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In his second year he switched to Moral Science which comprised philosophy, logic, ethics and psychology and graduated in 1950 with First Class Honours.
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Judaism For Today. An Ancuient Faith With A Modern Message.
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Judaism for Today: An Ancient Faith with a Modern Message
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John Rayner
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Career
He left Berlin in 1939 on one of the last Kindertransports. There were about 10,000 children on the train. Between 1943 and 1947 Rayner served in the British Army.
In his third year Rayner specialised in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Semitic Epigraphy.
In his sixth year Rayner began working as a research student on a thesis about Maimonides" conception of Revelation. Rayner was ordained in the Liberal Jewish ministry on 21 June 1953 and served the South London Liberal Synagogue, in Streatham until 1957.
He then worked at Street John"s Wood Liberal Synagogue until in 1963 he left for Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States. Rayner had been invited to the Hebrew Union College to take up a graduate fellowship.
He returned to the United Kingdom to serve as Minister at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in June 1965.
He also gave a large number of sermons. He was voted one of the best preachers in Britain by Harpers and Queen magazine in 1976. During the late 1960s and 1970s Rayner made several appearances on national television and radio.
As a result of this work in 1993 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
On 19 September 2005 he died, at home, after a long illness.
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He wrote books on diverse topics including halakha, marriage, ethics, Zionism, theology and Jewish-Christian relations.
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Germany