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TORAH TUESDAYS: PARSHAT YITRO BY HENNIE BLACK tHIS WEEK'S PARSHA BRINGS US THE STORY OF THE GIVING OF THE TORAH- WHAT CAN BE ARGUED IS THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN…

LESSONS FROM THE TALL BAMBOO TREE TU B'SHVAT MESSAGE BY RABBI GLENN BLACK It’s cold outside, the wind blows, and the snow swirls or lies in hard compact layers on…

TORAH TUESDAYS: PARSHAT BESHALACH BY HENNIE BLACK In this week’s Torah portion of Beshalach, the Jewish people find themselves at a roadblock--the Sea of Reeds are ahead of them and…

TORAH TUESDAYS: PARSHAT BO BY HENNIE BLACK In this week’s parsha, Bo, we learn about the exodus from Egypt and the freedom of the Jewish people from 210 years of…

By Hennie Black TORAH TUESDAYS: PARSHAT VA'ERA In this week’s parsha, Va’era, Hashem reassures Moshe of the imminent redemption from Egypt. Moshe passes on this message to the Jewish people…

By Hennie Black TORAH TUESDAYS: PARSHAT SHEMOT  In this week’s Torah portion of Shemot, the Jewish people in Egypt are multiplying in great number. Pharoah feels threatened by their growth…

torah tuesdays parshat vayigash By Hennie Black ILLUSTRATION BY SEFIRA ROSS This week’s Torah portion Vayigash is well known for the big reveal. Yosef is second in command in Egypt…

torah tuesdays parshat miketz By Hennie Black This week’s parsha, Miketz, is almost always read on Shabbat Chanukah, leading our sages to draw parallels between the story of Yosef and…

grow through the holidays chanukah edition By Jody Berkel At its core, what is Chanukah about?  It's about the victory of jewish values and jewish survival. Antiochus and the Syrian…

Torah tuesdays parshat vayeshev HOW DO WE MAKE LIFE HAPPEN FOR US? By Hennie Black Each week NCSY Canada's Jewish family experience (JFX) program brings lessons of the weekly parsha…