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Central Conference of American Rabbis Condemns Attacks on Egged Buses Featuring Women of the Wall
The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) condemns Monday’s attacks on Egged buses carrying advertisements of Women of the Wall in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood, Mea Shearim. These buses were apparently targeted for violence because they feature advertisements placed by Women of the Wall, inviting young women becoming Bat Mitzvah to read from the Torah…Read more »
Observing Rabbi Jonas’ Yarzeit
On Shabbat Bereshit many rabbis and Jewish leaders across North America are observing the Yarzeit of Rabbi Regina Jonas. Rabbi Jonas was ordained in 1935 in Berlin in a private ceremony by Rabbi Max Dienerman who was head of the Liberal Rabbinic Conference. She was a graduate of the famous Hochshule fur die Wiesenschaft des…Read more »
Rabbi Denise Eger’s Yom Kippur Morning
Rabbi Denise Eger’s Yom Kippur Morning Sermon 2014 – YouTube http://ow.ly/CBSfw
Rabbi Denise Eger’s Yom Kippur Evening
Rabbi Denise Eger’s Yom Kippur Evening Kol Nidrei Sermon 2014 – YouTube http://ow.ly/CBScO
Sukkah Guests
Tonight we begin the Festival of Sukkot, our Fall Harvest Extravaganza! In our day and time this is a most overlooked by liberal Jews. With so much emphasis on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur the rest of the High Holy Days- Sukkot, Hoshanah Rabbah, Simchat Torah are often passed by. In the ancient days this…Read more »
Heed the Sounds of the Warnings.
Shanah Tovah. Happy New Year to you all. I want to share with you something From the memoirs of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meisels, z”l describing Rosh Hashanah 1944. It is a true story. “The experience of one transport that left Auschwitz is seared in my memory,” he writes. “With the grace of HASHEM I was…Read more »
Yom Kippur Transitions and Remembrances
I wish you each a Ketivah v’chatimah tovah! A good inscription and seal in the Book of Life. And for those of you that are fasting a Tzom Kal, an easy fast. In May of 1972 Judaism went through a dramatic transition. The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ordained its first woman rabbi, Rabbi…Read more »
Israel, the Media and You: A new Commitment in the New Year
A CNN Reporter, BBC Reporter, and an Israeli commando were captured by terrorists in Iraq. The leader of the terrorists told them that he would grant them each one last request before they were beheaded. The CNN Reporter said, ‘Well, I’m an American, so I’d like one last hamburger with French fries.” The leader nodded…Read more »
Time to ask for Forgiveness
It is almost Kol Nidre. The time to be ask and pray fervently to be released from vows and to turn our hearts in Teshuvah, in repentance, for all of the sins of the past year. Sin is a heavy word. When I come face to face with that word I hear evangelical Christian ministers.…Read more »