Jonathan Wittenberg

Nevertheless, um, I do feel, uh, ad-admiration for those senior Jewish spiritual leaders who do speak out, not in order to, uh, uh, you know, placate people who are hostile, but for their own moral reasons.

So, for example, I think of, uh, Jonathan Wittenberg, who is the senior rabbi of the Masorti movement, uh, you know, the equivalent-

Right

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Uh, yeah, plenty

... who actually stepped out a-and they were fired as a result.

You know, and, and Jonathan Wittenberg just last month was there on the West Bank doing what's called protective presence, which meaning putting his body on the line-

Mm-hmm

Well, let's go and talk about hospitality with one of our guests of the morning.

We've got with us Jonathan Wittenberg, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg.

My apologies.

Rabbi Wittenberg is senior rabbi of Masorti Judaism and founder of Eco Judaism.

Let me let me let me finish my introduction.

Yeah, of course.

We're going to be talking to Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, who is a senior rabbi of Masorti Judaism and founder of Eco Judaism.

He teaches and speaks widely, including on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

Standing actually as I did in the mosque of Al-Mahajarat, where it's just a burnt-out wreck.

It put in mind the words of actually the, uh, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, big influence on me.

He's a UK rabbi who visited there last week, also on the West Bank.

He described these attacks as a Hillul HaShem, literally a violation of God's name.