What does the Council of Membership do?

The Council of Membership is the top body of the JLC – it’s the ‘Council’ in ‘Jewish Leadership Council’.

The Council meets four times a year to discuss the strategic issues that affect the Jewish community in the UK, to approve any decisions made by the Trustees and to plan for the future.

The Council also elects the JLC’s Trustees and approves any new member organisations that join the JLC.

How are the members chosen?

Every JLC member organisation has one person on the Council of Membership. This is usually their most senior lay-leader (President, chair etc).

Every member organisation has its own procedures for choosing its senior lay-leaders. This means that the makeup of the Council of Membership is in the hands of the JLC’s member organisations.

The JLC’s Vice-Presidents cannot vote at Council of Membership meetings; only members who represent organisations are allowed to make decisions.

Who are they accountable to?

The members of the Council of Membership are accountable to the member organisation that nominated them. In this way, the JLC is accountable to all the major institutions of the British Jewish community.

Who are the current Council of Membership?

		Bernard Yaffe The Fed
		Sarah Anticoni Partnerships for Jewish Schools
		Keith Black CST
		Russell Conn Manchester Jewish Representative Council
		Adrian Cohen London Jewish Forum
		Paul Charney Zionist Federation of Greater Britain & Ireland
		Shirley Fenster Masorti Judaism
		Debra Fox Lead Co-Chair
		Philip Goldberg Kisharon
		Uri Goldberg University Jewish Chaplaincy
		Jonathan Goldstein   Chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council
		Michael Goldstein United Synagogue
		Louise Hager Chai Cancer Care
		Josh Harendorf Zionist Youth Council
		Nigel Henry   Langdon
		Lisa Baker Leeds Jewish Representative Council
		Esther Offenberg UJS
		Lucian Hudson Liberal Judaism
		Louise Jacobs UJIA
		Neville Kahn Norwood
		Adam Dawson Jami
		Melvin Lawson Nightingale Hammerson
		Steven Lewis Jewish Care
		Laura Marks OBE Mitzvah Day
		Geoffrey Marx Movement for Reform Judaism
		Edward Misrahi BICOM
		Mark Morris Work Avenue
		Marc Nohr JW3
		Ronit Ribak-Madari Wizo UK
		David Pinnick Maccabi GB
		Dan Rosenfield   World Jewish Relief
		Julian Taylor Camp Simcha
		Marie van der Zyl Board of Deputies of British Jews
		Madeleine Abramson   Jewish Women's Aid
		Rt Hon Lord Young of Graffham CH, DL Jewish Museum
		Sabah Zubaida Spanish & Portuguese Congregation