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Rabbi Ariel Abel
Rabbi Ariel Abel
Rabbi Ariel Abel is based in Liverpool
A woman holds a framed picture of Sir David Amess with a candle (Photo by Tejas Sandhu / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
October 29, 2021, 2:30 pm
Torah For Today: Sir David Amess
Rabbi Ariel Abel reflects on the tragic death of an MP, and offers a response from Jewish texts
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
Actor William Shatner will fly onboard New Shepard NS-18 along with Audrey Powers, Blue Origin's Vice President of Mission & Flight Operations, and crewmates Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries, which is scheduled to lift off from Launch Site One in Texas on October 13, 2021. Shatner, who originated the role of "Captain James T. Kirk" in 1966 for the television series Star Trek, has long wanted to travel to space and will become the oldest person to have flown to space. Photo by Blue Origin/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News
October 22, 2021, 10:01 am
Torah For Today! William Shatner’s trip to space
Rabbi Ariel Abel takes a topical issue and offers an Orthodox response
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
The forecourt of a petrol station during a run on the pumps
October 15, 2021, 12:21 pm
Torah for Today: Panic buying
Rabbi Ariel Abel reflects on the recent petrol shortage, and looks for an Orthodox answer to the problem panic buying
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
A demonstrator is taken away under arrest by police officers after a mounted baton charge, in East London, on Oct. 4, 1936, to stop fighting between anti-fascists and Sir Oswald Mosley's blackshirts.
September 30, 2021, 10:33 pm
Torah For Today: The Battle of Cable Street
Rabbi Ariel Abel takes a topical issue and looks at an Orthodox response
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
September 23, 2021, 5:40 pm
Torah For Today: Emma Raducanu
Rabbi Ariel Abel looks at a topical issue and delves into the Jewish texts for a response
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
United Flight 175 crashes into the south tower (L) of the World Trade Center in New York as the north tower burns after being hit by American Flight 11 a short time earlier, in this file photo from September 11, 2001. This year's anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington will echo the first one, with silence for the moments the planes struck and when the buildings fell, and the reading of 2,792 victims' names. REUTERS/Sean Adair-Files HB/
September 17, 2021, 2:49 pm
Torah For Today: Remembering 9/11
Rabbi Ariel Abel marks the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
August 27, 2021, 12:49 pm
Sedra of the week: Ki Tavo
Rabbi Ariel Abel looks ahead to this week's portion of the Torah
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
Naomi Osaka
August 13, 2021, 2:07 pm
Torah For Today: Mental health in sports
After top athletes Naomi Osaka, Ben Stokes, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles took time out due to mental health concerns, Rabbi Ariel Abel delves into Jewish texts for a response
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
Richard Branson recently flew to the edge of space
July 29, 2021, 11:41 am
Torah For Today: Space tourism
Rabbi Ariel Abel looks at a topical issue and delves into the Jewish texts for a response
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
July 9, 2021, 11:15 am
Torah For Today: ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders
Rabbi Ariel Abel takes a topical issue and looks at an Orthodox response
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
Murderer Colin Pitchfork 
June 17, 2021, 8:25 pm
Torah For Today: Murderer Colin Pitchfork
Rabbi Ariel Abel looks into Jewish texts for answers about dealing with rapists and murderers
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates
May 13, 2021, 7:37 pm
Torah For Today: Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce
  Rabbi Ariel Abel takes a topical issue and delves into Jewish texts for an Orthodox response
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
Duke of Edinburgh (Photo credit: Hannah McKay/PA Wire)
April 22, 2021, 3:17 pm
Torah For Today: Prince Philip
 Rabbi Ariel Abel reflects on the life of the late Duke of Edinburgh
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
Euan Blair
February 18, 2021, 4:59 pm
Torah For Today! This week: Euan Blair’s alternative to university
Rabbi Ariel Abel reflects on the former PMs son's training company which has made him a fortune and offered young people another route to success
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
February 5, 2021, 12:21 pm
Torah for Today! This week: Lockdown weddings
 Rabbi Ariel Abel takes a topical issue and looks into Jewish texts for an Orthodox response. Here, he reflects on the JN Investigation in Charedi flouting of pandemic rules
By Rabbi Ariel Abel
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