As we enter the inspiring days of the month of Elul, it is time for us to reflect upon the past year. If someone would
Every year in the Haggadah, we say the meaningful words of “vehi she’amda,” where we declare “shelo echad bilvad amad alenu lechalotenu,” “since it is
Rabbi David Bouzaglo, one of the most prolific Moroccan piyutim writers in the 20th century, wrote a piyut about Chanukah named “Am Ne’emanai, My Trusted
In Ben Porat Yosef, the seventh grade students have been learning the first Mishna of Masechet Pesachim about bedikat chametz. The Mishna teaches that we
As time evolves and technology advances quickly, many questions arise regarding how halacha (Jewish law) deals with technology. When electricity was created, rabbis were asked
A further discussion on the topic introduced by Rav Chaim Strauchler. Through my years in the rabbinate, I was and am still often asked which
Shavuot is the holiday on which we commemorate God’s giving of the Torah to the nation of Israel. The giving of the Torah to the
As Jews, we are very proud of our history. History connects us to our past and gives us guidelines on how to live our lives.
One of the stories that my father, z”l, used to tell me about his father, my grandfather, Rabbi Eyad Acoca, z”l, was that back in
Probably the most popular story in the Talmud is the story of the modular oven (Baba Metzia 59b); its parts connected by sand so that
Our son, Nissim Shalom, has recently became a bar mitzvah, and it is a living reminder for us of our family’s remarkable and ancient history.
God writes in His holy Torah, “See I have placed before you today, the life and the good, the death and the evil, good and
