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Articles by Jonathan Romain
Seven minutes and a lifetime of terror at my Oxford synagogue
Like thousands of Jewish people, I was in synagogue on Thursday when the news came. My community and I were celebrating Yom Kippur – the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar when even non-practising Jews attend services. Suddenly dozens of mobile phones began to erupt with messages and a stream of murmurs echoed round the congregation: a synagogue had been attacked in Manchester.
Ancestry test for Christmas? Why some people are converting to Judaism
A surprising new trend has occurred in recent years in an unexpected intersection between faith and biology: a rise in conversion to Judaism thanks to DNA tests. Judaism is not a missionary faith. It believes that there are many paths to heaven and it does not particularly matter which one you take. To put it another way: so long as you are a good Jew or a good Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, agnostic or atheist, that is sufficient.
We must not import Middle East conflict tensions to UK, warns rabbi
The rabbi, whose mother fled Germany on the Kindertransport during the Second World War, said people must remember that the conflict is very much political and about borders, rather than being religious. I think it would be totally wrong to give in to fear because that would be giving an extra victory to the terrorists.
Abortion in Jewish Law Is Nuanced, Controversial and Never Forbidden Original
It is no small irony that a liberal-minded Jew may have inadvertently contributed to the ban on women’s ability to access abortion in many U.S. states. The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a renowned defender of women’s rights — could have stepped down as one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court when she was 80 and a Democratic president was occupying the White House.
There is nothing holy about agony: religious people and leaders support assisted dying too
Jonathan Romain, rabbi and vice chair12, George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury23 1Maidenhead Synagogue 2Dignity in Dying 3Clifton Correspondence to: G Carey carey.george01{at}gmail.com A new alliance of faith leaders has formed to ensure the voice of religious proponents of legalised assisted dying is heard.
Lain on me! Jonathan Romain reveals all in Confessions Of A Rabbi
The old joke about rabbis – invisible six days a week and incomprehensible on the seventh – is not only long out of date, but totally ignores the enormous amount of time that rabbis spend on a one-to-one basis with congregants dealing with the personal issues they face. It is partly to lift the veil that I have compiled into a book – Confessions of a Rabbi – many of the issues that members of Maidenhead and those from elsewhere shared with me.
Confessions of a Rabbi
With a foreword by Samira Ahmed The secrets of the confessional are too important to be kept secret, and Jonathan Romain shares them all in this rollercoaster of crises, emotional traumas, moral dilemmas, attempts at seduction, multiple murders, machiavellian families, hijacked weddings, catastrophic funerals and a maze of other people’s sexual fantasies.
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