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Why Is This Night Different Than All Other Nights? (Metzora 04/09/22)

Posted on April 12, 2022

Why Is This Night Different Than All Other Nights? Is it: The costs for this meal are twice the price of an average meal? We are surrounded by friends andRead More »

Timely Torah Readings (Tazria – 04/02/22)

Posted on April 6, 2022

Timely Torah Readings This past Shabbat we experienced a rare confluence of events requiring us to need three Sefer Torahs. As it was Rosh Chodesh (the beginning of the newRead More »

An Auspicious Time (Shemini 03/26/22)

Posted on March 30, 2022

An Auspicious Time Do you know that magic moment, that swing in the energy, the turn in the tide when one team starts to take charge of the game? IRead More »

Purim/St. Patrick’s Day 2022 – Speech by Paul Konigstein – Tzav 03/19/22

Posted on March 22, 2022

Purim/St. Patrick’s Day 2022 Purim is only a few days behind us, yet suddenly, I’m viewing all the food in my pantry as just two categories: chometz and non-chometz. SuchRead More »

Parshat Zachor / Rabbi’s Note & Sharon Dashow’s Speech (03/12/22)

Posted on March 15, 2022

Dear Friends, Purim approaches (starting Wednesday night), and joy, laughter, comradery, charity, and love are in the air. Purim is perhaps, my favorite holiday, for it represents to me theRead More »

The Power of One Person (Vayahkel 02/26/22)

Posted on March 1, 2022

The Power of One Person My idealism has come back down to earth. Naively, I had presumed that the painful lessons of the 20th century would have taught us thatRead More »

Luxurious Attire (Tetzaveh 02/12/22)

Posted on February 15, 2022

Luxurious Attire In our Parsha we’re told to adorn Aharon, the High Priest כהן גדול, with numerous extravagant garments woven from royal blue, purple and crimson wool, fine linen andRead More »

What is Judaism?

Posted on February 8, 2022

Recently, Rabbi Neil asked our 7th Graders the simple question, “What is Judaism?”  Their answers are in the photo. A question that could take scholars hours or days to define,Read More »

What We Eat (Terumah 02/05/22)

Posted on February 7, 2022

What We Eat As I enter my kitchen for a snack, my hungry cat follows me. It wants a snack too. “I just fed you two hours ago, you insatiableRead More »

Keep the Progress Going (Mishpatim – 01/29/22)

Posted on January 31, 2022

Keeping the Progress Going If there is a God, wouldn’t this Being desire to communicate with us? Parents want a relationship with their children; why would God not want aRead More »

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