Torah Thoughts – Pekudei – Exodus.38.21-40.38 – “A Blessing for the Journey”
This past week, I drove down to Philadelphia to join colleagues in the Reform movement at our annual convention. In preparing to leave on any journey, I find I am most nervous in the hours before I leave. This is…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – I’m Just Ken Ryan Gosling at the Academy Awards, March 10, 2024
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Torah Thoughts – Vayakhel – Exodus.35.1-38.20 – “Won’t you be my neighbor?”
For Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Noar A’wad, the question of who their neighbors were was confusing and upsetting. Were their neighbors only the Israeli settler or Palestinian Arab communities they respectively lived amongst in the West Bank or were they…
Torah Thoughts – Ki Tisa – Exodus 30.11-34.35 – “A Molten God”
I finally watched Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer with my son Boaz. Without giving anything away, what stood out most was the dramatization of the initial test of the bomb on July 16, 1945. Nolan and his cinematographer, Hoyte van Hoytema, brought…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Frank Salomone Rossi and his Innovations Early Music – Elam Rotem – 2/5/24
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Cantor’s Pick of the Week Arum dem Fayer, Yiddish folk song Shpielberg feat. Svetlana Kundish and Mendy Cahan – 1/29/24
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Torah Thoughts – Yitro – Exodus.18.1-20.23 – “To Marlene Glickman: My Guide, My Friend”
When I came to Buffalo fifteen years ago, I knew nothing about Buffalo, and I knew nothing about being a rabbi. If I were going to be successful, I needed a guide to show me the way. Along came Marlene…
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