Weekly Reflections

October 17, 2018

Dear Melissa, As I was sitting at my computer moments ago, I found myself in a state of brain freeze. I could not think of a single topic to write about. All

October 10, 2018

Dear Melissa, This Friday night, October 12, we will be holding our Fourth Annual Pink Ribbon Shabbat. At this special service, we will honor survivors and remember those whose lives were

October 3, 2018

Dear Friends, Turn it and turn it again, as everything is in it. Reflect on it and grow old and gray with it. Don’t turn from it, for nothing is

September 26, 2018

Dear Friends, In Leviticus 23: 42-43, we are commanded to dwell in a sukkah for seven days as a reminder of our wanderings in the wilderness after the Exodus from

September 18, 2018

Dear Friends, During these Days of Awe, we are invited to turn inward. We occupy ourselves in prayer, fasting, spiritual growth and atonement. These ten days between Rosh HaShanah and

September 12, 2018

Dear Friends, This Friday night is Shabbat Shuvah, the Sabbath between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The name is derived from the opening word of the haftarah reading that urges us:

September 5, 2018

With the blasting of the shofar, we launch our Season of Penitence. Like an annual alarm clock, the shofar calls us to wake up to see the world through the lens

August 29, 2018

Dear Friends, Judaism is a faith structured around relationships, and the synagogue is one of the most common places where those relationships are formed and nurtured. These relationships are established

August 22, 2018

Dear Friends, In this week’s Torah portion, we find one of the most important commandments in the entire bible. At the very end of the passage in Deuteronomy 22:3, we are

August 8, 2018

Dear Friends, This past weekend, I had the privilege of joining an amazing group of teens from the Holy Land (the preferred term used by the participants of Peace Camp).

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