by August Adelman | Sep 25, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner
Read the Rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sermon here
by August Adelman | Sep 25, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner
Read the Rabbi’s Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon here.
by August Adelman | Sep 24, 2025 | Charity, Temple News
Dear Members of Temple Shalom, This is the 30th anniversary of our annual High Holidays food drive. Since our first food drive in 1995, Temple Shalom has donated nearly 18,000 pounds of food and over $60,000 to the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. We have provided more...
by August Adelman | Sep 24, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner
A little behind-the-scenes of preparing for the High Holy Days for you. On Sunday morning, as the Canadian government announced, as expected, their formal recognition of a Palestinian state, I imagined groans going up from the home of every rabbi in the country....
by August Adelman | Sep 24, 2025 | Essays
I happen to have the fortune (or misfortune) of being employed by a member of the tribe. My boss, Jeff, and I are opposite kinds of Jews. I am liberal and religious, he is small C conservative and probably can’t remember the last time he set foot in a shul. He...