East End anniversary

Speakers reflecting the diversity of East End life addressed the 200 guests at Sunday’s 90th anniversary celebrations of the East London Central Synagogue in Stepney.

Church, mosque and Buddhist representatives were among the speakers, as was the synagogue’s Rabbi Yitzchok Austin.

In a welcoming speech, shul president Leon Silver said his grandfather had been a founding member in 1923. It had since been a constant in the lives of generations of local families.

Former Board of Deputies president Henry Grunwald said he had been an East London member since his family moved to the area in 1974. He recalled reading a Yiddish translation of the works of Shakespeare in the shul which bore the slogan: “Translated and improved upon.”