Michael Rubinstein addresses the vigil: “Hello I am Michael Rubinstein, Chair of the Human Rights, Racism and antisemitism committee of the Jewish Representative Council of Great Manchester and the child of two Holocaust survivors. On Saturday morning I shall be standing outside my synagogue on security. I know what racism...

Press  RELEASE                                                                                      Monday 11thMarch 2019 Local councilors from North West learn about Jewish community at Manchester seminar More than 40 councillors from across the North West of England learned about the Jewish community at a councillor seminar on Sunday organised by the Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council and the...

Jewish Action for Mental Health promised the community a youth event before Pesach. The event being run on April 7th is to bring teens in to let us know what issues they are facing and what they want from us as a group. What programmes, activities and projects they want...

Councillor Tamoor Tariq, Bury Council’s cabinet member for communities and safer neighbourhoods, said: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the abhorrent act of violence that took place over the weekend at the cemetery in Philips Park. An attack on one part of our community is an attack on all...

We share with the community the profound sense of sadness and shock that was felt and circulated very quickly yesterday at the news of the loss of Sherrie Mayer, a teacher who has worked at King David Schools for 40 years, a leading light in the education of our young...

It has been pointed out that we do not make the community aware of the work that we the Jewish Representative Council have undertaken on behalf of the Community:_ The following is a sample of the Jewish Representative Council’s work over the last 2 years: * Organising the community tehillim...

I don’t need to repeat why we are all here today, what has prompted us to gather in such numbers. Out of this evil has come a welcome and positive response by many people around the world. The Jewish Representative Council, along with other Jewish communal organisations have received a...

From Prestwich Hebrew Congregation “The Shrubberies” American Jews are pledging in the aftermath of Pittsburgh to go to shul on Shabbat, to fill the synagogues as a show of defiance which is exactly what we’re going to do here in the UK – we’re voting with our feet. If this is an...

Following the atrocity at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA you can send a personal message via this link: https://www.thejlc.org/pittsburgh