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Shabbat Chukat & Balak

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Alone There are two portions of the Torah that we, in the diaspora, will read this Shabbat. After the crisis initiated...

Shabbat Korach

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Korach leads a rebellion against Moshe in this week’s Torah reading. Overwhelmingly, Rabbinic commentators condemn him for using religious arguments...

Shabbat Naso

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Blessings Amongst the ideas that appear in the Torah this week are the laws of the Nazarite. Someone who, out...

Adamama and LimmudOz combine for reborn Sydney festival

Have You Heard? Rob Klein -
  Adamama and LimmudOz will join forces over the June long weekend for a new Sydney festival bringing together Jewish...

The real meaning of ‘Naaseh V’Nishma’ after October 7

Featured Articles J-Wire News Service -
Every year around Shavuot, people start talking about cheesecake, all-night learning and staying awake until sunrise. And honestly, I love...

Shabbat Bo

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Mezuzah This week, we read about the Israelites' preparations to leave Egypt. “This month shall mark for you the beginning of...

The Lost Ark

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
So many people love conspiracy theories, fantasies, and lost causes. Best-selling books and movies focus on myths of missing people,...

Shabbat Chayey Sarah

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Was Hagar Abandoned? Hagar was the maid servant that Sarai (later Sarah), the wife of Avraham, took as a surrogate...

Shabbat Eykev

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
CHOSEN It still amazes me how often I hear non -Jews claim that we Jews are so arrogant and exclusive...

Curses – ancient and modern

Featured Articles Michael Kuttner -
It is amazing how very often the weekly Torah portion that we read in Synagogues on Shabbat contains startling...

Torah among sacred texts set for destruction by NZ National Library

News Greg Bouwer -
The New Zealand National Library is under fire after it was revealed that more than 500,000 books — including...

Shabbat Pinchas

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Qualities of Leadership In addition to the spiritual and ritual laws of the Torah, themes of leadership run through all...

Chief Rabbinate must allow women to take rabbinical tests, High Court rules

News Etgar Lefkovitz - JNS -
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel will be required to open its rabbinical tests to women, the High Court of...

Religious party quits Netanyahu government over army exemptions

News Pesach Benson -
Israel’s United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party announced it is leaving both the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling...

Shabbat Vayigash

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Politics Yosef comes across as a consummate politician. It starts off with the way he deals with his brothers who...

Shabbat Mikeytz: Dreams

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
Dreams play a very important part in the biblical narrative. In recent weeks, we have read about Yaakov’s dream of...

Shabbat Eykev Do as you would be done by

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
The weekly reading of Eykev follows the pattern of the previous three weeks. Moses continues his  review of  the history of the previous...

Shabbat Balak – Listening to Magicians

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
It seems strange that the whole part of the Torah we read this week should be named after a...

Shabbat Chukat: The Unknowable

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
There are various words for law in the Bible. Torah is a very general all-inclusive term. Mishpatim refers to what we call...

Shabbat Behukotai: What am I worth?

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
As we reach the end of the book of Leviticus, we've run through a series of laws, ethical and...

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