Mixed marriages and shule boards

Rabbi Raymond Apple has answers for questions on Judaism.  Read more

Are there too many prayers and too much Kaddish?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple deals with questions on Judaism. Read more

Why to brides have to visit the mikvah?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple answers your questions. Read more

What does orthodoxy mean?…ask the rabbi

Who invented there term “orthodoxy”…and when? Read more

What is the Jewish view of transsexuality?…ask the rabbi

 

Rabbi Raymond Apple answers your questions… Read more

Women dancing with the Torah?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple asks your questions on Sh’mini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Read more

And now it’s time for Sukkot

Rabbi Raymond Apple explains Sukkot… Read more

The things we can do if it wasn’t Yom Kippur

A Yom Kippur feature from Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

God without religion…a Rosh Hashanah message

Rabbi Raymond Apple sends his Rosh Hashanah message. Read more

A Rosh Hashanah prelude

Three major themes punctuate our Holyday services – penitence, prayer and charity….writes Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

Who invented the term ‘The High Holydays”?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple proffers an answer… Read more

Why does Judaism puts-down its women?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple tackles the question of how Judaism put-downs its women… Read more

Are you ambitious?

Does Judaism have a problem with people being ambitious? Read more

Why is there a lion on the emblem of the city of Jerusalem?…ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple served for 32 years as the chief minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Australia’s oldest and most prestigious congregation. He was Australia’s highest profile rabbi and held many public roles. He is now retired and lives in Jerusalem. Read more

Religious v Secular Law?…ask the rabbi

Q. Which takes priority – religious or secular law? Read more

Wonder about ghosts?…ask the rabbi

Q. Does Judaism believe in ghosts? Read more

What is the meaning of life?…ask the Rabbi

Q. What is the meaning of life? Read more

Ask the rabbi

Q. I have always been puzzled by the verse that we say at the end of Bensching, “I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread”. How can this be squared with the facts? Read more

The Israeli Climate…ask the rabbi

Q. For such a small country Israel has a wide climatic variety. Does this have any effect on Jewish identity? Read more

What can I do about Jewish fundamentalism?…ask the rabbi.

Q. What can we do about Jewish fundamentalists? Read more

Should you watch TV on Shabbat?…ask the Rabbi

Rabbi Raymond answers a question about watching TV on Shabbat…and writes on suicide. Read more

Why is God “He”?…ask the Rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple has an answer to this tricky question. Read more

Does Pentecost equate with Shavu’ot….ask the rabbi

In old Anglo-Jewry they didn’t use Hebrew names for festivals when they could use English…writes Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

Shatter a baby against a rock?…ask the rabbi

A psalm appears to bless someone who shatters “infants against the rock”. Can this be right? Read more

Is it true that someone must suck the blood at a circumcision?…ask the Rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple answers your questions. Read more

Yom Ha’azmaut: The story of Hatikvah

Want to know the story of Hatikvah?  Ask the rabbi. Read more

Yom Hashoah QandA from Rabbi Raymond Apple

Why didn’t God send a miracle to save us? Read more

More on Pesach…from Rabbi Raymond Apple

I really did come out of Egypt. Looking for a route from Australia to Israel, my wife and I decided one year to go via Cairo. We took Qantas from Sydney to Cairo and then El Al to Israel. Read more

Judaism and consumer protection? Ask the rabbi

Rabbi Raymond Apple answers your questions… Read more

Jewellery in the bathroom? Ask the rabbi

Can you wear specific jewellery in the bathroom?  Ask the rabbi. Read more

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