Queen Elizabeth, a Torah Celebration and Hakhel
The Last Two Mitzvos
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Kol Nidrei: breaking records
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What Jewish things are in the Guinness Book of World Records? And what records should we really strive for?
Yizkor: Are We Progressing or Regressing?
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Is the world getting better or worse? Were Jews once better off? What is the correct way to view the current state of the Jewish people?
Royalty
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Lessons we can learn from the Royal funeral.
Break the doors down
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Why do you put yourself in a box? Open the doors for every single Jew!
Remembering G-D
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What is Rosh Hashanah really about?
May We All Be Leaders
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Why do we eat the fish-head on Rosh Hashanah?
JUDAISM: THE ‘NO EXCUSES’ POLICY
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What does this week’s parsha say about the different excuses you might proffer?
A Russian Conspiracy
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Enemy of the Soviet Government This week, I discovered that my father, Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, was considered an enemy of the state in the Soviet Union at the young age of just 18 years old, considered so dangerous that a memo about him was disseminated among the highest echelons of power, even those closest to Stalin. This memo was only recently discovered: In June 1950, a deputy minister of the...
Giving Thanks with Firefighters
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Israelis were very excited when their firefighter delegation was sent to California.
What was so unique about this occasion, and what does it tell us about the meaning of gratitude?