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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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Yom Kippur 5785/ 2024

Sticky PostOn October 11, 2024

We gather on Yom Kippur in painful, cruel and uncertain times. I wish each of us individually, and all of us collectively, the strength, compassion, courage, faith and wisdom we need as we strive to follow God’s will according to the teachings of Judaism. We stand before our God and the God of our ancestors. The traumas of October

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Shanah Tovah – may this be a good year

Sticky PostOn September 27, 2024

I received an email: ‘Please suggest an alternative greeting: Happy New Year just doesn’t feel right this time round, especially with the anniversary of 7 October.’ Actually, Shanah Tovah doesn’t mean A Happy Year, but A Good Year. But what does that look like in these cruel times? I have four wishes, hopes, prayers, conditions – I don’t know

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The shofar and silence

Sticky PostOn September 20, 2024

‘Awake you slumberers from your slumber, you sleepers from your sleep’: with these words Maimonides explains the purpose of blowing the shofar each morning during the month of Elul, to herald Yom Terua, the great ‘Day of Blowing’, Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, when everyone who enters the world, and everything that happens in it, comes before God.The mid-point of Elul has now

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