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“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth....
And God said, ‘Let there be light.’”
Each year when we begin Bereshit, we return to the moment when creation itself was fragile and when the world hovered between darkness and light, chaos...Read more...

Yom Kippur 5876 | 2025

Something I think we can all agree on is that our world has grown more and more polarized in recent years. We see it play out on the public stage between politicians, in schools among teachers, students, parents and administrators, and in the online...Read more...

Rosh Hashanah 5786 | 2025

This sermon was long in the making. It comes from being born just 19 years after the liberation of the concentration camps, and it comes from being aware for all my life of antisemitism but never experiencing it in the ways that are common now. It...Read more...

Erev Rosh Hashanah 5875 | 2024

When students are studying to be rabbis, we are assigned to small communities for the High Holidays that don’t have full-time clergy. From the very beginning of one such visit, a community member (let’s call her Louise) made herself known....Read more...

If you had told me a year ago I would start the wave at a Shabbat service with a full sanctuary, I might have said “wait, really?” But I wouldn’t have said it skeptically, I would have said it with great excitement and anticipation. I would wonder when that service would happen. I’d have to...Read more...