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Erev Tisha B'Av: Preparing the Heart Before the Fast

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 22 July 2026

The Torah's Obligation to Drive Safely and Remove Danger

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 15 July 2026

When Av Begins, We Diminish Our Joy

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 15 July 2026

Record Investment to Protect Jewish Communities

Jewish Dispatch | News | 13 July 2026

Over a quarter of a billion-pound investment to increase policing in Jewish communities after a spate of violent attacks

The 12 Pesukim

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 1 July 2026

The Jewish Soul

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 30 June 2026

Should Jewish Parents Ever Strike Their Children?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 29 June 2026

HaShem Needs Every Yid

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 26 June 2026

Parashat Balak (Outside Israel Parashiyot Chukat-Balak)

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 26 June 2026

What Really Interests a Person and WHO Stole the Gold?

Torah Learning

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 18 June 2026

Gimmel Tammuz - The Rebbe's Yahrzeit

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 18 June 2026

The Hidden Wound and the Hidden Fire

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 13 June 2026

At the End of the Path, the Beginning of the Journey

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 8 June 2026

What Does OTD (“Off The Derech”) Mean?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 4 June 2026

Trusting the One Who Walks Beside Us

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 4 June 2026

The Antidote to Anxiety

The Foundation Beneath the Home

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 2 June 2026

Belgium’s Assault on Brit Milah Is an Assault on Jewish Life

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 29 May 2026

A nation cannot claim to welcome Jews while criminalising one of the oldest and most fundamental commandments of Judaism

A Convert, Mourning, and the Torah’s Demand for Gratitude

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 14 May 2026

Honouring the Torah: The Philanthropist’s Final Kindness

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 12 May 2026

Anger Without Torah Is Emptiness — A Community Adrift

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 2 May 2026

Shoah, Nissan, and the Memory the Nations Impose

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 14 April 2026

What is the Meaning Behind Schlissel Challah?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 10 April 2026

Shabbat Hagadol: the Shabbat of Greatness Before Redemption

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 27 March 2026

Why Do We Lean at Certain Times During the Pesach Seder?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 22 March 2026

How Many Kezayit of Matzah Must Be Eaten at the Pesach Seder?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 19 March 2026

When Do We Begin Counting the Omer This Year?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 19 March 2026

כאשר אדם מאמין שאינו נותן דין וחשבון לאיש

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 15 March 2026

The Covenant Is Everything

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 9 March 2026

When Power Forgets Torah

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 6 March 2026

When the King’s Soldiers Arrive

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 3 March 2026

May a Jew Celebrate the Death of an Enemy?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 3 March 2026

Not Us — Or Have We Forgotten?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 28 February 2026

Why Do We Send Gifts of Food to Other People on Purim?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 26 February 2026

Jewish Heritage or Jewish Status? Words Matter

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 24 February 2026

How Should We View Non-Jews Affixing a Mezuzah as a Gesture of Support for the Jewish People?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 18 February 2026

G-D Is Not a “Jewish Word” — And That Is Precisely the Point

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 17 February 2026

The Cave After Sedom

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 13 February 2026

Faithful Delivery, Not Improvement

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 10 February 2026

Parashat Yitro

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 6 February 2026

Doubt on Shabbat: Did I Put On Tefillin?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 1 February 2026

Parashat Beshalach – Shabbat Shirah

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 30 January 2026

Parashat Bo

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 23 January 2026

Caring for Parents, Dwelling in the Land, and the Cost of Language Creep

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 8 January 2026

Reclaiming the Language of Revelation

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 24 December 2025

When Words Are Corrupted, Meaning Is Lost

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 21 December 2025

Guarding Our Voice in a World That Wants Our Silence

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 20 December 2025

Parashat Miketz – Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Chanukah

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 19 December 2025

When Light Is Targeted

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 14 December 2025

Hanukkah: Lighting Truth in a World That Forgets Light

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 14 December 2025

המלכודת מבפנים: עבודה זרה בארצנו וההשלכות שאיננו מוכנים לראות

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 5 December 2025

Herzog Park and the Erasure of Irish Jewish Memory

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 30 November 2025

Parashat Chayye Sarah

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 14 November 2025

When Goodness Becomes Performance

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 8 November 2025

Hidden Sparks: The Eternal Promise of the Bnei Anousim

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 3 November 2025

יד, קפה, והקשר הנצחי

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 8 October 2025

The Cult of Self-Promotion Has Reached Sacred Spaces

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 3 October 2025

Murder in Crumpsall: Yom HaKiPurim Desecrated

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 2 October 2025

Half-Mast Flags Cannot Mask Half-Measures

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 2 October 2025

Yom HaKipurim – A Day Like Purim

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 30 September 2025

Do Not Cast Doubt on a Fellow Jew

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 18 September 2025

The Bitter Reality: Nearly Two Years on from 7 October

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 30 August 2025

Do We Have a Mazal? The Disingenuous Borrowing of Holiness

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 29 August 2025

Mazel Tov in the Broken Glass: Finding the Good Flow in Life’s Resistance and Spaces

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 12 August 2025

Guiding with Wisdom and Compassion

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 11 August 2025

The Down Pillow: Lashon Hara, Gossip, and the Irreversible Damage of Public Shame

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 19 July 2025

Ascent Through the Worlds: The Infinite Journey of the Jewish Soul

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 3 June 2025

With Keri You Walked, with Keri I Will Walk

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 28 May 2025

A People Apart, or a People Adrift?

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 26 May 2025

Why We Must Reject the Word ‘Shoah’ to Describe the Shoah

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 12 May 2025

Yom HaAtzmaut: a Day of National Soul-Searching and Renewal

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 30 April 2025

Arguing with G-D? A Dangerous Distortion

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 28 April 2025

The Cost of Division: a Pesach Reflection

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 8 April 2025

Shabbat Vayakhel (Parah)

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 20 March 2025

Pesach: A Legacy of Redemption and the Power of Language

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 20 March 2025

Purim: The Most Important Jewish Holiday

Jewish Dispatch | Analysis | 4 March 2025

Parashat Yitro

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 14 February 2025

Parashat Bo

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 31 January 2025

Parashat Chayye Sarah

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 22 November 2024

The Ethical and Societal Risks of Assisted Suicide

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 22 November 2024

Divine Decree and Human Adversity: A Perspective from Iggeret HaKodesh

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 27 October 2024

One Year Since the Atrocities: Reflecting on the Cost and Sacrifice

Jewish Dispatch | Analysis | 7 October 2024

Compassion Over Ridicule: Upholding Jewish Values in the Age of Social Media

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 18 September 2024

Honouring the Memory of Millions: Understanding What It Means to Be Jewish

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 18 April 2024

Parashat Yitro

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 2 February 2024

Parashat Bo

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 19 January 2024

Parashat Chayye Sarah

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 10 November 2023

Sukkot: the Jewish Festival of Booths

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 1 October 2023

It is a Rule that Esau Hates Jacob

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 5 September 2023

Bagels: A Delicious Revelation and the Epitome of Culinary Brilliance

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 16 June 2023

Parashat Bo

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 27 January 2023

Messianism and the Fast of Av

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 5 August 2022

Universalism

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 29 July 2022

Shabbat Pinchas

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 21 July 2022

Shabbat Korach

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 30 June 2022

Remember

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 10 June 2022

Shabbat Naso

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 9 June 2022

Carrot or Stick

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 26 May 2022

Shabbat Behar

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 19 May 2022

Shabbat Emor

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 12 May 2022

Don't Let the Seder Be a Bore

Jewish Dispatch | Opinion | 14 April 2022

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