When GesherEU members got together for our annual retreat, earlier this month, it was an weekend to remember. The event saw 44 adults and children spend three nights in a converted old pub in the Peak District, from 9th to 12th February. Highlights included long hikes through the surrounding countryside, where remnants of snowfall were […]
Category Archives: Volunteers’ stories
Day of Choice 2023
The international Day of Choice is an annual event, which takes place every 27th October, to raise awareness of the issues facing people who leave ultra-Orthodox communities across the world. GesherEU is part of a global movement for change. Together with our sister organisations in the US, Europe, Israel and Australia, we want to ensure […]
Q&A with Vicky Jones
Vicky Jones has been GesherEU’s Welfare Officer since October 2022. We asked her to tell us more about herself and what she does. Tell us about yourself and what you did before you came to GesherEU I live in East London, with my partner, my stepson and my cat. I grew up in Bournemouth, a […]
First impressions
My first encounter with GesherEU was at Limmud 2014. In little more than two short months, my eyes have been opened to a world on my doorstep that remains hidden from the majority of Jews right here in London and indeed across the UK and Europe. This world is the Chasidic communities that many hold […]