Autopsies…ask the Rabbi

August 17, 2014 by  

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on protecting the dead… Read more

Let them eat cake

August 10, 2014 by  

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes on smoking, eating cake and not thinking… Read more

Ask the Rabbi…invites Rabbi Raymond Apple

July 22, 2014 by  

INCOME TAX & “FIDDLING THE BOOKS”

Q. Is there any halachic reason why I can’t “fiddle the books” when it comes to paying my income tax? Read more

Ask the rabbi

July 15, 2014 by  

Rabbi Raymond Apple served for 32 years as the chief minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, and was Australia’s highest profile rabbi and the leading spokesperson for Jews and Judaism on the Australian continent. He is now retired and lives in Jerusalem Read more

Is it time time to pardon the crimes of the Nazis?

March 27, 2012 by  

Two generations after the Holocaust, the shivers still pierce our being when people say, “can’t you forgive and forget?” …writes Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

The Person or the Noise?

November 27, 2011 by  

I had a primary school teacher who said that “history” was really “his story”.  I can forgive his sexism – but not his etymology…writes Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

Jobs I Could Have Had

November 20, 2011 by  

I spent 45 years in the congregational rabbinate – not such a bad record…writes Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

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