The Chris Vs Will Debate
Dear Rabbi
OK so by now everyone has seen the whole episode of Chris Rock making fun of Will Smith’s wife’s illness and the latter...
Parshat Tazria: even a miracle requires waiting
We’ve now entered the thicket of Sefer Vayikra, dealing as it does with the more obscure laws of sacrifices, Biblical leprosy, cleansing, and purity.
Whilst...
Stenecourt’s Purim party: pizza, magician and puppets
Stenecourt held a Purim party last week. There was a magician, pizza and chips, and an abbreviated children's megillah reading with puppets acting out...
OzTorah: The mind & the mouth – Sh’mini
Torah reading: Sh'mini
FOOD LAWS – THE MIND & THE MOUTH
A rabbi sometimes has a hard life. People expect so much of him. Actually most rabbis...
The fifth question many never ask
BEFORE, DURING or AFTER Pesach
Background:
I am an insurance broker by profession and for the last 70 years our business has helped our clients with...
Maran Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky has passed away
It is with tremendous anguish that we inform you of the passing of the Sar HaTorah, Maran HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, aged 94.
Rav Chaim was...
Jewish Care’s Purim Zumbathon is back
Hundreds of children from seven primary schools are dancing their way through Purim whilst raising funds for Jewish Care to support older people in...
Shushan and the culture “carousel”
Everything in the Purim story happened so quickly. Out of nowhere, an unknown upstart named Haman rose to power and launched a genocidal plan...
Happy? I’m just not feeling it!
Dear Rabbi
We are supposed to rejoice in the month of Adar and especially on Purim. But what if you’re just not feeling it? I...
Parshat Vayikra: What does Esther have to do with Korbanot?
Is there any connection between Purim and Parshat Vayikra?
Animal offerings are one of the central topics of Sefer Vayikra: “When a person from among...
