Jonathan Romain

Who is Jonathan Romain?

The Rabbi Dr Jonathan Anidjar Romain MBE is a writer and broadcaster and minister of Maidenhead Synagogue in Berkshire, England. He has a Ph.D. in the history of British Jewry. He writes for The Times, The Independent,The Guardian and The Jewish Chronicle and appears on radio and television. He chaired the Movement for Reform Judaism's Assembly of Rabbis from 2007 to 2009.

He is chaplain to the Jewish Police Association, a board member of the Three Faiths Forum, and for several years was one of the judges for both The Times Preacher of the Year competition and the BBC’s Frank Gillard Awards for religious programmes. He also chairs the Accord Coalition, which he helped found as an alliance of religious and non-religious groups committed to campaigning against religious discrimination in state-funded faith schools.

In November 2012 Romain established Inter-faith leaders for Dignity in Dying, an inter-faith group of clergy, now numbering 50 inter-faith leaders from different denominations, who support the aims of Dignity in Dying. The group calls for a change in the law that would allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults the choice of an assisted death.