Jonathan Romain
Rabbi, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Romain is minister of Maidenhead Synagogue and one of Britain's leading rabbis in Reform Judaism. He\u2019s the author of twenty books \u2013 some scholarly and learned, and others which are very funny \u2013 revealing the ups and downs of his day-to-day work, in a way that will resonate with vicars, priests and religious leaders of any description. He\u2019s become a kind of agony uncle, dispensing advice on love affairs, marriage, parenthood, and he\u2019s written about all this in \u201cConfessions of a Rabbi\u201d and in his latest book, \u201cThe Naked Rabbi\u201d. On the more serious side, he\u2019s a prominent figure in the campaign for Assisted Dying, he was awarded an MBE for his work on inter-faith marriage, and he\u2019s spent much of the last year working with Ukrainian refugees.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Jonathan Romain talks about what he\u2019s learned over the years as a rabbi about love and marriage, and why some of his views put him very much out on a limb. His playlist takes in Max Bruch, Leonard Cohen, Rimsky-Korsakov, and a tribute to his love of football. And he tells us his favourite Jewish joke.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke\nA Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3