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Campaigners for assisted dying outside Westminister
March 26, 2026, 10:45 am
Jewish MP and doctor leads fight to save assisting dying bill
In the Commons, and the Lords the controversial issue has divided opinion amongst Jewish parliamentarians
By Lee Harpin
Protesters against the Assisted Dying BIll mourn in a mock graveyard to highlight the bill’s dangers. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News
March 3, 2026, 12:50 pm
Why I am pleased the Assisted Dying Bill will fail
Autonomy must have its limits. Personal freedom should not come at any cost
By Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu
Polish Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner, at her home in north London. Mrs Posner and her husband Michael, both aged in their 90s, are believed to have died last weekend in the Pegasos clinic in Basel.
September 29, 2025, 10:19 am
Holocaust survivor and husband emailed friends about deaths at Swiss clinic
Polish-born actress Ruth Posner and her husband Michael said they did not want to 'just exist'
By Jewish News Reporter
Protesters against the Assisted Dying BIll mourn in a mock graveyard to highlight the bill’s dangers. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News
September 2, 2025, 3:06 pm
OPINION: Assisted Dying and the Book of Life
Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum, Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies, writes that 'life is always a struggle, but we should fill our days rather than try to reduce them'
By Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum
Campaigners for assisted dying outside Westminister
November 27, 2024, 11:50 am
Chief Rabbi emails MPs outlining his objection to assisted dying ahead of Commons vote
Proposed legislation allowing strictly controlled assisted dying prompts intense debate within the community
By Lee Harpin
Protesters against the Assisted Dying BIll mourn in a mock graveyard to highlight the bill’s dangers. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News
November 13, 2024, 12:01 pm
OPINION: Empathy for those in pain should not lead to the taking of life
Placing limits on the human capacity for self-destruction and harm is the role of the larger structures that define our common values
By Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu
Sir Keir Starmer and Labour MP Kim Leadbeater
November 12, 2024, 1:25 pm
Chief Rabbi warns assisted dying ‘will create as much anguish as it alleviates’
Sir Ephraim Mirvis joins other faith leaders in opposing controversial proposed new law
By Jenni Frazer and PA
Rabbi Jonathan Romain, Pic: Twitter/X
April 10, 2024, 12:22 pm
Maidenhead’s Rabbi Jonathan Romain steps down after 44 years
'I've just been paid to do my hobby' says leading spiritual leader who takes up new post as head of the Reform movement's Beth Din in July
By Michelle Rosenberg
November 5, 2021, 10:47 am
Calling it assisted dying is all wrong
Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers takes a controversial topic and looks at a Reform Jewish response
By Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers
Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash
October 26, 2021, 3:18 pm
Peer reveals assisted dying critics have invoked the Holocaust
Lord Parekh says some comments are looking at the 'subject through the prism of the Shoah', while another peer said his view on the topic was rooted in Reform Judaism
By Lee Harpin
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
October 20, 2021, 12:46 pm
Chief Rabbi: ‘Assisted dying bill could put vulnerable people at risk’
Ephraim Mirvis speaks out alongside other senior faith leaders against moves to allow assisted dying in some cases.
By Josh Salisbury
Stock image of a hospital bed (Credit: Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash)
June 11, 2021, 10:40 am
The Bible Says What? ‘Rabbi was helped to die’
Rabbi Danny Rich takes a controversial topic from Jewish texts and looks at a Liberal response
Stock image of a hospital bed (Credit: Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash)
June 8, 2021, 12:32 pm
Call to change assisted dying law backed by Liberal Judaism
Progressive movement has joined a new cross-faith initiative which is campaigning for a change in the law around assisted dying.
By Jewish News Reporter
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