Like No Other Moment in the Year

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On October 18, 2019
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Welcome again to “Shabbat Awakenings!” Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way to Shabbat and this week, to Simchat Torah. Listen to Shabbat Awakenings as a podcast HERE The Torah is not a book. The dictionary defines a book as a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together […]

Posted by Jen Gubitz
On October 11, 2019
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Grief and memory hold hands as broken-hearted we find our way through the Jewish year. Grief and memory hold hands as we search for solace, as we travel from impermanence to joy, from narrowness to freedom, to wisdom and learning, to renewal and return. Such that when we return to them in this moment of […]

Posted by Jen Gubitz
On October 11, 2019
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“I saw your vagina ad. Yuck,” the email read, “was that really necessary?” The criticism came rolling in. And why? In response to a sign that was bold, bright, hip, and funky, plastered on kiosks throughout the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan that read: “Even if you think kugel is an exercise you […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On October 11, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat. This week I offer my sermon from Yom Kippur. You can listen to it HERE I. MORAL MYOPIC RECKLESSNESS As the summer of 1787 faded to fall, the free people of the United States, finding the Constitution folded into their newspapers and […]

Posted by Jen Gubitz
On October 8, 2019
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So what do we do? How do we live, and how have we lived, from summer weekend to summer weekend, from month to month, and year to year, century to century amid circles and circles of sorrow? Whether personal, communal, national or global, how do we live and how have we lived when it seems as if we go from destruction to destruction to destruction, from grieving to yearning to wailing?

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On October 4, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat and the High Holy Days. This week I offer my sermon from Rosh Hashanah. If you prefer to listen to it as a podcast, go HERE When did you first realize that antisemitism[i] might be about you? Of course you remember. […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On September 27, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, our weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat and this week Rosh Hashanah. Tis the season of imperfection! What kind of religious tradition does that? Turns out, it is ours. Created in the image of the Divine,aren’t we supposed to mirror Him? Her? They? It? Turns out, […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On September 20, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. Saying sorry does not mean that the apology is accepted. What matters is awareness and recognition of the mistake, and a willingness to correct it and to make it right. Today many gathered around City Hall for a climate strike to demand action […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On September 13, 2019
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Posted by Elaine Zecher
On September 6, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakening, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. I offer here an abbreviated version of the D’var Torah I offered last Shabbat. This Shabbat Awakening is about loyalty. If anyone wonders why a topic would present itself these days, well…welcome back from vacation. Over these past weeks, we have moved into […]

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Adult

Youth

Like No Other Moment in the Year

Grief and Memory Hold Hands

Provocative Kugel: What Will I Make of My Life Today?

Intentional About the Unitentional

By the Light of the Moon: Living Jewishly in the Modern World

Beyond and Because of Antisemitism

Imperfect

Prepare to Apologize

Humanity in an Inhumane World

Loyalty