New year honours

Below is part of a report on totallyjewish.com that can be found by clicking here. It is about members of the Jewish community who were awarded in the New Years Honours List. This includes members of the Leeds community:

Also honoured is Stanley Cundle who picked up an MBE for services to the Jewish community in Leeds. It's the second accolade for the Alwoodley resident in three months. In October, the 69-year-old who is chair of the Makor charitable trust, the Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival and vice chair of the Zone youth club, as well as a former head of the Leeds Community Security Trust, was given the first ever Leeds award for services to the city

Staying in Leeds, there was another MBE in the list for Auschwitz survivor Arek Hersh. A regular speaker at the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, all proceeds from his book A Detail of History are donated to the facility.