Rabbi Jackie Tabick Honoured with Interfaith Award
Monday, 08 August 2011
Rabbi Jackie Tabick of North West Surrey Synagogue in Weybridge has been honoured for her interfaith work.
Rabbi Tabick was presented with the Interfaith Gold Medallion on Sunday July 24th, at a service held in St Martin's in the Fields, to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the World Congress of Faiths. Rabbi Tabick, who chairs the organisation, received the award from the Revd. Dr. Marcus Braybrooke, President of the WCF, on behalf of Sir Sigmund Sternberg, who unfortunately could not be present himself.
In her address to the congregation, Rabbi Tabick said the work of the Congress was to "bridge the almost unbridgeable, to make bonds of fellowship based on knowledge and understanding, to celebrate the differences between different religions and at the same time, affirm that there are differences of flavour, of culture, that we must affirm and support in each of the faith groups represented at our gatherings."
She added that "We seek to end the destructive enmity that has and does so tragically dog the relationships between people of faith and affirm the oneness of being that lies behind creation, seeking its presence through the different forms of worship that we see around us."
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