Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Religion & Spirituality:Judaism
Dr. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz (Dean of Valley Biet Midrash) interviews Rabbi Alexander Goldberg in London, England.
Rabbi Alex Goldberg is the Dean of Religious Life and Belief at the University of Surrey leading a team of 25 from 8 world faiths and the humanist tradition serving a community of 22,000 staff and students. He is the only rabbi within this role in Europe and serves as the campus and local community rabbi too. He is a barrister and has worked to promote good community relations in inter-governmental, governmental, and community roles.
He contributes regularly to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought and appears regularly on television, radio, and in print media. He is an advisor to the UK Religious Media Centre. He chairs the Football Association's Faith Network and in 2012, was an Olympic / Paralympic Chaplain where his work was recognized by the Olympic Peace Truce Centre. Nominated by the Conference of European Rabbis, he serves as a full member of the European Muslim Jewish Religious Leaders Council and was named an Interfaith Associate and partner in Christian-Jewish and interfaith dialogue by the Lord Bishop of Guildford.
He founded the human rights group, René Cassin, was a founding chair of Faiths Forum for London, and was the Mayor of London's Faith Conference. He led delegations to the UN Human Rights Council for over a decade where he successfully changed international law in relation to group access to justice and went on to collaborate with the UN as a consultant on their Faith for Rights project.
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