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Chief Rabbi Mirvis: Moral purpose shattered
A D’var Torah is a speech or text exploring a theme, verse, or idea spun out from the weekly Torah (five books of Old Testament) reading conducted in synagogues. A D’var Torah is essentially homiletic in character, seeking to convey a moral message, enjoining a congregation to right thinking and right behaviour. Moral purpose shattered… Continue reading
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A charade and a reflection on relative time: Jewish Establishment meets with Foreign Secretary Miliband
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, alongside something called the Jewish Leadership Council, had a meeting with the new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, on the 10 August. Those two organisations are part of a cluster of pro-Israel bodies that can fairly be characterised as the Jewish Establishment. Up until now, seemingly without shame, British… Continue reading
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Synod begins loosening the shackles that tied it to the pro-Israel Jewish Establishment
The previously published article below, ‘Clumsy and wrong: Jewish Establishment’s attempt to influence Church of England’s York Synod’, focused on the Jewish Establishment’s campaign to quash the possibility that the York Synod, 10 July – 14 July, would agree to ‘hear’ the Palestinian Christian Initiative: A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide, also… Continue reading
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Clumsy and wrong: Jewish Establishment’s attempt to influence Church of England’s York Synod
The Church of England’s General Synod – the Church’s highest governing body, essentially its Parliament – is meeting in York from 10 to 14 July 2026. It has a key, controversial, question to address, namely, will it ‘receive’ – not ‘approve’ – the Kairos Palestine – Palestinian Christian Initiative A Moment of Truth: Faith in… Continue reading
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Falsehoods and fabrications: tools of the Zionist lobby
The architecture of suppression has been well constructed, narrowing the legal and physical space within which public protest can find expression. And the primary, present target for curtailment and suppression is pro-Palestinian, Israel-critical demonstration. In Kettled: The control and shrinking of democratic space I set out some of the legislative measures – those in place,… Continue reading
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Jews: Isn’t it time?
The Israeli parliament – the Knesset – has passed into law the Penal Law (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists) Bill (2025) mandating the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of carrying out alleged terrorist acts. This law captures in its blooded maw Palestinians of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as well as Palestinian… Continue reading
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This is Bernard Spiegal’s blog.
I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
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- Chief Rabbi Mirvis: Moral purpose shattered
- A charade and a reflection on relative time: Jewish Establishment meets with Foreign Secretary Miliband
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- Synod begins loosening the shackles that tied it to the pro-Israel Jewish Establishment
- Clumsy and wrong: Jewish Establishment’s attempt to influence Church of England’s York Synod
Bernard Spiegal 