Ағылшын-Израиль равині Дэвид Шломо Розеннің өмірбаяны

English Israeli rabbi

David Shlomo Rosen KSG CBE (born 1951) is an English Israeli rabbi and interfaith peacemaker. He was Chief Rabbi of Ireland (1979–1985) before relocating permanently to Israel in 1985. He currently serves as the American Jewish Committee's International Director of Interreligious Affairs. From 2005 until 2009 he headed the International Jewish Committee for Inter religious Consultations (IJCIC), the broad based coalition of Jewish organizations and denominations that represents World Jewry in its relations with other world religions. Before being appointed Chief Rabbi of Ireland, he was the senior rabbi of the largest Orthodox Jewish congregation in South Africa (the Green and Sea Point Hebrew Congregation, Cape Town) and served as a judge on the Cape Beth Din (rabbinic court). He is also a board member of the Brussels based organization CEJI A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe that promotes a Europe of diversity and respect.

He was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England to Bella and Rabbi Kopul Rosen, founder of Carmel College, a Jewish boarding school for boys in Oxfordshire. He is the brother of Rabbis Jeremy Rosen (b. 1942) and Michael Rosen (21 January 1945 – 8 December 2008). He was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel. In August 1973, he relocated to South Africa, where he was a student advisor to the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the South African Zionist Federation. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Ireland in 1979. At the end of his appointment, he left Ireland and made aliyah to Israel in 1985. He is based in Jerusalem, and also serves on the Chief Rabbinate of Israel's Commission for Interreligious Relations. In 2006 he co authored The Christian and the Pharisee: Two Outspoken Religious Leaders Debate the Road to Heaven, a collection of his conversations with R. T. Kendall. He is an international president of Religions for Peace; and serves as the only Jewish representative on the board of directors of the KAICIID Dialogue Centre (interfaith centre) established in 2012 by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia together with the governments of Austria and Spain and the Vatican. He is honorary president of the International Council of Christians and Jews; and serves on the board of World Religious Leaders for the Elijah Interfaith Institute; and the World Council of Religious Leaders. In 2015, he attended a formal interfaith dialogue between Jewish leaders and scholars and their Orthodox Christian counterparts.

In November 2005, Rosen was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great in recognition of his contribution to Jewish Catholic reconciliation, making him the first Israeli citizen and the first Orthodox rabbi to receive this honour. In the same year he also won the Mount Zion Award for Interreligious Understanding. In December 2006, he received the Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award from Rabbis for Human Rights – North America for having founded the organization Rabbis for Human Rights. Rosen was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2012, he received the interfaith award from Search for Common Ground. In 2016, he was awarded the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation by the Archbishop of Canterbury "for his commitment and contribution to the work of Inter Religious relations between, particularly, the Jewish and Catholic faiths".

In the 1970s he was a rabbi in South Africa during the apartheid era: "It was obvious to me, as to so many people of faith, that this system that deprived people of their fundamental human rights, was in complete conflict with religious faith and with scriptural teaching that affirms the dignity of each and every human person of their fundamental, inalienable freedom and dignity, born out of the fact that each and every human being is created in the divine image, as indicated in Genesis."

At the 2020 G20 interfaith forum, Rosen argues that overwhelming political prejudice towards Israel is an example of antisemitism: "the way in which Israel is often presented as the source of all problems and particularly for example, as the origin of the problems in the Middle East, as if it's somehow related to the Shia Sunni conflict or the catastrophe in Syria or to the prosecution of Copts, or with regard to the collapse of other failed states in the Middle East, is fascinating in itself. In some senses, the Jewish collective entity has become a kind lightning conductor for all kinds of hang ups or senses of historical injury that were transferred in some particular way to a Jewish collective entity."

Rosen writes that: "Jerusalem is so inextricably part of Jewish religious consciousness and practice, as well as of its religious vision and hope She is indeed "the house of our life"" He also asserts the significance of Jerusalem to all three Abrahamic religions: "For Jerusalem’s beauty, like any lasting beauty, is far more than skin deep. While she does have a lovely external aspect to her, her beauty is precisely the spiritual beauty that reflects the depths of devotion that made Jerusalem so significant to so many from the Traditions of Abraham – Jews, Christians and Muslims." He continues, "Yet it is when we truly respect the attachments of others to Jerusalem, that we shall, truly prosper morally and spiritually. Then Jerusalem will live up to its name as city of peace and the joy of the whole world."

He is married to Sharon (née Rothstein), who co directs the Jerusalem office of Search for Common Ground. They have three daughters and six grandchildren.

Rosen is the honorary president of the International Jewish Vegetarian and Ecology Society. He is a vigorous critic of factory farming, noting that "much of the current treatment of animals in the livestock trade makes the consumption of meat produced through such cruel conditions halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means." In addition, he has argued that the waste of natural resources and the damage done to the environment by "meat production" make a compelling Jewish moral argument for adopting a vegan diet. He has written extensively on a wide variety of interfaith issues.