Dear Friends: I want to thank everyone who worked so hard to make sure that our Rosh Hashanah services were meaningful and ran smoothly....

Dear Friends: As you surely know, Rosh Hashanah starts tonight. But in fact, the new moon was actually last night and today is the first...

Dear Friends: As we approach Rosh Hashanah 5784, I want to share with you a few notes that will make your participation in our services...

Dear Friends: Tomorrow night, as is our longstanding custom, we will join with our friends from Tikvat Israel, B’nai Shalom of Olney, and...

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: Yesterday I sent out an email inviting those of you who are either Kohanim or Levi’im to participate in the ritual of...

Dear Friends: I’ve previously discussed, in several messages and talks, the role of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS or...

Dear Friends: This morning I want to share with you a poem that I shared Monday night at our shul’s monthly board meeting. It was written...

Dear Friends: In my Wednesday update I discussed the new policy of the Conservative Movement’s Joint Bet Din to allow women to serve as...

Dear Friends: I started rabbinical school in the 1981-82 academic year. One of our professors was Rabbi Ben Hollander z’l. Ben was a...

Dear Friends: Last Friday night I spoke about the second paragraph of the Shema, the original biblical text of which appears in last...

Dear Friends: If you follow the news from Israel, you know that late last month the Knesset passed a bill that prohibits the courts from...

Dear Friends: On Wednesday the jury in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre case voted for the death penalty for the murderer, and yesterday...

Dear Friends: I return to work today after four weeks of vacation -- most of which was a “staycation” although we did travel to the...

Dear Friends: I want to thank those of you who have been helping to make sure that Len, Ethan, and Oliver Lipton can say Kaddish while...

Dear Friends: I want to ask your help to make sure that Len, Ethan, and Oliver Lipton can say Kaddish while sitting shiva for their wife...

Dear Friends: Last night we had an interesting discussion about the state of the Conservative movement and what, if anything, should be...

Dear Friends: Tomorrow night after minyan I will be presenting on the question of why the Conservative movement is, or at least appears...

Dear Friends: Recently the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS or Law Committee) of the Conservative Movement passed a responsum...

Dear Friends: After two weeks of COVID isolation, I am looking forward to holding my drop-in hours tomorrow afternoon and having services...