Harvey Belovski

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Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski is emeritus rabbi of Golders Green Synagogue, organisational consultant and head of rabbinic recruitment for the United Synagogue, chief strategist and rabbinic head of University Jewish Chaplaincy and rabbinic advisor of Kisharon Langdon and other organisations and individuals in the UK and overseas.

He is a graduate of Gateshead Yeshiva (ordination), University College, Oxford (with an MA in mathematics) and the University of London (with an MSc in organisational psychology and PhD in hermeneutics).

He served for six years as an independent member of the Community and Voluntary Service Honours Committee at the Cabinet Office. He is a faculty member of the Senior Faith in Leadership Programme at Windsor Castle and co-lead for March of the Living UK’s multi-faith Holocaust trips to Poland. Author of several books, he broadcasts regularly on live BBC Radio. He met his wife Vicki – a freelance journalist – when they were students at Oxford. They have seven children and two granddaughters.

“Sex matters in every sphere of public and private life. I have learned this as a husband, father, now grandfather and senior faith leader devoted to fairness and inclusion for all, especially the disenfranchised. Society can only function properly to protect the rights, safety and dignity of every one of its members if it is governed by unequivocal laws, clear protocols and standards that recognise and implement the immutability of sex, while educating people why this really matters.”