“Re-digging the Wells of Isaac: A Journey towards Rehovot”   In Genesis 26 we find one of the most profound episodes of the Torah: the story of Isaac and the wells. After a famine forces Isaac and his household to settle in the region of Gerar, the Torah tells us that Isaac reopens the wells that his father Abraham had originally dug, wells that the Philistines had blocked up after Abraham’s death. Isaac clears them, gives them the same names his father had given them, and th

THE ILLUSION OF SAFETY It is a deeply human instinct to deny or downplay danger. Most of us have done it at some point. Even when confronted with antisemitism, our first reaction is often to reassure ourselves - to question our perception in the hope of convincing ourselves that things aren’t really that bad. It is therefore hardly surprising that as many have noted on social media, even when the majority of our community feel that things are getting worse, there are still vo