children birth_place nationality article_title name occupation
3 ilford , uk , essex -lrb- now in greater london -rrb- british tony bayfield
 rabbi tony bayfield cbe reform rabbi president of the movement for reform judaism
tony bayfield

rabbi dr anthony michael -lrb- `` tony '' -rrb- bayfield cbe is a reform rabbi and president of the movement for reform judaism , the second largest organisation of synagogues in britain .
he was born in ilford , essex -lrb- now in greater london -rrb- in 1946 .
he was educated at the royal liberty grammar school in romford and magdalene college , cambridge .
he studied law and had a doctoral place at the cambridge institute for criminology and then moved to the leo baeck college to train as a rabbi .
he received rabbinic ordination -lrb- `` semichah '' -rrb- in 1972 from rabbis john rayner , hugo gryn and louis jacobs .
he was a congregational rabbi in surrey for a decade , then director of the sternberg centre for judaism in finchley .
he was head of the movement for reform judaism from 1994 -lrb- when the organisation was known as reform synagogues of great britain -rrb- until 2011 .
he is now president of the organisation .
bayfield is a specialist in modern jewish thought and contemporary reform judaism .
he also specialises in jewish-christian and jewish-muslim dialogue and has published quite widely in this area .
bayfield has also written about christian -- jewish reconciliation .
he is a widower with three children and six grandchildren .
his younger daughter , miriam berger , received `` semichah '' in july 2006 and is a respected rabbi in her own right .
he is a member of north western reform synagogue -lrb- alyth gardens -rrb- .
he is a passionate supporter of west ham united f.c. bayfield was awarded a cbe in the 2011 new year honours list for services to reform judaism .
london 's national portrait gallery holds a photographic portrait of him by don mccullin .
