Some key events for this year (2025) 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.
| 2025 | |
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| 10 Dec, 2025 Oxford Council of Faiths & Dialogue Society | Interfaith Friendship Dinner - Speaking and performing |
| 9 Dec, 2025 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Free Will & Destiny' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 1 Dec, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by two groups of Year 5 & 6 students from Wolvercote Primary School. |
| 24, 27, 28 Nov, 2025 Oxford Academy | Speaker for Year 9 students for The Life of a Chickpea project with the Muslim Dialogue Society. |
| 6 Nov, 2025 Mansfield College, Oxford | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Hospitality' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews, hosted by the Revd. Nathan Eddy, Chaplain of Mansfield College (Find handout here.) |
| 5 Nov, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 9 students from Wychwood School. |
| 4 Nov, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a visit by Oxford U3A group. |
| 28 Oct, 2025 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Encountering God' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 25 Oct, 2025 Oxford Masorti service | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Gen. 7:10-16, from parshat Noach, and giving the d'var torah (sermon). |
| 18 Oct, 2025 London Ruach Chavurah (Jewish Renewal) | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Chapter 3 of Genesis, from parshat B'reishit. |
| 8 Oct, 2025 Oxfordshire SACRE | Meeting of Oxfordshire SACRE (Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education) - attending as faith representative for Judaism |
| 7 Oct, 2025 Hope4Creation | 'A One-Day Pilgrimage' article - reflecting on the one-day conference 'Pilgrimage, Nature, and Us' (4 Oct, Oxford). |
| 1 Oct, 2025 London Ruach Chavurah (Jewish Renewal) | Singing Kol Nidrei for the start of Yom Kippur. |
| 16 Sept, 2025 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'The Stranger' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 14 Sept, 2025 Oxford Open Doors | Hosting visitors touring the synagogue and other historic spaces as part of the national Open Doors initiative. |
| 24 July, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a visit by students from Florida Tech University. |
| 18 July, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by two groups of Year 9 students from Matthew Arnold School. |
| 17 July, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by two groups of Year 9 students from Matthew Arnold School. |
| 16 July, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 1 students from the St Andrew's CofE Primary School. |
| 12 July, 2025 Oxford Progressive service | Leading shacharit. (Portion: Balak) |
| 7 July, 2025 Bishop Loveday CE PrimarySchool | Visiting the school to talk about Judaism with Yr 2 students. |
| 26 June, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting visitors interested in Judaism at the start of the annual Interfaith Friendship Walk coordinated by the Oxford Council of Faiths. |
| 24 June, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting the school by Year 1& 2 students from the Basildon CofE Primary School. |
| 23 June, 2025 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Journeys' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 21 June, 2025 Prestwold Hall, Loughborough | Celebrant for interfaith marriage blessing. |
| 17 June, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a school visit by Year 2 students from the Manor Prep School. |
| 14 June, 2025 Oxford Progressive service | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Chapter 12 of Numbers, from parshat B'ha'alot'cha, and giving the d'var torah (sermon). |
| 5 June, 2025 Mansfield College, Oxford | Crossing Boundaries: An Interfaith discussion for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot - teaching and facilitating alongside the Mansfield chaplain Rev Nathan Eddy and university Jewish chaplain Rabbi Moish Blum. |
| 31 May, 2025 Oxford Masorti service | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Chap.3 of Numbers, from parshat Bamidbar. |
| 26 April, 2025 Oxford Masorti service | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Chap.11 of Leviticus, from parshat Tzav. |
| 23 April, 2025 - Yom Hashoah Oxford Jewish Congregation and Oxford Council of Christians and Jews | Performance of A Malekh Veynt / An Angel Weeps by OxfordShir Jewish community choir for Yom Hashoah commemoration. |
| 19 April, 2025 London Ruach Chavurah (Jewish Renewal) | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Song of the Sea, Chap.15 of Exodus - for 7th day Pesach. |
| 15 April, 2025 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Hope & Resilience' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 12 April, 2025 (1st night Pesach) Oxford | Leading a Pesach seder. |
| 12 April, 2025 (Shabbat HaGadol) Oxford Progressive service | Leyning (chanting) of the Torah - Chapter 6 of Leviticus, from parshat Tzav, and giving the d'var torah (sermon). |
| 20 March, 2025 St Swithun's CE Primary School | Leading sessions on Judaism for Year 2 students. |
| 6 March, 2025 North London | Leading shiva prayers (Jewish Renewal approach). |
| 5 March, 2025 Jewish Woodland Cemetery | Leading a funeral, and co-leading shiva prayers (Reform rites). |
| 18 Feb, 2025 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Communication' (also in relation to social media) A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |
| 6 Feb, 2025 North London | Co-leading shiva prayers (Reform rites). |
| 26 Jan, 2025 Keble College Chapel, Oxford | Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration with OxfordShir (Oxford Jewish Community Choir). |
| 25 Jan, 2025 Oxford Progressive service | Leading shacharit. (Portion: Va'era) |
| 24 Jan, 2025 Headington Rye School | Co-leading sessions on Judaism for school groups: Yr 7 (Jewish beliefs & practices), Yr 9 (Shoah / Holocaust), and a GCSE group. |
| 18 Jan, 2025 London Ruach Chavurah (Jewish Renewal) | Leading the shacharit. (Portion: Shemot) |
| 15 Jan, 2025 Oxford Synagogue | Hosting a visit of ordinands from St Stephens House, Oxford (Catholic college). |
| 13 Jan, 2025 Oxford group | Scriptural Reasoning - Topic: 'Charity / Social Justice' A meeting of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. (Find handout here.) |