JFS (school)

{{Short description|Jewish school in London, England}} {{About|the Jews' Free School|the other school abbreviated to "JFS"|The John Fisher School}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox school | name = JFS<ref name="Woolcock">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6891093.ece|title=Jewish school JFS in Supreme Court to deny it broke law by turning boy away|date=2009-10-27|access-date=2009-11-09|author=Nicola Woolcock |publisher=TimesOnline.co.uk |quote=JFS, formerly the Jewish Free School, which is heavily oversubscribed,...| location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | image = | image_size = 160px | coordinates = {{coord|51.58118|-0.28135|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dec|display=inline,title}} | motto = | established = {{start date and age|1732}} | closed = | type = Voluntary aided comprehensive | religious_affiliation = Modern Orthodox Judaism | president = Lord Michael Levy | head_teacher = David Moody | head_label = | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = | chair = Mark Hurst | founder = | address = The Mall | city = Kenton, Harrow | county = Greater London | country = England, UK | postal_code = HA3 9TE | local_authority = Brent | urn = 133724 | ofsted = Good | staff = | enrolment = ~ 2100 pupils | years_taught = Years 7-13 | gender = Coeducational | lower_age = 11 | upper_age = 18 | avg_class_size = ~ 300 pupils | houses = Angel {{color box|red}} Brodetsky {{color box|blue}} Weizmann {{color box|green}} Zangwill {{color box|yellow}} | colours = Blue, Yellow/Gold | publication = | newspaper = JFS Journal | website = {{URL|https://www.jfs.brent.sch.uk}} }}

'''JFS''' (formerly known as the '''Jews' Free School'''<ref>{{cite web |url= https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/50-objects/1989-48-1/ |title=Jews' Free School journal – The Jewish Museum |newspaper=Jewishmuseum.org |access-date= 16 December 2015}}</ref> and later '''Jewish Free School'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/6f123048-1217-49ad-bc5c-90ec82d54df7 |title=Jewish Free School, Camden Road, Camden LB |newspaper=Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk |date=January 1973 |access-date= 16 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="h603">{{cite book | last1=Cherry | first1=B. | last2=Pevsner | first2=N. | title=London: North | publisher=Yale University Press | series=Pevsner: Buildings of England | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-300-09653-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVHqBvtuLyMC&pg=PA358 | access-date=1 October 2024 | page=358}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Buck | first1=N. | last2=Gordon | first2=I. | last3=Hall | first3=P. | last4=Harloe | first4=M. | last5=Kleinman | first5=M. | title=Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-136-47778-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1eTcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA187 | access-date=1 October 2024 | page=187}}</ref>) is a Jewish mixed comprehensive school in Kenton, North London, England, founded in 1732. Amongst its early supporters was the writer and philanthropist Charlotte Montefiore.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=105616|title=Montefiore, Charlotte Simcha}}</ref> At one time it was the largest Jewish school in the world, with more than 4,000 pupils.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0VnB2Jq3fW4C&pg=PA714|title=International Handbook of Jewish Education|last1=Miller|first1=Helena|last2=Grant|first2=Lisa D.|last3=Pomson|first3=Alex|date=2011-04-02|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9789400703544|language=en}}</ref>

== History == The school moved from Camden Town to a new site in Kenton in 2002 to represent the demand of London's Jewish population moving further out towards the suburbs. The school is within the jurisdiction of the London Borough of Brent, while its postal town is Harrow.

== Staff ==

===Headteachers===

{| class="wikitable" border="1 |-

| 2021– | Dr David Moody<ref>{{Cite web|title=New JFS head with zero tolerance for ill-discipline|url=https://www.thejc.com/education/education-features/new-jfs-head-with-zero-tolerance-for-ill-discipline-1.523063|access-date=2021-11-26|website=Thejc.com}}</ref> |- | 2021 | Paul Ramsay (Acting Joint Headteacher)<br/>Anna Joseph (Acting Joint Headteacher)<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jfs-appoints-acting-joint-heads-as-search-for-full-time-hire-stepped-up/|title = JFS appoints acting joint heads as search for full-time hire stepped up|website=Jewishnews.timesofisrael.com| date=11 October 2021 }}</ref> |- | 2021 | Martin Tissot (Interim Headteacher)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.thejc.com/education/education-news/catholic-schools-chief-appointed-interim-head-of-jfs-1.519939| title = Catholic schools chief made JFS interim head |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle}}</ref> |- | 2021 | Sir Michael Wilshaw (Executive Headteacher)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/former-ofsted-chief-to-become-new-jfs-headteacher/|title=Former Ofsted chief to become new JFS headteacher|first=Richard|last=Ferrer|website=Jewishnews.co.uk|date=7 June 2021 |access-date=2 June 2022}}</ref> |- | 2018–2021 | Rachel Fink |- | 2018 | Simon Appleman (Acting Headteacher) |- | 2016–2017 | Debby Lipkin (Executive Headteacher)<br/>Simon Appleman (Acting Headteacher) |- | 2008–2016 | Jonathan Miller<ref name="Miller">{{Cite news |last=Oryszczuk |first= Stephen |date=20 September 2016 |title=Ex-JFS head made new London School of Jewish Studies chief |url=https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/ex-jfs-head-made-new-london-school-of-jewish-studies-chief/ |access-date=28 July 2025 |work=Jewish News}}</ref> |- | 1993–2007 | Dame Ruth Robins<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=6148|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218110139/http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=6148|url-status=dead|title=Dame Ruth Steps Down As JFS Head|archive-date=2012-02-18}}</ref> |- | 1985–1993 | Josephine Wagerman {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=80%|OBE}}<ref>Later elected first female president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. {{cite web |author=Rachel Sylvester |author-link=Rachel Sylvester |title=First woman elected to lead Jewish board|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1348957/First-woman-elected-to-lead-Jewish-board.html |date=17 July 2000 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=16 August 2012}}</ref> |- | 1973–1984 | Leslie Gatoff<ref>Jonathan Goldsmith left in 1975 and Gatoff had been there two years by then</ref> |- | 1958–1972 | Dr Edward S Conway<ref name="w796">{{cite book | last=Conway | first=E.S. | title=Comprehending Comprehensives: The J.F.S. Experience | publisher=Woburn Press | year=1983 | isbn=978-0-7130-4008-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXJ7eZTeaD4C | access-date=1 October 2024 | page=}}</ref> |- | 1897–1907 | Louis Barnett Abrahams<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thejc.com/archive/1.302388?type=edition&editionDate=1897-12-10&wholeEdition=true|title=Jews' Free School - ''The New Headmaster''|date=1897-12-10|work=The Jewish Chronicle|access-date=2017-04-24}}</ref> |- | 1842–1897 | Moses Angel |- | 1832–1842 | Henry A. Henry<ref name=JC_1906>{{cite news|title=Henry Abraham Henry: Rabbi and Schoolmaster|date=March 23, 1906|issue=1929|location=London|newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle|pages=27–28|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_jewish-chronicle_the-jewish-chronicle_1906-03-23_1929/page/26/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name=levy>{{cite book|title=The Western Synagogue: Some Materials for Its History|last=Levy|first=Matthias|date=1897|location=London|publisher=G. Barber|page=51|url=https://archive.org/details/westernsynagogue00levy/page/50/mode/2up}}</ref> |}

===Other staff===

*Michael Adler taught Hebrew at the school in the late-19th century.

==Houses and other traditions== JFS operates the house system and has four houses for organisational purposes. Students must wear a tie with stripes in their house colour.

{| class="wikitable" border="1" |- ! House ! Named after ! Colour |- | Angel | Moses Angel | Red |- | Brodetsky | Selig Brodetsky | Blue |- | Weizmann | Chaim Weizmann | Green |- | Zangwill | Israel Zangwill | Yellow |}

Both Brodetsky and Zangwill were former students, Angel was a previous and long-serving headmaster and Weizmann, who has several links to the school, was the first President of the State of Israel.

Students are split into their respective houses for most classes in Years 7, 8 and 9 as well as inter-house competitions, such as football and basketball.

A tradition called "muck-up day" involves Year 11 students celebrating the last day of formal schooling before their GCSE examinations with various pranks. In May 2015 this descended into "a near-riot", with more than 300 pupils barred from the campus after a small minority spread foam, eggs, flour and dead chickens around the school. The police were called after some students broke through a security fence and let off fireworks, but no arrests were made.<ref>{{Cite news|title=300 pupils are sent home after exam day 'riot'|last1=Freeman|first1=Simon|date=8 May 2015|last2=Moore-Bridger|first2=Benedict|newspaper=London Evening Standard|page=21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=School mayhem was exaggerated|last=Name withheld|date=14 May 2015|work=London Evening Standard|page=59|type=Letter to the editor|quote=... it was no more than five or so students out of three hundred ...}}</ref>

==Academic results== In 2007, 53% of the school's attempted GCSE exams received grades of A* or A.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jfs.brent.sch.uk/ |title=JFS Home |website=Jfs.brent.sch.uk|access-date=2007-09-06 }}</ref> In 2012 JFS was at the top of the School League Tables for GCSE in Brent and its A-Level results were the best of all the mainstream Jewish schools.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/education/school_tables/secondary/11/html/304.stm | work=BBC News | title=Secondary school league tables in Brent | date=21 March 2012}}</ref>

In 2024 at GCSE level, 95% of students passed both English and Mathematics, and 48% of all grades were a ‘Grade 7’ or above.{{clarify|date=December 2025}} 30% of all grades were a ‘Grade 8’ or above.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exam Results {{!}} JFS |url=https://www.jfs.brent.sch.uk/exam-results |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=My Site |language=en}}</ref>

==Awards== The school won a Wellbeing at School Award in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thejc.com/education/education-features/jfs-wins-wellbeing-award-1.511830|title=JFS wins wellbeing award|last1=Rocker|first1=Simon|date=2021-02-15|publisher=Jewish Chronicle|language=en}}</ref>

==Controversy over admissions criteria== {{main|R(E) v Governing Body of JFS}}

In October 2006, a Jewish father made enquiries with the United Synagogue as to whether his son, born to a mother who had been converted to Judaism under the auspices of the Masorti (Conservative)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/27/jfs-supreme-court-jewish-school|title=JFS puts faith schools in the dock|date=27 October 2009|author-link=Jonathan Romain |author= Romain, Jonathan|access-date=27 July 2025|work= The Guardian | location=London}}</ref> denomination, could convert under Orthodox auspices for entry to JFS in September 2007. He was advised the process could take several years and that such applications to JFS are very rarely successful given that the school is highly oversubscribed. He applied for his son but did not declare to the school's admissions board the mother's conversion history.

By April 2007, he had not supplied JFS with the requested information, and the school advised him that, being oversubscribed that year, it was unlikely his son could be offered a place. He then unsuccessfully appealed for reconsideration of his application.<ref>Graham Tibbets, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2241147/Boy-refused-admission-to-leading-Jewish-school-was-not-victim-of-racial-discrimination.html "Boy refused admission to leading Jewish school was 'not victim of racial discrimination'"], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 3 July 2008</ref>

In July 2008, the father sought to prosecute JFS on the grounds of racial discrimination, but High Court judge, Mr Justice Munby, ruled against him, holding JFS' selection criteria were not intrinsically different from Christian or Islamic faith schools and their being declared illegal could adversely affect "the admission arrangements in a very large number of faith schools of many different faiths and denominations".<ref>{{cite BAILII|litigants=R(E) v Governing Body of JFS|court=EWHC|division=Admin|num=1535|date=3 July 2008}}</ref>

The Court of Appeal, however, in June 2009 declared that JFS, under the Race Relations Act 1976, had illegally discriminated against the child on grounds of race. They ruled that the mother's religious status, and thus her child's religious status, had been determined using a racial criterion rather than a religious criterion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8118828.stm|title=Jewish school admissions unlawful|date=25 June 2009|access-date=2 June 2022|website=News.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite BAILII |litigants=R(E) v Governing Body of JFS|court=EWCA|division=Civ|num=626|date=25 June 2009}}</ref> The school subsequently issued revised admissions criteria based on religious practice including synagogue attendance, formal Jewish education and volunteering.<ref name="2009 admissions">{{cite web|url=https://www.jfs.brent.sch.uk/admissions.aspx |date=2009-08-28 |access-date=2009-11-16 |title=JFS – Admissions |author=JFS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203071620/http://jfs.brent.sch.uk/admissions.aspx |archive-date=February 3, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Admissions Year 7 {{!}} JFS|url = https://www.jfs.brent.sch.uk/admissions/admissions-year-7|website=Jfs.brent.sch.uk|access-date = 2016-02-08}}</ref> JFS and the United Synagogue appealed to the Supreme Court, with the support of the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.<ref>Simon Rocker, [http://www.thejc.com/articles/jfs-whats-next "JFS: What's Next?"], ''Jewish Chronicle'', 3 July 2009</ref> On 16 December 2009, the UK Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal's ruling.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8415678.stm | work=BBC News | title=Jewish school loses places fight | date=16 December 2009 | access-date=6 May 2010}}</ref><ref>''R(E) v Governing Body of JFS'' [2009] UKSC 15</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://humanrightsinireland.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/the-uk-supreme-court-dismisses-the-jewish-free-school-appeal/|title=The UK Supreme Court Dismisses the Jewish Free School Appeal|website=Humanrightsinireland.wordpress.com|date=16 December 2009|access-date=2 June 2022}}</ref> ==Alleged 2026 anti-Semitic incident== In March 2026, Norfolk Police initiated a hate-crime investigation following an under-15 football match between JFS and Thorpe St Andrew School in Norwich during the quarterfinal round of a national tournament, in which antisemitic slurs such as "Dirty Jews" and "Go back to the gas chambers" were said to have been shouted from the stands at players by a crowd that consisted primarily of supporters of the Norwich school.<ref>{{cite news |date=7 March 2026 |title=Antisemitic chants at school football game reported |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze0x8en452o |work=BBC News|last=West|first=Robby|access-date=9 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=6 March 2026 |title=Police investigate alleged anti-Semitic abuse at school football match |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/06/police-investigate-anti-semitic-abuse-school-football-match/ |work=The Telegraph}}</ref>{{deadlink|date=March 2026}}<ref>[https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25921231.thorpe-st-andrew-school-face-antisemitic-abuse-questions/ "Thorpe St Andrew School face antisemitic abuse questions"], ''Eastern Daily Press'', March 9, 2026. Accessed March 15, 2026. "An under-15 team from the Jewish Free School (JFS), in London, were playing in a national cup quarter-final at Thorpe St Andrew School when the shocking scenes unfolded. JFS pupils claim they were told to 'go back to the gas chambers' and were called 'dirty Zionists' by the crowd, which was said to be mostly {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} pupils from the Norfolk school."</ref><ref>Burrows, Tom. [https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7096378/2026/03/07/football-antisemitism-england-school-game/ "Police investigating report of antisemitic hate crime at English school’s under-15 game"], ''The New York Times'', March 7, 2026. Accessed March 15, 2026. "Police are investigating following a report of a hate crime during a football match involving Britain’s largest Jewish school in a national tournament.... The alleged incident happened on Thursday, March 5, when they played in an away game in the quarter-final stage of the English School’s under-15 competition against Thorpe St Andrew School, based in Norwich.... They shouted throughout the game. They were saying 'go back to the gas chambers', 'dirty Jew' and 'Zionist', she claimed."</ref> Later the same month, the police reported that they had not been able to verify the allegations, and were not taking further action.<ref name="m656">{{cite news| last1=Cunningham | first1=Alice | last2=Wittenberg | first2=Daniel | title=No evidence of antisemitism at school match, says Norfolk Police | work=BBC News | date=19 March 2026 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm29nl7pj80o | access-date=25 March 2026}}</ref>

==Notable former pupils== {{alumni|date=December 2013}} {{Category see also|People educated at JFS (school)}} *Barney Barnato (1851–1897), Randlord<ref name="inwood">Stephen Inwood (2005). ''City of cities: The birth of modern London''. London: Pan Books. p. 33. {{ISBN|978-0-330-43457-7}}</ref> *Gina Bellman (born 1966), actress<ref>[https://www.thejc.com/culture/interviews/interview-gina-bellman-1.52051 Interview: Gina Bellman], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 17 January 2014</ref> *Raphael Benjamin (1846–1906), rabbi in Australia and America *Eyal Booker (born 1995), ''Love Island'' contestant<ref>{{cite web |title=Love Island's Jewish contestant Eyal Booker's brother tells all |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/love-island-s-jewish-contestant-eyal-booker-1.465021 |website=The Jewish Chronicle |date=2018-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613182506/https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/love-island-s-jewish-contestant-eyal-booker-1.465021 |archive-date=2020-06-13 |url-status=live |last1=Doherty |first1=Rosa}}</ref> *Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, Zionist leader, and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Benjamin Cohen (born 1982), journalist and Channel 4 News presenter<ref>{{cite web |author=Simon Rocker |title=Bibi and the boy wonder|url=http://www.thejc.com/news/the-diary/27041/bibi-and-boy-wonder |date=11 February 2010 |publisher=The Jewish Chronicle |access-date=25 February 2010}}</ref> * Two-Gun Cohen (1887–1970), British and Canadian adventurer who became aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army<ref>Sherer, Cyril. [https://www.jewisheastend.com/twoguncohen.html "General Morris (2 Gun) Cohen, a personal recollection by his cousin Dr Cyril Sherer"], Jewish East End of London. Accessed March 15, 2026. "Enrolled at Jews Free School, he played truant. By the time he was ten he was a petty thief, pickpocket, even a prize-fighter under the name of “Cockney Cohen” which is where he got his broken nose."</ref> * Dean Furman (born 1988), professional footballer<ref name=JC2008>Silver, Craig. [https://www.thejc.com/life/sport/furmans-flying-for-smith-and-mccoist-q168xr13 "Furman’s flying for Smith and McCoist"], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', April 24, 2008. Accessed March 15, 2026. "Born in Cape Town, Furman grew up in Edgware, Middlesex, and was a JFS schoolfriend of Maccabi Herzliya starlet Josh Kennet."</ref> *Maurice Glasman (born 1961), academic, social thinker and Labour life peer<ref>Freedland, Michael. [https://www.thejc.com/life/interview-maurice-glasman-eqo3g2hk "Interview: Maurice Glasman"], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', June 30, 2011. Accessed March 15, 2026. "This is still the honeymoon period for the JFS old boy who is enjoying the novelty of having been in Ed Miliband's first list of peerages."</ref> *Jonathan Glazer — BAFTA and Oscar award-winning film director *Iddo Goldberg — actor best known for playing Freddie Thorne in ''Peaky Blinders'' *Samuel Gompers — first president of the American Federation of Labor<ref>Singer, Saul Jay. [https://jewishpress.com/the-jewishness-and-zionism-of-samuel-gompers/ "The Jewishness And Zionism Of Samuel Gompers"], ''The Jewish Press'', August 17, 2022. Accessed March 15, 2026. "Gompers attended the Jewish Free School on Bell Lane, where he was an excellent student, but his formal secular education ended at age 10 when his financially distressed father removed him from school to serve as an apprentice to a shoemaker."</ref> *Ray Kelvin — founder of luxury clothing retail company Ted Baker<ref name="dysch">{{Cite news |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/will-the-real-ted-baker-step-forward-1.20550 |title=Will the real Ted Baker step forward |last=Dysch |first=Marcus |date=13 January 2011 |work=The Jewish Chronicle |accessdate=30 September 2018}}</ref>  * Josh Kennet (born 1987) — English-Israeli footballer<ref name=JC2008/> *David Joseph — chairman and CEO of Universal Music UK<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ingham |first1=Tim |title=David Joseph: 'We creatively empower our artists globally. I'm proud of that.' |url=https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/david-joseph-we-creatively-empower-our-artists-globally-im-proud-of-that/ |website=Musicbusinessworldwide.com |access-date=17 October 2018 |date=14 December 2017}}</ref> *Bernard Lewis — founder and owner, River Island<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.drapersonline.com/people/from-the-archive-the-drapers-interview-with-river-island-founder-bernard-lewis/7001696.fullarticle|title=From the archive: The Drapers Interview with River Island founder Bernard Lewis|website=Drapersonline.com|date=2 November 2015|access-date=23 September 2016}}</ref> *Joe Loss — musician *Ofra Offer Oren — Israeli writer, poet, blogger and translator *Steven Reingold — cricketer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1528/1528336/1528336.html |title=Player profile: Steven Reingold |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-08-05 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> *Barbara Roche — Labour politician *Dan Rothman — guitarist for London Grammar<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lester |first=Paul |date=2014-02-20 |title=Rothman reaps rewards for brushing up on his Grammar |url=https://www.thejc.com/life/music/rothman-reaps-rewards-for-brushing-up-on-his-grammar-omm25d3c |access-date=2025-08-28 |website=The Jewish Chronicle |language=en}}</ref> *Joel Samuels — DJ, associated with DJ Luck & MC Neat *Jez San — game designer, Argonaut Games<ref name="SuperPlay">{{cite magazine|last1=Brookes|first1=Jason|last2=Bielby|first2=Matt|date=May 1993|title=Superplay interview: Jez San, Argonaut|url=https://archive.org/details/Superplay_Issue_07_1993-05_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n25/mode/2up|magazine=Super Play|location=United Kingdom|publisher=Future Publishing}}</ref> *Florence Schechter — founder of Vagina Museum and author *Ian Stone — comedian *Annie Henrietta Yorke - temperance reformer, philanthropist and author

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * Black, Gerry (1998). ''A history of the Jews' Free School, London, since 1732''. Tymsder Publishing {{isbn|978-0953110407}}.

==External links== * [https://www.jfs.brent.sch.uk/ Official website] * [https://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/full/(urn)/133724/ OFSTED Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704221950/http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/full/(urn)/133724 |date=4 July 2011 }}

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