From the Rabbi

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The book we use on Seder night is called a Haggadah, which means “the telling,” but the most important message of Passover — freedom — [...]

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 [...]