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The Jewish calendar provides certain rhythms to our lives connecting us with God, our history, the land of Israel, and each other. We celebrate our freedom as we remember our exodus from Egypt; we celebrate receiving the Torah; we commemorate those we lost in the Holocaust and those lost in …
“On Rosh Hashana, it is inscribed and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed.”
And so, our traditional greeting on and leading up to Rosh Hashanah is, “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.” In Hebrew we say, “L’shana tova tikatev v’tichatem” with Ashkenazic pronunciation as…
The High Holiday sermon is a unique opportunity for a pulpit rabbi to convey an important message to a large, captive audience. Over the years, we have enjoyed words of Torah, words on current events as they relate to our Jewish communities, plugs for new roofs, plugs for the food pantries, …
I’m back after some family vacation time and a little bout of COVID with so much to write about—the start of the school year, the arrival of new shinshinim (emissaries) from Israel, a couple of important upcoming events (see here), the upcoming High Holidays, Ethiopian aliya this week, e…
United States midterm elections are coming up this November and our political atmosphere continues to challenge.
I have long maintained that our mission is to build and maintain a strong and UNITED Jewish community, and we have very little to gain by getting involved in politics. Well, I le…
