It is difficult to feel two contradictory emotions at the same time. Conflicting, if not …
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Eikev: Thank You!
We all like to take credit for success, but failure we tend to blame on others. Such is human…
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Va'etchanan: A Smart Torah
What is the role of the Jewish people? To give some insight to this most complex question we must…
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Tisha B'Av: Avoiding a Recession
When we think of Tisha B’Av many images enter our mind – this year sadly more than in the past.…
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Devarim: Straight Talk
Some of the most stirring and beautiful Biblical words – or any words – are those spoken by the…
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Mattot: To Speak or Not to Speak
“In ten utterances did G-d create the world” (Avot 5:1). It is thus not surprising that…
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Pinchas: Three Types of Leaders
Parshat Pinchas presents us with at least three distinct models of leadership.
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From Bratislava to Nikolsburg
The relationship between modernity and Judaism is perhaps the central question that Jews have…
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Balak: Hope over Dispair
As I noted in my last post I had the honour of speaking at the Beit Yehudah synagogue in Budapest…
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Shabbat in Budapest
Kazinczy, Dohany, Rumbach. For the average Hungarian these are street names in the heart of…
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Thoughts From Budapest: Past, Present, and Future
Jews first settled in Hungary in the 13th century, settling mainly in the city of Buda. In 1526 the…
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Torah in Toledo
The city of Toledo sits some 75 kilometres to the south of Madrid, the capital of Spain. It is a…
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The Expulsion
If 1148 marks the end of the Golden Age of Spain, the beginning of the end of Spanish Jewry as a…
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Chukat: From One Generation to the Next
The transition point from the generation that left Egypt to the one that entered the Land of Israel…
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Some Thoughts From Spain
Jews lived in Spain for a very, very long time, possibly from as early as Biblical times. The first…
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Korach: A Beautiful Tallit
Tzizit and Mezuzah are two of the most popular and easy to fulfil mitzvot. Thankfully, even Jews…
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Shelach Lecha: You Can Quote Me
Great people are not afraid to put their name behind their convictions. “And Calev quieted…
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Beha'alotcha: We Need You
“Moshe said to his father-in-law, ‘We are now on our way to the place that G-d promised to us. Come…