Rabbi Hannah Kingston

Date Title
3 October 2024 Weeping and Laughing: Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785
30 July 2024 Sermon: Sh’lach l’cha – Tallit and the Patriarchy
30 July 2024 Sermon: Pinchas – The difference between Keva and Kavannah
30 July 2024 Sermon: Parashat B’Midbar – The value of volunteering
5 June 2023 Sermon: B’ha’alotcha – Food and Love
9 April 2023 Sermon – Parashat Vayakhel P’kudei: Can happiness be instructed?
9 April 2023 Sermon – Parashat Yitro: What does it mean to be chosen?
14 November 2022 Sermon – Eco Shabbat: May we not be destroyed by Fire and Brimstone
7 October 2022 Sermon – Yizkor – Weeping Together
19 September 2022 Sermon – A Eulogy, or a Hesped?
29 August 2022 Sermon – Exclusivism in the name of religion
28 July 2022 Sermon – Mattot: A woman’s right to choose
18 July 2022 D’var Torah – A Reform Kashrut
16 May 2022 Sermon – Finding comfort when our fields lie fallow
24 April 2022 D’var Torah – Earth Day and the Omer
4 April 2022 Sermon – Shabbat HaChodesh – the gift of time
30 December 2021 D’var Torah: Optimism and Hope
30 December 2021 Sermon: Eco Shabbat 5782, The Power of the Environment
30 December 2021 Sermon: Vayigash, Revealing our True Selves
30 September 2021 Sermon – A personal theology for Shabbat Ha’azinu
30 September 2021 Sermon – Erev Rosh Hashanah, walking our own path through the garden
17 August 2021 Sermon: Parashat Shoftim – Fear and Mental Health
22 July 2021 D’var Torah: Self Isolation
16 July 2021 Sermon: Masei – Cities of Refuge
27 May 2021 Sermon: Naso – A Blessing for Peace
12 April 2021 Sermon: Shemini – The life is in the blood
12 April 2021 D’var Torah: Reform Judaism and Israel
23 February 2021 Sermon – Shabbat Zachor: Asking what we did to Amalek
25 January 2021 Sermon: Bo (Finding Light in the Plague of Darkness)
5 January 2021 Sermon – Vayishlach (Power of Touch)
27 October 2020 Sermon: Noah (The Tower of Babel and the value of Human Life)
30 September 2020 Sermon: Kol Nidre – Coating our broken hearts with gold
27 June 2020 D’var Torah – Reopening Thoughtfully and Safely
20 June 2020 D’var Torah – Standing Between One Another and the Plague
18 June 2020 Sermon: Shelach Lecha – Privilege and Unconscious Bias
5 June 2020 Sermon: Naso – Hair and Identity
9 May 2020 D’var Torah: Parashat Emor – Each opinion for the sake of Heaven
4 May 2020 D’var Torah – Embracing our imperfections in lockdown
30 March 2020 Sermon: Vayikra – The sacrifices that bring us closer together
23 March 2020 Vayakhel Pekudei: Being a community in challenging times
12 March 2020 D’var Torah: Reclaiming Her-story
5 March 2020 Sermon: Parashat Terumah – Building our own Disneyland
4 February 2020 Winnie the Pooh, and Mental Health too
30 January 2020 Reflections for Holocaust Memorial Day
21 January 2020 How to step back from leadership
6 January 2020 Can people really change?
12 December 2019 Vote with Chesed
19 November 2019 Why the Sodomites would not have taken part in Mitzvah Day
12 November 2019 Parashat Lech Lecha – Finding a sense of Heimat as we are forced to wander
10 October 2019 Living with grief
3 October 2019 Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon- ‘The Butterfly Effect’
20 August 2019 D’var Torah from Shabbat Nachamu
23 July 2019 Making the choice of whose blood is redder
15 July 2019 Blessings, curses and the power of words
17 May 2019 D’var Torah – Being difficult just because we can be
30 April 2019 Acharei Mot – The Goat that tells the story of Climate Change
24 March 2019 D’var Torah – a three part teaching, Pirkei Avot 1:6
19 March 2019 ‘The whole world is sustained only on account of the breath of children learning’ by Rabbi Hannah Kingston and Chloe Kimmel
24 December 2018 Sermon: Vay’chi – Kosher Christmas
24 December 2018 Sermon: Vayetze – The stories in the stones
20 September 2018 Sermon: Kol Nidre 2018 – A community of diversity
30 July 2018 Sermon: Shabbat Vaetchanan – Does one God mean one Nation State?
25 July 2018 Sermon: Shabbat Chazon – Heroes and Villains in the Disney Generation
11 June 2018 Dvar Torah – The right community for a ‘Hannah-shaped’ Rabbi
4 June 2018 Dvar Torah – Difficult conversations
3 May 2018 The power of touch
14 March 2018 Sermon: Shabbat Vayakhel Pekudei – Beautiful on the Inside and Out
9 December 2017 Human Rights Shabbat – Joseph, Modern Day Slavery and the House Elf
12 November 2017 Sermon: Chayyei Sara #MeToo – Speaking out against the silence
7 November 2017 Sermon: Shabbat Vayeira – Sarah and Isaac, Helicopter Parenting and the Snowflake Generation
31 October 2017 Sermon: Shabbat Lech Lecha – Each of us has a name
5 October 2017 Sermon: Yom Kippur 5778, Neilah – Take a knee, being together as a community
28 September 2017 Sermon: Erev Rosh Hashanah 5778 – The Robot Priest
12 September 2017 Shabbat Sermon: Ki Tavo – Confessions of a Wild Child