| Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence . . . who presented a special lecture in UOW... Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence . . . who presented a special lecture in UOW’s Faculty of Law |
Senior Rabbi of Sydney’s Great Synagogue presents special lecture
25 Oct 2007 | Renee Criddle
Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence, senior rabbi and chief minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, delivered a lecture in the Faculty of Law today (October 24) entitled “Interaction between Jewish and secular laws”.
Rabbi Lawrence, who has a Master of Arts (hons) in Jurisprudence from St Catherine’s College, Oxford University, also serves as registrar on the Sydney Beth Din.
He qualified as a rabbi in Jerusalem attending Yeshivat Knesseth Beth Eliezer and Yeshivat Hamivtar on a Stanley Kalms Fellowship. Rabbi Lawrence also graduated the Shaal and the Rothschild Foundation training courses for Diaspora rabbis. In Israel, Rabbi Lawrence lectured in the adult education program of the NCSY Israel Centre.
Rabbi Lawrence has a background in informal and formal education. After university he served for three years as the National Executive Director of the Association of Jewish Sixth Formers. In this capacity, he was a coordinator of the informal sixth form program at the Jewish Free School in London. After his semicha, he served for two years as deputy head of Jewish Studies at Carmel College boarding school.
Rabbi Lawrence was also a research assistant to Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks for his 1990 Reith Lectures. Among his various activities in London he was on the Education Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, led five study tours to Israel and in his student days was co-ordinator of the Oxford campaign for Soviet Jewry. He was also secretary of the Oxford University Criminology and Penology Society and a member of the Oxford Union.
Rabbi Lawrence has wide-ranging interests from computers to environmental issues and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Before arriving in Sydney, where he took over the Great Synagogue pulpit from Rabbi Raymond Apple, Rabbi Lawrence was senior rabbi of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation for seven years.
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