Category Archives: Commissions

If you ever spend time in Hampstead, it is likely that you will see an electric car emblazoned with green leaves zipping around, with a lady in a flowery dress at the wheel. Or you will see the car plugged in, its battery charging, off a small side street which is the base of Dame Hilary Blume, and the Charities Advisory Trust. Continue reading →

On graduating with a degree in Social and Political Sciences, I had little or no idea of what I wanted to go on to do. I had an undefined view that I wanted to “make a difference”, but as to … Continue reading →

Young British Jews are giving less to Jewish causes and to all charitable causes, and feel no responsibility to give more, reported the first and thus far only systematic study “Patterns of charitable giving among British Jews” (Institute of Jewish … Continue reading →

Professor Zygmunt Bauman is a remarkable man; a prophet no less, though he will be the first to deny it. I must at first declare a bias. Professor Bauman’s seminal text “Modernity and the Holocaust” was compulsory reading when I … Continue reading →

At Kedma School, Hani Menashe is tired. She has been teaching all day, and will be tutoring tonight. She is the first to admit that working at Kedma is not for everyone. “I would recommend a job here only for … Continue reading →