To Feel with our Brethren
June 18, 2025
We feel “as if,’”we were once slaves and now “as if” we might truly become free.
Eva Robbins
The Journey to Sinai: Refining Our Soul as Jews and Americans
April 23, 2025
Passover is a historical and spiritual moment in the Jewish calendar. But it is only the beginning, for ultimately, it is about taking us on a journey through the desert towards Shavuot, standing at Mt. Sinai where we become a people.
Honoring the Women of the Exodus: A Women’s Seder
April 10, 2025
Hineini, “We are fully present,” honoring important and pivotal women in the formation of our history, role models of values and action, inspirational human beings who helped to shape the narrative of our past, transforming their darkness and redeeming their exile.
Approaching Passover: Exile Towards Liberation
March 26, 2025
When so many feel disillusioned and powerless, we relive the Exodus. We are reminded that when we fall down it is in order to rise up, stronger and more resilient.
The Wholeness of Judaism
March 9, 2025
Every Jew is an inheritor of the miraculous experience at Sinai and the law-based tradition promoting respect and compassion, receiving a tradition that honors the importance of what we do and teaches how we must do it.
‘A Horror Movie that Never Ends’
January 15, 2025
Good and evil is now a daily dose of reality. Displacement and loss are beyond imagination, while care and donations feed those desperate for a touchstone of life.
Kislev – A Dark Month Inviting the Light
December 5, 2024
When the darkness is so omnipresent, trust and hope is exactly what we all need.
Yom Kippur – Day of Purging
October 10, 2024
This Yom Kippur, only a few days after Oct 7, 2023, we know will be memorialized throughout the world, shared by so many.
Shofar: The Call Within and Without
September 26, 2024
The shofar, the most significant symbol and vehicle for the Holy Days, represents a multiplicity of interpretations and depth of meaning in our tradition.
Character — Where Judaism and America Can Converge
August 22, 2024
As a Jew and an American I finally feel the confluence of our values coming into convergence.
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