The Chief Rabbi speaks to the Jewish Chronicle’s Simon Rocker about the purposes of the Centre for Rabbinic Excellence, which has begun by primarily providing funding to synagogues for additional educational and cultural programming, but will spearhead further community-strengthening initiatives Read more...
The Chief Rabbi delighted the Cambridge community by undertaking to dance through the streets with a new Sefer Torah before its installation in the Thompson’s Lane synagogue.
The Chief Rabbi parades a new Torah scroll through the streets of Cambridge, Read more...
Event
Melava Malka with music and magic.
Objectives
To further the spirit of community and enable members to enjoy an affordable event. To celebrate our relationship with the United Synagogue at our first Melava Malka since becoming full members.
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Further to his statement on The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Australia, the Chief Rabbi makes clear that such crimes must also be challenged in the UK. He reiterates the long-standing position of his Office Read more...
In a response to findings by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which convened in light of the discovery of grave abuses against minors within the Melbourne and Sydney communities, the Chief Rabbi condemns the Read more...
The Chief Rabbi issues a strong condemnation of the terrorist attacks that have sown fear and despair in Copenhagen, drawing a parallel with the carnage in Paris last month and urging society not to be cowed by terror.
“I am Read more...
The Chief Rabbi had the privilege of being the Guest of Honour at a dinner given by the Muslim Council of Wales, using his status as a keynote speaker to address the universal religious virtues to which all people of Read more...
In an official ceremony attended by numerous MPs, the Mayor of Barnet and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, the Chief Rabbi had conferred upon him the Freedom of the London Borough of Barnet.
Barnet Council bestowed Read more...
Event
A Shabbat programme with IDF army chaplain Rabbi Shalom Hammer
Objectives
To create achdut within the community and engage people over Shabbat and to create awareness and understanding of the role of an IDF army chaplain.
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Event
Kabbalat Shabbat services followed by a Sushi Kiddish
Objectives
To attract young members to shul on Friday night and create a new religious rhythm of going to Shul as a family at least once a month
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