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Eliahu Bakshi-Doron
BAKSHI-DORON, ELIAHU (1941– ), rabbi, Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel. Bakshi-Doron was born in Jerusalem, where he studied at Hebron yeshivah and in the kollelim of Mosad Ha-Rav Kook and Kol Ya'akov.
He served as a neighborhood rabbi in Bat Yam, becoming the city's chief rabbi in 1972. In 1975 he was appointed chief Sephardi rabbi of Haifa, serving in that capacity until elected Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel in 1993. His ten-year term ended in April 2003.
On September 12, 2001, Chief Rabbi Bakshi-Doron called on the Islamic clerics who had published a fatwa (religious edict) ordering suicide-bombings and declaring the bombers shahids – martyrs – to rescind it and call on the world to preserve the sanctity of life, and to forbid large-scale attacks on innocent civilians. At times, Bakshi-Doron has taken controversial stands. At one point, he suggested that the Moslems retain their authority over the Temple Mount. However, he did decry the unsupervised Arab construction that has taken place on the Temple Mount in recent years. Bakshi-Doron also suggested that Israel's Marriage Law be rescinded, thus ending the Chief Rabbinate's monopoly on marriage and divorce. Since the rabbinic process was creating more enemies than friends of Ju
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Golders Green Beth Hamedrash Congregation
Congregation Data
Name:
Golders Green Beth Hamedrash (or Golders Green Beth Hamedrash Congregation)
often referred to as Munk's Synagogue or GGBH
Former Name:
Golders Green Beth Hamedrash and Lincoln Instituteuntil 1959(i)
(Not to be confused with the Lincoln Institute Synagogue, now the Ohel David Eastern Synagogue)
Address:
The Riding, Golders Green Road, Golders Green, London NW11 8HL.
Former Address:
Lincoln Institute, Broadwalk Lane, Golders Green Road, London NW11 (from 1935 until 1959)(ii)
Sabbath morning services in the Library at King Alfred's School (until 1935)
Date Formed:
Founded in 1934 by Rabbi Munk (see below). The congregation initial membership consissted of strictly orthodox German Jewish refugees, and followed the theological approach of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsh.(iii)
Current Status:
Active
Ritual:
Ashkenazi, Strictly Orthodox
Affiliation:
The congregation is an independent congregation, affiliated to Adath Yisrael Burial Society of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (UOHC). It is idealogically close to the UOHC and may have been affiliated to the organisation