Matt Plen is Chief Executive of Masorti Judaism in the UK.
Matt Plen
By Matt Plen
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Community How a Small Group of British Jews Raised a Big Amount of Money for Child Refugees
Over the past seven weeks, the British Jewish community raised £200,000 ($260,000) for the resettlement of 100 unaccompanied children from the Calais refugee camp here in the UK. The campaign was initiated by a group of leaders from Masorti (Conservative) communities in and around London, who came together in the early summer to try and…
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Opinion No More All Male Panels
The shameful exclusion of women from Jewish life continues to plague our community. Friends on social media have been shouting about a number of recent all-male panels: rabbis Micah Goodman, Rick Jacobs and Elliot Cosgrove at Park Avenue Synagogue; David Horowitz, Ron Kampeas and William Daroff at a J-Pro webinar, and Ari Shavit, Abraham Foxman,…
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