by Habonim Dror | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog
Growing up I was always aware of a family story that sounded frankly bizarre: our ancestors, when fleeing Eastern Europe at the end of the 19thcentury, had supposedly got on a ship thinking it was headed for New York, but when the ship later docked in Dublin they...
by Habonim Dror | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog
The festival of sukkot can be interpreted in different ways depending on which branch of Judaism we identify with. Traditionally, sukkot commemorates the years that Jews spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land, and celebrates the way in which God...
by Habonim Dror | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog
This week concludes the 10 days of atonement in the Jewish calendar, culminating in Yom Kippur. Whether one practices cultural, reform, or orthodox Judaism, Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar and most of us conform in some way to its laws and...
by Habonim Dror | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog
A Boger of Habonim Dror, Benjy Goldstone, went to the vigil for the victims of the Pittsburgh Massacre on the 31st of October 2018. You can read below his inspiring speech. Hello, my name is Benjy. I’m a first-year student at Nottingham Trent University and am a...
by Habodror | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog
The events of the Holocaust clearly exposes dehumanisation on both sides in its purest sense, that of the Nazis and of the Jews. Whether it is subconscious or not, today we as humans dehumanise the Nazis as if they weren’t themselves part of the same human race....
by Shnat Blog | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog, Shnat, Uncategorized
It’s one week in, and Shnat Club 7 are already taking to kibbutz life like a butternut squash to a roasting tin. We’ve eaten more vegetables in the past week than Daniel Birtles, the Vegan guru himself, has had in the last 2 years. When we aren’t being shushed by...
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