Our weekly Shabbat Shalom Messages are written by our senior staff: Rabbi Paul F. Cohen, Rabbi Rachel Heaps, Cantor Lianna Mendelson, Danny Glassman, and Matt Rissien. We hope you enjoy sharing in our love of Torah and Judaism through these messages.
Shabbat Noach 5786
Sometimes when you’re knitting, you drop a stitch or twist your yarn or misread your pattern. Fortunately, most of those things are easily
Shabbat B’reishit 5786
The Torah begins not with a commandment or a law, but with a story—a story of chaos transformed into order, of darkness pierced
Shabbat Chol HaMo-eid Sukkot 5786
Under the Fragile Roof of Memory Beloved Friends, On the Shabbat of Sukkot, we step into a fragile dwelling, open to the sky,
Shabbat Haazinu 5786
In this week's Torah portion, Ha'azinu, we see Moses at the peak of his power with words. He gives this amazing, sweeping poem
Shabbat Shuvah 5786; Joe Tesher
Our High Holy Days theme in Pirkei Avot 2:16* is quite relevant for me personally. I, too, have a task from which I
Shabbat Nitzavim; Rabbi Bob Schreibman
Reflections in the Final Days of Elul Rabbi Robert Schreibman in conversation with Leslie Landman As Rabbi Schreibman will soon mark his 90th