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Article: Coordination of European Jewry guided from a London basement
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- December 12, 1995
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Tom Tugend
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
12-12-1995
Coordination of European Jewry guided from a London basement.
From the Ural Mountains to the Atlantic and from Finland to Crete, a network is increasingly bringing together the Jewish communal service institutions of the Old World.
The network's coordinator is the European Council of Jewish Communities, also known as the ECJC.
The headquarters for the ECJC is housed in an unassuming basement office on London's Gloucester Place, where Executive Director Michael May heads a two-person staff and oversees four regional branches.
He surveyed his far-flung constituency of some 3 million Jews for a visitor. Within the 15 countries of the European Union, ...