This morning, various brief notes that will make the High Holidays better for you and your fellow Kehilat Shalom congregants: Selichot:...

Dear Friends: The documentary “We Will Dance Again” about the October 7 massacre at the Nova Dance Festival in Israel started streaming...

Dear Friends: This morning, various brief notes as we move towards Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: Selichot: Next Saturday night we will...

Dear Friends: Did you know that Montgomery County is the most religiously diverse county in the United States? I recently came across an...

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...

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...

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...

Dear Friends: On Sunday morning we received the news that six Israeli hostages had been murdered by Hamas shortly before the IDF would...

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...

Dear Friends:  Jewish holidays are always either “early” or “late". When was the last time you heard someone say "Rosh Hashanah is right...

Dear Friends:   On Wednesday night, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, spoke...

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...

Dear Friends: Earlier this week the president of Columbia University resigned in the wake of campus disturbances last year over the...

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...

Dear Friends: I want to share with you this morning a brief summary of my introduction to the Torah reading this past Shabbat. Last...

Dear Friends: Late last night three Americans who were falsely imprisoned in Russia landed at Joint Base Andrews after a complicated...

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...

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...

Dear Friends: You have probably seen or read about yesterday’s unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of Israel which ruled that there...

Dear Friends: Yesterday afternoon we had a lovely ice cream social and an opportunity to view some prints from the “Wrapping Memory”...