While the world’s attention is being drawn to President Trump’s business dealings in the Mideast and the personal gift of a luxury jet offered to him by a foreign government, Gaza is being pummeled and many innocent people are dying. In the last number of weeks Prime Minister Netanyahu has made it clear that “victory Continue Reading »
Today, we sent this letter to the Bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen, James Checchio, whose parish includes Hillsborough. Most Rev. James Checchio D.D., All Americans, not just Catholics, were thrilled and delighted by the ascension of fellow American, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, to become the next Pope for Catholics around the world. We at Continue Reading »
On Sunday voting for the 39th World Zionist Congress ends. If you haven’t cast your ballot yet, you should. It only takes a few minutes to vote #3, the Reform slate, and it costs only $5. A week ago Wednesday the Jewish world observed Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Day. This past Tuesday night was Yom HaZikaron: Continue Reading »
Tonight is Yom Hashoah, when we remember those who died in the Holocaust. There will be a service at the Flemington Jewish Community Center at 7:00 p.m. I will be attending. I hope you will come, as well. (more about the program) For the last number of months how to remember the events of WWII Continue Reading »
Perhaps you have heard this quip: “All Jewish holidays are the same: “They tried to kill us. We won. Let’s eat.” This joke always draws a chuckle of recognition but just having celebrated Purim and now concluding Passover, I’ve been wondering just how true the witticism is. Perhaps it’s not so simple. There is no Continue Reading »
Shalom Chaverim, As we approach the celebration of our Pesach or Passover seders, we notice the season we have entered. Passover in fact, has another name: Chag Ha Aviv, Festival of the Spring. Trees have exploded with buds and flowers, plants are turning green again, everything has started to bloom and the earth is offering Continue Reading »
This week, I have three important messages in one. First, Confirmation: A few words…there is no real final grade in Jewish Education; the only real grade you can get is “incomplete.” Yet there is an end to the formal Religious School program at our Temple and those students who successfully complete their studies are to Continue Reading »
How do you get yourself to do the right thing? That’s the question. And a hint is another question: What do dieting, exercise and moral action have in common? The answer? All three have at their center the main/body relationship. When we are on a diet and look at that sugar-filled cupcake, our body longs Continue Reading »
Do you want to know how to relieve the stress and anxiety that you may be feeling because of the chaotic national and international scene? Do you want to know how to respond to the hundreds killed in Gaza, the constant anti-Semitism coming from both the right and the left at home and abroad, the Continue Reading »
Purim is a holiday unto itself; it’s like no other celebration in our calendar. What other Jewish holiday encourages us to get so drunk we can’t tell the difference between the hero and the villain? What other holiday has everyone booing and screaming and making noise in the sanctuary? What other holiday has silliness as Continue Reading »
