Next year the present chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, will retire. The search for his successor is well under way. I am reliably informed that one candidate has already been ruled out as being "too orthodox". Other possible contenders have ruled themselves out, believing that the office is a poisoned chalice. In truth the office of chief rabbi – much misunderstood by the world at large and not properly understood (in my experience) even by many Jews – is no longer what it once was.
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