Thinking as we come up to Remembrance Shabbat and Remembrance services at the Cenotaph again about my post last year (below) and the courage and loss of young men and women even today.
Last Shabbat I taught Wilfred Owen’s devastating poem ‘The Parable of the Old Man and the Young’ because it coincided with our Torah portion of the Binding of Isaac:
I’m a rabbi who has a world view of the goodness of most people – they just want to live in peace and security, with food on the table and a roof over their heads. Read more…
A sermon in memory of my father Paul Janes, whose first Yarzheit (in the Hebrew calendar) was this week. We made it to Penarth whilst on holiday. It was a moment of peace after the Read more…
It was December 2012 and the Conservative Minister for Civil Society, Nick Hurd MP, suggested that wealthy pensioners (or at least those with enough income) could give their winter fuel payment to charity instead of Read more…