Selected Lectures

  • "Vezo't HaTorah: A liturgical Reassurance"
    Sam Cohen Memorial Lecture, HGS Synagogue, 19 September 2011
  • "Pirkei Avot: Dip, dip, dip"
    Talk to HGS Communal Seudah Shlishit, 27 August 2011
  • "Judaism under fire: How the early rabbis dealt with dissidents, sectarians and reformers"
    Lecture to Koor Library, Netanya, 18 May 2011
  • "The multi-faceted Ashrei psalm"
    The Rabbi Chaitowitz Memorial Lecture, Stanmore Synagogue, 24 February 2010
  • "Aspects of Purim"
    Talk to South Hampstead Adult Ed. Programme, 23 February 2010
  • "The evolution of the Yamim Nora'im rituals"
    Lecture to HGS, 18 September 2009
  • "Patriarchal History: Action and reaction"
    Stephanie Kosky Memorial lecture, 10 September 2008
  • "Rabbinic attitudes to heresies and sectarians"
    Rabbi Chaitowitz Memorial Lecture, Stanmore Synagogue, Tuesday 23 January 2007
  • "Forty years in the Rabbinate"
    Talk to Northwood Synagogue, 24 October 2004
  • "How might Hillel have dealt with the Agunah problem?"
    Keynote Lecture to Limmud, Sunday 26 December 1999