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...

When Harris and I watch Netflix, it’s generally in ten minute chunks, snatched here and there amidst busy lives. On the odd occasion...

Hagar Part II - or the Akeidah of Ishmael Last week we looked at Hagar’s first exile in the desert, and this week she’s there again -...

It’s Shabbat shuva - the shabbat of repentance - and our days before Yom Kippur are slipping away. Very resonant therefore, is our...

The scene is a famous one. Yaakov, on his deathbed, asks to bless Efraim and Menashe, the two grandsons he only came to know at the end...

What is one moment which captures a picture of your resilience in the past two years? Have this question in mind as we learn together....

Boiled eggs, free will and the Hogwarts Sorting Hat Like the hard boiled, burnt egg on our seder plate, with each successive plague...

Tzav, which falls this year on Shabbat haGadol, continues the foray into the world of sanctuary rites and rules that characterise...

Tetzaveh - you’ve got your hands full This is the fashionista’s sedra - full of opulent, exquisite details about clothes. The fabrics,...

Nine and a half years ago, when Kehillat Nashira was a new dream, Gaby and I, the minyan’s founding chairpeople, spent much time thinking...

Feeling alone, unprotected, vulnerable, in uncharted territory? Or is that just Yaakov in this week's parasha? Like him, we're more cared...