Rabbi Elliott Karstadt

Date Title
11 November 2024 The Risks of Artificial Intelligence
27 October 2024 The Power of Sleep
17 October 2024 The Symbolism of the Lulav and Etrog (Sukkot 5785)
13 October 2024 Are you right to be angry? – Yom Kippur 5785
3 October 2024 Weeping and Laughing: Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785
22 September 2024 Ma Tovu – How Good are Your Tents?
25 June 2024 Boring Leadership, Moses’ Humility and the ‘Action Fallacy’
25 May 2024 The Jewish Obligation to Vote
28 April 2024 Fear of God – why it is important, but also why it is not what you might think it is
26 April 2024 The Matzah in the Middle
15 April 2024 Politicians and Pesach
24 March 2024 Celebrating Purim this Year
8 March 2024 The Rabbis and the Future of Work
11 February 2024 ‘Our king’ or ‘our protector’: a pre-Hashkiveinu Reflection
4 February 2024 The Traitors and Fiction for the Sake of Peace
21 January 2024 The Negotiations of Leaving Egypt: The Nuanced Version
14 January 2024 Reaching Beyond Empathy
7 January 2024 2024: A Year of Elections
24 December 2023 The Justice/Peace Paradox
15 December 2023 Joseph, ‘The Explainer of Hidden Things’
3 December 2023 God in Disguise
4 November 2023 A Religious Response to Events in Israel and Gaza
17 September 2023 Legality vs. Morality (Rosh Hashanah 5784)
27 August 2023 ‘The king is in the field’
30 July 2023 State-Sanctioned Murder
9 July 2023 Assisted Dying
22 May 2023 War Games
17 April 2023 We are Uzzah
19 March 2023 If Not Now, When?
13 March 2023 Scapegoats and the Erev Rav
19 February 2023 The Power of Words to do Harm
30 January 2023 These are the Generations of Adam
3 January 2023 Writing God into our lives
23 October 2022 Reading Anew
11 October 2022 What is the Point of Sukkot?
6 October 2022 Repenting as a Community
1 October 2022 #sorrynotsorry
25 September 2022 Nitzavim and Extending the Franchise
12 September 2022 Change and Survival
30 August 2022 The Meanings of Elul
24 July 2022 The Beginning of the Three Weeks
18 July 2022 Bad Zealotry, Good Zealotry
3 July 2022 The Power of Conversation (even if it is only with a rock)
6 June 2022 In praise of the schleppers
22 May 2022 Turning Curses into Blessings
20 May 2022 Serving God with Joy
9 May 2022 Rabban Gamliel mourns for his slave
19 April 2022 What is Freedom? (Pesach 5782)
14 March 2022 A Meaning of Purim
26 February 2022 Standing at the Bridge
30 January 2022 If the Exodus had never happened …
1 January 2022 New Year Resolutions
18 December 2021 ‘A Threefold Cord is Hard to Break’
9 October 2021 Humanity’s Limitations
27 September 2021 Sermon: Chol HaMoed Sukkot
18 September 2021 Sermon – Yom Kippur Morning
19 July 2021 Sermon: Devarim
29 June 2021 Sermon: Balak
10 May 2021 Semon: Shabbat Behar 2021
26 April 2021 Sermon: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
8 February 2021 Sermon: Yitro
8 November 2020 Sermon: Shabbat Vayeira
19 October 2020 Sermon: Bereshit (Cain and Abel and the failure of speech)
25 September 2020 What does it mean to ‘choose life’ if, at the same time, our fate is in the hands of God? – Sermon for Rosh Hashanah
30 August 2020 Sermon: Ki Tetzei