British Friends of Or Chadash
UK grant-making charity (1002594) for Or Chadash institutions in Israel
| British Friends of Or Chadash | |
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| Type | Registered charity |
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| Registration ID | 1002594 |
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| Location | 2 De Walden Court, 85 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6XD |
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| Key people | Rabbi Chesky Vahab (chair) |
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British Friends of Or Chadash is an England-and-Wales registered charity (no. 1002594), registered 18 April 1991. Objects: to aid, relieve or assist in the relief of need among Jewish children and in particular Jewish children living in Israel; to advance among such children the Jewish religion, its practices, traditions and culture; and to further their education as the trustees determine. It makes grants to organisations and states that it operates in Israel.[1][2]
What it funds
The Israeli counterpart named in public listings is the Or Chadash Institutions in Jerusalem (or-chadash.com): preschool, primary, high school and a kollel (Beit Midrash “Torat Shimon Michael Sellam”), founded 1995, two campuses, 750+ pupils. The site describes a combined Torah and secular curriculum and a kollel training community rabbis recognised by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. That is Jerusalem municipal Israel, not a named West Bank settlement.[3]
Rabbi Chesky Vahab’s contact on UK aggregator cards is rabbichesky@ocf.org.il. ZoomInfo lists an Or Chadash Foundation at 10 Yitshak Epstein St, Netanya (Sharon), with Vahab as founder/director — a second Israel vehicle, also inside the Green Line, not a settlement.[1][4]
Occupied territories
No. Commission and TotalGiving both list the area of operation as Israel only. The named schools are Jerusalem (and a Netanya foundation email). No current public beneficiary list places Or Chadash in Dolev, Ariel, Ma'ale Adumim or another settlement. Do not treat this charity as a settlement funder on present filings.
Benjamin Eliezer Perl is separately a trustee of British Friends of Ariel (296269), which funds institutions in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. That is a different charity. Overlap of a trustee is not proof that Friends of Or Chadash itself remits to Ariel.[5]
IDF
No sourced IDF programme was found for British Friends of Or Chadash or for the Jerusalem Or Chadash schools. Leket-style IDF meal-rescue, Friends of the IDF, or settlement-security kits do not appear on this file. Do not write that it “supports the IDF”.
Trustees
Giving is Great (Commission extract) listed three trustees: Rabbi Chesky Vahab (chair); Clive Rayden (also The Rayden Charitable Trust); Eli Shalom Moses (appointed 2023).[1]
Working list supplied for this page also names Benjamin Eliezer Perl MBE. If he has left the Commission card, keep him in “also associated / former” until the live trustee tab is checked.
Perl’s other recorded trusteeships (user list; verify on each Commission card):
- Beis Yaakov Primary School Foundation
- British Friends Of Hala Jerusalem Comprehensive Breast Center
- The Huntingdon Foundation Limited
- Yavneh Foundation Trust
- British Friends Of Lilmod Velaasos College (“BFLCC”)
- B E Perl Charitable Trust
- British Friends Of Ariel
Funding
Named donor on the working list: Loftus Charitable Trust (297664), a grant-maker whose objects are Jewish religion, Jewish education and relief of the Jewish poor. Loftus does not itself list “operates in Israel” on its Commission where-it-operates line (England and Wales); a grant to Friends of Or Chadash would be the Israel step.[6]
Giving is Great recorded very small recent years on this charity (examples on that extract: year to 5 April 2022 income about £71k / spend £76k). Pull the Commission financial-history table before publishing a five-year grid.[1]
Contact
- 2 De Walden Court
- 85 New Cavendish Street
- London W1W 6XD
- 020 7612 1240
- rabbichesky@ocf.org.il (GiG)
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 British Friends Of Or Chadash, Giving is Great / Charity Commission extract, 1002594.
- ↑ British Friends Of Or Chadash, TotalGiving.
- ↑ Or Chadash Institutions.
- ↑ Or Chadash Foundation, ZoomInfo.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs nameduser - ↑ LOFTUS CHARITABLE TRUST, Charity Commission, 297664.