How does tradition wake us up to change?  In Sephardic congregations, the shofar is sounded at the morning services during the month of Elul.  This is for the purpose of […]

As each of us considers our Jewish identity at this intense season of Jewish community, our DiveRSity group at Rodeph Shalom has been thinking about the diverse nature of our […]

 “The great shofar is sounded, and the still, small voice is heard.”  We read in the Un’taneh Tokef prayer, one of the central prayers of our High Holy Day liturgy, Uv’shofar […]

Today, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  Dr. King’s I Have a Dream message of justice, change and the “fierce urgency of […]

We are creatures of habit.  “Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits,” writes Charles Duhigg […]

Lives were saved when school clerk Antoinette Tuff talked down a young man who showed up at McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Georgia armed with an AK-47 last Tuesday.  Learn about […]

On Friday, Rabbi Bill Kuhn taught in his Shabbat d’var Torah: On Wed., Aug. 28, our nation will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March On Washington for civil […]

The great shofar is sounded, and the still, small voice is heard.  Uv’shofar gadol yitaka, v’kol d’mamah dakah yishama.  What will rattle in you this year upon hearing the shofar […]

Our lives are full of “should”s. I should go to the grocery store. I should make that appointment I’ve been avoiding. I should ignore the beautiful weather outside and finish […]

New words for old ideas as we prepare for the new year… Here is a take on Psalm 27, the Psalm read daily in the month of Elul. With the […]