Parashat Bo: World Zionist Congress Elections
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 […]
Immersed in the Waters of Torah: Responding to Antisemitism by Living Full Jewish Lives
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 […]
A Giant Step In The Right Direction: A Long Road Remains Ahead
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 […]
The Covenant Reimagined with a More Savvy Abraham
By Carl W. Schneider* God’s first words to Abram (whose name had not yet changed to Abraham) in their initial communication were “Go forth…to a land that I will show […]
A Part of Something Greater Than Ourselves
Rabbi Jill Maderer wrote this article for the December Bulletin. I can picture, as a young child, sitting at my family’s Shabbat table on an evening when our Rabbi was […]
Reform Zionism: Rooted in Caring for Ourselves & Caring for the Other
Rabbi Jill Maderer wrote this article for the November RS Bulletin. I recently had the joy of co-leading a discussion in our 6th grade, along with Rabbi Freedman, during Berkman […]
Brit Olam: A Covenant With Our World
Rabbi Eli Freedman delivered this sermon during the Yom Kippur morning services. According to the Torah, who were the first Jews? I heard some Adam and Eves, I heard some […]
Letting Go
Delivered by Rabbi Jill Maderer, Kol Nidre 5780 Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, would tell this story. Shortly after Wiesenthal is liberated, a man asks if he […]
Tikkun Middot: AKA, What I Learned at Camp
Erev Rosh Hashanahsermon delivered by Rabbi Eli Freedman In his new Netflix movie, Between Two Ferns, Zach Galifianakis asks Paul Rudd if he is a ‘practicing Jew.’ Without missing a […]
The Cave Is Not an Option: Community as a Response to the World
Delivered by Rabbi Jill Maderer, Rosh Hashanah morning. Why are we here? Why are we here as individuals and as a community? Generations ago, one of our prophets, Elijah, is […]