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Apr 15, 2018, 11:49 AM

March for the Living and the Dead

As our plane left Krakow after five days touring Jewish Poland, having just completed the ‘March of the Living’, I was consumed by two thoughts. First, how close the epicentre of Hitler’s annihilation of European Jewry is to the UK. Second, how well Hannah Arendt’s...

Nov 16, 2017, 4:52 PM

Empowerment is the key to a WJR success story

I last went to Ukraine 12 years ago. I was disheartened to see the poverty and destitution, and the infancy of religious life, were far beyond my expectations. Golders Green Synagogue has been twinned for more than 25 years with Zaporizhia, a city in Eastern...

May 18, 2017, 11:42 AM

Students and exam stress

The impact of stress on our physical well-being is discussed in ancient Jewish sources. Maimonides, the great 12th-century philosopher and doctor, recognised the importance of maintaining the equilibrium of one’s emotional activities and he knew that chronic anxiety eventually harms one’s body. Maimonides promotes a...

Sep 23, 2016, 2:13 PM

Starting uni this month? Welcome to the family!

IT’S EXACTLY 30 years since I arrived at Oxford, as the first in my immediate family to go to university. I was rather naïve about what to expect. The first full day of term was Yom Kippur (I went home) and I had to rely...

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Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski is CEO of University Jewish Chaplaincy and rabbi of Golders Green Synagogue and