Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has warned United Synagogue rabbis to
avoid inviting “inappropriate” speakers in a confidential memo sent to
them and the chairmen of their synagogues a few days ago.
He wrote that it had been prompted by a number of recent developments in communities which had cause him “great concern”.
He said that he had previously made rabbis aware of the importance of
not offering a platform “to speakers who are inappropriate” at his
rabbinical conference in July.
Synagogues should not host speakers who represent an outlook “which
encourages practices which run contrary to our normative United
Synagogue approach”. [...]
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