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13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. After a long and cold winter Purim is the first holidayto start off the spring season. This is the holidaywhere Jews remember the story of Esther, her uncleMordechai, King Achashverosh and the evil Haman. There are four

16 Aug 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As I write this the night sky is blazing with fireworks fromthe May Ball at a neighbouring college. Cambridgecelebrates the end of the academic year in great style. Atthe Woolf we too have been celebrating, not withfireworks,

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As part of the Faith in Mental Health project, Irecently had the opportunity to visit RamptonHospital, a high secure hospital in Retford. We wereinvited by Imam Farooq Mulla, a chaplain at thehospital and a friend of the Woolf.

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As the Forgiveness and Future-building projectcontinues, one of the most fascinating and humblingoutcomes has been engagement with peopleinvolved in or affected by conflict. As an academic,you feel safe in your ivory tower.

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. At the start of each new year, I find myself thinkingabout the past 12 months and wondering what I’ll bereflecting on next January when I look back at the. year just gone by. But with the Woolf Institute’s 25th. Anniversary

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Each year, the Institute takes a small anddistinguished delegation of supporters and patronsfrom across the three Abrahamic faiths to cities withparticularly interesting religious and interfaithhistories. In past years, we have

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Few men have the privilege and good fortune to seetheir life’s vision take shape in front of them. Ed. Kessler, whose 60th birthday we were celebratingthis week, is that rare man. But fortune played only a small part. Ed

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. I have been an intern at the Woolf Institute now fornearly a month, having returned following last year’ssummer school programme. I am an undergraduateat Brigham Young University in Salt Lake Citystudying Philosophy and

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. If you visit East Germany, where I was born andraised, any time in late March and April, you will begreeted by bushes full of Easter eggs and nests ofeggs on the ground in many gardens and publicparks. Germany may be most famous

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. It seems our world is becoming an increasinglyunsettled place: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, globalrefugee numbers increasing to over 100 million,China is flexing its muscles, internally and externally,and peace between