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Walter Rothschild

Nov 16, 2025, 10:11 PM

''CHAYYE SARAH'': Genesis 23:1 to 25:18. The Torah is a book of mysteries. Characters come, characters go, we learn a great deal about a few days in someone’s life and almost nothing about the rest; plot lines are left unfinished,...

Sep 22, 2025, 12:21 AM

Free Palestine!

On the day I write this, early in the morning of 21st. September 2025, a European State, Portugal, has declared that it is going formally to recognise ''a Palestinian State''. Now there is much one could say to Portugal and...

Nov 20, 2018, 8:37 PM

Shabbes for Some; Lo bashamayim Hi.

I wasn't there, but I was disturbed by some of the reports on the disastrous El Al flight from New York. Am I alone in detecting a tone of self-righteous smugness at the ability to ''observe Shobbes'' at the...

About Me

Rabbi Dr. Walter Rothschild,. Born in Bradford, England when it was still a United Kingdom, studied Theology & Pedagogics at Cambridge, later at Leo Baeck College in London, ordained as Rabbi in 1984, later gained a PhD in ''Palestine Railways 1945-1948'' through Kings College, Cambridge. Now semi-retired from the congregational rabbinate.