HAYYEI SARAH 5786
11/14/2025 12:46:46 PM
Dear congregants, Chevra Shaas and Spanish/Portuguese
THE TAMARISK AND MACHPELA
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VAYEIRA' 5786
11/07/2025 11:10:23 AM
Dear friends,
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, IT’S A WONDERFUL TOWN (written by Leonard Bernstein, 1944; sung by F. Sinatra) By now, you have all heard the...Read more...
HA'AZINU / SUKKOT 5786
10/03/2025 02:57:09 PM
Dear Chevra Shaas/Spanish
I trust that the Yamim Nora’im of RH and YK were meaningful and inspirational.
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VEYEILEKH/YK 5786
09/26/2025 01:17:55 PM
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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NITZAVIM 5785 / RH 5786
09/19/2025 12:32:11 PM
Dear Chevra Shaas/Spanish
THE BLOOD MOON: IF HE WERE THE DEVIL
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KI TAVO' 5785
09/12/2025 11:33:38 AM
Dear Chevra Shaas/Spanish
I MAY HAVE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT IT’S WORTH REPEATING……
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KI TEITSEI 5785
09/05/2025 11:23:56 AM
Dear Chevra Shaas/Shearith Israel
WHAT DO FOOTBALL, HONEST REAL ESTATE, AND EATING BREAD HAVE IN COMMON?
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SHOFETIM 5785
08/29/2025 09:45:51 AM
Dear everyone,
MY FIRST (AND ONLY) ENCOUNTER WITH THE SERVICE DE POLICE DE LA VILLE DE MONTREAL
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RE'EH 5685
08/22/2025 11:48:30 AM
A COMMENTARY THAT TOUCHED ME PERSONALLY
Dear Chevra Shaas/ Shearith Israel,
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EIQEV 5785
08/15/2025 01:19:02 PM
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...
VA'ETHANAN 5785
08/08/2025 12:58:47 PM
Dear Chevra Shaas/Spanish (Shearith Israel)
THE SHABBAT OF COMFORT
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DEVARIM 5785
08/01/2025 10:40:26 AM
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...
MATOT-MAS'EI 5785
07/18/2025 03:03:06 PM
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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PINCHAS 5785
07/18/2025 02:54:06 PM
To dear congregants of Chevra Shaas and the Spanish: Shalom, (to quote HaShem’s blessing to Pinchas!)
THREE OF PUNISHMENT
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BALAQ 5785 (oops: that "q" again)
07/11/2025 12:16:06 PM
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...
HUQQAT 5785
07/04/2025 12:25:40 PM
Dear congregants of Chevra Shaas and the Spanish,
TODAY’S GRAMMAR LESSON
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QORAH 5785
06/27/2025 11:17:39 AM
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...
SHELAH 5785
06/20/2025 09:35:50 AM
Dear Chevra Shaas/Sheerith Israel
A TALE OF TWO CITIES: MONTREAL/TEANECK continued from last week.
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BEHA'ALOTEKHA 5785
06/13/2025 10:16:19 AM
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...
BAMIDBAR 5785
05/30/2025 11:12:47 AM
I am writing this “blog” on Yom Yerushalayim, the 28th of Iyyar, which happens this year to be on Memorial Day in the USA. As I wrote last week, Jerusalem Day has especial poignancy for me, as I remember so well the events leading up to it back in ‘67.
BEHAR-BEHUQOTAI 5785
05/23/2025 11:57:32 AM
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...
EMOR 5785
05/16/2025 11:48:53 AM
As I write these lines, the big news in the Jewish world is the return from captivity of Edan Alexander. His family lives in Tenafly, NJ, a town just about 15 minutes from my town Teaneck.
We pray for the immediate return of the others.
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The word “‘emor” is the imperative form of the...Read more...
AHAREI-QEDOSHIM 5785
05/15/2025 09:32:28 AM
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...
TAZRIA METZORA 5785
05/02/2025 11:14:07 AM
This Shabbat is 5 iyyar. To avoid problems with hillul shabbat, Yom HaZikkaron and Yom Ha-Atsma`ut were pushed back to Thursday and Friday.
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE JEWS
On campuses in Canada and the USA, many students and professors declare that when they chant “from the river…,” they are not antisemitic, just anti-zionist. My friend...Read more...