Rabbi's Message

Happy 2026. I hope you had a great winter break and that any trips you may have taken were good and meaningful. In 2020, when we were preparing to read פרשת שמות/Parshat Shemot, our family had a life-changing moment we weren’t expecting. We received a call from our social worker

I was quite young when I discovered that I was not gifted with a singing voice. I was in youth choir at my synagogue, and I auditioned for a solo. The leader, my cantor’s wife, informed me I should find a new hobby… I couldn’t sing. The song I was

Dreams figure very prominently in the book of בראשית/Bereshit/Genesis. While many dreams are recounted, there are six dreams that specifically anchor the life and journey of יוסף/Yosef/Joseph. At the beginning of this week’s פרשה/parsha/portion: וישב/VaYeshev, we have his two dreams of superiority over his brothers, and perhaps his entire family

This Sunday morning is Bazaar. Not many synagogues have articles that start with those words. Here at OVS, Bazaar is almost like an additional holiday we have each year. Members and volunteers put it on their calendars far in advance and as soon as this year’s is concluded, we begin

These past months have been very difficult for our OVS community. All too often, we opened our email and saw the devastating news that a member of our community had died. When God said in בראשית/Bereshit/Genesis “לא טוב היות אדם לבדו/It is not good for people to be alone” (2:18)