No Loyalty to Royalty by Rabbi Ron Stern The Jewish people had kings (and one queen) ruling over them for nearly 1,000 years. How many can you name?  Maybe you’d [...]

               A Moving Tribute to Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin (Z”L) Two weeks ago, in honor of Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin’s upcoming yahrzeit, Rabbi David Woznica (holder of the Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin Rabbinic [...]

               Tu Bishvat: A New Year for All Life by Rabbi Josh Knobel Though the Western world celebrates January 1 with revelry and spectacle, Jewish new years are a little [...]

               A Blessing for an Elephant by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback There’s a blessing for seeing an elephant. This might surprise you but, when you pause to think about it, it really [...]

               Making Time for Torah by Cantor Emma Lutz “Do not say, ‘When I am free I will study,’ for perhaps you will not become free.” -Pirkei Avot 2:5 This [...]

               Shifra and Puah by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback This week’s Torah portion, the last of 2018 and the first of the book of Exodus, tells of Pharaoh’s horrible instruction to the [...]

               A Blessing Before You Go by Rabbi Sari Laufer Facebook has already started making its year end videos, making it seem like 2019 is even closer than it is. [...]

               Owning Our Stories By Cantor Emma Lutz “Owning our stories and loving ourselves through that process is the greatest gift we can give ourselves.” – Dr. Brené Brown I [...]

               Hanukkah… Well, It’s Complicated. By Rabbi Josh Knobel Like so many other aspects of Jewish tradition, the origins of Hanukkah remain so far removed from our existing practices as [...]

                 Seeing Into the Future By Rabbi Ron Stern How far can you gaze into the future? Of course, none of us has the ability to even know what [...]