Daniel Finkelstein is a Jewish former executive editor of The Times – the paper to which I subscribe – and remains a weekly columnist with the paper, and an associate editor. He’s also a Conservative peer.

The Jewish Chronicle has just published a piece by him. He writes:

I believe that tradition is important and have a predisposition towards existing institutions and practices.

But I believe that we pray and we think in order to understand. And from that understanding we realise when we need to change [my emphasis]. This is true in politics and as a Jew.

I shall seek a meeting with him on the subject of male circumcision.

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