From the Rabbi

It had been raining all day last Thursday, but nothing could wash away my excitement. It was my first day back on campus after nearly [...]

Our rabbis teach us that when we go up to heaven, we are asked a few critical questions. The first one is the most important, and [...]

This month, we lost an amazing man — Rabbi Elliott Spar. Elliott was a colleague, a friend, and a mentor. One of his children, Ari [...]

 Last Friday, I returned from Israel with a small group of our congregants. During the trip, we took our time strolling throughout the land. It [...]

Have you noticed that everything is moving faster these days…? A year feels like a month, a month like a week, and a week is [...]

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 [...]