Jonathan Wittenberg is the Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue
The Yom Kippur prayers speak of a merciful God - but how can we make sense of the idea?
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg defines the season’s key terms .
Letter from Calais
An old date in the Hebrew calendar is an ideal day to recognise our responsibility to nature
A call to heal a world in pain
The message of Tishah b'Av reaches beyond the Jewish tragedies it commemorates
There is no harder ideal to live up to than the Bible’s opening declaration of our common humanity
Yom Kippur allows time for the questions we are often too busy to ask: what values give meaning to our lives
Why is matzah called both the 'bread of affliction' and the 'bread of freedom'?
How those uneasy with Israeli actions can continue to support the country.
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