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Rabbi Jeffrey Sirkman Larchmont Temple The call usually came just as we were sitting down for dinner. Living in our two family home with my grandparents right downstairs, frequently in Bobba’s kitchen. And when it came, my grandfather...
Sermon delivered at the “Traditional Egalitarian Minyan,” Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, DC Shabbat morning, Saturday August 9, 2014 Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff Four Stories for Four Children In 1982 my four-year old daughter Malka...
Rabbi Mordecai Miller Congregation Beth Ami January, 2014 The Nature of Dignity or What it means to become an Adult On the surface, we know that they still have many years to go before they can really speak about being an adult, but how...
Rabbi Steven J. Lebow, Temple Kol,Emeth Marietta, Atlanta Georgia December 21st, 2012. Tales of the Blue Wizard Or… How I hated Hebrew School and why you can, too! In a town, not so long ago. In a place not so far away…. There lived a...
Rabbi Steven Lebow Temple Kol Emeth Superman and Batman, You and Me As everyone who has ever studied super-heroes knows, almost every super-hero (with the notable exception of the Fantastic Four) has a secret identity. An alter ego. As the...
Rabbi Steven Lebow Temple Kol Emeth Bar Mitzvah Preparation for the Learning Disabled Child of an Interfaith Family The first time I heard Michael Graner read Hebrew I knew I was in for trouble. As a congregational rabbi it is my job...
Rabbi Steven J. Lebow, Temple Kol,Emeth Marietta, Atlanta Georgia “I always take a nap, just before I go to sleep…” I am dreaming and here I am. I am 8 years old and my parents, Doc and Rita, have driven 12 hours from...
Rabbi Jeffrey Sirkman Larchmont Temple The very first picture my son Gabe sent last month from his Birthright trip, undoubtedly the first place they took the group of 40 was, of course, The Wall. But Gabe didn’t just send us a picture postcard...
Rabbi Jeffrey Sirkman, Larchmont Temple In shtetl days, and long before, when someone died, most often with generations gathered, [and seldom at what we’d call a ripe old age,] no matter the circumstances, they were never left alone. From...
Rabbi Jeffrey Sirkman Larchmont Temple A rabbinic Monday morning, two weeks ago…Not the lo-key, late August morning I anticipated.Two encounters—one hour after the other, neither calendared, but both openly received, not alone for...