When I was a student in rabbinical school in Cincinnati, I wrote the annual Purim spoof. A few years after I left Cincinnati and was an ordained rabbi, a friend happened to tell me about that year’s play and said, “Stuart, it was even funnier than anything you ever wrote.” As they described the play …
June 13, 2009 Difficult as it may be to believe, there was a time when there was no such thing as GPS, Global Positioning Service. That’s right. Back in the old days, people had to use MapQuest to figure out how to get where they were going. And in the early days, before …
June 6, 2009 In a different context I have told the joke about God summoning the leaders of the world’s three great monotheistic religions to tell them that He has decided to send a great flood in three days to destroy the world. The Pope goes on international satellite and tells the world’s population …
Governor Martin O’Malley recently asked me to participate in the “National Day of Prayer.” I was asked to write a prayer for education. Here is the prayer I wrote and delivered on May 7, 2009. We gather together today to pray for our nation and our community, for the well-being of the citizens and …
May 9, 2009 Thomas Mann in his book The Magic Mountain writes, “Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire …
May 2, 2009 Every so often a rabbi has to take a stand. There comes a time in the career of every religious leader when you cannot be wishy washy or hide behind platitudes, when it becomes necessary to weigh in on the difficult controversial issues facing people, even at the risk of offending …
Dear Mr. Roth, I have been reading about the controversy over the production, “Seven Jewish Children.” I find it most disturbing that our local JCC would want to put on a play with such negative portrayals of Israelis and Jews and such harsh judgment. Why not just put on a dramatization of “Protocols of …
March 21, 2009 I like to reflect in my sermons upon current events and things happening in the world in the light of the Torah and its insights. I do this for a number of reasons. Primarily, I want to show the connection between Torah and our lives today. It is important to see …
March 14, 2009 And now it is time for a pop quiz. No pencils or writing – it’s Shabbat. You can just call out your answers. The first three questions are short answer identification. I am going to read three quotations you. Your assignment is to identify the source. The second part of the …
After the recent attack and ransacking of a synagogue in Caracas, Venezuela, I went with another rabbi to the Venezuelan Embassy to meet with representatives of the government. We met with the Charge D’Affaires since there is currently no Venezuelan Ambassador here in Washington, as he was expelled sometime last year. The attack was …
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