It Didn’t Start October 7th

It Didn’t Start October 7th Dear Rabbi, I note your remarks last week about the United Nations being a mockery and completely unreliable. I am generally...

A shammash in the age of electricity

THE MIRACLE OF CHANUKAH Chanukah is colourful, exciting, and popular, ranking with Purim in carnival spirit. Every type of talent is part of the festival:...

Chanukah, Hellenism, and Hamas

Jewish history isn't random. Selected to represent Hashem and inspire moral and religious spirit, our battles aren’t local and aren’t purely geopolitical. We stand...

Rebbe’s Chanukah campaign burns bright

Fifty years ago, The Rebbe launched his global Chanukah campaign. Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson's aim was to share the light of Chanukah with Jews around...

Tisha B’av: A Revolution of Consciousness

Rabbi Moshe Taragin With every passing year, our mourning for the lost Temple becomes more difficult. The disastrous fall of Yerushalayim and the derailment of...

Israel Is Not a Start-up Nation

Rabbi Moshe Taragin What happens when grand visions meet harsh realities? For hundreds of years, the land of Israel was a shimmering dream buoying the...

Ask Rabbi Shochet on Rabbi’s Sermons and Jewish Unity

Is Presentation Everything? Dear Rabbi I attend a Synagogue where the Rabbi, not originally English, struggles to express himself properly. We all understand what he’s saying...

Ask Rabbi Shochet on some Chanuka Customs

Dear Rabbi I loved your reply last week explaining the idea of gift giving on Chanukah. So much so, that I also thought it was...

Reflections on the passing of Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu zt”l

By Rabbi Jeremy Conway  Somehow it was my great zechus to become a zanav l’aroyos – “a tail to lions” and in particular to the...

The “State” of Hashem in Our World

  By Rabbi Moshe Taragin for Rosh Hashanah "All of humanity pass before You as sheep.. ". On Rosh Hashanah, Hashem reviews all human behavior, scrutinizes...

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