Read Our Rabbis' Weekly Messages

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 […]

Dear Friends, “24 Days into the Year, 69 Deaths in Mass Shootings.” My heart sank this Wednesday as I read the front-page headline of the New […]

Dear Friends, With tremendous joy we are making history tonight. After 46 wonderful years we are installing the talented and gifted, Ines Kapustiansky, as our Temple’s […]

Dear Friends, God’s rainbow is comprised of people of many colors. Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught “Judge a person not by the color of […]

Dear Friends, Each one of us has a family story. Last week I took my children to the Lower East Side of Manhattan to see the […]

Dear Friends, Tonight, is the last Shabbat of 2022. As we look back over the past year we can see there has been moments of darkness, […]

Dear Friends, While meeting with Ukraine’s Jewish President this Wednesday, US President Joe Biden showed great respect for the Jewish people by comparing Ukraine’s struggle to […]

Dear Friends, It’s time to take your Hanukkah menorah off the shelf and find a box of candles.  Hanukkah starts Sunday, December 18th. Please come join […]

Dear Friends, Be a Modern Maccabee I am mourning the recent death of my cousin Fritzi, a Holocaust survivor, who died in her sleep a month […]

Dear Friends, A holy moment occurred at the Temple.  Stephanie Garry, a former Temple President, and I invited members of the congregation to a session entitled, […]

Dear Friends, I hope you were able to celebrate Thanksgiving, yesterday, in good health and happiness. I want to recognize and thank all the volunteers and Social […]