Condolence Messages to the Royal Family from the British Jewish Community

An unsurpassable Head of State. Thank you for everything.

The entire world has lost our Queen an amazing lady who has passed away, a true eschat chayil in every sense. My thoughts are with the family and wish them a long life. May her majesty rest in peace with her beloved husband The Duke. Thank you Your Majesty for being our Queen.

A paragon of duty and service dearly missed by her family, the nation, the commonwealth and around the world. May her memory be a blessing.

My Great Great Great Grandfather Rabbi Tuvia Gutman wrote on behalf of the Chief Rabbi and the Jewish Community in the UK on the loss of a previous Queen. I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to all the Royal Family on the death of their mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. May her memory be a blessing to all and may she rest in peace.

Thank you Your Majesty for 70 years of unparalleled service. Queen Elizabeth II, R.I.P. May your memory be a blessing.

Bruce Greenberg,
on behalf of Northampton Hebrew Congregation

On behalf of the trustees, staff and volunteers of the Jewish Volunteering Network, we send our sincere condolences to the King and all the royal family on the sad passing away of HM Queen Elizabeth II. She was an extraordinary person and we are so grateful for all that she gave to the world. She will be greatly missed. We send you blessings for long life and wish you many happy memories of your time spent together. May her memory always be for a blessing.

Long Live the King.

Daniel Levy
Chairman

Nicky Goldman
Chief Executive

Her Majesty the Queen was an outstanding leader a great role model she devoted her life to service to the country, its people and above all else her support for those who needed her. Her commitment and dedication and work ethic knew no bounds. May she rest in peace .

As a small child I was able to see the coronation when my primary school (Menorah Primary in Golders Green) took us all to the cinema to see the recording - in black and white.
As an adult I was privileged to meet the Queen and Prince Philip at a reception from the Board of Deputies which they graciously attended.
A few years later we met (the then) Prince Charles and Princess Diana at a Board of Deputies reception in Hampton Court.
The Queen was a gracious upstanding honest woman with regard and care for all her subjects.
We should all learn from her example.
Kol Tov May her Memory be a blessing to all of us.
Sylvia Hartman

On Her Majesty’s death, I was reminded of my own late parents who married in 1947 as was the Queen and Prince Philip. They received an invite with many other such couples to the garden party at Buckingham Palace to celebrate their golden anniversary.

Like the Queen, my father was also born in 1926. By the time he married, he was just aged 21 the previous December. A brick was thrown through a window at their US synagogue during their marriage service by anti-semites. By then, he had been a blitz boy in London aged 14 and a fire watcher at his school.

He moved with his family to Manchester with my late grandfather’s posting as Major. My grandfather served in the trenches in WW1 where his elder brother was killed in France. My grandfather signed up as a private from the East End, albeit a chemistry graduate from Kings College London.

He was a Captain by the time he was firstly demobbed. My father was called up in 1944 when he was 18, away from Oxford university where he was reading Spanish and English after gaining a scholarship at aged 16. He trained as a fighter pilot in the RAF and flew a Spitfire.

My Mother was well versed in the horrors of the Holocaust, as an interpreter, from the age of 14 for Jewish refugee, mostly orphaned children. Although not a servicewoman, she worked in the Admiralty in her adult life during the War until her marriage. After he was demobbed in ‘46 by which time he had met my Mother, on pain of her refusing to marry him, he resumed his studies at Oxford, that time changing to read PPE in the hope of changing the world for the better.

Like most, if not all of their generation, my parents lived many different lives by their early 20s. Their parents were the first generation in my family who were born in England. My father’s grandfather founded Edgware US synagogue and his son the Prestwich Hebrew Congregation, ‘the Shrubberies,’ in Manchester. All three generations and their parents before lived through the worst of times and witnessed many atrocities.

After their marriage my parents in parallel with the Queen and her husband dedicated their lives to their family, and also charitable work. My Mother was a founder of Jewish Child’s Day. Public service without any expectation or desire of reward, was a creed well taught to me and my two younger brothers. The Queen was always pointed to as the very best of a role model. I honour her memory as I do my parents’.

Janet Tresman, Deputy for Finchley Progressive Synagogue

Her Majesty lived a life of unfailing and inspiring service to her country and all its people. For over 70 years she has set the standard for public service, for steadfastness, and for strong moral and spiritual principles. Everyone at the West London Synagogue of British Jews mourns her passing with a heavy heart. We send our deepest sympathies to His Majesty the King and every member of the Royal Family at this time. May her memory be a blessing.

Very sad to hear of the passing of our gracious Queen Elizabeth. She kept to her promise to serve the people of this country and the commonwealth until the end.
Sincere condolences to all the Royal Family.
Judi and Ian Glynn

I mourn the death of my beloved Sovereign, her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. My entire life to date, I have been proud to be her subject. She was a shining beacon of decency, duty, merit, forbearance, kindness and wisdom to our country, the Commonwealth of which she was the ceremonial Head of State, and the entire world. Truly she was such stuff as legends are made on, ruling us for long ages and from generation to generation and never putting a foot wrong or striking a wrong note. May her dear soul be bound up in the bonds of life eternal.

It is with great sadness that I offer my sincere condolences to all the members of the Royal Family on the death of Her Gracious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

Her Majesty kept all her Coronation promises and fulfilled all her royal duties in an exemplary way right throughout her life.

I remember her Grandmother, Queen Mary and her Father, King George VI and their funerals as well as her Coronation in 1953. I was brought up to appreciate her diligence in the duties she performed, all the significant events and I have beautiful memories of her and other Royals. I was a great fan of her HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and I have been a firm Royalist right throughout my own life.

Queen Elizabeth II has been a fine example to everyone, to those who knew her and to those who did not. She has been a good friend to the Jewish communities in the UK and beyond.

Her Majesty has left us a great legacy and I know our nations are in safe hands with our new King and his successors. May they have Long Life.

May her Memory be for a Blessing and May she Rest in Peace.

Our most sincere condolences to King Charles III and the family of the late Queen Elizabeth II who will remain forever in our hearts.
Linda and Russell Turnberg.

Sending heartfelt condolences to King Charles and all the Royal family at the untimely passing of our Queen Elizabeth. She has been a huge part of our lives. Always there for us. We shall miss her so much. However, never to be forgotten. Ros and Robert Nathan.

My thoughts and prayers are with you His Majesty and all the royal family because of your great loss.

The Queen was an amazing monarch who was very kind, caring and impressive.

Long live the King! and best wishes to all of you from me and my family.

Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.
I was incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II. She was an incredible woman who reigned for over 70 years with humility, wisdom and selflessness. She was an inspiration, a guiding light and a constant in a every changing and fractious world. My thoughts are with the Royal Family at this difficult time. May her memory be for a blessing. Long live the King

A true human being who constantly maintained decency and the example to all, upholding humanity in a world of flux and imbalance.

Thank you your Majesty for everything. You were a truly exceptional person. May you rest in peace together with Prince Phillip.

Our Dear Queen and Majesty
has always been there for very nearly all my life, and all the lives of the rest of us, and as long as I can remember, steady, constant, reliable, a rock for our country and every one of us. I and all around me feel deeply and personally her loss in a way we never imagined. She was personable, selfless and genuinely interested, wherever she went and whoever she met. We are immensely proud and grateful for her lifelong dedication and service right up the the very end. We will miss her greatly. But she has schooled King Charles by her wonderful example and we look forward to his reign with confidence and excitement knowing that he will continue to make our monarchy as great for us and admired by the world that our most special Queen did.
Our heartfelt condolences reach out to all the Royal Family, so dignified in grief.
May she rest in everlasting peace.
Marilyn, Oliver, Jonathan, Leanne, Michelle, Lucas, Chloe and Joe Grant

We wish you our deepest condolences on the death of the Queen. She embodied everything great about our country. She was an inspirational role model to us all, and a powerful advocate for peace and positive community relations. I still remember seeing her walking down The Mall on the Golden Jubilee; surrounded by children, she still shone out. As we say in the Jewish tradition, may Her memory be for a blessing.

On behalf of the members of Catford & Bromley Synagogue, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy to King Charles III and the Royal Family on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Proverbs 31 describes a worthy woman, an Eshet Chayil, saying "Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue." Her Majesty's faith, wisdom, kindness and sense of duty sustained her and us for 70 years and she will be much missed. May you all be consoled by the love and esteem in which she was held, both here and throughout the Commonwealth, and take comfort in the knowledge that she is reunited with her beloved husband.
We wish King Charles strength and good health to reign over us for many years.
Carole Abrahams, Board of Deputies Representative for Catford & Bromley Synagogue.

Our deepest condolences to His Majesty King Charles III & all his family on the death of Queen Elizabeth II, their wonderful mother, grandmother & great-grandmother. May she rest in everlasting peace together with her beloved husband, Prince Philip. With grateful thanks from your subjects for the years of duty & love they both dedicated to our great country & to the Commonwealth.

Blanche Eckman & family

May the memory of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II be for a blessing for the British People and for the World.

My family and I mourn the death of our beloved Queen whilst expressing our deepest gratitude for the awe-inspiring selfless devotion to duty. May her memory be for a blessing and her soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life.
May our dear King be granted many years of good health and strength to follow Her Majesty's example and guide our nation and its people in the path of righteousness and justice.