Mark Solomon

Rabbi Mark Solomon

Country

Great Britain

Occupation

Religion

Description

First Orthodox Jewish Rabbi to come out in the U.K. in 1992 through a statement in The Jewish Chronicle. Lecturer in Talmud, Rabbinics and Jewish philosophy, Leo Baeck College. Works now as interfaith consultant for Liberal Judaism. Associate Chair of the Beit Din (Rabbinic Board) of Liberal Judaism, and has been a visiting lecturer at University College, London, and Heythrop College. Co-chair of the London Society of Jews and Christians and the Interfaith Alliance UK, trustee of the Ammerdown Centre and LEAT (London Ecumenical AIDS Trust), and co-convenor of Westminster Scriptural Reasoning. Past board member and branch chairman of the Council of Christians and Jews.

See Also

• Pioneers of the LGBTQ Religious Community
• LGBTQ Founders and Executives with Charitable Foundations
• LGBTQ Philosophers and Teachers of Philosophy

Further Reading/Research

• http://www.rainbowjews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/TRANSCRIPT-Rabbi-Mark-Solomon.pdf
• http://www.liberaljudaism.org/communities-rabbis/rabbis/178-rabbi-mark-solomon.html