LORD Jakobovits, who died last week, has been remembered by the congregation of a local synagogue he consecrated.
Immanuel Jakobovits, who died on Sunday, October 31, aged 78, first visited Whitefield Hebrew Congregation in 1969, two years after he was appointed Chief Rabbi, a job he held until 1991. He then returned to the Park Lane synagogue in 1988 for the induction of Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag.
Lord Jakobovits was born in Konisberg, Russia, in 1921 and attended boarding school in London from the age of 16.
As a 20-year-old, he took up his first ministerial appointment in London and in 1967 became Chief Rabbi.
In 1981 he became the first Chief Rabbi to be knighted while in office and the first to be elevated to the House of Lords seven years later.
His views have often been considered controversial as he straddled the secular-religious divide.
He again visited Prestwich in May, 1982, when he met the Pope during his visit to Manchester.
Lord Jakobovits was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
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