Videos archive
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Valerie Mirvis’ Leadership Trip to Gibraltar
View a slideshow of photos from the Rebbetzens Leadership Trip to Gibraltar 2016, which was devised by Valerie Mirvis in conjunction with CRE as the centrepiece of her Investing in Read more... -
D’var Torah: Parashat Behar
Why do we feed our animals before we sit down to eat? Can there be any exceptions? The Chief Rabbi provides an answer in his D’var Torah for Behar. It Read more... -
D’var Torah: Parashat Emor
It is a key passage in this week’s parasha that determines the number of men needed to form a minyan. Why, the Chief Rabbi enquires, do we base this number Read more... -
Chief Rabbi’s Yom Ha’atzmaut address 5776
Watch the Chief Rabbi’s address at the Bnei Akiva Yom Ha’atzmaut ceremony that was held at Kinloss (Finchley United) Synagogue last night. A full transcript follows. “Dayan Simons, Rabbanim nechmadim Read more... -
D’var Torah: Parashat Kedoshim
In his D’var Torah for this week the Chief Rabbi focuses on two Chukim (decrees from God without a logical basis) that pertain to the crossbreeding of seeds and the Read more... -
D’var Torah: Parashat Acharei Mot
The great tragedy of the Bar Kochba Revolt, which we commemorate during the Omer, reminds us that disunity can only weaken the Jewish people. We must guard against this, teaches Read more... -
D’var Torah: The Last Days of Pesach
As Pesach draws to a close, we learn that Moshe’s plea for divine assistance in the face of ostensibly insurmountable danger is not met with the response he expects. We Read more... -
D’var Torah: The first days of Pesach
In his D’var Torah for the first two days of Pesach, the Chief Rabbi explores why Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel both agreed that Hallel should be split into two Read more... -
Chief Rabbi gives annual lecture for Yeshiva University’s Strauss Center
Watch the Chief Rabbi provide congregants of America’s oldest Jewish community with pointers for Rabbinic leadership in a special memorial lecture delivered in New York. For more details of his Read more... -
D’var Torah: Parashat Metzora
The Chief Rabbi explores how the concept of Tsara’at HaBayit (‘Leprosy of Houses’) that is introduced in this week’s sedra of Metzora, may have actually served as a reward for Read more...