Our Common Home: The Pope’s Encyclical in the Jewish Community
by Rabbi Jill Maderer So… Who is in the box? Who’s home falls in the Center City travel box when our special guest, the Pope, visits Philadelphia this fall? Me, […]
by Rabbi Jill Maderer So… Who is in the box? Who’s home falls in the Center City travel box when our special guest, the Pope, visits Philadelphia this fall? Me, […]
Delivered by Rabbi Jill Maderer this Shabbat... Thank you to Roberta for your beautiful Torah reading. When Roberta began to prepare for her Adult B’nei Mitzvah earlier this year, […]
By Rabbi Jill Maderer Rebbe Nachman of Brastlav tells this tale: A young man leaves his home to learn a trade. Years later, he returns to his family and shares that […]
It has been so exciting to see the expansion go up here at Rodeph Shalom. And now here we are, almost complete, with the May 17 Dedication happening this month! […]
by Rabbi Jill Maderer This week’s Torah portion, Shmini, describes what can serve as a korban–a sacrifice. And when the wrong thing is used as a korban, tragedy results. Recently, Monica […]
When you move from one home to another, how long does it take until you unpack the final box? Has that last box ever just remained packed, tape still in-tact, […]
Shabbat sermon delivered 10/24/14. We just bought our Halloween candy for next week’s trick-or-treaters. (I haven’t quite finished it yet.). Bags of mini candy bars take me back: Do […]
Delivered Yom Kippur morning by Rabbi Jill Maderer A woman sits at an airport gate, reading her book and eating a bag of cookies… begins Valerie Cox in her poem, […]
Shabbat Sermon by Rabbi Kuhn, August 15, 2014 The late, great comedian George Carlin had a great bit about aging. He said when you’re young, you can’t wait to get […]
“Have you ever felt that food is sacred? How does food connect you to others? To your family? To Judaism?” At sunrise on Wednesday mornings in the summer, farmer Phil […]