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Confessions of a Rabbi
Jonathan Romain
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The life of a congregational rabbi is often seen as an ivory-tower existence - full of prayers and piety - but Jonathan Romain's has radically departed from that image. Virtually no one has ever asked him about their spiritual life and instead he has dealt with a rollercoaster of crises, emotional traumas, moral dilemmas, attempts at seduction, multiple murders, Machiavellian families, funerals that go wrong, weddings that are hijacked, and fighting his way through a maze of other people's sexual fantasies. Nothing in rabbinic training ever hinted that this catalogue of human misery would become part of his calling, ... Read more
The life of a congregational rabbi is often seen as an ivory-tower existence - full of prayers and piety - but Jonathan Romain's has radically departed from that image. Virtually no one has ever asked him about their spiritual life and instead he has dealt with a rollercoaster of crises, emotional traumas, moral dilemmas, attempts at seduction, multiple murders, Machiavellian families, funerals that go wrong, weddings that are hijacked, and fighting his way through a maze of other people's sexual fantasies. Nothing in rabbinic training ever hinted that this catalogue of human misery would become part of his calling, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785901898
SKU
V9781785901898
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About Jonathan Romain
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain is a writer and broadcaster, and minister of Maidenhead synagogue. The author of The Jews of England, he is also chair of the Accord Coalition on faith schools. He writes for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Huffington Post and The Jewish Chronicle, and appears regularly on radio and television.
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