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Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

The Haggadah reader Hashata Hakha (This Year We Are Here) and Rabbi Lara Haft Yom-Tov

July 3, 2024, 10:09 am

OPINION: Masorti movement values productive debate over ideological purity

Rabbi Anthony Lazarus Magrill of Mosaic Masorti Synagogue reflects on what the response to his colleague's criticism of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza teaches us about confronting our own moral anxiety

By Rabbi Anthony Lazarus Magrill

Fiyaz Mughal speaking at the No2H8 Crime Awards

October 5, 2023, 3:52 pm

Nominations open for #No2H8 Crime Awards – honouring those who fight prejudice

Jewish News is a media partner for the awards that have previously recognised former Labour MP Luciana Berger and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

By Fergal Jeffreys

September 14, 2023, 11:07 am

World Jewish Relief launches Morocco earthquake emergency appeal 

2,500 dead and more than 300,000 affected by devastation of 6.8 magnitude quake disaster

By Michelle Rosenberg

Pic: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tu-bishvat-ideas-beliefs/

February 17, 2023, 1:35 pm

More than 25 communities celebrate Tu Bishvat at cross-communal eco-seder

500 members across Masorti, Liberal, United, Reform and Sephardi synagogues also took part in online conservation conversation

By Michelle Rosenberg

Civil defense workers and residents search through the rubble of collapsed buildings in the town of Harem near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

February 6, 2023, 5:27 pm

World Jewish Relief launches Turkey emergency earthquake appeal

A massive earthquake hit both Turkey and Syria, leaving more than 1,700 dead with numbers expected to rise. Here's how you can help.

By Michelle Rosenberg

December 20, 2022, 5:37 pm

Drip, drip, hooray! Community celebrates Chanukah in Trafalgar Square

Hundreds braced the cold and rain to mark the festival of lights in Trafalgar Square on Monday.

By JN Reporter

The aftermath of a fire at Shirley Hills in Croydon, England, on 19 July 2022, the hottest day in the country's history

July 21, 2022, 2:09 pm

UK Rabbis: this week’s heatwave offers nightmarish glimpse of future

Cross-denominational rabbinic group are urging British Jews to push their synagogues and MPs to meet net zero carbon target

By Jewish News Reporter

January 13, 2022, 3:06 pm

The little-known gathering of Islamic scholars providing hope to rabbis

Jewish News joins more than 250 Muslim leaders at a forum in Abu Dhabi set up to tackle extremism

By Justin Cohen

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the RNLI, following a small boat incident in the Channel after 27 people died yesterday in the worst-recorded migrant tragedy in the Channel. Picture date: Thursday November 25, 2021.

December 7, 2021, 3:22 pm

28 rabbis express ‘deep concern and dismay’ to Priti Patel over asylum bill

Jewish leaders from the United Synagogue, Masorti, Liberal and Reform among those to sign a letter, saying proposals 'strongly negate our Jewish values of justice and fairness.'

By Lee Harpin

2GFB2H1 U.S. Air Force Airmen guides qualified evacuees aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the noncombatant evacuation operation at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2021. The Department of Defense is committed to supporting the U.S. State Department in the departure of U.S. and allied civilian personnel from Afghanistan and to evacuate Afghan allies to safety. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Crul)

August 25, 2021, 4:09 pm

OPINION: Our kindness will not stop the shock, but it might soften the pain

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg calls on the community to do all it can to support Afghan refugees escaping the Taliban

By Jonathan Wittenberg

Shtreimel, made of sable tails (Wikipedia/Source: Eigene Aufnahme, Eigentum. Author: Dieter Philippi/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0))

June 24, 2021, 2:53 pm

Rabbis say UK fur sale ban would not affect shtreimels

Rabbis write to environment minister to argue a proposed ban on UK fur sales would not impact on traditional shtreimels worn in Charedi communities.

By Josh Salisbury

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (Photo credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

November 25, 2020, 2:01 pm

Interfaith campaign launched to fight food poverty for festive period

Chief Rabbi Mirvis among faith leaders backing Council of Christians and Jews initiative with Fareshare to raise money and awareness about the issue

Quilt woven together by refugees to mark succot

September 30, 2020, 12:47 pm

Interfaith charity marks succot with quilt of 700 squares made by refugees

Pieces of fabric woven together for the CCJ's project, with its president Rabbi Wittenberg saying it brings the festival's 'central theme into a contemporary context'

By Jenni Frazer

October 30, 2019, 10:39 am

Masorti leader Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg gives first Thought for the Day

New North London Synagogue faith leader addresses the climate emergency during address to Radio 4's well-known slot of the Today Programme

By Jewish News Reporter

Rabbi Miriam Berger shows young members of the Somali Bravanese community a Torah

September 26, 2019, 11:49 am

After tragedy, communities find ‘there is more in common than divides us’

After the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association in Muswell Hill was set on fire, local Jewish communities came to its aid. Six years later, SBWA looks to the future with a new site

By Stephen Oryszczuk

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