There’s no place like home

Rabbi Malcolm Herman Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz articulated this famous phrase in those final scenes of this classic film. It took me years to...

The Oscars Fiasco: A lesson

Rabbi Arnold Saunders I am not normally given to discussing the finer points of the Oscars! However, this year's Oscar ceremony made the front pages...

Chief Rabbi’s Dvar Torah : Parshat Ki Tisa

In Parashat Ki Tisa, after the sin of the golden calf, Hashem declared his intention to destroy our people. Moshe, on behalf of the...

The Chief Rabbi’s Dvar Torah – PURIM

x In his D’var Torah this week, the Chief Rabbi explains why Purim can be regarded as the holiest day of the year. On Purim, which...

AMALEK – Our perennial foe

Rabbi Saunders This week is Parshat Zachor- the second of the “Arbah Parshiot.” We read a short but powerful piece from the  Book of Devarim...

Sweet at the beginning

Last week, we talked about the importance of the numbers 3 and eighteen in the Amidah. We will now see how the eighteen blessings...

Purim – How to flip an omelette

Rabbi Ilan Halberstadt The Purim story is a fascinating tale of a complete turnaround. It appears as if Haman has secured total authority and is...

Daf Hashavua

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How to be a successful parent – through Torah, love and laughter

By Leon Symons It’s one of the great battlefields of life – parents versus children. They’re our little darlings, our bubelahs, the apples of our eyes...

Tehillim : Perek Aleph

  This week’s Tehillim, is in memory of “Hayeled Yaakov Moshe Ben Harav Avraham” פרק א א אַֽשְֽׁרֵי־הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא הָלַךְ בַּֽעֲצַת רְשָׁעִים וּבְדֶרֶךְ חַטָּאִים לֹא עָמָד...

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