28 October 2023 |
Sermon: Time for a Leap of Action |
24 September 2023 |
Sermon: Kol Nidre 5784 – It is time to stand up for our liberal, tolerant tradition |
15 September 2023 |
Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon: Being the leaders of Jewish life |
9 September 2023 |
Kollot Haftarah Introduction: The power of being the majority |
1 September 2023 |
D’var Torah: Because you did not serve with joy |
28 July 2023 |
D’var Torah: Talk of Sinat Chinam is not enough |
22 July 2023 |
Sermon: On Kamza and Bar Kamza |
21 July 2023 |
D’var Torah: Shall we weep in the fifth month? |
17 July 2023 |
D’var Torah at the GMC: On what God wants of us in this transition |
26 May 2023 |
Sermon: How the founders of Alyth built a Progressive Synagogue |
22 April 2023 |
Sermon: Introduction to Megillat HaAtzma’ut as Haftarah |
11 March 2023 |
Sermon: Remembering the Trauma of the Pandemic |
3 March 2023 |
D’var Torah: Responding to this Moment in Israel |
18 February 2023 |
Sermon: The White Rose and the Ethic of Non-Indifference |
10 February 2023 |
D’var Torah: On Non-Gendered Language for God |
14 January 2023 |
Kollot Haftarah Introduction: on meritocracy and inequality. |
3 December 2022 |
Sermon: That Jacob didn’t know it was Leah – and what this tells us about gender in Judaism and our world |
11 November 2022 |
D’var Torah: The Nit-comb of Lachish and Us |
22 October 2022 |
Sermon: Shabbat B’reishit – taking responsibility when things go wrong |
7 October 2022 |
D’var Torah: On Synagogue Membership for Non-Jews |
4 October 2022 |
Sermon: Kol Nidre 5783 – on meeting and speaking with each other |
1 October 2022 |
Sermon: Shabbat Vayeilech – On Failing |
3 September 2022 |
Sermon: Shabbat Shoftim – Leading with Torah by your side |
24 June 2022 |
D’var Torah – Reasons to be cheerful |
11 June 2022 |
Kollot Haftarah Introduction: It’s not about me |
10 June 2022 |
Dvar Torah: Encountering the cloud and fire in the everyday |
13 May 2022 |
D’var Torah: On wronging with words |
7 May 2022 |
Sermon: Jewish Originalism or Living Judaism |
19 March 2022 |
Kollot Haftarah Introduction: When religious priorities go wrong |
18 March 2022 |
Dvar Torah: Hakarat HaTov and Bar/Bat Mitzvah |
11 February 2022 |
D’var Torah: On ‘Neighbours’ |
5 February 2022 |
Sermon: The Cherubim – a Symbol of Relationship |
7 January 2022 |
D’var Torah: Freedom and Responsibility |
25 December 2021 |
Sermon: Shiphrah and Puah – Models of Protest |
4 December 2021 |
Sermon: Being a good ancestor |
26 November 2021 |
D’var Torah: What Peppa Pig can teach us about how we speak |
14 November 2021 |
Sermon: Eizehu Gibbor – who is strong? |
22 October 2021 |
Dvar Torah: Praying for protection – on the sale of the Markaz |
21 September 2021 |
Sermon for Sukkot 5782: Be more joyful |
16 September 2021 |
Sermon for Yom Kippur 5782: Be more Kind |
27 August 2021 |
D’var Torah: Choosing to appreciate what we have |
9 July 2021 |
When I am [only] for myself, what am I |
25 June 2021 |
D’var Torah: Finding peace in our own tents |
19 June 2021 |
Sermon: On Statues – Tearing down the Copper Serpent |
5 June 2021 |
The Fox that wandered into the shul |
1 May 2021 |
Sermon: On Hashkafah and Reform Judaism |
23 April 2021 |
Dvar Torah: Oseh Shalom and our spheres of responsibility |
3 April 2021 |
Sermon: Also a multitude travels with us |
19 March 2021 |
Reflections on a year of online services |
13 March 2021 |
Kollot Haftarah Introduction: Being worthy of redemption |
27 February 2021 |
Sermon: Buildings and the Complexity of Congregational Life |
19 February 2021 |
Dvar Torah: On Patience |
12 February 2021 |
D’var Torah: Whoever is able to protest and does not do so… |
30 January 2021 |
Sermon: On manna and miracles |
22 January 2021 |
D’var Torah: Ba’erev yalin bechi v’la-boker rinnah… |
12 December 2020 |
Sermon: Lessons from the Maccabees for 2021 |
4 December 2020 |
D’var Torah: On Vaccination |
21 November 2020 |
Sermon: The challenge of ‘them and us’ |
6 November 2020 |
D’var Torah – To raise the voice and weep |
30 October 2020 |
D’var Torah – Walk before Me and be perfect |
23 October 2020 |
D’var Torah – What we can learn from Dor HaPlagah |
28 September 2020 |
Sermon for Yom Kippur Morning: On Areivut, Individualism and the Community |
18 September 2020 |
Sermon for Erev Rosh Hashanah: On Kavanah |
28 August 2020 |
D’var Torah: Service of the Heart |
1 August 2020 |
Sermon: Rest |
31 July 2020 |
D’var Torah: Shabbat Nachamu – Finding comfort in a new way of thiinking |
24 July 2020 |
D’var Torah: Shabbat Chazon – Vision and Balance |
11 July 2020 |
Sermon: B’not Zelophehad and Real Change |
4 July 2020 |
Sermon: Ma Tzidkoteinu – what is our Justice? |
3 July 2020 |
D’var Torah: Naming our sense of loss |
19 June 2020 |
D’var Torah: Areivut and Covid 19 |
12 June 2020 |
D’var Torah: Story and Statues |
5 June 2020 |
A thought on volunteering |
5 June 2020 |
D’var Torah: The book that Donald Trump held up… |
16 May 2020 |
Sermon: Reading Torah in a time of Coronavirus |
15 May 2020 |
Responding to Coronavirus: The Next Phase |
8 May 2020 |
D’var Torah: Redemption from Egypt and VE Day |
28 April 2020 |
Responding to Coronavirus: Thank you |
18 April 2020 |
Sermon: Mourning in a time of Coronavirus |
17 April 2020 |
D’var Torah: Yom HaShoah then and now |
4 April 2020 |
Sermon: Pesach in a time of Social Distancing |
3 April 2020 |
Responding to Coronavirus: Holding on to our communal values in these challenging times |
27 March 2020 |
Responding to Coronavirus: On Hakarat HaTov and not taking the everyday for granted |
14 March 2020 |
Sermon: On Washing our Hands |
13 March 2020 |
Dvar Torah: From Eyam 1666 to Temple Fortune in 2020 |
21 February 2020 |
D’var Torah: Shovavim |
15 February 2020 |
Sermon: What rabbinic texts about reptiles can teach us about strength in leadership |
25 January 2020 |
Sermon: ‘They are Believers’ – Having confidence in ourselves and those who follow |
11 January 2020 |
Sermon: Breaking the Cycle |
3 January 2020 |
D’var Torah: She’lo yitpacheid klal – facing the fears of a New Year |
14 December 2019 |
Sermon: Looking beyond ourselves |
13 December 2019 |
D’var Torah: Philadelphia 1869 |
30 November 2019 |
Sermon: Why we say ‘L’shalom’ not ‘B’shalom’ |
2 November 2019 |
Sermon: Why I will not be telling you how to vote |
26 October 2019 |
Kollot Haftarah D’var Torah: Three Rules for Reading in 5780 |
25 October 2019 |
D’var Torah: Male and Female God created them |
18 October 2019 |
D’var Torah: On the 10th anniversary of The Big Bang |
9 October 2019 |
Sermon: Yom Kippur 5780 – Lessons from the Fall of Jerusalem |
27 September 2019 |
D’var Torah: Trembling and Rejoicing |
14 September 2019 |
Kollot Haftarah Introduction: Uprooting Torah for the Sake of Heaven |
31 August 2019 |
Sermon: The danger of ‘Blessing and Curse’ |
30 August 2019 |
D’var Torah: Why Ben Stokes wasn’t out and what we can learn from it |
3 August 2019 |
Sermon: Tisha B’Av and our Responsibility |
27 July 2019 |
Sermon: On celebrating both Bar and Bat Mitzvah at 13 |
26 July 2019 |
D’var Torah: Magen avot bidvaro – the power of words |
19 July 2019 |
D’var Torah: On the anniversary of the Moon Landing |
29 June 2019 |
Kollot Haftarah Dvar Torah: “All the community are holy” – What Korach gets wrong |
1 June 2019 |
Sermon: Ba-midbar – what we might learn in the wilderness |
18 May 2019 |
Sermon: For the sake of the ways of peace |
17 May 2019 |
D’var Torah – Being difficult just because we can be |
20 April 2019 |
Sermon for Pesach Morning – on Jewish Freedom |
4 April 2019 |
D’var Torah: High School Musical and Zusya’s Question |
23 March 2019 |
Sermon: Our rabbinic values |
22 March 2019 |
D’var Torah – a three part teaching, Pirkei Avot 1:6 |
16 March 2019 |
Sermon: The Habits of Mind for Leadership |
9 February 2019 |
Sermon – When Shammai and Hillel disagreed |
2 February 2019 |
D’var Torah – Why is there a complete legal code in the middle of the revelation narrative? |
1 February 2019 |
D’var Torah – Snow on Erev Shabbat |
25 January 2019 |
Dvar Torah: Most non-Jews are Jethro not Amalek |
19 January 2019 |
Sermon: Being a descendant of the 20% |
5 January 2019 |
Sermon: Between Right and Right |
4 January 2019 |
Dvar Torah: Not Knowing the Future |
14 December 2018 |
Dvar Torah: Counting our Days |
8 December 2018 |
Sermon: The choice of the Modern Jew |
1 December 2018 |
Sermon: Joseph and the Power of Words |
22 September 2018 |
Kollot Haftarah Dvar Torah: On Death |
19 September 2018 |
Sermon, Yom Kippur 5779: Tafalnu Sheker |
15 September 2018 |
Sermon: Reform Judaism and LGBT+ Jews |
8 September 2018 |
Kollot Haftarah Dvar Torah: What the Oven of Akhnai really teaches us |
23 June 2018 |
Sermon: Us and the World (Cup) |
26 May 2018 |
On the Kollot Haftarah: Priests, Rabbis and Us |
21 April 2018 |
Sermon: The Spirit of Cricket (and Judaism!) |
13 April 2018 |
Sermon: Shabbat Atzmaut 2018 – from Jerusalem to Highcroft Gardens |
6 April 2018 |
Sermon: On Jewdas and Jewish Diversity |
17 March 2018 |
Sermon – The special and the regular |
24 February 2018 |
Sermon: What Amalek did on the road (and how it is still happening) |
23 February 2018 |
Dvar Torah – Just as we are |
3 February 2018 |
Sermon: The First of the “Ten Commandments” and Israel’s treatment of African Refugees |
13 January 2018 |
Sermon: Insects or Wild Beasts? What not knowing can teach us about Judaism and life. |
6 January 2018 |
Sermon – We can be heroes (like Moses) |
5 January 2018 |
Dvar Torah – On the 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein |
16 December 2017 |
Sermon: Shabbat Chanukah – Finding the Women in our Story |
21 October 2017 |
Sermon: The Tower of Babel and Responding to Difference |
14 October 2017 |
Sermon: HaShomer achi anochi – Am I my brother’s keeper? |
13 October 2017 |
Dvar Torah – Making the last few weeks count |
7 October 2017 |
Sermon: Weeping and laughing, dancing and crying. |
5 October 2017 |
Dvar Torah – Sukkot 2017, Different blessings, together |
21 September 2017 |
Sermon: Rosh Hashanah 5778 – The Jewish decision each of us has to make |
15 July 2017 |
Sermon: On the word “authentic” in the Jewish conversation |
14 July 2017 |
D’var Torah: On leadership and the individual |
23 June 2017 |
Dvar Torah: On the 1st Anniversary of the Brexit Vote (Shabbat Korach 2017) |
10 June 2017 |
Sermon: Living with Uncertainty |
31 May 2017 |
Shavuot Sermon: On Yizkor |
27 May 2017 |
Sermon: The Great Asymmetry (or, “A single sinner destroys much good”) |
6 May 2017 |
Sermon: On three, for a triple Bar Mitzvah |
22 April 2017 |
Sermon: From Temple Protocol to a Story about Us |
17 April 2017 |
Sermon for 7th Day Pesach – Ein od mi’lvado |
1 April 2017 |
Sermon: Making Sense of Matzah |
11 March 2017 |
Sermon: On Majority Rule, de Tocqueville and the High Priest |
25 February 2017 |
Sermon: On Joy |
18 February 2017 |
On revelation – Kollot, Parashat Yitro |
26 November 2016 |
On the Kollot Haftarah: What defines us as Jews? |
25 November 2016 |
D’var Torah: To be like Nachum ish gam zu. Or not. |
9 November 2016 |
Thought of the Week: On The American Election |
11 October 2016 |
Kol Nidre 5777: Speaking to those with whom we disagree |
4 October 2016 |
D’var Torah for Second Day Rosh Hashanah: Making Sense of Awe |
24 September 2016 |
On the Kollot Haftarah: Can a convert say ‘our ancestors’, and why it really matters |
23 September 2016 |
Dvar Torah: Why is Vidui Ma’aser called a Vidui |
20 August 2016 |
Sermon: The Olympics and how we speak to one another |
16 July 2016 |
Sermon: Eizehu Chacham? On wisdom and leadership |
2 July 2016 |
D’var Torah: On Korach and the Nature of Leadership |
1 July 2016 |
D’var Torah: On the Anniversary of the Somme |
25 June 2016 |
Sermon: The Generation of the Wilderness – After the Referendum |
4 June 2016 |
Sermon: Jacob of Kefar Neburya, Rabbi Chaggai, and the need for change |
24 May 2016 |
Thought for the Week: The Innovation of Lag B’Omer |
20 May 2016 |
Thoughts on the Liturgy: Psalm 92 |
7 May 2016 |
Sermon: Anti-Semitism and the new Mayor of London |
30 April 2016 |
Sermon: On Organ Donation |
27 March 2016 |
Thought of the Week: Resisting the emotions of Psalm 94 |
5 March 2016 |
Sermon – Israel and its Judaisms |
24 February 2016 |
Thought for the Week: Arguing for the Sake of Heaven |
12 February 2016 |
Dvar Torah: On Dolphin Skins |
6 February 2016 |
Sermon: Euthyphro’s Dilemma and us |
5 February 2016 |
Thoughts on the liturgy: Shema U’Virchotecha |
26 January 2016 |
Thought for the week: Judaism and Technological Change |
16 January 2016 |
Sermon: On Hunger |
15 January 2016 |
Dvar Torah: On Bowie |
12 December 2015 |
Intro to John Ringer |
25 November 2015 |
Thought for the Week: Studying together |
14 November 2015 |
D’var Torah: Jacob and Esau after Paris |
24 October 2015 |
Sermon: To Keep or to Remember: Which Shabbat, UK? |
14 October 2015 |
Thought for the Week: Do we believe in Decline or Progress? |
10 October 2015 |
Sermon: Choosing our Creation story |
24 September 2015 |
Sermon: Yom Kippur 5776 – The True Torah Judaism is Reform Judaism |
8 September 2015 |
Thought for the Week: My father was a Wandering Aramean too |
31 July 2015 |
Dvar Torah: The Real Meaning of Tisha B’Av |
29 July 2015 |
Thought of the Week: welcoming those with one Jewish parent |
25 July 2015 |
Sermon: Our stories and what they say about us |
18 July 2015 |
Sermon: Being radical. Like the Rabbis |
27 June 2015 |
Sermon – On the Aleinu, and our relationships with other faiths |
25 June 2015 |
Thought of the Week: On Numbers 21 and the Origins of Torah |
30 May 2015 |
Sermon: On the Belzer Women Driving Ban |
29 May 2015 |
Dvar Torah: On FIFA |
14 May 2015 |
Thought for the Week: VE Day Service of Thanksgiving |
10 April 2015 |
Dvar Torah: Go back to earth; do something with your life; help people. |
10 April 2015 |
Dvar Torah (7th Day Pesach): Mi Chamocha and Holding Different Voices |
15 March 2015 |
Thoughts on Liturgy: Mashiv HaRuach u’Morid ha-Gashem |
7 March 2015 |
Sermon: Second set of tablets Kind of Jews |
28 February 2015 |
Dvar Torah – Amalek and who we can be (Kollot) |
21 February 2015 |
Sermon: The Mishkan – Not so weird after all |
20 February 2015 |
Dvar Torah: What buildings can tell us |
25 October 2014 |
Dvar Torah: What the builders of the tower did wrong |
24 October 2014 |
Thoughts on Liturgy: Hashkiveinu |
11 October 2014 |
Sermon: Sukkot and the Suspension of English reserve (or, why shaking a lulav is good for you) |
4 October 2014 |
Sermon: Yom Kippur 5775: In Defence of Prayer |
26 September 2014 |
Sermonette: Why Genesis 21 and 22 |
19 September 2014 |
JC Sidra Column: Nitzavim-Vayelech |
23 August 2014 |
Sermon: Don’t add, don’t subtract; do interpret |
15 August 2014 |
JC Sidra Column: Ekev |
2 August 2014 |
Sermon: On Hope |
11 July 2014 |
JC Sidra Column: Pinchas |
5 July 2014 |
Sermon: We, too, are blessed |
6 June 2014 |
JC Sidra Column: B’ha’alotcha |
31 May 2014 |
Sermon: On the Nazirite and Religious Power |
30 May 2014 |
Dvar Torah: Approaching Shavuot |
30 May 2014 |
Article: Why I only eat Kosher meat |
2 May 2014 |
JC Sidra Column: Emor |
15 April 2014 |
Sermon: On musaf and dew |
29 March 2014 |
Sermon: On books and book bans |
28 March 2014 |
JC Sidra Column: Tazria |
2 March 2014 |
Dvar Torah: Welcoming our new Team |
21 February 2014 |
JC Sidra Column: Vayakhel |
25 January 2014 |
Sermon: The authentic voice of religion |
24 January 2014 |
Article: The Legacy of Ariel Sharon |
17 January 2014 |
JC Sidra Column: Yitro |
10 January 2014 |
Article: Desert Island Texts |
4 January 2014 |
Sermon: On Jewish Study (and miracles) |
13 December 2013 |
JC Sidra Column: Vayechi |
7 December 2013 |
Sermon: On reading Torah and why it is great |
23 November 2013 |
Sermon: The real scandal of Qatar 2022 |
15 November 2013 |
Thoughts on Liturgy: Ahavat Olam |
8 November 2013 |
JC Sidra Column: Vayetze |
8 November 2013 |
Sermon: On Energy Prices and Ethical Business |
25 October 2013 |
Dvar Torah: Orthodoxy must join the conversation (response to Orthodox rabbis writing in the JC) |
5 October 2013 |
Sermon: on diversity and innovation in worship |
4 October 2013 |
JC Sidra Column: Noach |
28 September 2013 |
Dvar Torah: Rabbinic Literature as our Haftarah (Kollot) |
13 September 2013 |
Sermon: It is to do with us, Kol Nidre 5774 |
6 September 2013 |
Sermonette: From Textual Oddity to Principle of Divine Judgement |
3 August 2013 |
Sermon: On Stolpersteine and Jewish Europe |
24 May 2013 |
Dvar Torah: Ein Mukdam |
4 May 2013 |
Sermon: On Reward and Punishment |
20 April 2013 |
Sermon: On the Omer |
6 April 2013 |
Sermon: The Great Jewish Class Survey |
23 February 2013 |
Dvar Torah: On Amalek and how we read Torah |
16 February 2013 |
Sermon: The Atheist Church |
11 January 2013 |
Dvar Torah: On The Name |
5 January 2013 |
Sermon: On Progressive and non-Progressive Judaism |
21 December 2012 |
Dvar Torah: The world didn’t end after all |
15 December 2012 |
Sermon: Being part of a People |
2 December 2012 |
D’var Torah: Jacob, Esau and Reconciliation |
22 November 2012 |
Thought for the Week: Jacob’s Ladder and Conversion |
10 November 2012 |
Sermon: What if none of it really happened? |
13 October 2012 |
Sermon: Creation but not Creationism |
26 September 2012 |
Sermon: Yom Kippur 5773- Ashreinu – are we happy? |
3 August 2012 |
Sermon- On Intermarriage |
6 July 2012 |
Sermon – On Luxury, Libor and Jewish Living |
29 June 2012 |
Dvar Torah – On Anger |
8 June 2012 |
Sermon – On Swearing |
26 May 2012 |
Sermon – On Same-Sex Marriage, Shavuot 5772 |
18 May 2012 |
Sermon – On Bayern Munich, Hillel the Elder and How we Welcome |
4 May 2012 |
Sermon – Werner Herzog, Rabbi Akiva and capital punishment |
27 April 2012 |
Sermon – On Driving as a Jew |
13 April 2012 |
Sermon – What the Pig Did Wrong |
12 December 2011 |
Sermon – On being a Reform Jew |
25 November 2011 |
D’var Torah – on Compromise (for Laura) |
14 October 2011 |
Sermon – On reaching seven billion |
7 October 2011 |
Sermon – On wearing a Kittel part 2, Yom Kippur 5772 |
27 September 2011 |
Sermon – On wearing a Kittel, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5772 |
12 August 2011 |
Sermon – Is this who we really are? Responding to the Riots |
29 July 2011 |
Sermon – What are we really mourning on Tisha B’Av? |
20 July 2011 |
Thoughts on the Phone Hacking Scandal |
8 July 2011 |
Sermon – Should we keep two days of Rosh Chodesh? |
16 June 2011 |
Dvar Torah – On having a beard. Briefly |
10 June 2011 |
Sermon – Does it matter that I don’t believe the prayers in the siddur? |
3 June 2011 |
Sermon – Reading the sixth commandment with meaning |
13 May 2011 |
Sermon – On Wearing a Kippah |
8 April 2011 |
Sermon – On keeping Kashrut |
1 April 2011 |
Sermon – On reading Torah. Even the icky bits. |
25 March 2011 |
Sermon – So it’s war again |
4 March 2011 |
Sermon – Judaism and Democracy |
28 January 2011 |
Sermon – On how we recite Kaddish |
7 January 2011 |
Sermon – What the Next Chief Rabbi should learn from Rashi |
10 December 2010 |
Sermon – To speak of God in the Face of Disaster |
30 November 2010 |
Article – What Chanukah is like in 2010, Times Online |
22 October 2010 |
Sermon – Writing a New Torah Scroll |
27 August 2010 |
Sermon: The Sound of the Summer |
20 August 2010 |
Sermon: What would Richard Dawkins think of this? |
13 August 2010 |
Sermon: A Rabbi Talks with Jesus |
16 July 2010 |
Sermon – The legacy of Seesen and our service |
11 July 2010 |
Sermon – Jews and the World Cup |
9 April 2010 |
Sermon: The rebellious son at Yom HaShoah |
5 March 2010 |
Sermon – To keep Shabbat as a Reform Jew |
12 February 2010 |
Sermon – The Problem of Divine Authorship of Torah |
5 February 2010 |
Sermon – Will the Chilcot enquiry teach us anything? |
22 January 2010 |
Sermon: Earthquakes and divine intervention |
7 January 2010 |
Article: How will we treat our converts in 2010? |
27 November 2009 |
Sermon: “Give me children, or I shall die” – Parashat Vayetze |
10 July 2009 |
Sermon: Our Attitude to Conversion |
1 April 2009 |
Article: As if each of us was brought out from Egypt |