A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Joan Walsh Anglund January 22, 2016 This week, on this special Shabbat of Shabbat Shira, we read the story of the Israelites crossing the Sea of Reeds. After the community experiences this miracle, they gather together to sing with […]
Modeling the Jewish Learning and Humanity of Our Late Teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer.
Dvar Torah Bo
“A little bit of light dispels a lot of darkness” Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyadi 15/1/16 When you have a chance, walk into this sanctuary, or any sanctuary when after the sun has set and the people have gone. There is a sense of peace and calm, and without the din of voices, the room is […]
Dvar Torah Va’eira
January 8th, 2016/27 Tevet 5776 I always find the timing of the weekly Torah portions so fascinating. Here in the midst of the cold of winter with snow on the ground here in Warsaw, we read Parshat Va’eira. We are transported into the desert, to the beginning of the story of the Exodus from Egypt […]
Paulina’s Story
I met Paulina in 2010 when my husband Rabbi Allen Maller and I went to help the Reform Jewish Congregation in Warsaw. She was a slender, blue eyed, young woman in her late twenties. Allen asked Paulina to write a paper about why she wanted to convert to Judaism. I have edited what Paulina wrote, […]
Dvar Torah Shemot
January 1, 2016 Of all the great theological questions of the Torah, one of the most profoundly simple appears in this week’s Torah portion. After being introduced to Moses and hearing the story of his birth, we find the future leader of the Jewish people wandering the fields with his sheep. It is there that […]
Dvar Torah
December 25th, 2015/13 Tevet 5776 As you might expect, Jews have had an interesting relationship with Christmas. For much of Jewish history, the challenges between Christians and Jews made the holiday if nothing else, an uncomfortable experience which brought into the open the minority status of Jews in society. Yet over time, and as the […]
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