Choosing Our Character: A Yom Kippur Message
Delivered Yom Kippur morning by Rabbi Jill Maderer A woman sits at an airport gate, reading her book and eating a bag of cookies… begins Valerie Cox in her poem, […]
Delivered Yom Kippur morning by Rabbi Jill Maderer A woman sits at an airport gate, reading her book and eating a bag of cookies… begins Valerie Cox in her poem, […]
This Saturday we welcome a powerful guest speaker and teacher of spirituality to help us kick-off the High Holy Days with Selichot. “Going Long, Going Deep: Delving into Our Souls as […]
Open your heart, deepen your soul and celebrate…Please join us for a meaningful High Holy Day season! Contemporary Multi-generational Morning Services– Rosh Hashanah: Thursday, September 25, 8:30 am; Yom Kippur: Saturday, October […]
In an animated short film called, The Power of Empathy, Dr Brene Brown illustrates how empathy is different from sympathy.
Last month, a rabbi visiting Camp Harlam Overnight Camp scowled when in the dining hall, he saw the campers banging on tables to the beat of Birkat Hamazon, Grace After […]
Thank you to the many congregants who participated in last week’s “Israel: It’s Time for a Conversation.” Your open minds, listening ears and compassion hearts enabled the clergy to share our […]
Re-eh: see, the opening word of this week’s Torah portion. See, I set before you blessing and curse. Look hard. Sometimes it’s hard to see what is blessing and what […]
We look forward to a thoughtful and thought-provoking conversation: Israel: It’s Time for a Conversation Wed., Aug 27, 7:00 pm, with RS Clergy As our concern for Israel grows, our hopes […]
We move into Tisha B’Av, our tradition’s day of mourning for the destruction of the Temple and for violence Jews have faced since then. Our hearts are in the East as […]
Operation Protective Edge and the decades of conflict that led to it is hard for even the experts to understand. RS will offer a course this fall, designed for all […]