The rise in food poverty and work insecurity is no longer a hidden issue, lockdown has seen to that.

We have lived with heightened anxiety, fear and worries for so long now without a break, the pressure on people is taking its toll. Though we are gaining more freedoms the worries and fear are not dispelled. I

"I'm a Care Worker in Wales and have just come off my night shift from the care home. I’ve been back on the frontline after several weeks ill with Covid-19. “

Even in these most difficult of verses there are important lessons for us all, even/especially today. For though LGBTQ+ rights have grown at least in the UK/Europe that is not the case everywhere, and even in the UK growing up as LGBTQ+ today is not straightforward or easy.

The past four weeks have been a wake-up call for the world, for communities and for individuals to the ongoing urgent issues around everyday racism, micro aggression and structural racism in our societies.

Crouch End Chavurah has yet to make any public announcement about the events that have taken place in the US over the last two weeks (and as we have seen, subsequently also taken place in the UK and other countries).

A cheshbon nefesh is normally something we should be doing during the High Holy Days, an accounting of what we have done right and wrong, what we should have done and what we want to change during a whole year of living.

part from a bank holiday in northern Norway one year where nothing was open and Yom Kippur, they have never experienced want and a lack of food. Were they grateful at the end of our small rationing experiment? We definitely counted our blessings in a different way.