As Passover approaches in the next couple of weeks, I wanted to take another look at the Haggadah and some of the songs and prayers I...

Thoughts on Easter and Passover This Sunday, many Christians will be celebrating Easter, though the Orthodox Church will not do so until...

Thoughts on Purim after October 7th Purim begins this Saturday evening, March 23, with a service at 8:00pm, during which we will read the...

For more than a month now we have focused in our weekly Torah readings on the creation of a central shrine in the midst of the ancient...

Every year around this time, as we approach the new month of Adar (this year the second Adar), I begin preparing for a Siyyum for the eve...

I was at a meeting the other day where someone raised a question about an area of concern in town that the City Council should address. ...

This Shabbat we will be celebrating a very special birthday of one of our members who has attained the age of 90 this week. We are...

This week, on our secular calendar, we marked St. Valentine’s Day. While Valentine was apparently a priest or bishop who defended...

Re-posted from June 3, 2021 The Greeks posed a philosophical question regarding the ship which Theseus and the youth of Athens had...

Thoughts on the World Wide Wrap This Sunday, is not only Superbowl Sunday, but for nearly 25 years it has been linked by the National...

Thoughts on the Stories in the Bible I recall many years ago, a colleague describing a discussion with young people about some of the...

Thoughts on Tu BiShvat and Etrogs This week we celebrate Tu BiShvat, the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, designated by our...

Thoughts on the Shabbat of Love Whenever we offer our prayers on Shabbat both in the Amidah and in the Friday night Kiddush we speak of...

The last time I was in Israel was about fourteen years ago. I was there for a conference during February, While there, I encountered a...

Our first patriarch, Abraham, was 75 years of age when he received his call to go forth from his homeland and travel to the land which...

On Rosh Hashanah, there is a saying that appears in one of the liturgical poems, a piyyut, recited in some traditions that states,...

One of the regular visitors to our Shabbat services is a lovely Cambodian woman named Chhomnath Long, whom we know simply as "Chumna."...

Nearly ten weeks have passed since the horrendous events of October 7th. The war continues in Gaza, as Israel strives to rescue those...

Last year, when I attended the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international organization of Conservative/Masorti...

As we know, Jewish holidays are either “early” or “late” each year; they never seem to come “on time.” This is due to the Jewish calendar...