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Jun 8, 2023, 2:49 PM

Charedi Education

When I think of the role that Charedim play in the Jewish nation, my best analogy is unfortunately treif - the oyster and its pearl. On the one hand, I see Charedim as the oyster - the carriers of our...

May 21, 2023, 12:33 PM

Nakba Day – Black, White and Shades of Grey

It need not be said that 'Nakba Day' touches many deep emotions on all sides, Arab and Jewish alike. It is hugely unfortunate that, without implying any equivalence, the annual statements made by leaders on each side are rooted in...

May 18, 2023, 10:17 AM

On being fruitful and actually multiplying

In this week's parsha, Bamidbar, Moshe and Aaron, at Hashem's command, conduct the tribal census. The outcome: 603,550 males between the age of 20 upwards who are fit to go out to the army, plus 22,000 Levite males over...

May 10, 2023, 12:27 PM

That woman with the sword…

Unfortunately, I didn't get to watch the coronation of King Charles as it was Shabbos. However, I feel there are many inspirations that a Jewish person might take from the coronation, and royalty more broadly, many of which have...

May 1, 2023, 12:11 PM

How we can ‘defeat’ antisemitism – a hypothesis

In the UK alone, antisemitism seems now to be running at the rate of one major public scandal per week. As usual, when such incidents occur, there are the standard condemnations from those who must be seen to issue them,...

Apr 28, 2023, 5:59 PM

Hey David Baddiel, Judaism does count

One of the more interesting contemporary Jewish writers is David Baddiel, the UK-atheist-non-zionist-Jewish-comedian-turned-author-turned-antisemitism-theorist, previously best known in the mid-1990s for Fantasy Football and the English football anthem it spawned, 'Three Lions (Its Coming Home)', but more recently for his...

Apr 27, 2023, 10:56 AM

On judicial reform (again, and who knows, hopefully for the last time…)

After writing much more in this blog than I could ever have imagined on politics, a subject I intensely loathe (even though I majored in it, worked in it, and deal with it all the time in my work),...

Apr 14, 2023, 5:42 PM

Understanding and finding meaning in Judaism

It was during this week's parshah, Shemini, that I first felt I had started to get a grasp of what Judaism is really all about (though I am still far from confident), what makes it distinctive from other faiths...

Apr 9, 2023, 12:09 AM

Shelo Echad Bilvad – Jewish Unity above all

"For not only one has risen up against us to annihilate us, but in every generation they rise up against us to annihilate us" (Passover Haggadah) Asks Likutei Yehuda in the name of the Sfat Emet: why the language, 'shelo...

Mar 24, 2023, 5:20 AM

Transcript: Tonight’s speech by Netanyahu’s yetzer hatov – When the Leader Sins

Transcript: Tonight's speech given by the yetzer hatov (good inclination) of the Prime Minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, 20.40, 23 March 2023 (2 Nissan 5783), Jerusalem 'When the Leader Sins....' My beloved brothers and sisters, We, the Jewish people, have been...

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Adam Gross, an Oxford-educated strategist, has over 20 years' experience solving complex problems in the international arena for United Nations agencies, international financial institutions, private sector, NGOs and social enterprises across Europe, Africa and Asia. Adam made aliyah with his family in 2019 to live in northern Israel.

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