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Baron Cohen for Chief Rabbi!

You can bet on it (literally)

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English actor Sacha Baron Cohen (playing Kazakh documentarian Borat Sagdiyev).(IMDB)

An Irish betting house will take your action if you think you know who will replace Jonathan Sacks as Great Britain’s chief rabbi when Sacks retires in 2013 after what has already been a two-decade-long tenure.

Paddy’s Power, the bookie, has fairly tight odds on nine rabbis—the favorite, Harvey Belovski, is pegged at 6:4. But if you want to go beyond the men who are likely to actually receive the job, there are a couple interesting longshots. David Miliband, the former foreign secretary and brother of the current Labour Party leader, is at 500:1. So is the one woman on the list, television personality Vanessa Feltz. And if you bet $1 on Sacha Baron Cohen, and he is selected, you win $500. I mean, it seems silly not to.

Next Chief Rabbi [Paddy’s Power]
Britain’s Next Top Rabbi [Forward]

  • Susan Zuckerman

    Paddy: put 5 Kazakhstanian rubles down for me…

  • Conor

    Come on Marc – It is not Paddy’s Power [with some suggestion of Guiness/Potato induced strength] – the Betting Chain and online company is named after its founders’ family Patrick and David Power

    Jonathan Sachs will be greatly missed

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Baron Cohen for Chief Rabbi!

You can bet on it (literally)