The Chief Rabbi won’t even attend a service inside my synagogue, because men and women sit together. The Chief Rabbi won’t accept my stepdad as Jewish, despite the Friday night services he leads at old peoples homes and the free barmitzvah lessons he provides to families who 1/
can’t afford them, simply because he converted to Judaism. The Chief Rabbi before Mirvis wouldn’t allow my twin brother to attend a Jewish state school until our family was able to provide the Jewish wedding certificate of my grandmother, which we were unable to do because she 2/
was killed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust and lost her belongings along with her life. The Chief Rabbi has endorsed Boris Johnson, and in doing so puts ALL minorities at risk, Jews included. The Chief Rabbi represents the United synagogue - which makes up 3/
just 40,000 of the 270,000 Jews in the UK. The Chief Rabbi does not speak for me and does not represent me. Despite what the mainstream media tells you, neither he, nor his opinions, speak for all British Jews.
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