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Rabbi Joseph Dweck
Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Rabbi Joseph Dweck is the Senior Rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom. Rabbi Dweck is American born and has lived in Los Angeles, California and Brooklyn, New York.#000d #000d Rabbi Dweck served as rabbi of Congregation Shaare Shalom, a Syrian Sephardi synagogue of over 700 members, in Brooklyn, New York from 1999 to 2014. Rabbi Dweck also served as Headmaster of Barkai Yeshivah, a large Jewish day school in Brooklyn from 2010 to 2014. He has an eclectic taste in music and has received training as a hazzan in the Oriental Sephardi tradition by Rabbi Rephael Elnadav z”l and Cantor Moshe Habusha. Currently, Rabbi Dweck resides in London with his wife, Margalit, and five children.

April 23, 2024 12:51
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How can we mark our freedom this Pesach in a period of dread?
December 28, 2023 13:55
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It’s easy to dwell on doom – but life for Jews is more likely to get better

The unrest, war, terror, destruction, calamity and hardship that we have all seen this year are almost too much to bear
December 14, 2023 14:07
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Chanukah is symbolic of the light of wisdom

In our information age, facts are at our fingertips. But knowledge comes from studying truth
October 26, 2023 11:48
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We are one nation, one family. All things pass and yet we remain

Our sufferings have been unspeakable and innumerable, and again there are people who call for our destruction. But we must stand tall as members of our great nation. We are Israel

September 15, 2023 14:04
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We cannot do spiritual growth all on our own

Western individualism encourages us to think we can search for meaning on our own terms but Rosh Hashanah reminds us we need God to help us find our way
September 07, 2023 15:45
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The disruption of the festivals brings us clarity

This is a profoundly introspective time of year that orientates us towards accountability
July 13, 2023 12:19
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The Torah teaches us to embrace AI’s potential

The space granted by technological advances will help us focus on our unique creativity

October 02, 2022 12:18
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Jonah's story is a call to global responsibility

The story of the reluctant prophet will be read on Wednesday on the afternoon of Yom Kippur
June 01, 2022 13:52
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Humanity — and Judaism — has wrestled with the idea of monarchy for millennia

The concept of monarchy is not anathema to Torah ideals
July 26, 2021 16:09
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On Tishah b’Av we mourn what we were — and hope

Nearly 2,000 years after the destruction of the last Temple we focus on what the national purpose of the Jewish people is meant to be
October 09, 2020 09:27
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What Simchat Torah says about science

Reading about the creation immediately after completing the Torah encourages us to integrate our Jewish and general knowledge
March 15, 2019 15:43
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Purim is our riposte to nihilism

Israel's arch-enemy Amalek symbolises belief in a cold, indifferent universe of random events
September 06, 2018 15:35
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Sometimes you have to touch the depths to reach the heights

The shofar calls on us to open our hearts to the truth
September 08, 2017 09:36
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Ki Tavo

“I have come into the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give to us” Deuteronomy 26:3
August 04, 2017 11:11
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Va'etchanan

"You were the fewest of all peoples” Deuteronomy 7:7
July 19, 2017 12:18
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'This has been a painful experience for me'

Read the full statement from Rabbi Joseph Dweck in response to the review panel's decision
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