Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

Why animals need their own New Year

An old date in the Hebrew calendar is an ideal day to recognise our responsibility to nature

What the shofar's wordless cry tells us

A call to heal a world in pain

Keeping watch over Citizen Cain

The message of Tishah b'Av reaches beyond the Jewish tragedies it commemorates

Out of the flames comes hope

The idea that faith ignores at its peril

There is no harder ideal to live up to than the Bible’s opening declaration of our common humanity

Why the longest day is the greatest of gifts

Yom Kippur allows time for the questions we are often too busy to ask: what values give meaning to our lives

Fast food that gives a true taste of freedom

Why is matzah called both the 'bread of affliction' and the 'bread of freedom'?

Can God really love us when we suffer so much?

The Yom Kippur prayers speak of a merciful God - but how can we make sense of the idea?

The troubling questions that remain after Gaza

How those uneasy with Israeli actions can continue to support the country.

Your short guide to High Holy-Day terminology

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg defines the season’s key terms .