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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.
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Emotion is not a measure of truth and morality
If we are to make wise decisions, we must beware of a tendency to move with our feelings
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We must all beware the ‘civilised’ barbarians
The human impulse to do terrible things under the guise of morality must be resisted
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How can we mark our freedom this Pesach in a period of dread?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Ki Tavo
“I have come into the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give to us” Deuteronomy 26:3
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