Yom Kippur September 18, 2010 At her Supreme Court Senate nomination hearing earlier this year, for some reason nominee Elena Kagan was asked where she was on Christmas eve. It had to be one of the strangest questions ever asked in a confirmation hearing, but probably one of the best setup lines of all …
Rosh Hashanah September 9, 2010 As the Yiddish saying goes, “Mentsch tracht, und Gott lacht: Man plans, and God laughs.” How true. How true. I have always thought of myself as healthy, not invulnerable or immune to illness, but as someone with a lot of energy, stamina and strong will power. Tumors, …
Rosh Hashana Evening September 8, 2010 Although no book in the Bible bears his name, and no writings are attributed to him, there are more legends and stories in Jewish folklore about Elijah than any other Biblical hero. Most of us associate of Elijah with being a visitor at our Passover seders. Throughout …
August 28, 2010 We are living in a time of tremendous contentiousness and polarization. With all the cable channels and choices we have, I wish I could turn on a station and just get the news – not hyperbole, not shouting, not polemics, not a one-sided presentation, not advocating for one particular position while …
As part of our ongoing outreach to younger children of members and members in their 20’s, “20 Somethings” (Generation Xers), organized a Shabbat meal for their contemporaries. I went downtown and met almost 30 young people for a beautiful Shabbat dinner, cooked primarily by Jason Symonds, who prepared two different types of chicken no less, …
An Evening with Al Franken On Sunday night, June 6th, we presented the David Ifshin Annual Memorial Award to Minnesota Senator Al Franken. The turnout of between 300 – 350 people was the largest we have ever had for this annual event. The award is given in honor of David Ifshin who had a distinguished …
June 5, 2010 I spent the week before last in New York at a conference with several hundred other rabbis. I mention this today, when we celebrate the confirmation of our students because I want them to know that although each of the rabbis had spent at least five or more intense years studying …
May 22, 2010 Fifteen rabbis go the White House for a meeting. Were the destination not the Roosevelt Room to discuss the nature of American-Israeli relations this could be the opening line of a joke with a punch line I have yet to write. But indeed it was a meeting that was taken very …
May 15, 2010 Many of us have trouble keeping up with and observing long-standing Jewish holidays. Although it is probably theologically more important and central to the mission of Judaism than either Passover or Sukkot, Shavuot which begins on Tuesday night gets much less attention than its more famous cousins, Sukkot and Pesah. Truth …
The early 1970’s when I was a student at the University of Maryland were contentious times. Confrontation between authority figures and the student body was the standard mode of interaction. I served as the Director of State Affairs, which meant that I was liaison to the various branches of the Maryland state government on …
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