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LJW AGM 22nd June 2010 at Friends House

At the LJW AGM on 22nd June 2010 the launch of Service with a Smile written by Gerry Black.   Photos can be viewed by clicking this link:   Pictures from "Changes in Healthcare - have you lost your patients?" and Pictures from LJW 67th AGM 22nd June 2010 and Launch of the LJW book "Service with a Smile"

To view further selection of photos taken at the AGM including presentation of two blankets knitted by Leicester Group and presented to WJR. Click here

The Future

Installation of New President - More pictures of Ella Marks & Marilyn Brummer - click here

 Ella Mark’s  used her last minutes as President of the League of Jewish Women to launch the new LJW book ‘Service With a Smile’ before taking the chain of office off and placing it round the neck of the  21^st National President Marilyn Brummer.

Marilyn was handed the Presidential chain  from Ella Marks who was stepping down after completing her three years in office which culminates at what was the 67^th  League of Jewish Women AGM held at Friends House in Euston this week.

Marilyn in her acceptance speech  made reference to the formidable founder member of the League comparing them to Generals  and the membership as foot soldiers. 

But she said “today things are different we do not order people to do things we ask. “

She  mentioned that she was the third member from the Oakwood and Winchmore Hill group to take on the Presidency.

 The AGM was also used to launch the new LJW book “ Service with a Smile”  a 200 page history of the LJW which puts in print the contribution that thousands of  LJW members had made to volunteering since the organization was founded  in 1943.

 Addressing the membership  Marilyn  said: “  The book introduces  me as ‘the future’  an enormous responsibility.  It is only with your help that I can succeed.  “

 Marilyn has said despite taking over the Presidency she will continue as Chairman of her local group Oakwood and Winchmore Hill and will continue with her weekly voluntary work which includes working at Lady Sara Cohen house and the Ruth Winston Fox Day Centre in Palmers Green.

The Launch of the Book

Ella Marks  immediate past President and the driving force behind the book Said:  “I believe it is important that there is a record of the contribution that  LJW women as representative of the Jewish community  has made over the years  in helping so many  people irrespective of their faith and culture in the wider community . “

Gerry Black the author  who spent two painstaking years  sifting through the archives and visiting groups and individuals around  the country said: “ I have been greatly impressed by what my research has revealed “ . He continued “ The League’s history reflects, and to some extent has affected, the changing status of women in the general community, in the Jewish community and in the welfare services. “

LJW member Rosalind Preston, who wrote the Foreword in the book, referred to the foundation and primary aims of the League being created in the dark days of World War 11 in 1943  by far-sighted, energetic and highly motivated women of the  Jewish ‘establishment’ .  She referred to these women  as  “ the Cousinhood – many of whom had already been involved in the campaign for votes for women, where  a pattern for the future structure of the new organization was set.”

All speakers  said the book was an  uplifting read and  shows that the LJW has been a powerful force showing that  everything is possible to Jewish women when they are organised and working together to effect good or change.

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