I served as Rabbi of Kol Chai from 2001- 2017, and since then have had the honorary title of Rabbi Emeritus of the community. My current activities include:

• I help Kol Chai’s participation in Harrow Citizens, especially with the Mental Health Action team
• As the longest serving member of Oxford Three Faiths’ team, I help to organise our occasional residential and online interfaith conferences alongside Christians and Muslims
• As Scholar in Residence at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, I teach on adult education courses, often alongside Christian or Muslim speakers
• As a lecturer at Leo Baeck College Lehrhaus, which is their adult education programme open to all, I teach small classes of students learning Classical Greek, including complete beginners interested in exploring the rich heritage of Jewish Literature in Greek.
• I actively pursue my own studies in Classical Arabic and Judeo-Arabic (which is Arabic written with Hebrew letters).
• My current main research interest is in the influence of Islam on Judaism.

Links of Interest

Leo Baeck College Lehrhaus has a very wide range of online education courses of interest to the Jewish community. Watch the Lehrhaus publicity video here and an interview with me and Rabbi Mark Goldsmith here.

Listen to my Progressively Jewish podcast on “Death and Rebirth” here.

Please contact me via Kol Chai if you would like to know more.

Please explore some of my research via my website: rabbim.co.uk