Ask the Rabbi: ‘Maim or kill in self-defence?’
Ask the Rabbi…. with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet Warped views on stabbings Dear Rabbi, I found what you wrote last week about the current situation in Israel particularly harsh. You make it sound as though...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: ‘Shabbat is our one sanctuary’
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet Shabbat is our one sanctuary Dear Rabbi, As someone who’s a member of the faith only in name, I found last weekend’s Shabbat UK event a little over the top....
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Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet.. The role of Al-Aqsa Mosque Dear Rabbi, Can you enlighten me as to the history behind the Al Aqsa mosque? I want to gain better understanding of this serious...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: ‘Role of women in community’
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet It’s the curse of too much Dear Rabbi Why did God give the Jews the land of Israel – mostly uncultivated desert, while neighbouring states have the oil? How...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: “Why love takes years to create”
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet Why love takes years to create Dear Rabbi, I’m 28 and fell in love five years ago. It was love at first sight and I thought I was the luckiest girl in the...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: “Blurred lines and reality”
Ask the Rabbi, with rabbi Yitzchak Schochet Sorry, orli, i Am spoken for Dear Rabbi, It took me time to muster the courage, but I am going to ask you if you can suggest how I can find my ideal Jewish...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: “Does yahrzeit ever conclude?”
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet .. An affirmation of endurance Dear Rabbi, As a Jew who lived through the Holocaust – I’m not a survivor as I was in Switzerland but bore witness to the...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: “Reform snub at a funeral”
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet Reform snub at a funeral Dear Rabbi, I recently attended a funeral at a United Synagogue cemetery. A very good friend of the 99-year-old deceased was not...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: ‘Gay feelings and the Torah’
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet.. Why do these marriages fail? Dear Rabbi, I’ve been following a lot of your relationship advice in this column over the past couple of months. Much of it is...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: ‘Are female rabbis acceptable?’
Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet answers readers’ questions in his weekly column, Ask the Rabbi. The rabbi in a dark alley Dear Rabbi, I read a piece about you last month in the Daily Mail on your [I presume]...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: ‘I’m praying for a shorter service on Yom Kippur’
Ask the Rabbi with with rabbi Yitzchak Schochet… Pulling a fast one every year? Dear Rabbi, I’m bothered each year by how we mark Yom Kippur. It occurs to me that the whole business of fasting is a...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: ‘Why is divorce rate so high?’
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet… Why is divorce rate so high? Dear Rabbi, Why is the Jewish divorce rate so high – even among strictly Orthodox couples? I thought we placed great emphasis on...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: “Can God make a stone he can’t pick up?”
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Yitzhak Schochet.. Please provide encouragement Dear Rabbi, I’m getting wed in two months! After your recent observation about marriage and high divorce rates, I’m anxious....
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: “What’s your view on the ongoing #refugeecrisis?”
by Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet We, too, were once yusta Dear Rabbi As an Orthodox rabbi, what’s your view on the ongoing refugee crisis? Dear Matthew, The Midrash relates how, in the days of the Roman...
View ArticleAsk the Rabbi: “It’s the state we are in”
Ask the Rabbi with Yitzchak Schochet…. What’s in a hebrew name? Dear Rabbi, I was given the name Eve by my parents but no Hebrew name. I’m getting married soon and need a Hebrew name for our Ketubah....
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