The Jewish Leadership Council, formed in 2003, (as the Jewish Community Leadership Council) is chaired by the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Henry Grunwald QC. The JLC brings together the most senior lay leaders of the major institutions in each sector of UK Jewish life. Membership includes the Chairs and Presidents of synagogue movements, leaders of the main charities, welfare organisations and representative bodies as well as a number of Jewish VIPs and individual leaders such as The Lord (Michael) Levy, Sir Ronald Cohen, Dame Ruth Deech and former Board president and veteran politician Lord Janner. Jeremy Newmark (former spokesperson for the Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks) was appointed as Chief Executive of the JLC in January 2006.

In July 2008 the Council published a major report on the future of Jewish schooling in the UK.[1]

On 1 June 2009, upon taking office as President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Mr Vivian Wineman became the second Chairman of the Council.

In July 2009 Conservative Party Treasurers Howard Leigh and Stanley Fink joined the Council as individual members. At the same meeting Mr Mick Davis, Chairman of UJIA was appointed as the first Chairman of the Council's Executive Committee, and Michele Vogel President of WIZO UK became an organisational member of the JLC.

[edit] External links

• The JLC website
• Analysis Article on Boycotts by Jeremy Newmark July 2009

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