Prof. Walter Homolka (born 21 May 1964 in Landau an der Isar) is a German rabbi.
He studied in Munich, London, Lampeter and Leipzig and has a PhD from King's College London. He is an adjunct full professor at University of Potsdam and rector at its Abraham Geiger College, Germany's only rabbinical seminary which was founded in 1999 and on 14 September 2006 ordained the first three rabbis in Germany since the Shoa (at the New Synagogue of Dresden). Rabbi Homolka is Chairman of the Leo Baeck Foundation and an Executive Board member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
In 2007, he established the Jewish Institute of Cantorial Arts, of which he is the president. A member of the French Legion of Honour, he is widely published internationally and holds a variety of distinctions. The Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion conferred upon him a "Doctor Humanarum Litterarum" honoris causa.
Rabbi Homolka is active in Jewish-Christian dialogue as a guest at the Central Committee of German Catholics. In 2008, he condemned the new Good Friday Prayer instituted by Pope Benedict XVI.
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