A Year in Review: Annual Meeting 2021 Remarks from President Hank Bernstein
Good evening and thank you for joining us for the 2021 Annual Meeting of Congregants. Our agenda for this evening is to review this past year, to look forward to […]
Good evening and thank you for joining us for the 2021 Annual Meeting of Congregants. Our agenda for this evening is to review this past year, to look forward to […]
The Holiness in Protecting Ourselves and Each Other Perhaps you’ve heard the story of the man who lives by the river. He hears a radio report that a storm […]
Dear Rodeph Shalom Congregants, It is our great pleasure to announce that Cantor Bradley Hyman will be joining Congregation Rodeph Shalom as our permanent cantor on July 1, 2021. […]
Statement for Black Lives from Rodeph Shalom Board of Directors and Rodeph Shalom Clergy Dear Congregants, Our Talmud inspires us with this teaching: “God creates a single person first, for […]
Who here still has one of these? [middah bracelet] Last year, in conjunction with my Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon, we gave out these middot bracelets. Middot are the character virtues […]
Who shall live and who shall die? Who will be tranquil and who will be troubled? Life’s profound uncertainty is embedded in our ancient High Holy Day words. The Unetaneh […]
A Berkman Mercaz Limud class was studying the Akeidah, or “Binding of Isaac,” one of the traditional Torah readings for Rosh Hashanah morning. In the story God commands Abraham to sacrifice […]
There is a new four-letter word in my household — plan. In these past months, we have essentially banned the word plan. We have hopes, we have scenarios, but when […]
A Commentary on Gen. 22:1-19 by Carl Schneider The Bible tells us Abe and Ike To Mount Moriah took a hike, To do the sacrificial bit. Who was the victim? […]
From Psalm 11 – a Sukkot Prayer for Breaking Bread on Broad Families Inspired by Rabbi Eli Freedman’s Sukkot sermon for 2020 There is a catastrophe happening. The foundations […]