by Emily Kaufmann | Sep 24, 2023 | Blog, Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
Living with Complexity: On One Foot Once a rabbi was sitting in his study, pouring over the holy books, when two sisterhood members approached his door. Please do not read too much into the fact I’ve made this about sisterhood, it is not essential for this story to...
by Sonja Kantor | Sep 18, 2023 | Blog, Rabbi Brett Krichiver, Sermons
Fighting for the Miracle of Israel Two months ago, our congregation marked the observance of Tisha B’av, the commemoration of the destruction of the first and second Temples, with a sermon that Friday evening, about a new form of mourning with which we might mark the...
by Emily Kaufmann | Sep 16, 2023 | Blog, Rabbi Brett Krichiver
Erev Rosh Hashanah: Be the Goldfish We have arrived, once again, at this sacred space, in search of inspiration for the coming year. We want to be inspired, we want to feel moved. Our world has travelled forward another year, and there are many reasons to feel...
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...
