From the Rabbi's Desk

October 7, 2023 is a day that will live forever in the collective memories of the Jewish people and all people of conscience in the world. For those without a conscience, it will be a day like every other day, a day of nothing out of the ordinary. 90 years prior to October 7, 2023, an obscure thing happened that was buried in the newspapers of the days. Dr Albert Einstein boarded a ship in London to travel across the Atlantic...Read more...

בְּכָל-דּוֹר וָדוֹר חַיָּב אָדָם לְהַרְאוֹת אֶת-עַצְמוֹ כְּאִלּוּ הוּא יָצָא מִמִּצְרַיִם. In each and every generation a person is obligated to see themselves as having gone out from Egypt. These words from the הגדה של פסח/Passover Haggadah are well known to all of us. They come after Rabban Gamliel’s statement of the three core symbols we’re required...Read more...

With Purim now in our rearview mirror, we have only a month until we celebrate the holiday of Pesach. We’ll be sending Passover materials to you in the coming days. Passover is a holiday steeped in law, ritual, custom and tradition. It’s a time when we truly embrace all that it is to live a richly engaged Jewish life in a non-Jewish world. Over the coming weeks, I want to offer some reflections about Passover to help you celebrate the...Read more...