Shabbat friendly pdf at bottom of the page. In the last two years I have witnessed something extraordinary. Despite war, loss, devastation, and a hatred so raw it has shaken the foundations of everything we thought we understood about the world — the Jewish people have not given up. I don't want to romanticise this. We are broken. There are families who will never be the same again, wounds that will not close, absences that will never be filled. I have watched my own children

I’ve said before that Purim is the chag of our age. Because it asks the defining question of our time: How do you find God in a world that declared Him dead? How do you recognise meaning in an age of הסתר פנים — when the Divine seems absent, silent, hidden? Can we still see the dots? And more importantly— can we dare to connect them? But this year, that question is no longer philosophical. It is no longer abstract theology. It is the air we are breathing. Mordechai’s words ec

Let's talk about tzniut (modesty). Not the way it's usually discussed — as a conversation about hemlines and necklines, aimed almost exclusively at women and girls. Somewhere along the way, the holistic idea of modesty got reduced to a measuring tape. Because tzniut, at its core, is not primarily about sexuality. It is a posture toward the world. It is the question: how do I define myself? What do I reveal, and what do I hold back — not out of shame, but out of dignity? Wha

Click here to read article: The Blogs: The inward focus of the selfie culture goes too far | Tanya White | The Times of Israel

A Shabbat friendly PDF attached at end of the page. Part of a collaboration with The Simchat Torah challenge ( Simchat Torah Challenge ) (In the Zechut of Refua Sheleima for גיטל פעשא בת מאשע רחל) Every day that passes, another headline reminds us of the battle being waged by radical ideologues on both left and right — what has become popularly known as the phenomenon of the "useful idiot." We witnessed the sheer double standards when these same voices refused to cry outra