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 | Feb 11, 2022 | Blog, Rabbi Brett Krichiver
Thank you Mr. Chair and members of the committee for your time today. My name is Rabbi Brett Krichiver. I am the Senior Rabbi of Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, a board member of the Indiana Board of Rabbis, a participating member of the Center for Interfaith...
by Emily Kaufmann | Feb 7, 2022 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
And God said the Moses, ‘Say to the Israelite people: You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now then, humble yourselves, and I will consider what to do with you.’ So they did. And Moses set up the Tent of...
by Emily Kaufmann | Jan 24, 2022 | Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons, Uncategorized
After the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, we gathered together in this sanctuary and I read these words from our prayerbook, “It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch. A fearful thing to love, hope and dream, and to lose.” In that...
