Adam Zagoria-Moffet is Rabbi of St. Albans Masorti Synagogue
Masorti Judaism reflects on a difficult year for Israel and the Jewish diaspora
Vegetarian Society labels should be considered as good as supervision agency stamps
Shake up your Seder traditions to help you through another disrupted year - and don't be afraid to deploy leeks and jelly
“The secret things belong to the Lord, our God, and/but the overt things belong (to us and our children) forever, to be done, all the words of this instruction” Deuteronomy 29:28
“You must love the ger for you were gerim in the Land of Egypt” Deuteronomy 10.19
“How good are your tents, O Jacob; your dwellings, Israel” Numbers 24:5
“He [the Nazir] shall abstain from wine and any other intoxicant; he shall not drink vinegar of wine or of any other intoxicant, neither shall he drink anything in which grapes have been steeped, nor eat grapes fresh or dried” Numbers 6.3
“Speak to the whole Israelite community and say to them: ‘You shall be holy ones, for I, the LORD your God, am holy’” Leviticus 19:2
“But the prince shall not take property away from any of the people and rob them of their holdings. Only out of his own holdings shall he endow his sons, in order that My people may not be dispossessed of their holdings” Ezekiel 46:18
“On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Shabbat of complete rest, sanctified to God” Exodus 35:2
“Two sons — of whom one was named Gershom, that is to say, ‘I have been a stranger in a foreign land’” Exodus 18:3
“And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for 17 years, making the days of Jacob, the years of his life, 147 years” Genesis 47:28
Ahead of Sunday's day of social action, Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet reflects on its underlying religious values
“And Jacob stole the heart of Laban the Aramean on not telling him that he was fleeing” Genesis 31:20
“The Earth was corrupted before God; all the Earth was full of violence” Genesis 6:11
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