Archives

All my blog posts ever, in chronological order…

• Strike while the iron’s hot…
• Yes, it’s the Pesach Special!
• Diamond Jubilee Special
• To be or Maccabee
• The 5773 Pesach Special
• Whisper words of wisdom, Maccabee
• Pesach special: continued p5774
• Maccabeen there done that
• Pesach Special 5775
• The World Zionist Congress: day minus-2
• The World Zionist Congress: day minus-1
• The World Zionist Congress: day 1
• The World Zionist Congress: day 2
• The World Zionist Congress: finally, closure
• Best of latke: it’s the Channukah Special!
• The Channukadvent Calendar: Day 1
• 24 times we reached peak Jewish Chronicle (Channukadvent Calendar Day 2)
• Jobs I’m not applying for, Episode #3 (Channukadvent Calendar Day 3)
• The Uxbridge Book of Channukoid Jokes and Gags (Channukadvent Calendar Day 4)
• Seasonal TV… (Channukadvent Calendar Day 5)
• MaccaBBC News (Channukadvent Calendar Day 6)
• Eight candles up on top (Channukadvent Calendar Day 7)
• Teletubbies say Shalom! (Channukadvent Calendar Day 8)
• Strawberries or BDS? A Limmud sketch
• A Purim special: The Book of Jeremy
• Emergency Exodus: Pesach 5776
• An Election Day Prayer
• Mordechai ben-Arkush condemned for Haman statement
• So here it is, The Channukah Special
• No queues please, we’re Jewish: a Limmud sketch
• Introducing: Just William’s Year
• What a noisy place to be-leyn
• Of Mice and Menorah: the Channukah special
• Every Limmud panel discussion that you missed
• Vashti and the crisps (a Purim special)
• The plague’s the thing: the Pesach 5778 special
• I’m getting married (subject to Acts of God)
• Channukah 5779: bringing sovereignty back home
• Limmud: the updated code of conduct
• 2 Jeremy 1:13 (a Purim special)
• The Egyptian backstop: a Pesach special
• Golders Green is changing
• Institutionally antiochus: the Channukah Special 2019
• Welcome to Historic Birmingham Hilton Metropolis (the Limmud sketch 2019)
• I’m fasting on Thursday
• A departure from the royal family (the Purim special 5780)
• Persons, things and premises – a Levitical reflection on lockdown
• Insert plague joke here (the Pesach special 5780)
• Is God self-isolating?
• Barnet’s parks: a review
• The Daughters of Zelophechad take on the police
• I like to move it move it
• Going undercover
• 12 things the Mishnah has to say about Covid-19
• This isn’t the first socially-distanced High Holy Days
• All the Pfizer to heal you with: a vaccine special
• This land is shrunk (an accidental sermon)
• Magen Covid: the Channukah special 2020
• Preparing for Limmud at Home
• Some unstructured thoughts on having a baby
• Tzom Hillel v’Shammai: we need to bring back nidui
• A Purim special: The Book of Whitty, 1:1-12
• The Health Protection (Plague of Boils, Restrictions) (Salty Tiers 4) Regulations 5781
• ‘The Apprentice’: the lost lockdown series
• #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate… except at the ‘Jewish Chronicle’
• Hillel and Shammai decided to settle it all with an arm wrestle
• Dibarti dofi: I defamed a dead man
• Racism at the Board of Deputies: who will bring them down to earth?
• Channukah gets earlier every year
• In praise of cancel culture (which doesn’t really exist)
• Racism at the Board of Deputies (again) – “Desmond Tutu is a true black coward” 🤮
• People who expose racists are not the bad guys
• The Book of Boris: Purim special 2022
• The Pesach special 5782
• My Pesach is only six days long
• I’m officially sort of a rabbi now (in a way)
• The Anne Frank Trust and the cities of refuge
• The most twisted children’s book ever written
• Sermon in memory of HM Queen Elizabeth II (Parashat Ki Teitzei)
• Mishpatim [5783] GKW Serm 17
• Moistening and heaping
• T’tzavveh [5783] GKW Serm 18
• Ki Tissa [5783] GKW Serm 19
• Tzav [5783] GKW Serm 20
• Chol ha-Mo’ed Pesach [5783] GKW Serm 21
• Zog and the Lawsuit
• B’har [5783] GKW Serm 23
• Unity doesn’t mean unanimity (article for Shavuot 5783)
• B’ha’alot’cha [5783] GKW Serm 24
• Sh’lach L’cha [5783] GKW Serm 25
• On expenses
• Korach [5783] GKW Serm 26
• Balak [5783] GKW Serm 27
• Mattot-Mass’ei [5783] GKW Serm 28
• D’varim [5783] GKW Serm 29
• Anti-woke and unpopular: thoughts on Parashat R’eh
• R’eh [5783] GKW Serm 30
• Shoftim [5783] GKW Serm 31
• Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid
• Erev Rosh Hashanah [5784] GKW Serm 1
• Rosh Hashanah [5784] GKW Serm 2
• Kol Nidre [5784] GKW Serm 4
• Yom Kippur morning [5784] GKW Serm 5
• Yom Kippur afternoon [5784] GKW Serm 6
• Sukkot [5784] GKW Serm 7
• B’reishit [5784] GKW Serm 8
• Sodom and Gaza
• Chayyei Sarah [5784] GKW Serm 9
• Tol’dot [5784] GKW Serm 10
• Ceasefire now: Vayishlach [5784] GKW Serm 11
• Stranger Things: Mikkeitz [5784] GKW Serm 12
• A Christmas special: Va-Yiggash [5784] GKW Serm 13
• Standing in Moses’s shoes: Sh’mot [5784] GKW Serm 14
• Be reasonable: Va’eira [5784] GKW Serm 15
• Beyond the letter of the law: Mishpatim [5784] GKW Serm 16
• Cherubim, cherubom: T’rumah [5784] GKW Serm 17
• DIY Judaism: Va-Yakheil [5784] GKW Serm 18
• Dirty money: Va-Yikra [5784] GKW Serm 19
• God’s table: Tzav [5784] GKW Serm 20
• The kindness of the stork: Sh’mini [5784] GKW Serm 21
• The Torah and the Garrick Club: Tazria [5784] GKW Serm 22
• I’m Jewish and I can walk where I want: Chol ha-Mo’ed Pesach [5784] GKW Serm 23
• Aubergines are horrible: K’doshim [5784] GKW Serm 24
• Appalled-at-the-desolation: B’chukkotai [5784] GKW Serm 26
• Gaza and the future of Progressive Judaism
• Opposition: Korach [5784] GKW Serm 28
• Moses and the Love Test: Mattot-Mass’ei [5784] GKW Serm 30
• Won’t somebody please think of the children: D’varim [5784] GKW Serm 31
• Aliens: Va-etchannan [5784] GKW Serm 32
• Trouble in paradise: Shoftim [5784] GKW Serm 34
• Lost sparks: Ki Teitzei [5784] GKW Serm 35
• A year of double dactyls: Rosh Hashanah
• Double dactyls: Ha’azinu
• Memory and hope: Erev Rosh Hashanah [5785] GKW Serm 1
• Jewish Nobel Prize winners: Rosh Hashanah [5785] GKW Serm 2
• Double dactyls: Yom Kippur
• A Jewish prayer book should be a programme: Kol Nidre [5785] GKW Serm 4
• We don’t care: Yom Kippur morning [5785] GKW Serm 5
• Back on deck: Yom Kippur afternoon [5785] GKW Serm 6
• Double dactyls: Sukkot
• Double dactyls: Chol ha-Mo’ed Sukkot
• Hearts and spades will win the day: Chol ha-Mo’ed Sukkot [5785] GKW Serm 7
• Double dactyls: Simchat Torah
• Double dactyls: B’reishit
• Double dactyls: No’ach
• Ararat, city of refuge: No’ach [5785] GKW Serm 8
• Double dactyls: Lech L’cha
• Chickens, eggs and mohels: Lech L’cha [5785] GKW Serm 9
• Address to AJEX annual remembrance service
• Double dactyls: Va-Yeira
• Double dactyls: Chayyei Sarah
• Double dactyls: Tol’dot
• Double dactyls: Va-Yeitze
• Double dactyls: Va-Yishlach
• Posing as a rabbi in Hove: Va-Yishlach [5785] GKW Serm 10
• Double dactyls: Va-Yeishev
• Paula Vennells and the Pharaoh: Va-Yeshev [5785] GKW Serm 11
• Double dactyls: Channukah
• Double dactyls: Mikketz
• Double dactyls: Va-Yiggash
• Double dactyls: Va-Y’chi
• Double dactyls: Sh’mot
• Double dactyls: Va-Eira
• Hamas and Musk – dealing with the devil: Va-Eira [5785] GKW Serm 13
• Double dactyls: Bo
• Double dactyls: B’Shallach
• Rejoining the family: B’shallach [5785] GKW Serm 14
• Double dactyls: Tu B’Shvat
• Double dactyls: Yitro
• Raising the bar: Yitro [5785] GKW Serm 15
• Double dactyls: Mishpatim
• Double dactyls: T’rumah
• Double dactyls: T’tzavveh
• Our Liberal Jewish mansion—or, the Progressive pantomime horse: T’tzavveh [5785] GKW Serm 16
• Double dactyls: Purim
• Double dactyls: Ki Tissa
• Double dactyls: Va-Yakheil
• Double dactyls: P’kudei
• Double dactyls: Va-Yikra
• Double dactyls: Tzav
• Double dactyls: Pesach
• Double dactyls: Chol ha-Mo’ed Pesach
• Trans rights are human rights: Seventh Day Pesach [5785] GKW Serm 19
• Double dactyls: Sh’mini
• Double dactyls: Yom ha-Atzma’ut
• Double dactyls: Tazri’a-M’tzora
• Bringing back the outcast: Tazri’a-M’tzora [5785] GKW Serm 20
• Double dactyls: Acharei Mot-K’doshim
• An openly gay ex-Olympic fencer: Acharei Mot [5785] GKW Serm 21
• Double dactyls: Lag ba’Omer
• Double dactyls: Emor
• A sermon from 1935
• Double dactyls: B’har-B’chukkotai
• Double dactyls: B’midbar
• Double dactyls: Shavuot
• Double dactyls: Naso
• Don’t be a prat: Naso [5785] GKW Serm 24
• Double dactyls: B’ha’alot’cha
• Imagining the future: B’ha’alot’cha [5785] GKW Serm 25
• Double dactyls: Sh’lach L’cha
• Our adversaries are people: Sh’lach L’cha [5785] GKW Serm 26
• Double dactyls: Korach
• Double dactyls: Chukkat
• Thought leadership: Chukkat [5785] GKW Serm 27
• Double dactyls: Balak
• Double dactyls: Pinchas
• Double dactyls: Mattot-Mass’ei
• Double dactyls: D’varim
• God save us from your philosemitism: D’varim [5785] GKW Serm 28
• Double dactyls: Va-etchannan
• Double dactyls: Eikev
• Double dactyls: R’eh
• Outreach or heresy?: R’eh [5785] GKW Serm 29
• Double dactyls: Shoftim
• Double dactyls: Ki Teitzei
• Support: Ki Teitzei [5785] GKW Serm 30
• Double dactyls: Ki Tavo
• Double dactyls: Nitzavim
• We are not alone: Erev Rosh Hashanah [5786] GKW Serm 1
• The miracle of our lives: Rosh Hashanah [5786] GKW Serm 2
• The final double dactyl: Va-Yelech
• Hello, I’m an autistic rabbi: Kol Nidre [5786] GKW Serm 3
• Yom Kippur daytime sermons 5786
• Where were you when you heard the news?: Ha’azinu [5786] GKW Serm 6
• Our sukkah is made of people: Chol ha-Mo’ed Sukkot [5786] GKW Serm 7
• Time and darkness: B’reishit [5786] GKW Serm 6
• Why I’m wearing a kippah now
• Poppy rage: Lech L’cha [5786] GKW Serm 7
• Eliezer and the love test: Chayyei Sarah [5786] GKW Serm 8
• Address to the city’s annual interfaith service
• We reserve the right to refuse service: Tol’dot [5786] GKW Serm 9
• Be a missionary: Va-Yishlach [5786] GKW Serm 10
• The Merger Song (The Ballad of David and Lily)