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...
What Forms the Rocks of Life?
By Rabbi Joshua Waxman
Parshat Ha’azinu
A podcast by political reporters that I regularly listen to recently found the contributors stepping back and reflecting on this...
Center City Kehillah Expands Number of Sukkahs in Public Parks
The Center City Kehillah has built a sukkah at Julian Abele Park in Graduate Hospital for the last several years, but this year the...
The Growing Ranks of Female Scribes
It was never inconceivable that Linda Coppleson would be doing this. At least to her, anyway.
Coppleson, 69, grew up in a shul dedicated to...
Synagogue Constructs Large Inflatable Whale for Yom Kippur
The reading of the Book of Jonah is customary for Yom Kippur, but one synagogue is going a step further.
Beth David Reform Congregation in...