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Apr 1, 2026, 8:13 PM

Running, The Flight.

Photo by Rod Kersh, Negev. January, 2018.

On Sunday, as I ran a new route close to my house, I listened to Haviv Rettig Gur’s Passover Podcast. He discusses with Rabbi David Stav the relativity of the story of the Israelites' experience in Egypt, and the...

Feb 14, 2026, 4:09 PM

Rambam, The Great Eagle. רמב״ם

Hell's Mouth, Wales, UK. Photo by Rod Kersh 2025

A few years ago, a cartoon image of him featured on this blog. It was taken from a series of stickers I had purchased on a trip to Manchester to visit the place my parents and brothers lived before...

Dec 26, 2025, 6:23 PM

Boxing Day (December 26th)

For those of you not living in the Judeo-Christian West, this is the day following Christmas. A Jewish baby was born in a manger and the rest that follows is history, or, Constantine make-believe. I have not written in a couple of weeks. Mostly, work...

Nov 8, 2025, 3:05 PM

Photo by Rod Kersh, Israel. September 2025

Last night I watched No Other Land. The Palestinian/Norwegian documentary that made headlines in 2023. The film tells the story of Basel Adra, his family and the residents of Masafer Yatta which is in the West Bank. You might want to...

Nov 4, 2025, 4:58 AM

You made a believer, out of me.

Image generated by MS Copilot by Rod Kersh 2025

I’m returning to the Left-Right-Centrist dialectic. Radical Right Hard Left Extremist Fascist Terrorist/anarchist/syndicalist Communist Maoist Taoist Somnambulist. Sendero Luminoso/Strategist/Propagandist. Populist. All of these are labels As Jesse Jackson then Primal Scream sang in the 90’s. Do any of these help us understand the world or one another? For most of my life I strongly...

Oct 21, 2025, 3:19 AM

Desperately seeking a Rabbi (epistemic disorientation in a cold climate)

Milkweed at the end of summer, ~Tel Gezer, Israel, Sept 2025. Photo by Rod Kersh

When I was younger, a friend once told me, ‘Do what the rabbi says, not what the rabbi does.’ At the time, I didn’t fully grasp the meaning. Only recently have I begun to understand its implications. This is how I...

Oct 12, 2025, 12:34 AM

Here is a thought experiment

Photo by Rod Kersh, South Yorkshire October 7th 2025

The past two years have opened my eyes to the definition of Left versus Right. In 2023, as I was reading the Guardian (paying for subscription), watching Channel 4 News and a member of the Green Party, I thought I...

Aug 30, 2025, 10:44 PM

Flag day & The Kersh Paradox (political snake-oil)

Have you seen the flags? My brother sent me a WhatsApp of two sheep daubed with red crosses last night. He followed ironically with, ‘the second crusade.’ It began, I understand, in Birmingham. UK. Not Birmingham, Alabama, the site of other historical tensions. I...

May 4, 2025, 6:48 PM

An entanglement of suffering. Blake’s ennui.

Blake, caged. Photo by Rod Kersh, May 2025.

The clock is ticking I don’t have long to write The lake is at 9. A 30-minute drive then the donning of gear in the carpark, registration then a mile in warming late spring water, spawning fish and early growth of the vegetation. The...

Apr 21, 2025, 8:47 AM

Pessach, gravestones and what matters to you

Edinburgh Castle. Photo by Rod Kersh, April 2025.

Yesterday*, I travelled by train, to Edinburgh. East Coast Mainline. Doncaster to Waverley. It was the same journey featured in the novel When Will There Be Good News? By Kate Atkinson Which my daughter is studying for A-Level English. In the story, There is a fatal crash At Musselburgh A town on the...

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Dr Rod Kersh is a Consultant Physician working in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. He blogs at www.almondemotion.com

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