From resilience to radical resilience What is resilience? Colloquially, we often talk about the ability to ‘bounce back’ after a crisis or setback, returning to our usual activities, and our usual selves. But Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt’l , backed by both contemporary psychological research, Jewish tradition, and the broad arc of Jewish history, encouraged us to be more ambitious: we should aim to emerge stronger, as both individuals and communities, from every setback. Sounds go

Kenneth Sheldon Wright (Yechiel Selig ben Pesach v’Lila z'l) passed away on Saturday, 19 th  July in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Born in...

The biblical story of Noah has been sanitized in our culture. We are inundated with images of a smiling Noah (and, often enough, Mrs...

In case anyone didn’t get the memo, Sunday is going to be hot. Not as hot as Monday or Tuesday, but hitting 30 degrees in suburban...

Productivity and self-help gurus often suggest that everyone should do their own personal ‘annual review’ in December or early January....

During Elul I taught a short online course on Judaism, positive psychology and BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits method for behaviour change. Janine...

By Orna Hillman Dalia Bertha bat Yocheved v’Avraham ztl, was niftar on 15 Iyar/27th April 2021. She was born and raised in Manchester,...

Like many of my colleagues in Jewish education, I sometimes struggle to remember precisely what I learned from R. Sacks zt’l. This is not...

By Tanya White This year I’ve been teaching a course at Matan on the problem of evil – On the heels of Covid I thought it may speak to...

or When did we abandon Health & Safety? By Ian Gamse A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a lavish party at a newly-opened...

Several years ago I came across a simple yet powerful idea in the work of leading executive coach Dr Marshall Goldsmith. Leaders at all...

During chol hamoed pesach my husband and I usually include a theatre or cinema visit amongst our activities. A particular highlight in...

One way to use the questions below is to cut out each question as an individual strip of paper. Put all of the strips into a basket. Each...

In schools, nurseries, and Jewish homes around the world, little children are being coached, coaxed, and cajoled into learning to sing or...

Guest post by Ian Gamse There are times when one has to go back to first principles in halakha, to ask fundamental definitional questions...