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Richard Verber 10/05/2013
Shavuot commemorates the Children of Israel receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai after 40 years of wandering around in the spiritual and physical wilder...
Administrator 23/04/2013
Thoughts from the finishing line. We hear from 2 of our fantastic marathon runners on their experiences running 26 miles to raise money for WJR. We ar...
Richard Verber 22/03/2013
When I was younger, my favourite part of the Pesach seder was reading about the 10 plagues. 
Richard Verber 13/03/2013
2013 is going to be an important year for UK overseas aid spending. Decades after it was first mooted, the UK government appears to be on the verge of...
Richard Verber 08/03/2013
Today is International Women's Day. In this blog, Hadassah Wachsmann, WJR's Programmes Officer, focuses on how women's economic empowerment lifts wome...
Richard Verber 26/02/2013
When I was younger, I would fight with my brother about almost everything: whose turn it was to play on the computer, what to watch on television and ...
Josh Simons 10/10/2012
Back in August we reported on the ongoing crisis in West and Central Africa. Here, our Programming Manger, Josh Simons, updates us on the cu...
Richard Verber 25/09/2012
Yom Kippur is a weird one.
Richard Verber 10/08/2012
With the Olympic Games dominating our television screens and newspapers it’s easy to have missed the worsening of an ongoing crisis in West and ...
Richard Verber 06/08/2012
Most people asked me the same thing on my return from Ukraine. “Did you have a good time?” before the swift realisation that this was not...