CORONA TAKE-AWAY

Dear Rabbi I hope you don’t mind me asking you this, in this forum. I have read some of your writings and watched some of...

Tehillim 149

This psalm is full of lofty praise for Hashem. The penultimate psalm of Tehillim has been made into an ever popular Avram Fried song....

Ask Rabbi Shochet

BACK INTO THE RING Dear Rabbi I look forward to reading your Ask the Rabbi in the Jewish Weekly every week. Torah endorses dispute and differences...

The Backward River

By Rabbi Moshe Taragin The primary Hebrew word for inheritance is “yerusha. However, the Torah supplies an additional term for inheritance– the word “nachalah”- and...

Tehillim 148

This week’s psalm brings us within touching distance of the end of Tehillim. It is one of the most all encompassing psalms in the whole...

Ask Rabbi Shochet on reopening Shuls

SHOULD WE HAVE SHUT SHULS? Dear Rabbi Was it really right to close Shuls during the pandemic and to continue restricting numbers now, even as the...

A Long Hot Summer, by Rabbi Moshe Taragin

The Table is set and history beckons! The Jews are primed to enter the land of Israel, construct a Temple, and usher in utopia...

Yom Yerushalayim Article by Rabbi Moshe Taragin

Six for Six : How the World Changed in Six Days Moshe Taragin The actual state of Israel was established 72 years ago in 1948. However,...

Shemita and Corona

By Rabbi Moshe Targin In the modern industrialized world the mitzvah of Shemittah may seem a bit remote with little relevance for our daily urbanized...

Ask Rabbi Schochet on Zoom Minyanim and Sinat Chinam

WHY CAN’T I SAY A ZOOM KADDISH? Dear Rabbi I am appreciative of all the online opportunities that are out there and I have been joining...

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