Rabbi's Message

As summer is winding down and kids are heading back to school, it’s time to launch our next year. Every August we spend a lot of time getting ready for the next Jewish year and all we can look forward to doing together. Without a doubt, one of the highlights

We are excited to invite your family to join Building Blocks Sunday School, where Jewish learning comes to life in a warm, engaging, and hands-on environment. At Building Blocks, children explore Judaism through Hebrew, Jewish holidays and traditions, Israeli culture, music, art, baking, games, and meaningful experiences that help build

Parshat VaEtChanan is a monumental parsha. It contains two of the most foundational texts of our tradition: the Shema and its first paragraph, and the second telling of the Aseret HaDibrot (Ten Commandments). This is no ordinary Torah portion. What is it about the word Shema that makes it so

Next week we will observe Tisha B’Av (תשעה באב), the Ninth of Av. Traditionally, this is a day associated with calamity for the Jewish people. It’s the day on which both the First and Second Temples were destroyed, the city of Betar fell, the Romans plowed over Jerusalem, and—long before

Does it matter that the mayor of a large American city calls our people monsters? Does it matter that people accuse the Jewish officiant of a mega celebrity wedding, for two non-Jews at a non-Jewish ceremony, of being a genocide supporter? Does it matter that candidates for elected offices across