Jewish Leadership Council
| Abbreviation | JLC |
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| Formation | 2003 |
| Registration no. | 1115343 |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
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Region served
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UK |
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Budget
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£2,905,344 (2013) |
| Website | www.thejlc.org |
The Jewish Leadership Council was formed in 2003, (as the Jewish Community Leadership Council). The Council was founded by its first Chairman, then President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Henry Grunwald QC and an array of other senior UK Jewish leaders. The Council acts as an umbrella group for various Jewish community organizations, charities, Zionist and pro-Israel advocacy groups.
The JLC brings together the most senior lay leaders of the major institutions in each sector of UK Jewish life. Membership includes the Chairs and Presidents of synagogue movements, leaders of the main charities, welfare organisations and representative bodies as well as a group of Vice-Presidents comprising a number of Jewish VIPs and individual leaders such as The Lord (Michael) Levy, Sir Ronald Cohen, Lord Harry Woolf, Lord Stanley Fink, Sir Trevor Chinn CVO, Leo Noe and former Board president and politician Lord Janner. Jeremy Newmark (former spokesperson for the Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks) was appointed as Chief Executive of the JLC in January 2006. He was succeeded by former Football Association Executive Simon Johnson in 2013.
On 1 June 2009, upon taking office as President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Vivian Wineman became the second Chairman of the Council.
In July 2009 Conservative Party Treasurers Howard Leigh and Stanley Fink joined the Council as individual members. At the same meeting Mr Mick Davis, Chairman of the United Jewish Israel Appeal was appointed as the first Chairman of the Council's Executive Committee, and Michele Vogel, President of WIZO UK became an organisational member of the JLC.
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