This was a week where the world of yesterday and the world of today seemed to collide. At the same time as hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Jerusalem to protest changes made by the Knesset…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Sha’arei Dim’ah by Eitan Kantor – 7/24/23
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Torah Thoughts – Devarim – Deuteronomy.1.1-3.22 – “Speaking in Many Places at Once”
Last Sunday, I led a service at the Holloway Memorial Chapel in Canada, a few miles down the road from Crystal Beach. This is something I have done once a summer for the past decade, replacing Rabbi Marty Goldberg, who…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – A powerful song of Creation and Light – 7/17/23
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Torah Thoughts – Matot Masei – Numbers 30:2-36:13 – “Finding Home at Shir Shalom”
Elvis Presley famously sang, “Home is where the heart is.” The poet Robert Frost countered, home is “the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” For the Reubenites and Gaddites in this week’s…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Hayom T’amtzeinu (Today, may you strengthen us) – 7/10/23
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Torah Thoughts – Pinchas – Numbers.25.10-30.1 – “Radical Egalitarian in Judaism”
In 11th Grade, I spent the Fall semester studying at Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim in Jerusalem, Israel. There we were expected to not only attend classes, but also attend regular daily liturgical services or minyan we organized ourselves. Largely coming from…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – The Prayer by Ho’okena with Maila Gibson Original Words and Music by Carole Bayer Sayer and David Foster – 6/26/23
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Cantor’s Pick of the Week – I Have A Voice – Laurie Akers, Chava Mirel, Elana Jagoda, Abbie Strauss, Colleen Dieker – 6/20/23
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Torah Thoughts – Korach Numbers.16.1-18.32 – “The Talmud’s Guide to Healthy Conflict”
A recent text from our Thursday night Talmud study, absolutely blew my mind. It involves a little-known rabbi named Evyatar whose decision about the necessity of requiring agents to validate bills of divorce from outside of Israel was in conflict…