Browse > Home Featured Articles / Heaton Park: A Reflection of Community Spirit – J-WireAfter the Manchester killingsRead on for articleManchester-born Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton is the spiritual leader of Sydney’s The Great Congregation. As a child, he attended cheder at the Heaton Park Synagogue. We have experienced an inspiring and renewing Yom Kippur, and we headed back into the world full of optimism and excitement. These are now the Kedoshim of Manchester, the holy martyrs who were killed for the sanctification of God’s Name. The attack took place at Heaton Park Synagogue, where I attended cheder before my bar mitzvah and which many of my childhood friends attended.