Rabbi Ephraim Padwa (born 1940), or Moshe Chaim Ephraim PadawaRabbi Efroyim Padwa, GAVA"D London
The full name that appears in the Hebrew is Moshe Chaim Ephraim. is a senior

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rabbi in London. He is rabbinical head of the

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-based

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, succeeding his father Chanoch Dov Padwa, who died in August 2000. Padwa is an internationally regarded ''

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'' who was listed by ''

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'' as the 13th most influential Jew in Britain. In 2005 Padwa was filmed by the

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TV programme '' Dispatches'', telling an alleged abuse victim not to report his abuser to the police, citing the ''

halachic ''Halakha'' ( ; , ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah. ''Halakha'' is based on biblical commandments ('' mitz ...

'' prohibition of '' mesirah''. Subsequently, a spokesman for Padwa doubted the credibility of the alleged victim, claiming the allegations had already been dismissed by social services as "malicious".

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