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Forty years of fighting for refugees

Edie Friedman talks us through the 40 year history of Jcore

May 19, 2017 14:25
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Rosa Doherty,

Rosa Doherty

2 min read

Forty years ago, the Jewish community in Britain was not overly concerned with anti-racist causes.

So says Edie Friedman, the American-born psychologist who was so disturbed by British Jews’ lack of engagement that she set up the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (Jcore).

She recalls coming to the decision while sitting in her bedsit in Leeds, having arrived in the UK to work as a youth organiser for Oxfam.

“When I got here, I found things in the Jewish community were very different from in America.