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SUMMER 2025   PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: My childhood rabbi used to lament that so many people would come to Temple only during the High Holidays. If you are going to come to Temple only once a year, he would say, you should have more fun than that! You should come for Passover or Sukkot. So it […]

Winter/Spring 2025 President’s Message: I have a confession to make: I never much liked Chanukah (at least not as an adult). It is perhaps the most militaristic and nationalistic holiday in the Jewish calendar. The Book of Maccabees is so violent — including violence directed by the Maccabees at assimilated Jews — that the Rabbis […]

Fall 2024 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: I’m so honored to have been chosen by you at the Annual Meeting to be the next president of Temple Sholom. The confidence you are placing in me is humbling. I have a tough act to follow! If you see Faye in the coming weeks, please thank her for her incredible […]