MANNA 100
Written by Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield Thursday, 10 July 2008
This editorial is not the usual MANNA editorial. Instead of commenting on important current issues, the 100th editorial is about MANNA itself. It is also an ‘I’ editorial since I personally want to thank all those contributors who have given their talent and time to MANNA absolutely free. So much of my work and the work of the Jewish community depends upon good will. I never cease to be humbled by just how much of it there is. I also want to thank all those who have contributed to the production of MANNA, too many to mention without risking forgetting someone and giving offence. But I must name my deputy editor William Wolff and art editor Charles Front. Without the two of them MANNA would have vanished long ago.
Manna 99
Written by Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield Tuesday, 27 May 2008
I actually cheered when the BBC reported Lord Winston’s condemnation of the Catholic position on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Robert Winston is a practising orthodox Jew and I cannot be sure that his views are shared by all members of the London Beth Din. But I was delighted and relieved that a prominent religious figure had spoken out against religious reaction and obscuranticism.
Gaza cries out for a new start
Written by Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield Thursday, 07 February 2008
Wells Cathedral is an exquisite building, inexhaustible in its interest. But so, too, is the Bishop’s residence which stands beside it. For the Bishop’s residence is a medieval palace, complete with moat. It speaks eloquently of power.Stand beside the great wooden doors which lead into Lambeth Palace and the same aura is unmistakeable. Even the dwarfing of Lambeth by adjacent buildings cannot destroy the symbolism of the Church’s great Palace facing the Palace of Westminster across the Thames.
