Refugee charity approved for membership of Board of Deputies

Rabbi David Mason, the executive director of HIAS+JCORE, said, “We are delighted that Hias+Jcore has joined the Board of Depuuties with overwhelming support.

“We are a Jewish organisation looking to work with others towards a fairer and more cohesive world for refugees and asylum seekers and of the ways we want to deliver that is through engaging the Jewish community with awareness and education. Joining the Board makes that more possible and further enables us to play our part in the wider Jewish community.”

Board president Phil Rosenberg noted that the acceptance of the new member organisations as well as the recently announced rapprochement with the Campaign Against Antisemitism showed that the Board was living up to the officers’ ambition to “make the community more united, inclusive and outward-looking”.

The Board of Deputies plenary in Manchester[Missing Credit]

Sunday’s meeting, addressed by Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, was the first to be arranged outside London that was not part of a Board regional weekend.

Rosenberg, who has pledged £100,000 for work in the regions, said, “I am delighted that we are fulfilling our commitment to the regions by being a truly national organisation, offering genuine support in cash and kind. We are not the Board of Deputies of London Jews. We are the Board of Deputies of British Jews, as our dynamic programme, including this weekend in Manchester, is showing”.