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| region_served = England and Wales; France; Belgium; Israel; United States; the Netherlands; Switzerland | | region_served = England and Wales; France; Belgium; Israel; United States; the Netherlands; Switzerland | ||
| key_people = [[Jacob Schreiber]]<br />[[Rifka Niederman]]<br />[[Sarah Rosenfeld]]<br />[[Joel Kestenbaum]] | | key_people = [[Jacob Schreiber]]<br />[[Rifka Niederman]]<br />[[Sarah Rosenfeld]]<br />[[Joel Kestenbaum]] | ||
| − | | affiliations = [[The Schreib Trust]] (275240) | + | | affiliations = [[The Schreib Trust]] (275240); [[Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)]] |
}} | }} | ||
| + | '''Friends of WMSBG-Kolel Damesek Eliezer''' is an English charitable trust (Charity Commission number 1160938) registered on 17 March 2015. Its objects are the advancement of education, the prevention or relief of poverty, the promotion of the Orthodox Jewish religion, and any other purpose recognised as charitable under the law of England and Wales.<ref name="CC1160938">Charity Commission for England and Wales, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429 FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER - 1160938], retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref> | ||
| − | ''' | + | The name is the English friends-of vehicle for a ''kolel'' styled Damesek Eliezer. That title is the literary name of Rabbi Eliezer Hager (1891–1946), a son of the third Vizhnitz rebbe and a rebbe and rosh yeshiva in the [[Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)]].<ref name="TTHager">TorahTable, [https://torahtable.com/articles/parshas-re-eh-rav-eliezer-hager-damesek-eliezer-elul-2-5706-1946-78th-yahrzeit--b54d26b0-d972-4e4e-8069-d21a78b4bf9e Rav Eliezer Hager Damesek Eliezer], 31 August 2024.</ref> The Commission does not expand the initials WMSBG on the public register. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the seat of a Vizhnitz court, and a synagogue listed as Dmasek Eliezer is at 55 Harrison Avenue, Brooklyn.<ref name="GoKosher">GoKosher, [https://www.gokosher.com/en/u84072 Dmasek Eliezer, Williamsburg], 55 Harrison Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211.</ref> The register does not itself say that the trust funds that building. |
| − | The Commission records the charity’s principal way of furthering | + | The Commission records the charity’s principal way of furthering its objects as making grants. It does not own or lease land or property, has no trading subsidiaries, is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid, and pays no remuneration to trustees.<ref name="CCGov">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/governance FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Governance], retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref> |
| − | Two of its four trustees, [[Jacob Schreiber]] and [[Rifka Niederman]], are also trustees of [[The Schreib Trust]] (275240), the Stamford Hill grant-making charity linked to the [[Schreiber family]] property network at [[147 Stamford Hill]].<ref name="CCTrustees">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/trustees FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Trustees] | + | Two of its four trustees, [[Jacob Schreiber]] and [[Rifka Niederman]], are also trustees of [[The Schreib Trust]] (275240), the Stamford Hill grant-making charity linked to the [[Schreiber family]] property network at [[147 Stamford Hill]].<ref name="CCTrustees">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/trustees FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Trustees], retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref> |
| − | == | + | == The kolel and the Vizhnitz court == |
| + | Damesek Eliezer is not a separate hasidic court. It is the name of Rabbi Eliezer Hager of Vizhnitz, born 22 Shevat 5651 (1891) in Bedevilla, son of Rabbi Yisroel Hager, the Ahavas Yisroel, third Vizhnitz rebbe. He married Chava, daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Heschel of Kopychyntsi. In 1922 he was rabbi of Vyzhnytsia and head of a hasidic yeshiva for Bukovina and Bessarabia. After his father’s death in 1936 he was crowned rebbe. In 1940 he left Vyzhnytsia for Timișoara. He reached Tel Aviv in 1944, re-established the Vizhnitz yeshiva there, and died on 2 Elul 5706 (29 August 1946). He was buried on the Mount of Olives.<ref name="TTHager"/><ref name="FSHager">FamilySearch, [https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LD3L-2W2/rabbi-eliezer-hager-rosh-yeshiva-of-damesek-eliezer-1891-1946 Rabbi Eliezer Hager, rosh yeshiva of Damesek Eliezer], 31 January 1891 – 29 August 1946, son of Yisroel Hager of Vizhnitz.</ref> | ||
| − | + | His brother was Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, the Imrei Chaim, fourth Vizhnitz rebbe, whose sons’ courts include Bnei Brak and the American seats at Monsey, Kiamesha Lake and Williamsburg. Institutions in the dynasty have since carried the title Damesek Eliezer, including the yeshiva he refounded in Tel Aviv, later absorbed into the Bnei Brak settlement, and the kolel name used by this charity.<ref name="TTHager"/> The English trust’s objects include maintaining a synagogue and providing facilities for public worship, which is the Commission’s wording for the religious object, not a statement that a named Vizhnitz building is the grantee.<ref name="CC1160938"/> | |
| − | + | == Objects and classification == | |
| + | The Charity Commission classifies the trust under general charitable purposes, education and training, the prevention or relief of poverty, and religious activities. Recorded beneficiaries are children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities, and other charities or voluntary bodies. Help is given by grants to individuals and grants to organisations.<ref name="CCWhat">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/what-who-how-where FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – What, who, how, where], retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref> | ||
| − | + | Areas of operation listed on the register are England and Wales, France, Belgium, Israel, the United States, the Netherlands and Switzerland.<ref name="CCWhat"/> Named grantees are not listed on the Commission’s online summary. The trust deed is dated 12 March 2015.<ref name="CCGov"/> | |
== People == | == People == | ||
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=== Trustees === | === Trustees === | ||
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All four current trustees were appointed on 12 March 2015, five days before registration.<ref name="CCTrustees"/> | All four current trustees were appointed on 12 March 2015, five days before registration.<ref name="CCTrustees"/> | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
| − | ! Name | + | ! Name !! Role !! Date of appointment !! Other trusteeships |
| − | ! Role | ||
| − | ! Date of appointment | ||
| − | ! Other trusteeships | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | [[Jacob Schreiber]] | + | | [[Jacob Schreiber]] || Trustee || 12 March 2015 || [[The Schreib Trust]] |
| − | | Trustee | ||
| − | | 12 March 2015 | ||
| − | | [[The Schreib Trust]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | [[Rifka Niederman]] | + | | [[Rifka Niederman]] || Trustee || 12 March 2015 || [[The Schreib Trust]] |
| − | | Trustee | ||
| − | | 12 March 2015 | ||
| − | | [[The Schreib Trust]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | [[Sarah Rosenfeld]] | + | | [[Sarah Rosenfeld]] || Trustee || 12 March 2015 || None on this register extract |
| − | | Trustee | ||
| − | | 12 March 2015 | ||
| − | | None on | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | [[Joel Kestenbaum]] | + | | [[Joel Kestenbaum]] || Trustee || 12 March 2015 || None on this register extract |
| − | | Trustee | ||
| − | | 12 March 2015 | ||
| − | | None on | ||
|} | |} | ||
| − | [[Jacob Schreiber]] (Companies House date-of-birth band January 1974) is a Stamford Hill | + | [[Jacob Schreiber]] (Companies House date-of-birth band January 1974) is the Orgel-line son of [[David Schreiber]] and [[Miriam Schreiber]] (née [[Orgel]]), and a Stamford Hill director on the [[Midos Group]] stack at 147 Stamford Hill. [[Rifka Niederman]] is the working identity of Rifka Schreiber, born 1978, Westminster, mother’s maiden name Orgel, his sister.<ref name="GROOrgel">England & Wales Births 1837-2006: Jacob Schreiber 1974 Q1 Hampstead, mother’s maiden name Orgel; Rifka Schreiber 1978 Q4 Westminster, mother’s maiden name Orgel.</ref> A 1999 Hackney marriage index records Rifka Schreiber marrying [[Joel Niederman]].<ref name="MarrNiederman">England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005, Rifka Schreiber and Joel Niederman, 1999 Q1, Hackney, page 0215, entry 171.</ref> |
== Finances == | == Finances == | ||
| − | + | Year end 31 January. Headline figures as published on the Charity Commission register.<ref name="CCFin">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/financial-history FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Financial history], retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref> | |
| − | Year end 31 January. Headline figures as published on the Charity Commission register | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
| − | ! Year ended | + | ! Year ended !! Income !! Expenditure |
| − | ! Income | ||
| − | ! Expenditure | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2016 | + | | 31 January 2016 || £1,376,524 || £12,131 |
| − | | £1,376,524 | ||
| − | | £12,131 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2017 | + | | 31 January 2017 || £658,542 || £272,452 |
| − | | £658,542 | ||
| − | | £272,452 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2018 | + | | 31 January 2018 || £499,179 || £331,246 |
| − | | £499,179 | ||
| − | | £331,246 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2019 | + | | 31 January 2019 || £638,778 || £380,286 |
| − | | £638,778 | ||
| − | | £380,286 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2020 | + | | 31 January 2020 || £645,074 || £810,317 |
| − | | £645,074 | ||
| − | | £810,317 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2021 | + | | 31 January 2021 || £588,333 || £200,554 |
| − | | £588,333 | ||
| − | | £200,554 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2022 | + | | 31 January 2022 || £438,996 || £232,352 |
| − | | £438,996 | ||
| − | | £232,352 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2023 | + | | 31 January 2023 || £729,698 || £522,001 |
| − | | £729,698 | ||
| − | | £522,001 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2024 | + | | 31 January 2024 || £388,414 || £979,955 |
| − | | £388,414 | ||
| − | | £979,955 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| − | | 31 January 2025 | + | | 31 January 2025 || £414,245 || £609,151 |
| − | | £414,245 | ||
| − | | £609,151 | ||
|} | |} | ||
| − | Where the Commission publishes a Part B split, income has included both donations and investment income, and charitable expenditure has included grants to institutions. For the year ended 31 January 2021 donations and legacies were £383,950 and investment income £204,380; grants to institutions were £118,170. For the year ended 31 January 2023 donations and legacies were £594,120, investment income £135,580, and grants to institutions £439,280.<ref name="CCFin"/> | + | Where the Commission publishes a Part B split, income has included both donations and investment income, and charitable expenditure has included grants to institutions. For the year ended 31 January 2021 donations and legacies were £383,950 and investment income £204,380; grants to institutions were £118,170. For the year ended 31 January 2023 donations and legacies were £594,120, investment income £135,580, and grants to institutions £439,280.<ref name="CCFin"/> |
== Contact == | == Contact == | ||
| − | |||
* Address: Cohen Arnold, New Burlington House, 1075 Finchley Road, London NW11 0PU | * Address: Cohen Arnold, New Burlington House, 1075 Finchley Road, London NW11 0PU | ||
* Telephone: 020 8731 0777 | * Telephone: 020 8731 0777 | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
| − | + | * [[Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)]] | |
* [[The Schreib Trust]] | * [[The Schreib Trust]] | ||
* [[Schreiber family]] | * [[Schreiber family]] | ||
* [[Jacob Schreiber]] | * [[Jacob Schreiber]] | ||
* [[Rifka Niederman]] | * [[Rifka Niederman]] | ||
| − | * [[147 Stamford Hill | + | * [[David Schreiber]] |
| + | * [[147 Stamford Hill]] | ||
* [[Midos Group]] | * [[Midos Group]] | ||
| − | == | + | == External links == |
| + | * [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429 Charity Commission register, 1160938] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Notes== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
| + | [[Category:British Business People|Friends of WMSBG-Kolel Damesek Eliezer]] | ||
[[Category:Property/Land Companies and Interests]] | [[Category:Property/Land Companies and Interests]] | ||
| − | [[Category: | + | [[Category:London]] |
| + | [[Category:Jewish organisations in the UK]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:54, 6 October 2026
English charitable trust (no. 1160938) supporting a Vizhnitz kolel named for Rabbi Eliezer Hager, the Damesek Eliezer
| Friends of WMSBG-Kolel Damesek Eliezer | |
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| Type | Charitable trust |
| Logo | |
| Founded | |
| Founder(s) | |
| Dissolved | |
| Registration ID | 1160938 |
| Status | Registered charity (England and Wales) |
| Headquarters | Cohen Arnold, New Burlington House, 1075 Finchley Road, London NW11 0PU |
| Location | |
| Area served | |
| Services | |
| Registration | |
| Key people | Jacob Schreiber Rifka Niederman Sarah Rosenfeld Joel Kestenbaum |
| Website | |
| Remarks | |
Friends of WMSBG-Kolel Damesek Eliezer is an English charitable trust (Charity Commission number 1160938) registered on 17 March 2015. Its objects are the advancement of education, the prevention or relief of poverty, the promotion of the Orthodox Jewish religion, and any other purpose recognised as charitable under the law of England and Wales.[1]
The name is the English friends-of vehicle for a kolel styled Damesek Eliezer. That title is the literary name of Rabbi Eliezer Hager (1891–1946), a son of the third Vizhnitz rebbe and a rebbe and rosh yeshiva in the Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty).[2] The Commission does not expand the initials WMSBG on the public register. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the seat of a Vizhnitz court, and a synagogue listed as Dmasek Eliezer is at 55 Harrison Avenue, Brooklyn.[3] The register does not itself say that the trust funds that building.
The Commission records the charity’s principal way of furthering its objects as making grants. It does not own or lease land or property, has no trading subsidiaries, is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid, and pays no remuneration to trustees.[4]
Two of its four trustees, Jacob Schreiber and Rifka Niederman, are also trustees of The Schreib Trust (275240), the Stamford Hill grant-making charity linked to the Schreiber family property network at 147 Stamford Hill.[5]
The kolel and the Vizhnitz court
Damesek Eliezer is not a separate hasidic court. It is the name of Rabbi Eliezer Hager of Vizhnitz, born 22 Shevat 5651 (1891) in Bedevilla, son of Rabbi Yisroel Hager, the Ahavas Yisroel, third Vizhnitz rebbe. He married Chava, daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Heschel of Kopychyntsi. In 1922 he was rabbi of Vyzhnytsia and head of a hasidic yeshiva for Bukovina and Bessarabia. After his father’s death in 1936 he was crowned rebbe. In 1940 he left Vyzhnytsia for Timișoara. He reached Tel Aviv in 1944, re-established the Vizhnitz yeshiva there, and died on 2 Elul 5706 (29 August 1946). He was buried on the Mount of Olives.[2][6]
His brother was Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, the Imrei Chaim, fourth Vizhnitz rebbe, whose sons’ courts include Bnei Brak and the American seats at Monsey, Kiamesha Lake and Williamsburg. Institutions in the dynasty have since carried the title Damesek Eliezer, including the yeshiva he refounded in Tel Aviv, later absorbed into the Bnei Brak settlement, and the kolel name used by this charity.[2] The English trust’s objects include maintaining a synagogue and providing facilities for public worship, which is the Commission’s wording for the religious object, not a statement that a named Vizhnitz building is the grantee.[1]
Objects and classification
The Charity Commission classifies the trust under general charitable purposes, education and training, the prevention or relief of poverty, and religious activities. Recorded beneficiaries are children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities, and other charities or voluntary bodies. Help is given by grants to individuals and grants to organisations.[7]
Areas of operation listed on the register are England and Wales, France, Belgium, Israel, the United States, the Netherlands and Switzerland.[7] Named grantees are not listed on the Commission’s online summary. The trust deed is dated 12 March 2015.[4]
People
Trustees
All four current trustees were appointed on 12 March 2015, five days before registration.[5]
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Schreiber | Trustee | 12 March 2015 | The Schreib Trust |
| Rifka Niederman | Trustee | 12 March 2015 | The Schreib Trust |
| Sarah Rosenfeld | Trustee | 12 March 2015 | None on this register extract |
| Joel Kestenbaum | Trustee | 12 March 2015 | None on this register extract |
Jacob Schreiber (Companies House date-of-birth band January 1974) is the Orgel-line son of David Schreiber and Miriam Schreiber (née Orgel), and a Stamford Hill director on the Midos Group stack at 147 Stamford Hill. Rifka Niederman is the working identity of Rifka Schreiber, born 1978, Westminster, mother’s maiden name Orgel, his sister.[8] A 1999 Hackney marriage index records Rifka Schreiber marrying Joel Niederman.[9]
Finances
Year end 31 January. Headline figures as published on the Charity Commission register.[10]
| Year ended | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 31 January 2016 | £1,376,524 | £12,131 |
| 31 January 2017 | £658,542 | £272,452 |
| 31 January 2018 | £499,179 | £331,246 |
| 31 January 2019 | £638,778 | £380,286 |
| 31 January 2020 | £645,074 | £810,317 |
| 31 January 2021 | £588,333 | £200,554 |
| 31 January 2022 | £438,996 | £232,352 |
| 31 January 2023 | £729,698 | £522,001 |
| 31 January 2024 | £388,414 | £979,955 |
| 31 January 2025 | £414,245 | £609,151 |
Where the Commission publishes a Part B split, income has included both donations and investment income, and charitable expenditure has included grants to institutions. For the year ended 31 January 2021 donations and legacies were £383,950 and investment income £204,380; grants to institutions were £118,170. For the year ended 31 January 2023 donations and legacies were £594,120, investment income £135,580, and grants to institutions £439,280.[10]
Contact
- Address: Cohen Arnold, New Burlington House, 1075 Finchley Road, London NW11 0PU
- Telephone: 020 8731 0777
See also
- Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)
- The Schreib Trust
- Schreiber family
- Jacob Schreiber
- Rifka Niederman
- David Schreiber
- 147 Stamford Hill
- Midos Group
External links
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charity Commission for England and Wales, FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER - 1160938, retrieved 15 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 TorahTable, Rav Eliezer Hager Damesek Eliezer, 31 August 2024.
- ↑ GoKosher, Dmasek Eliezer, Williamsburg, 55 Harrison Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Charity Commission, FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Governance, retrieved 15 September 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Charity Commission, FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Trustees, retrieved 15 September 2026.
- ↑ FamilySearch, Rabbi Eliezer Hager, rosh yeshiva of Damesek Eliezer, 31 January 1891 – 29 August 1946, son of Yisroel Hager of Vizhnitz.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Charity Commission, FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – What, who, how, where, retrieved 15 September 2026.
- ↑ England & Wales Births 1837-2006: Jacob Schreiber 1974 Q1 Hampstead, mother’s maiden name Orgel; Rifka Schreiber 1978 Q4 Westminster, mother’s maiden name Orgel.
- ↑ England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005, Rifka Schreiber and Joel Niederman, 1999 Q1, Hackney, page 0215, entry 171.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Charity Commission, FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Financial history, retrieved 15 September 2026.