Thursday, March 28th | 18 Adar II 5784
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Marie van der Zyl is the second woman to be elected as president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a post she assumed in June 2018. The granddaughter of Rabbi Werner van der Zyl of the West London Synagogue, she graduated in law from Liverpool John Moores University. She became a deputy is 2012 and was elected vice president of the Board in 2015. In the past three years, van der Zyl has played a crucial part in the fight against antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, as well as against the so-called “cab-rank” policy, by which the Inner North London Coroner delayed the release of bodies to Jewish families – a policy ruled to be discriminatory by the British High Court. (Photo: Screenshot.)
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