Tony Bayfield

Honours Bayfield was appointed CBE in the 2011 New Year Honours List for services to Reform Judaism. London's National Portrait Gallery holds a photographic portrait of him by Don McCullin.

Personal life Tony Bayfield married Linda Rose, a teacher and Jewish educator in 1969; she died in 2003. In 2011, he met Jacqueline Fisher, whom he married in a small ceremony in June 2021.

Bayfield has three children His younger daughter, Miriam Berger, received semichah in July 2006 and is a respected rabbi in her own right.

Bayfield is a member of Finchley Reform Synagogue (FRS).

Publications Bayfield is a specialist in modern Jewish thought and contemporary Reform Judaism. He also specialises in Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim dialogue and has published quite widely in this area. Bayfield has also written about Christian–Jewish reconciliation.

Works Prejudice (Jewish responses) (1973). London: Michael Goulston Educational Foundation Churban: The murder of the Jews of Europe (Jewish responses) (1981). London: Michael Goulston Educational Foundation Sinai, Law and Responsible Autonomy: Reform Judaism and the Halakhic Tradition (1993). London: Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (with Sidney Brichto and Eugene Fisher) He Kissed Him and They Wept: Towards a Theology of Jewish-Catholic Partnership (2001). London: SCM Press (with Tony Brayfield and Marcus Braybrooke) Dialogue With a Difference: Manor House Group Experience (1992). London: SCM Press "September 11: The Case Against Us All" in Roger Boase (ed.) Islam and Global Dialogue – Religious Pluralism and the Pursuit of Peace (2005), Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing (with Alan Race and Abdullah Siddiqui, eds.) Beyond the Dysfunctional Family: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Dialogue With Each Other and With Britain (2012) London: CreateSpace Being Jewish Today – Confronting the Real Issues (2019). London: Bloomsbury Publishing