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The lawnmower that did not rest

Our series on counting your blessings continues

By Rebbetzin Shuli Liss

1 min read

photo: Getty Images

Rabbi Sacks at work in his study

Rabbi Lord Sacks

It’s out at last… the new Sacks Chumash

By Simon Rocker

3 min read

Passionate about Torah: Rabbi Benji Stanley

The Progressive rabbi who wants to launch a new yeshivah in London

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

Inspiring a new generation: Rabbi Dweck with a class of students

S&P Sephardi Community

Sephardi Judaism isn’t just for Sephardim

4 min read

Overlooking recitation of the Priestly Blessing at the Kotel in Jerusalem (photo: Flash90)

A word of blessing can be more potent than we know

By Rebbetzin Shuli Liss

1 min read

An old Armored Tank brought from Syria as seen at the Oz 77 Armored Battalion Memorial site with the names of the new fallen IDF soldiers, not far from Birkat Ram, northern Golan Heights, May 15, 2025. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90

Beware an over-reliance on power, the rabbis warned

By Benedict Roth

3 min read

Miriam, cursed with leprosy (from mid-16th century Netherlands, now in Museum Schnütgen, Cologne/Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Beha’alotecha

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

1 min read

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If Pesach tells us where we came from, Shavuot shows where we are going

How did the Israelites become the Jewish people? It is the story behind next week’s festival

By Rebbetzin Lauren Levin

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May 30, 2025 09:00

Vintage engraving by Gustave DorA from 1870 showing a scene from the Old Testament Moses giving the Law upon Mount Sinai

Shavuot launch for new ‘Prophetic Judaism’ initiative

Voices for Prophetic Judaism will champion ‘justice, peace, equality, human rights, and the planet’

By Simon Rocker

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May 29, 2025 13:38

Promoting the Prophets: Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah

The gift of a problem solved

A new series on counting your blessings

By Rebbetzin Shuli Liss

1 min read

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May 1, 2025 10:15

The gift of a problem solved

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

By Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Disagreement does not divide us – but misjudgment might

Broadcasting criticism of Israel in the wrong context risks distorting the truth and weakening communal bonds

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April 30, 2025 10:02

Demonstrators raise placards and national flags during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of the remaining Israelis held hostage by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, in front of the Israeli Defence Ministry in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

What if we didn’t take our food for granted?

A new series on why we should learn to count our blessings

By Rebbetzin Shuli Liss

1 min read

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April 6, 2025 11:38

Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, who once slept rough on the streets but rose to become a Fire Chief, receiving the King's Fire Medal at Buckingham Palace earlier this year (Photo: Getty Images)

The dogs that didn’t bark at the Exodus

As the Israelites prepare to leave Egypt, the Torah makes a reference to dogs. But why?

By Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum

3 min read

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April 6, 2025 09:30

Guardians of the mummy's tomb: statues of the ancient Egyptian deity Anubis (from a Universal Studio theme park Singapore)

Train your mind to remember the good

A new series on why it’s good to count our blessings

By Rebbetzin Shuli Liss

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March 23, 2025 11:26

Train your mind to remember the good

The unresolved contradiction at the heart of Rabbi Sacks’s political thought

The idea of covenant was central to his thinking about society as an alternative to the princriple of individual autonomy

By Jacob Hougie

4 min read

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March 13, 2025 11:58

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosting a roundtable for religious leaders for Interfaith Week last year (photo: Getty Images

Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum

By Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum

The pursuit of peace is a central value in our faith

Our sources counsel us to ‘seek peace’ but the rabbis were not naive about its attainment

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March 6, 2025 12:51

The triple handshake between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left), US President Jimmy Carter (centre) and Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin seals the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treat on the White House lawn in Washington in 1979 (photo: Getty Images)

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