I’ll start with a piece of Torah trivia with you. In the second of this week’s double portion, Matot-Masei, one…

162nd Confirmation at Congregation Rodeph Shalom Sunday, May 17, 2026 D’var Torah by the Confirmands Zoe Levenstien Today we read…

I don’t know if you’ve heard that this year we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the…

Today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day*, offers a powerful time to remember: Last week’s dismantling of the President’s House slavery exhibit…

Last week global Jewry reclaimed the righteousness of progressive Zionism at the World Zionist Congress.  I was honored to be…

Thank you, Rabbi Maderer for inviting me to speak today.  And I’d like to thank all of you for remaining…

Avinu Malkeinu, shema koleinu – Almighty and Merciful, hear our voice. Yom Kippur traditionally is a time of repentance, of…

“Today you are all standing before the Lord your God.” (Deut. 29:9). “Do not separate yourself from the community”. (Pirkei…

Gut Yunteif. This summer, my daughter Nora came home from JCC Camps at Medford beaming. She had just finished Color…

  I had read about the Nazi book-burning, but only when I saw the memorial with my own eyes could…

I trust you have heard the theory of 6 degrees of separation – the premise that all the world is…