Senior Liberal Rabbi hosted Jeremy Corbyn and Jewish Voice For Labour co-chair for Shabbat dinner

Rabbi Danny Rich

From TheJC:

The chief executive of Liberal Judaism hosted a Shabbat dinner where Jeremy Corbyn and the co-chair of the Jewish Voice For Labour were guests, the JC has learned.

The Friday night dinner, which took place last month, included an invitation to an Israeli conflict resolution specialist along with Mr Corbyn and Jenny Manson’s respective partners.

News of the dinner is likely to spark concern among those in the Jewish community who still advocate a hardline against Mr Corbyn’s party and accuse him of failing to deal with antisemitism within it.

Rabbi Danny Rich, who is also a Labour councillor, has publicly appealed for British Jews to find a way to work with Mr Corbyn, saying there is a “danger” of communal leaders “being accused of only desiring regime change in the Labour Party — and there is not a cat in hell’s chance of that happening”. More …