Return to Home Page Dear Friends, How wonderful to be together on the Holy Days. And how sad to write you now about the tragic shooting that took place this morning near a synagogue in eastern Germany. The rising anti-Semitism we have experienced here in America in recent years has long been a painful reality …
Volume 2 | Prayers for the Days of Awe Return to High Holy Days and Festivals September 23 – October 1, 2018 Sukkot traces its roots to the many agricultural ceremonies enacted by the ancient Hebrews, becoming a festival of thanks for a bountiful fall harvest and one of three “pilgrimage festivals” during which a …
Dear Friends, I share with you below the statement by the American Jewish Committee on President Trump’s recent remarks calling Jews who vote for Democrats uninformed and disloyal. However one interpreted the President’s comments – whether the supposed disloyalty was to America or Israel or both – his choice of a classic anti-Semitic trope, ironically here …
On learning of Saturday’s massacre in El Paso and waking up to Sunday’s in Dayton, no doubt many of us asked the inevitable, now all-too-familiar question: “How could there be yet another mass shooting in America?” Time will reveal additional answers in Dayton, but we know at least two in El Paso: nativist bigotry and guns. There the …
JUNE 3 – AUGUST 23 Summer Book Drive to Fill the Bookshelves at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Please help fill the shelves for young patients that are undergoing treatment at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Your book donations will be a welcome distraction from their health concerns. Please view the wish lists below and …
by Rabbi Sara Sapadin Originally published in Kveller — July 8, 2019 Our house feels unnaturally quiet tonight. Gone are the sounds of paws shuffling across the wood floor, the clang, clang, clang of a collar jostling to and fro, the gentle lapping of water heard echoing through the halls at all hours of the night. Gone …
Rabbi Andrue Kahn, featured on CCAR’s One Minute of Wonder for the week of June 2, 2019, explains Shavuot as not just a commemoration of the Revelation at Sinai, but as an annual reminder that we each give and receive our own Torah every day.
by Rabbi Sara Sapadin Published in ReformJudaism.org, 6-6-2019 Breathless, my son ran over to me, his eyes aglow. “Did you know that hagfish digest food through their skin? Or that there are more than 1,000 kinds of mangoes?” I shook my head no. Ecstatic with my ignorance, my son continued with his barrage of bizarre …
Response to Mass Shooting in Virginia Beach at a City Building on Friday, May 31, 2019 Saturday, June 1, 2019 With one united voice, we, the undersigned members of a Partnership of Faith in New York City, deplore the mass shooting of twelve innocent people at a Virginia Beach city building, Virginia Beach, Maryland late …
by Rabbi Andrue Kahn published in Thirve Global — April 30, 2019 I rarely leave my house without wearing headphones. Often I’m not even paying attention to what I’m listening to. The music or podcast piped into my ears helps to distract me from everything else – it creates a bubble of protection around me …
Bettijane Eisenpreis By Bettijane Eisenpreis There came out among the Israelites one whose mother was Israelite and whose father was Egyptian. And a fight broke out in the camp between that half-Israelite and a certain Israelite. The son of the Israelite pronounced the Name in blasphemy, and he was brought to Moses – now his …
Photo: Posted April 27, 2019 Dear Friends, This afternoon a gunman entered the Chabad Community Center of Poway, California and shot multiple worshipers observing Shabbat and the conclusion of Passover. While at this time the number and extent of the injuries and fatalities remains unclear, our hearts reach out to the entire synagogue community. …
