Some key events for this year (2024) can be found on this page.
If you would like me to perform, teach, lead prayer, or act as celebrant for a ceremony, please get in touch through my contact page. You can also go to the menu to see the events lists from previous years.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
| 14 Dec, 2024 Oxford Jewish Congregation | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Exodus 33:1-20 (Jacob & Esau reconcile), from parshat Vayishlach, and giving the d'var torah (sermon). |
| 13 Nov, 2024 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Delegating Responsibility' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 7 Nov, 2024 St Swithuns CE Primary School, Oxford | Speaking on teachings about 'Equity, Diversity & Inclusion' in Judaism, in partnership with the Dialogue Society's project 'Life of a Chickpea'. |
| 20 Oct, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Interfaith Sukkah tea & discussion - Co-hosting my personal invitees to the community event. |
| 15 Oct, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 9 students from the Wychwood School. |
| 14 Oct, 2024 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Women' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 23-29 Sept, 2024 | Slovenia |
| 9 Sept, 2024 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Dreams' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 27 July, 2024 London Ruach Chavurah | Co-leading the Saturday morning shacharit service. |
| 26 July, 2024 London Ruach Chavurah | Making sacred space with nigunim - preparing for Kabbalat Shabbat for the Jewish Renewal mini-retreat |
| 12 July, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 7 students from St Joseph's Catholic Primary School. |
| 8 July, 2024 Oxford Cowley group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Healing' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 25 June, 2024 Council of Christians and Jews (Oxford) | Performance by OxfordShir, the Oxford Jewish community choir, for the Annual Soirée, including seven of my own choral pieces and arrangements of traditional Jewish music. |
| 24 June, 2024 Oxford Littlemore group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Healing' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 23 June, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Concert by OxfordShir, the Jewish community choir, for the 50th Anniversary of Oxford Jewish Congregation's Constitution, including my V'taheir Libeinu and arrangement of Shlof Mayn Kind. |
| 20 June, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Solo lecture recital for the Social And Cultural Lunch Group. |
| 19 June, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 2 students from Manor Prep School. |
| 15 June, 2024 London Ruach Chavurah | Leading the Saturday morning shacharit service. |
| 5 June, 2024 Faith Belief Forum | LGBTQ+ Allies for the Faithful Allies project: Meeting 5/5. |
| 4 June, 2024 Rosehill Community Centre | Evening reception with His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Mrs Marjorie Glasgow, BEM, together with Deputy Lieutenants who support her in Oxfordshire |
| 26 May, 2024 Jewish Fair Oxford | Performing V'dirshu et shalom ('Seek the Peace of the City') with Matthew Faulk for the opening ceremony (led by the Lord Mayor Cllr. Mike Rowley) of Lag B'omer Celebration in Broad St, Oxford: 12 noon to 5pm |
| 25 May, 2024 Oxford Masorti Service | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - final verses of parshat Behar. |
| 24 May, 2024 Hanborough Primary School | Visiting the school to talk with Year 4 students about 'how Jews show commitment to God', and with Year 1 students about 'Shabbat practices'. |
| 22 May, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 4 students from Goddard Park Primary School. |
| 13 May, 2024 Oxford Cowley group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Forgiveness & Repentance' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 8 May, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 6 students from St Hugh's Prep School. |
| 7 May, 2024 Faith Belief Forum | LGBTQ+ Allies for the Faithful Allies project: Meeting 4/5. |
| 7 May, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 2 & 3 students from Bladon School. |
| 27 April, 2024 Oxford Jewish Congregation online | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Ex. 33:12-23 (Moses asks to see God) - Reading for Chol ha-Mo'ed Pesach, and giving the d'var torah (sermon). |
| 1 April, 2024 Gloucestershire | Wedding (Liberal Jewish) - live music (voice and guitar) for the ceremony |
| 30 March 2024 Oxford Masorti Service | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah from parashat Tzav, and giving a d'var torah (sermon). |
| 28 March, 2024 Leo Baeck College (Lehrhaus: Jewish Studies) | Teaching on Martin Buber's Spiritual Anarchsim: Then & Now (online session) - guest presenter for Rabbi Judith Rosen-Berry's Buber class - presenting on Buber's ideas around Jewish spiritual renewal, and his distinction between religion and religiosity. |
| 14-26 March, 2024 | South Uist |
| 13 March, 2024 Dialogue Society, and the Oxford Academy | Iftar meal, Ramadan with the Oxford Muslim community - giving a brief talk from a Jewish perspective on the evening's theme of 'Peace and Unity', and singing Y'varech'cha Adonai. |
| 5 Mar, 2024 Faith Belief Forum | LGBTQ+ Allies for the Faithful Allies project: Meeting 3/5. |
| 4 March, 2024 Oxford Littlemore group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Angels' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 1-4 March, 2024 | Madrid |
| 26 Feb, 2024 Oxford Cowley group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Fasting' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 20 Feb, 2024 Faith Belief Forum | LGBTQ+ Allies for the Faithful Allies project: Meeting 2/5. |
| 17 Feb 2024 London Ruach Chavurah | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Ex. 25:1-9 (God invites the people to bring gifts for the making of the Tabernacle) - Reading for Terumah. |
| 11 Feb 2024, 2:30-3:30pm One World Family Festival, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Gallery 44) | Songs Without Words - a nigun workshop: Join us for a circle of traditional Jewish melodies. These nigunim are meant to be sung together, melodies and harmonies weaving in and out, letting the sound wash over you. The melodies will be taught first and no one needs any prior experience—just a desire to sing and a love for music. |
| 28 Jan, 2024 Keble College Chapel, Oxford | Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration: Performance of my arrangement of the traditional song A Malekh Veynt, by OxfordShir (Oxford Jewish Community Choir). |
| 27 Jan, 2024 Oxford Progressive Congregation online | Special leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Chapter 15 of Exodus, 'The Song of the Sea', from parshat Beshallach, and giving the d'var torah (sermon). |
| 25 Jan, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 5 students from St Joseph's Catholic Primary School. |
| 22 Jan, 2024 Oxford Littlemore group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Neighbours' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 21 Jan, 2024 Together for Humanity, Oxford Town Hall | Together For Humanity: Performing V'dirshu et shalom ('Seek the Peace of the City') for a gathering of civic organisations and individuals, and faith communities as part of UK-wide 'Building Bridges' initiative of the Together for Humanity movement. |
| 20 Jan, 2024 Oxford Jewish Congregation online | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Chapter 10 of Exodus, from parshat Bo. |
| 17 Jan, 2024 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 12 students from the King's School, Witney, a "Christ-centred, independent school". |
| 16 Jan, 2024 Faith Belief Forum | LGBTQ+ Allies for the Faithful Allies project: Meeting 1/5. |
| 15 Jan, 2024 Oxford Cowley group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Angels' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 3 Jan, 2024 Cantor's Assembly (USA) | Presenting Your People Will Be My People for the monthly SongSwap - this month's meeting based on the theme of 'Beginnings'. |