Read Rabbi Ben Spratt’s powerful message and learn how to join us in shaping what comes next....
One year of grief. One year in which lives, hearts, families, communities were torn apart. For many of us, it feels like a different world. Antisemitism now rests comfortably in the center of every sector of society. Israel, once a unifier of American Judaism, now represents...
Dear Rodeph Sholom Family, Profanity. When massacre is celebrated as liberation and rape as an act of redemptive resistance, we see a horrific mutation of our most precious values. When such vulgarities echo across the campuses of our most prestigious halls of higher learning, we witness...
With 81 hostages now released, many of us feel the growth of hope for the 160 still held in captivity. The tearful reunions with family and friends capture the power of redemption, even while their testimonies reveal the horrific reality of the terror they endured...
Dear Rodeph Sholom Family, I’m shattered most by the children. Israeli children slaughtered. Palestinian children used as human shields. The children of this congregation who feel abandoned in halls of learning and by friends, and afraid to show their Jewishness beyond their homes. For it is...
Over the past three weeks, we have felt horror and heartbreak, moving from massacre to war and to increasing antisemitism and abandonment in New York City and around the world. As a community we have stood in solidarity with Israel and each other, ensuring that...
As Israel's war against the Hamas invasion unfolds, our concern and fear beg us to act. Your CRS Clergy invite you to a solidarity briefing of learning and prayer to strengthen our steps forward as we advocate on behalf of besieged Israel. We are grateful to welcome:...
This message was sent to the Rodeph Sholom community on October 7, 2023 The elders are gone from the gate, the youth from their music;The joy of our hearts has departed, our dancing turned into grieving…Because of this our hearts are bereft,Because of these our eyes...
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