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Transgender Civil Rights Are Vulnerable in November

09/27/2018 07:30:00 AM

Sep27

Linda Puretz & Susan Zeiger

 

Here’s How the Jewish Community Can Help

 

Cherishing our friends and family in the LGBTQ community—and standing up for their safety and civil rights—is an expression of our caring and inclusive values at Ohabei Shalom. We want to ensure that all people in our community are treated...Read more...

ARS 2018-2019 Vision: B'tzelem Elohim

09/26/2018 05:48:00 PM

Sep26

Amy Deutsch

At ARS, we approach curriculum through a variety of ways. There’s the Hebrew and Judaica curriculum that students examine in the classroom, the tefilah questions that help students dive into prayer and theology at our weekly service, and each...Read more...

YOM KIPPUR 5779/2018

09/24/2018 07:30:00 AM

Sep24

Rabbi Audrey Marcus Berkman

 

 

ONE SOUL AT A TIME:

MENTAL HEALTH AND TIKKUN OLAM

YOM KIPPUR MORNING SERMON

 

 

A couple of years ago, I started noticing a tremendous upsurge in ads...Read more...

KOL NIDRE 5779/2018

09/24/2018 05:30:00 AM

Sep24

Rabbi Audrey Marcus Berkman

BUILDING ON BROKENNESS: THE HOLINESS OF WHOLENESS

Sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug. If you use social media  -- sometimes you’re the ones posting carefully curated photos of our delicious meal, our adorable kids or grandkids, our phenomenal vacation - we are “hashtag...Read more...

ROSH HASHANAH 5779/2018

09/23/2018 07:56:03 PM

Sep23

Rabbi Daniel Schaefer

FIRST DAY OF ROSH HASHANAH
INTRODUCTION TO THE HAFTARAH READING
(I Samuel 1:1-2:10)

Last weekend was the US Open’s Women’s Tennis Final, and it pitted perhaps the greatest tennis player of all time, Serena Williams,...Read more...

ROSH HASHANAH 5779/2018

09/23/2018 07:00:00 PM

Sep23

Rabbi Audrey Marcus Berkman

 

SHEMA!:

HEARING AND SHARING OUR STORIES TO

BUILD A STRONGER COMMUNITY AND A

BETTER WORLD

 

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A Message from Our President

09/05/2018 09:42:42 PM

Sep5

by Rachel Calmas

Dear Friends,

As part of our strategic planning process, this past June the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to adopt Tikkun Olam, Caring and Inclusive Community and Jewish and General Education as Temple Ohabei Shalom’s core values. These values were identified through our strategic planning...Read more...

A Word of Torah

09/02/2018 06:30:00 AM

Sep2

Rabbi Daniel Schaefer

Last night at Selichot, we sang the words of Hashiveinu, reminding us that this is the season for...Read more...

A Word of Torah: Elul Thoughts - The Gift & Power of Emotional Courage

08/24/2018 07:49:02 AM

Aug24

by Rabbi Audrey Marcus Berkman

 

It is said in a midrash that the gates of teshuvah (repentance/return) are always open....Read more...

A Word of Torah: Elul Thoughts-The Courageous Act of Waking Up!

08/17/2018 10:23:44 AM

Aug17

by Rabbi Audrey Marcus Berkman

The sound of the shofar is, it has been said, a kind of spiritual alarm clock. With the dawn of the Hebrew month of Elul, this primal sound, seeming to encompass the entire spectrum of human emotion and experience within it, calls us to mindfulness, to wakefulness, and asks us plaintively and...Read more...

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