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By Larry Herman, January 18, 2025 Hineini, Hineinu Hineini. Here I am. What does it mean to be hineini, to be here? Is it a statement of physical presence? Is

By Carl Sunshine for Vayigash, Exodus 47-48, January 4, 2025 I would like to examine this week’s parshah with you on the double occasions of my 75th birthday, and my

By Diane Herman, December 28, 2024 Shabbat shalom! I love the Joseph story. It’s my favorite story in the Torah. In fact, I can hardly contain myself every year when

By Melissa Patack Berenbaum, Dec. 21, 2024  “If anyone is going to be overdressed, it may as well be you.” These were words spoken by my mother, Sandra Cohen Patack,

By Jacki Honig, November 23, 2024 Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away, there was a man. Let’s call him, oh, I don’t know, Isaac. He was

By Andrew Wallenstein, November 2, 2024 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, We have come to the portion of the trial in which I present the closing argument on behalf

By Stevie Green, October 26, 2024 For this drash, I will be quoting extensively from this book: Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence by

By Joel Elkins with Larry Herman as Dan — October 26, 2024 If you would rather watch, you can find the following in the TBA YouTube video of the service.

Hinenu הִנֵּֽנִוּ By Rabbi Jim Rogozen, October 3, 2024 When I was a Head of School in Cleveland, we had a custom of inviting the previous year’s valedictorian to give

By Joel Grossman, October 5, 2024 Shabbat Shalom Today is Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat of repentance which always falls between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The name Shabbat shuvah come