As thousands of sports fans roared Paralympic athletes to victory, a mile away another sporting venue was filled by a very different crowd.

More than 4,600 strictly Orthodox men took part in Tuesday night’s conference at Leyton Orient’s football stadium, aimed at discussing the best ways to steer young religious Jews away from online dangers.

Well over 70 years after joining FZY, a 96-year-old has had his third barmitzvah marked by the Zionist youth movement.

When Londoner Morris Hoffman first became involved in FZY, fellow members included a future Israeli President, Chaim Herzog.

The opportunity to run with the Olympic spirit gave Langdon resident Hannah Levy the chance to “make the games happen”.

Ms Levy, who lives at a Langdon Supported Living property in Manchester, headed south after being chosen as one of the 70,000 volunteer “Games Makers” for the London 2012 Olympics.

The JC has a headline role in a time capsule found by builders working on a £16.5 million leisure and health centre for Lambeth Council and Lambeth NHS.