OHMYGOSSIP — There is no ethnic registration in Sweden, so the Jewish population can only be roughly estimated. The Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities estimation is that about 20,000 pass the halakhic criteria. Of those about 7,000 are members
For the past 30 years Rabbi Mordechai and Henny Machlis have made their home into what is likely the world’s most wonderfully intimate, effective chessed organization.
Recently, an American Jewish clergyman officiated at a matrimonial ceremony that is incorrectly being reported by some in the media as “the first time that an ordained Orthodox Rabbi has officiated at a same-sex marriage in the United States.”
Kabbalah is the name applied to the whole range of Jewish mystical activity. While codes of Jewish law focus on what it is G-d wants from man, kabbalah tries to penetrate deeper, to G-d’s essence itself.