Ben Lazarus, at The Blogs

Jun 24, 2026, 9:00 PM

Torah Judaism: A Sadness I Never Expected to Feel

Today I watched images of protests, demonstrations, and roads blocked across Israel. What surprised me was my emotion. It was sadness. A deeper sadness than I expected to feel. I grew up in two separate religious Jewish communities in London,...

Jun 23, 2026, 5:10 AM

Israel Advocacy 2.0

As an advocate for Israel, I believe I have to change how I think about Israel's opponents. I have set this out in an infographic below. Over the past year and a half, I have had hundreds of on-line conversations...

Jun 22, 2026, 12:16 PM

Pinchas: There Is a Time to Act

This Dvar Torah is dedicated in memory of a very special Rabbi, Dayan and Rosh Yeshiva - Harav Yitzchok Meir Hertz (Of Blessed Memory). I didn’t know him personally but as the father of the wonderful Feigy Lieberman, Rebbetzin...

Jun 21, 2026, 8:59 AM

Even My Fridge Knows It’s Shabbat

Twenty years in, I still find myself appreciating benefits I never imagined before making Aliyah. When people discuss Aliyah, they rightly focus on the big issues. Security. Schools. Employment. Antisemitism. Cost of living. The US dollar exchange rate. Family. The...

Jun 19, 2026, 9:53 AM

Chronic Pain and the People Who Cannot Describe It

What happens when someone is in pain but can no longer tell us? A week of nerve pain has forced me to confront that question. For most of the last six years I have lived with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)....

Jun 15, 2026, 7:50 PM

Aharon: We Badly Need People We’d Weep For

Of all the role models in this series, Aharon may be the one I admire most without reservation. A man of peace. A man of integrity. For forty years, the steadfast, ungrudging support of a younger brother chosen to lead...

Jun 9, 2026, 8:54 PM

Should ‘Onn Ben Pelet’ be a Role Model?

My children completely disagree with me about the 'Role Model' this week, and it has sparked a great deal of discussion in the house. How could I possibly pick Onn Ben Pelet? Firstly, he is hardly a conventional Role...

Jun 8, 2026, 12:21 PM

My Smallest Book Feels Like My Most Important

I have written four books, with a fifth now underway. Yet strangely, the piece of work that has affected me most is not one of the larger projects. It is a small booklet: my Guide to Psalms (Tehillim). And I think...

Jun 3, 2026, 8:05 PM

Shelach: The Spies That Got It Right

Sometimes role models are famous saints and heroes. Sometimes they are gritty, unknown and deeply flawed. This week’s role models are exactly that: two unnamed spies and a woman called Rachav. They are worth spending time on because they represent...

Jun 2, 2026, 12:30 AM

It Isn’t True Just Because You Keep Saying It

If repetition alone made something true, then Jews have committed blood libels, secretly ruled the world, and caused the bubonic plague. There is a pattern I keep seeing in debates about Israel and Gaza. It goes like this: "The ICJ,...

About Me

I live in Yad Binyamin having made Aliyah 19 years ago from London. I have an amazing wife and three awesome kids, one just finishing a “long” stint as a special forces soldier, one at uni just married and one in high school. A retired partner of a global consulting firm, a person with a diagnosis of PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy) and an advocate. I have just published 4 books on Amazon and my blog on PSP can be seen at www.benlazpsp.com

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