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{{short description|'''London charitable trust, registered in 1985, set up to support the Mosdos Sanz schools and institutions'''}}
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{{Infobox organization
| name = Friends of Mosdos Sanz of Safad
| type = Charitable trust
| registration_id = Registered charity 292396
| founded = {{Start date|1985|08|20}} (registered)
| headquarters = 23 Elmcroft Avenue, London NW11 0RS
| area_served = Israel
| revenue = £10,316 (year to 30 April 2026)
}}
'''Friends of Mosdos Sanz of Safad''' is a charitable trust on the register of the [[Charity Commission for England and Wales]] (charity number 292396). Its objects include supporting the Mosdos Sanz schools, educational institutions and welfare activities, and it reports that it supports Sanz schools and educational institutions in Israel.<ref name="CC" /> This ties it by name and objects to the [[Sanz-Klausenburg (Hasidic dynasty)|Sanz-Klausenburg]] dynasty, whose institutions in [[Safed]] are listed by the historian Tzvi Rabinowicz.<ref name="Rabinowicz67" />

== Registration ==
The charity was registered on 20 August 1985 and is governed by a declaration of trust dated 9 April 1985. Its registered address is 23 Elmcroft Avenue, London NW11 0RS. It is recognised by HMRC for gift aid, and its reporting is up to date.<ref name="CC" />

== Objects and activities ==
The objects are to advance education in, and the religion of, the Orthodox Jewish faith, and to support the Mosdos Sanz schools, educational institutions and welfare activities in general.<ref name="CC" />

In its latest return the charity says that during the year it advanced money to Mosdos Sanz schools and educational institutions in Israel. The register classes its work as general charitable purposes, relief of poverty and religious activities. It makes grants to organisations for children and young people and for people of a particular ethnic or racial origin, and it operates in Israel. It reports three trustees and one volunteer.<ref name="CC" />

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and spending (Charity Commission register)
! Year ending !! Income !! Spending
|-
| 30 April 2022 || £17.62k || £20.08k
|-
| 30 April 2023 || £17.45k || £15.24k
|-
| 30 April 2024 || £17.78k || £21.83k
|-
| 30 April 2025 || £16.69k || £16.65k
|-
| 30 April 2026 || £10,316 || £10,030
|}<ref name="CC" />

== Trustees ==
The register lists three trustees:<ref name="CC" />
* [[Philip Feldman]], appointed on 20 February 2012, with no other trusteeships on record.
* [[Barry Bodner]], who is also a trustee of [[Toiba Esther Trust]] (290687), [[North West London Chevra Kadisha]] (1041909) and [[The Grove Charitable Trust]] (279110).
* Rabbi D. Halpern, who is also a trustee of the [[Jewish Rescue & Relief Committee of Agudas Israel World Organisation]] (1120311), [[British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem]] (299010), [[Kolel Pardes Trust]] (1085850) and [[Torah Centre Tshebin Association]] (1070421). The register shows the British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem as overdue with its reporting by 1,703 days.

== Shared address ==
Toiba Esther Trust and The Grove Charitable Trust, both with Barry Bodner as a trustee, give the same address, 23 Elmcroft Avenue, London NW11 0RS. Toiba Esther Trust also gives the same telephone number.<ref name="CC" /><ref name="CCToiba" /><ref name="CCGrove" />

== Dynasty link ==
The link to [[Sanz-Klausenburg (Hasidic dynasty)|Sanz-Klausenburg]] rests on the charity's name and on its registered objects, which name the Mosdos Sanz (Sanz institutions).<ref name="CC" /> Rabinowicz lists Safed among the Israeli towns with Sanz institutions, alongside [[Bnei Brak]], [[Petah Tikva]] and [[Tiberias]].<ref name="Rabinowicz67" /> The register does not name the rebbe or say which Sanz institutions in Israel received the money.

== See also ==
* [[Sanz-Klausenburg (Hasidic dynasty)]]
* [[Friends of Sanz Institutions]]
* [[Toiba Esther Trust]]
* [[The Grove Charitable Trust]]

== Notes ==
<references>
<ref name="CCToiba">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/290687/full-print TOIBA ESTHER TRUST – 290687: full print] ''Charity Commission for England and Wales'', accessed 28 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="CCGrove">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/279110/full-print THE GROVE CHARITABLE TRUST – 279110: full print] ''Charity Commission for England and Wales'', accessed 28 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="Rabinowicz67">Tzvi Rabinowicz, [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0765760681 Hasidism in Israel: A History of the Hasidic Movement], Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 2000, p. 67.</ref>
<ref name="CC">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/292396/full-print FRIENDS OF MOSDOS SANZ OF SAFAD – 292396: full print] ''Charity Commission for England and Wales'', accessed 28 October 2026.</ref>
</references>

[[Category:Charities in England and Wales]]
[[Category:Orthodox Jewish charities]]
[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Hasidic Judaism in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Israel]]

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