Sunday 9 April 2023 Pesach (Passover) is the festival of freedom, the time when we remember the foundational story of hope that was the Chil...

Sunday 02 October 2022 This should have been Shani's first term at secondary school, in all likelihood at Immanuel College. When we took...

Wednesday 01 December Last Friday morning I woke up feeling pretty low, and I cried. I cried because I felt like crying I cried because I re...

The late, wonderful Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in his book 'Morality' published earlier this year, distinguishes between ambition  and vo...

I've written a few little ditties in my time, including one about my children, which is still to painful to sing, and I've been stru...

Tuesday 15 September 2020 Breathe, breathe in the air Don't be afraid to care Leave but don't leave me Look around, choose your own...

  Sunday 21 June 2020 Today was a tough Father's Day. I had a dream about Shani last night. I was driving a van on my way to an outdoor ...

Sunday 5 April Today Shani would have been nine years old.  On a lovely day like this with the sun shining,  a clear blue sky,  the birds tw...

Tuesday 31 December As the decade draws to a close, we tend to look back and review what's happened over the past ten years. Often t...

Monday 30 December It's a slightly odd time to be writing about the Jewish festival of  Succot (or Tabernacles)  given that it takes p...

Wednesday 11 December  Every year, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity hosts  An Evening of Thanks for the parents of Brig...

Saturday 28 September R osh Hashana (the Jewish New Year) is a time for us to reflect on what is really important in our lives. What do ...

Monday 26 August 2019 On Sunday 8 September, around 150 wonderful people are going to be organising or taking part in the Shine For Sha...

Friday 28 December 2018 Sunday 18 November Tammy's  Bat Mitzvah, on the weekend of Sunday 18 November, was an intensely emotion...