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In 2013, Rapoport gave a positive character reference for building businessman
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Kollel in Leeds UK, a position which he occupied until the end of 1994. In the years 1994 – 1997 Rapoport served as the Rabbi of the
Birmingham Central Synagogue and the Head of the Birmingham Rabbinic Board.
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designed "to mitigate the painful consequences of
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as a heretical institution. However, in a lecture at
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