Finding Love
August 7, 2020 by Jeremy Rosen
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Did you know that there is an ancient tradition that on two days in the year, unmarried girls used to go out dancing in the vineyards around Jerusalem in order to find a marriage partner? Read more
New president for World Union for Progressive Judaism
May 18, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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The World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) has unanimously approved the selection of Rabbi Sergio Bergman from Argentina as the next president of WUPJ. Read more
Does Judaism believe in turning the other cheek?
April 27, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
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Ask the rabbi. Read more
Eating an idol
March 13, 2020 by Jeremy Rosen
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Eating plays a very important part in Jewish rituals, every day of the year. Read more
Sin? Not such a big deal
October 18, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
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Next week we will restart the annual Torah reading cycle and that always reminds me of Sin! Adam and Eve and all that. Read more
Why do bad things happen
October 4, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
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For thousands of years, we have been asking why God lets bad things happen to good people and good things happen to very bad ones. Read more
Remember
September 27, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
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The occasion that we now call Rosh Hashana, is referred to in the Bible only as Zihron Teruah – the Day of Remembering with Sound. One is bound to ask: “remembering what? And what does the sound of the Shofar have to do with it?” Read more
The Seventeenth of Tammuz
July 19, 2019 by Jeremy Rosen
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Five really bad things happened to the Jewish people on the Seventeenth of Tammuz. Which is why we fast from dawn to dusk. This year the seventeenth is on Shabbat, but we fast on Sunday. Shabbat is reserved for happy days. Read more
One day or one lifetime
May 17, 2019 by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie
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There is an interesting halachic discussion regarding the Mitzvah of Sefirat Haomer – the forty-nine days that we count between the festival of Pesach and Shavuot. The authorities debate whether counting the Omer is considered one long mitzvah, or forty-nine independent obligations. Read more
Is religion one of the world’s problems?…ask the rabbi
June 18, 2018 by Rabbi Raymond Apple
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Rabbi Raymond Apple served for 32 years as the chief minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Australia’s oldest and most prestigious congregation. and now lives in Jerusalem. He proffers his answer… Read more
