Yom Kippur, 5774 Temple Sinai, Reno, NV One transformational experience I had which led me to become a rabbi happened when I was 15. I was singing the Bach B Minor Mass with an international choir at Dachau Concentration Camp in Southern Germany. The conductor’s sister had been beaten to death there for serving as […]
On Listening and Letting Go
Yom Kippur, 5774 Temple Sinai, Reno, NV Listen Oh Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One. Sometimes I read it this way: Come on already, Israel, listen! Adonai, the One we call our God, Adonai is one! Adonai, our God, and GOD who goes by a multiplicity of names throughout the world— […]
Comprehensive Immigratinon Reform, A Jewish Issue
Rosh HaShanah Morning, 5774 Temple Sinai, Reno, NV Abraham, the founding patriarch of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was an immigrant. The man who first entered a covenant with the One God, and whose merit we invoke every time we pray, because we are his descendants. Thus we read on every Passover night: “Arami Oved Avi,” […]
Define Yourself, as a Reform Jew, by What You DO (not by what you don’t do)
Erev Rosh HaShanah, 5774 Temple Sinai, Reno, NV He’s Orthodox! He uses so much Hebrew! Is he conservative or Reform? I still think he’s Orthodox. OMGosh, our rabbi keeps kosher? Is he going to make us keep kosher? These are some of the reactions I have heard since starting at Temple Sinai in July. Don’t […]