Nevertheless – the Truth Persists / Eppur Si Muove: Sermon Yom Kippur Afternoon 2018-5779
Sermon Yom Kippur Afternoon 2018-5779 David J. Cooper It’s Yom Kippur afternoon. I figure it’s a good time to tell a story. Some of you might know that I’m a […]
RACIAL JUSTICE INVOCATION
by Aurora Levins Morales This piece was written for the Kehilla community and shared on Kol Nidre 5779/2018. In the heart of this congregation, we have planted the seeds of racial […]
Rabbi Gray Myrseth’s Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5779
Together at the Gates—Erev Rosh Hashanah 5779 The first time I looked at a page of Talmud, my initial thought was, “what have I gotten myself into?” This was the […]
High Holy Day Sermons 5778/2017
Our High Holy Day Sermons are now available to read online: Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon by Howard Hamburger (coming soon) Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon by Jessica Shen-Wachter Kol Nidre Sermon […]
Kol Nidre Sermon by Rabbi Dev Noily: “I Will Sing for People Who Might not Sing for Me”*
When I was 12 or 13, I came home one day wearing my friend Steve Rogers’ necklace. It was a leather string with painted ceramic beads on it. And right […]
Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon by Jessica Shen-Wachter
As a Chinese American Jew, for as long as I can remember I have been passionate about social justice. I remember meeting with my principal as a fifth grader because […]
“Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon” by Aurora Levins Morales
[The theme of Kehilla Community Synagogue’s High Holy Days was “spiritual audacity” drawn from these words by Abraham Joshua Heschel, written in 1963: “The hour calls for moral grandeur […]
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 […]