High Holidays 5781 / 2020
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Amichai celebrated its 10 year Anniversary and we could not have done it without your involvement and support. This has been a strange and difficult year. However, even during periods of isolation and difficulty, we as a people have always found ways to continue to connect with one another. COVID-19 may still be on the offensive but we have our lives to live. We do not take a vacation from life and neither does God. Our souls still stir and we continue to address our spiritual needs.
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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
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
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
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"A rabbi without a pulpit for Jews without a shul."
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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.
Click to read Thou Shalt Worship None of the Above, by Peter Manseau.
