It is time for the Jewish community to play it’s part in the refugee crisis
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Janet Berenson
10 years ago
Remember the past to learn from it. Act on what we learn.
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Monique Mayer
10 years ago
We cannot be blind to the pleas of the refugees. We have a moral obligation to help.
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Sylvia Rothschild
10 years ago
From Abraham on our people have been migrants and refugees. Ger v'toshav anochi. We know the heart of the refugee and must respond to their pain
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Toni Baum
10 years ago
We are all refugees.
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Jonathan Beck
10 years ago
Britain has a proud tradition of providing refuge for those fleeing persecution and war-torn regions. It is only right that those cmmunities who have benefited from this tradition should speak out to ensure others similarly benefit.
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Daniel Vulkan
10 years ago
My father came to this country as a refugee. If Britain had not taken him in, he would have become a victim of the Shoah (as his grandfather and aunts and uncles did), and I would never have been born.
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Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko
10 years ago
My husbands mother survived the Shoah and was taken in by the UK in 1945. Without that action his family wouldn't exist today. Agree with Caroline this is the defining crisis of our generation and the Jewish community needs to urgently coordinate a response. I am already coordinating a response at the CCJ but it needs to be wider and well resourced as this is a crisis of untold proportions and may continue for years. We need to get going now. We cant wait any longer. 'if not now when?'
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Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko
10 years ago
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I am running an initiative at the Council of Christians and Jews which started with a month of reflection in all synagogues of every denomination in the month of August. We are working closely with the only Anglican Syrian Priest and the Coptic Bishop on practical needs of refugees and gifts in kind
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Yvonne Singer
10 years ago
England chose to take in Jews who would otherwise have died in the last world war. An honourable act. Morality must prevail now.
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Lesley Sher
10 years ago
This needs to be sorted and now before any more suffering , we can't just sit back and let it happen...what can we do to help?
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Caroline Beck
10 years ago
This is THE crisis of our generation. I want to be proud to be British. Toe, that means sharing our wealth - and the burden, and helping those in dire need.
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Anna Lawton
10 years ago
please let me know if there's anything I can do to help!
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Nic Schlagman
10 years ago
My family were welcomed as refugees and migrants. I want Britain to extend this invitation to those fleeing persecution and war today
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Adam Wagner
10 years ago
Not to mention that many in the Jewish community (including both sides of my family) were welcomed to the UK as refugees from the pogroms of the late 1800s.
Remember the past to learn from it. Act on what we learn.
We cannot be blind to the pleas of the refugees. We have a moral obligation to help.
From Abraham on our people have been migrants and refugees. Ger v'toshav anochi. We know the heart of the refugee and must respond to their pain
We are all refugees.
Britain has a proud tradition of providing refuge for those fleeing persecution and war-torn regions. It is only right that those cmmunities who have benefited from this tradition should speak out to ensure others similarly benefit.
My father came to this country as a refugee. If Britain had not taken him in, he would have become a victim of the Shoah (as his grandfather and aunts and uncles did), and I would never have been born.
My husbands mother survived the Shoah and was taken in by the UK in 1945. Without that action his family wouldn't exist today. Agree with Caroline this is the defining crisis of our generation and the Jewish community needs to urgently coordinate a response. I am already coordinating a response at the CCJ but it needs to be wider and well resourced as this is a crisis of untold proportions and may continue for years. We need to get going now. We cant wait any longer. 'if not now when?'
I am running an initiative at the Council of Christians and Jews which started with a month of reflection in all synagogues of every denomination in the month of August. We are working closely with the only Anglican Syrian Priest and the Coptic Bishop on practical needs of refugees and gifts in kind
England chose to take in Jews who would otherwise have died in the last world war. An honourable act. Morality must prevail now.
This needs to be sorted and now before any more suffering , we can't just sit back and let it happen...what can we do to help?
This is THE crisis of our generation. I want to be proud to be British. Toe, that means sharing our wealth - and the burden, and helping those in dire need.
please let me know if there's anything I can do to help!
My family were welcomed as refugees and migrants. I want Britain to extend this invitation to those fleeing persecution and war today
Not to mention that many in the Jewish community (including both sides of my family) were welcomed to the UK as refugees from the pogroms of the late 1800s.