A Letter from the Rabbi
Just over a week and a whole world ago, my family and I went to the Carmel Clay Public Library to get some books. Social…
April 1, 2020
Yom Kippur Morning — Fake News, Propaganda, and Truth
Mark Twain once said “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” But that’s not true!…
October 9, 2019
Erev Kol Nidrei — Repentance, Restitution, Reparations?
What is Yom Kippur all about? Is it about T’shuvah — making a change within; or Is it about S’lichah u’M’chilah — pardoning others and…
October 8, 2019
“And all the nations of the world shall be blessed through your descendants”: Antisemitism and the Strange State of the Jewish Union.
About 5 years ago, I was visiting the Holocaust museum in St. Louis, Missouri with a group of fellow hospital chaplains. I’d been to this…
September 30, 2019
Erev Rosh Hashanah: Va-Y’hi Or — Let There Be Light!
Just as it says in our Shofar service: Ha-Yom Harat Olam: today is the birthday of the world. It is the year 5780 on the…
September 29, 2019