Words From Rabbi White

Dear Chevra Shaas/Spanish

HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH

I have told...Read more...

THE HONEY AND THE STING/ THE SHOFAR

I trust that you were inspired by the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.

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Dear Chevra Shaas/Spanish

I MAY HAVE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT IT’S WORTH REPEATING……

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Dear everyone,

MY FIRST (AND ONLY) ENCOUNTER WITH THE SERVICE DE POLICE DE LA VILLE DE MONTREAL

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Dear Chevra Shaas/Shearith Israel,

EVYATAR DAVID For the past couple of weeks, we have all been haunted by the image of the above-named person, held...Read more...

Dear Chevra Shaas/Spanish.

The following letter from Israel was received by my daughter from an internet friend, shortly after a demonstration in Israel...Read more...

Dear all,

This Shabbat is Rosh Hodesh. From Rosh Hodesh until after the fast we don’t eat meat or drink wine/grape juice (except on Shabbat.)

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Dear Chevra Shaas/Shearith Israel

MAZAL TOV to Rachel Asmare on her Bat mitsvah; Todah rabbah to mother Hirut for arranging the kiddush. May you have much...Read more...

Dear Chevra Shaas/Sheerith Israel,

First of all, you probably wonder why I spell this parasha, named after the villain, “Qorah.” Don’t most...Read more...

Dear Chevra Shaas/Shearith Israel,  

I apologize for not having written last week. My intention had been to sit down on Wednesday after Yomtov, but...Read more...

Hazaq u Varukh to the Haimovici Family for the unifying Sefer Torah!

JEWISH VOICES FOR PIECE. (Not misspelled: see below)

Dear mitpallelim,

This coming Monday is 28 Iyyar, (Yom Yerushalayim)

I have often related the story of that morning in Spring, ‘67, when I was a student...Read more...

HEY, YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT REUVEN SAID ABOUT LEVI!

Again this week, we have a double portion. Unlike last week’s double portion, many of this week’s laws are readily understandable to the modern mind.

Leviticus Chapter 19, verse 6, instructs us not to walk around being a gossip. That’s pretty relevant nowadays, as we are inundated by news...Read more...

Dear congregants,

I trust that you all had a happy, healthy, and kosher Pesah. By now, our houses are back in pre-Pesah mode. As we say at the Maimuna “tirbachu vetis`adu,” i.e., may you prosper and eat well.

WE WERE SLAVES, AND THEREFORE…

Reflecting for a while on the seder: after the kiddush, the youngest...Read more...

Dear Chevra Shaas, Shearith Israel,

* Make sure to make the proper arrangements for mechirat chamets.

* On 6 Nisan, the yahrzeit of Moshe ben Pinchas, father of Raya Sukenik. May the neshama have aliya.

JEWISH VOICES FOR???

As you are aware, a couple of weeks ago, there was a...Read more...

Dear Chevra Shaas/Shearith Israel,

We (i.e. my daughter, son in law and I) have just returned from a wonderful (albeit very busy) couple of weeks in Jerusalem. The purpose of the trip, (besides breathing the air of the Land of Israel,) was to celebrate the marriage of our son/grandson Shmuel (aka Shmuli) to Sarah Kusnitz from North Carolina, who, like Shmuli, had made aliya several...Read more...