This tiny Jewish community is to enjoy closer links with the British Zionist Federation, following the visit last week of a Zionist official from the mainland. A meeting was sponsored jointly by the Jersey Hebrew Congregation, the local Joint Israel Appeal and the local WIZO branch. There are about 80 Jewish families living in the larger of the two Channel islands. There is no community on the smaller islands of Guernsey and Sark. A synagogue existed in St. Helier, the main town of the island between 1843 and 1870. The present synagogue and community was founded in 1962 by Jews from London and other parts of the mainland.
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