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Thursday 5 Jun 2008
JPR Dinner in honour of Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

On 4 June 2008 JPR held a dinner at Glaziers Hall, London Bridge, in honour of The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York. Lord Haskel, JPR President, presented the Archbishop with the Golden Jubilee Arward in recognition of his outstanding contribution to public life. The Archbishop delivered an address on The Role of Religion in Politics Today which you can read here in full www.archbishopofyork.org/1841.

Previous recipients of the JPR Golden Jubilee Award have included Lord Goodman,Dr Henry Kissinger, His Royal Highness Prince El-Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan, William Frankel CBE, Lord Woolf and James Wolfensohn KBE.

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Wednesday 7 May 2008
A Personal appreciation of William Frankel CBE by Tony Lerman

With the death of William Frankel CBE, JPR has lost a true friend who had an immeasurable influence on the Institute’s development. Rightly known for being an outstanding and crusading editor of the Jewish Chronicle, after stepping down from the editorship in 1968 he favoured a number of Jewish communal institutions with his time and close support. One of these was JPR’s predecessor organization, the Institute of Jewish Affairs (IJA). That close connection continued when the IJA became the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and lasted until his untimely death in April 2008.

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Thursday 24 Apr 2008
William Frankel CBE, Vice-President of JPR, dies aged 91

William Frankel was a central figure in JPR’s lay leadership and was Chairman of JPR’s predecessor, the Institute of Jewish Affairs. He played a key part in creating the conditions for JPR to become an independent think tank. Since it was established in 1996 he remained fully involved in helping guide JPR and securing its financial future. He will be sorely missed by all JPR Board members and staff.

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Tuesday 22 Apr 2008
Is Europe good for the Jews? Jews and the pluralist tradition in historical perspective

Is Europe today uniquely favourable or uniquely threatening to Jews? This was the question examined by a seminar held in April to launch Dr Steven Beller’s JPR policy debate paper, entitled Is Europe good for the Jews? Jews and the pluralist tradition in historical perspective. At the seminar Dr Beller presented some of the arguments he outlined in his paper, and a response was given by Dr Diana Pinto. The discussion was chaired by Antony Lerman, JPR’s Executive Director. The seminar was attended by a wide range of academics, Jewish communal professionals and rabbis.

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Monday 3 Mar 2008
Making More of Europe
A JPR policy seminar was held in February to explore the problems of developing European Jewish advocacy, cooperation and effective representation of European Jewish interests. Forty people attended, representing many of the organisations involved in this work in Europe: B’nai B’rith, the European Council of Jewish Communities, the American Jewish Joint Distribution, the Anglo-Jewish Association.

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Monday 25 Feb 2008
Voices for the Res Publica: a progress report
Last winter JPR launched a new pan-European project, funded by the Ford Foundation, entitled Rediscovering the European Common Good. This ambitious and wide-reaching project is directed by Dr Diana Pinto, an intellectual historian and expert in European civil society living in Paris. The project addresses one of Europe’s most pressing political and social problems: the loss of a sense of the commonweal in our pluralist democracies.
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Wednesday 20 Feb 2008
'Voting rights in Israel for Diaspora Jews' proposal criticised as 'fundamentally retrogressive' by JPR

Recent remarks by the Russian oligarch Moshe Kantor, speaking in his capacity as President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), that all Diaspora Jews should have the right to vote in Israeli elections, are described as ‘fundamentally retrogressive’ in a Policy Briefing paper from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), the independent think tank working on policy ideas for an inclusive Europe.

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Monday 21 Jan 2008
JPR Project on Child Poverty in British Jewry: A Mapping Project to Improve Community Services
A discussion paper produced in 2006 by JPR, in conjunction with the Shoresh Trust, provided clear evidence of poverty and deprivation among significant numbers of Jewish children in all sectors of the Jewish community, arising from divorce, single-parenthood, bereavement, redundancy or chronic disability
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Monday 7 Jan 2008
The Science Delusion

The Science Delusion was the title chosen by Lord Winston, Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College and author and broadcaster, who delivered the Morris and Manja Leigh Memorial Lecture in December 2007. The lecture was chaired by JPR Chairman Peter L Levy OBE.

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Media coverage of JPR

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 13 Jun 2008)
Archbishop honoured at a JPR dinner
One of the UK’s leading Christian personalities has been honoured by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research for his contribution to public life.

The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, received JPR’s Golden Jubilee award at a dinner in his honour at Glaziers Hall in London last Wednesday.

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(Monday 9 Jun 2008)
The Flying Archbishop
http://eursoc.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/2535/The_Flying_Archbishop.html
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Times Online (Thursday 5 Jun 2008)
Archbishop of York criticises government at JPR dinner
The Archbishop of York has launched a powerful attack on the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, accusing it of sacrificing liberty for misguided notions of equality.
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Mail Online (Thursday 5 Jun 2008)
Archbishop Sentamu says Labour's obsession with human rights is 'threat to freedom'
His condemnation of human rights without religion, and his decision to point the finger at Labour, came in an address given to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.
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Telegraph.co.uk (Thursday 5 Jun 2008)
Archbishop of York blames labour government for selfish society
In a speech given at the Institute of Jewish Policy Research, he said: "One of the many mantras of the New Labour party of a decade ago was that of 'rights and responsibilities' - the idea that along with entitlement comes obligation.
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Times Blog Articles of Faith (Thursday 5 Jun 2008)
Sentamu hammers Brown's Labour government
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, spoke last night at a dinner given by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research at the Glaziers' Hall in the City of London.
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bbc.co.uk (Thursday 5 Jun 2008)
'Rampant consumerism' criticised
The Archbishop of York has blamed the Labour government for allowing what he calls "rampant consumerism" to control Britain's moral values.
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AOL News (Thursday 5 Jun 2008)
Civil liberties 'facing threat'

Civil liberties are under threat from Government bureaucracy and "petty-mindedness", the Archbishop of York has warned. In a speech delivered to the Institute of Jewish Policy Research in London, Dr John Sentamu said red tape and diktats in politics were threatening personal freedom.

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The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 8 Feb 2008)
High unemployment
Further to your article (How to survive a recession, February 1), I am writing to highlight quite how deep the problem of unemployment is within our community. The report published by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in May 2007 shows there were over 6,000 Jewish people in the UK out of work, 4,000 of whom live in London. Over 1,000 of those have graduated from university. At a time when the City is feeling the pinch of gloomy economic forecasts, this will inevitably have a greater impact on the community.

Trisha Ward, Chairman, Employment Resource Centre, East End Road, London N2
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Jewish Chronicle - Leader (Friday 18 Jan 2008)
Lost Charedi boys
Our Jewish schools come out with flying colours from the Government’s latest educational league tables. But buried away in the statistics is disturbing evidence that many boys in the strictly Orthodox community are being systematically undereducated in secular studies.
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(Friday 18 Jan 2008)
Schools do well - but some boys are left out

New figures released by the government suggest that many boys in parts of Britain’s Charedi communities are leaving school before the age of 15. While pupils in Charedi girls’ schools are often performing well at GCSE, according to the latest secondary school tables from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, many of their male equivalents appear not even to be taking the exams.

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