A New Reality: video collection

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The series of lectures presented by our Shaliach, Udi Dvorkin, on Jewish history in the first half of 20th Century.

Pathways in Jewish History: video collection

Udi Dvorkin

A remarkable series of lectures presented by our Shaliach, Udi Dvorkin, during 2012. Please note that the quality of the video recording and editing improve (slightly) over time, and with experience! Please click on the subject to view, and you can maximise the video as usual. Pathways in Jewish History#31 Final: The Jewish World in… [Continue Reading]

Start your Shabbat with Talmud and Bagel

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Start you Shabbat with Talmud and Bagel

A secular Yeshiva – an article towards the Tikkun Leil

A new article by an American student in the Tel Aviv Secular Yeshiva writes about the Yeshiva. One of the teachers will be speaking at Beth Shalom this Saturday night. Join to a night of learning for Shavout.  

Parashat Hashavua November 25/26

Parashat Hashavua for Toledot Rabbi Stanton Zamek The United Jewish Congregation of Hong Kong Compared to either Abraham or to Jacob, Isaac – the sandwich generation patriarch – is a pallid and passive character. His meek submission in the …

Parashat Hashavua: November 11/12 2011

Drash on Parashat Vayera Rabbi Orna Triguboff Emanuel Synagogue, Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia This week’s Torah reading reminds us of two key principles in Judaism that can help us enjoy a meaningful life: welcoming strangers and taking resp…

Parashat Hashavua: November 18/19 2011

Drash on Parashat Chayei Sarah Rabbi Richard G Lampert Rabbi Emeritus, North Shore Temple Emanuel Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia Ah, B’reishit/Genesis! It’s so good to get back to you after all these months! Why? Because it, unlike any other…

Parashat Hashavua: November 4/5 2011

Drash on Parashat Lech Lecha Rabbi Jeffrey B Kamins Emanuel Synagogue, Woollahra, NSW, Australia Lech lecha – go, go for yourself, go into your self – the Hebrew can be understood in so many ways, but as we read this parasha and what unfolds from i…

Suicide, Assisted Suicide, Active Euthanasia, an Halakhic Inquiry

This paper deals with an excruciatingly difficult moral problem, the circumstances under which killing is permitted and who may terminate a human life

Two Rabbis in a Pool and other Strange Tales

Peter Knobel

See the video of a talk by Rabbi Peter Knobel at Beth Shalom – October 2011