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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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What freedom is

Sticky PostOn April 18, 2025

At the second Seder, the second night of our journey mei’avdut lecheirut, ‘from slavery to freedom,’ I asked the company what freedom means to them. I gave no one any warning, so the responses were immediate and unpremeditated. Here is some of what followed. ‘Being here, that’s freedom:’ That was the first response, and those words have stayed with

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Our Synagogue’s Golden Shabbat

Sticky PostOn April 7, 2025

Tonight and tomorrow our community of the New North London Synagogue,  בית חדש- Bayit Chadash, celebrates its Golden Shabbat.I wasn’t there at the beginning. But I heard many times how Rabbi Dr Jacobs, the inspiration behind this new congregation, stood on a chair and declared, ‘Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.’ What is that

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Sticky PostOn March 14, 2025

Purim Sameach, Happy Purim! We need simchah, joy, in our lives and on Purim it’s a Mitzvah. We share food and drink with friends, (ish lere’ehu) and give generously where there is need (mattanot la’evyonim). Joy is not always easy in our often troubled world, or in our sometimes troubled lives, when our ‘downs’ may feel deeper and last

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