| At this time of year, many of our students and community members set off on journeys of discovery... |
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| The Torah’s vision of counting these 50 days we call “the Omer” is to remember God’s gifts... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| The song Dayenu offers repair for our ancestors’ ingratitude while wandering in the wilderness... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| This Shabbat we call Shabbat Parah, the first of four special Shabbatot leading up to Pesah... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| On Purim, we recall an existential threat to the Jewish people, a threat overcome through courage... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| On Tu B’Shevat we anticipate nature’s renewal and the redemption we will celebrate on Pesah... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| Mindful religion is spiritually compelling and intellectually rooted in sacred history as well... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| Our theme for Hanukkah this year at Chizuk Amuno is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the... |
Celebrating 25 Years of Freedom for Soviet Jewry |
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| Avinu She Ba shama’yim, Rock and Redeemer of the people Israel: Bless the State of Israel,... |
A Prayer for the State of Israel |
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| Our God and God of our ancestors: We ask your blessings for our country, for its government... |
Prayer for Our Government |
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| Our first full week, our first regular week, after the holidays. It is time for us, like Noah... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Sukkot is a tribute to simplicity. On Sukkot we pause for moments of living without all of... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| One of the things I treasure most about Judaism is how it links us to our ancestors, our community... |
Cheryl Abrams |
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| It's September (or soon Tishrei.) Time to check in with each other. Here at Chizuk Amuno,... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| We desire good conversations. Respectful, passionate, but lacking in condescension or arrogance... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| There was one great tragedy of Moses’ life - more than being raised away from his family, more... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Shavuot is one of the most anticipated festivals on the Jewish calendar. Anticipating this... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| In 1949 as David Ben Gurion presided over the first observance of Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Life is lived in stages. In as much as we experience moments and days, we live within stages... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| As we anticipate our Passover holiday we are what some people have called, “Eve of Pesah” Jews... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| This Shabbat we call Shabbat Parah, the first of four special Shabbatot leading up to Pesah... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Why didn’t Mordecai bow down to Haman? After all, that is how the whole megilah gets started... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| On behalf of my wife, Renée, and our sons, Micah and Joshua, I wanted to share how pleased... |
Dan Goldfarb |
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| When I as a child, out of all my well loved toys, my favorite possession was a 6 inch Torah... |
Janice Brodsky |
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| The first time that our Rabbis taught us about Tu BiShevat they did so in the Mishna. That... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Hanukkah isn’t about the oil. Hanukkah is about the light! We symbolize that light of God’s... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| Esau does something which our tradition sees as reprehensible. Parshat Toldot tells the story... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Our parshah is framed by death. It begins with the death of Sarah at the age of 127 and ends... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Our first full week, our first regular week, after the holidays. It is time for us, like Noah... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| In setting forth the parameters for a Sukkah our rabbis taught that it should be not smaller... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| I am a Ba’al Teshuvah. Not in the conventional social context but in the more literal sense... |
Matt Freedman |
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| As the month of Elul approaches and it is time to start thinking about the holidays, the first... |
Allison Baumwald |
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| I don't think I have ever consciously prepared for the High Holidays. The extent of my thoughts... |
Randy Getz |
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| I love September. The rituals of return: to routine, to school, to preparation, to teaching... |
Jill Max |
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| The High Holidays and the memory of my beloved father, Henry Satisky, are inextricably linked... |
Marsha Gammerman |
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| It was a simple request to share a Kavanah on a fair question - how do I prepare spiritually... |
Jeffrey Hettleman |
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| September brings us to our annual season of reflection and repentance. The Hebrew month of... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| Many of us today carry a spiritual burden during this “recession,” a lessened sense of our... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| Nakhamu, nakhamu ami
Comfort, comfort My people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem... |
Isaiah Chapter 40 |
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| One can lie down for the night weeping, yet rise up singing hymns of joy. "Ba’erev yalin be-khhi... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| Life is lived in stages. In as much as we experience moments and days, we live within stages... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| The quest for holiness is the main task of the Jewish people. Kedoshim tihiyu ki kadosh ani... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Avadim Hayeenu.
We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, but Adonai our God took us out of there... |
Chizuk Amuno Congregation |
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| This Shabbat we call Shabbat Parah, the first of four special Shabbatot leading up to Pesah... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| One of the most precious times parents and children share is the quiet and routine of bedtime... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| In the Sefer Ha Hinukh, the Book of Mitzvah Education, the 613 mitzvot as enumerated by Maimonides... |
Chizuk Amuno Congregation |
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| Our Chug Ivri, (Hebrew speaking group) has met regularly on the first and third Thursday of... |
Helen Lewis |
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| When in our lives do we sense awareness of God? Moses and the Children of Israel are encamped... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| The Mishnah tells us that we observe four New Years:
Nisan 1 is the New Year for dating... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Values lie at the core of our congregation’s life. We belong to Chizuk Amuno, we worship and... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| We are all concerned for the people and land of Israel following the massive fire in northern... |
Chizuk Amuno Responds to Devastating Fire in Northern Israel |
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| How have you been lighting your hanukkiyah?
The Talmud in tractate Shabbat records four traditions... |
Chizuk Amuno Congregation |
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| On July 15, 1948 soon after the establishment of the State of Israel, but while Jerusalem was... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| I guess I’ve never given much thought to a couple of words that really do deserve more attention... |
Judy Meltzer |
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| Values lie at the core of our congregation’s life. We belong to Chizuk Amuno, we worship and... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| There are three particular incidents in this week’s parsha in which we see an outsider being... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Long before Jacob’s dream at Beit El of angels going up and down the ladder where he marks... |
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler |
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| Abraham is not a holy man, a prophet, or sage. He is a dedicated and hard working man, a complex... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| Marine geologists believe that people once occupied the ancient shores of the Black Sea. A... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| I’m not a scientist. I am a religious person. But I do not believe faith to be fact. I value... |
Rabbi Ron Shulman |
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| It was on Yom Kippur, 1942, that the Nazis began to liquidate the ghetto of Czestochowa Poland... |
Heller Kreshtool |
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| Show us your super sukkot!
Please post photos of you and your family in front of your Sukkah... |
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| Yom Kippur Candle Lighting for 5771 (when it falls on Shabbat)
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| Is such the fast that I desire, a day for men to starve their bodies?
No, this is the fast... |
Isaiah 58:5-8 |
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| I grew up in Rock Island, Illinois, a small Midwestern town on the border of Iowa and Illinois... |
Samuel Moskowitz |
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| Each morning, I like to take a walk to get my mind and body started for the day. This month... |
Lee Sherman |
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| Every year, as the High Holy Days approach, I become more contemplative. I ponder the year... |
Judy Meltzer |
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| Like most of my fellow teachers and professors, I spend a portion of every summer preparing... |
Sarah Manekin |
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| In our Jewish calendar the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur carries a special name... |
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| So it begins. With a plaintive melody and a nostalgic blast Elul enters once again. It has... |
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| The sacred High Holiday season begins a month before Rosh Hashanah when we recite Psalm 27... |
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| There is a great story about the coach of the New York Knicks, Jeff van Gundy. The coach was... |
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