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Cyclone Idai Emergency Appeal
A devastating cyclone has swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe destroying almost everything in its path, killing and injuring thousands of people. Roads, bridges and crops have been washed away, homes have been submerged, forcing people to take refuge on rooftops. Torrential rain and wind is continuing to hit the area. An estimated 2.6 million people are affected in what the UN says could be the worst such disaster to hit the southern hemisphere. At times of major international disaster, World Jewish Relief leads our community to demonstrate our care and concern for those affected, inspired by the Jewish tenet…
Newcastle’s vigil for Christchurch
Members of local faith groups took part in a Newcastle upon Tyne vigil for those murdered in the Christchurch mosque shootings. Brenda Dinsdale, joint President of the Representative Council of North East Jewry, and Honorary Life President of Newcastle Reform Synagogue spoke, saying: “I can find no words of consolation which will help those who have lost loved ones in the Christchurch atrocity because there are no words which can help those who have lost wives and husbands, children and fathers… I have seen the shock and the hopelessness in peoples’ eyes and I want, on behalf of the Jewish…