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, […]

by Rabbi Jill Maderer I am so grateful to serve a congregation that cares not only about its immediate needs, but also about the broader Jewish community. All of our […]

by Rabbi Jill Maderer I write this having just returned from the annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR). There, I moderated a panel about important work […]

by Rabbi Maderer This article originally appeared in the March issue of the Rodeph Shalom Bulletin. Last month, I expressed here, and in a sermon, my gratitude about my extended […]

This article is an update from our Visioning Team, co-chaired by Aaron Weiss and Hank Bernstein, since the initial October meeting. Working with synagogue expert Rabbi Larry Hoffman, we are […]