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| Profile: Rabbi Tony Bayfield |
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| Written by Web Master | |
| Tuesday, 04 July 2006 | |
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Tony was a congregational rabbi in Surrey for a decade, then director of the Sternberg Centre for Judaism in Finchley (the centre was opened by the area’s then MP, Margaret Thatcher). For the last 10 years he has been chief executive, now head of the Movement for Reform Judaism. The Reform Movement is the second largest organisation of synagogues in Britain. It is the non-conformist section of the community to Sir Jonathan Sack’s majority orthodox community. Despite being on opposite sides of a passionate theological divide, Sir Jonathan Sacks and Rabbi Tony Bayfield are good friends and have been so since their Cambridge days. Rabbi Bayfield is a specialist in modern Jewish thought and contemporary Reform Judaism. He also specialises in Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim dialogue and has published quite widely in this area. He is a widower with three children and two grandchildren (all five being more intelligent and more beautiful than any other children in the world). His younger daughter, Miriam, received semikhah in July 2006 and gone into the family business. . |
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| Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 June 2008 ) |
Rabbi Tony Bayfield was born in 1946. An Essex man, he was born in Ilford and educated at grammar school in Romford and Magdalene College, Cambridge (a great culture shock). He read law, had a doctoral place at the Cambridge Institute for Criminology and then moved to the Leo Baeck College to train as a rabbi, regarding the move from criminology to the rabbinate as imperceptible. He received rabbinic ordination (semikhah) in 1972 - from Rabbis John Rayner z”l, Hugo Gryn z”l and Louis Jacobs z”l, three towering figures of British Jewry.