by Rabbi Peretz Goldstein | Apr 3, 2016 | Articles, Family, Holidays, Holidays, Judaism 101, Mitzvot, Online content, Passover, Practical Jewish Law, Video Blogs
With Purim behind us and a sense of Spring in the air, we find ourselves less than a month to go until Pesach. The kosher supermarkets have already taken down the bags of nash and bottles of wine from their shelves and are starting to replace them with ‘Kosher...
by Rabbi Peretz Goldstein | Mar 22, 2016 | Articles, History, History, Holidays, Holidays, Jews & Non-Jews, Judaism 101, Online content, Purim, Video Blogs
Adapted from an article by Rabbi Daniel Fine I remember recently trying to fill out an application form for a British Passport for my baby daughter. As I was reading through the form filling in all of the relevant information and providing the right supporting...
by Rabbi Peretz Goldstein | Mar 20, 2016 | Articles, History, History, Holidays, Holidays, Judaism 101, Online content, Passover, Purim, Video Blogs
When asked to sum up the Jewish festival calendar in a few words, we could answer quite simply: “They tried to kill us; we won; let’s have a party and drink some le’chaims!” It seems, looking at the basic story, that Purim is just another perfect example...
by Rabbi Peretz Goldstein | Mar 16, 2016 | Articles, Audio, grads and young Jewish professionals, History, Holidays, Holidays, Judaism 101, Mitzvot, Online content, Purim, Video Blogs
Purim – A Brief History Megillat Esther or Scroll of Esther recounts the story of how a seemingly unrelated series of events unfold to bring about the salvation of the Jewish People from being eternally destroyed. After the destruction of the first Temple around...
by Rabbi Peretz Goldstein | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles, grads and young Jewish professionals, Holidays, Holidays, Judaism 101, Online content, Purim, Video Blogs
As Purim approaches (less than two weeks to go!), here at JPulse we’re getting ready to ‘Party Deeply’ and ‘Venture Beneath the Mask’. When you come for the Purim party (Thursday March 24, kick-off at 5:30pm, 74 Corey Road, Brighton...
by Admin | Jan 22, 2016 | Events, grads and young Jewish professionals, Learning series, Lifecycle, Marriage, Mitzvot, Multiplex, Rabbi Carter Schwartz, Rabbi Mati Miller, Torah Portion, Video Blogs
Dinner, Learning, Drinks, Live Music! 7:30 PM Dinner 8:00 PM Choose your own adventure! Talks, Discussions (see below) 9:25 PM Open mic music, food and drinks "Ketubah: The Jewish Prenup" w Rabbi Mati Miller There are so many beautiful parts to a Jewish wedding....