Wednesday, 1 April 2026

And then came the Holy Blessed One and slew the Angel of Death - Reflections on the Death Penalty in Israel

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I didn’t want to do a political sermon on the First Day of Pesach – I get it, we were all up late last night and everything before that. And...
Monday, 23 March 2026

What To Do in the Aftermath of the Attack on the Ambulances of Hatzolah in Golders Green

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  What To Do in the Aftermath of the Attack on the Ambulances of Hatzolah in Golders Green The destruction of ambulances is appalling and ut...
Friday, 13 March 2026

Goats, Flies and Freedom in an Unsafe World - Reflections on the Shabbat Before the New Moon of Nissan

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  Pesach is coming – first night Wednesday 1 st April. It’s an odd time to be preparing to celebrate freedom. There are those sprinting bac...
Friday, 6 March 2026

Jewish Reflections on War and Peace

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This is something I wrote in, I think  2018. A long time ago. Long before these most recent trials. It's in my book, Spiritual Vagabondr...
Friday, 13 February 2026

Learning from Bad Bunny ... And Hen Mazzig

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  Learning from a Puerto Rican Rapper I caught the Superbowl Half-Time Show on Monday morning. My, American, rabbinic colleagues were alread...

When the Bar Mitzvah Has Prepared the Wrong Haftarah

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 I wrote this several years ago and have held off posting until this year. It's not about any current young member of the Synagogue I se...
Friday, 6 February 2026

On Archbishops, Queens and Chassidic Rebbes

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I’ve had an unusually ‘Church-intensive’ couple of weeks. On 28 th January, I was St Paul’s to watch as Archbishop Sarah Mullaly was ‘elect...