Chevre, In a departure from my usual thematic musings in these posts, today I want to share with you five on-line resources for Jewish learning, each providing a unique focus. All are accessible to - if not designed for - thoughtful, intelligent and curious...

Chevre, Soon, I plan to post all dates for the year.  In the meantime, I want to give you these Special Program dates so that you can put them in your calendar.  Details about all of them will be posted in due time. OCTOBER 27th - Shabbat morning with guest teacher...

Chevre, Our friends at HIAS have asked us to focus on immigration and refugee issues this coming Shabbat. To that end, Chris will lead an exploration based on stirring video testimony of a Vietnamese immigrant, and Jewish perspectives as taught by Rabbi Saul...

Chevre, I walked the neighborhood this morning, enjoying the change in colors that seems especially beautiful this fall. Amidst all the rest there are a handful of burning bushes - brilliant in deep reds that stun despite the morning grey - burning bushes both literal...

Chevre, Throughout the year, as ideas come to me and I think about the events in the world around us, I keep a list of topics as potential candidates for my holiday sermons. Likewise, I keep a folder into which I drop scribbled notes, printed emails, newspaper...

Chevre, I know that for some or all of you the hotlinks that lead to our Yom Kippur Divrey Torah were not, shall we say, hot.  You can access them by going to the original post on our website - which you always can do if this occurs - or copy and paste...

Chevre, Our first, post-High Holy Day Shabbat/Sukkot dinner has always been an exciting evening and this year should be no different.  While usually we attend to topics that correlate to the theme of "welcoming strangers" that is part of Sukkot, this year our...

Chevre, Just as I did after Rosh Hashana, today I share with you the various Divrey Torah that we enjoyed during Yom Kippur. During Kol Nidre, Renee Hochberg shared the story of her volunteer trip to Puerto Rico, the valuable lessons she learned and the need that...

Chevre, Our first, post-High Holy Day Shabbat/Sukkot dinner has always been an exciting evening and this year should be no different.  While usually we attend to topics that correlate to the theme of "welcoming strangers" that is part of Sukkot, this year our...

Chevre, Some of you will undoubtedly remember my friend and RZJHS colleague Dale Griffith, who spoke to us one Friday night at Karen and Larry's home.  He shared with us his Christian faith and what it was like to teach, as a believing Christian, in a Jewish high...