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Social Responsibility Week to encourage charity outside the community

Ghana trip inspired Cambridge student to organise programme including events at schools, Jsocs, youth movements and synagogues across the country

January 11, 2019 11:58
BAP 2017 Ghana

ByRosa Doherty, ROSA DOHERTY

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When George Rosenfeld was 13, he did what many barmitzvah boys do by raising money for charity.

He and two friends selected three causes to support but he was taken aback when some people objected to the inclusion of a non-Jewish charity, Water Aid.

“Someone asked ‘why do the Africans need clean water if they don’t have the Torah’?”

Now 18 and a Cambridge student, Mr Rosenfeld is encouraging support for charities outside the community by spearheading a Social Responsibility Week (SRW), which starts on Monday and will include events at schools, Jsocs, youth movements and synagogues across the country.