High Holy Day Sermons 5777/2016
Our High Holy Day Sermons are now available to read online: Erev Rosh Hashana Sermon by Rabbi Dev Noily: “A River Goes Out From Eden” Rosh Hashana Sermon by Rabbi […]
Erev Rosh Hashana Sermon by Rabbi Dev Noily: “A River Goes Out From Eden”
I want to talk with you tonight about home. About what it means to have a home, to be pushed out of our home, and to long for home. These […]
Yom Kippur Sermon by Rabbi Burt Jacobson: “The Quest for Inner Freedom”
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the day of at-one-ment, is drawing toward its close. The inner and outer work of the Ten Days of Teshuvah is almost complete. And […]
Through the Neila Gates by way of Ellis Island, by Rabbi David Cooper
My mother, my father, and my stepfather had all had the experience coming into America from Europe. My mother was unusual because having been born in Brooklyn, her parents decided […]
Introduction to Hagar & Ishmael Torah Excerpt (Genesis 21:9-21) by Rabbi David Cooper
This morning we are reading from the traditional Torah segment for the first day of Rosh Hashanah which you’ll find on your handout. It is a story of the banishment […]
Kol Nidre Sermon by Rabbi David Cooper: “God, the Covenant, and the Inside-Outsider”
Ellis Island Story Referenced in Sermon Introduction to Hagar & Ishmael Torah Excerpt (Genesis 21:9-21) A few years ago, I was dropping my son Lev off at college. I helped […]
Yom Kippur Reflection by Scott and Rose Gelfand
Scott: Good morning everyone and happy New Year. I am deeply honored to be here, along with my daughter Rose, and also eternally grateful to Kehilla for creating a sanctuary […]
Rosh Hashanah Sermon by Rabbi Avi Rose
During the past year, I along with all of us, have been immersed in images of people fleeing, escaping war and persecution, crowding into barely habitable places where they aren’t […]