter because he would leave early for Shabbat every Friday. In the summer he was there until much later. That was one of my first experiences seeing how Jewish life could be incorporated into corporate life and it really impressed me how proud he was of his religion.”
Tory leadership contender Liz Truss has promised to “eradicate the scourge of antisemitism” in an exclusive interview with the JC.
Speaking as she visited a synagogue near Manchester, the Foreign Secretary spoke of her determination to ensuring all schools and universities are safe for Britain’s Jews.
Her pledges also include an assurance that the UK will do all it can to stop Iran building a nuclear weapon; action to change civil service “woke” culture, including within the Foreign Office; and trying to slash exorbitant roaming phone charges UK visitors pay in Israel.
The frontrunner in the race to succeed Boris Johnson also revealed her long-standing personal relationship with the Jewish community going back to her school days in Leeds.
Speaking after meeting the congregation at Hale synagogue in Trafford, just to the south of Manchester, she said she had been “absolutely appalled” by last month’s JC survey revealing that antisemitic incidents in schools have tripled in the past five years, while only 3.6 per cent of schools have policies to deal with it. She said: “I want to see the scourge of antisemitism eradicated. That means driving it out from our culture, starting with the schools.”
She said she had been “particularly disturbed” to read that Jewish children have been hissed after attending classes on the Holocaust, in imitation of the sound of the gas chambers — and yet many staff seem not to know what this means. SOURCE