Halacha Lemoshe Trust

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Stein family trust in Hendon passing all its donations to the Halacha Lemoshe college in Israel

Halacha Lemoshe Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1990-11-01 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1000728
Headquarters London NW4
Area served Throughout England, Israel


Halacha Lemoshe Trust was established by a trust deed of 23 June 1989 and registered on 1 November 1990; register areas are England and Israel.[1][2] Its trustees are Naomi Stein (from 5 June 2016) and Efraim Stein (from 11 September 2023), with a principal address in London NW4; the independent examiner is RDP Newmans LLP of Harrow (PDF p.2).[1][2] Its objects are the advancement of Orthodox Judaism, and in particular it assists the Talmudical College "Halacha Lemoshe" and other institutions in Israel, through "a dedicated committee working in a purely voluntary capacity" (PDF p.4). In the year to 23 June 2025 donations were £125,346 (2024: £106,356), grants £125,500 (2024: £103,000) and total spending £127,432, leaving net liabilities of £2,957 (2024: £871) (PDF p.8–9).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "ADVANCING ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND OF PROMOTING THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION IN GENERAL IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR BY ASSISTING THE TALMUDICAL COLLEGE KNOWN AS "HALACHA LEMOSHE" AND SUCH OTHER ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Advancing of orthodox jewish religion and of promoting orthodox jewish religion in general and in particular the talmudical college known as Halacha Lemoshe."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Halacha Lemoshe Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Naomi Stein 2016-06-05 —
Efraim Stein 2023-09-11 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-09-26 Benjamin Conway; Rom; Aron Gerber [3]
2021-01-07 Naomi Stein (from 05 June 2016) [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-06-23 £58,152 £58,379
2022-06-23 £50,857 £46,778
2023-06-23 £70,845 £77,350
2024-06-23 £106,356 £103,000
2025-06-23 £125,346 £127,432

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 23/06/2006[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 23/06/2007[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 23/06/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 23/06/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 23/06/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants to "Halacha Lemoshe in Israel" £125,500 (2024: £103,000) (PDF p.12).[2]

Israeli partners

The Talmudical College "Halacha Lemoshe" in Israel; the accounts give no address, and no address for it was established (PDF p.4, 12).[2]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place in Israel is named for the college (PDF p.4, 12).[2] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[10] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[11][12][13][14] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[15]
  • Late filing; grants above income. The register shows the latest accounts as received 8 days late; grants exceeded donations, deepening the deficit from £871 to £2,957 (PDF p.8–9).[10][2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[20]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Halacha Lemoshe" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Halacha Lemoshe Trust (1000728): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1000728, contact and trustees (capture of 20110926) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1000728, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Halacha Lemoshe Trust accounts, year ended 2006-06-23 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110926).
  6. ↑ Halacha Lemoshe Trust accounts, year ended 2007-06-23 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110926).
  7. ↑ Halacha Lemoshe Trust accounts, year ended 2016-06-23 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Halacha Lemoshe Trust accounts, year ended 2017-06-23 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ Halacha Lemoshe Trust accounts, year ended 2018-06-23 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Halacha Lemoshe' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1000728 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Halacha Lemoshe" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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