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...
September 30, 2014 3:18 am / no comments
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...
September 24, 2014 12:57 pm / no comments
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...
February 21, 2014 2:37 pm / no comments
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...
February 2, 2014 3:13 am / no comments
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...
February 2, 2014 2:58 am / no comments
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...
February 2, 2014 2:49 am / no comments
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...
February 1, 2014 4:13 pm / no comments
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...
December 22, 2013 3:46 pm / no comments
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...
December 12, 2013 2:05 pm / no comments
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...
December 12, 2013 12:07 pm / no comments