Author: Rabbi Stan Halpern

This last Monday, April 24, 2017, the Indianapolis Jewish Community commemorated Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The event was hosted by the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation,…

For many Reform Jews, Passover is the High Holy Days of the spring. Like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the family gathers together more than…

This coming Friday, March 24th, Congregation Beth Shalom will commemorate the 106th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire which killed 146 mostly Jewish and Italian…

For a holiday that seems to be directed so very much towards our children, and so very little towards adults, Purim sure does raise a…

In high school I was a geek. My fellow geeks and I built a radio tower out of empty beer cans-–Bob’s father was an alcoholic.…

One of the first plagues God visited on the Egyptians was the plague of frogs. In our imaginations we visualize thousands, maybe even millions, of…

It is hard to believe that it has been more than forty-five years since Dorris Lessing’s Briefing For a Descent Into Hell, one of my…

In the learning of Torah, we often find that the core values and lessons that can add so much meaning to our lives are presented…

From the earliest times, Judaism has faced the challenge of being in the Diaspora (in Exile), living as a sometimes oppressed minority, and maintaining the…

Aron Moss raises a hypothetical situation – one he claims has never happened before. Because of a mix-up in communication, he left his wife stranded…