Hayai Sarah and Continuity In the past two weeks I shared in three, meaningful rabbinic and clergy-sponsored activities. The first (as I described last week )was a breakfast and discussion featuring Nehemiah Peres: son of Shimon Peres. He spoke about his father’s vision of always looking forward. To Peres, looking toward the future...

Lech Lecha: Sometimes Thinking Small is a Big Thing During Hebrew School this week, one of our classes learned about Habitat for Humanity. Habitat is an organization which -in part-enables poverty stricken people to live in affordable homes. Fortunately, our students are not growing up in poverty. They reap the benefits of hard working...

Reflections About Simhat Torah and the Book of Genesis For many of us, the Jewish holidays do not conclude with Yom Kippur. We celebrate days of Sukkot along with Shmini Atzeret and Simhat Torah. There are synagogues activities, family activities and much, much planning which goes into these holiday observances. At this season of the