Nine lives

and was impressed by the organisation, together with sporting achievements of the competitors.

The motto is the same as the Olympic Games. It is not always the winning but the taking part and these games bring Jewish people from round the world on the supporting stage.

Basil H Mann,

Isleworth , Middx

When our cat Angel died we had a levoyah in the garden and said Kattish for him.

Paul Manski,

London N12

The two canine correspondents in last week’s edition, Max and Milo, seemed to have more common sense and wit than many of your human correspondents.

We need more of your animal readers to express their views in your pages (except perhaps the porcine ones on kashrut, as they know a good thing when they see it.) I am very keen to hear what your bovine correspondents think of shechita for example.

Of one thing I am certain. Your zoological correspondents will have more to say in the public pages of your newspaper on homosexuality and on the ‘Rabbi Dweck issue’ than any of your rabbinic correspondents. across the community, combining resources, creating synergies and ensuring that there is a collective endeavour driving it forward.

Redbridge could have also demonstrated this synergy, but turned its back on creating a community campus, and instead continues to struggle along with little evidence of joined-up thinking.

Hopefully, the recently formed Essex Jewish Community Council will begin to create a strategic pathway that will be encouraged by the Leeds example.