Why spend cash on trip abroad for rebbetzens? THE Chief Rabbi’s wife, Valerie Mirvis, led a trip to Rome with a number of community rebbetzens, as the Jewish Telegraph reported last week. It enables them to go back to their communities with increased learning and knowledge. While I do not have a problem with this, surely such gatherings should take place within the UK at much less expense. Previous occasions have resulted in the Chief Rabbi going to Israel with colleagues . . . and now this trip to Rome. I would suggest that although these trips have been funded by the Chief Rabbi’s Office, and are presumably fully or partly sponsored, a better use of communal funds would have been to use this money within schools or to fund youth workers at synagogues. Philip Mendelson, 16 Rochford Avenue, Whitefield, Manchester. E-MAIL: letters@jewishtelegraph.com Full names and addresses must accompany letters and will be published unless correspondents specify otherwise.

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