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Board of Deputies of British Jews

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The Board of Deputies of British Jews (historically London Board of Deputies and London Committee of Deputies of British Jews) is the main representative body of British Jews. [1]

62 relations: Arthur Cohen (politician), Ashkenazi Jews, Barnett Janner, Baron Janner, BBC News, Benjamin Mendes da Costa, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, British Jews, Cecil Roth, Commission for Racial Equality, D'Avigdor-Goldsmid baronets, David Lindo Alexander, De Castro family (Sephardi Jewish), Defamation, Eldred Tabachnik, European Jewish Congress, George III of the United Kingdom, Gillian Merron, Greville Janner, Henry Grunwald (barrister), History of Scottish devolution, History of the Jews in England, Internment, Interpal, Islamism, Jews, JFS (school), Joseph Salvador, Ken Livingstone, Lindo, London, Marie van der Zyl, Michael Fidler, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Mocatta, Montefiore, Moses Montefiore, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Council of Britain, Neville Laski, Order of the British Empire, Presbyter Judaeorum, Queen's Counsel, Rachel Sylvester, Religion in the United Kingdom, Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden, Scotland, Scotland Act 1998, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, ..., Selig Brodetsky, Sephardi Jews, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Standards Board for England, Stuart Samuel, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Holocaust, The Jewish Chronicle, Vivian Wineman, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, World Jewish Congress. Expand index (12 more) »

Arthur Cohen (politician)

Arthur Cohen KC, FBA (18 November 1830 – 3 November 1914) was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician.

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Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation:, singular:, Modern Hebrew:; also), are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium.

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Barnett Janner, Baron Janner

Barnett Janner, Baron Janner (20 June 1892 – 4 May 1982) was a British politician who was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) and later as a Labour MP.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Benjamin Mendes da Costa

Benjamin Mendes da Costa (17 July 1803 - 26 November 1868) was an English merchant and philanthropist.

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Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre

The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) is a UK-based organisation which acts to promote awareness of Israel and the Middle East in the United Kingdom.

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British Jews

British Jews (often referred to collectively as Anglo-Jewry) are British citizens who are ethnically and/or religiously Jewish.

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Cecil Roth

Sir Cecil Roth (5 March 1899 – 21 June 1970), was a British Jewish historian.

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Commission for Racial Equality

The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom which aimed to address racial discrimination and promote racial equality.

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D'Avigdor-Goldsmid baronets

The d'Avigdor-Goldsmid Baronetcy, of Somerhill in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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David Lindo Alexander

David Lindo Alexander (5 October 1842 in the City of London – 1922) was an English barrister and Jewish community leader.

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De Castro family (Sephardi Jewish)

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Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

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Eldred Tabachnik

Eldred Tabachnik, QC (born 5 November 1943) is a South African-born English barrister, recorder and a former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

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European Jewish Congress

The European Jewish Congress, (EJC), was founded in 1986.

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George III of the United Kingdom

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.

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Gillian Merron

Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April 1959) is the Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and has served in the post since July 2014.

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Greville Janner

Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, QC (11 July 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a British politician, barrister and writer who was alleged to have abused vulnerable children—he died before court proceedings could formally establish the facts.

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Henry Grunwald (barrister)

Henry Grunwald (born August 1949) was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and a founder and first Chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council from 2003 until 2009.

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History of Scottish devolution

The decision of the Parliament of Scotland to ratify the Treaty of Union in 1707 was not unanimous and, from that time, individuals and organisations have advocated the reinstatement of a Scottish Parliament.

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History of the Jews in England

The history of the Jews in England goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial.

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Interpal

Interpal is the working name for the British charity Palestinian Relief and Development Fund founded in 1994 which states that it is a non-political charity to alleviate problems faced by Palestinians, and focused solely on the provision of relief and development aid to the poor and needy Palestinians the world over, but primarily in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Jordan.

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Islamism

Islamism is a concept whose meaning has been debated in both public and academic contexts.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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JFS (school)

JFS (formerly known as the Jews' Free School and later Jewish Free School) is a Jewish mixed comprehensive school in Kenton, north London, England.

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Joseph Salvador

Joseph Salvador (1716–1786) was a British businessman of London, perhaps most notable for being the first and only Jew to serve as a director of the British East India Company.

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Ken Livingstone

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008.

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Lindo

Lindo is a surname.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Marie van der Zyl

Marie Sarah van der Zyl (born November 1965) is President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and only the second woman in the role.

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Michael Fidler

Michael M. Fidler (10 February 1916 – 5 September 1989) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is the UK Government department for Housing, communities and local government in England.

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Mocatta

Mocatta (also de Mattos Mocatta, Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta and Lumbrozo de Mattos Mocatta) is the name of a prominent Anglo-Jewish family originally from Spain known for philanthropy, leadership and sponsorship of arts and letters, particularly in the United Kingdom.

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Montefiore

Montefiore is a surname associated with the Montefiore family, Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from the Iberian Peninsula, namely Spain and Portugal, and also France, Morocco, England, and Italy.

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Moses Montefiore

Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, FRS (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London.

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Muslim Brotherhood

The Society of the Muslim Brothers (جماعة الإخوان المسلمين), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood (الإخوان المسلمون), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928.

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Muslim Council of Britain

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), established in 1997, is an umbrella body for 500 mosques, schools and associations in Britain.

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Neville Laski

Neville Jonas Laski, QC (18 December 1890 – 24 March 1969) was an English judge and leader of Anglo-Jewry.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Presbyter Judaeorum

The Presbyter Judaeorum or Presbyter Judæorum was the chief official of the Jews of England prior to the Edict of Expulsion.

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Queen's Counsel

A Queen's Counsel (postnominal QC), or King's Counsel (postnominal KC) during the reign of a king, is an eminent lawyer (usually a barrister or advocate) who is appointed by the Monarch to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law." The term is also recognised as an honorific.

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Rachel Sylvester

Rachel Mynfreda Sylvester (born 1969) is a British political journalist who writes for The Times.

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Religion in the United Kingdom

Religion in the United Kingdom, and in the countries that preceded it, has been dominated for over 1,400 years by various forms of Christianity.

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Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden

Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden (20 January 1905 – 12 October 1979) was a British businessman, local politician and leading member of the Jewish community.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scotland Act 1998

The Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which established the devolved Scottish Parliament with tax varying powers and the Scottish Government (then Scottish Executive).

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Scottish Council of Jewish Communities

The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC) is the representative body of all the Jewish communities of Scotland.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba; Scots Govrenment) is the executive of the devolved Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: The Scots Pairlament) is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland.

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Selig Brodetsky

Selig Brodetsky (10 February 1888 – 20 May 1954) was a Russian-born English mathematician, a member of the World Zionist Executive, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and the second president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Sephardi Jews

Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sefaraddim, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm; also Ye'hude Sepharad, lit. "The Jews of Spain"), originally from Sepharad, Spain or the Iberian peninsula, are a Jewish ethnic division.

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Spanish and Portuguese Jews

Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, are a distinctive sub-group of Iberian Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the immediate generations following the forced expulsion of unconverted Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497.

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Standards Board for England

The Standards Board for England was a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

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Stuart Samuel

Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, 1st Baronet (24 October 1856 – 13 May 1926) was a British banker and Liberal politician who was Member of Parliament for Whitechapel.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

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The Jewish Chronicle

The Jewish Chronicle (The JC) is a London-based Jewish weekly newspaper.

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Vivian Wineman

Vivian Wineman was elected President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the representative body of the Jewish community in Britain, on 17 May 2009, and took office on 1 June, after an election which for the first time in the Board’s 250-year history involved four candidates.

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Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937), was a British banker, politician, zoologist and scion of the Rothschild family.

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World Jewish Congress

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Deputies_of_British_Jews

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