Published: 18 October 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
RABBI JEFFREY NEWMAN, of the Finchley Reform Synagogue was part of a group of some 30 Jewish activists taking part in the eighth day of demonstrations to demand more urgent actions to counter global warming.
Newman, wearing a Jewish prayer shawl and waiving a lulav, the palm branch used in the Sukkot holiday ritual, knelt down and blocked a road.
“We are in a period of enormous catastrophic breakdown and, if it takes an arrest to try to find ways of helping to galvanize public opinion, then it is certainly worth being arrested,” Newman said before police took him away.
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