Read Our Clergy Members' Weekly Messages
April 25, 2025
With appreciation to our Green Team, we will be celebrating our TST Earth Day at tonight’s Shabbat service. Our own member, Jeff Tannenbaum, will be speaking. […]
April 18, 2025
It is bittersweet that the Torah readings for Pesach include the story of the aftermath of the worship of the golden calf. I’m sure you remember […]
April 11, 2025
Passover is a time for making memories that we carry with us throughout our lives. I remember the Seder of my childhood, which continues to influence […]
March 27, 2025
Almost 13 years ago, I served as the Educational Director at Dor Jadash Community in Buenos Aires, Argentina. These were seven beautiful years of work that […]
March 5, 2025
In addition to this week’s Parsha, Tetzaveh, today is Shabbat Zachor: the Shabbat that precedes Purim. On this occasion, the Torah recounts in great detail what […]
February 13, 2025
When I visited Kfar Aza in November 2023, one of the most haunting images was the trees of the attacked kibbutzim. Surrounded by the military protecting […]
January 22, 2025
Commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day We welcome the release of three Israeli hostages, and hope and pray that they will find the strength to renew […]
January 15, 2025
Why am I going to Selma when there are so many other options to fulfil my travel bug? Selma, Alabama served as a pivotal location in […]
January 15, 2025
Commemorating The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Why Jews Care At a time of renewed and increasing antisemitism and threats to the wellbeing and existence of […]
January 8, 2025
“Firm and Steady” by Rabbi Dennis Ross Having just closed the book on 2024, our Torah portion this Shabbat, Vayehi, closes the first book of the Bible, […]
December 20, 2024
More Light Maybe it is a coincidence that we get the Hanukkah lights during the darkest time of the year, that we have the pleasure of […]
December 18, 2024
“If God Wants” It’s often said that when you are traveling and want an immediate feel for the mood of a country, then as soon as […]
December 12, 2024
This week the Torah speaks of the patriarch Jacob and his quest to become worthy of the “blessing” that he had stolen from his brother Esau. […]
December 3, 2024
Returning Home “A wary trickle home under the shadow of a fragile ceasefire,” is how the Times of Israel described the few residents of the northern border town […]
November 27, 2024
Thanksgiving: Almost a Jewish Holiday At the Brooklyn yeshivah I attended as a kid all those years ago, school was in session on many secular and non-Jewish holidays. Christmas […]
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