Chetham’s Refuse to Cancel Antisemitic Speaker

The JRC has been public at our disgust with The Stoller Hall for hosting Bassam Youssef – an individual who has a history of making overtly antisemitic comments. In the interest of full disclosure we are sharing the letter we received from Chetham’s refusing our request to cancel the event...

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Meeting with Crewe and Nantwich MP, Connor Naismith

Thank you to Crewe and Nantwich MP, Connor Naismith for our meeting with our CEO to discuss the work of our member organisations.  We also focused on the challenges currently facing the Jewish community. We are grateful to Connor for his support and look forward to working together in the...

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Chai Cancer Care / Jnetics

We attended a fantastic reception to celebrate the work of Chai Cancer Care and Jnetics who are raising awareness of the BRCA testing service. We heard excellent speeches highlighting the importance of this work by Vanessa Feltz and representatives from the NHS. We encourage all members of the community to visit...

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JRC/UJIA Young Leadership Programme

We held the latest JRC/UJIA Young Leadership session at the Manchester Jewish Museum. Thank you to our panellists; Carmel Berke, Mark Adlestone, Simon Johnson and Bernie Yaffe. They discussed the skills required to be an effective leader, how to implement change and successfully resolve conflicts.

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Press Statement in Response to The Bridgewater Hall Hosting Sheikh Alfasy

Below is our statement regarding Manchester City Council charity owned Bridgewater Hall hosting antisemitic extremist Sheikh Alfasy. “Despite raising our concerns regarding previous racist and inflammatory comments made by Sheikh Alfasy including calls for violence against Jewish people and social media posts accusing Jews of condoning child rape, the Trustees...

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Chabad Manchester Menorah Lighting in Central Manchester

For over 50 years, Chabad-Lubavitch Manchester has organised a menorah lighting in central Manchester. This evening, there was a huge crowd as we marked the fifth night of Chanukah outside Central Library. Our Chief Executive, Marc Levy joined the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Cllr Paul Andrews and Rabbi Daniel Walker...

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A Time to Say Thank You

This is the second year we joined the #atimetosaythankyou initiative and partnered with Rabbi Albie Chait MBE and UHC Leeds. Alongside communities across the UK and in Melbourne, we visited hospitals, hospices, care homes, police and fire stations to say thank you to those emergency services as personnel who are...

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