New Dame In Time For Panto Season
Chanukah may be behind us, but there were some belated gifts for members of the Jewish community this week when the New Years Honours List was announced.
Topping the bill in the gong show was the former head of BBC radio Jenny Abramsky. The 62-year-old, who left the corporation in June to assume the role as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, has been made a dame in recognition of her services to broadcasting.
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She added: "Radio is an astonishing medium that people feel passionate about and I'm proud to have played a part in ensuring that it continues to thrive."
Also honoured is Stanley Cundle who picked up an MBE for services to the Jewish community in Leeds. It's the second accolade for the Alwoodley resident in three months.
In October, the 69-year-old who is chair of the Makor charitable trust, the Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival and vice chair of the Zone youth club, as well as a former head of the Leeds Community Security Trust, was given the first ever Leeds award for services to the city.
Staying in Leeds, there was another MBE in the list for Auschwitz survivor Arek Hersh. A regular speaker at the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, all proceeds from his book A Detail of History are donated to the facility.
Lauderdale Road Synagogue member Jenny Arwas, meanwhile, was also awarded an MBE for charitable services. A member of the London Council of the Prince's Trust, a non-executive director of Employment Opportunities, which helps to find work for people with disabilities and medical conditions and a supporter of the Chickenshed theatre company, the mother-of-two said: "I am very honoured to be awarded an MBE. It was a complete surprise."
Among others honoured were Marilyn Lazarus who was awarded an MBE for voluntary service to the Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill, Gerry Ells for services to tennis, Charlotte Michaels for voluntary service to the community in North London, Captain Samson Judah honoured for services to business and to the community in the East Riding region of Yorkshire and Bernard Lewis of Buckinghamshire for charitable services.
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