“A Servant in the Temple”
Dear Members and Friends, It was wonderful to see so many of you on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; it always feels like an extended [...]
“Moonrise”
We are just a few days from New Year 5777, and I sense excitement in the air. For Jews, the High Holidays are the spiritual [...]
“Twin Towers of Faith”
In a couple of weeks, at our annual Journal Dinner-Dance, we will celebrate Tifereth Israel’s 115th anniversary. The event will be held this year on [...]
“Imperfect Union”
Dear Members and Friends, It was a great honor to share the stage with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Orient Annual Heritage Day [...]
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints”
Dear members and friends, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” (Ps. 116:15) It’s been a week on an emotional [...]
“49 days from Passover to Shavuot”
Dear Members and Friends, As we count each day of the Omer from Passover to Shavuot, we are reminded of an essential (if not the [...]
“Slaving To Be Free”
The book we use on Seder night is called a Haggadah, which means “the telling,” but the most important message of Passover — freedom — [...]
“Dinner in Palermo”
A few weeks before my yearly pilgrimage to Israel, I learned that a few members of our congregation were planning to be in Italy, specifically [...]
“The Super Bowl of Life”
Dear Members and Friends, Two months ago, I went to a football game — for the first time. Someone donated two tickets to the silent [...]
“Seeing it Coming”
Dear members and friends, As we experience the season of winter and snow and drift into occasional hibernation, let’s hope it won’t be too challenging [...]
“What Do You Stand For?”
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” said Alexander Hamilton. Every year that we stand before God to give an accounting for [...]