“Next year in Jerusalem!” Like so many of you, I found that phrase and the entire Seder both more meaningful and more challenging this year. After all, our hearts and minds are with Israel, with the hostages, with our family members, and friends who have been affected since October

This Shabbat we have a lot going on! Musician and Educator Noah Aronson is joining us all weekend long, we have our annual chocolate seder for elementary school kids, J-Quest, concerts, learning…so much going on! And, because Rabbi Cohen wrote about most of our Torah topic last week (the

Beloved Friends,  We have arrived at the scariest/grossest part of the book of Leviticus. Because this is a leap year, for the next two weeks, we will explore the Torah portions Tazria and Metzora. In ordinary years they would be read on the same Shabbat. In Tazria, we encounter

Pesach is just around the corner. More than any other of our annual celebrations, Pesach makes me feel connected to Judaism. I believe I get some of that feeling during the retelling of our Passover story while another part I can say is ascribed to the time we (normally)