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Please take a moment to explore a sampling of our Rabbi’s sermons over the years.
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| March 3 | Compare and Despair: A Purim Story |
| March 10 | The Opposite of Faith |
| April 16 | Purim Jews and Pesach Jews |
| April 16 | Finding Holiness in Life’s Middles |
| September 15 | What Makes Us Human? – erev Roshana |
| September 16 | Shabbat as an Act of Resistance – Rosh Hashana |
| September 24 | Lighting New Fires: Retelllng the Story of the Baal Shem Tov – Kol Nidre |
| September 25 | In the Same Boat: Noah, Jonah and the Big Question – Yom Kippur |
| January 8 | Shemot: Fear and Moral Courage |
| February 19 | Fragility and Fear in the Purim Story |
| February 26 | The High Priest’s Garments and Amanda Gorman’s Coat |
| April 2 | Beware of “Back to Normal” |
| April 30 | Emor: Speak Up! |
| May 14 | When Human Dignity is Not at the Center |
| June 4 | The Patience to Carry One Another |
| July 2 | What Women Want: The Right to Self-Determination |
| July 9 | Matot-Masei: All Hands on Deck |
| August 13 | What Do We Owe To Each Other? |
| September 6 | Sacred Discomfort – erev Rosh Hashana |
| September 7 | Cancel Culture versus Teshuva Culture – Rosh Hashana |
| September 15 | Emerging from the Cave – Kol Nidrei |
| September 16 | Choosing our Density – Yom Kippur |
| October 22 | Sarah, Hagar and the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice |
| October 29 | The Golem and the Mensch |
| November 26 | Twenty Minutes a Pound |
| December 3 | The Miracle of Showing Up |
| December 24 | Murmuration and Transformation: The Power of a Swarm |
| September 29 | What Judaism Can Teach Us About Living in Interesting Times – erev Rosh Hashanah |
| September 30 | This Is Just To Say – Rosh Hashanah |
| October 8 | Open the Box and Read the Recipe – Kol Nidre |
| October 9 | Hope in the Dark – Yom Kippur |
| September 28 | Being Yourself – erev Rosh Hashanah |
| September 28 | Hineini – Rosh Hashanah |
| October 8 | How Words Create Worlds |
| November 2 | Tree of Life |
| March 10 | The Beast Is Loose |
| March 13 | Disturbing Memories |
| September 21 | Gesher l’Ahteed – Bridge to the Future – Rosh Hashanah |
| September 29 | If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem – Kol Nidrei |
| September 30 | The Sin of Indifference – Yom Kippur |
| April 17 | What We Remember and Why – Yom haShoa |
| September 13 | Opening Eyes Minds and Borders – erev Rosh Hashanah |
| September 14 | Hearing but not Listening – Rosh Hashanah |
| September 23 | The Hebrew Word for Year Also Means Change – Yom Kippur |
| September 4 | To Love Is To Give – erev Rosh Hashanah |
| September 5 | Exisence As Encounter – Rosh Hashanah |
| September 14 | Let My People Stay – Yom Kippur |
| September 17 | America the Beautiful – Can It Be – Rosh Hashanah |
| September 22 | Express Yourself – Kol Nidrei |
| September 26 | We Are Michaelangelo’s Unfinished Works – Yom Kippur |
| February 2 | Egypt in Turmoil |
| September 11 | Service of Remembrance – A Decade Later |
| September 28 | The Power of the Spoken Word – erev Rosh Hashanah |
| September 29 | Lament for a Nation — The Plague of Hunger in America – Sh’lahchaynee – “Send Me” – Rosh Hashanah |
| October 7 | Hunting Season – Kol Nidrei |
| October 8 | Shame – Yom Kippur |
| May 18 | Words to Confirmation Class 2010 |
| September 8 | Anger in America — erev Rosh Hashanah |
| September 9 | When Is A Jew – Rosh Hashanah |
| September 18 | What Does It Remember Like — Kol Nidrei |
| September 18 | Be Holy – Wage Peace — erev Rosh Hashanah |
| January 5 | Dedication of the American and Israeli Flags on the bimah of Congregation Kol Ami |
| September 12 | Hope Lives — erev Rosh Hashanah |
| September 13 | From Generation to Generation – Rosh Hashanah |
| September 21 | The Always Open Door – Kol Nidrei |
| September 22 | Finding God — Yom Kippur |
| August 4 | Who Will Cry For Israel |
| October 2 | You Are My Kaddish — Kol Nidrei |
| January 8 | Terror of the Tsunami |
| October 4 | The Ordeal of Civility – Rosh Hashanah |
| October 12 | A Closer Look at the Kol Nidrei – Kol Nidrei |
| October 13 | The Prices We Pay in the Quest for Perfection and Power – Yom Kippur |
| May 15 | The Shame of Abu Ghraib |