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Oct 13, 2021, 1:17 PM

We cannot bring the dead to life, but we can keep their memory alive

Rabbi Nicky Liss with the prayer shawl which Imperial War Museum officials asked him to help install

At the memorial service for Sir Martin Gilbert in November 2015, the late former Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, z’l told the following anecdote: It must have been 15 years ago, just before the (original) Holocaust Exhibition was opened in the Imperial War Museum. The...

Jan 7, 2021, 5:46 PM

To close shuls or not to close, that is the question

Mill Hill United synagogue under Covid restrictions, including social distancing and masks (Credit: Marc Morris via Jewish News)

The second person in the UK to get the vaccine was an 81-year-old called William Shakespeare. This gave Twitter a field day with headlines such as ‘The Taming of the Flu’ and ‘The Two Gentlemen of Corona’. And now, in another lockdown, the United Synagogue’s...

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Rabbi Nicky Liss is Chair of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue. He serves as Rabbi of Highgate United Synagogue in London