It's Passover, which means fun for everyone---including our littlest members and their grownups! Sholom Sprouts participated in a Chocolate Seder to ring in the holiday, enjoying sweet treats and fun games, arts and crafts, and family time. Chag Sameach! We hope your Passover seder was as sweet and warm as...
Last Saturday, we closed out the Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom season of 5779 with a truly beautiful concert. Chamber Music regulars Eliot Bailen, Susan Rotholz, and Cantor Rebecca Garfein transported us with their Sephardic and Ladino repertoire; special guests Stacey Shames and Paul Woodiel dazzled us with harp, violin,...
On April 8, 2019, a full house gathered to hear Senior Cantor Rebecca Garfein and Cantor Shayna De Lowe and other cantors from around the country perform in Stars of David, a musical revue celebrating Jewish heritage. Thanks to all who made the night shine! [gallery size="large" ids="24599,24600,24601,24602,24603,24604,24605,24606,24607,24608,24609,24610,24611,24612"]...
Self-compassion, or shmirat ha-guf in Hebrew, has a central place in mental health. An emerging self-care movement is popularizing this concept and articulating the ways that we can attend to crisis situations by attending to ourselves. On Erev Shabbat, Rabbi Juliana S. Karol offered a sermon on these themes. Parshat Tzav Rabbi...
Our house was full last night as we and members of the local community gathered to hear Ambassador Dan Shapiro, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel under President Obama, spoke about Israel, Palestine, and the state of the conflict there. Audience members participated in a Q&A that left us all feeling...
Yasher koach to Rabbi Juliana Karol and those who went with her to the UJA Federation of NY's rally at the Islamic Center at NYU! The rally, at which Jews from across New York came to symbolically protect and support our Muslim brothers and sisters as they prayed, comes as...
On Monday, March 18, reformjudaism.org published this D'var Torah on this week's Parsha by Rabbi Benjamin Spratt. We are thrilled to share it with you below. Never Too Proud to Wield the Sacred Shovel One of the delights of the Book of Leviticus is the constant barrage of sacrificial details: dead animals, splattered...
8 Adar II 5779 March 15, 2019 Dear Rodeph Sholom Family, The festival of Purim reminds us that there are always evil persons or groups quick to identify the Other in our communities in order to isolate, vilify, and too often attack them. As pretense to genocide, Haman branded the Jews as separate...
We are calling on call congregants and visitors to this website to take action for those who depend on Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), to eat. The Trump Administration’s proposed SNAP rule would time limit food benefits for unemployed and underemployed people who can’t document sufficient weekly work...
In a world filled with every color, taste, and sound under the heavens, if there is one powerful component of life that is absent, it is silence. ...
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