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JFS We will find the legislative remedy to this verdict - Jewish Chronicle 18 December 2009

While disappointed that the Supreme Court, by the slimmest of majorities, was unable to find in favour of JFS, as a community we should be heartened by the fact that the court recognised the religious integrity of the school, the United...

Yom Kippur
Letters to the Next Generation

Covenant & Conversation
Yitro 5770

The sedra of Yitro, which contains the account of the greatest Divine revelation in history, at Mount Sinai, begins on a note that is human, all too human. Yitro, priest of Midian, has come to see how his son-in-law Moses and the people he leads...

Chief Rabbi receives award from National Jewish Book Council

Chief Rabbi wins the Dorot Foundation Award in memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson in Modern Jewish Thought & Experience for Covenant & Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis: The Beginnings

Thought for the Day
Faith in God after the Holocaust may be hard; but faith in humanity is harder still

Today is National Holocaust Memorial Day, and this year the focus will be on one small group of people in the Warsaw ghetto and the astonishing task they took on themselves for the sake of future generations. The Warsaw ghetto into which...

Credo
Better is a world built on love, not Darwinian struggle

The word “credo”, in Hebrew ani ma’amin, means “I believe”, and it sometimes helps to spell out what we believe, why we do what we do, and why we are what we are. This, briefly, is my credo. I believe that life has a...

Articles - General
The Times - The Pope is right about the threat to freedom

There are times when human rights become human wrongs. This happens when rights become more than a defence of human dignity, which is their proper sphere, and become instead a political ideology, relentlessly trampling down everything...

Books
Covenant & Conversation

Covenant & Conversation, A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis: The Book of Beginnings Koren Publishers Jerusalem, 1 September...