Rabbi's Words & Resources
Please take the opportunity to read the inspiring words of our Rabbi, Ariel Edery...
Sermons and Devar-Torah
Good News/Bad News
Rosh Hashanah 2019-5780
Time to Raise Our Voice
2013 Rosh Hashanah Evening Sermon
What can we do on these terrible days of killings?
Statement on June 4, 2020
Yom Kippur - a day of Non-Judgement
From Yom Kippur 2019
Interesting Articles and Videos from the Web
Truah – Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
A short video presenting the organizations and the issues we are called to be engaged in. T’ruah’s name is referring to the sound of the Shofar, intended to awaken our conscience into action.
Tablet Magazine
Tablet Magazine brings you great writing on all kinds of topics: politics, arts, media, music, social issues, international affairs, Israel, and more. They specialize in intelligent and thought-provoking examinations of both the Jewish world and the broader culture as seen through a Jewish lens.
5 minutes of Torah (via ReformJudaism.org)
4 Children Great Passover Video
A great animated presentation of one of the central parts of Passover – show it to your children!
Rabbi's Book Corner
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called “a tour de force” by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century S pain. When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding -an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair-only begin to unlock its deep mysteries.
6 Jewish Spiritual Paths:
A Rationalist Looks at Spirituality
by Rabbi Rifat Sonsino
This is one more great book by Rabbi Sonsino, who is a fellow Reform Rabbi (now Emeritus), whom I have the pleasure to know, as we shared experiences doing rabbinic work in Argentina and in Spain.
As he did in his previous books (Finding God, What Happens After I Die?), Rabbi Sonsino offers an engaging presentation of the major paths to spirituality Judaism and the differing way each path can help us on our quest to nourish the soul and enlighten the mind. Acts of transcendence, prayer, meditation, study, ritual, relationship, and good deeds…Which is the best path for you? How can you follow it?