Herschel Gluck

Rabbi Gluck is loved by many and known to be a great man of true spirit and belief. He is a man who works tirelessly with the community and people all over to bring beliefs and religion together so that it can harmoniously work together as one.

The work that Rabbi Gluck does has not gone un-noticed and he has been described as “the ambassador of peace”. This is down to his reputation that lies before him and the ability he has to break down boundaries and bring people together. As the Chairman and founder of the Muslim-Jewish Forum it proves what a great man he is in trying to bring communities together. His reputation has allowed him to negotiate with both sides in the Sudan conflict and with all sides in the former Yugoslavia, only someone who has great respect from others and an understanding of how to deal with boundaries could handle a situation like this. This is the exact reason why Rabbi Gluck was called upon. His good relationship with the Muslim community has allowed him access to those people and places that would not usually be accessible to the usual Jewish community or even the Israeli government.

Rabbi Gluck has been instrumental in helping the divide that has been in place between the Muslim and Jewish community fade away. There was a cry for this divide to be removed but people felt that it was not to be, but Rabbi Gluck had different views. Rabbi Gluck believed that this was possible and he wanted both communities to work together on different projects so that society and the community could benefit and as he felt that the divide should no longer be there he worked to bring people together. Before setting up the Muslim-Jewish Forum in 2000 Rabbi Gluck spoke to many people from both communities in an effort to gauge people’s thoughts and opinions. Even though most people thought of it as a dream, Rabbi Gluck soon realised that they believed it was not possible but even this did not deter him to get the wheels in motion and begin breaking down the divide. From his hard work people began believing that, even though there were still independent communities, there were many positive benefits of working together.

Still realising that there is still some kind of tension between the communities, the hard work put in by Rabbi Gluck has paid off and the changes that have been implemented in the last 13 years have made a real difference. He still believes that in the years to come more can be achieved and he will work effortlessly to do this.

As a reward for his hard work Rabbi Gluck was awarded an OBE for his services to interfaith understanding which proves what a man Rabbi Gluck really is.

Rabbi Herschel Gluck

From Rabbi Herschel Gluck, Jewish Co-Vice Chair

The Arab-Jewish Forum has been gathering since its initiation ten years prior, in the environs of the Palace of Westminster, generally regarded as the Houses of Parliament. In Britain we live in a “delegate popular government”, implying that our chose parts of parliament are intended to reflect our perspectives and sanction laws which we covet, a microcosm of social order.

There are similarly in the nation associations which reflect and are illustrative of different aggregations and supporters. A paramount capacity of the Arab-Jewish Forum is to reflect and showcase the positive connection and participation which is, Thank G-d, the standard between parts of our groups in Great Britain and in the dominant part of spots and circumstances where we associate.

Whilst the miserable and heartbreaking circumstance in the Middle-East , for clear explanations, has a tendency to colour individuals’ observations and partialities of how we identify with each one in turn, actually, both on a collective and on a particular level, there are horde samples, incorporating in the Holy Land, of greatly gainful collaboration in a nearly infinite amount of parts of day by day communication. In the therapeutic, monetary and scholastic fields, for example, there are endless samples of parts of our groups having an extremely exceptional and commonly gainful working relationship.

Whilst this is the actuality of the dominant part of communications between us, tragically most individuals are under the feeling that we are by and large at one another’s throats. The Arab-Jewish Forum in its extremely presence, and in the way that the Arabs and Jews on its board cooperate and communicate directly, is a model of the constructive participation between our people groups, and of what we can, and do, accomplish.

 

Rabbi Hershel Gluck OBE

By Andrew Hingston

[andrew sent me this message and I supposed I might impart it to you.]

I get along well with Lubavitchers (Chabad), far less well with Modern Orthodox. The Lubavitchers have an exceptionally open and euphoric approach to life, and they are effectively the most eager of Orthodox Jews to examine their religion with non-Jews. I think this is on the grounds that they are the most “converting” of Orthodox Jews — they don’t attempt to change over non-Jews, yet they do attempt to change over different Jews into Lubavitchers, and they are exceptionally fruitful at it.

In the meantime, they might be pretty nutty. Furthermore they are not without disputation — they have a propensity of assuming control over the Jewish neighborhoods of the urban communities where they set up. They are uncommonly generally arranged, as a visit to their site shows. In New York or Amsterdam or London or Jerusalem assuming control over the Jewish neighborhood is incomprehensible; however in Riga, Vilnius, Prague, Lvov, Kiev, and so on., it is extremely conceivable.

In Warsaw the war is on between the Modern Orthodox group and the Lubavitchers. I anticipate that the Lubavitchers will win, on the grounds that they are so decently arranged and overall supported. Additionally, the Modern Orthodox rabbi of Warsaw, who is likewise the self-declared Chief Rabbi of Poland, has had more than his allotment of contentions, everything from bits of hearsay of infidelity with school matured young ladies to fiscal offenses to the way that he doesn’t even live in Poland (he exists in New York and visits Poland for one week every month). I might as well specify that there is likewise a Progressive (Reform) neighborhood in Poland, and it is additionally making progress on the Modern Orthodox. There used to be a Conservative Community here, generally in Western Poland, however the Modern Orthodox succeeded in lessening them to irrelevance — by extremely corrupt implies.

A great deal of Jews are startled of Lub avitchers or basically detest them, since they could be exceptionally unforgiving of Jews who don’t see the planet as they do.

As you must know, their extremely popular Rabbi (more than a rabbi, a Rebbe), Menachim Schneersson, kicked the bucket something like ten years back. Normally there strength have been a little progression battle — as there has as of late been in some other Chassidic associations — since the occupation of Rebbe is not just critical. A Rebbe can change the course of history for a Chassidic administration. Bunches have part over Rebbes. Yet around his numerous obligations, the Rebbe serves as the Supreme Court of his organization, the last word. It’s consequently difficult to envision how a dead individual might be the Rebbe. However that is precisely what the Lubavitchers have done — they have announced Schneersson to

be their Rebbe. The Rebbe, they call him. Some think as of him to have been the Messiah. This means a certain measure of tumult and contention no doubt.

My top choice Lubavitcher Rabbi (not Rebbe; there is generally stand out Rebbe, additionally at times called the Rav or Tzadik, for every Chassidic aggregation) is Herschel Gluck. We met a few years prior, on the grounds that he is intrigued by Central Europe, and was interested by my venture for the Poznan synagogue. He was Lubavitcher prepared and still dresses in the way of a Lubavitcher

(untrimmed facial hair, wide overflow dark fedora, dull suit, and so forth), however is presently a free customary rabbi in North London, which has an expansive conventional group, living side by side with a substantial Muslim neighborhood.

Here is an article about Gluck that illustrates, I consider, why I like him to such an extent. He conceives brand new ideas. He is inquisitive. He is clever. He is not nationalistic. He makes his own (great educated, extremely watchful, and quite academic) choices about good and bad, and afterward takes after them. He is man of standard. He is anything besides vainglorious. Grand fellow. We met in the fairly fabulous bar of the Park Lane Hilton in London — his decision. Every living soul gazed at us, as its not typ

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Herschel Gluck

Rabbi Herschel Gluck, close by Ismail Amman, is executive and prime supporter of the Muslim-Jewish Forum. Made in 2000, the Forum was the first of its write on the planet. It bargains at the grassroots level with a wide extend of issues which are of concern to both groups and likewise serves a part in avoiding and defusing strains.

Rabbi Gluck’s part as a middle person is not bound to the down home coliseum. He has likewise been intensely included for quite a while with the Next Century Foundation, through which he has assumed a noteworthy part as an arbiter in clashes as assorted as the Sudan and Former Yugoslavia. He was allowed an Obe in the New Year’s honours 201

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