Rabbi’s Writings
From Lament to Hope: We Are The Response We Have Been Waiting For
(Remarks delivered at the Lament to Hope Action, Sunday, August 30, 2020) Jews are no strangers to lament. Our history of loss, destruction, and persecution has attuned our hearts to the unique cry, the distinct timbre of the lament. We feel it in our bones. It courses through our blood. And today our hearts are […]
Be Sure You’re in the Zoom Where It Happens
There is nothing virtual about it (really!) Dear Haverim, We are excited to share with you a whole host of inspiring experiences that we are offering this year as a part of our High Holy Day observances. But more than anything, we want to work with you to create and share that wonderful sense of […]
Envision High Holy Days at Bet Haverim
Dear CBH Haverim: This has been an unprecedented year which has brought us many challenges and also wonderful opportunities for rethinking about how we can create new and beautiful ways of connecting with one another during this time of the Coronavirus. With the number one priority being dictated by the Jewish value of Pikuach Nefesh, […]
The lesson that we have to learn from Juneteenth
On the occasion, this past Friday, of Juneteenth, marking the “official” end of slavery in the the United States, I shared these words with our community during our erev Shabbat services and, now, I am happy to be able to share them with all of you: As the Israelites set out from Mt. Sinai, at […]
The Joy of Celebrating 25 Years Together!
(from Rabbi Greg’s remarks at the Zoom Gala Gala) What a blessing it is has been to have shared this journey with all of you in our wonderful Bet Haverim community for the past 25 amazing years! Where has the time gone? Where has my brown beard gone?! Huge thanks to all those who worked […]
When Psalm Thoughts and Prayers Are Just Not Enough
O, Source of Being, how long, how long will we abide this pernicious virus that lurks in darkness waiting to suck out the breath of life from us, leaving us gasping, crying out. A disease so devastating that it can strike you down in the middle of the day when you are walking by the […]
