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Music Played

  • Marc Almond

    The Days Of Pearly Spencer

    • Now 22 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Lynn Anderson

    Rose Garden

    PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Snap Out Of It

    • (CD Single).
    • Domino.
    • 001.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Shirley Bassey

    As I Love You

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • The Singles.
    • Epic.

  • Fyfe Dangerfield

    She Needs Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • George Ezra

    Budapest

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Michael Franti & Spearhead

    I'm Alive (Life Sounds Like)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 001.

  • Ella Henderson

    Ghost

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Michael Jackson

    Love Never Felt So Good (feat. Justin Timberlake) (feat. Justin Timberlake)

    • Xscape.
    • Sony Music.

  • Johnny Hates Jazz

    I Don't Want To Be A Hero

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Chaka Khan

    I'm Every Woman

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Manhattan Transfer

    Spice Of Life

    • The Manhattan Transfer Anthology.
    • Rhino.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

    (I've Had) The Time Of My Life

    • The Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • The Move

    Flowers In The Rain

    • Move.
    • Esoteric Recordings.
    • 010.

  • No Doubt

    Don't Speak

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Billy Ocean

    Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.

  • Orange Juice

    Rip It Up

    • Rip It Up (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Roxette

    The Look

    • Now 15 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.
    • 001.

  • Supertramp

    Goodbye Stranger

    • Autobiography Of Supertramp.
    • A&M.
    • 10.

  • Texas

    Inner Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Thompson Twins

    Hold Me Now

    • 80s Mania (Various Artists).
    • BMG.
    • 3.

  • The Tourists

    I Only Want To Be With You

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton‐John

    You're The One That I Want

    • Grease (Original Movie S/Track).
    • Polydor.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:


This last weekend, we had our volunteers’ Shabbat, celebrating the people who contribute to the wellbeing of our community and beyond. It was heart-warming and moving. But there was sadness there, too, as we remembered those who fell at D-Day. We ended the Saturday service with the Dam busters theme tune, thinking of the soldiers, and airmen, who died. Our gratitude to them, and recognition that because of them we can live out our lives in freedom, gives us all the more impetus to try to help others. And so we celebrated those who volunteer, from the coffee rota to the winter night shelter for homeless people, from the drop in for asylum seekers, to those who visit the sick, the old and the bereaved.

Some years ago, I chaired the independent Commission into the future of volunteering. One of its members coined that memorable phrase: ‘getting volunteering into the DNA of our society.’ I love the idea that all of us should give time as volunteers, to older people and young, but also expect at some stage in our lives to receive support from volunteers, be it when we’re old and just out of hospital, or when we need some advice about a problem from a friendly Citizens’ Advice Bureau. We were celebrating that concept last weekend. 

As a nation, we are pretty good volunteers. But can we take that relationship even further- and recognise that each of us needs to do something, whatever it might be, for some person or charity, or whatever, and that each of us needs to learn to accept graciously the help that is offered when we need it. Rabbi Hillel, was a great Jewish teacher, who used often strange encounters as a way to teach wisdom. 

One day, a guy aiming to be unpleasant, asked the Rabbi to teach him Torah whilst standing on one foot – almost impossible and painful to do!

Hillel retorted:

“What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow human being. The rest is commentary’’ (meaning additional explanation). ‘’Go and study it.”

So for me, the logical, and positive, way of looking at it is: “Whatever is likely to be welcomed by your fellow human being, do it and do it gladly!” The rest is commentary. So now - let’s get on with it.

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