Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue

With the double parashah, Tazri’a-M’tzora, the concerns of the Book of Leviticus turn to child-birth, bodily emissions, skin eruptions and house ‘plagues’.  What has all this got to do with.....

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What is your view of our first patriarch, Abraham?  Va-yeira presents him in many different ways:  He is the epitome of hospitality (Ch. 18); he is the proud father (Ch......

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Each one of us knows what it is to be ruled by Time – from the time we get up in the morning until the time we go to bed.....

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This December the world will mark a significant milestone:  The 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the.....

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The parashah Yitro centres on the account of what happened at Mount Sinai – an event that is both shrouded in mystery – the mystery of the presence of the.....

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What’s in a name?  ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’.  Shakespeare was right, of course – but names are very powerful – and the act of.....

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The ‘Joseph story’ is so well known we may forget that it begs a few important questions. At the beginning of Parashat Va-yiggash, after Judah, the fourth son of Leah and.....

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Judaism has two major festivals that have their roots in the great outdoors:  Shavuot and Sukkot; the early summer and late summer harvest festivals respectively.  So, tracing the origins of.....

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On Rosh Ha-Shanah we read Genesis 21, which recounts the birth of Isaac, and Genesis 22, the tale of how Abraham, obeyed the voice of God, and set out on.....

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On 27^th January, the anniversary of the liberation of the notorious death factory at Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army in 1945, it will be National Holocaust Memorial Day – the.....

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