Birmingham Hebrew Congregation has refuted a claim that it will be withdrawing funding from the Jewish studies department of the city’s King David Primary.
The claim was made in a letter to the Birmingham Jewish Recorder by King David governors’ chair Dr Michael Wolffe, who warned that such a move would leave insufficient funds to meet the salaries of the two Jewish studies teachers.
An editorial about the issue in the Recorder had caused further disquiet.
But BHC chairman Keith Rowe insisted: “There is not a shred of truth in this. The synagogue is not withdrawing funds from the school. We have not changed any arrangements at all.”