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Building Hope, One Plank at a Time

Posted on November 7, 2018

This post on “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is the sermon shared by Rabbi Joshua Caruso on Friday, Nov. 2, the first Shabbat following the horrific shootings in the Pittsburgh synagogue.  We encourage you to share comments below, or to post the link to this post on social media Continue Reading »

My Experiences on the International March of the Living – Max Alter

Posted on October 23, 2018

This message on “If Not Now, When?,” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, was shared by our recent Religious School graduate, Max Alter, at our Aug. 3 Shabbat Atid Service.  We encourage you to comment below or to share the link on social media to continue the important conversation it engenders. On April 12, Continue Reading »

Pursuing Justice Justly – Stern Social Action Speaker Justice Rebecca Dallet

Posted on October 4, 2018

This message on “If Not Now, When?,” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is from 2018 Yom Kippur Stern Social Action speaker, Justice Rebecca Dallet.  We encourage you to comment below or to share the link on social media to continue the important conversation it engenders. Introduction of Justice Dallet from Melissa Yasinow: Continue Reading »

If It Be Your Will – Rabbi Andi Berlin

Posted on September 25, 2018

This message on “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple is adapted from the sermon shared by Rabbi Andi Berlin, guest rabbi for the Fairmount Temple clergy team during the High Holy Days, and was shared on Yom Kippur, 2018. We encourage you to comment below or to share the Continue Reading »

Succeeding as a “hevruta” – Rabbi Jordana Chernow-Reader

Posted on September 25, 2018

This post on If Not Now, When?, the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is the sermon shared by Rabbi Jordana Chernow-Reader on Yom Kippur, 2018.  We encourage you to share comments below, or to post the link to this post on social media such as Facebook or Twitter, or to share with others by Continue Reading »

Power Part II – Rabbi Andi Berlin

Posted on September 25, 2018

This message on “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple is adapted from the sermon shared by Rabbi Andi Berlin, guest rabbi for the Fairmount Temple clergy team during the High Holy Days, and was shared on Yom Kippur, 2018. We encourage you to comment below or to share the Continue Reading »

Going Home – Rabbi Nosanchuk, Yom Kippur Yizkor Sermon, 2018

Posted on September 25, 2018

This post on If Not Now, When?, the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is the sermon shared by Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk at the Yizkor Memorial Service for Yom Kippu, 2018.  We encourage you to share comments below, or to post the link to this post on social media such as Facebook or Twitter, or to share Continue Reading »

Growing Social Capital

Posted on September 21, 2018

Good Yontif! In the 1990’s there was a television program called, “Gilmore Girls.”[1] It’s the story of a mother and daughter who live in a very small, Norman Rockwell-esque town in the northeastern United States. The folksy fictional town in which they live is called Stars Hollow, a town where everyone not only knows everyone Continue Reading »

Jews Don’t Believe in Unbelievable

Posted on September 20, 2018

This post on If Not Now, When?, the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is the sermon shared by Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk on Kol Nidre, 2018.  We encourage you to share comments below, or to post the link to this post on social media such as Facebook or Twitter, or to share with others by email, to Continue Reading »

Doing What We Must Do About #metoo

Posted on September 13, 2018

This post on If Not Now, When?, the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is the sermon shared by Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk on Rosh Hashanah, 2018.  We encourage you to share comments below, or to post the link to this post on social media such as Facebook or Twitter, or to share with others by Continue Reading »