Catch22 - UK Jewish Lobby, Binyam Torture, Jewish Courts, Lists of British Jews(HUGE)

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The U.S. has warned its relationship with Britain has been harmed by the court ruling that revealed Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed was tortured at the behest of American authorities.

The White House expressed dismay after the Government lost its bid to suppress the documents which showed MI5 knew about the treatment of Mohamed.

It declared that it was 'deeply disappointed' by the ruling and warned it would make intelligence sharing with Britain more difficult.

Spokesman Ben LaBolt said: 'We shared this information in confidence and with certain expectations. As we warned, the court's judgment will complicate the confidentiality of our intelligence-sharing relationship with the UK, and it will have to factor into our decision-making going forward.'

In Washington, a statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, said the ruling was 'not helpful'.

It said: 'The protection of confidential information is essential to strong, effective security and intelligence cooperation among allies.

'The decision by a United Kingdom court to release classified information provided by the US is not helpful, and we deeply regret it.'

On a day of high drama yesterday, it emerged the Government had tried to suppress a senior judge's verdict that Britain colluded in torture.

The Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, effectively accused MI5 of complicity in torture and having a culture of disregarding human rights.

The explosive disclosure was a serious blow to Foreign Secretary David Miliband on a day of high drama.

It began when the Foreign Office was yesterday forced to publish evidence which he had battled to suppress through the courts, showing that MI5 knew the British Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed had been tortured at the behest of the U.S. authorities.



MPs said that the revelations had left a 'stain' on Britain's reputation in the world.

The country's three most senior judges rejected an attempt by Mr Miliband to stop publication of seven paragraphs of intelligence supplied to the British authorities by the CIA.

These detailed evidence of MI5's knowledge that Mohamed had been tortured after he was detained in Pakistan in 2002.
Jonathan Sumption QC

Foreign Office lawyer Jonathan Sumption QC

The Appeal Court judges flatly rejected Mr Miliband's claim that releasing the material - which they said showed Mohamed had suffered 'cruel, inhuman and degrading' treatment - would damage relations with the U.S.

But within hours of the bombshell verdict being delivered, it emerged that one of the judges, Lord Neuberger, had gone even further in his original draft of the judgment.

After being handed a copy earlier this week, the QC for Mr Miliband, Jonathan Sumption, wrote to the court demanding that the judge's verdict should not be included as MI5 had not had the opportunity to respond to the allegations.

The paragraph - known as 168 - was duly removed. But it leaked into the public domain yesterday afternoon when Mr Sumption's letter to the judges was inadvertently made available to the court.

The letter detailed how Lord Neuberger had made observations about the previous 'form' of MI5. Mr Sumption complained that these remarks would 'receive more public attention than any other parts of the judgment'.

They included a finding that MI5 did not respect human rights or renounce 'coercive interrogation techniques'.

The letter also shows that the judge originally ruled MI5 officers had 'deliberately misled' a Parliamentary inquiry into the torture allegations which have dogged the security services and Government in recent years.

The security services were accused of having a ' culture of suppression', Mr Sumption's letter said.

It was also revealed that the letter had been sent to Lord Neuberger at 6pm on Monday, two hours after the deadline for submissions and corrections.

Lawyers for the other side did not receive a copy of the letter until 11am the next morning, preventing them from challenging the proposed changes.

Mr Miliband has always insisted the UK does not condone or participate in torture. This is despite a number of terror suspects, including Mohamed, claiming brutal treatment.

Former shadow home secretary David Davis said of Mr Miliband's attempts to suppress the judge's remarks: 'What this shows is that the Foreign Secretary is still trying to perpetrate a cover-up of improper behaviour by Government agencies in collusion with torture. We need to know how it happened and how far up it went.'
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The Foreign Secretary yesterday refused to answer questions about whether more cases of alleged British collusion in torture are being considered.

But government sources said that about 15 cases were under consideration. One MI5 officer, known only as Witness B, who questioned Mohamed, is under investigation by Scotland Yard over alleged collusion.

Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve, said: 'The paragraphs revealed are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to British complicity in torture - much more is to come.

'The judges have shown that our government's attempts to hide shameful secrets behind "national security" arguments are misguided and doomed to fail.'

Amid demands for a full public inquiry, legal experts said it was astonishing that the Foreign Office had sought to water down the judge's ruling.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: 'I have never known the draft judgment process abused in this way. It shows the kind of contempt for the law this case has always been about.'

Lord Neuberger said he might have been 'over-hasty' in removing the findings and gave other parties involved in the case - including Mohamed's lawyers - until tomorrow to argue why paragraph 168 should be reinstated.

Mr Miliband, forced to make a statement in the Commons after the verdict, defended the attempt to have the paragraph removed.

He said: 'What our counsel did was to express real concern that one paragraph set out conclusions that went beyond the evidence concluded and risked causing prejudice to a criminal investigation.'

Mr Miliband said he had spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the case, which was being 'followed carefully at the highest levels in the U.S. system with a great deal of concern'.

Whitehall sources insisted it had been right to fight the case, not to cover up the information but to safeguard the principle that intelligence information shared between allied countries must be kept confidential at all costs.

Senior Labour backbencher David Winnick said the suggestion of complicity in torture left a 'stain' on Britain's reputation.

'While ministers - perhaps in all sincerity, we do not know - were saying that we do not condone torture in any way, torture was taking place and we as a country closed our eyes to it.'

Even without the revelation that he had tried to suppress part of the verdict, yesterday's ruling was a hammer blow to Mr Miliband.

The Appeal judges upheld a High Court decision last year that the seven-paragraph summary of information held by the British security services about Mohamed's treatment should be published.

They said the case raised issues of 'fundamental importance' of 'democratic accountability and ultimately the rule of law itself'.

Mr Miliband faces huge questions about whether the security services were happy to benefit from information obtained through torture or - crucially - informed ministers it was happening.

Ministers have refused to publish the rules governing MI5 at the time, or say what their obligations were to ensure suspects were not tortured.
Medieval barbarity of the torture squad

By any measure, the treatment meted out to Binyam Mohamed was medieval in its barbarity.

Shackled in total blackness in the CIA's 'dark prison' in Kabul, he was forced to listen to ear-splitting music 24 hours a day for a month.

In Morocco he was hung from walls and ceilings and repeatedly beaten, His penis and chest were sliced with a scalpel and hot, stinging liquid poured into the open wounds.

They cut all over my private parts,' he wrote in his diary. 'One of them said it would be better just to cut it off, as I would only breed terrorists.'

Ethiopian-born Mohamed, now 31, arrived in London in 1994 as a schoolboy seeking asylum. He was refused refugee status but granted exceptional leave to remain in 2000.

He studied electrical and electronic engineering and got a job as a caretaker. He also converted to Islam and attended a mosque frequented by radical Muslims.

In 2001 he went to Afghanistan. He said he had experimented with drugs, heroin and crack cocaine, and went there to get away from a 'bad crowd', kick the habit and see if the Taliban had produced a good Muslim country.

The U.S. alleged that he received paramilitary training at an Al Qaeda training camp, fought for the Taliban and plotted to detonate a radioactive 'dirty bomb' in America.

It claimed he was cherry-picked by Al Qaeda because of his UK residency, and received firearms and explosives training alongside British shoe bomber Richard Reid.

Mohamed denies all the allegations and says that he confessed to anything his torturers wanted him to say.

In April 2002 he was arrested at Karachi as he tried to board a London-bound flight. His photograph had been inserted into another man's genuine British passport.

During his detention in Pakistan, he said, he was questioned by an MI5 officer who called himself John.

Mohamed said the officer knew he had already been tortured numerous times after his capture.

In July 2002 Mohamed was flown - trussed, gagged, blindfolded and wearing a giant nappy - from Islamabad to Rabat in Morocco.

For the next 18 months he suffered torture including the genital mutilation. He says it was here that questions from MI5 were channelled by his Moroccan interrogators. 'It was obvious the British were feeding them questions about people in London.'

Mohamed says that under torture he told his interrogators that 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed had given him the false British passport and that he had met Osama Bin Laden 30 times. 'None of it was true.'

In January 2004 Mohamed was ' rendered' by the CIA to Afghanistan and the infamous 'dark prison' where he said he came closest to losing his mind.'

He arrived in September at Guantanamo, and the next year was charged with conspiracy to plan terror attacks but all charges were dropped in 2008. Mohamed was allowed to fly to Britain last February.

Supporters say he has married in the last couple of months and is 'very healthy looking and happy'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neub ... Abbotsbury

Neuberger was born on 10 January 1948, the son of Professor Albert Neuberger,[1] Professor of Chemical Pathology at St Mary's Hospital, University of London, and his wife, Lilian(sic). His uncle was the noted rabbi, Herman N. Neuberger. All three of his brothers are now professors: James is Professor of Medicine at the University of Birmingham, Michael is Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Cambridge, while Anthony is Professor in Finance at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.[2] Anthony's wife is the rabbi, Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger.

In 1976, Neuberger married Angela Holdsworth, the TV producer and writer. They have three children, Jessica, Nicholas and Max, who are all solicitors.[3] He has been Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Spoliation of Art during the Holocaust since 1999, and of the Schizophrenia Trust since 2003.

He was educated at the independent Westminster School in the precincts of Westminster Abbey, and studied Chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford.[1][3] Upon graduation, he worked at the merchant bank, N M Rothschild & Sons, from 1970-1973.[1][4]

his uncle......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_N._Neuberger

He took part in the rescue of Persian Jewry. In 1975 the Shah was still in power in Iran and although the country was secular, Jews had very few rights and were not allowed to study Torah. Rabbi Neuberger brought a small group of Iranian youngsters to the Yeshiva with the intent that they would go back to Iran after receiving their Rabbinnical degrees to become educators. Before the plan began to bear fruit, it was 1979 and the Ayatollas took command stripping Persian Jews of any rights and dignity that remained. Through a series of connections, Rabbi Neuberger worked to help over 60,000 Jews escape from Iran in an operation still in effect today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Neub ... _Neuberger

Neuberger was Britain's second female rabbi after Jackie Tabick, and the first to have her own synagogue. She was rabbi of the South London Liberal Synagogue from 1977 to 1989 and is President of West Central Liberal Synagogue. She has been president of the Liberal Judaism movement since January 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Judge,_Baron_Judge

Judge was born in Malta to Raymond and Rosa Judge (née Micallef).

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In 1982 she was created "Cavaliere del Umanita" from the International Society of Cavalleria Cristiana and in 1993 she was invested a Marchesa of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1996 the Republic of France named her a Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1996 she was named as a Dame of the Military Hospitaller of Jerusalem

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Jewish Lobby UK and Beyond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPP_Group_PLC

WPP Group plc (LSE: WPP) (NASDAQ: WPPGY), based in London, United Kingdom, is the world's largest communications services group in terms of
revenue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sorrell

Born in London to a Jewish family,[1] Sorrell was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School then Christ's College, Cambridge, and has an MBA from Harvard University.

In 2005 Sorrell sold £9m of shares in WPP at the end of a restricted stock holding period. He also agreed to change a contract with the company which had been much criticised by institutional shareholders in WPP as being unfairly written in Sorrell's favour. Under the previous agreement if Sorrell had been terminated, it would have led to a very large payout; the new agreement provides him instead with no termination payment.

In 2005 his pay was £2.42 million including cash and bonuses[6]. Further he exercised £52 million in share options, is entitled to a further £5.8million in stock, and deferred further options on another 2.65 million shares valued at £15 million until 2008[7].

Shareholders have criticised aspects of corporate governance at WPP. This came to the fore again in 2006 with the advent of two court cases revolving around alleged corruption in an Italian subsidiary and contract disputes with the US launch of the OK! magazine.

In June 2008 WPP drew strong criticism for the involvement of an agency, Imago, in which WPP's Y&R subsidiary held a minority interest, with the ZANU-PF presidential campaign in Zimbabwe. A report by the Financial Times [3] found out that Imago was employed by Robert Mugabe's campaign for reelection to the presidency of Zimbabwe. WPP subsequently divested Y&R's minority interests in Zimbabwe.

The company is governed by a board of directors, whose current members include Colin Day, Esther Dyson, Orit Gadiesh, Philip Lader, Stanley Morten, Kōichirō Naganuma, Lubna Olayan, John Quelch, Mark Read, Paul Richardson, Jeffrey Rosen, Timothy Shriver, Martin Sorrell and Paul Spencer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Lader (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Dyson(very very interesting character in her own right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe)....again the mathematics connections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Jews

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Academic figures
[edit] Scientists

See List of British Jewish scientists, which includes economists.
[edit] Historians

    * David Abulafia, Professor of history, University of Cambridge (JYB 2005 p218)
    * Geoffrey Alderman,[1] historian
    * Richard David Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)
    * Max Beloff, Lord Beloff, historian (Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians)
    * David Cesarani, Historian
    * Norman Cohn, historian (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Isaac Deutscher [7], historian
    * Geoffrey Rudolph Elton [8], historian
    * Samuel Finer[2]
    * Sir Moses I. Finley,[3] historian and sociologist
    * Sir Martin Gilbert, historian
    * Sir Ernst Gombrich [9], art historian
    * Martin Goodman (historian) (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Philip Guedalla,[4] biographer
    * Eric Hobsbawm [5], historian & communist theoretician
    * Jonathan Israel, historian (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Joseph Jacobs [10], editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
    * Lisa Jardine, historian [6]
    * Tony Judt [11] Director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at New York University.
    * Elie Kedourie,[7] historian and political scientist
    * Otto Kurz, historian (JYB 1975 p214)
    * Bernard Lewis [12], historian
    * David Malcolm Lewis, professor of history, University of Oxford (JYB 1995 p. 193)
    * Hyam Maccoby, professor of history [13]
    * Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet, educationalist and politician
    * Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet,[8] biographer
    * Shula Marks, expert on African history (JYB 2005 p. 215)
    * Arnaldo Momigliano, professor of history, University College London (JYB 1985 p188)
    * Lewis Bernstein Namier [14], historian (converted to Anglicanism)
    * Sir Francis Palgrave (born Cohen) (1768-1861) [15], UK historian
    * Sir Michael Postan, historian (JYB 1985 p188)
    * Cecil Roth [16], historian and editor of the Encyclopedia Judaica
    * Simon Schama [17], historian
    * Leonard Schapiro,[9] historian
    * Simon Sebag Montefiore [18], historian
    * Charles Singer,[10] historian of science
    * Sir Aurel Stein [19], archeologist
    * Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. 215)
    * Geza Vermes [20]

    "Five years or so later, I decided to define publicly my identity as belonging to the Jewish community by becoming a member of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue."

[edit] Medical

    * Sir George Alberti, President, Royal College of Physicians[11]
    * Asher Asher,[12] first Scottish Jewish doctor
    * Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead,[13] President of the Royal Society of Medicine
    * Julius Dreschfeld,[14] medical researcher
    * Sir Ian Gainsford, dentist (JYB 2007 p. 197, 222)
    * Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1923-2007, Times Obituary, 17 October 2007
    * Max Hamilton,[15] psychiatrist
    * Rodrigo Lopez (physician)[16]
    * John Henry Marks Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999, chairman of the British Medical Association.
    * Sir Jonathan Miller [21], physician and theatre director
    * Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg [22], Professor: FMedSci
    * Oliver Zangwill, Professor of psychology (JYB 1980 p182)

[edit] Philosophers

    * Samuel Alexander [23], professor of philosophy at Manchester, born in Australia, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college
    * Sir Alfred Ayer [24], philosopher, populariser of logical positivism (Jewish mother)
    * Sir Isaiah Berlin [25], political philosopher
    * Max Black,[3] philosopher
    * Gerald Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Laurence Jonathan Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Ernest Gellner [26], philosopher, social scientist
    * H. L. A. Hart [27], legal philosopher
    * Brian Klug [28], historian & communist theoretician
    * Stephan Korner, Bristol professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Imre Lakatos,[17] Hungarian-born philosopher
    * Sir Karl Popper [29], philosopher of science (family became Lutheran)
    * Jonathan Romain, minister of maindenhead Jewish community and leader of the British reform movement
    * Richard Rudolf Walzer (JYB 1975 p214)
    * Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher; Evening Standard (London); 24/5/2004, p15

    "Born less than a week apart, Adolf Hitler and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein attended the institution together. There is a haunting school photograph of the young, complex, Jewish philosopher just one row away from the most politically-controversial of the 20th century."

    * Richard Wollheim [30]

    "Wollheim was an outstanding representative of a generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals"

[edit] Social scientists

See List of British Jewish scientists

    * Roy Clive Abraham [18], linguist
    * Michael Balint [31], psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
    * Zygmunt Bauman [32], sociologist
    * Basil Bernstein [33], linguist
    * Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politics (JYB 2005 pp215,223)
    * Georgina Born, anthropologist (daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born‎)
    * Gerald Cohen, Professor of Social and Political Theory (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Norbert Elias[19], sociologist
    * Herman Finer [20], political scientist
    * Samuel Finer [21], political scientist
    * Sir Moses I. Finley [22], historian and sociologist
    * Meyer Fortes, anthropologist (JYB 1980 p183)
    * Eduard Fraenkel, philologist [23]
    * Anna Freud [34], child psychoanalyst
    * Norman Geras [35], professor of Government

    "You are a Jewish, Zimbabwean, Mancunian philosopher... I have lived in Manchester more than half my life and am very much at home here."

    * Morris Ginsberg [36]
    * Max Gluckman, anthropologist (JYB 1975 p213)
    * Theodor Goldstücker [24], orientalist
    * Jean Gottmann [25], professor of geography, Oxford University
    * Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249)
    * Frank H. Hahn, economist
    * Paul Hirst [37], social theorist (Jewish mother)
    * Marie Jahoda [38], psychology of discrimination
    * Melanie Klein [39], psychotherapist
    * Paul Klemperer, economist
    * Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Steven Lukes, political scientist (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Ashley Montagu [40], anthropologist & humanist
    * Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor Sociology, LSE.
    * Isaac Schapera, anthropologist (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Roger Silverstone, first professor of Media Sociology, LSE.
    * Edward Ullendorff, linguist (JYB 2005 p215)

[edit] Theologians and Hebraists

    * Isaac Abendana,[26] Hebraist
    * Chimen Abramsky [41], Professor of Hebrew
    * Michael Solomon Alexander, first Anglican bishop of Jerusalem (born Jewish; see Dictionary of National Biography)
    * Lionel Barnett,[27] orientalist
    * Abraham Benisch,[28] Hebraist and editor of the Jewish Chronicle
    * Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch,[29] Semitic scholar and orientalist
    * Alfred Edersheim,[30] Bible scholar
    * Philip Ferdinand,[31] Professor of Hebrew
    * Christian David Ginsburg,[32] expert on the Masoretic text
    * Ridley Haim Herschell,[33] missionary
    * Marcus Kalisch [42], Hebraist and Biblical commentator
    * David Levi,[34] Jewish scholar
    * Hugh Montefiore,[35] bishop
    * David Samuel Margoliouth,[36] orientalist (family converted to Anglicanism)
    * Adolf Neubauer,[37] Hebraist
    * Stefan Reif [43], Cambridge academic
    * Judah Segal, professor of Semitic languages (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Joseph Wolff,[28] missionary

[edit] Artists
[edit] Fine arts

    * Frank Auerbach [44], painter
    * David Bomberg [45], painter
    * Sir Anthony Caro [46], sculptor[38]
    * Benno Elkan,[39] sculptor
    * Sir Jacob Epstein,[40] sculptor (UK-based)
    * Hannah Frank [47], artist & sculptor
    * Barnett Freedman,[41] artist
    * Lucian Freud [48], painter
    * Abram Games[42]
    * Mark Gertler [49], painter
    * Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) [50], artist
    * Walter Goodman,[43] painter
    * Mark Lautman,[44] artist
    * Dora Gordine,[45] artist & sculptor
    * Solomon Alexander Hart,[46] painter
    * Anish Kapoor [51], sculptor (Jewish mother)
    * R. B. Kitaj, US-born painter[47]
    * Jacob Kramer,[48] painter
    * Lennie Lee [52], Young British Artist/mixed media
    * Linda McCartney [53], photographer
    * Ruth Rix [54], painter
    * Sir William Rothenstein [55]
    * Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon [49]
    * Isaac Snowman [56], painter
    * Solomon Joseph Solomon [57], painter
    * Tolleck Winner, mixed media
    * Alfred Wolmark,[50] painter

[edit] Designers and Architects

    * Nicole Farhi [58], fashion designer
    * John Frieda [59], hair-stylist; father of actor Jordan Frieda
    * Ray Kelvin [60], fashion designer, founder of Ted Baker
    * Denys Lasdun,[51] architect
    * Stella McCartney,[52] fashion designer (Jewish Mother)
    * Erich Mendelsohn,[53] architect
    * Janet Reger [61], lingerie designer
    * Vidal Sassoon [62], hair stylist
    * Richard Seifert [63], architect

[edit] Arts and literature

    * Sir Israel Gollancz [64], Shakespeare expert
    * Sir Ernst Gombrich [65], art historian (JYB 2000 p211)
    * Sir Sidney Lee [66], editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Shakespeare expert
    * Siegbert Salomon Prawer, professor of German (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery, 1987-[54]
    * Ernest Simon, professor of Chinese (JYB 1980 p183)
    * Arthur Waley[55] (Chinese and Japanese literature)

[edit] Musicians

See List of British Jewish entertainers
[edit] Writers

See List of British Jewish writers
[edit] Business and the professions
[edit] Civil service

    * Abraham Manie Adelstein, Government statistician[56]
    * Sir Hermann Bondi [67], Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy
    * Sir Andrew Cohen,[57] colonial administrator
    * Eugene Grebenik [68], first head of the Civil Service College
    * Hans Kronberger (physicist),[58] nuclear physicist
    * Sir Alan Marre [69], Second Permanent Secretary, Health; later Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
    * Sir Claus Moser [70], Lord Moser, Government Statistician
    * Ivor Tiefenbrun, Hi Fi manufacturer

[edit] Finance

    * Sir Ernest Cassel,[59] banker
    * Sir Ronald Cohen[71], Egypt-born businessman and Labour party supporter
    * Moses da Costa, also called Anthony da Costa; Jewish Encyclopedia IV p. 289
    * Abraham and Benjamin Goldsmid [72], brothers, leading financiers and philanthropists
    * Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid [73], financier, a leading figure in Jewish emancipation and in the foundation of University College London.
    * Dudley Joel,[60] financier
    * Solomon Joel,[61] financier
    * Peter Keith Levene, chairman of Lloyds of London, Lord Mayor of London (1998-1999) (JYB 2005 212)
    * Aaron of Lincoln [74], 12th century financier
    * Moses Haim Montefiore [75], financier & philanthropist
    * Michael Moritz [76], venture capitalist
    * N M Rothschild & Sons
          o Nathan Mayer Rothschild [62], financier & banker
    * Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling [77]
    * Joseph Salvador [78], first Jewish director of the British East India Company
    * Barons Swaythling [79], bankers

[edit] Law

    * Sir John Balcombe, Lord Justice of Appeal (The Guardian (Manchester); 04/07/00; Sir Maurice Drake; p. 20)
    * Judah P. Benjamin, American exile, lawyer[63]
    * Herbert Bentwich,[64] lawyer and Zionist leader
    * Norman Bentwich,[65] lawyer and Attorney-General of Palestine; son of Herbert Bentwich
    * His Honour Gerald Butler, Q.C., judge (The Times (London); 13/06/00; Frances Gibb; p. Law. 3)
    * Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, Liberal Democrats: Jewish Chronicle

    5/7/1996 p7: "The Liberal Democrats' sole Jewish MP, Alex Carlile"
    25/6/1999 p10: "Alex Carlile is on his way back to Westminster as one of four Jews among the 36 working peers"

    * Arthur Cohen,[66] QC and politician
    * Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen,[67] Lord of Appeal
    * Myrella Cohen [80], prominent Judge, QC and agunah campaigner
    * Sir Lawrence Collins,[68] appeal court judge
    * Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove [81], Scottish Queen's Counsel and sheriff
    * David Daube, Professor of Law (JYB 1995, p193)
    * Sir Morris Finer, judge
    * Dame Hazel Genn (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid [82], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister (Q.C. 1858)
    * Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons [83], barrister
    * Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith [84], [85], Attorney General
    * Arthur Lehman Goodhart,[69] jurist
    * William Goodhart, Lord Goodhart;[70] human rights lawyer and politician (son of Arthur Goodhart)
    * Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman [86], solicitor
    * Brian Green [87] Q.C.
    * Alexis Grower, Prominent Entertainment Lawyer, Magrath & Co, London
    * Dame Rose Heilbron [88], Britain's first female Q.C., judge
    * Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice[71]
    * Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading [89], lawyer and politician
    * Sir George Jessel [90], Solicitor General for England and Wales, later Master of the Rolls
    * Anthony Julius [91], prominent Lawyer for Princess Diana, and against David Irving.
    * Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, Professor of Law (Dictionary of National Biography)
    * Neville Laski [92], judge
    * Hersch Lauterpacht [93]
    * Leone Levi, barrister and statistician: Jewish Encyclopedia, VIII, 34
    * George Henry Lewis [94], solicitor
    * Gavin Lightman [95], judge; son of Harold Lightman
    * Harold Lightman, barrister, father of Gavin Lightman and Stafford Lightman[72]
    * Alan Mocatta [96]: "Sir Alan Mocatta, Jewish"
    * Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon [97], solicitor.
    * David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Lord of Appeal; son of Albert Neuberger, brother of James Neuberger and Michael Neuberger, and brother-in-law of Julia Neuberger (Jewish Year Book 2005:212 & 214)
    * David Pearl,[73] judge
    * Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers [74], Lord Chief Justice
    * Sir Bernard Rix, Lord Justice of Appeal (2000-) (JYB 2005:212 & 214)
    * Leonard Sainer [98], solicitor and retailer
    * Fiona Shackleton Solicitor who has acted for the Royal Family and Paul McCartney[75]
    * Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin,[76] solicitor
    * Linda Joy Stern Q.C., prosecutor and judge (Jewish Chronicle 15/9/06 p31: death notices)
    * Julius Stone [99]
    * Eldred Tabachnik, Q.C., former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews [100].
    * Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth [101], Q.C., former Lord Chief Justice
    * Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf [102], former Lord Chief Justice, Q.C., former Master of the Rolls

[edit] Manufacturing

    * Sir Leon Bagrit Time Magazine, pioneer of automation
    * Sir Monty Finniston, industrialist (JYB 1977 p206-7)
    * David Gestetner,[77] inventor
    * Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan [103] clothes manufacturer and disgraced friend of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.[78]
    * Sir Emmanuel Kaye,[79] industrialist and philanthropist
    * Sir Robert Waley-Cohen,[80] industrialist
    * Arnold Weinstock, Lord Weinstock, Chairman of GEC - JYB 2002, p211

[edit] Media

    * Rachel Beer,[12] newspaper editor
    * Sidney Bernstein,[81] cinema owner
    * Benjamin Cohen [104], Channel 4 News reporter and presenter
    * Danny Cohen, Controller of BBC Three
    * Sasha Baron Cohen, comedian, creator of Ali G
    * David Baddiel, comedian, writer, journalist and broadcaster
    * Nigella Lawson, television chef, daughter of Nigel Lawson.
    * Simon Cowell, [105], TV personality and producer, executive and entrepreneur
    * Richard Desmond [106], publisher, Chairman of the Daily Express Group
    * Andre Deutsch [107]
    * Ed Doolan, Australian-born broadcaster
    * Vanessa Feltz [108], journalist and broadcaster
    * Lew Grade [109], founder of ATV
    * Michael Grade [110], Chairman of ITV
    * Michael Green [111], founder of Carlton Television
    * Sydney Jacobson, newspaper editor[82]
    * Joseph Moses Levy [112], owner of the Daily Telegraph
    * Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham [113], newspaper proprietor
    * Robert Maxwell [114], publisher
    * Suzy Menkes [115], fashion journalist
    * Melanie Phillips [116], journalist and author
    * Esther Rantzen [117], television presenter and journalist
    * Paul Reuter [118], founder of Reuters
    * Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of the Board, British SKY Broadcasting Group PLC[83]
    * Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi & Charles Saatchi [119], founders of Saatchi and Saatchi
    * Martin Sorrell [120], founder of the WPP Group
    * George Weidenfeld [121], publisher
    * Natasha Kaplinsky [122], Newsreader, TV presenter

[edit] Military

    * Frank Alexander de Pass [123], WWI British Indian Army Victoria Cross recipient
    * John Edwards, sailor at the Battle of Trafalgar (The Independent (London); 02/11/05; Martin Sugarman; p. 34)
    * Robert Gee [124], World War I British Army Victoria Cross recipient
    * Albert Goldsmid [125], colonel
    * Frederick John Goldsmid [126], general
    * Thomas William Gould [127], World War II Royal Navy Victoria Cross recipient
    * John Patrick Kenneally [128], World War II British Army Victoria Cross recipient (Jewish father)
    * Issy Smith [129], World War I British Army Victoria Cross recipient
    * Jack White, World War I British Army Victoria Cross recipient (JYB 2005 p215)

[edit] Property

    * Jack Cotton,[84] property developer
    * Lewis Hammerson, Founder Hammerson Property Group
    * Peter Rachman, London landlord
    * Arnold Silverstone Lord Ashdown of Chelwood, Property developer built Ashdown House on Victoria Street, London

[edit] Retail

    * David Alliance, Baron Alliance, businessman & Liberal Democrat politician (JYB 2005 212)
    * Sir Victor Blank,[54] Chairman of GUS
    * Sir Montague Burton, retailer[85]
    * Sir Charles Clore [130], owner of Selfridges
    * Jack Cohen [131], founder of Tesco
    * Ralph and David Gold, founders of Ann Summers and co-owners of Birmingham City football club (Financial Times (London); 13/07/04; Jonathon Guthrie; p. 15)
    * Sir Philip Green [132], owner of Bhs, Arcadia Group
    * Irene Howard, English costume designer and sister of actor Leslie Howard.
    * Stanley Kalms [133], now Baron Kalms of Edgware, life president of Dixons Group PLC.
    * Bernard Lewis,[86] founder of River Island
    * David Lewis [134], department store founder
    * Michael Marks [135], co-founder of Marks & Spencer (born in Poland)
    * Simon Marks [136], chairman of Marks & Spencer
    * Gerald Ronson [137], business tycoon and philanthropist.
    * Marcus Samuel, founder of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company (Birmingham Post (Birmingham); 08/11/03; Chris Upton; p. 44)
    * Israel Sieff [138], chairman of Marks & Spencer
    * Sir Alan Sugar [139], founder of Amstrad and star of The Apprentice (UK)
    * Isaac Wolfson [140], founder of GUS plc & philanthropist

[edit] Police

    * Henry Solomon [141] [142] [143] Chief Constable of Brighton Borough 1838 to 1844

[edit] Political figures

See List of British Jewish politicians
[edit] Religious and communal leaders

    * Jacob Abendana, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
    * Barnett Abrahams, Dayan, Principal of Jews' College
    * Israel Abrahams, scholar and educator
    * Yehezkel Abramsky, Rabbi and dayan
    * Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi
    * Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi
    * Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
    * Jon Benjamin, Chief Executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews
    * Lionel Blue, Reform rabbi and broadcaster
    * Levi Brackman, Rabbi
    * Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield, Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism
    * Sir Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi
    * Felix Carlebach, German born Rabbi
    * Isidore Epstein, Rabbi, Principal of Jews' College
    * Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
    * Sir Hermann Gollancz, Rabbi and educator
    * Aaron Hart, Chief Rabbi [144]
    * Joseph H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi
    * Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, Rabbi and dayan
    * Solomon Hirschell, Chief Rabbi
    * Moses Hyamson, acting Chief Rabbi
    * Louis Jacobs, Rabbi and educator
    * Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi
    * Nathan S. Joseph
    * Casriel Dovid Kaplin, rabbi and dayan
    * James Kennard, Rabbi and Educationalist
    * Hart Lyon, Chief Rabbi
    * Frederick de Sola Mendes, rabbi
    * Ewen Montagu, President of the United Synagogue
    * Claude Montefiore, Lay synagogue leader
    * Julia Neuberger, Reform Rabbi
    * David Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
    * Isaac Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
    * Michael Plaskow, Minister
    * Jonathan Romain, Rabbi
    * Sir Anthony Rothschild, first president of the United Synagogue
    * Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi
    * Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, rabbi
    * Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, rabbi and first Jewish professor in Cambridge
    * Simeon Singer, Rabbi
    * Andrew Shaw, Rabbi
    * Simon Waley Waley,[87] Lay leader
    * Chaim Weizmann,[88] Zionist leader
    * Jonathan Wittenberg, Massorti Rabbi

[edit] Showbusiness

See List of British Jewish entertainers
[edit] Sports

    * David Triesman [145], Chairman of the Football Association
    * Harold Abrahams [146], gold medalist sprinter at the 1924 Olympics who was immortalized in the film Chariots of Fire
    * Sir Sidney Abrahams, [147] Olympic long-jumper, colonial judge.
    * Tony Bullimore,[89] yachtsman
    * Ludwig Guttmann [148], founder of the Paralympics
    * David Pleat, former football manager [149]
    * Fred Trueman, cricketer (Jewish ancestry) (Jewish Chronicle 7 July 2006 p40: "T'fastest Jewish bowler ever")
    * Sheila van Damm,[90] rally driver
    * Barry Silkman, Footballer and Agent

[edit] Boxing

    * Jackie Kid Berg [150], Junior Welterweight Champion (IBHOF)
    * Roman Greenberg,[91] IBO intercontinental heavyweight champion
    * Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff),[92] world welterweight champion 1915-6, 1917-9
    * Daniel Mendoza [151], 18th century Heavyweight Champion (IBHOF), ancestor of actor Peter Sellers and Mike Mendoza (talksport) Radio & Television Presenter

[edit] Chess

    * Gerald Abrahams [152], British chess player
    * Aaron Alexandre [153], German/French/British chess player
    * Victor Berger [154], Ukrainian/British chess player
    * Stephan Fazekas [155], Hungarian/British chess player
    * David Friedgood [156], South African/British chess player
    * Harry Golombek [157], British chess player
    * Isidor Gunsberg [158], Hungarian/British chess player
    * William Hartston [159], British chess player
    * Leopold Hoffer [160], Hungarian/British chess player
    * Bernhard Horwitz [161], German/British chess player
    * Ernest Klein [162], Austrian/British chess player
    * Imre König [163], Hungarian/British chess player
    * David Levy [164], British chess player
    * Paul List [165], Ukrainian/British chess player
    * Edward Löwe [166], British chess player
    * Johann Löwenthal [167], Hungarian/British chess player
    * Jacques Mieses [168], German/British chess player
    * Raaphi Persitz [169], Israeli/British chess player
    * Jon Speelman [170], British chess player
    * Michael Stean [171], British chess player
    * Victor Wahltuch [172], British chess player
    * Baruch Harold Wood [173] British chess player
    * Johannes Zukertort [174], Polish/German/British chess player

[edit] Socialites

    * The Right Honourable Lady Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Baroness Black of Crossharbour

[edit] Philanthropists

    * Bernhard Baron, cigarette maker and philanthropist [175]
    * Sir Clive Bourne,[93] philanthropist
    * Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank[94]
    * Dame Vivien Duffield, philanthropist, daughter of Sir Charles Clore (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Anna Maria Goldsmid,[95] philanthropist
    * Sir Basil Henriques,[96] philanthropist
    * Maurice de Hirsch,[97] banker and philanthropist
    * Samuel Lewis [176], moneylender and philanthropist
    * Sir Robert Mayer [177], philanthropist
    * Frederic David Mocatta,[98] philanthropist

[edit] Miscellaneous

    * Barney Barnato,[12] diamond miner
    * Jack Beddington,[99] advertising executive
    * Antonio Fernandez Carvajal,[12] merchant, first Jew to be naturalised as a British citizen
    * Jeremiah Duggan[100] Possible murder victim
    * Elizabeth Baker [178], A Wireless Specialist
    * Stuart Paton.
    * Alexander Goldberg,[101] human rights activist, chaplain and barrister
    * Henry Edward Goldsmid [179], East India Company servant
    * Kurt Hahn,[102] educationalist
    * Nathaniel Isaacs,[180] explorer
    * Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840-1899), educationist and orientalist[103]
    * Roger Lyons Trade Union leader
    * Sir Solomon de Medina [181], army contractor, first English Jew to be knighted
    * Chava Mond, [182] model
    * Don Pacifico,[104] cause of the Pacifico incident
    * Jordan (Katie Price), model[105]
    * Krystyna Skarbek,[106] spy
    * Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen [183], Lord Mayor of London

[edit] References
[edit] Footnotes

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   2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was one of the many children of pre-1914 Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who were to play such prominent roles in British economic, cultural, and political life."
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   4. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
   5. ^ Martin Beckford, "Jewish group rejects uncritical support of Israel" Telegraph (5 Feb 2007)
   6. ^ The Times; 11 January 1997; Tony Turnbull:"Born in Oxford, she had moved to Cheltenham at the age of five when her father, the polymath Jacob Bronowski, author of Ascent of Man, took up a research post with the National Coal Board. So it was that this nice little Jewish family moved in to Cleeve Hill, a small village four miles from town."
   7. ^ Jewish Year Book 1990 p202
   8. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"
   9. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Glasgow of an Anglophile Riga Jewish family"
  10. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians, list headed "Prominent Jewish General Historians"
  11. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 14 January 2000, p.14 "Knighthood goes to diabetes pioneer"
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  13. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of Russian origin"
  14. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Bavaria of Jewish parents"
  15. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the son of Jewish parents"
  16. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish physician"
  17. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of Jacob Márton Lipsitz, a wine merchant, and Márgit Herczfeld, both Hungarian Jews"
  18. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  19. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Elias, as a Jew, sought refuge first in Paris (1933–5), and then in London (from 1935), eventually becoming a British citizen in 1952"
  20. ^ [2] "Mr. Herman Finer, an Englishman, Jewish"
  21. ^ Jewish Chronicle obituary, June 25 1993, p.15
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  23. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "An unbaptized Jew"
  24. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "of Jewish parentage"
  25. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of prosperous Jewish parents"
  26. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911: ABENDANA, the name of two Jewish theologians ... Jacob ... Isaac
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  31. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: born in Poland of Jewish parents
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  35. ^ His own book On Being a Jewish Christian (1998)
  36. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "an academically highly gifted boy of Jewish parentage"
  37. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia article on Adolf Neubauer
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  39. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born at Dortmund of Jewish parentage"
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  42. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "As a Jew, Games worked for the Jewish relief unit and for many Jewish and Israeli organizations"
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  44. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle 15 August 1989, p16
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  47. ^ The Guardian, 6 February 2002, p6: Letter from Kitaj: "London's four leading Jewish painters, including me"; Listed as a British painter in Hutchinson's Encyclopedia of Britain, 2005
  48. ^ H. Read, S. Thorndike, and others, Jacob Kramer: a memorial volume (1969)
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  55. ^ Patricia Welch, "The World of the Shining Translator: Waley's "Genji", Orientalism, and the birth of Japanese Literary Studies", "Waley, born Arthur David Schloss, was a member of an elite Anglo-Jewish family"
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  58. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents"
  59. ^ K. Grunwald, 'Windsor Cassel: the last court Jew', Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute, 14 (1969), 119–61
  60. ^ Jewish Chronicle 25 July 1941, p.12, "Jews in the Navy"
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  64. ^ New Yorker magazine "My great-grandfather Herbert Bentwich, a lawyer from a prominent English Jewish family" Accessed 21 November 2006.
  65. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwich
  66. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge"
  67. ^ Dictionary of National Biography: "Another area to which Cohen gave time and devotion was that of Jewish culture and charity. He had been brought up in the Orthodox tradition, and came to take the Reformed and Liberal positions."
  68. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 12 January 2007 p.15: article "People: Who is up to what in the Jewish world this week"
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  71. ^ [3]"Was it any more difficult for her to be so critical in the Israel case because she is Jewish? "I don't think so," she says, stressing that she judged the case as an international lawyer and not because of her background. "I also think that the fact you happen to be Jewish doesn't mean you think that everything the State of Israel does is right." When the Foreign Office put her name forward for election to the court, there were fears that some countries in the UN would not vote for a Jewish woman. She dismisses such concerns. "I don't think I have ever been perceived as Rosalyn Higgins, the Jewish international lawyer - and I hope not Rosalyn Higgins, the woman international lawyer."
  72. ^ Obituary: Harold Lightman; The Independent; 18 November 1998; John Balcombe; p. 6; "Lightman was disadvantaged in his early legal career by the fact that he had not been to university and was Jewish."
  73. ^ Son of Rabbi Chaim Pearl: see Who's Who (UK)
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  83. ^ The Times (London); 3 December 1992; Ruth Gledhill:'Lord Rothschild, who is head of the English branch of the Rothschild family, says: "I would not like to disguise that I am first and foremost a secular Jew."'
  84. ^ Dictionary of National Biography: "Cotton was a highly respected member of the Jewish community in Birmingham, of whose main synagogue he had been vice-president and treasurer"
  85. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Lithuania of Jewish parentage"
  86. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 24 April 1998, p.7: "one Jewish businessman on the up is fashion and property man Bernard Lewis"
  87. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a leading member of the London Jews"
  88. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "naturalised British subject, 1910"
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  90. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Sheila's upbringing in an all-girl Jewish family generated no interest in motoring beyond her training as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force driver."
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  95. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Born an Orthodox Jew, in her religious practices Anna Maria remained throughout her life very observant"
  96. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
  97. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His grandfather Jacob had established the family as one of the first Jewish families to acquire great wealth and social acceptability in Bavaria ... His mother came from an Orthodox Frankfurt family and ensured that the children were properly instructed in Jewish matters ... he thereafter lived more in London than in Paris."
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  99. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His family were Jewish"
 100. ^ The Press, Hendon and Finchley Edition, 16 November 2006, p.4: "Student Jeremiah, who was Jewish"
 101. ^ [6]; The Irish Times, Wednesday, 7 January 1998: "Ireland's Young Bloomers"
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 104. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a Portuguese Jew, but born a British subject"
 105. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 24 November 2006, p.1: "Ms Price, who is halachically Jewish"
 106. ^ Lire: le magazine littéraire: "la comtesse Krystyna Skarbek, une aristocrate juive"

[edit] Bibliography

    * Celmins, Martin. Peter Green: The Authorized Biography. London: Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd.; 3rd edition, 2003. Pp. 23-32.
    * JYB = Jewish Year Book (annual)
    * "Obituary: Sir Edward Sassoon". The Times, Saturday, 25 May 1912; pg. 11; Issue 39908; col C.
    * TimesAd: The Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews)
    * David S. Katz, The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). xvi, 447 pp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Br ... scientists

Physicists

    * Petrus Alphonsi, Spanish-born astronomer and doctor [1]
    * Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (JYB 1977 p207)
    * Sir Michael Berry [6], mathematical physicist (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Moses Blackman (JYB 1977 p207)
    * David Bohm,[2] physicist, philosopher
    * Sir Hermann Bondi [7], Austrian-born British cosmologist
    * Max Born [8], [9], physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to Lutheranism) (JYB 2000 p212 - list of Jewish Nobel Prizewinners)
    * Samuel Devons, physicist (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Cyril Domb [10], physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists
    * Paul Eisler [11] [12], inventor of printed circuit board
    * Michael Fisher [13]
    * Otto Robert Frisch [14] (JYB 1980 p182)
    * Herbert Frohlich (JYB 1990 p201)
    * Dennis Gabor [15] [16] Nobel Prize for Physics 1971; British.

    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "In 1946 Dennis Gabor became a naturalized British citizen."

    * Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons [17], scientist and inventor
    * Jeffrey Goldstone (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Ian Grant (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Sir Peter Hirsch, physicist (JYB 2005 p213, 214)
    * Herbert Huppert, 1987 (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Brian David Josephson [18], physicist, Nobel Prize (1973)
    * George Kalmus, 1988 (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Andrew Keller [19]
    * Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987 (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Rudolf Kompfner [3], invented traveling wave tube
    * Hans Kronberger (physicist)[4], nuclear physicist
    * Nicholas Kurti [20], physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

    "study at the university was open to him, despite being a Jew ... Kurti became a naturalized British citizen just before the outbreak of the Second World War"

    * Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell [21], physicist and politician
    * Henry Lipson (JYB 1990 p201)
    * Sir Ben Lockspeiser (JYB 1990 p201)
    * Stanley Mandelstam (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Kurt Mendelssohn (Encyclopaedia Judaica 13:492)
    * Leon Mestel, astronomer (Who's Who entry & JYB 2000 p211)
    * F.R. Nunes Nabarro (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Rudolf Peierls (JYB 1995 p193)
    * Michael Pepper (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Douglas Ross [22]
    * Sir Joseph Rotblat [23], physicist, Nobel Peace Prize (1995)
    * Arthur Schuster (Encyclopedia Judaica, 14:1012]]
    * Dennis Sciama, FRS [24], cosmologist
    * David Shoenberg, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193)
    * Sir Francis Simon, 1941 (Encyclopedia Judaica, 14:1578)
    * David Tabor (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Samuel Tolansky, spectroscopist

    Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants"

    * Felix Weinberg (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984 (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Alec David Young, aero-engineer (JYB 2005 p214)
    * John Ziman [25]

[edit] Chemists

    * Herbert Brown, chemist, Nobel Prize (1979) (JYB 2005 p215) Born in London - see refs in article
    * Sir Arnold Burgen (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Sir Roy Calne (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Jack David Dunitz [26], chemist
    * Martin Fleischmann [5], chemist
    * Rosalind Franklin [27], physical chemist and crystalographer, helped to discover structure of DNA
    * Eugen Glueckauf (JYB 1980 p182)
    * Sir Ian Heilbron (Encyclopedia Judaica 8:262)
    * Walter Heitler [28]
    * Sir Aaron Klug [29], physicist & chemist, Nobel Prize (1982) (JYB 2000 p211-2)
    * Harold Kroto [30], discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, Nobel Prize (1996) (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
    * Raphael Meldola (Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290)
    * Alfred Mond, chemist 1928 (Encyclopaedia Judaica 4:1298, 12:241)
    * Ludwig Mond [31], chemist & industrialist
    * Sir Robert Mond, chemist and archaeologist (Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Mond)
    * Albert Neuberger [32], chemical pathologist

    father of Prof. James Neuberger, Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger and Prof. Michael Neuberger, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger

    * Friedrich Paneth (Encyclopaedia Judaica 13:54)
    * Sir Max Perutz [33], molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1962)
    * Michael Polanyi [34], chemist; naturalised British 1939 (Dictionary of National Biography)
    * Ralph Raphael (JYB 1995 p193)
    * Michael Rossmann [35]
    * Anthony Segal, 1998 (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistry (Encyclopedia Judaica, 15:670]]
    * [6],
    * Dr Nikita Poltavsky, and his wife Denise Mancheste.
    * Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist.[7]
    * Chaim Weizmann, acetone production (First President of Israel)

[edit] Biologists

    * Saul Adler (JYB 1960 p216)
    * Ephraim Anderson [36], microbiologist
    * Charlotte Auerbach (JYB 1977 p207)
    * Walter Bodmer [37], geneticist
    * Gustav Victor Rudolf Born [38], Professor of Pharmacology
    * Sydney Brenner [39], molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)
    * Leslie Brent: TimesAd
    * Edith Bülbring,[8] pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
    * Sir Ernst Chain [40], co-developer of penicillin, Nobel Prize (1945)
    * Sir Philip Cohen [41], biologist
    * Sydney Cohen, pathologist (JYB 2005 p214, 230)
    * Emanuel Mendes da Costa [42], 18th century botanist
    * Julius Dreschfeld [9], medical researcher
    * Raymond Dwek, biologist (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Sir Michael Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virus (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Wilhelm Feldberg (JYB 1977 p207) biologist
    * Sir Alan Fersht [43], protein folding
    * Sir Otto Frankel, geneticist[10]
    * Ian Glynn (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow and world authority on porphyria [11]
    * Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield [44], neuroscientist and writer (Jewish father)
    * Hans Gruneberg (JYB 1967 p208) biologist
    * Sir Ludwig Guttmann[12], neurologist
    * Sir Henry Harris (Encyclopedia Judaica 4:138]])
    * Philip D'Arcy Hart [45], medical researcher
    * Sir Gabriel Horn (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Alick Isaacs [46] [47], virologist, interferon
    * David Ish-Horowicz, 2002 (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Sir Bernard Katz [48], biophysicist, Nobel Prize (1970)
    * David Keilin [49], entomologist
    * Sir Hans Kornberg, 1965 (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Hans Kosterlitz [50]
    * Sir Hans Adolf Krebs [51], biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
    * Sir John Krebs [13], zoologist
    * Roland Levinsky [14], biologist
    * Michael Levitt [52]
    * Hans Lissmann (JYB 1995 p193)
    * Joel Mandelstam (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Sir Michael Marmot, epidemiologist (JYB 2005 213)
    * César Milstein [53], immunologist, Nobel Prize (1984)
    * Leslie Orgel [54], evolutionary biologist
    * Guido Pontecorvo, 1955 (JYB 1995 p193)
    * Juda Quastel [55]
    * Ivan Roitt, immunologist 1983 (JYB 2005 p214) (JYB 2000 p211)
    * Steven Rose [56], biologist
    * Sir Martin Roth, psychiatrist (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild [57], entomologist
    * Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild 1953 (JYB 1990 p199,202,259)
    * Oliver Sacks [58], neurologist and author
    * Isaac de Sequeira Samuda [59] (first Jewish FRS; elected 1727)
    * John Vane [60], pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1982) (Jewish father)
    * Lawrence Weiskrantz, psychologist (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Robert Winston, Baron Winston [61], fertility expert and broadcaster
    * Lewis Wolpert [62], developmental biologist and broadcaster
    * Lord Solly Zuckerman, anatomist, evolutionist (JYB 1965 p214)

[edit] Mathematicians and statisticians

    * Abraham Manie Adelstein [15], statistician
    * Hertha Ayrton [16], mathematician and engineer
    * Laurence Baxter, statistician[17]
    * Abram Besicovitch [63], Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)
    * Selig Brodetsky [18], mathematician and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
    * Jacob Bronowski [64], mathematician & broadcaster
    * Paul Cohn, algebraist [19]
    * H.E. Daniels [20], statistician
    * Philip Dawid [65], statistician
    * Arthur Erdelyi [21], mathematician
    * John Fox, statistician
    * Albrecht Frohlich [66]
    * David Glass [22], demographer
    * Sir Samuel Goldman [23], British Government statistician
    * Sydney Goldstein [67], expert on fluid mechanics
    * Benjamin Gompertz [68], mathematician
    * Eugene Grebenik [69], demographer
    * Steven Haberman [70], professor of actuarial science
    * John Hajnal, demographer (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Hans Heilbronn (JYB 1977, p207)
    * Marie Jahoda [71], psychologist
    * Thomas Körner, mathematician [24]
    * Ruth Lawrence [72], mathematician & child prodigy
    * Leone Levi [73], statistician
    * Kurt Mahler, mathematician (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Sir Claus Moser [74], statistician
    * Louis Mordell [75], number theorist
    * Bernhard Neumann, 1959 (JYB 2005 p214)
    * Richard Rado [76], mathematician
    * Klaus Roth [77], mathematician, Fields Medal (1958)
    * Bernard Silverman, statistician [78]
    * David Spiegelhalter, statistician (JYB 2007 p.198)
    * James Joseph Sylvester [79], mathematician

[edit] Computer scientists

    * Samson Abramsky, computer scientist (JYB 2007 p.198)
    * David Deutsch [80], quantum computing pioneer
    * I.J. Good [81], cryptographer, philosopher of statistics & computing pioneer
    * David Levy [82], computer chess expert
    * Leo Marks [83], cryptographer & screenwriter
    * Max Newman [84], mathematician & computing pioneer (Jewish father)
    * Gordon Plotkin [85], computer scientist
    * Leslie Valiant [86], computer scientist parallel computation

[edit] Economists

    * Lord Bauer [87], economist
    * Samuel Brittan, economist
    * Charles Goodhart,[25] Bank of England economist
    * Noreena Hertz [88], economist & activist
    * Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn [89], economist: multiplier
    * Nicholas Kaldor [90], economist
    * Michael Kidron, South African born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher.
    * Israel Kirzner [91], economist (UK-born)
    * Ludwig Lachmann, economist[26]
    * Harold Laski, economist (The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ed Geoffrey Wigoder, 5th ed 1977, pp. 1182–3)
    * Alexander Nove, economist (JYB 1990 p202)
    * Sigbert Prais, economist (JYB 2005 p215)
    * David Ricardo [92], economist (converted to Quakerism)
    * Arthur Seldon [93], economist
    * Sir Hans Singer, economist; The Economist, March 11 2006 p95: "born a Jew"
    * Piero Sraffa [94], economist
    * Basil Yamey, economist (JYB 2005 p215,315)

[edit] Social scientists

    * Roy Clive Abraham [27], linguist
    * Michael Balint [95], psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
    * Zygmunt Bauman [96], sociologist
    * Basil Bernstein [97], linguist
    * Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politics (JYB 2005 pp215,223)
    * Georgina Born, anthropologist (daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born‎)
    * Gerald Cohen, Professor of Social and Political Theory (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Norbert Elias[28], sociologist
    * Herman Finer [29], political scientist
    * Samuel Finer [30], political scientist
    * Sir Moses I. Finley [31], historian and sociologist
    * Meyer Fortes, anthropologist (JYB 1980 p183)
    * Eduard Fraenkel, philologist [32]
    * Anna Freud [98], child psychoanalyst
    * Norman Geras [99], professor of Government

    "You are a Jewish, Zimbabwean, Mancunian philosopher... I have lived in Manchester more than half my life and am very much at home here."

    * Morris Ginsberg [100]
    * Max Gluckman, anthropologist (JYB 1975 p213)
    * Theodor Goldstücker [33], orientalist
    * Jean Gottmann [34], professor of geography, Oxford University
    * Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249)
    * Frank H. Hahn, economist
    * Paul Hirst [101], social theorist (Jewish mother)
    * Marie Jahoda [102], psychology of discrimination
    * Melanie Klein [103], psychotherapist
    * Paul Klemperer, economist
    * Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Steven Lukes, political scientist (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Ashley Montagu [104], anthropologist & humanist
    * Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor Sociology, LSE.
    * Isaac Schapera, anthropologist (JYB 2005 p215)
    * Roger Silverstone, first professor of Media Sociology, LSE.
    * Edward Ullendorff, linguist (JYB 2005 p215)

[edit] References

    * JYB = Jewish Year Book
    * TimesAd: The Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews)

[edit] Footnotes

   1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, art. Alfonsi, Petrus
   2. ^ Fred Pruyn, Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm, on theosophy-nw.org. Accessed 13 April 2006.
   3. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents in Vienna"
   4. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents"
   5. ^ [1]: "Birthplace: Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia ... Religion: Jewish" accessed 8 Feb 2007
   6. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "naturalised British subject, 1910"; [2]
   7. ^ Friedenwald, H. (1946), Jewish Luminaries in Medical History
   8. ^ From web site of Amnesty: "Professor Edith Bulbring Born in Germany 1903, Jewish mother". Accessed 6 March 2007.
   9. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Bavaria of Jewish parents"
  10. ^ Interview by Australian Academy of Sciences: "An Austrian Jew's entry into the British Empire"; accessed 11 November 2006.
  11. ^ Jewish Chronicle Obituary, 25 October 2007
  12. ^ Paralympics on Thinkquest.org refers to "Ludwig Guttman, a Jewish neurologist and refugee from Nazi Germany". Accessed 16 April 2006.
  13. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."
  14. ^ "Driving force of city university's growth": Western Daily Press 19 July 2006: "the family is Jewish".
  15. ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  16. ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  17. ^ Death notices in Jewish Chronicle, 15/11/1996 p 31; confirms Sidney Hart was his uncle
  18. ^ [3]: "These include the papers of Anglo-Jewish leaders, such as Selig Brodetsky"
  19. ^ Obituary in The Times "he was born in Hamburg in 1924 to Jewish parents" Accessed 9 July 2008.
  20. ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  21. ^ Jewish: [4]; British: Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "became naturalised British citizen, 1947"
  22. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 6 1978, p.32
  23. ^ Obituary in LSE Magazine, Vol 19 no.2 Winter 2007, p.45
  24. ^ Two Jewish parents: Stephan Körner (JYB 2005 p215) and Edith Körner
  25. ^ Flade, Ronald. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the American Jewish Historical Society. Accessed 14 Nov 2006.
  26. ^ Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek - Pg 145
  27. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  28. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Elias, as a Jew, sought refuge first in Paris (1933–5), and then in London (from 1935), eventually becoming a British citizen in 1952"
  29. ^ [5] "Mr. Herman Finer, an Englishman, Jewish"
  30. ^ Jewish Chronicle obituary, June 25 1993, p.15
  31. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
  32. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "An unbaptized Jew"
  33. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "of Jewish parentage"
  34. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of prosperous Jewish parents"

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Film actors

    * Felix Aylmer
    * Alfie Bass, obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 24/7/1987 p14
    * Claire Bloom [15], actress
    * Helena Bonham Carter (1966 - ) Academy-Award nominated English film/television actress[1]
    * Bernard Bresslaw, actor[2]
    * Eleanor Bron [16], actress and name inspiration for Eleanor Rigby
    * Katrin Cartlidge [17], actress (Jewish mother)
    * Joan Collins[3] actress
    * Marty Feldman [18], comic actor
    * Fenella Fielding[4]
    * Laurence Harvey [19], actor (Lithuanian-born)
    * Leslie Howard [20], actor
    * Jason Isaacs [21], actor
    * Sid James [22], comic actor,(South African born)
    * Tony Jay (1933 - 2006) English/American actor[5]
    * David Kossoff [23], actor and stage monologuist
    * Miriam Margolyes [24], actress
    * Jessie Matthews (1907 - 1981) English dancer, singer and actress[2]
    * Ron Moody [25], actor (Fagin in film musical "Oliver")
    * Anthony Newley (1931 - 1999) English actor, singer & songwriter[2]
    * Sophie Okonedo (1969 - ) Academy Award-nominated actress (Hotel Rwanda)[26]
    * Nathalie Press [27], actress
    * Daniel Radcliffe (1989 - ) English actor (Harry Potter)[6]
    * Antony Sher [28], actor
    * Ione Skye [29], actress (UK-born; Jewish mother)
    * Janet Suzman [30], actress
    * Elizabeth Taylor [31] [32], actress (English-born; Convert to Judaism)
    * Rachel Weisz [33], Oscar-winning actress
    * Sam Wanamaker [34], actor
    * Zoe Wanamaker [35], actress
    * David Warner, actor best known as Jennings in The Omen
    * Naomi Westerman [36], actress
    * Henry Woolf[7], actor

[edit] TV actors

    * Sacha Baron Cohen [37], British comedian, notable for his comedy characters Ali G and Borat; the latter is portrayed as extremely anti-Semitic.
    * Steven Berkoff (1937 - ) actor, writer and director[2]
    * Lionel Blair [38], TV entertainer
    * Marty Feldman (1934-1982), television comedian (See "Film Actors" list, above.)
    * Stephen Fry [39], comedian & actor (Jewish mother)
    * Henry Goodman [8], actor
    * Lesley Joseph [40], Dorian in Birds of a Feather
    * Miriam Karlin (1925 - ) actress (The Rag Trade)[2]
    * Paul Kaye (1965 - ) comedian and writer[2]
    * Robert Kazinsky television actor (EastEnders)[9][10]
    * Felicity Kendal [41], actress (convert to Judaism)
    * Maureen Lipman (1946 - ) film, television & theatre actress[2]
    * Kay Mellor [42], actress & scriptwriter
    * Warren Mitchell [43], Alf Garnett in Til Death Us Do Part
    * Tracy-Ann Oberman, actress: Jewish Chronicle, 30 June 2006 p36: "Tribal beat: Showbiz Jews in the news"
    * David Rappaport, actor with dwarfism
    * Andrew Sachs (1930 - ) German-born English actor, Manuel in Fawlty Towers[2]
    * Emma Samms [http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:TwX3OuXzwXEJ:www.joancollinsfanclub.com/Welcome_Page/Contents/Dynasty/
    * Rita Simons actress, model
    * Georgia Slowe actress[11] Perdita in Emmerdale
    * David Suchet, "Poirot" (Jewish father)

[edit] TV and Radio Presenters

    * Dani Behr (1971 - ) TV presenter, actress and singer[2]
    * Benjamin Cohen [44], Channel 4 News reporter and presenter
    * Vanessa Feltz [45], TV presenter
    * Alex Kramer [46], TV presenter
    * Jerry Springer [47], TV presenter (UK-born)
    * Sharon Osbourne, (Jewish father) - wife of Ozzy Osbourne, former talk show host, and star of The Osbournes[12]
    * Esther Rantzen [48], presenter of That's Life!, founder of ChildLine
    * Gaby Roslin [49], TV presenter
    * Natasha Kaplinsky [50], TV presenter, Newsreader
    * Jon Sopel BBC news presenter
    * Robert Peston BBC news business correspondent
    * Claudia Winkleman TV presenter

[edit] Directors/producers/executives

    * Jenny Abramsky [51], BBC executive
    * Gerry Anderson [52], producer and puppeteer
    * Daniel M. Angel [13], film producer
    * Sir Michael Balcon [53], producer
    * Sidney Bernstein [14], cinema owner & founder of Granada Television
    * Bernard Delfont [54], impresario
    * Oscar Deutsch [55], founder of Odeon Cinemas
    * David Elstein Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999, founder of Channel 5
    * Stephen Frears [56], director (Jewish mother; Frears only discovered this as an adult)
    * Jonathan Glazer [57], director
    * Leslie Grade [58], executive
    * Lord Grade [59], executive
    * Michael Grade [60], ITV Chairman
    * Sir Jeremy Isaacs Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999, TV executive
    * Henry Jaglom [61], director (UK-born)
    * Sir Alexander Korda [62], director & producer
    * Zoltan Korda [63], director
    * Mike Leigh [64], director
    * Richard Lester [65], director
    * Jonathan Lynn [66], director
    * Isadore Ostrer [[67]], producer
    * Mark Ostrer [[68]], producer
    * Maurice Ostrer [[69]], producer
    * Sam Mendes [70], director (Jewish mother)
    * Emeric Pressburger [71], Oscar winning screenwriter, director & producer
    * Irving Rapper [15], Oscar-winning film director; born in Britain
    * Karel Reisz [72], director
    * John Schlesinger [73], director
    * Vivian Van Damm [16]
    * Michael Winner [74], director
    * Alan Yentob [75], BBC executive

[edit] Comedians

    * Simon Amstell [76], comedian
    * Ronni Ancona [17], impressionist
    * David Baddiel [77]
    * Sacha Baron Cohen [78], impressionist, Ali G, Borat and Brüno
    * Arnold Brown [79]
    * Sam Costa, comedian: Jewish Chronicle, 2/10/1981 p24 (obituary);
    * Ben Elton [80], comedian & writer
    * Marty Feldman [81], comedian and actor
    * Bud Flanagan [82], comedian & actor
    * Stephen Fry [83], comedian & actor (Jewish mother)
    * Paul Kaye, comedian & actor, Dennis Pennis (The Herald (Glasgow); 07/05/05; Andy Dougan; p.
    * Matt Lucas [84]
    * Bernard Manning [85], comedian
    * Denis Norden [86], scriptwriter and radio & TV personality
    * Jerry Sadowitz [87]
    * Alexei Sayle [88]
    * Peter Sellers [89], comedian & actor
    * Freddie Starr [18], "Me mam was from Germany. She was Jewish." comedian & actor
    * Bernie Winters [90]
    * Mike Winters [91]

[edit] Theatre

    * Jacob Adler [19], Yiddish actor
    * Alain Boublil [92], author and lyricist
    * Peter Brook [93], director
    * Georgia Brown (real name, Lillian Klot), singer/actress, the first Nancy in Oliver!
    * Maria Friedman [94], musical theatre actress
    * Stephen Fry [95], comedian & actor (Jewish mother)
    * Hermione Gingold [20], actress
    * Henry Goodman [96], actor
    * Augustus Harris [97], actor and theatre manager; son of Augustus Glossop Harris
    * Nicholas Hytner [98], director
    * Jonathan Miller [99], director
    * Misty Lindeman actress
    * Anthony Sher [100], actor
    * Meier Tzelniker [21], Yiddish actor
    * Sam Wanamaker [101], actor - "The Globe Theatre" project
    * Zoe Wanamaker [102], actress

[edit] Radio

    * Jenny Abramsky, BBC Director of Radio
    * Rabbi Lionel Blue [103], radio broadcaster
    * Jono Coleman [104], radio broadcaster
    * David Prever radio broadcaster
    * Mark Damazer, Controller BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7[105]
    * Sir Clement Freud (1973) [106], radio broadcaster
    * David Jacobs, radio broadcaster (JYB 2005 p256)
    * Ludwig Karl Koch [22], broadcaster and sound recordist
    * Robin Lustig, radio broadcaster, BBC Radio 4
    * Mike Mendoza [107], TalkSport Radio
    * Charlie Wolf [108], TalkSport Radio
    * Idina Menzel

[edit] Popular musicians

    * Larry Adler [23], harmonica player (American born; naturalised British)
    * Ambrose, bandleader (Obituary: Jewish Chronicle 18/6/1971 p35)
    * Craig David, singer, songwriter <= ő az
    * Nicole, Natalie Appleton & Melanie Blatt [109], members of All Saints
    * Stanley Black [24], bandleader
    * Marc Bolan [110], member of T. Rex
    * Elkie Brooks, singer; Jewish Chronicle 14/2/1992 p10

    "Elkie Brooks and Graham Gouldman are two Jewish pop star graduates of Sedgley Park Primary School, Prestwich"

    * Ian Broudie [111], member of The Lightning Seeds
    * Pete Burns [112] of Dead or Alive (German Jewish mother)
    * Ben Butcher, Reading born singer
    * Johnny Clegg [113], UK-born South African musician
    * Alma Cogan [114], singer
    * Mike D'Abo, former lead singer of Manfred Mann and sang on their hit The Mighty Quinn
    * Leonard Feather [25] writer on jazz, jazz pianist and composer,
    * Victor Feldman [115], jazz musician
    * Justine Frischmann [116], member of Elastica
    * Graham Gouldman, Lol Creme & Kevin Godley [117], members of 10cc. He wrote many 1960's hits such as Bus Stop and Look Through Any Window for The Hollies, Heart Full of Soul, For Your Love and Evil-Hearted You for The Yardbirds and No Milk Today for Herman's Hermits.
    * Benny Green [26], saxophonist and broadcaster
    * Mick Green [118], guitarist for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
    * Peter Green, guitarist Fleetwood Mac (Celmins 2003)
    * Terry Hall, lead vocalist, songwriter of the The Specials, Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield (mother is of German Jewish descent).
    * Steffan Halperin, drummer for Klaxons [119]
    * Dick James singer and music publisher
    * Mick Jones, guitarist, vocalist The Clash (mother is of Russian Jewish descent).
    * Laurence Juber [120], Guitarist, former member of Wings
    * Jason Kay [121], member of Jamiroquai
    * Mark Knopfler, guitarist, singer and songwriter
    * Paul Kossoff [122], member of Free, son of actor David Kossoff
    * Keith Levene, guitarist. Founder member of The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious,The Clash and Public Image with John Lydon.(Father Jewish) Source :http://www.fodderstompf.com/ARCHIVES/INTERVIEWS/nme780.htm
    * Joe Loss [123], bandleader
    * Manfred Mann [124], R&B keyboardist
    * George Michael [125], singer, songwriter, former member of Wham (Jewish mother).
    * Jon Moss [126], member of Culture Club
    * Mark Ronson, Famous DJ, Record producer and Musician
    * Keith Reid & Matthew Fisher [127], founding members of Procol Harum
    * Gavin Rossdale [128], member of Bush
    * Ronnie Scott [129]
    * Helen Shapiro [130], singer
    * John Silver former Genes

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British MPs

British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets)
[edit] Pre-1900

    * Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1837) [2], Conservative Prime Minister (family converted to Anglicanism)
    * Lionel de Rothschild (1847, admitted 1858) [3], Liberal MP, first practising Jew to be elected an MP
    * David Salomons (1851, admitted 1858) Liberal MP, first Jewish Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London, first Jewish magistrate (JYB 2005 p.203)
    * Mayer Amschel de Rothschild [4] (1859) Liberal MP
    * Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (1860) [5], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister
    * Frederick David Goldsmid (1865) [6], MP for Honiton
    * Sir Julian Goldsmid (1866) [7], MP for Honiton, Rochester (1870), St. Pancras South (1894)
    * Sir George Jessel (1868) [8], Solicitor General for England and Wales, later Master of the Rolls; first Jewish minister
    * Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, Conservative MP, later Lord Chancellor (1874) (family converted to Anglicanism) [1]
    * Henry Drummond Wolff [9] (1874)
    * Arthur Cohen [2], Liberal MP (1880)
    * Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright [10], Conservative MP 1880
    * Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (1885)[11], Liberal MP and banker.
    * Sir Edward Sassoon Bt., (1889) Liberal Unionist Party MP for Hythe (The Times, May 25, 1912)
    * Sydney Stern, Baron Wandsworth (1891) MP for Stowmarket JYB 5657 (1896-7) p102
    * Gustav Wilhelm Wolff [12] (1892) MP for East Belfast and founder of Harland and Wolff

[edit] 1900-1939

    * Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1902) [13], Liberal cabinet minister & leader
    * Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1904) [14], Liberal cabinet minister & Viceroy of India. The only British Jew to be elevated to a Marquessate.
    * Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett (1906) - JYB 1911 p297; Encyclopaedia Judaica 12:241-2
    * Edwin Samuel Montagu (1906) [15]
    * Frank Goldsmith Conservative M.P. for Stowmarket (1910) JYB 1911 p297
    * Trebitsch Lincoln (1910) [16]
    * Sir Percy Alfred Harris, Liberal MP (1916) [3]
    * Arthur Samuel [4], Conservative M.P. (1918)
    * Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell (1884-1986) (1922) [17], Labour cabinet minister & Chairman
    * Leslie Haden-Guest [5], Labour MP
    * Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha (1893-1957) (1923) [18], Liberal National cabinet minister
    * Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan of Churt (1929) Liberal, later Labour MP [6]
    * Barnett Janner (1931), Labour MP [7]
    * Dudley Joel (1931), Conservative MP [8]
    * Sydney Silverman (1935) Labour MP 1935 [9]
    * Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin (1936), Labour cabinet minister: Encyclopaedia Judaica vol 14 cols 1539-1540; father of John Silkin and Samuel Silkin

[edit] 1940-1973

    * Tom Driberg, Baron Bradwell (1942) [19], Labour MP
    * Herschel Lewis Austin, [1911-1974] (1945), Labour MP, Stretford and Urmston, Manchester.
    * John Diamond, Baron Diamond (1945), Labour cabinet minister and SDP leader in the House of Lords (The Independent (London); 06/04/04)
    * Maurice Edelman (1911-1975) (1945)[10], Labour MP
    * Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester (1914-1995) (1945) [20], Labour MP
    * Ian Mikardo (1908-1993) (1945) [21], Labour MP
    * Phil Piratin (1945) [22] , Communist Party MP
    * Samuel Segal (1945), Labour MP and later Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
    * Leslie Lever; Labour Baron Lever (1950)
    * Sir Gerald Nabarro (1950) [11], Conservative MP
    * Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid (1955) [12]
    * Keith Joseph, Conservative cabinet minister and life peer (1956) (JYB 1988 p192, 227)
    * Sir Philip Goodhart (1957)[13], Conservative MP and minister
    * Leo Abse (1958) [23], Labour MP & social reformer
    * Myer Galpern (1959) [24] Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
    * John Silkin (1963), Labour cabinet minister (JYB 1986 p186, 269)
    * Joel Barnett (1964), Labour cabinet minister and life peer (JYB 2005 p212)
    * Edmund Dell (1964) [25], Labour cabinet minister & founding chairman of Channel 4
    * Reginald Freeson (1964), Labour minister (JYB 2005 p212, 241-2)
    * Robert Maxwell (1964), Labour MP for Buckingham, subsequently proprietor of the Daily Mirror
    * Samuel Silkin, Labour cabinet minister and life peer (1964) - JYB 1986 p185, 269-70
    * Paul Rose 1964-79 Labour M.P. and Oppostion frontbencher.
    * Eric Moonman (1966), Labour MP (JYB 2005 p279)
    * Robert Adley [11] (1970), Conservative MP
    * James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid [14] (1970), Conservative MP
    * Sally Oppenheim-Barnes (1970), Conservative MP (JYB 2005 p.212, 282-3)
    * Michael Fidler [15], Conservative MP
    * Greville Janner (1970) [26], Labour MP, now life peer
    * Sir Gerald Kaufman (1970) [27], Labour minister
    * Sir Anthony Meyer (1970), Conservative MP, leadership candidate [16]
    * Neville Sandelson Labour & SDP(1971)
    * Sir Clement Freud (1973) [28], Liberal MP
    * David Weitzman Labour MP

[edit] 1974 -

    * Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne (born 1939) (1974) [29], Conservative cabinet minister, European Commissioner
    * Helene Hayman (1974), MP / Life Peer (JYB 2005 p212)
    * Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, Conservative cabinet minister and life peer (1974) - JYB 2005 p212
    * Millie Miller (1974)[17], Labour MP
    * Sir Malcolm Rifkind (1974) [30], Conservative cabinet minister
    * Alf Dubs (1979) [31], Labour MP and life peer
    * Harry Cohen (1983) [32], Labour MP
    * Edwina Currie (1983) [33], Conservative minister
    * Jonathan Djanogly (2001) [34], Conservative MP
    * Michael Fabricant (1992) [35], Conservative MP
    * Michael Howard (1983) [36], Conservative cabinet minister & Leader of the Opposition from 2003 to 2005
    * Barbara Roche (1992) [37], Labour minister
    * Margaret Hodge (1994) [38], Minister of State for Industry and the Regions
    * John Bercow (1997)[18], Conservative MP, Speaker of the British House of Commons
    * Louise Ellman (1997) [39], Labour MP
    * Fabian Hamilton (1997) [40], Labour MP
    * Evan Harris (1997) [41], Liberal Democrat MP
    * Oona King (1997) [42], Labour MP (1997-2005), second black female MP (Jewish mother), niece of Miriam Stoppard
    * Oliver Letwin (1997) [43], Conservative shadow cabinet member, Chairman of the Policy Review & Chairman of the Conservative Research Department
    * Ivan Lewis (1997) [44], Minister of State for Health
    * Gillian Merron (1997) [45], Foreign Office Minister
    * Michael Wills (1997), Labour MP
    * Lynne Featherstone (2005), Liberal Democrat MP (Evening Standard (London); 11/04/05; ANDREW GILLIGAN; p. 16)
    * Susan Kramer (2005) Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Upon Thames
    * Ed Miliband (2005) [46], Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Brother of David Miliband and son of theorist Ralph Miliband.
    * Lee Scott (2005)[19], Conservative MP
    * Grant Shapps (2005) Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield
    * David Sumberg (1983-1995) MP for Bury South

[edit] Peers

    * Alma Birk, Baroness Birk [20], Labour politician
    * Anna Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell [21], Labour politician
    * Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith [47], [48], Attorney General
    * Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman [49], solicitor
    * Lord George Gordon, politician (converted)[22]
    * Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson, newspaper editor [23]
    * Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief rabbi
    * Michael Levy, Baron Levy - JYB 2005 p212, 270
    * Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham [50], newspaper proprietor
    * Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, [24] scientist and Government minister
    * Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End (1987) [51], Labour peer & economist, father of the BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston
    * Beatrice Plummer [25], Labour politician
    * Samuel Segal (1964), Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
    * Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota [26], Labour politician
    * David Triesman, Baron Triesman [52], Labour peer and Junior Minister
    * Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg, Physician
    * Lord Leonard Wolfson (JYB 2005 p212)
    * Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf [53], Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 2000-2006

[edit] Other

    * Patricia Richardson (politician) [54] [55] Far-Right British National Party politician
    * Hilda Bernstein [56] Anti-apartheid activist
    * Tony Cliff [57], (né Yigael Gluckstein) Palestinian-born Marxist theorist and founder of the Socialist Workers Party
    * Gerry Gable [58], communist activist & publisher of Searchlight magazine
    * Nicky Gavron [59], Deputy Mayor of London
    * Sir James Goldsmith, founder of the Referendum Party
    * Victor Gollancz [60], publisher and political activist
    * Ted Grant [61], (né Isaac Blank) South African-born Marxist theorist and founder of the Militant Tendency
    * Sidney Hart, Trade Unionist (Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 15/04/05, p40)
    * Chaim Herzog [62], Israel's sixth president, born in Belfast and known as Vivian Herzog during, and after, his tenure in the British Army
    * Lou Kenton, International Brigade volunteer
    * Norman John Klugmann [27], aka James Klugmann, communist
    * Minnie Lansbury [28], suffragette and alderman
    * Eleanor Marx, daughter and secretary of Karl Marx

    "His beloved daughter Eleanor, however, who acted as his secretary, considered herself Jewish, took interest in her ancestors, and had a warm appreciation for the Jewish workers in the East End of London." Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Marx, Karl Heinrich.

    * Ralph Miliband (1924-94) [63] (né Adolphe Miliband) Belgian born Polish-Jewish Marxist theorist and father of David and Ed Miliband.
    * Dame Shirley Porter [64], Lord Mayor of Westminster 1991-92
    * Sir Julius Vogel [65], Prime Minister of New Zealand
    * Walter Wolfgang [66], a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

[edit] References
[edit] Footnotes

   1. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia
   2. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge"
   3. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 4 July 1952
   4. ^ Jewish Heraldry "As noted above, Sir Nathaniel Rothschild was the first Jewish peer in 1885. Later peers include Rufus Isaacs (baron 1914, viscount 1916, marquis of Reading 1926), Samuel (viscount Bearsted in 1925), Herbert Samuel (viscount Samuel 1937), Montagu Samuel-Montagu (baron Swaythling in 1907), Jessel (baron Jessel in 1924), Mond (baron Melchett in 1928), Samuel (baron Mancroft in 1937), Nathan (baron Nathan in 1940), Silkin (baron Silkin in 1950)." Accessed 28 November 2006.
   5. ^ "the first Jewish Labour candidate, Captain Haden-Guest": Jewish Chronicle March 11 1966, page 8
   6. ^ Jewish Heraldry see Arthur Samuel
   7. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish leader"
   8. ^ Jewish Chronicle July 25 1941, p.12, "Jews in the Navy"
   9. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "of Jewish parentage"
  10. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jews who had emigrated from eastern Europe"
  11. ^ a b Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999
  12. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Harry, as he was always called, united both in blood as well as name the vitality, attitudes, and temperaments of two Jewish banking dynasties"
  13. ^ Flade, Ronald. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the American Jewish Historical Society. Accessed 14 Nov 2006.
  14. ^ American Jewish Year Book, 1989
  15. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, September 8, 1989, p.18
  16. ^ Spectator, 2/12/1989 p5: "Sir Anthony ... is a representative of the enlightened haute juiverie"
  17. ^ Jewish Chronicle, October 18, 1974, p.5: List of Jewish MPs
  18. ^ The Spectator Mar 20, 1999; online here [1]
  19. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 7 Dec 2006, p.5: "The Jewish Conservative MP for Ilford North"
  20. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  21. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  22. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "became a Jew"
  23. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
  24. ^ Jewish Science and Technology Books, accessed 20 Feb 2007.
  25. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  26. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  27. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jewish parents"
  28. ^ Jewish Chronicle, April 13, 2007, p.6: "a Jewish suffragette, councillor and socialist"

[edit] Bibliography

    * JYB = Jewish Year Book (annual)
    * "Obituary: Sir Edward Sassoon". The Times, Saturday, May 25, 1912; pg. 11; Issue 39908; col C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Br ... sh_writers

Authors, A-J

    * Grace Aguilar [2], novelist & poet
    * Naomi Alderman [3], novelist, winner of the Orange Award for new writers 2006
    * Lisa Appignanesi [4], novelist
    * Alain de Botton [5], writer
    * Caryl Brahms [1], writer
    * David Bret biographer, broadcaster & chansonnier (French-born, Jewish father)
    * Anita Brookner [6], novelist
    * Ian Buruma [7], Dutch-born journalist and writer
    * Elias Canetti [8], novelist, Nobel Prize (1981) (Bulgarian-born)
    * Chapman Cohen [2], writer on secularism
    * Jackie Collins [9], novelist
    * Alan Coren [3], humorous writer

    His children, Giles and Victoria, are also writers

    * Charlotte Dacre [10], novelist and poet
    * Isaac D'Israeli [11], writer
    * Jenny Diski [12] writer
    * Richard Ellmann [4], literary scholar and biographer
    * Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish born): TimesAd
    * Benjamin Farjeon [5]
          o Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
    * Gilbert Frankau [6], writer
    * Stephen Fry [13], actor & writer
    * Neil Gaiman [14], fantasy writer
    * Louis Golding [15], novelist
    * Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer [7]
    * Linda Grant [16], novelist
    * Charlotte Haldane [17], feminist writer
    * Basil Henriques [18]
    * Muriel Gray [19], Author, 'The Tube' presenter.
    * Zoë Heller [20], author (Jewish father)
    * Noreena Hertz [21], great granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire)
    * Joseph Jacobs [22], folklorist
    * Howard Jacobson [23], writer & broadcaster
    * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala[8] novelist and screenwriter
    * Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer (JYB 2005 p215)

[edit] Authors, K-Z

    * Judith Kerr [24], children's writer
    * Matthew Kneale [25], writer (Jewish mother)
    * Arthur Koestler [26], novelist & critic
    * Marghanita Laski [27], writer
    * Sir Sidney Lee (1859-1926) [28], biographer and literary scholar
    * Joseph Leftwich [29], writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
    * David Levi [9], writer on Jewish subjects
    * Amy Levy, 1861-1889, poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist.
    * Paul Levy, food writer, biographer. Long rabbinical pedigree, vide "Finger Lickin' Good: A Kentucky Childhood," (London 1986)
    * Leo Marks [30], cryptographer & screenwriter
    * Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
    * George Mikes, Encyclopaedia Judaica vol 6, column 789, Hungarian-born comic writer
    * Santa Montefiore [10], author (convert)
    * Simon Sebag Montefiore [31], writer
    * Harold Pinter [32], writer, playwright
    * Frederic Raphael [33], screenwriter, novelist & critic
    * Michael Rosen [34], novelist, poet & broadcaster
    * Bernice Rubens [35], novelist
    * Will Self [36], novelist (Jewish mother)
    * Muriel Spark, [37], novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)

    Jewish Chronicle 13/3/1998 p1: "Dame Muriel Spark, the author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and several other celebrated works, is halachically Jewish." (Says her mother was Jewish too.)

    * William Sutcliffe, Novelist - New Boy(1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008)
    * Adam Thirlwell, novelist
    * Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
    * Stephen Winsten Jewish Quarterly article on the Whitechapel Boys, writer
    * Leonard Woolf [38], writer & activist
    * Rachel Zadok [39], South African-born novelist
    * Israel Zangwill [40], novelist

    "Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish writer and political activist, was probably the best known Jew in the English-speaking world at the start of the twentieth century."

[edit] Poets

    * Dannie Abse [41], poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
    * Al Alvarez [42], poet
    * Ivor Cutler [43], poet, humorist, musician
    * Elaine Feinstein [44], poet, writer, biographer
    * Rose Fyleman [11], children's writer
    * Karen Gershon [45], German-born poet
    * Philip Hobsbaum [46], poet
    * Jenny Joseph, poet (The Times (London); 23/11/02; Amanda Craig; p. 6)
    * Laurence Lerner [47], poet (born South Africa)
    * Denise Levertov [48] [49], poet, born in England
    * Peter Levi [50], poet (born Jewish; family converted to Catholicism)
    * Amy Levy [51], poet & novelist
    * Vivian de Sola Pinto [52], poet
    * John Rodker, poet and publisher[12]
    * Isaac Rosenberg [53], war poet
    * Siegfried Sassoon [54], poet

    "Abstract: "Difference at War" is a comparative study of three Jewish poet-soldiers of the First World War: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and U. Z. Grinberg. ... The poetry of each of these Jewish poets was transformed by the War"

    * Jon Silkin [55], poet
    * Humbert Wolfe [13], poet and civil servant

[edit] Playwrights

    * Peter Barnes [56], playwright
    * Ronald Harwood [57], playwright & screenwriter
    * Patrick Marber [58], playwright & comedian
    * Harold Pinter [59], playwright
    * Jack Rosenthal [60], TV playwright
    * Peter & Anthony Shaffer [61], playwrights
    * Tom Stoppard [62], playwright
    * Alfred Sutro [63], playwright
    * Arnold Wesker [64], playwright

[edit] Journalists

    * Barbara Amiel [14]
    * Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
    * Alex Brummer, Economic and financial journalist and biographer
    * Ian Buruma [65], Dutch-born author and journalist
    * John Diamond [66], journalist
    * Jonathan Freedland [67], journalist
    * Ernest Abraham Hart [15]
    * Dominic Lawson [16], journalist
    * Nigella Lawson [68], Cookery writer
    * Norman Lebrecht [69], journalist, writer & critic
    * Bernard Levin [70], journalist & broadcaster
    * Emily Maitlis [71], TV newscaster & reporter
    * Robert Peston [72], BBC Business Editor
    * Melanie Phillips [73], journalist
    * Eve Pollard [74], journalist & newspaper editor
    * Marjorie Proops agony aunt
    * Richard Quest [75], CNN International anchorman
    * Kimberly Quinn [76], publisher
    * Claire Rayner [77], agony aunt
    * Jon Ronson, [78] Journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter.
    * Jim Rosenthal, TV sports journalist & presenter (The Observer (London); 18/12/05; p. 6)
    * Jon Sopel, [79] Journalist, presents The Politics Show on BBC One and is one of the lead presenters on News 24.
    * Mark Steyn [80] journalist & writer
    * Victor Weisz, Vicky [17], cartoonist

[edit] References

    * JYB = Jewish Year Book
    * TimesAd: The Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews)

[edit] Footnotes

   1. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Dec. 10, 1982
   2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the elder son of Enoch Cohen, a Jewish confectioner, and his wife, Deborah Barnett"
   3. ^ The Express 15 January 2005; David Robson at large: "a book of pieces by Alan Coren, a Jewish humorous writer"
   4. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the second of the three sons (there were no daughters) of James Isaac Ellmann, lawyer, a Jewish Romanian immigrant, and his wife, Jeanette Barsook, an immigrant from Kiev in Ukraine"
   5. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His parents were Orthodox Jews"
   6. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "In spite of his Jewish descent his sympathies were with the extreme right"
   7. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
   8. ^ [1] "Anglo-Indian writer ... Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Cologne, Germany. Her father, a lawyer, was of Polish-Jewish origin and her mother was German-Jewish. Jhabvala attended Jewish segregated school before she emigrated in 1939 with her family to Britain." Accessed 1 Nov 2006.
   9. ^ Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish controversialist, born in London in 1740, was son of Mordecai Levi, a member of the London congregation of German and Polish Jews"
  10. ^ The Independent Feb 7, 2005; online here Findarticles accessed 11 Dec 2006
  11. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Her father was in the lace trade, and the family were freethinking Jews"
  12. ^ Anglo-Jewish poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein" by Peter Lawson; ISBN 0-85303-617-9
  13. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born Umberto Wolff in Milan of Jewish parentage"
  14. ^ Daily Mail, 21/12/2001, p13: "Conrad Black's wife Barbara Amiel, a Jewish writer"
  15. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "as a Jew, and therefore subject to the University Test Acts, Hart decided against university entry"
  16. ^ Jewish Chronicle, July 29, 2005 p.24: "Lawson - one of the few Jewish editors of a national paper"
  17. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Germany of Hungarian Jewish parents"

[mgt23]

Tory brought down by expenses ignores Cameron to take lobbying job

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/p ... 022322.ece

A former adviser to David Cameron has joined a public affairs company two days after the Conservative leader said that lobbying was "the next big scandal waiting to happen".

Andrew MacKay, who is standing down as an MP at the election, has taken a job as "strategic adviser" to the lobbyists Burson-Marsteller, The Times has discovered.

The company said that the appointment of Mr MacKay, who served as a senior adviser to Mr Cameron until last year, "means that we are uniquely placed to advise clients whatever the make-up of the new government after the election".

The chief executive of BursonMarsteller is Matt Carter, who was Labour's general secretary during the cash-for-honours affair. Mr Carter issued a press release on the appointment shortly after he was approached for a comment when The Times learnt that the lobbyists had been holding secret negotiations with the Tory MP.

The company said that it had announced the appointment in ad- vance "in the interests of transparency and so there can be perceived to be no conflict of interest in his current role as an MP".

Mr MacKay, one of the casualties of the expenses scandal, is said to have negotiated a six-figure salary. "He's been told to keep close to the Cameron team," an insider said.

His appointment threatens to be a serious embarrassment to the Conservative leadership. In a speech on Monday, Mr Cameron said that "secret corporate lobbying, like the expenses scandal, goes to the heart of why people are so fed up with politics".

Mr Cameron said that an incoming Tory government would tighten the rules limiting the ability of former ministers to lobby government. Mr MacKay, however, would not be covered by the new rules even if they were in force today as he is not a minister. He will take up his new role after the election. In a statement he said: "After leaving Parliament I want to be a part of a winning team that is assisting global businesses face their strategic communications challenges, and Burson-Marsteller provides a fantastic opportunity to do this."

The public affairs company is one of the largest in the world. Within the past six months, its UK division announced that it had won contracts to lobby for Heineken, the brewing giant, and the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, which represents videogame producers.

Mr MacKay, the MP for Bracknell, was a highly influential member of Mr Cameron's inner circle until he was caught up in the expenses controversy. He and his wife, Julie Kirkbride, the Tory MP for Bromsgrove, were found to have been claiming the costs of running two homes on parliamentary allowances. He faced the fifth- largest repayment bill after the audit of expenses by Sir Thomas Legg.

Although he agreed to quit as an adviser to Mr Cameron last spring, he remained close to the Tory leader's inner circle. Mr Cameron tried, but failed, to rescue Ms Kirkbride's political career, holding a series of meetings with the couple. She too, however, announced late last year that she was standing down as an MP.

The chief executive of BursonMarsteller is Matt Carter, who was Labour's general secretary during the cash-for-honours affair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burson-Marsteller

.....note Burson is owned by WPP see above post 1 by Jew Martin Sorrell

Burson-Marsteller is one of the largest public relations agencies in the world. Formed by Harold Burson and Bill Marsteller in 1953,[1] it is now a unit of Young & Rubicam, which is owned by London-based WPP Group. The firm has 58 wholly-owned and 45 affiliated offices in 59 countries across six continents.

take a look at the wankers these guys represent.........

Notable clients
[edit] Blackwater USA

Burson-Marsteller represented Blackwater USA following a September 16 incident in which Blackwater employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians, according to the Iraqi government's investigation. Former B-M executive Robert Tappan worked on the firm's Blackwater account. Tappan worked at B-M's lobbying subsidiary, BKSH & Associates, and is a former US State Department official. BKSH helped Blackwater founder and head Erik Prince prepare for his October 2 testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.[3]
[edit] Babcock & Wilcox

After the Three Mile Island accident of 1979 became the most significant accident in the history of US commercial nuclear power generation, Burson-Marsteller conducted public relations work for the plant's manufacturers, Babcock & Wilcox[4].
[edit] Colombia

On April 5, 2008 the Colombian government of Alvaro Uribe terminated its business with Penn and his Burson-Marsteller firm.[5]
[edit] Nigeria

The Ministry of Information of Nigeria employed Burson-Marsteller in the late 60s to assist in counteracting allegations by secessionists that the Nigerian government was committing genocide in the breakaway province of Biafra. Although the civil war brought about enormous suffering on both sides, an international commission reported finding no evidence of systemic genocide or serious human rights violations.
[edit] Romania

Burson-Marsteller assisted totalitarian Romania in gaining Most Favored Nation status for trade with the United States. At the time the US and other western nations regarded Nicolae Ceauşescu as the friendliest of the Soviet bloc leaders to their interests. US President Nixon visited Ceauşescu in Bucharest in 1969 and the Romanian dictator was said to be instrumental in arranging Nixon's visit to China. B-M also promoted trade and tourism for Romania, one result was a week-long visit to Romania by NBC's Today program.
[edit] Singapore

Burson-Marsteller helped Singapore develop a program to attract overseas investment shortly after its formation as a nation in the mid-60s. This activity continued for approximately ten years and set the stage for Singapore's highly successful high tech manufacturing economy.
[edit] Argentina

Burson-Marsteller has been critiziced for organizing a campaign against human rights organizations at the behest of the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983). These organizations were denouncing state crimes against humanity that were taking place in what later became known as the Dirty War. Burson-Marsteller has maintained through the years that it was never asked by its client to defend human rights violations; but researcher Rubén Morales wrote that the company itself created a slogan to that effect in 1979, coinciding with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' fact-finding visit that September. The slogan stated: «We Argentines are right and humane» (tr: «los argentinos somos derechos y humanos»).[6]

With full knowledge of and advice from of the U.S. State Department, Burson-Marsteller accepted the military junta government of General Jorge Videla as a client to attract industrial investment, market Argentine bonds and promote Argentine products, mainly wine, and to improve the image of the dictatorship around the world. Burson-Marsteller was contacted by the Minister of Economy, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, a very well-known multinational company executive. During the Videla government's reign, thousands of Argentine citizens disappeared and many more were tortured for their political beliefs, known as the Dirty War. BM did not seek an extension of its four-year contract.

In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein states:
"    Victor Emmanuel, the Burson-Marsteller public relations executive who was in charge of selling the Argentine junta's new business-friendly regime to the outside world, told a researcher that violence was necessary to open up Argentina's "protective, statist" economy. "No one, but no one, invests in a country involved in a civil war," he said, but he admitted that it wasn't just guerrillas who died. "A lot of innocent people were probably killed," he told the author Marguerite Feitlowitz, but, "given the situation, immense force was required."    "
[edit] Saudi Arabia

Burson-Marsteller's relationship with Saudi Arabia dates to the late 1970s when it launched a new petrochemical producer SABIC (Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation). This activity continued for two decades and was consistent with business-to-business programs undertaken for other industrial clients. In the mid-90s, the King Faisal Foundation retained Burson-Marsteller to gain recognition for several initiatives, including the King Faisal Prize for scientific achievement. This work continued for four years. Its only other engagement for Saudi Arabia was preparing advertisements for major media following the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
[edit] Crisis Management

Burson-Marsteller's strong position in crisis management has resulted in its identification with many major corporate crises of the past half century. It is well known for assisting Johnson & Johnson in the two Tylenol crises in 1982 and 1986. The Tylenol case is frequently cited as the text book model of corporate responsibility for its crisis management [citation needed].

Burson-Marsteller also has had a close working relationship with many of the global producers and marketers of petroleum products in training their employees how to respond to crises and working on key communications of specific crisis situations such as oil spills and serious accidents. It has also worked with these companies in the development of environmental upgrade programs. Among those served by Burson-Marsteller are Shell, Exxon Mobil, Conoco, Chevron, BP, Repsol, Gulf and numerous smaller entities that were merged into the larger companies.

Burson-Marsteller was awarded a Silver Anvil, the public relations industry's highest honor for a communications program aimed at restoring confidence in the Korean economy during the Asian financial crisis of 1998.
[edit] Bhopal disaster

Burson-Marsteller represented Union Carbide Corporation, jointly responsible for the Bhopal disaster in 1984 that killed some 2,000 employees and nearby neighbors and seriously injured thousands more.[7] The plant was a joint venture of Union Carbide Corporation, a long time B-M client, and the Indian government. While originally operated by Union Carbide, it was taken over by local Indian management prior to the accidental discharge of a deadly gas used in the manufacture of insecticides. Burson-Marsteller's first objective was establishing a mechanism that would be helpful to global media representatives in transmitting news from a remote location in India to newspaper, TV and radio outlets. Two B-M executives were sent to Bhopal for this purpose and remained there more than a month. This facilitated daily press conferences that reported on steps taken following the accident.

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........next time you come and see me MI5 CT Unit maybe you'll listen you stoopid idiots........you've been set up by Mossad, Milliband and the Rothschilds. I warned you about the Rothschilds but would you have it? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Steve is just some dumb scummy council estate chav hahahahahahahaha who's laughing now?!!!! Next time you come and see me bring me shit on the Rothschilds and Zionists before its too late and the country gets destroyed and much much more. You've been warned.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... laims.html
MI5 chief defends agency over torture cover-up claims

The director-general of MI5 has issued a passionate defence of the Security Service against the "conspiracy theory" that it covered up its involvement in torture.
 

By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
Published: 10:30PM GMT 11 Feb 2010
The Director General of Britain's domestic spy agency MI5, Jonathan Evans : MI5 chief: new front in the war on terror
Mr Evans warns that the row over alleged human rights abuses would be used by 'our enemies' as 'propaganda to undermine our will and ability to confront them'. Photo: AP

Jonathan Evans said accusations made by Lord Neuberger, the country's second most senior judge, that there was a "culture of suppression" at MI5 were "the precise opposite of the truth".

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mr Evans warns that the row over alleged human rights abuses would be used by "our enemies" as "propaganda to undermine our will and ability to confront them".
 

His unprecedented response to criticism in print indicates the anger within MI5 at what is rapidly becoming its biggest crisis of recent years.

The row escalated on Wednesday when the Court of Appeal ordered the disclosure of seven paragraphs of evidence which showed that MI5 knew that Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee, was being mistreated by the CIA.

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, had tried to prevent the publication of the material.

The most damning criticism of MI5 was contained in an unpublished draft version of the court's judgment, details of which were leaked to the media, in which Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, claimed that the Security Service failed to respect human rights or denounce torture, and had lied to Parliament about what it knew.

In the Telegraph article, Mr Evans carefully avoids criticising the judiciary, but he hints that he believes that extremists are using the courts to attack MI5.

"We will do all that we can to keep the country safe from terrorist attack. We will use all the powers available to us under the law," he writes.

"For their part our enemies will also seek to use all tools at their disposal to attack us. That means not just bombs, bullets and aircraft but also propaganda.

"Their freedom to voice extremist views is part of the price we pay for living in a democracy, and it is a price worth paying."

There is a growing belief in Whitehall that human rights lawyers and Islamic activists are, perhaps unwittingly, helping the cause of Islamic extremism.

One well-placed Whitehall source said: "Intelligence officers are finding it very difficult to be accused of things they don't do. They don't take the law into their own hands but still they make these accusations against them.

"There is no doubt there is a campaign being run to try to destabilise the intelligence agencies. They are using against them mechanisms like the courts and are being funded by the taxpayer to do so."

Mr Evans, who became director-general of MI5 in 2007, admits that British intelligence agencies were "slow to detect" US mistreatment of detainees after 9/11. But he insists: "We in the UK agencies did not practise mistreatment or torture then and do not do so now, nor do we collude in torture or encourage others to torture on our behalf."

His comments contrast sharply with Lord Neuberger's judgment, which was paraphrased as suggesting that the "culture of suppression" in MI5 "penetrates the Service to such a degree as to undermine any

UK government assurances based on the Service's information and advice". Lord Neuberger was also reported to have said that MI5 had "a worrying disregard for the truth".

Scotland Yard has consulted senior prosecutors about the possibility of bringing criminal charges against an MI5 officer who questioned Mr Mohamed in Pakistan, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

A police inquiry into the officer, which began last July at the request of Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, is understood to be at an advanced stage, and lawyers have discussed whether the officer could be charged under the Human Rights Act, which prohibits torture. An MI6 officer is also under investigation over an unrelated case.

Mr Evans today echoes warnings from Mr Miliband that publishing intelligence given to MI5 by the US could damage Britain's intelligence-sharing agreement.

"We must hope, for our own safety and security, that this does not make them [the Americans] less ready to share intelligence with us in the future," he says.

His comments were backed by the Foreign Secretary and Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, who wrote to national newspapers praising Britain's "world class" security and intelligence agencies.

The Government's terrorism watchdog, Lord Carlile of Berriew, said MI5 should be subjected to stricter scrutiny to restore public confidence after the Mohamed case.

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have to postpone show until i figure out why my soundcard or wire doesnt work.....nope no good wire or box needs replacing ffs try tommorrow

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did i miss the audio in that huge list Steve?

 

edit; just read above post. no problem

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ports.html

Britain and Israel are heading towards a highly sensitive diplomatic row after alleged assassins used forged British passports on a mission to kill a Hamas military commander.
 

By Martin Evans, and Gordon Rayner
Published: 11:00PM GMT 16 Feb 2010
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A woman named as Gail Foliard, wearing a black wig over her blonde hair, seen on hotel CCTV at the time of the killing.
Dubai Hamas assassination: a smiling killer and mystery of forged UK passports
The other suspects wanted in connection with the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, clockwise from top left: Michael Lawrence Barney, James Leonard Clarke, Stephen Daniel Hodes, Paul John Keeley, Melvyn Adam Mildiner Photo: AP

The Foreign Office was investigating how the identities of six innocent Britons — at least three of whom lived in Israel — came to be used by the alleged hit team.

Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, blamed Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, for the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was found dead in a hotel room in Dubai last month.
 
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Israel refused to comment on claims that the 11-strong hit squad were its agents, but any admission that it was behind the assassination would threaten Britain's fragile intelligence-sharing agreement with Mossad.

As police in Dubai released CCTV footage of the suspects yesterday, some of the Britons whose identities were stolen voiced their anger after waking up to discover that they had been named in the plot.

"I have not left Israel for two years and I certainly have not been to Dubai recently," said Kent-born Paul Keeley, 42, a builder who has lived on a Kibbutz in northern Israel for the past 15 years.

"When I first heard about this I immediately looked to make sure my passport was still there and it was. It has not been stolen, so I don't know what on earth has happened.

"I woke up this morning and suddenly my life is like an espionage movie. It is all very worrying but I know I have not done anything wrong."

Mr Keeley's mother, Joan, of Yalding, near Maidstone, said the picture released by the Dubai police of a suspect named as "Paul Keeley" was similar to her son, suggesting that his identity had been used because of his resemblance to the alleged assassin.

Police in Dubai circulated photographs of the suspects, who used six British passports, three Irish, one German and one French.

The Foreign Office said the British passports were "fraudulent", while the Irish foreign ministry said it had issued "no such passports" in the names used. A spokesman for the government in Berlin said the passport number on the German document was also fake.

Another of the suspects named in Dubai was Harrow-born Melvyn Mildiner, 31, who lives near Jerusalem, and who said he was "angry, upset and scared" to discover that his passport had been forged.

"It's not me, which is one silver lining to this entire story because at least I can point to it and say, 'Look, that's not me.' It's not the picture that I have in my passport and it's not the picture that I have on my face that I walk around with every day," he said.

"I have my passport. It's in my house, and there are no Dubai stamps on it because I've never been to Dubai."

Mr Mildiner, who bears a resemblance to the picture on the forged passport used by the alleged assassin, added: "I don't know how this happened or who chose my name or why, but hopefully we'll find out soon."

The other Britons named in Dubai were Salford-born Stephen Hodes, 37, who works as a physiotherapist at a hospital in Jerusalem; Michael Lawrence Barney, 55, originally of north London, who is also understood to live in Israel; Jonathan Louis Graham, 31, of north London; and James Leonard Clarke, 47, who until recently lived in Brighton.

Britain's intelligence-sharing agreement with Israel has become increasingly important since the September 11 attacks and in the light of Iran's desire to develop nuclear weapons.

But it has a chequered history: Margaret Thatcher closed the Mossad operation in Britain in 1987 after it mounted an operation in London to kidnap Mordechai Vanunu, the whistle-blower who revealed secrets about Israel's nuclear arsenal.

Mossad hit squads were known to have used forged foreign passports. Canada and New Zealand have both had disputes with Israel in recent years over suspected Mossad agents trying to use forged passports on operations.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/1 ... e-timeline

What and when MI5 knew about torture

Timeline of what the former MI5 chief Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller and her colleagues knew

 

Manningham Buller

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of MI5 throughout most of the years of the so-called war on terror, insisted yesterday that she had not known that Khalid Shiekh Mohammed was being waterboarded.

In a response to the appeal court's judgment that MI5 officers had a "dubious record" on torture, she sought to blame the US and maintained that only after she retired in 2007 did she discover that the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks had been waterboarded 160 times.

"The Americans were very keen that people like us did not discover what they were doing," she said. Critics, though, said the former head of the security service was stretching credulity by claiming the matter had come as such a surprise.

10 January 2002 An MI6 officer, carrying out one of the first British interrogations in Afghanistan after 9/11, reports back to London that the individual was mistreated by Americans before the questioning began. The incident is reported by the Intelligence and Security committee (ISC) , the group of MPs and peers that is supposed to provide oversight of MI5 and MI6.

11 January 2002 Every MI6 and MI5 officer in Afghanistan is issued with legal advice stating that they are under no obligation to intervene to prevent torture, as long as the victim is not in UK "custody or control", but that British intelligence officers "cannot be party to such ill treatment nor can we be seen to condone it". Critics of MI5 say this advice failed to meet its obligations under international law, and was subsequently used to facilitate torture. Later in the month, the Pentagon releases pictures taken by US navy photographers, showing hooded and shackled detainees being dragged across the ground at the newly opened detention centre at Guantánamo Bay.

April 2002 The CIA hands MI5 more than 50 classified documents that detail the mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident detained at Karachi airport in Pakistan on 10 April. A judicial summary of those documents – released by the court of appeal last month after an 18-month battle by the government to conceal it from the public – shows that MI5 knew Mohamed was being "continuously deprived of sleep", threatened with being "disappeared", and that this was "having a marked effect upon him and causing him significant mental stress and suffering".

Manningham-Buller was deputy director general of MI5 at the time the agency received these CIA documents. Having learned the details of Mohamed's mistreatment, MI5 sends one of its officers, a man known as Witness B, to Karachi to question Mohamed. The high court later concludes: "The probability is that Witness B read the reports either before he left for Karachi or before he conducted the interview ... a briefing document was prepared for sending to him." Witness B is now the subject of a Scotland Yard investigation.

September 2002 MI5 knows that Binyam Mohamed is no longer in Pakistan, having been "rendered" elsewhere, but, the high court later concludes, continues to supply "information as well as questions which they knew were to be used in interview of [Mohamed] from the time of his arrest whilst he was held incommunicado and without access to a lawyer or review by a court or tribunal".

October 2002 Eliza Manningham-Buller is appointed director general of the Security Service.

4 April 2004 Salahuddin Amin, a terrorism suspect from Luton, is questioned by MI5 officers 11 times after surrendering to a Pakistani intelligence agency whose use of torture is widely documented. An Old Bailey judge later says Amin's treatment in Pakistan was "physically oppressive" and unlawful, but fell short of torture. Pakistani intelligence officers told Human Rights Watch last year that Amin's account of being tortured before being questioned by MI5 was "essentially accurate", and that both British and American officials were "perfectly aware that we were using all means possible to extract information from him and were grateful that we were doing so".

27 April 2004 Pictures of US troops abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad are broadcast on the US television news programme 60 Minutes.

13 May 2004 The New York Times reports that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was subjected to waterboarding by the CIA. The newspaper says it learned this from current and former counter-terrorism officials, and says the FBI has warned its officers not to become involved in interrogations during which waterboarding was employed, after the bureau's director, Robert Mueller, was warned they could face prosecution. The newspaper adds: "These techniques were authorised by a set of secret rules for the interrogation of high-level Qaeda prisoners, none known to be housed in Iraq, that were endorsed by the Justice Department and the CIA."

24 May 2004 In an apparent response to the release of the Abu Ghraib pictures, Tony Blair writes to the ISC to tell the committee of changes to the UK interrogation policy that was passed to MI5 officers and MI6 officers in January 2002. One change is that MI5 and MI6 officers are told to inform London whenever they see US counterparts mistreating inmates. They are also told they must not return to question detainees who complain they are being tortured. In practice, according to several torture victims, UK intelligence officers hand over to US interrogators after hearing such a complaint. Other changes to the interrogation policy remain secret. The government refuses to publish the policy, with David Miliband, the foreign secretary, saying that to do so could "give succour" to the UK's enemies.

22 June 2004 The White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez and the Pentagon general counsel, Jim Haynes, hold a press conference at which they release a series of documents setting out the legal advice justifying the use of abusive interrogation techniques employed at Guantánamo.

15 May 2005 Zeeshan Siddiqui, a terrorism suspect from west London, is arrested in Pakistan, tortured, and then questioned by British intelligence officers. Pakistani intelligence officer later tell Human Rights Watch that these were MI6 officers, who were aware at all times that Siddiqui was being "processed in the traditional way", and that the British were "effectively" interrogating Siddiqui. When Siddiqui is brought before court, the magistrate orders his immediate hospitalisation. He is eventually deported to the UK and subjected to a control order.

20 August 2005 A medical student from west London is held in a building opposite the British deputy high commission offices in Karachi and tortured, for two months, before being questioned by British intelligence officers. Pakistani agents later tell Human Rights Watch that British officials across the road knew the student was being mistreated and were "breathing down our necks for information". The student is later released without charge.

7 August 2006 Rashid Rauf, from Birmingham, is arrested in Pakistan for questioning over an alleged plot to blow up several airliners over the Atlantic. He later tells his lawyer he was tortured before being questioned by men with both British and American accents. Human Rights Watch says that both British and Pakistani intelligence officers have told them that he was mistreated.

20 August 2006 An MI6 officer suggests to Pakistani intelligence officers that they might want to detain a British terrorism suspect, Rangzieb Ahmed, after police in Manchester decide to let him leave the UK on a flight to Islamabad. According to statements made in the Commons, Manchester crown court – sitting in secret – learned that UK intelligence officers knew that those Pakistani officials tortured terrorism suspects. MI5 and Greater Manchester police draw up questions to be put to Ahmed, who is beaten, deprived of sleep, and has three of his fingernails removed with pliers.

When Ahmed is deported to the UK to be put on trial, on the basis of evidence largely gathered before he flew to Pakistan, prosecutors attempt to claim that his fingernails were removed before he went to Pakistan. The crown's own pathologist says the injuries show this is impossible. The judge rules that UK complicity in Ahmed's torture is not so great that his trial cannot go ahead. The judge's full ruling on Ahmed's torture is being kept secret, at the request of the Crown Prosecution Service, following representations by MI5 and Greater Manchester police. Ahmed is now launching an appeal, on the basis of what the judge said in his secret ruling.

23 November 2006 Manningham-Buller tells the ISC that she regrets not asking the CIA for more information about the whereabouts of Binyam Mohamed after he was rendered from Pakistan to Morocco in July 2002. It is a case "where, with hindsight, we would regret not seeking proper full assurances," she says. In a report published in July 2007, the committee concludes: "Whilst no assurances were sought, this is understandable given the lack of knowledge, at the time, of any possible consequences of US custody of detainees."

However, almost five years before Manningham-Buller gave evidence to the ISC, MI5 had given its officers legal advice that facilitated the questioning of people being tortured. This was done after the service had been made aware, by an MI6 officer, that detainees were being mistreated. The ISC had been told about this legal advice – and the reasons it was issued – in September 2004, almost three years before it reported that a lack of knowledge of the mistreatment of detainees by the US authorities was understandable.

27 October 2006 The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, confirms that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was subjected to waterboarding, telling an interviewer that the use of the technique was a "no-brainer", and that "our ability to interrogate high-value detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – that's been a very important tool that we've had to be able to secure the nation." This is widely reported on both sides of the Atlantic.

21 April 2007 Manningham-Buller steps down as director-general of the Security Service.

15 October 2009 Manningham-Buller's successor, Jonathan Evans, defends MI5's co-operation with intelligence agencies known to use torture, saying that it thwarted many terrorist attacks after 9/11 and saved British lives. "In my view we would have been derelict in our duty if we had not worked, circumspectly, with overseas liaisons who were in a position to provide intelligence that could safeguard this country from attack," he says.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_la ... _law_firms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_10 ... s_globally

useful.........

#  ↓    Law Firm  ↓    2009 Turnover  ↓    2009 PEP  ↓    2007 Turnover  ↓    2006 Turnover  ↓    Headquarters  ↓    Notes  ↓
1    Linklaters    £1,298.0m[2]    £1,302,000[2]    £1,121.0m    £935.3m    London    Magic Circle
2    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer    £1,287.0m[2]    £1,443,000[2]    £986.0m    £882.0m    London    Magic Circle
3    Clifford Chance    £1,262.0m[2]    £737,000[2]    £1,194.0m    £1,030.0m    London    Magic Circle
4    Allen & Overy    £1,091.0m[2]    £1,047,000[2]    £887.0m    £736.0m    London    Magic Circle
5    DLA Piper    £585.0m[2]    £645,000[2]    £525.0m    £475.0m    London    
6    Lovells (Hogan Lovells)    £531.0m[2]    £586,000[2]    £425.0m    £396.0m    London    Silver Circle
7    Slaughter and May    £504.0m[2]    £2,250,000[2]    £417.0m    £321.0m    London    Magic Circle
8    Herbert Smith    £444.0m[2]    £845,000[2]    £334.0m    £296.0m    London    Silver Circle
9    Eversheds    £365.9m[2]    £404,000[2]    £356.0m    £323.0m    London    
10    Norton Rose    £314.0m[2]    £547,000[2]    £233.0m    £210.0m    London    
11    Ashurst    £301.0m[2]    £673,000[2]    £275.0m    £214.0m    London    Silver Circle
12    Simmons & Simmons    £291.3m[2]    £520,000[2]    £250.4m    £227.0m    London    
13    CMS Cameron McKenna    £240.0m[2]    £554,000[2]    £197.4m    £181.3m    London    
14    Pinsent Masons    £215.0m[2]    £310,000[2]    £192.4m    £172.0m    London    
15    Taylor Wessing    £188.4m[2]    £369,000[2]    £161.0m    £142.5m    London    
16    Bird & Bird    £186.3m[2]    £481,000[2]    £115.6m    £96.7m    London    
17    Clyde & Co    £185.0m[2]    £550,000[2]    £135.0m    £125.0m    London    
18    SJ Berwin    £184.0m[2]    £410,000[2]    £189.0m    £155.0m    London    Silver Circle
19    Salans    £183.7m[2]    £559,000[2]    £112.0m    £95.5m    London    
20    Berwin Leighton Paisner    £180.0m[2]    £414,000[2]    £169.0m    £145.0m    London    Silver Circle
21    Addleshaw Goddard    £173.1m [2]    £405,000[2]    £176.7m    £161.2m    London    
22    Denton Wilde Sapte    £169.8m[2]    £300,000[2]    £155.7m    £154.0m    London    
23    Irwin Mitchell    £158.0m[2]    £615,000[2]    £127.0m    £112.0m    Sheffield    
24    Nabarro    £126.5m[2]    £375,000[2]    £123.0m    £107.3m    London    
25    Hammonds    £125.4m[2]    £276,000[2]    £127.6m    £132.6m    Leeds    
26    Beachcroft    £121.0m[2]    £301,000[2]    £112.0m    £98.0m    London    
27    Wragge & Co    £103.4m[2]    £292,000[2]    £112.6m    £101.3m    Birmingham    
28=    Macfarlanes    £99.0m[2]    £846,000[2]    £103.0m    £90.0m    London    Silver Circle
28=    Shoosmiths    £99.0m[2]    £151,000[2]    £95.0m    £74.7m    Northampton    
30    Holman Fenwick & Willan    £98.7m[2]    £514,000[2]    £68.3m    £61.6m    London    
31    Field Fisher Waterhouse    £94.9m[2]    £515,000[2]    £67.7m    £60.0m    London    
33    Withers    £93.3m[2]    £273,000[2]    £78.2m    £67.2m    London    
34    Trowers & Hamlins    £89.5m[2]    £509,000[2]    £68.1m    £56.4m    London    
34    Olswang    £89.2m[2]    £360,000[2]    £83.1m    £77.7m    London    
35    Barlow Lyde & Gilbert    £89.6m[2]    £350,000[2]    £76.2m    £79.4m    London    
36    Stephenson Harwood    £85.1m[2]    £610,000[2]    £71.7m    £61.1m    London    
37    Osborne Clarke    £84.0m[2]    £352,000[2]    £82.8m    £74.1m    Bristol    
38    Halliwells    £83.0m[2]    £280,000[2]    £86.2m    £62.7m    Manchester    
39    Hill Dickinson    £82.0m[2]    £294,000[2]    £68.5m    £54.5m    Liverpool    
40    Ince & Co    £79.4m[2]    £485,000[2]    £56.0m    £47.0m    London    
41    Watson, Farley & Williams    £73.5m[2]    £430,000[2]    £54.0m    £53.5m    London    
42    Charles Russell    £69.5m[2]    £235,000[2]    £63.5m    £58.2m    London    
43    Kennedys    £67.3m[2]    £350,000[2]    £49.8m    £46.5m    London    
44    Mills & Reeve    £66.6m[2]    £301,000[2]    £56.4m    £49.1m    Norwich    
45    Dundas & Wilson    £66.0m[2]    £308,000[2]    £60.5m    £53.0m    Edinburgh    
46    Travers Smith    £64.5m[2]    £460,000[2]    £78.5m    £68.1m    London    Silver Circle
47    Burges Salmon    £64.2m[2]    £409,000[2]    £61.4m    £54.2m    Bristol    
48    Berrymans Lace Mawer    £63.8m[2]    £249,000[2]    £44.4m    £45.0m    London    
49    McGrigors    £63.0m[2]    £280,000[2]    £60.0m    £51.5m    Edinburgh    
50    Lawrence Graham    £60.3m[2]    £281,000[2]    £66.0m    £66.0m    London    
51    Reynolds Porter Chamberlain    £60.1m[2]    £324,000[2]    £52.9m    £52.9m    London    
52    DWF    £60.0m[2]    £260,000[2]    £50.0m    £33.9m    Liverpool    
53    Maclay Murray & Spens    £55.4m[2]    £220,000[2]    £54.3m    £48.7m    Glasgow    
54    Dickinson Dees    £53.8m[2]    £150,000[2]    £56.0m    £47.8m    Newcastle    
55    Pannone    £52.5m[2]    £228,000[2]    £44.5m    £39.0m    Manchester    
56    Weightmans    £50.2m[2]    £272,000[2]    £44.0m    £38.0m    Liverpool    
57    Cobbetts    £48.5m[2]       £58.6m    £53.8m    Manchester    
58=    Bond Pearce    £48.0m[2]    £213,000[2]    £43.5m    £41.1m    Plymouth    
58=    HBJ Gateley Wareing    £48.0m[2]    £203,000[2]    £35.0m    £31.5m    Birmingham    
60    Blake Lapthorn    £47.9m[2]    £65,000[2]    £44.6m    £33.3m    Southampton    
61    Mishcon de Reya    £47.3m[2]    £575,000[2]    £39.1m    £29.0m    London    
62    Clarke Willmott    £47.2m[2]    £195,000[2]    £45.1m    £39.4m    Birmingham    
63    Speechly Bircham    £46.1m[2]    £331,000[2]    £40.0m    £34.0m    London    
64    Davies Arnold Cooper    £45.0m[2]    £361,000[2]    £32.0m    £30.4m    London    
65    Walker Morris    £44.2m[2]    £486,000[2]    £47.7m    £45.3m    Leeds    
66    Bevan Brittan    £41.1m[2]    £222,000[2]    £41.1m    £40.0m    Bristol    
67    Farrer & Co    £40.5m[2]    £462,000[2]    £32.2m    £30.1m    London    
68    Shepherd and Wedderburn    £39.6m[2]    £230,000[2]    £39.0m    £34.6m    Edinburgh    
69    Brodies    £39.1m[2]    £333,000[2]    £30.0m    £21.0m    Edinburgh    
70    TLT Solicitors    £39.0m[2]    £198,000[2]    £38.0m    £28.8m    Bristol    
71    Thomas Eggar    £37.0m[2]    £180,000[2]    £34.2m    £30.8m    Chichester    
72    Howard Kennedy    £35.2m[2]    £309,000[2]    £41.0m    £34.0m    London    
73    Russell Jones & Walker    £34.7m[2]    £358,000[2]    £42.4m    £38.5m    London    
74    Manches    £34.1m[2]    £209,000[2]    £31.6m    £25.7m    London    
75    Morgan Cole    £33.5m[2]    £218,000[2]    £29.3m    £25.1m    Cardiff    
76    Hugh James    £33.0m[2]    £200,000[2]    £32.0m    £33.6m    Cardiff    
77    Freeth Cartwright    £32.6m[2]    £150,000[2]    £31.1m    £31.0m    Nottingham    
78    Bircham Dyson Bell    £32.4m[2]    £320,000[2]    £31.0m    £29.4m    London    
79    Browne Jacobson    £31.3m[2]    £237,000[2]    £31.9m    £30.1m    Nottingham    
80    Lewis Silkin    £31.2m[2]    £252,000[2]    £25.2m    £23.0m    London    
81    Optima Legal    £30.0m[2]    £307,000[2]             
82    Brabners Chaffe Street    £29.0m[2]    £229,000[2]    £26.0m    £21.0m    Liverpool    
83    Dickson Minto    £28.0m[2]    £731,000[2]    £31.0m    £29.0m    Edinburgh    
84    Ward Hadaway    £26.6m[2]    £190,000[2]    £25.1m    £21.6m    Newcastle    
85    Fladgate    £23.7m[2]    £390,000[2]    £25.5m    £22.6m    London    
86    Ashfords    £23.6m[2]    £303,000[2]    £23.0m    £21.0m    Exeter    
87=    Capsticks    £23.1m[2]    £441,000[2]             
87=    DMH Stallard    £23.1m[2]    £176,000[2]    £22.3m    £21.2m    Brighton    
89=    Forsters    £22.5m[2]    £265,000[2]    £21.3m    £19.9m    London    
89=    Geldards    £22.5m[2]    £228,000[2]    £24.0m    £25.9m    Cardiff    
89=    Penningtons    £22.5m[2]    £85,000[2]    £29.1m    £28.5m    London    
92=    Russell-Cooke    £22.2m[2]    £157,000[2]    £23.8m    £21.5m    London    
92=    Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons    £22.2m[2]    £112,000[2]             
94=    Bristows    £22.1m[2]    £226,000[2]          London    
94=    Payne Hicks Beach    £22.1m[2]    £400,000[2]          London    
96    Turcan Connell    £21.8m[2]    £460,000[2]          Edinburgh    
97    Gordons    £21.7m[2]    £475,000[2]             
98    Davenport Lyons    £21.5m[2]    £340,000[2]          London    
99    Martineau    £21.2m[2]    £198,000[2]    £21.0m    £19.3m    Birmingham    
100    Sacker & Partners    £21.0m [2]    £806,000[2]    £19.1m    £15.7m    London    
[edit] 101-200
#  ↓    Law Firm  ↓    2009 Turnover  ↓    2009 RPP  ↓    Headquarters  ↓
101    Anderson Strathern    £20.8m    £433,000    Edinburgh
102    Winckworth Sherwood    £20.7m    £690,000    London
103    Biggart Baillie    £20.6m    £502,000    Glasgow
104    Watson Burton    £20.5m    £466,000    Newcastle
105    Burness    £20.2m    £470,000    Edinburgh
106    Foot Anstey    £20.1m    £479,000    
107    Wedlake Bell    £19.8m    £471,000    London
108=    Howes Percival    £19.4m    £669,000    
108=    Kingsley Napley    £19.4m    £539,000    London
110    Cripps Harries Hall    £19.2m    £505,000    Tunbridge Wells
111    Silverbeck Rymer    £19.1m    £3,820,000    Liverpool
112    Tods Murray    £19.0m    £452,000    Edinburgh
113    Michelmores    £18.9m    £511,000    Exeter
114    Shakespeare Putsman    £18.3m    £555,000    Birmingham
115    Birketts    £17.2m    £453,000    
116    Veale Wasbrough    £17.1m    £552,000    Bristol
117    Finers Stephens Innocent    £17.0m    £447,000    London
118    Harbottle & Lewis    £16.9m    £676,000    London
119    Lester Aldridge    £16.7m    £428,000    
120    Morton Fraser    £16.1m    £460,000    Edinburgh
121    Hewitsons    £15.8m    £367,000    
122    Stevens & Bolton    £15.7m    £523,000    Guildford
123    McClure Naismith    £15.6m    £459,000    
124    Stewarts Law    £15.4m    £811,000    London
125    Taylor Vinters    £15.2m    £507,000    Cambridge
126    ASB Law    £14.7m    £613,000    Crawley
127    Harvey Ingram    £14.6m    £456,000    Leicester
128    Langleys    £14.4m    £411,000    York
129    Matthew Arnold & Baldwin    £14.2m    £526,000    Watford
130=    Harper McLeod    £14.1m    £344,000    Glasgow
130=    Wiggin    £14.1m    £881,000    Cheltenham
132    Campbell Hooper    £14.0m    £583,000    London
133    Edwin Coe    £13.8m    £418,000    London
134=    Collyer Bristow    £13.6m    £469,000    London
134=    Thomson Snell & Passmore    £13.6m    £358,000    Tunbridge Wells
136=    Moore Blatch    £13.5m    £711,000    Southampton
136=    Rosenblatt    £13.5m    £900,000    London
138    Boyes Turner    £13.4m    £558,000    Reading
139    IBB    £13.3m    £443,000    Uxbridge
140    Memery Crystal    £12.6m    £573,000    London
141=    Semple Fraser    £12.5m    £500,000    Glasgow
141=    TWM    £12.5m    £463,000    
143    Withy King    £12.4m    £234,000    
144    Wilsons    £12.2m    £407,000    Salisbury
145=    Flint Bishop    £12.0m    £571,000    Derby
145=    Paris Smith    £12.0m    £462,000    Southampton
145=    Wilkin Chapman    £12.0m    £387,000    
148    Anthony Collins    £11.9m    £567,000    Birmingham
149    Maxwell Winward    £11.6m    £552,000    London
150=    Kester Cunningham John    £11.5m    £411,000    
150=    Stephens Scown    £11.5m    £348,000    Exeter
152=    Lindsays    £11.4m    £422,000    
152=    Mundays    £11.4m    £407,000    Cobham
154    Barlow Robbins    £11.3m    £753,000    Godalming
155    Wright Hassall    £11.2m    £373,000    Leamington Spa
156=    Coffin Mew    £11.1m    £444,000    
156=    Keeble Hawson    £11.1m    £463,000    
156=    Lupton Fawcett    £11.1m    £264,000    Leeds
159=    Brachers    £10.8m    £491,000    Maidstone
159=    Dawsons    £10.8m    £514,000    London
161    Shadbolt & Co    £10.6m    £442,000    
162    Teacher Stern    £10.4m    £547,000    London
163=    EMW Picton Howell    £10.3m    £448,000    Milton Keynes
163=    Roythornes    £10.3m    £468,000    
165    Tollers    £10.2m    £537,000    
166=    Chadwick Lawrence    £10.0m    £476,000    Huddersfield
166=    Stanley Tee    £10.0m    £526,000    Bishops Stortford
168    Rickerbys    £9.9m    £550,000    Cheltenham
169    Henmans    £9.2m    £400,000    Oxford
170    Ledingham Chalmers    £9.1m    £379,000    Aberdeen
171=    BP Collins    £9.0m    £474,000    Gerrards Cross
171=    Sintons    £9.0m    £409,000    Newcastle upon Tyne
173    Higgs & Sons    £8.9m    £330,000    Brierley Hill
174    Muckle    £8.7m    £435,000    Newcastle upon Tyne
175=    Sprecher Grier Halberstam    £8.4m    £336,000    London
175=    Trethowans    £8.4m    £350,000    
175=    Wake Smith & Tofields    £8.4m    £350,000    Sheffield
178    Taylor Walton    £8.3m    £332,000    Luton
179=    Birchall Blackburn    £8.2m    £683,000    
179=    Keystone Law    £8.2m    £4,100,000    London
181    Darbys    £8.0m    £381,000    
182    Taylor & Emmet    £7.8m    £411,000    
183=    Pemberton Greenish    £7.6m    £543,000    London
183=    Steeles    £7.6m    £400,000    
185    Bridge McFarland    £7.5m    £341,000    
186    Porter Dodson    £7.4m    £322,000    Yeovil
187=    Needham & James    £7.3m    £292,000    Stratford upon Avon
187=    Stones    £7.3m    £487,000    
189=    Furley Page    £7.1m    £338,000    Canterbury
189=    Kemp Little    £7.1m    £592,000    London
191    Berryman    £7.0m    £368,000    Nottingham
192    Schillings    £6.9m    £1,150,000    London
193    Bindmans    £6.6m    £440,000    London
194=    George Davies    £6.4m    £492,000    Manchester
194=    Royds    £6.4m    £400,000    London
196=    Clarion    £6.3m    £420,000    Leeds
196=    Warners    £6.3m    £371,000    Edinburgh
198=    Blandy & Blandy    £6.1m    £359,000    Reading
198=    Forster Dean    £6.1m    £1,017,000    Liverpool
200    Moon Beever    £6.0m    £1,000,000    London

   1. ^ http://www.thelawyer.com/directory/uk-2 ... e-top-100/

This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2007 revenue:[1]
Rank  ↓    Name  ↓    Revenue  ↓    Office Reach  ↓    Headquarters  ↓
1 ▬    Clifford Chance    $2,660.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
2 ▬    Linklaters    $2,588.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
3 ▲    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer    $2,358.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
4 ▲    Baker & McKenzie    $2,188.0m    International    United States USA
5 ▼    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom    $2,170.0m    International    United States USA
6 ▲    Allen & Overy    $2,034.0m    International    United Kingdom UK
7 ▼    Latham & Watkins    $2,005.5m    International    United States USA
8 ▬    Jones Day    $1,441.0m    International    United States USA
9 ▬    Sidley Austin    $1,386.0m    International    United States USA
10 ▬    White & Case    $1,373.0m    International    United States USA
11 ▲    Kirkland & Ellis    $1,310.0m    International    United States USA
12 ▲    Greenberg Traurig    $1,200.0m    International    United States USA
13 ▼    Mayer Brown    $1,183.0m    International    United States USA
14 ▼    Weil, Gotshal & Manges    $1,175.0m    International    United States USA
15 ▼    DLA Piper USA[2]    $1,134.5m    International    United States USA
16 ▲    DLA Piper International[3]    $1,074.0m    International    United Kingdom UK
17 ▲    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius    $1,033.0m    International    United States USA
18 ▼    Sullivan & Cromwell    $985.0m    International    United States USA
19 ▲    McDermott Will & Emery    $978.0m    International    United States USA
20 ▲    Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker    $975.0m    International    United States USA
21 ▲    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett    $966.0m    International    United States USA
22 ▲    Lovells    $959.0m    International    United Kingdom UK
23 ▼    Wilmer Hale    $944.0m    International    United States USA
24 ▼    O'Melveny & Myers    $934.0m    International    United States USA
25 ▼    Shearman & Sterling    $921.0m    International    United States USA
26 ▼    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher    $907.5m    International    United States USA
27= ▼    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton    $894.0m    International    United States USA
27= ▬    Morrison & Foerster    $894.0m    International    United States USA
29 ▲    Reed Smith    $892.0m    International    United States USA
30 ▼    Hogan & Hartson    $880.0m    International    United States USA
31 ▲    Herbert Smith    $844.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
32 ▲    Slaughter and May    $839.0m    London    United Kingdom UK
33 ▲    Dechert    $836.5m    International    United States USA
34 ▼    Davis Polk & Wardwell    $789.0m    International    United States USA
35 ▼    Eversheds    $781.0m    International    United Kingdom UK
36 ▲    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe    $772.0m    International    United States USA
37 ▲    K&L Gates    $755.0m    International    United States USA
38 ▼    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld    $752.5m    International    United States USA
39 ▼    Bingham McCutchen    $743.5m    International    United States USA
40 ▲    Ropes & Gray    $733.0m    International    United States USA
41 ▼    Foley & Lardner    $720.5m    International    United States USA
42 ▲    Debevoise & Plimpton    $709.5m    International    United States USA
43 ▼    Winston & Strawn    $697.5m    International    United States USA
44 ▲    Hunton & Williams    $653.5m    International    United States USA
45 ▼    Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison    $651.0m    International    United States USA
46 ▼    Fulbright & Jaworski    $649.5m    International    United States USA
47 ▲    Ashurst    $646.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
48 ▲    Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy    $642.5m    International    United States USA
49 ▲    Proskauer Rose    $628.0m    International    United States USA
50 ▼    King & Spalding    $615.5m    International    United States USA
51 ▼    Holland & Knight    $612.5m    International    United States USA
52 ▲    Goodwin Procter    $611.0m    International    United States USA
53 ▼    Cravath, Swaine & Moore    $610.5m    International    United States USA
54 ▲    Willkie Farr & Gallagher    $603.0m    International    United States USA
55 ▼    Vinson & Elkins    $596.0m    International    United States USA
56 ▲    Norton Rose    $594.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
57 ▼    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman    $590.0m    International    United States USA
58 ▼    Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft    $587.0m    International    United States USA
59 ▲    Simmons & Simmons    $579.0m    International    United Kingdom UK
60 ▼    Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz    $578.5m    New York City    United States USA
61= ▬    Baker Botts    $577.5m    International    United States USA
61= ▬    LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae[4]    $577.5m    International    United States USA
63 ▲    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson    $537.5m    International    United States USA
64 ▲    McCarthy Tétrault    $532.5m    International     Canada
65 ▼    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati    $531.0m    International    United States USA
66 ▼    Squire, Sanders & Dempsey    $530.5m    International    United States USA
67 ▬    Alston & Bird    $518.0m    National    United States USA
68 ▼    Arnold & Porter    $508.0m    International    United States USA
69 ▼    Heller Ehrman (now dissolved)    $491.0m    International    United States USA
70 ▲    Cooley Godward    $485.0m    National    United States USA
71 ▼    Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal    $478.0m    International    United States USA
72 ▬    Howrey    $475.0m    International    United States USA
73 ▲    CMS Cameron McKenna    $470.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
74 ▼    Bryan Cave    $469.0m    International    United States USA
75 ▬    Covington & Burling    $467.0m    International    United States USA
76 ▼    Kaye Scholer    $464.0m    International    United States USA
77 ▼    Katten Muchin Rosenman    $461.0m    National    United States USA
78 ▲    Mallesons Stephen Jaques    $457.0m    International    Australia Australia
79 ▼    Nixon Peabody    $456.5m    International    United States USA
80 ▲    Seyfarth Shaw    $442.5m    International    United States USA
81 ▼    Dewey Ballantine[5]    $431.0m    International    United States USA
82 ▲    SJ Berwin    $430.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
83 ▲    Pinsent Masons    $426.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
84 ▬    Schulte Roth & Zabel    $419.5m    International    United States USA
85 ▼    Fidal    $414.0m    National    France France
86 ▼    Freehills    $413.5m    International    Australia Australia
87 ▼    McGuireWoods    $412.0m    International    United States USA
88= ▬    Minter Ellison    $394.5m    International    Australia Australia
88= ▼    Perkins Coie    $394.5m    International    United States USA
90 ▲    Addleshaw Goddard    $391.0m    National    United Kingdom UK
91 ▲    Loyens & Loeff    $386.5m    International    Netherlands Netherlands
92 ▲    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges    $384.5m    International    United States USA
93 ▼    Duane Morris    $375.0m    International    United States USA
94 ▲    Berwin Leighton Paisner    $372.5m    International    United Kingdom UK
95 ▲    Fish & Richardson    $367.5m    International    United States USA
96 ▼    Dorsey & Whitney    $367.0m    International    United States USA
97 ▼    Clayton Utz    $361.5m    National    Australia Australia
98 ▲    Drinker Biddle & Reath    $357.0m    National    United States USA
99 ▲    Garrigues    $354.5m    International    Spain Spain
100 ▲    Troutman Sanders    $349.0m    International    United States USA


The Lawyer Global 100 - Previous figures (2006)
 References

   1. ^ Source: The American Lawyer, October 2008
   2. ^ DLA Piper International and DLA Piper USA are treated as separate entities.
   3. ^ DLA Piper International and DLA Piper USA are treated as separate entities.
   4. ^ Figure is pre-merger with Dewey Ballentine
   5. ^ Figure is pre-merger with LeBoeuf

[mgt23]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Circle_%28law%29

The Magic Circle is an informal term used to describe collectively what are considered to be either the five, or possibly six, leading London-based law firms, all of which employ primarily solicitors. It is also used as a term to describe the top four Commercial Chambers at the Bar. In the US, the term used to describe the leading firms is White shoe firm. Members of the Magic Circle are:[1]

    * Allen & Overy
    * Clifford Chance
    * Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
    * Linklaters
    * Slaughter and May

As of 2008[update] the first four listed above were in the top six largest law firms in the world by revenue (in 2006 Clifford Chance became the world's highest-grossing law firm).[2]

Slaughter and May only ranked 32nd in the world on this measure, but it has consistently enjoyed the highest profits per equity partner of the Magic Circle for a number of years. Surveys by American business website Vault.com in 2006, 2007 and 2008 ranked Slaughter and May to be the most prestigious law firm to work for in the United Kingdom.

One reason for the difference in turnover and profitability rests in the distinctive international strategy taken by Slaughter and May from the rest of the Magic Circle, which prefers to maintain its international capability by relying on a network of so-called "Best Friends", members of which typically are leading independent law firms in the relevant jurisdiction. This allows Slaughter and May to enjoy a higher profitability at the expense of a lower turnover compared to the rest of the Magic Circle, which has instead expanded aggressively by establishing many overseas offices.

These firms are generally ranked amongst league tables as the most prestigious firms by other solicitors in England and Wales, and have the highest earnings per-partner and per-lawyer in the United Kingdom. Arguably however, their dominance of the London legal market has been challenged in recent years by American "big law" firms operating branch offices in London, which have a significantly smaller turnover but tend to pay larger salaries.[3] Those UK firms which are seen as the main competitors and nearest rivals of the Magic Circle are often referred to as the Silver Circle.
[edit] The Bar

The following four Chambers are considered the Bar's Magic Circle [4]

    * Brick Court Chambers
    * Essex Court Chambers
    * One Essex Court
    * Fountain Court Chambers
References

   1. ^ LawBritannia Legal Glossary: Online UK Law Careers Counselling
   2. ^ The Lawyer Global 100 from The Lawyer published in association with The American Lawyer in November 2006
   3. ^ RollOnFriday's Inside Info on pay at London law firms
   4. ^ Set for a fight - 26 June 2000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Circle

The Silver Circle (sometimes referred to as the Golden Circle) refers to elite England-based law firms which fall outside of the traditional Magic Circle. The term was coined by The Lawyer magazine in 2005, but has since entered general usage. The term Golden Circle is less commonly used (although the term is reportedly employed by The Economist, a leading British weekly magazine).


[edit] Silver Circle vs Magic Circle

It has been suggested that the difference between the Silver Circle and the Magic Circle is that the Silver Circle services a premium UK client base, whereas the Magic Circle has a more international reach. However, that is clearly difficult to square when firms such as Herbert Smith (considered by Legal Business magazine[1] as part of the Magic Circle), DLA Piper and Mayer Brown may be considered Silver Circle members.
[edit] Interpretations of Silver Circle members

As with all arbitrary categorisations of merit, there is some disagreement as to who makes up the Silver Circle. However, the most restrictive interpretation of the Silver Circle limits it to:[2]

    * Ashurst
    * Herbert Smith
    * Simmons & Simmons
    * Macfarlanes
    * Travers Smith
    * Berwin Leighton Paisner
    * SJ Berwin

It can also be argued that the following firms with large international practices:[citation needed]

    * Norton Rose
    * Lovells

Others suggest a wider array of firms, including:

    * Bird & Bird
    * Clyde & Co
    * CMS Cameron McKenna
    * DLA Piper
    * LG (formerly Lawrence Graham)
    * Mayer Brown
    * Pinsent Masons
    * Taylor Wessing
    * Wragge & Co

and even possibly also:

    * Addleshaw Goddard
    * Denton Wilde Sapte
    * Eversheds
    * Nabarro
    * Olswang

As with most self-awarded titles for law firms, "Silver Circle" tends to be used only in recruiting and marketing material. A wealth of data is published every year on financial performance of law firms, and categorisations are in reality a matter largely of perception.

It has to be said that candidate firms for the Silver Circle generally avoid using the term themselves - at least in public - but it is sometimes mentioned by headhunters to tempt prospective job candidates.


The list is entirely English-oriented. Leading Scottish firms such as Dickson Minto have comparable profits per equity partner of any firm listed in the Silver Circle, but are never traditionally considered as forming part of the list.


   1. ^ Legal Business homepage
   2. ^ http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=134611

[mgt23]

secretly run by chief rabbi johnathan sachs i bet


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_D ... itish_Jews

Criticisms and controversies

In 2003, the Board, on its web site, accused the aid organisation Palestinian Relief and Development Fund (Interpal) of being a terrorist organisation. Interpal threatened to sue for libel, whereupon the Board retracted and apologized for its comments[2][3]

The Board became involved in the Oliver Finegold affair when the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone made comments to a Jewish reporter, Oliver Finegold, comparing him or the newspaper he worked for, to a concentration camp guard. A widespread outcry followed against the Mayor's remarks. Along with the Commission for Racial Equality, the Board filed a complaint to the Standards Board for England, calling for the Mayor to apologize to the reporter. The Mayor made a statement condemning the Holocaust, but stood by his remarks to the journalist, mentioning in passing his belief that the Board of Jewish Deputies only represents a small section of the Jewish community. [4]

On 5 February 2007, a group of prominent British Jews, such as Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and lawyer Sir Geoffrey Bindman, launched an organization called Independent Jewish Voices to counterbalance what they perceive as uncritical support of Israel by major Jewish institutions in the UK, criticizing particularly the Board of Deputies of British Jews.[5]

VS
possible interview material.........................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Jewish_Voices

For the Canadian group see Independent Jewish Voices (Canada). For the Australian group see Independent Australian Jewish Voices.

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is an organization launched on February 5, 2007 by 150 prominent British Jews such as Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, historian Eric Hobsbawm, lawyer Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Lady Ellen Dahrendorf, film director Mike Leigh, and actors Stephen Fry and Zoë Wanamaker. The organization is reportedly "born out of a frustration with the widespread misconception that the Jews of this country speak with one voice –– and that this voice supports the Israeli government's policies."[1] IJV stated it was founded "to represent British Jews ... in response to a perceived pro-Israeli bias in existing Jewish bodies in the UK," and, according to Hobsbawn, "as a counter-balance to the uncritical support for Israeli policies by established bodies such as the Board of Deputies of British Jews."[2]

 IJV Declaration

The group's "Declaration" states:[3]
"    

    We are a group of Jews in Britain from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights. We come together in the belief that the broad spectrum of opinion among the Jewish population of this country is not reflected by those institutions which claim authority to represent the Jewish community as a whole. We further believe that individuals and groups within all communities should feel free to express their views on any issue of public concern without incurring accusations of disloyalty.

    We have therefore resolved to promote the expression of alternative Jewish voices, particularly in respect of the grave situation in the Middle East, which threatens the future of both Israelis and Palestinians as well as the stability of the whole region.

   "

Its signatories attest to being guided by five principles presented in the Declaration:

       1. Human rights are universal and indivisible and should be upheld without exception. This is as applicable in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories as it is elsewhere.
       2. Palestinians and Israelis alike have the right to peace and security.
       3. Peace and stability require the willingness of all parties to the conflict to comply with international law.
       4. There is no justification for any form of racism, including anti-Semitism, anti-Arab racism or Islamophobia, in any circumstance.
       5. The battle against anti-Semitism is vital and is undermined whenever opposition to Israeli government policies is automatically branded as anti-Semitic.[3]

Signatories to the Declaration state their shared beliefs that "the interests of an occupying power should not count for more than the human rights of an occupied people" and that "the Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip face appalling living conditions with desperately little hope for the future"; they pledge their "support for a properly negotiated peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people and oppose any attempt by the Israeli government to impose its own solutions on the Palestinians."[3]
[edit] Signatories

The Declaration is accessible online on the organization's website, which invites additional signatures in the manner of a petition drive. The Guardian's Comment is Free blog featured publication of a large number of essays [4] by IJV signatories and their supporters.

Signatories include Lisa Appignanesi, Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Gerald Cohen, Stanley Cohen, Lady Ellen Dahrendorf, Jenny Diski, Nicole Farhi, Stephen Fry, Alexander Goehr, Eric Hobsbawm, Ann Jungman, Anne Karpf, Beeban Kidron, Brian Klug, David Lan, Mike Leigh, Steven Lukes, Shula Marks, Mike Marqusee, Adam Phillips, Harold Pinter, Nigel Rodley, Jacqueline Rose, Leon Rosselson, Andrew Samuels, Richard Sennett, Avi Shlaim, Gillian Slovo, Shawn Slovo, Janet Suzman, Zoë Wanamaker and Sami Zubaida.


According to Amiram Barkat, in his article "U.K. Board of Deputies Rejects Criticism from New Jewish Group," published in Haaretz, a spokesperson for the Board of Deputies has responded to the IJV's launching: "If Brian Klug and the other signatories to IJV chose to engage with the institutions of the Jewish community, rather than shouting from the sidelines, they may find that most Jews disagree with much of what they say."
[edit] "End the siege of Gaza!"

In early 2008, 250 members of Independent Jewish Voices signed a statement entitled "End the siege of Gaza!", which was printed as a full page advertisement in The Times. The statement called from Israel to lift its economic blockade of the territory, while condemning both collective punishment against the people of Gaza and Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel, and encouraging both sides to observe a cease-fire.[5]

[rodin]

Many Jews are omitted - eg Tony Blair whose mother is from the Lipsett German Jews and father is illegitimate son of 'two actors'

And as for the false opposition to Israel - right out of the Protocols

I smell 25-75% Parliament is Jewish

[VoltaXebec]

Stephen Frears (I never knew he was jewish, or did he for that matter until his late 20s)

Director of Irish interest movies The Van (1996) and The Snapper (1993) (TV)

Interesting piece.. http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/artic ... _20010928/

Frears made an interesting discovery while shooting subsequent U.S. films such as "Hero," starring Dustin Hoffman. "I found that the film industry here is dominated by Jews, and that America has a completed different attitude toward Jews than Britain," he says. "It was all much more public and upfront and talked about and part of life. So, as it were, the British silence had ended."

[mgt23]

i think there are more cryptos here than one imagines. What interests me is the culture of the crypto jew and how that relates to the banking.