Sermons

By Hershel Allerhand with thanks to Mary Ann Easley for typing and Liz Coffin for editing. This year, the holiday of Shavuot will be celebrated ...

By Hershel Allerhand Based on the writings of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (the memory of the righteous is a blessing). Time: Freedom, Holiness ...

A thoughtful essay by our member, Hershel Allerhand, on the meaning of Tu Be’Shvat. Tu Be’Shvat, the ‘New Year for trees,’ falls this year on ...

College used to be a place for academic inquiry, social and physical exploration, recreation and maturation, and sometimes political activism.

Imagine, if you will, that every morning when you woke up some anonymous donor placed $86,400 in a bank account for you to spend any ...

The Dubner Maggid told the story of a king who had a large and glorious kingdom – but his most prized possession was a large ...

As never before, our United States democracy is being threatened. And it is being threatened by attacks on one of the most basic rights that ...

By Herschel Allerhand Vaclav Havel (writer, dissident and statesman) was not Jewish, but his views regarding life mirror those of our Sages and make a ...

By Herschel Allerhand Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the Jewish year, will be observed on Sunday, August 7th, 2022. Actually, Tisha B’Av, the ninth ...

By Herschel Allerhand, typed by Mary Ann Easley, edited by Elizabeth Coffin Shavuot is the second of the pilgrimage holidays (falling between Passover and Succot). ...

By Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor There are so many interesting challenges when considering the festival of Chanukah – the first is obvious: how do we ...

By Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor Ed Paine, Ed Pease, Mike Scarpiello wrote a song in 1977, made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary in 1982 ...