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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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For Eco Shabbat: between shame and compassion

Sticky PostOn December 1, 2023

This is Eco Shabbat, timed to coincide with COP 28. I don’t love the name ‘Eco’, apt as it is. I’d rather describe the day in spiritual terms: the Shabbat dedicated to reverence before the beauty of creation, the subtle and wondrous interconnectedness of all life; the Shabbat in which we determine to honour and protect it.     Yet

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Crossing the silence: the healing power of listening

Sticky PostOn November 24, 2023

‘We came today to tell, to listen, to remember,’ said David Grossman at the mourning gathering of the Kibbutz movement. He knows what it’s like to lose a child. I believe in the power of listening. It’s limited; it takes away from life’s sorrows nothing except the loneliness, the fear, the frustration that no one hears or cares. But

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Trying to be human at an inhuman time

Sticky PostOn November 17, 2023

Last week I accompanied a friend to the Knesset to mark the sheloshim, thirty days since the terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas. We joined a thousand people, families of the hostages and the murdered among them, gathered in the raw solidarity of trauma, pain and anger. As we walked through the deserted artist’s quarter of Mishkenot Sha’ananim towards Israel’s

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