Why I’ve Come to Love the Annual Meeting
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar Annual Meeting season is upon us. (Have five more exciting words in the English language ever been written?) While perhaps not something we’ve often imagined as part of the sacred cycle of the Jewish year, I have come to experience the Congregation Annual Meeting as a sterling expression of Jewish community. […]
Seek the Welfare of the City — and Vote on Tuesday
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar Jewish tradition has long taught of the sacredness of engaging with matters beyond what today we would define as falling within a strictly religious sphere. In the Book of Jeremiah, for example, the prophet, channeling the Divine word, tells us “דִרְשׁוּ אֶת־שְׁלוֹם הָעִיר אֲשֶׁר הִגְלֵיתִי אֶתְכֶם,” “Dirshu et-shlom ha’ir […]
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A Still, Small Voice
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar Here is the D’var Torah (teaching of Torah) I offered this past Friday night, as a prelude to a gorgeous teaching from our semi-annual Scholar in Residence series, this time with Rabbi Michael Cohen on Overcoming the Asymmetry of the Sensational: A Better Future for Israelis and Palestinians: When I heard […]
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