Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem

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Golders Green trust passing almost all its income to the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem

Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem

Logo Kol Torah Jerusalem 2006.jpg
Type Other
Founded 1967-03-17 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 314162
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Israel, Throughout England


Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem (also Friends of the Rabbinical College "Kol Tora" Jerusalem and Kol Tora) is a charitable trust constituted on 20 January 1967 and registered on 17 March 1967; register areas are Israel and England.[1][2] Its trustees are Michael Rosenthal and Gerald Lewin, with a principal office in London NW11; its independent examiner is Dov Harris FCA of Cohen Arnold (PDF p.3).[1][2] It "raises and remits funds for and to the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem": in 2025 donations were £146,893, total income £147,831 and grants to the college £150,035, leaving funds of £2,084 (PDF p.4, 6–7, 10).[1][2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "ASSISTANCE AND PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AT THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KOL TORA JERUSALEM, ISRAEL AND TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER AMONG THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND APPRECIATION OF THE WORK OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity raises and remits funds for and to the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem, Israel."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Gerald Lewin not recorded (Trust Property Held in Connexion With) Adath Yisroel Synagogue (207956); Mw (Cl) Foundation (1134917); The Ateres Mordechai Trust (1169095); The Edith and Manfred Lewin Memorial Fund (1076986); Zichron Mordechai and Devorah Weisz Foundation (1135746)
Michael Rosenthal 2013-09-09 Community Concern London (1091245); Friends of Sage Limited (1207847); Keren Shabbos (1205524); The Tmava C.i.o. (1214787)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-09-28 Gerald Lewin; Michael Neuberger [3]
2021-01-12 Michael Rosenthal (from 09 September 2013) – also trustee of Community Concern London; Gerald Lewin – also trustee of (Trust Property Held in Connexion With) Adath Yisroel Synagogue, The Theo Redcliffe Memorial Fund, Zichron Mordechai and Devorah Weisz Foundation, The Ateres Mordechai Trust, The Edith and Manfred Lewin Memorial Fund [4]

A separate charity, The Kol Torah Talmudical College (312916), was registered on 14 June 1967 and removed on 1 November 1993.[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £111,035 £110,878
2022-12-31 £59,583 £57,834
2023-12-31 £148,494 £144,656
2024-12-31 £163,058 £162,843
2025-12-31 £147,831 £151,835

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 31/12/2005[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2006[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2007[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2008[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2009[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2014[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[14]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants to the Rabbinical College Kol Torah Jerusalem £150,035 (2024: £161,043) (PDF p.10).[2]
  • Col-Reno Limited gave £4,750 to "Friends of Rabbinical College Kol Torah" in the year to 5 April 2026.[15]

Israeli partners

The Rabbinical College (yeshiva) Kol Torah, Jerusalem. A directory of Torah institutions lists Kol Torah at 32 Hapisga St., Jerusalem, under Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Shlesinger.[16]

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
The college is listed at 32 Hapisga St., Jerusalem; no activity beyond the Green Line is stated.[16][2] High

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;[17] 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.[18][19][20][21] 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.[22]
  • Pass-through. Almost all income is passed to a single Israeli yeshiva; the accounts report no related-party transactions (PDF p.10–11).[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).[23] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[24]

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.[25]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[26]

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.[27]

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.[28]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Rabbinical College Kol Tora", "Kol Tora" returned 0 contributions in total.[29]

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]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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 Charity Commission, Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem (314162): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 314162, contact and trustees (capture of 20110928) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 314162, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2005-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  6. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2006-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  7. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2007-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  8. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2008-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  9. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2009-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  10. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  11. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  12. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  13. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  14. ↑ Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Tora Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Col-Reno Limited (274896): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; accounts for the year ended 5 April 2026 downloaded 16 October 2026 (schedule of grants and donations, PDF p.11).
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Torah Index, Kol Torah torahindex.com, retrieved 16 October 2026 (institution directory entry: address "32 Hapisga St.", Jerusalem 9638206, Israel; head of institution Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Shlesinger).
  17. ↑ 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-15 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)"; The Kolel Limited showed "up to date (85 days late)" and Practical Compassion for Destitute Children "up to date (2 days late)"; Lionel Black Charitable Trust, Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad, Prayer for Israel (326132) and The Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust showed "Removed charity".
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  21. ↑ 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).
  22. ↑ 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").
  23. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-15 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  24. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-15 charity names returned no matching charity; the only result, for "Donkey", was an unrelated Belfast organisation).
  25. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Kol Tora' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  26. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-314162 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  27. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-15 screening covered 227 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the three charitable companies and of J. E. Joseph Trustee Company Limited, directors of the dissolved Friends of Horim company (01966551), and trustees, executive-committee members, 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 Hassan, Friedman, Cohen and Sabah) or the generic words "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  28. ↑ 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.
  29. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Kol Tora" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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