Newsletter Post – June 12, 2025

by | Jun 25, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner

By now, hopefully you have heard about the need to Vote Reform in the World Zionist Congress Elections before June 15. We’ve sent out emails, we had a voting station on Shabbat, and the Canadian Zionist Federation election has been all over social media. But...

Newsletter Post – June 1, 2025

by | Jun 25, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner

My heart breaks a little every time I open the news and hear of yet another antisemitic attack, hitting a loved one’s community, often only one to two degrees of separation away. Life as a Diaspora Jew can feel increasingly fraught, even with the sound and reliable...

Newsletter Post – May 29, 2025

by | May 28, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner

In just a few days, the Jewish community will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot, which marks the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. This is a formative event for the Jewish people, for our relationship with God and our relationship with each other as a cohesive unit...

Newsletter Post – May 1, 2025

by | Apr 30, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner

Earlier this week, as Israel marked Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Memorial Day, one of our Israeli Reform synagogues, Beit Samueli in Ra’anana was violently attacked. The congregation had hosted a screening of the Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony, the...

Newsletter Post – April 24, 2025

by | Apr 23, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner

I was surprised to open up my local paper yesterday and find the headline “New report says 70% of Holocaust survivors will be gone in next 10 years.” It was not the data and the sobering reality presented in the article that surprised me, but its inclusion...