Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, September 29th , 2023 Something Extraordinary Dear Friends, Thirteen years ago, something extraordinary happened. I stood with a couple under […]

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, September 15th , 2023 Dear Friends,Tonight, we begin the New Year. Rosh Hashanah calls to enter the future. My sermon […]

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, September 1st , 2023 Praying with the Baptists Dear Friends, On Shabbes, I prayed with the Baptists. This past Saturday […]

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, August 11th , 2023 In the Summer of 1972 Johnny Nash released his classic song “I can see clearly now.”  […]

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, August 4th , 2023. Tonight, come taste the Fruit of the Vine This past week we witnessed the beauty of […]

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, July 7th, 2023. Dear Friends,“God Bless America,” wrote Irving Berlin as a soldier during World War I. Berlin wrote this […]

Rabbi David Wilfond’s Message – Friday, June 30, 2023 The world shuddered this past Saturday, as a military leader with a private army launched his forces […]

The art of disagreeing without being disagreeable Dear Friends, This week Putin repeated the lie.  “Our goal is to de-Nazify Ukraine,” he told The Moscow Times. […]

The Challah Path Forward Dear Friends, Have you ever had a panic attack? Have you ever felt anxieties suddenly grow larger than you thought you could […]

Dear Friends, When Miriam makes a racist slur against Moses’ wife because of her African origins, God intervenes to educate Miriam about how words can be […]

PRIDE in our Community Dear Friends, One of the oldest Jewish symbols is the Rainbow. Noah’s rainbow represents diversity and peace.   All the colors of […]

Dear Friends, This week we thanked Sharon Feldman for her hours of voluntary service as the President of our congregation. The Hebrew word for President, Nasi, […]

Dear Friends, For 15 months we have seen the devastating photos of Kyiv, Bachmut, and Bucha. We have heard the pleas for help, the cries of […]

Dear Friends, During our Shabbat service last Friday, when we got to the Shehechiyanu moments, celebrating happy events, Vivian Cohen spoke up, “The CDC has declared […]

Dear Friends, A few months before the invasion of Ukraine, congregant Harvey Doppelt and I travelled to the Ukrainian Mission at the UN to lead the […]

Dear Friends, This week Israel celebrated its 75th Birthday! The State of Israel is a modern miracle. Just three years after Jews walked out of Auschwitz, who […]

Dear Friends, This week we observed Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Thank you to our member Harvey Loeb […]

Dear Friends, While a professor at Harvard, Michael Walzer wrote a book “Exodus and Revolution” about the message of Passover. “So pharaonic oppression, deliverance, Sinai, and […]

Dear Friends, What makes this night (and this Passover) different?\ At the end of the Seder we proclaim the ancient dream “Next Year in Jerusalem!” This […]

Passover and Ramadan Parallels Dear Friends, At the beginning of the Passover Seder we say, “Let all who are hungry come and eat.”  Opening our homes […]

Dear Friends, I took a deep breath as I read today’s headline, “Bank Fears Go Global as Markets Convulse.”  Two American banks failed in the past […]

Laughter is the beginning of prayer, and humor is a prelude to faith Dear Friends, Purim reminds us our deeds matter. Esther bravely stood up against Haman, […]

Dear Friends, In our country a fight is raging over abortion. Judaism and Christianity have different views on when life begins. For Christians, life begins at the […]

Tu B’Shvat, the original Earth Day Dear Friends, In his State of the Union address this week, the president said, “Let’s face reality. The climate crisis […]

Welcome the Stranger Dear Friends, You might have seen Hazrat Ahmada and not even known it.  He lives in Mount Kisco. You may have seen him […]