Good evening and welcome to the 2020 Annual Meeting of Congregants. While the format for this meeting may feel a little different than in the past, the purpose remains the […]

Don’t Act on Fear: Catherine Fischer’s Torah in Honor of Her Retirement delivered by Rabbi Maderer When, almost 2 decades ago I came to know Catherine Fischer, she was working […]

Catherine and I first met over coffee at the Starbucks at 16th & Arch in January 2008.  She was the newly hired Membership Director, and I was Membership Chair.  We […]

On behalf of the Congregation, thank you Catherine and Richard for your amazing gift—establishing and funding the Community Engagement Innovation Fund. We’re here to celebrate and honor Catherine for all […]

Hello.  Hello.  As you are settling in, finding your people, your table and getting your food, I want to not only officially welcome you all to this stunning Celebrating of […]

Rabbi Freedman delivered this sermon at Shabbat evening service on January 31. We are still in Egypt. In this week’s Torah portion, we learn about the final three plagues, and […]

Delivered by Rabbi Jill Maderer at Shabbat service on 1/3/2020.    The lights of Hanukkah now dim, I can see as clearly as ever, how desperately the world needs our […]

By Doug Rosenblum, Chair of the Rodeph Shalom Gun Violence Prevention Task Force In the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012, the clergy of Rodeph Shalom convened a […]

Yom Kippur address delivered by RS President Michael Hauptman on October 9, 2019. In 1810, four men, who for 15 years had been part of an informal minyan, met in […]

By Rabbi Eli Freedman In the spirit of lifting up women’s voices, I want to begin with the words of Rabbi Elaine Zecher of Temple Israel in Boston. She writes, […]