The Board of Deputies’ decision to tie in with Oxfam’s food project Grow/Tatzmiach was mirrored by another demonstration of Jewish social action this week.

World Jewish Relief, Tzedek and Gefiltefest have signed up to the campaign Enough Food For Everyone IF, a national coalition calling upon David Cameron to use his presidency of the G8 to address the causes of world hunger.

The Board of Deputies’ controversial joint anti-hunger project with Oxfam could have serious financial repercussions for the Jewish organisation, it was claimed this week.

Many United Synagogue congregants — furious over the link with what they regard as an anti-Israel NGO— have threatened to withhold their voluntary communal levy fees which go towards the running of the Board.

Global aid charity Tzedek has received a £350,000 grant from Comic Relief to finance an education project in northern Ghana.

The grant was confirmed during a meeting with Comic Relief representatives last Friday and the money will be released periodically over the next three years.

The 183 residents of the Donisthorpe home in Leeds will now be able to listen to the local Jcom radio station in the comfort of their rooms thanks to the installation of an intercom system.

A charity helping Jewish jobseekers has gone into the beauty business.

On Tuesday, TrainE-TraidE opened its BeautE salon in conjunction with Jewish Care at the latter’s Golders Green campus.

TrainE-TraidE head of operations Debbie Sheldon said it had wanted to set up a health and beauty business “which would generate sustainable incomes for graduates of our holistic therapy courses.

A controversial joint anti-hunger project between the Board of Deputies and Oxfam will go ahead after deputies voted in favour of the scheme.

The Grow/Tatzmiach programme will bring Jewish campaigners together with experts from the NGO to tackle injustices in the international food system.

Concern is growing that a rule change could threaten the charitable status of strictly Orthodox groups, costing them large amounts in tax relief.

It follows a decision by the Charity Commission to refuse registration to a Devon church owned by the Plymouth Brethren, a small Christian sect.

Oxfam has confirmed that it will continue to work on a joint project with the Board of Deputies after accepting a series of “red lines” presented by the Jewish organisation.

There was confusion this week after a meeting between Board leaders and Oxfam’s Middle East director to discuss the Grow Tatzmiach food poverty programme ended without obvious agreement on the rules.