“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 […]
RS Goes to Mother Bethel AME: A Sermon from Rabbi Kuhn
It is such a great honor for me personally, as well as our members who are here from Congregation Rodeph Shalom to be able to worship with you this morning. […]
A prayer for the State of Israel and for us all
Tonight I pray for the State of Israel. And I pray in dismay and worry, having heard the statement from the Prime Minister, broadcast around the world: We are willing […]
The Morality of the NFL
The Super Bowl was the number one watched program of all time in the US with almost 115 million viewers. Now this may be because you wanted to watch the […]
Tell Me
Do you remember that scene in the movie Mary Poppins when Jane and Michael jump into Burt-the-chimney-sweep’s chalk paintings on the pavement and actually become part of the scene depicted? […]
Black Lives Matter, All Live Matter: A Week Since the “Die-In”
by Rabbi Jill Maderer It’s a week since I participated in a “Die-In” rally that, in the wake of the Ferguson and Staten Island grand jury decisions, was organized to […]
Creating Our Own Narratives: Thanksgiving, Jacob and Ferguson
I imagine many of you are familiar with the traditional story of Thanksgiving that you learned about in kindergarten where, in 1621, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag people came together to […]