By Rabbi Betsy Forester
When our community rabbis were invited to choose a date to share words of Torah leading into, through, and out of the High Holy Days, I happily chose to write to you this week, following Sukkot and Simchat Torah. I was eager to share how our joy at Sukkot and rejoici…
By Rabbi Avremel Matusof
“If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.” I appreciate the value in such caution, and often go along with this line of thinking, but Judaism demands we should be bolder than those who try fixing unbroken stuff.
On Simchat Torah (celebrated this year on October 7…
By Rabbi Bonnie Margulis
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
September 29 begins the festival of Sukkot. It is tradition to read the book of Ecclesiastes during the festival. A refrain throughout the book is the thought that …
By Rabbi Yona Matusof
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. As millions prayed in synagogues, the Egyptian and Syrian armies surprised the Israelis with attacks on two fronts.
On the west bank of the Suez Canal, the Egyptians had 100,000 soldiers, 1,350 tanks, and 2,000 …
By Rabbi Jonathan Biatch
As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I think about a question, relevant to our times, that we can find in the book of Jonah, which many of us will read together on Yom Kippur.
Jonah, a most reluctant prophet, is commanded by God to prophesy against the s…
