Rabbi's Update 11/18/2022
Dear Friends: Last Shabbat our member Bruce Levinson gave a very thoughtful Drasha on the Akedah for Parashat VaYera. A video of his talk...
top of page
Search
rabbi423
- Nov 16, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 11/16/2022
Dear Friends: As you may know, antisemitic graffiti was found Monday morning near the Bethesda Trolley Trail. This is the second time...
20 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Nov 11, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Updates 11/11/2022
Dear Friends: Although the early parts of the book of Genesis by and large do not contain legal material, they contain a lot of stories...
19 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 11/9/2022
Dear Friends: This Shabbat we read Parashat Vayera, which contains both the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as well as the Akedah, the...
6 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 11/4/2022
Dear Friends: As you certainly know, Israel held elections for the Knesset on Tuesday. Pre-election polls predicted that neither the...
19 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 11/2/2022
Dear Friends: The Supreme Court yesterday heard two combined cases dealing with the question of racial preferences in college admissions...
12 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Oct 28, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 10/28/2022
Dear Friends: Last night after minyan we had a very interesting discussion of the Kanye West situation and what is the best way to combat...
23 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Oct 26, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 10/26/2022
Dear Friends: This past Shabbat our congregant Joel Wasserman gave us an update on the situation in Ukraine and the work he and his...
33 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Oct 21, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 10/21/2022
Dear Friends: Tomorrow morning our congregant Joel Wasserman, son of Robert and Lori White Wasserman, will be joining us to talk about...
16 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Oct 14, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 10/14/2022
Dear Friends: Next Saturday our congregant Joel Wasserman, son of Robert and Lori White Wasserman, will be joining us to talk about his...
17 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Oct 12, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 10/12/2022
Dear Friends: Adult Education classes will be resuming starting tomorrow night after minyan. I am calling the session “American Orthodoxy...
20 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Oct 7, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 10/7/2022
Dear Friends: Thank you to our entire community for another wonderful High Holiday season, my 11th at Kehilat Shalom. It’s always a...
42 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 9/28/2022
Dear Friends: I want to thank everyone who worked so hard to make our Rosh Hashanah services possible. Our office staff, Andi Epstein and...
21 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Sep 23, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 9/23/2022
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...
26 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Sep 16, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 9/16/2022
Dear Friends: There have been a couple of big stories about the intersection of secular law and Orthodox Jewish education within the past...
56 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Sep 14, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 9/14/2022
Dear Friends: This past weekend was a whirlwind of activity and emotion for me. On Shabbat morning, as you know, I was honored with...
41 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Sep 9, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 9/9/2022
Dear Friends: Next Saturday night September 17 we will be joining B’nai Shalom of Olney, Tikvat Israel, and Shaare Tefila for Selichot...
36 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 9/7/2022
Dear Friends: As you most likely know, this coming Shabbat morning we are having a special kiddush to mark the 10th anniversary of my...
37 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Sep 2, 2022
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 9/2/2022
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...
33 views0 comments
rabbi423
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 8/31/2022
Dear Friends: You may have seen in recent days the news that Yeshiva University has filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court...
42 views0 comments
bottom of page