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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