18 July 2026 – 4 Av 5786 | Publications, Rabbis and Cantors, Thought
Israel didn’t mean much to me in my north-west London childhood. My parents donated to the (then) ‘Joint Palestine Appeal’ and we had a JNF Blue Collecting Box. They had bought some land in Jerusalem before the war because I remember them talking, in the late 1950s,...
27 April 2026 – 10 Iyyar 5786 | Israel, News, Publications
Questions of Israel, Zionism, Diaspora and Peoplehood are being debated today with unprecedented intensity. Within this climate, we find ourselves searching for language that can hold multiple truths at once: grief for Israeli lives lost on and since 7 October 2023,...
22 April 2026 – 5 Iyyar 5786 | Israel, Publications, Thought
It will be no surprise that editing a book on the relationship between Progressive Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel – especially as the first publication from our new Movement for Progressive Judaism – has been hard work. It has also turned out to be...
10 March 2026 – 21 Adar 5786 | Publications, Rabbis and Cantors, Thought
We live in a world of binaries, and Jewish teachings and practices have not escaped the binary straitjacket: Creator/Creation; male/female; sacred/profane; Israel/the nations; Jew/non-Jew. In my new book, I approach the task of moving beyond binaries by identifying...
9 March 2026 – 20 Adar 5786 | Publications, Thought
Three score years and ten – marked by a special publication By Alison Turner The Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries (ABTAPL) was formed in 1956 as was Leo Baeck College in Finchley, North London. ABTAPL has produced a volume to celebrate,...
