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Rob Rinder MBE hosts The Lakes School’s 60th anniversary celebration in Windermere, marking six decades since its founding on the historic Calgarth Estate - home to the “Windermere Children”. Credit: The Lakes School
November 10, 2025, 1:21 pm
Rob Rinder hosts 60th anniversary celebration at site of ‘Windermere Children’
Lake District School built on site where 300 child Holocaust survivors rebuilt their lives marks milestone with tribute to survivors and alumni
By Annabel Sinclair
August 22, 2023, 4:46 pm
Opinion: Climbing mountains and lake swimming: re-thinking rites of passage for Jewish youth
What started off as an idea whilst Sarah Sultman was sitting in shul 7 years ago has fast become an annual fixture for boys and girls wanting to mark their bar and bat mitzvahs with more than just a party.
By Sarah Sultman
Charedi boys being rescued on Helvellyn March 2020 (Credit: Stuart Holmes)
February 21, 2022, 3:47 pm
Jewish school fined £30,000 after emergency mountain rescue
Gateshead Cheder admitted “mistakes were made” over a field trip in March 2020, in which a group of 13 boys were left stranded up Helvellyn in the Lake District
The 2019 bnei mitzvah group just before their Snowdon climb
August 6, 2019, 3:20 pm
Rite of passage reaches new heights!
What began as a special way of marking a bar or bat mitzvah has now become the Bnei Mitzvah Charity Challenge, an annual hike that has raised £110,000 since it began in 2017
By David Legmann
The Boys at the 45 Aid Society Dinner. Credit: John Rifkin
May 7, 2019, 9:29 am
Shoah survivors reunited with RAF pilot 70 years after historic Prague rescue
16 surviving members of ‘The Boys’ were brought together with Norman Shepherd, the RAF serviceman who flew them to Britain in August 1945.
By Jewish News Reporter
Zigi Shipper, Gabi Rolfe and Abigail Mann at the Bushey United Synagogue button count earlier this month
July 25, 2018, 4:52 pm
Communities donate 200,000 buttons for Holocaust memorial
Communities in Bushey, Watford and Elstree and Hertsmere Jewish Primary School, Radlett, were collecting for B's Buttons
By Francine Wolfisz
More than 100 volunteers at Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue came together to count 200,000 buttons for B's Buttons
April 24, 2018, 11:45 am
Synagogue collects 200,000 buttons for Holocaust project
Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue volunteers held a count for B's Buttons, a project to create a memorial for the 1.5m Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
By Francine Wolfisz
B's Buttons is a project inspired by pupils at The Lakes School, Windermere, to create a memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
April 11, 2018, 6:04 pm
An idea as bright as six million buttons
Francine Wolfisz finds out about B's Buttons, a student project to create a memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Shoah
By Francine Wolfisz
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