What responsibility do we share?
What I love about our crowd-sourced sermons is that it doesn’t matter what I wanted to write about or say in relation to the text I presented, what interested you […]
Crowd Sourced Sermon Topic for July 31st
“Better a piece of dry bread and tranquility with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.” (Proverbs 17:1) “If your wife is short, bend over to hear her […]
Crowd Sourcing Sermon Topic for July 24
“Why do we confess to wrongs we have not personally committed? The 16th-century mystic Rabbi Isaac Luria teaches that the people of Israel may be likened to a body of […]
Crowd Sourcing Sermon for July 19
“I want to make a confession, to give an accounting to myself, and to God. In other words, to measure my life and actions against the lofty ideals I’ve set […]
Crowd Sourcing Sermon Topic for July 10
From what person or event in Jewish history or in Jewish text tradition do you draw inspiration? From the new Yom Kippur Prayerbook (p 198) In the depths of the […]
Crowd Sourcing Sermon for Friday, July 3
Freedom: Breaking the Bonds: In honor of the 4th of July, we celebrate the birth of our nation when we broke the bonds of tyranny and dedicated ourselves to freedom. […]
“Encountering the New High Holy Day Prayerbook”
Crowdsourcing Sermons: Contribute your Thoughts by Rabbi Jill Maderer For this summer’s sermons from July 3 through August 28, we’d like to incorporate your perspectives. The clergy will pose a […]
Parashat B’midbar – Being Counted
There’s an old expression from the great city of Chicago – vote early and vote often. The first part of the saying is good advice. We actually have a similar […]
Living Outside the Camp in Israel
I have an embarrassing secret. I love BuzzFeed. For those that don’t know, BuzzFeed is the website that brings us amazing articles like, “17 Nail Art Designs Perfect For Earth […]
Parashat Shemini – Judaism and Beer
A few months ago I received a very exciting email from the director of the Jewish museum in Munich. Apparently he was searching the internet for “Jews and Beer” and […]