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For Refugee Week: God sees the tears of the oppressed

Sticky PostOn June 23, 2023

While Nicky’s not been well, I’ve slept in our spare room, where we’ve often hosted guests through the excellent organisation Refugees at Home. This is Refugee Week, and Tuesday was World Refugee Day. I found a small note in that spare room last night. It was post-it size, stuck to the bedside bookshelf so that you could only see

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Seeking inner strength in cruel times

Sticky PostOn May 17, 2024

Yesterday someone asked me the million-dollar question, ‘How do you find strength in times of personal and collective suffering?’ Only, ‘a million dollars’ is not enough: this is a matter beyond all price, at the very core of life. I had no chance to ask, ‘Why are you asking?’ no opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of what pain

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For Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, in a terrible year

Sticky PostOn May 10, 2024

I face next week with pain, fear, dismay and anger, yet with prayer, hope and love. Monday brings Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for the Dead. Tuesday is Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. If only things were simpler; everything tears at the heart. There’s pain. ‘It’s over twenty years since my son Noam was killed in Lebanon,’ my friend

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Seeing the Light

Sticky PostOn May 3, 2024

I write – somewhat in haste so as not to miss my train – from Frankfurt-am-Main, the city with which my grandfather, Dr Salzberger, fell in love when he came in 1910 to be interviewed for the post of rabbi. (It’s a relief to be in a town where the Israeli flag hangs among others from the city hall

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