Rabbi’s Update 9/18/2024
Dear Friends: Did you know that Montgomery County is the most religiously diverse county in the United States? I recently came across an...
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rabbi423
- 6 days ago
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/13/2024
Dear Friends: There is a Chasidic story about a person who was always spreading gossip and rumors. One day the rabbi of the town called...
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rabbi423
- Sep 11
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/11/2024
Dear Friends: I moved from York, PA, to Baltimore, MD on September 12, 2001. I had left my pulpit in York and started a think tank job in...
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rabbi423
- Sep 6
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/6/2024
Dear Friends: In the parasha we will read next week, Ki Tetzei (Deut. 21:10 - 25:19), we find the following commandment: “When you build...
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rabbi423
- Sep 4
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/4/2024
Dear Friends: On Sunday morning we received the news that six Israeli hostages had been murdered by Hamas shortly before the IDF would...
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rabbi423
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/30/2024
Dear Friends: If Israel is important to you and you want to hear directly from someone who is involved at the highest echelons of Israeli...
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rabbi423
- Aug 28
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/28/2024
Dear Friends: Jewish holidays are always either “early” or “late". When was the last time you heard someone say "Rosh Hashanah is right...
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rabbi423
- Aug 23
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/23/2024
Dear Friends: On Wednesday night, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, spoke...
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rabbi423
- Aug 21
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/21/2024
Dear Friends: My “Facebook Memories” remind me that ten years ago today I was in Tel Aviv during a prior Israel - Hamas war on a...
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rabbi423
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/16/2024
Dear Friends: Earlier this week the president of Columbia University resigned in the wake of campus disturbances last year over the...
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rabbi423
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/14/2024
Dear Friends: I want to thank everyone who reached out to me with good wishes both before and after my medical procedure which took place...
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rabbi423
- Aug 7
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/7/2024
Dear Friends: I want to share with you this morning a brief summary of my introduction to the Torah reading this past Shabbat. Last...
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rabbi423
- Aug 2
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/2/2024
Dear Friends: Late last night three Americans who were falsely imprisoned in Russia landed at Joint Base Andrews after a complicated...
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rabbi423
- Jul 31
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 7/31/2024
Dear Friends: On Monday night August 12 at 8 pm, we will be hosting joint services for Tisha B’Av with five other synagogues from central...
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rabbi423
- Jun 28
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 6/28/2024
Dear Friends: This is the last early morning email you will receive from me for a while as I will be beginning four weeks of vacation...
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rabbi423
- Jun 26
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 6/26/2024
Dear Friends: You have probably seen or read about yesterday’s unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of Israel which ruled that there...
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rabbi423
- Jun 21
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 6/21/2024
Dear Friends: Yesterday afternoon we had a lovely ice cream social and an opportunity to view some prints from the “Wrapping Memory”...
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rabbi423
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 6/19/2024
Dear Friends: Tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 5 we will be hosting a viewing of the art exhibition “Wrapping Memory” and an ice cream...
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rabbi423
- Jun 14
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 6/14/2024
Dear Friends: I was fortunate earlier this week to attend the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum which was held at the...
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rabbi423
- Jun 7
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 6/7/2024
Dear Friends: Shavuot, which begins this coming Tuesday evening, is unique in that it is the only Jewish holiday which cannot be started...
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