RARE! Chief Rabbi Of Ireland Immanuel Jakobovits Hand Signed FDC Dated 1948

  
"Baron Jakobovits" Immanuel Jakobovits Signed First Day Cover Dated 1948. February 1921 - 31 October 1999 was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from. Prior to this, he had served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and as. Rabbi of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in.

Authority in medical ethics from a. He was knighted in 1981 and became the first Chief Rabbi to. Enter the House of Lords in. Jakobovits was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. (now Kaliningrad, Russia), where his father.

Julius (Yoel) was a community rabbi. The family moved to Berlin in the 1920s, where his father became rabbinical judge on. The beth din of the Grossgemeinde, but fled Germany in.

Kingdom he completed his higher education, including a period at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in. London, studying under and receiving semicha (rabbi ordination) from the Rabbis Elya Lopian, Leib Gurwicz and Nachman Shlomo Greenspan.

He also studied in Jews. College and the University of London (BA and PhD, University College). The daughter of a prominent rabbi, who would support his community work.

The couple had six children. Died in May 2010, and was buried alongside her husband, on Jerusalem's Mount of. His first position was as rabbi of the Brondesbury synagogue. In 1949, at the relatively young. Age of 27, he was appointed Chief Rabbi of the declining Jewish community of.

This was to be a stepping stone towards a greater rabbinical career. And in 1958 he assumed the rabbinate of Hermann Merkin's Fifth Avenue Synagogue in. New York, a position he held until 1966, when he was called to the Chief. Hebrew Congregation of the British Commonwealth.

Position until his retirement in 1991. He was knighted on 22 July 1981 and was created a life peer on 5 February 1988, as. Of Regent's Park in Greater London, becoming the first rabbi to receive this.

In 1987 he was given a Lambeth DD by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The first Jew to receive such a degree.

In 1991 he received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. In the House of Lords he became known as a campaigner for. Jakobovits aroused considerable controversy when, after the discovery of a possible genetic. Explanation for homosexuality, he suggested that he saw no moral. Objection for using genetic engineering to limit this particular trend. While he did not advocate abortion, he did.

Describe homosexuality as a grave departure from the natural norm which. We are charged to overcome like any other affliction; if there were.

Genetic explanations for homosexuality, "the errant gene" should be. "Removed or repaired" to prevent the "disability". Jakobovits died of a cerebral haemorrhage on. 31 October 1999, and was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.