Rabbi's Update 3/24/2023
Dear Friends: With Pesach coming up in less than two weeks I want to make sure you have all the resources you need for Pesach preparation...
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rabbi423
- 4 days ago
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 3/22/2023
Dear Friends: If you want to understand why American non-Orthodox Judaism is facing the challenges which it is facing, and what we will...
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rabbi423
- Mar 17
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 3/17/2023
Dear Friends: A few quick notes: This coming Thursday night our “Contemporary Jewish Controversies” class will feature a guest speaker,...
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rabbi423
- Mar 13
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 3/13/2023
Dear Friends: While I normally send you these email updates on Wednesdays and Fridays, on Wednesday morning I am participating in a...
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rabbi423
- Mar 10
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 3/10/2023
Dear Friends: In honor of the Oscars ceremony coming up this Sunday evening, I want to share with you a television commercial for the...
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rabbi423
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 3/8/2023
Dear Friends: Tomorrow night in my “Contemporary Jewish Controversies” class I want to look at a recent article by Rabbi Arthur Green and...
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rabbi423
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 3/3/2023
Dear Friends: The Shabbat before Purim is known as Shabbat Zachor because, in addition to the regular Torah reading we have a special...
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rabbi423
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 3/1/2023
Dear Friends: On Thursday night in my “Contemporary Jewish Controversies” class I discussed the question of, as I framed it. “Should...
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rabbi423
- Feb 24
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 2/24/2023
Dear Friends: As part of our cautious attempt to rebuild our in-person activities we have had a Kiddush every Shabbat this calendar year...
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rabbi423
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 2/22/2023
Dear Friends: At the beginning of this month I read an Op-Ed in The Times of Israel that I never thought I would see. Matti Friedman,...
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rabbi423
- Feb 17
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 2/17/2023
Dear Friends: Yesterday Senator John Fetterman’s office announced that he had checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical...
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rabbi423
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 2/15/2023
Dear Friends: I will not be having my drop-in hours tomorrow afternoon. Yesterday it was discovered that my wife Keleigh has a fracture...
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rabbi423
- Feb 10
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 2/10/2022
Dear Friends: I wanted to call your attention to the fact that evening minyan on Sunday will be at 6:30 rather than 7:45 in anticipation...
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rabbi423
- Feb 8
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 2/8/2023
Dear Friends: On Monday morning a series of powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and northern Syria which were felt as far as Lebanon, Cyprus,...
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rabbi423
- Feb 3
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 2/3/2023
Dear Friends: I often wonder how many people actually read my morning musings beyond the schedule, but I was pleased to note that a...
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rabbi423
- Feb 1
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 2/1/2023
Dear Friends: Over the weekend Keleigh and I watched the new movie You People on Netflix. It’s more or less an updated version of Guess...
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rabbi423
- Jan 27
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 1/27/2023
Dear Friends: This morning I want to look back at some things I have discussed recently. A couple of weeks ago I discussed the...
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rabbi423
- Jan 25
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 1/25/2023
Dear Friends: This past weekend things did not go exactly as planned. On Monday you probably received my Friday morning update. On Friday...
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rabbi423
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 1/20/2023
Dear Friends: David Crosby died yesterday at age 81. I just heard Mika Brzezinski describe the music he made as “the soundtrack of our...
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rabbi423
- Jan 19
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 1/18/2023
Dear Friends: News came yesterday that after being sued for defamation and religious discrimination, Hamline University in Minnesota...
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