Articles & Sermons

There are no words sufficient to describe the sense of shock, bewilderment and sorrow that is being felt by Jews throughout the world in the wake of the horrifying mass murder at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. That it took place at all is tragic in and of itself. For this to have […]

With stinging words that continue to resonate with every passing day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed: “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late…” To […]

The Big Lie was a propaganda technique used with terrifying effectiveness by the Nazis in shifting the blame for Germany’s loss in World War I to the Jews. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have […]

This sermon was delivered on Rosh Hashana, Thursday, September 21, 2017, at Temple Beth El in Bradenton, Florida What an incredible season this is. It never seems to end, with disaster after disaster. What is going on? Hurricane Harvey. Then Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Maria still is raging. Puerto Rico has been devastated. Its entire population […]

Jerusalem’s Sephardic chief rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, has lashed out at Reform Jews, saying we are worse than Holocaust deniers for defying Orthodox Jewish law on gender separation and insisting on the right to mixed-gender prayer at the Western Wall in the city. His comments followed the recent Israeli High Court response to petitions filed […]