JUST ONE LETTER Just one letter is all it took to transform world history. In Exodus Chapter 1 verse 9 the ''Melech Chadash'', the new...

LAG B’OMER I read that it was the custom in some Eastern European towns and shtetls to visit their cemetery on Lag B’Omer to clean up the...

A Japanese reflection on counting the Omer On my first visit to Japan I was amused to hear music being played when the traffic lights...

Parachat Emor – Hier encore, j'avais vingt ans, je gaspillais le temps En croyant l'arrêter Et pour le retenir, même le devancer Je n'ai...

For Friday, May 5, 2023 / Iyar 14 / Pesach Sheni Today is Iyar 14th which is also called “Pesach Sheni”. It’s now a month ago that we...

From the Rabbi for Kehillah May 2014: By the time you read this Pesach will be a memory – the story of the exodus from Egypt told once...

REMEMBER AMALEK Who were the Amalekites? A nomadic tribe who attacked and attempted to despoil the Israelites who had just crossed...

The Endless Journey The endless journey no pathways just a tangle of weeds and stinging nettles stumps and burrows ambushing my feet....

From the night of the communal Seder or for most people from the second night of Pesach we start counting the Omer, which is a 49 day...

WHERE ARE WE HEADING? We have celebrated Pesach – the anniversary of the day we left Egypt. The date is known. 15th. of Nissan. But when...