Times That Try Our Souls

"These are times that try men‘s [and women’s] souls,” said Thomas Paine, the political activist who helped inspire the American Revolution. Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if we could wake up to a world in which everyone was treated equally? Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if superheroes could save us from all the maladies facing the world, a pandemic which continues to take many lives, massive unemployment, food shortages, just fighting the good fight against injustice where goodness triumphs over evil allowing us to be free? This is the stuff that dreams are made of and are no strangers to Jewish life. Too often as history’s victims, we have clung to a vision of God’s redemption, our return to our homeland and the ushering in of the messianic era...continue reading

High Holidays 5781 / 2020

We are pleased to announce we will be conducting High Holy Day services this year, Amichai’s 10th year, online, in deference to the realities of our times. We are sensitive to physical distancing restrictions understanding that not much, if anything, will have changed with respect to public health restrictions on mass gatherings between now and September. We always take every health precaution possible. We hope you will join us for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services as so many of you have done for the past 9 years.

Unaffiliated Jews 
​need and want rabbis, too.

In our world today, where many derive a sense of belonging and community through the internet alone, it is not surprising that the fastest growing group of Jews in America are the unaffiliated. 

Many unaffiliated love being Jewish and simply choose not to belong to a synagogue. It is to those who no longer belong to synagogues to whom I now turn my time and attention.   
                                                                                                   Rabbi Debra Nesselson

"Getting Personal with
​Concierge Rabbis"
 Julie Kemp Pick, Daily North Shore • September 17, 2017 

"Less than one-third of American Jews say they belong to a synagogue...Many rabbis have chosen to leave brick and mortar buildings to provide more personalized, concierge services in people’s homes. Continue reading.

"A rabbi without a pulpit for Jews without a shul."

15 American Rabbis 
You Haven’t Heard Of, But Should
 Rabbi Debra Nesselson 
featured in Tablet
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Is religious belief declining or just reshaping itself?

The New York Times, Sunday Review | Opinion section, Sunday, May 16, 2015
Click to read  Thou Shalt Worship None of the Above, by Peter Manseau.