Over recent years Tribe have been successful in engaging 15-19 year old students with this debate across the United Synagogues. This year JSCN has arranged for this to be made available to small communities across the country. Its easy to run your own event So if you have students in your …
A message for Rosh Hashanah 5776 from Rabbi Sacks “Original” is not a word often used in connection with a code of Jewish law. In general, the rule tends to be that if it’s true it isn’t new, and if it’s new it isn’t true. But “original” is precisely the …
Today, 30th November, we remember the 850,000 Jews who were expelled from Arab countries in the 20th century. In just one event from that time, on 30 November 1947, Jews in the Syrian city of Aleppo peered between the slats of wooden shutters at a horrendous spectacle. The city, which Jews …
“What day is it?” “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh. ― A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh ROSH HASHANA 5775: SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 After hearing the sound of the shofar on Rosh HaShana, we say “Hayom harat olam”, which means, “today the world was conceived”. Rosh HaShana stands in …
The boundary is being blurred between fair criticism and hatred in a thin disguise. by the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis 28 AUGUST 2014 On Sunday a rally will take place in London to demand zero tolerance of antisemitism. Why is this necessary? On March 19 2012, a teacher and three …
[widgets_on_pages] Published in the Independent newspaper Wednesday 18 February 2009 Emotions have run high over recent events in Gaza. And in this impassioned and searching essay, our writer argues that just below the surface runs a vicious strain of ancient prejudice I was once in Melbourne when bush fires were …
[widgets_on_pages] WHAT CAN WE DO WHEN OUR “FRIENDS” TELL US WE ARE CHILD KILLERS? Conflict in the Middle East often brings unprecedented condemnation of Israel in the UK and European media. The subsequent public outpourings of hate on the streets of Manchester, London Paris and Berlin has brought Anti-Semitism out in …
[widgets_on_pages] Antisemitism: the UK adopted definition Great Britain is amongst the first countries to embrace the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) explanation of the term. It aims to make it harder for culprits to get away with harassing and abusing Jews, including over-sweeping condemnation of Israel. “Anti-Semitism is a certain …
In the shadow of the Gaza conflict, some 100 young Muslims and Jews from around the world are meeting in Vienna this week for the fifth Muslim Jewish Conference (MJC,) according to the Austrian website The Local. For the next six days, young Jewish and Muslim adults from 35 countries, …
by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Jewish communities around the world will sit in collective mourning on Tisha b’Av, the day of Jewish tears. So many tears. For the destruction of the First and Second Temples. For the defeat of the Bar Kochba rebellion. For the expulsion of Jews from England …
