by Rabbi Jill Maderer Tonight and tomorrow, we celebrate Tu B’shvat.  This Jewish new year for the trees functions as Jewish Earth Day. As you taste the fruits of the holiday (dates, […]

by Rabbi Jill Maderer When I prayed with Women of the Wall (WOW) in 1996, I never imagined that in 2010, women would still be prohibited from raising their voices […]

by Rabbi Jill Maderer Check out this week’s Jewish Exponent article  about the Buerger Early Learning Center: A Joint Project between Congregation Rodeph Shalom and Federation Early Learning Services!  The […]

As we thank God for the miracles of light and of freedom, have a Happy Hanukkah!  For instructions, text and audio of the Hanukkah blessings, click here.  And please join […]

A wimpel is a traditional German-Jewish textile inscribed with prayers and wishes.  The wimpel was created in the first weeks of a child’s life and was used to celebrate the […]

The RS Buerger Early Learning Center (ELC) enrollment is now open!  To learn more about Center City’s only full-time Jewish preschool, and to secure a place for your child, please contact […]

Film has the power to awaken Jewish identity and to raise questions of fate and faith.  We are blessed to have Carrie Rickey, the Philadelphia Inquirer Film Critic, as a member […]

Thank you to Rick Berkman (RS member and former president) for providing Moshe Halbertal’s analysis of the Goldstone Report.  Moshe Halbertal is an ethicist from the Hartman Institue in Jerusalem […]

by Rabbi Jill Maderer When it comes to city living today, many of us are living on top of one another while we don’t even know each other. The neighborhood […]

by Rabbi Jill Maderer Do you feel comfortable commenting on a blog article publically?  What would Moses do? One internet scholar explains that when social networking was first introduced, teen-agers were the […]