Mark Goldsmith (rabbi)

Mark Goldsmith (born July 1963) is a British rabbi in the Movement for Reform Judaism. He is Senior Rabbi at Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue, a post he took up in 2019.[1] He was previously a rabbi at North Western Reform Synagogue and a vocational programme tutor at Leo Baeck College in London.[2]

Goldsmith was born in July 1963.[3] He trained for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College[4] and was ordained in 1996.[5] He chaired the Assembly of Reform Rabbis UK from 2011 to 2013, and until 2006 was rabbi at Finchley Progressive Synagogue.[6] He has a particular interest in Jewish business ethics.[7]

Goldsmith is married, with two daughters.[6]

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  2. ^ "Rabbi Mark Goldsmith". Leo Baeck College. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Mark Goldsmith". Companies House. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  4. ^ Grenby, Jay (1 December 2006). "Praise floods in for new Reform rabbi". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Rabbi Mark Goldsmith Chair, Assembly of Reform Rabbis – U.K". HuffPost. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Reform Judaism: Mark Goldsmith". Movement for Reform Judaism. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Rabbi Mark Goldsmith". Connections 2017. World Union for Progressive Judaism. Retrieved 13 December 2018.