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A Jewish Toolkit for Resilience in Times of Fear Rosh Hashanah 5785 – 2024 Hayom harat olam. This is the day the world was born. We remember Adam in the garden, the first human created, dancing around the Garden of Eden, taking in all of the beauty of creation:...Rabbi Miriam’s Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785/2024 Sermon – The Surge, the Core, and You
The Surge, the Core, and You Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785 – 2024 Shana tova! Here we are. On the precipice of a new year. A year ago, when we marked the beginning of 5784, all of you were here in Waterloo, and I was on the other side of the globe in Singapore. Could...Newsletter Post – October 16, 2024
What better way to launch our Year of Jewish Joy than with the most joyous Jewish holiday of them all, Sukkot, known in our prayerbook as literally z’man simchateinu, the time of our joy?! On Yom Kippur morning, I kicked off our Year of Jewish Joy by introducing...Newsletter Post – October 10, 2024
It was wonderful to see so many familiar and new faces on Rosh Hashanah last week, and I look forward to seeing all of you again for Yom Kippur this weekend. We are in the period of the 10 Days of Repentance, Aseret Y’mei Teshuvah, and we are collectively...Upcoming Events
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