Category Archives: Announcements

A Prayer for When Children are Forcibly Separated from Parents By Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Pray for the children The ones who were taken away And pray for the leaders Whose moral compasses have gone astray Pray for the kids Who wallow in their cages And pray for the guards Whose work sullies…

Split Screens: Rabbi Franken’s Remarks on Recent Events in the Middle East

Split Screens: Rabbi Franken’s Remarks on Recent Events in the Middle East The first time I ever spoke up for Israel I was about the age of our Confirmation students. The Reagan Administration had proposed the sale of advanced aircraft called Airborne Warning and Control Systems, or AWACS, to the government of Saudi Arabia and…

Rabbi Rachel Ackerman – Why did you become a rabbi?

Over the past many months a number of you have asked the question most often asked of rabbis. Why? Why did you become a rabbi? It’s hard to pinpoint an exact moment (although, at another point I’m happy to share some significant ones from adolescence that certainly nudged me in this direction), but my deep…

Category Archives: Announcements

A Prayer for When Children are Forcibly Separated from Parents By Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Split Screens: Rabbi Franken’s Remarks on Recent Events in the Middle East

Rabbi Rachel Ackerman – Why did you become a rabbi?

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