Tonight is the fast of Tish B’av. It is the day designated by God for punishment and during this 24 hour period we memorialize the destruction of both Temples as well as the city of Betar; we remember when the land where the Temple stood was ploughed and we recall it was on this day the generation of [...]
July 19, 2010
Categories: Jewish . Tags: Tish B'av . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
U.S. President Barack Obama launched Jewish Heritage Month on Thursday as he hosted some 200 guests at the White House to honor the contribution of Jewish Americans. In his address, Obama said that Jewish people’s belief that a better future is always possible should be a lesson for all Americans. Obama honored the contributions [...]
June 7, 2010
Categories: Jewish . Tags: Jewish Heritage Month, Obama, President Obama, the Jewish people, White House . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
By Avrum Rosensweig There is something particular about being Jewish. We celebrate what know other people can, such as the fact hockey is played in Metulla, Israel and nowhere else in the Middle East. Being Jewish means we are exclusively proud of Daf Yomi – a process whereby an individual studies one page of Talmud [...]
May 24, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News, Jewish, Uncategorized . Tags: Avrum Rosensweig's articles, Canadian Jewish News, CJN, Jew, Jewish . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
My Canadian Jewish News Article for Pesach 2010 The seder was about to begin. The chandelier on the ceiling in the dining room illuminated the table and its finery. A bulbous white pillow had been placed on my father’s armchair, waiting to be creased by his recline, and sweet and tearing Pesach smells intertwined with [...]
March 24, 2010
Categories: Canadian Jewish News, Jewish . Tags: charoset, Fish heads, Passover, Passover plate, Pesach, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Tarphon . Author: avrum . Comments: 2 Comments
Question: Do you like Jews? What are we like? If you are a non-Jew impressed? or not so much? Answer away, and read this. ___________________________________________________________________________ I have a friend who has recently become friends with some Jewish people. It is refreshing to hear what she has to say about these relationships and what they mean to her, and [...]
February 7, 2010
Categories: Jewish, Non-Jewish Friends . Tags: Friends, Jews, non-Jews . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1144726.html
January 24, 2010
Categories: Haiti, Jewish . Tags: Haiti, Jews . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
In 2008, I was asked, as the President of Ve’ahavta (www.veahavta.org) to join a multi-faith committee hosted by The TonyBlair Faith Foundation. I was honored to be part of Tony’s ‘movement’ and excited about the opportunity to meet him, and speak on behalf of the Jewish people. Tony Blair is a good man and a friend of the Jewish [...]
October 27, 2009
Categories: Jewish, Tikun Olam (Repairing the World) . . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
On October 30th at 8:15 p.m. Ve’ahavta and Congregation Habonim will honor Chief Rodney Monague of Christian Island for his courage to speak open and candidly about Residential Schools in Ontario. It is believed that up to 50,000 Native children were disappeared/murdered/molested/abused in our provinces residential school. Please share this with others and consider attending the Friday night [...]
October 22, 2009
Categories: Jewish . . Author: avrum . Comments: Leave a Comment
There are close to 200,000 Jews in the Toronto, yet it’s possible that Jewish children who need foster families will be placed in non-Jewish homes. This cannot happen! Consider the following: at any given time, Jewish Family and Child Service of Greater Toronto (JF&CS) has about 100 Jewish children in Toronto and York Region who [...]
October 9, 2009
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On the High Holy Days we do a most peculiar thing. We blow a horn, a shofar, a Jewish instrument. I say it’s “peculiar,” because musical instruments are not generally part of the Jewish treasure chest of rituals (although they were in fact played in the Temple), especially one made from the horn of the [...]
October 9, 2009
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AVRUM'S BLOG is hosted and authored by me, Avrum Rosensweig, the founder and president of Ve'ahavta: The Canadian Jewish Humanitarian & Relief Committee. I am also a writer, artist and a father.
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