https://youtu.be/5-Qed8wMIwo?si=lkN9g7QjG4cYL-VP Download PDF The Megillah, the Book of Esther contains nine chapters. It consists of 167 verses, and numerous exchanges, speeches and dialogues between the primary characters. I want to focus this morning on just one of those conversations. It takes up only two verses, but is a pivotal moment in the story. It determines the outcome …
Weinblatt told Jewish Insider that many of the signatories have known Van Hollen “for years if not decades, and respect much of the work he has done for the State of Maryland, and the Jewish community” but see his comments on Israel as “misguided” and serving “no purpose other than to inflame an already tense …
B’nai Tzedek hosted an interfaith Iftar program last week, co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel and AMMWEC, American Muslim and Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council. Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog and the Ambassador of Bosnia spoke. Rabbi Weinblatt’s comments at the Iftar are below, along with an article about the event in the …
Parashat Pekudei Download PDF This week’s Torah reading concludes the Book of Exodus. To recap: It began with the story of a motley family of 70 individuals coming to Egypt because of the famine in their homeland, the land of Israel. In the course of their time in this foreign land they reached great heights and enjoyed elevated …
Watch Video Download PDF Earlier this week I took my confirmation class on our annual trip to New York. Our first visit upon our arrival in Manhattan was the Jewish Heritage Museum in Battery Park. Its majestic view through the large windows of the Statue of Liberty, what for many of our ancestors may well have been …
Watch Video Download PDF The calendar says that today is January 6, 2024. On the Jewish calendar, today is the 26th day of Tevet in the year 5784. But in Israel, it is October 8th, 2023, the day after the horrific unimaginable unanticipated barbaric killing spree launched by Hamas on Simchat Torah, Saturday, October 7. It is …
Watch Video Download PDF We have learned a lot this past week. One thing we learned is that “pronounism”, or “pronounophobia”, two words I just invented, and which mean the incorrect use of pronouns, can get you into more trouble than calling for the genocide of Jews. The other thing we learned this past week …
Rabbi Weinblatt’s Sermon On Erev Yom Kippur Watch Video Download PDF It is difficult to know which aspect of the story of Dinah is most disturbing. Is it that she was taken and raped by Shechem? Is it the silence of her father Jacob in the face of his daughter being violated? Is it the complicity of the …
HAYEI SARAH Watch Video Download PDF Throughout the ages our sages enjoyed engaging in the sophistry of comparing Abraham to Noah and debating who was the greater person, who was more righteous? The obvious answer is Abraham. The odds are tilted in his favor because, after all, we Jews are descendants of Abraham, not Noah. Abraham is …
Ever since the horrific attack on October 7, Rabbi Weinblatt has given a series of sermons about what happened. Here is the most recent one. Watch Video Download PDF In this the third week since Israel launched its invasion of Hamas-controlled Gaza in response to the brutal sadistic massacre that occurred 4 weeks ago, moral …