PHILOSOPHY & JEWISH THOUGHT

1.         The Sin of Adam and the Genesis of Mankind

2.         Why do we need a Bible - And what’s with all the stories?

3.         The Value of Money

4.         Does Orthodoxy accept more than one version of Truth?

5.         Heart vs Mind: Are we in charge of our decisions?

6.         Life of Brian – The Origins of Christianity

7.         Going Greek: Debating the Sages of Athens

8.         Shabbos: Creation vs. Existence

9.         A Critique of Bible Criticism

10.       Did G-d give the Torah on Mt. Sinai? And should I care?

11.       Creating the World in 10 Utterances

12.       הקב"ה מתיירא, מתעלה, ומתקלס  [adv.]

13.       11 days that change the world [adv.]

KABBALAH

14.       The Evil Eye – Superstition or Reality?

15.       What is Kabbalah

16.       Inheriting 310 worlds

17.       The 3 levels of the soul: Nefesh, Ruach & Neshama

18.       The concept of 70 in Kabbalah

19.       Hebrew: The Language of Creation

20.       Crystal balls, Astrology and Things that go Bump in the Night?

21.       Rabbi Akiva’s immortality [adv.]

22.       The influence of Kabbalah on Jewish life

JEWISH HISTORY

23.       Maimonides: Scholar, Statesman and Convert?

24.       Rome: 2,000 years of continuous Jewish presence

25.       The Second Coming: The Return of the Jews to England in 1655

26.       Leon Trotsky: A Jew who changed the World

27.       Cities under Siege:  Medina 627CE

28.         Who were the Geonim?

29.       The Good, the Bad & the Unknown: Founding of Israel 1900-1947

30.       2000 years of Jewish history in a nutshell

31.       False Messiahs in history

32.       Bans, Excommunications & Sanctions

33.       Seeing G-d in the unfolding of history

34.       The life and times of the Maharal of Prague

35.       The lesser of two evils: Napoleon vs the Czar

36.       Ashkenazim & Sefardim: origins, laws & differences

37.       From Emancipation to Eradication: German Jewry in turmoil 1760-1945

38.       Marrano Jews: Three centuries in hiding

39.       Putting the Fragments Together - the fascinating Geniza collection

40.       Chassidus I & II:  The personalities, philosophies and era

41.       Censorship through the Ages

42.       Responsa of Maimonides [adv.]

HOLOCAUST

43.       The Sotheby’s case – Who owns holocaust assets?

44.       Why remember the Holocaust? And How?

45.       Sheep to the Slaughter?

46.       Am I my Brother’s Keeper: The nations of the world during WWII

47.       Overview of the Holocaust: Origins & Outcome

48.       The Nuremberg Trials: Understanding the mind-set of the perpetrators

49.       Is the Holocaust a unique event? - history & hashkafa

FUNDAMENTALS

50.       Tefilla – talking to the wall

51.       Why so many Mitzvos?

52.       Shabbos – Why it isn’t a Day of Rest

53.       Is keeping Kosher still relevant in a modern world?

54.       Understanding Freewil

LIFE ISSUES

55.       Carrots of Doom

56.       Einstein’s first principle – Looking for Truth

57.       Snapchat, Instagram & Facebook: Why we have become so vulnerable

58.       Luggage vs Baggage: How to make the right decisions

59.       Yishmael vs Yisrael vs Edom in the 21^st century

60.       Reaching Heaven on Jacob’s Ladder

61.       Bernard Madoff: Getting off the merry-go-round

62.       Blessing our Children: Why Menashe and not Avraham?

63.       When Questions are more important than answers [adv.]

64.       Ashrei Adam Mefacheid Tamid [adv.]

CURRENT AFFAIRS

65.       Does the UN have a mandate for world peace?

66.       The Poet & the Warrior – A look at Western Civilisation

67.       A Crash Course in Hasbara for Israel

68.       What is Anti-Semitism?

PARSHA & TANACH

69.       The Golden Calf: A Nation in Retreat?

70.       Avraham, Efron & the Cuban Missile Crisis

71.       Rachel & Leah: Perfection vs Change

72.       Lavan: White Lies

73.       Ezra & Nechemiah – Building a 2nd Temple

74.       The Malchus of Dovid & Shaul

75.       Behaloscha: Arriving at the Crossroads

76.       Mattos: Keeping My Promise

77.       The Wisdom of Koheles

78.       The Purpose of Sefer Vayikra

79.       The Sale of Yosef through the Ages

80.       Shoftim and Melachim [adv.]

HALACHA

81.       Taking the law into one’s own hands

82.       The Good Samaritan: Doing favours and charging for them

83.       Is the secular calendar a religious problem?

84.       The International Dateline & the North Pole

85.       Destroying cheques and burning passports – defining liabilities

86.       Churches and Mosques in Jewish law

87.       Walking on the Temple Mount [with diagrams]

88.       Is hand-baked matza more kosher?

89.       Internet & website commerce during Shabbos

90.       Greeting Kings and Buying Dishwashers – Unusual blessings

91.       Infectious Diseases in Halacha

92.       Laws and concepts of Charity

93.       Prayer: Interruptions, additions & emergencies

94.       Is Bishul Akum all its cooked up to be? [adv.]

95.       Can positions of authority be inherited? [adv.]

96.       The last 8 pesukim in the Torah [adv.]

97.       Laws of Shabbos series (with handouts) incl: Amira Le’akum, Muktzeh, Candle-lighting, Kiddush & Seudah, Early/Late Shabbos

98.       Unusual Mezuza questions

JEWISH CALENDAR

99.       Chanukah: Hellenism

100.     Lag B’Omer: Celebrating tragedy?

101.     Tisha B’Av: Understanding and Rebuilding

102.     Shavuos: Seeing the sounds

103.     G-d’s Four Questions

104.     The origin of a Nation Pesach I

105      The Road to Freedom – Pesach II

106.     Teshuva: Going back home?

107.     Sukkot: A room with a view

108.     Purim: When nothing makes sense

109.     Rosh Hashanah: Why the World Needs Me

110.     Rain: The Prayer to an Answer

111.     Elul and tribe of Gad

112.     Teves and tribe of Dan

113.     Understanding the month of Cheshvan

114.     Mordeachi, Esther & Havdalla

115.     Linking the Five Events of 17^th Tammuz

116.     Why 7x7 = 50

117.     Contrasting the 9^th & 15^th Av

118.     Creating Shabbos without a Shofar

TEFILLA (textual)

119.     The First Three Brochos of Shemonei Essrei

120.     Tehillim we Say without Thinking