Jan 27, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah
One of the most joyful part of rabbinic work is welcoming Jews by Choice into the community. The Religious Affairs Bureau of the Masorti Movement officiates at about one hundred such conversions each year. Each of these are a blessing to the Jewish people and to the...
Jan 16, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah
Park Avenue Synagogue, its clergy and leadership team, took the trip of a lifetime to Israel earlier in January. With 450 people joining, it was the largest single synagogue mission to Israel. The trip followed a huge Shabbaton at PASyn where Dr. Yizhar Hess,...
Nov 1, 2018 | Blogging from the Bimah
Rabbi Gordon Tucker introduces and reflects on a Rabbi Mishael Zion’s deeply moving testimony.: “When a person dies, among our obligations is that of paying tribute to that person’s life. This mitzvah is even more urgently felt when a person has been...
Sep 23, 2018 | Blogging from the Bimah
In his Rosh Hashanah sermon “Civil Discourse, Civil Rights in America and Israel”, which is posted on his blog Reasonable Judaism from Rabbi Tobin, the spiritual leader of B’nai Shalom in West Orange decries the fact that religious rights are now being denied to the...
Sep 21, 2018 | Blogging from the Bimah
“As a lover of Israel and a liberal, I stand before you having felt stuck and sometimes alienated by the land I love. It feels like many Israeli policies concerning the Diaspora, Jewish identity, religious pluralism, conversions or marriage by non-Orthodox...
Sep 13, 2018 | Blogging from the Bimah
In this powerful and deeply felt 2018 Rosh Hashanah sermon, Rabbi Susan Grossman of Beth Shalom in Maryland, reflects “on who we are and who we want to be, as individuals and as a Jewish People.” She shines a light on a spate of recent disturbing actions...
