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Let Us Be the Light Force - Rabbi Sharon Brous Nov 24, 2024

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After a life of heartache, two estranged brothers affirmed each other’s humanity,

and rediscovered their own. We, too, can make that choice. Let us push back on the encroaching darkness as a force for good—a light force—that counters the cruelty, racism, and violence poisoning our culture with compassion, tender presence, and forgiveness. This is what solidarity looks like.

Love the Stranger - Rabbi Morris Panitz Nov 17, 2024

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Loving your neighbor, who is like you, whose identity you share, is not enough. You must stretch the boundaries of love to wrap into its embrace the stranger, the people in our society who are furthest away from power. To counter the frenzy of rhetoric and the aspirations of policy that demonize these human beings, we need to love them fiercely. We need to love them fully.

Dreams Don’t Die - Rabbi Sharon Brous Nov 10, 2024

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Now we must learn the lesson our ancestor Avram learned:

one day our dreams will be realized. Just not today. And not tomorrow.

And maybe not for many years. But just as hope doesn’t die, dreams don’t die.

The dream we share for America didn’t die because our dream—

the dream of a just and merciful multiracial democracy in which all people live in dignity—

that dream is the right dream. It is the only future…

it’s just now clear that it will take much longer to achieve than any of us had hoped.

Gifts Of The Flood - Rabbi Deborah Silver Nov 03, 2024

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There’s an eerie resonance between the Noah narrative and this week. What does Noah's Flood teach us about navigating chaos and coming once more to land?

From Blame and Shame to Cherished Belonging - Rabbi Sharon Brous Oct 27, 2024

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After the death of a beloved child in our community to suicide, we reaffirm our commitment to combatting shame with tenderhearted love, to meeting one another in the dark, to never giving up on each other. May Benjamin Ellis’s memory be a blessing.

Shemini Atzeret - Tom Fields-Meyer Oct 27, 2024

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Sermon from Shemini atzeret

Home and Hevel - Jacob Schatz | Sukkot II Oct 20, 2024

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Sukkot reflects our people's ancient narrative, balancing the transience of a wandering nation and the fragility of life with our yearning for home and the Eternal Divine. How does our tradition compel us to relate to those who yearn for home, but who are left to wander?

Have Faith in Grief - Rabbi Morris Panitz | Kol Nidre 5785 Oct 13, 2024

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The only way forward is one broken heart next to another, crying together, awakening to the reality that grief is our common bond.

To Save Our Democracy, We Must Tell a Better Story - Rabbi Sharon Brous | Yom Kippur 5785 Oct 13, 2024

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There is a dominant story in America today—a story of isolation, alienation, and narrow-minded extremism, fueled by a deeply unsettling convergence of right- and left-wing antisemitism.

This story—propagated by a would-be authoritarian—plays on our worst instincts: the smallness, the fear, the ever-present sense of scarcity. And it threatens to do untold damage.

We must write something new.

On Joy - Alex Edelman & Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah II Oct 06, 2024

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Text study and conversation between Alex Edelman and Rabbi Sharon Brous on the Torah of Joy, and the Power, Promise, and Necessity of Laughter in Dark Times.

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