Shavuot
by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman The Three Festivals of Pilgrimage, known as the Shalosh Regalim, include Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot. Of these three, Shavuot is the least known and observed. It …
Saturday Sermon-Rabbi Arnold Saltzman
Alan Gross a Prisoner in Cuba (Part II) ‘Give Us a Reason to Hope’ With Passover about to begin, when we sit around our festive tables to re-experience the first …
Sermon on ‘Women in Judaism’ by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman
February 2012 A couple of years ago two congregations in Maryland, including one of three congregations I serve as rabbi, Hevrat Shalom, had a magnificent evening and Shabbat. Women Chefs …
Cuba and Alan Gross – A Sermon by Rabbi Saltzman
Alan Gross has been in a Cuban prison for the past two years for unwittingly bringing in a computer and cell phone to the Jewish Community in order to connect …
D’var Torah – Parashat Vayishlach 5772, by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman
In Congregation Beth El in Plainfield, NJ where I served as Hazzan while attending the Jewish Theological Seminary, one family I would stay over with, the Hollanders, who were very …
Rededication – Hanukkah 5772, by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman
The Festival of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is a celebration of both history and religion. Hanukkah is about the ancient revolt of the Maccabees against the Assyrian-Greek culture, …
50th Bar Mitzvah Anniversary – Sermon by Rabbi Saltzman
Recently, I celebrated the 50th anniversary of bar Mitzvah and I thought it might be a good time to reflect on this important Jewish Life Cycle from the point of …