Good to see the Board of Deputies take the issue of interfaith dialogue seriously with the appointment of an interfaith officer.
News release on the appointment of Miriam Kaye can be found at JewishPRBlog, but in announcing it, Board chief executive Jon Benjamin said: "The need for the sound channels of communication within the wide spectrum of faiths in the UK is evident. These contacts should not be confined to high level delegations, but extended to day to day contacts at all levels to explain who we are and what matters to us as a community.”
Also, Miriam seems to have a decent track record having been involved with Muslim-Jewish women's dialogue in Cambridge as well as interning at the Home Office looking at Muslim-Jewish relations on campus.
All, we now need to see from the Board is better dialogue within its own community and much more openness in what it does.
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