Your Ten Questions by Rabbi Ron Stern Each fall I spend a semester teaching a new group of rabbinical students beginning their studies at Hebrew Union College in Los [...]

               Blessed by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback A chapter closed for me this week: my oldest daughter went away to college. Jacqueline and I are happy for her and we’re excited to [...]

               Reaching Out During Elul by Cantor Emma Lutz During this Hebrew month of Elul, our tradition creates time and space for us to prepare for the High Holy Days [...]

               Yom Kippur is a Happy Day: If We Begin Now by Rabbi David Woznica The Talmud teaches, “The Day of Atonement atones for sins against God, not for sins [...]

               On the Cusp of the Month of Elul: Getting Ready for the High Holy Days by Rabbi Sari Laufer Just two weeks before his death, Dr. Oliver Sacks, the [...]

               Bearing the Truth About Truthful Talebearing by Rabbi Ron Stern Here’s what you’ve probably heard again and again: gossip is evil. It’s said that three people are damaged when [...]

               Ten Days of Turning by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback וּבַדָּבָ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה אֵֽינְכֶם֙ מַאֲמִינִ֔ם בַּה׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ Yet for all that, you have no faith in the ETERNAL your God. (Deuteronomy 1:32) We knew [...]

               An Era of Introspection by Rabbi Josh Knobel This week, Jews throughout the world will observe Tisha B’Av, or the ninth of Av, a day set aside for mourning [...]

               From Numbers to Words: The Journey to the Promised Land by Rabbi David Woznica This week our Torah reading of Matot-Masei concludes the Book of Numbers (in Hebrew, Bamidbar [...]

               Once More Into the Breach: On July 4th and the 17th of Tammuz by Rabbi Sari Laufer Thanks perhaps to a decade’s worth of sleepaway camp fireworks displays, I [...]