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The Base of the Ladder -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 12/01/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah December 1, 2022 7 Kislev 5783 Parashat Vayetzei In this week's parashah, we read of Jacob's famous...
Dec 1, 2022
Happy Sigd!? -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 11/23/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah November 23, 2022 29 Cheshvan 5783 Parashat Toldot Happy Sigd! Some scholars believe the Jewish...
Nov 23, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving! -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 11/17/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah November 17, 2022 23 Cheshvan 5783 Parashat Chaye Sarah In this week’s Torah portion, Abraham sent his...
Nov 17, 2022
Homeless In Our Hometown -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 11/10/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah November 8, 2022 16 Cheshvan 5783 Parashat Lech-Lecha “Looking up, he saw three men standing near him....
Nov 10, 2022
If You Go Left... -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 11/03/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah November 3, 2022 9 Cheshvan 5783 Parashat Lech-Lecha Last week, in Michigan, after an emotional...
Nov 2, 2022
Conspiracy Theories -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 10/27/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah October 27, 2022 2 Cheshvan 5783 Noach Four years to the day after the Tree of Life shooting—the most...
Oct 26, 2022
The Torah Channel -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 10/20/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah October 20, 2022 25 Tishrei 5783 Bresheet My family LOVES the Billy Joel Channel on Sirius XM. We get...
Oct 19, 2022
Safety & Comfort -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 10/13/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah October 13, 2022 18 Tishrei 5783 Sukkot Kanye West’s antisemitic outburst on Twitter got a LOT of...
Oct 12, 2022
Be Happy! -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 10/06/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah October 6, 2022 11 Tishrei 5783 Parashat Ha'azinu I think the Torah itself recognized how crazy the...
Oct 5, 2022
Be Strong! -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 09/29/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah September 29, 2022 4 Tishrei 5783 Shabbat Shuvah Parashat Vayeilech In 1927, the Warner Bros. Studios...
Sep 28, 2022
Standing Together -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 09/22/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah September 22, 2022 27 Elul 5782 Parashat Nitzavim Two years ago, for the High Holidays, the Cantor,...
Sep 21, 2022
Most Distinctly -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 09/15/22
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah September 15, 2022 19 Elul 5782 Selichot Parashat Ki Tavo The New York Times’ front-page (above the...
Sep 14, 2022
Jews & Monarchs -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 09/08/22
Our tradition seems to have mixed feelings about monarchs. When the Israelites first approached the prophet Samuel about the possibility...
Sep 8, 2022
Unburying Hate -- Chronicle Online/The WORD 09/01/22
In 2004, construction workers started excavating some land in Norwich, England, where a shopping center was set to be built. They had to...
Sep 1, 2022
In the Place
It’s hard to believe that the High Holidays are only a month away – the new month of Elul begins this Shabbat. As I think back on our...
Aug 25, 2022


Choosing to be Chosen
This past week, with no sense of irony whatsoever, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stood next to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in...
Aug 18, 2022
Now, tell me again….
The Central Library of Brooklyn recently started a program through which books that have been banned in other cities and states across...
Aug 4, 2022
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