Dear Rabbi I’ve been told that after 50 years we stop observing a yahrzeit, but have not found a source. Have you heard of this? Jemima Dear Jemima, And to think people still commemorate the yahrtzeit of Moses 3,300 years on – someone should tell them! A yahrtzeit commemorates the life of a loved one[…]

Dear Rabbi, I recently attended a funeral at a United Synagogue cemetery. A very good friend of the 99-year-old deceased was not permitted to say a few words about his friend because he was a rabbi of the Reform Movement. Is this common practice and what’s your opinion? Alan Dear Alan, You’ll appreciate that heterodox[…]

Dear Rabbi, I have an Orthodox friend, a married man who confided that he is attracted to another man. I became upset with him and told him he is deemed a sinner in the eyes of Judaism and he is being unfaithful to his wife and untrue to himself by remaining married to her. He[…]

Dear Rabbi I was always sceptical about ordained Orthodox female rabbis. And now one has now been given a job in an Orthodox synagogue. That should surely suggest it is becoming acceptable. Do you envisage that happening in the UK? Gregory Dear Gregory In a word, no. Don’t get me started on these pseudo-suffragettes, or[…]