Become a Member
News

United Synagogue undecided on Chief Rabbi successor

December 6, 2012 18:00
Rabbi Lapin: in and out

By

Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

1 min read

United Synagogue rabbis are concerned about the delay in appointing a chief rabbi to succeed Lord Sacks next autumn.

It is two years since Lords Sacks’s planned retirement was announced and more than a year since the Chief Rabbinate Trust officially launched the recruitment process.

The question of the succession was discussed at a meeting of the Rabbinical Council of the US on Monday.

RCUS chairman Rabbi Baruch Davis, who has acted as an adviser to the search committee set up by the trust, said that his colleagues “would like the process brought to a speedy conclusion”.