Yom Kippur 5784- 2023

We are Jonah  The Machzor, the other name for the prayer book of the High…

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Kol Nidrei 5784- 2023

In 1917, Chaim Nachman Bialik, a Jewish poet and writer born in Ukraine in 1873,…

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Rabbi René’s Sermon- Rosh Hashanah Day 5784

In the months and weeks leading to the High Holy Days, a Rabbi feels a mounting pressure, a growing sense of urgency: what am I going to say to my community this year, as we are preparing to enter a new Jewish Year?

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Choose Life

Rabbi René’s sermon on Rosh Hashanah morning Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist philosopher, has allegedly…

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Light always come back….

Chanukah at KLS 5782 / 2021 Our Chanukah this year was full of light, food…

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Our time to rejoice

Rabbi René’s sermon for Sukkah 5782 You may be familiar with this saying attributed to…

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We are Jonah

Rabbi René’s sermon for Yom Kippur 5782 The Machzor, the other name for the prayer…

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Is it easy to forgive?

Rabbi René’s sermon for Kol Nidre 5782 The great Oscar Wilde once said, “Always forgive…

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The Silences in the Akedah

Rabbi Rene’s Rosh Hashanah sermon What is there left to say about the Akedat Yitzhak,…

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Healing is in the Return

Rabbi René’s Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon Levi Isaac of Berditchev, a Chasidic master who lived…

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