Liberal Judaism Chief Executive
leads Pro Zion delegation to World Zionist Congress
Rabbi Danny Rich, Chief Executive of Liberal
Judaism, led a delegation of representatives and observers
to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem.
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Liberal Judaism Chief Executive
takes a lead in historic conference
Sponsored by the Home Office and facilitated by the Maimonides
Foundation and Aleph-Alif |
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Atkins Diet
- Rabbi Pete Tobias
Saadia Gaon, a 10th century Babylonian
Jewish scholar, once wrote to the Jewish community in
Egypt and told them ‘You eat to live, you do not
live to eat.’ His advice does not seem to be well
heeded in modern Jewish communities where food is one
of the most important elements of Jewish celebration. |
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Chairman’s
report December Council
It has been customary for the Chairman’s
report to be essentially backward facing. |
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God's Challenge
To Mankind - Rabbi Pete Tobias
There is an educational exercise in which
a group of people (it can be children or adults) is given
a pile of old newspapers and a couple of rolls of masking
tape and, in competition with another group or groups,
has a limited period of time in which to build the highest
free-standing structure. It is an exercise which is meant
to encourage teamwork and co-operation, an exercise which
separates leaders from followers. |
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Chocolate
Covered Suffering - Rabbi Pete Tobias
Ha lachma anya - this is the bread of our
affliction. This is the bread our ancestors ate when they
came out of the land of Egypt. What is the reason for
this unleavened bread? The haggadah says there was not
enough time for our ancestors’ dough to become leavened
before the Holy One was revealed to them. |
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Instruction
For The Philistines- Rabbi Pete Tobias
‘Tell it not in Gath, do not proclaim
it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the
Philistines rejoice…’ King David’s lament
at the death of Saul and the defeat of the Israelites
at the hands of the Philistines offers us a biblical insight
into the need to manage the distribution of information.
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A Positive
Response to Intermarriage- Rabbi Mark Goldsmith
Every Sunday morning at Ivriah, the religion
school of Finchley Progressive Synagogue I have the opportunity
to teach our Kabbalat Torah class. This class is made
up of fifteen and sixteen year old people who, after celebrating
Bar and Bat Mitzvah, have chosen to continue studying
Judaism and participating actively in the life of our
Synagogue. |
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A Prophetic
Pesach Message - Rabbi Pete Tobias
'So why did you decide to become a Rabbi?'
The traditional response to this oft-posed question is
'for the power' - an answer laced with irony, since it
is well-known that the opinions and voices of religious
leaders in general are rarely sought, even less attended
to. Rabbis are said to be invisible for six days of the
week and incomprehensible on the seventh. |
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