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Mike Lopez’s Rosh Hashanah Speech, on behalf of the Board

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...

Rabbi Miriam’s Yom Kippur 5785/2024 Sermon – A Year of Jewish Joy

by August Adelman | Oct 15, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

A Year of Jewish Joy Yom Kippur Morning 5785 – 2024 As you disembark the ferry connecting Manhattan to Brooklyn, you are greeted at the Williamsburg ferry stop by a bright yellow, larger than life statue made up of the letters O and Y. Depending on which side...

Rabbi Miriam’s Kol Nidre 5785/2024 Sermon – Sharing a Tent with Sinners and Outcasts

by August Adelman | Oct 15, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Sharing a Tent with Sinners and Outcasts: Jewish Peoplehood in 2024 Kol Nidre 5785 – 2024 A story: January, 2003. Place: The Western Wall in Jerusalem. Time: Erev Shabbat. I was in Israel studying on the Reform movement’s premier high school in Israel program,...

Rabbi Miriam’s Rosh Hashanah 5785/2024 Sermon – A Jewish Toolkit for Resilience

by August Adelman | Oct 15, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

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

by August Adelman | Oct 15, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

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...
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