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Sephardi community mourns Rabbi Israel Elia

The popular rabbi served the Lauderdale Road Synagogue for more than 40 years

By Simon Rocker

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Rabbi Elia (left) and René Trabelsi, Tunisia’s minister for tourism at the time, in Maida Vale in 2019

How women rose to Orthodox synagogue leadership

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Snow business: children at North Cheshire Jewish Nursery enjoy a wintry day

Thumbs-up from Ofsted for Cheshire nursery

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Kisharon Langdon to close Manchester campuses after poor Ofsted

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