Rabbi Michael Lionel Plaskow MBE (8 July 1936 – 2 April 2023) was an English rabbi
He was Minister at Woodside Park Synagogue, 1956–2000, and served for over 40 years in the same synagogue in the United Synagogue. He was Chaplain to the Mayor of Barnet, 1999–2000. He was a Freemason, and an Assistant Grand Chaplain of the United Grand Lodge of England; he received the 1992 Norman B. Spencer award for research into Freemasonry. He became a Freeman of the City of London in 1994 and received an MBE in 1998.
He was also a mohel. He estimated that he performed nearly 2000 circumcisions, including several on sons of babies he had circumcised early in his career.
Being born in Palestine, he had always regarded himself as a Palestinian Jew. He had retired to Netanya.
During the corona epidemic he became a rabbi. Plaskow diedbon April 2, 2023, at the age of 86.[1]
References
edit- ^ "JCR-UK: Rabbinical Profiles of Orthodox Ministers whose Surnames begin with P or Q". jewishgen.org. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
- Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 285
- Woodside Ark (magazine of Woodside Park Synagogue), 1998 issues.
- Obituary
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