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What's Good About Covid?

A Rabbi Addressing Difficult Contemporary Halachic Issues Rabbi Dr Benny Lau has been a pioneer in encouraging progress in many areas of Jewish life. A noted author, he has published scores of books on Jewish heritage. He currently heads "929", an Israeli social initiative aimed at creating discourse amongst all sectors of society based on the revival and relevance of the 929 chapters of the Tanach

Dr Leora Harverd has been a full time GP Partner at Temple Fortune Health Centre since 1998. In December 2020, she and her TFHC partners established the first Covid Vaccination Hub in the London Borough of Barnet.

Judaism Beyond Lockdown Rabbi Raphael Zarum in conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin, senior rabbi of South Hampstead Synagogue

Calev Ben-Dor has spent over 15 years in national security circles in Israel including as an analyst in the Policy Planning Division of the Foreign Ministry. He is currently Senior Research Associate at BICOM and Deputy Editor of the Fathom Journal Before making aliyah, Calev was an integral part of the CSM community, as were his parents Helen and David Bender. We are very pleased to welcome him back to Start the Week. Calev recently had an opinion piece on the upcoming Israeli elections published in the Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com/opinion/israel-elections-netanyahu-gambles-victory-on-last-impression-opinion-657726

Edwin Shuker is a London based international businessman with a wide range of educational, communal and charitable involvements. He is currently Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a Trustee of Mitzvah Day and Sephardi Voices and on the International advisory council of Limmud. A public speaker and an activist, on the issue of Jews from Arab countries, he regularly delivers presentations on Middle Eastern topics at venues which have included the House of Commons, the European Parliament and the United Nations.

You Are at Risk of Fraud – Protect Yourself Ben is Deputy Director of the National Economic Crime Centre, part of the National Crime Agency and is responsible for setting the UK’s law enforcement plan for tackling fraud, money laundering, bribery & corruption and is currently advising the Government and the public on fraud in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Start the Week with Dr Miri Freud-Kandel. Dogmas and Underdogs. What Drives an Oxford Lecturer in Modern Judaism? Rabbi Zarum in conversation with Dr Miri Freud-Kandel, Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Judaism, in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford Miri is also co-convener of the annual Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism. Her research focuses on the theological development of modern and contemporary Judaism, in particular examining Orthodox Judaism, British Jewry, and gender issues. Her latest book is a co-edited volume on Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road not Taken (Boston, 2019). She has a book length study - Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology - due to be published by Littman later this year.

Mental Health Awareness Shabbat - The Impact of the Pandemic. To mark Mental Health Awareness Shabbat, Rabbi Raphael Zarum in conversation with Adam Dawson, Chair of Jami. Mental Health Awareness Shabbat (MHAS) was launched by Jami in 2017. The aim is to raise the profile of mental health in the Jewish community. MHAS falls annually on Shabbat Bo, the weekly parasha which tells about the Plague of Darkness, which has resonance with mental illness. The theme of this year’s MHAS is The Impact of the Pandemic. Living through the ongoing pandemic has affected all our mental health, and this special Shabbat is an opportunity for the entire community to focus on and raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing.

Rabbi Zarum introduces a conversation between Dr David Stone and Dr Claire Lemer. Coping with Covid in the NHS and in Schools

Rabbi Zarum in conversation with David Breuer-Weil. An Artist in Lockdown.

Rabbi Zarum in conversation with Eliav Benjamin. A view of the new Middle East from Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Eliav Benjamin is Head of the Middle East Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Eliav shares some personal experiences of current and ongoing exciting developments in Israel’s relations with its Arab neighbours

Rabbi Zarum in conversation with Rabbi Ben Kurzer, rabbi of Pinner United Synagogue. A communal rabbi’s experience of this tumultuous year. Rabbi Ben shares some personal stories about his experiences as a communal rabbi during the past extraordinary year.

Start The Week With CSM: Rabbi Zarum Interviews Dr Leonora Weil Public Health Consultant Lead for Children, Young People and Maternity at Public Health England for London. Dr Weil shares some personal stories about 10 months of confronting COVID-19 and provides some insights into the way that policy is formed.”

Start The Week With CSM: Rabbi Zarum Interviews Richard Quest – CNN Business Editor at Large

Start the Week with CSM: Rabbi Zarum Interviews Harry Freedman – author of the recently published biography of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs

Start the Week with CSM: Rabbi Zarum Interviews Marcus Freed - performer, author, consultant and rabbi

Rabbi Michael Pollak & Rabbi Raphael Zarum Give Hespedim For Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ztz'l - 11th November 2020

With the challenge of limited services and continued government restrictions, CSM presents a four-week programme to prepare for the Yamim Noraim and reflect on the challenge of Jewish living through this pandemic. Rabbi Pollak will focus on the laws of teshuvah according to Maimonides and Rabbi Zarum will unpack key themes in the tefillah.

London School of Jewish Studies online learning via Zoom

Rabbi Sack's Covenant and Conversation series is available on line

A large selection of Shiurrim available on the YU website

Shiurrim from Nre Yisrael

South Hampsterad Shiurrim

Dunstan Road Shiurrim