Sichat Yosef
A collapsed building in Kahramanmaras Province, southern Turkey, February 6, 2023. Photo: Times of Israel/Depo Photos
February 16, 2023, 12:19 pm
Israel and the recent earthquake
Albeit lightly, Israel too was impacted by the recent regional earthquake activity – as it had been by many past such events.
By YOSSI ARON
Rabbi Ari Rubin and Aaron Standley next to the menorah constructed out of recycled cans for the public lighting in Cairns on December 18. Photo: Ari Rubin
December 15, 2022, 1:11 pm
The public celebration of Chanukah
With Chanukah upon us once again it’s time to focus on the meaning of its celebration.
By YOSSI ARON
Meat display at Continental Kosher Butchers, Melbourne.
October 28, 2022, 10:00 am
The great flood and our diet
It seems clear from the first two parashiyot of Bereshit that God’s original design at the time of creation was that man should be vegetarian.
By YOSSI ARON
September 9, 2022, 3:30 pm
The early years of Mizrachi in Melbourne
This year 5782 (2021/2) that marked 120 years of Mizrachi worldwide also marks the arrival of Mizrachi in Caulfield, 70 years ago.
By YOSSI ARON
Advertisements in The AJN for Rosh Hashanah 1952
September 2, 2022, 12:30 pm
The High Holy Days in Australia many decades ago
Reflecting on the High Holy Days
By YOSSI ARON
Sounding a Yemenite shofar
August 26, 2022, 2:30 pm
As the shofar is heard across the land
This Rosh Hashanah we will hear it without a need for special permission – but the shofar season is already upon us.
By YOSSI ARON
Rabbi Shlomo Kohn and Danny Lamm making the Eruv. Photo: David Prins.
August 19, 2022, 2:30 pm
Melbourne Eruv – 25 years on
This Shabbat, parashat Eikev, marks the completion of 25 years of uninterrupted operation of Melbourne Eruv.
By YOSSI ARON
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Australian Jewish clergy at the dedication of the new St Kilda Synagogue, 13 March 1927: Danglow, Rabbi Dr Joseph Abrahams, Rabbi Solomon Zvi Mestel, Rabbi Francis L. Cohen, Reverend J. Falk, Rabbi Israel Brodie
June 10, 2022, 1:45 pm
The changing rabbinate
Changes in the rabbinate over time reflect communal change.
By YOSSI ARON
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