What is William Wolff?
[[File:William Wolff (2009-04-28).jpg|right|200px]] '''William Wolff''' (13 February 1927 &ndash; 8 July 2020) was a [[Germany|German]]-[[United Kingdom|British]] journalist and rabbi. He was born in [[Berlin]]. He worked as a department head at the [[Daily Mirror]]. Wolff was responsible for domestic policy, but then switched to foreign policy with the special topic of Britain's entry to the [[European Economic Community]]. He was responsible for company news for four years. In [[Germany]], he also appeared in the early 1970s on the television program Der Internationale Frühschoppen.<ref>{{cite web|title=Geburtstag: „Ein Mann voller Witz und Weisheit“|periodical=[[Jüdische Allgemeine|juedische-allgemeine.de]]|publisher=|url=https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/unsere-woche/ein-mann-voller-witz-und-weisheit/|url-status=|format=|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Axel Seitz|date=2017-02-13|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}<br />{{cite web|title=Die Leichtigkeit des Seins: Vor-sicht: „Rabbi Wolff“, Dokumentarfilm|periodical=[[Evangelischer Pressedienst|epd.de]]|publisher=|url=https://www.epd.de/fachdienst/fachdienst-medien/schwerpunktartikel/die-leichtigkeit-des-seins|url-status=dead|format=|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729202136/https://www.epd.de/fachdienst/fachdienst-medien/schwerpunktartikel/die-leichtigkeit-des-seins|archive-date=2018-07-29|last=Manfred Riepe|date=2018-07-20|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref> He was a [[rabbi]] at [[West London Synagogue]], in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] (1986-1990), in [[Milton Keynes]] (1990-1993), [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] and [[Brighton]] (1993-1997) and in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]] (1997-2002). On 23 April 2002, he was appointed to the position of regional rabbi of [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]] in [[Schwerin]]. He retired in 2015. Wolff died on 8 July 2020 at the age of 93 in [[London]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Landesrabbiner William Wolff im Alter von 93 gestorben|periodical=[[NDR 1 Radio MV]]|publisher=|url=https://www.ndr.de/