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Southport violence
August 7, 2024, 12:02 pm
Jewish communities offer solidarity to Muslim counterparts
Chief rabbi and other faith leaders call for constructive dialogue on immigration
By Jenni Frazer
Vitalii Sazonov is a Ukrainian national judo team doctor. Mr Sazonov is living as a refugee in the UK and has shared his excitement about making it to the Olympics after nearly losing his family to Russia's invasion.
August 6, 2024, 2:03 pm
How World Jewish Relief helped Ukrainian doctor get to Olympics
After taking part in WJR STEP programme the doctor was able to work with judoka team in Paris
By Jenni Frazer
Children are on their way to fetch water in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on March 18, 2024. Credit: Khaled Omar/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
April 4, 2024, 12:09 pm
OPINION: Can we still hear each other after 7/10 and all that’s happened since?
Six months on from the Hamas terror attack, the strong inter-communal relations we've built are at risk of becoming yet another victim of this awful conflict, writes Rabbi David Mason
By Rabbi David Mason
Protestors opposing antisemitism (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Sipa USA)
November 9, 2023, 12:06 pm
OPINION: Jewish experience is complicated
Can Britain become a nation that champions difference and manages argument, asks the executive director of HIAS+JCORE
By Rabbi David Mason
Refugees seeking asylum. https://www.politicshome.com/
September 14, 2023, 12:29 pm
Opinion: A need for more than spiritual asylum
Rosh Hashanah emphasises our place in the wider world and our deep responsibility to influence it and bring about change, writes David Mason, executive director of HIAS+JCORE
By David Mason
Prince Charles speaking at a WJR event
August 24, 2023, 12:15 am
World Jewish Relief wins Government contract to support Ukrainian refugees into work
The organisation, which helped bring Jewish refugees to the UK 80 years ago and counts King Charles as patron, was selected to provide employment support for up to 10,000 arrivals
By Lee Harpin
Lord Alf Dubs, Rabbi Gluck and representatives from the Jewish Council for Racial Equality at a demo in support of child refugee resettlement Credit: Dinendra Haria
July 12, 2023, 11:01 am
Lord Dubs: Jenrick order to paint over kids’ Disney mural in asylum centre a disgrace
Lord Dubs, who came to Britain as a child refugee after fleeing the Nazis, slams immigration minister Robert Jenrick after he ordered pictures of cartoons and animals at Dover asylum centre to be painted over
By Lee Harpin
Natasha-Kaplinsky-with-first-generation-refugees-and-survivors-alongside-International-Holocaust-Testimony-Forum-organisers-Association-of-Jewish-Refugees-and-Lord Pickles. Pic: AJR
April 26, 2023, 1:53 pm
Opinion: UK Holocaust Testimony Portal offers a vision for the future
With an ever-growing pernicious threat as to how Shoah history is preserved and remembered, the Portal will play a pivotal role in the fight against Holocaust distortion and false equivalence
By Michael Newman and Lord Pickles and Dr Bea Lewkowicz
Stop Rwanda, outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Pic: HIAS+JCORE
April 21, 2023, 10:28 am
OPINION: Time for us to raise our voices for the oppressed stranger
Our community should play a key role in calling on the government to enact comprehensive immigration reform, say newly-merged UK and US refugee charities HIAS+JCORE
By Rachel Levitan + Isabel Burton + Rabbi David Mason
Lauren helping unload food and other supplies for migrants at the camp in Dunkirk
April 4, 2023, 4:24 pm
OPINION: Lack of safe passage puts lives at most risk
Lauren Keiles recounts her recent visit with The Board of Deputies and Crif to the refugee camp in Dunkirk.
By Lauren Keiles
Gary Lineker
March 9, 2023, 3:18 pm
Braverman: Lineker’s tweet ‘diminishes unspeakable tragedy of Holocaust’
Home Secretary suggests presenter’s ‘Germany in 30s’ attack on her migration policies was ‘flippant’ and ‘lazy’
By Lee Harpin
Migrants being brought on shore by the border force at Dover (Jewish News)
March 8, 2023, 4:20 pm
Board have ‘significant concerns’ over Rishi Sunak’s Illegal Migration Bill
In a major intervention, Board of Deputies say they fear the government's bid to tackle rising migrant small boat crossings could 'breach both the Refugee Convention and the Human Rights Act'
By Lee Harpin
Kurt Marx BEM, Holocaust survivor and member of Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors' Centre speaks at Jewish Care Young Patrons Dinner. Pic: Jewish Care.
February 27, 2023, 11:56 am
Jewish Care raises £140,000 at Young Patrons dinner
Kurt Marx BEM, a member of charity's Holocaust Survivors’ Centre who arrived in the UK on Kindertransport in 1939, spoke to 400 young supporters at annual event
By Michelle Rosenberg
Rabbi Mark Goldsmith with Elena (left), Anya and her friend from home, Alina, on a day trip to Cambridge
February 22, 2023, 6:25 pm
One year on, Ukraine refugees are still coming to the UK
Rabbis are among host families who have made it possible for Ukrainians to live out the war here but they still long for home
By Jenni Frazer
Ukrainian refugee Sabina Artemieva speaks of her new career with World Jewish Relief in the UK
January 24, 2023, 4:32 pm
Jewish Ukrainian refugee flourishing in new career with World Jewish Relief
Sabina Artemieva is applauded after telling Camden Council of her work with the main Jewish oversees aid organisation in the UK, saying the 'support we give to Ukrainians now is the support I needed when I arrived'.
By Lee Harpin
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