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 |