Dear Friends, This morning I wrote on my Facebook page: “Standing with Israel. Praying for peace. Determined to help. Bolstered by hope. Shabbat Shalom.” This sums up quite well the question of “where I am” right now. Upon reflection, I realized that we are Standing with Israel in more ways than one! First of all….We Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, I hope you will join us this Friday night as we celebrate Shabbat and the Confirmation of Julia Blaha, David Dorfman, Lainey Epstein and Carson Frank. Mazal Tov and Yasher Koach to our Confirmands and to their families! Confirmation is a form of affirmation on the part of our younger generation of our Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, A reason to smile….or maybe a few reasons to smile! We all can use moments of joy in our lives. Looking ahead at this coming week, we have Lag B’Omer on Wednesday night and on Thursday! That’s one reason to smile! What is Lag B’Omer? We are about half way through the counting Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, I think you would agree with me that this year we have all experienced a measure of “isolation,” of social distancing hoisted upon us not of our own choosing, and pain of all sorts. Our lives have been filled with “messiness.” We may feel tired, frustrated, or confused. We are searching for a Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, This week, we are moving through Holocaust Remembrance Day even as we read the Torah Portion of Shemini. This Shabbat, in addition to our usual prayers, we will recite the prayer for the new Jewish month of Iyyar. Rosh Chodesh Iyyar will be on Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday of this coming week. Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, This Shabbat we will have a virtual Friday night service followed by a virtual Shabbat morning service on Saturday morning. During our virtual Saturday morning service, we will recite the Yizkor prayer. But, we will also read the traditional Torah reading for the Seventh Day of Passover, including the Song of the Sea. Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, We approach Passover this year with the understanding that not all is well in the world around us. It has been a truly difficult year. This is the second Passover that we are experiencing under the shadow of the pandemic. Yes, the shadow is lifting. But, it is still with us. And now, Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, We are used to having to fill in the blank on so many forms that we use both online and offline. The forms exist. They are prepared for us. All we have to do is fill in the blanks. “Filling in the blanks” is often a thoughtless process – one that we do Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, I hope you will join us this Friday night as we celebrate Shabbat and the bat mitzvah of Gabby Gipson! Mazal Tov to Gabby and to her entire family! This Shabbat is the 3rd special Shabbat preceding Passover! It is called “Shabbat Parah” [The Red Heifer Shabbat] because, in a special Maftir Torah Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, There were over 60 Zoom windows for our online Purim celebration on Thursday night! Yasher koach to this wonderful congregation and to all the volunteers who helped make this Purim extra special!!!! While we are still in the Purim spirit, I note how wonderful this congregation really is by comparing our “showing up” Continue Reading »
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