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:
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…
The conversation about facemasks is probably as emblematic of our age as any. I’m not talking about the extent to which the science demonstrates the protective effect of a facemask. We are all (children and Read more…