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 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...