A wimpel is a traditional German-Jewish textile inscribed with prayers and wishes. The wimpel was created in the first weeks of a child’s life and was used to celebrate the […]
The RS Buerger Early Learning Center (ELC) enrollment is now open! To learn more about Center City’s only full-time Jewish preschool, and to secure a place for your child, please contact […]
Meditations for Each Night of Chanukah (If you have special readings or traditions for Chanukah, please share them with us.) FREEDOM – – First Night: We kindle these Chanukah Lights […]
Film has the power to awaken Jewish identity and to raise questions of fate and faith. We are blessed to have Carrie Rickey, the Philadelphia Inquirer Film Critic, as a member […]
Thank you to Rick Berkman (RS member and former president) for providing Moshe Halbertal’s analysis of the Goldstone Report. Moshe Halbertal is an ethicist from the Hartman Institue in Jerusalem […]
By Rabbi Bill Kuhn Now is the time to support the State of Israel as never before. As Israel is under existential threat on several fronts, it is the obligation […]
by Rabbi Jill Maderer When it comes to city living today, many of us are living on top of one another while we don’t even know each other. The neighborhood […]
by Rabbi Jill Maderer Do you feel comfortable commenting on a blog article publically? What would Moses do? One internet scholar explains that when social networking was first introduced, teen-agers were the […]
By Rabbi Bill Kuhn It is timely that we will welcome Dr. Deborah Lipstadt to Congregation Rodeph Shalom on Friday, November 13 at our 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Service, as this […]
by Rabbi Jill Maderer An Early Learning Center at RS: “From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength” (Psalms 8:3). Next fall, our “youngest generation” will strengthen […]
