The Shofar of Mauna Kea – Dev Noily, Kol Nidre 5780

Posted by on Oct 31, 2019 in Rabbi Dev Noily's Blog, Sermons | No Comments

The Shofar of Mauna Kea Dev Noily, Kol Nidre 5780 The Shofar’s Story Tonight I want to share a story about a shofar. If you were here on Rosh Hashana […]

LECH L’CHA | A Dvar Torah about End-of-Life Decision Making

Lech L’cha | a Dvar Torah about End-of-Life Decision Making By Amy Shutkin In modern conversational Hebrew, the name of this week’s Torah portion, Lech L’cha, translates roughly into “Get […]

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

Posted by on Oct 3, 2017 in High Holyday Sermons, Sermons | No Comments

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

Posted by on Oct 3, 2017 in High Holyday Sermons, Sermons | One Comment

  [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 […]

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 […]

Yom Kippur Day Sermon 5776/2015 by Ruthie Levin

Posted by on Oct 13, 2015 in High Holyday Sermons, Sermons | No Comments

Withholding One’s Words When I read the theme in preparation for this year’s High Holiday Services it made me think about the words we say and do not say to […]