Harvey Belovski

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| honorific-prefix = Rabbi

| name = Harvey Belovski

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| birth_date = 18 January 1968

| birth_place = London, United Kingdom

| occupation = Rabbi, educator, organisational advisor

| known_for = Shem MiShmuel: Selections on the Weekly Parashah and Festivals, The Shabbat Siddur Companion

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| office1 = Rabbi of Golders Green United Synagogue (Dunstan Road)

| term_start1 = 2003

| term_end1 = 2023

| office2 = Chief Strategist and Rabbinic Head of University Jewish Chaplaincy

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| alma_mater = University College, Oxford

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Harvey Belovski (born 18 January 1968), is a British Orthodox rabbi. He was the rabbi of Golders Green United Synagogue (Dunstan Road) from 2003{{cite web |url=http://www.goldersgreenshul.org.uk/our-community/our-rabbi/|title=Our Rabbi |publisher=Golders Green Shul |access-date=2013-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212050133/https://www.goldersgreenshul.org.uk/our-community/our-rabbi/ |archive-date=12 December 2013}} to 2023{{Cite web |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/community/golders-green-synagogues-senior-rabbi-announces-his-departure-2HyGqXYB0P8OTQowqAmgyR?reloadTime=1666642004740 |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=www.thejc.com |title=Golders Green Synagogue's senior rabbi announces his departure }} a position previously held by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.{{cite web |url=http://www.goldersgreenshul.org.uk/our-community/|title=Our Community |publisher=Golders Green Shul |access-date=2013-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222004702/http://www.goldersgreenshul.org.uk/our-community/ |archive-date=22 February 2017}}

Belovski was a leading candidate for the Chief Rabbinate of the UK in the 2012 selection process which eventually appointed Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.{{cite news|url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/42695/chief-rabbi-who-will-throw-their-hat-ring/|title=Chief Rabbi: Who will throw their hat into the ring?|publisher=The Jewish Chronicle|date=16 December 2010|access-date=2013-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219032949/https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/42695/chief-rabbi-who-will-throw-their-hat-ring |archive-date=19 December 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/as-britains-chief-rabbi-lord-sacks-is-proving-a-very-hard-act-to-follow/|title=As Britain's chief rabbi, Lord Sacks is proving a very hard act to follow|author=Miriam Shaviv|publisher=The Times Of Israel|date=27 June 2012|access-date=2013-07-18}}{{cite news|url=http://www.jewishtelegraph.com/prof_164.html|title=Rabbi Harvey Ticks Many Boxes In Race To Be Chief Rabbi|author=Doreen Wachmann|publisher=The Jewish Telegraph|access-date=2013-07-18}}

Background and education

Belovski grew up in north-west London and graduated in 1989 from University College, Oxford in Mathematics. He studied at the Gateshead Talmudical College, from where he received semicha (rabbinic ordination) in 1994 and subsequently at the Gateshead Beis Hatalmud Kollel. He received further semicha-ordinations from the Amsterdam Beth Din and Dayan Gershon Lopian, emeritus rabbi of Edgware Yeshurun Synagogue,{{cite web|url=http://www.yeshurun.org/community.html|title=The Yeshurun Community|publisher=Yeshurun Synagogue|access-date=2013-07-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427062951/http://yeshurun.org/community.html|archive-date=2013-04-27}} whom he considers his primary teacher. He also holds a PhD in hermeneutics from the University of London.

Belovski has published two books – Shem MiShmuel: Selections on the Weekly Parashah and Festivals, and The Shabbat Siddur Companion, as well as an online version of his PhD dissertation –Harmonisation as Theological Hermeneutic and many articles in The Jewish Chronicle among other journals.

Current advisory and teaching roles

Principal and Governor of Rimon Jewish Primary School{{cite web |url=http://www.rimonschool.org.uk/about/staff/|title=Staff |publisher=Rimon School|access-date=2013-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713140617/https://www.rimonschool.org.uk/about/staff/ |archive-date=13 July 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.rimonschool.org.uk/about/governors/ |title=Governors |publisher=Rimon School |access-date=2013-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713092932/https://www.rimonschool.org.uk/about/governors/ |archive-date=13 July 2014}}
Chief Strategist and Rabbinic Head of University Jewish Chaplaincy{{cite web|url=http://mychaplaincy.co.uk/the-team.html|title=The Team|publisher=University Jewish Chaplaincy|access-date=2013-08-07|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807235206/http://mychaplaincy.co.uk/the-team.html|archive-date=2013-08-07}}
Research and Teaching Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies
Rabbi of Kisharon
Rosh (Rabbinic Head) of The Midrasha for Women
Rabbinic Advisor of PaL (Phone and Learn)
Faculty Member at the Montefiore College Semicha course
Lecturer at the JLE (Jewish Learning Exchange)
Member of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue
Member of the Advisory Council at the London School of Jewish Studies
Member of the President’s Forum at Jewish Care

External links

[http://www.rabbibelovski.co.uk/ Belovski – A View with a Room]
[http://www.goldersgreenshul.org.uk/ Golders Green Synagogue]

References

Category:1968 births

Category:Living people

Category:Alumni of University College, Oxford

Category:Alumni of the University of London

Category:British Modern Orthodox rabbis

Category:Rabbis from London