Rabbi’s Update 9/29/2023
Dear Friends: Services for the first day of Sukkot this Saturday morning will be in person and on Zoom. For those attending in person,...
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rabbi423
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/27/2023
Dear Friends: I want to thank everyone who helped out to make the High Holidays at Kehilat Shalom so memorable. In particular I want to...
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rabbi423
- Sep 22
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/22/2023
Dear Friends: As we approach Shabbat Shuva, the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there are predictions of extremely severe...
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rabbi423
- Sep 20
- 1 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/20/2023
Dear Friends: I want to thank everyone who worked so hard to make sure that our Rosh Hashanah services were meaningful and ran smoothly....
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rabbi423
- Sep 15
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/15/2023
Dear Friends: As you surely know, Rosh Hashanah starts tonight. But in fact, the new moon was actually last night and today is the first...
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rabbi423
- Sep 13
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/13/2023
Dear Friends: As we approach Rosh Hashanah 5784, I want to share with you a few notes that will make your participation in our services...
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rabbi423
- Sep 8
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/8/2023
Dear Friends: Tomorrow night, as is our longstanding custom, we will join with our friends from Tikvat Israel, B’nai Shalom of Olney, and...
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rabbi423
- Sep 1
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 9/1/2023
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 30
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/30/2023
Dear Friends: Yesterday I sent out an email inviting those of you who are either Kohanim or Levi’im to participate in the ritual of...
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rabbi423
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/25/23
Dear Friends: I’ve previously discussed, in several messages and talks, the role of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS or...
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rabbi423
- Aug 23
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/23/23
Dear Friends: This morning I want to share with you a poem that I shared Monday night at our shul’s monthly board meeting. It was written...
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rabbi423
- Aug 18
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/18/2023
Dear Friends: In my Wednesday update I discussed the new policy of the Conservative Movement’s Joint Bet Din to allow women to serve as...
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rabbi423
- Aug 16
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 8/16/2023
Dear Friends: I started rabbinical school in the 1981-82 academic year. One of our professors was Rabbi Ben Hollander z’l. Ben was a...
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rabbi423
- Aug 11
- 3 min
Rabbi’s Update 8/11/2023
Dear Friends: Last Friday night I spoke about the second paragraph of the Shema, the original biblical text of which appears in last...
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rabbi423
- Aug 9
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 8/9/2023
Dear Friends: If you follow the news from Israel, you know that late last month the Knesset passed a bill that prohibits the courts from...
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rabbi423
- Aug 4
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 8/4/2023
Dear Friends: On Wednesday the jury in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre case voted for the death penalty for the murderer, and yesterday...
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rabbi423
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 8/2/2023
Dear Friends: I return to work today after four weeks of vacation -- most of which was a “staycation” although we did travel to the...
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rabbi423
- Jun 30
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 6/30/2023
Dear Friends: I want to thank those of you who have been helping to make sure that Len, Ethan, and Oliver Lipton can say Kaddish while...
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rabbi423
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/28/2023
Dear Friends: I want to ask your help to make sure that Len, Ethan, and Oliver Lipton can say Kaddish while sitting shiva for their wife...
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rabbi423
- Jun 23
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/23/2023
Dear Friends: Last night we had an interesting discussion about the state of the Conservative movement and what, if anything, should be...
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