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Miri Freud-Kandel on the Chief Rabbinate of Lord Jonathan Sacks

By MP9996, March 10, 2011

Meir Persoff, Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate (Academic Studies Press, Boston, 2010).

Reviewed by MIRI FREUD-KANDEL, lecturer in Modern Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford.

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Rabbi Raymond Apple: Meir Persoff's book on Sacks is dynamite

By MP9996, February 11, 2011

By Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple
Emeritus rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney

The title of Meir Persoff’s recent book, "Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate" (Academic Studies Press, Boston), sounds highly academic - and, indeed, it is a solidly researched and careful analysis. But when you read the book, it is dynamite, made especially topical by the announcement that Lord Sacks will retire as Britain’s Chief Rabbi in two years’ time.

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Rabbi Raymond Apple: Rethink needed on British Chief Rabbinate

By MP9996, February 10, 2011

By Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple
Emeritus rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney

The title of Meir Persoff’s recent book, "Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate" (Academic Studies Press, Boston), sounds highly academic - and, indeed, it is a solidly researched and careful analysis. But when you read the book, it is dynamite, made especially topical by the announcement that Lord Sacks will retire as Britain’s Chief Rabbi in two years’ time.

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Lord Sacks' Chief Rabbinate: A 'Devastating' Account

By MP9996, December 16, 2010

Meir Persoff: "Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate." Academic Studies Press, Boston, 2010.

THE FORWARD (New York):

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Kudos for Meir Persoff's 'Another Way, Another Time'

By MP9996, June 25, 2010

Divide and rule?
By HYAM CORNEY
Jerusalem Post Magazine, June 25, 2010

The British Chief Rabbinate has outlived its usefulness,
Meir Persoff writes in his study of the Sacks era

Another Way, Another Time
By Meir Persoff | Academic Studies Press | 398 pages | $32

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Is Sacks Britain’s Last Chief Rabbi?

By MP9996, May 16, 2010

The Right Man in the Wrong Job
Is Jonathan Sacks Great Britain’s Last Chief Rabbi?

By Lawrence Grossman
Jewish Daily Forward, 21 May, 2010.

Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Schocken Books, 304 pages, $26.95

Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate
By Meir Persoff
Academic Studies Press, 396 pages, £26.99 (pbk)/£54.50 (hbk)

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Meir Persoff's Faith Against Reason: A Ground-Breaking Study

By MP9996, December 11, 2009

GROUND-BREAKING (Jewish Political Studies Review, Jerusalem and Baltimore):

Faith Against Reason: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate, 1840-1990 (Vallentine Mitchell, London)

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International acclaim for Meir Persoff's Faith Against Reason

By MP9996, July 24, 2009

INDISPENSABLE (Journal of Jewish Studies, Oxford):

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Chief Rabbinical leadership under the spotlight

By MP9996, May 8, 2009

Meir Persoff analyses the leadership of the Chief Rabbi
From The Jewish Chronicle
Candice Krieger
May 8, 2009

Veteran journalist Meir Persoff has gained a doctorate for his studies on the Chief Rabbinate — past and present.

Dr Persoff, who spent four decades at the Jewish Chronicle, was awarded the PhD from Middlesex University for his book, Faith Against Reason: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate, 1840-1990 — a study of the battles between Orthodoxy and the liberalising tendency within Anglo-Jewry — and a follow-up dissertation.

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Pulpit politics

By MP9996, January 6, 2009

Faith Against Reason. By Meir Persoff. Vallentine Mitchell, xxxi+476 pages; $34.95. Reviewed by Hyam Corney, THE JERUSALEM POST, January 1, 2009.

To the outsider -- the non-Jew in Britain and the Jew in the rest of the world -- Anglo-Jewry must seem like a haven of tranquility and unity, broken only by the infamous "Jacobs affair" in the 1960s when an Orthodox rabbi was barred from becoming principal of Jews' College because he dared to question the principle of the divine origin of the Torah.

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Pomposity and point-scoring

By MP9996, January 6, 2009

FAITH AGAINST REASON: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate 1840-1990. By Meir Persoff. Vallentine Mitchell, cloth £50.00, paper £19.95. Review in Liberal Judaism Today (Vol.XXXVi, No.1, January/February 2009), by DAVID GOLDBERG

This is an exhaustive, well-written and admirably balanced history of five United Synagogue chief rabbis from Nathan Marcus Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits, and their turbulent relations not only with the Reform and Liberal movements, but even more so with their own clergy and lay leaders.

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Faith Against Reason -- "Compulsive Reading"

By MP9996, November 25, 2008

How Chief Rabbis have battled against Reform

Rabbi Dr Jeffrey Cohen reviews a new book on how Britain’s Orthodox establishment tried to stop religious schism.

From The Jewish Chronicle
November 18, 2008

Faith against Reason: Religious Reform and the
British Chief Rabbinate, 1840-1990
By Meir Persoff
Vallentine Mitchell, £50 hb, £19.95 pb

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Faith Against Reason exclusive

By MP9996, September 28, 2008

We don’t do broiges like we used to

24 September, 2008 - 09:56 —

Simon Rocker

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Faith Against Reason

By MP9996, September 28, 2008

FAITH AGAINST REASON:
Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate, 1840-1990

By Meir Persoff

Introduction by Todd M. Endelman, William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan

VALLENTINE MITCHELL
ISBN: 9780853036708 and 9780853036791

xxxi + 476 pages

Paperback - 9780853036708 - $34.95/£19.95
Hardback - 9780853036791 - $79.95/£50.00
(available discounted at websites of leading booksellers)

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When Jacobs met Jakobovits

By MP9996, September 26, 2008

When Jacobs met Jakobovits

The details of an encounter between two of British Jewry’s most influential religious leaders revealed for the first time.

From The Jewish Chronicle
September 23, 2008

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