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The theme for this year’s Refugee Week is Community as a Superpower, which speaks deeply to our Jewish heritage, our value of dignity, and our solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers.  🧡

Our history as a people is marked by seeking refuge from exile and the search for safety. We know, from ancient times to the present day, what it means to flee persecution and begin again. We also know the life-giving strength that can be found in community — in the arms that welcome, in the voices that speak up, and in the networks that nurture healing and hope.

Community, at its best, is transformative. It empowers those who feel powerless, lifts those who have been silenced, and highlights to individuals that they matter, they belong, and they are not alone. In Jewish tradition, the commandment to “love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” reminds us that our past must inform our present — and that empathy is not a choice, but an obligation for all of humanity.

During this Refugee Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and contribution of refugees and asylum seekers to our communities and society. And we recommit ourselves to offering sanctuary, building bridges, and creating spaces where everyone can thrive. 🌈

This week, we reinforce our call for safe and legal routes to safety in the UK for refugees and asylum seekers, and for those already here, a system that treats them compassionately and fairly.  So that they too can call the UK a ‘safe home’. 🏠

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