Steven Niman of the North Manchester Cemeteries Trust and Harris Frazer of the Shabbat UK Project addressed the Council on Sunday June 8th.                

The following address was given by Louise Ellman MP at the Rep Council AGM In Parliament I try to be involved in matters to do with the Jewish Community. As an MP I try to support refugees and people seeking asylum and in Liverpool there are a lot of people...

The Annual General Meeting of the Jewish Representative Council took place at the Nicky Alliance Centre on Sunday, 11th May 2014 and was attended by more than 40 delegates.  The Guest Speaker, Louise Ellman, Member of Parliament for Liverpool Riverside, gave an interesting insight on her work in Parliament on...

President Frank Baigel told the different  stories  of the Journeys of Tibor Molnar  [Terry Samuels ]  a  6 yr old  survivor of Belsen and Friedrich Hirschfeld  [Frank Henderson]  a Kinder transport teenager at  the  Holocaust Memorial Day event for  250  school  children in Bolton  Lancs. Text that was read out:...

In a unique ceremony at King David High School to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, students from the school and from the KD (Islamic) Grammar School and Manchester Islamic High School for Girls read stories from the Holocaust and paid tribute to Muslims who had saved Jews during WWII as well...

A ‘Food brings communities together’ event was held at the ‘Cathedral on the Street’ in Manchester on Tuesday 21st January 2014, by The Challenging Hate Forum’ which is chaired by the Dean of Manchester Cathedral, the Very Reverend Rogers Govender. The Jewish Representative Council’s table had an array of cakes...

Stephen Pack, the President of the United Synagogue and President of the Chief Rabbinate Trust addressed Council on Sunday. Stephen spoke about the challenges of demographic change, his experience at the inauguration of Chief Rabbi Mirvis when he sat next to the Prince of Wales. He answered questions about women...

President Frank Baigel was interviewed on Granada television news to comment on footballer Nicolas Anelka’s ‘quenelle’ gesture. The video can be seen here: http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2013-12-31/footballers-criticised-for-alleged-offensive-gestures/

At a brief meeting in the Council offices Honorary officers, Dr Sydney Baigel and office staff met Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis who will shortly be inaugurated to the post of Chief Rabbi. R Mirvis praised the work of the Council and expressed a desire to be introduced to the community at...

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