Newsletter Post – February 12, 2026

by | Feb 11, 2026 | Rabbi's Corner

Like many of you, I imagine, I have been glued to this year’s Winter Olympics. I can’t wait to cheer on Israel’s first ever bobsled team (nicknamed Shul Runnings!) when they compete next week, I was devastated when the US women’s hockey team...

Newsletter Post – January 29, 2026

by | Jan 28, 2026 | Rabbi's Corner

As the world swirls around us, it can be hard to determine where our focus should be. What is worthy of our emotional energy? Of our grief, of our rage? How do we cut through that grief and rage to find moments of joy, or to merely go through the motions of everyday...

Newsletter Post – January 15, 2026

by | Jan 14, 2026 | Rabbi's Corner

I’ve been thinking lately about Jewish life on the margins. Those Jewish communities, like ours, outside of or on the periphery of larger Jewish population centers like Toronto, New York, Los Angeles. The kinds of towns and cities where, when you say...

Newsletter Post – January 8, 2025

by | Jan 7, 2026 | Rabbi's Corner

A beautiful contemporary midrash imagines Moses, a young prince growing up in Pharaoh’s palace, ignorant of his Jewish heritage and family. Every night, Moses wanders outside the walls of the palace, feeling restless, and seeking something that he can’t...

A Hanukkah Message from Rabbi Miriam

by | Dec 15, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner

I spent most of yesterday driving back to Hamilton from a family simcha in New York, a welcome respite from being glued to the news and to social media reports from Sydney of increasing fatalities in the aftermath of yesterday’s terrorist attack in Bondi Beach at a...

Newsletter Post – December 11, 2025

by | Dec 10, 2025 | Rabbi's Corner

With Hanukkah on the horizon, and the gift-buying season upon us, it is easy to focus on the material elements of this time of year. We face a deluge of commercials – on TV, on our social media feeds, and beyond – trying to convince us that if we buy one...