“How can we connect our Simchas Torah joy to recent events? How will we be able to remember, and also, to dance?”
Shuls, schools and community centers in London, Manchester and Leeds at the Weekend of Inspiration
Over a thousand Jews from various communities across the UK gathered to receive chizuk from 40 speakers from Israel
At the airport on my way back to Israel, when the customs agent asked the standard security question, “Has anyone given you anything to take for someone?” I wanted to answer a resounding “Yes! I’ve received an abundance of support, concern, love, prayer, and messages of unity from the Jews of London to Israel.”
I was telling a friend of mine, a secular Israeli woman from Ramat Hasharon, about my upcoming trip to the UK as one of 40 speakers from Israel bearing messages of chizuk and achdus. Each individual contributor is significant, but so many people coming together demonstrated our collective strength. More than anything else, we’d be showing the communities of the UK that Israel cares, and that we are all part of one unified Jewish world.
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