Geoffrey Alderman

It is fine to sound off in shul

The story of one congregant loudly berating another at the bimah may sound shocking, but synagogues are not temples

Free speech: the burning issue

Pastor Terry Jones’s wish to burn the Koran may have been nutty but such wishes - and actions - are protected by the US constitution

Union Jacks and Jills and Jews

The TUC’s selective internationalism is in keeping with its history and with the art of empty gestures

Can these rabbis be forgiven?

Maya Lightman’s admission to JFS is a profoundly joyous event. The need for the US Beth Din to seek forgiveness is equally profound

Tribute to Tribune's lost world

Arguably, the troubled newspaper’s niche market no longer exists

A child rabbi? I don't think so

A prodigy, aged 14, has passed a rabbinical exam, but there’s much more to being a spiritual leader than that

No outcry at Abbas's racism?

It is bad enough that the PA President wants to exclude Jews, but much worse that he has not been condemned

Friends uninvited to the party

David Cameron’s description of Gaza was no gaffe; he meant it — for all the outcry among his ‘friendly’ Israel supporters

Avoid these shady shnorrers

Yet another out-of-tune rabbi

A wedding? Mazeltov! (But don’t let the rabbi sing — no, I promise I’m not kidding)

Abuse of freedom is not freedom

The Knesset decision to outlaw boycott from within is not a strike against freedom but a blow for it

A History of the Board of Deputies, 1760-2010

Sweeping the Board — after 250 years