Howard's day of being Jewish

Michael Howard may not be the most committed of Jews. He married out, his son Nick is a born again Christian nutter and priest in training, but when it came to Rosh Hashanah during the Tory party conference in Blackpool, the outgoing Conservative leader managed to spend some time with the local community and when it came to praying, Howard could certainly take part without too many problems. 

Originally he planned to only spend an hour in shul, but liked it so much he stayed until the end.

According to Totally Jewish

Michael Howard was called up to the Torah at Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation during a first day Rosh Hashanah service.

Shul president Estelle Ballan said: "He did the brochas in perfect hebrew. We were very honoured. I thanked him for giving us the pleasure of having his company and he thanked me for being there so he could do what he wanted to do. Everybody was very surprised but they thought it was lovely he took the trouble to come along.”

Still, Howard will always try and show he has some fondness or association with the Jewish community, to which his own son is trying to convert.

The sad irony for Michael Howard is that his own father, Bernat Hecht was a cantor at a synagogue in Romania, so had a commitment to his Jewish life.

Somehow with his career, Howard senior failed to show Howard junior that even though his mother Sandra is not Jewish, it doesn't mean you can't follow a Jewish life.

From his mid-teens, Nick Howard has always been a friend of Jesus and passionate that Jesus is his messiah, god and just about every standing ovation you can give the man with the beard from Bethlehem.

A few years back while at university, Nick Howard wrote in Cherwell, the student newspaper:

“As Christians, it is our duty to reach Jews, who are a priority in our evangelism. It is a process of reasoning, persuading them to become Christians. Christianity is fulfilled Judaism.”

A shame that Michael Howard failed to pass on his Jewish duty to his own son.

Comments

[Lior]

The fault for Michael Howard's seeming lack of enthusiasm toward Judaism, and his son's fundamentalist Christianity, cannot be laid at Michael Howard's door alone. For years he apparently attended High Holyday services at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St Johns Wood - Rabbi John Rayner's old stomping ground where he conflated leftwing politics and the pulpit and made a career out of sneering at Israel and anyone else he didn't approve of from the lofty heights of his self-appointed superiority. As soon as Howard became Tory leader, one of the resident rabbis there lambasted his politics in the national press. This, to a congregant from a serving minister in a movement that claims to be all-inclusive and whose members behave as if they were the only tolerant people of the face of the earth. No wonder Howard Senior has been lukewarm toward his chosen expression of Judaism, and no wonder his son has eschewed it entirely, if participating in Liberal Judaism is dependent on holding leftwing political views. Liberal Judaism needs to take a long hard look at itself and the meaning of the world "liberal" as they intend it to be understood - because at the moment, it might as well be "Liberal Democrat Judaism". To be properly inclusive, as they claim it is, one should be able to walk into any Liberal Jewish synagogue holding any reasonable democratic views - not be humiliated in public by one of its officers. No wonder Howard Senior spent more time in shul this year - just maybe there were a couple of closet Tories called to make an aliyah. And no wonder Howard Junior holds such fanatical views if his only exposure to Judaism has been by bigots who ridicule his father.

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As soon as Howard became Tory leader, one of the resident rabbis there lambasted his politics in the national press.

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