EJCC Live – Rabbi Mark Solomon in conversation with writer/director David Ian Neville – 7.30pm – 9pm online

Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre presents –

Rabbi Mark Solomon in conversation with writer/director David Ian Neville

Event description: 

Rabbi Mark L. Solomon was born and brought up in Sydney, Australia. He studied for the rabbinate at the Lubavitcher Yeshivah Gedolah in Melbourne and Kfar Chabad in Israel, then earned a BA (Hons) in English from Sydney University. He came to Britain in 1988 to study at Jews’ College, London, the Modern Orthodox seminary where he was ordained in 1991. Having left Orthodoxy, come out publicly as gay, and joined Liberal Judaism, he completed an MA in Jewish Studies at Leo Baeck College, where he has taught since 1991, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Talmud, Rabbinics, Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah.

He began regular visits to Sukkat Shalom, the Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community, in 2005, and was appointed permanent part-time rabbi there in 2009. Since 2014 he has also been part-time Rabbi of the Leicester Liberal Jewish Congregation. He is Chair of the Beit Din of Liberal Judaism.

With a deep commitment to interfaith dialogue, Rabbi Solomon is Interfaith Consultant for Liberal Judaism and holds positions in several interfaith organisations.

Rabbi Solomon has a deep love of synagogue music and biblical cantillation and, in addition to leading services, gives concerts illustrating the different styles of Jewish music. He enjoys singing Gilbert and Sullivan and Yiddish songs, and has built up a repertoire of Burns songs to sing at Burns Night suppers in Edinburgh. He lives in North London with his partner, the actor Lobo Chan.

Ticket link (FREE):  https://www.trybooking.co.uk/CCYA