Authors: Jonathan Wittenberg
ISBN-13: 9780916219253, ISBN-10: 0916219259
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Aviv Publishing New York, NY
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg was born in Glasgow, Scotland and moved to London as a boy. After studying literature at Cambridge, he was ordained as a rabbi and has been a leader in the development of the Masorti movement for traditional, non-fundamentalist Judaism. He currently serves as rabbi of New North London Synagogue.
In a series of lyrical essays organized aound the Jewish calendar, the author engages with morla and theological questions, such as the relationship between God and the Holocaust, humanity's responsiblity for its actions, and the transcience of life.