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...
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...
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...
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...
Donkeygate
by Rabbi Moshe Taragin
A lot was at stake. We were perched to enter the promised land, launch Jewish history, and assemble the kingdom...
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...
Moving and Meaningful Tisha B’Av programme Whitefield Community Kollel in their new home, Shomrei...
Sunday Tisha B’Av saw a well-attended day long programme offered at Shomrei Hadas Shul Prestwich by Whitefield Community Kollel.
In the day’s programme, led by...
Naso, a brave new world
The drama of a nazir illustrates our delicate interface with the physical world which surrounds us. God crafted us as spiritual creatures- more angel...
Parshat Bechukotai: what drives history?
Our sedra contains the tochacha, a whole litany of curses that will befall the Jewish People should they turn away from a life of...
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...
