Rabbi's Sermon Saturday 3rd February 2024
BEWARE THE TRANSLATION, AND WHY WE PRAY FOR ELIYA COHEN We have a problem with translation here. How often do we say, "Ten Commandments"?...
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Rabbi’s Sermon Saturday 6th January 2024
PHAROAH DID NOT KNOW GOD: PARASHAT SH’MOT A strange dialogue happens toward the end of this week's Torah portion, in Exodus 5. Moses and...
Rabbi’s Sermon Saturday 30th December 2023
ON THE PALESTINIAN JESUS NONSENSE You probably have heard the old joke. Was Jesus Jewish? Of course, he was, his mother believed he was...
Rabbi’s Sermon Saturday 24th December 2023
Rabbi’s Sermon Saturday 24th December 2023 WHEN THE NARRATIVE CHANGES Some weeks ago, a lady artist from Hastings gave me a bunch of...
Jason Lever’s Sermon Saturday 9th December 2023
VAYEISHEV This long Parasha is the story of Joseph – and the family dynamics with his father, Jacob, and brothers – from a precocious...
Rabbi’s Sermon Saturday 2nd December 2023
There is a strange passage at the beginning of this week's reading, Genesis 35:2. "Jacob said to his household: Get rid of the foreign...
Saturday 25th November 2023 - Parashat Vayeitzei.
CHILDREN AND STONES You know, you should learn Hebrew. I will explain why, but for the moment, let us talk about this week's Torah...
16th November 2023 / 27 Cheshvan, 5784, Parashat Chayei Sarah
ON NATIONALISM Every year when Remembrance Sunday approaches, I, a Rabbi, feel extremely uncomfortable. Remembrance Sunday is a day...
25th February 2023 / 4th Adar 5783
GOOD NEWS FROM ISRAEL I have good news. Good news from Israel. But first, let me share a story with you. When Menachem Begin visited the...
18th December 2021 / 14th Tevet 5782
THE POWER OF GRANDPARENTS I want to talk about an important subject with many religious, spiritual, and mystical implications: food. That...
29th January 2022 / 27th Shevat 5782
ABOUT HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY A few days ago, it was Holocaust Memorial Day. In a couple of days, we'll hold our own ceremony in Brighton....
15th January 2022 / 13th Shevat 5782
HOW ODD / FOR GOD I like to introduce myself sometimes as a recovered Marxist. That is because, in my younger years, I have been a...
8th January 2022 / 6th Shevat 5782
AN IMPORTANT BIRTHDAY We celebrate a birthday this weekend: 80 years ago, a group of Rabbis and lay leaders founded the Association of...
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