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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: Recently at my job, I’ve been interacting with young Jews across the country, many seeking Jewish community and support for ritual spaces they can call home. Often, these conversations understandably begin with them asking for clerical support. Befitting the old joke, I am of two opinions of these conversations. On the one hand, […]

SUMMER 2025   PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: My childhood rabbi used to lament that so many people would come to Temple only during the High Holidays. If you are going to come to Temple only once a year, he would say, you should have more fun than that! You should come for Passover or Sukkot. So it […]

Winter/Spring 2025 President’s Message: I have a confession to make: I never much liked Chanukah (at least not as an adult). It is perhaps the most militaristic and nationalistic holiday in the Jewish calendar. The Book of Maccabees is so violent — including violence directed by the Maccabees at assimilated Jews — that the Rabbis […]