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Mar 3, 2021, 7:23 PM

Chipping away at the Orthodox monopoly over Judaism in Israel

Supreme Court president Esther Hayut (left), pictured at her appointment in October 2017 (Credit: Israeli Government Press Office) via Jewish News

As a Reform Rabbi I have far greater religious freedoms in the UK than if I were in Israel. So when I read headlines this week like “recognition by Israel’s Supreme Court of Reform and Conservative conversions” my cynicism often tempered my celebration. While the...

Jun 2, 2020, 1:58 PM

The letter Britain should have received from Dominic Cummings

Dominic Cummings top aide to Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at the back of Downing Street (Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire via Jewish News)

This is the letter I would have liked to have received and as I, as we, didn’t receive it, instead I decided to write it. Please indulge me for a minute. It is addressed… To the People of Great Britain It reads…: “I am writing...

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Miriam Berger is rabbi at Finchley Reform Synagogue