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
This week, we have the only Biblical obligation to read from the Torah. It is a special portion speaking about the remembrance of Amalek, connecting
In recent years, numerous articles and lectures have been given regarding the future of Sephardi Judaism. As a Sephardi rabbi, I was delighted. However, to
The book of Genesis presents us with different people, among them Noach and Avraham. One common description of these two men is that they walked
