by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Mar 26, 2026 | Op-Eds, Religious Liberty
By Jonathan Guttentag in Conservative Home When a European government sends soldiers onto its streets to protect synagogues and Jewish schools, it is tempting to describe the move as a tough law-and-order response. It is not. It marks a more serious shift: from...
by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Mar 10, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in Mishpacha On a recent winter evening in the House of Lords, close to ten o’clock at night, peers were still debating the government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill when an unexpected voice rose to defend Britain’s yeshivos. The...
by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Feb 27, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in Conservative Home Britain rightly prides itself on pluralism. But pluralism is not the same thing as passivity. A liberal democracy cannot survive if it refuses to defend its own moral boundaries. Yet in confronting Islamist extremism,...
by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Jan 20, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in the Jewish Chronicle Last week’s article in the JC, “Being a female Orthodox rabbi is a start-up job” was written with admiration for its subject and sympathy for the obstacles she faces. But by framing the issue as one of innovation and...
by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Jan 14, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in The Jerusalem Post Zionism has always been a broad movement. From its earliest days, it brought together Jews of sharply differing philosophies and temperaments, united less by unanimity than by a shared sense of destiny. That diversity...
