Sermons

A sermon by Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor–Rosh Hashana morning 5784 We are living in a time of shifting tectonic plates under the Jewish world.  The synagogue model ...

A sermon by Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor– Erev Rosh Hashana 5784 One of the most difficult and probing challenges of our High Holy Day liturgy ...

As we prepare for the High Holidays, you may wish to read a thoughtful piece by our congregant, Hershel Allerhand.  Jewish Prayer Quotations  from the Writings of ...

Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor (This year it begins on evening of Wednesday July 26 and continues through sunset on Thursday July 27) Jewish life is ...

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 ...