by Emily Kaufmann | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog, Rabbi Jordana Chernow-Reader, Sermons
Have any of you seen a short animated feature called “Innerworkings?” If you have not, I highly recommend it. It is the best depiction of choosing to make the most of out of life that I have ever seen. It can easily be found on You tube and if you watch it, let me...
by Emily Kaufmann | Oct 6, 2022 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
Picture a barren landscape strewn with garbage with only a single skeleton of an old tree. Two men explore, debate and comfort one another as they wait for… something. This is the world of the playwright Samuel Beckett, and the two men are “Waiting for Godot,” a...
by Emily Kaufmann | Oct 6, 2022 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
In 2001, the National Jewish Population Survey clearly identified 93% of American Jews as “religious” – meaning that the vast majority of those who self-identified as Jews some twenty years ago also identified with a congregation, or a movement, or a denomination. In...
by Emily Kaufmann | Sep 8, 2022 | Rabbi Jordana Chernow-Reader, Sermons
Thank you for coming out today to show your support for reproductive rights. I am standing here today as a rabbi, a woman, a mother, a friend, advocating for the rights for women everywhere—here in Indiana and across the country as a whole—to make decide for...
by Emily Kaufmann | May 23, 2022 | Blog, Rabbi Jordana Chernow-Reader, Uncategorized
My phone rings with a friend of mine calling. She is in tears because she is pregnant. She already has children and always thought she wanted a bigger family. But not right now. It’s just not the right time. Her marriage is falling apart and she doesn’t think they...
