Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), This is my last Shabbat message prior to Thanksgiving, which falls on Thursday, November 26. So, I’d like to introduce a term that really has become a…
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Messages & Musings
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Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), Another most eventful week has come and gone. We went into the weekend still not knowing who the 46th President of the United States would be. Technically, as…
Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), I am writing this week’s Shabbat message sitting on “shpilkis” (Yiddish for pins and needles), just like the rest of you I am certain, awaiting any…
Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), Isn’t it funny how just about everybody knows the same nursery rhymes that have been around for hundreds of years, as if we come into this…
Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), As I write this Shabbat message, we are just a few hours away from the first game of the World Series. The last two teams standing…
Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), In the beginning…. It is my privilege, as President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix, to begin my fourth cycle of providing you…
Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), I hope you all have been enjoying your Sukkot holiday. For my wife Lori and me, it represented one of the first times since the pandemic…
Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), I don’t know about you but to me, it seems almost unfathomable that we are entering the first Shabbat of October. The theme that has continued…
Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), Welcome to the Days of Awe, the 10-day period between Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). This time in the Jewish…
Shalom Chaverim (Dear Friends), It was Geoffrey Chaucer who proclaimed, “Time and tide wait for no man.” And sure enough, just like that, Rosh Hashanah 5781 is upon us, whether…