Continuity and Change on Our Soul Journeys
By Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit
Parshat Lech Lecha
Dedicated to the all the sacred work of mesnchwork.org and my father Lester, on his journey with Alzheimer’s...
The Distraction Generation
By Rabbi Jason Bonder
Parshat Noach
There is a character in the 2009 Walt Disney film “Up” named Dug. Dug is a dog who wears a...
After ‘Weather Bomb’ Topples Sukkahs, Community Helps Out
Throughout this Sukkot, lulavs were shaken but so, too, were sukkahs — many to their makeshift foundations, by a record-setting storm classified as a...
A Second Chance to Make a First Bat Mitzvah
The phrase adult bar or bat mitzvah, if not an apparent contradiction in terms, reads with some incongruity. Why would you need a bar...
Independent Clergy Find Place in Community
It’s fairly typical for a rabbi to seek out a congregation to call home. But for some, a pulpit rabbinate isn’t for them.
Greater Philadelphia...
Reflecting the Divine Image
By Rabbi Fred V. Davidow
Parshat Bereshit
Bereshit contains the well-known verse: “So God created the human beings in (the divine) image, creating (them) in the...
Why Hebrew School Students Choose Confirmation
Mia Schwartzberg grew up looking up at a photo of her father on a wall at Main Line Reform Temple.
That wall was filled with...
Main Line Reform Temple Brings Sukkot in the Sukkah-Mobile
There’s nothing like last week’s pounding rain and 50 mph winds to remind sukkah-dwellers of the impermanence of the sukkah as a symbol.
Still, when...
Why Do We Sit in the Sukkah?
By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
Sukkot
“You shall dwell in booths for seven days… So that your generations will know that I caused the children of Israel...
The Cantorate’s Future Is Bright at Hebrew College
NEWTON CENTRE, MASSACHUSETTS — On a bright Monday morning, about 10 miles west of Boston, a group — mostly rabbis and cantors in training...