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I can go back in time, when Yizkor was, second to breaking the fast, one of the most anticipated moments in Yom Kippur. It was the time when those of us who didn’t have a deceased…

With Yom Kippur behind us, the hardest inner-work happens now. The personal commitments you made yesterday are in the balance today. 

Perhaps if you pay attention to one-at-a-time, your positive prospects will improve. Resist that urge….

Stella Goldschlag was both a victim and a perpetrator in Nazi Germany.

As a Jew, she was constantly persecuted and in danger of being deported to a concentration camp in Poland. Yet because she turned in Jews to the Gestapo to save herself…

For the Jews of Manchester Who Prayed and Died on Yom Kippur

For the Jews of Manchester who prayed and died

On Yom Kippur, others on other days:

As during the First and Second Temple times,

During the Crusades and Inquisition,

During…

Paris, 3 October 2025

Open Letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay“University of Mosul must NOT be a Vector of Jew-Hatred”

Madam Director-General,

UNESCO’s “Global Programmes for Education” have great impact. In one case,…

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Today is Friday, and another general pro-Palestine strike is taking place across Italy. There was another strike last week with the same purpose. Of course, the situation of the Sumud flotilla is at the center of…

This year, with no children home, my wife and I decided to go to Yerucham for Yom Kippur and pray at the Yeshivat Hesder (combined Torah study and army service) where our son learned and now lives with his wife and two young children. The…

On Yom Kippur morning, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, my husband and I were at different synagogues. I was with our two younger boys, while he was with our eldest at another shul down the road. When he didn’t arrive to meet us as…

When Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus became Chief Adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government, expectations were high that his global reputation would stabilise the country’s fragile politics. Yet recent events in the Chittagong Hill…