THE WORD KAPO AND THE LOVE FOR ISRAEL There is a word which, whenever I hear one Jew use it against another Jew, makes me very, very upset. That word is kapo. Go on social media and you see how often it happens. Someone takes a political position that somebody else regards as shameful, and is called a kapo. Someone signs a letter criticising Israel, and in the comments is called a kapo. Someone associates with somebody who happens to be particularly unpopular, and immediate

Shabbat Ki Tavo When I first looked at Deuteronomy 27, 9-26, the part of parashah, ki Tavo that we are reading today, I was shocked and dismayed by the repeated dire curses loudly expressed there, and the lurid offences that would occasion such huge condemnation. Well, I thought, it serves me right for presuming to read the parashah – and apologies for my lack of leyning ability – and then, to multiply the chutzpah, to pronounce words of wisdom from this bimah. It is a grea