Mark Winer

Winer is senior Rabbi at the West London Synagogue . The Movement for Reform Judaism's flagship synagogue. Rabbi Winer was born in Utah and raised in Texas. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude and earned a PhD at Yale in Sociology, Comparative Religion , Contemporary Jewry and Race and Ethnic Relations. Rabbi Winer served as a congregational Rabbi for over thirty years in the USA. Prior to becoming Senior Rabbi at West London Synagogue of British Jews in 1998, he was the President of the National Council of Synagogues (USA), as well as heading the Foundation to Advance Interfaith Trust and Harmony (USA). He has been involved in several international events, including resolving the issues that led to the Treaty between Israel and the Vatican. He was also a key negotiator for the release of Ethiopian Jews and the resolution to the dispute over the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz.. He has twice been designated as Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of Westminster, in 2000-2001 for Councillor Michael Brahams, and in 2008-2009 for Councillor Louise Hyams.

Winer , MBE , DD (born 16 December 1942) is an American/British international interfaith activist and scholar. In the 2014 UK Honours List published in the London Gazette on December 30, 2013, Queen Elizabeth II named Rabbi Winer a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for "promoting interfaith dialogue and social cohesion in London and the UK." The MBE was awarded for Rabbi Winer's work in building community and interfaith relations during his tenure as Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, the Movement for Reform Judaism 's flagship synagogue, from April 1998 to September 2010, and for his continuing interfaith leadership in London and the UK after his retirement from West London Synagogue through FAITH UK. In May 2013, Rabbi Winer was appointed the Director of the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies of St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida , the diocesan university of the Archdiocese of Miami. He is also Adjunct Professor of Religion at St. Rabbi Winer has been the President of FAITH: the Foundation to Advance Interfaith Trust and Harmony, a US public charity, since he founded it in 1995. He founded a sibling British charity with the same name, registered with the UK Charity Commission, in 2010. He has served as Chairman of the International Interfaith Task Force for the World Union for Progressive Judaism since 1998. The London Gazette ( invalid |supp= ( help ) ). 31 December 2013.

In the 2014 UK Honours List published in the London Gazette on December 30, 2013, Queen Elizabeth II named Rabbi Winer a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for "promoting interfaith dialogue and social cohesion in London and the UK." The MBE was awarded for Rabbi Winer's work in building community and interfaith relations during his tenure as Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, a Movement for Reform Judaism synagogue, from April 1998 to September 2010, and for his continuing interfaith leadership in London and the UK after his retirement from West London Synagogue through FAITH UK. In May 2013, Rabbi Winer was appointed the Director of the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies of St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida , the diocesan university of the Archdiocese of Miami. He is also Adjunct Professor of Religion at St. Rabbi Winer has been the President of FAITH: the Foundation to Advance Interfaith Trust and Harmony, a US public charity, since he founded it in 1995. He founded a sibling British charity with the same name, registered with the UK Charity Commission, in 2010. He has served as Chairman of the International Interfaith Task Force for the World Union for Progressive Judaism since 1998.

American interfaith activist and scholar Rabbi Mark Leonard Winer MBE (16 December 1942) is an American interfaith activist and scholar. In the 2014 UK Honours List published in the London Gazette on 30 December 2013, it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II had appointed Rabbi Winer a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for "promoting interfaith dialogue and social cohesion in London and the UK." The MBE was for Rabbi Winer's work in building community and interfaith relations during his tenure as Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, a Movement for Reform Judaism synagogue, from April 1998 to September 2010, and for his continuing interfaith leadership in London and the UK after his retirement from West London Synagogue through FAITH UK. In May 2013, Rabbi Winer was appointed the Director of the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies of St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida , the diocesan university of the Archdiocese of Miami. He is also adjunct professor of religion at St. Rabbi Winer has been the President of FAITH: the Foundation to Advance Interfaith Trust and Harmony, a US public charity, since he founded it in 1995. He founded a sibling British charity with the same name, registered with the UK Charity Commission, in 2010. He has served as Chairman of the International Interfaith Task Force for the World Union for Progressive Judaism since 1998.