Slavery is wrong. Full stop. And yet its existence in the Torah - moderated but understood as a fact of life - is problematic. There are...

So many memories... the very first service, Kabbalat Shabbat, I led the service and it was incredibly daunting and exhilarating at the...

Instagram's caption bot had fun with all my Hebrew this week - very grateful for the edit function! What does a beautiful quail egg have...

My name is Margaret, and it is an honour to be invited to be with you this evening. I’m here to share the story of my grandmother, one of...

Ever experienced things hitting rock bottom, and then when you think they can't get any worse, a breakthrough happens and the situation...

I remember the very first Shabbat morning service at Nashira so, so clearly. The weeks leading up to it had been fairly intense and...

Written by Miriam Lorie Tu b’Shvat is coming! In the depths of the British winter it always feels counter-intuitive to celebrate trees...

Much can be said about Pharaoh's heart hardening and being heartened and the implications for free will... but today, I'm interested in...

We are honoured to have been part of the minyan since the very beginning. We come along to that first meeting, where we all sat in a...

Nearer to 90 seconds this week - but here's Miriam's thoughts on this week's parasha Vaera. Until the final plague, most of the 10...

It's a new year of 90 second sermons and a new sefer - the book of Shemot. Fab to be back with the wonderful Rabbi Joe to share a thought...

Listen to our very own, Miriam Arkush Lorie, Rabbi-inTraining's latest Radio 2 Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball here: LISTEN HERE:...

This week’s instagram sermon is on dreams! It's the Parasha of dreams - Pharaoh's two dreams, The butler and baker's dreams are recalled,...

Listen to Miriam's latest Radio 2 - Pause for Thought here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0gxqpwl It might be the darkest week of...

Benedict Roth, an informal Jewish educator based at Kol Rina in London has put together a brilliant resource on the subject of women and...

"It was so special to be in the school where we meet for Shabbat services, and the kids were thrilled to hear about the secret weekend...

In the beginning, we set out a clear vision of what we wanted to achieve: “Our mission is to establish an orthodox service on the...

This week Miriam’s teacher, Reb Tanya Farber, shared the Hasidic idea of the Chanukah dreidel with its stem above and the Purim gregor...

I love when the Jewish library offers a scavenger hunt. A trail of connecting texts across Torah, Tanach and Rabbinic writing which comes...

Saw you at Sinai? Regular readers of this parasha blog will know that I don’t often take up an explicitly feminist theme. Sure, I’m...