https://powerbase.info/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=David&feedformat=atomPowerbase - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T11:29:47ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.5https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262538Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-19T10:19:39Z<p>David: /* Directors of the company */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph Foundation]] was a interfaith organisation set up in 1997.<br />
<br />
It was registered as a company (Company number 06441502)between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; and dissolution date: 20 January 2009. It was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> According to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus Foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
According to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]] in 2006:<br />
<br />
:Stone Ashdown has supported the development of [[Alif-Aleph]] (AAUK) through grants and strategic planning and fundraising. The website contains a calendar of events, you can download reports and publications and sign up for newsletters and membership. The newsletter is produced fortnightly, includes articles of interest to membership, with updates on activities of AAUK and of affiliate organisations and individuals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20091109063525/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=17&Itemid=37</ref><br />
<br />
===Visit to a Mosque, 1998===<br />
:[[Regent’s Park Mosque]] in London has recently hosted its first official Jewish visitors. Members of the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]] visited the centre’s library, listened to a talk by the mosque’s education officer, and watched the afternoon prayers. The Foundation is part of the work of the [[Maimonides Foundation]], a charity set up to promote dialogue between Muslims, Christians and Jews. The Maimonides founding chairman, Dr [[David Khalili]] said: "Unless you learn about the roots of each other’s religion, you have a problem" (Jewish Chronicle, 25.09.98). <ref>[https://artsweb.cal.bham.ac.uk/bmms/1998/10October98.html BMMS October 1998 Vol. VI, No. 10, p. 11]</ref><br />
===Mapping report, 2005===<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. <br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard John Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
<br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members, Circa 2005=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20111009153010/http://www.stoneashdown.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=41<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Uniting_Britain_Charitable_Trust&diff=262537Uniting Britain Charitable Trust2024-03-19T10:13:58Z<p>David: /* See also */</p>
<hr />
<div>(Charity number 1063484)<br />
<br />
==People==<br />
===Trustees Circa 2010===<br />
*Dr [[Richard Stone]] | [[Rokhsana Fiaz]] appointed 30 June 2009 | [[Lakhbir Bhandal]] | [[Selina Ullah]] | [[Jeremy Crook]]<ref>https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100717055530/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&ReportType=COLOUR</ref><ref>https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03376712/officers</ref><br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Maimonides Foundation]]<br />
*[[Alif-Aleph Foundation]]<br />
*[[Stone Ashdown Trust]]<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Stone_Ashdown&diff=262536Stone Ashdown2024-03-19T10:12:45Z<p>David: Redirected page to Stone Ashdown Trust</p>
<hr />
<div>#redirect[[Stone Ashdown Trust]]</div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262535Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-19T10:12:11Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph Foundation]] was a interfaith organisation set up in 1997.<br />
<br />
It was registered as a company (Company number 06441502)between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; and dissolution date: 20 January 2009. It was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> According to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus Foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
According to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]] in 2006:<br />
<br />
:Stone Ashdown has supported the development of [[Alif-Aleph]] (AAUK) through grants and strategic planning and fundraising. The website contains a calendar of events, you can download reports and publications and sign up for newsletters and membership. The newsletter is produced fortnightly, includes articles of interest to membership, with updates on activities of AAUK and of affiliate organisations and individuals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20091109063525/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=17&Itemid=37</ref><br />
<br />
===Visit to a Mosque, 1998===<br />
:[[Regent’s Park Mosque]] in London has recently hosted its first official Jewish visitors. Members of the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]] visited the centre’s library, listened to a talk by the mosque’s education officer, and watched the afternoon prayers. The Foundation is part of the work of the [[Maimonides Foundation]], a charity set up to promote dialogue between Muslims, Christians and Jews. The Maimonides founding chairman, Dr [[David Khalili]] said: "Unless you learn about the roots of each other’s religion, you have a problem" (Jewish Chronicle, 25.09.98). <ref>[https://artsweb.cal.bham.ac.uk/bmms/1998/10October98.html BMMS October 1998 Vol. VI, No. 10, p. 11]</ref><br />
===Mapping report, 2005===<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. <br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members, Circa 2005=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20111009153010/http://www.stoneashdown.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=41<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Uniting_Britain_Charitable_Trust&diff=262534Uniting Britain Charitable Trust2024-03-19T10:08:31Z<p>David: /* People */</p>
<hr />
<div>(Charity number 1063484)<br />
<br />
==People==<br />
===Trustees Circa 2010===<br />
*Dr [[Richard Stone]] | [[Rokhsana Fiaz]] appointed 30 June 2009 | [[Lakhbir Bhandal]] | [[Selina Ullah]] | [[Jeremy Crook]]<ref>https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100717055530/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&ReportType=COLOUR</ref><ref>https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03376712/officers</ref><br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Maimonides Foundation]]<br />
*[[Alif-Aleph Foundation]]<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262533Richard Stone2024-03-18T18:31:19Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
:Stone was born in London. His father, [[Joseph Ellis Stone|Joseph Stone]], one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became [[Harold Wilson]]’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of [[Sidney Bernstein]], the founder of Granada Television.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/richard-stone-obituary</ref><br />
<br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262532Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-18T17:23:07Z<p>David: /* Affiliations */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]], circa 2005.<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* Chair of Trustees of [[Uniting Britain Trust]] appointed 30 June 2009.<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
*https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2012/05/we-need-muslim-jewish-unity-against-far-right<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Uniting_Britain_Charitable_Trust&diff=262531Uniting Britain Charitable Trust2024-03-18T17:22:12Z<p>David: /* Trustees Circa 2010 */</p>
<hr />
<div>(Charity number 1063484)<br />
<br />
==People==<br />
===Trustees Circa 2010===<br />
*Dr [[Richard Stone]] | [[Rokhsana Fiaz]] appointed 30 June 2009 | [[Lakhbir Bhandal]] | [[Selina Ullah]] | [[Jeremy Crook]]<ref>https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100717055530/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&ReportType=COLOUR</ref><ref>https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03376712/officers</ref><br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262530Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-18T17:20:48Z<p>David: /* Affiliations */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]], circa 2005.<br />
<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
* Chair of Trustees of [[Uniting Britain Trust]] appointed 30 June 2009.<br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
*https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2012/05/we-need-muslim-jewish-unity-against-far-right<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Uniting_Britain_Charitable_Trust&diff=262529Uniting Britain Charitable Trust2024-03-18T17:20:26Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>(Charity number 1063484)<br />
<br />
==People==<br />
===Trustees Circa 2010===<br />
*Dr [[Richard Stone]] | [[Rokhsana Fiaz]] appointed 30 June 2009 | [[Lakhbir Bhandal]] | [[Selina Ullah]] | [[Jeremy Crook]]<ref>https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100717055530/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&ReportType=COLOUR</ref><br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262528Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-18T17:13:06Z<p>David: /* Affiliations */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]], circa 2005.<br />
<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
* Chair of Trustees of [[Uniting Britain Trust]] Circa 2010<br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
*https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2012/05/we-need-muslim-jewish-unity-against-far-right<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262526Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T17:12:25Z<p>David: David moved page Alif-Aleph UK to Alif-Aleph Foundation</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph Foundation]] was a interfaith organisation set up in 1997.<br />
<br />
It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> The Maimonides foundation was, according to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
However, according to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]] in 2006:<br />
<br />
:Stone Ashdown has supported the development of [[Alif-Aleph]] (AAUK) through grants and strategic planning and fundraising. The website contains a calendar of events, you can download reports and publications and sign up for newsletters and membership. The newsletter is produced fortnightly, includes articles of interest to membership, with updates on activities of AAUK and of affiliate organisations and individuals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20091109063525/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=17&Itemid=37</ref><br />
<br />
===Visit to a Mosque, 1998===<br />
:[[Regent’s Park Mosque]] in London has recently hosted its first official Jewish visitors. Members of the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]] visited the centre’s library, listened to a talk by the mosque’s education officer, and watched the afternoon prayers. The Foundation is part of the work of the [[Maimonides Foundation]], a charity set up to promote dialogue between Muslims, Christians and Jews. The Maimonides founding chairman, Dr [[David Khalili]] said: "Unless you learn about the roots of each other’s religion, you have a problem" (Jewish Chronicle, 25.09.98). <ref>[https://artsweb.cal.bham.ac.uk/bmms/1998/10October98.html BMMS October 1998 Vol. VI, No. 10, p. 11]</ref><br />
===Mapping report, 2005===<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. <br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members, Circa 2005=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20111009153010/http://www.stoneashdown.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=41<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_UK&diff=262527Alif-Aleph UK2024-03-18T17:12:25Z<p>David: David moved page Alif-Aleph UK to Alif-Aleph Foundation</p>
<hr />
<div>#REDIRECT [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]]</div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Maimonides_Foundation&diff=262525Maimonides Foundation2024-03-18T17:12:04Z<p>David: /* History */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1989, as a reaction to the Rushdie affair, the [[Calamus Foundation]] was set up in the UK by [[Mohammed Risaluddin|Mohammed]] and [[Saba Risaluddin]]. This Muslim charity developed activities intended to improve the image of Islam in the UK, which had deteriorated considerably due to the Rushdie Affair. While its initial focus was Muslim-Christian dialogue, later it also turned its attention to Jewish-Muslim dialogue. The Jewish counterpart of Calamus is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the reform branch of Judaism. Together with the Calamus Foundation, during the 1990s this group organised dinners four times a year at which substantive themes of interest to Jews and Muslims alike were discussed. The two foundations also developed other Jewish-Muslim initiatives. In 1994, for example, Saba Risaluddin and Richard Stone cowrote an article for The Guardian warning of the rise of Islamophobia in the UK. In 1997 Maimonides initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’, and in 1999 it set up a long-term Interfaith Football Programme for Muslim and Jewish children in partnership with [[Arsenal Football Club]]. 53 54 In 1998 the Calamus Maimonides Student Forum was formed with the aim of promoting dialogue between Jewish and Muslim students.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
<br />
*[[Rokhsana Fiaz]], Chief Executive, April 2013-2017<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262524Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T17:11:12Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph Foundation]] was a interfaith organisation set up in 1997.<br />
<br />
It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> The Maimonides foundation was, according to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
However, according to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]] in 2006:<br />
<br />
:Stone Ashdown has supported the development of [[Alif-Aleph]] (AAUK) through grants and strategic planning and fundraising. The website contains a calendar of events, you can download reports and publications and sign up for newsletters and membership. The newsletter is produced fortnightly, includes articles of interest to membership, with updates on activities of AAUK and of affiliate organisations and individuals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20091109063525/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=17&Itemid=37</ref><br />
<br />
===Visit to a Mosque, 1998===<br />
:[[Regent’s Park Mosque]] in London has recently hosted its first official Jewish visitors. Members of the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]] visited the centre’s library, listened to a talk by the mosque’s education officer, and watched the afternoon prayers. The Foundation is part of the work of the [[Maimonides Foundation]], a charity set up to promote dialogue between Muslims, Christians and Jews. The Maimonides founding chairman, Dr [[David Khalili]] said: "Unless you learn about the roots of each other’s religion, you have a problem" (Jewish Chronicle, 25.09.98). <ref>[https://artsweb.cal.bham.ac.uk/bmms/1998/10October98.html BMMS October 1998 Vol. VI, No. 10, p. 11]</ref><br />
===Mapping report, 2005===<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. <br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members, Circa 2005=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20111009153010/http://www.stoneashdown.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=41<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262523Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T16:50:32Z<p>David: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> The Maimonides foundation was, according to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
However, according to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]] in 2006:<br />
<br />
:Stone Ashdown has supported the development of [[Alif-Aleph]] (AAUK) through grants and strategic planning and fundraising. The website contains a calendar of events, you can download reports and publications and sign up for newsletters and membership. The newsletter is produced fortnightly, includes articles of interest to membership, with updates on activities of AAUK and of affiliate organisations and individuals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20091109063525/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=17&Itemid=37</ref><br />
<br />
==Mapping report==<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. <br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members, Circa 2005=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20111009153010/http://www.stoneashdown.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=41<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262522Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T16:48:38Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> The Maimonides foundation was, according to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
However, according to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]] in 2006:<br />
<br />
:Stone Ashdown has supported the development of [[Alif-Aleph]] (AAUK) through grants and strategic planning and fundraising. The website contains a calendar of events, you can download reports and publications and sign up for newsletters and membership. The newsletter is produced fortnightly, includes articles of interest to membership, with updates on activities of AAUK and of affiliate organisations and individuals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20091109063525/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=17&Itemid=37</ref><br />
<br />
==Mapping report==<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. <br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members, Circa 2005=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Stone_Ashdown_Trust&diff=262521Stone Ashdown Trust2024-03-18T16:47:39Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>Stone Ashdown Trust (U.K.) (1968–2010)<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
:Total Giving: £50,000,000<ref>http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/61315/meet-communitys-%C2%A350-million-benefactor</ref><br />
<br />
:Prominent Grants: Primarily to support Jewish causes, including establishing the London School of Jewish Studies. Also worked on humanitarian causes, such as providing internet connections and satellite phones in Cambodia.<br />
<br />
:Summary: Sir [[Joseph Ellis Stone]] was an officer in the British army and a medical doctor, most notably to Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]]. Upon his death in 1986, the [[Lord Stone Trust]] was founded. This was merged with the [[Lord Ashdown Charitable Settlement]] to form the [[Stone Ashdown Trust]]. The Trust primarily supported Jewish causes, including funding efforts to build partnerships between the Jewish and Muslim communities in Britain. In 2009 the Trust was closed following a structured five-year spend-down period.<ref>https://cspcs.sanford.duke.edu/cspcs-publication/stone-ashdown-trust-u-k-1968-2010/</ref><br />
<br />
In 2005 the Trust provided support services for [[Alif-Aleph UK]] including providing its contact email address.<ref>[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.</ref><br />
<br />
==Alif Aleph==<br />
According to Stone Ashdown in 2006:<br />
<br />
:Stone Ashdown has supported the development of [[Alif-Aleph]] (AAUK) through grants and strategic planning and fundraising. The website contains a calendar of events, you can download reports and publications and sign up for newsletters and membership. The newsletter is produced fortnightly, includes articles of interest to membership, with updates on activities of AAUK and of affiliate organisations and individuals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20091109063525/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=17&Itemid=37</ref><br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20091109170930/http://www.stoneashdown.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=28<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Stone_Ashdown_Trust&diff=262520Stone Ashdown Trust2024-03-18T16:40:36Z<p>David: Created page with "Stone Ashdown Trust (U.K.) (1968–2010) :Total Giving: £50,000,000<ref>http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/61315/meet-communitys-%C2%A350-million-benefactor</re..."</p>
<hr />
<div>Stone Ashdown Trust (U.K.) (1968–2010)<br />
<br />
:Total Giving: £50,000,000<ref>http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/61315/meet-communitys-%C2%A350-million-benefactor</ref><br />
<br />
:Prominent Grants: Primarily to support Jewish causes, including establishing the London School of Jewish Studies. Also worked on humanitarian causes, such as providing internet connections and satellite phones in Cambodia.<br />
<br />
:Summary: Sir [[Joseph Ellis Stone]] was an officer in the British army and a medical doctor, most notably to Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]]. Upon his death in 1986, the [[Lord Stone Trust]] was founded. This was merged with the [[Lord Ashdown Charitable Settlement]] to form the [[Stone Ashdown Trust]]. The Trust primarily supported Jewish causes, including funding efforts to build partnerships between the Jewish and Muslim communities in Britain. In 2009 the Trust was closed following a structured five-year spend-down period.<ref>https://cspcs.sanford.duke.edu/cspcs-publication/stone-ashdown-trust-u-k-1968-2010/</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262519Richard Stone2024-03-18T16:38:34Z<p>David: /* See also */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
:Stone was born in London. His father, [[Joseph Ellis Stone|Joseph Stone]], one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became [[Harold Wilson]]’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of [[Sidney Bernstein]], the founder of Granada Television.<ref name="Obit">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/richard-stone-obituary</ref><br />
<br />
:Stone was a member and later chair of the Runnymede Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. Its 1997 report was credited with introducing the term “Islamophobia” into discussion of the issue and promoting understanding of Muslims in the UK. He had the role with the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] of establishing relationships with other faiths and was the president of the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]]. Using those links, in 2003 he founded [[Alif-Aleph]] – the first letters of the alphabet in Hebrew and Arabic – the manifesto of which proclaimed that “we have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures”.<br />
<br />
:Its key document, ''A Mapping Report of Positive Contacts between British Muslims and British Jews'', became a template in 2007 for a similar project in the European Union.<br />
<br />
:He became an honorary fellow of the [[Cambridge Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations]], which was set up in 2007 as a partner to the [[Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations]].<ref name="Obit"/><br />
<br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Stone Ashdown Trust]]<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262518Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T16:36:18Z<p>David: /* Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> The Maimonides foundation was, according to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
However, according to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]]<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. <br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members, Circa 2005=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262517Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T16:34:57Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> The Maimonides foundation was, according to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
However, according to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]]<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. <br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262516Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T16:34:37Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> The Maimonides foundation was, according to the same source: 'The Jewish counterpart of [[Calamus foundation|Calamus]] is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the [[Reform Judaism|reform branch of Judaism]].'<br />
<br />
However, according to the website of [[Stone Ashdown]]<br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. Alif-Aleph was suppoorted by the [[Stone Ashdown <br />
<br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262515Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T16:31:46Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). <br />
<br />
According to some sources 'In 1997 [[Maimonides Foundation|Maimonides]] initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref> The Maimonides foundation was, according to the same source <br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref> Alif-Aleph was suppoorted by the [[Stone Ashdown <br />
<br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262514Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T16:30:06Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was registered as a company between incorporation date: 30 November 2007; dissolution date: 20 January 2009(Company number 06441502). <br />
<br />
According to some sources <br />
<br />
Alif-Aleph produced a mapping report in 2005 which was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK.<br />
<br />
The report was commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref> Alif-Aleph was suppoorted by the [[Stone Ashdown <br />
<br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors of the company===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Maimonides_Foundation&diff=262513Maimonides Foundation2024-03-18T16:20:44Z<p>David: /* History */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1989, as a reaction to the Rushdie affair, the [[Calamus Foundation]] was set up in the UK by [[Mohammed Risaluddin|Mohammed]] and [[Saba Risaluddin]]. This Muslim charity developed activities intended to improve the image of Islam in the UK, which had deteriorated considerably due to the Rushdie Affair. While its initial focus was Muslim-Christian dialogue, later it also turned its attention to Jewish-Muslim dialogue. The Jewish counterpart of Calamus is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the reform branch of Judaism. Together with the Calamus Foundation, during the 1990s this group organised dinners four times a year at which substantive themes of interest to Jews and Muslims alike were discussed. The two foundations also developed other Jewish-Muslim initiatives. In 1994, for example, Saba Risaluddin and Richard Stone cowrote an article for The Guardian warning of the rise of Islamophobia in the UK. In 1997 Maimonides initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’, and in 1999 it set up a long-term Interfaith Football Programme for Muslim and Jewish children in partnership with [[Arsenal Football Club]]. 53 54 In 1998 the Calamus Maimonides Student Forum was formed with the aim of promoting dialogue between Jewish and Muslim students.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
===Maimonides Foundation===<br />
:In 1989, as a reaction to the Rushdie affair, the [[Calamus Foundation]] was set up in the UK by [[Mohammed Risaluddin|Mohammed]] and [[Saba Risaluddin]]. This Muslim charity developed activities intended to improve the image of Islam in the UK, which had deteriorated considerably due to the Rushdie Affair. While its initial focus was Muslim-Christian dialogue, later it also turned its attention to Jewish-Muslim dialogue. The Jewish counterpart of Calamus is the [[Maimonides Foundation]], established in 1985 by [[Richard Stone]], [[Greville Janner]] MP, and Rabbi [[Hugo Gryn]], all members of the reform branch of Judaism. Together with the Calamus Foundation, during the 1990s this group organised dinners four times a year at which substantive themes of interest to Jews and Muslims alike were discussed. The two foundations also developed other Jewish-Muslim initiatives. In 1994, for example, Saba Risaluddin and Richard Stone cowrote an article for The Guardian warning of the rise of Islamophobia in the UK. In 1997 Maimonides initiated the [[Alif-Aleph Foundation]], intended as a forum ‘for businesspeople of both faiths’, and in 1999 it set up a long-term Interfaith Football Programme for Muslim and Jewish children in partnership with [[Arsenal Football Club]]. 53 54 In 1998 the Calamus Maimonides Student Forum was formed with the aim of promoting dialogue between Jewish and Muslim students.<ref>https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/120011380/9781003331643_webpdf.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
<br />
*[[Rokhsana Fiaz]], Chief Executive, April 2013-2017<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262512Richard Stone2024-03-18T16:19:34Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
:Stone was born in London. His father, [[Joseph Ellis Stone|Joseph Stone]], one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became [[Harold Wilson]]’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of [[Sidney Bernstein]], the founder of Granada Television.<ref name="Obit">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/richard-stone-obituary</ref><br />
<br />
:Stone was a member and later chair of the Runnymede Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. Its 1997 report was credited with introducing the term “Islamophobia” into discussion of the issue and promoting understanding of Muslims in the UK. He had the role with the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] of establishing relationships with other faiths and was the president of the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]]. Using those links, in 2003 he founded [[Alif-Aleph]] – the first letters of the alphabet in Hebrew and Arabic – the manifesto of which proclaimed that “we have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures”.<br />
<br />
:Its key document, ''A Mapping Report of Positive Contacts between British Muslims and British Jews'', became a template in 2007 for a similar project in the European Union.<br />
<br />
:He became an honorary fellow of the [[Cambridge Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations]], which was set up in 2007 as a partner to the [[Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations]].<ref name="Obit"/><br />
<br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Stone Ashdown Charitable Trust]]<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262511Richard Stone2024-03-18T16:16:52Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
:Stone was born in London. His father, [[Joseph Ellis Stone|Joseph Stone]], one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became [[Harold Wilson]]’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of [[Sidney Bernstein]], the founder of Granada Television.<ref name="Obit">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/richard-stone-obituary</ref><br />
<br />
:Stone was a member and later chair of the Runnymede Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. Its 1997 report was credited with introducing the term “Islamophobia” into discussion of the issue and promoting understanding of Muslims in the UK. He had the role with the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] of establishing relationships with other faiths and was the president of the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]]. Using those links, in 2003 he founded [[Alif-Aleph]] – the first letters of the alphabet in Hebrew and Arabic – the manifesto of which proclaimed that “we have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures”.<br />
<br />
:Its key document, ''A Mapping Report of Positive Contacts between British Muslims and British Jews'', became a template in 2007 for a similar project in the European Union.<br />
<br />
:He became an honorary fellow of the [[Cambridge Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations]], which was set up in 2007 as a partner to the [[Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations]].<ref name="Obit"/><br />
<br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262510Richard Stone2024-03-18T16:16:38Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
:Stone was born in London. His father, [[Joseph Ellis Stone|Joseph Stone]], one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became [[Harold Wilson]]’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of [[Sidney Bernstein]], the founder of Granada Television.<ref name="Obit">>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/richard-stone-obituary</ref><br />
<br />
:Stone was a member and later chair of the Runnymede Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. Its 1997 report was credited with introducing the term “Islamophobia” into discussion of the issue and promoting understanding of Muslims in the UK. He had the role with the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] of establishing relationships with other faiths and was the president of the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]]. Using those links, in 2003 he founded [[Alif-Aleph]] – the first letters of the alphabet in Hebrew and Arabic – the manifesto of which proclaimed that “we have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures”.<br />
<br />
:Its key document, ''A Mapping Report of Positive Contacts between British Muslims and British Jews'', became a template in 2007 for a similar project in the European Union.<br />
<br />
:He became an honorary fellow of the [[Cambridge Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations]], which was set up in 2007 as a partner to the [[Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations]].<ref name="Obit"/><br />
<br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262509Richard Stone2024-03-18T16:16:12Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
:Stone was born in London. His father, [[Joseph Ellis Stone|Joseph Stone]], one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became [[Harold Wilson]]’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of [[Sidney Bernstein]], the founder of Granada Television.<ref name="Obit">>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/richard-stone-obituary</ref><br />
<br />
:Stone was a member and later chair of the Runnymede Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. Its 1997 report was credited with introducing the term “Islamophobia” into discussion of the issue and promoting understanding of Muslims in the UK. He had the role with the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] of establishing relationships with other faiths and was the president of the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]]. Using those links, in 2003 he founded [[Alif-Aleph]] – the first letters of the alphabet in Hebrew and Arabic – the manifesto of which proclaimed that “we have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures”.<br />
<br />
:Its key document, ''A Mapping Report of Positive Contacts between British Muslims and British Jews'', became a template in 2007 for a similar project in the European Union.<br />
<br />
:He became an honorary fellow of the [[Cambridge Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations]], which was set up in 2007 as a partner to the [[Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations]].<ref name="Obit"/><br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262508Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-18T16:14:29Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] (Company number 06441502) was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK. Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref> Alif-Aleph was suppoorted by the [[Stone Ashdown <br />
<br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262507Richard Stone2024-03-18T16:12:20Z<p>David: </p>
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<div><br />
<br />
:Stone was born in London. His father, [[Joseph Ellis Stone|Joseph Stone]], one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became [[Harold Wilson]]’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of [[Sidney Bernstein]], the founder of Granada Television.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/richard-stone-obituary</ref><br />
<br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262506Richard Stone2024-03-18T15:18:49Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
:Stone was born in London. His father, [[Joseph Ellis Stone|Joseph Stone]], one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became Harold Wilson’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of Sidney Bernstein, the founder of Granada Television.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/richard-stone-obituary</ref><br />
<br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262505Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-18T10:24:29Z<p>David: /* Affiliations */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]]<br />
<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
* Chair of Trustees of [[Uniting Britain Trust]] Circa 2010<br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
*https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2012/05/we-need-muslim-jewish-unity-against-far-right<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Uniting_Britain_Charitable_Trust&diff=262504Uniting Britain Charitable Trust2024-03-18T10:22:10Z<p>David: </p>
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<div>(Charity number 1063484)<br />
<br />
==People==<br />
===Trustees Circa 2010===<br />
*Dr [[Richard Stone]] | [[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Lakhbir Bhandal]] | [[Selina Ullah]] | [[Jeremy Crook]]<ref>https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100717055530/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&ReportType=COLOUR</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Uniting_Britain_Charitable_Trust&diff=262502Uniting Britain Charitable Trust2024-03-18T10:21:47Z<p>David: David moved page Uniting Britain Trust to Uniting Britain Charitable Trust</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
==People==<br />
===Trustees Circa 2010===<br />
*Dr [[Richard Stone]] | [[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Lakhbir Bhandal]] | [[Selina Ullah]] | [[Jeremy Crook]]<ref>https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100717055530/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&ReportType=COLOUR</ref><br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Uniting_Britain_Trust&diff=262503Uniting Britain Trust2024-03-18T10:21:47Z<p>David: David moved page Uniting Britain Trust to Uniting Britain Charitable Trust</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Uniting Britain Charitable Trust]]</div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262501Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-18T10:20:31Z<p>David: /* Affiliations */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]]<br />
* Chair of Trustees of [[Uniting Britain Trust]] Circa 2010<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
*https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2012/05/we-need-muslim-jewish-unity-against-far-right<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262500Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-18T10:19:25Z<p>David: /* Affiliations */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]]<br />
* Chair of Trustees of [[Uniting Britain Trust]]. Circa 2010<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
*https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2012/05/we-need-muslim-jewish-unity-against-far-right<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262499Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-18T10:19:04Z<p>David: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]]<br />
* Chair of Trustees of [[Uniting Britain Trust]].<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
*https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2012/05/we-need-muslim-jewish-unity-against-far-right<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Jeremy_Crook&diff=262498Jeremy Crook2024-03-18T10:06:00Z<p>David: Created page with " *https://arelive.wpenginepowered.com/?page_id=339"</p>
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<div><br />
<br />
*https://arelive.wpenginepowered.com/?page_id=339</div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Uniting_Britain_Charitable_Trust&diff=262497Uniting Britain Charitable Trust2024-03-15T14:40:37Z<p>David: Created page with " ==People== ===Trustees Circa 2010=== *Dr Richard Stone | Rokhsana Fiaz | Lakhbir Bhandal | Selina Ullah | Jeremy Crook<ref>https://webarchive.nationalarch..."</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
==People==<br />
===Trustees Circa 2010===<br />
*Dr [[Richard Stone]] | [[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Lakhbir Bhandal]] | [[Selina Ullah]] | [[Jeremy Crook]]<ref>https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100717055530/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&ReportType=COLOUR</ref><br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262496Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-15T14:26:36Z<p>David: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] (Company number 06441502) was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK. Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262495Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-15T14:23:58Z<p>David: /* Staff */</p>
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<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK. Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Alif-Aleph UK Steering Group Members=== <br />
[[Maqsood Ahmad]] [[Solma Ahmed]] [[Zaki Badawi]] [[Shareefa Fulat]] [[Clive Gabay]] [[Paul Gross]] [[Taj Hussain]] [[Nadeem Kazmi]] [[Roheema Miah]] [[Donna Sherrington]] [[Richard Stone]]<br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262494Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-15T14:18:33Z<p>David: /* People */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK. Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
===Staff===<br />
[[Luciana Berger]], [[Clive Gabay]] and [[Donna Sherrington]]<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Alif-Aleph_Foundation&diff=262493Alif-Aleph Foundation2024-03-15T14:16:58Z<p>David: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Alif Aleph UK]] was an interfaith organisation set up by [[Richard Stone]] in 2003. It was a project of the [[Uniting Britain Trust]]<ref>[[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) Claire Berliner and Urmee Khan(Second stage). Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]]. Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] [https://tandis.odihr.pl/retrieve/22386 A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] Alif-Aleph UK. Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005</ref> a registered Charity (No. 1063484) created in 1997 and removed from the Charity register in 2017.<ref>Charity commission [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063484&SubsidiaryNumber=0 1063484 - UNITING BRITAIN CHARITABLE TRUST]</ref>. It launched a manifesto in 2004. It was registered at Companies House in 2007, and was dissolved by voluntary strike off in January 2009. <ref name="company">Companies List [https://www.companieslist.co.uk/06441502-alif-aleph-uk-limited Alif-Aleph UK Ltd]. accessed 19 January 2020</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
==Manifesto==<br />
The manifesto was launched in 2004. It is reproduced in full here.<br />
<br />
:We are British Muslims and British Jews who aim together to build creative partnerships in the UK.<br />
<br />
:We live here. We belong here.<br />
<br />
:We are not going away.<br />
<br />
:We have every reason to work creatively together to the benefit of our own communities, and to spread the example of joint working to the other communities who inhabit these islands.<br />
<br />
:We wish to build on the positive contributions both of our communities have already made to British society, culture and business.<br />
<br />
:We find ourselves living side by side in a country where we are both minorities, and both significant contributors to society. This provides new opportunities for us to draw on our positive histories together to contribute to social cohesion in Britain.<br />
<br />
:We have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures, leading to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reality that confounds these mistaken stereotypes is that our religions have more in common with each other than with other religions. We have very similar cultural traditions rooted in the religious commonality.<br />
<br />
:We both come from traditions of the Book, traditions that are literate, inquiring and remarkably tolerant of differing and minority views when debating and analysing our Texts.<br />
<br />
:We regret the divisive effects of the Israel/Palestine conflict spilling over from abroad. Alif-Aleph UK aims to build on mutual understandings of the natural sympathies we each have in that conflict, and then move beyond that discussion working jointly for mutual benefit in this country.<br />
<br />
:We recognise that those who wish to find reasons for our two communities not to meet are driven to import from abroad their reasons for division and hostility. Even those external negative reasons are undermined by the amazing number of projects in the Middle East where Jews and Palestinians are maintaining and developing joint activities in the face of political drives toward division and separation.<br />
<br />
:We sign this Manifesto to demonstrate our commitment to the ideas in it and encourage others to join us.<br />
<br />
:We welcome people who are neither Muslims nor Jews to sign the Manifesto to be Associates, as a token of their support for what we are doing, and for the help that they can give us.<br />
<br />
:We anticipate that this manifesto can be adapted as a responsible basis of a later Manifesto not just for British Muslims and British Jews, but also inclusive of all communities and individuals who live in the UK.<ref>[http://hurryupharry.org/2005/06/03/alif-aleph/Alif-Aleph Alif-Aleph], ''Harry's Place'', 3 June 2005</ref><br />
<br />
==People==<br />
[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] From 2005/6, he was Co-Chair<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c5e84e5274a7ee501a812/0347.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Directors===<br />
*[[Oliver Lovat|OLIVER LEONARD LOVAT]] Secretary, PROPERTY MANAGER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Richard Varley|RICHARD JOHN VARLEY]] Director, POLICE OFFICER, 2007.11.30 - 2009.01.20<br />
*[[Salman Siddiqui|SALMAN SIDDIQUI]] Director, ACCOUNTANT, 2007.11.30 - 2008.05.28<ref name="company"/><br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf<br />
===Publications===<br />
*[https://www.tandis.odihr.pl/bitstream/20.500.12389/19432/1/01662.pdf A Mapping Report of Positive Contact Between British Muslims and British Jews] By [[Fiona Hurst]] and [[Mohammed Nisar]] (First stage) [[Claire Berliner]] and [[Urmee Khan]] (Second stage) Supervised by [[Dilwar Hussain]] and Dr [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] Edited by [[Rebecca Sharkey]] Commissioned and published by The [[Uniting Britain Trust]] July 2005.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Stone&diff=262492Richard Stone2024-03-15T14:14:09Z<p>David: Created page with " :Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stok..."</p>
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<div><br />
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<br />
:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]].<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262491Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-15T14:09:01Z<p>David: /* Affiliations */</p>
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<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]]<br />
* Chair of Trustees of [[Uniting Britain Trust]].<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rokhsana_Fiaz&diff=262490Rokhsana Fiaz2024-03-15T14:07:36Z<p>David: /* Affiliations */</p>
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<div>[[Rokhsana Fiaz]] was elected as the Mayor of Newham in May 2018. Prior to this, she was a councillor for Custom House Ward from 2014.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
*[[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] | [[Brookings Institute]] | [[The City Circle]] | [[Muslim Policy Forum]] | former member of the UK government’s [[Department of Work and Pensions]] [[Ethnic Minority in Employment advisory group]]<ref name="bio">The Change Institute [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622150124/http://www.changeinstitute.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=51 Team], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 22 June 2009 on 15 January 2020.</ref> | <br />
<br />
* [[Alif-Aleph UK]]<br />
* [[National Muslim Women's Advisory Group]] (Nov 2007- May 2010) <br />
* [[The Change Institute]] (2006-2010) <br />
* [[European Network of Experts on Radicalisation]] (2008-10)<br />
* [[European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism]], advisory board (2009 - )<ref>LEON SYMONS, New chair for anti-racist think tank The Jewish Chronicle. 20 March 2009.</ref><br />
* executive director of the [[Coexistence Trust]] (2010-2013)<ref>Rachel Shabi, Look who's talking, ''New Statesman'' 28 May 2012.</ref><br />
* appointed to the post of Chief Executive of the [[Maimonides Foundation]]/[[Khalili Foundation]] in April 2013 and led the charity’s growth over the subsequent period prior to her departure in September 2017.<ref>Maimonides Foundation [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628020815/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/about-us/chief-executive/ Chief Executive]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627155202/http://maimonides-foundation.org/patrons.html</ref><br />
*[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant - December 2010-March 2011<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20200924233931/http://www.maimonides-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MIF_RF-BIOG_FINAL_080214_RF.pdf<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references/></div>Davidhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Contextualising_Islam_in_Britain_II_project&diff=262489Contextualising Islam in Britain II project2024-03-15T14:07:01Z<p>David: </p>
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<div>Contextualising Islam in Britain II project was a series of four symposia, held between December 2010 – March 2011, convened by the [[Prince AlWaleed bin Talal bin Centre for Islamic Studies]] at [[Cambridge University]] led by [[Yasir Suleiman]] and funded by the [[Department for Communities and Local Government]].<ref>https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/contextualising-islam-in-britain-phase-ii/</ref><br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
===Participants (including Steering Committee)===<br />
[[Mohammed Abdul-Aziz]] | [[Abdelwahab El-Affendi]] | [[Akeela Ahmed]] | [[Muhammed Ahmed]] | [[Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed]] | [[Tahir Alam]] | [[Abu Muntasir Manwar Ali]] | [[Anas Altikriti]] | [[Nosheela Ashiq]] | [[Qari Asim]] | [[Ahab Bdaiwi]] | [[Yahya Birt ]] | [[Fozia Bora]] | [[Mahmood Chandia]] | [[Maurice Coles]] | [[Suma Din]] | [[Mustafa Kasim Erol]] | [[Rokhsana Fiaz]] | [[Ramon Nicolas Harvey]] | [[Jeremy Henzell-Thomas]] (Report compiler)] | [[Dilwar Hussain]] | [[Musharraf Hussain]] | [[Mohammed Imran]] | [[Ahmed Izzidien]] | [[Shainool Jiwa]] | [[Humera Khan]] | [[Sabira Lakha]] | [[Michele Messaoudi]] | [[Jing Min]] | [[Ibrahim Mogra]] | [[Ghulam Moyhuddin]] | [[Fiyaz Mughal]] | [[Michael Mumisa]] | [[Mukhtar Osman]] | [[Imranali Panjwani]] | [[Sajjad Rizvi]] | [[Abdullah Sahin]] | [[Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali]] | [[Julie Siddiqui]] | [[Shahla Suleiman]] | [[Yasir Suleiman]] (Project leader and chair) | [[Shahien Taj]] | [[Erica Timoney]] | [[Batool Al-Toma]] | [[Mushfiq Uddin]] | [[Shereen Williams]] | [[Farah Zeb]]<ref name="report">[https://web.archive.org/web/20140323044028/http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/assets/media/cib2-complete-report.pdf CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN BRITAIN] Project Leader Professor Yasir Suleiman Director, [[HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies]], Cambridge UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE in Association with the UNIVERSITIES OF EXEtER AND WESTMINSTER January 2012.</ref><br />
<br />
===Secretariat===<br />
[[Saeko Yazaki]]<ref name="report"/><br />
<br />
==Publications==<br />
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140323044028/http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/assets/media/cib2-complete-report.pdf CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN BRITAIN] Project Leader Professor Yasir Suleiman Director, [[HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies]], Cambridge UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE in Association with the UNIVERSITIES OF EXEtER AND WESTMINSTER January 2012.<br />
==Notes== <br />
<references/></div>David