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Huw Edwards removed as patron of Welsh Jewish cultural centre

The Foundation for Jewish Heritage made the former BBC presenter a patron of their project to restore Merthyr Tydfil synagogue in 2022

By Hannah Gillott

1 min read
Veteran newsreader Huw Edwards has been removed as patron of a Jewish cultural centre in Wales following his guilty plea of making indecent pictures of children between 2020 and 2022 (Photo: Getty Images)
The BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House in London, November 13, 2012 (Credit: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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Furious Jewish staff say BBC’s handling of antisemitism echoes the Huw Edwards scandal

By Nicole Lampert

4 min read
BBC newsreader Huw Edwards speaks during the UK Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Ceremony at Methodist Central Hall in London on January 27, 2020. Holocaust Memorial Day takes place each year on the 27th January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and honours survivors of the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution, and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Photo by Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS JACKSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Chana Hughes

By Chana Hughes

What Judaism teaches about the Huw Edwards saga

2 min read

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