Sandy Rashty

Jan 29, 2025 | thejc.com | Sandy Rashty |Maunika Gowardhan |Elisa Bray |Victoria Prever

For years, Jenny Pasha watched her mum make cakes for special simchas and birthday celebrations. One year, she had a Barbie cake with full elaborate skirt; other years there were ducks, trains and ski slopes with figurines. Together, they would make fairy cakes — but it was the design, detail, and construction of the bakes that interested Pasha the most. “I have memories of going through these baking books with my mum and looking at all the pictures of the cakes, thinking, ‘wow’,” she reflects.

Nov 26, 2024 | jewishnews.co.uk | Sandy Rashty |Jenni Frazer

A former Israel ambassador to the United Nations has launched a swingeing attack on the institution, condemning it as a “stain on humanity” and “the house of lies”. Gilad Erdan, one-time ambassador now the global president of Magen David Adom, was keynote speaker at MDA UK’s fundraising dinner on Monday night in central London, celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Nov 21, 2024 | jewishnews.co.uk | Sandy Rashty |Jenni Frazer

More than 200 women gathered at St John’s Wood Synagogue on Wednesday morning, to raise funds for a £100,000 breast cancer-detection machine to be installed at the Soroka medical centre in southern Israel. As Soroka was impacted by an increase in patients, including IDF soldiers after the 7 October attacks, the event highlighted the need for updated equipment to provide “more accurate and appropriate treatment in the Negev”.

Oct 11, 2024 | jewishnews.co.uk | Sandy Rashty |Michelle Rosenberg

Reality TV star Courtney Green has shared her family’s pain after her young nephew Marley Hakimi was diagnosed with genetic disorder Tay-Sachs. Speaking to fellow castmates on Sunday night’s episode of The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE), the ITV star called on people to support charities that had helped her family since Marley’s was diagnosed Tay-Sachs, a rare but severe neurological genetic disorder associated with the loss of brain functioning in infancy.

Sep 9, 2024 | jewishnews.co.uk | Sandy Rashty |Richard Ferrer

A UK Jewish group that works to combat the impact of religious extremism has called on Labour to do more to regulate the Charedi community. Nahamu, which was co-founded by Yehudis Fletcher, a former member of the Charedi community, warns that strictly-Orthodox children who are home-schooled or attend yeshivas are suffering from a lack of secular education.