Rab­bi Dr War­ren Gold­stein is the cur­rent Chief Rab­bi of South Africa and a glob­al Jew­ish leader. Affec­tion­ate­ly referred to as ​‘Chief’ and a ​‘spir­i­tu­al entre­pre­neur’ he has launched and led a num­ber of inno­v­a­tive social projects with glob­al reach and impact. Local­ly, his Bill of Respon­si­bil­i­ties – adopt­ed by the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion and taught in schools nation­wide – has shown a new gen­er­a­tion of young South Africans the impor­tance of com­pas­sion, and respect for the dig­ni­ty and well­be­ing of oth­ers. CAP, a unique com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven crime-fight­ing ini­tia­tive that pro­tects 30,000 homes and upwards of 250,000 peo­ple, and has reduced con­tact crime in its area of oper­a­tion by between 80 and 90 per­cent and Sinai Ind­a­ba, the largest annu­al Torah con­ven­tion of its kind. Two of his local projects have been embraced and cham­pi­oned by world-jew­ry: Gen­er­a­tion Sinai, an annu­al fam­i­ly learn­ing expe­ri­ence as well as The Shab­bat Project which unites Jews annu­al­ly in over 1000 cities on an unprece­dent­ed scale. The youngest per­son to ever be elect­ed to the posi­tion, Chief Rab­bi Gold­stein is a strong advo­cate for cre­ative, proac­tive lead­er­ship and effec­tive part­ner­ship to find unique solu­tions to the chal­lenges of our time. He has fea­tured on The Algemeiner’s top 100 Peo­ple Pos­i­tive­ly Influ­enc­ing Jew­ish Life mul­ti­ple times and has a reg­u­lar study ses­sion with South Africa’s Pres­i­dent Cyril Ramaphosa. He is an exec­u­tive mem­ber of South Africa’s Nation­al Reli­gious Lead­ers Coun­cil, through which he is involved with strength­en­ing inter-faith rela­tions in the coun­try between Jews, Chris­t­ian, Mus­lims, Hin­dus and oth­er faiths, as well as engag­ing with the gov­ern­ment on nation­al pol­i­cy mat­ters. A qual­i­fied Jew­ish law judge, Rab­bi Gold­stein has pub­lished sev­er­al books includ­ing African Soul Talk: When Pol­i­tics is not Enough (with Dumani Man­dela); Defend­ing the Human Spir­it: Jew­ish Law’s Vision for a Moral Soci­ety; Sefer Mish­pat Tzedek (a detailed analy­sis of Torah busi­ness law and ethics, with par­tic­u­lar focus on com­pe­ti­tion law); and The Lega­cy: Teach­ings for Life from the Great Lithuan­ian Rab­bis (with Rab­bi Ber­el Wein). The Chief Rab­bi has a PhD in Human Rights and Con­sti­tu­tion­al Law and is a reg­u­lar colum­nist for the Jerusalem Post and aish​.com.