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    Re: JC very exercised on Wiley Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on August 9, 2020, 5:43 pm, in reply to "Re: JC very exercised on Wiley"

    I see he was in Ireland before he succeeded Sacks and in the UK before that.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Mirvis

    See the section entitled 'Intervention in British Politics'.

    On the Google blurb for Sacks, this appears -

    'Office: Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2009.'

    He sits as a Crossbench peer having been given his peerage by Brown, the well known Zionist Israel supporter.

    Brown wrote:

    My hometown – where I grew up not long after your independence in 1948 – is the small industrial town of Kirkcaldy on the eastern coast of Scotland. Kirkcaldy is two thousand miles from Jerusalem — but for me they are closely linked. Not in their landscapes and certainly not their weather, but in the profound impact of your early statehood years on my childhood.

    My father was a Minister of the Church who learned Hebrew and had a deep and life long affection for Israel. For three decades he was a member of – and again and again Chairman of – the Church of Scotland’s Israel Committee. And he travelled back and forth to Israel twice every year, often more.
    http://www.ukpol.co.uk/gordon-brown-2008-speech-in-israel/

    I seem to remember Brown saying that his father took him to Israel when he was young.

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