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British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis speaks at a National Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, on January 26, 2017, in London, England. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
September 3, 2024, 8:20 am
UK chief rabbi slams government’s decision to suspend arms licenses to Israel
Ephraim Mirvis warns move feeds into ‘falsehoods’ of genocide in Gaza, will encourage Israel’s enemies
By ToI Staff
UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, January 23, 2020. (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
From the WebMarch 17, 2023, 5:16 pm
UK chief rabbi: ‘The enormity of this task requires exceptional seriousness’
Ephraim Mirvis tells UK’s Jewish News about growing up in South Africa and fighting apartheid, living in Jerusalem’s Old City, his unexpected knighthood and his visit to the UAE
By Richard Ferrer
Illustrative: Britain's then-prince Charles and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis visit the 1736 Suriname reconstructed Tzedek ve-Shalom Synagogue at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP)
October 28, 2022, 1:50 pm
UK chief rabbi to spend coronation eve with King Charles to avoid breaking Shabbat
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis will sleep at Clarence House on Friday evening before walking less than one mile to Westminster Abbey to attend coronation ceremony
By Ash Obel
Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz speaks at the annual Greenbelt arts, faith, and justice festival in the UK in 2016. (YouTube)
From the WebJuly 6, 2021, 11:39 pm
UK Jewish school reinstates female lecturer fired over rabbinical ordination
Chief rabbi’s London School of Jewish Studies restores Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz to her position, Jewish News reports; she was dismissed last month for gaining title at NY yeshiva
In this Wednesday Nov. 6, 2013, file photo, the Twitter logo appears on an updated phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP/Richard Drew)
July 27, 2020, 10:43 am
Thousands join 48-hour Twitter ‘walkout’ to protest anti-Semitism on platform
Politicians, celebrities and others lead mass sign-off, sparked by what they say is social media giant’s inadequate response — a 7-day ban — to UK rapper’s anti-Jewish rant
By ToI Staff and JTA
Participants on the British chief rabbi's Ben Azzai program play with Indian orphaned boys during a trip to Kolkata in December 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
September 11, 2019, 9:06 pm
In India, young British Jews struggle to avoid ‘poorism,’ learn how to help
UK chief rabbi tries to create ‘Jewish foreign policy’ with Ben Azzai program, which sends Jewish university students around the world to learn about poverty
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn poses for photographers as he arrives to cast his vote for local council elections at a polling station in Holloway, London, May 3, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
July 18, 2018, 2:34 pm
Britain’s Labour adopts its own controversial definition of anti-Semitism
Defying the Jewish community, chief rabbi, and MPs, the new guidelines omit key references to Israel and can be used to get members under investigation for bigotry off the hook
By Robert Philpot
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis of the United Congregations of the Commonwealth poses with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan ahead of the Yom HaShoah Commemoration, the UK Jewish community's Holocaust remembrance ceremony, in Barnet, north London, on May 8, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL)
From the WebMarch 14, 2018, 8:24 pm
UK chief rabbi, Jewish groups slam ‘horrific’ anti-Muslim campaign
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis slams ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letters as ‘totally abhorrent’ and a ‘reminder of the depravity of Islamophobia’
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. (Courtesy Core18)
January 23, 2018, 7:49 pm
Britain’s former chief rabbi behind Pence’s biblical Knesset address
Jonathan Sacks ‘instrumental’ in drafting of speech from US vice president that contained many phrases previously used by major Jewish thinker
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, during a meeting with leaders of the UK Jewish community, November 5, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
November 5, 2017, 4:16 pm
Netanyahu in London meets with UK Jewish leaders to mark Balfour centenary
Prime minister sits down with British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
By ToI Staff
Detail from vintage post card from The Green Park hotel in Bournemouth, England (Courtesy)
September 17, 2017, 1:09 pm
‘Greatest Name in Jewish Hotels’ captured in documentary film on British Jewry
With its class and kosher food, The Green Park was the seaside vacation destination for post-war England’s upwardly mobile religiously observant
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (photo credit: United Synagogue)
June 29, 2017, 7:27 pm
Ex-UK chief rabbi says all denominations have a place at Western Wall
Jonathan Sacks says that despite uproar, existence of egalitarian prayer area shows cabinet move not a defeat for liberal Jews
By JTA
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, center left, visits the archaeological site al-Maghtas in Jordan Wednesday believed to be the place where John the Baptist baptized Jesus of Nazareth on May, 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)
May 5, 2017, 10:09 am
Archbishop of Canterbury makes surprise Gaza visit
Head of Church of England tours two hospitals and a World War I British cemetery as part of his 10-day Holy Land trip
By ToI Staff
The Archbishop of Cantebury Justin Welby (l) and the British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, visit the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 3, 2017, 11:05 pm
Archbishop of Canterbury prays at Western Wall with UK chief rabbi
At Yad Vashem visit, head of Church of England stresses imperative to fight anti-Semitism, calls it ‘the root of all racism’ within European culture
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis gives a speech as he attends a Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at Central Hall Westminster, on January 27, 2015. (AP/Chris Jackson)
March 23, 2017, 2:25 am
Jewish leaders offer condolences in wake of deadly London attack
UK chief rabbi says killings will ‘serve only to unite us’ as European Jewish Congress condemns ‘cowardly and barbaric’ act
By JTA
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