Mordechai Wollenberg

Grew up in Oxford studied in Birmingham Uni, yeshivot in Israel and America. Plays piano

[Mordechai Wollenberg @rabbiw]

Shabbos Bereishis Sermon: The Lights Stay On!
Addressing Zionism and the Green Party
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Click here for Rabbi W’s new “Parsha Minute” video - please like and share
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continuing reality of antisemitism, and we reaffirm our commitment to stand against intolerance in all its forms. In healthcare, and in society, our responsibility is clear: to see the human being in front of us, to uphold dignity without exception, and to ensure that prejudice

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My thoughts for Holocaust Memorial Day as shared with BHRUT NHS Trust, where I am a Jewish Chaplain...
Today, on Holocaust Memorial Day, we pause to remember the Shoah - the systematic murder of six million Jews - and the millions of others who were persecuted and murdered

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regardless of faith, ethnicity, background, belief, or identity.
Holocaust Memorial Day reminds us that equality is not passive.
It must be actively protected.
Silence in the face of hatred allows harm to grow.
Today we remember the victims of the Shoah, we acknowledge the

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has no place in the care we give or the culture we create.
May remembrance strengthen our resolve not only to remember the past, but to protect the future.

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Ahead of COP30 we joined @ecojudaism in Parliament Square today we heard from @chiefrabbi and Jo Grose as well as a range of speakers spanning different ages and generations. 🌍

#EcoJudaism #ClimateChange #TheUnitedSynagogue #PoweringJewishLife

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@AyoubKhanMP This petition from @StandWithUsUK to ensure that Israeli fans can attend the Aston Villa match in Birmingham now has 4 times as many signatures in 48 hours as Ayoub Khan and Jeremy Corbyn managed to get in a month. Police must deal with the perpetrators not punish the victims!

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My sermonf rom today https://t.co/OUdDR3xoG3

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Statement from Chabad Lubavitch UK on the terrorist attack in Manchester.

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@seanspraguesr @koshercockney I’m sure you mean well but these are Jewish victims so actually no they wouldn't believe that and not appropriate

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@TfL @MayorofLondon please can someone sort out the tube network at least half the lines had severe delays this morning it’s not sustainable. This happens on a regular basis my kids travel to school on the train they say there are delays every single day.

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This morning Barnaby Nemko, our Director of Community Life, and Woodford Forest's Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg, Dorot Rabbi, were delighted to be speaking about important environmental issues at the community's first ever eco vigil outside Parliament, to mark COP29.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Some fantastic writing by @gerardtbaker! Such clarity!

Please read.

Wall Street Journal article:

A debt we can never repay: the Jewish state is safeguarding the very future of civilisation How will we ever repay the debt we owe Israel? What the Jewish state has done in the past year – for its own defence, but in the process and not coincidentally for the security of all of us – will rank among the most important contributions to the defence of Western civilisation in the past three-quarters of a century.

Having been hit with a devastating attack on its people, beyond the fetid imagining of some of the vilest anti-Semites, Israel has in 12 months done nothing less than redraw the balance of global security, not just in the region, but in the wider world.

It has eliminated thousands of the terrorists whose commitment to a savage theocratic ideology has claimed so many lives across the region and the world for decades.

It has, with extraordinary tactical accuracy, dispatched some of the masterminds of the worst evil on the planet, including most recently Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader in Lebanon. It has repelled and then reversed the previously inexorably advancing power of one of the world’s most terrifying autocracies, the Islamic Republic of Iran. It has demonstrated to all the West’s foes, including Iran’s allies in Moscow and Beijing, that our system of free markets and free people, and the voluntary alliance network we have constructed to defend it, generates resources and capabilities of vast technical superiority.

Above all, it has provided an unexpected but crucial reminder to our enemies that there are at least some willing and able to pursue and defeat them whatever the risk to our own lives and resources.

The only appropriate responses to Israel’s gallantry, fortitude and skill from us – its nominal allies, especially in the US – are “thank you” and “how can we help?”

Instead, time and again Israel’s supposed friends, including the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, have, while expressing sympathy over the outrage of October 7 and uttering the usual support for “Israel’s right to defend itself”, repeatedly tried to restrain it from doing just that.

Their early, valuable support has been steadily diminished by the way they have too often connived with the anti-Israel extremists in their own party.

Before Israel had even buried its dead last October and as Hamas was busy murdering its hostages, there were calls for Israel to cease fire.

For a year we have heard our leaders’ “balanced” condem - nations of Hamas and its terror masters on the one hand and the Jewish state on the other, a false equivalence that says more about the moral disorder in our own politics than about Israel’s motives and actions.

In Europe, they have gone even further, as usual, rewarding Hamas and Hezbollah by nominally recognising a non-existent Palestinian state and prosecuting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bogus war crimes charges.

Do they not get that in the end we have to make a choice: our ally, on the front lines of defence against barbarism, or our enemies, those who literally want to see us all buried? Fortunately for all of us, it seems Israel is prevailing despite the chorus of hecklers.

Perhaps all this sounds too blithe for sceptical readers; or at least premature given the rising expectation of a much wider conflict to come. And it is true that there has been awful loss of innocent lives in Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere that undoubtedly fuels the ire of the enemy across the world. What if Netanyahu and his government’s aggressive prosecution proves a Pyrrhic victory? But that wider conflict was perhaps always inevitable, given Iran’s stated objectives and its consistent efforts to achieve them. We can say two things tentatively about that long-feared wider confrontation.

First, the strategic, tactical, intelligence and technological genius Israel has demonstrated over the past year might have done so much damage to Iran’s proxy armies and their military and political leaders that they will be illprepared and equipped for the bigger struggle to come, and Israel – and, let’s hope, reliable allies – better placed to defeat its enemies.

Second, having observed this Israeli superiority over that time and eagerness not to bring the destruction on itself a wide war would surely bring, perhaps Iran will be deterred.

Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few, Winston Churchill said of the men of the Royal Air Force after they had repelled Hitler’s Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. (Reminder to some recently confused “conservatives”: the former were the good guys; the latter the real villains.) We should echo those words today as we watch in awe what a country smaller in area than New Jersey, with a population less than North Carolina’s and an economy smaller than that of Washington state has done for all of us.

As Israelis mark a year since October 7, we should not only redouble our expressions of sympathy and solidarity. We should show them our gratitude, and if we are willing to be honest, acknowledge a little of our own shame.

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@RedbridgeAction Tone deaf rather

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

A shocking statistic I heard from my pops.