Last week, I traveled to Washington DC to join with a couple thousand pro-Israel activists to voice our deep concerns about the nuclear agreement with Iran.
These are challenging times for the Jewish people.
By the time the fast is over on Yom Kippur, the last thing you want to be doing is potchkeing in the kitchen to prepare lots of food.
This past year, my congregation at Valley Beth Shalom – and the greater Jewish community – lost a giant.
We had to cross the gorge, and the only way was to walk single file on a narrow concrete gutter, maybe a foot wide, that bridged the two cliffs. Below us was a long, perilous drop onto the rocky depths.
Some of Los Angeles many renown rabbis have shared their High Holy Day sermons so that we can all learn from their wisdom.
Many of you know that I had a “previous life” composing and editing music for TV shows and movies.
This is the first holiday in 45 years that Rabbi Harold Schulweis will not be on the bima. In his memory we offer this sermon.
On Friday July 10, at 7:22 a.m., Steve Julian, the host of KPCC’s Morning Edition reported the following, “About 20 minutes ago a Color Guard in South Carolina lowered the Confederate flag at the state capitol, stretched it out, rolled it up, tied a string around it. That flag no longer flies.”
In fact, and I say this not to be cruel or needlessly provocative, we have known all of this for the past several years.
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