I hope your fast was meaningful, that the sermons offered inspiration, the music lifted your spirit, and that you felt embraced by the warmth of our community during these High Holy Days. If you missed a sermon or would like to revisit any of the moments from our services, highlights [...]

Earlier this week, we gathered as a community—both in person and online—to offer our heartfelt prayers at the dawn of the new year. One of the most powerful and haunting prayers of this season is Unetaneh Tokef, which confronts us with a difficult truth: this year will bring suffering, illness, [...]

A story from our tradition comes to teach us something enduring about this week’s Torah portion — and about life, especially the life of the Jewish people. A teacher once saw her young students playing with small sticks. “Try to break one,” she said. They snapped them easily. Then [...]

There’s a children’s song sung frequently around this time of year that many of us will recognize:“I like to hear the shofar blast,Sometimes slow and sometimes fast…I like to hear the shofar blast,Happy, happy, happy new year!”It captures the joy of hearing the shofar through the eyes of a child—playful, [...]

Outside the office of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of blessed memory, there hung a framed poster illustrated by Mordechai Rosenstein with the words: “Justice, justice shall you pursue” (Deuteronomy 16:20). For her, as for so many, these words captured the moral imperative at the heart of a life devoted to law, fairness, [...]