Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5783

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...

Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon 5783

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...