L’Shana Tovah

Posted on October 2, 2024September 30, 2024 by Simon

L’Shana Tovah Happy New Year The Jewish New Year starts tonight at sundown. We will be celebrating in new ways. A happy and sweet New Year to all. The photo is of clouds self organizing above da... Read More

Happy Hanukkah

Posted on December 7, 2023December 1, 2023 by Simon

Happy Hanukkah A country must be allowed to fight incursions that kill it citizens. I’m not a religious Jew but I will be praying this holiday season for moderate Palestinians and moderate Israe... Read More

Shabbat Shalom

Posted on October 15, 2021October 5, 2021 by Simon

“It is not that Israel has kept the Sabbath; the Sabbath has kept Israel.” Ahad Ha’am A view in the door of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. It is the oldest synagogue building in t... Read More

Shana Tovah

Posted on September 28, 2020September 7, 2020 by Simon

“No sin is so light that it may be overlooked. No sin is so heavy that it may not be repented of.” Shana Tovah To a Good Year... Read More

A Sweet Year

Posted on September 19, 2020September 7, 2020 by Simon

Eating apples dipped in honey is symbolic of what a benevolent world we live in.... Read More

Hanukkah (The Last Night)

Posted on December 10, 2018December 7, 2018 by Simon

Giving gifts at Hanukkah is a fairly new tradition. In the past small coins were given to children, they played dreidel with them and the winner was expected to give some of the money to Sedakah. This... Read More

Hanukkah (Day Six)

Posted on December 8, 2018December 7, 2018 by Simon

On Hanukkah we eat fried food suvganyot, latkes etc to commemorate the miracle of the oil. One day’s oil lasted eight days.... Read More

Rituals 2

Posted on September 13, 2018September 13, 2018 by Simon

Yesterday I asked “What is the difference between a habit and a ritual?” and I answered it: “About a hundred years.”... Read More

Jewish Humor

Posted on December 4, 2011November 29, 2011 by Simon

MEAL TIME ON EL-AL It was mealtime during a flight on El-Al. “Would you like dinner?” the flight attendant asked Moishe, seated in front. “What are my choices?” Moishe asked. &... Read More

Simon Burrow

Quirky thoughts from an old man.

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