From the Rabbi

Dear Members and Friends, It was delightful seeing many of you during the High Holiday season. I hope you are beginning the new year with [...]

Last Shabbat, the Orient Congregational Church hosted an interfaith panel discussion in which I participated with Dr. Don Russo and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra. It was [...]

The solar eclipse we witnessed to various degrees this week brought many Americans together and looking up to heaven. In a time when it seems [...]

It was a hot day this week when we all gathered to welcome Dawn Mankow into the Jewish faith. I’m no longer surprised when people want [...]

Dear Friends, I just returned from the Maine Conference for Jewish Life, a project of the Center for Small-Town Jewish Life at Colby University. The idea of the [...]

As I’m writing this message, President Trump is wrapping up his trip to Saudi Arabia before flying (directly!) from Riyadh to Tel Aviv. The timing is [...]

More than 100 people celebrated the holiday of freedom with us this year — two Seders at our shul and two additional model Seders, one [...]

Dear members and friends, It was nice to come back to Greenport, to budding trees and bushes. With Purim behind us and Passover ahead, it’s [...]

Dear members and friends, Shalom from Israel! The day after I finished a 10-day interfaith pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I was sitting with friends, [...]

Dear members and friends, Let me begin my message this month by wishing our new president success in keeping America great. The atmosphere in which President [...]

All I was hoping for was an enjoyable post-High Holidays trip, driving through seven mostly Eastern European countries in three weeks. (Yes, I do find [...]

Dear Members and Friends, As I'm traveling through Europe, I witness how strongly the events in America still reverberate throughout the world. Most newspapers are [...]