New teaching fellowships launched in memory of Lady Lira Winston

“You will be planting seeds that will last for future generations,” he said.

One fellow, Benjamin de Jong, assistant head at JCoSS, said the programme was “the best thing I’ve done in a professional capacity”.

The future of Jewish education “appears to be in very, very good hands,” he added.

Rabbi David Meyer, chief executive of PaJeS, said the launch of the fellowships marked “a quite momentous occasion in the annals of Jewish education in this country”.

The group would “create a dynamic of change in our schools,” he said.

Lord Winston at the fellowships launch (photo: Paul Lang)[Missing Credit]

Former JCoSS head Patrick Moriarty, who is involved with running the programme, noted its reach with fellows ranging from cross-communal to Chasidic schools.

“They are far more united than many people might imagine, despite the differences in denomination and ethos,” he said.