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Siam Goorwich

Going to shul is the best present you can give yourself

Like the gym, you will always feel better after going to shul, and the more you go, the easier it gets

By Siam Goorwich

3 min read

Going to shul is the best present you can give yourself

Jim, from Friday Night Dinner

Simon Rocker

By Simon Rocker

‘Shalom’? Or ‘Happy Jew Day’?

3 min read

Sometimes the dead bring the living together

Keren David

Sometimes the dead bring the living together

3 min read

Bust of Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) (Getty Images)

Rabbi Joseph Dweck

By Rabbi Joseph Dweck

What does the ‘special relationship’ mean for us?

3 min read

A new mural depicting Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis, created by Manchester street artist Pic.One.Art., on the side of the Sifters Record store in Manchester, after the band announced they are due to reunite (Getty Images)

Elisa Bray

The Talmud is very clear on Oasis ticket pricing

3 min read

Customs are changing at Jewish lifecycle events (Photo: Getty Images)

Rabbi Jonathan Romain

By Rabbi Jonathan Romain

The times they are a-changin’ – except on Kol Nidre

2 min read

Pro-Palestinian camp on the campus of School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Rabbi Benjy Morgan

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

Jewish students are reaffirming their identity

2 min read

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We must come out as Jewish every day and not be scared to show our pride

By embracing our identity with confidence, we honour the memory of those who came before us and lay a solid foundation for those who will come after us

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BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 25: Participants wearing a kippah during a "wear a kippah" gathering to protest against anti-Semitism in front of the Jewish Community House on April 25, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The Jewish community made a public appeal for Jews and non-Jews to attend the event and wear a kippah as a show of solidarity. The effort was sparked by a recent incident in Berlin in which a Syrian Palestinian man berated and struck with his belt a man wearing a kippah. The kippah-wearer was not Jewish, but an Israeli Arab who wore the kippah curious what reaction he might receive while walking in Berlin. In 2017 Germany reportedly recorded 1453 criminal offenses related to anti-Semitism, of which 94 percent were attributed to German citizens. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

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By Simon Rocker

Carry on Shabbat: The normalisation of the eruv

Even those once implacably opposed to the idea now argue they don’t go far enough

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Carry on Shabbat: The normalisation of the eruv

David Baddiel

By David Baddiel

My family story is strange but it does seem to resonate with Jews

Very few Jews grow up in what might be called a homogenously Jewish household

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July 17, 2024 07:39

David Baddiel with his mother, Sarah

Elisa Bray

I’m one of those Jews Felicity Kendal thinks is wrong

The thought of being visibly Jewish in public today does worry me – and I am not alone

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July 17, 2024 07:34

Felicity Kendal (SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News)

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By Vicki Belovski

Men and women dancing separately is a blessing

No one needs to worry if they have a partner or if they will end up being a wallflower

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Daniel Finkelstein

By Daniel Finkelstein

Despite it all, modern Britain remains one of the best places for Jews to live in history

As my mum put it: ‘Don’t only see the holes in the Emmental’

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May 16, 2024 10:28

Pro-Palestinian supporters shout slogans and wave Palestinian flags during a demonstration in central London on January 6, 2024, calling for a ceasefire now in the war in Gaza. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Torah teaches us to move from darkness to light

In times of bleakness, we must look after ourselves, without feeling guilty for doing so

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May 8, 2024 09:59

Statue of Maimonides in Cordoba

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