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Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Mirvis has been Chief Rabbi since 2013. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he served as the Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1985 and 1992.

Latest from Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

There are lessons to be learned from this year of devastation

We should build on some of the innovations and changes to communal life that the pandemic has forced us to adopt, writes the Chief Rabbi

5 min read

Religious Jewish men wearing the talit, a traditional Jewish prayer shawl, and on their foreheads the tefillin (or phylacteries), a small black leather box containing scrolls of parchment with verses from the Torah, pray keeping distance from each other outside their closed synagogue in Netanya on April 23, 2020 as Israel imposed measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)