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Divrei Hamisha is the culmination of Rabbi Dr Chaim Simons decades of scholarship and education. It contains 20 deeply researched essays related to relevant Halachic questions such as the correct date to being requesting rain outside of Israel and the custom to eat Latkes and cheese products on Channukah. In his thorough process, Rabbi Dr Simons leaves no stone unturned, bringing thousands of footnotes spanning the spectrum of scholarship.

Dissection of Tephillin - yes dissection! An excellent way of teaching Barmitzvah boys (and also others) all about tefillin, is to "dissect" both the hand and head tephillin in the classroom in front of the pupils. They will then be able to see that tephillin are not just "black-boxes" but will see the contents of the "boxes" and appreciate the intricate work needed to construct them. This was part of a Barmitzvah course, (which is included in...

A boy in America spent nearly a year learning his Barmitzvah Parashah (Torah reading) and then came to Israel for the Shabbat of his Barmitzvah. However, to his shock he learned that that the Parashah that he had so studiously learned over the course of a year had been read on the previous Shabbat! What happened? There are indeed a few occasions in some years when the Parashah read in Israel is not the same as that read in the Diaspora. One of...

David Ben-Gurion, (who was later the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel), when testifying before the British Royal (Peel) Commission in 1936, whose agenda was to decide on the future of the Land of Israel, declared "The Bible is our Mandate." Indeed, throughout the Bible right back to the time of the Patriarch Abraham, one can see that the Almighty promised the Land of Israel to the Jewish people.This is one of the points I stressed w...

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Included in the cheese platter of a supervised public kosher dinner was wormy cheese in which one could see the worms jumping around! Even though creepy-crawlies are strictly forbidden according to the kosher food laws, an exception are those found in cheese which has been made to certain kosher specifications. Another course served at this meal was fried locusts, a delicacy enjoyed by some Jewish communities in the world. The soup course cont...

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What do the Zionist leaders Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann have in common with the American Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, the pro-Arab Harry St. John Philby, King Abdullah of Transjordan, a British Royal Commission, and the British Labour Party? They all advanced proposals, for the transfer of Arabs from the area then known as Palestine. This book details and discusses these proposals. The period cov...

There are numerous elements in the life of the Jews of Kaifeng that would bear research. This book deals with just one aspect - namely their Jewish religious observance. This research will show that there is a source in the Rabbinical literature for almost all of the activities which the Jews of Kaifeng considered to be Jewish practice.