Lag BaOmer this year will be not 33 but 233 Days-which is Thirty-Three Weeks and Two Days. May the time come soon when we can cease counting

Our calendar is arranged so that we almost always read the sidra Bemidbar on the shabbat before Shavuot. The wilderness – Bemidbar – is...

APPROACHING SINAI Soon it will be time to get ready. After several weeks of initial, rather aimless wandering after Pesach it will be...

To the faithful, Torah offers the word of God which persists for all ages… Each generation is heard in the Torah’s words, its own wishes...

We are coming to the end days of the Omer – the days between Pesach and Shavuot – which give a prominence to the link between Freedom...

“God reveals himself not only in the majesty, beauty and orderliness of nature, but also in the vision and moral striving of the human...

The omer is about counting days towards a goal in the future. Too much awareness of each day one lives can overshadow the goal. Sometimes...

The mountains get steeper as one gets older, I find. It is something to do with quantum relativity whereby distances expand and take...

“Streshin, a typical shtetl in Belarus, supported at least 15 charitable organisations. There was a Hevrei K’disha (burial society). The...

In the ANU, the new Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, there is a work of art at the entrance to the exhibition that triggers many...