Yom Kippur Sermon 5775 – 2014 Extracting the Good out of the Difficulty in Life
Yom Kippur is a day of fasting, when we focus on the sins and difficulties of life, and when we find our way through the maze of problems and tragedy …
Sermon: Not ‘Those’ Candles, Dummy!
Rabbi Arnold Saltzman In the movie, ‘Play It Again Sam’, the main character is advised by the ghost of Humphrey Bogart, a kind of ‘movie angel’ who appears in this …
D’Var Torah: D’Varim Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22
George Gazarek D’varim begins the Book of Deuteronomy, the last book of the Torah. In eleven short weeks, we will be celebrating Simchat Torah where we physically roll the Torah …
Sermon: Fiddler On The Roof, Fifty Years and Still Young
Rabbi Arnold Saltzman Let’s face it. We are not going to fix everything that is wrong with the world at our service. We need a Shabbat to not obsess over …
Sermon – An Opera Controversy: The Opera “Klinghoffer”
by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman The Metropolitan Opera has announced that in the coming season it will have a new production, The Death of Klinghoffer, by American opera composer, John Adams, …
Emor D’var Torah by George Gazarek
In this week’s Torah Portion, God establishes the times for us to observe Shabbat, the Festivals and the High Holidays. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, four new …
Death Thou Shalt Die
Sermon by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman ‘Death Be Not Proud’ by the poet and minister, Jonne Donne is a non accepting triumphant take on the death of death. What a subject. …
JEWVANGELIST: A Surprise from Hollywood
by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman With Purim just a week away, it is custom to be busy with preparations for the holiday by making Shlach Manot, baskets with delicious deserts including …
D’var Torah – Men’s Club Shabbat
Frank Donsky! Bless his soul. He’s the one that got me in trouble with the Rabbi. It was February of 2000. We had just gotten over the Y2K bug and …
What Judaism Means to Me
by Mark Holt Judaism is a set of values, principles, and laws that have guided the Jewish people for thousands of years. God was very blunt: “Follow these laws and …