Dear Friends: We light the first candle of Chanukah tomorrow night. The discussion of Chanukah in the Talmud tells us that the basic...

Dear Friends: With the rise of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on college campuses, the staff of the University of Maryland Hillel...

Dear Friends: With the rise of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on college campuses, the staff of the University of Maryland Hillel...

Dear Friends: Before sharing with you some thoughts on recent events, I want to draw your attention to some schedule adjustments due to...

Dear Friends: Last night we continued our Adult Education study of some of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Israel’s greatest modern poet....

Dear Friends: Yesterday I joined an estimated 290,000 Jews and our allies at the “March for Israel” on the Mall. Below is one of the...

Dear Friends: Last night I began a new minicourse on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000). Amichai was considered the “national...

Dear Friends: This coming Tuesday, Nov. 14, there will be a massive rally in DC supporting Israel, opposing antisemitism, and calling for...

Dear Friends: You may not be aware that there are around half a million Jews in Latin America and many Latino Jews in the United States...

Dear Friends: If you follow the news from Israel closely via Israeli news media and not just US media, you will know that Hamas proposed...

A Note from the Rabbi Dear Friends: Yesterday afternoon, in preparation for our participation in Solidarity Shabbat, I arranged a tallit,...

Dear Friends: We had a fairly large attendance for Shabbat morning services this past weekend. I am not sure precisely why but I suspect...

Dear Friends: My apologies to those of you who were planning to participate in last night’s opportunity to discuss together our concerns,...

Dear Friends: Last night’s vigil of Jewish Unity & Solidarity with Israel brought many hundreds of Jews and others together at Har Shalom...

Dear Friends: We will be one of the co-sponsors for tomorrow night’s “Vigil of Jewish Solidarity and Support for Israel” at Har Shalom....

Dear Friends: While I always encourage people who are able to do so, to attend our Shabbat and holiday services in person, there are...

Dear Friends: I noted in my sermon on Yom Kippur morning that the COVID pandemic merely accelerated trends that were already happening in...

Dear Friends: Services for the first day of Sukkot this Saturday morning will be in person and on Zoom. For those attending in person,...

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...

Dear Friends: As we approach Shabbat Shuva, the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there are predictions of extremely severe...