For Jewish News October 8 2021 Hundreds of people, both in person and on-line, took part in an international two day conference at the weekend under the auspices of the Association of Jewish Refugees. The focus of the conference — whose physical event took place at Chelsea Football Club in west London — was “Connecting […]
For Jewish News Oct 8 2021 Grandchildren of “The Boys” — the young Jewish men and women who arrived in Britain after liberation in 1945 — have put together a groundbreaking online archive about their grandparents’ experiences. Under the direction of 45 Aid Society vice-chair Philip Burton, and historical adviser Rosie Whitehouse, the archive — […]
For the JC Oct 1 2021 The British Association of Social Workers, the main representative body of the profession, has apologised to the Chief Rabbi and the Jewish community for holding its annual general meeting on the eve of Yom Kippur. Gerry Nosowska, the BASW chair, told the JC that the largely online meeting — […]
Rescue of British employees for Sept 2021 A former interpreter for the RAF has been rescued from Afghanistan by an extraction team headed by the Israeli business contractor, Moti Kahana. The mission was paid for by Tzedek, a charity based in Brooklyn and founded by Rabbi Moshe Margaretten, a member of the Skverer Chasidic sect. […]
For the JN Sept 5 2021 Harry Spiro was nine years old when war broke out in 1939, living in Piotrkow, in Poland, with his parents and younger sister, Gita. “We heard how Jews were being treated in Germany,” he told Jewish News, “but in the first weeks after the Germans invaded, nothing really happened. […]
For JC September 2021 An extraordinary series of rescue missions is being carried out in Afghanistan, funded by a 40-year-old strictly Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn, Rabbi Moshe Margaretten, and carried out by a team headed by the Israeli-American contractor, Moti Kahana. And to the surprise of many, among those who have finally left the country […]
For the JC July 11 2021 After 12 years, Benjamin Netanyahu finally left the prime minister’s official residence in central Jerusalem — driving away at 2.30 am in the early hours of Sunday morning, apparently in order to avoid media attention. The former prime minister, his wife Sara and their son Yair had stayed on […]
For the JC June 14 2021 An Orthodox Jewish female teacher who is about to receive rabbinic ordination has been told she can no longer teach at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS). Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, 61, has taught at LSJS – whose president is Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis – for 16 years and […]
For the JC June 2021 A High Court judge has ruled that a seriously ill two-year-old girl, Alta Fixsler, should be put into palliative care, agreeing with lawyers for Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust that “there was no prospect of her ever getting better”. On Friday, Mr Justice MacDonald, sitting in the Family Division of […]
Pro-Israel rally for JC May 2021 Hundreds of British Jews took part in a mostly good-natured demonstration of solidarity with Israel on Sunday afternoon, standing in pouring rain and waving flags as speaker after speaker pledged support for the right of self-defence for the Jewish state. But there were a couple of sour notes: one […]