Shabbat Yitro: Belief
January 31, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
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“I am Ad’nai, your God, who took you out of Egypt” (Exodus 20:2). Read more
Shabbat Bo: Lessons from the Exodus
January 18, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
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There are two themes amongst the many in this week’s Torah that stand out as being particularly relevant at this moment in time. Read more
Shabbat Vaeyra: Persuasion
January 11, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
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This week, we read about the process through which Moses and Aaron try to persuade the pharaoh that he should let the children of Israel go. Read more
Shabbat Shemot: Knowing, Forgetting, remembering
January 4, 2024 by Jeremy Rosen
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A new king arose who did not know of Joseph (Exodus 1.8). Read more
Shabbat Vayehi – Fear not
December 28, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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As we complete the book of Bereishit, Genesis, this week, Jacob has died, and the brothers now turn to Joseph and say, “Our father asked us to beg you to forgive us for what we did to you”( Genesis 50:15-21 ). Read more
Torah scroll, hidden during Holocaust, brought to Yad Vashem
A Torah scroll hidden in the attic of a synagogue in Poland that was ransacked on Kristallnacht was placed in the Holy Ark at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust remembrance centre. Read more
Shabbat Vayigash: Diplomacy
December 21, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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Shabbat Mikeytz: End of Days
December 14, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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This week’s Torah reading starts when Joseph had been in jail for a crime he had not committed. Read more
Shabbat Vayeytzey: Initiative
November 23, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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Shabbat Toldot: Esau or Ishmael
November 16, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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Last week, we read about how Isaac and Ishmael came together to bury their father. And in fact, they lived together at the same place, Be’er Lechai Roi. Their coming together seems to have been complete. Read more
Shabbat Lech Lecha: Bad people and good
October 26, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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We are living under conditions that remind us of how much we Jews can be hated and to what extremes our enemies can go in order to express such hatred. Read more
Shabbat Ki Tavo: The Land of Israel
August 31, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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“When you enter the land that your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, you shall take the first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that your God giving you, and put them in a basket and go to the place that God chooses and to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, “I acknowledge this day before your God that I have entered the land that swore to our fathers to assign us.” ( Deuteronomy 26:1-2). Read more
Shabbat Ki Teytsey: Long Life
August 24, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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Shabbat Shoftim: Kings and Judges
August 17, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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Shabbat Re’eh: Adding or Subtracting
August 10, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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Shabbat Devarim: The books of the bible
July 21, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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Why do we call the fifth book of the Torah that we start this week Devarim but non-Jews ( and some Jews) call it Deuteronomy? Read more
Perth’s Carmel School educator selected to embark on empowering learning journey
July 19, 2023 by Community newsdesk
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Carmel School’s Teacher of Jewish Studies, Hebrew and Food Technology, Shohan Taub, has secured one of only ten available Australian scholarships for the Torah L’Am course. Read more
Torah and bible burning in Stockholm was never going to happen
Swedish national Ahmed Alloush never planned to go through with the burning of holy Jewish texts and the Christian bible and only wanted to make sure authorities weren’t selectively enforcing laws
Shabbat Behar & Behukotai – The Good the Bad and the Ugly
May 11, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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The book of the Torah called Vayikra or Leviticus, is also called the Book of Purity. Read more
Shabbat Tazria & Metzorah: Healthy in body and mind
April 20, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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The chapters of the Torah that we are reading now are concerned with health and what happens when our bodies do not function effectively or normally. Read more
Shabbat Vayikra: Sacrifices
March 23, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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At this time of the year, the Torah readings are all to do with sacrifices. I shall confess that the thought of killing animals does not fill me with any great enthusiasm. Read more
Shabbat Vayakhel Pekudei: Repetition is Good
March 16, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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It is an interesting phenomenon that the major events of the Torah that play a crucial role in the life of the people from a philosophical point of view are repeated in slightly different ways. Read more
Shabbat Ki Tisa: What does God look like?
March 9, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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The dominant theme of the Torah this Shabbat is the episode of the Golden Calf. Read more
Shabbat Vaeyra: Hard Hearts
January 19, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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Moses and Aaron are locked in a power struggle with Pharaoh, who seemingly holds all the cards. Read more
Shabbat Vayehiy: Favouritism
January 5, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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As we come to the end of the Book of Bereishit (Genesis), we can look back and see a thread in the narrative of human beings grappling with the moral and spiritual challenges that we all face. Read more
Shabbat Vayeytzey: Dreams and Fears
December 1, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
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Jacob flees his parents’ home because he fears that Esau will kill him for taking the blessing from Isaac. Read more
Shabbat Toldot: Deception
November 25, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
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The Torah is very clear about deception. “Do not deceive or lie to each other”( Leviticus 19.11). Read more
Shabbat Eykev: Bread is not enough
August 18, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
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It is a strange sentence. “I provided you with the Manah so that you should know that a person does not live on bread alone.” And then, the Torah goes on to extoll the physical richness of the land the Israelites are coming to and how it will provide all the food they could want. Read more
Shabbat Shelach Lecha: Grasshoppers
June 23, 2022 by Jeremy Rosen
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Moses was instructed by God to send men to go on a tour of the Land of Canaan. Read more
Torah hidden in 1941 Iraqi riots presented to a Samarian synagogue
Over eight decades after Yitzhak witnessed as a boy the Farhud, the anti-Jewish riots in Iraq, he has presented an ancient Torah scroll saved from the riots to the synagogue at Havat Yair in Samaria, where his grandchildren live today. Read more