Another prominent UK rabbi has publicly criticised Rabbi Joseph Dweck of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, saying that “one cannot rely on his rulings”.
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, Senior Rabbi of the Gateshead community, issued a letter written in Hebrew, addressed to his “colleagues and friends, the rabbis of London”.
He said he had listened to many of Rabbi Dweck’s lectures, and described him as possessing “limited knowledge, weak halachic [Jewish law] reasoning skills, and lack of training”.
He also accused Rabbi Dweck of lacking qualities including “fear [of Heaven], modesty, purity, rabbinic training, and scholarly interactions with his colleagues.
