From the Rabbi

With the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II this week, hosts of people gathered around her coffin, waiting in never-ending queues just to get [...]

When our shul’s next-door neighbors built a pool in their backyard, I toyed with the idea in my mind, that if our synagogue wanted to [...]

It was Thursday, June 30, a beautiful summer evening, an opportunity to launch the kayak at the beach located at the end of Fourth Street. [...]

Exactly ten years ago, on July 1, 2012, I began my tenure at CTI. A few days later, on July 4, I moved into the Rabbi’s [...]

What do we mean by Jewish continuity? This was the main question in our last session of the “Beyond Dispute” series on pivotal Jewish discourse [...]

Please join me in wishing the State of Israel “Mazal Tov” for its 74th birthday. A breeze of freedom is blowing through this season, from the ancients [...]

I don’t watch the Oscars, but the slap that Will Smith wielded to Chris Rock’s face is still reverberating. One could ask if it’s worth [...]

I’ll always remember where I was when the war in Ukraine started. I was in HEL (airport lingo for the Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport), exactly a [...]

During Black History Month, America remembers the beauty of the African cultures and, at the same time, remembers what was done in the name of [...]

Two days after the hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, the congregation conducted a healing service at a nearby church. The place [...]

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This African proverb is one of my favorites because [...]

Every year, the Greenport Ecumenical Ministries holds a special service on Veterans’ Day to honor our veterans and other civil servants. This year, the service [...]