Chief Rabbi’s Dvar Torah : Parshat Tzav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4sfGjen3_4 In his D’var Torah this week, the Chief Rabbi explains why this will be a great Shabbat… The Shabbat before Pesach is called Shabbat HaGadol,...

Parshat Vayishlach

In this week’s D’var Torah the Chief Rabbi wonders whether El Al is a suitable name for an airline. Is El Al a suitable name...

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Last week, the somber news emerged that Major Daniel Perez, previously reported as a hostage, was tragically no longer among the living. Our hearts...

ASK RABBI SHOCHET – on Soccer, Social Conduct, Surnames and Semitism

I’m Going To That Game – Thank You! Dear Rabbi Thank you for your response in the paper the other week to my question as to...

Parshat Balak

There were nearly four paragraphs of the Shema. The Gemarah in Mesechet Brachot (12) tells us that originally, our sages wanted to add a fourth...

Seedlings turn overnight into sunflowers

In the second blessing of the Amidah, we talk about the revival of the dead. Indeed, belief in the resurrection of the dead is...

Ask The Rabbi – Is Judaism Right For Me? 

Is Judaism Right For Me?  Dear Rabbi I am very interested in converting over to Judaism. I was raised Christian, but havefound it is not for...

Ask Rabbi Schochet on Quinoa, Bonding with Boys and the “One Kid” song

Dear Rabbi I’d like your position on quinoa on Pesach please. I’ve heard different opinions and I am left a little confused. Stacey Dear Stacey A few years...

Escape From Shushan

Things in Shushan appeared to be humming along. Seventy years earlier, Yerushalayim fell to the invading Babylonian armies, and we scattered across the Middle...

New! Pirkei Avot column!

150 issues since we began, we have reached the conclusion of Tehillim. We are now...

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