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
There is No One Else
Dear friends, Shalom, chaverim A bumper sticker caught my attention when I was living in Israel. It read, simply, “ain od milvado” The first two…
March 25, 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