Weekly Reflections

April 13, 2016

Dear Friends, Passover begins on Friday evening April 22, but Jews around the world begin preparing for Passover many weeks ahead of time. One way to prepare involves the custom

April 6, 2016

Dear Friends, In this week’s Torah portion, Tazria, the Torah addresses a wide variety of skin diseases, providing us with a lens into an ancient world where sickness seemed incurable

March 30, 2016

Dear Friends, In this week’s Torah portion, two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take it upon themselves to present their own personal sacrificial offerings to God. In contrast to

March 23, 2016

Dear Friends, Yesterday’s terrorist attacks in Belgium are yet another reminder of the fact that evil festers in all corners of the world. The three explosions that were set off

March 16, 2016

Dear Friends, We often think of Purim as a “holiday for the kids,” and while the carnivals and merrymaking certainly lend themselves to a more pediatric level of Jewish holiday

March 9, 2016

Dear Friends, During the early 1600’s, an Italian Jewish composer named Salomone Rossi created a body of liturgical music unlike anything the Jewish world had ever experienced. His compositions drew

March 2, 2016

Dear Friends, For the past 25 years, Donna Cameron served as our pianist at Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism. In this capacity, Donna did far more than simply accompany us

February 24, 2016

Dear Friends, This week’s Torah portion contains one of the most dramatic events in the entire Torah: the incident of the Golden Calf. From this story, we find a powerful

February 17, 2016

Dear Friends, This week in congregations all over the world we read the portion of the Torah which commands us to construct a Ner Tamid, an Eternal Light which is

February 10, 2016

Dear Friends, In the Babylonian Talmud, our sages make the following observation concerning human intimacy and physical space: “When love is strong, a couple can make their bed on [the

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