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Sep 18, 2023, 3:32 AM

Why your silence about Iran?

I have a question for my fellow Leftist Jews. Those who obsessively retweet any thought of Peter Beinart and his wishes for the Jews to give up political self-determination. Those from places such as Long Island or North London are...

Aug 23, 2023, 12:08 AM

There is antisemitism and it’s Elul

You know what you have done. Perhaps you are (rightly) ashamed of it. And this is a good start. You are aware (I hope) of how many people you have hurt: Jewish students, their families, and their friends. And...

May 15, 2023, 6:23 PM

A telling location

Did you hear of the demonstrations against the Foreign policy of the English Government in front of an Anglican church? No, neither did I. And what about the protest against the Iranian Government near a mosque precisely when parents...

May 5, 2023, 8:13 PM

On the Coronation of King Charles III

Well, thank you! Thank you for coming to shul this Shabbat; rather than spending your Saturday morning in front of the TV to take part in an I want a Christian ceremony. I am so grateful to you all,...

Nov 28, 2022, 11:15 PM

The JPR survey. What’s not there

So, the people have spoken, and the results are in. Over the following days, weeks and months, we will all debate, analyse and discuss the results of the National Jewish Identity Survey by the Jewish Policy Research. Kol haKavod, well...

Oct 10, 2022, 1:27 PM

A bittersweet Chag

Sukkot is Chag Simchateinu, "the festival of our joy". But like all Italian Jews, I cannot but think of the horrendous attack at the Rome synagogue, tens of seriously wounded and the murder of a two years old toddler. It...

Sep 10, 2022, 12:53 PM

My encounter with Ashkenormativity

I cannot talk about Ivan. Ivan, z''l, served all 18 required months of naja (compulsory military service). He could skip it, but his father had insisted: "Military service is a citizen's duty. Non fare il profugo, don't play the refugee"....

Apr 8, 2022, 2:38 PM

Words are missing

By now we know what happened. A Palestinian terrorist has murdered two people in the central plaza of Tel Aviv, where young Israelis hang out on Thursday night. Why on a Thursday night? Because on Thursday night, just before...

Feb 7, 2022, 6:05 AM

“Shut your ears, make the most and go away”

And so last week, we saw a stand-up comedian inviting his audience to look at the positive side of the Nazi genocide of the Roma. Just to be clear: this is when so-called medical experiments were conducted on children....

Jan 28, 2022, 8:34 PM

“From the River to the Sea”, Yachad?

Question. Who is Imam Abdullah Antepli? Answer. Depending on whom you ask. Suppose you ask the thugs of Electronic Intifada. In that case, Imam Antepli is a traitor of the Palestinian cause, a champion of Faithwashing, a promoter of Islamophobia, and...

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Italian by birth, Israeli by choice, Rabbi of the largest synagogue in Sussex (UK). Uncompromising Zionist.

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