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September 23, 2015 Donald Trump? Seriously? This is not going to be a post-debate analysis. There are wiser heads than mine to do that, and there is not enough Excedrin in the world for me to try, but there is a theme that occurred to me coming out of all the preening, put-downs and pontificating Continue Reading »
September 14, 2015 I am always tempted to use today’s Torah Portion about Abraham, Isaac, Sarah – and the absent Ishmael – to talk about contemporary issues and relationships. However, I am going to turn instead to the Haftarah Portion. It is there, in the first chapter of the first Book of Samuel, that we Continue Reading »
September 13, 2015 The Louvre in Paris – 9 million. The British Museum, London – 7 million. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City – 6 million The Vatican Museums – 6 million Tate Modern, London – 5 million Reina Sofia, Madrid – 3 million The Uffizi, Florence: 2 million The Van Gogh Museum, Continue Reading »
April 17, 2015 This week, Jewish communities throughout the world observed Yom haShoa, the commemoration of the Holocaust, a day of remembrance inaugurated in 1953 by David ben Gurion, the Prime Minister of Israel. The original proposal was to hold it on the 14th of Nisan, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising {April 19, Continue Reading »
September 14, 2013 We are a People well-traveled, we wandering Jews. We spread our wings to explore the world on bicycle, car, ship, plane, train and on foot. We visit locales that are packed with fellow-tourists, and places that few people have seen. Cities offer us their cultural riches, as do villages and towns their Continue Reading »
September 05, 2013 Every time that a family schedules their son’s or daughter’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah to be celebrated in the Spring, it comes with the realization that most of the Torah Portions will be from the Book of Leviticus: how festivals are to be observed, a litany of laws about sacrifice offerings, instructions Continue Reading »
September 04, 2013 Exactly four months ago, on the weekend of May 3rd-4th, we celebrated our congregation’s 18th year of existence: a number that in Hebrew is represented by the word chai – the letter chet plus yud, the numeric equivalent of 18 – the Hebrew word that means “life.” It was an occasion, though Continue Reading »
September 26, 2012 Most of you do not know this about me: I am a snob. This character flaw manifests itself in the waiting room of my dentist’s office. Arrayed before me in perfect horizontal and vertical rows on a large table are magazines whose titles peek out just over the covers of their competitors, Continue Reading »
September 22, 2012 There have recently been a flurry of articles in The Jewish Exponent, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times about an increasing number of synagogues that have welcomed technology into their services in an effort to engage the younger generation. No longer are their rabbis asking worshippers to turn off their Continue Reading »
September 17, 2012 A very important election awaits this nation in November, and so I want to share some thoughts with you about the America that I experience and envision. I want to talk about the American flag for a moment, and in particular about the American flag that stands on our bimah. It was Continue Reading »