My Final Letter Dear Friends, Many years ago, my mother, of blessed memory, told me how old I was when she had successfully potty-trained me. I was exceedingly young. That

Yom HaShoah: A Day to Remember, A Day of Strength! Tonight begins the Jewish observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The official name on our calendar commemoration is Yom HaSho’ah v’haGevurah. Although in English we

Min Hameitzar “From the narrow places I called out, ‘Yah’, and I was answered with expansiveness” (Psalm 118). Oh, how the last year has felt constraining and narrow. Stuck in

Light a Candle and Remember A Reflection on One Year of the Global Covid-19 Pandemic On March 11, 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organization declared, “We have

One Year – Twice A Message for Reflection One year! I think about what I said when Rabbi Sandler told me that I better take these warnings about some flu-like

A Reflection on Last Week… Where Do We Go Now? Although it has been some time since I last stood at (now) Truist Park for the National Anthem that precedes

Happy Thanksgiving To Our Ahavath Achim Family: This is a grateful time of year. It is the time when we reflect on our lives, our families, and all the elements

A Note of Gratitude Dear Friends, I want to thank those of you who offered condolences to me at the time of my father’s death in October. Of course, I

He Bent the Arc Reflections on Representative John Lewis The Israelite rebellion in response to the Spies’ report regarding the Land of Israel, found in the Book of Numbers, sealed

New Beginnings Begin by Perspective What are new beginnings, really? Are they events, happenings that we step into, or are they something else entirely? Today marks some profound beginnings. Rabbi