Rabbi to the stars, popular author…UK chief rabbi?

28.12.2011                      02.Tewet. 5772                       Channuka 8

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Rabbi to the stars, popular author…UK chief rabbi?

The New Jersey native – and 'Jerusalem Post' columnist – isn’t ruling it out.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the “rabbi to the stars” who penned the best seller Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Love and Intimacy, is sorry, but he cannot accept the position of chief rabbi of the UK.
“I’ve recently been voted intergalactic chief rabbi of the Milky Way and several solar systems,” he told a crowd of British Jews at Limmud UK on Monday, a Jewish education confab held in Coventry. “Anything else will be a demotion and will come with a paycheck cut.”…