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Daily Video Updates

March 23, 2020by shalommorris 1 Comment

Dear All, With so many of us stuck at home and isolated from one another I’ve decided to put together some videos for you from within London’s Bevis Marks Synagogue. […]

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Musings, Torah, Travels

Ashamnu – S&P Addition By Subtraction

September 19, 2019by shalommorris 2 Comments

Throughout the month of Elul and the High Holy Days we recite the selihot (apology) prayers. One of the most important elements of this service is the vidui, or confession. […]

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Torah

Tu B’Ab – Sephardic Love and Independence

July 27, 2018by shalommorris Leave a comment

The 15th day of the Jewish month of Av is a minor festival called Tu B’Ab. It is considered a joyous day, when in Biblical times young people went out […]

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Torah

Passover and the Splitting of the S&P

April 8, 2018by shalommorris 6 Comments

On the 7th day of Pesah 1827, at London’s Bevis Marks Synagogue, the reading of the spitting of the sea also split the congregation. Typically, Haham Raphael Meldola read the […]

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Academics, Torah

Tisha B’Ab 2017 – 200 Years Since Disraeli’s Apostasy

July 31, 2017by shalommorris 1 Comment

This year’s Tisha B’Ab marks 200 years since Benjamin Disraeli converted to Christianity. On 31 July 1817, Isaac Disraeli brought his son Benjamin to the baptismal font. Following a feud […]

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Torah

Tisha B’ab – The Expulsion and the Holocaust Today

August 14, 2016by shalommorris 3 Comments

The Expulsion from Spain is said to have occurred on the 9th of Ab. While it may have actually transpired a couple of days beforehand, the association is still apt. […]

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Musings, Torah

Montefiore and the Splitting of the Sea

May 5, 2016by shalommorris 3 Comments

In 1827 Sir Moses Montefiore wrote, I “threw into the sea a piece of my Passover cake, at the same time praying to G-d to preserve us, as He had […]

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Torah

Passover, Shakespeare and Cervantes

May 4, 2016by shalommorris 1 Comment

The first day of this year’s Pesah, the 22nd and 23 of April, marked 400 years since the passing of two great literary giants. Englishman William Shakespeare and Spaniard Miguel […]

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Torah

The Sephardi Origins of the Dreidel

December 12, 2015by shalommorris 2 Comments

Whilst visiting Portugal this past summer, I was given a gift. It appeared to be a dreidel, though I was told that it was actually a Rapa, a Portuguese top […]

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Torah

Rosh Hashanah – Britain, Bevis and the Blitz

September 13, 2015by shalommorris 2 Comments

This Rosh Hashanah British Jews will simultaneously celebrate a new year while they recall the horrors and heroics of the Blitz. September 15, 2015 is both the 75th anniversary of […]

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