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"Chief Rabbi Jakobovits was a staunch defender of Margaret Thatcher,
Britain's right-wing Conservative Party prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
" ``Making the rich less rich doesn't make the poor less poor,' he once
said."
(Unless I'm mistaken, he was --appropriately-- the Rothschilds' family
rabbi.)
British Rabbi Jakobovits Dies
LONDON (AP) - Britain's former chief rabbi, Immanuel Jakobovits, a refugee
from Nazi Germany who became the first Jewish religious leader to be
appointed to a seat in the House of Lords, died on Sunday. He was 78.
Lord Jakobovits died at his north London home from an apparent brain
hemorrhage, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said. He had attended religious
services as usual on Friday and Saturday and had shown no sign of ill health.
A pre-funeral service was held Sunday at the Hendon Synagogue in north
London, and Jakobovits' body was being flown to Israel for burial Monday
morning on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
Britain's political and religious leaders joined in tributes to Jakobovits, a
conservative on politics and morals, and a world authority on Jewish medical
ethics, particularly the ethics of modern fertility treatments. He urged
strict controls.
``He was a prophetic voice in a secular age,'' said Sacks. ``He was a
tireless defender of timeless Jewish values.''
Jakobovits was Chief Rabbi of Britain and the 54-nation Commonwealth of
ex-colonies from 1967 to 1991. Previously, he served as Chief Rabbi of
Ireland and First Rabbi at New York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue before returning
to Britain at the age of 46.
Labor Party Prime Minister Tony Blair said Jakobovits was ``deeply respected
and widely admired throughout the whole of this country for his faith, his
ability and his courage.''
Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spiritual leader of the worldwide
Anglican Communion and a fellow member of the Lords, remembered Jakobovits
both as a friend and a ``stalwart defender of the shared values based on the
belief that we are God's children.''
Jakobovits was an outspoken opponent of homosexuality, a believer in duties
as well as rights, and a staunch defender of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's
right-wing Conservative Party prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
``Making the richer less rich doesn't make the poor less poor,'' Jakobovits
once commented.
The son and grandson of rabbis, Jakobovits never returned to Germany, and
said he never would. In 1990, he said Jews were entitled to demand
international guarantees against a resurgence of anti-Semitism in a unified
Germany.
He believed the destiny of Israel was to become ``a beacon of light to other
nations.''
Jakobovits came to Britain in 1936, and the rest of his family fled from
Berlin and joined him two years later.
He received a knighthood in 1981 as leader of Britain's small Jewish
community - there are some 350,000 committed British Jews - and was given a
peerage by the Thatcher government in 1988.
He is survived by his wife, the former Amelie Munk, and their two sons and
four daughters.
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