Our Rabbi

This page was last updated on: Sunday, 16 October 2011

Everything you always wanted to know about Rabbi Warren Elf, and possibly a bit more.

Rabbi Elf lives in North Manchester with his wife Simone. He has two daughters; Rachel aged 21 and Deborah aged 19 and three stepchildren; Joshua aged 23, Ilana aged 20 and Daniel aged 15. From Monday to Friday he is a Maths Teacher at Bury Grammar School. On alternate weekends he is our esteemed Rabbi.

Previously he was a teacher of Mathematics in schools in Barnet and Bury. From 1984 - 1988 he was a Youth and Community Worker at Edgware and District Reform Synagogue. He served as Mazkir of RSY-Netzer for a year in the mid-1980s. He was Northern Student Chaplain for RSGB from 1994 - 1998 and at the same time he was Rabbi of Sha'arei Shalom Synagogue. In 1998 he became the Director of Education at South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue where he served until 2003 before taking up his current position as Rabbi of Southend and District Reform Synagogue (although he was leading Shabbat services for almost two years before this).

His interests include participating in interfaith dialogue and projects, playing squash, walking and (in his own words) telling bad jokes, but at least he thinks they're good.

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