Rabbi’s Writings
But the Jewish Spirit Cannot Be Broken
But the Jewish Spirit Cannot Be Broken Just this past week, the Jewish community observed the 81st anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” This organized action attacking the Jewish communities across Germany marked a turning point for German Jewry. One of the main items on Adolf Hitler’s agenda for Europe was ridding the […]
Pittsburgh and New Beginnings by Rabbi David Aladjem
Moving words offered by Rabbi David Aladjem at Shabbat services on the anniversary of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life murders.
Pointing Your Feet Up the Mountain — The Mussar Path to Wholeness and Holiness
As long as we are alive, we are never truly finished. Day after day, we are learning, growing, changing. We can’t help it, whether we are rabbis or not. Whether we like it or not. Life is a process of transformation.
Passover 2009
Shining a New Light on Passover Beginning early Wednesday morning, April 8th, when the first rays of sunlight peak out from behind the hills, as most of us are still dreaming of the grand spring festival of freedom–Passover–that begins that night, Jews around the world will also observe an occurrence in nature that happens only […]
March 2009: Horsing Around with Dr. Seuss
An only recently discovered (and perhaps written) ancient text revealing the true Jewish roots of Dr. Seuss has just been made available to a very select few. And just in time for the Purim festivities this month…
My Life as a Book
Just about this time every year we begin to greet each other with those traditional words: L’shana tova tikatevu! May you be written for a good year! Even if these words seem as comfortable, and comforting, to you as your bubbie’s chicken soup, you probably don’t stop to think about their implication very often. In […]
Birds of a Feather
Once there was a little bird who lived deep in the forest who was completely without feathers. Bald as a ping-pong ball. Not a single piece of plumage adorned his body. The chief of all the birds of the forest felt sorry for this little bird and approached him one day saying, “Why should you […]
20 Things You Might Not Know About Me
In the world of cyberspace, where twitters and blogs abound and Facebook connects many into a single universe of “friends,” there is a popular pastime of sharing little known facts of one’s life under the rubric: 25 Things You Might Not Know About Me. This month I celebrate the 20th anniversary of my ordination as […]
