Adrian Jesner

Jesner with Israeli ambassador Mark Regev in Bournemouth, 2018. Source

Adrian Jesner in the Magazine of Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation, 2011. Source

Jesner and his wife Pamela Jesner, 2008. [The Jewish Chronicle, March 14 2008, page 47 Source]

Jesner at an event in Bournemouth celebrating 70 years of Israel’s existence, 2018. Source

Jesner’s feature in the Jewish Chronicle after being appointed Rabbi of Netherlee and Clakston Hebrew Congregation, changing from Garnethill Synagogue, Mar 16, 1990. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 10

Jesner at a Council of Christians and Jews talk, 2022. Source

Jesner in the Magazine of Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation, 2011. Source

Jesner (centre) and Rev Barry Sklan (left) being presented a Megillah by Vicky Cohen, 2013.[Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 7: Mar 08, 2013]

Rabbi Adrian Jesner (Born Pollok, Glasgow, 1951) studied at Israeli yeshivot and also has a degree from the Israel Torah Research Institute. In addition he is a qualified car mechanic. Rabbi Jesner served the Glasgow Jewish community for more than two decades. He was part-time rabbi at Queens Park Synagogue (1979-1982), at Crosshill Synagogue until its closure in 1986, and then Garnethill Synagogue (1987-1990). In 1990 he took up the position of minister at Netherlee and Clarkston Hebrew Congregation and in 2002 he briefly became joint minister on the amalgamation with his former synagogue at Queens Park. Rabbi Jesner was Chaplain to H.M. Prisons in Scotland for 25 years, a Vice-President of the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow and a trustee of the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust. Moving south of the border, he subsequently served as minister of the Reading Hebrew Congregation (2003-2008) and the Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation.

During the Yom Kippur War, 1973, he served in the IDF as a motor vehicle engineer. He was one of the signatories of a petition from rabbis expressing support to the Israel for rejecting the Reagan peace plan in the 80s.

The Jesner family

Jeremy Rosen wrote that the Jesner family is ‘the pillar of Orthodoxy in Glasgow, Scotland, since 1968. They, as a successful business family, took responsibility for Jewish life in Glasgow, supporting its rabbis and its yeshiva. The family has always been passionately committed to Judaism and Zionism.’ Adrian is the son of Louis Jesner and the nephew of Isaac Jesner one of the key actors in the creationm of the Zionist movement in Glasgow.

He is the second cousin of Yoni Jesner, killed in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Family

'The seven children, namely David, Philip and Jeffrey, the sons of George Jesner, Rosemary and Joseph, the daughter and son of Isaac Jesner, and Rebecca and Adrian, the daughter and son of Louis Jesner.'

• Isaac Jesner | David Jesner | Jeffrey Jesner | Elie Jesner | Joseph Jesner (born 1943, Pollok, Glasgow) | Yonatan Jesner (born 1983, Eastwood and Mearns) | Avi Jesner
• Jesbrow Foundation | Yoni Jesner Foundation | Jesner Charitable Trust | Glasgow Jewish Community Trust

Resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesner_v._Arab_Bank,_PLC

Jesner blessing the launch of a new billion dollar Royal Carribbean cruise ship, 2015. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 5: Apr 24, 2015]

Jesner (right), Rabbi Jenny Goldfreid Amswych (Centre) and Jonathan Kaye, 2012.[Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 6: Feb 17, 2012]

Jesner (right) with Chabad minister Rabbi Yossie Alperowitz (left) at Frank Harvey’s (centre) presentation of his bench, 2011.[Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 6: Jan 14, 2011]

Jesner (left) and Bishop of Winchester Michael Scott-Joynt at the Bournemouth CCJ meeting, 2010. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, 09: Oct 08, 2010]

Jesner and Neil Amswych at a playgroup, speaking to children about the High Holy Days, 2010. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 6: Oct 01, 2010]

Lawrence Williams, Anne Filer, Neil Amswych and Jesner at a tree planting ceremony at Hannah Levy House, 2009. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 9: Feb 20, 2009

Jesner reciting kaddish at the Birkenau concentration camp, during an organised trip to Poland for Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation members, 2008. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 45: Jun 27, 2008]

Simon Keyne, Jesner, Simon Woolfstein and Ran Avissar at the Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation barbeque, 2008. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 45: Jun 06, 2008]

Philip Firestone, Jesner, Bertha, Linda, Anthony, Michael and Richard Firestone are joined by Allan Stewart, MP, and Leslie Rosin, Provost of Eastwood, at Netherlee and Clarkston Synagogue, 1995. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 18: Feb 24, 1995]

Georgina Sharpe, Jesner, Michelle Tobias, Rabbi Chaim Jacobs, Barbara Rosenberg and Sora Jacobs at the Glasgow Lubavitch ceremony, held at Netherlee and Clarkston Synagogue, 1991. [Source: The Jewish Chronicle, page 12: Aug 30, 1991]

Rabbis Yossie Alperowitz, Neil Amswych, Adrian Jesner, and the deputy mayor of Bournemouth Councillor Chris Rochester at the Chanukah lighting ceremony in the Mayor’s Parlour at Bournemouth Town Hall, 2012. [https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10114464.bournemouths-jewish-groups-gather-to-mark-chanukah/ Source]

Rabbi Maurice Michaels, Jesner and Yossi and Ben-Zion Alperowitz from Chabad Lubovitch at a Havdalah ceremony at the Hannah Levy House. Source

Jesner and his wife Pamela, 2018. Source

Jesner and Pamela Jesner at Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham, 2019. Source