Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the International Director of the Sephardic Educational Center.
Life in a war zone: Anxiety, hope, unity, grief, outrage, fear, trauma, uncertainty …
I landed in Israel just a few days after the abduction of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach.
Mimouna: In my mind I’ve gone to Marrakech
Tirbah u’tissad — may you prosper and succeed. This Judeo-Arabic blessing is the manner in which North African Jews greet one another just moments after Passover formally ends, on the night we call “Mimouna.”
Purim: There’s something about Esther
If I were assigned the task of writing a biblical-style script for a play or a movie, the Book of Esther is the last place I would turn for inspiration.
Torah portion: Bridging Judaism’s generation gap
How do we preserve tradition while simultaneously introducing new ideas? Can worldviews from the past coexist with those of the new generation? From Shabbat tables and Passover seders to public forums and debates, we find an ever-widening generation gap in the Jewish world on issues ranging from halachic flexibility to support for Zionism and Israel. Can we strike a balance between past and present voices? One prominent young rabbi in Israel thinks so.