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August 19, 2022, 7:30 am
Aaron – from the golden calf episode to beloved High Priest
Shabbat Shalom to all our readers.
By Rabbi Mendy Ajzenszmidt
Chazan Dov Farkas with choristers of the Kolot min Hashamayim choir
August 12, 2022, 3:00 pm
Chazanut and music: tradition and today
“Music is a signal of transcendence. The history of the Jewish spirit is written in its song.” Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
By YOSSI ARON
August 12, 2022, 8:00 am
The essence of education
Shabbat Shalom to all our readers
By Rabbi Chaim Ingram
Orthdox Jews men pray as they gather for the ritual of Tisha B'Av at the Wall Western in the Old City of Jerusalem, July28, 2012. The Tisha B'Av ceremony, literally the ninth day of the month of Av in the Hebraic calendar, is the darkest day in the Jewish calendar, marking the destruction of the two temples, first by the Babylonians in 587 BC and later by the Romans in 70 AD. Photo by Noam Moskowitz / Flash90.
August 5, 2022, 3:00 pm
Tisha b’Av through the ages
There is so much more to Tisha b’Av than simply recalling the Destruction.
By YOSSI ARON
August 5, 2022, 8:00 am
Devarim – a multi-dimensional book
Shabbat Shalom to our readers.
By Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein
Prime Minister Scott Morrison during his visit to The Ark Centre on Erev Pesach. Photo: Peter Haskin
July 29, 2022, 2:30 pm
Scott Morrison and talmudic wisdom
Whether he did so knowingly or not, Scott Morrison’s recent church sermon had a basis in the words of our sages.
By YOSSI ARON
July 29, 2022, 8:00 am
It’s complicated: To love is not always to like
Shabbat Shalom to all our readers.
By Beni Yedidyah Wajnberg
Final letters being filled in on a new torah by sofer Eli Gutnick. Photo: Peter Haskin
July 22, 2022, 3:00 pm
A lesson from a broken letter vav
The Torah is indeed an endless spring gushing forth “mayim chaim” – living waters – that spread in all directions.
By YOSSI ARON
July 22, 2022, 8:00 am
Lotteries, conflict of interest and integrity
Shabbat Shalom to all our readers.
By Rabbi Daniel Rabin
Poster advertising the first Maccabiah, 1932
July 8, 2022, 3:00 pm
Sport, the Maccabiah and religious approaches
With the Maccabiah finally at hand after COVID-caused cancellations, a reflection on its origins and early religious approaches thereto is timely.
By YOSSI ARON
July 8, 2022, 8:00 am
After everything Moshe does not enter the land
Shabbat Shalom to all our readers.
By Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann
June 24, 2022, 2:00 pm
Orthodoxy – in Israel and the Diaspora
Far from being a monolithic community, Orthodox Judaism in Israel is a fascinating tapestry of different approaches.
By YOSSI ARON
June 24, 2022, 12:00 pm
The emperor’s new clothes
Shabbat Shalom to all our readers.
By Rabbi Chaim Ingram
Statue of Hetman Bogdan Chmielnicki in Kyiv, Ukraine.
June 17, 2022, 3:30 pm
Sivan 20 – The almost forgotten fast day
Calendric dates commemorating tragedy post the Destruction are not solely the province of Holocaust memorials.
By YOSSI ARON
June 17, 2022, 10:30 am
The characteristics that constitute a book
Shabbat Shalom to all our readers.
By Rabbi Raymond Apple
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