December 27, 2024 -
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December 27, 2024 -
The Word of the Year 2018 has been a tough year: school and synagogue shootings, massive wildfires and hurricanes, more #metoo issues, and turmoil in the Oval Office and with Continue Reading »
All That Doesn’t Kill Me… Tragedy affects all of us. Some challenge us and make us stronger. Some make us weaker. Our Parsha seems to jump on the “All that Continue Reading »
Preserve the Love Last Shabbat we experienced the worst violence against the Jewish people in American history. In the days that followed, we perhaps received some of the greatest broad-spectrum Continue Reading »
Looking Forward with Faith One of the things that intrigues me the most is the commonalities shared in origin stories or myths as some might say. Are they variants on Continue Reading »
Sensing the Sublime The book of Genesis speeds quickly from the creation of the universe to the expansion of humankind on the face of the earth. The story is not Continue Reading »
Confessing Upon Our Greatest Sin Howard Schwartz (from Rosh HaShanah fame) came over to me a few days ago: “Rabbi I don’t know what to do. I haven’t missed a Continue Reading »
There’s a Famine in the Land… Last night, we began with the words: (Page 339) By the authority of the Heavenly Court And by the authority of this earthly court, Continue Reading »
Day Two: “The Old shall be Renewed, and the New shall be made Holy” David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine Monk, writes “Religion is like an erupting volcano: the lava flowing down Continue Reading »
Day One: 21st Century Judaism and the Synagogue that’s Willing to Change It’s because of the Schwartz brothers that I have to make this appeal to you this year. You Continue Reading »
Bypassing God? The Torah makes strong assertions about life in Israel: one of them is that the water supply is controlled exclusively by God (Deuteronomy 11: 11-13) “The land which Continue Reading »
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