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Day 3 – Chanukah 2025

תשפ״ו כ”ז בכסלו , Kislev 27, 5786

December 16, 2025. 15:00

My son was born on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. The Jewish New Year. Of course he was.

While this freckled kid was still baking inside his…

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Yet if Albanese is genuinely…

Last night we read about a reception held with Chief Rabbi Mirvis and PM Starmer at Downing Street. Jewish News article here.

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Souls of six human candles plus two lit tunnels

Of darkness, despair and deprivation

Changing space and time to eternity,

Kindled a symbol of “Or haGanouz”,

G-d’s eternal light, first in Creation

To ignite the fire of the human…

He says he wants national unity. But when it comes to employing measures to ensure that there is national unity, that all people are treated equally, and that all people are protected equally, he is sorely lacking.

National unity is not…

Exactly eleven years separate the Lindt Café siege in Sydney’s iconic and busy Martin Place and last Sunday’s killings near Bondi. But eleven years is not a long time.

Eleven years, however, is long enough for a nation or a people to…

For decades, the world has struggled to acknowledge that sexual violence affects not only women and girls, but men and boys as well. Sexual assault against men remains one of the most hidden and stigmatized forms of violence, especially…

Parshas Miketz, which often coincides with Chanukah, is filled with many deep and profound ideas. I’d like to touch on one of them, namely the discussion about Yosef and his marriage to Asnath. As we explained in the article here, this…

Chazal established that the mitzvah of lighting the Hanukkah candles is performed at night—not during the day, not in brightness and ease, but precisely in darkness. Hanukkah light is meant to be kindled when light is lacking. This year,…