Supported by Pears Foundation, JW3 will be holding an annual Spiro Lecture in recognition of the Spiros' contribution, marking forty years of outstanding effort in awakening interest in the Jewish and Israeli Heritage. It has led to mark strengthening of Jewish awareness, knowledge and identity within the Jewish and general community in this country and overseas.

This year's speaker Stephen Smith is the Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation -The Institute for Visual History and Education which was founded by Steven Spielberg.

In 1995 Stephen Smith together with his brother James created Beth Shalom, England's only Holocaust museum.