Thank you to Stacey Spector for sharing this descriptive piece about her current stay in Israel. Shalom from Tel Aviv: It is Saturday morning, and our fifth day in Israel. What is clearly different this morning from any other day of the week is the absolute stillness of the streets...
Learn with us in our new course: Israel Engagement: Past, Culture, and How We Got to Today, starting this Sunday at 10:15 am at RS. We will meet Sundays, October 26-March 15 at Rodeph Shalom; Attend one, many or all; 10:15 am-11:15 am , except where noted as second session or double...
To learn more about the complex issues involved in Israel and in global Anti-Semitism, explore these resources recommended at our Yom Kippur afternoon discussion, led by Rick Berkman, National Chair of the American Jewish Committee and past president of RS: An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth: A former...
Our Reform Movement brought more students to Israel this summer than any other denomination. It’s OUR turn! Discover Israel through a progressive Jewish lens with our Reform Movement’s outstanding travel arm, ARZA World. Travel with Rabbis Kuhn and Maderer and RS to Israel April 18-29 and register before Nov 15!...
Thank you to the many congregants who participated in last week’s “Israel: It’s Time for a Conversation.” Your open minds, listening ears and compassion hearts enabled the clergy to share our perspectives with full trust, and allowed so many of you to engage in a thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion. Please continue...
We look forward to a thoughtful and thought-provoking conversation: Israel: It’s Time for a Conversation Wed., Aug 27, 7:00 pm, with RS Clergy As our concern for Israel grows, our hopes for peace are challenged, and our mourning for the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives continues, the RS clergy invites...
We move into Tisha B’Av, our tradition’s day of mourning for the destruction of the Temple and for violence Jews have faced since then. Our hearts are in the East as we stand with Israel ever supporting her right to defend herself, as we mourn for the loss of life among...
Many of you may remember that Noah Igra wrote a message for the Rodeph Shalom Bulletin a few months ago, and requested contributions to help his army unit. As you may know, Noah is the grandson of Bettyruth Walter and Donald J. Goldberg, who were married here at Rodeph Shalom in...
Operation Protective Edge and the decades of conflict that led to it is hard for even the experts to understand. RS will offer a course this fall, designed for all of us who feel a thirst for background of Israel’s history and a thirst for understanding of the people and...
A poem by my friend and colleague, Rabbi Michael Latz: Tonight, on the way to visit a friend for dinner on Emek Refaim, we stopped to do a holy Jewish act: Buy a book. As we perused the selection in Hebrew and English at Steimatzky’s, and explored titles of trashy...
