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Jonathan Romain
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Jonathan Romain
@RabbiRomain
Rabbi, broadcaster and social campaigner
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Feb 7, 2023
    Sadly, I have my son’s funeral tomorrow (he drowned on his honeymoon in a rip tide). It’s deeply painful, but as a rabbi, I know from seeing so many others suffer bereavements that, one day, we will laugh & sing again (although I must admit it doesn’t feel like that right now).
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Apr 20, 2022
    Justin Welby had every right to make his Easter comments (whether correct in them or not). Faith cannot be limited to talking about flower arrangements or the Sunday fete. The biblical prophets thundered against the social injustices of their time & so should modern clergy too.
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Oct 29, 2023
    Did you hear about the rabbi, vicar and imam who…didn’t go into a bar or up in a hot air balloon…but we met together, each said a prayer for peace from our own tradition, & told our congregants not import the conflict in Israel/Gaza to the UK. Let’s fight for peace together.
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Feb 8, 2023
    Many thanks for the avalanche of support from everyone - it truly is much appreciated & shows that Twitter is not just a vehicle for trolls, but there are plenty of angels there too. But apologies my end that, in my distracted state, I miswrote the funeral date (it’s tomorrow).
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Feb 7, 2023
    Sadly, I have my son’s funeral tomorrow (he drowned on his honeymoon in a rip tide). It’s deeply painful, but as a rabbi, I know from seeing so many others suffer bereavements that, one day, we will laugh & sing again (although I must admit it doesn’t feel like that right now).
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Feb 10, 2023
    Last posting re. my son: he had a good funeral. You will know that there can be good ones, where the person is celebrated fully and the mourners comforted...and ones that leave you cold, or even angry at how irrelevant the service was. Some clergy training still needs improving!
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Jan 9, 2022
    I was approached by the BBC to discuss Zionism. The term simply means “the maintenance of a Jewish homeland”. It doesn’t refer to particular borders. It’s fine to criticise Israeli policies, & half of Israelis do, but if you are anti-Zionist, you deny that very right to exist.
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Jul 29, 2019
    A couple from Oxford have a judicial review of #collectiveworship in schools. I am in favour of faith, but not of #faithschools. School should teach about faith as general knowledge, but not impose a belief system. Beliefs should come from home or place of worship, not the state.
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Jun 6, 2024
    Rowan Williams is right about tax: “It’s time to challenge the narrative about taxation as some sort of imposition by a greedy government”. We need to see it as a personal benefit - other people paying for my roads, hospitals & defence - and me contributing back for them too.
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Dec 9, 2024
    The main victims in the Church abuse scandal are those abused, but to a much much lesser extent decent clergy have suffered from being tarnished by those perpetrators, so all credit to @BishopNewcastle for speaking out so directly (see today’s Times below)
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Apr 23, 2023
    Diane Abbott's ignorance about prejudice suffered by Jews is astonishing, given what she should have learnt from a) basic historical knowledge b) the Corbyn debacle c) her Hackney constituents. When does a blindspot cease to be a blindspot and become wilful malice?
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Feb 9, 2023
    It’s been utterly humbling to hear the personal stories of so many people (in 280 words) and the many tragedies - similar & different - they have faced over the years. Life can be both so wonderful and so tough. If this is you, then from one mourner to another, I wish you well.
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Nov 19, 2023
    Wow: “Evangelicals launch flying bishops & ring-fence funding after Synod vote on same-sex blessings “- we rabbis solved our divisions over the issue by allowing those who wished to go ahead but neither side castigating the other. Why can’t Christian be more Christian about it?
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Feb 26, 2024
    Dear Charlotte Church: Let me translate for you - when you say “From the river to the sea” it means expelling Jews from the Jordan to the Mediterranean i.e. from the Land of Israel entirely & destroying a nation. Creating a Palestinian state should not mean eradicating Israel.
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    Jonathan Romain
    @RabbiRomain
    Oct 25, 2024
    The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, supports legalising assisted dying & so do I as a rabbi. Precisely because we are religious we want to give options to those dying in pain. We call it compassion & represent thousands of others of faith. We met with Kim Leadbeater
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