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”. [...]
I hope Rabbi Mirvis includes the banning of speakers like Chaim Rapoport from all United Synagogues too:
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This man stood up in court and gave the unambiguous opinion that a child sex abuser found guilty by a unanimous jury in a British court of law should have avoided a jail term.
This person should be given no platform to speak, with the exception perhaps of the Shul he has tried to set up in his own back garden.