Michael Plaskow

Rev. Michael Lionel Plaskow MBE (born July 8, 1936, in Haifa, Palestine).

He was Minister at Woodside Park Synagogue, 1956-2000, the only man ever to serve for over 40 years in the same synagogue in the United Synagogue. He was Chaplain to the Mayor of Barnet, 1999-2000. He was an Honorary Grand Chaplain of the Freemasons, and 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 has always regarded himself as a Palestinian Jew. He has retired to Netanya, Israel.

References

• Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 285
• Woodside Ark (magazine of Woodside Park Synagogue), 1998 issues.

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