It’s Up to Us

Nothing makes rabbis happier than knowing that congregants take the ideas expressed from the pulpit seriously. And the way we know that you’ve taken them seriously is when you want to talk about them. Agree or disagree, but share feedback that shows you were listening and paying attention. “Nice sermon,” is a nice compliment, but [...]

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Sustainability

You may recall, if you were here last year on Kol Nidrei night, that we read and talked about the three paragraphs of the sh’ma. Among other things, we saw that Reform Judaism had pulled a Seinfeldian “yada, yada” move back in the nineteenth century, removing fully half of the text for ideological reasons. I [...]

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Will the new year bring change, or more of the same?

Shanah is an interesting word. It means “year” in Hebrew, and is related to two ideas that seem not only divergent, but even contradictory. On the one hand, we can relate “shanah” to the verb l’shanot, which means “to change.” Or, with no less authenticity we can see in the word shanah the verb l’shanen, [...]

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Tasting the Newness of the Year

This is adorable. Happy New Year, everyone!

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