Clergy Sermons

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Parashat Vayeilech

Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal | September 14, 2018

Let Us Rise Up and Rebuild…Again (Rosh Hashanah 5779/2018)

Peter J. Rubinstein | September 11, 2018

Everyone Is Fighting A Battle: Building Our Resilience (Rosh Hashanah 5779/2018)

Maurice A. Salth | September 10, 2018

Yom Teruah: Sounding The Alarm For Anti-Semitism (Rosh Hashanah 5779/2018)

Angela W. Buchdahl | September 9, 2018

But as I’ve witnessed the recent increase in antisemitism—the ugliness unearthed during the last presidential election,the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, the increasing vilification of pro-Israel students on college campuses— I will admit that I am quite alarmed, and I felt I had to address it tonight. Antisemitism never exists in a vacuum; the tolerance for antisemtism goes hand in hand with a tolerance for hatred of all kinds. And if we Jews are not going to pay attention to its dangers, who will?