Long-standing members of the JR editorial board, Dr Bea Lewkowicz and Michael Mail, have been awarded honours by the King
We are thrilled to have two long-standing editorial board members recognised on the King’s New Year Honours List. Dr Bea Lewkowicz, an oral historian, anthropologist, filmmaker and photographer, has been with JR from the early days and was awarded an OBE for services to Holocaust education; while Michael Mail, a qualified lawyer and author with an extensive career in the charity sector, who’s worked with JR for over a decade, received an MBE for services to heritage and charity.
The pair share the list with major household names, including actor Sir Idris Elba and England football captain Leah Williamson CBE, as well as other notable Jews, including the director of UCL’s Centre for Holocaust Education Professor Ruth-Anne Lenga OBE and Holocaust survivor and child psychotherapist Lydia Tischler MBE.
“I’m thrilled as you can imagine,” said Mail, who set up the Foundation for Jewish Heritage in 2015 to help preserve important Jewish architectural sites, monuments and places of cultural significance. “I hope the award will help the foundation in demonstrating state support for our work preserving important historic synagogues at risk, which represents important shared Jewish and British heritage.”
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