by IHC | Oct 9, 2019 | Rabbi Scott Fox, Sermons
I actually hated the song when I first heard it. Everyone was playing it, it was all over the radio, and at the local high school a dozen teenagers covered the song decked in clothes carefully selected to look nonchalantly thrown together from a thrift shop wardrobe....
by IHC | Oct 8, 2019 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
Tonight is Kol Nidrei, the most meditative and moving moment of the Jewish liturgical year. This day marks the culmination of the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah, the Ten Days of Repentance. Through the prayerbook, our Machzor, we have been bombarded with petitions and pleas...
by IHC | Sep 29, 2019 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
Once the congregation found itself in the middle of a fierce debate. Do we stand or sit for the Shema. Half the group was convinced that we should stay seated for the Shema, half convinced we stood for the Shema. Not to get into too many technicalities on Rosh...
by IHC | Mar 16, 2019 | Rabbi Scott Fox, Sermons
Just a few short weeks ago, I went to the the Indiana Repertory Theater to see their production of the Diary of Anne Frank. The truth is I have not seen that play in years. I know that I read the diary, and that I saw the movie, but most of the memory of it was gone...
by IHC | Mar 15, 2019 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
I remember visiting Prague years ago with several friends. Tami and I decided it would be meaningful to spend Shabbat there with the local community, rather than visit only the Jewish cemeteries and monuments to those lost to the Holocaust, including the famous attic...
by IHC | Nov 23, 2018 | Sermons, Visitors
Madeline Anderson Two weeks ago in parsha Toldot, we learned the story of Jacob and Esau, the sons of Isaac and Rebekah. Isaac favored Esau because he was a hunter and he provided Isaac with delicious meats, so Isaac planned on giving his birthright to Esau when he...
