Dear Friends: This past Shabbat marked the first time in two years that Hazzan Kim Komrad was able to participate in our sanctuary...

Dear Friends: Earlier this week the Senate passed, with no debate and no opposition, a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time...

Dear Friends: We will be observing Purim tonight at 7 pm on Zoom. This is, of course, instead of the normal 7:45 pm minyan. The...

Dear Friends: We will be observing Purim Wednesday night at 7 pm on Zoom. The Sisterhood still has some hamantashen for sale. They are...

Dear Friends: Tomorrow’s Shabbat morning service will be held on Zoom only due to predictions of a snow storm starting tomorrow morning...

Dear Friends: We will begin once again having hybrid Shabbat morning services this coming weekend. We anticipate, based on current...

Dear Friends: As a reminder, we will begin having hybrid Shabbat morning services this coming weekend. It would be very much appreciated...

Dear Friends: I’m happy to let you know that as the number of COVID-19 cases nationally and in our region continue to decline, we will be...

Dear Friends: Our thoughts turn to the people of Ukraine and especially the 200,000 or so Jews who live in that country. Many of us can...

Dear Friends: As I noted on Monday, I was gratified that a number of those who heard my drasha this past Shabbat morning asked me to...

Dear Friends: As new coronavirus cases in our area continue to decline and the indoor mask mandate expires later today, it’s time for us...

Dear Friends: A few weeks ago there was an Op-Ed in the New York Times by Tish Harrison Warren, a Times columnist and Anglican priest,...

Dear Friends: You may have seen an article recently about a Roman Catholic priest who resigned as pastor of a church in Phoenix after it...

Dear Friends: Tomorrow is one of the Jewish holidays that in my opinion is most widely observed. At this point you may be asking yourself...

Dear Friends: Last night I led a discussion of the recent controversy involving Whoopi Goldberg’s statement that the Holocaust was not...

Dear Friends: This coming Sunday, February 13, evening minyan will be at 5:30 pm due to the Super Bowl. When I sent out my “Rabbi’s...

Dear Friends: This past Shabbat morning I spoke about the building of the Tabernacle in the desert and the subsequent Temple in Jerusalem...

Dear Friends: You almost certainly know that earlier this week the actress Whoopi Goldberg, one of the hosts of “The View” television...

Dear Friends: If you have not seen the series “The Club” on Netflix, I highly recommend it. The main protagonist of the series is Matilda...

Dear Friends: As you surely have heard, the school board of McMinn County, Tennessee, last week voted to remove the graphic novel “Maus”...