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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…

 The most daunting question religion must confront is how to explain the existence of evil in the world. This profound challenge, known as theodicy, asks how a benevolent deity could allow—or worse, cause—suffering and…

This shabbat we find ourselves between one holiday and the next! Between Yom Kippur, with all of its images of God as King and forgiving Father, and Sukkot, when we celebrate and sit…

It’s the threshold of a new year, and we read Ha’azinu now, when the echoes of Kol Nidre are still in our ears and the gates of Yom Kippur have only just swung shut.

We read it in a time of war, when the world feels unsteady, and grief…

When a protest breaks out in front of 10 Downing Street or on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in the immediate aftermath of a terror attack, it’s not just political theatre, it’s a provocation. When those responsible then cry…

It becomes clear fairly quickly that we don’t know Black history in America. But just as striking, we also don’t know African history — and for the same reason. For centuries, both were deliberately distorted or erased to serve the…

This article has been written in the small hours of the morning of Friday 3 October 2025.  It represents my views as to the murder yesterday of two Jews here in Manchester.  I make no apology for its length, though do ask for some…

Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi: A Danger Beyond the Islamic Republic
A Critique of Israel Hayom’s Naïveté

Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi is no defender of Iran’s Sunnis, no voice of conscience, and certainly no friend of freedom. He is a…