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Video highlights of BBUK's recent Israel tour |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 30 January 2012 |
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 You can watch video highlights of BBUK's recent Israel tour by clicking on the link below our picture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEvDr7mDV2Q
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 January 2012 )
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At the sharp end in Afghanistan |
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Written by Judy Frankel
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Monday, 23 January 2012 |
 Yitzchak Rabin Lodge drew a capacity crowd (including members of other Lodges) when Dr Danny Sharpe, a young Jewish officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, spoke on “Inside a very British Institution: the Jewish experience of the modern British military.” Though the Jewish presence nowadays amounted to fewer than a hundred and fifty all told, Danny traced the treatment and participation of Jews in the British forces historically and explained the facilities currently afforded to them
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 January 2012 )
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Sefer Torah consecrated in memory of Lieutenant Paul Mervis |
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Written by Wally Sacks. Photos by kind permission of Captain M. Poloway
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 |
Brigadier Simon Bell is handed the Sefer Torah by Lieut Eugene Berger
A shaft of January morning sunshine lights the converted chapel. Slowly, the Sefer Torah is carried into the chapel by members of all three services. The studied silence is only broken when the scroll is handed to Brigadier Simon Bell, the senior serving Jewish officer, who in turn presents it to the Army Reserve Chaplain, Rabbi Reuben Livingstone saying: ‘On behalf of the Armed Forces Jewish Community, I hand this Torah Scroll to you in dedication and safekeeping in the sacred memory of Lieutenant Paul Mervis and those of our community who gave their lives for Queen and country.’
I am standing together with a unique Jewish congregation. It is largely made up of Jewish serving members of the British armed forces at a dedication service in memory of Lt Paul Mervis, of Second Battalion, The Rifles, who died in an explosion in June 2009 while trying to protect his platoon during a foot patrol in Afghanistan’s Northern Helmand province. Paul’s family are seated in the front row of the assembly.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 January 2012 )
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