Dear Friends: Tomorrow morning our congregant Joel Wasserman, son of Robert and Lori White Wasserman, will be joining us to talk about...

Dear Friends: Next Saturday our congregant Joel Wasserman, son of Robert and Lori White Wasserman, will be joining us to talk about his...

Dear Friends: Adult Education classes will be resuming starting tomorrow night after minyan. I am calling the session “American Orthodoxy...

Dear Friends: Thank you to our entire community for another wonderful High Holiday season, my 11th at Kehilat Shalom. It’s always a...

Dear Friends: I want to thank everyone who worked so hard to make our Rosh Hashanah services possible. Our office staff, Andi Epstein and...

Dear Friends: As we approach the New Year I want to make sure that everyone has the information that they need to keep our services as...

Dear Friends: There have been a couple of big stories about the intersection of secular law and Orthodox Jewish education within the past...

Dear Friends: This past weekend was a whirlwind of activity and emotion for me. On Shabbat morning, as you know, I was honored with...

Dear Friends: Next Saturday night September 17 we will be joining B’nai Shalom of Olney, Tikvat Israel, and Shaare Tefila for Selichot...

Dear Friends: As you most likely know, this coming Shabbat morning we are having a special kiddush to mark the 10th anniversary of my...

Dear Friends: While Labor Day has come to mark the unofficial end of summer, it was enacted as a federal holiday in the 1890s to...

Dear Friends: You may have seen in recent days the news that Yeshiva University has filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court...

Dear Friends: Last night we ran into a technical problem which we have seen before. If you tried to login to minyan or the subsequent...

Dear Friends: This past Shabbat I was happy to note that we had more than a minyan attending services in person on Saturday morning. This...

Dear Friends: Tomorrow morning we will announce the coming of Rosh Chodesh Elul, the beginning of the month of Elul, which actually...

Dear Friends: In late spring and early summer I completed a brief fellowship under the auspices of the Pardes Institute for Jewish...

Dear Friends: A few notes on this beautiful Friday morning as we await Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat after Tisha B’Av when we seriously...

Dear Friends: Last week we began to read the book of Deuteronomy which is the final book of the Torah. For the most part it consists of...

Dear Friends: Wednesday morning I sent out my first “Rabbi’s Update” after returning from vacation but with Tisha B’Av on the horizon, I...

Dear Friends: Saturday night and Sunday we observe Tisha B’Av, the Ninth of Av where we commemorate the destruction of both the First and...