Mezuzah now adorns MP Mark Adler’s Toronto office

Rabbi Joseph J. Zaltzman, senior rabbi, Jewish Russian Community Centre of Ontario, says the blessing as he affixes a <a href=”http://www.mezuzahmaster.com”>mezuzah</a> to the doorpost at York Centre MP Mark Adler’s constituency office in Toronto last week. Adler said he had fulfilled the mitzvah of having a mezuzah placed on the doorpost of his Ottawa office […]

The Times, They are- a- Changing?

  The Talmud Gittin 45b states that Sifrei Torah, tefillin and mezuzah scrolls are considered kosher only when written by certain select groups of specially trained scribes.  Women, as a category,  are not mentioned to be among them. However, in 2003, Canadian born Aviel Barclay became the world’s first known ‘traditionally’ trained female sofer. Since […]

A Mezuzah on the Manhattan Borough President’s Comptroller Campaign HQ

Scott Stringer, Manhattan’s Borough President and candidate for City Comptroller, affixed a mezuzah, a Jewish symbol of protection, to the door of his campaign headquarters this week, perhaps seeking help from a higher power in his campaign battle against former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer. In a photo submitted to The Algemeiner, Stringer, who is […]

Clothes-shredding and Mezuzah- kissing: Israelis Urged to Go Religious to Stop Violence

We all know that in hard times, religious rituals offer comfort and community. And as Israelis feel increasingly fearful and alone as the wave of terror shows no signs of abating, it should come as no surprise that there is an uptick in those turning to Jewish practice to give them the strength to get […]