Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, the Reform movement’s Senior Rabbi, has hit out at the United Synagogue over its handling of the stone-setting of her father Lord Janner.
She said she had been allowed to read out the inscription on his stone at Willesden Cemetery today only as “a final concession”.
In a post on Facebook after the ceremony, she said there had been “a bizarre and upsetting negotiation” with the cemetery’s religious authorities.
The Orthodox rabbi, Reuven Livingstone, who is Chaplain to the Armed Forces, who attended the ceremony, had been “a shining light of rachmanut (compassion) amidst unnecessarily harsh restrictions that were placed on my participation, whether it was because I am a woman – or this specific woman.”
