Shabbat Shalom – Friday, June 19, 2026
This evening of Shabbat falls on Juneteenth, a federal holiday since 2021. It relates in powerful ways to core values in our Jewish [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, June 12, 2026
This Shabbat has special personal resonance for me. Parashat Sh’lach L’cha is the parasha of my bar mitzvah — just a few years back, [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, June 5, 2026
June is Pride Month — named for the Stonewall Uprising of June 1969, when a movement for full inclusion and equal rights [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, May 29, 2026
This week’s Torah portion begins with an instruction. While given specifically to Aaron as the High Priest, I think these words are [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, May 22, 2026
This Shabbat is Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates the giving of Torah at Sinai. And as is the custom on Shavuot, we read [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, May 15, 2026
This Shabbat we begin a new book of the Torah. B’midbar (Numbers) opens with a census. God instructs Moses: שְׂאוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵלs’u [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, May 8, 2026
This past Sunday evening, our community was blessed with a truly extraordinary experience. Rachel Goldberg-Polin joined us, and I think it's fair [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, May 1, 2026
This week we read Parshat Emor. It opens with a single, urgent command — and then immediately repeats it: וַיֹּאמֶר ה׳ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה אֱמֹר [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, April 24, 2026
I write to you this Shabbat still carrying the weight and wonder of a journey I did not entirely plan, which, as [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, April 17, 2026
Rabbi Yoshi is currently in Poland leading the 40 person Stephen Wise Temple delegation on the March of the Living. This Shabbat [...]