Next Monday night, September 27 and Tuesday morning September 28, we will be celebrating the last of the Jewish Fall holidays together online. Following Reform tradition, we will celebrate Simchat Torah on Monday night and Shemini Atzeret-Yiskor on Tuesday. Observances will be online only, both for health reasons and to...
Twenty years ago on the morning of 9.11 I was watching TV like I always do with some coffee and an occasional yawn and an outstretched arm. It was a beautiful morning that 9.11. blue sky, crisp air, until the news flashed a weird story about a passenger plane hitting...
From Rabbi Sussman on 9.11~ 9.11.2021 Twenty years ago On the morning of 9.11 I was watching TV. It was a beautiful morning Blue sky Crisp air Until the news flashed a weird story About a plane hitting the North Tower of the World Trade Center without explanation A terrible...
By the time you receive this message, the weekend of Labor Day 2021 will have already begun. Rosh Hashanah, 5782, will commence on the evening of Monday, September 6. We will gather in person and online to usher in the New Year with solemnity, seriousness and high purpose. A difficult...
We all saw it. Again. Nearly 700 Afghanistanis packed into a C-17 on August 15, 2021, sitting on the aircraft’s floor and hoping the giant plane could get on the only working runway in Kabul even as the tarmac was swelling with thousands of their fellow citizens fleeing from the...
Part of this week’s Torah portion, Re’eh, from Deuteronomy 13 contains an extensive discussion of false prophets. Determining true and false prophecy is just as much modern as it was an ancient problem. Prophecy, is not just a matter of predicting the future, indeed even from a Biblical perspective, clairvoyance...
Like many of you, I spent many hours this week in front of the TV watching the Olympics. In my house, our favorite sports are Women’s Gymnastics and Women’s Swimming, in large because Liz was a competitive swimmer for many years. My interest in the Olympics notched up even further...
While the Fourth of the July is traditionally the time for flag waving, fireworks and barbeques, it can also serve as a day for serious reflection about the founding of the United States and the ideals and contradictions of the American Revolution. While perhaps no single person more fully defined...
Under the rubble of collapsed hope on the beach near Miami a lost paradise now lies shattered in a million pieces of concrete. Hope is resilient and sends heroes to the top of that heap of shattered dreams and twisted steel while anxious family and friends stand guard by the...
On July 1, my final year at KI will begin. This summer will be a time of reflection for me and for all of us. Several programs (Rabbi’s Talk and Zoneg) this year made me realize that one of the dimensions of our synagogue that has evolved significantly during the...
