Rabbi Rick Jacobs is the President of the Union for Reform Judaism. This blog post is reposted from RJ Blog, the blog of the Union for Reform Judaism. It is a the prepared text of Rabbi Jacobs’ closing plenary address, yesterday, November 13th, at Jewish Federation of North America’s General Assembly in Baltimore, MD. We encourage you to share Continue Reading »
The D’var Torah below was shared by Rivkah on Shabbat Noach at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, October 19-20, 2012. The communities celebrating Shabbat evening worship at our Chevrei Tikvah Chavurah and our Shabbat Morning Minyan, responded with the hope that these words might be shared more widely in the community, to support community members in Continue Reading »
I am writing to remind you of the upcoming sabbatical of our Rabbi Joshua Caruso, which will begin January 1, 2013 and conclude June 30, 2013. As I mentioned several months ago and again during my remarks on Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Caruso will be traveling and studying during his sabbatical and not available to serve Continue Reading »
This blog post originates from a conversation/discussion that took place at tonight’s (Friday, October 19, 2012) Shabbat worship at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, in which we will take a very serious blog post from http://punktorah.org and allow it to springboard a wide array of conversations in temple, between us, about what we can learn from Chipotle in synagogue Continue Reading »
These remarks were shared on Rosh Hashanah by our temple President Jim Levine, an annual High Holy Day tradition of hearing about the “state of the synagogue” from our lay leadership at the beginning of the Jewish New Year. We encourage you to read Jim’s report carefully, and respond with any questions below on the Continue Reading »
During Sukkot each year, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple hosts a range of celebrations, holiday experiences and “uncommon conversations” under the canopy of the communal Sukkah. This year, on Friday, October 5, 2012, temple member Daniel Aarons spoke to the issue organ donation in our community, explaining its personal relevance to him as an organ donation Continue Reading »
The comments below were published by the Institute for Global Engagement (http://globalengage.org) in December of 2011, written by Dr. Chris Seiple, our Stern Social Action Speaker for 2012,when he presented to the U.S. Special Operations Command conference. Dr. Chris Seiple is the President of the Institute for Global Engagement. His presentation below is presented for our Continue Reading »
This post is reposted from a post by Rabbi Laura Geller, our rabbinical colleague at Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills, CA, from Huffingtonpost.com. We present it to you as a reflection from Torah on September 11, eleven years after the tragic day in 2001 when our nation was struck by terror. May we never forget. Continue Reading »
With Rosh Hashanah coming, here is a simple sweet blog post on “If Not Now, When?” just containing a you-tube video link, reposted from RJ Blog, where Jewish chef Tina Wasserman guides you if you would like to make a special traditional Rosh Hashanah round challah. We hope you’ll enjoy and may the new year be sweet, and filled Continue Reading »
Matt Nosanchuk, a cousin of our Senior Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk, served as our guest speaker at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple this past June on Friday, June 22, 2012. He spoke about his work in the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, as a senior counselor to the Attorney General and the Obama Administration Continue Reading »
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