Board of Deputies leaders have today launched a consultation with grassroots deputies over a possible merger with the Jewish Leadership Council.
The aim of ongoing talks between the Board and the JLC is to create “a dynamic leadership body capable of representing the best interests of the whole community in all its diversity on issues that affect it and the wider Jewish world”, deputies were told in a letter from Board officers.
But a unified organisation, they said, would have to preserve the Board’s “core characteristics – an elected leadership, our representative nature, our democratic mandate and our regional spread”.
An independent consultant will be asked to take soundings from deputies, who will also be able to voice their views on the way forward via Facebook.
