About Lionel Blue: Lionel Blue is a British Reform rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first British rabbi publicly to declare his homosexuality.
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
