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Sep 63 min read
Rabbi’s Update 9/6/2024
Dear Friends: In the parasha we will read next week, Ki Tetzei (Deut. 21:10 - 25:19), we find the following commandment: “When you build...
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Sep 43 min read
Rabbi’s Update 9/4/2024
Dear Friends: On Sunday morning we received the news that six Israeli hostages had been murdered by Hamas shortly before the IDF would...
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rabbi423
Aug 302 min read
Rabbi’s Update 8/30/2024
Dear Friends: If Israel is important to you and you want to hear directly from someone who is involved at the highest echelons of Israeli...
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rabbi423
Aug 283 min read
Rabbi’s Update 8/28/2024
Dear Friends: Jewish holidays are always either “early” or “late". When was the last time you heard someone say "Rosh Hashanah is right...
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rabbi423
Aug 232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 8/23/2024
Dear Friends: On Wednesday night, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, spoke...
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Aug 212 min read
Rabbi’s Update 8/21/2024
Dear Friends: My “Facebook Memories” remind me that ten years ago today I was in Tel Aviv during a prior Israel - Hamas war on a...
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rabbi423
Aug 162 min read
Rabbi’s Update 8/16/2024
Dear Friends: Earlier this week the president of Columbia University resigned in the wake of campus disturbances last year over the...
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rabbi423
Aug 142 min read
Rabbi’s Update 8/14/2024
Dear Friends: I want to thank everyone who reached out to me with good wishes both before and after my medical procedure which took place...
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rabbi423
Aug 73 min read
Rabbi’s Update 8/7/2024
Dear Friends: I want to share with you this morning a brief summary of my introduction to the Torah reading this past Shabbat. Last...
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rabbi423
Aug 23 min read
Rabbi’s Update 8/2/2024
Dear Friends: Late last night three Americans who were falsely imprisoned in Russia landed at Joint Base Andrews after a complicated...
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rabbi423
Jul 313 min read
Rabbi’s Update 7/31/2024
Dear Friends: On Monday night August 12 at 8 pm, we will be hosting joint services for Tisha B’Av with five other synagogues from central...
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rabbi423
Jun 283 min read
Rabbi’s Update 6/28/2024
Dear Friends: This is the last early morning email you will receive from me for a while as I will be beginning four weeks of vacation...
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rabbi423
Jun 263 min read
Rabbi’s Update 6/26/2024
Dear Friends: You have probably seen or read about yesterday’s unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of Israel which ruled that there...
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rabbi423
Jun 212 min read
Rabbi’s Update 6/21/2024
Dear Friends: Yesterday afternoon we had a lovely ice cream social and an opportunity to view some prints from the “Wrapping Memory”...
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rabbi423
Jun 192 min read
Rabbi’s Update 6/19/2024
Dear Friends: Tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 5 we will be hosting a viewing of the art exhibition “Wrapping Memory” and an ice cream...
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rabbi423
Jun 142 min read
Rabbi’s Update 6/14/2024
Dear Friends: I was fortunate earlier this week to attend the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum which was held at the...
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rabbi423
Jun 72 min read
Rabbi’s Update 6/7/2024
Dear Friends: Shavuot, which begins this coming Tuesday evening, is unique in that it is the only Jewish holiday which cannot be started...
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rabbi423
Jun 53 min read
Rabbi’s Update 6/5/2024
Dear Friends: From Sunday afternoon through Tuesday afternoon of the coming week, I will be attending the American Jewish Committee’s...
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rabbi423
May 313 min read
Rabbi’s Update 5/31/2024
Dear Friends: Last night I taught a class called “Mahloket L’shem Shamayim: Jewish Wisdom for Productive and Respectful Disagreement.” As...
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rabbi423
May 293 min read
Rabbi’s Update 5/29/2024
Dear Friends: Tomorrow night for Adult Education I will be teaching about what the Talmud calls Machloket L’shem Shamayim, literally “a...
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