Warren Goldstein

Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein
Chief Rabbi of South Africa
Position	Chief Rabbi
Organisation	Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa
Began	2005
Ended	Incumbent
Predecessor	Rabbi Cyril Harris
Personal details
Born	1971 (age 45–46) Pretoria, South Africa
Nationality	South African
Denomination	Orthodox Judaism
Spouse	Gina
Alma mater	University of South Africa University of the Witwatersrand
Semicha	Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg

Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein (born 1971) is the Chief Rabbi of The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa since 2005. Born in Pretoria, he currently lives in Johannesburg. He is the first Chief Rabbi of South Africa who was born in South Africa and the youngest person ever to be appointed to that post, at age 32.

The Chief Rabbi studied at the Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg for more than fifteen years, where he received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Azriel Chaim Goldfein; he additionally qualified as a dayan through the Eretz Hemda Institute in Jerusalem. He has a BA, LLB (Unisa), and a PhD. in Human Rights and Constitutional Law (Wits).

While practising as a rabbi he completed his Ph.D. at the University of the Witwatersrand Law School. His Ph.D. thesis compared western and Jewish law and was published as a book entitled Defending the Human Spirit: Jewish Law's Vision for a Moral Society. Rabbi Goldstein's thesis is that Talmudic law was ahead of its time in terms of political rights, women's rights, criminal law and poverty alleviation. "I see Western laws as coming round full circle to positions always held by Talmudic law."

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